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Unlike the anabolic diet, there is no phase in the metabolism diet that completely relinquishes carbohydrates. Nevertheless, the metabole (metabolic = "regarding the metabolism") diet is one of the low-carb diets and relies mainly on the supply of fats and proteins as energy suppliers Amount of carbohydrates should be consumed.
In the metabolized diet, the carbohydrate waiver, unlike the Atkins or anabolic diet, is not bound to given days or phases but depends on the physical activity of each day.
How does the metabolic diet work?
In this diet variant, it is believed that the right timing of a moderate and balanced carbohydrate intake leads to a long-term weight loss. The carbohydrates are given a permanent place in the daily diet and they are not demonized as "fattening." Rather, one wants to promote the metabolism and the hormone balance in such a way that the body uses it properly, uses it purposefully and uses its advantages.
In terms of the number of carbohydrates to be included, a distinction is made between days when you are physically active and days when you are resting or rather less active. First and foremost, however, the diet should consist of fats and mainly proteins. For example, the intake of nutrients on training days should consist of 60% protein, 30% carbohydrates, and only 10% fats.
Even on non-training days, the amount of ingested protein should be respected, while the ratio of carbohydrates and fats should be reversed. 30% of the energy consumed on these days comes from fats and only 10% from carbohydrates.
Healthy fats can be taken in the form of nuts (eg walnuts, Brazil nuts, peanuts, and hazelnuts), oils (eg olive, coconut or linseed oil), high-fat fish and meat, avocados, olives, and eggs.
In the case of the macronutrient ratio, the high protein content is noticeable. On the one hand, this should favor the preservation of the fat-free cell tissue, provide the body with sufficient amino acids and create the feeling of satiety.
The following foods should meet your protein requirements:
✔Pork, lamb, beef
✔Various types of fish
✔low-fat quark
Which carbohydrates should be included in the metabolism confusion for weight loss?
Basically, increased amounts of short-chain carbohydrates (ie the sweet things like cakes, chocolate, soft drinks, etc. but also white bread) are undesirable.
Long-chain carbohydrates in the form of rice, potatoes, noodles, and oatmeal are however to be preferred. Fruit should only be consumed in moderation to provide the body with the necessary vitamins, but not over-fructose it with fructose.
When should carbohydrates be taken during the metabolism diet?
1. Carbs should be consumed immediately after getting up because the body has not filled its glycogen stores during the night and needs energy. Carbohydrates can be easily converted into energy as a macronutrient. This gives you strength for the day and makes it easier to get out of bed! On training-free days, the largest portion should be supplied in the morning to prevent fat storage. Fat should be consumed separately from the carbohydrates so that it is not stored.
2. Before exercise, a moderate amount of carbohydrates is added to provide the necessary energy. In addition to protein should be included. This makes you powerful and the body does not rely on the body's own muscle tissue.
3. After exercise, carbohydrates are also needed to replenish the depleted glycogen stores during exercise. As a result, carbohydrate intake is given exactly when you need it. The body burns it through physical activity and it does not come to fat storage. Rather, he attacks excess body fat as soon as the carbohydrates are consumed.
The intake should be daily – depending on individual circumstances such as everyday design, weight, and gender – from 50 to 130 grams.
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It was a "beautiful day" for U2 fans this week. The band announced on Instagram they were going to preform at the iconic Roxy theater on the Sunset Strip Thursday night (May 28), proving once again they are truly the rock stars of the people.
They looked cool and collected backstage before playing an intimate set for 500 fans. "The official 'back stage at the Roxy' team shot," The Edge captioned.
Gearing up for the Roxy gig,
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Folks, the fat and ugly noise issuing forth from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mr Martin Amidu to create the misleading impression that the Office of the Special Prosecutor will do anything spectacular to eradicate corruption from Ghana makes me wonder whether they really know "the Ghanaian Sphinx".
Don't get me wrong. Eradicating corruption from Ghana is a laudable move; but the cards stacked up against it are frightening, clearly because of the systemic problems that resist solution and the tacit connivance of those pontificating against corruption while cunningly promoting it.
All that has been happening over the years indicates that the fight against corruption cannot be waged and won through empty political rhetoric or spur-of-the-moment measures such as trumping up allegations/charges against political opponents and portraying them as corrupt and ripe for prosecution.
It appears that all the attention is focused on drawing the dagger against those perceived as political opponents who happen to oversee institutions, as is emerging under Akufo-Addo.
It is nothing new. Ghana's history is replete with such measures, especially when a government is no more in power and its functionaries become the bull's eye. Commissions of Inquiry set up to investigate happenings under President Kwame Nkrumah started it all. It didn't solve the problem.
Succeeding governments going that way couldn't use such means to end corruption in Ghana. The draconian measures used by Jerry John Rawlings' AFRC wreaked much havoc but didn't solve the problem.
The PNDC's version didn't work either. Its Citizens' Vetting Committee, One-Man-One-House Committee, and the Confiscated Assets Committee couldn't either. Rawlings' "house-cleaning exercise" turned out to be a wash-out.
(After snuggling to Nigeria's Abacha and being favoured with millions of Dollars to sing Abacha's praise and after his wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, masterminded the divestiture of Nsawam Cannery to her for which she was being tried only for President John Agyekum Kufuor to unilaterally end it all and free all others facing court for high-level corruption, what justification do the Rawlingses have to talk about corruption anymore? And to imagine that Rawlings was instrumental in the appointment of Martin Amidu as the Special Prosecutor irks even more.)
In our 4th Republic, all talk of the fight against corruption provokes concentrated ridicule. It's all a matter of those wielding political power turning the gun against those they wish will not rebound to wrest political power from them.
From Rawlings to Kufuor, Mills to Mahama, and now Akufo-Addo, it is the same old story told in different ways. Too much ado about nothing. Only the blowing of needless hot air to irritate us.
That is why Akufo-Addo's cosmetic measures don't mean anything for as long as the institutions to help him succeed are themselves weak and unprepared for the responsibilities placed on them. It is all hot air being blown about. Time is oozing out; and by the time the political rhetoric ebbs, little would have been done.
So far, some cases highlighted as instances of corruption have hit the headlines. That of Dr. Stephen Opuni, former CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board, caught much attention to the extent that the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General would even stick her neck out to say that he would be imprisoned for 25 years at the end of his trial (even before his trial begins)!
The Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO) that took it upon itself to investigate him rashly froze his bank account, which reinforced claims by the government and its surrogates that he was guilty of corruption.
Now, what do we have? A High Court in Accra has ordered the EOCO to de-freeze all his bank accounts. What does this court order tell us?
Another instance. The trial of those charged with corruption at the National Communications Authority is moving at a snail's pace—in fact, stalled—because of technicalities.
Snippets of many other cases being trumped up are emerging. What is clear is that there are too many complications in our judicial system that won't easily allow Akufo-Addo and his government to have a field day just because they are politically charged to point accusing fingers at those they construct as corrupt.
That is why all the zealousness with which this lame-duck government and Martin Amidu are going about things makes me wonder whether they really know what is at stake. Amidu is talking about prosecuting people as if the road ahead of him is paved with gold.
