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#pragma once

#include "il2cpp-config.h"

#ifndef _MSC_VER
# include <alloca.h>
#else
# include <malloc.h>
#endif

#include <stdint.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <exception>

// System.Object
struct Il2CppObject;
// System.Type
struct Type_t;
// System.IFormatProvider
struct IFormatProvider_t3436592966;
// System.String
struct String_t;

#include "codegen/il2cpp-codegen.h"
#include "mscorlib_System_Type2779229935.h"
#include "mscorlib_System_DateTime339033936.h"
#include "mscorlib_System_Decimal1688557254.h"
#include "mscorlib_System_Object837106420.h"
#include "mscorlib_System_String968488902.h"

// System.Void System.Boolean::.cctor()
extern "C"  void Boolean__cctor_m1619527460 (Il2CppObject * __this /* static, unused */, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Object System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToType(System.Type,System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  Il2CppObject * Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToType_m305773363 (bool* __this, Type_t * ___targetType, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Boolean System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToBoolean(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  bool Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToBoolean_m1529027437 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Byte System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToByte(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  uint8_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToByte_m689202539 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Char System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToChar(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  uint16_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToChar_m61046955 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.DateTime System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToDateTime(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  DateTime_t339033936  Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToDateTime_m2146018443 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Decimal System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToDecimal(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  Decimal_t1688557254  Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToDecimal_m2708222975 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Double System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToDouble(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  double Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToDouble_m4044182987 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Int16 System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToInt16(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  int16_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToInt16_m1902909573 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Int32 System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToInt32(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  int32_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToInt32_m282594809 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Int64 System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToInt64(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  int64_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToInt64_m2886263351 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.SByte System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToSByte(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  int8_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToSByte_m2350844819 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Single System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToSingle(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  float Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToSingle_m249236267 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.UInt16 System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToUInt16(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  uint16_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToUInt16_m136688779 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.UInt32 System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToUInt32(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  uint32_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToUInt32_m3723299531 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.UInt64 System.Boolean::System.IConvertible.ToUInt64(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  uint64_t Boolean_System_IConvertible_ToUInt64_m119372075 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Int32 System.Boolean::CompareTo(System.Object)
extern "C"  int32_t Boolean_CompareTo_m324613897 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___obj, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Boolean System.Boolean::Equals(System.Object)
extern "C"  bool Boolean_Equals_m1178456600 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___obj, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Int32 System.Boolean::CompareTo(System.Boolean)
extern "C"  int32_t Boolean_CompareTo_m3388665506 (bool* __this, bool ___value, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Boolean System.Boolean::Equals(System.Boolean)
extern "C"  bool Boolean_Equals_m4087985523 (bool* __this, bool ___obj, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Int32 System.Boolean::GetHashCode()
extern "C"  int32_t Boolean_GetHashCode_m841540860 (bool* __this, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.Boolean System.Boolean::Parse(System.String)
extern "C"  bool Boolean_Parse_m3007515274 (Il2CppObject * __this /* static, unused */, String_t* ___value, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.String System.Boolean::ToString()
extern "C"  String_t* Boolean_ToString_m2512358154 (bool* __this, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;
// System.String System.Boolean::ToString(System.IFormatProvider)
extern "C"  String_t* Boolean_ToString_m2019601528 (bool* __this, Il2CppObject * ___provider, const MethodInfo* method) IL2CPP_METHOD_ATTR;


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The AI Education Repository
Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
dkumar@brynmawr.edu
Curriculum Descant
From ACM Intelligence Magazine
Volume 11, Number 1, January 2000
Five years ago, as part of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Fall Symposium Seriers, the symposium, "Improving the Instruction of Indtroductory AI" was held. Barbara Grosz, then president of AAAI concluded the symposium by accepting the following two action items for the association (see SIGART Bulletin, 6, 2, April 1995):
1. Have available at the AAAI Web site a central repository of programs, tools, assignments, and papers, and
2. Organize tutorials to be given at AAAI's national conferences and the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) on how to teach the more specialized protions of the introductory AI course, such as vision, NLP, and robotics.
Five years have passed since that symposium and it is almost time for AAAI to host another one. In this installment, I would like to discuss the AAAI Educational Repository mentioned in Action Item 1 above.
The repository, is a centralized distribution point that (1) focuses on Web educational resources and materials to be used in undergraduate AI pedagogy, (2) identifies and organizes such resources by topic, and (3) provides diverse resources applicable to various levels of student expertise and budgetary considerations. The repository includes information on current AI textbooks, links to syllabii, sample programming and written assignments, on-line tutorials, information on tools and environments that may be used in the classroom, and papers on AI pedagogy, etc. Also included are mechanisms for submitting your own AI education resources. The repository can be accessed at http://www.aaai.org by clicking on the link, AI Resources and, under the heading, "Source Information," clicking on the link AAAI Education Repository. The repository is currently maintained by Bill Manaris of the University of SW Louisisna.
At the aforementioned symposium, Pat Hayes and Ken Ford had issued a challenge for the creation of a WWW-based "textbook". The tchapters in the textbook would cover specific topics, each an up-to-date survey of a subarea of AI, written by people with thorough knowledge of that area. The idea was to have such a text continuously revised and expanded to adapt to changes in AI. This multi-author text would exist as distributed content managed by sufficient editorial control and commentary to ensure common vocabulary and style. While I am uncertain about the progress on the challenge, I would like to have you consider using the educational repository as a possible infrastructure for the creation of such a text. Use it to obtain materials for which you may not have expertise, and contribute educational materials for the topics in which you do have expertise.
As for organizing tutorials on teaching of specific topics (Action Item 2), I think AAAI and IJCAI could do a better job. Although some tutorial-like sessions have been held at these conferences, most focus on informing AI researchers and practitioners rather than educators. I believe that AAAI, and its membership, ought to extend beyond AAAI, IJCAI and other topic-specific AI conferences to offer tutorials. Teaching of AI is largely carried out by computer science faculty who may not be directly involved in doing AI research. Possibly the best place to hold tutrorials is at the annual meetings of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education(SIGCSE). SIGCSE meetings have a rich tradition of offering educators workshops on the teaching of new methodologies, technologies, and ideas emerging in computer science. More than half the attendees at the SIGCSE annual meetings enroll in these workshops. For more information on ACM SIGCSE and its Workshop Program for educators, check out their WWW page at: http://www.acm.org/sigcse.
Descants
Inaugural Installment of the new column.
(Deepak Kumar)
Teaching about Embedded Agents
Using small robots in AI Courses
Robot Competitions as Class Projects
A report of the 1998 AAAI Robot Competition and how robot competitions have been successfully incorporated in the curriculum at Swarthmore College and The University of Arkansas
(Lisa Meeden & Doug Blank)
Nilsson's New Synthesis
A review of Nils Nilsson's new AI textbook
Pedagogical Dimensions of Game Playing
The role of a game playing programming exercise in an AI course
A New Life for AI Artifacts
A call for the use of AI research software in AI courses
Beyond Introductory AI
The possibility of advanced AI courses in the undergraduate curriculum
A look back at AAAI's Fall 1994 Symposium on Improving the Instruction of Introductory AI and the resulting educational repository
Interdisciplinary AI
A challenge to AI instructors for designing a truly interdisciplinary AI course
(Richard Wyatt)
Teaching "New AI"
Authors of a new text (and a new take) on AI present their case
(Rolf Pfeifer)
Ethical and Social Implications of AI: Stories and Plays
Descriptions of thought provoking stories and plays that raise ethical and social issues concerning the use of AI
(Richard Epstein)
How much programming? What kind?
A discussion on the kinds of programming exercises in AI courses
Predisciplinary AI
A follow-up to Richard Wyatt's column (above) and a proposal for a freshman-level course on AI
Machine Learning for the Masses
Machine Learning comes of age in undergraduate AI courses
(Clare Congdon)
About Curriculum Descant
Curriculum Descant has been a regular column in ACM's Intelligence magazine (formerly published as ACM SIGART's Bulletin). The column is edited by Deepak Kumar. The column features short essays on any topic relating to the teaching of AI from any one willing to contribute. If you would like to contribute an essay, please contact Deepak Kumar.

