I'll never forget the first time Outer Wilds made me say "holy shit."
I'd gotten the launch keys to my spaceship for the first time. Still confused, still a little bit unsure. What's happening here? What is this video game about? How does this all work? Where am I supposed to be going?
Still, I followed the prompts. I approached my spaceship -- a rickety wooden shack of a thing. I pushed some buttons, and soon I was afloat, soaring effortlessly into the darkness of space. Still confused. Still unsure.  I don't get this at all.
Then, in the distance, a planet. A vivid green dot splotched in the void. "I'll head there I guess," I said to myself, more out of confusion than anything else.
Struggling against the controls of the ship, I headed toward the green planet, eventually hurtling into its dense green atmosphere at top speed. "I can't see shit," I whispered, but then I emerged from the fog.
Giant's Deep still blows my mind to this day.
I only had a split second before I splashed headfirst into the ocean, but I saw it. This was a water planet, toylike in size. But that didn't startle me -- it was the whirlwinds. Six of them at least, competing with one another in an otherworldly storm on the waves. As I floated back to the surface, water streaming down the windows, my eyes turned into saucers.
The wind whipped as the competing whirlwinds galloped across the surface, so powerful they launched entire islands into the atmosphere -- literally into space -- before they crashed back onto the planet. I'd never seen anything like this in a video game. I'd never seen anything like this before, period. But this was Outer Wilds. In Outer Wilds, the blisteringly imaginative becomes normalized.
Outer Wilds is a video game about exploring space, but it's also a mystery to unravel. Following in the footsteps of the Nomai, an alien race that perished thousands of years ago, Outer Wilds is a game that has you playing space detective, investigating the ruins of an extinct civilization in an attempt to find exactly what the hell happened? The twist: Outer Wilds is centered on a Groundhog Day-esque time loop. You have precisely 22 minutes to investigate before the sun implodes, taking your entire solar system with it. All that remains: The knowledge you acquired during those precious few minutes.
Outer Wilds is a mystery that reveals itself in a traditional video game manner -- through audio logs, written notes and so on -- but the execution is so inspired you barely notice the tropes. Through its inventive locales and subtle puzzles, Outer Wilds consistently inspires a level of awe unlike any video game I've ever played.
Outer Wilds has you traveling back and forth to a handful of different planets, each more bizarre than the last. Each is laden with strange advanced technology left behind by the Nomai. A clue found on one planet might lead you to a new locale in a planet you visited previously. Sle mystery you're trying to solve. There's no shooting, no complex platforming. In Outer Wilds the currency is knowledge, knowledge players use to figure out their next step and, consequently, solve this strange mystery on a meta level. The result: a constant, revelatory joy, a series of "holy shit" moments that make Outer Wilds unforgettable.
Outer Wilds is constantly evoking awe. There's Giant's Deep, the aforementioned planet with its competing hurricanes, but there's also Brittle Hollow, a world collapsing before your eyes. Descending deep beneath the surface you watch as entire sections of the planet are swallowed by a black hole vibrating at its centre. One false step and you yourself could fall through it.
And what happens when you fall through a black hole in Outer Wilds? Well, it would be rude to spoil the surprise. But it's as mind-bending as you might expect.
But unlike the cool, clinical sci-fi of, say, Interstellar or Arrival, Outer Wilds is a homely, almost acoustic invention: a small-scale snow globe of a universe, precisely imagined and executed. As if it expanded wholesale from the collapsing atoms in Bon Iver's beard. That's part of its charm. Its most outlandish moments inspire awe because they're grounded in a world that's familiar to us, almost anachronistic.
You sail into space in a craft made of wood, wearing a spacesuit Your home planet is a hipster's dream, like a shrunken vision of the Canadian wilderness or a Grizzly Bear music video. Outer Wilds' unique cast of characters swing on hammocks on alien planets and play the banjo at campfires as the universe collapses around them.
It all leads to this overwhelming feeling: You're trapped in a universe where your traditional ideas don't make sense. Where gigantic sci-fi ideas of space travel feel just beyond your primitive brain. All you can do is stare -- in awe -- as the sun implodes in a brilliant blue flash, your time loop complete. Before you awake once more with a gasp, ready to explore the strange universe of Outer Wilds all over again with fresh eyes.


