Postmodern is a Common Lisp library for interacting with PostgreSQL databases. Features are:
The biggest differences between this library and CLSQL/CommonSQL are that Postmodern has no intention of being portable across different SQL implementations (it embraces non-standard PostgreSQL features), and approaches extensions like lispy SQL and database access objects in a quite different way. This library was written because the CLSQL approach did not really work for me, your mileage may vary.
28-11-2012: Version
1.19: Fix ECL incompatibilities,
add upsert-dao
function, add support
for notifications
and bulk copying, and
make unix sockets work on CCL.
19-10-2011: Version
1.18: Improve support for array literals, add array slicing.
Switch test suite over
to Eos.
Added make-dao
, :dao
query selectors,
and define-dao-finalization
.
Support PostGIS
operators, locking,
and constraint deferring
syntax in S-SQL. Add
a !unique
operator for defining table constraints. Add
a database-error-constraint-name
condition object accessor.
02-02-2011: Version
1.17: Another modest maintenance release.
Fixes day-of-week
in simple-date. Makes
the :plist
query
format actually work.
Adds sql-escape
as an exported symbol for client code that needs to escape stuff.
Adds support for multi-dimensional arrays. Adds
the *ignore-unknown-columns*
configuration variable.
02-04-2010: Version
1.16: Introduces a save-dao/transaction
,
because the old semantics were broken (originally inside of
transactions, after fixing that outside of them). Add support for
passing vectors as argument to prepared queries, and reading them
from query results. Add :on-update
and
:on-delete
arguments to !foreign
. Add
:plist
and :plists
query result formats.
Guarantee that deftable
definitions
are executed in the order they were defined in. Moves the ieee-floats
and trivial-utf-8
dependencies into the repository, so they don't have to separately
fetched.
02-04-2010: We are moving from common-lisp.net to marijnhaverbeke.nl, and from darcs to git. New project home: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern.
01-03-2009: Version
1.15: Almost a year since the last release. Postmodern is
still alive—it is just so perfect it hardly needs updates
anymore. In this release: Stop depending on the usocket library in
Allegro CL and SBCL, just use the built-in socket bindings
instead. Allow connecting over a Unix socket in SBCL. Support
natural joins in :select
. Add :if-exists
argument to :drop-...
operators, add support for
:add-column
form to :alter-table
. Add
:between-symmetric
operator. Introduce "ghost slot"
hack to DAO system to support fetching OIDs. Extend
doquery
to also handle parameterised queries.
07-03-2009: Version
1.14: Some more syntax supported in S-SQL, add *silently-truncate-rationals*
and *query-callback*
,
export dao-keys
, and fix
some small bugs.
28-08-2008: Version
1.13: A few small fixes and optimisations, and there is once
again a deftable
―
though it has a different role than it used to have.
30-04-2008: Version
1.12: Restores the save-dao
function
(though you should still be careful with it), adds support for SSL
connections, makes some error messages clearer, adds some S-SQL operators, and fixes a few bugs.
09-04-2008: Version
1.11: Fixes bugs, most importantly one that caused CL-postgres to blow up whenever a connection
parameter was changed for an open connection. Also adds automatic escaping of
reserved words to S-SQL, a *max-pool-size*
parameter and a coalesce
function
to Postmodern
19-03-2008: Version 1.10: Note that this release is not entirely backwards-compatible. It introduces a new, more flexible approach to DAO objects, a more pluggable handling of custom data types, and a bunch of small clean-ups, optimizations, and enhancements. See the migration guide for details.
The library depends on usocket (except on SBCL and ACL, where the built-in socket library is used), md5, closer-mop, bordeaux-threads if you want thread-safe connection pools, and CL+SSL when SSL connections are needed.
Postmodern itself is split into four different packages, some of which can be used independently. Simple-date is a very basic implementation of date and time objects, used to support storing and retrieving time-related SQL types. CL-postgres is the low-level library used for interfacing with a PostgreSQL server over a socket. S-SQL is used to compile s-expressions to strings of SQL code, escaping any Lisp values inside, and doing as much as possible of the work at compile time. Finally, Postmodern itself is the library that tries to put all these things together into a convenient programming interface.
