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Democrats v. Republicans: Students participate in political debate
Ty Seymour of the college Republicans speaks to the crowd during the debate.
Dylan Haviland – General Assignment Reporter
The two groups of university students sat on their respective sides of the table. On one side the college Democrats and on the other the college Republicans. The student political groups intensely debated while maintaining a professional and polite position to each other's opposing view. Across from the college Democrats and Republics, a crowd of students and visitors gave them their full attention, among cameras and recorders.
The debate concerned the 'legacies for president', pertaining to the two possible presidential candidates Hilary Clinton and Jeb Bush, both with strong connections and pasts to the White House. As the 2016 election comes near, the debate was an eager discussion among the students.
First, the groups were asked to discuss the issue of both candidates' history with the presidency and in regards as to whether this gave them an advantage.
"In regards to Jeb Bush I am more inclined to say that I do believe he would have been very successful without his father [George H.W. Bush] just due to the fact that in his first political office he was appointed by the governor of Florida to lead one of the agencies there and before his father was president," said Ty Seymour during the debate, sophomore and political science, college Republicans.
John Coniglio, college Republicans, went on to say that George W. Bush's low popularity would not help Jeb Bush's run for presidency, but the fact that Jeb is determined and works hard is a valuable tool if he decides to run.
"Name isn't everything that's what I want to say, obviously in some places a Bush in Texas is pretty much guaranteed to win and the same thing with a Kennedy in Massachusetts. But I will like to think that Hilary used more than just name alone to get where she is today," said Andrew Frentress, senior and political science, and president of the college Democrats. "She's come a very long way in terms of what she has accomplished and the history that she has made."
The debate was also important in encouraging students on campus to become politically involved on campus. Near the entrance of the meeting a table was set up where students could register for voting.
"Right now the percentage numbers of those who [vote] that are 18 to 29 years old actually is somewhere in 40 percent and that is just in the presidential election, if you see the numbers for those who are over 65 its almost double, that its well over 70 percent," said Professor Jonathan Wharton, political science and advisor to both student political groups. "So there has to be something to make up this gap and that is so important that students register to vote."
Both the college Republicans and Democrats are a chance for students to express their political concerns and become active on campus. The groups are heading in for a debate sometime next semester as elections come near.
"I think it's important that students at least respect both sides," said Wharton. "Maybe you know individuals make up their own minds on which party and candidate they see best and I think it is most important that they register for one of the parties so they can have a say when it comes to the primary election."
As the debate continued both sides acknowledged the strengths and weaknesses of the presidential candidates, noting each other's statements and giving back an opinion of their own. Overall, the debate was an example of political activeness on campus.
"It is important to get active because you know it does not matter if you are voting for president of the United States or a member of the board in your town, these people make decisions that affect you," said Frentress.
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Bob - Outstanding! You two are like the Lewis and Clark of EV driving! Congratulations.
Congratulations and thanks for posting your positive story.
Details and anecdotes and pictures. Be prolix, wordy and ramble a lot. Hurry! :D
First of all, congratulations! Second, I agree with Brian H.
Yes, this report was short, terse, concise. Please re-write so it is none of the above. And then ask your wife to append her version, with even more detail.
And maybe it should be under 'Model S'?
Fantastic! Bummer that I'm still 1,100 miles from the closest supercharger. Hope that will change by this summer, so I can take an extended road trip of my own. Thanks for sharing.
You can use Google Forms. Or paste them in text table form, using fixed spacing, and the tag <pre> which means "pre-formatted" and preserves spacing exactly ( in a somewhat smaller font ).
This kind of data might also be good for Tesla to have. They can plan out supercharges better knowing where drivers actual stopped to charge in the real world. They can guess at the range all day but facts are people stop at places to charge for a reason, not just because the battery is low.
Personally when my wife and I stopped to stretch with our gas car on long trips it was at places we could hike at. We would take a picnic lunch with us.

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Picking up Neal Stephenson's "Reamde" I had a feeling I was going to like this. I've read plenty of his previous works and been thoroughly impressed with his takes on science fiction, his wicked sense of humour and his ability to put out amazing lines. Mostly though I picked this book up because it was massive and I knew it would occupy me for awhile. It's been quite some time since my last review, so clearly I was right.
Honestly I don't even know where to start with this book. It was amazing. So amazing that I've decided to give another go to one of his earlier, but drier, novels that I'd enjoyed. Stephenson has this uncanny ability to take twisted, complex storylines that just flat out shouldn't work and make them perfect.
The first half of this book was all build up to the action, setting up the storylines and allowing them to develop to the point that they could all run full steam. It starts out with the founder of a multi-million dollar (billion dollar?) online role playing game at his annual family reunion in Iowa. The game, the founder and his family are all big players in this book.
Before things get too far in Stephenson's somehow managed to incorporate the Russian mafia, hackers in China who have set up a major computer virus designed to make money off the video game, a cell of Islamic terrorists/jihadists, and the British intelligence organization MI6. Those would just be the main players in this book. The first half of the book builds up this beautiful crescendo, setting up the chess board as it were with this crazy set of characters. The second half moved as if propelled by rocket fuel, bringing everything together into a huge climactic battle.
I've only come across a handful of writers who can juggle such wild plotlines and still have the book come together in a cohesive whole. The premise itself is almost too much, but the very absurdity of all these forces affecting each other and coming together is what gives the book its gritty realism. This book could actually happen. Or at least that's how well it's written.
On top of these amazing plotlines, Stephenson also has this amazing prose, and both his descriptions and dialogues come to life. I laughed out loud at more than one occasion. I read passages out to my coworkers. Some bits were so good I even underlined them for next time. I may have even stayed up too late a night or two trying to delve deeper in the book.
I know that a lot of people try to stay away from science fiction. I also know that it might not mean as much coming from a fantasy and sci fi fan, but this book is so seriously worth reading. The science fiction (Stephenson's genre) only really comes out in terms of the video game that serves to push the plot forward. I'm looking forward to re-reading this one in a few years.
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Like all books by Neal Stephenson, this book grabs you from page one. This is more of a spy thriller, a little different from some of his other work, but as always, you learn a lot about many diverse subjects while enjoying every word. There is non-stop action, smart dialog, engaging characters. In short, as the title almost says: README. You will not be disappointed.ReplyDelete
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Handling Temper Outbursts
Temper outbursts are a standard phenomenon we see in children these days. It's a simple way for a child to get what he/she desires. Temper outbursts may just be an easy way out for the kids but they cause sheer embarrassment to the parents at times. But, you do not need to worry, there're means to handle them. You can look into the following for your solutions.
The first thing that you need to look at to handle these tantrums is the root cause of the problem. Sometimes it happens that there is no problem at all. Sometimes kids of growing age find it complicated to express themselves. They do not get the right words to put their feelings across. Subsequently they feel helpless and throw tantrums.
In some scenarios children might be hungry or bored. Children with disability and the ones having health concerns throw tantrums to expel there discontentment. You too can be accountable for it, as you might be giving in to every desire of your child. See that you do not get carried away by any weird demands he makes. No extra time at the play ground and purchasing candies from here and there, every now and then are things you could look into. Teach them the concept of limits so that they know where to stop.
Finding a solution to the main cause of the problem can be helpful. But, it doesn't happen so in all the circumstances. If your kid is throwing a tantrum, just overlook it fully. If your child persuades you to buy something at the grocery shop, you must walk by. In place of that go looking for your fave acne treatment product i.e. Exposed Skin care System. Entirely overlook your child's demand in such a situation. Pretend that you didn't notice anything at all. The kid will gradually mellow down on not getting any attention.
Diffusing the tantrum may also help. The idea is to change the subject and deviate your kid's attention. You can simply consider talking to your child in hush tones to calm him / her down. Consider telling your child stories about toy robots. Injecting some humor into the scenario may also help. Tell your child a funny story or a joke. This will ease down the situation. Ensure that you do not yell back at the child or try to reason it out. Your young one will not understand anything in the middle of an emotional outburst.
Be a little patient and you should be able to tackle the matter.
Here is some more information on Children With Disability and Toy Robots.