Not until the inadequacies of the judicial system are identified and tackled, all the threats against those constructed as corrupt and worthy of punishment will amount to nothing. It will only embolden them to devise better means to perpetrate their activities and erase all traces.
For now, the Opuni case speaks volumes that must be heard. Corruption in our Ghanaian (African) situation has a deep root in our moral, cultural, and societal constructions:
How many times haven't we heard our relatives and friends admonish us to "make hay while the sun shines", implying that it is not easy to get appointed to such positions of trust in the public service and one must exploit the situation, not knowing when one will be fired?
The pressure on the individual to make profit from an appointment is heavy and real. And unexpected dismissal is real too. Why not grab whatever is available when possible while waiting for the bad news by radio announcement along the line? It is cultural; it is irresistible; it has no respect for political persuasion.
Let's remember also that what happens before such appointments are made is noteworthy. Whether through heavy lobbying or any other means, getting appointed to high public office doesn't just happen anyhow. Strings are attached. So, when one bends or stoops low (to conquer), who is clean enough to cast the first stone?
(Ayikwei Armah's _Fragments_ and Chinua Achebe's _No Longer at Ease_ or _A Man of the People_ say it all.).
For as long as conditions exist for corruption to thrive in our system, no amount of pontification, hounding, prosecution, imprisoning, murdering, etc. will solve the problem. Eventually, those shouting the loudest against corruption turn out to be the secret masterminds behind it. Too bad for us.
I shall return…
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Catherine Brahic, Google launches free search engine for academic texts, SciDev.Net, November 24, 2004. Excerpt: 'The service has received mixed reviews from the academic community. Their main hesitation reflects Google's unwillingness to reveal who participated in the search engine's development. Duane Webster, head of the Association of Research Libraries told The Scientist there were concerns over this lack of information and with "Google's unwillingness to describe how it defines what is scholarly". Some proponents of the open access movement, which supports making all academic literature free to access online, have suggested that the service might better serve the community if it were to scan open access literature only. However, David Spurrett, a researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, points out that his first concern is to find out what literature exists on a given topic. Only once he knows this, does he worry about which papers he can and cannot get hold of.' (PS: One correction. I haven't heard any proponents of OA wish that GS would only index OA content. But I have heard several wish that GS would either label the OA content or let users apply a filter to display only OA content. There's a big difference.)
What Google Scholar is still missing
Jay Bhatt enumerates eight omissions from Google Scholar in an ELDNET posting. (Thanks Randy at STLQ.)
Chris Blackall makes the case for open-access encyclopedias in a November 26 posting to Digital Encyclopedia.
OA journals debated in the Financial Times
Matthew Cockerill and John Enderby, Internet upstarts v traditional publishers, Financial Times, November 25, 2004. Two arguments, pro and con on OA.
Quoting from Matthew Cockerill: 'In the UK alone, billions of pounds of tax-payers' money are spent annually on research, so the government might be expected to take a prudent interest in how the resulting journal articles are published, archived and made accessible. Surprisingly, though, copyright to publicly funded research articles is routinely signed over to publishers, who then sell limited, subscription-based access back to the scientific community. The cost of publishing a scientific research article is a tiny fraction of what it costs to do the research in the first place; yet publishers end up controlling access to the findings....A recent UK parliamentary committee report urged the government to help expand access to the results of research. But the government response was cautious and sceptical, and was concerned primarily with defending the interests of the traditional publishing industry. This has been perceived by some as a blow to the "open access" movement, but in fact open access, in the UK at least, has never been stronger....Similarly, open access publishing will not sound the death knell for scientific societies that publish traditional journals. In fact, far-sighted societies, including the National Academy of Sciences in the US, recognise that open access better serves their members' needs and are moving their funding model away from dependence on surpluses from journal publishing. If a scientific society is genuinely serving its members' needs, there is no reason why such a transition should be problematic.' Matthew Cockerill is technical director and co-founder of BioMed Central.
Quoting from John Enderby: 'There is no reason why current publishing practices, which cover costs through library subscriptions, cannot be adapted and developed to fulfil these open access aims. Many journals, including those of the Royal Society, are already adapting and others will follow suit. The open access movement has put added pressure on journals to examine current practices, and that input is welcome in influencing developments. But this is only part of a more fundamental, long-running approach in which good publishers are responsive to the changing needs of authors, readers and librarians....Learned societies, including the Royal Society, rely on revenues from publishing to fund activities that benefit science, such as funding researchers and undertaking science communication programmes....For wider public access around the world it is possible to maintain free online archives and the Royal Society, along with many others, makes its papers free after 12 months. If the content of papers is of significant public interest it can be made available free of charge on publication.' John Enderby is vice-president of the Royal Society.
Amazon has started linking to cited books. T.J. Sondermann points us to the example of David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined. When you look at Amazon's page on the book, you see that Weinberger cites 14 other books. Amazon lists the 14 and links to the Amazon pages on each. When the cited book participates in Amazon's Search Inside the Book program, then Amazon also links to the individual pages containing the citations. (PS: It's curious that this useful service appeared just a few days after the launch of Google Search, which points users to citing --not cited-- works. But it's unlikely that Amazon could have put this together in just the last week. However, now that both services exist, let's see whether competitive pressure nudges Amazon to go beyond cited books to citing books, and Google to go beyond citing works to cited works.)
Google Scholar and Google Print
Daniel Terdiman, A Tool for Scholars Who Like to Dig Deep, New York Times, November 25, 2004. Excerpt: '"For scholars and researchers of every stripe, [Google Scholar] will be enormously helpful to be able to sit at their kitchen tables with a regular Internet connection and get access to papers we formerly found only by trudging to a university library," said Emily Shurr, a Duke University instructor in leadership training. "It could be a huge timesaver, and it could force us researchers and scholars to refine our craft." One side effect of Google Scholar is that academics may realize they have been missing out on a lot of potential resources. "It's going to be interesting, because we're trying to explain to our faculty that the price of scholarly journals is just skyrocketing," said Daniel Greenstein, the librarian for the California Digital Library (www.cdlib.org) of the University of California. "As they go to Google Scholar, they're going to find a bunch of stuff we don't have access to, and I think that could end up creating a degree of frustration that could reflect badly on the publishers." To Anurag Acharya, the engineer who designed Google Scholar, that is a Pandora's box well worth opening. "The way I look at it, our goal is to allow researchers to at least find that the content exists," Mr. Acharya said. "Not knowing about a paper that is relevant to your work is much worse than actually knowing it exists but not being able to get to it immediately."...And Laura Driussi, the assistant marketing director at the University of California Press, said Google Scholar may hint at the promise of a potential gold mine: the linking of Google Scholar to Google Print (print.google.com), a service that makes it possible to search the entire texts of tens of thousands of books. "If you searched for one of our books on Google Scholar, you'll only see the citation, because the books aren't online," she said. "But we do have 1,500 books on Google Print, and they could make that information available to Google Scholar." '
Google Scholar Offers Access to Scholarly Publications Metadata, and Librarians Take Note, an unsigned news stroy from Library Journal, November 29, 2004. Excerpt: 'Google has announced plans to work with academic publishers to release Google Scholar. The partnership will offer access to the metadata of scholarly publications, including those documents currently held behind subscription paywalls and not previously spidered by the company....A specific list of publishers allowing their work to be indexed was unavailable at press time. The service does take advantage of OCLC's Open WorldCat, which puts library catalogs in front of Google spiders, as well as the linking service CrossRef, which earlier this year pioneered a Google search project with 29 academic publishers including Blackwell's and Springer and a number of university presses....Since the launch announcement, librarians have been buzzing about what Google Scholar will mean to both their profession and the academic enterprise. Gary Price, a librarian, writer, and editor who edits the popular "ResourceShelf" weblog, emphasizes a vital but often overlooked component: marketing library resources and services. The discussion, he noted, is not about Google-bashing, but about looking at Google's success and learning from it. The librarian's challenge: to find ways to get users to use these library resources as instinctively as they now use Google. "Otherwise, what are we spending all this money on?" he asked.'
