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A short story collection that traverses time and place to illuminate the fragility of our lives
This award-winning short story collection brings us moments of tenuousness, in which characters seek out or struggle to hold on to what’s most precious in the face of change and loss.
The stories take us from suburban New Jersey to prewar Vienna to Western Oregon, chronicling the lives of, among others, a suburban teenage boy taking revenge with a stolen Revolutionary War bayonet; a woman adrift, literally and figuratively, amid a workplace affair; a nearly forgotten and destitute musician attempting to reclaim his creative spark; and a young Mark Rothko finding his way after several early failures.
While It Lasts speaks to how we are all bound by limited time to achieve what we must despite our own knowledge of how everything is fleeting.
"A binge-worthy assembly of stories, but unlike what the title says, the sensation and pleasure of reading them is not just while the book lasts, but long afterward. Crisscrossing centuries, continents, and an array of characters, every story is immediately immersible; the open endings sometimes stab, other times ring with the resonance and echo of history or memory. Nadelson is a short form master and magician."
—Cris Mazza, author of Charlatan: New and Selected Stories
"While It Lasts, Scott Nadelson’s transporting new collection of short fiction, illuminates the close and volatile bond between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Historical figures like Mark Rothko, Clara Lemlich Shavelson, and Daniel Mendoza tangle with the same questions of purpose that the rest of us do, while ordinary fictional characters find opportunities for profound vulnerability or soaring transcendence. And, as the title suggests, all of this is momentary. Fame, love, home, certainty, life itself—what comes goes, what goes comes, and nobody is damned or saved forever. There is serious wisdom here, and great storytelling, too."
—David Ebenbach, author of How to Mars and The Guy We Didn’t Invite to the Orgy and other stories
"Some of the characters in Scott Nadelson’s generous and wide-ranging sixth story collection are based on famous people: the artist Mark Rothko, the musician Arnold Schoenberg, the union organizer Clara Lemlich, the guitarist John Fahey, and the eighteenth century London prizefighter Daniel Mendoza. All are captured in private, beautifully imagined moments of their lives, either before, or after, their public transformations. The remaining stories are about the rest of us, the well-intentioned, misguided, and often foolish. A woman gets stuck on a rock off the Oregon coast, a young man pretends to be gay in order to hang out with the married woman he’s attracted to, an auditor is too slow to realize he’s being blackmailed. Written with insight, empathy, and intelligence, these are stories to treasure."
—Molly Giles, author of Wife with Knife
"Scott Nadelson’s While It Lasts is a reminder of the power of the short story to navigate all those hard-to-reach places in the ongoing mystery we call human experience. Beneath their luminous surfaces, these stories thrum with energy, a sense of forward motion and escalation, of the truth rising to meet the world. Be prepared to emerge, dazzled and amazed, from each—and to recommend this book to everyone you know."
—Anthony Varallo, author of The Lines
Scott Nadelson is the author of a novel, a memoir, and five previous story collections, including One of Us, winner of the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, and The Fourth Corner of the World, named a Fiction Prize Honor Book by the Association of Jewish Libraries. He teaches at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.
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The string bag is finished and it's like a monster from a B-movie. It could kick those skinny eco-fashionista bags from Exit 151 to Tokyo Bay. You should hear it roar. It easily swallowed an entire sweater's worth of yarn. (Er, when it comes to yarn, I'm not wholly immune to the power of the label.)
The bag was crocheted and knit from Aunt Lydia's Double Strand crochet cotton (two intertwined No. 10 threads, equivalent to No. 3 thread) in colorway 0443 Victory Red/Mexicana. One 300-yd (274 m) ball was exactly enough. I'm pleased with the results and want to make more, although the handle may need re-thinking. A single handle needs to be long enough so that it does not hinder stuffing the bag, whereas double handles can be short or long as desired. Hm.
That's an 18-inch volleyball, a 16-inch softball, a glove, two regulation Frisbees, and s'mores fixings poised to be bagged. The chocolate started melting, so I moved it out of the sun, but everything did fit.
For those who asked for a pattern, sorry, the bag is a chimera whose parts are already published – the base is from Meta Thompson's crocheted bag in Spin-Off Summer 2006, the sides are a mod of Judy's Turkish Stitch String Bag, and the handle is a mod of Erin's The String Bag. I like the drawstring and toggle on Amy Singer's Everlasting Bagstopper and may add them, too. There are even more patterns at Erin's String It Along KAL.
Meanwhile, the string beans are finally starting to come in – a trickle at first, soon a flood. This year I planted green and yellow varieties (the haricots jaunes are actually various shades of pale lime green). The mere notion of yellow green beans disturbs my neighbor mightily. Happily, the plants don't care about the gardening police.
My downstream Sockapalooza pal's socks are ready to jump in the mail – all will be revealed next week. Now that the TdF KAL and Sockapalooza are in the bag, I'm going to volunteer to knit socks for a 'loozer whose pal bails. Just keeping up that B string.

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Limiting the unhealthy food advertisements to children
From 1 January 2015, auditions for children aged up to 12 years, issued by the eight largest television broadcaster in Poland, will not be accompanied by advertisements of “unhealthy food”. It is a result of an agreement signed by: ITI Neovision Poland, Polsat TV, TVP, TV Puls, TVN, VIMN Poland, The Walt Disney Company (Polska) and Stavka company.
The aim of the agreement on the principles of dissemination of advertisements and identification of sponsorship concerning food and beverages containing components, which are not advisable in excessive amounts in the diet of children, is to ensure the protection of minors, under art. 16b. paragraph 3a and 3b of the Broadcasting Act.
According to the declaration of broadcasters, from 1 January 2015
the programmes for children aged up to 12 will not be accompanied by advertisements of food and beverages that do not meet “Nutritional Criteria to the self - regulation on food advertising aimed at children under 12 years”. The document was prepared on the request of the Polish Federation of Food Industry and approved by the Ministry of Health, it is attached to the Broadcasters’ Agreement.
The annex includes also a list of products categories which are not mentioned in the Nutritional Criteria, as their advertising next to the programmes for children will not be allowed. These include: sugar and sugar-based products like: chocolate and chocolate products, jam or marmalade, non-chocolate sweets and other sugar products, soft drinks, potato chips and potato-based snacks, as well as products made of dough. The broadcasters pledged that children's programs will not be accompanied by the advertisements of products listed above.
Broadcasters who signed the agreement will require the advertisers to submit a written declaration of the advertised products conformity with the Nutrirional Criteria.
One of the National Broadcasting Council’s tasks is to promote self-regulation in the area of provision of media services. The broadcasters’ agreement is a response to the need of an efficient protection of children against harmful commercial content that may adversely affect their proper physical, mental or moral development which was repeatedly raised by the National Broadcasting Council. The broadcasters’ self-regulatory activity took into account the provisions of the Broadcasting Act. At the same time the Advertising Council has declared passing both to the National Broadcasting Council and to the broadcasters any information on the violation of the “Standards of the Food Advertising directed to children" and the “Nutritional Criteria to the self - regulation on food advertising aimed at children under 12 years".
The broadcasters’ agreement is voluntary. They have also committed, inter alia, to designate representatives authorized to execute the agreement.
In case of a necessity to verify the products’ advertisements compliance with the Nutritional Criteria, the National Broadcasting Council will address the Ministry of Health.