text: Google+ 24 August 2011 Stig Blog (0) Yes, Planet 7D is officially on hold, but I thought I would sneak in a little bit of propaganda for Google+. I've been on G+ for a month(+), and I don't think I've enjoyed a community of photographers so much ever before. So if you are a photographer - pro or amateur - who would like to network with or simply follow other photographers, I highly recommend you to join Google+ and start building a photographers circle... If you need an invitation for G+, simply follow this link (limited number of invites, but still a lot left when posting this): https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3DMIRTBJ9mnOg%3AZzmvETL_pjA And if of interest, you can find me on Google+ right here: Stig Nygaard on Google+. But be warned, it is very addictive (I mean G+ in general, not necessary following me;-))


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A lot has happened in the three months since the U.S. National Historic Landmark Kate Chopin House was destroyed by fire. Much goes into a salvage effort of this scale, and you may be surprised that how much care has been taken with the remains of the building and of its surviving contents. Voices of the Past recently spoke with Dustin Fuqua of the heritage research organization Cultural Lore about his experience leading the rescue operation. Here are some of his insights on the topic.
Any salvage operation is stressful, but cases where the structure defines the community are especially difficult. Rescue workers are faced with the challenges of limiting access to the site while being sensitive to the grief of the community. All the while, they must also be mindful that the structure and the heritage resources it contains are degrading by the minute.
The situation is inherently unsafe from the get-go and will likely remain that way until the structure is taken down completely. Fires can reignite days after the initial event. Charred walls of brick or bousillage may crumble at any time. Rescuers use personal safety equipment like masks and gloves–and good sense as well–when approaching any salvage operation.
The case of the Kate Chopin House was especially dire, with perhaps only 10 to 15 percent of the Bayou Folk Museum contents surviving in any recognizable condition. For those precious few objects that survive the fire, other environmental threats immediately arise.
For paper objects soaked with water from fire trucks and lying amid the smoldering warmth of embers, mold blooms immediately and degrades the fibers. As the home of a famous writer, this structure had some very valuable paper items. So what to do? Believe it or not, rescuers wrapped the books in acid-free paper and put them in a freezer until they can be properly conserved. Freezing the items inhibits the growth of mold and prevents further environmental damage to the paper.
Metal objects are affected by the warm, wet environment of a fire scene as well. Oxidation starts immediately, resulting in rust on metal objects that may have already been weakened by extreme heat. A quick, but careful removal operation is necessary to keep these objects from becoming further casualties of the disaster.
As with many disasters, the path of destruction can take unexpected turns. For example, Dusty reports finding a stack of Confederate currency in good condition while huge pieces of 19th century furnishings were incinerated without a trace. The wooden objects that survive are also cared for, potentially for reintegration into a rebuilt structure or as a memorial.
Thanks to the first response efforts of the Cultural Lore team, the NSU Masters of Heritage Resources program and the National Park Service, we will have some remnant by which to remember the Kate Chopin House and Bayou Folk Museum. But what's happening now? I'll tell you next week. In the meantime, you can read more about this project or contact Dusty through the Natchitoches Preservation Network website.
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Hover Animations
With the addition of CSS3 transitions and keyframe animations it can be easy to overdo animations on your website. However, adding certain effects to main content areas can greatly enhance the experience your visitors receive.
A popular trend on the web these days are "content boxes". These were first found on a lot of sports and news sites mainly, but have since made their way to every category of web pages. Plain, generic content boxes are effective in dividing areas of content, but can be boring if there is nothing present to visually please the user.
So lets spice those generic boxes up a little bit and add some color and unique hover animations! In this particular example we are going to be mimicking the effect found on POP's website.
Let's get started and lay some framework for the boxes themselves in plain HTML. We need to create each "box":

