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By Brandon Turbeville
In an era where lead, bacteria, fracking and Fukushima are all competing to see which can be the most destructive to clean drinking water supplies in the United States, a new contender has emerged – the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York. This is because radioactive water leaking from Indian Point has reportedly contaminated the groundwater surrounding the facility.
A statement issued from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office revealed that,
“Radioactive tritium contaminated water leaked into the groundwater” beneath the facility. What’s more, Indian Point sits on the bank of the Hudson river and is only 25 miles north of New York city.
The owner of Indian Point, Entergy, “reported alarming levels of radioactivity at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent. The facility reports that the contamination has not migrated off site and as such does not pose an immediate threat to public health.”
The governor described the leak as unacceptable and stated that an investigation would be conducted by the New York department of environmental conservation and Department of Health “to determine the extent of the release, it’s likely duration, cause and potential impacts to the environment and public health.”
The Guardian reports that there have been many tritium leaks at Indian Point in recent years, although the one that occurred on February 6th appears to be the most serious.
Image: The Entergy-owned Indian Point Energy Center sits on the banks of the Hudson River, 25 miles north of New York City. (Photo: Hope Abrams/cc/flickr)
Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is the author of seven books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense SolutionsandDispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 andv olume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 650 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. | positive |
Image caption The detector works by looking for flashes of light from particles that exceed the speed of light in the water
An important breakthrough may be imminent in the study of neutrinos.
The multinational T2K project in Japan says it has seen indications in its data that these elementary particles can flip to any of their three types.
The results are provisional because experiments had to be suspended in the wake of the Tohoku earthquake in March.
But if confirmed, they would open the door to further research on why there is so much more matter than antimatter in our Universe.
Theorists say the counterparts should have been created in equal amounts at the Big Bang, and should have annihilated each other. That normal matter now dominates the cosmos is a major puzzle.
"It's a step on the road," explained Professor Dave Wark, of Imperial College London and the STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which leads the UK involvement in T2K.
"We want to address this asymmetry, but first we have to show that the different 'flavours' of neutrinos can spontaneously change into each other - something we call 'neutrino oscillation'. So far, our experiments have been very positive," he told BBC News.
Detecting 'ghosts'
Neutrinos are among the fundamental building blocks of matter. They swarm all about us.
The Sun, for example, releases them in huge quantities when it fuses hydrogen to make helium - the raw nuclear process at its core.
They are, however, very difficult to study because they interact so weakly with normal matter. Hence, their nickname - "ghost particles".
Nonetheless, scientists have been able to discern three flavours - electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, and tau neutrinos.
Previous research has characterised two forms of oscillations.
The T2K experiment has now seen hints for a third transformation - that of a muon neutrino turning into an electron neutrino.
Side to side
T2K is an extraordinary set-up built in two parts.
At one end is the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Centre (J-Parc) on the country's east coast. It generates a beam of muon neutrinos that it fires under the ground for 295km to the mammoth Super-Kamiokande facility on the west coast.
The Super-K, as it is sometimes called, is a tank of 50,000 tonnes of ultra-pure water surrounded by sensitive optical detectors.
These photomultiplier tubes pick up the very rare, very faint flashes of light emitted when passing neutrinos interact with the water.
In experiments this year that ran on T2K until the quake damaged equipment, scientists saw an excess of electron neutrinos turning up at Super-K.
In other words, it appears the muon neutrinos sent from J-Parc had changed flavour in flight.
The statistics are not big enough to claim a discovery, but it has the T2K collaboration excited and keen to get up and running again.
Symmetry violation
"The oscillations of neutrinos are governed by three angles which you can think of like pitch, yaw and roll for an aeroplane," explained Professor Wark.
"In the past, we've measured pitch and yaw, but we had no sign that roll was different from zero. If these turn out to be real events, then we'll have shown that roll is not equal to zero."
The missing angle is actually referred to as "theta-one-three". If it really does have a non-zero quantity, it opens the possibility that the oscillations of neutrinos and their antiparticles (antineutrinos) could be different.
That would be an example of what physicists call CP violation and a potential explanation for why the normal matter and antimatter created at the Big Bang did not simply annihilate each other, but instead left an excess of normal matter.
"There have to be some laws of physics we don't know about because all the laws we do know about cannot produce any significant excess of matter over antimatter. There are a number of places these laws could be hiding, and one of the most promising places to look is neutrinos," said Professor Wark.
"But the first step has to be to prove that theta-one-three is not equal to zero. If it were then neutrinos and antineutrinos would have to oscillate the same way - there just aren't enough degrees of freedom to allow them to be different."
Repairs at J-Parc should have the experiments gathering data again by the end of the year.
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Govdocs1 — (nearly) 1 million freely-redistributable files
In recent years a significant amount of forensic research has involved the analysis of files or file fragments. In the absence of such corpora, researchers and students who wish to work with files first need to collect files—a surprisingly difficult task if one wishes a large number of files of many types from a variety of sources. Although many files can be freely downloaded from the web, building and running a high-performance document discovery and downloading tool is not a trivial task. Once files are downloaded they need to be analyzed, characterized and curated. Finally, many corpora that might be assembled cannot be easily redistributed due to privacy or copyright concerns.
For these reasons, we have created and released a corpus of 1 million documents that are freely available for research and may be (to the best of our knowledge) freely redistributed. These documents were obtained by performing searches for words randomly chosen from the Unix dictionary, numbers randomly chosen between 1 and 1 million, and randomized combinations of the two, for documents of specified file types that resided on web servers in the .gov domain using the Yahoo an Google search engines.
Each file in the corpus is presented as a numbered file with a file extension (e.g. 0000001.jpg). The file extension is typically the file extension that was provided to us when the file was downloaded. The file extension is a suggestion—it is not part of the corpus.
We are making the corpus available in several ways:
A set of 1000 directories, with 1000 files in each directory, downloadable from our server at http://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/corpora/files/govdocs1/.
A set of 1000 ZIP files, each with 1000 files, downloadable from our server at http://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/corpora/files/govdocs1/zipfiles/.
A a tar file with 109,282 JPEG pictures from the govdocs1m corpus at http://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/corpora/files/govdocs1/files.jpeg.tar.
As a set of 10 subset “threads” (subset0.zip through subset9.zip), each one containing containing 1000 randomly chosen documents. These subsets were specifically created for to facilitate pilot studies and student research projects with the rationale that it’s easier to work with 1000 files than with 1 million. Students are encouraged to use one subset for development and another subset for testing.
A contextual feature list of data from the digitalcorpora can be found at http://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/corpora/files/2012-feature-list/
Other metadata:
Note: Due to accidental over-collection involving files from the State of California, approximately 13,722 files have been removed from the original corpus of 1 million files.
Metadata
The following metadata is provided for each of the files:
The URL from which the file was downloaded.
The date and time of the download.
The search term that was used.
The search engine that provided the document.
The length and SHA1 of the file.
A Simple Dublin Core for the file.
Unfortunately, the metadata server is currently down.
Malware
Please note that the files in this corpus are verbatim copies of files downloaded from USG webservers. We are aware that some of these files contain malware in the form of JavaScript exploits and Windows malware that was sent to mailing lists (that are now present in the mailing list archives). Although this may trigger some anti-virus programs, the malware will not be removed from the files because it is legitimately part of the corpus.
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Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday that Egypt has ever borne the responsibility of fighting the forces of darkness and terrorism throughout history.
Shoukry made the statement while participating as the head of the Egyptian delegation to the first Ancient Civilizations Forum, which kicked off in Athens on Monday.
The member states participating in the forum are Greece, China, Bolivia, Egypt, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Mexico and Peru.
Shoukry pointed to Egypt as a crossroads of civilisations and a melting pot of religions, highlighting the presence of diverse peoples settling here throughout history.
On Egypt's newly formed national council to fight terrorism and extremism in the country -- formed after this month's Palm Sunday suicide bombings on cathedrals in Tanta and Alexandria -- Shoukry said the body represents an important step in countering poisoned ideologies and encouraging peaceful coexistence.
The Egyptian foreign minister also held meetings with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Chinese FM Wang Yi on the sidelines of the forum.
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THE ISSUE: For the last several years, library staff and community members have been talking about upgrading the old building so that it better serves the evolving needs of Medford’s growing population. WHY IT MATTERS: A new, two-story library will be significantly larger and be better suited for studying, socializing and holding meetings
When the Medford Public Library was built in 1959, it was considered a state-of-the-art facility, ideal for storing books.
But for the last several years, library staff and community members have been talking about upgrading the old building so that it better serves the evolving needs of Medford’s growing population. Now, that talk will finally translate into action, as the library was awarded a $12 million grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners last month to construct a brand-new library facility in place of the current one at 111 High St.
The new, two-story library will be significantly larger -- about 44,000 square feet compared to the current 28,000-square foot facility – and be better suited for studying, socializing and holding meetings, according to Barbara Kerr, the MPL director.
“People like to come and hang out and read, but because we’re loud and because there aren’t many nooks and crannies, they can’t do that,” Kerr said. “It’ll be more of a center for community activity, rather than just where we keep the books.”
For example, the book stacks on the ground floor of the new building will primarily be off to the side, so that there will be more space for people to read or gather. The second floor will have 14 public meeting spaces, as well as an art gallery, a café, an auditorium, a maker space, a digital media lab, a local history room and study rooms of various sizes. Other ideas, such as a special auditorium just for children, are being considered as well.
Kerr explained that these proposed additions are largely in response to feedback the MPL has received from the community over the last few years.
“There aren’t a lot of public meeting rooms in Medford, and there’s a lot of demand for study rooms, art rooms and performance spaces,” she said.
Most of the new, niche rooms such as the maker space will be easily convertible to other uses in the future depending on changing demands.
The library plans to attain the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for the new building, which will increase energy efficiency and decrease construction costs. If it becomes LEED certified, the MPL will receive an additional $400,000 of funding through the MBLC’s Green Library Incentive.
Accessibility issues will also be improved in the new building, Kerr said. The entrance to the building will be on the second floor, with fewer, less steep stairs leading to the ground floor, along with an elevator.
Now that the grant has been approved, the next step is to secure local funding from both city funds and donations. In total, the project will cost about $34 million. The remaining $21 or $22 million in costs will be funded through a capital campaign.
Mayor Stephanie Burke said the MPL trustees have already found a consultant who will help the city raise the funds.
“We’re hoping by October we’ll get word from the consultant on the capital campaign and how we can aggressively begin one, so that by April we’ll have the whole pie covered,” Burke said.
Once the funding process is complete, the project will move into a planning phase, incorporating input from community members who will have the opportunity to serve on different planning committees.
“We’ve had a couple people who are interior designers who said they’re happy to be on a committee, and teens will have their own committee to create their space,” Kerr said. “That piece will take about a year, and the library commissioners will have to sign off on all of the plans, and after they sign off, we have to start construction within the next fiscal year.”
Finally, the construction phase will take another 18 months to two years, during which time the library will relocate to a temporary location that has not yet been determined.
Burke praised the efforts of the MPL Board of Trustees, who swiftly submitted a detailed grant application to the MBLC in January. She is confident that the rest of the funding will be secured through similar dedication and collaboration within the city.
“There’s a lot of support for the library, and we feel strongly that we will all mobilize and get the funding in place,” Burke said. “The trustees worked really hard to get that grant application in. They did in six months what it probably takes other communities three years to do.” | positive |
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I just want to keep listening to it non-stop. It is not only 9ice that the economy is driving crazy; it is equally driving me crazy. I am sure it is driving so many Nigerians crazy too. What is the song Economy by 9ice all about? In the song, “Economy,” 9ice laments about the — (+Pictures) Read the full meaning, full lyrics and full translation of the song and the full review on our music translation blog here @ www.ogefash.review @ www.ogefash.reviews Feel free to click the link below to keep reading, thanks https://ogefash.review/lyrics-meaning-and-translation-of-the-song-economy-by-9ice/ Lyrics to Economy by 9ice Intro Ah ah ah Yeah eh Ibile, ibile ibile Chorus Boredom is killing me, yeah eh eh Boredom is killing me, yeah eh eh Pour me holy water make I find my square root (Pour me holy water, and let me find my square root.) Emi o s’ere (I am not playing.) Ko s’ina, ko s’omi (There is no light, there is no water.) Economy yi ti fe so mi di were (This economy wants to turn me into a mad person.) Ah ah ah ah won fe so mi di were (They want to turn me into a mad person.) Ko s’epo, ko s’owo (There is no fuel, there is no money.) Economy yi ti fe so mi di were, ye eh (This economy wants to turn me into a mad person.) Ah ah ah ah won fe so mi di were (They want to turn me into a mad person.) Sugbon, emi o ni je k’economy kill me oh (But, I won’t allow this economy to kill me.) Post chorus Ma jo o, ma yo (I will dance and rejoice.) Economy no go give me heart attack oh (This economy will not give me heart attack.) Ma jo o, ma yo (I will dance, and I will rejoice.) Economy no go give me high blood pressure oh (This economy will not give me high blood pressure.) Ma jo o, ma yo (I will dance and rejoice.) 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Congressman Darrell Issa really is determined to end the United States Postal Service as Americans know it -- indeed, as Americans have known it for more than 200 years.
Issa, the powerful chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has a long history of attacking the postal service. But, now, he has taken advantage of a manufactured crisis to get his committee to vote 22-17 in favor of a "Postal Reform Act of 2013" that American Postal Workers Union president Cliff Guffey warns "will lead to the demise of the Postal Service."
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With Wednesday's committee vote, the full House is now set to consider a plan that would, among other things, phase out door-to-door mail delivery by 2022. Instead of the traditional and highly popular delivery model that now exists, mail would be left in so-called "neighborhood cluster boxes" that would serve multiple residences.
The Issa plan also sets the stage for the elimination of most weekend mail service.
The changes Issa proposes would, according to the National Association of Letter Carriers, lead to "the elimination of more than 100,000 postal jobs and would dramatically cut service." And in addition to its assault on the character and quality of postal service, the legislation includes classic austerity schemes, such as a prohibition against postal unions and management from negotiating protections against the closure of post offices, stations and branches, the consolidating of plants, the privatization of operations and layoffs.
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A member of the Extreme Skins message board came across an Esquire article, which conducted for the first time an interview with the Navy SEAL that expired Osama Bin Laden. In this incredible discussion, it came out that his NFL team is the burgundy and gold:
By early September of last year, the Shooter was out, officially. Retired. He had survived his last deployment, and there was a barbecue near his house to celebrate with about thirty close friends from "the community." The Redskins were on, his favorite team, and there was lots of Commando ale, brewed by a former SEAL.
I don't know what Commando Ale is, but I will certainly be trying to get some to my next Redskins tailgate. I can already envision Orakpo as the perfect spokesman given his Rambo-type muscles and affinity for chains (a UT tradition). The only thing that could make this story better is if Bin Laden had Cowboys posters all over his bedroom.
There are some specific (and awesomely gruesome) details of the kill I'll leave out but but the SEAL's initial reaction stands out:
And I remember as I watched him breathe out the last part of air, I thought: Is this the best thing I've ever done, or the worst thing I've ever done? This is real and that's him. Holy shit.
Awesome. Thanks again to the military for everything you do every day. It's very well known that troops that returned from Afghanistan and Iraq are not getting the support or medical benefits that are rightfully due for them. Hopefully the awareness for that picks up. | positive |
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Since last March, this force has conducted a series of raids and property seizures. Immediately after annexation, Russia swiftly assumed control of several Ukrainian state-owned industrial interests; it soon shifted its focus to private enterprises. In August, the headquarters of Zaliv, Crimea’s largest civilian shipbuilder, were stormed, as part of a campaign to force the management to hand over control to a Moscow-based company. According to estimates from local sources, the total value of losses accrued as a result of real estate and other asset expropriation in Crimea is more than $1 billion.
As part of this, Crimea’s authorities forced Ukrainian banks operating on the peninsula to close, including those belonging to Igor V. Kolomoisky, the pro-Kiev governor of Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine. In their place, Russian ones have moved in — among them, the Russian National Commercial Bank. According to The Moscow Times, Crimean authorities acquired this little-known subsidiary of the Bank of Moscow “just weeks after Russia seized the peninsula. They then presided over its growth from one of the country’s smallest banks to become Crimea’s largest bank.”
The Kremlin has seized control of the peninsula’s media, taking Ukrainian TV channels off the air and replacing them with state-backed Russian ones. In August, Crimea’s authorities raided the independent Chernomorska broadcaster, impounding its equipment and computers, and sealing off its building. Elsewhere, journalists have been pressured to toe the Kremlin’s line. According to Kyiv Post, an English-language newspaper, the Ukraine-based Center for Investigative Journalism recorded 85 incidents of harassment and censorship against reporters in Crimea during March 2014 alone.
Human Rights Watch has reported that the peninsula’s pro-Russian paramilitary groups are implicated in the disappearance of a number of pro-Ukrainian activists. In March, Andriy Shekun and Anatoly Kovalksy were abducted from a train station in Simferopol, Crimea’s capital, and held for 11 days in detention where they were beaten and shot at with low-velocity handguns (designed to cause trauma but not kill). Mr. Shekun was subjected to electric shocks on two occasions, according to the rights group.
The people who have borne the worst of Russia’s annexation are Crimea’s native Tatars. Since March, several Tatar activists have been abducted, some of them killed — including Reshat Ametov, who was detained during a Simferopol protest in March, and was later found murdered. Two of the community’s most prominent leaders, Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov, have been barred by Crimea’s authorities from entering the peninsula. In September, Russian security forces raided the headquarters of the Mejlis, the Tatars’ representative body, as well as the home of one of its members, Eskender Bariev. | positive |
One recent weekday afternoon, Lloyd Blankfein was sitting in his office in Goldman Sachs’s gleaming $2 billion headquarters off of the West Side Highway, in lower Manhattan, discussing one of the only subjects that bankers, financial executives, and most of the sentient world can talk about these days: Donald J. Trump. Blankfein, a Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton, had previously expressed discontent with the president after his botched travel ban was rolled out. But on this spring day, that fraught executive order seemed like a veritable lifetime ago. After all, since then there have been the various contretemps over Mike Flynn, the vicissitudes of Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon, and the hijinks surrounding “smart cookie” Kim Jong Un, among other episodes. Then, of course, there was Trump’s abrupt firing of F.B.I. director James Comey, who had recently asked for increased resources for the bureau’s investigation into any meddling between Trump’s campaign and Russia. (All of which occurred before Monday’s bombshell that the bad hombre in chief had spilled some state secrets to the Russians during last week’s Oval Office meeting, and Tuesday’s bombshell that Trump had asked Comey to shut down his investigation into Flynn.)
These days, reading the tea leaves of Trumpworld is a daily, if not hourly, obsession. This is doubly true on Wall Street, where the president’s tweets can shuffle billions of dollars across the markets. For many, decoding Trump is like conjugating irregular verbs in Latin. But Blankfein may have more purchase on what’s going on inside the White House than many of his colleagues. For all of Trump’s Jacksonian promises to revert to an era of economic nationalism, the president has, of course, more or less forked over the responsibility of running the country’s finances to a team of Goldman alums—Blankfein’s former right-hand man, Gary Cohn, the national economic adviser; Steve Mnuchin, now the Treasury secretary; Dina Habib Powell, a deputy national security adviser; and, of course, Steve Bannon, whose tenure at Goldman was short and unmemorable.
Sitting in his office, Blankfein explained that Trump’s unconventional behavior could easily disrupt his proposed legislative agenda, particularly the part that Wall Street cares most about: the promise of tax reform, regulatory reform, infrastructure revitalization, and other pro-business measures that have sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average soaring up nearly 14 percent since Election Day. Obviously, if Trump is stymied in his effort to pass this agenda, you can kiss good-bye the booming stock market. “The market is moving,” Blankfein said. “Everybody knows what’s being sought, what the president wants to do, and I think the market is discounting and recalibrating every minute what they think his effectiveness is going to be.” Recent events, he noted, were likely to dampen the likelihood of achieving these goals. Legislative success is contagious, he told me. “But the opposite is also true. “If he loses a vote, or if it looks like he’s less likely to win a vote or his effectiveness is waning,” he continued, then that could affect Trump’s ability to get things done.
Still, despite the ongoing turmoil that Trump causes in the White House, Blankfein said that the president might yet emerge with some victories, perhaps owing to the Darwinism of congressional Republicans who fear reprisals at the ballot box next year. Blankfein imagined aloud what the calculus might be for such G.O.P. legislators. “If I was holding out for a whole loaf, but at some point, if the clock is running out and I have no chance of getting a whole loaf, I’ll take whatever part of the loaf I can get,” he said. “I don’t want to go home and say I’ve got nothing to show for my last two years of my party in power.”
Blankfein was more optimistic about some measures than others. “I think there’ll be some tax reform,” he said. “Will it be massive tax reform? Will they get the rate as low a rate as he wants? I’m not sure.” (Trump has proposed reducing the corporate tax rate down to 15 percent). | positive |
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xo, mrs measom: Chicago and my travel outfit HOME LIFE love #wifelife pregnancy motherhood #datenight mom to mom #wtftuesday travel our flat BEAUTY cosmetics daily regimens style GUIDES gift guides mommy must-haves FOOD recipes kid approved SHOP ETSY BOOK Apr 6, 2015 Chicago and my travel outfit >>shop this look << (clip below to be linked to similar + the same items seen above) bag- c/o fawn // shoes- sperrys // jacket- c/o saylor sold out similar forever 21 // top- gifted similar from forever 21 // pants- target We had the pleasure of visiting Chicago for a weekend getaway. It was our first trip without our little man, and all in honor of my husband's birthday. It was a kickbutt surprise, if I do say so myself. I love surprising him... you know cause he is kind of the love of my life! Anyways, moving past the cheesy mush that is our life, I planned the whole shindig a month in advance. I had him come home an hour early from work, and said it was because we had a dinner and a movie date night. When he arrived home, there was a suitcase packed and ready by the door. A huge smile rose to his face, and he was as red as a tomato. #winning As he opened it, I had him pull out the new outfits I bought him specifically for the trip, and at the bottom was a card that said "we are going to Chicago, baby!" Off we went, grinning from ear to ear about the weekend of romance ahead of us. It was much needed. After two years of never being a day without our kiddo, this trip was a great reminder of how important our relationship is, and that it needs to be at the constant forefront of our lives. It helped us renew that "newlywed" kind of love, and man did we have a blast. Side note- Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, you really made us feel like VIPs, but more about that in another post. Here is what I wore for our first day around town. These comfy and simple Sperry flats that are perfect for lots of walking. I paired them with my Target jeans I distressed myself. I wore these white jeans because when I am on mommy duty, there is no way I can get away with wearing these stain magnets. I threw on a sweater and a jacket to save me from the "windy city" breeze, and man was my Fawn Design backpack a lifesaver. We had our camera, our keys, our wallets, our shopping loot, and everything else we needed all tucked into a bag that I could wear until my sweet man offered to carry it for me. Practical and unisex...#winningagain. If you haven't been to Chicago, I really suggest putting it on your bucket list. We are kind of obsessed! xo JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Share this post: 2 comments: Caitlyn April 6, 2015 at 3:51 PM Your outfit is adorable!! Do you use a tripod or do you always have someone take your outfit pictures. I'm starting to get adventurous and start posting pictures of my outfits on my blog and am always making my sweet hubby take tons of pictures of me lol I'm no where near as fashionable and cutely dressed as you always seem to be :) but I'm trying!! ReplyDelete Replies Mrs. Measom April 6, 2015 at 4:13 PM Caitlyn, Thank you so much for such sweet words! I never use a tripod for any of my pictures, but that is mainly because my husband has a passion for photography (i am a lucky one to have found him). xo + I bet you rock your outfits! Good luck beauty! Delete Replies Reply Reply Add comment Load more... Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) welcome + hello! i'm mrs measom. i've got two babies + a husband + a pup. together we are building memories out in midwest, usa + using this space to chronicle things from recipes to first steps. it's a simple life and we love it. This content requires JavaScript to be enabled, and the site or browser may be disabling it. Try reactivating it to view this content. Sponsors + Affiliates Popular Posts © XO, MRS MEASOM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DESIGNED BY STEPHANIE HAMMER. Powered by Blogger. | negative |
Britain should tell EU it is leaving, Conservative former minister says
LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Britain should notify the European Union it intends to leave the bloc so that it can negotiate a new settlement ahead of a 2017 referendum on membership, a former minister in Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet was quoted as saying on Monday.
Cameron has promised to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership before holding an in/out referendum by 2017 if he is re-elected in a May 2015 national election.
But Owen Paterson, a cabinet member for four years before being dropped in a summer reshuffle, said Cameron should fight the May election on a promise to formally notify the EU that Britain wants to leave the bloc, The Times newspaper reported.
Paterson said Cameron should pledge to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, a clause which sets out how a member could leave the EU, to give Britain a stronger hand in talks on a pre-2017 settlement.
"They give us a new deal or we can vote to leave in the 2017 referendum," Paterson told The Times newspaper in an interview, saying that such a move would give the bloc two years to come to a new agreement with Britain.
The comments ratchet up the pressure on Cameron who last week saw a second defector from his party win a special election for the anti-EU UKIP party, which favours an immediate British exit from the EU and far lower immigration.
Many investors and some major allies fear Britain could be slipping towards an exit from the European Union as Cameron becomes ever more Eurosceptic to try to see off the threat from UKIP.
In an embarrassing defeat heralding a possible fragmentation of Britain's two-party system in next year's national election, UKIP won a second parliamentary seat last week.
Paterson, who served as Cameron's Northern Ireland Secretary before taking over as Environment Secretary in 2012, also said Britain would have more influence if it left the EU's political structures.
"If we were an independent nation we'd be able to have our own seat on the world trading bodies," he said. | positive |
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On Friday’s broadcast of Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) guaranteed he would win any pending contest for the House Majority Leader spot as an outgoing-Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) has to vacate the House Majority Leader position, which looks to be coming down between House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Labrador.
Labrador gave his biography and touched on a number of topics, including immigration, the economy, Second Amendment rights and Benghazi.
Transcript as follows (courtesy of the Hugh Hewitt radio show):
HEWITT: Big change in the race to succeed Eric Cantor as Majority Leader. Congressman Raul Labrador of Idaho has thrown his hat into the ring to square off against Congressman Kevin McCarthy of California. I’m pleased to welcome Raul Labrador back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Congressman, good to talk to you, thanks for joining me.
LABRADOR: It’s great to be on your show, Hugh.
HEWITT: Are you going to win?
LABRADOR: I am going to win. You know, I’m already getting a lot of calls from people who are telling me that they’re switching their vote, that they’re excited about having a choice in this race, and that they want a different direction for the conference. They want more conservative leadership in the House.
HEWITT: Can we get a little bio for people? You’ve been on before, and I’ve written about you over at Hughhewitt.com, and I urge people to go and read that, but tell people a little bit about the Raul Labrador story.
LABRADOR: Absolutely. You know, I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard. So I went to school in Puerto Rico until the age of 13. I moved to the mainland at the age of 13, and I went to high school in Las Vegas. And I moved to Las Vegas in 1981. And you know who the president was in 1981. I hope your audience all know.
HEWITT: President Reagan, you bet.
LABRADOR: Absolutely. And my mom was an amazing woman. She had been a Democrat her whole life. She was a JFK Democrat. And when she moved to Las Vegas, she decided that she was going to register as a Republican, and I was a little bit surprised. And I asked her why, and she just said that the Jimmy Carter years had been terrible for America, and that she wanted, she just loved what Reagan was doing as president at the time, and that her first vote for president there in Las Vegas, she wanted it to be for Ronald Reagan when she registered to vote. So that’s how I…
HEWITT: So after that?
LABRADOR: After that, what?
HEWITT: You went to BYU, I believe, right?
LABRADOR: I went to BYU, went to college in Utah, and then I met and married a beautiful woman from Boise, Idaho, and that’s how I ended up in Idaho.
HEWITT: Now I see a picture, and I’ve put it up at Hughhewitt.com. You have five beautiful children and a wonderful wife, and you were a lawyer before going to Congress. And here’s what I wrote. Imagine House GOP Majority Leader Raul Labrador appearing on Telemundo and Univision daily, or answering mainstream media’s gotcha immigration questions in Spanish on Meet the Press or Face the Nation or This Week. So answer both in English and Spanish this question for me, Congressman Labrador. Are the Republicans anti-Latino?
LABRADOR: The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that has actually brought out the Latinos. Look at Idaho. I actually ran against a person in my primary who was born and raised in Idaho who happened to be Caucasian, and they elected the guy who was from Puerto Rico with an accent. So you know, so there can’t be any better story than that. You see the same story in Texas with Ted Cruz, you see the same story in Florida with Marco Rubio. We’re for the American people. We want people to succeed. We want people to thrive. We want people to do better.
HEWITT: And how does that sound in…
LABRADOR: And what we don’t do…go ahead.
HEWITT: How does that sound in Spanish?
LABRADOR: Bueno. [Lengthy answer in Spanish]
HEWITT: That’s exactly what I would have said.
LABRADOR: Exactly.
HEWITT: Now my next question is what is your position on bringing an immigration bill to the floor this session? Should it wait until 2015?
LABRADOR: I think it should wait until 2015. I have actually been really clear that it would be a mistake for us to actually negotiate with the Democrats right now. The only thing that we should be doing is encouraging the President, and actually demanding from the President, that he seal the border. You see this incredible rush to the border by all these children that are coming from South and Central America, and I think this is the direct result of the policies of this President. And we need to make sure that the President actually is serious about enforcing the law, because right now, he has a welcome sign out there saying that anybody who wants to come to the United States, they can stay here, because we’re going to grant them amnesty. I think that is the wrong message, and I think he needs to start enforcing the law, and I think the American people are fair people. Once he starts enforcing the law, we can start changing the immigration system, because it is a broken system, and you and I have talked about this before. It’s a broken system, and we have to fix it. But we have to do it the right way. There should be no bill going to the floor this year, and there should be no bill going to conference. I have rejected any kind of conference with the Senate. The only bill that could or might go to the floor is the bill that we drafted as Republicans, and we tell the Democrats this is the only bill, and it’s not going anywhere. If you want to conference it…
HEWITT: I also told people that you were a Mormon missionary in Chile. And I assume that you worked the toughest slums of Chile as well as some of the middle class neighborhoods, so you’re no stranger to poverty. And should the Republican Party be afraid of issues having to deal with the 1% rhetoric they ran into two years ago?
LABRADOR: You know, I think that the Republican Party needs to start talking to the middle class a little bit better. We need to start talking to the poor people. You know, I always get a little bit frustrated with Republicans, because we always talk about job creators, and really who we should be talking to is their employees. I think we, there’s people that are suffering in the United States right now. There’s a lot of people, the middle class, you have people that are poor that want a better life, and we need to show them how to get that better life. And that better life is not through government dependency, but it’s through personal accountability. And it’s through actually making sure that these people work hard and play by the rules. That’s what we…
HEWITT: There’s a question out there that Kevin McCarthy knows the rules of the House, and you know, he’s got all the chairmen on his side. Do you think you could run the House? And do you think you could work well with a Whip McCarthy if you beat him? Do you think you’d be able to turn around and work with Kevin?
LABRADOR: Absolutely. I called both the Speaker and Kevin McCarthy this morning to tell them that I was running. I told them that obviously, I’m in it to win, and I’m going to win this race, and I want to work with them. This is, you know, I have a good relationship with them. I have been a critic of leadership, and I think we need to go in a new direction. That’s why I think we have a good, strong opportunity, because 90% of the members of the House feel like they’re not relevant. They think that it’s all a top-down approach in the House of Representatives, and that they’re not really relevant, because what they want to do, the bills that they want to pass, and the things that they want to do, are not even being heard in the committees. And that’s what I want to do.
HEWITT: I think your election as leader would energize into the fall. I think we’d win the Senate for sure, I think we would pick up seats in the House. Would you be active out there raising money? Could you raise money? Could you raise awareness for candidates who are running for seats currently held by Democrats in both bodies?
LABRADOR: Absolutely. I think we need to have a better message that reaches out to all the different communities. I think my voice and having a new face for the Republican Party will energize America. Having people like myself who are talking about conservative principles is actually a good thing for the Republican Party.
HEWITT: Any chairman step up and say I’m a Labrador guy
LABRADOR: I don’t think that’s going to happen. I don’t think I’m going to win this through the regular way of having the chairmen support me. I think it’s by having just the regular people in the House, the rank and file members of the Republican conference. I think they’re the ones who are asking and hungering for change.
HEWITT: Now I think people can help you if they call their Congressmen and urge that, and I also think reporters need to ask every Republican Congressman out there bluntly, are you a Labrador or are you a McCarthy vote? I’ve been trying to get Kevin McCarthy to come on all day. He hasn’t been on the show in two years. If you win, will you be available to the grassroots via the platforms, not just this show, but every show and television and Twitter and the blogosphere to talk to them?
LABRADOR: Absolutely. That’s the only way you can win elections is by talking to just the individuals. If you’re only talking to businesses and your donors, it’s impossible for you to actually win major elections.
HEWITT: All right, now let me ask some issues so people can be certain where you are ideologically. Where do you stand on the Second Amendment?
LABRADOR: I’m 100 percent behind the Second Amendment. I believe it’s not just a hunting right. It’s a right for everyone to carry their weapons.
HEWITT: And are you a defender of unborn children?
LABRADOR: Absolutely.
