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Difficulty sleeping?
It can be particularly difficult to have a good night's sleep with so much on our plates, with different aspects of our lives to juggle, and the ongoing experience of broken nights sleep, which impacts on our body clocks. Within the counselling and psychotherapy field, we often see people with difficulty sleeping.
If you struggle to sleep, frequent night waking or experience insomnia, the below should help you get to sleep and stay asleep. If your waking is due to a baby or child, we hope these tips will help you get back to sleep quicker. Remember to be kind to yourself, get support and to cut yourself some slack.
So why is sleep so important?
Did you know we spend about a third of our lives sleeping? We all know that sleep is vital to our emotional and physical health. Although if you aren't managing to get a good night's sleep – don't panic! Any changes to health can be easily corrected with some much needed shut eye. Sleep however, maintains a healthy balance of hormones, supports immune function, increases productivity and improves our regulation of emotions.
Sleep hygiene involves good sleep practices that can help us get to sleep quicker, get back to sleep after waking and sleep more deeply. We often think these things don't make a difference, but from our experience, if you can start to introduce these practices into your daily life, they really do improve your sleep experience. So if you want to sleep better and faster, check out our 5 tips below.
Try to prepare yourself through sleep throughout the day.
Exercise each day as even 10 minutes of aerobic exercise is clinically proven to support sleep.
Avoid caffeinated drinks after midday, as caffeine is a stimulant which has important effects on your brain and its ability to switch off.
- Avoid alcohol (sorry!) as it interrupts your circadian rhythm and blocks REM sleep.
- Naps can give us that important boost, but with any naps you have in the day, aim for them to be before 2pm.
- Hot shower – This action may feel relaxing but it also tricks you body in sleep, through taking advantage of the way temperature affects circadian rhythms.
Stick to a routine if you can
Go to bed the same time every night, as early (as possible if you have a small baby). Even though it may result in more wake ups over the night, the cumulative affect of the extra hours will be more restorative.
Wake up the same time every morning. Set an alarm if you can. (Again if you are struggling with a new baby, you need to be kind to yourself and grab any pockets of sleep you can, so this doesn't apply to you).
Wind down
Start to wind down one hour before bedtime
Avoid screens for an hour before bed as they can stimulate your brain, the opposite of what we are trying to do. Quiet time is useful in helping your body slow down.
Deep breathing activates our relaxation response biologically but it also switches off our mind, as if we are solely focusing on our breathing, we have some headspace away from our busy thoughts. Ratio breathing, where we imagine breathing in and out in the shape of a square, following the sides of the square with each inbreath and outbreath can be particularly helpful for switching off.
Sleep environment
Prepare your sleep environment for sleep only
Complete darkness is vital if you can. Studies show that artificial light disrupts Our Circadian Rhythm, stopping melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone from being created.
Silence is also key to a good sleep. Try to avoid listening to anything with words in. If you find yourself finding noise helpful in getting you to sleep, try to choose a timed piece on sounds, such as natural sounds of the sea, or panpipes.
Coolness also helps our bodies sleep well. Between 16-19 degrees is perfect.
Remove clocks as although it feels helpful to know the time, it interrupts our ability to switch off, leading to frustration as the time passes as we find ourselves still awake.
Psychological tools
If you have the above covered, you might be wondering how you can fall asleep faster with a busy mind (or after baby wake ups).
Mental activity – Do sums in your head, do times tables, spell words in your head or even count sleep. The repetitive nature moves our mind away from our thoughts. And if you find your focus moves back to your busy mind, gently draw it back if it wanders.
Progressive muscle relaxation – This is an exercise where you systematically relax all the muscles in your body. AnxietyBC have a great script on their website.
Dr Jo Gee is a psychotherapist and specialist in women's health, offering counselling and psychotherapy in surrey. She is also the co-founder of The Luna Hive. Jo offers individual and group psychotherapy in Guildford and at the Priory Hospital Roehampton.


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Program Lead, Blockchain & Digital Assets, National Bank
Jillian Friedman is National Bank of Canada's Blockchain and Digital Assets Program Lead. In this role Jillian focuses on leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology and digital assets for the Bank. Jillian's unique background includes several years of cryptocurrency and blockchain industry experience. She has published several works on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology and has spoken before the Canadian Senate. Previously, Jillian was Senior FinTech Legal Counsel for National Bank and prior to that was one of the world's first cryptocurrency lawyers. She holds a B.A. from McGill University and an LL.B. and J.D. from University of Montreal.

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In Costa Mesa, make sure you find the correct size dumpster for your job, or else you may need to pay additional fees. Don't forget to consider the amount of trash you will be gathering through your project and will be needing to put in the dumpster.
A second dumpster will need to be ordered if you rent a smaller dumpster than what is required to complete your venture. This can result in a lot of unwanted expenses. It isn't going to be as expensive if you get a larger dumpster than what you actually end up needing. Remember that the larger the dumpster, the more it will cost, so ensuring that you select the correct size of dumpster for your job will help you save money. You can get further data and assistance by calling 1 Stop Dumpster Rental at 888-279-5557 today.
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We present a broadband vibrational sum frequency generation (BB-VSFG) scheme using a novel ps visible pulse shape. We generate the fs IR pulse via standard procedures and simultaneously generate an 'inverted' time-asymmetric narrowband ps visible pulse via second harmonic generation in the pump depletion regime using a very long nonlinear crystal which has high group velocity mismatch (LiNbO3). The 'inverted' ps pulse shape minimally samples the instantaneous nonresonant response but maximally samples the resonant response, maintaining high spectral resolution. We experimentally demonstrate this scheme, presenting SFG spectra of canonical organic monolayer systems in the C-H stretch region (2800-3000 cm−1).
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Racehorse Makeover: Equestrians flock to retrain OTTBs
Up to 500 ex-racehorses will converge on the Kentucky Horse Park later this year to vie for $100,000 in prize money and the title of America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred.
Some 488 professional and amateur trainers from the US, Canada, and Britain, aged from 10 to 71 and from 10 disciplines have applied, with a pool of 741 horses, to take part in the 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover by the Retired Racehorse Project.
Each trainer must acquire a Thoroughbred who raced or had a published work after October 1, 2014 and had no second career training before this year.
"We were thrilled by the number of entries, but ecstatic about the quality," said RRP President Steuart Pittman. "We complain that Americans buy horses in Europe because we lack good trainers here.
"Reading the stories of these 488 applicants convinced me otherwise. These are very experienced trainers, some of whom have trained horses to the pinnacles of their respective sports. Watching their progress through the year and then seeing them at the Kentucky Horse Park in the fall will make better horsemen of all of us."