At the same time the National Broadcasting Council will continue monitoring the fulfilment of the requirements of art. 16b para. 3a of the Broadcasting Act, which results from the statutory obligation of the NBA to control the broadcasters.
According to the art. 16b para. 3a of the Broadcasting Act, children’s programmes should not be accompanied by commercial communications for foods or beverages containing ingredients excessive intake of which in every day diet is not recommended.
In the NBC opinion there is a necessity to change the wording of the Act to clarify that it means a total ban on emission of so-called unhealthy food advertisements accompanying the children’s programmes. There should also be the obligation for the Ministry of Health to issue a regulation on the manner of qualifying food or beverages, taking into account the presence of ingredients the excessive amount of which in a daily diet is not advisable as well as the current knowledge in the field of nutrition and dietetics.
These two proposals are included in the draft amendment of the Broadcasting Act, submitted by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Oct. 26. -- Filled with Socialism and enthusiasm, more than 1,000 Hungarian girl cigar makers here have united in putting the cigar factory of Hirchhorn, Mack Co. out of commission. The management announced to-night that the plant had been closed indefinitely. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
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I haven’t paid much attention to bands coming out of the UK for the past few years but with bands like The Vaccines and Viva Brother starting to make a splash in the U.S., things are looking up for another British Invasion.
Marines are a relatively new band that seems to follow the same path as their fellow countrymen – record and release a few singles, shoot a few videos, get the buzz going before work on a full-length has commenced.
I do believe that I’ve fallen in love with “Tiny Little Tom” and you can hear hints of influences like The Smiths and The Wedding Present in Marines’ decidedly UK-sounding rock.
Not sure when we’ll get a full-length (or even be able to snag Marines tracks off iTunes) so to get your fix, you’ll have to tune into the band’s YouTube channel where they’ve posted a few different songs.
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Who schedules outdoor festivals during the hottest part of the year? The heat was excruciating today at Grant Park where Lollapalooza 2011 kicked off. I guess if there was any sort of relief, it was that clouds blocked some of the sunlight by late afternoon but it still wasn’t much of a reprieve.
If you check out bands that you’re truly interested in seeing, chances are you won’t walk away disappointed and while I’m not a superfan of any of the bands I checked out today, I didn’t stray far from what I knew so therefore I had a great day.
Started off at high noon with Merge Records duo Wye Oak. Poor Jenn Wasner was plagued with guitar pedal problems almost from the get-go and at one point stopped midsong saying, “I can’t do this. I’m sorry.” You had to feel for her as she was playing in front of a large and eager crowd ready to get their Lollapalooza weekend started. Wasner is a completely amazing guitarist and she battled back from the problems early in the set to wow those hanging out at the Sony stage.

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Alien Dawn : A Classic Investigation into the Contact Experience
In this classic book on UFOs, bestselling author Colin Wilson, a renowned authority on the paranormal, examines the evidence and develops a definitive theory of the alien contact phenomenon.
Alien Dawn covers Wilson's investigation into documented evidence of strange and unexplained phenomena, including UFOs, poltergeists, ancient folklore, time slips, out-of-body experiences, mystical awareness, and psychic travel to other worlds. The result: a fascinating and encyclopedic study of the complex nature of reality. This is one of the most comprehensive explorations of the subject undertaken, with conclusions sure to shock the reader, whether believer or skeptic.
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Why Did China Recall Millions of Newspapers?
The decision after a slipup involving Chinese President Xi Jinping’s name comes at a sensitive time for the leader.
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief.
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief.
The highlights this week: China recalls newspapers for a “political mistake” amid a periodic nationwide push for Xi Jinping Thought, French President Emmanuel Macron visits China in another attempt to sway Xi away from Russia, and Beijing provokes New Delhi with a symbolic move along their disputed border.
China Recalls Newspapers for Xi Error
Millions of copies of the March 30 edition of the People’s Daily newspaper were recalled after a so-called political mistake, as China calls slip-ups that go against the official government line. The error in question? Chinese President Xi Jinping’s name was left out of a sentence that should have read, “The central government with comrade Xi Jinping at the core assesses the situation.”
As the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the People’s Daily is sold on newsstands and distributed in universities, party offices, and other institutions. All vendors received notices demanding they destroy the offending material. This might seem like an overreaction, but even small mistakes regarding Chinese leaders are dangerous. And in written Chinese, it’s easy to turn a name into a joke or insult by misplacement or omission, even inadvertently. There is no capitalization and no spacing between words; every character has multiple possible meanings.
For this reason, the characters of an emperor’s name were taboo; substitute words were used during their reign or a stroke omitted from the character. Today, Chinese editors tend to triple-check that a leader’s name isn’t broken up between lines in layout. Furthermore, in authoritarian states, subtle language changes such as the omission of a name from a list of attendees or a shift in ranking order can carry a lot of weight in messaging.
Now would be a bad time to make a mistake with Xi’s name, especially one that could be read—with a bit of a reach—as suggesting he might be absent from the heart of the government. China is currently in the middle of a periodic big push for Xi Jinping Thought, in which the leader’s various banalities are trotted out as required reading. Anything related to Xi’s position and his personality cult is even more sensitive subject matter than usual.
These campaigns for Xi Jinping Thought do little to endear the president to party members. Unlike former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, whose works included plenty of blood and thunder and whose ideas were inspiring (if mostly for bad ends), Xi Jinping Thought is boring. It follows a familiar style of Chinese political writing, with every line seemingly used before. If an excerpt from a 15-minute broadcast gives any hint: “It is necessary to promote the spirit of the great founding of the party, never forget the original intention, and keep in mind the mission … ”
For the next few weeks, every CCP branch in China—from local government offices to those within foreign companies—will spend hours going over Xi Jinping Thought, on top of regular meetings and exams on the subject. Part of the reason is that Xi’s position is currently both extremely powerful and somewhat shaky. While he maintains almost unprecedented control over the security services, party, and media, he is still contending with the failure of his key zero-COVID policy and with growing doubts about his economic and geopolitical leadership.
Banality helped Xi ascend to power in the first place. After all, he seemed to be a complete product of the CCP system, which led fellow leaders to underestimate how much power he would seize for himself. And these regular campaigns for Xi Jinping Thought reassert Xi’s control not through making his leadership attractive but by making it seem inescapable. In other words, the readings will continue until morale improves.
This all explains why leaving Xi’s name out of the newspaper is such a big mistake—one that will certainly see the editors involved fired, demoted, or fined, as is routine practice. According to a staff member I spoke to, notices have already gone out within the People’s Daily and subordinate papers such as the Global Times reminding people to avoid similar errors. (Because of the taboo nature of the error, the notice of course didn’t spell out the mistake.)
Romanian newspapers reportedly had staff members whose sole job was to ensure that dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s name was always spelled correctly. Perhaps it’s time for Chinese newspapers to follow suit.
What We’re Following
Macron visits China. This week, French President Emmanuel Macron is in China, reportedly making yet another attempt to persuade Xi to distance himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Any calls to split China from Russia now seem near delusional. Beijing hasn’t signaled any distance from Moscow, with which it shares hostility toward Washington, and which Chinese media portrays as a victim of NATO.
However, Macron’s visit reflects a European discomfort with the U.S.-China rivalry and the belief that European states might need China at some future date. (This doesn’t necessarily reflect the position of the Baltic States, which tend to emphasize working with Taiwan.) In Europe, some hope for reconciliation with China persists even as attitudes toward Beijing have hardened in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, aggressive Chinese diplomacy, and China’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Of course, the sheer size of the Chinese market plays a role in this approach.