HEWITT: How about religious liberty?
LABRADOR: You know, I actually have a religious liberty bill in the House that I have drafted, and that has been co-sponsored by Heritage Action, and it’s getting a lot of steam.
HEWITT: Do you support the investigation, the Special Committee, into Benghazi?
LABRADOR: Absolutely. I support it, and I’m a good friend with Trey Gowdy. He and I sit next to each other on the Judiciary Committee, and I think he’s going to do a fantastic job.
HEWITT: The IRS and Fast & Furious investigations were blocked. As majority leader, will you attempt to reinvigorate them and get to the bottom of them?
LABRADOR: You know, we have to do that. We do need to figure out, we have been doing something wrong in our communications. Somehow, we have not been able to get the American people to understand the importance of these issues, and I think that’s one of the things that I want to do.
HEWITT: And Defense spending, does it need to rise? And what about this mess in Iraq?
LABRADOR: You know, Defense spending, I actually think that we need to be careful with Defense spending. You look at how much money we’re spending at the Pentagon, I actually think there are things that we could do in the Pentagon that we can cut. And you talk to the generals, and they will admit that there are things that we can do in the Pentagon. Iraq? What you have is a failure of leadership. You have absolutely no plan and no strategy from this President, and look at it. This is the result that we have, the latest failure of leadership.
HEWITT: 30 seconds, how do people help you, Raul Labrador?
LABRADOR: They start calling all their Congressman and letting them know that they support having new leadership in the House of Representative.
HEWITT: Good luck, Raul Labrador. We’ll keep following this over the weekend. Do not give even a second’s notice to those who say it can’t be done. It can be done.
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During the election the only thing more sought after than Mitt Romney's tax returns was a picture of Paul Ryan's abs. Neither appeared. But forget him and look at the rippled chest of Martin O'Malley, the owner of the best abs in Washington. Buzzfeed's Ruby Cramer snapped this picture of the Maryland Governor participating in the annual Special Olympics Polar Bear dip. And, seriously, look at that man's chest. He's the one in the middle with the six pack and the chest of a professional wrestler.
O'Malley is 50-years-old. He is eight years older than Paul Ryan. What are they putting in the water in Maryland?
Ryan's abs became an election story in their own right when he went around claiming to only have six percent body fat thanks to the P90X workout. We talked about them at length while longing to see them, but the closest we ever came was a pre-P90X ab-less old photo from TMZ. There were those beefcake-y Time photos, but alas, they featured way too much clothing. Ryan's abs came up just the other day in a New York Times profile of Joe Biden. "As everyone knows, Mr. Biden is a fitness god. And not in that trendy P90X Paul Ryan way," Mark Leibovich wrote.
Sorry Mr. Biden, but it's time to bow to the real king.
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Introduction
You book a hotel on Expedia.com.
You buy a Garmin to navigate highways.
Finally, you stream Netflix movies to keep the kids occupied on the trip.
Just know you’re patronizing companies that volunteer virtually nothing about their political practices and spending, according to a new study on corporate political disclosure and accountability by the nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
Other familiar names such as travel website TripAdvisor, satellite service provider Dish Network Corp. and energy drink-maker Monster Beverage Corp. rank among 58 companies within the S&P 500 that earned a score of zero on the study’s 70-point scale.
Scores are calculated based on 24 indicators that range from whether a company publicly discloses corporate contributions to political committees and organizations — including politically active nonprofit organizations that don’t themselves disclose their donors — to whether it posts a detailed report of its corporate political spending on its website. The study also awards points to companies that have established clear political spending and disclosure policies.
Other notable companies receiving low political transparency scores include toymaker Mattel Inc., discount stores Dollar General Corp. and Dollar Tree Inc., Michael Kors Holdings Ltd., Tyson Foods Inc.
Also among the basement dwellers: consumer credit reporting agency Equifax, which is facing congressional hearings after a massive breach of its data systems that compromised the security of about 143 million Americans’ personal information.
When asked about Tyson Food’s score of three points out of a possible 70, Caroline Ahn, a Tyson Foods spokeswoman, said the company complies with federal disclosure requirements.
“We report to the U.S. House and Senate any corporate expenditures paid to trade associations that are involved with advocacy efforts,” she said in an emailed statement.
But other companies, such as Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., HP Inc. and PG&E Corp., fared much better with scores of at least 65 points out of a possible 70.
The number of these “trendsetter” companies, those that scored 63 points or more, increased by nine companies from the 41 companies that had the distinction in the 2016 report.
This year was also the first time in the Center for Public Accountability/Zicklin study’s seven-year history that a company received a perfect score. This distinction goes to Becton, Dickinson & Co., a global medical technology company.
The average score for all 499 companies in the study was about 30 points on its zero-to-70 scale. That’s a slight uptick from 2016.
Several companies significantly improved their scores from 2016 to 2017. Among them are chemical company LyondellBasell Industries NV, Host Hotels & Resorts, CenterPoint Energy Inc. and Ralph Lauren Corp. each boosted their score by dozens of points by voluntarily disclosing more spending or clarifying political spending practices.
Until recently, Host Hotels and Resorts didn’t have a staffer to focus on disclosure and corporate political spending, said Kevin Gallagher, the company’s vice president and assistant general counsel. Now the company does.
“We were just really happy to improve our disclosure, and I think we can do even better next year,” Gallagher said.
Food spice outfit McCormick & Company Inc., pharmacy chain Walgreen Boots Alliance Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. are well-known companies that also scored well, according to the study.
Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, said corporate disclosure has held even and he thinks it will continue to grow at a steady pace even in the shadow of a president who hasn’t released his tax returns.
“Political disclosure and contributions are now becoming a standard that companies are expected to follow,” he said. “Those companies that don’t disclose are going to be viewed as outliers.”
This year’s Center for Political Accountability/Zicklin study showed a slight dip — from 305 last year to 295 this year — in the number of companies that disclosed some or all their election-related spending, or banned such spending altogether. Freed said the year-to-year change in which companies are listed within the S&P 500 may have caused this decrease.
But the Center for Political Accountability/Zicklin study has also revealed a growing trend toward more managerial and board oversight of political spending and more disclosure or prohibition of political spending, said Freed, noting the study has measured the full S&P 500 for the past three years.
For instance, the numbers of senior managers overseeing political spending grew from 237 in 2015 to 292 this year.
The number of companies banning contributions to 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofit organizations is now at 177, versus 83 in 2015.
The study also notes that more companies are voluntarily disclosing their election spending without being told to do so.
The Center for Competitive Politics is a longtime critic of the Center for Political Accountability/Zicklin transparency study. While Center for Competitive Politics senior policy analyst Luke Wachob hasn’t yet seen the newest study’s findings, he faulted past studies for “misrepresenting the issue of corporate disclosure and for using a ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy for the thousands of different entities that comprise ‘corporate America.’”
Wachob said his organization hopes the study’s “defects” have been addressed in its latest iteration.
Kelli Mleczko, a spokeswoman for Sempra Energy, said public policy engagement is important for all companies — but so is transparency. Sempra Energy earned a score of 68 points out of 70.
“While the CPA-Zicklin Index can be used as a benchmark for areas to focus on in terms of accountability, our principle motive is that we believe maintaining transparency and accountability is core to being a responsible company,” she said.
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A new Gallup poll shows a wide split in how Ukrainians and those living on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia, view the conflict in their country. Ukrainians as a whole tend to be divided by where they live and sometimes by whether they are ethnic Ukrainians or ethnic Russians.
There are daily armed clashes in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian insurgents looking to secede from Ukraine and the Kyiv government's security forces. And there is relative peace, seemingly a world away, in western Ukraine.
A new Gallup poll shows just how wide the gulf is between western and eastern Ukraine. The president of Washington-based Freedom House, David Kramer, said the split within Ukraine is growing.
"What we're seeing now is wider splits have come about as a result of Russian influence and Russian pressure… It is more divided now than it was before events starting in Crimea in March," said Kramer.
Gallup interviewed 1,400 Ukrainians, and another 500 in Crimea in April, the month after Moscow took control of the Ukrainian territory. The survey was funded by the U.S. government's Broadcasting Board of Governors, the parent agency of the Voice of America.
It showed substantially more support for the American role in the current crisis in western Ukraine, with sharply diminished views of the U.S. in the southern and eastern regions of the country, and almost none in Crimea.
Gallup pollster Neli Esipova said the split among Ukrainians is not surprising.
"In the last eight, nine years when we collect data in Ukraine, we see it all the time on most of the aspects of life actually. Any political situation we ask of the country, even economics in the country, the split between different regions and between different ethnic groups existed for years, and the government didn’t pay attention to it," said Esipova.
The survey of Crimeans after the Russian takeover showed they are overwhelmingly happy to be part of Russia, with nearly three-quarters of those surveyed saying their life will improve as part of Russia rather than Ukraine.
"It is part of Russia now, and you saw that the support is huge for Russian government," said Esipova.
Kramer thinks that as time passes, Crimeans may rethink their affinity for Russia.
"I would say let's check in with people living in Crimea in a while and see whether life in fact has really gotten better. Russia‘s made all sorts of promises that will cost Russia lots of money: to boost salaries, to boost pensions. Russia right now economically is not really in a position to do that," said Kramer.
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An Injustice 2 patch that fixes the deletion of gear following the recent 1.10 update will be released soon, Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios have announced.
The exact date and time of the patch’s deployment is unknown at this point, and the official Injustice 2 Twitter account only mentions that the update will be made available “soon”. The team apologizes for the inconveniences the Injustice 2 1.10 update has caused.
Related Injustice 2 Patch 1.11 Available Now To Fix Gear Deletion Issues But Doesn’t Restore Lost Gear
“Update: a patch will be available soon that will stop the deletion of Gear”, the Tweet reads. “Apologies for the delay and we thank you for your patience!”
Based on this wording, the update will only prevent gear from being deleted but it doesn’t seem that it will also restore gear and items that have already been deleted.
As covered earlier, NetherRealm Studios’ community specialist, Tyler Lansdown, suggests that people contact Warner Bros. at support.wbgames.com to get their precious shaders and items back.
Injustice 2 is available now for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. | positive |
Mysterious snippet
Some time ago I came by a very strange piece of Java code. It was extracted from a working application. In a simplified form it looks like this:
class C { void a ( String s ) {} int a ( String s ) { return 0 ; } }
Well, this is a clear syntactic error. And sure enough, javac tells:
C.java:3: error: method a(String) is already defined in class C
Overloading functions
It cannot be otherwise. Any compiler of sound mind and memory will issue an error. Not only for Java. Same thing happens in any statically-typed object-oriented language allowing functions overloading in class: functions of the same name and number of arguments must have different types of arguments.
This rule is explained in basic textbooks and programming courses. And the reason is this: function invocation in such languages is usually an expression and the compiler must choose appropriate implementation at compile-time. Meaning the following code a.b(c, d) is regarded as a complete expression and the compiler will decide which function to be called at this point.
To make the decision, our compiler will check the types of a , c and d . We are talking about staticly-typed languages, Java included. All the type information is declared and known at compile time. Then the matching b(,) function will be chosen. Again, we are looking at expression and are aware of parameters’ types.
But the expected return type isn’t known. On the contrary it is be inferred from the chosen matching function. And if there is more than one option, the compiler is at loss. This is the case in the example above. Both the first and the second function accept the same one argument of type String . Which is the right one?
A bit about Android app
How such a snippet could have possibly get into working application? It is impossible. There is no way to compile it. So I thought. Then wiped my eyes. And then - eureka! I actually wasn’t looking at compilable code. But rather it was decompiled from a virtual machine bytecode.
The application was an Android application. They are usually written in Java, compiled and packed into APK files. When we install an app our smart phone downloads the APK file, which is actually a ZIP archive with a specified structure. There are a number of files inside like images, fonts, certificate. One of files is called classes.dex . It is a DEX file containing the binary code for Dalvik - the Android Java Virtual Machine.
There are a number of tools for converting DEX into human readable mnemonics, just like Assembler, but more high-level. And there are also tools capable of decompiling Dalvik opcodes back to Java. Frankly, the result may differ a lot from the original source code, but semantically they should be equal. In the past I worked with IlSpy - a decompiler for .NET. It had achieved spectacular results. Sometimes the decompiled version was almost indistinguishable from the origin.
In mnemonics our example looks this way:
# L and ; decorate the reference type name .class LC; .method a(Ljava/lang/String;)V # V stands for "return type void" # statements... .end method .method a(Ljava/lang/String;)I # I stands for "return type int" # statements... .end method
Method invocation
In order to call C.a() the following opcode will be used:
invoke-direct {v0, v1}, LC;->a(Ljava/lang/String;)I # ^.........................^
And here is the clue: the entire signature is being used including the function name, the argument types and the return type! For the reference I would recommend to browse http://pallergabor.uw.hu/androidblog/dalvik_opcodes.html and to search for invoke-direct opcode. You see the point? To Dalvik, there is simply no such thing as a function name by its own. In order to declare or to call a function entire signature, including the return type, must be specified.
Now the answer to “how is this possible,” is clear. Decompiler simply built Java code from Dalvik opcodes. And what was sane and executable to the Virtual Machine suddenly presented itself as high level code that compiler rejects. The next question is: how and why this has happened? We may assume that originally there was valid Java code. How our example has come into being?
Concealing the code
Like with assembler, one can write Dalvik mnemonics directly and produce machine code without any aid from high level language compiler. This indeed happens for various reasons. In Android world, much like .NET, Java, JavaScript and more, there is one more player - obfuscator. Existence of decompilers is a problem: once an app was developed and published, nothing prevents adversaries taking the bytecode, putting it back to readable form and seeing what and how the app does.
One may want to guard its code and conceal how exactly it ticks. Obfuscators try to help to some extent. The easiest thing they can do is replacing names of all packages, classes and functions to some meaningless strings in a consistent way. To Dalvik it does not matter. But whoever tries to read the code will need to dig much deeper. E.g. byte[] downloadFileFromUrl(String url) can become byte[] a(String b) or double computeLoanInterest(int days) can be renamed to double c(int d) .
Apparently some clever obfuscator used the fact that Dalvik requires entire function signature together with its name at method invocation. And so it took
class C { void first ( String s ) {} int second ( String s ) { return 0 ; } }
And instead of renaming first to a and second to b it renamed them both to a , which is still valid in VM because of the different return types! That’s it. End of story. Dalvik happily executed the code. And Java decompiler diligently translated methods to the high level language unaware of the catch.
Insane Java
Well, until now the snippet was simply impossible. Now, to raise the level, a really insane thing is going to happen. Try to imagine a class with two different fields with the same name:
class C { int a ; String a ; }
It was discovered in the same application. And again the clue comes from the Dalvik opcodes reference. Let’s say v1 is of type C as above and we need to read value of the second member String a into v0 like: v0 = v1.a . The following opcode will be used:
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read | All In A Dad's Work Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content All In A Dad's Work It’s about husbanding, daddying, and a dog. Search Main menu Home About Blogs & Links Contact Tag Archives: read Post navigation ← Older posts Storytime at Bedtime Posted on May 8, 2018 by stomperdad 7 They were a captive audience All ears and fur and beady eyes A couple monkeys, a bear, lion, tiger and a whale Oh my! If only they could talk like they were in a book It would be a Land of Stories. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aloud, books, Children, kids, Land of Stories, read | 7 Replies Sunday Share: Year 2 Week 19 Posted on May 6, 2018 by stomperdad 14 Welcome to May. The sixth of May to be exact. Just a reminder that next weekend is Mother’s Day. Now’s your chance to plan something. Or set a remind to call your mom (or, at least, someone’s mom). Our gardens are happy again. I mixed some compost and peat moss into the soil. Then I planted three new rose bushes. Our veggie garden got an upgrade when I added some fruit. A strawberry plant and blueberry bush. May summer come soon and may my plants flourish like the weeds I know I’m going to have to pull. While we’re waiting for the weeds to grow, here are some good reads… A Texan’s View of Upstate New York Meeting and greeting with some friends… The Return of the Modern Philosopher The thinks one thinks while running Bar Mom On turning 30… Julie Around the Globe Should you find yourself in Dumaguete… Ipuna Black Getting back to what’s important… Hope this Sunday finds you in good spirits. After a day of gardening in the sunshine and then supper with friends, we’re feeling good. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Friends, Links, read, Share, Sunday, Weekend | 14 Replies Sunday Share: Week 38 Posted on September 24, 2017 by stomperdad 9 Exactly 3 months from today, 91 days. 12 weeks. Canadian Thanksgiving is a few weeks away. Then Halloween. Then American Thanksgiving. Yes. We celebrate both. More turkey for us. But as I sit here writing today’s Sunday Share, I can’t help but think about life. We’re watching (aka catching up) on the AGT finales. We’re watching their final performaces and just saw Evie Claire. We’re floored that her dad passed the week of the finale from colon cancer, yet, here was this 13 year old girl pouring her heart into What A Wonderful World on the world’s stage. Even if she doesn’t win, she is the toughest young lady. On a side note, I love that none of the judges on American’s Got Talent are American. There’s two Britains, A German, and a Canadian. Dorky Mom Doodles Healthy food, a vagina, and an excuse not to eat… Tracey Tobin An awesome book for a dollar. I know it’s awesome because I read it. So did DW. A Momma’s View Knowing the fight that others are fighting and the strength of a smile… The Return of the Modern Philosopher A visit from the Prince of Darkness to discuss some REM lyrics… Modern Mommy Madness On flaws, self praise and a hole in the couch that means love… All In A Dad’s Work My new look… If you’re looking to network with me find me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Links, Network, Posts, read, Share, Sunday | 9 Replies Monday Share: Week 31 Posted on August 7, 2017 by stomperdad 16 We made it back from our 3 night camping trip. The tent didn’t catch fire nor did a bear break into it. I’ll call it a win. We hung out with family, met up with some friends, and overall had a great time. I’ll give all y’all an update on it later. There were some funny moments that totally need to be shared. And some pictures. Tomorrow is my birthday. I’ll be 878 years old. Almost as old as Yoda. However, I’m only as wise as a wookie. Since it’s my birthday, I want you to share with me. Down in the comments leave me a link to a post written within the last week. I’ll go read it and comment. It can be your post, or a friend’s post, or whatever post you read and liked and want to share with me. Then share this post. I want lots to read and it won’t cost you a cent. You have to. It’s my birthday. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Birthday, Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Dad, Monday, read, Share | 16 Replies On Finishing a Good Book Posted on June 7, 2017 by stomperdad 15 We started our journey some 2 years ago. Tonight it came to an end. Harry Potter died, but didn’t die. He returned to finish Voldemort properly. It’s been quite the adventure and Crash sure did love it. So much, in fact, that he checked out The Philosopher’s Stone from the library and has started rereading the series on his own. So in light of sending off our best friends, Harry, Ron, Hermione and the whole Hogwarts gang, all I can think to do is leave you with some quotes about what it feels like… But not to worry. I’ll visit them again in a couple years when it’s Bang’s turn to have them read to him. In the meantime, Crash is already wondering what we’re going to read next! Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged books, Children, Friends, Harry Potter, kids, Parenting, Parents, read, reading | 15 Replies Sharing Sunday: Week 13 Posted on March 26, 2017 by stomperdad 29 I was in the shower with the 5 year old yesterday. I needed to shave and he was dirty so we joined forces. At the end of it we were standing in ankle deep water from Bang having put the plug in the drain. I started stomping and splashing. He laughed and splashed with me. The curtain was closed so I thought it was safe. But then DW comes busting through the door like she was a one woman SWAT team. Then I heard the smoke detectors blaring. I thought for sure I was going to have to flee a burning house wrapped in a towel. Turns out the bathroom floor somehow got flooded and water was pouring from the smoke detector on the ceiling directly below the new pool room formerly known as the bathroom. The water shorted the detector and set it off. Since all three detectors are wired together they were all blaring. Because they were blaring, the bird was squawking. DW’s blood pressure soared. We have a guy coming to find out why our pool bathroom decided to empty into the floor below. For now… happy reading! Rosie Culture The best thing to be… Three’s A Herd Seeing our days in theirs and learning to love ourselves Snoozing on the Sofa Skunks, Kids, War, and Daylight Savings Time Making Time for Me A guest writes about being a teen in this day and age A Opinionated Man A Beauty, a Beast and another reason why some people suck And in case you missed it last week, we took a short 3 day vacation to do some visiting and touring. You can catch the highlight video of friends, family, a science museum and animal rescue facility here. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Links, Network, Posts, read, Share, Sunday, Weekend | 29 Replies Sunday Share Week 11 Posted on March 12, 2017 by stomperdad 15 Good Morning, Sunday! I hope everyone had a good night’s sleep. Good luck catching that lost hour for those of you who turned your clocks ahead. Crash was up at 6:30 (really 5:30 before the clocks the changed). Bang was up at 7 (really 6 before the time change). Fortunately, this is our March Break so we don’t have school all week. Lots of time for them to get caught up. Or be so tired and cranky that I’ll fear for their survival. Have a great day! The Other World: Book One A book I beta read and you need to read (or at least see the cover of) Dorky Mom Doodles Lost in translation… Coach Daddy Boys and Baseball: A guest post Faradays Candle Music’s effect on brains Apricots and Admiration Instilling and bringing back confidence… Wonderoak A letter to our children should we feel we fail them… SuperDad’s GoPro See the boys and I ice skating and having fun with the camera… Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Friends, Link, Network, Posts, read, Share, Sunday, Writers | 15 Replies The Other World: Book One Posted on March 11, 2017 by stomperdad 7 Before last year I had never heard of beta readers. Being a technology geek I had heard of beta testing and beta versions of software/hardware. Never heard of beta reading, though I could easily guess what it meant. Proof read an author’s book. Then I was asked to be one. I must admit, confess, that a small part of me agreed to be a beta reader because I wanted to read the book before anyone else. I wanted to be the first. The bigger part of me wanted to beta read because I wanted I wanted to help her book to be successful. I had read her first, self-published book, Nowhere to Hide so I couldn’t wait to get my hands on her new one. This second book is a completely unrelated to her first. I speak about none other than Tracey Tobin. When I joined WordPress she was the first one I followed. I still follow her. Not in that creepy stalker way… just on WordPress. Tori is haunted by past mistakes that caused her to lose her most beloved people. Wracked with guilt and haunted by has happened, she yearns for a new life. When a gift is mysteriously returned to her 17 years after events were set in motion, she finds a way out. However, this new world isn’t so perfect. It has it’s own problems. And it’s own secrets. Read The Other World: Book One on your Kindle App. It’s only $2.99. Bonus: If you’re a Kindle Unlimited user you can read it for free. FREE! And really, you can’t beat $2.99 either. That’s almost free. If you’re an old school reader and prefer to hold a book, to smell a book, to take a book to bed, the paperback version is coming very soon. If nothing else, just go take a peek. The cover itself is well worth it. If your first thought is “Wow, nice butt” you won’t be the only one. If your second thought is “What is this other world?” you won’t be the only one either. Go read it… you can thank me later. You can find it here: The Other World: Book One see the full cover @Amazon Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Action, Author, Blog, Bloggers, Blogging, Book, Download, Kindle, Mystery, read, suspense, Thriller, Tracey Tobin, Writing | 7 Replies Sunday Share Week 6 Posted on February 5, 2017 by stomperdad 19 Wow. What a response! Thanks to all those who replied to the Sunday Share post I posted on Thursday. Normally on Sundays I share posts from bloggers I follow or blogs I have read and thought you should, too. This time I asked you to share with me so I could share it with others. I usually share five. Today you get 14! It’s kind of like a meet and greet, except you don’t have to do anything but mingle. Go check out some of these posts and I guarantee you’ll find some new follows. We all win! Happy Reading! Moms Ranting How to take a hiatus from social media Invisible Illness On lucid dreams… Curious Hart On the structure of text… Humor Columnist Blog A blond and a catfish… A Momma’s View Stop eroding yourself… Grubbs n Critters Join this recipe showdown! The Only Sup What would happen if… Thunder When It Rains Masquerade Nocturnal Mom Talks The best of friendships… Four Acorns Kids who experience nature… Super Mommy of Twins Being beautiful… Confessions of a Reborn Girl The power of positive thinking… Not the Average Mama The power of essential oil… Ethan n Evelyn Blogging hosts picking their favorite posts… Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Posts, read, reading, Share, Writers | 19 Replies Sunday Share, the First Week of 2017 Posted on January 8, 2017 by stomperdad 19 We’re a week into the newest year so I’ll stop wishing everyone a happy new year. It’s getting old. I hope the first week of the new year has been kind to everyone. We just lots of snow, in case you hadn’t heard yet. 4 inches on Friday. 8 more inches last night. Now I’ve got my “lodge socks” on and and chillin’ out with dee-dubya (pronounced “DW”) and a few good reads. What am I reading? Light Between Oceans and these blogs… Sane Teachers Teacher watching… Truthful Parenthood A few parenting laughs… The Opinionated Dad When the kid is quiet… Harsh Reality On Blogging…. Mom’s Ranting More gems than one kid needs… When we get good “snowman snow” I’m building a few inspired by Calvin. Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloggers, Blogging, Blogs, Laugh, Links, read, Share, Sunday, Writer, Writers | 19 Replies Post navigation ← Older posts Stomperdad Follow All In A Dad's Work on WordPress.com Join the fun via Email Email Address: Follow me and join the fun! Join 1,534 other followers Social View allinadadswork’s profile on Facebook View stomperdad’s profile on Twitter View stomperdad’s profile on Instagram View stomperdad/the-board-of-blogs/’s profile on Pinterest View UCax7KVxMQMm-1AP6eVnhffw’s profile on YouTube Twitter Me My Tweets No Instagram images were found. 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“To change perceptions and beliefs, you will need to trigger a dialogue,” – Ayushmann Khurrana as Bala completes a year : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama Skip to content Bollywood Entertainment at its best Last Updated 24.09.2022 | 9:35 PM IST SEARCH LANGUAGE FOLLOW US ON FEEDBACK X trending Brahmastra Cuttputlli Dhokha - Round D Corner Chup Vikram Vedha Goodbye News Bollywood News Bollywood Features News Slideshows South Cinema International Television OTT / Web Series Fashion & Lifestyle K-Pop Movies Upcoming Releases Top 100 Movies Movie Reviews Celebs Top 100 Celebs Digital Celebs Photos Parties and Events Celeb Photos Celeb Wallpapers Movie Stills First Look Movie Wallpapers Toons Music Song Lyrics Music Reviews Videos Trailers Celeb Interviews OTT First Day First Show Parties & Events Bollywood This Week Exclusive & Specials Movie Songs Box Office Box Office Collection Analysis & Features All Time Top Grossers Overseas Box Office 100 Crore club 200 Crore club Top Male Celebs Top Female Celebs Trending Brahmastra Box Office Brahmastra Movie Koffee with Karan Bollywood Entertainment at its best Last Updated 24.09.2022 | 9:35 PM IST feedback language follow us on Bollywood Hungama » News » Bollywood Features News » “To change perceptions and beliefs, you will need to trigger a dialogue,” – Ayushmann Khurrana as Bala completes a year “To change perceptions and beliefs, you will need to trigger a dialogue,” – Ayushmann Khurrana as Bala completes a year Bollywood News Bollywood Hungama News Network https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/ By Bollywood Hungama News Network - November 8, 2020 - 1:49 PM IST Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana is known for his unique, clutter-breaking, conversation-starting social entertainers which are a mirror to society’s deep seated issues and taboos. The thought leader, who has been voted as one of the most influential people in the world by TIME magazine, has beautifully normalised critical issues like same-sex relationship in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, been vocal about caste politics in Article 15, seeked open-mindedness towards gender fluidity in Dream Girl and discussed premature balding in men and the taboo attached to dark-skinned people in India through Bala. On the first anniversary of the blockbuster Bala, Ayushmann opens up about his intent with social entertainers which are now lovingly called ‘The Ayushmann Khurrana Genre’! “To change perceptions and beliefs, you will need to trigger a dialogue,” – Ayushmann Khurrana as Bala completes a year He says, “When you set out to change perceptions and beliefs, you will need to trigger a dialogue, you will need to start a debate. I have strongly believed that constructive conversation can help us improve society at large. My films have tried to do just that and I’m extremely proud of my body of work.” The versatile actor says Bala was a film that wanted to champion individuality and uniqueness. He says, “With Bala, I wanted to normalize that fact that perfection is a human-made myth and it creates immense discrimination that breaks hearts and families. Through this film I wanted to tell people to love themselves because everyone is special and unique in their own way. I wanted to tell everyone to not fall prey to the stereotyped notions of beauty because that has divided people. I tried to tell people how counterproductive the pursuit of this so-called perfection is and I was happy that audiences showered our film with so much love.” Ayushmann is all praise for his Bala director, Amar Kaushik, and his producer, Dinesh Vijan, because he feels the team was committed to bring about positive change in society. He says, “I must credit my director, Amar Kaushik, for his brilliant and sensitive vision to make a truly clutter-breaking content film that was also immensely entertaining at its core because of the inherent social satire. I must also thank my producer Dinesh Vijan, who has shown his penchant to back content that stands out. Bala was a brave film and it wouldn’t have been possible without a strong-willed producer like Dinesh.” The star is conscious that he has to use his voice to bring more taboo subjects out in the open to normalise conversations around them. He feels this will lead to a more progressive society. Ayushmann says, “Films can be a true mirror to society and through my films, I constantly try to bring focus on matters that needs society’s attention. I would like to believe that I can do my bit to normalize issues and ask people to rethink on the preconceived notions about our world. I would want to shatter as many stereotypes as possible and there is a lot of work to be done.” ALSO READ: Ayushmann Khurrana to create awareness about asthma and inhalation therapy More Pages: Bala Box Office Collection Tags : Amar Kaushik, Ayushmann Khurrana, Ayushmann Khurrana films, Ayushmann Khurrana genre, Bala, Bala anniversary, Bollywood, Dinesh Vijan, Feature, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, Social Issues, stereotypes BOLLYWOOD NEWS - LIVE UPDATES Catch us for latest Bollywood News, New Bollywood Movies update, Box office collection, New Movies Release , Bollywood News Hindi, Entertainment News, Bollywood Live News Today & upcoming movies 2022 and stay updated with latest hindi movies only on Bollywood Hungama. Rate this article Make favorite Facebook Comments Next Story Rate this article Make favorite Facebook Comments Next Story Rate this article Make favorite Facebook Comments Next Story Rate this article Make favorite Facebook Comments Loading... 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WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals Home Login Register Account Logout Categories CFPs Post a CFP Conf Series My List Timeline My Archive On iPhone On Android 2022 2023 2022+ all maroueneo's list | timeline Sort by Deadline : ascendant Deadline : descendant Name : ascendant Name : descendant Date : ascendant Date : descendant Event When Where Deadline RVSP 2011 First International Conference on Robot, Vision and Signal Processing Nov 21, 2011 - Nov 23, 2011 Kaohsiung City, Taiwan May 5, 2011 ICSRA 2011 IIS 3rd International Conference on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation Jul 16, 2011 - Jul 17, 2011 Huangshan, China May 10, 2011 REACTS 2011 Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene understanding Sep 1, 2011 - Sep 2, 2011 Malaga (Spain) May 15, 2011 SITA 2011 The Third International Conference on Smart IT Applications Aug 18, 2011 - Aug 20, 2011 Seoul May 15, 2011 ICSR 2011 International Conference on Social Robotics 2011 Nov 24, 2011 - Nov 25, 2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jun 1, 2011 ROSE 2011 9th IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments Sep 17, 2011 - Sep 18, 2011 Montreal, Canada Jun 1, 2011 Humanoids 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots Oct 26, 2011 - Oct 28, 2011 Bled, Slovenia Jun 15, 2011 SSRR 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Oct 31, 2011 - Nov 5, 2011 Kyoto, Japan Jun 30, 2011 URAI 2011 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence Nov 23, 2011 - Nov 26, 2011 Incheon, Korea Jun 30, 2011 ICCVR 2011 International Conference on Computational Vision and Robotics Aug 13, 2011 - Aug 14, 2011 Bhubaneswar, India Jul 1, 2011 Journal of Social Robotics 2011 Measuring Human-Robot Interaction N/A N/A Jul 1, 2011 CNAR 2011 Special Journal Issue on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2011, Journal of Robotics N/A N/A Jul 15, 2011 ROBIO 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics Dec 7, 2011 - Dec 11, 2011 Phuket, Thailand Aug 10, 2011 ICARA 2011 The 5th IEEE International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications Dec 6, 2011 - Dec 8, 2011 James Cook Hotel,Wellington, New Zealand Aug 12, 2011 Robo 2011 The 2nd IASTED International Conference on Robotics Nov 7, 2011 - Nov 9, 2011 Pittsburgh Aug 21, 2011 AROB 2012 Seventeenth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics Jan 19, 2012 - Jan 21, 2012 Beppu, Japan Sep 1, 2011 ICRA 2012 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) May 14, 2012 - May 19, 2012 St Paul, MN, USA Sep 16, 2011 ICCC 2012 13th International Carpathian Control Conference May 28, 2012 - May 31, 2012 Grand Hotel Permon,High Tatras, Slovakia Nov 15, 2011 ICMET 2012 2012 4th International Conference on Mechanical and Electrical Technology Jul 24, 2012 - Jul 26, 2012 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jun 5, 2012 ROBIO 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics Dec 11, 2012 - Dec 14, 2012 Guangzhou, China Jul 15, 2012 first | previous | Page 1 | next | last Total of 24 CFPs in 2 pages About Us | Contact Us | Data | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions Partners: AI2's Semantic Scholar This wiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. | negative |
Kevin Garnett knows a thing or two about what it takes to be great in the NBA. From his 15 All-Star appearances, to his NBA MVP season of 2003-04 to his Kia Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2007-08 to his NBA title in 2008, Garnett has those accomplishments -- and many more -- to his name. That gives him the authority to speak on which players are, on pure potential, destined for stardom and he sees one on the horizon few may think fits that category.