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As for the CSS styling for these, we just need something very generic. It's the hover effects that we are looking to add a "pop". So initially we only need to apply the following:
background: linear-gradient( white, white 50%, black 50%, black );
We need to make the background-size twice as tall as the element itself so on hover its just a matter of moving it up and there is no extra processes trying to load upon hover:
background-size: 100% 200%;
Here is an image from CSS-Tricks showing what is going to be happening on hover:
We actually need to make the background a tad bit taller than 200%, or else a slight bit of it will still be exposed on the element pre-hover.
Quick Recap
Here is the full CSS we have so far as well as the transition on hover:
.box { background: linear-gradient( white, white 50%, #333 50%, #333 ); transition: all 0.2s ease; } .box:hover { background-position: 100% 100%; }
Now we need to change some font colors on the hover action:
.box:hover h2 { color: #48ad26; } .box:hover h2 span { color: white; } .box:hover h3 { color: #999; }
Actually Animating
Now for the real fun, adding in the keyframe animations. To correctly emulate the effect on the POP website we need to have a different animation for the hover-on and hover-off states to add the "bump" effect so each happens in different directions. We could do this via transitions to some extent but the fact the text moves a bit and then returns to it's original states means we need to use keyframe animations to correctly emulate the effect shown on the POP website.
Side Note: I will be going over Keyframe Animations more in depth in a later tutorial
@keyframes up-bump { 0% { padding-top: 2em; } 50% { padding-top: 1.5em; } 100% { padding-top: 2em; } } @keyframes down-bump { 0% { padding-top: 2em; } 50% { padding-top: 2.5em; } 100% { padding-top: 2em; } }
.box { animation: down-bump 0.4s ease; } .box:hover { animation: up-bump 0.4s ease; }
.box { animation: down-bump 0.4s ease; } .box:hover { animation: up-bump 0.4s ease; }
Initial Bump Fix
Adding that animation on the initial state makes it run right away on page load. Could be a neat effect, could be annoying. To solve this i added a little JS as shown below in the CodePen Example.
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Scooterer Stories
By Louis the Scooterer
The travels of Louis the Scooterer, a retired former South African who has found an unusual way of getting to know Israel.
Part Three – The Arava, Timna Park to Ir Ovot
Editor's Note. Originally this article contained pictures that were external links. Unfortunately these no longer work and the images have been lost.
The first time I went to Timna Park, was with a friend, who drove me there in his car, just to see where it is, and after about 20 minutes of driving in the park, we drove out.
The next morning, on my scooter, I left Eilat very early and saw the pointer-sign to Timna Park, and after a bit of wondering, decided to go in again and stay about 1 hour or so. After paying at the entrance and getting a brochure in English, I went to see the excellent video presentation at the cinema, and after an excellent video on a big screen, I now had a better idea of what is there.
I was the only person inside the park at that early hour, and at the Bedouin tent the kitchen staff said they would make breakfast for me in 30 minutes. I strolled around the lake and looked in at the different facilities, and drove around to nearby places on the scooter, taking in the magnificent scenery and absolute silence. AWESOME !
I returned to the breakfast which was enough things to eat for 4 people, and the staff, (with virtually no English), fussed over me as though I was a king, and when I was finished they packed all the food into plastic containers for me to take-away.
A few workers were arriving and 3 men who watched me scootering around, invited me for coffee and chat in their tiny office, (a converted container with airconditioner and refrigerator full of food and bottles of water etc.) When I mentioned it was my birthday that day, they insisted that I drink coffee with them and out of the refrigerator came cookies and biscuits, another marvellous party.
They were mainly in charge of the Tabernacle and other places that needed maintenance. (None of the rangers or staff had ever seen an older man riding a scooter at Timna, so my scooter was a talking-point.) Bikers on big motor-cycles do go there. A personal guided tour at the Tabernacle was an eye-opener with full explanations, then they gave me some tips for the other places I should visit where a lot of walking is necessary, and they told me of short-cuts and staff parking places where I could leave the scooter, and that would reduce the walking.
The many steps that need to be climbed were not for me, but still the entire place is full of surprises, and always in this wonderful desert surrounded by these cliffs and mountains and fresh-air and peace.
Many vehicles and some buses were arriving and now lots of people all over the places, looking, climbing, hiking, sailing on the lake and just doing their thing, and I had stayed 6 hours. Again I know that future visits are needed, and also to climb a few of those steps and do some slow walking.
101 Inn
101 INN is exactly 101 kms from Taba Border crossing, where route 13 meets route 90 at Menukha Junction.
At the end of one of the earlier wars, some high ranking officers in IDF were given an opportunity to receive some land, and this place was chosen by an IDF officer (hero) connected to parachuting, and paragliding, plus, He was in "parachute company number 101. Once he paraglided into Jordan and the then King of Jordan "saluted" him.
There are animal shows and a small museum and also b/b available, and much more…a very popular stopping place. and a wonderful adventure-place for children which includes animal rides, and an amusement park, as well as many eating kiosks. Buses carrying tourists from all over the world stop there. (to and from Eilat).
Anybody visiting 101 can see his parachute at the entrance into one of the "shows", and should ask to read newspaper articles, especially a full page story from City Lights (an insert magazine in the Jerusalem Post at that time).
A few lines about a few places in the Arava.
I spent 3 days scootering around down south, visiting and seeing places, in the Arava Valley, sleeping 2 nights in b / b at Moshav Ein Yahav run by Rina, very pleasant accomodation, and an excellent breakfast brought to the room. Her husband Gidi, took me in his jeep, for a personal guided-tour of the moshav, and explained many interesting facts about growing fruit and flowers and vegetables, under cover in greenhouses, and the land allotted to each family for living area and growing areas, most interesting.
He explained about the usage of water allocated by computers and about the different crops that are grown. I learned a lot from him. He also took me to a monument on high ground, which has English explanations, written on metal plaques, about these places.
I rode on the Peace Route [ Derech Hashalom] going north, thru Ein Yahav and along desert areas, and visited the Australian monument, which is situated close to a friendly border with Jordan, and under a covered pergola, many interesting facts about the area, are explained in English on metal plates, and a wild fox scampered away, not wanting to be photographed.
Riding into Idan, I saw 2 men on motorbikes, chatting, they welcomed me to their moshav and also gave me some explanations about the crops and other information. I rode around a few streets and found this incredible red-flowered tree, then on the way out, I saw the signboard with the story about The Peace Route.
Then a few minutes ride back to Route 90. (By the way, on a previous trip in the rented car, I asked a woman standing at the bus stop, if there are some things to see at those places down the road, and she replied that there is nothing much, only a couple of farms.) Oh boy, was she wrong, maybe only 1000 things and stories at those places down there.
A short ride and I was at Ir Ovot also known as Biblical Tamar, this time [being my third visit], I met with Ernst who is a volunteer who does all sorts of maintenance and carpentry and builds things all around the places. He gave me a tour and showed me the 2300 year-old tree, and explained about the archeological diggings, and the buildings, and he showed me where the volunteers, (mainly from U.S.A.) stay when they come to attend to many projects.
He also showed me a video about how a hot-water well was discovered nearby, and he took me in his mini bus to the source a couple of kilometers up the road, and he showed me the pipes that brings natural hot water to an open-air bath in an enclosed area in the grounds of Ir Ovot. I see that everything is of a great deal of interest. Ernst then introduced me to Asher who is the manager of the complex and he handles the volunteers and visitors. I am hoping to volunteer for some days, and do what I can at that most interesting place.
A tiny ride to Ein Hatzeva to the filling station and self-serve restaurant, outside the moshav fence, where I met the drivers of 2 red Ferrari's which was doing some sort of rally around Israel.
While riding inside the moshav En Hatzeva I saw peacocks strutting freely in the street, showing off their magnificent feathers. There is a lovely small zoo behind a fence, with an assortment of animals, a very lovely peaceful place.
A ride further south and I came upon a sign, with arrows pointing into the Sapir industrial site to the premises of Dr. Green and Fountain of Youth, so I took a ride in. I saw a long building, and at the far end a lovely garden setting with a fairly large parking lot. Dr. Green is a company that sells Natural-health products and has a big showroom in the building, and includes a lovely Chinese Restaurant.
I had a nice chat with Dari, who works in the showroom, but were disturbed by tour buses arriving and passengers wanting to be served. I had a plate of Wotnot soup then walked to the Fountain of Youth, and watched the water flowing down rocks into a pool, another very lovely peaceful place.
Then a short ride into the Kibbutz Sapir, where I found the delightful Chen in the tourist office, she gave me a coffee and some maps and some good information about many nearby places, and introduced me to her twin sister who works in the next office. Sometimes I get the best information at the end of a visit, and that begins the planning of future trips to other places not yet seen in the Arava Valley areas.
Now, we take a break, while I will tell you about my first and second visits to Ir Ovot. I drove away from Netanya early on a Saturday, (in rented car), and doing some sightseeing driving around with many stops, and taking a really l-ooo-n-g roundabout route to get to Masada (hostel). Through Yerocham on road 225 and a lovely scenic road to "coloured sands",a fascinating place to take some red and yellow and other colored sand. ( I suggest you take empty bottles). And then on to road 227, which has some lovely viewsites, and breathtaking scenery from viewsites, and a few memorials that need climbing up steps.
Then driving down the steep descent to the bottom of the scenic road, I saw a small sign pointing to Ir Ovot , (very close to the junction, where Road 90 sign points north to Dead Sea and south to Eilat.) That is where Ir Ovot is, and when I drove in I saw a few isolated buildings and some caravans (permanent) and some archeological excavations. I walked around a little in this seemingly deserted place, and as I was driving out, I saw a lady open the door of a caravan, and we spoke a while.
Mary explained about the place that was once an agricultural kibbutz, and that over time and circumstances, the excavations and the pottery discoveries, became the main function of the place and that the pottery idols and artifacts found there are now in famous museums. She invited me to walk around to see all the excavations and diggings, but as it was late afternoon and the sun was setting, so I drove on to the Youth Hostel at Masada.
I returned the following week, and had a fantastic personal guided tour with Mary, who is not a young lady and has been a volunteer at Ir Ovot for many years. Ir Ovot is currently looked after by volunteers mainly from the USA. A very fascinating person, in a very fascinating place, full of interesting excavation sites and history, and her experiences and knowledge will force me to return for another guided tour.
Louis the Scooterer is 69 years old and it sounds like he's just getting started.


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iam8bit have released the arranged Killer Cuts music from Killer Instinct.
The release is a single 180g LP in a regular jacket with character artwork of sculpted game characters.
Preorders opened on July 15, 2016 and it released mid-December 2016 after some delays.
This is the limited edition "Fulgore" variant with the Fulgore character on the cover and green translucent colored vinyl. This variant was only available to order during EVO 2016.