Dan Rosenberg, president of Thoroughbred Charities of America, said the trainers taking part in the makeover "are my new heroes".
"Each will invest hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars into showcasing on a national stage just how special these horses can be. This event is the formula we need to effectively transition large numbers of racehorses to new careers while promoting them as a breed to the huge marketplace of American horse owners," he said.
Last year's title was taken out by Lindsey Partridge and Soar. In addition winning the $10,000 prize, the pair also took home first in Competitive Trail presented by The American Competitive Trail Horse Association and third in Freestyle presented by Keeneland at the 2015 Thoroughbred Charities of America Makeover. Lionofwallstreet also put in a good performance for Partridge, coming in second to his stablemate for Competitive Trail.
The Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium takes place from October 27 to 30 at the Kentucky Horse Park. It includes the Thoroughbred Makeover competition as well as educational seminars and demonstrations, a trade fair, and the Makeover Horse Sale, an opportunity for buyers to evaluate horses from the Makeover that are available for sale.
The list of accepted entries will be announced at RetiredRacehorseProject.org on February 15.
Statistics so far on the 2016 Thoroughbred Makeover:
- 488 trainers applied. 253 of those hope to bring two horses, for a total applicant pool of 741 horses.
- They come from 45 states, four Canadian provinces, and England.
- Their primary disciplines of expertise are eventing (132), show hunters (98), show jumpers (64), dressage (61), barrel racing (34), working ranch (22), freestyle (21), field hunter (20), competitive trails (18), and polo (17).
- There are 271 professionals, 162 amateurs, and 55 juniors, and they range in age from 10 years old to 71 years young.
- 350 have already acquired an eligible Thoroughbred to train for the event. 138 have not.
- The ten states or provinces with the largest numbers of entries are Pennsylvania (44), Kentucky (37), Maryland (30), Ohio (28), Virginia (27), Michigan (24), New York (22), Ontario (20), California (19), and Florida (18).
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While using the Microsoft Office Excel, formula bar is used by the users to see the information, data or the empirical formulas, entered in the cell. Formula bar is available immediately below the ribbon. You may also see the formula bar in all the following forms of collapse of ribbon:
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Remote learning is a vehicle that has been made possible by utilizing online communication to provide an education. At TechSherpas , we are excited about all of the possibilities we offer with remote learning for IT certifications. This offers our students the opportunity to learn on their own schedule, and achieve incredible results from any location. If you're wondering if this is the right step for you, just take a look at the type of people who usually choose this opportunity.
Who Chooses Remote Learning for IT Certifications?
These are the people that choose remote learning opportunities.
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Choosing remote learning requires a level of independence and dedication. The people who choose this option are great independent learners, and love being in charge of their own education and progress.
Team Players
If you prefer to learn in a classroom setting, we actually offer remote learning opportunities for you as well. You can remotely access an instructor and classroom. This is a great way to experience learning in a team setting, all from the comfort of your own home or office.
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"Stop missing me, I'm right here"
I'm incredibly proud of where I am in my life. I have a job that I love and I am working towards a career that I believe I was born to do. It hasn't been an easy ride. I was not on this career path for quite a while. I did other things before I had the confidence in myself to do this. I think it's important to tell your story. Everyone has a story. It's sharing them that makes us brave and human.
My road to where I am today is wiggly, wobbly and crooked, but I'm here. After getting my A-Levels I worked for a long time in a shoe shop. I was very good at it, I got promoted to supervisor and I was trusted to run the shop on many occasions, helping to run other branches in the area on many occasions. I was maybe 18/19 at this point. Teaching was always in the back of my mind, but I was good at what I was doing at the time and that was enough for me. I quickly realised that this company had high hopes for me, but as the years of being there went on I was growing restless… I wasn't getting out of the job what I knew I would get out of teaching. I went back to college, to do an childcare qualification. I was at college full time, working pretty much full time hours at the shoe shop and volunteering in school one day a week. I was learning more being in school than I was in college, so I asked to become a distance learner so I could spend time in school during the week and still work at the shoe shop. My year of my childcare qualification was finally over, I passed with a distinction. I heard there was going to be a job at the school I had been volunteering in, the school I went to as a child. I was made up. It was a dream to work in the school that infused me with a love of learning.
I went for the interview. I did shocking. The head teacher told me. I was appalling, I did not interview well. I didn't get the job. I was heartbroken.
Luckily, a few weeks later the head got back to me and said that there was another position open that I would be perfect for. My months of volunteering did so much more for me than that stupid interview did. I was over the moon. I finally got my foot in the door. That was 7 years ago now. Everyone has always said "you're too good to just be a TA", "why aren't you a teacher?" or "go on, do your teacher training" but I didn't believe I could do it. So I worked my hardest to be the best TA I could be and then 3 years ago I was promoted to HLTA (I interviewed so much better the second time round!). I love my job. But after a year of being a HLTA I knew something was missing, I knew I was ready for a new challenge… I knew what I had to do. I knew I needed to become a teacher. I knew I was ready. The whole university process I will blog about later if people want to know, but I applied to uni and here I sit a year later having completed my first year of uni, about to start my second and final year of a degree with a year of SCITT to do. And I am so proud of myself.
I am a teacher. I am a teacher without a stupid piece of paper from the government to say I am a teacher. It is in my blood. It is who I am. This is what I want to do. This is the thing I have been fighting for. This is the thing that I will fight for the rest of my existence for. I believe in teachers, and teaching, and the power of education.


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Cambodia's efforts to win duty-free access to the United States market may have taken an unlikely step forward on the coattails of US moves to improve ties with the Muslim world.
In a meeting with her Bangladeshi counterpart Dipu Moni on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to look at the possibility of a trade and investment framework to make it easier for US companies to invest in the democratic and secular Muslim-majority nation.
In response, Dipu Moni said she asked Clinton to work for duty-free and quota-free access for Bangladeshi goods to the US market.
While it is far too early to tell if Clinton's words will ever translate into action, US President Barack Obama's signature policy of repairing ties with the Islamic world can only nudge talks in the right direction.
And Cambodia stands to benefit if the US chooses the easiest way forward and passes legislation already before its Congress extending duty-free access to 14 least-developed countries, including Bangladesh and Cambodia.
Few give Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's Trade Act of 2009, which is currently before the US Senate's finance committee, much hope of becoming law purely on trade-assistance grounds. Critics say Cambodia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka account for 99 percent of the total exports to the US from the 14 countries, meaning it will do little to improve the fortunes of those most in need of asssistance.
Garment Manufacturer's Association of Cambodia Secretary General Ken Loo said to the Post last week "we are always hopeful" when asked about the likelihood that the legislation would be enacted, hardly a sign of confidence it will get pushed through.