Penser Dieu: noétique et métaphysique dans l’Antiquité tardive
Anca Vasiliu, Penser Dieu: noétique et métaphysique dans l'Antiquité tardive. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie: nouvelle série . Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018. 410 p.. ISBN 9782711628285 €34.00 (pb).
Matthias Perkams, Universität Jena. matthias.perkams@uni-jena.de
This book is a complex attempt at following closely different late antique approaches for describing how “thinking God” is possible. The different conceptions developed by late ancient authors are described according to their common traits and strategies as well as according to their differences, which the author describes in a subtle and competent way. This is particularly useful, because the book treats pagan Neoplatonics like Plotinus and Porphyry , the Jew Philo, and Christian authors (Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa) alike. Whereas most authors treated here have written in Greek, some Latin voices are also taken into account, especially Marius Victorinus and the Liber XXIV philosophorum which is usually (but not without dispute) reckoned to be a medieval text. However, the texts in themselves are not the topic of the study, but, more generally, the strategies by which their authors approach the problem of thinking God. Consequently, Vasiliu presents a systematic argumentation in three main steps, which is illustrated by selected texts from the specific authors.
The book starts with a “provocation,” which gives a sketch of the problems. They are characterized by a combination of noetic and metaphysics, because especially the relationship between act and potentiality plays a crucial role for describing the noetic activity of thinking God. After the provocation, an “introduction” reminds the reader of some important statements by Plato and Aristotle, which pave the way for the late ancient discussion. The main part contains three large chapters:
The first of them focuses on the notion of an image. It starts by analyzing a text by Philo of Alexandria in De opificio mundi, according to which the human nous is an image implanted by God in man’s creation such that the physical human being “carries a statue” (agalmatophorein) in itself which explains its capacity to think God by its ability to think about the divine image in itself. This observation is explained by some historical remarks on the theories of image between Plato and Porphyry, before it is further developed by a close reading of some texts of Marius Victorinus.
The second chapter treats directly the notions of act and potency in the noetic realm as they are developed especially by Plotinus, whose elaborations form the core of the chapter. Again, Marius Victorinus is also quoted at length because he transposed the Plotinian conception into a Christian, Latin framework, where he stresses mainly the unity of the divine substance in spite of the distinction between act and potency.
The third part trea: The first of its sub-chapters focuses on the theories of the trinity by Basil, who sees a “common honour” of the three divine persons, and of Victorinus, who develops the concepts of relationships further. Very interesting is the second sub-chapter, because it discusses the concept of hypostasis and its inherent possibility of describing an individual entity before the horizon of the common nature of a species, which is present in a concrete form in the individual hypostasis. Vasiliu underlines this point as well as the interest of various late antique philosophers in treating individuality, which she observes already in Plotinus and Porphyry, but which gets much more conspicuous in Basil and Victorinus. The result of this process is Boethius’s famous formularationalis naturae individua substantia. The last sub-chapter discusses the relationship between “one” and “total” on the one and “oneness” and “totality” on the other hand. Here, Vasiliu uses a text of the Liber XXIV philosophorum as starting point for displaying the presence of similar, but slightly different, conceptions in Plotinus and Porphyry.
The main ideas are repeated briefly in the resumé which may be recommended for anybody who wants to comprehend its argument without reading each chapter.
All in all, it should have become clear that this is a remarkable book, which presents many ideas not very well known among those many students of late ancient philosophy who deal mainly or exclusively with Neoplatonic authors, while ignoring their Christian contemporaries. Furthermore, it is a systematic analysis, which develops its arguments by a very personal selection of texts. On the one hand, Marius Victorinus (intensively treated by French scholars from Pierre Hadot onward) is treated at length, on the other hand, Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Proclus, and Damascius are nearly totally absent, in spite of their crucial contributions to the problems discussed here. This is, however, no general failure of this book, it is simply the result of the choice of certain texts for illustrating the problems discussed. Of course, one may wonder, that certain texts are lacking, for example the very neat presentation of the notion of hypostasis in Gregory of Nyssa’s Ad Graecos de notionibus communibus. However, the importance of Penser Dieu lays in the systematic path it follows throughout, while highlighting the philosophical implications and justifications also of such texts and authors who discuss specifically Christian problems of the trinity. Vasiliu shows that they use amply and competently philosophical concepts, such that their thoughts deserve to be evaluated philosophically also by today’s scholarship.
Thus, there are plenty of good reasons for anybody interested in late ancient philosophy of studying this book, even if it is no easy reading, given its partly very complicated and somewhat repetitive French style. Anybody who really wants to understand the late ancient discourse on the thought about God should not hesitate to consult Penser Dieu, which is well suited to open new perspectives even for experienced researchers in this field.


Nathan Brown, on behalf of the Hunt Saboteurs Association said "People who get their kicks from killing animals have shown themselves to have no regard for human life either. Anyone who voices opposition to these rural vandals is bullied or beaten into silence. How dare they whinge about the right to hunt as if it were a human right when they actively try to deny real Human Rights – the Right to Protest and the Right to Life!"


This is a Part 3 of the Blender 2.8 Basics tutorial series. You can check out the previous part where we look into basic modeling and editing objects. Or the first part if you missed it, which explains interface, moving in 3D space and shortcut keys.
In this part we will continue learning Blender Basics. Specifically:
Non-destructive modeling and Modifiers. What they are, what are the main advantages of using them and how to utilize them.
Materials. Basics of materials, how to apply and edit them.
Before proceeding to modifiers we need to make clear one thing. There are two main ways of modeling – destructive and non-destructive. At this point we only saw and worked with a destructive way of modeling.
Destructive is when you change something in your object and it saves like that without an easy way to revert the change. Meaning that if you, for example, delete the vertex of your house and after two hours of working you decide that you need it back – there is no easy way to do that. As simply Undo(CTRL+Z) will not help here, it was too long ago.
On other hand, non-destructive modeling is clearly different. You can easily revert any changes and tweak them at any given time. Modifiers are exactly a non-destructive way to edit your objects. Besides, they can really simplify your work and make it faster. Let’s look at them closer and you will understand exactly how it works.
After previous part of the tutorial you should have a house really similar to this one:
And you could have noticed that it is really thin. All the walls are basically one pixel in width, which looks weird. Houses are definitely not supposed to be like that. How about fixing it then?
To fix it we are going to use modifiers. Select the house object and open the “Modifier Properties” tab in the Properties Editor:
In this tab you can add and modify modifiers of the selected object. If you press “Add Modifier” – a drop-down list will appear where you need to select what do you want to apply. We need a “Solidify” modifier that makes things thicker:
Note, that you can not apply modifiers in Edit Mode. So change at the top left or press TAB key to change to Object Mode.
House should have received a bit of thickness and new information should appear. You can control the applied modifier here. In this case we can change how thick it makes it, its offset, how it looks and other stuff, that we don’t need right now:
We only need to change the “Thickness” option. Make it whatever you want. I myself set it to 0.03 m. Zoom in on the house to see the changes better. Also check how it looks in the edit mode. Notice that you there are no real geometry in the appeared thickness and you can’t control it.
This is because, as was explained before – this is a non-destructive change. So if in two hours you decide that your house needs to be thicker or thinner again – you can change the modifiers options without any problems or delete it altogether.
To use other modifiers we will extend our scene a bit – add a fence post and then multiply it to create a full-length fence around the house. Creating a fence should be really easy as it is basically really similar to what we already did in Part 2.
You can also add other details to a fence. I will add planks to its back, so it would not be just a line of fence posts. They are just two cubes scaled down to small rectangles and placed at the back of the fence post.
Then, to connect these objects, I shift-clicked on them and the post to select them. Important to select the object that you want to connect to as the last object. Because the last object selected would be the main. With objects selected right click anywhere and choose “Join”(Ctrl+J) so they would become a one connected object.
For the modifiers: we will firsty add a Bevel modifier that adds a bevel to every edge of the object. This smoothes out the object and makes it look better. You can also add this modifier to the house after you added Solidify.
Change the “Offset” value in the modifier settings to control how much bevel do you add. Also if you have problems with it and bevel behaves strangely – try to Apply(Ctrl+A) “Rotation and Scale” in Object > Apply.
Now we need to make this a line of the same objects. To help us with this we will use another modifier called Array.
This modifier creates an array of your initial object. Exactly what we need right now. Change the “Count” and “Offset” in the modifier settings to something appropriate:
Now you can duplicate the fence object, rotate and move it around the house to create a good fencing:
We only looked at the surface of the Blender Modifiers. You can check out our Blender Basics: Modifiers tutorial to learn more about them. For example about one of the most used modifiers – Blender Subdivide.
Now is the time to make our scene more alive by adding materials to it. But before that we need to change our viewport shading. As right now we see everything shaded in the same grey colors.
Viewport shading controls are situated at the top right of the screen or can be summoned with the press of Z button.
There are 4 main viewport shading options. First is the “Wireframe” that shows just geometry of each object:
Second is the default view that we worked in all this time – “Solid”. Third is a simplified version of the Eevee rendering engine with the built-in HDRI. It is called – “Material Preview” and it is the shading tha we want to work with materials.
Last is the “Rendered” shading that changes depending on your rendering engine selected in settings.
So I am going to be in the “Material Preview” shading from now on out. Everything became really bright white instead of the grey. This is a default Blender “no material” look.
I have added a plane and scaled it big at the bottom of the scene, so it would work as grass. Now our house would be standing on something and not just floating on nothing:
This plane is a good place to start with the materials. You need to select the object and proceed into the “Material Properties” tab of the Properties editor.
In this tab we can see that the selected object has no materials and create one for it by pressing the “New” button. After doing that you should see new settings appearing. We are only interested in the “Base Color” and “Roughness”  at the moment.
“Base color” is quite understandable. You can click on it and choose the color and brightness of the object. As I want this plane to be a grass I will choose something green.
Another option is “Roughness“. It controls how reflective the object is. Meaning that lower the roughness – more reflective the object. At 0 Roughness the object becomes fully reflective as a mirror.
But grass is not supposed to be reflective. Basically as any other object in our scene too. So I will set everything at around 0.9-1.0.
Now I will create wood-like material for the fence. But this will apply material to only one of the four parts of the fence. Instead of creating new material for each fence I can use the same material for each of them.
To do that you simply need to select the object that you want to apply a material to. And then in the “Material Parameters” press a button near the “New” button. This will open a drop-down list of all materials available on the scene. Here I can simply choose already created material.
After creating and applying all materials I ended up with this scene:
As you can see the house looks not as good when it is in single color all over it. That is why I recommend you to learn more about Blender Materials in our corresponding article(Coming Soon). There you could learn about such things as metallic and transmissive materials.
Conclusion Blender Basics Tutorial: How to Create a 3d House – Part 3
And here is where Part 3 of the series ends. Today we learned a lot of new and important things, such as non-destructive modeling, basic modifiers and how to add and modify materials. And also we almost finished working on your first scene – a simple 3D house.
Check out the forth tutorial part of the series, where we will introduce you to the Blender basics lighting and rendering. We will finish the house scene by adding lighting and placing cameras and then rendering it out.