In a Q&A session with Jonathan Abrams of Bleacher Report, Garnett singled out Milwaukee Bucks youngster Thon Maker as someone who has caught his eye in future MVP discussions. Garnett has worked with Maker individually -- as recently as last week -- and heaped praise upon the Bucks' rising star forward:
B/R: You've done a lot of work with Thon Maker, right? KG: Thon Maker reminds me a lot of myself. He loves the game. He's a young, exuberant athlete who has a lot of tools—he has touch; he has agility; he has really, good feet. He has a really good shot from three-point all the way up to 19 to 21 feet. He has very good bones, as we say. Thon is going to be the MVP of the league one day. Mark it down. He has the bones. He has the appetite to be able to chase something like that.
Aside from those in the running for future hardware-based accolades, Garnett had thoughts on the Russell Westbrook-Kevin Durant feud that has cropped up from time to time over the last year or so.
B/R: Russell Westbrook is the player most compared to you, in terms of intensity and passion. Have you guys ever talked—and found similarities in where that drive comes from? KG: I talked to Russ a couple times about personal s--t—real recognize real—but I respect his talent. I respect his appetite. We have a similar background. We have a similar path, if you will. I played with guys like Steph [Marbury] when we were super best friends, and he left, and that left an immediate mark and impacted me in a certain way that I looked at teammates different after that. The ones that stuck—Malik [Sealy], Sam Mitchell, Joe Smith, Gary Trent, Trenton Hassell, Troy Hudson—those guys became real friends with me after that because of that situation. So I totally understood it when he was going through the KD saga and all that and how both of them moved on—and are starting to make interesting basketball when it comes to the West and have us all watching with open eyes.
And as talk of the one-and-done rule in the NBA possibly being reversed makes headlines, Garnett chimed in on that topic. As a former preps-to-pros phenom himself back in 1995, he envisions the rule changing -- but not how some people think it will: | positive |
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DETROIT -- Jiri Hudler's last NHL season, 2008-09, was his most productive. And the Detroit Red Wings expect nothing less this season.
They anticipated a transition period after his return from Russia, so they are not overly concerned that he has no goals, two assists and a minus-4 rating after six games.
But the urgency to start producing is increasing. Red Wings coach Mike Babcock wants Hudler to compete harder.
"Work and get on the puck and hang onto the puck," Babcock said before Thursday's 4-2 win against Calgary. "It's real simple. You can't play in this league on the move. You got to stop on defense, you got to stop on pucks, you got to compete on pucks.
"When he gets all that back -- and we knew there was going to be a process here, just by being away and playing where he played -- but to compete here and be as good as he's capable of being, we need him to really compete on pucks.
"He's got a ways to go, but I think that line has a lot of growth potential in it, and Huds, in my opinion, has a chance to be a star. But he's got to work."
The third line still is finding its way. Mike Modano, Dan Cleary and Hudler have combined for two goals, three assists and a minus-11 rating.
That line was outplayed Thursday by the Flames' third unit, featuring Mikael Backlund (two goals), Curtis Glencross and Brendan Morrison.
Hudler, who had career highs of 23 goals and 57 points in 2008-09, said before the game he is not worried about the slow start.
"Eventually it's going to come, and then you just got to get on a roll," Hudler said. "We got to put more pucks on the net, we got to score goals when we get our chances. You're not going to get 5-6 chances a night, you're going to have 1-2. You got to bury it."
They have yet to click on the ice, but Hudler and Modano have bonded off the ice. They live close to each other and spend a lot of time together. But they don't talk hockey very often.
"You don't want to get hockey 24-7 into your head because then you start thinking about it too much and things get complicated on the ice," Hudler said.
Draper has surgery
Forward Kris Draper had surgery Thursday in Philadelphia to repair a sports hernia. He is expected to be out four to six weeks.
"When you're a veteran player and you miss the start, it makes it even tougher," Red Wings coach Babcock said. "He trains so hard and he's a committed guy off the ice. He did a great job this summer and ... for whatever reason didn't go the way he wanted.
"He's a big part of our team leadership-wise, and we'd like to have him around. Ideally, he'll get feeling good and get healthy and get back."
Longtime fan honored
The Red Wings acknowledged Kenneth Rucker, a season-ticket holder since 1972 who was known as "The Orange Hat Guy," during a TV timeout in the first period. Rucker died last week.
Several fans wore orange wool caps in his honor, and the club covered his lower-bowl seat with an orange fabric. | positive |
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An aboriginal healer has been sentenced to two years in jail for sexually assaulting a Winnipeg teen during treatment sessions designed to help her cope with a previous rape.
Denis Desjarlais, 60, was found to have committed a “major breach of trust” for the repeated incidents that occurred between July 2007 and July 2008.
The Crown was seeking up to five years in prison, while Desjarlais asked for as little as one year. Queen’s Bench Justice Shaun Greenberg delivered her decision on Thursday.
“He deliberately took advantage of a vulnerable person,” said Greenberg. “She was an emotionally fragile person who turned to the accused for help and was instead further traumatized.” | positive |
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Kucinich, with wife Elizabeth, questioned the president's mental health.
(CNN) - Strong words from Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich may be nothing new, but his comments to a newspaper Tuesday questioning President Bush’s mental health are raising a few eyebrows.
“I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health," the Ohio congressman told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."
Kucinich's comments were in reference to the president's recent remarks on Iran, in which he suggested World War III could occur if the country obtained nuclear capabilities.
“I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush said at a news conference earlier this month.
The Democratic presidential candidate later said he does not consider questioning the Bush's mental health inappropriate, according the Inquirer's Web site.
“You cannot be a President of the United States who's wanton in his expression of violence," Kucinich said. "There's a lot of people who need care. He might be one of them. If there isn't something wrong with him, then there's something wrong with us. This, to me, is a very serious question."
A Republican National Committee spokesman called the comments "absurd and irresponsible."
- CNN Political Desk Managing Editor Steve Brusk | positive |
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13-year-old Aradhana died after a 68-day fast in Hyderabad
The family of a 13-year-old girl who died last week in Hyderabad after a 68-day fast as per Jain rituals has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.The family had said Aradhana, a class 8 student, was admitted to the hospital two days after completing her fast where she died of cardiac arrest. But a hospital certificate, accessed by NDTV, claims that the girl was brought dead.The family says the girl was religiously inclined and had earlier undertaken fasts for seven days and 34 days."She asked permission for upvaas (fast). We asked her to stop after 51 days but she would not give up," her father Lakshmichand Samdariya said, adding "Her fast was voluntary. No one forced her."Achyuta Rao, child rights activist, says there is no question of a minor - that too a 13-year-old - exercising her own free will. "The girl was forced to go into fasting by the parents and elders as the Choumaas is auspicious days for Jain community and it is a remedy for problems. They should have stopped her, not encouraged her," he said.Pictures available with NDTV show a weak Aradhana sitting dressed up like a bride, surrounded by several others, on a grand chariot.What's worrying now is that Aradhana being hailed as a 'Baal Tapasvi' who got moksha could have undesirable fallout on other youngsters.Harshvardhan Soni is a 16-year-old who has the experience of fasting for 11 days. What happened to Aradhana has scared him but he is also undeniably in awe. "I would love to emulate her. But by dying it all became a waste... It is wrong. Her parents should not have allowed her to do it since she was so young but yes, if possible, I would also like to do it someday," he says. Harsh is right now attending a camp at Kachiguda Jain Sthanak in Hyderabad along with about 50 other children. These are held regularly at Jain Sthanaks everywhere to familiarise youngsters with the Jain way of life and philosophy. Critics say glorifying Aradhana's death could condition youngsters into believing hers was a path worth emulating. | positive |
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Search Results | Croydon Local Offer Skip to main content LOCAL OFFER Find a service or activity For families and people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Accessibility Shortlist0 Loading... Toggle Navigation Search LOCAL OFFER Home Page What's on Contact us Shortlist (0) Search for Search Home Search Results 340 Results Category Category (317) Apply filters Supporting people with: Autism (112) Communication impairment (120) Hearing impairment (74) Learning difficulty (117) Mental health conditions (86) Physical impairment (77) Visual impairment (65) Service type: Service (138) Organisation (107) Activity/Event (95) Age bands: 0 to 4 years (103) 5 to 10 years (139) 11 to 16 years (159) 17 to 24 years (166) 25 plus years (116) Parents and carers (133) Search Related information 0 to 4 years 11 to 16 years 17 to 24 years 5 to 10 years About the Local Offer Access to work Further related information Sorted by: Name Rating Add all to Shortlist Add to Shortlist Beckmead College Beckmead College provides vocational training for young people aged 14 to 19 with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH), and autism. Key Stage 4 At Key Stage 4 students follow… Applicable age ranges: 17 to 24 years, 11 to 16 years Beckmead CollegeTennison RoadLondonSE25 5RR 020 8289 4701 020 8289 4701 office@beckmead.croydon.sch.uk beckmeadfamilyofschools.org/ Add to Shortlist Beckmead School Special school for primary and secondary boys with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) for social, emotional, mental health (SEMH) and challenging behaviours. Part of the Beckmead family of… Applicable age ranges: 11 to 16 years, 5 to 10 years Beckmead SchoolMonks Orchard RoadBeckenhamBR3 3BZ 020 8777 9311 020 8777 9311 office@beckmead.croydon.sch.uk beckmeadfamilyofschools.org/ Add to Shortlist Bensham Manor School A special community school for children aged 11 to 16 with moderate learning difficulties and autism. Applicable age ranges: 11 to 16 years Bensham Manor SchoolEcclesbourne RoadThornton HeathSurreyCR7 7BN 020 8684 0116 020 8684 0116 mainoffice@benshammanor.com www.benshammanor.com Add to Shortlist Best Start Services Croydon Best Start is a service supporting pregnant women up until their child turns 5. It is made up of a number of different organisations all working together to support… Applicable age ranges: Parents and carers, 0 to 4 years Croydon Best Start services Add to Shortlist Better Working Futures Better Working Futures is Reed in Partnership’s name for the Work and Health Programme. The service gives people (18 years plus) who face additional barriers the best support available to… Applicable age ranges: 25 plus years, 17 to 24 years 2nd Floor Suffolk HouseGeorge StreetCroydonCR0 1PE 0203 910 2570 0203 910 2570 david.oladele@reed.com Better Working Futures Add to Shortlist Boomerang Youth Club Thursdays 7pm to 9.30pm An evening provision of social and informal education for young people with disabilities, learning difficulties and additional needs. Provided and funded by Croydon 0 to 25 SEND Service. Applicable age ranges: 17 to 24 years, 11 to 16 years 85Waddon WayCroydonCR0 4HY 07701 398 442 or 07990 790 183 07701 398 442 or 07990 790 183 Lstevens12.306@lgflmail.org; Paul.funnell@croydon.gov.uk Add to Shortlist Bouncers: Stay and play Tuesdays 10am to 11:30am Our baby and toddler stay and play aims to provide a welcoming place for parents and carers to meet and chat, whilst providing a stimulating space for under 5's to… Applicable age ranges: 5 to 10 years, 0 to 4 years Beulah CrescentCR7 8JL 020 8771 4570 020 8771 4570 office@beulahfamilychurch.co.uk Add to Shortlist Bramley Bank A primary school for pupils with challenging behaviour. It's part of the Beckmead family of schools. Applicable age ranges: 5 to 10 years Bramley Bank Short Stay School170 Sanderstead RoadSouth CroydonCR2 0LY 0208 686 0393 0208 686 0393 office@bramleybank.org.uk beckmeadfamilyofschools.org/ Add to Shortlist British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) BAAT is a national organisation promting art therapy, professional support and and advice to its members. Use the service to search for art therapists in Croydon. Applicable age ranges: 25 plus years, 17 to 24 years 020 7686 4216 020 7686 4216 info@baat.org www.baat.org Add to Shortlist British Association of Drama Therapists (BADTH) BADTH is a national organisation promting drama therapy, professional support and and advice to its members. Use the service to search for drama therapists in Croydon. Applicable age ranges: 25 plus years, Parents and carers 01242 235 515 01242 235 515 info@badth.org.uk badth.org.uk/ First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next Last About the Local Offer Disclaimer Terms and conditions Help A to Z © 2017 ‐ Croydon Council Powered by Open Objects © Idox plc | negative |
Can Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG) Remain Competitive? – News Heater Skip to content Home Stock Ideas Menu Toggle Morning Brief Equity Research Analyst Insight About Newsheater Menu Toggle Authors Contact Us Privacy Policy Main Menu About Newsheater Authors Contact Us Home Privacy Policy Thank You Home » Hot Stocks » Can Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG) Remain Competiti... Can Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG) Remain Competitive? Nicola Day September 22, 2022 Hot Stocks Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG) went down by -1.11% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $23.35. The company’s stock price has collected -1.32% of loss in the last five trading sessions. The Wall Street Journal reported on 07/19/21 that Zoom Video, Five9, Exxon, IBM: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today Is It Worth Investing in Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE :KRG) Right Now? Plus, the 36-month beta value for KRG is at 1.31. 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Yahoo (s yhoo) is famous for saying that Hadoop, the data-storage-and-processing platform it helped develop into a big data juggernaut, is “behind every click” on the site. But as the world once again starts analyzing Yahoo’s myriad woes after Sunday morning’s ouster of embattled CEO Scott Thompson, I’m left wondering if its investment in Hadoop didn’t aid in the company’s demise — even if it’s a way down the long list of Yahoo’s mistakes.
While Hadoop might have given Yahoo a competitive advantage early on by letting it better analyze user behavior, it also leveled the playing field over time. For years, Yahoo has used Hadoop to better personalize the content its visitors see, both ads and articles, and now so does everybody else. In the meantime, however, Yahoo failed to evolve its business at the same pace as it did its analytic capabilities.
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Big data is great, but it’s not a business model in and of itself. Yahoo might as well have just told its competitors, “We still suck, but we spent a lot building a great technology to help you compete.”
The company that has spent the last couple months suing Facebook over patents — even threatening some core components of the Facebook’s infrastructure — used to be on the forefront of open source technologies for webscale operations. Hadoop especially, which Doug Cutting created while a Yahoo employee and then released to the Apache Software Foundation, has always been a point of pride at Yahoo. The company used to maintain its own open source distribution of the platform, and even still ex-Yahoo employees now with Hadoop startup Hortonworks cite the overwhelming majority of the project’s code contributed by Yahoo employees.
But whatever benefits Hadoop brought to Yahoo in terms of letting it better targeting the right content to the right visitors, it also brought them to everyone else. If you talk to a company building an ad-targeting or web analytics technology, chances are Hadoop is somewhere in its technology stack. The aforementioned Hortonworks, which spun out of Yahoo last June, is now peddling Hadoop software and services to the world. A new startup called InsightsOne, also comprised of former Yahoo data experts, is selling a technology for helping marketers reach consumers wherever they happen to be on the web.
The big problem for Yahoo is that, increasingly, users and advertisers want to be everywhere on the web but at Yahoo. Maybe that’s because everyone else that’s benefiting from Hadoop, either directly or indirectly, is able to provide a better experience for consumers and advertisers alike. Facebook has been particularly adept at using and developing Hadoop to analyze behavior, and — despite potential privacy problems on the horizon — it’s eating Yahoo’s lunch in terms of attracting advertisers and eyeballs.
Not that Yahoo should be blamed for anything it did with regard to Hadoop; rather, it should be commended. It has changed the face of data management on the web like no technology — whether from Yahoo, Google, Facebook or whomever — likely will for some time. But I can’t think of Yahoo and Hadoop without thinking about Sun Microsystems, Java and MySQL, and we all know how that story ended. | positive |
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Schumer, who recently dropped her pants for a good cause, has openly rallied against gun violence on multiple occasions.
The comedienne previously made public appearances with her cousin, Sen. Chuck Schumer, in an effort to speak against gun violence and to raise awareness on the dangerous matter. "Gun violence is ripping apart America; it's ripping apart our families," she said at an October press conference with Sen. Schumer.
"And even those untouched by violence must every few days just look up in a stunned silence at another nightly newscast that reads like an obituary."
More recently, she tackled the conversation with a more comedic approach by performing a sketch called "Welcome to the Gun Show" on Inside Amy Schumer. In it, the star poses as a host for a Home Shopping Network-type of show to illustrate how easy it is to obtain a gun.
"Now here is what's great about this," says Schumer, playing with the gun for the camera. "Pretty much anyone can purchase this." She continued, "You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies, as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show."
Unfortunately, one of Schumer's films was the setting for a different shooting. In July 2015, a gunman opened fire at a showing of Trainwreck, killing two people and injuring others before killing himself.
"I was by myself in a hotel, and I was just like, I wish I never wrote that movie," Schumer said in an interview with Vanity Fair. "It's like when the Dark Knight shooting happened, and in Paris. The idea of people trying to go out and have a good time—you know, like looking forward to it?—I don't know why that makes me the saddest." | positive |
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The founder of the Silk Road underground website has forfeited the site and thousands of bitcoins, worth around US$28 million at current rates, to the U.S. government.
The approximately 29,655 bitcoins were seized from the Silk Road website when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) moved to close it in late September. The site served as an underground marketplace for drugs and other illegal items, relying on bitcoins for transactions because such payments are much more difficult to trace, the government says.
Ross Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," operator of the site, was arrested on Oct. 1 in a San Francisco public library while allegedly logged into the site, according to court papers. He was subsequently charged with one count of narcotics conspiracy, one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking and one count of money-laundering conspiracy.
The government had argued that the bitcoins were used to facilitate money laundering and thus should be forfeited along with the website.
"The United States Marshals Service shall dispose of the Silk Road Hidden Website and the Silk Road Server Bitcoins according to law," wrote Judge J. Paul Oetken, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in a court order that was issued on Wednesday but not made public until Thursday.
The ruling represents the largest-ever forfeiture of bitcoins.
"It is the intention of the government to ultimately convert the bitcoins to U.S. currency," said Jim Margolin, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.
Once converted, the bitcoins, like monetary proceeds of other crimes, will go into the government's general fund, he said. There, they will be used for general-purpose spending.
The bitcoins that Ulbricht forfeited are a fraction of the total amount seized by the government in connection with the case.
The government still holds an additional 144,336 bitcoins, worth around $130 million at present, and has asked a court to order the forfeiture of those assets, too. Ulbricht filed a claim contesting the government's move and asserting he is the owner of the bitcoins, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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PlantPostings: Orange With Anticipation...and a Giveaway PlantPostings Notes from a USDA zone 5 shade garden in Southern Wisconsin. Pages HOME LESSONS LEARNED PRODUCTS WORK WITH ME April 13, 2015 Orange With Anticipation...and a Giveaway One of the first Baltimore Orioles in my garden last year in early May. As I write this, the oriole feeder is up and I'm just about to set out the hummingbird feeders. What an exciting time! Last year, the first orioles appeared in my garden on May 6, and the first hummingbirds on May 7. I know this because of date labels on my photos, and because I reported the sightings to the Journey North citizen science website on those dates. (Anyone can help track the migrations; you don't have to be a teacher, a naturalist, or a scientist.) Do you think I'm too early with my preparations this year? I'd say "yes," except people elsewhere in northern states have sighted orioles. And hummingbirds have made their way to the Upper Midwest. Don't believe me? Check out the reports here, here, and here. Indigo Bunting that showed up on the same day last year as the Orioles. Tawny Emperor butterfly on oriole feeder. One of last year's first hummingbirds. The oriole feeder I use is a versatile little tool for attracting, feeding, and observing not just orioles, but also butterflies, chickadees, hummingbirds, and other birds. I wasn't fast enough last year to photograph the hummingbirds checking out the feeder, so it will be a fun challenge for this year. Handmade oriole/butterfly/hummingbird feeder. Just add oranges! (Oreo kitty not included.) Want to attract orioles, chickadees, hummingbirds, and butterflies to your garden? This type of feeder is one way to do it. To celebrate the new season of wildlife support and observation, I'm giving away an oriole feeder to a random commenter. This feeder was made by my father, a talented woodworker. (Thanks, Dad!) I'll draw a name on Friday, April 17. Simply leave a comment on this post, or on the PlantPostings Facebook page. (U.S. shipping only. Outside the U.S.: Send me an email if you'd like construction instructions.) Good luck! And enjoy the unfolding season! (I'm linking this post to Michelle's Nature Notes at Rambling Woods.) Posted by Beth at PlantPostings at 5:03 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: butterflies, hummingbirds, migration, Oriole feeders, orioles, songbirds 65 comments: Karin / Southern Meadows April 13, 2015 at 5:32 PM I love your feeder! I've never seen a Baltimore Oriole in our garden but a friend just down the road had one this spring. Maybe one of these feeders will do the trick to entice them to visit me. If not, then the butterflies and hummers could enjoy the fruits. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:23 PM For several years, I'd put out the oranges a couple of times and then give up. Last year, I made a point to put them up when I heard that orioles were in the area. Then I kept the oranges going all summer after the orioles moved on (changed them a couple of times a week), and had many other visitors. It's fascinating to watch the hummingbirds go for the juice and the little bugs on the oranges! Delete Replies Reply Reply Shirley Fox April 13, 2015 at 6:13 PM Oh that is so nice! We had orioles last year even without the oranges. They went after the hummingbird feeder. Maybe I'll try your method this year. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:24 PM Yes, I noticed the orioles going for the hummingbird feeders, too. That was fun to watch, as well. They seem to like both! :) Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous April 13, 2015 at 6:29 PM I too love the oriole and have a photo of it as a banner. In my area, they say to have the feeders up in April, but I usually wait until May 1. The orange feeder is very nice. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:26 PM I usually wait until May, too. But the orioles seem to be early, along with the hummingbirds. I just noticed this evening that someone sighted a hummingbird here in Madison! I hope I'll see one soon. :) Delete Replies Reply Reply Sally April 13, 2015 at 6:36 PM You have a great eye and these wonderful pictures of birds and butterflies are the proof! I've never seen an Indigo Bunting or a Baltimore Oriole here. They're beautiful creatures.....Thanks for sharing! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:27 PM Thanks. Last year, it seemed like it happened all at once. And the oranges and hummingbird feeders really attracted the activity. I'm so excited to see these guys again this year. Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous April 13, 2015 at 7:20 PM I've always been told wait until May 1, but now you've got me itching to start sooner. Sadly I have to leave very early in the AM tomorrow, but when I come back I will set up the jelly and orange feeder. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:29 PM I know--that's what I usually do, too. But the reports are showing earlier activity this year. So, I thought I'd go for it. Having these visitors back will be so much fun! We've had a busy backyard this spring--totally opposite the inactivity of the winter. Delete Replies Reply Reply Indie April 13, 2015 at 8:08 PM What beautiful birds you have!! I spotted some orioles last summer and put up a feeder, but they never came to it, sadly. I am so very envious you have an Indigo Bunting, too! So pretty. I love the bird feeder, too. I've used Journey North to record Monarchs, but I haven't recorded birds there. What a great tool to follow the migrations. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:30 PM It was exciting last year--I hope we can attract them all again this year. They're so fun to watch! We've had Indigo Buntings before, but last year was the first time I saw them at the feeders. Yes, Journey North is a great resource! Delete Replies Reply Reply Aaron April 13, 2015 at 9:18 PM Beautiful birds!! The coral honeysuckle vine is in full bloom here in Tennessee, but I haven't spotted any hummingbirds yet... You give me hope that perhaps I'll see one soon :) ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 13, 2015 at 9:32 PM Oh, I imagine the Honeysuckle is lovely in your garden. I don't have any in my garden, but it is a beatiful bloomer. Yes, I would think you'd see some hummingbirds soon, too. I just noticed tonight that someone saw a hummingbird in Madison today. Yay! Delete Replies Reply Reply Sally April 13, 2015 at 9:56 PM Hi Beth, TY for visiting my blog, A New England Flowerbed. I have to confess the pictures I posted are from last year....we had so much snow that I started posting last years garden pics according to color,which I should have explained with each post!.....white flowers are my last color post....Spring has arrived and the gardens are coming to life! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 3:48 PM Yes, that was clear from your post. That's a great idea to post by color--especially during the winter when we need reminders about it. ;-) Thanks for visiting here! Delete Replies Reply Reply Tatyana@MySecretGarden April 13, 2015 at 10:56 PM Kudos to your Dad! Beth, the feeder is very good, the creatures are wonderful, but your pictures are great! The one before the last is the best - I'm ready to eat that orange myself! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM Yes, I'm thankful that he would build me another oriole feeder for the giveaway. He built my other one, too. He's an avid birder and can identify birds quite well from sight and song. :) Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous April 14, 2015 at 7:59 AM I'm so glad spring has arrived and that the birds will and are showing up to do their spring/summer thing. Your' photos are beautiful. I know that the Baltimore orioles migrate through here, but I've never seen one. I do see a couple of different bunting species, but not the Indigo. Wow! Love the bird feeder--it's grand to have family member who support our passion for gardens and the like. Cheers! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 3:53 PM Thanks! I'm thrilled about it, too! Last year was the first year the orioles came to my feeder--and they visited frequently within about a two-week period. Then I continued to replenish the oranges anyway, and I started to notice other visitors to the feeder and realized it's not just for orioles. :) Delete Replies Reply Reply Jean Campbell April 14, 2015 at 10:12 AM I don't know if Orioles come through here or not. What I mistook for an Oriole is the groundfeeding Towhee. Wonder if they like oranges? ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 3:57 PM Hi Jean: I don't know much about Towhees, so I looked it up. They certainly do resemble Orioles. They're beautiful birds, too. Delete Replies Reply Reply Jean Campbell April 14, 2015 at 10:14 AM Your Dad does good work. I am sure that birds appreciate the feeders and those of us who watch, do too. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 3:58 PM Yes, he does. Thanks. Lately, I've been seeing the finches and the chickadees at the oranges. I think they like to eat the little gnats that gather on the fruit. Delete Replies Reply Reply fredamans April 14, 2015 at 11:57 AM Stunning Oriole! What color! Love the other photos too! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 3:59 PM Aren't they lovely? I thought I heard one today, but didn't see it at the feeder. I suppose it's just a matter of time now... :) Delete Replies Reply Reply Giga April 14, 2015 at 12:06 PM Beautiful colorful birds. I love hummingbirds. In my garden there is no such birds unfortunately. Regards. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:00 PM Hi Giga: I know you have some beautiful birds in your garden, too. Your landscapes in Europe are so lovely, as well. :) Delete Replies Reply Reply eileeninmd April 14, 2015 at 1:19 PM Wonderful collections of birds and nature photos.. I love the Orioles.. Have a happy week! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM Thank you, Eileen. The Orioles certainly are dramatic. Last year, they really changed the dynamics at the feeders while they were here. :) Delete Replies Reply Reply Lula April 14, 2015 at 1:26 PM That's amazing!! I love your bird feeder and how good the oranges are for birds at this time of year. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:04 PM It's very fun to watch. Last year, I think I had a water sprinkler going at the same time, which probably attracted some of the birds, too. They do like our birdbath, as well. Delete Replies Reply Reply chloris April 14, 2015 at 3:02 PM Wonderful photos. How amazing that the oriole matches the orange. The indigo bunting is beautiful and you have humming birds! I love to see all the different birds you have. So different from ours. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 29, 2015 at 9:57 PM Thanks, Chloris. Still no Orioles, Buntings, or Hummingbirds. We've had a bit of a cold snap, so I guess I was a little over-anxious (what me? over-anxious in springtime?). Soon they'll be here, though. I can't wait! Delete Replies Reply Reply Unknown April 14, 2015 at 6:40 PM We have tons of little brown birds, so when a colorful one shows up it gets lots of attention. The Oriole and the Bunting would get a standing ovation around here. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:05 PM Thanks, Ricki! Yes, we have many little brown birds, as well. Some of them are brown and beige all year round, like some of the sparrows. And some are juvenile finches and other birds that take on more color as they mature and at different times of the year. They're all entertaining, though! Delete Replies Reply Reply Carla from The River April 14, 2015 at 8:26 PM Hi I feed oriole and hummingbirds as well. I have only seen an indigo bunting once. The are so beautiful. I have put grape jelly out for the oriole and guess what bird loves grape jelly at our house? The Cat Bird. :-) Carla ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:08 PM We seem to have Indigo Buntings visit each year, but they tend to be somewhat shy. Last year was the first time they came to my feeders. I don't know if the oranges attracted them, or what. They didn't eat the oranges, but they came to the feeders quite a bit. Delete Replies Reply Reply Rambling Woods April 14, 2015 at 9:44 PM Wonderful photos and I love the feeder! I just put one hummer feeder out and will put the oriole feeder out soon. Journey North is wonderful.... Michelle ReplyDelete Replies Tim April 14, 2015 at 11:54 PM Your feeder is really cool. I hope to, one day, see a humming bird. They're so interesting to watch on TV. Your cat is very pretty :) Delete Replies Reply Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM Thanks, Michelle and Tim. :) Yes, Journey North is a great resource! Tim: If you have a chance to visit the Americas, the hummingbirds will be a highlight. They're beautiful and fascinating! The cat is pretty special, too. ;-) Delete Replies Reply Reply Andrea April 15, 2015 at 4:04 AM Oh i will donate my birdfeeder to someone, hahaha! But that looks like easy to do in my case as we have lots of scrap wood. However, fruits can't be sacrificed for the birds and butterflies as they have strong competition with humans! I have long intended to do firdfeeders but haven't yet done it. I think this time i will do that at least for butterflies. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:16 PM Ha! Yes, nothing fancy about it, but it works! I definitely recommend making one if that works for you. The butterflies (at least some species) do seem to like it, as well. Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous April 15, 2015 at 2:42 PM Thank you for the info on the feeder. I will check this out. i saw an Oriole years ago here in VA, may see one again if i put out the right feeder. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:17 PM I'm hoping we'll have the same luck again this year. I still haven't seen orioles or hummingbirds yet, but the reports are showing them coming ever-closer. Very exciting! Delete Replies Reply Reply Donna April 15, 2015 at 4:18 PM Aren't you so sweet to give this feeder away and what a great creative dad....since i have an oriole feeder there is no need to enter my name in the drawing altho I would love this one...I have both the oriole and hummer feeders up in anticipation. I can't wait to see both these birds soon. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:19 PM Anticipation ... it's fun and exciting, isn't it?! Yes, I'm happy that Dad was willing to make me another oriole feeder for the giveaway, since the other one he made has brought entertainment and joy to the garden. :) Delete Replies Reply Reply joey April 15, 2015 at 9:40 PM So touching to pass your dear father's gift onto others ... blessed to have him in your life, dear friend. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:22 PM Yes, I'm fortunate that Dad enjoys woodworking and was willing to make another feeder. And very fortunate that he's relatively healthy and an important part of our lives. Delete Replies Reply Reply rochefleuriegarden April 16, 2015 at 1:51 PM Beautiful pictures Beth. I noticed the Phoebe are back and we can hear the sandhill cranes. Spring is really here! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 16, 2015 at 4:23 PM Thank you, Alain. I'm glad spring is back in your neighborhood, too. Such a wonderful time of year. Enjoy! Delete Replies Reply Reply Lynne April 16, 2015 at 9:30 PM Oh my, lovely Orioles and Bluebirds . . . Wonderful photos . . . Perfect Springtime . . . ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 9:49 PM Thanks, Lynne. Just now catching up on some comments. Still now Orioles or Hummingbirds. But I suppose the cold and snow repel them. Can't blame 'em. ;-) Delete Replies Reply Reply Layanee April 17, 2015 at 7:39 AM Wonderful photos...now where is my hummingbird feeder? ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 9:50 PM Thanks, Layanee. Tee hee. I had to hunt around for mine, as well. Soon they'll be here ... Delete Replies Reply Reply Sue Catmint April 17, 2015 at 10:24 PM Interesting post contrasting with mine about not feeding birds here. It must be so satisfying to feed and track them, and it makes for great photo ops as well. Great post, Beth. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 9:52 PM Yes, true. I can see the benefits of both strategies. Actually, we have plenty of natural food and nectar sources here, as well, so if I didn't put out the feeders they'd probably find enough nourishment. But, the feeders probably give them a little boost. They are fun to watch! Delete Replies Reply Reply Stephanie April 18, 2015 at 2:12 AM We seen a bluebird today! I haven't seen an oriole at my house before. My daughters are in love with bird watching, we have been watching since February. We bought a house on a lake and seen four types ducks we have never seen before. So fun to watch birds. ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 9:53 PM Lucky you! How fun to share the bird-watching hobby with your daughters. It's great to hear when the next generation cares about nature and wildlife! Delete Replies Reply Reply Unknown April 19, 2015 at 10:05 PM Oh shucks, I'm bummed I missed the giveaway. I haven't had any orioles in my Texas garden...then again, I haven't put out any oriole feeders. I'll have to try that next year. If yours show up around the same time as the hummingbirds, I'm guessing it is around the same time for us, which would be mid-March. How often do you replace your orange halves? ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 9:56 PM Last year was the first time I had success attracting the Orioles to the feeders. I think in the past I simply gave up before they got here. I'm thinking the Crabapples will attract them all, too. I replace the oranges every few days during the hot summer, and once a week during the cooler weather, like now. Frankly, the weather we're having right now is the same temperature as a freezer at night and a refrigerator during the day! But next week looks better again! Delete Replies Reply Reply Anonymous April 19, 2015 at 11:13 PM We are on about the same schedule ~ the Orioles usually arrive here around May 9th. I am not lucky enough to see hummingbirds tho until Mid July. Good idea to get prepared. I need to make sure I'm stocked up on grape jelly!!! ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 9:58 PM Interesting that we're on the same schedule. I still haven't seen Orioles or Hummingbirds, but we had a cold snap. Maybe they'll arrive next week. I'm so excited! Some people have seen Hummingbirds in my area, so some are here. Poor things hunkering down in this cold! Delete Replies Reply Reply Heather April 20, 2015 at 10:04 AM Sorry I missed this one last week. I'll have to have a friend check out your handmade feeder -- she's been attracting more and more birds to her yard, and this is just the sort of thing she'd like. ☺ ReplyDelete Replies Beth at PlantPostings April 22, 2015 at 10:06 PM It's pretty easy to make, for people who are handy with woodworking. I think my dad slightly modified this model for the feeders: http://bit.ly/1zOtlNy. 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BUILD A BETTER BOTTLE–FROM PAPER | Ecologic Meet The Eco.Bottle® Products Shop Products Commercial Inquiries About Blog Build a Better Bottle–From Paper Build a Better Bottle–From Paper Posted on: April 06, 2020 Inc. | Seeking an eco-friendly detergent bottle, California mom Julie Corbett created her own (This article first appeared on Inc.com April 2020) Julie Corbett, a California financial adviser, was wandering the aisles of her local supermarket in 2007, looking for liquid laundry soap in an environmentally friendly container. Her elementary school daughters were learning about recycling and had begun whipping the Corbett household into recycling shape. “Your kids come home and become the enforcers,” recalled Corbett. They were even weighing her trash. But she was having a tough time finding an alternative that fit the bill. So, Corbett decided to take on the challenge herself. The granddaughter of Canadian paper mill workers, Corbett had grown up with the sounds and smells of paper, and unwrapping a smartphone slickly wrapped in paper gave her an idea. “I thought if we could manufacture paper in curves, could we make a bottle of it? It was a long journey.” The result, two years later, was a molded cardboard bottle wrapped around a thin plastic liner. The cardboard gives shape and strength to the package, and the liner is the waterproof container that holds the liquid. “I had no background in packaging, I knew nothing about manufacturing,” said Corbett. “People think you need to be an industry expert to solve the problems but that’s not necessarily the case. It just takes a different lens and the grit and persistence to make it happen.” Her dream was an all-paper product. She learned that by pressing paper pulp under high heat, the fibers shrink and become denser–“just like putting a cashmere sweater in the dryer”–creating a stiff, water-resistant shell. But it wasn’t waterproof enough for the detergents and beauty products she was aiming for. The solution was a plastic liner that ensured the bottle was completely waterproof. She approached dozens of plastic manufacturers, but, she said, “nobody would call me back. I was just some woman who didn’t have a company.” A packaging engineer and part-time professor, whom she met at an industry conference, showed her prototype cardboard bottle to his class, and the students fell in love with the concept. And thus the eco.bottle was born. Corbett outsourced early manufacturing of the paper shells to a factory in Taiwan and assembled the first bottles with a glue gun around her kitchen table. Partnering with a Marin County dairy, Cobbett did test marketing in a local supermarket. The results were impressive. “Consumers bought 78 percent more milk in our bottle than in the farm’s regular bottle. We knew we were onto something.” Corbett then raised several million dollars to build a 60,000-square-foot factory in Manteca, an industrial town about 50 miles east of San Francisco. The plant, completed in 2013, takes in only cardboard and plastic waste, and it churns out bottles and liners that are shipped flat and assembled where Ecologic’s customers produce their cleaners, shampoos, and beauty products. When the bottles are empty, consumers can reuse them, or simply pull the plastic liner out of the cardboard shell and recycle them according to their local guidelines. Almost everything Corbett did had to be built or conceived from the ground up, and her engineers have filed 37 patents, most of them to ensure their cardboard bottle behaved like any other conventional container across the entire bottling and distribution process. By 2021, Ecologic expects to be producing 70 to 80 million cardboard bottles and jars a year at the California factory, and all of it capable of being made right back into new bottles. “What’s crazy to me is that our first bottle was on the market for nine years, and finally consumers are noticing it, and more and more retailers want it,” Corbett said. “I guess we were just ahead of our time.” GO TO SITE Recent Posts Jabil Inc. Acquires Ecologic Brands The Sustainable Ecologic Refill Kit Understanding the Circular Economy How We Navigated COVID-19 The Evolution of Plastic: Consumer Preferences Over Time Contact Us Ecologic Powered by Jabil 550 Carnegie Street Manteca, CA 95337 Explore Ecologic Meet the Eco.Bottle® Shop Products Commercial Inquiries About Blog Join our mailing list © 2021 Ecologic Powered by Jabil | All rights reserved. Meet The Eco.Bottle® Products ▼ Shop Products Commercial Inquiries About Blog | negative |
Bitcoin Magazine is proud to serve as a media partner for the upcomingDigital Currency Summitset to take place in Andorra in from September 17-19, 2014. The Digital Currency Summit will focus on the role of virtual currency for investors, politicians, banks and regulators. With a professional line-up of speakers and attendees the summit will draw big players from not only the virtual currency space but additionally traditional finance. Notably, Jan Kees de Jager, former Dutch Finance Minister and David Andolfatto of the US Federal Reserve Bank will be speaking. From the virtual currency space, Jon Matonis, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, as well as Constance Choi of Payward, Inc and several others will be presenting.