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The AAQ-13 LANTIRN (Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night) pod weighs 442.5 lbs. and is mounted on the left side of the F-16 intake. The pod uses a forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensor that displays an infrared picture to the pilot via the wide-field-of-view head-up (HUD) display and/or either one of the two multifunction displays (MFDs) located on the forward panel. The FLIR imagery is displayed in shades of green and gray, which represent differences in temperature between an object and its background. In addition to the FLIR, LANTIRN incorporates a terrain following radar (TFR) system linked directly to the F-16's autopilot. The system uses airspeed, aircraft angle of attack, radar altimeter altitude, and data from its own signal return to ensure that the aircraft flies at the proper altitude.
Several limits, warnings, and cautions are presented in the HUD to protect and advise pilots who approach the edge of the LANTIRN envelope. If a pilot inadvertently exceeds bank angle, turn rate, airspeed, or pitch limits, the aircraft will automatically climb away from the terrain. This event is called a "fly-up." Fly-ups also occur when pilots try to descend too far below their selected set clearance plane, or if they attempt to turn in the direction of terrain without climbing.
The ALQ-131 is an advanced electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod designed to provide aircraft self-protection against enemy radar threats. The ALQ-131 accomplishes this by responding with a combination of noise, repeater, or transponder electronic jamming techniques. The pod weighs 600 lbs., with modular design for multiple frequency band capability. The ECM pod is carried on the center station of the F-16 and has the ability to be quickly re-programmed against changing threats.
The M-129 leaflet bomb is designed for use in the delivery of leaflet type materials. The bomb body is cylindrical in shape with an ogical nose and a tapered aft section with fins. The bomb body is split longitudinally into two sections, which are held together by four latches on each side. The fuse well in the nose of the weapon accommodates a variety of airburst mechanical fuses. The fuse causes a booster to ignite and detonates a strip of primacord, which in turn separates the two body halves, detaches the fins, and allows the leaflet material to scatter. A single dispenser is 7 feet 6 inches in length, 16 inches in diameter, and weighs approximately 200 lbs.


This year we spent Christmas in the Conguillío National Park and New Year in the Huerquehue National Park in the Araucanía region in the South of Chile. In both places we staid in a cabin right in the park. This allowed us to extensively explore both parks by foot and car while enjoying the comfort of a cabin in the middle of nature. The cabin in the Conguillío park was located in a beautiful forest of Araucaria trees close to the Conguillío lake and with a view of the Llaima volcano from the terrace. The cabin in the Huerquehue park was located in a dense forest of Southern Beech trees and within a 5-minutes walk to our private beach at the Tinquilco lake.
Have a look at some impressions from both parks in this picture gallery and these panoramas.
We wish you all the best for a Happy New Year 2019.


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Paul Singh
Furniture + 2
Dischord Records
Fugazi is legend. Fugazi changed my life.
Is that hyperbolic? Nope.
As might be expected, music has always been very important to me — one of my oldest memories is sitting in prayer services with my parents and slowly rocking back and forth in cadence with the shabads.
My early musical discovery followed a typical path: after religious hymns, my first exposure was to the ghazals and Indian film music of my parents, then Top 40 radio of the '80s, and then I slowly inched to the fringes and discovered increasingly disparate genres and styles… new wave and Depeche Mode, nerdy prog-rock and Rush, jazzy hip-hop and A Tribe Called Quest (all of whom will make an appearance here in due time).
But it was that one cassette that changed everything because it stood in such relentless contrast to all that I'd heard before. I owe it all to Willie Kim, who reluctantly recorded a mix tape for the geeky little 10th grade kid who wouldn't leave him alone. On one side was Operation Ivy and 411, and the flipside was Fugazi and Minor Threat.
Enough said, right? Through that well worn tape I learned that punk wasn't full of hateful aggression that I needed to fear, but rather anger and frustration at the very institutions and injustices that I found so intolerable. I discovered that punk rock was my voice, and it was okay that so few in my little suburban town understood.
The legend of Fugazi is now well known to any music fan: they famously capped the cost of most live performances at $5; they started Dischord Records so they could keep record prices low and sell to fans directly; they didn't sell merchandise; their shows were always all ages; and they rose from the ashes of two wildly influential bands in their own right, Minor Threat and Rites of Spring.
As important and vital as all of that is, none if it would matter if it weren't for the music. They'd just be four ornery political dudes from Washington, if not for the fact that collectively they were one of the best rock bands that has ever existed.
Over time, their music evolved and borrowed influences from many genres and styles, but it always sounded like Fugazi because it was anchored by the melodic syncopated rhythms of Brendan Canty and Joe Lally, who seemed to share two halves of the same brain. Combined with the vocals and lyrics of Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, and their jagged, groovy guitars, the band created a sound uniquely their own.
Each studio album is a classic, and you could really start anywhere, but for the uninitiated I would recommend picking up 13 Songs and moving along chronologically so you can track their evolution. Were they influential, obviously to punk rock, but also to popular music at large? Was The Clash? Velvet Underground? The Ramones? You will hear snippets and ideas that you swear you've heard before… you have, in a song you like that came out 15 years later. There isn't a post-punk band around that doesn't reference Fugazi, even if it's done unwittingly, plus Dischord has released some of the best punk rock of the last three decades.
Simply put, Fugazi changed the sound of music, Fugazi changed the business of music, and Fugazi changed me.
I've included "Furniture" here from their last EP because it covers the full trajectory of the band. The song was written in 1987 and performed at their first live show, but not recorded until 2001 during the sessions for their last album, The Argument. Sonically too, the song serves as a good introduction because it shifts directions several times and offers brief glimpses into many facets of their varied palette.
http://www.forgottenfavorite.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/01-furniture-its.mp3
Fugazi - Furniture