We have to be polite to terrorists – we don’t want to insult them, or make them feel like we don’t like them – their feelings might get hurt – I think we should start sending cards to terrorists – Just thinking of you!– Wishing you were Here!– Maybe then the terrorists will like us – and if they don’t – maybe we should give them our homes or our countries…..we just have to keep trying to ingratiate ourselves to them!
"Electrostatic painting to external windows of an Place of work ground (the inside facial area only) ground arear. require a quotation asap and when accepted will materialize straight away"
We are searhing for a candidate which is professionallooking to extend our crew...three days back - preserve job - far more...
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"I have continued work in our province for the municipality of various villages. We've built nine schools in Meath and several new churches, along with health centers in the villages to provide aid to the poor, which has been reflected in programs aired four times on Austrian television. Albanian Television was silent as always!However, I will not stop my work and it will all come to light with Austria's help in rebuilding the churches, in particular Vig Mirdita. I wish for my country to have religious access in all the provinces."


"We are doing testing twice this week, PCR testing for all employees and all assisted living residents," Ruske said. "We did the first round on Tuesday the 21st and got those results this morning and everyone (staff and residents) is negative."


Google Earth Engine is a cloud computing platform for processing satellite imagery and other Earth observation data. It provides access to a large warehouse of satellite imagery and the computational power needed to analyze those images.[1] The platform was developed by Google, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, the United States Geological Survey and TIME.
The Landsat program started doing continuous earth observation right after its development in July 1972, making it the longest and most complete running record of the landscape of the planet. These satellites pass over the same places on the Earth every sixteen days, moving from pole to pole, revealing dynamic changes of the Earth over time.[2] These key changes, like the progression of agriculture, natural resources,and climate can be now viewed on Google Earth Engine.[3] Google Earth Engine has become a platform that makes Landsat data easily accessible to researchers.[2]
The Google Earth Engine provides a data catalog along with computers for analysis; this creates an environment where scientists can collaboratively share data, algorithms, and visualizations using URLS’s.[4] Partnering with the United States Geological Survey, Google Earth Engine is using these 40 years of satellite images to provide images of changes in the Earth’s surface, to be used by corporations, scientists, governments and the people at large.[5] To drive this engine, Google went through 909 terabytes of data, images dating from 1984 to present day, and found the clearest images to improve research quality.[6] Initial applications of the engine have included mapping the forests of Mexico, identifying water in the Congo basin, and detecting deforestation in the Amazon.[7] Another application is the Timelapse project. Working in association with TIME, Google has created a global time-lapse image which allows users to view landscape changes in any location on Earth.
Using the Google Earth Engine to track global forest loss or gain, The University of Maryland was able to show an overall forest loss around most of the world.[8] The Google Earth Engine is bringing the ability to accurately track deforestation at a regional and global level to groups such as REDD and even tropical nations.[9] Through the data, storage and computing muscle supplied by Google, one can visualize forest change in a fraction of a second over the web.
The Carnegie Institute for Science’s CLASlite system and Imazon’s Sisteme de Alerta de Deforesation (SAD) are two institutions that have developed technologies towards making Google Earth Engine a reality. Carnegie Institute for Science’s CLASlite system, led by Greg Asner uses satellite imagery and laser deployed from airplanes to build high-resolution, 3-D maps of forests that measure logging and any environmental disturbance related to the forest. SAD led by Carlos Souza uses satellite imagery to detect and report deforestation.[10]
^ Gardner, Timothy (Dec 2, 2010). "Google unveils satellite platform to aid forest efforts". reuters.
^ a b Google. "Google Earth Outreach". Retrieved from https://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tools/earthengine.html. 11 March 2014
^ Dunbar, Brian. "New Public Application of Landsat Images Released." NASA. NASA, n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2014.  .
^ Gorelick, Noel (April 2013). "Google Earth Engine" [1]. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
^ Miller , Susan. "Google puts decades of Earth's changes into time-lapse animation -- GCN." Google puts decades of Earth's changes into time-lapse animation -- GCN. N.p., 9 May 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.  .
^ Moore, Rebecca. (2013, May 9). Retrieved from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-picture-of-earth-through-time.html
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^ Hansen, M. C. et al. (November 15, 2013). "Global Forest Change" [2]. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
^ McClendon, B. (2009, December 16). Official google.org Blog: Earth Engine, powered by Google. Retrieved from http://blog.google.org/2009/12/earth-engine-powered-by-google.html
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Wow, congratulations on your acceptance to Stanford's Class of 2023!
In reality, my experience was enjoyable but definitely not what I imagined. I stood in line to get my welcome packet, having polite if not awkward conversations with the other students in line and feeling intimidated by the accomplishments that surely filled the room. After, I went to a mixer where it was more of the same. It had been a couple hours and I already felt like I was behind in making friends. People had been connecting with other people from their home towns or meeting at events based on common interests. People were discussing pros and cons of going to Harvard, Princeton, Yale or Stanford. Meanwhile, I knew nobody at the event. I had no clue where to start with the jam-packed schedule I was given, and I had already committed to attending Stanford in the fall. Before I knew it, the first day was finished, and my excitement was slowly starting to fade. In its place came worry. Did I make a mistake?It shouldn't be this hard, should it?