Hopes have been dashed in the past, with two similar bills – the Trade Act of 2005 and the Trade Act of 2007 – both failing to get through the committee.
According to Loo, the two early bills were both sponsored after lobbying by the association, which has visited the US "five or six" times since 2004 to press Cambodia's case for access.
In its attempts to lobby the US government, Loo said GMAC initially tried to go it alone before throwing the country's lot in with other developing nations from the region, acknowledging that a regional trade pact was far more likely to get the nod from US lawmakers than a bilateral deal.
In this case, Cambodia's beleaguered garment industry, which saw exports to the US drop 30 percent in the first half of 2009 to US$725.7 million, will hope the regional theory holds, and that it can ride in on the back of Bangladesh.
And if Diane Feinstein's legislative aspirations are dashed purely on trade terms, Cambodia will do well to wish Barack Obama all the best in efforts to repair ties with the Muslim world.


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The Inside Business Development Representative is responsible for expanding the usage of Pathway Genomics tests. This individual will focus on the screening and management of incoming leads, administration of the customer lead database, prospecting for new business, and capturing lost accounts. This position will analyze sales trends and report on findings. The BDR will work with the Sales Managers and Client Services to ensure a high level of customer service and responsiveness is in place through the sales process, from incoming leads to account closing.
- Execute sales processes including customer/lead profiling, initial customer response, product detailing/description.
- Maintain the customer/lead database in the contact management system.
- Prepare reports and data on sales processes and results.
- Develop a customer targeting model for Sales prospecting
- Collaborate with Sales, Client Services and Marketing to achieve corporate goals.
- Actively participates with leadership in running the business effectively and profitably.
- Carries out duties in compliance with established business policies.
- Drive educational campaigns, awareness, and Sales lead initiatives with customers
Education and Experience:
- B.S. in science related field or business strongly preferred. Experience may be considered in lieu of educational requirements.
- Two to four years experience in inside or outside sales.
- Prior experience in diagnostics and/or lab services strongly preferred.
- Strong sales skills and presentation skills are required.
- Strong interpersonal skills to include active listening, coaching, advising, facilitating and problem solving are required. Ability to apply these skills at all levels and in diverse settings.
- Excellent communication skills to include written and verbal presentations.
- Basic business skills (budgeting, forecasting, trend analysis)
- Ability to maintain and effectively deal with highly confidential matters.
- Highly organized and ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast paced environment.
- Ability to model and live the corporate values.
This BDR will work out of our San Diego office.
We offer competitive compensation plus commission.
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OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said, on Wednesday, that all oil producers taking part in a supply-cut pact are committed to bringing global inventories down to the industry's five year average and restoring stability to the market.
Barkindo, speaking in the United Arab Emirates, said compliance data in March is showing better conformity by the oil producers with the agreement than in February.
OPEC and non-OPEC producers agreed in December to cut supplies for six months, helping lift oil prices to about 55 dollars a barrel after a two-year slump.
OPEC will review policy for the second half of this year at a May 25 meeting.
Barkindo would not say whether the agreement will be extended for another six months, but that any decision taken would be in the interest of all producing and consuming countries.
On December 10, 2016, OPEC won the backing of countries outside the oil cartel to join supply cuts for the first time since 2001, overcoming the final major obstacle for a global agreement to curb output.
The agreement in Vienna was designed to speed the end of the worst oil downturn in a generation by mopping up excess supplies and boost prices, providing some relief to resource-rich nations whose economies have taken a big hit.
Prices rallied by 15 per cent since Nov. 30, 2016 when OPEC's 13 members led by the group's largest producer Saudi Arabia, agreed to curb output by more than one million barrels a day. (NAN)


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2126: Weirdest behavior Follow
I am using build 2126 and I am currently experiencing the weirdest thing I have ever come across in IDEA.
I had been editing an xml file for some time when I noticed a few strange things about it, e.g. the editor was behaving as if the "Allow placement of caret after end of line" option was turned on (which it ain't). Interestingly, all other editors were behaving correctly.
I then went on to make a test case out of it and tried to copy the content of a different xml file into the weird file, and doing that, all tags came out in reverse order!
I tried it with different data, and the behavior was the same: I copied the block
from an external file to the clipboard and pasted it into the "sick" file, and the result was
in one line, without line feeds (but with xml syntax violations correctly highlighted).
Has anyone ever seen anything like that? I am hesitant to shut down the IDE or even close the file because the bug might disappear and not be reproducible; on the other hand, I wouldn't know how to get additional information that might be useful for JB out of the application.
Alright, I did find the cause of the strange behavior: I just found out that I had Column Mode turned on for that particular file.
Yet I don't think that the editor should behave that way!
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I was thrilled to be invited to the launch of House of Frasers SS13 collection by the lovely Mark. I attended their AW12 press show back in August and it was a fabulous event so I knew that this one would be no different.
Despite the freezing cold weather and horrible snow (I usually love it but not when I'm in heels and a full face of make up.) I made it to their stunning Ivory restaurant in one piece.
Collections featured from the very fabulous Mary Portas, BIBA, Grainne Maher and Benefit cosmetics. The array of magnificent colours, fabrics and prints shone brightly throughout the restaurant.
Beautiful collection by Mary Portas
Floral prints, neon pops of colour and gorgeous fabrics were on selection for us to play with. Maxi gowns, cowl styled blouses and 1950's prom dresses featured throughout a large majority of collections.
Pied A Terre SS13 Collections
Vibrant shades of colour will be a key trend this coming season with the trusty floral designs continuing to blossom from season to season.
Vibrant colours and stunning prints
One of my favourite local designers, Grainne Maher, was there with her stunning Pluck & Devour collection. From hats to necklaces, I had a ball browsing through it all.
This unbelievable butterfly hat is my favourite. It is out if this world, and the soft pink colour works beautifully with the butterflies.
I was very lucky to have been given an amazing necklace by Grainne. This pretty phoenix has now become part of my very own Pluck & Devour collection. (Thank you Grainne!)
This event was a girly heaven! Not only were we treated to an exclusive look at the coming SS clothes, accessories and jewellery, but we also got to have a sneak peek at some newly launched products by Benefit cosmetics.
Fine One One launched this week
They're also going to be launching some new shadow palettes and concealer. The lovely Mark & Caoimhe gave us all each a pretty Benefit goodie bag filled with Fine One One and some Bad Gal mascara. I was one happy girl! 🙂
Thank you to Mark from HOF for inviting me and to Grainne and Mark for spoiling me rotten with gorgeous goodies.