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Can anyone recommend the best boots for jungle treks?
Travelling to Papua New Guinea
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Hi Fleur,
I asked a similar question last year ahead of my trip to the Amazon in Peru.
You should check out my answer and what others said here:
https://answers.worldnomads.com/questions/peru/22723/clothing-and-footwear-for-peru-amazon-basin over 3 years agoAnswered by Ask Phil via WorldNomads.com
Rubber boots are the best option. Most people in the Amazon use them: safe, cheap, easy to wear.
My feet cannot bear them; too hot for me. I find desert boots the most comfortable; they protect from animal bites, thorns; allow transpiration better than average shoes; get dry quickly. But you have to take care in choosing the right model, as per the U.S. Army specifications. With the complication that they have been and are produced by many different firms and there are differences even among lots of the same brand! Soft and foldable in the upper part; with big open diagonal grooves in the soil; laces running through metal rings with their axis parallel to your legs (rings in normal shoes are perpendicular to the skin). over 3 years agoAnswered by Carlo Castellani via WorldNomads.com
As far as I know Wellington boots are considered to be standard footwear for locals in many jungle regions.These boots are cheap and high enough to stop water going over the top. So I recommend them. over 3 years agoAnswered by Gajk Melikyan via WorldNomads.com
When I first purchased these boots, I never looked back. I live in an insanely hot desert and have trekked in Asia's jungles, not to mention did a bit of a walkabout around the EU.
Give it a look: http://www.511tactical.com/taclite-6-coyote-boot.html :) over 3 years agoAnswered by Rashed Abdulnabi via WorldNomads.com


text: By Finley In Vertebrate Paleontology 10/07/2018 0 The Evolution Of Whales, Adapted From Nationwide Geographic, November 2001 Under are fast links to the house pages (in alphabetical order) for over 300 journals that publish papers of interest to vertebrate paleontologists of all specialties. Noteworthy individual fossils or assemblages include a spectacularly various and effectively represented fauna from Early Permian fissure fills, a set of child sauropod bones from the Morrison Formation, giant samples of Miocene horse species, a big and diverse assortment of Cretaceous microvertebrates (equivalent to mammals and lizards) from the western United States, and a few comparatively full or distinctive specimens of Cretaceous dinosaurs (corresponding to Tenontosaurus and Pentaceratops). Small animals are typically extra frequent in the fossil document and better preserved, so they reveal monumental amounts of information on the ecosystems and climates of Earth's past. The Ken Caster/Donald Baird solid collection of vertebrate ichnofossils can be notable. The opposite vertebrate fossil collections are the previous assortment of the Florida Geological Survey, portions of the Timberlane Research Organization assortment, and the UF Department of Zoology Fossil Chicken Collection (assembled by the late Professor Pierce Brodkorb). We contribute to this bigger scientific effort by conducting unique field and laboratory analysis aimed at discovering and decoding the fossil report of vertebrates. Every of those collections is maintained in a separate catalog, below the acronyms UF/FGS, UF/TRO, and UF/PB, respectively. For instance, birds are typically thought-about to be the descendants of reptiles (Saurischian dinosaurs to be precise), but in this system both are listed as separate lessons. The vertebrate paleontology collections at Auburn College embody ca. 2,500 specimens. #whales, Share


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Reviving the Art of Urban Sketching
L.A. County Planner Dr. Clement Lau was recently introduced to "urban sketching" by the book The Art of Urban Sketching (2012), authored by journalist and illustrator Gabriel Campanario. Campanario founded Urban Sketchers, an online community built around the practice of on-site drawing of urban landscapes and scenes. Dr. Lau was entertained and inspired by the book, explaining,
"The Art of Urban Sketching contains over 600 beautiful, contemporary illustrations. This is one of the most visually stunning books I have come across; even some volumes on urban design are not as attractive as it is. With sketches and observations from over 50 cities in more than 30 countries, the book offers unique perspectives on urban life from different cultures and artistic styles, as well as insights into various drawing mediums and techniques. In addition, the book includes profiles of the urban sketchers and extended captions where these artists share their stories, sketching tips, and the tools used for each illustration."
Dr. Lau goes on to describe the book in more detail, and how it has influenced him - both as in his professional capacity and as a recreation. He concludes by noting
". . . that the 4thInternational Urban Sketching Symposium is coming up July 11 to 13. To be held in Barcelona, the symposium is a three-day workshop at which artists from around the world meet to draw and learn together in the city. Field sketching sessions, lectures, panels, exhibits, and artists demonstrations will be included in the workshop. "


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Good morning. Here are some of the stories we're following on this Monday:
1. Don't drink the water
The water still isn't safe in Toledo, Ohio. Almost half a million people were asked to avoid drinking it for a third day Monday after an algae bloom upstream caused above-normal readings of microcystin, which can cause liver problems, diarrhea and vomiting. More tests are due Monday. The National Guard is providing tens of thousands of gallons of clean water. Read more in NEWS.
2. Palestinians say Israel breaks own cease-fire
Palestinians say Israel has already broken a seven-hour humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip by bombing a house in Gaza City. The truce, scheduled for 3 to 10 a.m. ET, was supposed to apply everywhere but Rafah. On Sunday, the United States and United Nations called on Israel to do more to avoid civilian casualties after an airstrike near a U.N. school killed 10 people. Read more in NEWS.
3. American Ebola patient improving
A Christian aid group says Dr. Kent Brantly, one of the two Americans who were infected with Ebola in Liberia, got a dose of an experimental serum before he was flown to the United States for treatment. Brantly is said to be improving at an Atlanta hospital, and the second American, Nancy Writebol, is due to be flown to the United States as early today. Read more in NEWS.
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4. California ablaze
A pair of wildfires burning out of control in California have forced the evacuation of homes and a hospital. The fires are among 14 burning in the state, where Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency. Lightning, high temperatures and a severe drought have raised the fire danger in California to levels that authorities say they usually don't see until September. Read more in NEWS.
5. Ex-governor's trial resumes in Virginia
The corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, resumes Monday. Defense lawyers are challenging the credibility of the star prosecution witness, a businessman accused of providing the McDonnells $165,000 in gifts and loans in exchange for help promoting his compnay's products. Already, the case could pass for Season 3 of "House of Cards." Read more in POLITICS.
6. Comet probe nears destination after long journey
After 10 years and 4 billion miles, a European space probe is almost at its destination — a comet where it will enter orbit and drop a lander to study the surface. The target is a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which takes more than six years to circle the sun and goes beyond Jupiter at its furthest point. Scientists hope the probe will help them understand the evolution of the solar system. Read more in SCIENCE.
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Starting Out in the Sport. I started training Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 1996. Like most people back in the day, I got my first taste of BJJ watching Royce Gracie win UFC 1, 2 and 4 by defeating fighters that outweighed him by as much as 100 lbs. I was I was amazed at how effective it was.
From day one of my training, I was in hooked on and in totally in love with the sport. The effortless ability of the more advanced white belts and blue belts to roll me up like a pretzel and make me tap out made me realize BJJ's awesome power. As for the purple Belts and above - they were just untouchable in my eyes. From that point on I began training every day, aspiring to one day receive my blue belt. When I received my blue belt, about a year after I began training, there was no formal belt test. My coach and mentor, Renato Magno, just lined everybody up against the wall, gave a little speech and handed me my belt (as he'd done with many before me). In my 14 years of training, I received all my belts in the same informal manner (with the exception of the more formal ceremony held 6 years ago during which, Renato promoted me and two other [including Kenny Bond] to black belt). There was never a belt test.
When I started BJJ, not many people knew what it was. If I told a person I did BJJ, it wasn't uncommon to get a response like "My 10 year old son is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do." Now, with the popularity of the UFC and MMA in general, BJJ has become mainstream, which is both good and bad for BJJ as a sport. It is positive because it's brought a lot of well-deserved attention and respect to BJJ as a martial art, but also negative because certain individuals use the new found popularity of the sport to water down the ranking system in order to make extra money. For example, it's now possible to receive your BJJ belts online and some schools require students to pay for belt test in order to receive their next rank. Learning techniques online or through videos is a great supplement or training aid, but it's in no way a replacement for good, old fashioned hard training at a serious BJJ school. As for ranking up via online belt testing - it's simply impossible to gage the level of a student by just watching a video of his (or her)techniques and training. The only way to truly gage a person's level is to consistently see how they train with multiple opponents of different levels.