Does a lawsuit against your former team give a player a legitimate reason to receive immediate eligibility?
Why not? Folks get it for stupider reasons.
Ha ha, interesting. Didn't his dad play at Tennessee, and isn't his brother committed there? From Knoxville I know.
i'd like to know on what grounds he's filing the lawsuits.
the chair manufacturer.....i can maybe see it if it's a defect in the chair. but the university? how is the chair getting wedged against a column the university's fault? sure they may have put it there, but any sane, rational, grownup wouldn't have sat in it if they thought there might be an issue.
seems to me like somebody's just trying to either get paid for being stupid or trying to get a waiver to play right away. i hope the ncaa denies him that chance, if that is the case.
Had your finger chopped off while folding it up in a lawn chair and somehow wedging it against a column at a public sporting event?
CALL ME, ALABAMA!!!
Are stars aliening for the vols next year?
Look!! If we have seen people sue McDonalds for having hot coffee and win, then this lawsuit is indeed very winnable!!! The stupidity that is put in a jury box these days is unbelievable!!!!! Add to that, the NCAA is just as bad and will likely allow this waiver.
Not to mention Brandon Kennedy (4-star / No. 296 overall) being back at center as well. This is an OL that can compete in the SEC.
Now if Pruitt only had a QB for them to protect...
I used to work at Home Depot with his brother. He was always embarrased by his advertising and nickname. His brother was a very smart dude as well.
A lot more to that law suit than just the "coffee was hot."
I know that the person scalded themselves with it among other things. Just condensing the case. I once served as jury foreman on a case where a lady was suing Hardee's because she slipped and fell on a wet morning. I convinced the others on the jury that this was more or less a scam and she lost. More to the case, just condensed version.
By conveniently leaving many relevant parts, but sure go ahead.
Yeah, try reading it rather than linking. There's so much more than "hurr durr she poured it on herself, didn't deserve 3 million!"
Be an ass if you like, but I was in a hurry when I mentioned the case and didn’t have the time to go into specifics. People argued frivolous litigation and to be honest, I didn’t recall the extent to the woman’s injuries.
You made an argument based on what can only be considered a lesson in urban legend. You then admitted you didn't actually know the facts. When it was pointed out to you that there were more relevant facts than you acknowledged, you refused to do the research. You instead smugly posted a link that itself would have informed you of some of the complexities if you had taken the time to read it. You haven't really earned a diplomatic response at that point.


""ethnic cleansing"."