The Digital Currency Summit issued the following press release:
Digital Currency Summit is the first conference about virtual currency focused on regulation , finance and investment
Digital Currency Summit is the meeting point for the international financial elite to discuss the future of cryptocurrency.
Jan Kees de Jager, former Dutch Finance Minister, and David Andolfatto, of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, lead the program.
La Massana , May 27, 2014 – Digital Currency Summit, the world’s first international conference focused on virtual currency for banks, investors and politicians, will take place this September in Andorra.
The DCS has initiated an event to answer all the questions that have arisen from the increase of cyrpotcurrency exchanges . A high-level forum will be open to discuss the future of digital currency regulation, opportunities, possible threats, and of course the financial considerations and legal aspects.
The aim of the conference is to demystify digital currencies with knowledge and debates regarding Bitcoins, Litecoins, Ripples, and to provide a premier networking hub as one of the main attractions for attendees.
Conferences and workshops
The lectures will focus on four main areas: introduction, investment opportunities, regulation (legal issues) and finance (banking).
The meeting will feature keynotes and panel discussions lead by the most influential international specialists in finance, law and investment that will share their experience and knowledge with attendees. Participants of note include Jan Kees de Jager, former Finance Minister of the Netherlands and David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve of United States, among others.
The DCS conference program also includes specialized workshops in four main blocks.
The event will take place from the 17th to 19th of September at the Palace of Congresses in Andorra la Vella. The organization is selling a limited number of 500 tickets at a reduced (Early Bird) price of 930 euros. The first hundred tickets were sold in the first 2 days.
Digital Currency Summit
Perhaps the best known cryptocurrency is currently Bitcoin. It is a decentralized electronic currency, without central authority, which enables fast, safe, anonymous and irreversible transactions. It is estimated that by 2014, investment in Bitcoins startups exceed $300 million, also in 2014 the volume of transactions in this cryptocurrency surpass its equivalent in dollars in Paypal. It has a market capitalization of over 7 Billion dollars and volume of transactions daily between 20 and 90 million dollars.
Digital Currency Summit is a debate forum which aims to understand how digital currency works and what are its implications for banks, governments and investors. The conference is aimed at bankers, executives, lawyers and politicians around the world to open a real and useful discussion on the subject. The conference will lasts three days, from the 17th to 19th September, during which cryptocurrencies will be explained from scratch, attendees can understand how the technology works and how it affects the modern economy. The last day will be devoted to workshops, networking startups and a special area where attendees will have the opportunity to schedule meetings with sponsors and other conference attendees.
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US president Donald Trump’s controversial nationalist views are getting support from one of the world’s least democratic leaders: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.
The 92-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe for 30 years, says that Trump policies focused on limiting entry for foreign nationals are necessary. “When it comes to Donald Trump, on the one hand talking of American nationalism, well America for America [and] America for Americans—on that we agree,” Mugabe said in an interview ahead of his 93rd birthday. After taking office, Trump signed a controversial executive order (currently halted by US courts) temporarily banning entry from seven Muslim-majority countries.
It’s not the first time Mugabe has spoken supportively of Trump. Before the Nov. 8 US elections, Mugabe disclosed his preference for the Republican candidate, though later said he was “surprised” by Trump’s win.
Mugabe’s niceties are likely a ploy to cozy up to the US president in the hopes of getting Zimbabwe’s longstanding sanctions lifted. The sanctions were put in place by president George W. Bush in 2001, and maintained by president Barack Obama, in response to Zimbabwe’s controversial land reforms. Given time, Mugabe hopes Trump will “re-look the sanctions on Zimbabwe,” which have been particularly damaging for its struggling economy. Estimates peg lost revenue due to the sanctions at $42 billion.
Mugabe isn’t the only populist leader on the continent who has quickly warmed up to Trump: After his victory, early congratulations came from some of Africa’s longest-serving strongmen. So far though, Trump has not shown much interest in the continent. He has only spoken with Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari, South Africa’s Jacob Zuma and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. | positive |
Knights and King Tournament | FAForever Forums Navigation FAForever Forums Login Search Search Categories Recent Tags Popular Users Groups Your browser does not seem to support JavaScript. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you have been placed in read-only mode. Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled (i.e. NoScript). Home Tournaments Knights and King Tournament Knights and King Tournament This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it. last edited by SpikeyNoob 13 S SpikeyNoob Here is my first attempt at hosting a tournament! The premise is you have 2 lower rated knights lead by a high rated that can observe and coach. My goal is to allow some lower rated players to play with and learn from experienced players. I hope everyone enjoys! Logistics Tournament Dates: Date of play: September 3rd 14:00 UTC Signups Close/Draft Starts: August 13th TD: SpikeyNoob Bracket Link: TBD IRC: TBD Prize: Total Prize Pool: $150 Donations would be greatly appreciated! $100 donated by Exselsior $50 donated by Spikey 1st: Custom Avatar $100 2nd: Faction Face Avatars $50 3rd: Faction Logo Avatars Structure Each team will include 2 under 1900 knights that will take part in the games and a 1900+ king that will ctrl k at the start of each round and assist their teammates without playing. The tournament will follow a single elimination format with the first rounds being BO1 and all the following rounds BO3. Teams will be selected by a draft. The lowest rated King will select their first teammate followed by the next lowest king. This will continue until all kings have a teammate, then the lowest king will draft their second teammate and the cycle repeats. A kings highest rating on July 30th will be used to create the draft order. Maps Map pool: -INITIALLY UNVETOBLE- Map Gen 15x15 (8 spawns) Map Gen 20x20 (8 spawns) -INITIAL VETO POOL- 10x10 zerg canyon Crazy Backtrack Wonder open 5v5 v3b Desert crisis Diversity 20x20 The Ditch Lena River Pelagial v2 Sirgis Adaptive Crateria Seton's Clutch - FAF Version (mid and rock) (For now the game as the last 2v2 tourny. Subject to change up to the end of signups) Vetos: 3 alternating vetoes each, low seed vetoes first. High seed picks map 1. Low seed picks map 2. Players veto down for the last map. All maps are viable to veto on the 3rd game. There is a pool of 13 maps and maps will be selected using a veto and pick system. This means each team has 3 vetos, with the lower seed in the group vetoing first in an alternating pattern. (ie lower seed, upper seed, lower seed, upper seed). Next the higher seed will select the first map, the lower seed the second map, and if necessary teams will resume vetoing maps until only 1 remains with the lower seed vetoing first. No faction veto will be used for this tournament. Once a map is picked for a round, the team that selected that respective map will confirm their team setup (who is playing slot 1 and 2) and the lower seeded team will then proceed to pick the slot setup they wish to play. For mapgen, both teams can enter the lobby and view the map prior to sending in their vetoes. Each team now gets 1 reroll, but must use the rerolled map. Players must host with the tournament settings on when using map gen. To clarify map picking and faction veto: Figure out whether you use the upper or lower bracket pool. Lower seed (as shown by the position in the group) vetoes first map Higher seed vetoes next map Lower seed uses next veto Higher seed uses next veto Lower seed uses final veto Higher seed uses final veto Higher seed then picks the first map to play from the list of maps in the pool that have not been vetoed Lower seed picks the second map following the same rules In the event of a tie, players veto down the remaining maps until 1 remains with lower seed going first The winner reports the results (including losses and tie games) to their group's tournament director in the IRC channel Rules Late players will be given a sub of equal or lesser rating if available, if not they will play down a player or forfeit The king on the higher seeded team will host each game. Prize money will be split equally between both the knights and the king Signups: Kings: Yudi (2535) Grimplex (2319) YellowNoob (2216) Swkoll (2198) Sladow (2190) Bully (2188) RowanMorseYT (2080) Edtjuh (1975) Archsimkat (1927) Auriko (1922) Knights: Exselsior (1884) Mr-Skill-Issue (1867) Unknow (1858) crusher12321 (1849) FTXCommando (1848) BoomNoob (1846) orb (1800) (reserved for swkoll) Terminal (1799) Cast_Away (1787) salnik (1670) Penguin_ (1635) snowy801 (1600) Javi (1561) Skuzz (1400) Rort (1259) (reserved for swkoll) HalcyonWolf (1255) Hemfast (1206) Talon (1200) Rowey (1137) BackUps: If you are too low rated to play or the tourny is already full you will be put here dman82499 (675) Reply Quote last edited by 0 BulliedNoob signing up, highest rating 2188 (4v4) profile picture credits to petric Reply Quote last edited by 0 RottenBanana signing up Reply Quote last edited by 0 H HalcyonWolf signing up. Highest rating is 1255 - global. 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I'm generally not the kind of guy who marches around, offering advice to people who don't ask for it. But if there was one piece I would give to fellow parents, it would be to "think like your child." In other words, in any given situation, put yourself in his or her shoes and project all possible thought outcomes. If we do that, we are more likely to understand them when they give us a hard time. I did this recently during a family trip to New Jersey's IZOD Center, to take in a performance of Disney's "Frozen on Ice."
Leading up to the date of the show, Antonio (my 5-year-old) displayed mixed emotions. It was clear he was excited, but was sure to keep his cool when we brought it up, as if not wanting to show his hand. "Frozen?! Oh... okay... I mean, it'll probably be alright." He was as transparent as ice itself. And make no mistake; he was psyched. But he didn't want us to know it. Because, quite frankly, "Frozen on Ice" is "for girls." At least according to a handful of other influential boys in his kindergarten class who had gotten into his head.
For someone who wasn't so thrilled about seeing a "girly show," Antonio was quick to angle for a souvenir, an Olaf cup, gleefully expressing his gratitude as he clutched this new accessory that he miraculously hasn't broken yet. But as we reached our seats, his smile faded. We were surrounded by a veritable sea of Queen Elsas.
"It's all girls. There are no other boys," he nervously mumbled.
Admittedly, this was getting hard to sell to him. It didn't help that the dad sitting nearby gave us a strange look as he realized my sons weren't there with a sister. But I told my son the same thing that would comfort me if I were in his place.
"Honey, there are other boys here. And there's a rather big one sitting right next to you. Me. So please don't listen to those kids who tell you this is only for girls. Boys are here. Girls are here. Mommies and daddies are here. This might be hard for you to understand, but there are going to be people who try to tell you what's best for you, try to get in the way of your happiness. Look around. Is anyone laughing at you?" He shook his head. Then his eyes fixated on the stage of ice in front of him. I said nothing else. The rest was up to him.
I tried to sneak a picture of him, to capture the sense of awe that was clearly overcoming him as the music swelled. He caught me, and waved me off. He might have been starting to enjoy himself, but he'd be damned if there was going to be photographic evidence of it.
To kick off the live performance, Disney rolled out a healthy amount of its non-Frozen characters. Mickey, Goofy, Woody, Buzz Lightyear. Both my boys lit up for them. Seeing as these were male characters, my older son's masculinity breathed a sigh of relief.
As you probably guessed, Antonio absolutely loved the show. We all did. Yes, even me. More than anything that happened on the ice, it was pure joy to watch the reluctance and preconceived notions all go away, and to see my son finally get to the point where he no longer heard his classmates barking "Frozen is for girls!" He was simply enjoying himself. And I saw in that moment the open-minded son I hope my wife and I are raising.
In the end, I'm well aware that the voices of classmates will at times be too much for my wife and I to overcome. And both our sons will often choose the path of least resistance for fear of being laughed at and mocked by their peers. But someone once told me to be careful what you say in front of your kids, because when they're older, you become the voice in their head. Here's hoping my children remember my voice encouraging them to be open-minded, not yelling at them to eat their vegetables. | positive |
His True Colors Chapter 541-543 Your Favourite Chinese Novel Telegram channel Donate HomeHis True Colors His True Colors Chapter 541-543 byAvracity - November 02, 2020 0 Chapter 541 Han Tian Yang had a bitter smile on his face, he had expected that Han Qian Qian would eventually face this situation one day, because from the moment Nangong Qian Qiu married into the Han family, the Yanjing Han family was nothing more than a pawn of the Nangong family. The world believed that Han Tianyang had started from nothing and created countless miracles, but who knew that he wouldn't have been able to do it all if the Nangong family hadn't been behind it. Back then, to fight for a breath of air. Back then, in order to not lose to the MiGong Han family, in order to not be looked down upon by the MiGong Han family, Han Tian Yang had embarked on this road of no return. Han Three Thousand had been spurned by the entire Yun City as a useless son-in-law at the door, but the truly useless son-in-law was Han Tian Yang, who didn't even have the qualifications to be at the door! But he never expected that Han Nian would face it in such a situation. Han Nian's birth was a surprise, but it was also unexpected, and he was involved in this matter. "If something unexpected happens to Han Nian, what am I going to face him with." Han Tian Yang was helpless with reluctance, as he was powerless to help in such matters, but it was because of him, and he couldn't act as if he had nothing to do with it. "They won't harm Han Nian until the Nangong family has achieved their goal, it's the only bargaining chip they can use to blackmail 3000." Yan Jun's tone was particularly firm, but he wasn't sure if that was the case. Han Tian Yang sighed heavily and said, "If I hadn't been so competitive back then, perhaps none of this would have happened, I'm to blame, I don't have the ability, and I still want outsiders to look up to me, a magnificent empty shell is just a pile of rotten rust wrapped around it after all." Yan Jun didn't comment on this, back then Han Tian Yang did give up a lot in order to get to the top, but he had no other choice, was he willing to be a pawn for someone? This was nothing more than a desperate measure. "If there are smart people in the Nangong Family, perhaps 3000 will be able to obtain a true position in the Nangong Family, then our worries are unnecessary." Yan Jun consoled. Han Tian Yang laughed disdainfully and said, "Don't you know these guys with eyes above their heads? How could they take 3000 seriously? Such self-proclaimed superiors have an innate sense of superiority, and their eyes will only be on that level." "Hey." Yan Jun sighed, this kind of expectation that shouldn't be extravagant, it did seem like he was thinking a bit too much. A certain small island country. This was the home base of the Nangong family. When the plane landed at the small island country's airport, Han Giangli, who had already recovered from his injuries, followed behind Nangong Falcon and entered a Bentley. "From today onwards, you'll be quiet and mute, and you'd better not open your mouth when I don't ask you to speak." Nangong Falcon reminded Han Qianqian. The Nangong family had been working hard to get to that level, but the results were minimal, and the Earth's Core was just one of the many plans of the Nangong family. Nangong Falcon was also a more transparent figure in the family, which was why he took a gamble and undertook the task of taking on the Earth Core. Nangong Falcon was the second youngest among the younger generation, having an older brother and a younger brother, and both the older brother and the younger brother had achievements that satisfied the family, but he was the only one who wasn't up to the task. For Nangong Boling, his greatest wish was to bring the Nangong family into that level, and whoever could play a decisive role in this matter would be able to obtain the future head of the family. The position of Nangong family head could control an unimaginably huge economy, and the three brothers of the Nangong family were all secretly fighting for it. The Nangong residence was as grand and majestic as a castle. Han Qianqian was also an experienced person, having lived in the most luxurious mountainside villa in Yun City, but compared to this castle, Han Qianqian found that his understanding of the word luxury was still too limited. A mountainside villa was at most only a bathroom in front of this ancient castle. "Nangong Falcon, I heard that you destroyed the entire Earth's Core, you're really amazing, the Earth's Core was able to create a considerable amount of wealth for the Nangong family every year, and you destroyed it." As soon as he reached the door, a young man stood in front of Nangong Falcon and blocked his way. Nangong Feng, Nangong Falcon's brother. Nangong Falcon smiled disdainfully and said, "Nangong Feng, have you started dreaming of being the head of the family again?" "Do you have any more comments? Apart from me, could it be you who sits on this family headship?" Nangong Feng laughed and ridiculed, his eyes completely devoid of Nangong Falcon. Seeing this situation, Han Giangli faintly smiled, giants have many grudges, and it seemed that this Nangong family was also like that, Nangong Falcon wasn't as powerful as he thought he was. "What are you laughing at, you trash I've already heard that Nangong Falcon helped you plan a good show, but unfortunately, no one believed it at all." Nangong Feng said disdainfully, the news of the Earth's Core had already reached the Nangong family, almost everyone knew that Han Qianli had killed everyone in the Earth's Core, but Nangong Feng didn't believe in such things at all, and now that he saw that Han Qianli wasn't as formidable as he had imagined, he even felt that the whole thing was nothing more than Nangong Falcon deliberately creating a powerful image for Han Qianli. "Nangong Feng, it's a pity that you didn't see this good show with your own eyes, or else you would have been scared to weak legs." Nangong Falcon said in a cold voice. At this time, a tall figure approached Nangong Feng, a full two meters tall, with muscles like cast copper water, exuding a regal smell. He gave off the impression of being like a small mountain. Nangong Feng laughed proudly and said, "This is the person I have brought back, much stronger than this trash, he will die tonight, do you believe it?" Nangong Falcon gritted his teeth, in terms of body shape, this person did feel much stronger than Han Qianqian, and his aura alone was in no way comparable to Han Qianqian's. But Nangong Falcon had already put all of his treasure on Han Qianqian, and he would never allow himself to lose. "We'll see." Nangong Falcon said and walked into the castle without looking back. Nangong Feng was still shouting behind him, "My good brother, don't cry tonight like you did when you were little, my brother will never let you go." Bringing Han Giangli back to his room, Nangong Falcon was furious and smashed everything he could in the room. From the hostility he displayed, Han Qianqian could feel his anger at being ignored in the Nangong family, and this anger was never formed in a short period of time, it must have been accumulated over a period of time. "You kill that guy tonight, if you can't do it, your daughter will be an armless woman from now on." Nangong Falcon gritted his teeth and said to Han Qianqian. Han Qianqian's expression was indifferent, that guy was very strong just now, but to him, it was just a bigger word, not enough to be feared at all. "What are you doing tonight?" Han Giangli asked. "Fighting, for the Nangong family, whoever has the stronger strength is the one who will be rewarded by grandpa." Nangong Falcon said, "The Nangong Family has long since taken to not caring about money, because at their level, money is no longer the most important pursuit, as no amount of money can get them to that level. The only way to be king was by force! "I want to see Han Nian, I want to video call her." Han Qianqian said, he wanted to make sure that Han Nian was safe and sound right now, just through photos definitely wouldn't do. Nangong Falcon stepped in front of Han three thousand, almost close to the tip of Han three thousand's nose, gritting his teeth, "Remember, you are just a dog, dogs are not qualified to bargain with their masters, you must do whatever I tell you to do." Han Qianqiang looked straight at Nangong Falcon, after knowing Nangong Falcon's situation, he thought he had the capital to bargain with Nangong Falcon, as Nangong Falcon still had to rely on him to get a higher position in the Nangong family. "Nangong Falcon, you can use Han Nian to blackmail me, but I can also leave you with nothing, so if you want to prove yourself in front of the Nangong Family Master, agree to my terms." Han Qianli said with a resolute attitude. Chapter 542 Nangong Falcon almost gritted his back teeth, what he wanted to do was to take full control of Han 3,000 and use Han Nian to make Han 3,000 behave. But now, he felt like he was being blackmailed instead, this was not the outcome Nangong Falcon wanted, nor was it something he could accept. "Do you believe that I'll call right now and have Han Nian's arm crippled, her little arm should be able to be broken easily." Nangong Falcon threatened. Han Qianli was trembling inside, but he knew that if he compromised Nangong Falcon like this, he would be even less qualified to bargain with Nangong Falcon in the future, and he had to take a gamble that Nangong Falcon wouldn't dare to do so. "My daughter's life is worthless in your eyes, but Nangong's master's approval is something you desperately want, so you can go ahead and gamble on your future despite the fact that you can try." Han Giangli said with a calm face. Nangong Falcon burned with anger, he didn't think that this wouldn't even be able to threaten Han Qianli. Even if Han Nian was dead, Nangong Falcon didn't care, but he mustn't ruin his position in the Nangong family because of this. "Han Kuanyuan, you're her father, do you want to be so cruel? She's a baby less than a month old." After Nangong Falcon finished speaking, he took out his phone and purposely asked Han Qiannian to look at the picture of Han Nian in the phone. Han Qianli's heart was bleeding, an infant of less than a month, but no family was around, and although she didn't have a mind and didn't know what was happening to her, putting her in such danger was Han Qianli's lack of responsibility as a father. It was only because of him that all of this had happened. But ...... wants to save her, he has to be ruthless! "Your only choice is to promise me, or you'll be disgraced and ridiculed tonight." Han Qianqian said indifferently. The veins on Nangong Falcon's forehead bulged, and he hated to kill Han Qianqian. Paying the price of destroying the entire Earth's core, if he did nothing, he would definitely be criticized, grandfather Nangong Boling would be dissatisfied with him, and for the distance of the family head position, Nangong Falcon would be further and further away. And if he failed, what he would lose was not only the position of family head, he would also likely be driven out of the Nangong family, which was a consequence that Nangong Falcon would never accept. After taking a deep breath, Nangong Falcon had to compromise, "Fine, as long as you satisfy me, I'll agree to your terms." "To kill, or not to kill?" Han Qianqian asked faintly. Nangong Falcon's eyebrows furrowed slightly, he had seen Han Qianli's power, but the person that Nangong Feng had found was by no means easy to deal with, but looking at Han Qianli's appearance, it seemed like it was only between his thoughts to kill or not to kill. "You're so confident?" Nangong Falcon asked uncertainly, when even he had some suspicion that Han Giang was bragging. "It's not confidence, but strength," Han Marchiang said. "Good." Nangong Falcon said happily, "As long as you kill him, I'll show you Han Nian if you want to see him in the future." "Deal." There were many core members of the Nangong Family, besides Nangong Falcon's two main competitors, he also had his sister and younger sister, the entire Nangong Family had a total of over forty core members, so whenever it was time to eat, the restaurant was like a feast. When Nangong Falcon brought out Han Kuang, many people pointed at him, most of them looked at him with contempt in their eyes, it was a kind of looking down from their bones, like in their eyes, Han Kuang was just an inferior person. "Nangong Falcon, he's the one you retrieved, he looks too useless." A very pretty looking woman stepped on her heels and walked up to Nangong Falcon and said with a contemptuous glance at Han Kuang. "Sister, appearances are just an illusion, unlike some people who are strong on the outside." Nangong Falcon said indifferently, the woman standing in front of him, named Nangong Liuli, was also his sister, but this sister's position was more favorable to his brother Nangong Yan, so Nangong Falcon didn't have much affection for her. Nangong Liuli shook her head and smiled helplessly, she really couldn't see what was so special about Han Giang, more like a little white guy instead. "I don't know if it's outwardly strong, but he's of this stature, even I can't beat him, right, but of course, my battlefield, that's in bed." Nangong Liuli said with a smile, she was a very loose woman and she never hid her emotions in this regard, almost everyone in the Nangong family knew that Nangong Liuli liked to bag muscle little white men. Nangong Falcon felt nauseous, whoever took over Nangong Liuli as a woman in the future would really have done a shameful job for ten lifetimes. "Sister, where's grandpa?" Nangong Falcon asked. "Grandpa and Nangong Yan are in the study, you know, Grandpa has always paid more attention to Nangong Yan, and you and Nangong Feng are just green leaves to support him." Nangong Liuli said. Nangong Falcon looked unconvinced, Nangong Yan was only once in contact with someone on that level, and it was unfair for him to be valued by Nangong Boling just because of this matter. "Nangong Yan is just lucky." Nangong Falcon said disdainfully. Nangong Liuli smiled lightly at the words, "His luck is indeed better than you, I heard that he brought back good news this time, a big figure at that level will personally come to the Nangong family in a while, can you do this?" "What!" Nangong Falcon looked shocked, how could Nangong Yan be able to invite a person of that level to the Nangong family! "Don't be so big-mouthed, sister I already told you that you and Nangong Feng can't fight him, is there anything strange?" After Nangong Liuli finished speaking, she returned to her position with enchanting cat steps. Nangong Falcon's face was as heavy as water, if things were as Nangong Liuli said, wouldn't it be useless for him to work so hard to find Han Qianqian? Han Giangli listened to the conversation from the side without a ripple on her expression, but ripples had already been created within her heart. Was the level that Nangong Liuli was talking about the one that Grandpa Yan had mentioned? If that was the case, he would be able to take this opportunity to reach out to people at that level, and perhaps understand what was going on with that power in his body. Before dinner began, Nangong Boling's appearance made everyone in the restaurant stand up as if they were greeting a big shot, which was enough to see how powerful a deterrent he possessed within the Nangong Family Lord. The young man who was following him was Nangong Yan, who was currently smiling proudly, and even purposely looked at Nangong Falcon and Nangong Wind as if they were demonstrating. Nangong Boling, who was covered in white hair, raised his hand, gesturing for everyone to sit down. Han Qianliang was not qualified to take a seat and could only stand behind Nangong Falcon. Nangong Falcon was just about to introduce Han Three Thousand to Nangong Boling when Nangong Boling said, "Those who are irrelevant, you can get out." Nangong Falcon looked embarrassed, wasn't the so-called irrelevant person Grandpa was referring to was Han Qianqian? "You go out first," Nangong Falcon said. Han Marchioness turned around and left, not dragging his feet at all, there was no need for him to show his upright bones in this kind of environment, and Nangong Boling's kind of nonchalant aura was clearly even more powerful than Han Tian Yang, Han Marchioness didn't need to provoke this kind of figure on the first day he stepped into the Nangong family. Out of the restaurant, Han three thousand to the outdoor garden, pulled out a cigarette light, inhale a mouthful, nicotine over the throat into the lungs. This kind of huge family, Han Marchian had never seen before, Yanjing's so-called famous family was nothing more than a worthless joke in front of the Nangong family. He knew that it would be even more difficult and despised here, but in order to save Han Nian, all this could only be endured. But there was one thing that Han Giang had never understood, Nangong Falcon had planned all of this, and why was the spearhead of all of this aimed at him? Smoking a cigarette, an old crone with a pestle and a cane walked up to Han Qianli, her wrinkled face looking as if she was over a hundred years old, trembling like a candle in the wind. "Are you Han Three Thousand?" The old crone asked to Han Qianli. Han Qianli frowned slightly, this Nangong family, was there anyone else who knew him, how could that be? "How do you know my name, old lady?" Han Qianqiu asked in confusion. "How is your grandmother, Nangong Qianqiu, doing now?" The old woman asked. Han Qianqian's heart was shaken, why would she ask about Nangong Qianqiu for no reason! Chapter 543 "Granny, you ...... know Nangong Qianqiu?" Han Qianqiang's breathing was inexplicably quick, Nangong Qianqiu, Nangong family! Is there a connection between the two? How is that possible! Nangong Qianqiu, is he a member of the Nangong family? "Are you an ungrateful son, calling your grandmother by her name?" The old woman stared at Han Qianqian with an angry face. Han Qianqiang never considered Nangong Qianqiu as her grandmother, her eccentricity had eroded all of Han Qianqiang's feelings for her, and even the moment she hanged herself, Han Qianqiang's heart never rippled with the slightest ripple of sympathy. If it wasn't for Nangong Qianqiu, how could Han Three Thousand have had such a painful childhood. What did such a grandmother mean to Han Qianxiang? "She never treated me as a grandson, nor did she deserve to be my grandmother." Han Qianli said faintly. Hearing this, the old woman became visibly more angry and went so far as to swing her crutch directly at Han Three Thousand's body. Han 3000 did not avoid it, this old woman's strength could not possibly hurt him, and the crutch hitting him was just a tickle. "Kneel down and apologize to her." The old woman said. Han Giangli paled and said in a cold voice, "I don't care what relationship you have with her, trying to get me to apologize to her is impossible, and I can tell you that she's already dead." The old woman was stunned, and after a long time, she sighed and left without saying a word, pestling her crutches. Han Qianli didn't have time to ask her about the relationship between her and Nangong Qianqiu, only to see this old back, which seemed to instantly rickety again. "Nangong Qianqiu, who are you, did someone plan all of this behind the scenes?" Han Giangli faintly talked to himself, he couldn't guess how things were right now, but one day the truth would come out. After the Nangong family had their dinner, they all went to the martial dojo. This was a practice arena for all the younger generation of the Nangong family, Nangong Boling hoped that his descendants would be successful in this martial dao, but unfortunately this martial dojo had been established until now, and the Nangong family had not had a truly strong person. In the center of the martial dojo was a ring, and at the moment, everyone was standing except Nangong Boling who was qualified to sit down. "Grandpa, my people are ready." Nangong Feng couldn't wait to walk up to Nangong Boling and say, he was eager to show himself, unwilling to let all the limelight be stolen by Nangong Yan. Nangong Boling nodded faintly and asked Nangong Falcon, "Where's the man you found, let him go on stage." Nangong Falcon looked at Han Qianqian and gestured for him to come on stage. Han Third Thousand didn't have a second word and walked straight up to the ring, but his figure was too weak compared to Nangong Falcon's, like a dwarf standing in front of a giant. Such a picture couldn't help but make many people laugh. "What kind of trash did Nangong Falcon find to come out of the Dwarven Kingdom, right." "I heard that he even destroyed the Earth's Core for this person, I really don't know what this trash is capable of, but the Earth's Core makes a lot of money for the Nangong family every year." "Watch it, Nangong Falcon will definitely be blamed by the old man, this kind of trash is worthless, it's ridiculous that he even destroyed the earth's core for him." "Hey, Nangong Falcon is really desperate to find this kind of trash to fill his shoes, it really is still Nangong Yan who is powerful enough to invite the big man to the Nangong family." During the dinner banquet, Nangong Boling had informed the Nangong family crowd that in the near future, a big person of that level would personally visit the Nangong family, this news could have excited the Nangong family, almost everyone's heart identified Nangong Yan as the future head of the family, and Nangong Yan was also much sought after. "Hurry up and get started, this kind of wasteful contest is actually here to waste my time." Nangong Bo Ling said impatiently. "Brother, are you deliberately performing a joke for us?" Nangong Yan couldn't help but ask Nangong Falcon. Nangong Falcon gritted his teeth and said, "Whether it's a joke or not, you'll know soon enough." "Shoot, if you really don't have anyone available, tell me earlier and lend it to you ah, why do you need to embarrass yourself so much." Nangong Yan scoffed. "Are your people just going to beat the people I'm looking for, Nangong Yan, don't lie, let your people come on stage to see the real thing after this guy dies." Nangong Feng said with dissatisfaction on the side. Nangong Yan shrugged his shoulders and said with an indifferent face, "No problem, I'll let you guys see what a true expert is later." In the ring, as Nangong Boling gave the order, the large man craned his neck and hooked his finger at Han 3,000. Han Three Thousand didn't make any gestures of powerful attack, but walked idly towards his opponent. "What's this guy doing, strolling around the ring?" "He's not really here to be funny, is he, walking up to someone and getting killed?" "It looks like Nangong Falcon is really going to make a joke this time, actually finding an idiot." The crowd saw this scene and mercilessly mocked Han Qianqian. Nangong Falcon's expression was fierce, he didn't know what the hell Han Qianqian was doing, he was actually walking around in the face of this big guy who looked so powerful, wasn't he looking for death? "Pfft." Nangong Feng held his belly and laughed, "Hahahahaha, Nangong Falcon, what the f**k did you find to make my belly laugh, you have to compensate me." At this time, even Nangong Boling had a displeased look on his face and said, "This is the person you brought in after destroying the entire Earth Core? You better give me a satisfactory explanation." "Grandpa, he ...... acted so relaxed because he didn't take his opponent seriously." Nangong Falcon said with a hard scalp. "Nangong Falcon, your bragging skills are really getting better and better, if a blind man were to say such things, I could still understand, but aren't your eyes quite good?" Nangong Feng scoffed and continued after a pause, "You can't really be blind, otherwise, how could you find this kind of trash." Nangong Falcon's eyes looked gloomily at Nangong Feng, biting his back groove teeth and said, "The match is still undecided, now is not the time for you to be complacent." Nangong Feng tilted his head, it was true that the match hadn't ended, but the result was already clear, and it wasn't something he was confident about, all the Nangong family members in the arena thought so. "Forget it, let you struggle a bit, after all, you're the younger brother, I'm overly calculating with you, it seems like I'm being stingy isn't it." Nangong Feng smiled. Right at this moment, the ring suddenly let out a thud, causing everyone's eyes to involuntarily look towards the ring . In the middle of a leisurely stroll, Han Qianqian's feet suddenly exerted force, causing the entire ring to tremble, an outburst of power that was by no means possible for ordinary people. Nangong Boling frowned as he stood up, and Han Qiangan, who had never been in his eyes for a moment, was now being paid attention to by him. In an electric flash, the power-hungry Han Giangli swung his fist. The opponent subconsciously stretched out his hands to block it, but the immense force was simply not something he could block. With the impact of the power, the man retreated directly to the side rope, and before he could find the time to resist, Han Three Thousand's second fist had already struck again. At this moment, he finally knew that he had underestimated Han 3,000, his eyes were horrified as he looked at Han 3,000 who was swinging his fist again, he only had one thought, that was to run away! Only by running away could he avoid this fatal blow. Unfortunately, as soon as his thoughts started, Han Qianli's fist had already followed, not allowing him to think too much as it struck hard at the temple, and there was no avoiding it. After a muffled sound, the man's eyes instantly turned red from blood congestion. A few seconds later, blood oozed out of his ears, nose and mouth, and his huge body, collapsed in the ring like a pile of mud, no longer alive. "Hiss ......" "Hiss ......" "Hiss ......" Numerous backfiring voices rang out one after the other as the crowd looked in horror at what they thought was trash. Where was this trash! Killing an opponent with a single punch, this kind of astonishing strength had reached a level beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. "He ...... he's actually this powerful!" "What kind of monster did Nangong Falcon find that could kill someone with a single punch." "Didn't expect, didn't expect." There were cowards who had gone weak in the knees at the moment, staring at Han Qianlian, only to feel as if they were having a nightmare. "Grandpa, the person I found didn't disappoint you, right?" Nangong Falcon asked proudly to Nangong Bo Ling. 