Macron arrives in China fresh off fierce protests back home in response to his heavy-handed pension reforms. Ironically, China is set to announce a rise in its retirement age soon; it is already one of the lowest in the world: 60 for men, 55 for women. The increase could cause its own wave of protests, although much more localized and less dramatic than those in France.
Border tensions with India. China and India’s border dispute is heating up again after Beijing announced moves to “standardize” the names of places that India claims as its territory in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. China claims a large swath of the state as part of Tibet; Chinese People’s Liberation Army troops briefly occupied this area during China’s war against India in 1962. Beijing is also planning to upgrade the official status of two border towns to cities—signaling that more money and more troops are likely to arrive.
These moves come as China effectively expelled two of the remaining Indian journalists in the country through visa freezes—a common tool the Chinese government has used in recent years to dramatically reduce the number of foreign journalists operating inside China. The latest decision came in response to India’s non-renewal of the visa for a Xinhua correspondent.
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China purges bankers after financial binge. The latest targets of Xi’s purges are prominent bankers, with more than 20 people now under investigation by the authorities, including Li Xiaopeng, head of the government-run China Everbright, and Liu Liange, the chair of the Bank of China. Bankers in China had it relatively easy in the last decade, even as other state-owned enterprises saw periodic purges. But they became a key part of corruption and political indulgence in other industries, offering cheap loans on faulty grounds.
A campaign against corruption in sports also continues with a major Chinese soccer figure scooped up this week, as well as officials in sports as far-ranging as rowing. The scope of these latest purges across multiple fields shows just how little Xi’s campaigns have altered the underlying dynamics of corruption in a one-party state. Whenever anyone falls, there are a dozen people waiting to set up new deals in their place.
Australia joins the TikTok ban-wagon. Australia is the latest country to ban the TikTok app on government devices, which also affects media companies such as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Although phone limits are common in the security and intelligence world, they’re generally less onerous across the whole of government.
The video-sharing app, owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance, is now fighting losing legal and political battles on multiple fronts, when it once suffered mainly at the hands of censorious regimes. Brendan Carr, a member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, spoke approvingly earlier this year of India’s 2020 ban on TikTok.
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Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are "not above the law" and will still be prosecuted for crimes five years after they take place, the Veterans Minister has insisted.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph Johnny Mercer has confirmed that the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill “still allows for allegations of wrongdoing more than 5 years old - including war crimes and torture - to be investigated and, where appropriate, prosecuted”.
“A decision on whether to prosecute for such crimes will continue to be for the independent prosecutor to make,” he said.
It comes after former officers wrote to Boris Johnson expressing concern about the legislation, which goes before Parliament for its second reading this Wednesday, warning that a five-year limit for prosecutions against soldiers and veterans might be received badly by the international community.
The Telegraph revealed that the letter had been “dismissed” by Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor, who has given the green light to the bill.
“The UK will never put the Armed Forces above the law,” Mr Mercer added. “On the contrary, we hold our people to the highest standards. Whenever the Armed Forces embark on operations outside the UK, our people and their chain of command are bound to abide by the criminal law of England and Wales, as well as international humanitarian law as set out in the Geneva Conventions.”
Mr Mercer cautioned that while “the overwhelming majority meet those expectations and serve with great distinction” there remains a “tiny minority who fall short”.
He said that those few “should expect the full force of the law”. “The uniform is no hiding place. Again this Bill won’t change that,” he said.
The legislation has been welcomed by Iraq war veterans after thousands of troops remained under investigation many years following the invasion of 2003.
All of those cases, excluding one, have since been dropped due to a lack of evidence while the lawyer, Phil Shiner, who brought the cases was struck off for dishonesty.
A justice source told this newspaper that both Mr Buckland and Ben Wallace, were “very in favour” of the bill, as they added the Government “can’t allow another Phil Shiner situation”.
Mr Mercer also addressed concerns raised by Labour that a six year limit on civil litigation claims would prevent troops suing the Ministry of Defence.
“The Bill will not prevent our troops bringing civil claims against the MOD,” he said. “Our analysis suggests 94 per cent of claims from service personnel and veterans are already brought within six years. Critically, for conditions like PTSD, this limit will start from the date of knowledge or diagnosis.”
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I’ve decided to post my first grow journey here and hopefully get some help and advice from more experienced growers on this forum.
I am growing 2 Great white Shark from feminized seeds.
It looks like this is the place to be to show love, grow my skills, and become overall better at growing and helping out others along the way!
I’ve been reading through a lot of hellraisers old posts and others on this forum and I really enjoy the friendly atmosphere.
My grow setup below:
- 2x4ft grow tent
- spider farmer 2000 for late veg/flower
- spider farmer 300 for seedlings/veg
- spider farmer 4" exhaust fan with temp/humidity controller.
- carbon filter for flower.
- starting in soo cups with 3x 1/2 inch holes in bottom for drainage.
- using soiless Promix HP with mycorrhizae + adding 1/4 perlite.
- opening the bottom flaps of my tent for passive air intake during veg, exhaust on 2/10 setting for now.
- Will use Advanced Nutrients basic feeding guide once plants are about 3 or 4 weeks old.
Grow tent conditions currently starting week 3 veg:
- Daytime Temps: 20-28C
- Day RH: 31-65%
- Night Temps: 18-26C
- Night RH: 21-45%
- Plants are about 2" in height, third and 4th set of true leaves growing now.
- Light is 24" from the tops of the plants as recommended by Spider farmers guide.
- Feeding schedule is water, water, feed, etc. Only feeding nutes at 1/2 strength starting at week 4 once dry.
- PH water to 6.0-6.5, after tap water has bubbled in a bucket for 24-48 hours.
- growing 2 plants currently from seed, they are 3 weeks old today.
Questions I have for the pro’s:
- I’m wondering if they look a little yellow/green, not too sure what that could mean at this point? Maybe they need nutrients now 1/2 strength?
- The roots are not fully developed yet and they seem a bit stunted?
- According to Advanced Nutrients feeding chart, they say I should be feeding the plants at 1 week old. I’ve read many times on this forum, that could lead to hurting your plants or killing them. Please help me understand this process better.
I hope I have included everything I need to, please let me know if I am missing anything or if you have any questions.
Looks like your off to a good start. They should start getting bigger week by week.
Good luck with your grow!
Thanks brother! I hope they continue to grow! Anyone able to answer my above questions 1&2?
If it all looks good then I guess I will just hang on tight and wait
They look a good color to me. I dont give mine anything but water for at least 4 weeks. And I do start off 1/2 dosage.
Their are people around with a lot more experience than me around here. You can really learn a lot just by reading the forum and the issues we have.
The thing with Promix is it is peat based which in tearn means you have to water more often. It also has no added nutrients. I would start feeding half strength and keep an eye on it. They look healthy.
Right! I also think you’ll do better keeping the ph around 6.0. Using promix hp is not a typical “soil” grow.
Thanks alot guys, I appreciate your guidance on this journey. I’ll keep updating the grow as we go. I’m glad they look healthy. I’ll stick with ph 6.0 and I’m trying hard not to over water. I did notice this promix gets dry fast. So I’ll keep that in mind.
@greggt @dbrn32 is half strength nutrients good to start at week 3 or 4? And continue to up the nutrients if the plant can take it week after week? What is your experience with feeding and how early can I start?