11 African journals to be free online
The African e-Journals Project is digitizing the back runs of 11 journals for free online access starting in 2005. The files will be hosted by Michigan State University.
Conference proceedings on institutional repositories
The presentations from the conference, Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage (Washington, D.C., November 18-19, 2004), are now online.
Conference proceedings on chemistry journals
The presentations from the conference, Are Chemical Journals Too expensive and Inaccessible? (Washington, D.C., October 25-26, 2004), are now online. (Thanks to David Rasmussen.)
Hans-Joachim Wätjen, Open Access in Deutschland - Sturm im Wasserglas oder ein Weg aus der Informationskrise? A PPT presentation from InetBib 2004 (Bonn, November 3-5, 2004.) (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)
Conference presentations now online
The presentations from the symposium, Spreading the word: who profits from scientific publishing? --a session within the larger Euroscience Open Forum 2004 (Stockholm, August 25-28, 2004)-- are now online. (Thanks to Helene Bosc.)
Mary Youngkin, Access Marries Archive: BioMed Central/PubMed Central: An Open Access Partnership, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, November 23, 2004. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far: 'BioMed Central, an independent publisher, and PubMed Central, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature, have formed a partnership to provide secure open access to the full text of peer-reviewed scientific journals. BioMed Central's model of pay-to-publish vs. subscription is controversial, but offers promise in a movement away from expensive institutional subscriptions, copyright release, and restricted access. Librarians can contribute to this Open Access movement by becoming educated on the issues and by advocating for change at their institutions.'
Preserving institutional repository content in Australia
The Australian government has launched the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. From the web site: 'The APSR Project aims to establish a centre of excellence for the management of of scholarly assets in digital format. It has an overall focus on the critical issues of the access continuity and the sustainability of digital collections. It will build on a base of demonstrators for digital continuity and sustainability, embedded in developmental repository facilities within partner institutions. It will contribute to national strength in this area by encouraging the development of skills and expertise and providing coordination throughout the sector. It will actively provide international linkages and national services.'
Web cheats get online for Google Scholar, Freelance UK, November 24, 2004. Excerpt: 'While this aspect of the service [sorting by citations] has been embraced by users, academics in particular have expressed concern about a 'copy and paste' culture, emerging in the wake of Google Scholar. They say the accuracy and speed of the search engine could lead to a rise in how much information in essays is simply lifted from online sources. According to the Plagiarism Advisory Service (PAS), a quarter of students have cheated by lifting material off the web and passing it off as their own. The group already provides universities with special software to detect rogue students, which it said it would keep on using as a more powerful alternative to Google. The Scholar search is a website that other academics argue should be welcomed, and if used properly - could actually aid the fight against conscious plagiarists. They argue that if Google is used correctly, it could well deliver quick and reliable information for students and academics alike, without leading to an increase in internet lifting. This is because students, who currently seem undeterred by plagiarism laws, would in the future be more cautious about their sources given the advances of Web searching.'
Charleston presentations online
The presentations from the 24th Annual Charleston Conference, All the World's A Serial (Charleston, November 3-6, 2004), are now online. (PS: I hear from participants that David Goodman deserves kudos for arranging the strong OA presence at the conference. Thanks, David!)
Google Now Targets Premium Content, Greenhouse Associates, November 2004. Excerpt: 'With its recent launch of Google Scholar, a search service covering academic content, such as peer-reviewed books, articles, papers, theses, preprints, abstracts and technical reports, Google made one of the most significant moves in its history. Moving beyond searches of the free web, Google has put itself squarely in the premium content world, an arena heretofore dominated by high-priced aggregators and secondary publishers whose mission has been helping users discover the existence of original content....Google offers academic publishers, societies, universities, and other content providers a potentially enormous channel for making their content more discoverable, while keeping them solidly in control of their own content and advertising.'
Indian biomedical repository announced
In January 2005, the Indian MEDLARS Centre in New Delhi will launch IndMED, an open-access, OAI-compliant repository for biomedical research. It will host not only Indian research, but research from any scientists around the world who do not have local institutional repositories. The MEDLARS Centre and the new repository are funded by the government of India. (Thanks to Naina Pandita on the AmSci OA list.)
Doug Payne, Google Scholar Welcomed, The Scientist, November 23, 2004. Excerpt: 'Open-access publisher BioMed Central (which is a partner with The Scientist) also welcomed the new service. BioMed Central Publisher Jan Velterop said in a statement that the tool maximizes the opportunities offered by Open Access journals and open repositories. "We, along with others in the scientific community, have been talking to Google about offering a service like this for some time. We are very pleased that they have taken this step," Velterop said. However, Michael Eisen, co-founder of another open-access publisher, Public Library of Science (PLoS), pointed out that people using the service will face an important obstacle—many of the articles are only available to journal subscribers. "While Google may have the noble goal of making 'the world's scientific literature universally accessible,' the fact remains that most of the articles returned in a Google Scholar search can only be accessed by those fortunate enough to have a subscription to the relevant journal," he told The Scientist. A PloS spokeswoman added: "Google will find that they can better serve their searchers' needs for access to complete scholarly articles by 'flagging' as open access or ranking more highly those that are freely available online. Such a system would minimize people's frustration at finding an article that looks perfect for their research needs but discovering that they are unable to access it. This frustration is already quite evident in the various threaded discussions occurring online." '
Javier Hernandez, Google Offers Journal Searches, Harvard Crimson, November 23, 2004. Excerpt: 'Cheryl M. LaGuardia, head of instructional services for Harvard College libraries and an avid Google user, said that Scholar has the potential for success, but she sees some limitations....LaGuardia said current library resources, like JSTOR (a subscription service to which University affiliates are granted access), give users access to a wide range of free [PS: that is, pre-paid] articles that users of Google Search have to pay for....LaGuardia said she is looking towards a tool called CrossRef to blend the ease of Google with existing library systems. The utility is being developed by Google in conjunction with 29 major academic publishers. "It will be the nexus between Google and scholarship," she said.'
T.J. Sondermann has launched a blog devoted to Google Scholar.
Norman Paskin, Digital Object Identifiers for scientific data, a presentation at the 19th International CODATA Conference, The Information Society: New Horizons for Science (Berlin, November 7-10, 2004). From the abstract: 'The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assigned to any entity for use on Internet digital networks. Scientific data sets may be identified by DOIs, and several efforts are now underway in this area. This paper outlines the underlying architecture of the DOI system, and two such efforts which are applying DOIs to content objects of scientific data. DOIs provide persistent identification together with current information about the object....DOIs can be used for any form of management of data, whether commercial or non-commercial.'