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Handmade Happiness : June 2013 Handmade Happiness The blog celebrating all things made by hand and random thoughts and observations by Jenny. More on Instagram @jenny_handmade_happiness email: jennystacy6@gmail.com Sunday, 30 June 2013 Busy Saturday Reminder to self - make more of these. Fairy boxes by Jenny Stacy It was really busy in the shop yesterday. Hurray! And lots of lovely comments. I am a bit obsessed about womens' dresses at the moment. I want some for the shop, haven't found anyone to make them so I'm thinking can I try this myself? Last week I saw this great dress on a customer. Thick orange linen, simple tunic style with, as she pointed out a slightly smaller band of fabric at hem level which pulled it in and avoided a tent effect. She'd bought it nearly ten years ago from Tricot Too and had worn it winter (with jersey under) and summer (with t-shirt under) ever since. I looked up the make online and it appears they ceased trading in 2007. So this is the challenge: To cut a pattern, never having cut a pattern before and make a dress/ dresses good enough to sell. Unless anyone else is volunteering - but I don't think so - I've dropped enough hints to makers and customers and no response so far! Maybe not orange though. Orange doesn't suit everyone ... Posted by jenny at 06:35 1 comment: Saturday, 29 June 2013 New from Pam Dew Pam Dew's 'View from Chilgrove' cushion Here is the cushion I wrote about in a previous post. Love the tree bending in the wind! It's in Handmade Happiness now.£59-00. Yesterday I was in an 'all change' mood and got some property details from an estate agents. In the evening I looked on line at what's available house wise in Petersfield and now I appreciate what I've got more than I did. Perhaps if I'd counted my blessings this time yesterday I wouldn't have been in such a bad mood when I wrote the last post! Today I'm looking forward to a busy day in the shop. Enjoy your weekend! Posted by jenny at 06:26 3 comments: Friday, 28 June 2013 Sharing A necklace I made for Tricot Too Sometimes I wonder if I'm strange or normal. Like if someone says they'll do something on this day, or in this week I believe them and then feel let down if it doesn't happen. Perhaps in life you just have to accept that people try their best and life sometimes gets in the way of them doing what they've said they'll do. Anyway what I wanted to write about is makers and Handmade Happiness. I love it when makers come in to re-stock or email if I need more stock and generally stay in touch. It feels like we're part of a good team. I don't like it when a maker leaves their things and even though they live in the same town or even regularly pass the window, never come in again. I'm not that scary. Two makers that fall into the last category popped in after long absence to tell me about new things they've made which they thought the shop might like to stock. These are people that don't look at the shop or ever buy anything, even a card. So excuse me for showing less than my normal enthusiasm to sell their newly made things for them. (I seem to be saying no a lot more than I'm saying yes lately. Wish I could get out to exhibitions. But I could do more online research...) I rang Merchant and Mills (yesterday's post) and was told to send my website link and they'd consider me as a future stockist. Minimum order £200. If I really, really wanted to be a stockist I'd do it in the future when this age of austerity has passed. But not now. This week is shop rent week. Posted by jenny at 06:42 2 comments: Thursday, 27 June 2013 Making jewellery Bracelets I made to sell at the Country Living magazine show I forgot to take pictures of the new necklaces I made in the shop yesterday so I have to use this old picture. Apologies. The new necklaces are different. I used chain with fabric and charms and they're the kind of thing I will be comfortable wearing. Pics to come. I am excited and thrilled to have an order for paper collage bunting. I will sooo enjoy making this. It's for a graphic designer, ex-animator and all round creative person who visited Handmade Happiness for the first time yesterday. I will start it today in the shop if it's not too busy. Pam Dew bought in a new large applique cushion yesterday. Cleverly it's of a view she sees from her bike when she cycles to Chichester from Petersfield to work. Yes, impressive isn't she? I can't imagine cycling to Chichester once, let alone on a regular basis. Pam had visited Merchant and Mills in Rye the day before and I wanted to hear all about it. Merchant and Mills make the most beautifully packaged habadashery items including thick card dress patterns in cardboard tubes. I first saw their stand at Country Living and I was very impressed. Anyway this morning I'm going to ring them and see if HH could possibly stock them. Wish me luck! Check them out www.merchantandmills.com Posted by jenny at 07:24 No comments: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 Stress busting play time Do you play? I mean do you ever sit down and amuse yourself by drawing, painting, making something or experimenting with some fun art materials you haven't tried out before? Or do you sew, knit, crochet, build with wood or throw clay? Most people haven't time in their busy days for any sort of play. But just as children need to play I think adults need to play too. A bit of time to let go and focus on something pleasant and different. I want to think of a way to provide a play opportunity within Handmade Happiness. A table and chairs somewhere with a pile of paper, paints and water, pencils, glue sticks and magazines, a few stampers and stencils. A chance for anyone to just to take time out and play for a bit. Don't hold back with your suggestions/ comments/ ideas/ reactions. My comment box has been a bit empty of late. Talking to mums of young children yesterday about how they play with their children I am left with two images. One of the mother who walks round the heath pond with her boys searching for feathers to include in art work back home and the other mum, blessed with a toddler who likes to climb up her and around her all the time she is trying to do art work with her older child. That reminds me of when toddlers like to cling round your leg when you are trying to do housework etc and you have this sort of human ball and chain everywhere you go. It's delightful and short lived but if you are creative and longing to do what you love to do it can be hard to make any time at all to do your own thing! Posted by jenny at 07:04 No comments: Tuesday, 25 June 2013 Glittering jars Glittered jam jar with rose from garden I like to take pictures in this window but a neighbour's parked car is in the way this morning Glittered jars are something my daughter wants for her wedding. They will hold tea lights or flowers on the tables. To make them you need any clean jar, glitter, glue (I used Mod Podge which is stocked by Hobbycraft) paint brush and plate. Hold the jar over the plate and brush on the glue avoiding the top of the jar and the base. Sprinkle the glitter over the wet glue still holding the jar over the plate to catch spilt glitter. When all glue is covered in glitter it's done. Leave somewhere to dry. Wash brush. When I do more I'll use masking tape on the jar to create a neat line of glitter and not to have the glitter cover so much of the jar. Ideally these should be done on site since some glitter will get rubbed off if they are transported. You could use silver glitter or any coloured glitter to match the occasion. My daughter wants white, pale pink and pale gold as her wedding colours so these are just right. Posted by jenny at 07:15 No comments: Monday, 24 June 2013 Tricot Too inspiration White cardigans by Lauren Vidal; blue tunic tops by ekta and ruched skirt and cut off trousers by Ultimate Mik's When I worked at Tricot Too I used to change the clothes on the dummies in the window, photograph them for this blog then carry them back into the window. Looking back through those photographs now I particularly like this one. These clothes look so summery and pretty. When Handmade Happiness stocks handmade clothes fresh linens and cottons in soft shapes and timeless styles will be inspired by pictures like this. Posted by jenny at 07:03 No comments: Sunday, 23 June 2013 No time for making buttons today My handmade buttons. I am up early today to make the house ready for an important visit. The family my daughter is marrying in to is driving up from Somerset to meet me. Their son and my daughter live in London and the wedding takes place in September. When you think of all the times in the future we will be together - weddings, christenings (God willing), family parties etc. these are people who will hopefully become good friends of mine but right now they are strangers. I often think of how different things are today with children travelling and choosing to live a long way from home. As my children were growing up I often wished I could chose their girl friends or boyfriends for them. And arranged marriages have a lot to recommend them! You want to protect your children from hurt. But you can't. You have to learn to let go. Having said that I am confident Amy's chosen a good one and I am quite confident (but nervous) that I'll get on with his parents. Posted by jenny at 06:11 3 comments: Saturday, 22 June 2013 Collage cards Collage cards by Jenny Stacy Collage card by Jenny Stacy I made these cards in the shop between customers. I love tearing pictures and painted papers and re-assembling them into cards. They cost £3-50. The same price as new knitted sheep cards from Sue Inglis which are brilliant. I'll show you a picture of Sue's new knitted cards soon. Posted by jenny at 06:52 No comments: Friday, 21 June 2013 Nice lamps Pictured in the shop Haus in Haslemere Nice lamps are hard to find. Lots of chrome based lamps out there which I don't like. I like these ceramic bases. But what I really want is wood. I can picture some beautiful wood bases made from tree roots. So when chatting to a customer the other day I was delighted when he turned out to be a builder and woodsman who reckoned he could make just the thing. Also his friend is an electrician who could do the necessary safety checks and certification. So many conversations in the shop. You never know quite where they'll lead to. But I do hope that conversation results in Handmade Happiness being able to offer some nice handmade lamps for sale. Posted by jenny at 07:35 No comments: Thursday, 20 June 2013 Selling your work to shops Covered hangers waiting for upcycled cashmere cardigans in Handmade Happiness In recent days several makers have offered Handmade Happiness their work and it reminds me of when I used to show what I made to shops. The first shop I ever approached, many years ago now, was Casa Fina in Chichester. I was a bag of nerves and once I'd steeled myself to approach the man at the counter I just wanted to get it over and done with and out from that shop as soon as possible. He said no and I was crushed. It takes guts to show your work to shops. It can feel awful if someone turns down your work in an insensitive, rude way. You've designed and created something original. It's feels like you personally are being rejected. So how to prepare for showing your work to a shop? I think it is a good idea to ring the shop first. The times I've shown my work to a sales assistant only to find that this person cannot make any decisions and just tells you to come back on another day when the owner/ buyer is in. If you've travelled any distance this is frustrating. And a waste of your time. Next a bit of market research. No point in offering say, jewellery to a shop that doesn't sell jewellery. Check out the shop online first. Then have a good look round and decide whether you think your work will fit in. Most people skip the market research entirely. But with my shop owners hat on I'd say this is important. As I got better at selling my work to shops I'd visit a new town and choose which shop to approach. If you love the shop chances are it will love you and what you make. Don't hold back from giving the shop a compliment by the way. Saying you like the shop before offering your work is a good ice-breaker. Also I prefer to think that would be sellers are interested in the shop they sell to. So looking round the shop before talking to the person behind the counter about what you make is polite and makes a good impression. Decide before talking to a shop about how much money you want for your work. It's very difficult to discuss prices with makers who don't know how much they want to sell for. Don't be afraid to be business like. Have a pen and notebook or better invoice book with you. And don't agree to anything you aren't happy about. You have half the power remember. And it's important that you leave the shop happy. Lastly, listen. Your work is lovely to you and to lots of other people but the shop may turn it down for a reason. What is that reason? Does the shop have any suggestions for you using your unique skills to make other things? Listen and enjoy talking about your work. Posted by jenny at 07:16 2 comments: Wednesday, 19 June 2013 Cutlery jewellery by Jenny Shutler Earrings made from cutlery pieces by Jenny Shutler Bracelets made from interesting pieces of cutlery by Jenny Shutler Handmade Happiness stocks Jenny Shutler's jewellery made from vintage cutlery. It is one of the most popular gift items. On Saturday Jenny came in with some interesting and unusual earrings (see above). Have you noticed lots of For Sale signs on houses near you? Here in Petersfield it seems to be house selling season. Following the quick sale of two houses in my road (both within a fortnight of going on the market) lots of other houses have sprouted signs. It kind of makes one feel restless. To move or not to move that is the question... Posted by jenny at 07:22 2 comments: Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Hair decorations Some hair decorations on collaged card by Jenny Stacy Close up of hair decorations by Jenny Stacy for Handmade Happiness Yesterday I decided not to go anywhere. I sorted out my collage boxes and decorated some hair grips (US bobby pins) to sell in the shop. To display them I cut up some old collage. Looking at them now, I could have put them on greetings cards and maybe I'll do some like that. The price is £3-50 each, for sale in Handmade Happiness today onwards. I am grateful to Melanie - see yesterday's comment - for reminding me that people like to see things being made on this blog. So I shall describe how I made these hair decorations. (Stop reading now if you aren't interested!) You need fabric, cotton batting (that patchwork makers use), buttons and hair grips. Sandwich the cotton batting (I've used two layers) between two rounds of the same fabric and hand sew in a circle about half a centimetre from the edge. Sew another piece of smaller fabric and a button with small bead on top through all layers attaching it to the hair grip. To ensure it holds for ever keep sewing round middle of top of hair grip through all layers. Display by opening hair grip and sliding on to rectangular piece of card. Posted by jenny at 07:30 2 comments: Monday, 17 June 2013 This blogging thing Peonies in the garden I've lost the USA. For a short and heady while I had as many readers in the States as in the UK. Then I had a three day blogging break if you remember and since then America has not come back on board in anything like the same numbers. I wonder if I've lost my spark - am I boring now? Am I blogging for me, for the shop, keeping in touch with friends or do I want to get some message across to as many people as possible. And if I don't know what the message is how the hell should other people?! I notice that the most popular posts are about felt incidentally... I'll hang on in there and see what the statistics do over the next few days. It probably only matters if you carry advertising... Meanwhile back in the shop I feel terrifically grateful to Sue Inglis, knitter extraordinaire, who suggested on Saturday that I put a long table in front of the under stairs area just for me to work on. We had been talking about collage and how I can't do it on my shop counter as it takes up too much room (ditto button making and jewellery making). I can knit and crochet at my desk and do small things on the sewing machine but it's frustrating not to have the space to be more productive while in the shop. So yesterday in East Grinstead with my mum we visited Wickes and I got a pasting table (which can fold away under the stairs when not in use) for under £10. Excellent. Posted by jenny at 06:45 2 comments: Sunday, 16 June 2013 Happy Fathers Day Collar stiffeners made by Kirstie Turner. £24 a pair A pair of these would make a great present from children to their Dad today. Even if he doesn't wear stiffeners in his collars I imagine any Dad would be delighted to keep them in his wallet as a token of his childrens' affection for him. Kirstie Turner also makes silver rings and silver necklaces for Handmade Happiness. I remember my Dad's assortment of boxes on his chest of drawers containing collar stiffeners, collar studs, a papier mache lidded pot with cufflinks in - he had some gold ones with his initials my grandfather had given him and big square boxes that came from the laundary with his detachable white stiff collars in. All a long time ago now. My Dad worked in the city. He was up and on the train before we children were awake and just about home in time to read us a bedtime story. Then one night everything changed when he came home from work and announced that he had been offered a post overseas and we moved far, far away. Posted by jenny at 06:23 No comments: Saturday, 15 June 2013 Nuno felt making experiment Two layers of wool tops, chiffon scarf then two more layers of wool tops Washing up liquid and hot water, start rubbing layers to felt Using the wash board to finish off Ironed This is why it's worth the trouble - nuno felt drapes beautifully Nuno felt looks great used for jackets and coats but why not just use ordinary felt? Wanting to see the difference for myself I pulled out two layers of wool tops (looks like candy floss) on the kitchen sink metal draining board. Then laid a chiffon scarf over the top and pulled out two more layers of wool tops - each layer at right angles to the previous layer. I squirted on washing up liquid then poured on hot water and started carefully pushing the layers into one another. As the material started to thicken into felt under my fingers I rubbed it more roughly. And kept turning it over. Because I wanted the layers to felt through the chiffon - especially round the edges I used the wash board but a wash board isn't necessary, you can just use the ridges on the draining board. When satisfied the piece was well felted I rinsed it well. Then I ironed the felt on both sides. Again, not necessary, but I wanted quick results! (Don't let the iron touch the chiffon! Then I saw how well the nuno felt draped over my arm compared to a normal piece of handmade felt. Many felters use silk instead of chiffon to create nuno felt. That will be experiment number two. Comparing chiffon nuno with silk nuno. Posted by jenny at 07:29 No comments: Friday, 14 June 2013 Thoughts and ideas From my garden - a few years ago. Broad beans on a glass plate. Yesterday I made some more hangers for the shop with the vintage crepe fabric, ready for when there are lots of handmade clothes to put on them. I'm playing the waiting game at the moment - waiting for womens' dresses and cardigans to be made, handbags to be constructed and jewellery to be brought in. Yesterday I had good discussions with a couple of new makers and look forward to seeing their work in the shop. On Monday I popped in to a shop I've wanted to visit for a while called 'Haus' just outside Haslemere. It has a Scandanavian look - all white and clean with linen cushions, painted furniture and cotton clothing - some by Cabbages and Roses. A smart look and a very definite style. The difference between a shop where the owner carefully selects everything to achieve a certain look (Haus) and Handmade Happiness is that I am offering the work of 40 makers each with their own individual style. The challenge for me is bringing it all together into one cohesive look so that the shop has its own personality, comprised, as it is of the personalities of 40 people. It's a struggle I don't always succeed with. I am conscious as people look around of the areas of the shop I am proud of and the areas of the shop that need attention. It's not perfect, it's an on-going, evolving project which I hope is getting better month on month. I hope in a way I'll never be able to sit back and feel, it's perfect now, I can relax, no more work to be done. That would be no fun at all. Meanwhile, when you come in to Handmade Happiness tell me what you think. A bit of constructive criticism, ideas, opinions and good discussion is welcome always. Posted by jenny at 05:10 No comments: Thursday, 13 June 2013 Vintage fabrics I bought for making with Cottons and an interesting crepe (top right) from the 1940s and 1950s 'Bark' cloth bottom right and really pretty small curtains from the 40s in the centre. It's funny to think that here are fabrics that our mothers and grandmothers had hanging as curtains or wore as dresses. I don't think I'll ever tire of roses fabrics. Surely roses fabrics (often by Sandersons) are a cottage classic that (hopefully) won't ever go out of fashion. You'll notice that the top row is the same. I've already used some of the crepe to cover coat hangers (thanks for that idea Penny). Most fabric pieces aren't big enough for clothes (just the blue and white in the middle of picture one) but I think a combination of some of these fabrics and fabrics I have at home will make excellent handbags and the big roses in the first picture can be turned into gorgeous cushions. Promise I'll show you what these fabrics become! Posted by jenny at 07:29 1 comment: Wednesday, 12 June 2013 New design cards by Dave Tull New small cards £1-20 each by Dave Tull More small cards with envelopes. Three more designs sold before I could photograph them. New Dave Tull note cards (seen sideways on). Six different designs in a pack plus envelopes for £3-00 Yesterday local photographer Dave Tull delivered new design cards and note cards to Handmade Happiness. Three of the more 'styled' designs - blue painted bench among coloured flowers, old flower pots and tools on a shelf etc. sold immediately I put them on display. I really like these. Small cards and note cards are useful when you just want to say 'thank you' or 'I'm thinking of you' without lots of space to fill. And these are really pretty. Yesterday my friend Penny visited with a suitcase of lots of lovely old fabrics. I didn't intend to buy so many honestly I didn't. But they are rather special. Pictures coming soon! Posted by jenny at 07:05 1 comment: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 Weaving by Helena Greig Ikat pattern woven by Helena Greig Beautiful weaving by Helena Greig One of two looms, and a spinning wheel in Helena's workshop Silk threads This linen smock was once a bundle of flax, spun,woven ,pieced, smocked and embroidered by Helena Greig Yesterday I drove over to the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen shop at Milford, just outside Guildford and met talented textile artist Helena Greig whose workshop is on the premises. Looms are big. I once saw a weaver who had given up her dining-room to her loom; and Helena has two of them. On the loom you have your warp(threads going one way) and your weft (threads going the other way.) Can you imagine how hard it must be to do an ikat pattern where the artist dyes the threads herself as well? I feel fascinated by the talent of this craftsperson and I am hoping Helena will take up my invitation to have her work in Handmade Happiness. Two other Surrey Guild members whose work I love are Frank and Janet Higgins who make glass kaleidoscopes. I haven't seen a kaleidoscope for years and these are works of art that would make amazing presents. I was looking through them and leaping up and down with excitement. I look forward to meeting Frank and Janet in Handmade Happiness soon. Posted by jenny at 06:52 No comments: Monday, 10 June 2013 More lovely Liberty Blue/lilac Liberty fabrics I've saved The first thing I look for in a charity shop is anything in a Liberty fabric. Cut glass vases I'm also looking out for and plain glass storage jars; any bit of bling (diamante/ paste jewellery) but not coloured bling and old white linen table cloths. I usually come away with nothing but it's fun looking especially in a town I've not been to before. So today I've found out that the Kaffe Fassett exhibition is closed on Mondays and I've decided that as well as boring paperwork etc and nice making I'll drive over to Hindhead where I've never been and see what I find. And I think the Surrey Guild's craft shop is over that way too. Hope they're open on Mondays... Posted by jenny at 07:29 No comments: Sunday, 9 June 2013 Lovely Liberty Old Liberty fabrics I treasure The tinier the print the more useful the fabric is in small pieces and the more obvious that it's a Liberty fabric. I have an idea for some Liberty fabric based on what I've been doing with painted silk in the shop this week. I bought sash cord and metal tap washers at the hardware store - does that give you a clue? It's great to be making again! A friend posted some pictures on her blog of the Kaffe Fassett exhibition and I realise that if I don't hurry up it will be over and I'll have missed it. So that's what I'm planning for tomorrow. A trip to London. Meanwhile today it's a family celebration for my mother's birthday. Presents to wrap and chocolate cake to be put carefully into the car. Did I make the cake I hear you ask? No, Mr Waitrose did. I admire people who bake but I am not one of them - yet. Baking for me belongs in that happy retirement era when the sun will always shine softly through my kitchen window to show me, sleeves rolled, kitchen table scrubbed, pummelling bread dough in a cloud of flour. Bliss. Posted by jenny at 07:47 2 comments: Saturday, 8 June 2013 Painterly fabrics by Bluebell Gray Bluebell Gray fabrics at Tara Interiors, Petersfield I think this might be my favourite. Bluebell Gray cushions at Tara Interiors, Petersfield My shop neighbour, Tara Interiors stocks Bluebell Gray. Be careful - if you look at them for too long they make you want to re-do your sitting-room! That's the effect they have on me anyway. Nice sunny morning here. My youngest and her boyfriend are here tonight so I must prepare for them. Have a nice weekend. Posted by jenny at 07:07 1 comment: Friday, 7 June 2013 Blue geraniums in the front garden Johnson's blue geranium with pink roses A David Austin rose Creamy white peonies How Johnson's blue grows but you can see the colour better next to the roses. My front garden is lovely at the moment. A mass of flowers. I have not been outside in the garden enough this year. Though the back garden looks set to produce a bumper crop of raspberries. I used to always ask for plants for my birthday which is how I've got my roses and peonies and luckily they need very little maintenance. For a very brief period I grew lots of veg and fruit but not now. Maybe serious gardening is something one does after retirement? It's rewarding but right now there doesn't seem enough hours in the day. Posted by jenny at 07:12 3 comments: Thursday, 6 June 2013 Making necklaces Necklace made by Jenny Stacy Necklace made by Jenny Stacy At last I am making necklaces again and a third one is nearly finished. I have an idea to use soft tubing in the ones after that. We'll see how it looks. I want to use painted and handmade beads in another range of jewellery. At last I am feeling the shop is becoming the workshop/ shop I always wanted as I am making as well as serving the customers. Isn't this sunshine weather delightful? Everyone is more light-hearted when the sun shines. And the garden is blooming - peonies, roses and blue Johnson's geraniums at the moment - I'm off to cut a bunch for the shop counter. Enjoy your day! ps. Happy Birthday to my Mum today! Posted by jenny at 07:11 2 comments: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 Colour packs Silk velvet dyed by Alison Crosthwaite I love the rich, random colours in this velvet. If I could persuade her I'd ask Alison to dye yards like this that could be cut up and sold in Handmade Happiness. It's wonderful to use in jewellery, machine embroidery, felt projects, multi media art... I could go on.. For some while I've wanted to do a mixed colour pack for makers of dyed silk, embroidery silk threads, dyed velvet, some handmade felt with perhaps a few beads and buttons. It's inspiring to look at colours and textures in a pack of loveliness. A purse or jewellery bag could be made with the contents or they could become part of a bigger art project. A nice present for a creative friend or for yourself. Posted by jenny at 07:48 2 comments: Tuesday, 4 June 2013 What I found at Hobbycraft White fan decorations - excellent value at £2-49 for a pack of 5 I have made this by hand but admittedly this one looks better. DIY tissue paper pom poms in packs of 5 Here's something I could never do by hand. Honeycomb ball decorations. I went to Havant and was pleased to find a Margaret Forster book in the library I haven't read. I also get all the craft books/ decor books I'm interested in and pile them up on the table to flick through and make two piles. No and yes. No books in the yes pile yesterday. I must be getting fussier in my old age. At Hobbycraft I found some good wedding decorations. I had a good look round - at speed. Too much baking materials, card making materials and plastic storage boxes. I guess Hobbycraft has changed with the times and gone where the demand is. Trouble is I haven't. I want to know that they still stock my Folk Art acrylic paints (they don't) and still have dress patterns (they don't). When you ask for these things the response is always: 'You can find them online.' But I don't want to buy online. I want to buy things in a shop just like I always have done. The dinosaur in me is complaining again! I mentioned a few of these points in Hobbycraft's customer survey. (Possible £100 voucher prize.) If I win (!!) I will have no trouble in spending the money on some excellent new craft books... Posted by jenny at 07:15 No comments: Newer Posts Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Dolls made by Jenny Stacy Instagram: jenny_handmade_happiness South Downs view stitched by Sheila Barrow Followers About Me jenny I like designing, making and sharing what I like through this blog. Before I got passionate about handmade things I was a journalist. View my complete profile Please acknowledge pics I am very happy for my photos to be used on other peoples' blogs if they credit them to me and link to this blog. ie www.jenny-handmadehappiness.blogspot.com or www.jennystacy.co.uk Thanks. 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Global mean surface temperatures are rising in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The magnitude of this warming at equilibrium for a given radiative forcing—referred to as specific equilibrium climate sensitivity (S)—is still subject to uncertainties. We estimate global mean temperature variations and S using a 784,000-year-long field reconstruction of sea surface temperatures and a transient paleoclimate model simulation. Our results reveal that S is strongly dependent on the climate background state, with significantly larger values attained during warm phases. Using the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 for future greenhouse radiative forcing, we find that the range of paleo-based estimates of Earth’s future warming by 2100 CE overlaps with the upper range of climate simulations conducted as part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Furthermore, we find that within the 21st century, global mean temperatures will very likely exceed maximum levels reconstructed for the last 784,000 years. On the basis of temperature data from eight glacial cycles, our results provide an independent validation of the magnitude of current CMIP5 warming projections.
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Specific equilibrium climate sensitivity (S) is a key parameter to characterize the response of our climate system to external perturbations of the radiative balance, such as the recent increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. Paleoclimate data have been previously used to determine the possible range of S ( 1 – 5 ). The 5 to 95% range for paleovalues of S is estimated to be 1° to 6°C per CO 2 doubling ( 6 ). Numerous studies have demonstrated that S may have very different values for cold (for example, glacial) and warm (for example, interglacial) periods ( 7 – 10 ). To further constrain S and determine its potential background state dependence from paleoclimate data, we estimate global mean surface air temperature (SAT) variability from a network of paleo–sea surface temperature (SST) proxies extending back to 784 ka (thousand years ago) and a transient Earth system model simulation ( 11 ) conducted with the LOVECLIM (LOch-Vecode-Ecbilt-CLio-agIsm Model) coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–vegetation model ( 12 ). Appropriate scaling factors need to be applied to capture the fact that the SST proxy network spatially undersamples SAT variability and that the climate model simulation underestimates the magnitude of the reconstructed SST variability. The relationship between reconstructed past SAT variability and estimates of the radiative forcing will provide key insights into the nonlinearity of S over the past 784 ka and allow us to compute the magnitude of future greenhouse gas–induced warming from paleoclimate data.