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Plastic Pollution: Reduce, Reuse, or Recycle?
October 16, 2020 October 20, 2020 Cornwall Science Community
by Jessica Forsyth
It is estimated that approximately five million tonnes of plastic are used in the UK each year. Unfortunately, this extraordinary reliance on plastic has resulted in it becoming a common contaminant of the soil, the ocean, and the atmosphere. There can be no doubt that plastic pollution is one of the world's most pressing environmental issues, but the question remains of how best to resolve it.
It is important to remember that the presence of plastic in the environment is not an inevitable by-product of its use, but a direct result of our irresponsible and unsustainable disposal of it. As a matter of fact, plastic itself has several environmental benefits. These include the impact it has on reducing food wastage by extending the shelf-life of fresh produce, as well as reducing CO2 emissions from the transportation of goods as a result of its lightweight properties.
Scientist Mark Miodownik argues that plastic is too valuable a material to replace. Rather than swapping in other materials, that if improperly disposed of will also cause problems, 'the more valuable thing to do is to focus efforts on how to make the process of using plastic more sustainable'.
So how can we achieve this? Well, if you were to ask the average person how they thought they could help in the plastic pollution crisis, their answer would likely include the idea of improving their recycling habits. But should this be the focus of our attention? Many of us will be familiar with the 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' slogan. It is referred to as the 'waste hierarchy' because it lists the solutions to waste management in order of their effectiveness.
Interestingly, you will notice that recycling comes last on the list. The UK is considered to be a successful recycling nation with 45.7% of household waste classed as recycled. However, the majority of this recycling does not take place in the UK and where exactly our waste ends up and whether it is 'truly recycled' is unclear. Shamefully, in 2017/18 a report found that Westminster Council sent 82% of all household waste, including that put into recycling bins, for incineration. So perhaps we should focus more on reducing our consumption and improving our reuse of plastic.
A strategy that the scientists at the University of Portsmouth are focussing on is finding ways to reduce the demand to manufacture new plastic. They have engineered a super enzyme capable of breaking down plastic into its chemical building blocks from which new plastic can be made. In 2018, they discovered that an engineered version of an enzyme known as PETase was capable of breaking down plastic in a matter of days.
Since then, the scientists have discovered a similar enzyme known as MHETase that, when combined, creates a super-enzyme capable of degrading plastic six times faster than PETase alone. Both enzymes were found in a soil bacterium known as Ideonella sakaiensis. Fascinatingly, with so much plastic polluting the environment, it seems that these microbes have evolved ways of turning plastic into a source of energy. By exploiting this 'naturally occurring plastic-degrading system' scientists have found a new way of improving our 'Reuse' of plastic.
Finally, it is important to remember that manufacturing new plastic from fossil fuels is a relatively cheap process and if any means of recycling or reusing plastic is to compete with this, it needs to rival it in cost. The discovery of this super enzyme is an important step towards this as the increased speed of plastic breakdown translates to a significant reduction in the cost of the process and thus a big step towards its consideration for commercial use.
With the Covid-19 pandemic leading to a rise in single use plastic, the plastic pollution crisis is more evident than ever before. With the discovery of new ways to reuse or recycle plastic comes hope that we can begin to move towards a more circular economy 'where everything has value and nothing is wasted'. Only then can we hope that we can continue to benefit from the use of plastic as a valuable material without it posing a threat to all life on earth.
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Vernon White says:
Starch-based "compostable plastic doesn't compost easily. Some suppliers, such as *The Guardian *Saturday package, have switched to compostable (or re-usable) sturdy paper. How can we persuade suppliers to switch from plastic of any sort to readily compostable or re-usable wrapping materials?
On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 09:48, Cornwall Science Community wrote:
> Cornwall Science Community posted: " by Jessica Forsyth It is estimated > that approximately five million tonnes of plastic are used in the UK each > year. Unfortunately, this extraordinary reliance on plastic has resulted in > it becoming a common contaminant of the soil, the ocean, and the a" >
Jessica Forsyth says:
I guess part of it is down to us as consumers to exert pressure on companies to make this switch. The more we demand to see this kind of change, the more this will, hopefully, translate to action. I think that the pressure coming from consumers has to start with an improved understanding of the usefulness and 'environmental friendliness' of certain materials. As you quite rightly point out, some materials that are labelled as compostable or biodegradable do in fact persist in the environment for extremely long periods of time and will only break down when exposed to very specific conditions, many of which are not met in most natural environments. I think we must take less notice of labels and do more to understand the meaning of words such as 'biodegradable' so that we can make more informed product decisions.
A good post on plastic recycling. Thank you 😊


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Frustration at Media Studies results
CONCERNS have been raised about one of the new exams sat by pupils this summer.
Schools said some pupils who were expected to pass the Media Studies National 5 qualification had failed.
Figures from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) show four out of 10 candidates failed the National 5 exam - even though the pass mark was lowered to 43 per cent.
One parent at a Glasgow school claimed she knew of several examples this year of youngsters getting a far worse grade than they had expected.
"This is very frustrating as some pupils who want to sit Higher media are not being allowed to continue as they don't have the relevant grade," she said. "Pupils and parents do not have any direct means of appealing and by the time that the schools do this it is too late for the pupils to pick up the subject at the Higher level."
However, the SQA says it had "robust mechanisms" in place to ensure candidates were challenged at the right level.
A spokesman for the exam body said: "SQA takes its responsibility to uphold the high standards of Scottish qualifications very seriously."
Overall, 60 per cent of the people who sat the National 5 in media studies passed. Pass rates varied across subjects, but the overall pass rate for National 5s was 81 per cent.
Commments are closed on this article