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Drama Majors are Weird but FunnySun Apr 29, 2007 9:53:36 am by Dustin
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I went to 'short' film last night at school. The first thing you are probably thinking is 'Nooooo. What were you thinking?' First of all, I was thinking I didn't have anything else to do. Secondly, Jason was an extra in it. You can see him, from behind, for about umm 100 nanoseconds. (Hint: That's not a very long time.) The thing is the film was an hour of hilarity (yes that is a word – strangely). I absolutely loved it. In fact, I did not stop laughing for the entire hour. On an odd note, Jason told me, as we were sitting down, he was in the sex scene but luckily that was not the case – there was no sex scene folks.
Well the trailer is on YouTube, so I thought I would share it with you. I need to chime in here though and say this trailer does not do the actual film justice. There is a ton left out… and not just because it is a trailer and trailers are always shorter than the real movie. Enjoy.


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Androidify is a new novelty app that was developed by Google themselves. The application revolves around the well-known Android mascot but this time it is your turn to modify him or her to your liking, or rather likeness. As the app does not necessarily have any practical purpose its strengths lay mainly in its 'cuteness' appeal. Let's see if it works.
Short Review of Androidify for Android
The Androidify application was developed by Google to allow users to create Android versions of themselves, their friends or just anybody they like. The app starts with the standard green Android mascot that can be modified in a variety of ways. These options range from the usual hairstyle or custom clothing to adjusting the overall posture of your creation.
The app is really nothing more than this. Create a custom Android mascot that can afterwards be stored in your Androidify gallery or shared through the usual channels. In terms of its cuteness appeal it definitely strikes the right note. The application is fun to play around with for a while and you can try out different styles and whatnot. For those that are frequent character creators through other mediums I would say that the options are a bit too slim, but it is hard to make a real complaint about this.
The application is free in the Android Market and already created a bit of a buzz, so it will also definitely help in promoting Android as a whole. This will undoubtedly lead to the occasional upgrade in accessories to choose from and thus expand the experience. Even for what it is now it is probably worth your time and effort because, surely, every self-respecting Android supporter should have him- or herself Androidified!
A Guide to Using Androidify on Android
Using the Androidify application is not too hard. The simple steps involved are the following:
- After opening the Androidify app for the first time you are presented with a green Android mascot. Before starting with any specifics, the mascot's shape can be modified. To do this simply lay your finger on any area, whether it is the head, torso, arms or legs, and move around a bit to adjust the various shapes and sizes.
- Select the clothes hanger on the bottom left part of the screen. This will bring up the options for further modification. The bottom bar indicates the various modification sections whereas the left bar shows the different options per section. The sections include skin color, hair type, hair color, shirts, pants, shoes, glasses, facial hair and other peripherals.
- Select the various options for Androidifying your image. To not miss anything I would advise taking the steps one by one on the bottom bar.
Once your mascot is created you can hide the option bars again by hitting the back button on your Android device. The bottom right button on the screen is a shortcut to sharing your creation. Through the menu button there are more options available, including saving your creation, checking out your previously saved ones, starting a new one or showing a completely randomized example.
My Personal Androidify Creation
The picture on the right here shows an avatar that's supposed to resemble myself. Although the options are a bit scarce still, there are plenty of opportunities to create an Android version of you. If you want to try this for yourself, visit the Android Market now or scan the QR code below. You can now finally be personified as an Android character with Androidify from Google!


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Four new trustees have joined the board of Conciliation Resources, including a former negotiator in the Northern Ireland peace talks and the former EU Special Representative for Sudan.
The organisation's current board of trustees will be joined by Kate Fearon, Diana Good, Dr Katy Hayward and Dame Rosalind Marsden. The new trustees bring expertise in peace and security, international law and organisational practice and will provide a wealth of experience to the international organisation.
Conciliation Resources is supported by an active Board of Trustees, comprised of professionals and academics with considerable experience in peacebuilding, human rights, diplomacy, international law and communications.
The Rt. Rev. Peter Price, who has been Chair of the Board of Trustees since 2013 is thrilled at the appointment of the four new trustees:
The four individuals bring additional resources to an already outstanding Board. We look forward to working with them and staff to support and strengthen Conciliation Resources as an organisation.
Kate Fearon has spent the last fifteen years working in the field of conflict, security and peacebuilding. Kate was a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition and its Chief of Staff in the negotiations of the Belfast Agreement.
Since 2001 Kate has worked in conflict environments around the world, providing solutions and policy expertise to decision makers and leaders. From 2013 to 2015 Kate was the Special Advisor to Head of Mission at EULEX in Kosovo and she currently works as a Special Advisor to Civilian Operations Commander at the European External Action Service.
Diana Good has spent the last five years working in the international development sector. In 2011 she became one of four commissioners in the Independent Commission for Aid Impact and currently works as a Specialist Advisor to the select Committee on International Development in the House of Commons. Prior to joining the public sector, Diana worked for thirty years as a litigation and investigations lawyer with the international law firm Linklaters.
Dr Katy Hayward is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Senior Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice in Queen's University Belfast. Her research focuses on cross-border conflict, peace and conflict processes, and protest and violence.
Katy has sat as a Director on the boards of the Institute for Conflict Research and the Centre for Cross Border Studies.
Dame Rosalind Marsden has worked in diplomacy and foreign policy for four decades. She joined the British diplomatic service in 1974 and has worked around the world in fragile states, such as Sudan and Afghanistan, as a British Ambassador and in Iraq as Consul-General.
From 2010-2013 Rosalind was the EU Special Representative for Sudan and South Sudan, and helped to develop an integrated EU approach towards conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the countries. Rosalind is currently a Associate Fellow at Chatham House.