The stuff you’re using doesn’t provide any nutrients, waiting until weel 3 or 4 is probably too long. You should probably start feeding some as soon as you start seeing leaves other than cots. I’m just not sure on what % recipe due to unfamiliarity with nutrients, and I don’t remember if I’ve ever grown cannabis in promix hp. Not recently for sure.
@Myfriendis410 was a promix user back in the day, do you have some guidance here?
I prefer Promix HP to coco as it seemed to remain loose through the whole grow unlike coco. It buffers to a lower PH than soil but higher than coco with 6.0 being ideal. You will have to supplement starting at about 2 weeks in that medium.
The only downside is peat is a non-renewable resource, unlike coco. And much more expensive.
They have an app now called bud labs I have never seen those ratios the base nutrient are 1ml each for seedlings. I have been using them exclusively for since I started 3+ years ago!
The bases should always be equal amounts
This is the recipe for week one at 32L water nite the bases are equal
Yea I have the app, but I’ve seen contradicting info in terms of when to start feeding plants. Thanks for your advice guys! Your the beat. I’ll start with half dose and work my way up from what the app says.
This is because it’s subjective to media you’re growing in. An amended soil shouldn’t need nutrients for several weeks as opposed to something like coco will need nutrients immediately.
All these guys have you on the right path. Im using promix mp organik for my next few grows, but im cooking it for 45 days with all kinds of goodies mixed in.
Thanks for the reassurance guys much love
What kind of goodies are baked in?
Is that a soiless grow like mine?
That might be why I see my plants turning abit off yellowish rather than green like they were a couple days ago.
Ill update pics later tonight. Ill start with the budapps recommendations and go from there. I hope you guys will tag along and see all the updates through this journey. Hopefully get some good great white shark buds coming in the next couple months. Ill be following your latest grows too. Feel free to link it to me.
Wow that lookd like a huge job haha.
I hope your posting your processes and a grow journal?
Happy Birthday! I don’t see any bio-live in there, it’s one of my favorite organic products.
Thanks for the share, ill tag a long.
Update, i took your guys advice and gave the little sharks a full dose according to the buds application dosing.
They were looking pale green/yellowish. Probably needed those nutes badly!
Ill check on them tonight after work and see if it gave them there green back! Phd to 6.0 as usual.

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Arsenal have officially announced the signing of defender Gabriel Magalhaes from French side Lille.
The Brazilian becomes the club’s newest signing putting pen to paper on a long term contract at the Emirates Stadium.
The 22-year-old had been the subject interest from Manchester United and Everton as well with Napoli also credited with an interest.
But it is the north London side who have moved swiftly to secure the signature of the central defender.
He is likely to pair a long term partnership with new arrival William Saliba at the heart of defence for the Gunners in the upcoming season.
Mikel Arteta said: “We welcome Gabriel to Arsenal. He has many qualities which will make us stronger as a defensive unit & as a team.
“He has proved with Lille that he is a defender with many outstanding attributes & we are looking forward to watching him grow as an Arsenal player”
Arsenal’s technical director Edu added: “We are delighted to have signed Gabriel.
“He is a player we have been studying for a while and he was in demand from many clubs, so we are proud to have agreed and completed this transfer with Lille and the player.”
Gabriel also revealed that he was persuaded to join the Londoners after talks with Edu and manager Arteta.
“[Edu and I] had several chats about Arsenal and the new project, we had many good conversations,’ Gabriel told Arsenal Digital.
“As the days went by I was getting very excited about it, then I had a call from the coach and that was very reassuring.
“Having the coach himself calling you to say he wants you in his squad motivates you a lot. That is the very reason I am here today.
“We did not talk about [details], he just told me he is aware of my quality, my capacity and how far I can go. He also said he will be very demanding with me.
“I know he is a great coach and I will make progress with his help.”
The defender will don the No.6 jersey for the Gunners during the 2020/21 campaign.


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In Session 50 of Over a Couple of Beers, I got an opportunity to sit down with an individual on the cusp of opening his brewery in Sharpsburg: Andrew Witchey of Dancing Gnome Beer. Andrew’s brewing equipment is installed, his taproom is nearing completion, and Dancing Gnome is looking to be up and running in the very near future.
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Police in Isiolo have arrested four suspects while ferrying bhang estimated to be worth Sh1 million in a private vehicle towards Nairobi from Moyale.
This comes barely two months after four other suspects were caught while transporting bhang worth Sh1.35 million along the same route.
In the Thursday incident, a multi-agency security team flagged down the Toyota Voxy vehicle at Archers Post but the driver drove off after a sniffer dog detected the narcotics. The officers started a chase as fired in the air, forcing him to stop the vehicle which was taken to Isiolo Police Station where a search was done.
Isiolo County Police Commander Joseph Kigen said the bhang, packed in one-kilogramme pieces, was hidden in a compartment in the vehicle’s petrol tank.
“The petrol tank had two compartments, one with the narcotics and the other with fuel,” Mr Kigen said.
The police boss said investigations were underway to establish the owner of the vehicle which was hired by the four men aged between 23 and 25 years.
Car hire services
“Those in the car hire business should be cautious while hiring out the vehicles and besides picking clients’ personal details, demand to know the errands they want to undertake,” he said.
Mr Kigen put drug traffickers on notice, saying his team had intensified surveillance along the Isiolo-Moyale route to ensure narcotics are not sneaked into the country from Ethiopia.
“Our officers are on high alert to bring to an end drug trafficking in the region to salvage the lives of young people,” Mr Kigen noted.
Senior Assistant County Commissioner Samuel Gichohi appealed to the public to collaborate with the security team by providing crucial information to help in arresting others in the illegal business.
“They should know their days are numbered and we will soon catch up with them,” Mr Gichohi warned drug dealers.
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Mr Kigen appealed to the Judiciary to give punitive cash bail and bond terms to drug trafficking suspects commensurate with the offence.
County Commissioner Geoffrey Omoding recently said a special police unit had been created to deal with traffickers and illegal arm dealers using off-highway routes.
The senior administrator said all vehicles, including those belonging to government officials, will be subjected to searches to ensure no drugs sail through undetected.


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The past decade has seen the global app economy skyrocket, following the release of the iPhone in 2007. Last year, the world’s total app revenues reached $87.1 billion, increasing at a double-digit growth rate to $129.2 billion by 2021, with gaming being the most lucrative app category. The APAC region, which currently generates almost 60% of global app revenues, will be a major driver of this growth.
Naturally, the region’s three biggest markets—China, Korea, and Japan—present a wealth of opportunities for Western mobile developers. However, what these markets also possess are some significant barriers to entry. To help shed some light on this, we recently created a report together with Mintegral, taking a deep dive into Asia’s top mobile markets. The report looks at each top market’s dynamics, consumer preferences, consumer demographics, growth potential, and insights into building effective app marketing campaigns.
- In 2018, the APAC region generated $50.7 billion in app revenues, over half (58.2%) of the global total. China accounted for an impressive 52% of APAC’s mobile revenues, while Japan had a share of 26.4% and South Korea 7.4%.
- China’s app store ecosystem, from which Google Play is absent, is vastly different from any other in the world. Three-in-ten of the market’s app stored (by number of installs) in January 2019, for example, were game centers.
- Around 46% of smartphone players in Japan paid for games in 2018. In fact, the country has the highest payment ratio among smartphone gamers, compared to China or South Korea.