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People always think that they are not the ones who will have to deal with the consequences of their actions. Even less do they ever truly consider what those consequences might actually be...
I was presenting on behalf of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during the summer at the peak of Sea Shepherd's shark defence campaign, Op Requiem.  During my presentation I mentioned that the biomass of sharks left in the oceans compared with 20 years ago was estimated at no more than 2% of what it had been.  It is really hard to get a definitive reference for that figure but we can estimate the numbers being killed every year from Hong Kong shark fin auction records and it must be obvious to all that you cannot remove up to 100 million (yes I did say one hundred million) apex predators from the ocean EVERY year without having an impact.  Underwater studies where sharks have been removed consistently show new aquatic wastelands where previously there had been the most amazing and healthy biodiversity: biodiversity that produces most of the oxygen we breathe! (Google that one if you will, I used the terms - phytoplankton oxygen production - and the results give you a wide choice of scary considerations...)
During the Q & A session a chap who had earlier introduced himself as a financier and bullion dealer asked me if, "...[that] really mattered in the grand scheme of things?"
My response was to ask him what would happen if someone found a way to make gold disappear; not just steal it, actually remove it from the planet?  Reverse alchemy it from gold back to a base metal if you like.  What would be the result if, today, there was only 2% of the gold left in the World that had existed 20 years ago?
"Impossible!" he said, "Our entire economic system would collapse.  The World simply could not survive as we know it if that happened.  It would be a disaster.  Everything we know would have to change...."   I am quoting him accurately.  While he was saying this he visibly blanched.
So what is the result of removing an entire order of animal from the planet?  If you have read this far could I ask you to think about the consequences of that...
Our Western culture has developed a means of treating these ailments.  We treat them with a combination of sticking our head in the sand and - for the wee bits of horror that still somehow manage to sneak through - we treat them with pills (anti-depressants) and potions (alcohol).  We far too rarely treat the mind and we even more rarely devote our time and energy to attacking the root cause that has brought the problem to bear in the first place.
If you have clicked on either of the links above, you will realise that this isn't actually a medical blog today, despite the title.  Today's blog is about me healing myself.
Step 1: remove the blinkers; acknowledge that some bad stuff (some really bad stuff) is happening out there; resolve not to let it break me because that helps no-one, least of all the dolphins and pilot whales in Taiji's killing zone; resolve to do something about it.
Step 3: make sure that I (and anyone still reading this) understand what real action involves.  You either get yourself out to Taiji or you dig deep, stick your hand as far into your pocket as you can reach, take out as much money as you can afford - and we can always afford more than we think - and make sure you give it to someone who will go to Taiji.
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Crew on Spaceship Earth
Crew for Spaceship Earth
To be considered as crew on Spaceship Earth, please answer the following questions:
How well do you think you will interact with the other species on board?
Have you ever deliberately killed one of your own or one of the other species?
Have you ever allowed that to be done on your behalf?
Even just by ignoring pollution and other man-made harm?
Even just by ignoring deliberate killings that (you think) don't affect you?
Passengers for Spaceship Earth
Which part of the spaceship would you least like to be accommodated in?
If there really was an interview to be allowed to stay on the planet, how confident would any of us be that we would pass it?
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Primum non nocere, first do no harm, a Latin phrase that has been around since before the Hippocratic oath was drafted.  How curious that our thoughts for centuries on how we harm ourselves have been applied to direct harm upon the physical human body with no thought to early intervention, early prevention even though we clearly had the language and intelligence to make that logical connection.
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So welcome to my blog, I hope it will be an interesting journey for us all and remember, first do no harm.
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Are Hawley’s concerns about the downstream social effects of these platforms warranted? Research is in its infancy, and the early results are mixed. However, I see a consensus starting to emerge. The findings from a recent article in the journal Psychiatric Quarterly by are typical, showing an enormous negative association in adolescents between heavy social media (and other digital media use) and life satisfaction. In their words, “Heavy users . . . of digital media were 48% to 171% more likely [than light users] to be unhappy, to be in s.”
Of course, correlation isn’t causation, and it’s theoretically possible that depressed teens are simply more likely than their peers to engage in heavy social-media use. The best way to sort this out is to use experimental methods — as with drug tests — where social media is randomly assigned to people and the effects compared with those of a control group.
A few studies have done this. For instance, last year their study of undergraduate students randomly assigned to one group with dramatically limited use of social media — 10 minutes per day on each of three platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat — while a control group was given unlimited social-media use. The result: Compared with the control group,”
And so it can be with smartphones and with social media generally. No one thinks that a few minutes a day on Twitter to see what’s trending in one’s area of interest or using Facebook to set up activities with friends is deleterious to one’s mental health. Note that Twenge and Campbell found that light users actually tend to be a bit happier than nonusers. Light users employ social media as a complement to real life. The problem is when light use metastasizes and begins to substitute for the real human connections in life.
Some think that the supposed addictive properties of social media make this metastasis inevitable for many people. Others, such as Hawley, believe that the companies encourage this for commercial purposes: “Social media only works as a business model,” he said at the Hoover Institution, “
However, there are also “demand-side solutions,” controlled by us as users, consciously limiting our exposure and rationing our use of social media. It starts with the question of whether social media is substituting for the people and things we love and value. Ask: Do I have fewer in-person interactions because of social media? Am I using social media to pass the time? For a writer like me, has Twitter displaced any of my work on articles and books? If myreset.
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Manager Eric JonesEric attended and graduated from Professional Umpiring school in Kissimmee, FL in 2010. He played his youth baseball for Newmarket Hawks. He attended Huron Heights S.S where he excelled in baseball (2004-2007) He started coaching Huron Heights S.S (2008-18,22) as Third Base and Pitching Coach. Capturing a YRAA championship (2009) and two OFSAA appearances (2009&2016). While at Huron, Eric is in contact with numerous American and Canadian colleges. He managed Nobleton/Newmarket Cornhuskers, Sr. Men's team from the NDBL (2013-2017) and Manager 13U St. Anthony Angels Baseball Academy (2020-2021) After coming back from Professional Umpiring school he was awarded and named Umpire in Chief for Newmarket Baseball Association (2010-2015) He started umpiring in the IBL in 2010 and most recently in the WCBL for two seasons (2018,2019)Eric knows the game and rules more than most. His Baseball I.Q threatens and rivals all coaches. He is always trying to develop and teach players to be smarter and better players.
BRYAN BOUDREAU
Bryan Boudreau has been a truly valued member of the Lake Simcoe Baseball Academy family since the beginning. As our Bench and Pitching Coach, Bryan 're performing to the best of their ability. Bryan played his youth baseball with Newmarket Hawks and then as a pitcher for Team Ontario in 2010 and 2011. He attended Huron Heights S.S where he was the captain in his Senior year and won a YRAA championship and OFSSA appearance in 2009. In 2012 Bryan attended a professional try out in Sauget, Illinois USA and only Canadian to make the final cut. He played in the IBL for five seasons as a pitcher with Guelph Royals from 2012-2016. Bryan topped out at 94mph.
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Chris Andrews has been with us since the very beginning. He will train and mentor play. Chris played his baseball with Newmarket Hawks, Richmond Hill Phoenix, Vaughan Vikings, Markham Mariners, Mulock S.S and Ontario Cardinals. Chris played his Sr baseball in the GTBL with Martin Grove (2014), Cornhuskers in 2014-2017 and most recent with the NDBL Bolton Dodgers. Chris wants to help improve baseball skill and baseball I.Q.
DWAINE NICHOL
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Dwaine started his baseball career at a young age, playing 8 seasons of AAA baseball for the Etobicoke Rangers organization. As well as 3 OFFSA appearances for his high school Bishop Allen Academy, including a silver Medal. He later took his abilities further and was the leader of the Seneca College Baseball team from 2014-2018. Dwaine captured 2 team MVP's during his years at Seneca. He is inspired by previous professional coaches and utfield/Bullpen Coach
Daniel started his elite career being recruited to pitch for the Ontario Tigers 14U team (2005-2006 season) Furthering his career he progressed under the watchful eye of the Canadian Thunderbirds Baseball Club for the 16U-18U years (2007-2009). During that time Daniel played for Huron Heights S.S as the only Freshman to make the team. In his Senior year Daniel was an excellent team leader and Captain, leading the team to capture a YRAA championship and solid appearance at OFSAA, alongside Eric Jones and Bryan Boudreau. With college in sight and careful consideration, Daniel sought after a scholarship to follow his dreams in a career in Firefighting and baseball. After attending a few different schools, and convincing coaches to make the trip to a scouting event, Daniel landed a scholarship to a D3 Junior college in Lansing Michigan. With bright eyes and a talent for the game, Daniel wants nothing more than to share his knowledge, as well create the starting path towards a scholarship for those striving for a future in post secondary and baseball.
BRAD MCLELLAN
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Brad attended Huron Heights S.S and began playing elite baseball as a 16-year-old on an 18U Ontario Tigers Team. Under the tutelage of former New York Yankee, Adrian Hernandez, Brad played 2 years with this organization before moving onto the Canadian Thunderbirds Baseball Club. Brad played here for his final season before earning a scholarship to play with Morton College in Illinois. Brad aims to bring his knowledge,f athletes.
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FDA Issues Salmonella Warning for Wegmans Pine Nuts
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Cynthia A. Diaz-Shephard	Last week5,000 pounds of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. Turkish Pine Nuts over concerns about potential Salmonella contamination.
The FDA is now warning consumers not to eat Wegmansâ€™ bulk Turkish Pine Nuts, noting that 43 cases of Salmonella poisoningâ€”salmonellosis â€“have been linked to the potentially contaminated Wegmanâ€™s Pine Nuts. The Salmonella Enteritidis is involved.
The Turkish Pine Nuts are packaged in unlabeled plastic bulk containers at Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. as well as in food items Wegmans may have prepared using the bulk Turkish Pine Nuts, such as pesto, salads, or baked goods. This recall does not include prepackaged pine nuts sold at Wegmans.
Wegmans is voluntarily recalling about 5,0 43 illnes; no deaths have been reported.
The recall was initiated as a result of a multi-state outbreak investigation being conducted by the CDC. Wegmans is collaborating with the CDC, the FDA, on this matter and using customersâ€™ Shoppers Club card, Wegmans placed automated phone calls alerting impacted customers about the recall Wegmans has placed on the Turkish Pine Nuts.
The FDA is advising consumers to reviewthe recalled Turkish pine nuts. Consumers should not eat these pine nuts and should throw away or return the recalled Turkish Pine Nuts to Wegmans for a refund. Consumers experiencing symptoms consistent with r. Wegmansâ€™ consumer affairs department can be reached, toll free, at 1.800.WEGMANS (1.800.934. (ET).
According to Wegmans, the recalled Turkish Pine Nuts, which were imported from Turkey, were distributed by Sunrise Commodities of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The FDA is reviewing the supply chain to determine if any other retailers may have received the recalled Turkish Pine Nuts and if additional recalls are necessary..
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If we assume that creativity is like any other muscle in our body, then iPad is the best portable gym ever invented. The only one in the world, actually.
I believe that using iPad’s creative apps gives people who have no professional experience a chance to try things they wouldn’t normally have access to, like painting, picture manipulation, music composition, animation, film editing and more. It can be argued that creative works made on the iPad could never be considered ART and compositions made using Garage Band are nowhere close to being professional. Yes, but that is the whole point- Exciting new freedom of creating without the restriction of ‘being professional’, making ‘art’ or simply being ‘good enough’. Not everybody will buy After Effects but using iStopmotion app anyone can make their own animation. iPad is not restricted to being held on tripods to make the stop motion pictures work. The app is designed in a way that lets you move your camera position freely and still keep the animation flawless!! It is a Brilliant tool for future filmmakers.
IPad enables people to do things they always wanted but often couldn’t do. Like creating your own stencil art!! Not all of us have the courage or a message strong enough to go out to the streets at night and paint. Thanks to Fotofitti app we can all create stencil-like art. This app is one of the best examples of how using iPadreacts to the shadow and contrast. In order to create a good stencil one has to start with a good picture. Inexperienced and amateurish photographers, like myself, suddenly notice the shadows and contrast issues they did not pay any attention to before.
And, believe it or not, I started composing again. I never considered myself to be especially talented in this area. Composition was always a chore for me, an assignment, a module I had to pass. I never believed it worth my time to compose using MIDI sequencers just for the pleasure of it. Using MIDI is time consuming. I remember my struggle, over eleven years ago, when I tried to write down a melody that came to my head on a bus. I had composition module to pass and that melody seemed the best idea I’ve had for ages!! The only way to write it down was to take a piece of paper and a pen and start placing the notes on a stave. The only way I knew how to do it was to use the intervals between each note and sing them in my head to place the next note on the right line.  Now I’ve got Garage Band. No need to comment.
It might be that pieces created on an iPad will never be considered art and that is just fine. I consider it great practice. Besides, even rubick’s cube can become a work of art in the right hands. So can the iPad when employed by a creative mind.
The argument over Apple and Micro….(fill in the blank) has and will always continue to rage on and tO try and have a constructive debate is a pointless and fruitless task. I myself, grew up in a PC based world and continued to use them throughout my working life dealing with the pros and cons of this platform, so you could say I have a in depth opinion on this subject, I feel from my point of view the moved to Apple was born from frustration and annoyance of a system that when running smoothly is excellent and stable but when not can create a chaotic mess which can and does create loss of work/productivity etc etc. Apple on the other hand has addressed this issue with a system that just works, systems are designed in house to their specifications instead of the more expandable open source hardware choices within the PC market. Yes, they are expensive but I would prefer a system that is reliable and aesthetically superior that runs software that sparks creativity and increases productivity in most cases. We should also take into account of the connectivity between all Apple products which comes as standard, this in its own right is worth the extra outlay. Android and IOS are excellent in their own right and are. Oth more than capable of dealing with there respective tasks. The point I am going to finish on is it is all down to personal choice, if you IPad gets your creative juices flowing then all good, if your android tablet rocks your world then again, all good.
This comment will undoubtedly spark an argument from whoever is passionate about their chosen platform, my comment to this is grow up and let people choose for themselves.
Nice post Alicja, some really good points.
I got an Ipad for Christmas and I’m looking at it in the same way you are, as a creative device. I’m really getting into the apps and all the wonders this may bring.
I got an iPad for Christmas and I’m typing this on it right now. I love it so much that I gave one to my wife for her birthday today. I like your blog and your viewpoints on things. Thanks for the good read. Cheers.