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If it ever stops raining I'm gonna plant the vegetables my family bought this weekend from Mill Valley Garden Center & Farmer's Market. By this time in previous years, we'd have already set seedlings we raised ourselves into the earth. But alas, life with a toddler is all that we expected and so much more.
The beauty of places like the Mill Valley Garden Center or any of the local farmers markets, is that they've already done most of the work for you! You get strong, healthy plants at reasonable prices (do I sound like Agent Cooper yet?). But my favorite thing, is that I bought heirloom tomatoes for just a dollar a piece.
Shopping at Mill Valley Garden Center is not like the big box garden center experience. You're not gonna find 50,000 plants to choose from. But you will find beautiful locally grown, organic, certified child labor-free and fair trade plants, seeds and pots. You won't be able to buy drill bits and drywall at the same time as your vegetables. You could, however, pick up some salsa from Whiskey Island Pirate Shop, coffee from Zekes, and maybe some Rose's cookies. Total yummers.


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On Sale $850,000 - Apartment, Commercial
A great investment opportunity minutes from downtown Hudson! Has an 8 unit building with two additional houses with a 7 bay garage. This 6 acre complex has the following updates; kitchen cabinets, floors, counters, plumbing, and tank less hot water heaters, new toilets, sinks, windows, newly paved driveway, and new well pumps. The property has 5500 gallon septic and two additional 1000 gallon septics, 4 wells and six propane tanks. The net income of $68,442.00 makes this an 8% ROI without leverage. The 6 acres allows for additional building of units, Greenport has no zoning in affect presently. Call for a private showing, all initial showings will be the exterior only, if further interest a second showing will be set to view the interior units.


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Adding filters allows you to easily categorize sessions. As an event admin, use filters to create room constraints or to find sessions in the Session Slotter. You can also allow attendees to use filters to find specific session types, by enabling filters on the Session Schedule block on your event website.
How to add a filter
On the Scheduling tab, select the Filters menu item. If you have not yet added any filters, do so by clicking the "Add Your First Filter" button. If there are already filters added, click the "Add" button in the menu on the right-hand side.
In the dialog that appears, enter the name of filter and if you want select a colour from the colour picker - if not a colour will automatically be assigned to the filter. You can also add Filter Items, by clicking the "Add" button below the Filter Items field. A filter items allows you to divide the filter into sub-categories. Click the filter item to edit its name and to select a colour from the colour picker.
Note: To use a filter there must be at least one filter item added.
As an example, you might want to create a filter to categorize sessions by subject. In this case, you would create a filter and call it "Session Subject" and add the relevant filter items (i.e. sub-categories). In this example, the sub-categories are "Marketing," "Sales," and "Technology." Apply the "Marketing" filter item to all sessions related to marketing, etc.
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My Fellow Citizens
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- Title: 국민 여러분! / Gungmin Yeoreobun!
- Also known as: Dear Citizens / Fellow Citizens / People of the Country
- Genre: Crime, comedy
- Episodes: 36
- Broadcast network: KBS2
- Broadcast period: 2019-Apr-01 to 2019-May-28
- Air time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00 (2 episodes back-to-back)
- Original Soundtrack: My Fellow Citizens OST
A third-generation con man marries a police detective and somehow ends up running to become a member of the National Assembly.
User/Viewer Ratings[edit]
- Main Cast
- Choi Shi Won as Yang Jung Kook
- Lee Yoo Young as Kim Mi Young
- Tae In Ho as Han Sang Jin
- Kim Min Jung as Park Hoo Ja
- People around Jung Kook
- Yang Dong Geun as Charles
- Park Kyung Hye as Yang Mi Jin (Jung Kook's younger sister)
- Lee Joo Myung (이주명) as Hwang Seung Yi
- People around Mi Young
- Kim Eui Sung as Kim Joo Myung
- People around Sang Jin
- Gil Hae Yun as Kim Kyung Ae (Sang Jin's mother)
- People around Hoo Ja
- Kim Jong Goo as Park Sang Pil (Hoo Ja's father)
- Heo Jae Ho as Choi Pil Joo
- Others
- Jun Suk Ho as Kang Hyun Tae
- Ji Yi Soo as detective Na
- Im Ji Hyun as Yoo Hee Jin (Jung Kook's ex-girlfriend)
Production Credits[edit]
- Production companies: Monster Union, Contents One
- Director: Kim Jung Hyun
- Screenwriter: Han Jung Hoon
- Each night's broadcast is divided into two 35 minute episodes with a commercial break in between.
Episode Ratings[edit]
See My Fellow Citizens/Episode Ratings
- 2019 33rd KBS Drama Awards
- Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid-length Drama (Choi Shi Won)
External Links[edit]
|Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul Ho 2
|Monday & Tuesday 22:00


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An underpinning theme of our studies is that we believe, in order to design better therapies that effectively treat cancer, it is essential to decipher the molecular and biological details of pathways that control proliferation in normal cells and thereafter understand how they become aberrant in cancer.
A hallmark of tumour cells is evident in the control of the G1 to S phase transition; in normal cells this transition is tightly regulated whereas tumour cells progress liberally into S phase in an unrestrained fashion. There are two key pathways of pivotal importance that govern progress through G1 into S phase, controlled by the retinoblastoma tumour suppressor protein pRb and the p53 tumour suppressor protein. pRb principally acts as a transcriptional regulator of the E2F family of cell cycle regulating transcription factors. In contrast, p53 is a stress-responsive transcription factor that activates genes involved with cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Most tumour cells harbour mutations that alter pRb and p53 activity. Loss of pRb results in deregulated proliferation as a consequence of liberating E2F activity, whereas loss of p53 causes an insensitivity to checkpoint control.
The primary objective of our work is to explore the regulation of and control by pRb and p53 activity. Specifically, we have defined new levels of control in regulating pRb tumour suppressor activity, particularly novel post-translational signals. We have elucidated new members of the E2F family, and identified the key pathways through which they act. Functional characterisation of E2F in cell cycle control and apoptosis has identified a remarkable level of complexity that governs the switch to apoptosis. Our p53 research is principally focused on uncovering the diverse modifications that dictate the outcomes of the p53 response to stress.
We believe that biological knowledge on the mechanisms which drive cancer cell proliferation can be harnessed in designing new therapeutic modalities to treat cancer. Consequently, we work closely with the bio-technology and pharmaceutical sectors, together with clinical colleagues in translating our academic discoveries into an applied clinical setting. Drugs emanating from our earlier studies have been approved for haematological malignancy.
A major focus of our current work is to develop technologies that enable predictive biomarkers to be identified for cancer therapies. We have devised a genome-wide loss-of-function screen that identifies predictive biomarkers and deployed the platform to develop companion diagnostic tests for diverse cancer drugs.