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Where there is life, there is hope.
Available Adoption Calves
What it takes to care for a cow
They will need an adequate shelter, a pasture, and access to their human household when the weather is unusually cold or hot. So if you think you're ready to take home your new bovine baby, please fill out our adoption application. If you are approved for adoption, you will be directed to our telephone hotline, and can speak to one of our calf counselors with any questions pertaining to calf rearing.
If you are not in a position to adopt a cow, you can always sponsor one! Contact us for details (310) 736-9013
Steps in Adopting a Cow
Our bottle calves are raised in the house for their first 3 months. Upon their rescues they initially all have compromised immune systems because they were removed from their mothers immediately after birth and thus were denied the colostrum that would have ensured them a healthy immune system. At 3 months old they are usually ready to transport to their new homes. If you have no existing bovines on your property, we will adopt out our baby calves in pairs.
The Adoption Application
Cow Adoption Application
COW ADOPTION CONTRACT
Siddhartha AKA Baby Sid
Species: Bovine
Sex: Steer
Breed: Black Angus-Dexter Cross
Age: 3.5 years
Baby Sid was donated to our rescue by a small feedlot owner who had a change of heart and took pity on the sickest of his cows and decided to give 5 of them a reprieve. Siddhartha, or "Buddha" was by far the most immune system compromised cow from his lot.
Our vet came out to examine and treat all 5 cows the day after their arrival. He diagnosed Sid with Bell's Palsy and said he was dwarfized by extremely poor nutrition. Poor Baby Sid struggled to see out of one eye and was already completely blind in the other eye, which was blue and infected. He had a social tick and his head, which was always dropped over to one side, shook uncontrollably. He had a serious case of feedlot pneumonia and was grossly underweight. We honestly did not expect Baby Sid to survive but were comforted in knowing that he would die knowing that finally in his life, someone loved and cared for him. Every day his dear friend Moonice, a Holstein heifer who came from the same feedlot, would stand by his side, comforting him and sharing her hay pile with him. She would often lead him to the top of the hill and lie down next to him under a huge oak tree. Over time, Sid's symptoms of Bell's Palsy began subsiding and his pneumonia was cured.
It is now 3 years later and Siddhartha is undoubtedly the most stunning steer at Summer Meadows, our facility for teenage and young adult rescued bovines. He is also the tallest steer and the herd leader. He has no more visible or physical traces of Bell's Palsy. His vision in both eyes was completely restored. He can often be found in the meadow, standing triumphantly and looking out over the pastelle colored mountains, Baby Sid is something out of a Matisse painting.
We have never seen such a transformation in any rescued bovine ... and feel that in Baby Sid's case, love conquered all. Our rescue's slogan is "Where there is love, there is hope." Baby Sid's happy ending serves as a reminder that once an animal knows he/she is truly loved, the impossible is for once, attainable.
Baby Sid is now available for adoption, alongside his most loyal friend, Moonice. They must leave her together and we will not consider separating them.
Moonice
Sex: Heifer
Breed: Holstein
Moonice came from Baby Sid's feedlot and before that she was enslaved at one of Central
CA's most run down and unsanitary dairies. At only 1year old it was decided that she would not make a lucrative dairy replacement heifer — thus she was culled out of production and hauled to CA's most horrIfic dairy cow slaughter sale, "The Dairyman's Beef Auction." It was at this revolting Holstein cull cow sale that Moonice caught the eye of the feedlot owner. But once he hauled her and others to his compound, he took pity on poor Moonice and put her in a field with other dairy heifers and cows that were emaciated and sickly and needed convalescence.
Through a bizarre twist of fate the feedlot owner suddenly decided to gift 5 older calves to our rescue. Moonice's life was spared due to her striking resemblance to a Holstein steer named #10 that we tried to save from another dealer, unsuccessfully.
Initially Moonice suffered from emaciation and feedlot pneumonia but after a visit from our vet and strong dewormer medication and antibiotics she was on a road to recovery. Moonice immediately took to Baby Sid, perhaps due to her latent maternal instinct and need to look after this pathetic dwarfed baby; stricken with Bell's Palsy and barely holding up his little head, which drooped to one side.
It is now 3 years later and Moonice stands triumphantly over the hillside — her soulmate for life is Baby Sid and thus we are offering them for adoption as a bonded pair. Moonice is the quintessential Holstein cow, with a thick white blaze splashing down her nose and beautiful black cloud markings on her white body. She is a rather timid animal but carries herself with pride and dignity. She would do best in a home that offers a generous grass pasture, for she loves to roam the acreage of Summer Meadows.
Survivor & Baby Butterfly Christmas
Sex: Cow ( Female )
Breed: Jersey
Baby Butterfly Christmas
Survivor was also at the feedlot with a Baby Sid and Moonice, but when we arrived at the feedlot initially, she was a downer cow. With the help of our friend, the feedlot owner flipped her over on her other side. After we left he used machinery to help lift her and move her to his home property, where he gave her special care until she miraculously rose to her feet and recovered enough to be transported to our Summer Meadows rescue farm for further convalescence.
Survivor had the worst case of feedlot pneumonia we had ever seen and our vet immediately put her on strong antibiotics and other meds. We noticed that a large star was branded to her — this was her former ranch brand and the feedlot owner told he she came from a small organic dairy. Survivor was tragically living proof of the organic myth. She arrived with such long feet (that in fact had turned into shoes) that we had to have our farrier set her on the ground in order to trim her shockingly long feet. He laid down next to her for over 2 hours in order to fix 2 years of hoof neglect. He felt she had been left inside a filthy milking parlor barn and not ever let out for the first two years of her life. Since she had no chance to sharpen her hooves while out on pasture, her hoof growth became chronic and she started to fall apart — at the young age of 2 she suffered from chronic hoof rot and became crippled, and stopped producing enough milk for the dairy to justify keeping her. Thus she was officially "culled" out of production and sold to the feedlot owner.
Again, Survivor is living proof of "the humane myth." She was once being milked and had a calf at an organic "free range" dairy farm. But in the care of her organic farmers she was brought to a place of complete mental and physical breakdown. Had she been taken to auction, the brand inspector/auction house vet would have deemed her unfit for slaughter and she would have been shot into a dead animal pile.
After 3 years of convalescence at Summer Meadows and in the company of other bovine friends, Survivor is the picture of health, happiness and hope. She enjoys her days in a 20 acre meadow and has become quite affable over the years ... and yes — there is something else — on a cold rainy night in December 2.5 years ago we rushed back from L.A. on the freeway to Summer Meadows to move Survivor and her friends into stalls in the barn but what we found upon our arrival was nothing short of a miracle ... a beautiful baby Jersey calf was standing under the oak tree ... and the calf belonged to Survivor. It appears that in spite of all the horrors she endured while at the oppressive organic dairy, Survivor fought to keep her unborn calf alive.
We named the calf Baby Butterfly Christmas because he was a true Christmas present to Survivor and to us. His name fit him just perfectly because he used to flutter out of the barn on snowy days in his little black calf blanket like a Christmas Butterfly — it's now 2 years later and Survivor and Butterfly are enjoying their life together on rolling hills as mother and son.
This is the only calf Survivor ever had that she was allowed to keep. We fed Baby Butterfly supplemental bottles of calf formula because we knew Survivor could not produce enough milk for him after the abuse and neglect she sustained at the dairy farm. Survivor and Baby Butterfly Christmas are now inseparable and will be adopted out together as a mother-son pair. Survivor and Baby B are available to an approved forever adoptive home provided that they will be kept together for the rest of their lives. We feel that these two beautiful bovines will bring joy, laughter and love to their future adopters. If you adopt this magical pair you will be sure to look outside your picture window and know that love, hope and happiness are alive in your world.
For if we may quote Buddha," Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
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Innatism
Title: Innatism
Subject: Rationalism, Epistemology, A priori and a posteriori, Tabula rasa, David Hume
Collection: A Priori, Epistemological Theories, Rationalism, Theories of Mind
Innatism is a philosophical and epistemological doctrine that holds that the mind is born with ideas/knowledge, and that therefore the mind is not a "blank slate" at birth, as early empiricists such as John Locke claimed. It asserts that not all knowledge is gained from experience and the senses.
The difference between innatism and nativism 1
Nativism 2
Innate idea 3
Philosophical debate 3.1
Scientific ideas 3.2
Learning vs. innate knowledge 4
Costs and benefits of learned and innate knowledge and the evolution of learning 4.1
Classical texts 6.1
Recent studies 6.2
The difference between innatism and nativism
In general usage, the terms innatism and nativism are synonymous as they both refer to notions of preexisting ideas present in the mind. However, more correctly, innatism refers to the philosophy of Plato and Descartes, who assumed that a God or a similar being or process placed innate ideas and principles in the human mind.
Nativism represents an adaptation of this, grounded in the fields of genetics, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics. Nativists hold that innate beliefs are in some way genetically programmed to arise in our mind—that innate beliefs are the phenotypes of certain genotypes that all humans share in common.
Nativism is a modern view rooted in innatism. The advocates of nativism are mainly philosophers who also work in the field of cognitive psychology or psycholinguistics: most notably Noam Chomsky and Jerry Fodor (although the latter has adopted a more critical attitude towards nativism in his later writings). The nativist's general objection against empiricism is still the same as was raised by the rationalists; the human mind of a newborn child is not a tabula rasa, but equipped with an inborn structure.
Innate idea
In philosophy and psychology, an innate idea is a concept or item of knowledge which is said to be universal to all humanity—that is, something people are born with rather than something people have learned through experience.
The issue is controversial, and can be said to be an aspect of a long-running nature versus nurture debate, albeit one localized to the question of understanding human cognition.
Philosophical debate
Although individual human beings obviously vary due to cultural, racial, linguistic and era-specific influences, innate ideas are said to belong to a more fundamental level of human cognition. For example, the philosopher René Descartes theorized that knowledge of God is innate in everybody as a product of the faculty of faith.
Other philosophers, most notably the empiricists, were critical of the theory and denied the existence of any innate ideas, saying all human knowledge was founded on experience, rather than a priori reasoning.
Philosophically, the debate over innate ideas is central to the conflict between rationalist and empiricist epistemologies. While rationalists believe that certain ideas exist independently of experience, empiricism claims that all knowledge is derived from experience.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz suggested that we are born with certain innate ideas, the most identifiable of these being mathematical truisms. The idea that 1 + 1 = 2 is evident to us without the necessity for empirical evidence. Leibniz argues that empiricism can only show us that concepts are true in the present; the observation of one apple and then another in one instance, and in that instance only, leades to the conclusion that one and another equals two. However, the suggestion that one and another will always equal two require an innate idea, as that would be a suggestion of things unwitnessed.
Leibniz called such concepts as mathematical truisms "necessary truths". Another example of such may be the phrase, "what is, is" or "it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be". Leibniz argues that such truisms are universally assented to (acknowledged by all to be true); this being the case, it must be due to their status as innate ideas. Often there are ideas that are acknowledged as necessarily true but are not universally assented to. Leibniz would suggest that this is simply because the person in question has not become aware of the innate idea, not because they do not possess it. Leibniz argues that empirical evidence can serve to bring to the surface certain principles that are already innately embedded in our minds. This is similar to needing to hear only the first few notes in order to recall the rest of the melody.
The main antagonist to the concept of innate ideas is John Locke, a contemporary of Leibniz. Locke argued that the mind is in fact devoid of all knowledge or ideas at birth; it is a blank sheet or tabula rasa. He argued that all our ideas are constructed in the mind via a process of constant composition and decomposition of the input that we receive through our senses.