Scrum activities like Sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. CSM is recognized across multiple industries and organizations. So, to take up this exam, candidates must go through CSM training by verified trainers. After the training, they need to pass the certification exam. The validity of the certification is two years, after which you should renew it.
Top 5 Reasons To Go For CSM Certification
You will gain respect in your organization:
A certification requires your dedication and efforts. It validates your skills and knowledge. Your colleagues will identify your potential and will get inspired to take up the certification. This will also benefit them on their personal levels and the organization as a whole. You will gain the trust of your peers. You will be trusted with challenging projects in your organization based on your skills.
Hence, you will receive many opportunities to learn and grow. Also, a certification often rewards you with a promotion. You can take your career higher up based on your skills. CSM training also enhances your interpersonal skills, which You become a better team player and communicator. This will also help you gain the trust of your clients. Hence, your company will treat you as an asset.
CSM certification helps the candidate be better in predictive approaches. You must identify the potential risks in the upcoming projects or any strategies and find ways to mitigate the risks. You must know several ways to deal with the situation while following the principles of Scrum. It will train you to prioritize tasks based on the business goals.
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A.Ron and Jim are primed and ready for season four of USA's Mr. Robot. Check back with us next week for our full coverage podcast on the Mr. Robot premiere!
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SDCC came and went like the multi-billion dollar enterprise that it is, flooding our humble tubes with trailer upon trailer of new and returning television series, and we're here to talk about them ALL! Then we discuss the new Amazon Prime Video series that tugs on Superman's cape; The Boys. Finally, we say a fond adios to Los Espookys. Can't wait to see what spooks you get up to next season!
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The latest episode of USA Network's Mr. Robot, "eps3.8_stage3.torrent" manages to raise a lot of questions that we're hoping to get at least some answers to for the finale next week. Has Elliot really managed to "own" the Dark Army, or is this an elaborate rope a dope once again by White Rose? Is Phillip Price really out of plays? Who's driving the van that picks up the now super crazy Angela? Is Dom and Darlene secretly working together to out Santiago as Dark Army's rat inside the FBI? And for the love of God, what exactly is White Rose up to?! See you next week where we can find out together!
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CINCINNATI Fifth Third Bancorp, which created processing giant Vantiv, Inc. and helped take it public earlier this year, expects to earn as much as $280 million with the sale of as many as 13.6 million Vantiv shares registered last week.
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On one hand, these are heady times for major labels: MBW analysis set to be published later today (December 10) will predict that the record companies of Universal, Sony and Warner will generate a combined $14bn in 2019 – yes, that’s more than $1bn per month.
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Meanwhile, the major music companies are having to factor in another, related threat; when their ownership of copyrights expires, are they or someone else more likely to acquire these assets in the aftermath?
All of this is interesting context to consider ahead of a big announcement today:… in tandem with Warner Music Group.
The new platform, Tempo Music Investments, will seek out catalog acquisitions in both the publishing and recorded music spaces. It launches with $650 million inNYC-based Influence,and Co-Managing Partner Lynn Hazan, will be exclusively managing the assets in the fund.
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I know the chances of that are remote but still, a hole is a hole...
When is a hole not a hole?When it's a backdoor!
When is a-hole not a-hole?When it's a backdoor!
What does it explain, precisely?
We can beat this. Just talk about penetrating the firewall using a backdoor ...