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Trump's obsession with erasing the legacy of our first black president marches on unabated, hurting the country in new ways at every turn.
As it turns out, "Making America Great Again" really just means undoing all the painstaking progress and rebuilding done by President Obama in the years after the disastrous Bush administration. Trump inherited a rebounding economy and is already on course to dive us headfirst into another recession.
On top of his tax cut legislation — which accomplished nothing more than skyrocketing the deficit and transferring a massive amount of wealth to the super rich — Trump is also pursuing a series of tariffs on foreign countries, adversaries and allies alike. History has shown time and time again that such measures only lead to trade wars, which in turn depress not only the American economy but the global economy. And yet Trump persists in pushing them.
Now, the president's foolish tariff policies are destroying more American jobs. Harley-Davidson, the famed motorcycle company, will be moving its production for Europe-bound motorcycles out of the United States. The decision is a direct result of Trump's tariffs, which caused European Union countries to retaliate meaning that it's now too expensive to build the bikes in America and ship to Europe.
The Associated Press reports a regulatory filing by Harley-Davidson states that EU tariffs on its motorcycles have risen from 6% to 31% which means that each exported bike costs roughly $2,200 more than it did previously.
Harley-Davidson doesn't intend to raise prices in Europe, and will instead swallow the additional costs for the immediate future. They estimate the remainder of the year could cost them between $30 million and $40 million.
"Harley-Davidson maintains a strong commitment to U.S.-based manufacturing which is valued by riders globally. Increasing international production to alleviate the EU tariff burden is not the company's preference, but represents the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe. Europe is a critical market for Harley-Davidson," Harley-Davidson said in its official remarks.
Unfortunately, this news is probably just the first of many more detrimental effects of Trump's unhinged, uninformed economic policies. The only real way forward is to repeal these tariffs, but given the fact that our president is pathologically incapable of admitting when he is wrong it seems likely we'll be saddled with economic decline for the foreseeable future.
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[ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: Latin principalis , from princeps ; ⇨ ↑ prince ]
most important SYN main :
His principal reason for making the journey was to visit his family.
Teaching is her principal source of income.
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2 . UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE [countable] British English someone who is in charge of a university or college
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The principal of the business has an office in New York.
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She later became a principal with the Royal Ballet.
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University lecturers aren't very well paid.
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Most educators agree that class sizes are still too big.
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I have read over 200 non-fiction books since 2015, it started at just business, but then kind of went everywhere.
1) "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" are both the most thought-provoking books I ever read.
2) Some of the best business books I ever read "Think Like a Freak" "The Upside of Irrationality" "Breakthrough Marketing" "Principles" "Thinking Fast and Slow" "Dotcom Secrets"
3) "Grit" and "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" are amazing for personal development
4) I just finished reading "Shoe Dog" by the found of Nike yesterday, the best autobiography I ever read.
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Of course it does. Or do you really think it won't matter if I literally just stole all of your money, only to leave you starving and without being able to find a place to live?
Literally nothing matters in the grand scheme because the grand scheme can be as grand as you want to inflate it to. But if that's the case, then might as well stop existing. The fact that you're here means that it does matter since you've found some sort of purpose for existing.
I get that it's cool to be edgy, but you're just doing a disservice for everyone, since it's like spinning your wheels in the mud. You're literally proving yourself wrong with your own statement since if this didn't matter to you, you wouldn't have written it, yet here we are.
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Philosophically speaking, it has clear worth. It acts as a baseline of "0" for considerations of the existence of instrinsic morality, existential value, and so forth. The problem isn't the philosophy [as a conceptual abstract], but those who look for any excuse to act in non-constructive or destructive ways, and latch on to nihilism as an excuse for such.
Fact is, it's incredibly unlikely that the existence of nihilism plays any actual contributive part in such behaviors, as manipulative, self-interested, wicked minded people, as well as apathetic and non-sympathetic people, all exist and prosper regardless of whether or not they have something to justify their actions with.
Also, side clarification, for those interested:
I don't believe we have any meaning in life or in universe.... And that is not being pessimist, but a realist.
That's actually strictly inaccurate. It's true that pessimism doesn't necessarily relate to nihilism [in fact, some people seem awfully gleeful about it], but realism refers the acceptance of what is, in all its aspects. While it's understandable one only vaguely familiar with the term would take that to refer strictly to broader cosmic foundations (at the expense of more emphemeral interactions), the meaning is actually a lot more thorough than that.
Realists are those who both see what situations truly are- and that includes not only broader considerations, but also trivial considerations and the impact of illusions (even if they don't necessarily value the illusions themself)- and more importantly, accepts things as they [truly] are and determines appropriate reactions by way of that understanding.
Realism in art, for example, refers to artwork which most honestly and accurately depicts the actual form and circumstances of an object. It differs from symbolic, abstract, impressionistic, or similar art styles by its nature and, further, challenges the artist to precisely note every detail at hand and capture and potray those details so others can see them as clearly as if they were seeing the actual object. Hence, valuing the object for what it is, rather than overly coloring it with impressions, styles, or motivations of the artist.
Realism in philosophy is similar. Fundamentally, it means not acting off emotions, preconceptions, or expectations, but carefully evaluating every circumstance to determine underlying factors and responding to those circumstances as best befits them. Metaphysical realism further states that objects exist and have value regardless of perceptions, as perceptions don't influence the underlying reality or its worth.
Moral realism states that there do exist fundamentally true morals, and that one can determine what they are [by viewing the situation clearly, and without bias, hence the link to the broader definition of Realism] (and thereby, allows for objectively determining which of two conflicting moral perspectives is more justifable) through analysis.
Realism, regardless of its specific association, is typically closely linked to idealism and, more to the point, is considered to be fundamentally oppositional to nihilism. Nihlism effectively states that underlying elements have no worth regardless of perceptions (and thereby one can adhere to any perspective they please), thus effectively having a directly contrary perspective to Realism, which struggles to reveal and appreciate underlying elements, while devaluing surface or personal perceptions and thereby not acting off of them.
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You don't need an excuse to not give a fuck. Life is nothing but a bad joke anyway. You are born only to die. Personally, though, I just don't give a fuck for the heck of it. And until I die, I'm just gonna go play some more games.
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LOL, awesome! I only saw the 2005 movie but I think I want to listen to the original radio show or read the novels. Any recommendations?
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They're all slightly different because he couldn't resist rewriting stuff. Kinda fond of the collosally janky (even for its time) BBC TV adaptation myself, some of the characters work a lot better for seeing them. Would put money on it being on Youtube/Netflix/whatever somewhere.