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has publicly released its comment in support of the NIH plan. (It was public on listservs several days ago but just appeared on the ATA web site.) Excerpt: 'The alliance is composed of universities, libraries, voluntary health agencies, and other entities seeking the benefits of greater access to research results. We believe American taxpayers are entitled to open access to the peer-reviewed scientific articles on research funded by the NIH. Open access to these reports will lead to usage by millions and will deliver an accelerated return on the taxpayers' investment in NIH. Widespread dissemination of these reports is an essential, inseparable component of our nation's investment in science....Those whose access is impeded include research scientists at institutions that cannot afford increasingly costly journal subscription and licensing fees, practicing physicians without university affiliations, public health officials, hospital staff, non-profit patient and disease advocacy organizations, and individual patients and their families. Today's constraints on access hinder the flow of knowledge and pace of discovery, and ultimately subvert the public's investment in science.'
EEVL access to free online journals
Gary Price, An Exceptionally "EEVL" Search Resource, SearchDay, November 22, 2004. Excerpt: 'One of the most respected engineering gateways on the web has just released four new databases providing free access to hundreds of online scientific and technical journals. I've written several SearchDay articles about the Resource Discovery Network (here, here and here). The RDN is an amazing set of non-commercial subject directories and other tools) including EEVL a subject gateway where the focus is on engineering, mathematics, and computing. If you've never visited EEVL and the other RDN sites, you should. EEVL has now launched four new subject-focused databases that provide free access to a couple of hundred ejournals in several disciplines. The computing database searches the content of 60 freely available full-text ejournals in computing. The math database searches the content of 28 freely available full-text ejournals in mathematics. The engineering database searches the content of 160 freely available full-text ejournals in engineering. The last one is a metasearch of the three databases described above.'
Congress approves the NIH public access plan
The House-Senate conference committee has approved the NIH public access plan. Here's the official language, quoted in an ARL/SPARC press release:
(PS: Congress has spoken and NIH is cleared to go. NIH may revise the draft text of of its plan in light of the public comments it received. But after that, it can begin to implement the new policy. There were many steps in the process before this one, but this is the step that took us from proposal to approval. Thanks to the House Appropriations Committee and the NIH for getting the ball rolling. Thanks to the members of the House-Senate conference commmittee for resisting the intense lobbying campaign from publishers. And thanks to all of you who sent commments to your Congressional delegation and the NIH.)
Slashdot discussion of open-source bioloty
There is now a Slashdot discussion of the Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative, a.k.a. open-source biology.
Barbara Quint, Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content, Information Today, November 22, 2004. Excerpt: 'While not removing any sites from the main Google service, Google Scholar enables specific searches of scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, and technical reports. Content includes a range of publishers and aggregators with whom Google already has standing arrangements, e.g., the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, OCLC's Open WorldCat library locator service, etc. Result displays will show different version clusters, citation analysis, and library location (currently books only). Although claiming coverage "from all broad areas of research," early evaluation seems to show a clear emphasis on science and technology, rather than the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Anurag Acharya, principal engineer for Google Scholar, stated that the goal of the service was to "make it easier to find content, open access or not."...When asked about OAIster specifically, Acharya regretted that OAIster "doesn't give us all the information we need. Its metadata is often incomplete. It's not OAIster's fault. They do a wonderful job, but the data providers do not always provide full information...[I]t remains a data source under consideration."...Google does insist that, to participate in Google Scholar, sites must provide access for non-subscribers to bibliographic citations and abstracts....Acharya admitted that [quality filtering] was "a tricky issue in general, but quality will reflect naturally in the way things are ranked. We do not decide what is scholarship and what is not scholarship, but if something is not as important, it will not get as good a ranking on the corpus. Good material will gradually bubble up."...Acharya said: "We try to identify multiple versions and cluster them when we give results. We will give the alternative sites and the number of versions."...I also asked if Google planned to provide sorting by availability (immediate open Web vs. controlled access). Not at this time, though he thought it an interesting idea.'
The Chronicle of Higher Education for November 26 has published two letters to the editor in response to John Ewing's article from the October 1 issue. One letter is from Jennifer McCabe, Health and Human Services Librarian at James Madison University. The other is from me. Jennifer's letter is accessible only subscribers, at least so far, but an unabridged copy of mine is available on SOAF.
Quoting Jennifer McCabe's letter: 'Mr. Ewing goes on to ask: "Who says information must be free?"...I would note that it is our tax money that allows much research to take place. And the fact that scholars must cede all copyright to their intellectual output is unconscionable and antithetical to the educational ideal of discourse and sharing of information. Finally, Mr. Ewing suggests that scholars and librarians simply stop dealing with high-priced journals. This is like suggesting to senior citizens that they just take less medicine since drugs are so expensive....Librarians have chosen instead to support the open-access model. Rather than walking away from high-quality journals, we have chosen to nurture competition among journals, with the hope of forcing publishers to be more reasonable about their prices.'
Quoting Peter Suber's letter: 'John Ewing...writes as if advocates want open access only as a means to reduce journal prices. This is mistaken. We want open access itself. As readers, we want open access because it removes barriers to the literature we need for our research and teaching. As authors, we want it because it gives us a much larger audience....No serious advocate has ever said that open-access literature costs nothing to produce. The central claim has always been that there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers....It's important to remember why high prices for journals are harmful. The primary reason is that they decrease subscriptions and therefore access. Open access gives primary attention to the primary problem, which is access....Let's keep trying to reduce prices using Ewing's methods, among others. But let's not wait for that effort to succeed, and let's not settle for lower access barriers when we could have none at all.'
Medscape Poll: Overwhelming Support for NIH OA Plan
Medscape ran a poll for one week in late October asking for an up-or-down vote on the NIH OA proposal. Of 910 respondents, an overwhelming 88% voted in favor of the proposal. A slightly greater proportion of nurses favored the proposal (92%) than physicians (88%). The results are in line with a similar poll conducted in January showing Medscape readers favored open-access publishing by 95%.
Laura Rohde, New Google Scholar search service aimed at academics, The Industry Standard, November 18, 2004. Excerpt: 'The new service accesses information from resources such as academic publishers, universities, professional societies and preprint repositories, [Google] said. Because the service automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, users can find references to older works that may only exist offline in books or other publications.'
Richard Wray, Google puts new slant on scholarship, The Guardian, November 22, 2004. Excerpt: 'Following moves to make scientific research freely available, Google Scholar allows any internet user to search for keywords in theses, books, technical reports, university websites and even traditional academic publications....As well as improving access to research for students and professionals, Google Scholar offers a chance for the general public to get better access to scientific data....Rather than ranking results by the number of "hits" or visits they have received, Google Scholar ranks results in order of relevance, which includes the number of times the research itself has been cited by other academics. "Google tends to be quite useful but the way it displays hits means you get the hits that are most widely accessed," said Mike Joy, senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Warwick. "In an academic context, that's not what you want."...The new tool comes as a debate rages within the publishing world over so-called open access to scientific research....But until now searching for these articles has been a complex process for the general public. Google Scholar presented a significant step forward for the open access movement, said Jan Velterop, of the open access publisher BioMed Central. "We are very pleased Google have taken this step. This will really increase the access to and visibility of research deposited in repositories - it's a huge boost to the drive to provide open access to research," he added.'