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While hoit’s fair to say that some cybercrimes are known to appear around holidays.
As the FBI and CISA say, both businesses and individuals typically let their guard down during holidays and weekends. That makes it easier for cybercriminals to successfully attack.
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The FBI’s Inpes of Internet crime in the United States in 2020. That’s a record number of complaints.
Reported losses from these crimes hit $4.1 billion.
The 2020 number is an increase of 69 percent from the total number of Internet crimes reported in the United States in 2019.
Those complaints represent more than $16.8 million in losses.
That’s a 62 percent increase in reported attacks when compared with the same time frame in 2020.
The lesson here? Be aware of cybercrimes this holiday season.
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A humanitarian emergency generally can be described as "an acute situation affecting a large population where through disruption or displacement neither the population nors it's government is capable of providing for all of the basic needs."
As for school requirements, the CDC has stated,"States affected by Hurricane Katrina had immunization requirements for school and daycare and it is likely that children enrolled prior to the disaster would be vaccinated appropriately. It is not necessary to repeat vaccinations for children displaced by the disaster, unless the provider has reason to believe the child was not"


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Remember those nice lads from the south who came to Bangkok and organized protests against the military junta's coal-fired power station plans?Yes, the lads who have a leader who is a royal and who called for a counter-coup if they didn't get their way?
It seems good lads can even threaten the junta without having to worry too much. Of course, the junta may change its political judgement about these lads, but at the moment they seem "protected."
He went on to threaten the media: "…[he] warned that anything revealed to the media could be libellous."
The NHRC stated that "[o]ther witnesses were too scared to even talk to members of the rights body team yesterday."
Perhaps that's why the witness who has been threatened is being assisted by the NHRC and will likely "go into a witness protection programme."


News & Photos 60 Years of Israeli Innovation
At a Glance: Israel boasts 4,123 high tech companies, 156 venture capital funds, 147 investment firms, 411 foreign investors, 33 technology incubators, 7 top universities and more than 2,000 startups ranking it second only to the United States relative to population.
When it comes to entrepreneurial infrastructure, the similarities between Silicon Valley and Israel are striking. In both places, corporate hierarchies are despised, risk-taking is rewarded and failure tolerated. Israel also boasts several elite universities, such as Technion in Haifa, and research centers run by big technology firms such as Cisco, Microsoft and Intel. Among OECD countries, Israel is ranked first in civilian R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP. Entrepreneurs have their pick of providers if they need legal or other services and there are plenty of well-funded venture-capital firms providing cash. Excerpts from this piece have been taken from: The Jewish Advocate, The Economist, Israel in the World
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Over on the FFG forum, Hordeoverseer asked, “Who is the worst investigator?”It’s a tricky one, so can data tell us the answer?
How do you even define worst?
I guess it’s Ashcan Pete. Only 6 health/5 sanity?
Really?Ok, we’ll look further up the chart. Preston has 1/1/1/1?
Who needs stats when you can pay your way?
How about Diana?A willpower of 1?
In which case, the worst must be Carolyn and Ashcan with only 11 on their stat line. I don’t care about Ashcan’s dog, or Carolyn’s healing skills: they’re weak!Surely these are the worst investigators?
Forget stats, perhaps the answer lies in the number of published decks on ArkhamDB.com?The worst investigator must be the one who nobody uses, right?
As of July 2019, the 5 least published investigators are Marie, Rita, Silas, Preston and Calvin. Surely that’s a sign they must be terrible investigators?
Voice of Reason: But Andy, you forget a vital piece of the puzzle: the game isn’t about winning, it’s about story, and immersing yourself in a character’s story. It’s about deck building. You could take Calvin and have a riot with him. That might make him the best investigator. What about Jenny Barnes?She’s the most popular on ArkhamDB.com, and got the highest health. Maybe she’s the worst because she’s so predictable?Can’t you see that there’s no such thing as the worst investigator?
Voice of Reason, I bow to your wisdom!There’s clearly no such thing as the worst investigator, but it shouldn’t stop us enjoying having the conversation!
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Maybe another way of looking at how good a character is, is seeing how many XP their upgraded decks have?If you had data available on average XP per scenario for different characters, would that give an indication of how good the characters are?