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That's just my personal 2 cents but in my opinion that TV show is only watchable if you watched it back in the day and have nostalgic memories of it. My older sisters who watched it in it's time gave me the videotapes (and a fair warning) but I just couldn't stomach it.
I mean I'm a huge hitchhiker fan (even read the conclusion to the series by Eon Colfer) but there is a limit to how much paper mache scenery and amazingly terrible costumes I can endure.
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Basically what Nebraskajones said. Start with your own preference.
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So what if we're small compared to other planets? Ours at least has life on it, intelligent life, lots of different cultures, incredible technologies and lots of other awesome things. That makes us larger and more valuable (not taking sun into mind) than anything in this galaxy!
The only bad thing about the whole thing is that we have a lot of people who don't care about the planet, but that doesn't undermine how amazing Earth is compared to other planets and this part of the universe.
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Considering you know nothing about any planets or life outside of our own, you have no idea what they are like and therefore can't make a comparison. In the grand scheme of things our planet could be like a barrel of oil to other beings and it could be destroyed and processed as a resource in the blink of an eye at any moment. Maybe black holes are tools of higher beings that are sucking up planets as resources.
Edit: Or maybe other beings live in harmony and they don't want to contact us because we are the scum of the universe with so much hate and wars. Maybe the earth is just a little petri dish science project of some higher being and they are watching us live, create, and evolve over time to see what happens. A century to humans is relative, it could be like a second for some other being, we don't know, science changes all the time.
Once technology advances to the point of being able to travel to other galaxies and around the universe, the earth will most likely just be seen as a stepping stone and forgotten. With the infinite possibilities of other planets that can exist, I doubt there is anything particularly special about ours. Just like life, there are new planets being created all the time and there are just as many being destroyed.
And on top of all that, all of this only matters if the universe actually exists. Our entire existence could be a simulation.
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All of which does not change the fact, that it's the only life and planet, that we all currently have.
If it's really insignificant and even worthless, than we have nothing to lose, falsely believing, that it's incredibly valuable. On the other hand, if it happens to be of some real value, we can lose a lot, assuming that it's not worth caring for. So, at least for me, the choice is obvious ;)
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I agree. I didn't mean that we should destroy the planet. I was just saying that it may be insignificant in the grand scheme of things and we really have no idea at this point. We should definitely try and take care of it while it is the only home we have and we rely on it for survival. Even though I think we should take care of the earth, at the same time, I don't believe everything that is said about global warming and climate change.
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It is immensely valuable to us anyway because we are the cretins who live on it and are destroying it and the chances of aliens swooping in to save us from our own stupidity is low.
However saying "woot! twitter!" doesn't make us value our planet, really. The whole "we're number one" philosophy is responsible for more harm than good.
It is very small in the scheme of things, and so are we. I think we should remember just how insignificant we are in the cosmos. Maybe we wouldn't feel so entitled, especially when it comes to our little blue planet.
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It is very small in the scheme of things, and so are we.
Some people assume, that we are the only intelligent beings in the whole universe (and try to prove it using very dubious arguments) and that intelligence is what matters, so we are most important in the universe. Others believe, that a GOD has sent us a direct message, saying so (and are arrogantly convinced, that we were fully able to understand it). They all assume, that they know "the scheme of things", and thanks to this, that they know, what is of real importance.
You assume, that it's size/numbers, that matters. Sorry, but I find your assumption equally unproven. Not something, that we shouldn't wonder about, but certainly not something, that we should just take for granted. Though I surely agree, that "we're number one" philosophy more often leads to inquisition and concentration camps, than does anything good.
Unfortunately, whatever believes we choose to follow, it seems, that we are thinking about our presumed rights much more intensely, than about our obligations.
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It is very small in the scheme of things, and so are we. I think we should remember just how insignificant we are in the cosmos.
Maybe your intention was different, but it certainly reads to me as a statement, that we are insignificant in the cosmos, because our planet is "very small in the scheme of things". So I clearly see an assumption based on size/numbers here, as I would see it (based on religious believes) in a statement: "We are incredibly significant, because God has created us." Both of those statements can't be proven in any way, so indeed both are just assumptions.
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It definitely wasn't my intention and my statement had no religious or anti-religious subtext or otherwise.
If you assumed there was because I said "in the big scheme of things", it's really just an idiomatic turn of phrase. I could have said "in the big picture" and I wouldn't have been talking about photography :P
It is, however, very easily proven that our planet is just one in what is most likely billions of trillions of planets in the universe. I'm not really sure how it qualifies as an assumption but regardless, my intent was to say that it doesn't really matter one way or another and that feeling small or not doesn't mean we should treat our planet like it's nothing.
It may be nothing in the universe but it's the only one we have.
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wow, thanks! loved by everyone here =)
I always love these videos!
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Fermi Paradox Intensifies.
And, yeah yeah, space is big and all, but more importantly- there's a lot of super cool shit there!
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Planet size difference is fun and all, but usually books and videos show it well. What is rarely shown is the distance between planets. It always amazes me how much space there is in space.
Now that makes you feel really tiny.
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I say this often; my kids ask me, "Mother, what's the meaning of life?" I ask them to explore every square millimeter of their house, not missing a single misplaced breadcrumb. That is the scale of how big your house is; now do the same for your yard, if you have one. Then your whole block; it'd take you hours, if not days. Then your city. County. State. Country. Your country is a small part of 7 continents, which all together are something like 30% of the planet's surface; not even what's beneath the surface. Just this planet is impossibly huge to truly know every facet. Our planet, which is one of the smaller bodies in the solar system, which itself is light years away from just the closest star. Light, which takes only 8 minutes to cross the enormous gap between us and the sun. That's to say nothing of the size of the galaxy, which is a tiny speck in the known universe. When you understand that, you understand that you and everything you could possibly do are nothing in the grand scheme of things.
But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try. Yes, there can be no THE meaning to life, but that just means that you get to choose YOUR meaning of life. There are many worthy causes to support, and it doesn't have to be something huge, like "save the rainforest"; there are also smaller worthy causes, like "be kind". There are many huge charities to help lots of people, but maybe you don't have the money to donate, and you're working 16 hours a day, so you can't donate the time to help them, either, but you're very good at helping the people who slip through those cracks; that is also noble. Whether or not it's significant in the grand scheme of things, your actions do matter on a small scale, and if you can help someone - even just one person - it makes a difference to them, because this scale can be spun in a different direction.
As huge as this planet is, and as many things as there are on it (or in it) to know, many of them are living, and that is huge as well; roughly 7 BILLION people with their own little microcosms, each called a life. Roughly 70-80 years of comparatively infinite numbers of seconds, each of which can be affected by any number of events. To think that you could potentially alter someone's forever in just a few minutes means that on this small scale - the scale at which we life, I might add - means that you are still potentially powerful. So, as with many things, it's a matter of relativity; you could save a broken woman's life and give her a reason to keep on living, and nobody in Andromeda would care or even know about it, but it'd matter to her.