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Assuming (as I will below) that $Q$ is symmetric and at least positive semidefinite, this problem is easily solved by a variety of QP solvers, and my first recommendation was to link to a suitable library. (The questioner intends to solve the problem within a C++ program.) The questioner, however, prefers to "roll his own" code: he will be solving a large number of small problems, and apparently believes the overhead getting in and out of libraries might be excessive. Personally, I'm a big fan of code libraries. I make every attempt not to reinvent the wheel, partly to save time and partly because my wheels somehow never come out completely round. To each his own, however. I suggested a few standard algorithms, including Rosen's gradient project method (for which, curiously, I cannot find a suitable link) and the generalized reduced gradient (GRG) algorithm.
While toddling over to a local coffee shop, though, a very simple (naive?) algorithm occurred to me. I do not have a formal proof of convergence, but it is easy to show that it cannot terminate at a suboptimal solution, so the only questions are (a) how slow it is compared to more sophisticated algorithms and (b) whether it is susceptible to jamming (zigzagging) (another term for which I cannot find a suitable link). The algorithm is predicated on the following observations:
- if $x$ is feasible and I shift weight from one component of $x$ to another, moving from $x$ to $\hat{x}=x+\lambda d$ where\[d_k=\begin{cases}+1 & k=i\\-1 & k=j\\0 & i\neq k\neq j\end{cases},\]then$\sum_k \hat{x}_k=1$ and feasibility boils down to $\hat{x}_j\ge 0$, or equivalently $\lambda \le x_j$.
- For $d$ defined as above, if we let $h(\lambda)=f(x+\lambda d)$, then \begin{gather*}h'(\lambda)=\nabla f(x+\lambda d)d \\ = (x+\lambda d)'Qd \\ = x'Qd + \left(d'Qd\right)\lambda \\ = \nabla f(x)d + \left(d'Qd\right)\lambda \\ = (g_i - g_j) + \left(Q_{ii} + Q_{jj} - 2Q_{ij}\right)\lambda,\end{gather*}where $g=Qx$ is the (transposed) gradient of $f$ at $x$.
$t\leftarrow 0$, $x^{(t)}\leftarrow\left(\frac{1}{n},\dots,\frac{1}{n}\right)$ // initialization
while (not converged) {
$g^{(t)}\leftarrow Qx^{(t)}$ // gradient at $x^{(t)}$
$i\leftarrow \mathrm{arg\,min}_k\left\{ g^{(t)}_k\right\}$ // index of smallest (most negative) gradient component
$j\leftarrow \mathrm{arg\,max}_k\left\{ g^{(t)}_k | x^{(t)}_k > 0\right\}$ // index of largest gradient component with positive $x$
$d^{(t)}_k\leftarrow \begin{cases} +1 & k=i\\ -1 & k=j\\ 0 & i\neq k\neq j \end{cases}$ // search direction
$a^{(t)}\leftarrow g^{(t)}_i - g^{(t)}_j$
$b^{(t)}\leftarrow Q_{ii} + Q_{jj} - 2Q_{ij}$ // derivative along search path is a + b*step
if ($a^{(t)} = 0$) {
STOP // solution is optimal
} else if ($a^{(t)} + b^{(t)}x^{(t)}_j \le 0$) {
$\lambda^{(t)}\leftarrow x^{(t)}_j$ // the objective decays along this direction all the way to the boundary
} else {
$\lambda^{(t)}\leftarrow -a^{(t)}/b^{(t)}$ // move until the directional derivative becomes zero
$t\leftarrow t+1$
$x^{(t)}\leftarrow x^{(t)} + \lambda d^{(t)}$ // take a step
I coded a couple of small tests in Java, using both CPLEX and the algorithm above. The CPLEX solver executed considerably faster than my scraggly, non-optimized Java code. No shock there. Interestingly, though, overall execution time (including printing and overhead for function calls) was very close, with my code about 1 ms. slower as measured by the system clock. Note that, at each iteration, I only have to do
Update: A couple of additional remarks are in order.
- If $Q$ is only positive semidefinite and, at some iteration $t$, $b^{(t)}=0$, then one of two things happens. Either $a^{(t)}=0$ and we stop, or else $h'<0$ all the way to the boundary, and we take $\lambda^{(t)}=x^{(t)}_j$.
- Other than at the outset, a full matrix multiplication is not required to update the gradient vector. It is easy to verify that $g^{(t+1)} = g^{(t)} + \lambda^{(t)}\left(Q_i - Q_j\right)$ where $i$ and $j$ are the indices selected at iteration $t$. (Sorry, I absolutely refuse to put a $(t)$ superscript on a subscript -- this is math, not particle physics.) So gradient updates amount to something like $n$ multiplications and $2n$ additions or subtractions. (If the iteration count gets high enough, you might want to do an occasional full $g=Qx$ multiplication just to clear out some of the rounding error, akin to occasionally refactoring an LP basis.)
- mean execution times (including setup and extracting solution) of 0.13 ms. for my method v. 14.78 ms. for CPLEX;
- mean objective ratio (my result/CPLEX result) of 0.9999999971843175 (so we're pretty much tied for optimality);
- mean $L_2$ norm of the difference in weight vectors = $2.8\times 10^{-7}$.


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25 years of research reveals changing distribution of marine litter
05 April 2018
25 years of research from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has revealed changes in the composition of marine plastic litter, finding a decrease in the amount of plastic bags found on the UK's seabed and suggesting that efforts may be able to tackle the marine litter challenge.
Despite the reduction in the number of plastic bags recorded in an analysis of scientific surveys, the overall amount of litter has been maintained by an increasing amount of other plastic items, including fishing debris.
Widespread distribution of litter items, especially plastics, were found on the seabed of the North Sea, English Channel, Celtic Sea and Irish Sea. High variation in the abundance of litter items, ranging from 0 to 1835 pieces km−2 of seafloor, was observed.
Plastic items such as bags, bottles and fishing related debris were commonly observed across all areas. Over the entire 25-year period (1992–2017), 63% of the 2,461 trawls contained at least one plastic litter item.
Thomas Maes, Marine Litter Scientist at Cefas said:
"It is encouraging to see that efforts by all of society, whether the public, industry, NGOs or government to reduce plastic bags are having an effect. We observed sharp declines in the percentage of plastic bags as captured by fishing nets trawling the seafloor around the UK compared to 2010 and this research suggests that by working together we can reduce, reuse and recycle to tackle the marine litter problem."
Marine litter is a global challenge, with increasing quantities documented in recent decades. The distribution and abundance of marine litter on the seafloor off the United Kingdom's (UK) coasts were quantified during 39 independent scientific surveys conducted between 1992 and 2017.
There was no significant temporal trend in the percentage of trawls containing any or total plastic litter items across the long-term datasets. Statistically significant trends, were observed in specific plastic litter categories only. These trends were all positive except for a negative trend in plastic bags in the Greater North Sea - suggesting that behavioural and legislative changes could reduce the problem of marine litter within decades.
The paper is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.245.


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Virtua Fighter
Many years ago, when Sega Saturn first hit the market, it was packaged with one game. This was a fairly common practice at the time; after all, how would people react if they purchased an expensive console (several hundred dollars at launch) only to find that they needed to shell out even more cash to actually use it? This single game had to be chosen carefully by Sega. It had to be accessible – something most players could quickly understand and jump into without hassle. It had to be attractive, too. The Saturn was touted as the most powerful console of its time, so the graphics needed to convince prospective buyers that this was truly a next-generation system. Perhaps most importantly, this game had to be fun. Of course, it didn't hurt that this game's reputation had long been established as a smash hit in the arcades.
This game was Virtua Fighter.
Renowned producer Yu Suzuki is credited with the creation of this 3-D fighting game back in 1993. It was the start of a franchise that would thrive for years, and continues to thrive today. Virtua Fighter has the great distinction of being the first 3-D game in its genre – the first of its kind to use polygons. The blocky martial artists were stunning, each unique in their physicality and fighting styles. Appearances mean nothing if the gameplay is not strong, however. Fortunately, this is where Virtua Fighter's true brilliance is made abundantly clear.
Many popular fighters of the day, such as Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, relied on six or more buttons in battle. Virtua Fighter ignored this convention, and kept gameplay simple with just three buttons: block, punch, and kick. The joystick allows the player to pull off all the maneuvers necessary in a fight, from making a quick dash forward to leaping into air (and reaching, as in most fighting games, rather improbable altitudes). When used in conjunction with the buttons, players had a basic move set they could always rely on, regardless of their chosen character. A crouching punch is universally effective in halting an overly aggressive opponent. A jumping punch would always deliver a crushing blow to a fallen opponent, while said opponent could always rely on tapping the guard button rapidly to perform an evasive roll and recovery.
The basis upon which all combat is built is essentially like rock-paper-scissors. Standing blocks defend against high and medium attacks, but leave you vulnerable to low attacks. Guarding while crouching can defend against low attacks and avoid getting struck from up high, but leave you vulnerable to middle attacks. Of course, players who blocked too frequently could easily find themselves in the clutches of a brutal throw. As expected, each fighter was also equipped with a dazzling array of special moves unique to their character. Everyone remembers being tossed around like a ragdoll by Wolf, the howling face-painted Canadian wrestler. Players cringe recounting their brawls with Dural, the metallic boss character who incorporated the moves of all others. Whether Capcom was "inspired" by Dural for the creation of Street Fighter IV's boss character is something you'll have to decide for yourself.
Audio design is not an area where Virtua Fighter slouches, either. Each character had their own voice, whooping and shouting during battle and eliciting war cries whenever they were victorious. The stage-based musical tracks were ridiculously catchy; you would hear them so often, you had no choice but to hum right along with the techno beats. With top-notch production values and arguably the best fighting mechanics ever in a video game, Virtua Fighter remains just as strong now as it did when it was first unleashed. True, it remained at the core of most Saturn owner's software libraries whether they asked for it or not, but who could complain?