Locke, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, suggests that the concept of universal assent in fact proves nothing, except perhaps that everyone is in agreement; in short universal assent proves that there is universal assent and nothing else. Moreover, Locke goes on to suggest that in fact there is no universal assent. Even a phrase such as "What is, is" is not universally assented to, infants and severely handicapped adults do not generally acknowledge this truism. Locke also attacks the idea that an innate idea can be imprinted on the mind without the owner realizing it. To return to the musical analogy, we may not be able to recall the entire melody until we hear the first few notes, but we were aware of the fact that we knew the melody and that upon hearing the first few notes we would be able to recall the rest.
Locke ends his attack upon innate ideas by suggesting that the mind is a tabula rasa or "blank slate", and that all ideas come from experience; all our knowledge is founded in sensory experience.
Essentially, the same knowledge thought to be a priori by Leibniz is in fact, according to Locke, the result of empirical knowledge, which has a lost origin [been forgotten] in respect to the inquirer. However, the inquirer is not cognisant of this fact; and thus, he experiences what he believes to be a priori knowledge.
Scientific ideas
In his Meno, Plato raises an important epistemological quandary: How is it that we have certain ideas which are not conclusively derivable from our environments? Noam Chomsky has taken this problem as a philosophical framework for the scientific enquiry into innatism. His linguistic theory, which derives from 18th century classical-liberal thinkers such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, attempts to explain in cognitive terms how we can develop knowledge of systems which are said, by supporters of innatism, to be too rich and complex to be derived from our environment. One such example is our linguistic faculty. Our linguistic systems contain a systemic complexity which supposedly could not be empirically derived: the environment seems too poor, variable and indeterminate, according to Chomsky, to explain the extraordinary ability to learn complex concepts possessed by very young children. It follows that humans must be born with a universal innate grammar, which is determinate and has a highly organized directive component, and enables the language learner to ascertain and categorize language heard into a system. Noam Chomsky cites as evidence for this theory the apparent invariability, according to his views, of human languages at a fundamental level. In this way, linguistics may provide a window into the human mind, and establish scientific theories of innateness which otherwise would remain merely speculative.
One implication of Noam Chomsky's innatism, if correct, is that at least a part of human knowledge consists in cognitive predispositions, which are triggered and developed by the environment, but not determined by it. Parallels can then be drawn, on a purely speculative level, between our moral faculties and language, as has been done by sociobiologists such as E. O. Wilson and evolutionary psychologists such as Steven Pinker. The relative consistency of fundamental notions of morality across cultures seems to produce convincing evidence for these theories. In psychology, notions of archetypes such as those developed by Carl Jung, suggest determinate identity perceptions.
Learning vs. innate knowledge
There are two ways in which animals can gain knowledge. The first of these two ways is learning. This is when an animal gathers information about its surrounding environment and then proceeds to use this information. For example, if an animal eats something that hurts its stomach, it has learned not to eat this again. The second way that an animal can acquire knowledge is through innate knowledge. This knowledge is genetically inherited. The animal automatically knows it without any prior experience. An example of this is when a horse is born and can immediately walk. The horse has not learned this behavior; it simply knows how to do it.[1] In some scenarios, innate knowledge is more beneficial than learned knowledge. However, in other scenarios the opposite is true.
Costs and benefits of learned and innate knowledge and the evolution of learning
In a changing environment, an animal must constantly be gaining new information in order to survive. However, in a stable environment this same individual need only to gather the information it needs once and rely on it for the duration of its life. Therefore, there are different scenarios in which learning or innate knowledge is better suited. Essentially, the cost of obtaining certain knowledge versus the benefit of having it determined whether an animal evolved to learn in a given situation or whether it innately knew the information. If the cost of gaining the knowledge outweighed the benefit of having it, then the individual would not have evolved to learn in this scenario; instead, non-learning would evolve. However, if the benefit of having certain information outweighed the cost of obtaining it, then the animal would be far more likely to evolve to have to learn this information.[1]
Non-learning is more likely to evolve in two scenarios. If an environment is static and change does not or rarely occurs then learning would simply be unnecessary. Because there is no need for learning in this scenario – and because learning could prove to be disadvantageous due to the time it took to learn the information – non-learning evolves. However, if an environment were in a constant state of change then learning would also prove to be disadvantageous. Anything learned would immediately become irrelevant because of the changing environment.[1] The learned information would no longer apply. Essentially, the animal would be just as successful if it took a guess as if it learned. In this situation, non-learning would evolve.
However, in environments where change occurs but is not constant, learning is more likely to evolve. Learning is beneficial in these scenarios because an animal can adapt to the new situation, but can still apply the knowledge that it learns for a somewhat extended period of time. Therefore, learning increases the chances of success as opposed to guessing and adapts to changes in the environment as opposed to innate knowledge.[1]
Jerry Fodor
Nature versus nurture
Psychological nativism
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During pregnancy, it is very important for a woman to take care of herself and maintain her health and strength. And while there can be circumstances in which a woman may need to use prescription medications while pregnant, care must be taken regarding the kinds of drugs that are prescribed. Medicine consumed by a mother could cause birth injuries to the child she is carrying.
Recently, researchers at Baylor University Medical Center studied trends pertaining to instances of a condition called "neonatal abstinence syndrome," which is a drug-withdrawal syndrome experienced by some infants. A newborn can be affected by the syndrome after having been exposed to certain prescription painkillers taken by the mother during pregnancy. Research indicates that incidents of the neonatal abstinence syndrome have increased nearly fourfold since the year 2004.
In another study, researchers discovered that infants who suffered from neonatal abstinence syndrome were more likely to experience seizures, respiratory difficulties and feeding difficulties. Further, babies with the syndrome displayed a higher rate of incidents of low birth weights.
The issues caused by the syndrome, such as seizures and respiratory conditions, could have a long-term impact on a child's life. Further, parents could be faced with costly medical expenses for care and treatment of the child. This story highlights the fact that doctors must be very careful when issuing prescriptions to their pregnant patients. They should also make sure that their patients understand any possible risks presented by taking a drug.
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Located near Kuching in Sarawak (Borneo), this is a 27 square kilometre of nature reserve.
Geological wise, it is made up of sandstone, and the occasional slates that will come hand in hand in such strata.
Sandstone - soft and easily carved by wind and water, produced many shapes and myriads of colours on the various surfaces, as well as free standing rock formations along the coastal areas.
Going to Bako requires a ride on a fast boat along the Sarawak river, and depending on the tide, it is either a wade in from far off shore, or fortunately for us, a jetty.
The coastal plain has a very low gradient, which means that at low tide, the water edge is very far from the shoreline, and during high tide, the water is not very deep.
Being of such low gradient, the tidal area tends to be sandy and devoid of coral reefs, but plenty of crabs build their burrows here.
We arrived at Bako National Park, and waited for our turn to disembark from the crowded jetty.
Reaching the jetty, we came across this sea-stack (eroded formation of the sandstone), where the feature of this rock is aptly called the "Turtle Head", well some prefer to call it "Eagle Head". My personal name will be Garuda, the mythical man--bird of Indonesia!
Mangrove is supposed to thrive in the inter-tidal area, but this mangroves seem to have faced difficult time and have perished, forming an eerie silhouette, but still home to small fishes in its roots system.
Welcoming us to Bako, is this Sign.
Another view of the jetty during low tide.
Across Bako is this island. Formation wise, it reminded me of Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, albeit shorter!
We walked s short trial, Teluk Pandan Kechil, and a the end of this trial, we were up on a cliff looking down on this outcrop.
And on this cliff, we can see the evidence of erosion. Apparently, the top part of the rock surface is made of harder substrate, but not the body, thus forming these mushroom shapes strata.
The eroded surface of an outcrop, with beautiful rocky colour and patterns.
Close-up of the sandstone wall, which can easily passed off as a modern art to be hung in some gallery!
A lone fig tree, surviving the harsh condition on this rock, with poor nutrient for sustenance, and still able to cling on.
And this one - Bust of a Man looking out to sea.
Well, the formation of the rocks and strata, does give one plenty of time to relax and wonder in our imagination to come up with some nice names.
An electric blue Fiddler, one that I have seen in one of the offshore island in Singapore. As the big claw is on the right, lets called this the right handed one.
And this is a leftie!
Probably the female of the Electric Blue Fiddler. Notice the two smaller cousins on the lower right.
Being one a right handed, and a leftie, there is good reason to fight, as the sparring claws are just in the right place!
But with two lefties, well, it is going to be a bit tough.
Ghost Crab, superb runner on the sandy beach. It took number of us to be able to catch one of this crab. And still it was not easy.
A Beautiful Sun-dial, that somehow has the colour and pattern of the rocky face!
A very beautiful iridescence beetle, the green simply escaped the sensor of my camera. Unfortunately this beetle was dead.
The under-belly was even more colourful and iridescent.
The forest was filled with the filing noise of the Cicada, and on this tree, an empty case of a pupae, with its occupant happily making noises up the tree.
With wood comes termite, and the common perception of White Ant (Termite), well this picture showed that termites comes in black, busy carrying food and mud to its nest.
At night, Bako National Park proves to be equally active as in the day time. However, we were out looking for critters and chance upon them. Unfortunately, the sensor on my camera was not able to capture the beautiful lighting display by the Firefly.
Small Scorpion, very well camouflage and would have been missed if not for a UV light that we were carrying, that make it glow, as shown in the picture below.
Bako is famous for the birds, and we yearned to see Hornbill, but sadly that was the case, but other species indeed we get to see.
Wall Swallow, but not a swallow.
Little Tern was busy in the morning - hunting by diving into the water to catch fish for its broods.
busy busy - for the hungry chicks appetite never seem to fill!
3 species of monkeys we will get to see in Bako, the Long Tail Macaque, which are plentiful.
Then the shy Silver Langur Monkey near the shore.
The unique one will be the monkey with a large nose, the Proboscis Monkey (Nasalis larvatus), and a recent documentary show of monkey in China (Yunnan) will be the other extreme, the Snubbed Nose Monkey (genus Rhinopithecus) - without a nose!
Being a leaf eater, it has a big tummy with all the bacteria to aid in the digestion, it looks like one bloated monkey, having a bad colic.
Female Proboscis Monkey - the nose tends to be smaller and cuter. Not the male with the enlarged nose.
I was below this male when it decided to use the branches as a highway to another tree.
A family of bearded wild pig foraging for food in the mud flat. Unfortunately, being big in size and no natural predators, these pigs have outgrown its ecological balance and causing much harm to the surrounding landscape with its ways of furrowing into the soil looking just about anything to eat. In its track, will be uprooted grass patches, dead tress and muddy and soggy ground.
As mentioned, with low level of useful loam, plants that grow here will have different method of survival.
Pitted pattern on these substrate, indicate the erosion via water, and eventually with enough water and strength, the erosion will produce the mushroom shapes strata seen earlier in this blog.
Sandstone route, on the side will be very poor soil for the plant.
Drosera spatulata, look closely at the spatula shaped leaf with glob of glues at the end of its hairy like structure.
This picture is composed of 5 pictures stacked together as the depth of fields in macro is not good enough to cover from the flowers to the leaves.
And for other plant, there is the parasitic mistletoe. Growing and drawing nutrient from its victims, and at the same time with the capability to photosynthesis, even when the host plant died, the mistletoe will still survive.
Came across this tree which was blooming at its trunk, and interestingly - saw the same plant in Bukit Timah.
Hand holding hand! After the rain, the water still being held between two twines.
Epiphyte - fern, taking advantage of its host, settled nicely up on the branch.
Closed up of the spores packet.