U of Namibia launches institutional repository
The University of Namibia has launched an open-access, OAI-compliant institutional repository. (Thanks to the EPT.) (PS: On November 1, we blogged the news that the U of Namibia senate was considering a policy to encourage faculty to provide OA to their work through OA journals, OA repositories, or both. I haven't heard of any action on that yet.)
How are publishers responding to the OA challenge?
Janice McCallum at Shore Communications posted this short analysis to Commentary, the Shore blog, on November 17: 'In the STM realm, publishers are faced with a similar trend toward open access for research articles that have historically been packaged into print journals for distribution. However, the response to the trend toward free access to previously premium content has been quite different in the STM environment [than in the B2B or business info environment]. STM publishers like Reed Elsevier and Thomson are positioning themselves as providers of "solutions" to their constituent user groups in order to extract a premium. (Note, there is still an option for the open access content to be provided on an ad-supported basis.)'
(PS: What does this mean? In software, "solutions" is ad-speak for "programs" or perhaps "good programs". What does it mean in STM publishing?)
American Psychological Association comment on NIH plan
The American Psychological Association has publicly released its comment on the NIH OA plan. Excerpt: 'APA shares the goals of broad dissemination of research results to the scientific community and to the public, and we applaud the intent of NIH's draft policy on open access. However, we believe that these goals can be achieved in ways that are far more efficient than those proposed by NIH. Further, we are concerned that the current proposed policy may have a number of unanticipated and damaging consequences for the integrity, diversity and impact of scientific results....Rather than requiring the full, final manuscript to be deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), limit the deposited material to a full citation, including the final, published abstract. This will allow NIH to build a searchable electronic resource of NIH-funded research, but without creating an undue burden on itself, on publishers, or on authors. Each such deposited record should include a hyperlink to the publisher's own system for [presumably non-OA] access to the complete publication....Creating a repository of technical and scientific publications is not the most effective way to inform the public about new and emerging health care research findings. A better approach is to create daily press releases, weekly news alerts.' (PS: What burden on authors? OA to full-text is a benefit to authors, not a burden. What burden to NIH? Providing OA to full-text is no more burdensome than providing OA to abstracts. Researchers need access to full text, not just abstracts or press releases.)
At the same time, Merry Bullock, the Executive Director of the American Psychological Association, published an article about the APA position, What is Open Access? in the Psychological Science Agenda, November 2004. Excerpt, after describing OA and the NIH plan: 'Where does psychology and where does APA fit into the picture? One outcome of such a policy, which would likely expand to cover all federally funded research, not just that funded by NIH, would be to shift who bears the cost of scientific publishing away from publishers and subscribers to authors and funders. Many believe such a shift this would have a host of unintended consequences across science fields on the vitality and quality of science. One consequence would be a decrease in the number of journals, thus reducing the available number of high quality publication outlets. Another is a decrease in the resources available for the editorial and peer review infrastructure. Reducing the value added by the peer review and editorial processes would take away an important piece of the process that ensures rigorous and high quality science. In addition, shifting to an "author pays" model may undermine attempts to increase diversity in science if easier access to scientific publishing requires access to greater financial resources. At present only about a third of published articles in psychological journals report a source of funding. These concerns are articulated in APA's comments on the proposed policy (available here in PDF format).'
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has issued a response challenging the conclusions drawn by the American Physiological Society and its outside counsel on the legality of the proposed NIH OA plan. Excerpt from the ATA response: 'Legal scholars advising the Alliance for Taxpayer Access quickly dismissed the faulty analysis made by the American Physiological Society's outside counsel suggesting the National Institutes of Health's public access plan will infringe copyright claims of grantees and publishers. (The claims were included in the APS comments filed with the NIH this week.) In rebuttal, intellectual property expert Michael Carroll stressed that the NIH proposed policy is "completely consistent with the scope of NIH's license and mission," and labeled the APS analysis a "fatally flawed house of cards."...Carroll is an expert on intellectual property and Internet law, and teaches on the law faculty at Villanova University School of Law. According to Professor Carroll, "The publishers acknowledge that NIH has always had license to reproduce, publish and archive the research results that it has paid for. It is explicit; there is no question about that. Their analysis is built on the false premise that NIH is making a change to copyright law. The fact is, in all cases, NIH grantees must give NIH a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license for the Federal government to 'reproduce, publish, or otherwise use' the material and to authorize others to do so for Federal purpose. Nothing in this proposal alters the terms of NIH's license and consequently, copyright law is not an obstacle for the NIH to move forward." ' (PS: My take on the APS legal brief is entirely in line with the ATA response.)
The NBC Nightly News story on the NIH OA plan was bumped again last night. Sorry for the false alarm. Stay tuned for the next semi-reliable advanced notice of the broadcast.
JISC and SURF agree to work together
JISC and SURF have signed a major agreement. From the November 19 press release: 'JISC (the [UK] Joint Information Systems Committee) and SURF Foundation (the equivalent organisation in the Netherlands) have signed an agreement that will not only cement the already considerable areas of cooperation between the two organisations but also establish the grounds for even closer collaborative approaches in the future, ensuring that the UK and Dutch education and research communities remain at the forefront of both European and worldwide developments....The agreement will have immediate impact in the following key areas: sharing of information to contribute to the strategic development of both organisations; a commitment to knowledge networks and the further development of joint innovation programmes.' (PS: JISC and SURF are both leaders in the funding and development of OA. Their new agreement is a good sign for the advancement of OA in Europe.)
Launch of the Conservation Commons
On November 19, a coalition of conservation groups officially launched the Conservation Commons. (We blogged a preview on November 9.) From the press release: 'The creation of a "Conservation Commons" was announced today at the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. Birdlife International, Conabio (Mexico), The South Africa National Biodiversity Institute, Conservation International, UNDP, The Natural History Museum (London), The Brazilian Center for Environmental Information (CRIA), NASA, Chevron-Texaco and many others have come together to endorse common principles calling for free and open access to conservation information. Data and information required for effective conservation is fragmented and difficult to find. Hailed by Jeff McNeely, IUCN Chief Scientist, as "the single most important initiative in conservation today", the initiative seeks to break down barriers to access.' For more information see the Conservation Commons Statement of Principles, which focuses on the need for open access to conservation information.
Irina Trushina, Freedom of access: ethical dilemmas for Internet librarians, The Electronic Library, 22, 5 (2004) pp. 416-421. Only this abstract is free online: 'Libraries depend on ethical principles more than any other institution because library services are essentially human-oriented. Most national ethical principles for librarians are represented as professional ethic codes. Each of them eventually consolidates the ideology, the paradigm of national library services. Comparative analysis of national library ethic codes indicates the intellectual freedom principle as the key point and the superior ethical value for library services. With Internet technologies implemented in library services, the principle acquires a new significance and grave problems. Recent information filtering capacities provide a radically new censorship level, including anonymous censorship, violation of user privacy in Internet communications. On the one hand, librarians must follow the intellectual freedom principle, on the other, libraries are humanistic institutions, and librarians have a moral responsibility to the patrons, adhering to the value of human life. This paper discusses these issues as they relate to the Internet as well as the correlation of professional codes and their implementation in library practices.'