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Facebook has Sunday in a full-page ad in the British zondagskranten again apologies for the privacyschandaal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. “We have a responsibility: to protect your data. If we do not succeed, we earn that isn’t, ” writes Facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg.
Cambridge Analytica played a role in the election campaign of president Donald Trump and  Zuckerberg offered earlier this week, apologized in a post on the social networking websites. He announced a number of concrete measures that the social network will take to user to protect.
In the Facebookpost spoke to the ceo about a ‘breach of trust’ between the social network and its users. Zuckerberg does the same thing in an ad on the last page of the majority of the British zondagskranten. With almost the same words excuses the billionaire himself for the mistakes that the company made and announces he preventive measures.
For the European commissioner for consumer Rights, and Justice, Vera Jourova is not sufficient. “I expect further clarification from Facebook. To what extent are the European users approximately been affected”, asks the Czech in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.


AUSTIN — The last time the Salado boys golf team was sporting gold, it was the end of an era.
In what is longtime Salado golf coach Bobby Peschel’s final season after a decade at the helm, Eagles junior Dane Hankamer took it on himself to make sure he went out with one more gold medal around his neck.
After bogeying seven of the front nine holes, Hankamer battled severe winds to score 1-over-par on the back nine, including parring his final three holes Friday to shoot a two-day 156 (77-79) and win the individual Class 2A state golf championship at Roy Kizer Golf Course.
“We knew this was his last year coming in, so individually I felt like I had to win it for him since he’s accustomed to winning so many (gold medals),” Hankamer said.
Fellow junior Kase Spears had his second-straight big day, shooting a 6-over-par 77 — including 2-over on the front nine — and finished tied for eighth individually with a 161, while Kyle Heiner contributed a 184 (88-96), Javier Cruz-Cortez had a 201 (95-106) and lone senior Brandon Womac shot a 221 (114-107).
“It definitely sent a few butterflies through my stomach, but after I got off the tee box well I was confident that I could put it on the green,” he said.
Of course, pars are what won it for Hankamer, who was even through the final three holes while his closest competition, Marion medalist Scottie Brown, double-bogeyed No. 16 and 18 and Holliday’s R.J. Trainham — who was one stroke back of Hankamer through 14 and led after Day 1 — triple-bogeyed No. 17 to fall out of contention.
“I feel like I’m more mature than I was freshman yearplay well on those last few holes,” Hankamer said.
Hankamer redeemed himself from a rough front nine with a birdie on a 424-foot par-4 No. 11, using an 8-iron from 140 yards out and then sinking the 10-foot putt.
“That birdie was a huge momentum swing, after that birdie I knew I was right back into it and had a good shot to win,” he said.
With his confidence back, Hankamer was a par machine, finishing even on five of the last seven holes, including the final three to secure the.


How come Becoming Too Nice so you can a woman Have a tendency to Bring about Rejection?
Well, this is a confusing you to definitely for a lot of guys to help you see as you will often listen to lady proclaiming that they “like” sweet guys.
When women are talking about men these are generally trying to find, they will certainly usually say things like, “He’s thus sweet” or “he’s so nice,” it appears like that’s the key to success that have women.
And make one thing far more complicated for males, lady never grumble concerning sweet procedures that nice boys promote them. They won’t tell one, “Hey, being nice if you ask me will not get you placed otherwise generate me personally wish to be your girlfriend.”
Alternatively, they just soak up all of the sweet medication and bed with men which makes them be the way they want to feel. What exactly do females actually want to end up being whenever interacting with a good child? Keep reading to get the answer.
When a man notices one a woman are responding during the good positive answer to their sweet conclusion (we.e. she is smiling, experiencing the focus, experiencing the comments and not telling him to leave), he will have to keep acting this way because it renders him have more confidence. They feels very good your girl he wants is being nice in order to him, cheerful and you can demonstrating demand for talking-to your.
It appears becoming working well, very he may upcoming imagine, “Okay, well…I’m going to keep this and we hope I could grow for her. Develop she will make ideas for me throughout the years.”
How does she refute the great child when he tries to take action for her? How come she say, “You may be stupid…we need to you should be nearest and dearest” otherwise “Sorry, I do not must ruin all of our relationship” when he attempts to query her from a night out together or recommend having a continuing relationsip?
In the event that she provides becoming around your and you may appreciates his nice choices, as to the reasons cannot she want an intimate connection with him? What is the missing little bit of the newest puzzle?
They are Creating Emotions out-of Friendly Love In the place of Sexual Attraction
For many who run are sweet so you’re able to a lady and you will avoid up being too sweet so you’re able to her, it really brings attitude out of friendly affection close by, maybe not intimate attraction.
Check out the dictionary meanings less than to see the difference. The real difference is in the sexual desire one interest brings opposed for the “comfortable affection” that’s developed by impact amicable love for another person.
Passion (noun): A gentle feeling of fondness otherwise liking. Appeal (noun): A quality or element of someone one evokes desire, taste or attention.
If the main means you are using which have ladies or having a specific woman that you https://www.datingranking.net/reveal-review/ want, will be a great guy doing her and have now their feeling a casual affection for your requirements, then it is maybe not planning to work.
After you just be sure to intensify what things to a next level (elizabeth.g. get an unknown number, arranged a night out together, kiss the girl or ask her aside), this woman is most likely attending state “No” because she will not getting interested in your.
In place of attitude of intimate interest, she feels no need to be one thing besides a buddy or a complete stranger to you. Intimate destination is what makes their want to have intercourse which have your or begin a romance to you.
How does Are Too Sweet so you’re able to a lady Often Result in Getting rejected?
Getting a great, becoming sweet, becoming sincere, laughing after all the lady humor being sweet to the woman was perhaps not things that could make the lady end up being sexual destination having you. Those things remain high to-do, but they dont number to have anything sexual in the event that she cannot getting keen on your.
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