Long, rambling, and maybe a little preachy, but I think it's worth mentioning that scale is important, and these sorts of things shouldn't be used to justify being an awful person, because "it doesn't matter." As the late wife of Patton Oswalt said, "It's chaos; be kind."
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Why do you think nobody invites me? 😛
(more) Serious answer: I wear a different mask in Meatspace to keep from freaking people out, so unless I'm in a crowd that seems receptive to philosophy, I turn this sort of thing off.
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Truthfully, it's not even a troll post; I'm just a weirdo who spends too much time thinking about these sorts of things.
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I know it's not a troll post. I was saying you stand out... as in - opposite the usual trolls around here.
And I say this because I am also "the weirdo who thinks about these things" ..
It's refreshing to find like-minded around 👍
I also have to tread carefully in Meatspace 👽
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Gotcha; I just read that wrong. In that case, thanks for that!
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I see a bright mind amongst the SG trolls. Great post 👍
Since I also initially found your statement's wording confusing in its intent, I thought I'd note the following for consideration:
"Among(st)" implies collectivity or inclusion (that is, a shared status of some sort), while "amid(st)" indicates a disconnectivity in status from whatever is being compared against.
For example, "She was one otter among many" or "I was one of the top scorers amongst the test participants" or "wolverines are among the animals humans should be careful around" (versus) "The picnic blanket lay amidst a field of flowers" or "He resigned amidst allegations of misconduct" or "several wolverines lay amidst the blankets of the terrified humans" / "The humans woke, terrified, to find several wolverines lying in their midst".
Generally speaking, there's enough shared meaning and the intended usage is typically easy enough to understand, that the words are often interchangable [at heart, they both more or less mean "in the company of"]- but there are extremely few words with entirely identical meanings that exist within a typical language, and this'd be the distinction between those two particular ones. ^.^
Well, not that I'm intending to compare trolls to wolverines or anything.
..though, neither one seems particularily advisable to feed, so perhaps the comparison is apt. :P
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Prepared as one gets, I suppose, but I've always felt that a little unconventional wisdom can go a long way.
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On whatever size is the scale of this comment on the internet, I would like to say I like your text.
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Thank you. :) Sometimes, I feel like I'm yelling on a street corner with a big cardboard sign, but even if I am, it's nice to have someone listening.
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Reminds me of Carl Sagan:
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but i am not much of a reader
There's that defeatism again. It's never too late to start.
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I'm not big on books, so I was wondering, why does a book prepare you for life in any way? Like, of course there's stuff to learn, but if I read the whole Harry Potter series, like how's it made me more prepared for life than playing through the Mass Effect Trilogy?
I think there's stuff to learn from everything, but I also think that entertainment is entertainment for a reason since usually you won't learn that much from it normally. Of course you can cite Zachtronic games and extremely dense scientific books, but I'm talking of like the average book and video game and movie.
So overall, even with anti-school sentiments on the Internet (which I partially agree with too), why isn't a year of school more useful for you than a year of reading books?
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A book may prepare you, or may mislead you, or just waste your time, depending on what you read. There are so many totally worthless books being promoted as masterpieces, much like celebrities most often being just pretty empty shells, created for the sake of masses by mass media, and not people of real value. There are however those books that tell the truth, or are very close to telling the truth... maybe not the universal truth, but the truth of the person writing them.
With all the technology at hand we have not yet been able to find a better way to meet someone, with whom we can't have a live conversation, than a book written by that person. So choose carefully, and reading a book you may have a chance to meet someone, that will change/improve your life. Meet someone, that you could not meet otherwise, possibly long time dead, like for me, for example, a long time ago, was meeting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, pilote de guerre.
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I'm not big on books, so I was wondering, why does a book prepare you for life in any way?
I'm not saying that there aren't things to learn in everything but the value of a book is not in a teaching moment. Movies and games come pre-digested, with visuals all created for you through someone else's vision. Kids who read develop their imagination in ways kids who don't never will. If you read a Mass Effect book, you'd have to make the intellectual effort to picture everything. It teaches you different skills.
And then there's empathy. When you read books, from an early age, you will by necessity, have to learn how to relate to characters who are different from you. (yeah Harry Potter doesn't do that by the way, it's quite possibly the worst example of books you can read, just like Mass Effect or Witcher are in a league of their own when it comes to story compared to most games)
I'm not sure what the whole anti-school argument is, as I tend to stay away from that kind of internet, but most education is based on the accumulation of knowledge. Reading books won't necessarily do that. You'll get much more useful life skills from books than you do from most (basic) education.
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Pretty much agree with everything you just said there. But I differ on one point - not all movies are pre-digested. Some make you work just as hard as a book can to find its meaning, give you points of view completely different than your own or show you unique images that you have never seen or visualized yourself.
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You're right, that was a generalization but I really was speaking only from a visuals perspective.
Playing a game like Mass Effect is exhilarating. But if you read it as a book, you'd have to figure out for yourself what every race, ship, planet looks like.
There are, of course, a lot of movies, and some games, that make you work as hard as(or much harder than) some books.
Few can get as complex as a lot of books are when it comes to storytelling though. It's not a limitation of the medium so much as a limitation pertaining to constraints imposed by distribution, market, target audiences etc.
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Storytelling. You've hit on one of my pet peeves there. For awhile it's struck me as something that's becoming a lost art in film making. Main stream directors/writers used to be able to pack a complete and compelling story into an hour and a half (even an hour in some of the older stuff). It was a mandatory talent, and any film maker who couldn't accomplish that goal on a regular basis didn't last long. But lately storytelling appears to be less of a fading art than an completely alien concept, where a movie can simply be just a series of check boxes: set pieces, worthless cgi shots, gags, trite banter, and flimsy unrelatable emotional moments, done. Yeah, I just watch Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw last night (favor to a friend) - and the problem there wasn't so much that it was a bad movie, but that it wasn't really a movie at all.
But, back to the visual perspective thing. Yes, I agree 9 times out of 10 reading and visualizing is a more rewarding experience. But for me that pertains more to pure entertainment movies. Motion pictures are still just that, pictures in motion, and can on occasion still be art (or both art and entertainment - even better), which is transformative and can provide images that are uniquely of another individual and something you yourself could never imagine.I realize, these days, this is the exception rather than the rule, but still.
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Storytelling is disappearing faster than the rainforest.
Not just in mainstream movies either, which is already bad enough, but in a lot of indies as well. It seems now that if you have a premise, you don't need any sort of narrative, whatsoever. I just don't get that.