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{{breadcrumb.label}} Press Releases Borusan EnBW Enerji places a further eight wind power plants into
Borusan EnBW Enerji places a further eight wind power plants into operation
Karlsruhe. Shortly before the turn of the year, the German-Turkish joint venture Borusan EnBW Enerji, in which partners Borusan and EnBW each hold a 50% stake, has successfully concluded another onshore project: A further eight wind power plants with a total capacity of around 26 megawatts have been put into commercial operation at the already existing Bandirma wind farm. As a result, the Bandirma wind farm now has a total installed capacity of around 86 megawatts. The renewable portfolio of this joint venture that comprises the expanded Bandarma wind farm, the Balabanli wind farm and the Yedigöl Aksu hydroelectric power plant thus now has a total capacity of around 186 megawatts.
The expansion of the Bandirma wind farm is the first of five projects covered by the contract concluded between the company and Vestas in February 2014 for a wind farm portfolio totalling 207 megawatts. The joint award of the wind farm portfolio marks the biggest onshore contract issued by EnBW to date and also the largest in the history of the Turkish wind energy market. The portfolio – consisting of four new wind farms and the expansion of the Bandirma wind farm – comprises a total of 67 Vestas V112 wind power plants. Each power plant has a hub height of 84 meters, a rotor diameter of 112 meters and a power output of around 3 megawatts. The power plants are expected to generate 721 gigawatt hours of electricity per year – enough to provide around 200,000 households with electricity sourced from wind power.
The construction work for the other four projects comprising in total 180 megawatts is progressing according to schedule. The plan is to successively connect the four wind farms to the electricity grid during the summer of 2015.
Borusan EnBW Enerji, with headquarters in Istanbul, was founded in the summer of 2009 as a joint venture between EnBW and the Turkish company Borusan. The goal of this joint venture – founded by EnBW and the Turkish company Borusan in the summer of 2009 – is to expand the generating capacity from renewable energies in Turkey by around 2000 megawatts. The equal partners are investing several billion to achieve this goal.