- South Korean smartphone gamers are also big spenders, with 40% spending money on games in 2018. Compared to China and Japan, South Korea had the highest share of game revenues in its app economy in 2018.


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While many studying the late antique period tend to focus on large-scale political shifts, change on the microlevel is often more difficult to track. Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt offers such a sense of everyday people's daily concerns by allowing us to peek at their correspondence. The authors assemble a wealth of evidence from the Ptolemaic through the early Islamic periods in surviving papyri and ostraka (pottery or stone sherds with writing). The resulting work is a chorus of women's voices conveying quotidian concerns at once familiar and entirely foreign to a modern point of view.
The book is divided into two sections. The first half of the book offers a scholarly apparatus for approaching the letters. These include discussions of gender, handwriting, language, letter delivery, polite and familiar formulations, and frequently encountered themes. The most popular issues that emerge revolve around family, health, property, personal occupations, and money, topics which would be familiar to anyone perusing personal e-mails today.
The second half of the book publishes a corpus of letters, and it is here that the women's voices come through most intimately. They are hopeful, argumentative, frustrated, fearful, concerned, irritable, and joyous. One is most struck by the frequent evocations of the Egyptian gods, or later, of Christ, and the wishes for blessings to individuals and families. Letters about a beloved brother's death or debates about renting a boat are particularly relatable. The immediacy of these concerns gives a sense of the continuities of everyday life in the face of social upheaval.
About the Book
Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC–AD 800. University of Michigan Press, 2006


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If you like this article and want to read this book, you can buy it here: On Having No Head.
On Having No Head – Douglas Harding
Me auld mucker Tommie told me recently that this book was one of David Bowie’s 100 must-read books, which is pretty cool. Now, as TaSTA listeners might remember, I’ve harped on about this book on two recent episodes, such has been my great excitement regarding it. Look, it’s bonkers and it’s great fun and it’s incredibly insightful. Hands down though, this is one of the funnest books I’ve read since getting into all this kind of stuff.
The whole idea is, well, basically you don’t have a head. So…look, OK, you have a head and it’s there but y’know, you obviously can’t see it. Even when you’re looking into a mirror you’re not seeing your head, you’re seeing a reflection and you’re putting your trust in a mirror hoping it’s a true reflection of what you look like.
You have ears, eyes, a mouth, a nose, nostrils, cheeks, hair (maybe), but if you trace back where all these things are, or are meant to be, then they become empty. Like, going down to a cellular level and lower everything is just atoms and whatnot in empty space bouncing off each other. So, yea, I don’t have a head and neither do you. And because I don’t have a head, I don’t have anything. And if I don’t have anything then, hold on a second, there’s not even an I to have.
Now that there’s no I, then surely there can only be a Oneness, or a Unity with the universe: He says:
“Meeting you, there is for me only one face – yours – and I can never get face-to-face with you….We trade faces, and this is a most precious and intimate exchange of appearances. I have every reason to think the world of you. For I must believe that what is true for me is true for everyone, that we are all in the same condition – reduced to headless voids, to nothing, so that we may contain and become everything.”
“I don’t doubt the scientist who says that from his observation point over there, I have a clearly defined head consisting of an immense hierarchy of clearly defined bodies such as organs, cell, and molecules – an inexhaustibly complex world of physical things and processes. But I happen to know (or rather, be) the inside story of this world and every one of its inhabitants, and it completely contradicts the outside story.”
“And I find this is true, not only of my human body, but of my total Body, the universe itself. How much of this total Body I take on depends upon the occasion, but automatically I feel my way into as much as I need. Thus I may with perfect ease identify myself in turn with my head, my six-foot body, my family, my country, my planet and so on, without ever coming up against any limit or barrier. The reality behind all appearances is lucid, open and all together accessible. I know my way in and out of the secret inmost heart of every creature, however remote or repulsive it might seem to the outsider, because we are all one Body and that Body is one Void.”
Plenty of food for thought there.
But a little on the author before we go into other issues he writes about. Douglas Harding was an English philosopher, mystic, and writer who delved into the nature of perception and self-awareness. Born in Suffolk, England, he embarked on a lifelong exploration of the human experience. His approach encourages direct experiential understanding, emphasizing the absence of a separate “head” or ego. Harding’s first awakening experience happened while traveling in the Himalayas and for most of his life he would re-examine the event, taking it apart and making sense of it. Not your typical guru, he didn’t set up a school or establish a lineage or put himself into one. He really just wanted more and more people to learn to see the ego for what it is, or as the case actually is, what it isn’t.
I guess the reason I got such a kick out of this book was the easiness of the method he’s talking about. Working towards the goal of enlightenment/awakening is supposed to be a tough slog. It’s supposed to be hardship, pain, inner turmoil, crossing the abyss and all that jazz. Harding, does address this however:
“We are not enlightened! (his italics). The fact is that in all us lurks an existential terror, a powerful and altogether natural resistance to what – seemingly – accounts to sudden death and annihilation. All that long-drawn-out and often agonizing effort, urged on by every kind of social pressure, to paper over the void within and to build on it a somebody right here, a face that belongs to oneself, a distinct personality of one’s very own, a stable character to match up to those around us – and now, it’s being exposed as not just a collapsing card-castle but as the cause of our trouble.”
We’re not enlightened because we (our egos) are in the way.
“No wonder some people are visibly disturbed – embarrassed, insulted, scared, nauseated, angry, occasionally violent – when invited to look within, and shy away from the horror instantly.”
These feeling are, he says are
“just another passing experience among the myriads that go to make up a human life.”
So, he’s saying that these thoughts and feelings of being terrified of looking within are just that; thoughts and feelings and, as such, are empty of any substance, just like everything else.
Towards the final pages he writes that real happiness, real enlightenment is therefore in accepting the here and now, the unfolding of existence that we’re here and present for. Nothing more and nothing less. We’re not our personalities, characteristics, labels etc. We’re just here and being and that’s enough. He quotes the Buddha, saying:
‘Nirvana is visible in this life, inviting, attractive, accessible to the wise disciple.’
And he finishes off with a quote from the Jesuit writer, Jean-Pierre de Caussade:
“If you abandon all restraint, carry your wishes to their fullest limits, open your heart boundlessly, there is not a single moment when you will not find all you could possibly desire. The present moment hold infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.”
This book’s a ton of fun, doing the exercises of seeing that you have no head or the other one of pointing your index fingers out at the world and the other back at yourself while appreciating that all of existence is at the end of both finger tips is, well, fun. But there’s great insight too, as I’ve hopefully shown above. Y’know, spirituality doesn’t have to be about being the hero/victim of it all. At the end, it’s all just about being and this book is a great wee read to remind us of that.
If you like this article and want to read this book, you can buy it here: On Having No Head

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New Team Owner Vince Neil Promises Arena Football’s ‘Hottest, Sexiest’ Cheerleaders
It's unclear what kind of football team Vince Neil will field when his Las Vegas Outlaws open their inaugural season against Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's LA Kiss team in March. But the Motley Crue frontman intends to have the most memorable cheerleading squad in the Arena Football League.
"We are going to have the 10 hottest, sexiest girls in Las Vegas leading the team, the best beauties in the league," Neil tells the Las Vegas Sun. "The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, who once made headlines around the world, will pale by comparison to what we assemble."