Another source of uncertainty is introduced through different warming levels during previous interglacial periods. For example, our proxy-based temperature reconstruction exhibits an overall stronger interglacial warming than does our model-based one ( Fig. 2A ). As a result, S warm derived by using only the proxy-based global mean SAT reconstruction is slightly larger than the S warm calculated from the model-based reconstruction (table S3), even though the PI-LGM temperature amplitude is larger for the model-based SAT change. This highlights the need for a combined model-proxy approach for deriving SAT reconstructions.
The radiative forcing and global mean SAT reconstruction are both subject to considerable uncertainties that affect the estimate of S and thus the resulting global warming projection. Dust changes are the largest contributor to the uncertainty in global radiative forcing. Reported values for the glacial-interglacial amplitude of the global mean dust forcing range from ~0.33 W/m 2 ( 29 ) to more than 3 W/m 2 [see discussion by Köhler et al. ( 1 )]. Here, we assume a published value of 1.9 W/m 2 that is prone to large uncertainties. Regarding estimates of global mean SAT change, there appears to be a reasonable agreement between different studies with respect to the temporal evolution (fig. S5). However, the correct PI-LGM amplitude of global mean SAT change remains less constrained. Published amplitudes range from relatively moderate values of 3.00 K (90% probability range of 1.7 to 3.7 K) ( 3 ) and 4.00 ± 0.80 K ( 21 ) to values of 5.80 ± 1.4 K ( 18 ) and 6.20 K (90% probability range of 4.60 to 8.30 K) ( 19 ). To calculate the effect of uncertainties in temperature reconstructions on our estimate of S warm and the resulting global warming projection, we scale our global mean SAT reconstruction to other reported values. Furthermore, we use an Antarctic temperature reconstruction ( 30 ) scaled by a high and a low polar amplification factor ( 31 ). Using a PI-LGM amplitude of only 3 K ( 3 ) for our global mean SAT reconstruction results in an S warm of only 0.68 K W −1 m 2 (or 2.52 K per CO 2 doubling) (table S3), which is approximately half the value found for our original temperature reconstruction. The associated greenhouse warming for the year 2100 amounts to 3.84 K. An amplitude of 4.00 K, as derived from a multimodel ensemble in combination with global proxy data ( 21 ), results in a warming of 4.68 K by 2100 CE. On the basis of the estimates of S using scaled Antarctic temperature reconstruction, the global warming at the end of the 21st century amounts to 6.32 and 4.87 K for the low (1.2) and the high (1.9) polar amplification, respectively.
Ensemble mean simulated global mean surface temperature (K) evolution using all models of the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble in their historical and RCP8.5 simulations (thick red line) and corresponding uncertainty range (orange shading), along with estimates (blue) based on S warm , an estimate of ocean heat uptake efficiency and the RCP8.5 radiative forcing time series. The corresponding uncertainty range is depicted as cyan shading (see Materials and Methods).
To use paleoclimate estimates of S to calculate future warming, we have to take into account the fact that the anthropogenic SAT increase until the end of the 21st century cannot be regarded as an equilibrium response to the perturbation in Earth’s radiation balance but as a transient process in which the oceanic heat uptake is critical. On the basis of a recent approximation for the slowdown effect of the ocean’s thermal inertia on the warming ( 28 ), we can convert the specific equilibrium climate sensitivity into a transient climate response (see Materials and Methods). With an ensemble mean estimate of the ocean heat uptake efficiency ( 28 ) and the above S warm of 4.88 ± 0.57 K per CO 2 doubling, the transient climate response amounts to 2.74 K per CO 2 doubling, with a likely range (indicating a 66 to 100% likelihood) of 2.23 to 3.43 K per CO 2 doubling. Moreover, using our paleodata-based estimate of the transient climate response and the radiative forcing of the RCP8.5 scenario ( Fig. 2E ), we then calculate the global SAT evolution over the next 85 years. The paleodata-based projection of future warming results in larger global mean SAT anomalies compared to the CMIP5 ensemble mean SAT projection ( Fig. 4 ). In response to the RCP8.5 greenhouse gas emission scenario, the global SAT increase between 2100 CE and 1880 CE (PI conditions) amounts to 5.86 K (with a likely range of 4.78 to 7.36 K) when estimated based on eight glacial cycles of SST data and to 4.86 K (with an ensemble range of 3.42 to 6.40 K) when simulated by the CMIP5 ensemble mean.
Scatter diagram (circles) of reconstructed global mean SAT anomalies (K) ( Fig. 2B ) versus net radiative forcing anomalies (W/m 2 ) ( Fig. 2D ) for the last 784,000 years. Anomalies are calculated with respect to PI values. Two-dimensional kernel density estimate of paleo-SAT/radiative forcing data (blue shading). The thick dashed yellow curve represents nonlinear regression of paleo-SAT/radiative forcing data, along with uncertainty ranges (dashed black curves; see Materials and Methods). The thick cyan line represents linear regression for cold phases. The slope represents S cold . The thick red line represents linear regression for warm phases. The slope represents S warm . Dashed horizontal lines denote warm (orange) and cold (blue) phases using 1 SD of the reconstructed global mean SAT anomalies as a separator. Cold (warm) phases are defined by SAT anomalies of <−5.12 K (>−1.66 K). The CMIP5 transient model projections using the RCP8.5 forcing scenario are presented by purple circles. Using S warm (orange shading) and taking into account the ocean heat uptake efficiency, we can calculate the transient response to the RCP8.5 radiative forcing. The resulting paleo-based projection with the corresponding uncertainty ranges is represented by cyan shading (see Materials and Methods).
The specific equilibrium climate sensitivity is calculated as the change in global mean SAT for a given change in radiative forcing. To allow for a comparison with the CMIP5 projections, our estimate of S needs to be consistent with the CMIP5 simulations regarding applied forcings and resolved feedback processes. Thus, we calculate S as a climate sensitivity, for which albedo changes due to sea ice, land snow, and vegetation coverage are treated as feedbacks rather than as forcings. Explicitly considered radiative forcings for our calculation of S include changes in greenhouse gases (GHG), land ice (LI), and aerosols (AE) [referred to as S GHG,LI,AE in the study by Rohling et al. ( 27 ); see Materials and Methods for details and for an additional calculation using vegetation as forcing]. A scatter diagram ( Fig. 3 ) between reconstructed global mean SAT anomalies ( Fig. 2B ) and radiative forcing anomalies ( Fig. 2D ) (relative to their PI states) reveals a considerable background state dependence of the climate sensitivity. The local slope of the scatter plot increases notably with increasing global mean SAT, thus indicating an underlying nonlinearity in S. This result is qualitatively in good agreement with another recent study ( 7 ). When calculating S for specific periods of time, dating uncertainties can result in large biases of S. Thus, to obtain and compare average specific equilibrium climate sensitivities for cold and warm climates during the last 784 ka, we apply a polynomial fit to the entire data set (see Materials and Methods and Fig. 3 , yellow curve) and then calculate the mean slope of this fit for cold and warm phases ( Fig. 3 , cyan and red lines). Here, we use 1 SD in SAT as a separator so that warm (cold) phases and the corresponding S are defined by SATs of at least 1 SD above (below) the mean SAT ( Fig. 3 , dashed horizontal lines). The resulting mean of S for cold climates (S cold ) amounts to 0.48 K W −1 m 2 , which corresponds to 1.78 K per CO 2 doubling. For warm climates, the value (S warm ) is more than two times larger, attaining 1.32 K W −1 m 2 or 4.88 K per CO 2 doubling. The average of S over the entire 784-ka range can be calculated from a linear regression of the SAT/radiative forcing data set. It amounts to 3.22 K per CO 2 doubling. Comparing the mean of S to S warm , it becomes apparent that this long-term mean value substantially underestimates S warm and thus should not be used to assess future anthropogenic warming.
Earlier estimates of S mainly relied on deep ocean temperature conversion of oxygen isotope data ( 22 ), assumptions regarding polar amplification ( 7 ), shorter paleorecords ( 2 , 26 ), or paleo–time slices ( 3 , 5 ). The nature of our globally averaged SAT reconstructions allows us to independently estimate S and its background state dependence by using an extended data period and a network of surface temperature proxies. Estimates of greenhouse and dust radiative forcings for the last 784 ka are obtained following Rohling et al. ( 2 ) and Köhler et al. ( 1 ), respectively (see Materials and Methods). Upper atmosphere net shortwave radiative forcing from ice sheets is directly calculated from the 784-ka transient Earth system model simulation ( Fig. 2D and Materials and Methods). The resulting combined radiative forcing anomaly ( Fig. 2D ) reaches minimum values of −6.5 W/m 2 (relative to the PI mean state) during extreme glacials, such as the LGM.
Carbon emissions from human activities have pushed the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration substantially above the maximum values reached during interglacials in the last 800,000 years ( 25 ). Reaching atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of up to ~900 parts per million (ppm) by 2100 CE, the ensemble of Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) simulations ( 6 ) projects a global mean SAT rise (relative to PI conditions) of 4.84 K with an ensemble range of 3.42 to 6.40 K. Using the average for the most recent millennium of our 784-ka global mean SAT reconstruction as a preindustrial reference state allows us to contextualize the projected warming with respect to the range of past glacial-interglacial climate variability. It becomes evident ( Fig. 2 , B and C) that the maximum global mean paleo-SAT reconstructed for MIS5e will very likely be exceeded by the ongoing greenhouse warming within the 21st century. The RCP8.5 ensemble mean CMIP5 projections for 2100 CE correspond to a tripling of the maximum long-term warming (relative to PI conditions), as reconstructed for the last eight glacial cycles. However, because our temperature reconstruction is based on 1000-year averages, we cannot rule out the possibility that global mean SAT in the past has been warmer on time scales shorter than the one considered by our reconstruction.
In a last step and to highlight the common variability, the two independent global SAT estimates are averaged. For the time period 10 to 0 ka B.P., which is not covered by the proxy-based reconstruction, only the model-based estimate is used. Extending back to 784 ka, the new global SAT reconstruction ( Fig. 2B ) illustrates that the Holocene has been significantly colder than the interglacial states MIS5e and MIS11 by ~1.5 K. This result is supported by another recent SAT estimate ( 22 ) that uses deep ocean temperatures extracted from an oxygen isotope compilation ( 23 ). Furthermore, the warmer conditions shown for MIS5e and MIS11 are in good qualitative agreement with a 430,000-year sea-level reconstruction ( 24 ) that exhibits global sea-level high stands of 4.7 to 6.4 m above present-day values for both periods.
The SAT SDs amount to 1.86 K for the model-based reconstruction and 1.76 K for the proxy-based one. The global SAT difference between the LGM and the Holocene (represented here by the 10 ka B.P. estimate) amounts to ~5.0°C when derived from the paleoproxies and ~6.5°C for the model-based estimate. Both values are consistent with other combined model-proxy estimates ( 18 , 19 ) but slightly larger than in a recent multiproxy study ( 20 ) or as derived from a multimodel ensemble in combination with global proxy data ( 21 ).
Globally averaged SAT (K) and radiative forcing anomalies (W/m 2 ) for the last 784 ka and for the RCP8.5 scenario. ( A ) Global mean SAT anomalies (K) reconstructed from 14 long-term paleoproxies of SST (blue line) and from the transient model simulation (red line). Anomalies were calculated with respect to PI times. ( B ) Averaged, reconstructed global mean SAT anomaly (K, black line). Shading denotes uncertainty of ±2.12 K (see Materials and Methods). ( C ) CMIP5 ensemble mean projection for globally averaged SAT increase (K) with respect to PI mean state using RCP8.5 (black line) ( 6 ). Shading denotes ensemble SD. Dashed horizontal lines in (B) and (C) denote reconstructed maximum global mean SAT during the last 784,000 years (B) and its exceedance (C). ( D ) Radiative forcing anomalies (W/m 2 ) with respect to PI mean state. Cyan, dust forcing; red, greenhouse gas forcing; black, ice sheet forcing; magenta, orbital forcing; brown, sea-level forcing; blue, sum of radiative forcings (see also fig. S7). ( E ) Radiative forcing anomalies (W/m 2 ) with respect to PI mean state used for the CMIP5 RCP8.5 simulations ( 6 ).
On the basis of these methods, we can now derive two independent reconstructions of glacial-interglacial global mean SAT variations by using the first empirical orthogonal function mode (fig. S4) of the 14 SST reconstructions and the SST model output (at every ocean grid point), multiplied by the respective factors that account for the shortcomings and uncertainties discussed above (see Materials and Methods). The resulting paleo-SAT reconstructions, along with error bars that take into account systematic uncertainties (see Materials and Methods), show that the overall timing and amplitude of the two independent global SAT reconstructions are in good agreement ( Fig. 2A ) (correlation of r = 0.79), thus supporting the robustness of our methodology. Noticeable differences between the two reconstructions are visible for the glacial stages marine isotope stage 2 (MIS2), MIS6, and MIS12 and for the interglacial stages MIS5e and MIS11. For the warm phases MIS5e and MIS11, the proxy-based SAT reconstruction exceeds the warming obtained from the model-based one. This mismatch is a well-known feature ( 15 – 17 ) that can be partially explained by age model uncertainties of the SST proxies and potential biases of recorded SSTs toward summer ( 17 ). However, difficulties in simulating the response of vegetation cover, sea ice extent, and continental ice sheets to interglacial warming are also likely to contribute to this model-proxy mismatch.
An independent reconstruction for glacial-interglacial global mean temperature variability is based on the transient Earth system model simulation covering the past 784 ka (see Materials and Methods). Here, a different issue arises from the fact that the model simulation tends to underestimate the magnitude of temporal SST variability ( 14 ) (figs. S2 and S3) as a result of too low climate sensitivity. To quantify the magnitude of underestimation of SST, we compiled 63 globally distributed paleo-SST records that cover the period 140 to 10 ka B.P. ( Fig. 1 and table S2). All core data are interpolated to a regular time axis with a 1000-year resolution, and the SST anomaly of the splined data is calculated. In a second step, the simulated SST data from the transient model simulation for the same time period are subsampled for the 63 core locations. Finally, after averaging the SST anomalies over all 63 locations for proxy data and model, we calculate the model amplitude correction factor as the SD ratio of reconstructed and simulated anomalies (see Materials and Methods). Simulated SST variability can then be translated into global mean SAT by accounting for the underestimation with respect to the proxy data, followed by a conversion of global mean SST to global mean SAT (see Materials and Methods).
For a proxy-based reconstruction of global SAT variations, we selected a network of 14 long-term paleoproxy SST records ( Fig. 1 and table S1) based on the requirement that the SST reconstructions correspond to the 784-ka time period covered by our transient Earth system model simulation. After the data on the original age models were interpolated to a common time axis, a conversion factor was estimated, which accounts for the spatial subsampling and scales the dominant variability represented by the stack of 14 SST records to global mean surface temperature variability (see Materials and Methods). This factor is determined from an ensemble of eight models from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (PMIP3) ( 13 ). By spatially subsampling the eight-member multimodel SST data for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and preindustrial (PI) control simulations at the 14 core locations ( Fig. 1 ), we calculate the simulated average LGM-PI SST difference (see Materials and Methods). Subsequently, this value is compared to the simulated globally averaged LGM-PI SAT difference (fig. S1A). For all eight PMIP3 models, simulated SST anomalies averaged over the 14 locations are lower than the global SAT change by a factor of Ψ = 1.95 ± 0.22 (uncertainty ranges in this article refer to ±1 SD) (fig. S1B). Ψ will serve as our conversion factor to translate the paleo-SST data into a global SAT anomaly estimate.
Constraining the magnitude of future greenhouse warming is critical for risk assessment and adaptation strategies. Using our combined proxy/modeling approach based on the 784-ka SST data and applying it to the projected atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and radiative forcings results in SAT changes that overlap with the upper range of current CMIP5 RCP8.5 projections. The resulting paleodata-based estimate of surface warming by 2100 CE is ~16% higher than the CMIP5 ensemble mean projection. Our results suggest that a global surface temperature increase of 4 K by 2100 CE (compared to the PI reference value) is likely. Furthermore, our analysis demonstrates that in the case of unabated anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, the maximum long-term global mean SATs ever obtained during the past eight glacial cycles will very likely be surpassed within the 21st century. According to our results, the Earth’s specific equilibrium climate sensitivity is a function of the background climate with a substantially higher sensitivity during warm phases. It remains unclear whether this relationship will hold in climates substantially warmer than during the last eight glacial cycles. Therefore, we restrict our warming estimate to the 21st century and refrain from applying our method to potential greenhouse warming in a more distant future. Uncertainties associated with past temperature and radiative forcing data are still relatively large. These uncertainties directly affect the estimate of S, limiting a more accurate paleo-based projection of future greenhouse warming. However, our independent future warming estimates and their associated uncertainty ranges overlap with the CMIP5 RCP8.5 projections, thus providing further evidence for the climate model–based warming projections.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Paleorecords of SST We used a total of 63 globally distributed paleoproxy records of SST. The SST reconstructions used to derive a proxy-based global SAT estimate were required to cover the period 784 to 10 ka B.P. to correspond to the time range of the model simulation (784 to 0 ka B.P.). The 14 long-term records are listed in table S1. To determine the underestimation of simulated glacial-interglacial SST variability, 49 records were used in addition to the long-term records. These 49 records were required to cover the previous glacial cycle (140 to 10 ka B.P.). They are listed in table S2. All 63 record locations are shown in Fig. 1.
Transient model simulation We used the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM (12). LOVECLIM is a coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–vegetation marine carbon cycle model. However, the marine carbon cycle component was switched off for the present simulations. Because of its computational efficiency, the LOVECLIM model has been extensively used for transient paleoclimate studies of varying complexity and duration (11, 32–34). Our simulations were forced by transient values of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, orbital parameters, and Northern Hemispheric ice sheet extent and height. Greenhouse gas concentrations were taken from ice core data following the methodology described by Timmermann et al. (11). Orbital parameters of precession, obliquity, and eccentricity follow those of Berger (35). Northern Hemispheric ice sheet extent and height were obtained from a recent simulation conducted with the CLIMBER Earth system model of intermediate complexity (36). The transient forcings for LOVECLIM were applied with an acceleration factor (37) of 5 so that 784,000 forcing years correspond to 156,800 model years. Orbital parameters and greenhouse gas concentrations were updated every model year. Ice sheet extent and height were updated every 200 model years (every 1000 forcing years). Transient changes in bathymetry and Antarctic ice sheets as well as meltwater pulses from retreating ice sheets were not taken into account. The simulation was conducted using an LGM bathymetry (38) to avoid internally generated, self-sustained oscillations in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (39). The transient simulation was split into eight segments, each starting at an interglacial period. Every individual segment was spun-up for 5000 model years under constant climate boundary conditions and then run in parallel to save integration time. The individual segments overlapped by 10,000 forcing years (2000 model years). A complete temporal evolution of the model output was derived by concatenating the individual segments using a sliding linear interpolation for the overlapping periods.
Model-data comparison To document the performance of our model simulation, we validated the simulated SST using available paleoproxy-based SST reconstructions that cover our modeling period of the last 784 ka (see also table S1). Figure S2 compares all 14 reconstructed paleo-SST time series to the SST simulated in the model grid cell closest to the respective core location. For the sake of simplicity of handling the large amount of model data, only averages over 1000 forcing years were considered for simulated SST. Almost all SST records exhibited pronounced glacial-interglacial variability that was well captured by the simulated SST. The timing of temperature change on orbital time scales is in excellent agreement for most reconstructed and simulated SST data sets. However, the amplitude of glacial-interglacial SST change was underestimated by the model simulation for almost all core locations. This underestimation relative to the reconstructions may result from different sources, including the uncertainty in the climate sensitivity of LOVECLIM. Comparing the LGM-PI SST difference from a recent compilation (40) to our model result (fig. S6), it can be seen that areas that appear to exhibit warmer SSTs during the LGM are not reproduced by our simulation. A strong cooling in the Southern Ocean and the subpolar North Atlantic were shown in both the modeled and reconstructed SST. However, the amplitude of the cooling was underestimated by our model simulation, in agreement with the time series shown in fig. S2. To identify the leading spatiotemporal pattern of SST variations, we computed the first empirical orthogonal function (EOF1) for simulated and reconstructed SSTs. The 14 SST records were splined to a regular time axis of 1-ka resolution to match the temporal resolution of the time-averaged, simulated SST. For the simulated LOVECLIM SST, the entire model domain was taken. In the case of the reconstructed SST data, the EOF1 explained 54% of the joint variance. For the simulated SST, the explained variance of the first EOF amounted to 87%. In both cases, the EOF1 mode was characterized by a monopole pattern of different spatial magnitudes (fig. S4C). From the simulated data, it can be seen that the magnitude of the EOF1 loading is a function of latitude, reaching its maximum values in areas of large glacial-interglacial variability of sea ice extent, such as the subpolar North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. Tropical regions exhibited a substantially smaller EOF1 loading. This result was supported by the EOF1 of the 14 cores. The principal components of the first EOFs (PC1s; fig. S4A) exhibited excellent agreement with regard to the timing of the joint variability that represents the glacial-interglacial SST change. Notable differences in the amplitudes of the PC1s occurred during the last interglacial period (around 125 ka B.P.) and during MIS12 (424 to 478 ka B.P.). The pronounced warming during the last interglacial seen in the PC1 of the reconstructed SST data was not reproduced by the simulated SST. The PC1 of the 14 paleorecords suggests that SSTs during MIS12 were lower than those during the LGM. The latter was not evident in the model data.
SAT reconstructions The main goal of our study was to obtain two independent reconstructions of SAT variations for the last 784 ka: one mainly based on paleorecords and the other one mainly stemming from the transient modeling results. Both sources of data are subject to uncertainties and shortcomings that need to be alleviated. One of the major caveats on the side of paleorecords is the spatial scarcity of SST data that cover this long time period. Being restricted to only 14 SST records, it needs to be quantified to what degree this limited number of records is representative of the amplitude and the timing of globally averaged SAT variations. For the climate model simulation, we need to address the fact that the low climate sensitivity of LOVECLIM [~2.30 K per CO 2 doubling (14)] leads to a systematic underestimation of SST variability with respect to the reconstructions. Method 1: Global SAT reconstruction based on paleoproxy SST. To test how representative the sample of 14 core locations is to capture the global mean SST and global mean SAT variability, we first addressed this question using pseudoproxies from the LOVECLIM simulation and from LGM and PI simulations conducted with an ensemble of coupled general circulation models. We spatially subsampled the simulated LOVECLIM SST at the 14 long-term record locations and computed the leading EOF. Comparing the PC1 derived from the subsampled pseudoproxy SST data and the global model SST data, it can be seen that they are virtually identical (fig. S4A), providing us with confidence that the 14 record locations are capable of capturing the timing of the global temperature evolution. Next, to evaluate to what degree the glacial-interglacial amplitude of global mean SAT change is captured by the sparse proxy network of the 14 locations, we took advantage of the output from eight models from the PMIP3 (13). In the context of PMIP3, numerous climate models were used to simulate the LGM and PI periods in coordinated time slice experiments. To determine the underestimation SST/SAT factor that would apply to an average derived from our specific 14 core locations, we calculated the mean LGM-PI SST difference in the PMIP model simulations by subsampling and then averaging the model LGM-PI SST difference (ΔSST′Model = SST LGM − SST PI ) at the 14 record locations (1)Then, the ratio is calculated for each model between the global mean LGM-PI SAT difference and the LGM-PI SST difference averaged over the 14 record locations (2)Figure S1A shows that the true simulated globally averaged LGM-PI SAT amplitude for the PMIP3 models is in the range of 2.70 to 5.41 K. With the average of the 14 core locations, the averaged SST range amounts to only 1.22 to 2.97 K. The underestimation factor Ψ Model varies between the models from 1.75 to 2.35 (fig. S1B). The eight-model average of Ψ amounts to 1.95 with an SD of 0.22 and will serve as our best estimate to take the effect of spatial undersampling and the difference between ocean and land temperatures into account. A reconstruction of the globally averaged SAT variation can then be derived from the first EOF of the 14 SST paleoproxy records (fig. S4B) and the PMIP3 ensemble mean Ψ factor (3)where represents the ith component of the first proxy EOF vector and PC1(t) is the corresponding principal component. The SD of Ψ corresponds to 11% of the total value. Together with half the maximum amplitude of the proxy-based SAT reconstruction of 4.90 K, the resulting uncertainty estimate amounts to ±0.54 K. An additional source of error is associated with the representativeness of our SST paleoproxy network. To test for the effect of this network uncertainty on the PC1 and thus our SAT estimate, we randomly chose 8 of the 14 records to derive a new PC1 (4)where x SST represents the vector of the 8 randomly chosen SST records out of 14. Subsequently, this new PC1 is projected on the EOF1 pattern and scaled by the underestimation factor Ψ, as described above (Eq. 3), and a new globally averaged SAT anomaly along with its deviation from the original SAT anomaly is derived. The SD between the permutation-derived and the original SAT reconstruction amounts to 0.96 K and represents our network uncertainty. Taking into account both sources of uncertainty, the overall error estimate for our proxy-based SAT reconstruction amounts to ±1.50 K. The proxy-based reconstruction of the globally averaged SAT variation is shown in Fig. 2A (blue line). Note that the paleo-SST records are subject to potential error sources that cannot be directly included in our calculation. These errors include seasonal biases of the respective SST proxy, analytical and calibration errors, and individual age model uncertainties. Method 2: Global SAT reconstruction based on paleomodel simulation. To reconstruct the globally averaged SAT variations using our transient model LOVECLIM simulation, two different factors have to be considered. First, a conversion from a globally averaged SST anomaly to a globally averaged SAT anomaly for our particular model needs to be derived. This can be done by calculating the ratio between the SDs (σ) of the two time series of the respective anomalies (5)Second, a potential underestimation of glacial-interglacial SST variations due to biases in the climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account. As mentioned above and shown in fig. S2, even though the temporal temperature evolution at the core locations is well captured by the transient model run, the glacial-interglacial amplitude seen in the paleo-SST records is underestimated by the simulated data. To determine this underestimation on a global scale, we used 63 globally distributed SST records covering the last glacial-interglacial cycle (namely, 140 to 10 ka B.P.; Fig. 1 and table S2). The SST records are again splined to a regular time axis of 1-ka resolution to match the temporal resolution of the time-averaged, simulated SST. Then, the simulated SST data were subsampled for the time period 140 to 10 ka B.P. at the model grid cells corresponding with the proxy record locations. Subsequently, for the average over all core locations (i = 1,63), the ratio of SDs was calculated from the splined SST proxy records and the anomalies of the simulated SST subsampled at the 63 core locations. Figure S3 shows a map of the local ratio Γ of the SDs (6) The ratio of the two SDs amounts to 1.97 and represents the best estimate for the underestimation of globally averaged glacial-interglacial SST variability by the model relative to the SST proxy data. We can then derive a model-based reconstruction of globally averaged SAT variations by multiplying the SST anomaly, reconstructed from the first EOF, with the two factors determined above (7)where N represents the number of model grid points. We assume a similar ±1.50 K error for the model-based SAT reconstruction as for the proxy-based one. The model-based reconstruction is shown in Fig. 2A. In the final step, the two independent estimates (proxy- and model-based) were averaged. For the time period 10 to 0 ka B.P. that is not covered by the proxy-based reconstruction, only the model-based estimate was taken into account. Given the uncertainty estimates of the individual reconstructions, the overall uncertainty of our combined SAT reconstruction amounts to ±2.12 K. The combined SAT reconstruction for the last 784 ka is shown in Fig. 2B. Figure S5 compares our averaged SAT reconstruction to other recent estimates of temperature anomalies. With regard to the temporal evolution of temperature anomalies, there is a good agreement between all estimates for the period 500 to 0 ka B.P. Notable mismatches in the phase relationships are visible for earlier periods, particularly for the recent SST stack (41). Glacial-interglacial temperature amplitudes for Antarctica data (30, 42) are about 1.4 times larger than for our global mean reconstruction, which points to a magnitude of Antarctic polar amplification that is in agreement with other estimates (31).
Calculation of radiative forcing Radiative greenhouse gas forcing is calculated following Hansen et al. (43) and using (8)using = 279 ppmv (ppm by volume), = 633 ppb (parts per billion), and N 2 Oref = 270 ppb. The time series of greenhouse gas concentrations are taken from ice core data over the past 784 ka (25, 44). The dust radiative forcing uses the logarithm of the dust flux recorded in the EPICA Dome C ice core (45) and assumes a PI/LGM radiative forcing difference of 1.9 W/m2 (1). The annual mean shortwave forcing over the past 784 ka was calculated directly from the transient LOVECLIM climate model simulation by focusing on shortwave changes occurring (i) as a result of planetary albedo changes over the ice sheets (9)where α p (t) represents the planetary albedo changes and 〈…〉 represents the annual mean. Note that LOVECLIM does not include a shortwave cloud feedback. Therefore, we can directly use the planetary albedo changes over ice-covered regions for the calculation of the forcing. The ice mask has a value of 1 if an ice sheet is present, and 0 otherwise. Q inc represents the incoming shortwave radiation. The typical LGM-to-PI difference for F SW,ICE (t) is −1.45 W/m2 (fig. S7). Note that the choice of albedo is critical when calculating radiative forcing anomalies. The glacial-interglacial change in surface albedo of ice sheet areas simulated by our model amounts to ~0.4. This value is in good agreement with a surface cover change from ice sheets (albedo of ~0.7) to a seasonal mix of vegetation and snow (annual mean albedo of ~0.3 to 0.4). However, the effect of changes in ice sheet cover on planetary albedo is substantially smaller compared to surface albedo. For planetary albedo, the simulated glacial-interglacial amplitude reaches only ~0.2, resulting in a smaller radiative forcing. Thus, using surface albedo to calculate the ice sheet effect on shortwave forcing results in an erroneously large forcing estimate. (ii) as a result of planetary albedo changes caused by sea level–induced inundation/exposure of non–ice-covered continental shelves (10)where land mask is initially calculated using high-resolution bathymetric data (etopo20) and then interpolated onto the T21 LOVECLIM grid, allowing for fractional land points. It is important to take the planetary albedo here and not the surface albedo changes. Note that the LOVECLIM simulation itself does not use time-varying bathymetry so that the applied sea-level forcing is not explicitly part of the LOVECLIM simulation. The typical LGM-to-preindustrial difference for F SW,SL (t) is −0.24 W/m2. (iii) as a result of vegetation changes in non–ice-covered and non–snow-covered regions outside the continental shelves (11) The snow mask has values of 1 if the annual mean snow depth is greater than 0.1 m, and 0 otherwise. “Land mask(t = 0)” represents the PI land-sea distribution obtained from the high-resolution bathymetry data set and then interpolated onto the T21 LOVECLIM grid. The typical LGM-to-PI difference for F SW,VG (t) is −1 W/m2. Mid-Holocene (10 ka) vegetation forcing values go up to 0.5 W/m2. This forcing is used to calculate the Charney sensitivity, but it is not included as a forcing in the comparison with the CMIP5 RCP8.5 scenario simulations because, in these simulations, vegetation is a feedback rather than a forcing. (iv) as a result of orbital forcing (12) Using the PI planetary albedo of LOVECLIM, we obtained a typical range of −0.2 to 0.5 W/m2 and fluctuations on an obliquity time scale, as a result of the hemispheric difference in PI planetary albedo. Incorrectly using only incoming shortwave radiation without consideration of the planetary albedo would lead to eccentricity scale variability. The total forcing F(t), expressed as the sum of the greenhouse and shortwave forcings (fig. S7), attains minimum glacial values of −6.5 W/m2 (assuming that vegetation changes are a feedback) and −7.6 W/m2 (assuming that vegetation changes are a forcing), relatively to the present, which is similar to the values derived from previous studies (46, 47) and about 1 W/m2 smaller than the estimates from previous reports (1, 2). With regard to providing an uncertainty estimate for our radiative forcing, we adopted the method and numbers presented by Köhler et al. (1). Here, a systematic 1σ error of ~12% of the maximum amplitude was used. Applying this estimate to our maximum amplitude of the radiative forcing results in uncertainty estimates of ±0.78 and ±0.91 W/m2. To calculate the Charney climate sensitivity [feedbacks include fast processes and forcings include slow Earth system processes, such as greenhouse gas changes, ice sheet changes, aerosol changes, and vegetation changes, or S GHG,LI,AE,VG , by Rohling et al. (27)], we treated sea ice and snow albedo changes as feedbacks rather than as forcings. To compare the paleo-based estimates of climate forcing and response with the CMIP5 model simulation, which simulate vegetation changes, we instead used a different approach: Changes in greenhouse gas concentrations, ice sheet albedo, and aerosol concentrations were treated as forcings, whereas vegetation changes were treated as feedbacks. Following the nomenclature by Rohling et al. (27), we determined S GHG,LI,AE . Our LOVECLIM simulation uses climatologically prescribed clouds, which means that the model does not have explicit cloud feedbacks. Given the large uncertainty of cloud feedbacks for LGM time slice experiments (48), this approach may be justified.