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I have long wanted to do a step card but never tried it before so I decided to play with silhouette sd and design one. Of course I will load the the silhouette file for step card template in my blog. You can find it under the tab from main tab menu under silhouette files.
The card is cut using silhouette SD. The pattern paper is a digi pattern from silhouette store and the butterfly and sentiments and the flowers and swirls and banners are all from silhouette store. You will recognize the small snowflake from yesterday's project. Had to use it again.
I will be entering this in a couple of challenges.
Pam this step card is gorgeous!!!
How did I miss this? Gorgeous!
This turned out really cool, Pam! I've never done a step card before - thanks for the inspiration.


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Q: IntelliJ: find code path between two methods I have two methods in my code base. I would like to figure out, if there exists a path in which one will be called from the other. Is there some way to achieve this easily in IntelliJ without digging manually through call hierarchies?

A: The following might work for you on IntellIJ IDEA 16 and higher. It uses call hierarchies, but automates the digging;-)

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*invoke Call Hierarchy Ctrl+Alt+H on method 1.

*click on the Callee Methods Hierarchy button in the tool window that appears to show all methods that are called by method 1.

*click on the Expand All button a couple of times to show called methods until the desired depth.

*Invoke Find Usages on method 2 and select the Scope Hierarchy 'Callees of 1'
Result: all calls of method 2 in method 1's call hierarchy.

A: I've done the following:

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*Select method 2 and invoke call hierarchy with Ctrl+Alt+H.