The team has since posted an announcement for tryouts, to be held on Monday (Jan. 5). Specific requirements about attire are noted, including that candidates wear "booty shorts." That's in keeping with previous comments by Neil, who offered a direct reference to one of Motley Crue's best-known songs in talking about the squad: "This really will be 'Girls, Girls, Girls'! They will look as if they have stepped right out of the hottest music video of all time."
This debut season has actually been a long time coming for Neil, who should have more free time on his hands now that Motley Crue are leaving the road.
He previously bought a minority share in the Jacksonville Sharks arena football team, he tells ESPN, "just to kind of get my feet wet -- and then asked to get the franchise, and all the team owners approved it. It's like a dream come true. Getting an expansion team in a league is pretty hard, as it is. So it's exciting."

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Encounters Across Cultures
Edited By Hedda Friberg-Harnesk, Gerald Porter and Joakim Wrethed
The issues addressed all look ‘beyond Ireland’. In considering the creative frictions and fictions that result from the dissolving of old loyalties, these essays examine contested concepts such as ‘the nation’, and attempt to shed light on global forces that demand cultural re-definitions and transformations. The world order that let loose the Celtic Tiger has brought, together with a diversified Ireland, new forms of dependence. It is one of the main aims of this book to explore how Irish writers have regarded this diversification and contested that dependence.
Charles I. Armstrong Drinking Tea, Drawing Ideograms and Making Waves: Pursuing the ‘Japanese Ef fect’ in Irish Poetry 11
Charles I. Armstrong Drinking Tea, Drawing Ideograms and Making Waves: Pursuing the ‘Japanese Ef fect’ in Irish Poetry What happens when an Irish poet sits down to write a poem about Japan? Is the result satisfyingly described as an encounter of two autonomous cultures, which are separate and yet able to communicate or overlap with one another? Or are more encompassing ideological, and conceptually fuzzier, borders at stake? And what conceptual and interpretative frame- works are mobilized when the Japanese dimension that is being evoked is, quite specifically, a work of art or an artistic experience of some kind? The appearance of a recent volume of Irish poems responding to Japanese art and society, published in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan, has made the asking of such questions both easier and more urgent. Edited by Irene de Angelis and Joseph Woods, the book in question is titled Our Shared Japan: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry,1 and includes of ferings from no less than eighty-five Irish poets. Most of the poems that will be discussed here are included in it. After a general preamble on the issue of the cul- tural encounter of Japan and Ireland in verse, I will deal specifically with some of Sinéad Morrissey’s Japanese poems, before going on to look at two responses to Hokusai’s famous image of The Great Wave. In the final part of this essay, poems dwelling on the Japanese tea ceremony...
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We have been Shinedown fans for years! And on Amaryllis the song I'll Follow You, has very special meaning to us! My husband joined the Navy to help me through school, to follow my dream to become a professional dancer! And to us it is about following each other and being there for one another no matter what, in the time when he is away on deployments and through everything! We have always spread the word and encouraged friends, family and even total strangers to listen to Shinedown, because you guys have amazing music full of meaning that anyone can relate to!
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The invention provides a polymer system, including a first composition and a second composition. The first composition is different from the second composition. The first composition includes a first gelator, the first gelator including a plurality of acylhydrazine moieties. The second composition includes a second gelator, the second gelator including a plurality of formyl moieties. At least one of the first composition and the second composition includes a prepolymer. The invention further provides a method of using the polymer system to form a polymeric material via multiple stages to more effectively control the rheology of the components over a variety of timescales.
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In the United States, one “standard” drink (or one alcoholic drink equivalent) contains roughly 14 grams of pure alcohol, which is found in: 12 ounces of regular beer, which is usually about 5% alcohol. 5 ounces of wine, which is typically about 12% alcohol. 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, which is about 40% alcohol.
How many drinks a day is considered an alcoholic?
Heavy Alcohol Use:
NIAAA defines heavy drinking as follows: For men, consuming more than 4 drinks on any day or more than 14 drinks per week. For women, consuming more than 3 drinks on any day or more than 7 drinks per week.
How much do you drink to be an alcoholic?
Key Chain Blood-Alcohol Testing May Make Quantified Drinking Easy. Women who consume eight or more drinks per week are considered excessive drinkers. And for men, excess is defined as 15 or more drinks a week. (The researchers defined a drink as just 5 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer or 1.5 ounces of spirits.)
How much does a heavy drinker drink?
What do you mean by heavy drinking? For men, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming 15 drinks or more per week. For women, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming 8 drinks or more per week.
How many drinks per hour is alcoholic?
Drinks per hour rule
The general rule of thumb is that 2 standard drinks in the first hour will raise your BAC to 0.05%, and 1 standard per hour thereafter will maintain that level. To do a quick calculation of whether you are over 0.05% BAC, simply take the number of hours since your first drink and add 1 to it.
What happens if you drink everyday?
Drinking too much puts you at risk for some cancers, such as cancer of the mouth, esophagus, throat, liver and breast. It can affect your immune system. If you drink every day, or almost every day, you might notice that you catch colds, flu or other illnesses more frequently than people who don’t drink.
Am I an alcoholic if I drink a bottle of wine a night?
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) defines a glass of wine as five ounces, and there are about five glasses in a standard bottle of wine. … While this is often considered a good rule of thumb, it doesn’t necessarily mark someone who drinks more than recommended amounts as an alcoholic.
Is drinking 3 beers a day an alcoholic?
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, drinking is considered to be in the moderate or low-risk range for women at no more than three drinks in any one day and no more than seven drinks per week. For men, it is no more than four drinks a day and no more than 14 drinks per week.
Is 20 beers a day too much?
Moderate drinking is defined as one drink a day for women, and up to two drinks a day for men. So, that daily (or twice daily) beer isn’t an issue for most people, as long as you can stick to it. … Drinking more than that on a regular basis can put you at risk, and often reverse any health benefits of drinking beer.
Is drinking 6 beers a night too much?
A man who drinks six to eight 12-ounce cans of beer every day on a regular basis can almost count on developing liver cirrhosis within 10 to 15 years. Cirrhosis is a scarred, nonfunctioning liver that bestows a most unpleasant life and an early, gruesome death.
How do I know I’m an alcoholic?
A doctor will diagnose alcoholism when three or more of the following have been present together in the past year1: An overwhelming desire to drink. An inability to stop or to control harmful drinking. Withdrawal symptoms when stopping drinking.
Can you drink every night and not be an alcoholic?
“While there are a number of variables, typically having a drink every night does not necessarily equate to alcohol use disorder, but it can increase the risk of developing alcohol-related health problems,” Lawrence Weinstein, MD, Chief Medical Officer at American Addiction Centers tells WebMD Connect to Care.
What is the average lifespan of an alcoholic?
People hospitalized with alcohol use disorder have an average life expectancy of 47–53 years (men) and 50–58 years (women) and die 24–28 years earlier than people in the general population.
Can I drive after 2 beers?
The American Beverage Institute says a 150-pound man would be over the 0.05 limit after two beers, while a 120-pound woman could exceed it after a single drink, though that can be affected by a number of factors, including how much food has been consumed, according to a report by The Associated Press.
Is a .28 alcohol level high?
A BAC in the range of . 37 to . 40 or higher can cause death. Most people begin to feel relaxed, sociable and talkative when BAC reaches 0.04.
Can the liver repair itself after years of drinking?