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Weekend Trip to Sariska, Rajasthan
Famous for
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Summer 22 to 45°C; Winter 4 to 30°C
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Sariska gains its popularity due to the Sariska Tiger Reserve. The rich flora and fauna and royal predator 'tiger' attract wildlife enthusiasts to visit Sariska. Being located at a distance of 201 km from Delhi, it is regarded as one of the best getaways. Apart from the tiger reserve, the town is also popular for temples, and lakes. Thus, to make the trip a memorable experience, there are resorts available in close vicinity, providing excellent accommodation. The getaway is a paradise for wildlife photographers and nature lovers. The architectural marvels also win the heart of visitors.
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[Bug] VPN reconnection to xmpp
There seems to be a problem with the reconnection of an XMPP account when initializing a tunnel. Best to be seen when patching the Ultimate status bar (because you can show your xmpp status on statusbar with this patch)
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- your XMPP account might show online status
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expected: ringding message arrives
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Green Sandpiper
'Yesterday's Green Sandpipers at Paxton Pits seemed to be playing a game of tag, with one bird picking up a waterlogged leaf from the water's edge and flying a short distance with it, followed by its companion. Fascinating to watch and with no obvious explanation.' ID
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Yellow-browed Warbler
'...perhaps I ought to let you know that a rather cute critter comprised 50% of the mistnet catch this morning in my garden at Dunkirk. See attached. I had forgotten just how tiny these guys are; no bigger than a goldcrest. This one weighed 5.3g.' TM
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Great White Egret
'....seven birds were present, a new county record. Shot 1 shows five birds and shot 2 six of the seven though I never managed to get all seven birds in the same field of view simultaneously. The seventh bird is shown in shot 3 alongside a Little Egret.' ID
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The Wikipedia Wizards are working wonders with human colour perception.
According to the Carl Zeiss web site the visible spectrum "covers the wavelength spectrum between 380 nm and 780 nm."
The visible area is the range of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye.
It covers the wavelength spectrum between 380 nm and 780 nm.
Zeiss – Spectrometer Modules For the UV to the NIR wavelength range
Back in 2004 the Wikipedia Wizards agreed with Carl Zeiss although they added the caveat that "400 nm to 700 nm" was "more common".
The optical spectrum (visible light or visible spectrum) is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
The optical spectrum is a composite, or mixture, of the various colors.
There are no exact bounds to the optical spectrum ; a light-adapted eye typically has a maximum sensitivity of ~555 nm…
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Owing to his recent success in ODIs and T20 leagues around the world, Jofra Archer has been included in England's World Cup squad. Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Rajasthan Royals (RR) tweeted a congratulatory message for their fast bowler calling him 'our pace machine'. RR's Twitter post triggered banter between franchises he has played for around the world.
HE S IN!!!!! Our pace machine is heading to the @icc #CWC19!
Congratulations, @JofraArcher!! #HallaBol pic.twitter.com/felilPK9y8
Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) 21 May 2019
Sussex were the first one to take a dig at RR:
Your pace machine…?
Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) 21 May 2019
Big Bash League (BBL) franchise joined in as well:
Hobart Hurricanes (@HurricanesBBL) 21 May 2019
Seeing the banter between the franchises, Archer stepped in:
Play nicely guys
Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) 21 May 2019
Sussex used a photo of a popular TV Show F.R.I.E.N.D.S to show that the franchises won't be taking a dig at one another:
Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) 21 May 2019
So did RR:
Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) 21 May 2019
In recently concluded IPL 2019, he took 11 wickets in 11 games at an impressive economy rate of 6.76 runs per over.
The 24-year-old was ecstatic on getting selected in the squad. "I'd quite like to get Virat out, because I was not able to get him in the IPL because I think a leggie got him in every game he played. I also wanted to bowl at AB (de Villiers) as well, but don't think he's playing for South Africa," he told Sky Sports.
Over the moon to be selected for @englandcricket in the upcoming World Cup pic.twitter.com/oMJ8Uor9aD
Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) 21 May 2019
Archer replaced David Willey in the England squad. The Barbados-born bowling all-rounder played for England in three ODIs, two against Pakistan and one against Ireland ahead of the World Cup. He picked up three wickets in three games at an economy rate of 4.90 runs per over.


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Release date: May 18th, 2018
Release highlights
- The notice queue will no longer pollute the database.
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- Fixed: The SEO Extensions administrative page now handles multiple-instance browsing API dispatching correctly, preventing error messages that aren't useful.
- Fixed: Via-AJAX invoked notices no longer pile up, nor will they bounce the screen anymore.
- Fixed: Users with sites on PHP for Windows installations can now load extension assets on in-post edit screens, like from Focus.
- GDPR notice: We looked into it, and we likely won't have to change anything in this plugin to adhere to this regulation. However, when needed, a GDPR-focused update will be released duly.


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VR to consider presidential draft laws on foreign and home policy today
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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will consider the presidential draft law "On home and foreign police" today.
According to an UNIAN correspondent, this issue is second one in agenda on Thursday.
Prime Minister of Ukraine will present the corresponding draft law.
Moreover, the parliament will also consider the draft law "On judicial system and status of judges", and also draft law on all-Ukrainian referendum.
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Disney's Hercules: Action Game is a video game for the PlayStation and PC created in 1997 by Disney Interactive Software. It was made after the animated movie released in the same year.
Plot Edit
The game follows the same storyline from the animated film. Hercules, son of Zeus, is stripped of his godhood and must prove that he is a true hero in order to regain his immortality, and join Zeus and the other gods on Mount Olympus.
To do that, Hercules must pass several tasks and defeat many villains, and at the end, face Hades, ruler of the dead, who is also responsible for Hercules' losing of his immortality.
External Links Edit
- Disney's Hercules: Action Game on MobyGames
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Maailman synty pot holder/trivet by Saana ja Olli features a print inspired by old Finnish wall rug traditions. An illustration of ancient creation myths, Maailman synty ("The Birth of the World") features a graphic pattern formed by symbols and figures. All Saana ja Olli products are made from durable 100% hemp fabric and they are suitable for everyday life. The products are transparently manufactured in Finland.
- Manufacturer:
- Saana ja Olli
- Design:
- Saana ja Olli
- Colour:
- Black, white
- Fabric:
- 100% European hemp
- Filling:
- 100% recycled textile fiber. Made in Finland.
- Length:
- 21 cm
- Width:
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At a 2014 University of Texas commencement address, Admiral William H. McRaven delivered a brilliant, impassioned speech helping college-educated civilians understand the incredible life lessons that Navy SEALs learn through their intense training.
Navy SEAL training is designed to turn people into leaders, and teach people soft skills like teamwork, determination, and integrity. Here are a few life lessons that are learned through Navy SEAL training.
If You Want to Change the World, Start by Making Your Bed
Admiral McRaven advises his audience to make their bed every morning.