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200 Taliban Killed In Fighting
Four Canadian soldiers were also killed during the first two days of Operation Medusa.
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If the estimate is confirmed, the battle would be one of the deadliest since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime five years ago.
The operation took place near Kandahar, where anti-Western forces seem to be gaining strength, reports CBS News correspondent Dan Raviv.
Anti-Western forces suddenly seem to be, um, losing strength, actually. At the rate of 100 a day.
Anyway, poppy production is apparently up by 50%, and the proceeds are fueling the increased Taliban activity we've seen so far this year.
Via Instapundit, who contributes:
Alternative MSM-style headline: "Over 200 killed in renewed Afghan violence."
Heh. Indeed.
Also, I like "Operation Medusa". Much better than "Operation Friendship, Justice, and Freedom" or "Operation Winning The Future Together" or whatever crocky name so many US operations get these days.


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Romero's (Gabriel Afolayan) neighbourhood is in trouble. People are suddenly manifesting symptoms of rabid river blindness. With his friends, Emmy (Kelechi Udegbe) and Peju (Omowunmi Dada) he struggles to understand how the neighbourhood's sole source of water supply could have been infected. However, there's no time to ponder because they all must survive and fight their way through to escape the infested neighbourhood.
With an astute IQ for horror by way of a love for Stephen King and hammer films, Obasi's passion is purely evident within the quickest of cuts as color and angling is our guide into how this outbreak unfolds. Prior to Ojuju in 2012, his horror film Jim & Joan premiered at the Eko International Film Festival and launched his production company, Fiery Film that is currently developing projects with titles like, "A Nigerian Haunting" and "Rant Of How To Make A Kick-ass Movie About Death & Demons Without A Budget" which only prompts more enthusiasm.
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Omowunmi Dada describing her depiction of Peju as a "fighter" and even "weird" only touches the surface of the myriad of adjectives she uses to relay how complex Peju's position is with her friend Alero (Meg Otanwa), the slums in which they dwell, and the action within the story.
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As you can see, I have completed the first 2 rows of houses on Little House Needlework's Neighbourhood. As stated on Wednesday, the goal this month is to complete the entire sampler. So if I want to do that, then I had better get off the computer and start stitching for the evening.
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Pasta Sonoma Cooks Around the World
We are proud to receive kudos from leading chefs at fabulous restaurants. Try all of these recipes and cooking tips, straight from the world's best chefs and pastamakers.
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NUTRITIOUS FAVA BEANS that fed the poor of Puglia for hundreds of years are now favored by chefs all over the world. Here Chef Luigi... For video and recipe
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Summit Tempeh is up and running at 1670 Jasper Street. Owner David Hanan is operating a small production facility using hand-processed Anasazi beans from Dove Creek, Colorado. Westword's Danielle Lirette recently took a tour and brought back photos.
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Walmington Pier opened in 1898 as a promenade pier and landing stage for steamers sailing out of London. The town council waited for hundreds of passengers... but instead they preferred Herne Bay, Margate or Southend-on-Sea. After a year of virtually no passengers the council sold the pier for an undisclosed sum to a few local entrepreneurs who formed the Walmington Pier Company.
The new directors looked closely at their rivals in Herne Bay and Southend. These piers had two things in common - both were very long and both had electric tramways. Walmington Pier was only 230 feet (70 metres) long, but an electric tramway was a 'must have'.
The result was a standard gauge single-track tramway. During construction, the directors noted that the tramway took up most of the pier's width, restricting pedestrian traffic. They were shrewd enough not only to claim 25% of the construction cost from the contractor, maintaining it was his error, but decided that the tram should be the only means of access along the pier!!
Walmington Pier Tramway opened for the 1900 summer season and rebuilt in 1910 to a pleasure pier. A German-built carousel was constructed at the pier head and at the same time the pier was redecked and the track regauged to 2ft 3ins (762mm) narrow gauge. A single battery-operated 'toastrack' tram similar to those operating along Southend Pier provided the passenger service, and the pier was retitled 'New Walmington Pier' to show off its rejuvenation.
The tramway ran until the Second World War, when the pier closed and breached as a defensive measure, the local Home Guard platoon captained by George Mainwaring, the local bank manager, used the remains as an observation post, and after the war the pier was demolished. With the population dwindling, the Ministry of Defence requisitioned Walmington as part of their military ranges in this area. No 'official' traces of the town exist.
I was born in Aberdeen in 1954 and moved to Southend-on-Sea in 1959 where I grew up in sight and sound of Southend Pier and the 'clunk clunk clunk' of the electric pier trains until 1971. I wrote about Southend Pier Railway for my GCE 'O' Level History project. In 1990 I joined forces with transport author Ken Frost (RIP) and together we co-wrote the second edition of his book 'Southend Pier Railway' (now out of print).
Now living in Suffolk, I still take time out at least twice a year to visit Southend Pier taking photos to update my 'Southend Pier Railway Group' Facebook page, and visit Hythe Pier, riding the Hythe Pier train to take photos to update my 'Piers of the Realm' talk. I have been a railway modeller since getting my first train set in 1962, and I decided to build a pier tramway layout initially as a low-cost, short-lived experiment - How wrong could I be!!!
So Walmington Pier was originally 'OO' gauge (4mm to 1 foot, 16.5mm track gauge), then refurbished to New Walmington Pier and relaid to 'OO9' scale (4mm to 1 foot, 9mm gauge track) in early 2017. In 2019 the layout underwent a revamp including adding a backscene and replacing the plastic railings with laser-cut wood railings.