The liver is very resilient and capable of regenerating itself. Each time your liver filters alcohol, some of the liver cells die. The liver can develop new cells, but prolonged alcohol misuse (drinking too much) over many years can reduce its ability to regenerate.

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Bombers smash 5 homers in victory over Rangers
The New York Yankees slugged their way past the Texas Rangers as they hit five home runs en route to their 7-3. The win was their fourth straight.
Aaron Hicks opened the scoring with a two run home run in the bottom of the first. Later in the bottom of the fourth inning, the Yankees hit back-to-back home runs Miguel Andujar hit a two run home run and Neil Walker followed that up with a solo home run to put the Yankees up 5-1.
In the following inning, Giancarlo Stanton hit a solo home run which was the hardest hit of the season at 121.7 mph. In the bottom of the sixth inning Neil Walker hit his second homer of the night to put the Yankees up by the final score of 7-3.
J.A. Happ earned his 12th win of the season and his second as a Yankees, as he went six innings and only gave up three runs while striking out nine.
Andujar went 2-4 with one home run and two RBIs while Walker went 2-4 with two home runs.
Masahiro Tanaka will get the start tomorrow night as the Yankees look to extend their winning streak to five wins.


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Immortals is a 2011 American fantasy action film directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Freida Pinto, Joseph Morgan, Daniel Sharman, and Mickey Rourke. The film was previously named Dawn of War and War of the Gods before being officially named Immortals. It uses motifs of the Greek myths of Theseus, the return of the Heraclids, the Minotaur, and the Titanomachy, but the plot does not resemble any coherent narrative originating from Greek mythology.
Principal photography began in Montreal on April 5, 2010. The film was released in 2D and in 3D (using the Real D 3D and Digital 3D formats) on November 11, 2011 by Relativity Media, becoming a commercial success at the box office by grossing over $226 million. Premiering in Los Angeles on November 8, 2011, the film received mixed reviews, with critics praising Tarsem's direction and visuals, acting, ensemble cast, action sequences, production and costume design, and music score, but criticized the film's storytelling and the lack of character development.


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nib Newcastle Knights Head Coach, Adam O'Brien, spoke to the media ahead of our big clash with the Brisbane Broncos tomorrow night.
After an impressive performance against the Raiders, the Knights have turned their focus to backing up and performing well against the Brisbane outfit.
O'Brien discussed how they've handled the four day turnaround, his decision behind resting Jayden Brailey and the special reuniting of families last week.
THE QUICK TURNAROUND
"The boys are very professional in terms of their recovery," O'Brien said.
"I think they're excited by the challenge.
"It was physical and mental (recovery), we didn't overload them with a heap of video.
"We did a brief review (after the Raiders game) and it was all about getting them into ice baths and into pools.
"We've trained really well this morning and had some intensity in that.
"Look at our swimmers, they're standing on that podium and not too long after that they're qualifying for the next event.
"So that's similar for us with the Raiders (result), happy with the win but we're onto the next game.
"There will be no excuses from us, we'll be ready to go.
AOB: Broncos prep and short turnaround
RESTING JAYDEN BRAILEY
"The one thing I know about Chris Randall is he keeps himself extremely fit," O'Brien said.
"He done the job for 90 per cent of the season last year so it's not foreign to us, we know what Randy brings. He's a tough competitor and has earned the right.
"I don't feel any sort of unease about giving Jayden (Brailey) a rest and bringing Randy in.
"That's not understating what Brails gives us but he has played every game bar 30 minutes.
"To ask him to play in the middle would have been a test after a four day turnaround."
Barnett: Broncos pack and COVID challenges
REUNITED WITH FAMILIES
"It's given us a bit of an energy boost," O'Brien said.
"Not only for the guys that are attached to those families, the single guys who are up here on their own gave them an energy boost.
"Having the kids here, I have tough time keeping Connor and Kalyn away from running all the kids activities. They've been amazing.
"I think it's a great from the NRL to allow us to have that support network here."


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Political Alignment Case Study#
This data science case study explores the relationship between political alignment (conservative, moderate, or liberal) and other attitudes and beliefs. It is meant primarily for teaching and learning about data science, but we might do some research along the way.
If you are working through the Elements of Data Science curriculum, you should be ready to start this case study when you have completed Notebook 6, which covers basic Pandas.
This material is a work in progress, so your feedback is welcome. The best way to provide that feedback is to click here and create an issue in this GitHub repository.
Videos and Slides#
I presented this case study for PyData Global 2020.
Here are the slides I presented
And here are the videos:
For each of the notebooks below, you have two options: if you view the notebook on NBViewer, you can read it, but you can’t run the code. If you run the notebook on Colab, you’ll be able to run the code, do the exercises, and save your modified version of the notebook in a Google Drive (if you have one).
Cleaning and validation: The first notebook loads data from the General Social Survey (GSS) and walks through the process of cleaning and validating the data. At the end, you can help me by choosing a random variable, checking the values against the codebook, and reporting your results.
Exploration: This notebook uses the tools of exploratory data analysis to look at survey responses about political alignment. It uses PMFs to display distributions, time series to represent changes over time, and cross tabulation to look at changes in distribution over time. It also introduces local regression as a way to plot a smooth line through noisy data.
Political alignment and outlook: This notebook explores the relationship between political alignment and three survey questions related to “outlook”. It uses a pivot table to compute the mean of the response variable grouped by political alignment and time.
Political alignment and other beliefs: This notebook explores the relationship between political alignment and other attitudes and beliefs. It is a template for a do-it-yourself, choose-your-own-adventure mini-project, where you have the chance to explore a variable in the GSS dataset and report the results.
Copyright 2020 Allen B. Downey
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)


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Our recent study (J Natl Cancer Inst, 102, 1322-1335, 2010) demonstrated that the expression levels of 9-nAChR in breast cancer tissues were very high (>8 fold higher than the level in normal tissue) in Taiwanese patients (n=276), particularly in the tissues of late-stage patients (those in stages 3 and 4). In order to monitoring the real-time nAChRs expression in human, we used the expression nAChRs of leukocytes as the evaluation index. In our experiment, we found nicotine exposure could induce nAChR expression on monocyte and promote foam cell formation. Though our ongoing preliminart clinical trial data, we found a strong nAChRs inhibition of 50 participants by two month Pu'er tea capsule taking. In vitro (Förster resonance energy transfer, FRET) and in vivo (Split luciferase) experiments, data illustrated 9-nAChR activation is through complex formation with growth factor receptors on breast cancer cells. Further investigation of drugs which interfering 9-nAChR complex may help developing novel treatment strategies for breast cancer therapies. Three years proposal are listed below: Year One: Aim 1: The correlation of nAChRs expressions between breast tumors and leukocytes on breast cancer patients. 1. Establishment of bio-bank database of clinical breast tumor samples. 2. Analyzing nAChRs expressions of leukocytes subtypes on breast cancer patients. 3. Seeking the pathologic significances of nAChR expressions on leukocytes and breast tumors by using cross validation. Aim 2: Clinical trial of Pu'er tea suppressing nAChRs expressions on leukocytes. 1. Participants recruitment. (The first year) 2. Observation of suppressed nAChRs expressions on leukocytes by Pu'er tea. 3. Establishment of nicotine exposure measurement ex-vivo. Year Two: Aim 1: In vitro experiments of active compounds in tea suppressing nAChRs expressions on leukocytes. 1. Study whether or not nicotine promoting the nAChRs expressions on leukocytes. 2. Observation the correlation of nAChRs expressions and foam cell formation on leukocytes. 3. Investigating the mechanism of EGCG suppresses foam cell formation through nAChRs inhibition on leukocytes. Aim 2: Clinical trial of Pu'er tea suppressing nAChRs expressions on leukocytes. 1. Participants recruitment. (The second year) 2. Analyzing the metabolic disease improvement by Pu'er tea capsule taking. 3. Analyzing the sensitive improvement of breast cancer therapy by Pu'er tea capsule taking. Year Three: Aim: The investigation of 9-nAChR complex formation in breast cancer therapy. 1. Establishment of fluorescence fusion protein system for 9-nAChR complex study in live cell model. 2. Establishment of split-luciferase system for 9-nAChR complex study in animal model. 3. Observation whether or not nAChR antagonists interfering 9-nAChR complex formation. 4. Study the synergic effect by nAChR antagonists and clinical breast cancer drugs. 5. Building a long-term breast cancer therapy evaluation of nAChR antagonists on 9-nAChR complex.