Making your bed, McRaven says, helps you start your day off by accomplishing a task. That's the first step to building momentum, and getting other, more important things completed.
Making your bed in the morning, according to the admiral, reinforces that the little things matter. If you do the little things, you'll be ready to be disciplined when the bigger challenges inevitably present themselves.
Finally, at the end of a long day, good or bad, you will come home to a bed that is made. You can't force your employees to make their beds every morning, but you can implement this theory in how you delegate: start everyone's morning off with a simple task, and watch productivity increase.
Measure a Person by the Size of Their Heart
In his speech, McRaven tells a few stories from his own training class. Near the end of his training, there was a challenge that all trainees had to complete: working with their teammates to raft through tumultuous ocean waters. One boat was composed of recruits who were all under 5'5″, and despite their size disadvantage, this boat crew was by far the best.
Even though the taller recruits would mercilessly tease the shorter recruits for having small rubber flippers, McRaven says the soon-to-be SEALs learned not to judge someone by the size of their flipper, but by their level of determination. To succeed in this challenge, nothing mattered but the recruit's will to succeed.
What better lesson is there to teach values like integrity? These kinds of values help propel your average-performing employees into polished professionals.
Start Singing When You're Up to Your Neck in Mud
The ninth week of SEAL training is called "hell week," a nickname earned partly from a ritual where trainees are required to paddle down to the Mud Flats. The Mud Flats are a notoriously dreadful area between San Diego and Tijuana where the water run off creates a swampy, muddy, freezing cold mess.
Trainees then spend the night up to their necks in this freezing cold mud. McRaven reports that most of the recruits were ready to give up that night, when suddenly, someone in their ranks started singing – loudly, poorly, but with much enthusiasm.
Soon enough, the entire company was singing, despite being almost completely submerged in mud, and suddenly, the mud didn't seem that cold. When you're up to your neck in mud, start singing.
Learning the skills and mastering the attitudes needed to stay positive when things get tough makes each SEAL ready for any challenges that may come.
Obviously, your organization isn't putting new hires through SEAL training, and if you were thinking about taking on some of these training strategies, we think you'd have a pretty hard time convincing people to work for you.
That doesn't change the fact that Navy SEAL training turns people from all walks of life into efficient, motivated, dedicated leaders. It does this by teaching them the skills that aren't taught in a classroom. This is a perfect example of why soft skills training needs to be a primary focus of every organization's training program, if they're hoping to have strong leadership.


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Pope Francis released an Apostolic Exhortation today, on the observed Feast of the Annunciation, Gaudete et exsultate: On the call to holiness in today's world. He writes that he does not intend the document to be a "treatise." Rather, "My modest goal is to repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time, with all its risks, challenges and opportunities."
Read the text here | Vatican video | Vatican News Service | Catholic News Service
He notes that holiness grows through "small gestures" and is for each of us: "We are frequently tempted to think that holiness is only for those who can withdraw from ordinary affairs to spend much time in prayer. That is not the case. We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves." (14)
In the central portion of the document, he discusses each of the Beatitudes, which are, he writes, "Like a Christian's identity card. So if anyone asks: 'What must one do to be a good Christian?', the answer is clear. We have to do, each in our own way, what Jesus told us in the Sermon on the Mount.[66] In the Beatitudes, we find a portrait of the Master, which we are called to reflect in our daily lives.
"The word 'happy' or 'blessed' thus becomes a synonym for 'holy.' It expresses the fact that those faithful to God and his word, by their self-giving, gain true happiness." (para. 64)


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Welcome to the Bangor Public Library, a safe and caring place to help you connect to resources you need.
Stop by to visit our newly renovated space: an atrium to enjoy the sun, a new business center, more public meeting spaces, a new computer lab with classes and individual tutoring, a new public computing space, new printers and copiers, a new teen and tween space, a great new children's space, lots of exhibit space, and new offerings in our virtual library. We've got databases, class offerings, e-books, e-magazines, and streaming audio books for you to peruse.
And, we still have books (lots of them), magazines, journals, newspapers— print resources to help you learn something new or just to appreciate the written word.
We look forward to helping you find books, information, and ideas to help you find your way in the world and to keep you entertained.
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Tiny Navajo Reads: Top Ten Books in My Favourite Genre5
June 4, 2019 by TinyNavajo
Hi guys! It's time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week is about our top ten books from our favourite genre. I have two favourite genres that are held about same, science fiction and fantasy. For me, these are awesome areas and I have so many books that I want to talk about in these two genres.
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I love this fantasy book and it's one where I truly wish I could travel into a book and just live there.
- The Martian by Andy Weir. I love the humour in this book. It's easily become one of my favourites to listen to, especially when I don't really have anything else to listen at the moment.
- A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. I love dragons and I love it when dragons are integrated into the natural world like any other creature. So good!!!
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. I love this take on Rumplestiltskin and I love that it is centered on women and their actions really.
- Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I love this book and just about every book written by this man. The magic systems are great and they build a world alike and unalike as our own.
- Rakkety Tam by Brian Jacques. An audiobook that I love, about woodland creatures just living their lives and about good and evil fighting with good always winning. I need to listen to this one again.
- Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn. This is an interesting book and one that lead to a series that I fell in love with. I also love the world that this series has created.
- Soulless by Gail Carriger. Another one of my favourite authors. She creates fantastic worlds of manners, magic, and supernatural creatures.
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. I will always love these books.
- Blackbringer by Laini Taylor. While she has started a new series that deal with demons and magic, she started this series before it and I love this series! I truly wish that she would finish this series!


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|Hub Manual
NAME¶hub-pull-request - Create a GitHub pull request.
SYNOPSIS¶hub pull-request [-focp] [-b BASE] [-h HEAD] [-r REVIEWERS ] [-a ASSIGNEES] [-M MILESTONE] [-l LABELS]
hub pull-request -m MESSAGE [--edit]
hub pull-request -F FILE [--edit]
hub pull-request -i ISSUE
- -f, --force
- Skip the check for unpushed commits.
- -m, --message=MESSAGE
- The text up to the first blank line in MESSAGE is treated as the pull request title, and the rest is used as pull request description in Markdown format.
- If multiple MESSAGE options are given, their values are concatenated as separate paragraphs.
- --no-edit
- Use the message from the first commit on the branch as pull request title and description without opening a text editor.
- -F, --file=FILE
- Read the pull request title and description from FILE.
- -e, --edit
- Further edit the contents of FILE in a text editor before submitting.
- -i, --issue=ISSUE
- Convert an issue to a pull request. ISSUE may be an issue number or a URL.
- You can only convert issues that youve opened or that which you have admin rights over. In most workflows it isnt necessary to convert issues to pull requests; you can simply reference the original issue in the body of the new pull request.
- -o, --browse
- Open the new pull request in a web browser.
- -c, --copy
- Put the URL of the new pull request to clipboard instead of printing it.
- -p, --push
- Push the current branch to HEAD before creating the pull request.
- -b, --base=BASE
- The base branch in the "[OWNER:]BRANCH" format. Defaults to the default branch of the upstream repository (usually "master").
- See the "CONVENTIONS" section of hub(1) for more information on how hub selects the defaults in case of multiple git remotes.