Specific equilibrium climate sensitivity The specific equilibrium climate sensitivity is defined as the equilibrated change in global mean SAT for a given change in radiative forcing. However, when calculating S for specific periods, dating uncertainties can result in large biases of S. To choose an appropriate fit for S, we first tested for the state dependence of our radiative forcing–SAT relationship. We calculated linear regressions between radiative forcing anomalies and global mean SAT anomalies for climate states colder and warmer than the long-term average, respectively. Using the mean value of the global mean SAT anomaly to distinguish between these states, we found 409 (375) data points for colder-than-average (warmer-than-average) periods. The linear regression slope for the colder-than-average period amounts to b cold = 0.53 ± 0.02 K W−1 m2. Warmer-than-average phases are characterized by a slope of b warm = 0.93 ± 0.04 K W−1 m2. To test our hypothesis that the two slopes are significantly different, we calculated a z score (49) based on the slope difference and the SD of the regression slopes (σ) (13) On the basis of this z score, we can conclude with very high confidence (>99.99%) that the difference between the two regression coefficients is statistically significant, pointing to a state dependence of the radiative forcing–SAT relationship with larger values of S during warmer-than-average phases. Accounting for this nonlinearity, we then applied a simple quadratic fit to the data. The advantage of a polynomial fit over the bilinear decomposition above is found in the fact that this fit takes into account all data points at the same time and warrants differentiability of the radiative forcing–SAT relationship in the entire domain of forcing values. Furthermore, it will allow us to calculate S for climate states that are separated from the average by at least 1 SD of the global mean SAT anomaly. The latter is normally prohibited by the scarcity of data and the large scatter in the reconstructions of radiative forcing and global mean SAT. The polynomial fit is shown in Fig. 3. The slope of the fit is subject to substantial change, steadily increasing for warmer background climate. Interpreting the (local) slope of the fit in terms of a specific equilibrium climate sensitivity is not straightforward. We referred to the detailed discussion by Köhler et al. (50). Here, we are mainly interested in deriving an average of S that is representative of warm climates and can be used for a global warming projection for the 21st century. Thus, we can use a slope average over a larger domain, avoiding uncertainties in the method of calculation (50) while still allowing for a state dependence. To distinguish cold and warm climates, we then used the SD of our SAT reconstruction. Warm (cold) phases are required to exhibit a global mean SAT above (below) 1 SD. Note that, according to our temperature reconstruction, the PI state of the current interglacial exhibits a temperature of almost 2 SDs above the average of global mean SAT. Thus, our constraint is justified to derive a value of S that is representative of the PI climate state. The different phases are indicated by the dashed horizontal lines in Fig. 3. In the second step, we averaged the slope of the quadratic fit for cold and warm phases, following Eq. 11 of Köhler et al. (50). Taking into account the systematic errors in the SAT reconstruction and the estimate of radiative forcing described above, the specific equilibrium climate sensitivity for cold climate (Scold) amounts to 0.41 to 0.55 K W−1 m2 (likely range, mean: 0.48 K W−1 m2). For warm climates, Swarm attains values of 1.16 to 1.47 K W−1 m2 (likely range, mean: 1.32 K W−1 m2). To calculate the equilibrium global mean SAT response to a change in atmospheric CO 2 , we used a radiative forcing anomaly of 3.7 W/m2 per CO 2 doubling (51). The resulting SAT response to a CO 2 doubling amounts to 1.78 K (likely range, 1.52 to 2.04 K) per CO 2 doubling for cold phases and 4.88 K (likely range, 4.29 to 5.44 K) per CO 2 doubling for warm phases.
Transient climate response until year 2100 One of the major goals of our study was to apply the derived Swarm to the radiative forcing anomalies estimated to occur as a consequence of human-induced CO 2 emissions. However, the anthropogenic warming of the climate system until the end of the 21st century is a transient process because a time period of <250 years is not sufficient to reach a new thermal equilibrium. In particular, ocean heat uptake and storage at deeper water layers slow down the SAT response to the anthropogenic perturbation of the radiative forcing (28). The effect of the ocean’s thermal inertia (N) can be approximated as N = κΔT, where ΔT describes the globally averaged SAT change and κ is the ocean heat uptake efficiency (28). For a given radiative forcing perturbation (F) and a given S(1/α), the transient global mean SAT response (ΔT) can then be estimated as (14) Here, we chose a multimodel mean estimate of the ocean’s thermal inertia of κ = 0.6 ± 0.2 W m−2 K−1 (28). Applying the mean value of κ = 0.6 W m−2 K−1 to our mean paleodata-based Swarm of 1.32 K W−1 m2 results in a transient climate response parameter (TCRP) of ~0.74 K W−1 m2 (Fig. 3). This amounts to about 56% of the value of Swarm and is in good agreement with a recent estimate for the transient climate response (27). The uncertainty in the ocean’s thermal inertia, together with the uncertainty in Swarm, results in a likely TCRP range of 0.60 to 0.93 K W−1 m2. This paleodata-based TCRP is now applied to the RCP8.5 forcing scenario until year 2100 CE, following the equation above for deriving an estimated global mean SAT response. The anthropogenic forcing results in a global mean SAT anomaly of 5.86 K by year 2100 with respect to PI values. The uncertainties in S and the ocean’s heat uptake efficiency as discussed above result in a likely range of 4.78 to 7.36 K for the global mean SAT anomaly. Comparing our paleo-based estimate of future warming to the multimodel ensemble mean projections of the CMIP5 (52), we found that our projection results in a slightly higher global mean SAT anomaly. The current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)/CMIP5 projection under the RCP8.5 scenario results in a global mean SAT increase of 4.84 K for the year 2100 (with respect to PI values). The corresponding multimodel ensemble values range from 3.42 to 6.40 K. | positive |
A CBS News poll last week suggested gun-control advocates have missed their moment of momentum to pass stricter regulations, with support down to 47 percent compared to 57 percent in the wake of the December massacre at Sandy Hook elementary.
Despite the administration's attempts to keep the strictest measures, like a renewal of the assault weapons ban that not even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) thought could overcome procedural hurdles, in the spotlight -- President Obama even had Newtown families at today's Easter Egg Roll -- Democrats are in for a challenge when Congress returns next week from recess.
Still, the debate is just around the corner. Before leaving for the Easter break, Reid began procedural motions to pick up a package of gun-control legislation when the Senate returns. It promises to bring high drama with a group of Republican conservatives threatening to filibuster any new gun bills.
The flurry of gun-control bills introduced at the beginning of the 113th Congress in January, many reactive to the Sandy Hook tragedy, just scratched the surface. Lawmakers continue to introduce new regulations, and many of these move forward in the shadow of more famous cousins such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) assault weapons ban. Still, control of congressional chambers may change, and there's no guarantee these bills and others won't have a life if reintroduced in a future Congress.
H.R. 236: Crackdown on Deadbeat Gun Dealers Act of 2013
Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) introduced this bill to increase the number of annual Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) at gun dealers from one to three and increase to five years the term of imprisonment for knowingly making a false statement or representation in required firearms records. Dealers selling or otherwise disposing of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person is prohibited from possessing a firearm could face up to 10 years behind bars.
The bill would also give Attorney General Eric Holder authorization to suspend a dealer’s license and assess civil penalties for firearms violations, including failure to have secure gun storage or safety devices.
"Getting rid of these deadbeat gun dealers is an important complement to an effort that I hope will also include universal background checks, closing the gun show loophole, a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and improving mental health services," said Langevin, who became a quadriplegic after he was paralyzed in a gun accident at age 16.
H.R. 332: Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act
Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) bill would remove barriers to civil liability for gun manufacturers, dealers and gun-rights interest groups, overriding 2005's Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Schiff theorizes that if gun manufacturers, shops, and even the NRA cared more about being sued, they'd promote more gun-control measures. He worked with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to draft the legislation.
“Good gun companies don’t need special protection from the law, and bad gun companies certainly don’t deserve it,” said Schiff. “Other industries across our country like automotive manufacturers, pharmaceutical firms and even cigarette companies don’t enjoy special protection under the law, and there is no reason to give the gun industry the right to act negligently. As part of our larger effort to stop gun violence in the country, everyone – including gun companies – should be held accountable for their actions.”
H.R. 868: Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2013
Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) is proposing a two-year $360 million grant to the Department of Justice that would give gun owners prepaid debit cards in return for turning over firearms. The qualifying guns would be ones, according to the bill, most used in crimes: Smith and Wesson .38 revolver, Smith and Wesson .40 semiautomatic pistol, Haskell Hi-Point JHP 45 semiautomatic pistol, Iberia Firearm JCP40 pistol, Ruger 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, Hi-Point CF380 .380 semiautomatic pistol, Raven Arms .25 semiautomatic pistol, Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun, Smith and Wesson 9mm semiautomatic pistol, Smith and Wesson .357 revolver, Bryco Arms 9mm semiautomatic pistol, Bryco Arms .380 semiautomatic pistol, Davis Industries .380 semiautomatic pistol, and Cobra FS380 .38 semiautomatic pistol.
The debit card given in exchange for the gun would "clearly and conspicuously" say "'THIS CARD MAY NOT BE USED TO PURCHASE A GUN OR AMMUNITION' in capital and raised letters on the card," states the bill -- the card even comes with an alert that will be triggered if the purchaser tries to use it to buy a gun. The amount is supposed to be 25 percent above market value of the gun; the congressman estimated that would usually result in a $40 to $400 debit card. | positive |
More Prevention of NoMethodErrors on nil
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare
What a sudden interest in avoiding NoMethodErrors on nil lately! I’ve just thought of another method. (Remember, you can solve any problem by adding a layer of indirection.)
Say you have Remco’s canonical example: person.name.upcase
Both person and person.name may be nil. So we usually write: person && person.name && person.name.upcase .
rrss
class Object def rrss yield self end end
rrss
person.rrss {|p| p.name}.rrss {|n| n.upcase}
to_proc
person.rrss(&:name).rrss(&:upcase)
person.rrss {|p| p && p.name}. rrss {|n| n && n.upcase}
Now for the level of indirection. Remember? I’ve introduced it last month. It stands for “returns result, same self”. Its definition is beyond trivial:Withwe can rewrite the original as:Or withnotation:. We still need to check for nil though:
Doesn’t this last bit look like it’s in need of a bit of refactoring? Its lack of DRY-ness jumps right out of the page.
x = lambda {|p| p && p.name} y = lambda {|n| n && n.upcase} person.rrss(&x).rrss(&y)
arr = [lambda {|p| p && p.name}, lambda {|n| n && n.upcase}] arr.inject(person) {|o,l| o.rrss(&l) }
arr = [lambda {|p| p.name}, lambda {|n| n.upcase}] arr.inject(person) {|o,l| o && o.rrss(&l) }
arr = [lambda(&:name), lambda(&:upcase)] arr.inject(person) {|o,l| o && o.rrss(&l) }
to_proc
arr = [:name,:upcase] arr.inject(person) {|o,l| o && o.rrss(&l) }
class Object def chain(*a) a.inject(self) {|o,l| o && o.rrss(&l) } end end
# long ago person && person.name && person.name.upcase # now person.chain(:name,:upcase) # with obedient nil # (in alternate, bugless universe) person.name.upcase
First try:Let’s use an array instead!We should use the nil test to within the inject block.Hey, can’t we write those lambdas a lot nicer?Do we even need lambdas? We’re calling them with the ampersand(&), sowill be called on them anyway.Let’s turn this into a method!We’ve made quite a journey. But look, we’ve come a long way!
Why don’t we go a little further yet. What if we’re not worried about nil . What if the want to stop a calculation as soon as it’s zero?
result = if value == 0 then value else tmp = calc(value) if tmp == 0 then tmp else more_calc(tmp) end end
We could write another method on object to handle just this. But let’s make it more generic. Let’s accept a block.
class Object def chain(*arr) arr.inject(self) do |o,lmb| if block_given? yield o,lmb else o && o.rrss(&lmb) end end end end
Symbol#to_proc
chain = [lambda {|v| calc(v) }, lambda {|v| more_calc(v)}]
value.chain(*chain) do |v,lmb| v == 0 ? v : lmb[v] end
How does this work in practice? First, we need to define the chain, andwon’t cut it anymore. We’ll need lambdas.Lambdas are ugly, but even so, that wasn’t so bad. Now, let’s use it!
Of course, the more steps you have, the bigger the gains of this method. With two steps, it’s a toss up. With three of more steps, you can go a long way in cleaning up your code. | positive |
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According to the latest Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey of 2006-07, Pakistani women continue to have an average of four children. Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Aga Khan University Medical center in Karachi, argues that not enough is being done to bring down the birth rate.
"One of the main causes really is ineffective family planning and population control programs over many years - as a result of which our population growth has continued more or less unabated," he says. "I think what we are facing now is a consequence of fertility rates which have remained high, contraceptive needs which have largely remained unmet. And also some of the basic determinants such as female education are the reason why we have not been able to address the scale."
Women have an average of four children each
Lack of information and infrastructure
According to a government report, people in Pakistan regard continuing contraceptive practices as a bigger threat to their health than an occasional induced abortion. Men and women are reluctant to visit government family planning clinics because of a lack of infrastructure and information.
Dr. Zeba A. Sattar, Director of the Population Council in Islamabad, says many important stakeholders are to blame for their failure to address the issue properly. "It has been neglected by two major players: one is the Ministry of Health. They have neglected services. The NGOs have also not been able to do much. And I would say it is also international neglect because there has been a neglect of family planning generally. There is now a renewed commitment on the part of all the major donors, international agencies for family planning but after eight or nine years of silence on this issue."
Sustainable plan needed
National Population Policy for this year is to reduce the fertility rate to three births per woman. The plan is to reduce by two-thirds the number of women who give birth before they reach their eighteenth birthday. But Dr. Bhutta remains sceptical that such schemes can be put into practice. "The policies may exist on paper but the population growth rate continues unabated. We are due to have a census this year, which should tell us in black and white. We haven't even had a census since 1998. So we don't even have objective data as to what has happened to the population growth in the last 12 to 13 years."
Pakistani villagers protest against a shortage of water in Hyderabad, Pakistan
Problems of population growth
Experts worry that the rapidly expanding population could exacerbate a range of problems in Pakistan. Dr. Zeba A. Sattar explains, "We will have to deal with a huge number of additional people in Pakistan, whereas already our water resources, housing and everything is really hard pressed. Above all jobs - the working age population will increase by 70 million in the next 20 years!"
It is hard to imagine how Pakistan can address its daunting development challenges from education to electricity generation, as well as solve its numerous political conflicts and militancy, if it continues to pay scant attention to the crucial issue of population growth.
Author: Jaisu Bhullar
Editor: Grahame Lucas | positive |
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The ball and socket are connected by ligaments and muscles, which allow the joint to move smoothly The TMJ is one of the most used joints in the body and is subjected to extensive wear and tear. Extensive wear can sometimes lead to problems with the joints, muscles, or ligaments. These problems are collectively known as TMJ disorders. Signs and Symptoms of a TMJ Disorder TMJ disorders can cause pain in the jaw joint and the muscles that control jaw movement. The pain can be sharp, dull, or achy. You can feel it in the jaw, temples, ear, or down the side of the face. Specific symptoms include: Your jaw ‘pops’ in and out of place. Your jaw gets stuck in certain positions. You cannot open your mouth very wide. You hear grating or popping sounds when chewing your food or speaking. You experience swelling in one or both sides of your face. You have pain in your face, neck, or shoulders when speaking, eating, or opening your mouth. You have chronic headaches or upper shoulder pain. You frequently experience dizziness. You have problems with your ears, such as earaches, ringing, or difficulty hearing. Only your dentist can diagnose a TMJ disorder. If you suspect you have an issue, please schedule an appointment. Teeth Grinding Can Complicate the TMJ Disorder Do you suffer from headaches, jaw pain, or neck pain? You may be grinding your teeth at night without realizing it. Teeth grinding can cause TMJ disorder and can also lead to damage to the teeth and jaw. If you think you may be suffering from teeth grinding, it’s essential to see your dentist or doctor for an evaluation. How Does Laraway Family Dentistry Treat TMJ Disorder? Treatment options include nightguards, muscle relaxants, and physical therapy. With proper treatment, you can find relief from your symptoms and protect your teeth from further damage. Who Can Experience TMJ Disorder? 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Kaspersky Lab detected more than 479 million malicious attacks from online sources in Q1 2017 alone, according to a new report. Here's how to stay safe.
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The global ransomware epidemic continues to make waves, as last week's WannaCry attack demonstrated: In Q1 of 2017 alone, mobile ransomware attacks increased by 253%, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab, released Monday.
Some 218,625 mobile ransomware files were detected in the first months of the year, compared to 61,832 in the previous quarter, the report found. The Congur family of ransomware—which sets or resets the device passcode, giving attackers administrator rights to the device—accounted for more than 86% of these mobile attacks. Certain variants of Congur can cause even more trouble, using administrator rights to install their module into the system folder, where it is almost impossible to remove, the report noted.
The Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Fusob.h was the most widely used form of mobile ransomware, Kaspersky Lab found. This variant, once run, requests administrator privileges, collects information about the device (including GPS coordinates and call history), and uploads that data to a malicious server. The server may then send back a command to block the device, depending on how worthwhile the hacker views the data.
"The mobile threat landscape for ransomware was far from calm in Q1," said Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, in a press release. "Ransomware targeting mobile devices soared, with new ransomware families and modifications continuing to proliferate. People need to bear in mind that attackers can - and increasingly will - try to block access to their data not only on a PC but also on their mobile device."
SEE: How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips
While mobile represents a growing threat, ransomware targeting all devices, systems, and networks also continued to proliferate, as researchers detected 11 new cryptor families and 55,679 new modifications in the first months of the year.
The United States was the country hit hardest by ransomware attacks in Q1, the report found, with Svpeng ransomware representing the most widespread threat, usually demanding a ransom of $100 to $500 from victims to unlock their devices. Uzbekistan, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Italy followed the US in terms of highest number of people infected with the malware.
Attacks on Windows machines are also on the rise, with 55,679 new Windows ransomware modifications detected in Q1—a two-fold increase over the previous quarter. Another Kaspersky Lab report released Friday found that 98% of last week's WannaCry/WannaCrypt victims were running Windows 7, and likely missed a security patch released earlier in 2017.
Overall, Kaspersky Lab detected 479,528,279 malicious attacks from online resources, located in 190 countries worldwide.
To avoid ransomware attacks, the report advised users to do the following:
1. Use robust security solutions, and make sure they keep all software up to date.
2. Regularly run a system scan to check for possible infection.
3. Stay wise while online. Do not enter personal information into a website if you are at all unsure or suspicious.
4. Back up valuable information.
The 3 big takeaways for TechRepublic readers
1. Mobile ransomware attacks increased 3.5 times in Q1 of 2017, according to a new study from Kaspersky Lab, released Monday.
2. Ransomware targeting all devices, systems, and networks is also on the rise, with 11 new cryptor families and 55,679 new modifications detected in the first months of the year.
3. To avoid ransomware attacks, users should consider using strong security systems, keeping software up to date, regularly running system scans, and backing up valuable information.
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Stand-up comedy pic 'Kevin Hart: What Now?' and 'Max Steel' also open nationwide this weekend.
Filmmaker Gavin O'Connor's action-thriller The Accountant — Ben Affleck's latest starring vehicle — is poised to overcome mediocre reviews and top the box-office chart this weekend.
The Warner Bros. film, rolling out in 3,222 locations, is projected to open in the $15 million-$20 million range. More bullish box-office observers believe it has a shot at topping $20 million, thanks to Affleck. The actor plays a gun-wielding, small-town accountant who cooks the books for menacing mobsters.
Affleck stars opposite Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow in the movie, which cost just under $40 million to make. Currently, The Accountant sports a 44 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Kevin Hart: What Now? and Max Steel also bow nationwide this weekend.
Hart's new film, from Universal, chronicles the final performance of his wildly successful stand-up comedy tour at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field in August 2015, along with a dress rehearsal. The movie, boasting an 89 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is projected to debut in the $13 million-$15 million from roughly 2,500 theaters.
Universal pegs the budget at less than $10 million. In 2013, Hart's Let Me Explain earned $32 million domestically, the third-best showing of all time for a stand-up comedy movie. What Now? is the fourth film Universal and the comic actor have worked on this year after Ride Along 2, The Secret Life of Pets and Central Intelligence, a co-production with Warner Bros.
Hart's longtime collaborators Leslie Small and Tim Story directed What Now?, with special appearances by Halle Berry and Don Cheadle.
Max Steel, based on Mattel's toy action figures, is looking at a modest opening in the $4 million-$6 million range, according to predictions. An origin story, the sci-fi adventure film chronicles the experiences of teenager Max McGrath and his alien companion, Steel, who combine their new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged Max Steel. The unlikely friends struggle to accept their oddly connected fates as they battle evil forces threatening mankind.
Last month, Dolphin Films and Mattel, who partnered on the movie, lost their bid for a kid-friendly PG rating. Instead, Max Steel will go out with a PG-13 rating when it opens in theaters Friday. Open Road Films is distributing the film in the U.S.
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This is the latest post in the Prenda Law saga.
From the start, the perpetrators of the nationwide fraud scheme frequently known as "Prenda Law" have obeyed the most basic rules of sociopaths and con artists: admit nothing, deny everything, aggressively accuse the victims of misconduct. In fact, that's how I got interested in the story three years ago now — Prenda Law, through its lead perpetrator John Steele, attacked one of their victims, suing a hapless dude for defamation after he complained that they had stolen his identity as a front for their porn-trolling scheme. At every step, the Prenda Law team — especially lead miscreants John Steele and Paul Hansmeier — have defied all evidence and the rising tide of adverse judicial decisions, claiming it was all a mistake and they were innocent.
Until now.
Back in December the feds charged Steele and Hansmeier with an array of federal crimes arising from a scheme that has now been identified and decried by federal courts across the country. And today John Steele pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of that indictment — mail fraud in violation of 18 USC 1341 and money laundering in violation of 18 USC 1956(h). Upon entry of judgment after his sentencing, John Steele will be a convicted felon with a federal fraud conviction. His career as a lawyer — or, more generally, as a gainfully employed person — is over.
Steele's plea agreement with the government is extensive even by federal standards. (State pleas are frequently completed with a few mumbled words on the record; federal pleas are wordy, impenetrable creatures that can be torture to explain to a client.) The factual basis section — which Steele admits is true (as to facts he knows) or that the government can prove (as to facts he doesn't know directly) — is a startling 16 pages long and lavishly documents the entire scheme, complete with many details that accusers have been pointing out for years. In short, Steele admits that he and Hansmeier used sham entities to obtain the copyright to (or in some cases film) porn, uploaded it to file-sharing websites, and then filed "false and deceptive" copyright suits against downloaders designed to conceal their role in distributing the films and their stake in the outcomes. They lied to courts themselves, sent others to court to lie, lied at depositions, lied in sworn affidavits, created sham entities as plaintiffs, created fraudulent hacking allegations to try to obtain discovery into the identity of downloaders, used "ruse defendants" (strawmen, in effect) to get courts to approve broad discovery into IP addresses. Steele, through the plea, admits to — and implicates Hansmeier in — a nationwide scheme to defraud many courts.
Based on his plea Steele faces a statutory maximum sentence of 40 years — the number that will get reported in some media — but Popehat readers know that number bears no relation to his probable sentence. The judge — guided (but no longer constrained) by the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines — will have broad discretion to frame a sentence. The judge's determination will begin with a calculation of a Guideline sentence. Steele and the government have stipulated to factors yielding an anticipated guideline range of 97-121 months of imprisonment. Yes, up to ten years in federal prison. This is not a highly favorable plea agreement — Steele isn't getting any killer deal (yet) for pleading guilty. The feds made him plead to both mail fraud and money laundering — a "good deal" would drop the money laundering. In addition, the feds made Steele agree to just about every Guideline enhancement I can think of, rather than leaving those enhancements open to argue. Steele has truly hurled himself on the sword here.
Why? Well, the deal also contemplates that Steele will cooperate — become a rat, if you want to be unkind. That means being available to testify against Hansmeier and, perhaps, actually doing so. If he cooperates truthfully, the government will consider asking the court to reduce that rather formidable sentence, and the court will have discretion to reduce the sentence even more than the government requests. Steele appears to have pinned all of his hopes on that option, betting that the court will reduce his sentence by an extraordinary amount. I note that he's waived his right to appeal the sentence unless the court sentences him to more than 60 months, perhaps signalling his hope (misplaced, I think) that the court will go that low.
I've seen a lot of plea agreements in a lot of federal cases, and I don't recall another one that so clearly conveyed the defendant utterly surrendering and accepting everything the government demanded, all in hopes of talking his sentence down later. Trusting your ability to talk your way out of it later is typical of a sociopath and a con man, of course.
The heat's on Hansmeier now. He's, at best, second in the door, and can't hope to get much credit for cooperation unless he starts giving up third parties.
The wheels grind slowly, my friends, but they do grind.
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Tara Press Please Wait... We are processing your request. Cart 0 Register | Login | Catalog MENU Home About Us Books Authors Submissions Blog Contact Us The Mug of Melacholy Synopsis "On his 15th birthday, Bhuvan overhears his Auntie Neera asking his father to get him trained before he ends up killing himself, During the resultant argument, she hands him a mug full of strange liquid that makes his father so happy that he forgets everything that had transpired. Meanwhile, dark dreams of a beautiful woman start haunting him...a woman, who is dead and yet so alive. A woman named Zoya, who says she can bring his dead mother back, but for that he must embrace his roots. Roots that he is clueless about until Neera hires Amaterasu, a Japanese Andrunain, who can control fireflies. Bhuvan then visits Umpling, a place in parallel time and space in Shillong, India, to which he Treelevates. He befriends Andrunain teens -- Orville, who can control ice, Samudra, who controls oceans, Jwala, who controls volcanoes, and Kalki, a music hypnotist. And he finally finds out about his own Andrunainty, Light, by producing the Borelai Effect in the sky, where he sees Wraiths (souls) of the Five Kings of Panchaprakritpur. But that only adds to the danger. His new people start fearing him as he may be the 9th Malfaisant. From the Omenwhisky Gardens to the Garden of Eternal Bitter Winter, Bhuvan is on a race against time as he seeks the Mug of Melancholy to bring his mother back, even as Zoya successfully alienates him from his friends old and new. " BUY NOW INR 250 Details Format : Paperback Size : 20.3 cms X 3.8 cms X 12.7 cms Pages : 368 ISBN : 9788183861267 RRP : INR 250 Pub Date : 2015 Author Rohit chakraborty Rohit Chakraborty was born in Guwahati in November 1995. He attended Garden High School, Kolkata, from 2004 to 2014. He has been writing since the age of eight. As a schoolchild, the terrace of his ho Read More... Format : Paperback CONTACT US contact@indiaresearchpress.com Connect with us SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER submit Press/ Media FAQs Policies Bulk/ Corporate orders Contact us Terms and Conditions GO TO TOP | negative |
Escapist Scrawl: March 2014 Pages Home About Me World of Warcraft Glitch Other Vacation Spots Friday, March 28, 2014 Raiding? Waiting... Delgada has a raid tonight. For most that read this blog, this is old hat. Del started Wing 1 of Siege of Orgrimmar last week on Monday. Our group, then called the West Coast Pears, didn't have enough bodies available for a regular 10 man, which was the goal, so it was opened to the guild and we ran it on Flex. Flex is still harder for me than "looking for raid", and I had only run it once on Flex and once in LFR before then. This time, I was going in as *gulp* a discipline priest with a gear score of 531 and not a whole lot of real practice in before that. Waiting... We finally went in a few ringers and did pretty well. I didn't get to finish the wing, but they went on without me. I guess that is the beauty of flex, but it was kind of disappointing. Of the 5 original team members that went in, only one finished the raid wing that night. Later in the week, not really sure how flex worked (I knew that I could run it as many times as I wanted, but not how loot rolls worked), another group had a lot of absences and threw their raid open to flex on the same wing. The same five from our group joined this raid. Stand Right Here. We wiped. I tanked the floor. We wiped some more. The repair bills were astronomical. We never got past Immerseus. At about the fifth wipe, when I understood that I would not be getting much for the kill, I bowed out, partly because it was an hour past the time I had promised to hubby I would leave at, and partly because I had found out there was not a whole lot in it for me. Thankfully, everyone else was willing to stop trying, too. We left with orders to gear up. I felt like a failure, though I was assured that it was not my gear or enhancements or skill that was the issue. Dreaming of epic loot. Monday of this week found us in Wing two of Siege of Orgrimmar. I made sure to get pictures with all the notable Horde celebrities inside. I was sad to find that they seemed to have taken Archmage Aethas Sunreaver in his house slippers. Bring me some cloth and a needle, stat! For someone so powerful, his outfit is about as powerfully ugly. Has he been wearing this since he was a student? Anyhow, if you can tell in the picture, Delgada is running as shadow again. We had enough healers, and the guild master was in the raid and told me to do it. Discipline stats do not do well for Shadow damage. Still, there were some below me even, and I was assured that I could stay shadow. We'll see how that pans out tonight, as I have a raid in 30 minutes. We didn't get past Galakras Monday, so he'll be waiting for us when we get there tonight. Wish me luck! Posted by ShawndraKai at 6:28 PM No comments: Hearthstoned! Yay! Of course, it's a practically free mount, so I had to get it, and I did! If you haven't got one yet, there are a few things you can do to make winning a little easier. 1) Capture a hero you understand. Jaina Proudmoore is an awesome character to start with, but unless you can stack you deck to do massive damage ASAP, you should try something else. All the heroes can be captured in practice mode, if you don't feel comfortable throwing yourself to the wolves, uh, I mean other players. Do you normally heal? Grab a priest. Do you like buffing others to do your job for you? Nab a paladin or a shaman. Do you like pulling out all the pets and standing back and watching the fun? Play with a hunter. Oh, and if you like bashing things and putting a little armor up, try a warrior. Sneaky types should try the rogue. Do you like doing all the things? Play a druid. Do you enjoy pain? You must try the warlock. Many murlocs. Handle it! Building a deck. 2) Build your own deck. Nothing says you have to play the cards they start you with. I'm having an obnoxiously good time with a shaman murloc deck. A friend of mine built a taunt deck for his wife to ease her way to gaining her steed. Pick the cards that suit you best and try playing your own deck! In your collection is where you build your custom deck, and there is a search feature so you can turn the ocean of cards into the puddle you are looking for. I did a search for murloc to get my murloc deck, and taunt for all cards that taunt. You can search for about anything, and there are tabs at the top of the collection screen to show only class based cards or general cards. Gelbin and ETC playing nice. Who knew? 3) Make it fun. Do you have a couple of dollars to spend? Buy a couple packs from the store.You don't have to spend anything to get cards, as you gain coins that can purchase packs as you play. I have yet to open a pack that had less than one rare in it. I bought a couple decks during beta for a few bucks and got a golden Gelbin Mekkatorque card, which is only sometimes useful, but always fun! Did you go to Blizzcon 2013? Pull out your ETC card and rock out! My attitude is expressed well with this emote. 4) Emote. There are several emotes you can use during a match. All can be helpful, some are polite, but can have other meanings. If someone is being annoying, you can squelch them by right clicking their hero's portrait. Say hello or remind someone they are playing by using the "Greetings" emote. Apologize for taking too long or before dealing a vicious blow by saying "Sorry". "Oops" can be said when you flub a move, or when someone does something silly on their side. "Well Played" is a good emote to use near the end, but beware of the almost dead warlock who brings out two Molten Giants and eats them with his Void Terror. If you don't have him dead in your next move chances are good you're a goner! Oh, and don't forget to threaten them, even if it's an empty threat. 5) Use Hearthhead. I didn't know much about this site when I started playing, and I am still really getting into it. If you already use WoWhead, you know how useful the site can be. You can build decks there, search for cards, and read what other players are doing, even look at decks they have built. There is great opportunity for learning at this site! 6) Watch a pro. I can't say it better than this article here, but I can add to it. WowCrendor is great for so many other reasons, and his Hearthstone videos are the same. He is funny and watching him play helps me understand the way cards play together. TotalBiscuit is also pretty fun to watch, even if his cards are a little out of a beginners league. I hope this helps those of you still without this mount to get in a few winning matches soon! This is a must have mount, if only for the fact that it makes one more toward your next level mount collecting achievement. Is the Hearthsteed my favorite mount? No, but it is high on the list. I'm still partial to my Cenarion Hippogryph and my Swift Zhevra. Still, this one won't be on the stabled list when they release the newest random mount calling spell soon™. A mount to match her transmog! Posted by ShawndraKai at 5:32 PM No comments: Monday, March 24, 2014 Real World Jewelcrafting. I like to wear my geek on my sleeve. I have been disappointed by the sizing on Jinx clothing, when even a 2X won't fit me, but fits my daughter who wears a small/medium just right. So, I tend to wear my geek around my neck, dangling from my ears, and in my hair. My favorite necklace. I bought that from an Etsy store a few years ago, and I wear it almost all of the time. If I could remember which shop I bought it from, I'd link it, because they had a lot of beautiful glass tile necklaces and the price was great! Earrings my wonderful hubby made me. My hubby is pretty talented. The green is more of a sage green than the picture shows, and it is my favorite color. Can you see the tiny gears at the bottom? I love about everything steampunk! Well, today I decided I was going to splurge and have Andrew Jackson treat me to something pretty. Here is what I found on Etsy! A little asian, a little steam, a little medieval. Gorgeous! An homage to Delgada in my real life? I have a bag with this embroidered on it, from the watermarked shop. LOVE IT! I'm still shopping, and probably will end up with one of the two items above the dragon embroidery, since I already have a bag I love from this shop. I really highly suggest you take a few dollars and support an Etsy shop that you find interesting. I've spent too much time writing this and I haven't bought anything yet, so I will leave you to your shopping as I finish mine. Tell me if you find anything interesting in the comments! Posted by ShawndraKai at 1:04 PM No comments: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 It Is Finished. Next Project? I dropped him and he dropped my pants! Sounds so bad, but Halinka was happy enough to dance! I had just enough time to summon Terokk twice this morning, and it was all I needed. So, I spent the rest of the morning steering Halinka through the ethereals near Manaforge Ultris, gathering ethereum prison keys so that I could change them in for ethereum stasis chamber keys so that I could hopefully some day loot the shoulders and be done. From the back... Ready for anything! I didn't get the happy dance shot because, after using only 3 of the stasis chamber keys, I was dancing in my seat and making Halinka hearth to the Shrine to fix her transmog. Doesn't she look great? I did do other things today. After Halinka fixed her outfit, I did my normal farming duties on my horde characters, then played on the Timeless Isle with Shawndra for a bit. After that, Carlatta came out to play to grind reputation points for the Emperor with hubby's best friend, his wife, and my friend Jen (another Jen, I know, I can't help it I attract them!). Two Orcs, One Forsaken. (and later a blood elf but that ruins the pun) We killed all those, and I pulled most of them, and killed each of us so many times, that I feel I should send them gold for hanging out with me. I was laughing loudly, annoying the whole family, pulling bigger and more painful yaungol into our bloody pile. In my defense, if you don't pull them fast and furious, you're stuck looting boxes wishing you could get some reputation for any kill. I think we got about 1000 reputation in about an hour. I would have stayed longer, but I had to go, it was dinner time and In-n-Out was on the menu! That, and World Boss Wednesday was about to start, so the others had to get ready for that. So, yay, the transmog is done and it's time to pull another project from the unfinished pile. Halinka needs gear to run raids, and so does Carlatta. Shawndra needs another new weapon (she bought the Timeless polearm today) and gear, too. I guess I should end this post and get to work! Make sure you sample the Yaungol BBQ while you are busy killing the party-goers! Posted by ShawndraKai at 10:20 PM 1 comment: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 Dancin'. The Arrakoa are dying to get in. Best dance club this side of the Dark Portal. Make sure you bring friends and libations, because the dance floor is empty and the bartender is ... dead. Posted by ShawndraKai at 10:59 PM No comments: Pantsless. Is this like jell-o wrestling? Halinka, in her quest to gather the pieces of the perfect outfit, has found that some of her questing requires less clothing. To get some Consortium reputation and to get to the point in the quest chain where you can combine the ethereum prison keys, some slimes had to be split with electricity and then their little bits vaporized. Problem being, with the one hit kill, the electrical charge never went off. So, she took it all off, even her staff, and smacked those blobs around. Once the electrical charge hit, she could use mind sear to kill all the minor blobs easily. She's thankful she isn't saddle training these! Roping nether rays was difficult in gear, so she stripped down to make her mind flay less damaging. Two ticks was enough to subdue them long enough to rope them. I would have had her smack them around like the blobs, but one hit was more often less than needed but two would kill them, and some of them weren't in melee range. Everything, even rings and necklaces were ditched this time. Why is she doing this? Because she needed apexis shards to summon larger mobs to get apexis crystals to buy a geode that would have gloves in them, and later, if she must have it, the rock that has her hat. Good thing she doesn't care about stats on these items. Can you imagine the horrific grind to get them just right? Transmog this! She managed to get gloves and boots and belt yesterday, which leaves the long slog for the shoulders, and more time in the Skethyl Mountains gathering Time-Lost Scrolls, killing lesser bosses to gather their magic to make Time-Lost Offerings to summon Terokk, so he can, once again, not drop the pants Halinka wants. Need any cloth? This is what all that gathering resulted in, plus about 60 or more random greens, a couple of blues, a lot of depleted items that need crystal charges, and a few patterns. Halinka still has a while to go. I think I had better equip another alt with bags for storage, because there is no way I'm going to be able to sell all of this in a week! If you couldn't tell, I'm on Spring Break! How do you handle time off from work when the kids still have school and you really can't go anywhere? I have Star Wars Galaxies EMU reloaded on my new computer along with a few Steam titles hubby has been wanting me to play, so I think I have enough to keep me occupied, but I would welcome you ideas. Two weeks is an awful lot of free time to fill! Posted by ShawndraKai at 8:48 AM 2 comments: Sunday, March 16, 2014 But...I Want It Now! Queen of da Ogres. Halinka got a new robe early last week, and is already tired of it. There was nobody on in her guild to do anything with, so she went shopping, and found a great shirt. Of course, you can't buy a shirt and not try and get matching everything to go with it. So, she sent me off to WoWhead to find out if it was part of a set and it is. There is always a catch, though, isn't there? This set is looted from, with a lot of luck, from a few rares in Outland with a few pieces available from vendors. In order to get this set completely, Halinka is going to have to get in good with Ogres, Ethereals, and Flyboys. Here's a comment I pulled off of WoWhead that really explains the amount of work involved in getting this set: Ugh. Still, Halinka was on a mission, and decided to pal around with the Ogres. I think I remember her saying something about lots of beer and great parties. She would know, they were neighbors once, right? So, she pulled together something that will do until she gets the right pieces and headed out to Blade's Edge. How she move like dat? She looks alright. It's no Windchanneler's Regalia, but what do you want for less than 500 gold? Here's what she put together. Shoulderpads of Absolution - there was nothing great on the auction house, and she had these in her storage. If something else presents itself before the long road to the shoulders is complete, I'll edit this post. Windchanneler's Tunic - The shirt of dreams! The reason we are on this trip in the first place. Regal Cuffs - the colors match the shirt perfectly. With the gloves listed below, the bracers really needed to match. Regal Gloves - Again, colors are almost a perfect match, so much so that if I never get the set items, I won't complain. Silver-Thread Sash - the lines on this belt match the lines on the pants that follow. If only the shirt had silver accents instead of gold! From the waist down it's almost like half of another transmog. Exiled Dabbler's Leggings - Such a shame to cover up some of the pants in the game! But these are not the star of this outfit. Voldrune Slippers - these were the least expensive of about 5 different options available on the auction house. Ethereum Life-Staff - another place holder from Halinka's closet. She doesn't remember who she was with when she got this. My friend from work or the OLRG (I really need to hang out with those people more. They are having way too much fun without me!) had some role in her having the shoulders mentioned first and this staff. If the non-glowy part of this weapon wasn't more purple than gold, it would be a shoe-in. While she was starting out her paths to unlocking this set, she did some more window shopping in Area 52, and decided that she will have to put her carefully manicured hooves into the battlegrounds to earn a few of the outfits she saw there. I guess there could be worse ways to interest a girl in fighting for her faction. Where do you draw the line when you are trying to get the perfect transmog piece? Mine seems to lie about the same place as most anything in the game for me. If my attention can drift away and not cause a huge obstacle to getting the item, then I'm in. So, no flex, regular or heroic raiding, no arenas, and no soloing old content unless it's around the same difficulty as the Timeless Isle. Tell me about your transmog threshold in the comments! Posted by ShawndraKai at 11:42 PM 1 comment: Newer Posts Older Posts Home Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Let's Hang Out IRL! 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Viewing from a point over northwest Mexico, astronauts aboard the International Space Station looked northeast and shot this unusual photograph of a red sprite above the white light of an active thunderstorm (image top left). The sprite was 2,200 kilometers (1,400 miles) away, high over Missouri or Illinois; the lights of Dallas, Texas appear in the foreground. The sprite shoots up to the greenish airglow layer, near a rising moon.