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- Foam cell
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We’ve been using Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground for part of our development testing since 2003. We’ve always ‘driven’ our development vehicles rather than just rely on a dyno for calibration development.
And, over the years, we’ve used a number of test facilities. The locality of Bruntingthorpe has worked very well for us as it’s only 30 minutes away from Revo HQ.
Regardless of the product, we’re developing we always assess the standard vehicle. Whether we’re looking at calibration, braking, airflow or any other area on a vehicle we test to see what the vehicle (or part) is capable of.
Engine calibration is normally one of the first things we look at. This involves assessing where physical restrictions are with a vehicle. In turn, this helps us to prioritise hardware development.
The intricacies of development differ depending on the type of product we’re talking about; hardware Vs software for example.
Road, Track & Dyno
Whether we’re solely looking at Stage 1 engine calibration or a package consisting of hardware and software (Stage 2, 3 or above) we follow the same basic testing procedures. Road testing, dyno-testing and track testing.
A proving ground enables us to drive vehicles in high speed, high load, high-stress scenarios in a safe, controlled manner. It’s physically impossible to do this on the road without breaking the law. And even if someone was willing to do that it would be incredibly difficult to perform consistent tests on the road.
Moving To Millbrook
We’ve been looking at different facilities for some time now, just to improve on our (already thorough) high-speed testing procedures.
However, earlier this year Bruntingthorpe was bought-out and have restricted access to their facility to OEM only; so no driver training, no race car testing, no aftermarket.
We’ve made great use of the facilities there over the years and it’s a shame it’s come to an end but, to be honest, there are better places to use.
What is Millbrook, who else uses it and where is it located?
Millbrook has a number of test facilities around the world but their UK automotive site has over 70km of test tracks and a vast range of test facilities.
It was originally built by General Motors in the 1960s as a test site for Vauxhall and Bedford. But was sold in the late 80s and the facilities opened up to non-GM companies.
It’s now one of the best independent vehicle test and validation facilities in Europe.
What are the advantages of Millbrook over Bruntingthorpe?
Bruntingthorpe is an ex-RAF base and is essentially a privately owned airfield. The track can be used in a number of ways but it really is one track based around a runway.
Over the years the vehicle storage has taken over some of the track space and, to be honest, the track surface has never been great there. Stones (causing stone chips) have always been an issue.
Millbrook is (to be blunt) in a different league. It doesn’t really give us more ability in terms of the testing we want to do, but it makes it much easier for us to perform those tests.
Millbrook has specific tracks for each type of testing (high speed, acceleration, handling, etc.) rather than one for all (ala Bruntingthorpe).
The quality of the tracks are much better and overall it’s much more professional. Take the High-Speed Circuit as an example; whilst you could use the runway at Bruntingthorpe to take a car to high speeds you couldn’t hold it there for any considerable length of time.
The High-Speed Circuit enables us to keep a vehicle up at speeds in excess of 150mph to test durability and protection methods for a number of miles. Acceleration testing is another area where Millbrook helps.
At Bruntingthorpe you always had to wait for there to be no one in the way and had to compensate for slight incline/decline depending on which part of the track we were on.
The difference in surfaces had a big impact on traction as well; the ‘Mile Straight’ at Millbrook is completely flat with purpose-built banked entry and exits and is limited to one user at a time. It’s therefore much better suited than the old runway at Bruntingthorpe.
What do we test (what parameters, EGT etc) on the vehicle at a proving ground?
Depending on what we’re testing and where we’re at within the development process our tests will differ. With initial testing, we’re looking at what a vehicle does in standard form.
For example we monitor the fuel system, airflow/boost capability, temperature control and look at how efficient the factory systems are, how much headroom there is with existing components and what’s likely to be the biggest restriction.
We run specific tests for different parts of development; general driving is as important as all out full throttle tuning. We’re not just trying to make vehicles faster we develop to give a better driving vehicle for our customers.
Key to development testing is understanding what is going on behind the scenes so we constantly monitor and log as much as possible using both OBD and external sensors.
For example, if we’re looking at protection at high load/speed we want to know what’s happening with turbine speed, exhaust gas temperature, injector and fuel pump duty cycle to name but a few. This way we can make sure we know where limitations are and put in suitable protection measures.
Why don’t we just use a dyno for development (like some other ‘tuners’)?
We do use a dynamometer for development, we just do much more than that so it’s a small part of development rather than the be-all and end-all.
Dyno’s are great tools but they do have limitations. As a brief overview, a dyno is trying to simulate real-world conditions and unless in a cell with full climate control and unlimited adjustable airspeed it will never be suitable as a sole testing tool.
When we can test legally and safely in real-world conditions and use our dyno facilities for verification and vice versa why would we only develop on a dyno?
How important is high speed ‘real world’ testing on a proving ground?
You could argue that our customers will mainly be driving on the road at up to legal speeds so we don’t need to test at triple-figure (MPH) speeds.
However, when we have customers all over the world driving in a number of different conditions on the road and the race track in different scenarios our high-speed testing is a crucial requirement.
We couldn’t develop our products to the same level if we weren’t able to do it. Putting a vehicle through this kind of testing allows us to push it to levels that the majority of customers would never quite get to.
In doing that we ensure that we’ve exceeded anything a customer would be able to do and covered all bases.
We know what’s going to happen at speed and how our products will perform which is why we’re always 100% confident in both the quality and performance of everything we offer.
Do we only make one trip to a proving ground to test a vehicle? Or multiple trips?
Testing at a proving ground isn’t a one-off per development project it plays a large part in any project and is something we tend to do a few times a week.
For many years we had an office space at Bruntingthorpe as we were on the test track so often.
Using facilities as Millbrook enables us to run all our development testing on our own vehicles which gives us the knowledge and control to be able to continue development with distributors in remote regions around the world.
Once we’ve completed testing in the UK (or on-site elsewhere in the world) our Global Development Programme is used to refine control systems. Accounting for fuel variations and altitude adjustments required in different regions.
This wouldn’t be possible without the in-depth testing we do behind the scenes before we entertain region-specific fine-tuning.
What’s the plan with Millbrook going forward?
It’s business as usual for Revo; Millbrook has become a very useful resource for us. Our testing programmes continue as previously but now at a much better facility. We’re just travelling south rather than northbound on the M1 to get there.
Words by: Kev Hall, Revo Technical Development Manager