*Click Expand All on the hierarchy panel

*Click inside the hierarchy panel, and start typing the name of method 1

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"With your choice of powerful, yet fuel-efficient, MIVEC engines and over 52 cubic feet of storage capacity - this is one Lancer that really hauls." —MitsubishiCars.com
Powerful and Fuel Efficient MIVEC Engine
Twin-Clutch Sporttronic® Shift Transmission
All-Wheel Control
Seven Standard Airbags*
FUSE Hands-Free Link System™
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MITSUBISHI Lancer Sportback PERFORMANCE
Fuel-Efficient MIVEC Engines
The Lancer Sportback's all-aluminum Mitsubishi Innovative Valve Timing Electronic Control (MIVEC) engines are engineered to deliver all the MPH you can handle with surprising MPG. Choose the 2.0 liter, 148-hp engine in the ES and get a highly economical 32 MPG highway.† Or step it up to the GT, for a 2.4-liter, 168-HP engine that still delivers 29 MPG**. There's just no trade off.
**EPA mileage estimate. Actual mileage may vary.
Continuously Variable Transmission
Our Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) can be summed up in a single word: smart. This belt-driven system constantly adjusts the gear ratio to keep the engine running at the optimum RPMs for any speed. That means you get maximum performance and excellent fuel economy at the same time. But the CVT doesn't stop there. It also features INVECS-III, a control system that is so advanced, it actually learns how you drive and can anticipate your every move.
Sport-Tuned Suspensions
The Lancer Sportback combines MacPherson struts in front with a finely tuned, multi-link suspension in the rear. Why? So you don't have to compromise between superb handling and a comfortable ride. Whether you're hugging the curves on a mountain road or driving over an unexpected pothole, the Lancer Sportback always stays smooth, solid and responsive.
Available Magnesium Paddle Shifters
Borrowed from our rally heritage and included with our CVT transmission, steering-column-mounted magnesium paddle shifters merge the thrill and control of manual shifting with the convenience and ease of an automatic. You can downshift or upshift with a tap of your finger…no rally experience necessary. So why magnesium? Two reasons: it looks cool, and it stays cool, even if you park your Lancer Sportback in direct sunlight.
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2013 Lancer Sportback APPEARANCE
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GT Touring Package
Isn't it time you treated yourself right? Start by relaxing in the heated leather front seats. See what's in front of you with Xenon HID headlamps. See what's behind you with a rear view backup camera. And enjoy your music with the crystal clarity of a 710 Watt (max) Rockford Fosgate® audio system. With the Touring package, you'll go in comfort and style, no matter where the road takes you.
Fuse Hands-Free Link System
The available FUSE Hands-Free Link System uses the power of Bluetooth to give you complete voice control over your phone and music player. Make calls from your address book, play selected songs, and control other devices too—all while keeping your hands safely on the wheel.
*The Bluetooth word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Mitsubishi is under license. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners.
Seating Options
Every driver is different, and that's why the Lancer Sportback features fully adjustable bucket seats in every model. Start with the comfortable, plush fabric in the ES. Upgrade to seats with side bolsters and more position adjustments in the GT. Or get the ultimate in style and comfort with the full leather, heated front seats in the Touring Package.
Space to Spare
With all of the eye-catching style on the outside, it's easy to miss something big on the inside. Space. The Lancer Sportback has a maximum cargo capacity of 52.7 cubic feet, giving you plenty of room for whatever you want to take with you. And with 60/40 split-fold rear seats, a dual level cargo floor that can drop an extra three inches and a one-touch release lever, all that room comes with plenty of convenience, too.
2013 MITSUBISHI Lancer Sportback SAFETY & WARRANTY
10/100 POWERTRAIN LIMITED WARRANTY
We believe in the quality, reliability and durability of the Mirage so much that we back it with a 10-year/100,000-mile Powertrain Limited Warranty. We also include a 5-year/60,000-mile fully transferable New Vehicle Basic Limited Warranty, a 5-year/60,000-mile warranty on the restraint system, a 7-year/100,000-mile Anti-Corrosion/Perforation Limited Warranty and 5-years/unlimited miles Roadside Assistance.
Active Stability Control‡
The standard Active Stability Control (ASC) system constantly monitors traction between the tires and the road. On detecting slippage or a loss of control, ASC alerts the control unit, which applies the brakes on individual wheels to help keep the vehicle moving in your intended direction.
‡ Safety is a two-way street. It requires your attention and cooperation. Please remember to fasten your safety belt, drive responsibly and obey all traffic laws.
Superior Braking & Control Systems
The Anti-lock Braking System (ABD) with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD)‡ helps keep you in control—no matter what the road brings. ABS constantly monitors wheel speed and applies up to ten pulses per second to prevent lock-up during hard braking. EBD adds intelligent controls that can shift the braking force between the front and rear wheels on an instant-by-instant basis. Working together, they can reduce skidding and increase control, even while turning.
The Lancer Sportback is equipped with an integrated anti-theft alarm system that features an "immobilizer" security key. Each key carries an embedded wireless tag with a unique code for the engine control unit. If the engine doesn't recognize the wireless key, it won't start. And that's just one of many deterrents in this world-class integrated anti-theft system.
Seven Standard Airbags**
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It's that time of year again! The malls are packed. Discounts are everywhere. People are looking for opportunities to volunteer or donate to charity. Advertising and marketing promotions are jam-packed with colorful lights and holiday ditties.
That means by now, you should have your own business' holiday campaign all ready and raring to go, especially if you want to stand out from all the other companies doing that exact same thing. And there are some companies that are doing this whole "standing out" thing particularly well with their holiday marketing campaigns. This post will highlight 8 of the very best holiday-themed campaigns this year. I hope they either inspire your own marketing, or at least make your heart swell with the warm and fuzzies!
Rue La La is an online store with discounted prices on luxury products. Sounds perfect for the holidays already, right? Well this year, they upped their already awesome game by using social media, mobile marketing, and gamification. And glitter.
In addition to their extensive social media campaign, they also give you the opportunity to play their addicting little game on your mobile device. The game? Every day, you get to OPEN PRESENTS!
In the company's first ever holiday campaign -- that's right we've got a newbie on this list -- Zynga is allowing people playing their games to purchase in-app goods to benefit the charity Toys for Tots. So if you're playing popular games such as CityVille, Words With Friends, Draw Something, or Farmville, you can purchase a toy when you're in the game to donate to charity. For instance, here's their "cheer-ewe-up horse" people can purchase for $1 in exchange for a little FarmVille farm decorations.
Zynga has already generated $13 million in donations through 2.5 million in-game purchases. They took something they know they are good at, gamification, and are not only promoting their company's games but contributing to a great cause ... like buying games for kids! How incredibly appropriate. When creating your holiday campaigns, think about what you know about your audience and their habits, just like Zynga did here, so your audience will be more responsive.
Who says B2B companies can't have holiday campaigns? Norton sells software to prevent and remove computer viruses. To celebrate Thanksgiving and kick off the holiday season, they created a funny video for the holidays. Take a look.
Theres a couple things I like about this video. First, please notice that they've created a memorable and trackable URL for this campaign, norton.com/turkey, that redirects to a page about online backup. Good stuff, guys!
But I also like the sentiment behind this campaign. Most people can relate to that woman ... feeling insanely frazzled this time of year, and kind of losing perspective on the "stuff that matters." The scenario ties in perfectly with the video's scenario, what Norton does, their video's tagline, and something we all could stand to remember this time of year: Protect the stuff that matters.
Gilt Groupe is a luxury shopping website for women, selling retail items for up to 60% off the regular price. This season, they are partnering with nonprofit RED to reach a younger generation who uses their mobile devices for almost everything. To donate to RED, users have to dial **RED, and they will automatically receive a text message with several links including a link to gilt.com's online store where they can purchase red t-shirts, bags, watches, phone cases, and other red items in support of the charity.
Gilt has a large online audience, and by partnership with a charity in a mobile-centric way, they're able to reach that growing audience, provide discounts as expected by their fans, and donate to a charitable cause. Triple-threat holiday campaign! If you can take advantage of mobile during the holidays, definitely do it. Normally shoppers are on their phones non-stop, but during the holidays, it reaches monumental heights of activity.
Red Cross has launched their annual campaign, "Give Something That Means Something." The purpose of the campaign is to make donations, well, meaningful. So instead of donating money -- always welcome, of course -- donations are in the form of more tangible items like blankets, shelter, vaccinations, etc. They produce a digital holiday catalog with all of the choices of what people can buy. The Red Cross has found that people are more excited to give something that "means something" instead of the more traditional gift of money.
But it's not just the sentiment behind the campaign that we love. We actually wrote a case study (form-free, download your little hearts out) about how they're using inbound marketing to promote their campaign, too!
Almost every holiday season, you can count on Coca-Cola to totally nail their holiday campaigns. This year, they hired Garyson Sanders, Lauriana Mae, and Jono to produce a song about friends spending the holidays together. To promote the campaign, they produced a series of videos and images that they promote across all of their social channels.
Regardless of how you feel about the particular song (or the giant Santa), this is a great example of a coordinated social campaign ... and it's kind of meta, since the video is kind of about working coordination. I mean, you better be able to work together if you're moving a Santa puppet that big.
When Coca-Cola promotes the campaign on their website, they have links to their Twitter, Flickr, Google+, Facebook, and YouTube accounts, and they use consistent tone and messaging that aligns with all their other campaigns throughout the year. And the bonus? Every year, they use music to promote their campaign, and use the song's sales to raise money for the Special Olympics.
Cisco is a company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. This year, they created a holiday campaign called "How Do You Give Back?" promoted on their Facebook page. Every time someone comments on their Facebook page and tells them how they plan on giving back to the community, four meals are donated to the World Food Programme. The page also promotes other people who are giving back to the community.
Though most people aren't making a natural leap from Cisco to Santa, they take the opportunity to show that they want to do something philanthropic during the holidays. At the same time, they're improving their social strategy by encouraging engagement and followers. Customers want to see that companies are doing something for good causes during the holidays, and by asking them to post on Cisco's wall about the charitable things they're doing, everybody wins: Cisco's social media presence improves, followers feel good about their charitable work, and the World Food Programme receives meal donations.
FedEx created a series of videos that made fun of people for things like waiting overnight in line on Black Friday, buying gifts at the last minute, and the expectation that Santa is going to be in every store. In addition to delivering a chuckle, these videos are quick, to the point, speak to a pain point common to many people this time of year, and remind everyone these services are available year-round.
What other holiday-themed marketing campaigns do you love this year?


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