These photos show the sprite's tendrils reaching as much as 100 kilometers above Earth's surface. Sprites are major electrical discharges, but they are not lightning in the usual sense. Instead, they are a cold plasma phenomenon without the extremely hot temperatures of lightning that we see underneath thunderstorms. Red sprites are more like the discharge of a fluorescent tube. Bursts of sprite energy are thought to occur during most large thunderstorm events. They were first photographed in 1989.
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Electric Vehicles: A baseline study and analysis for a regional strategy – Green Care Give us feedback SCROLL TOP Skip to content Internet Explorer is not supported. It is recommended that you view this website on the latest version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Our WorkAll GreenCare activities are centred on the goal of restoring and regenerating the interdependent health of people, place and planet — now and for future generations. Climate Change Energy and Carbon Food Leadership and Innovation Materials Transportation Water Our Progress Resources Our Stories About Us Contact Take Action Give us feedback Electric Vehicles: A baseline study and analysis for a regional strategy Back to Resources 7 March 2022 Currently, across Fraser Health, Providence Health Care, Provincial Health Services Authority and Vancouver Coastal Health there is an opportunity to develop an integrated and collaborative strategy for the future of electric vehicles. The inevitable increase in demand for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, as well as the need to decrease organizational and regional greenhouse gas emissions, is an opportunity to position these four health organizations in a leadership role amongst B.C. Public Sector Organizations to drive this societal shift, through the provision of accessible EV infrastructure. The expected outcomes from this study and analysis include: Clarity around the current status of EV chargers and infrastructure across the four health organizations Understanding stakeholder level of interest in increasing EV accessibility/availability Understanding of risk (in not developing a regional strategy) Direction for the future of EV charging in the health organizations Engagement with all stakeholders and clarity of roles, responsibilities, and priorities While it is important to encourage EV use and adoption by staff, the role that these charging stations are playing needs to be considered, and ultimately the larger transportation system as a whole needs to be considered. DOWNLOADS Electric Vehicles: A baseline study and analysis for a regional strategy Electric Vehicles: Overview and next steps for a regional strategy HEALTH AUTHORITY Fraser Health, Providence Health Care, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health, FOCUS AREAS Transportation, TOPIC AREAS Electric vehicles, Energy, RESOURCE TYPE Documents, Share this story OTHER RESOURCES Mitigating the environmental impacts of anesthetic gases in Health Care Reducing Healthcare’s Carbon Footprint with Sustainable Transportation Initiatives Documents 2021 Environmental Performance Accountability Report Vancouver Coastal Health EPAR Report 500-520 West 6th Ave Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H5 info@bcgreencare.ca Privacy Policy Stay up-to-date with what we are working on. Subscribe here to receive updates | negative |
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain during the cremation of a Kejriwal’s relative at Nigambodh Ghat in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI Photo)
Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief, is facing one of the toughest times of his small political career over allegations of corruption against him. AAP MLA Kapil Mishra, who has been suspended from the party, has alleged that Kejriwal received Rs 2 crore from Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain and the later also allegedly arranged a Rs 50 crore deal for a seven-acre plot in South Delhi’s Chattarpur for the Delhi CM’s brother-in-law. Mishra has also filed a case in this regard with the CBI.
On Tuesday, Kejriwal was expected to respond to the corruption charges leveled by Mishra. Instead, the AAP organised a “special session” of Delhi Legislative Assembly to demonstrate that Electronic Voting Machines can be “tampered” with. An AAP leader demonstrating EVM tampering in a democratically-elected Assembly was unprecedented and may invite further legal troubles to the party. For the record, EC has rubbished AAP’s dramatic demonstration and even said the EVM used for the purpose was not the one authorised by the poll panel.
AAP may believe that it has scored a lead in its fight against the Election Commission and EVM, there are chances that the corruption charges against Kejriwal may end up in a classic showdown between the former and his mentor social activist Anna Hazare.
Negative stories coming out of the AAP camp in the last few months haven’t gone down well with Hazare, who feels cheated by AAP. It should be recalled that Kejriwal and AAP are the product of the anti-corruption movement led by Hazare in 2011. Both Hazare and Kejriwal had parted ways after the latter decided to form a political party.
Responding to the allegations of corruption against Kejriwal on Tuesday, Anna threatened he would sit on an agitation to demand Kejriwal’s resignation if the charges were true. “I think there should be a thorough investigation in this case. If Kejriwal is found guilty then I will personally sit on an agitation at Jantar Mantar and demand his resignation,” Hazare told PTI at his residence in village Ralegan Siddhi of Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district.
However, the Gandhian leader also said that Mishra made the allegations against Kejriwal only after he was removed from the party. “Whatever the former minister (Kapil Mishra) has said against Kejriwal, he said it only after his removal. If he was the minister when the alleged money exchange took place, why did not he alert the authorities?”.
On several occasions since the declaration of results of the five state Assembly elections in March this year, Hazare has publicly displayed his displeasure with AAP and Kejriwal. On March 15, Hazare attacked Kejriwal, saying the latter’s demand to hold elections with ballot papers was regressive. In an interview with Times Now, he had said. “Science and Technology are developing, the world is going ahead and we are talking about using ballot papers! It’s like going backwards.”
On Sunday, Hazare said he was “deeply disappointed” with the corruption charges against Kejriwal. “Kejriwal became CM due to fight against corruption in Delhi, and the news of allegations on him today is saddening,” the social activist told ANI.
In an interview with CNN-News 18 on Monday, Hazare said Kejriwal should step down as he was facing serious graft charges. “Arvind Kejriwal should step down as CM pending a probe. He should start a probe into his dealings,” he told the channel.
On April 27, Hazare said AAP was “power hungry”. When AAP came to power in Delhi, people’s expectations increased and it was felt that there will be a change in the country. “However, their credibility dwindled. An important reason for this decrease was that these (AAP) leaders reneged on their poll promise of not accepting government facilities like official bungalows and other perks. Despite the poll promise, (Kejriwal) took a big bungalow and government vehicle and even a hefty salary hike,” Hazare told PTI.
“Had (AAP rule in) Delhi become a model, the whole country would have emulated it. However, the lust for power is a bad thing,” he added.
With Hazare’s latest threat to sit on dharna against Kejriwal and the latter’s reluctance to step down and face a probe, it shouldn’t be surprising if we witness a showdown between the two. But, will it stoop to that level? | positive |
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr on Monday evening said his team has "talked to all the appropriate people" despite the Justice Department asking for additional time to comply with a House request for information about President Trump's wiretapping accusation.
"I would say from our conversations, what we've gotten are sufficient answers," Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, told CNN on Monday.
Burr stopped short of saying whether the intelligence supported Trump's tweet allegations that former President Barack Obama had his Manhattan campaign headquarters spied on last October.
Trump's Justice Department was supposed to share its findings with the House Intelligence committee by Monday, but had asked for "additional time to review the request in compliance with the governing legal authorities and to determine what if any responsive documents may exist."
In response to the department's delay, House Intelligence threatened to subpoena Justice for refusing to answers its questions.
"The Department of Justice has asked for more time to comply with the House Intelligence Committee's request for information related to possible surveillance of Donald Trump or his associates during the election campaign," an intelligence panel spokesman said.
"We have asked the department to provide us this information before the committee's open hearing scheduled for March 20. If the committee does not receive a response by then, the committee will ask for this information during the March 20 hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our questions continue to go unanswered."
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Turkey Slams Russia for Syria Attacks, Warns Could Sever Energy Ties
Russia’s military adventure in Syria seems to have angered most of the Sunni world, and reports of stray Russian missiles hitting Iran could well tick off the Shiite one, too. But Russian President Vladimir Putin’s armed support for Syria may also cause another casualty with even bigger long-term implications: an abrupt chill in Russian-Turkish relations.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, lashed out Thursday for the second time this week about Russian adventurism in his neighborhood, warning Moscow that such behavior could scupper multibillion-dollar energy deals between the two countries, including a burgeoning natural gas trade and a new nuclear power station.
“We can’t accept the current situation,” Erdogan told Turkish reporters on his way to Japan. Russia is using military force to back the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and is targeting anti-Assad rebels whom Turkey has backed. And Russian jets have violated the airspace of Turkey, a NATO member.
Such antics, Erdogan said, could drive Turkey to find other energy suppliers. “If necessary, Turkey can get its natural gas from many different places,” he said.
Russia’s lunge into the nearly five-year Syrian civil war has shaken Turkey’s leaders, who less than a year ago were clasping hands and proclaiming a “strategic partnership” with Moscow. The centerpiece of that partnership was a huge new natural gas pipeline that would cross the Black Sea, enter Turkey, and fuel both the local market and southern Europe. The accord was greased with billions of dollars in Russian financing for a long-planned nuclear plant in Turkey.
Yet Ankara has summoned Moscow’s ambassador three times in the past week to protest what Russia is doing in Syria, even as Erdogan is basking in public support from the very partners — NATO and the United States — he has spent his time in office spurning.
The big question now is whether Moscow’s mission in Syria — and Ankara’s unease with its increasing dependence on Russian energy supplies — will end up ultimately sundering what looked like a beautiful friendship.
“There could potentially be a silver lining. This is pushing Turkey more toward the West, and toward its NATO allies, which could be a good thing in the medium and long term in terms of the geopolitical situation,” said Emre Tuncalp, a senior advisor at Sidar Global Advisors, a risk consultancy.
That isn’t to say that a pair of wandering Russian jets have by themselves torpedoed the Turkish Stream pipeline or plans for the big nuclear plant. Both energy projects have been wobbly for quite a while. Doubts over the viability of the pipeline surfaced as soon as it was announced, since Russia has little money to finance it and it is hardly an appealing route for European gas consumers. Even before Erdogan’s scolding this week, Russian gas firm Gazprom abruptly announced it would cut the planned pipeline to half its size. The nuclear plant, meanwhile, had already faced years of delays.
And Erdogan’s outburst has at least as much to do with domestic politics as with international relations. Turkey will hold another parliamentary election at the beginning of November, since the July general election didn’t produce an outright majority. Faced with a military adventurism that threatens to upend his Syria policy, and buffeted by a growing chorus of voices at home warning about the perils of relying too much on Russia as an economic, trade, and energy partner, Erdogan had little choice but to take a hard rhetorical line with the Kremlin.
But Erdogan has a credibility gap. Despite his bluster, Turkey has little power to alter the energy relationship for now. Russia is Turkey’s biggest supplier, and there are few alternatives that could make up any shortfall if Ankara started shopping around, which leaves the fate of Turkish power plants and factories essentially in Russian hands. Additional volumes of gas from Azerbaijan and Iran would take years to bring online; importing gas from Iraq is a dicey proposition with the Islamic State still entrenched. The eastern Mediterranean Sea may hold plenty of gas, but that isn’t an option for Turkey right now. And the country has only two terminals to import liquefied gas from places like Algeria, Qatar, or the United States.
What’s more, Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was precisely the driving force behind Turkey’s cool relations with Washington and Brussels — and cozier links to countries like Russia. The rhetorical about-face seems designed to let Erdogan zig after years of zagging.
“At the end of the day, it seems like an empty threat, mainly for domestic consumption,” Tuncalp said.
Photo credit: FRANCOIS LENOIR/AFP/Getty | positive |
CTV Toronto
A Toronto-area woman was slapped with a bill for more than $45,000 after selling her cellphone online.
Oshawa resident Kelly Arsenault told CTV Toronto she thought she'd finished her mobile contract, so she sold her phone to a stranger through an online ad on Craigslist.
Arsenault thought her account was closed, but someone started using the phone, and amassed a bill of $45,585.83.
"No, this can't be right. Are you sure you have the right people?" Arsenault said she asked when she opened the bill earlier this month.
Arsenault opened an account with Telus three years ago, opting for a business account because of a promotion at the time. Her contract ran out in September, so she sold the phone to a woman she met online.
"We believed the contract was closed. We believed we had no further charges," Arsenault's sister Christine said.
The case is under investigation, but it appears that the person who bought the phone realized that Arsenault's account was still active.
The person using the phone has used tens of thousands of megabytes of data over three months, leading to the massive bill.
Telus told CTV Toronto that it is not unusual for business accounts to have large bills. The company also sent more than 120 overage notifications to the phone number.
Customers of all providers are warned to be sure their contracts are cancelled before selling or giving away their phones, Telus spokesperson Shawn Hall warned.
"If you have a phone that leaves your person, it's stolen, or you sell it or give it away, you must call your carrier promptly to make sure something like this doesn't happen."
Telus is working to track down the person using the phone, but told CTV they do not expect Arsenault to pay the bill.
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Köln -
Das ging fix: Das Kölner Amtsgericht hat am Aschermittwoch einen Antänzer aus Rumänien verurteilt, der an Karnevalssamstag einen Feiernden beklaut hatte!
Florian N. (26), laut eigenen Angaben Kraftfahrer, hatte es im jecken Trubel gezielt auf angeheiterte Opfer abgesehen.
Am Rudolfplatz angetanzt
Im Bereich der Sparkasse am Rudolfplatz näherte er sich einem 62-Jährigen. N. tanzte den Mann an, griff nach dessen Handgelenk und schnappte sich eine Armbanduhr - eine Breitling im Wert von 6000 Euro.
Bratwurst brachte Glück
„Als ich den Diebstahl bemerkte, dachte ich, die Uhr sehe ich nie wieder“, so der Geschädigte Ferdi S. zum EXPRESS, „ich bin dann erst mal eine Bratwurst essen gegangen.“
Opfer Ferdi S. wurde eine Breitling-Uhr im Wert von 6000 Euro geklaut. Patric Fouad Foto:
Doch der Mann hatte Glück. Der Dieb und zwei mutmaßliche Komplizen hatten am Rudolfplatz offenbar nach weiteren Opfern Ausschau gehalten. Ein Freund des Beklauten erkannte den Täter wieder und alarmierte die Polizei. Die Uhr wurde sichergestellt und dem Besitzer wieder übergeben.
Geldstrafe für den Täter
Acht Polizisten, die an den Ringen stationiert waren, stellten die Tätergruppe. Es erging sofort Haftbefehl. Im Rahmen eines beschleunigten Verfahrens kam es nun schon zum Prozess.
„Es tut mir leid, ich will nur noch in meine Heimat“, sagte Antänzer N. Er erhielt 600 Euro Geldstrafe und kam wieder auf freien Fuß. Beim nächsten Mal drohe Knast, sagte die Richterin. Am Aschermittwoch wurden noch drei weitere Fälle aus den Karnevalstagen verhandelt. | positive |
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A spate of recent reports claim Apple will deliver so many enhancements with its next major iPhone iteration that it intends skipping its customary 'S-series' nomenclature to introduce the product as “iPhone 7." I asked the rumor mill what we should expect from the device, this is what it said:
Metal
Expect new metal processes, faster processors, super-advanced digital imaging technology, major improvements to the UI (such as Force Touch), and of course (as ever) the device to be lighter, slimmer and stronger than before.
One Chinese language title claims Apple intends using metal alloys it developed while creating the Apple Watch in its new smartphone – that’s significant in many ways:
I imagine these processes are a product of the company’s exclusive deal with Liquid Metal.
The new iPhone’s body will be around 60 percent stronger than today's.
Apple has been working to develop sapphire displays – will the company get it right in the next 5-inch OLED display iteration?
It is likely the metal will be blasted with zirconia beads, so you can expect a simply stunning finish.
Force Touch
As recently as last week, frequently accurate Apple KGI Securities analyst/seer, Ming-Chi Kuo predicted Force Touch will appear in the device (confirming an earlier report in the Wall Street Journal).
“We believe that iPhone’s Force Touch sensor doesn’t directly detect the pressure applied by fingers. Instead, it monitors the contact area on which the finger touches the screen to decide how big the pressure is,” said Ming-Chi Kuo as reported by MacRumors.
Of course, support for Force Touch could conceivably make the removal of the Home button on future models a possibility; in this model, your display would be capable of sensing a Force Touch and treating this like a stab at the Home button. There have been years of rumors Apple may take such a step in order to maximize usable display space.
Cameras
Daring Fireball last year predicted this generation of iPhone would deliver “the biggest camera jump ever." Putting together recent evidence, it seems Apple intends on making the camera inside future iPhones capable of DSLR-like image capture -- even in low light -- with minimal camera shake.
Apple recently spent $20 million on the acquisition of LinX, a company developing advanced camera sensors. Computerworld notes that in comparison with iPhone 5S, Linx technology has “significantly better color fidelity, much sharper and cleaner images and, above all, very good performance at very low light levels with hardly any visual noise at all.”
There are other claims to consider:
Recent patent filings suggesting Apple is developing image stabilization technologies.
Previous claims of a dual-lens camera system promising up to DSLR quality image capture using your iPhone (Linx uses multiple cameras, so I think this is confirmed now).
Powerful
Processor technology won’t lag. I’ve written about this before – iOS 9: Apple’s desktop-class smartphones – so don’t be too surprised to see the new OS released in combination with a processor powerful enough to run a new MacBook. Those 64-bit apps already de rigeur on iOS will run like butter from a hot knife.
Performance should also be boosted by AppleInsider claims that future model will carry 2GB of RAM. This will demand battery life improvements in order to maintain current standby times.
That's a lot to look forward to. Faster, more powerful, and more capable than before, the thinner, lighter, tougher iPhone 7 rumors really do seem to be the best yet.
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One Purim, I stood on a street corner and asked passersby if they were Jewish and wanted to hear the Megillah. I met a boy who told me that his mother is Jewish but he was raised Catholic. He had never seen a Megillah scroll in his entire life.
That’s why we ask.
This past Rosh Hashanah I asked a young man whether he was Jewish and wanted to hear the shofar. He, too, told me that his mother was Jewish, but confessed that she was so distant from observance that she had not given him a bris. That’s why we ask. Just last week, I shook the lulav with two young women who, in response to my inquiry “Are you Jewish?” told me that they are not Jewish anymore because they don’t believe in God. I informed them that they are still as Jewish as I am, and they shook the lulav for the first time since Hebrew school. That’s why we ask.
Some “involved” Jews find this practice — championed by the Lubavitcher rebbe and practiced by Chabad boys and girls from the youngest ages — annoying at best, and offensive at worst. It involves stopping random people on street corners with the refrain “Excuse me, are you Jewish” and offering those that answer in the affirmative the opportunity to put on tefillin, collect a Shabbos candle set or take part in a seasonal mitzvah. A recent article in the Forward claimed that it “rarely goes well,” citing anecdotal reports from those who find the practice distasteful (but not distasteful enough, it seems, to allow the Forward to print their names).
It certainly isn’t an easy job. Besides the regular rejection, there’s the more basic problem that we have no idea who’s Jewish. Even after doing this for years, most of us can’t really tell a Jewish “look” from any other one, and even after doing this for years and years, most of us are still nervous every single time we ask. We do it anyway, because we know that for every “no” or angry, privileged Jew who stomps off (indignant, outraged that someone who doesn’t look like him or her dared to speak out of turn) there’s another Jew who has never had access to a set of tefillin, doesn’t know how to ask to try it, and may not have another opportunity to do so.
So we ask. Again and again. For the women who don’t believe in God, but want to shake a lulav. For the men who don’t have a bris, but want to hear the shofar.
In response to the Jews who find this practice offensive, I have one, simple response. Check your privilege. Seriously. You were fortunate enough to be raised in an environment that nurtured your spiritual growth and led you, one way or another, to a place where you felt confident deciding on your level of religious observance. Many Jews did not have that luxury and will never have the option to lay tefillin unless a (somewhat loopy) chabadnik stands on a street corner bellowing, “Excuse me sir, are you Jewish?” We’re making mitzvos accessible to a Jewish population that won’t come to your progressive synagogue services or Aish HaTorah seminars, who wouldn’t set foot in one of your Kumsitzes or community outreach events.
If that infuriates you — it’s really your problem.
And we ask because, every now and then, asking changes the world. One Rosh Hashanah, I ran through a nursing home in the waning hours of the holiday asking if anyone was Jewish. The front desk assured me that nobody was, but I knocked on each door anyway (I was younger then, and seldom took “no” for an answer). One old woman croaked from her room that she was Jewish, and as I entered brandishing my shofar, she started to cry. She told me that her entire life she had never missed hearing the shofar. But that year, she had been rushed to the hospital and had only been discharged now, far too late to attend any Rosh Hashanah service. And there I was with a shofar. Later, I returned to light Hanukkah candles with her. The local Chabad community took care of her religious needs until she passed.
That’s why we ask. And that’s why we’ll keep on asking. Even if it makes you uncomfortable.
Joshua Krisch is the Chabad rabbi at Ithaca College in upstate New York. He is currently the staff science editor at Fatherly.
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The schedule is set for next weekend's regional football championships with the winners advancing one step closer to the state finals at M&T Bank Stadium the first weekend in December.
The field includes three defending state champions -- Franklin in Class 3A, Northwest in 4A and Fort Hill in 1A. It also includes seven undefeated teams, including one matchup of unbeatens, Linganore vs. Damascus, in Class 3A West.
Also unbeaten: Howard and Eleanor Roosevelt in 4A, Douglass-PG in 2A and Fort Hill and FAET in 1A. Fort Hill extended its winning streak to 25 games, the state's longest active winning streak. Howard owns the Baltimore area's longest run, 11 games.
Of the 32 regional semifinalists, 19 are former state champs with 49 crowns among them. All eight programs in Class 4A have won before, combining for 11 crowns although only five have been won in this century. Arundel, Howard and Paint Branch haven't won since the mid-'70s.
Five teams in Class 3A have won before, but they have 19 among them. Damascus has seven, Linganore has five and River Hill, four.
Only two in Class 2A have won before with Dunbar claiming the most of any regional finalist with nine. The Poets now have 46 playoff wins, more than any team in tournament history. Friday night, they meet the only other team in the 2A playoffs with a state title trophy, Eastern Tech, which won five years ago.
Class 1A features four former champs who have combined for nine state titles. Fort Hill has three as does Cambridge-South Dorchester.
Here is the schedule for the football regional semifinals Friday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 22:
Class 4A
North
Paint Branch (9-2) at Howard (11-0), Friday, 7
East
Old Mill (9-2) at Arundel (10-1), Friday, 7
West
Northwest (10-1) at Quince Orchard (10-1), Friday, 7
South
DuVal (8-3) at Eleanor Roosevelt (11-0), Saturday, 1
Class 3A
North
Bel Air (10-1) at Franklin (10-1), Friday, 7
East
Glenelg (8-2) at River Hill (8-3), Friday, 7
West
Linganore (11-0) at Damascus (11-0), Friday, 7
South
Potomac (10-1) at Thomas Stone (10-1)
Class 2A
North
Dunbar (8-3) vs. Eastern Tech (10-1) at CCBC-Essex, Friday, 7
East
Easton (7-4) at Kent Island (9-2), Friday, 7
West
South Carroll (8-3) at Liberty (8-3), Friday, 7
South
Patuxent (8-3) at Douglass-PG (11-0), Saturday, 1
Class 1A
North
Surrattsville (7-4) vs. FAET (10-0) at Poly, Saturday, 1
East
Kent County (8-3) at Cambridge-South Dorchester (10-1), Friday, 7
West
North Carroll (9-2) vs. Fort Hill (11-0) at Greenway Avenue Stadium, Friday, 7
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Douglass-B (10-1) vs. Edmondson (10-1) at Poly, Saturday, 4 | positive |
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As amazing as the TurboGrafx 16 and PC Engine are, the video out ports on the reverse of both iterations of the console are somewhat lacking. While there are modifications and official expansions to address this, they’re anything but ideal. db Electronics, however, is about to address all these issues with their newly announced db Grafx Booster TTP.
This custom built board - also known as the Twin Turbo Power Audio Video Enhancer for Pc Engine & TurboGrafx - simply slots into the expansion bay of either console, introducing two new video out ports for a much cleaner image. For the majority of gamers, the familiar red, white, and yellow RCA connectors can be used for a composite signal, while the pixel perfect aficionados can look forward to RGB out on NEC’s console - using the same connector as a Mega Drive 2.
While similar to the Turbo Booster, the db Grafx Booster TTP doesn’t offer the save memory features that the official add-on brings. Nevertheless the ability to experience NEC’s back catalogue in true RGB without any modifications to the console will be worth the investment alone.
No price has been set for the db Grafx Booster TTP as of yet, although it is expected to be released mid-November.
Link: db Electronics announce db Grafx Booster TTP
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TheDCNF examined 10 random articles from The New York Times’ coverage of the Charlotte shooting. Only 40 percent of the articles mentioned that the officer involved was black. The rest of the articles sampled referred to the shooting as a black man being shot by an officer.
An analysis of statistics for randomly selected articles from The Washington Post reveals less evidence of bias than the Times, but could point to a slant. Out of 17 articles on the Tulsa white-on-black shooting, 17 percent mention both the race of the officer and man involved. Eighty-two percent of articles just mentioned the race of the victim.
On the Charlotte shooting, TheDCNF examined 14 random articles from The Washington Post. Only 14 percent of the articles sampled mentioned that the officer involved was black. The other 86 percent of articles ignored the officer’s race, but mentioned that the victim was black.
When reporting the Tulsa shooting, The Washington Post emphasized that Shelby, a white police officer, killed Crutcher, an unarmed black man. Alternatively, when reporting the Charlotte shooting, the Post buried that Vinson, a black officer, shot Keith Lamont Scott, a black man. | positive |
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