I'm not necessarily attached to a traditional narrative (beginning, middle, end) or even any kind of structured narrative. I do feel more invested in movies that at least attempt to tell a story, or develop characters. And yeah it's not something you can as easily bypass in a book or you're not left with much.
And then you have mainstream movies who try so hard with the storytelling that they get totally lost in it and end up with a bunch of nonsense. I'm looking at you; Avenger Endgame.
Motion pictures are still just that, pictures in motion, and can on occasion still be art (or both art and entertainment - even better), which is transformative and can provide images that are uniquely of another individual and something you yourself could never imagine
It's true. There are still movies like that. I saw The Fountain the other week (with two friends who ended up hating the movie) and I loved how visual it was. I don't think it would have made the same impact in a written form. Even in the hands of a skilled wordsmith, it would have been either too descriptive or too alien and the story would have lost all flavor, drowned in descriptions.
But yes, truly visual movies are indeed more of an exception now.
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games to play, and to me they are interactive books. :p)
Games can convey a story just as a book, but unlikely that they can get through that story of a book, or that science of a book. Like you can skip a fantasy book and instead play idk, Pillars of Eternity, likely works. But it's highly unlikely that you'll find a(n enjoyable) game about the topics that are in The Magic of Reality: according to wiki:
"In the subsequent chapters Dawkins addresses topics that range from evolutionary biology and speciation to physical phenomena such as atomic theory, optics, planetary motion, gravitation, stellar evolution, spectroscopy, and plate tectonics, as well as speculation on exobiology."
As doctorofjournalism said, it's never too late to start - and you don't need to be a reader "for realsies", you don't need to make it a habit. But there are topics that are worth reading about as that's the best way to come across them - afterall, we rather go and watch a gallery rather read about how it is.
It sounds to be a light science book about introducing concepts, not really being a deep scientific writing. I kinda would suggest trying audiobooks if you have problem with reading itself, but this one looks to be heavy on graphics.
"It is a graphic science book aimed primarily at children and young adults. Dawkins has stated that the book is intended for those aged around 12 years and upwards, and that when trialling the book prior to publishing, younger readers were able to understand its content with additional adult assistance."
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Chiming in with the other pro-readers, giving you more words to read (sorry!)...
I've known a few 'not much of a reader' people, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with being one,
But, I've also known a few 'not much of a reader' people who later became avid readers after finding what, for them, happened to be the right book to change their minds about reading.
My usual recommendation, if you're at all interested, is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But, as with any book, if you leaf through the first few pages and still aren't interested, it's perfectly okay to put it down and do something else. No one should ever feel forced to read (looking at you, school...), and everyone's got their own literary preferences (non-fiction, detective, thriller, comedy, poetry, classics, etc.) so it's cool if you're still 'not much of a reader' until you happen upon a book that changes your mind. (Also, I really do prefer actual paper books, but I'm slowly getting accustomed to reading things on my phone. Definitely not the same experience, though.)
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TL DR. :p
Well since so many are trying to convince me, first of i don't think i got the patience and even though i only "work" 3 days a week right now, i still often feel how time flies by (which only gets worse as you get older) especially when you got house chores in between.
That i rather spend that free time on games (which i got so many of), even if it sometimes feels trivial.
I gave a 800-900+ page book to a friend and she didn't blink an eye about the amount of pages, i was like that would take me a whole year to read (not because i read slow, heck i was in the top 3 of best readers of my class for several years). :p
Not counting what i had to read for school, the books i got that interested myself and read or tried to read, were only a handful, including some CSI books.
Sometimes i see a book discussed on tv (like biographies of certain people) and i go hmm maybe interesting but i never bother to do anything with it, but as Adam mentioned above i think audio books would suit me better.
When i play games i watch stuff in between but eventually i will run out of things and then i can always try looking into audiobooks, i was already thinking about it.
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And yes, time is very weirdly faster with age... hatin' that.
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lol, what do you do all day?
Your life sounds pretty dope, you have a lot of free time that other people wish they had. Yet, you seem insistent on pushing this narrative of "woe is me." I would kill to only work 3 days a week.
heck i was in the top 3 of best readers of my class for several years
But you're like 40 now, right? It's okay, you can read a book outside of the classroom.
i was already thinking about it.
You seem to "think about it" a lot.
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How do you automatically make that conclusion that my life is so great? I thought you especially had the brains to understand there is a whole lot more to it, do you think the quotes around work isn't there for a reason too?
And others would be bored out of their minds, like at my "work" there are people past their retirement age and still go x days there to do stuff.
I all assume you got more money, you got your own place, you got your life probably a lot more straightened out. And again not to complain but trust me that you just don't want to trade with me.
Where am i complaining? Several people tried to suggest books to read, so i gave my reasons, you go way too far to even call it defeatism just because i maybe see my time otherwise spend on books, it's my life isn't it?
And audiobooks are definitely an option, I got the Tex Murphy audio books not that long ago, which seem interesting.
Well better to think about something once or twice too much then mindlessly saying or doing things, isn't it?
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Wow, why so defensive? Thou doth protest too much, bro.
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We are at a place full with attacks (granted, a little less lately) it's hard to distinguish anymore when someone is taking a dig at you or being sincere.
But my life yeah also made me defensive, when you always been the odd one out, be it at school, at work, it makes you that way i guess.
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Came here to make sure somebody had posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14 already. Thanks ;)
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Kinda surprised no one posted this video:
Sta Size Comparison 2
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I find this a better example: https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
Also Elite Dangerous is also great for this. Granted it's only the milky way you can explore, but since you're actively playing in it and can approach stations, planets and stars you can truly feel how puny you are.
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And that's why our home is incredibly important. And must be preserved.
"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need…fantasies to make life bearable."
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
"So we can believe the big ones?"
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
She tried to assemble her thoughts.
THERE IS A PLACE WHERE TWO GALAXIES HAVE BEEN COLLIDING FOR A MILLION YEARS, said Death, apropos of nothing. DON'T TRY TO TELL ME THAT'S RIGHT.
"Yes, but people don't think about that," said Susan. "Somewhere there was a bed…"
"You make us sound mad," said Susan. A nice warm bed…
NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME? said Death"
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Terrible editing, you can't really grasp the scale of the universe.
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Scale of the universe (from very small to very big)
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we are just parasites of the earth, building colonies til run out of resouces, like any other smaller parasites. that's how small we are...
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I honestly love how humans voluntarily ignore the basics of biology to fool themselves enough to think that they very different or much more whatever than other species... (edit.: okay, this doesn't only apply on interspecies, but also applies on intraspecies too).
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