- -h, --head=HEAD
- The head branch in "[OWNER:]BRANCH" format. Defaults to the currently checked out branch.
- -r, --reviewer=USERS
- A comma-separated list of GitHub handles to request a review from.
- -a, --assign=USERS
- A comma-separated list of GitHub handles to assign to this pull request.
- -M, --milestone=NAME
- The milestone name to add to this pull request. Passing the milestone number is deprecated.
- -l, --labels=LABELS
- Add a comma-separated list of labels to this pull request. Labels will be created if they don`t already exist.
$ hub pull-request [ opens a text editor for writing title and message ] [ creates a pull request for the current branch ] $ hub pull-request --base OWNER:master --head MYUSER:my-branch [ creates a pull request with explicit base and head branches ] $ hub pull-request --browse -m "My title" [ creates a pull request with the given title and opens it in a browser ] $ hub pull-request -F - --edit < path/to/message-template.md [ further edit the title and message received on standard input ]
CONFIGURATION¶HUB_RETRY_TIMEOUT=SECONDS The maximum time to keep retrying after HTTP 422 on --push (default: 9).
SEE ALSO¶hub(1), hub-merge(1), hub-checkout(1)
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Climbing in Zillertal in Tyrol
Well equipped with climbing harness, helmet and sturdy shoes - the Zillertal provides a several ferrates with different levels of difficulty. But no matter which ferrate you conquer, you will be rewarded with a breathtaking view.
Via Ferrate in Zillertal
The climbing routes are classified into different levels from "A" for easy to "E" for extrem difficult.
- Via ferrata Huterlaner - C duration: 1h
- Via ferrata Zimmereben - C/D+ duration: 1.5h
- Via ferrata Pfeilspitzwand - B/D- duration: 2h
- Via ferrata Knorren - B/C duration: 45min
- Via ferrata Nasenwand - C/E duration: 2h


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Take care of your own corner
I run 4 or 5 mornings a week during the summer. I typically run a different route everyday. I don't necessarily enjoy running, but I do enjoy exploring–so I use my morning run to explore the neighborhoods surrounding mine. I've done this for the past couple of years.
I have to admit–my exploration tends to be pretty depressing. Neighborhood after neighborhood is falling apart… Trash everywhere, broken windows, overgrown yards, the smell of filth… In many cases it's not just a house here and there that's in need of a little love–it's entire blocks. It breaks my heart.
I'm a doer. When I see a problem I want to fix it. When I run through one of these decaying neighborhoods I imagine what it could look like if I could afford to buy the block and fix it up. That's never gonna happen though…
So what am I going to do? I'm not going to complain that the city isn't doing it's job (they're doing their job and more). I'm not going to write my hometown off as a lost cause, pack up and move out. Nope, not gonna do it.
I'm going to take care of the two houses that I own on our block. I'm going to keep them looking the best that I possibly can. I'm going to be the reason that people see potential in my neighborhood.
I'm not the solution to every decaying neighborhood in our city. I can't be. But I can (and I will) do my best to keep my neighborhood from getting there. Be the change that you want to see in your neighborhood.
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"What Would June Say?"
Around here, some of the older television stations are carrying a network called MeTv. Prominent in the promo was the channel featured family programing from a simpler time. Those of us who lived through that time knew it was only a simpler time because we had to conform, Even if we were fortunate enough to be born into an "understanding" family-information on being gender dysphoric was nearly non existent.
Perhaps you have been following the comments Connie and I have been going back and forth with concerning the "Leave It To Beaver" television show after a recent Cyrsti's Condo post.
Thank the Goddess (or whichever deity you worship) times are changing.'
From the "The Las Vegas Review Journal"
Perhaps you have been following the comments Connie and I have been going back and forth with concerning the "Leave It To Beaver" television show after a recent Cyrsti's Condo post.
|Kristina Hernandez
From the "The Las Vegas Review Journal"
"Kristina Hernandez waited nearly a year before she could use the girl's restroom at Harney Middle School.
A sixth-grader at the time, Kristina spent the summer after elementary school preparing to transition from male to female — something she had desired for years. She encountered no intolerance from other students and said no parent lodged a single complaint about their child sharing a restroom or locker room with her.
The administration at the campus on Hollywood Boulevard north of Sahara Avenue, however, required Kristina to use the toilet in the school nurse's office, often making her late for class.
"After a while I stopped eating and drinking at school to avoid having to go," she said during a Clark County School Board meeting last month. "I had to beg, plead and fight for months just to be allowed to be called by my chosen name and pronouns in class.
"I had to be the one to explain myself and my situation to substitute teachers, lunch ladies and support staff because my school did not protect me," Kristina, now 12, told school board members in April. "It is your responsibility to make sure that all students are safe in school. You are failing me."
After transferring to another public middle school, Kristina stopped losing sleep at night. A name and gender change on legal documents also helped, since administrators at her new campus couldn't challenge her gender.
Kristina and two other transgender students shared their experiences with the school board at an April 23 meeting, pleading with them to enact a policy that offers guaranteed protection and equal treatment for transitioning students across the Clark County School District, the fifth-largest system in the nation.
The students plan to continue pressing for change at Thursday's board meeting, but many of their parents expect the calls for action to fall on deaf ears.
"We're going to make it plainly clear that we're serious, and we're not going away," said Kristina's mother, Laura Hernandez. "I am going to be heard no matter how loudly I have to yell.
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Simple Ways to Save Cash In Construction
Constructions are often tedious activities that can take a long time like months, two years or even more. Construction is a procedure that begins with such things as planning, designing, financing, shopping for material, building and other important steps that will make the project ready for use. Projects like houses are always build to reflect the personalities of clients though they should be within the budget and at the same time match with their aesthetic requirement. Here are some guidelines that will help you achieve the best results with a cost that will be affordable.
You should take your time to compare all the proposals you have and make an informed decision. Take your time to go through the proposals, the materials and styles and go with the best one that will spend an affordable price. You will need to table all the proposals submitted to you by prospective contractors and subcontractors and the budget they are operating on. Once you have all this; you will compare and contrast then choose the one proposal that uses the materials, styles and other requirements you want and works within your budget.
When building a project house, there are things like kitchen cabinets and wardrobes that most people often build off-site before installing them. When this is done, it will cost you more, and it is better to build them on site yourself. Building on site will give you the best wardrobes and kitchen cabinets and at the same time reduce on your budget since you will use little masonry and labor.
Ensure that you speak more about sustainability in your project. It is the best idea to buy the best quality material and use them on your construction than try to save on cost and buy poor quality material that will call for subsequent repair, replacements, and other maintenance procedures. Don't use any material that will require a lot of maintenance and in the long run, ruin the high standard of your project. Ensure that you click on several websites in your search for the right materials to use in your project.
You will find out that there are companies who dupe customers into buying cheap material that has been reproduced from other materials and is of low quality. You should seek advice from those people you trust to ensure that you will be going for the right quality products. Even your contractors or subcontractors know the best companies that will supply you with bulk material at affordable prices since they have worked with many.
When doing construction projects, you will need a sufficient amount of water. You should do your best to get a good source for sufficient amount of water required in all the activities undertaken in this construction project.
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