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Healthy narcissism
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (August 2015)
Healthy narcissism is the characteristic of possessing realistic self-esteem without being cut off from a shared emotional life, as the unhealthy narcissist tends to be.[1]:37
The concept of healthy narcissism developed slowly out of the psychoanalytic tradition, and became popular in the late twentieth century.
Freud and normal narcissism[edit]
Freud considered narcissism a natural part of the human makeup that, taken to extremes, prevents people from having meaningful relationships.[1]:21 While he recognised the allure of the narcissist for more normal people,[2] he didn't have a concept of healthy narcissism as such.[3]:105 It was in the 1930s that Paul Federn introduced the concept to cover an adequate sense of self-love, but not until the 1970s in the work of Otto Kernberg and Heinz Kohut did the idea come to the fore.[3]:104 and 5 Kohut spoke of a child's "normal narcissism" and of normal narcissistic entitlement;[4] and considered that if early narcissistic needs could be adequately met, the individual would move on to what he called a "mature form of positive self-esteem; self-confidence:"[5] healthy narcissism.
Neville Symington challenged Kohut's belief in positive narcissism, arguing that "we do not get positive narcissism without self-hatred",[6]:58 or negative narcissism. While one could talk of healthy self-confidence and positive self-esteem or self-confidence, he considered that "it is meaningless to talk about healthy self-centredness"[6]:8–9 – that being the core of narcissism. Nevertheless, pop psychology has taken up the idea of healthy narcissism as an aid to self-assertion and success.[7] It has indeed been suggested that it is useful to think of a continuum of narcissism, from the healthy to the pathological, with stable narcissism and destructive narcissism as stopping-points in between.[8]
Solan's healthy narcissism[edit]
Ronnie Solan uses the metaphor of narcissism as an emotional-immune system for safeguarding the familiarity and the well-being of the individual against invasion by foreign sensations (1998) and small differences (Freud 1929–1930).
The innate immunization vacillates between well-being, in the presence of the familiar, and alertness as well as vulnerability, facing the stranger. From childhood, the familiar is tempting and the strangeness is intolerable from within (illness) or from outside (otherness). Hence, narcissistic immunization might be compared to the activity of the biological immunological system that identifies the familiar protein of the cell and rejects the foreign protein (bacteria, virus).
Thus, from infancy to adulthood, getting hurt emotionally is inevitable because the other, even if he or she is a familiar person and dear to us, is still a separate individual that asserts his otherness. The healthy narcissist succeeds in updating narcissistic data (such as acquaintance with the unfamiliar) and in enabling the recovery of self-familiarity from injury and psychic pains. Healthy narcissism activates immunologic process of restoring the stabilization of cohesiveness, integrity and vigorousness of the self and the restoration of the relationship with the other, despite its otherness.
Impaired functioning of narcissism fails to activate these narcissistic processes and arouses destructive reactions. Thus, the individual steadfastly maintains his anger toward the other that offended him, and might sever contact with him, even to the extent of exacting violent revenge, although this other might be dear to him, possibly leading through impaired narcissism to fragility and vulnerability of the self, to immature individuation, narcissistic disorders and pathological phenomena.
The healthy narcissism contributes to improving emotional intelligence as part of the process of adapting to changes; to intensifying curiosity and investigating the environment; to relating to otherness, and for enhancing joie de vivre.[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Impact of healthy v. destructive narcissistic managers[edit]
Lubit compared healthily narcissistic managers versus destructively narcissistic managers for their long-term impact on organizations.[15]
|Healthy Narcissism
|Destructive Narcissism
|High outward self-confidence in line with reality
|Desire for power, wealth and admiration
|May enjoy power
|Pursues power at all costs, lacks normal inhibitions in its pursuit
|Real concern for others and their ideas; does not exploit or devalue others
|Concerns limited to expressing socially appropriate response when convenient; devalues and exploits others without remorse
|Ability to follow a consistent path
|Has values; follows through on plans
|Lacks values; easily bored; often changes course
|Healthy childhood with support for self-esteem and appropriate limits on behaviour towards others
|Traumatic childhood undercutting true sense of self-esteem and/or learning that he/she doesn't need to be considerate of others
In a separate but related distinction, 'Michael Maccoby, in his book The Productive Narcissist, makes a case for the positive side of a narcissistic character...[&] believes that the natural energy and individuality of narcissists is the key to much industrial progress and innovation'.[16]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Simon Crompton, All About Me (London 2007)
- ^ Sigmund Freud, On Metapsychology (PFL 11) p. 82–3
- ^ a b Elizabeth Lunbech, The Americanization of Narcissism (2014)
- ^ James Grotstein, "Foreword", Neville Symington, Narcissism: A New Theory (London 1993) p. xiii
- ^ Heinz Kohut, The Analysis of the Self (Madison 1971) p. 215 and p. 9
- ^ a b Neville Symington, Narcissism: A New Theory (London 1993)
- ^ Wendy T. Behary, Disarming the narcissist (2009) p. 26–9
- ^ Nina W. Brown, Children of the Self-Absorbed (2008) p. 7
- ^ Solan, Ronnie (1991). "Jointness as integration of merging and separateness in object relations and narcissism". Psychoanal. Study of the Child. 46: 337–352. doi:10.1080/00797308.1991.11822371. PMID 1788383.
- ^ Solan, Ronnie (1998). "Narcissistic Fragility in the Process of Befriending the Unfamiliar". Psychoanal. Amer. J. Psycho-Anal. 58 (2): 163–186. doi:10.1023/A:1022112416259. PMID 9648642.
- ^ Solan, Ronnie (1998b). The Narcissitic Vulnerability to Change in Object Relation. In Psychoan. In Israel (Theoriebildung und therapeutische Praxis). BlatteR Band 9. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen.
- ^ Solan, Ronnie (1999). "The Interaction Between Self and Other: A Different Perspective on Narcissism". Psychoanal. Study of the Child. 54: 193–215. doi:10.1080/00797308.1999.11822501. PMID 10748633.
- ^ Solan, Ronnie (2007). 'Enigma of Childhood (in Hebrew). Modan Publishing House.
- ^ Solan, Ronnie |year=2015 |title = 'The Enigma of Childhood' - The Profound Impact of the First Years of Life on Adults as Couples and Parents. Karnac Books.
- ^ Lubit, R. (2002). "The long-term organizational impact of destructively narcissistic managers". Academy of Management Executive. 16 (1): 127–138. JSTOR 4165819.
- ^ Crompton, p. 123 and p. 61


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Our latest brand envy comes from G-Sign, a design team based in Moscow, Russian Federation. Pelman Handmade Cafe sells hand crafted, traditional, fast food entrees. With strong, hand illustrated typography and illustrations that carry across a variety of materials, their juxtaposition of modern elements and vintage flare seamlessly transition from packaging to space.
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Fifty-six law professors at three Indiana law schools (IU Bloomington and Indianapolis, and Valparaiso) have signed a letter to the Indiana General Assembly deeply critical of SJR7, the proposed "Marriage Protection Amendment" to the Indiana Constitution. You can read it in its entirety here.
Yesterday at a rally at the Statehouse, Indiana State Senator Tim Lannane (D-Bloomington) read parts of the letter, which expresses widespread concern over putting what the professors "a poorly drafted, ill-conceived proposal" into the Indiana Constitution. Senator Lannane concluded that what the learned professors had to say about the amendment was certainly good enough for "this country lawyer."


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Valuing a new economy
Valuing a new economy
By Shea Howell
Michigan Citizen, Oct.3-9. 2010
Over 4000 people attended the series of five meetings hosted by Mayor Bing and his administration. There should be no doubt that Detroiters intend to shape our own future. But the choices before us require a lot more debate and discussion and they also require a lot of new thinking.
One of the most important things to emerge in this process is how wedded the business elite is to the belief that our future rests in "reindustrialization." The prospect of becoming the battery capital of the world is the most bandied-about idea in the media. Currently, the U.S. produces less than 2% of the batteries used in the emerging electric car market, but some analysis are promoting the idea that within ten years the state will see the creation of 62,000 new jobs, with Holland, Michigan, being the western anchor for a web of battery manufacturing facilities.
The recent announcement of a second plant in Livonia is heralded as a sign of development, prompting many at the forums to question why none of these facilities are being located inside Detroit. Jesse Jackson gave voice to this concern before the Detroit City Council when he said, "The governor, a Democrat, brags about Michigan getting a battery plant, built north of Grand Rapids, as opposed to Detroit, the engine that drives the state. We need industrialization, not farming."
While we certainly need to rebuild an economy by restoring and inventing productive, creative and meaningful Work, we should have no illusions that this will look like the industrial past.
The industrial production employing masses of workers that dominated the last half of the 20th century is not part of our future. From the abandonment of Detroit by industrial capital, we should have learned that masses of people are no longer needed for mass production.
The industrial assembly line is now run by high tech machines that require fewer and fewer people to produce and service them. The much-coveted battery factory in Holland is expected to employ 300 people. This plant and its companion in Livonia are both the result of President Obama's stimulus money, not the result of visionary venture capitalists.
We need to think very differently about what our new economy will look like. This is why the urban agricultural movement is so important. It points the way to the values we need to consider as we think about how to reconstruct our economy. Urban farming begins with the idea that we can produce locally the things that we need to sustain us. This is the first principle that we need to apply to how we think about redeveloping an economy.
Second, most of our urban farms are not only efforts at growing food; they are consciously restoring neighborhoods and a sense of community. They are places where generations can come together and learn from one another in the course of being productive. Our new economy must place Work within the context of building communities.
Third, historically agriculture has been the basis for evolving culture and economies. Just as technology has transformed industrial production, it is also making small scale, local and year-round food production possible. In the process it is opening up new ideas for businesses and for economic and social relationships.
Detroit could be producing glass for greenhouses and fish tanks, electronics for hydroponic gardens, wind and water mills for local power, clothing, furniture and a myriad of useful items requiring care and craft. In fact, much of this is already taking place.
In Detroit we have the opportunity to create a new economy that is rooted in the values of developing people and will sustain us and the land we share. We have the opportunity to create not only new Work, but also new economic and social values.