Postmodern is released under a zlib-style license. Which approximately means you can use the code in whatever way you like, except for passing it off as your own or releasing a modified version without indication that it is not the original.
The latest release of Postmodern can be downloaded from http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/postmodern.tgz, or installed with asdf-install.
A git repository with the most recent changes can be checked out with:
> git clone http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/git/postmodern
You can also view the repository on github.
The file http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/postmodern-latest.tgz always contains a snapshot of the current repository head.
The postmodern-devel can be used for questions, discussion, bug-reports, patches, or anything else relating to this library. To subscribe, send a message to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Or mail the author/maintainer directly: Marijn Haverbeke.
This quickstart is intended to give you a feel of the way coding with Postmodern works. Further details about the workings of the library can be found in the reference manual.
Assuming you have already installed it, first load and use the system:
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :postmodern) (use-package :postmodern)
If you have a PostgreSQL server running on localhost, with a database called 'testdb' on it, which is accessible for user 'foucault' with password 'surveiller', you can connect like this:
(connect-toplevel "testdb" "foucault" "surveiller" "localhost")
Which will establish a connection to be used by all code,
except for that wrapped in a with-connection
form, which takes the same arguments but only establishes the
connection locally.
Now for a basic sanity test:
(query "select 22, 'Folie et déraison', 4.5") ;; => ((22 "Folie et déraison" 9/2))
That should work. query is the basic way to send queries to the database. The same query can be expressed like this:
(query (:select 22 "Folie et déraison" 4.5)) ;; => ((22 "Folie et déraison" 9/2))
In many contexts, query strings and lists starting with keywords can be used interchangeably. The lists will be compiled to SQL. The S-SQL manual describes the syntax used by these expressions. Lisp values occurring in them are automatically escaped. In the above query, only constant values are used, but it is possible to transparently use run-time values as well:
(defun database-powered-addition (a b) (query (:select (:+ a b)) :single)) (database-powered-addition 1030 204) ;; => 1234
That last argument, :single
, indicates that we
want the result not as a list of lists (for the result rows), but
as a single value, since we know that we are only selecting one
value. Some other options are :rows
,
:row
, :column
, :alists
, and
:none
. Their precise effect is documented in the reference manual.
You do not have to pull in the whole result of a query at once,
you can also iterate over it with the doquery
macro:
(doquery (:select 'x 'y :from 'some-imaginary-table) (x y) (format t "On this row, x = ~A and y = ~A.~%" x y))
This is what a database-access class looks like:
(defclass country () ((name :col-type string :initarg :name :reader country-name) (inhabitants :col-type integer :initarg :inhabitants :accessor country-inhabitants) (sovereign :col-type (or db-null string) :initarg :sovereign :accessor country-sovereign)) (:metaclass dao-class) (:keys name))
The above defines a class that can be used to handle records in a table with three columns: name, inhabitants, and sovereign. In simple cases, the information above is enough to define the table as well:
(dao-table-definition 'country) ;; => "CREATE TABLE country ( ;; name TEXT NOT NULL, ;; inhabitants INTEGER NOT NULL, ;; sovereign TEXT, ;; PRIMARY KEY (name))" (execute (dao-table-definition 'country))
This defines our table in the database. execute works like query, but does not expect any results back.
Let us add a few countries:
(insert-dao (make-instance 'country :name "The Netherlands" :inhabitants 16800000 :sovereign "Willem-Alexander")) (insert-dao (make-instance 'country :name "Croatia" :inhabitants 4400000))
Then, to update Croatia's population, we could do this:
(let ((croatia (get-dao 'country "Croatia"))) (setf (country-inhabitants croatia) 4500000) (update-dao croatia)) (query (:select '* :from 'country)) ;; => (("The Netherlands" 16800000 "Willem-Alexander") ;; ("Croatia" 4500000 :NULL))
Next, to demonstrate a bit more of the S-SQL syntax, here is
the query the utility function list-tables
uses to get a list of the tables in a database:
(sql (:select 'relname :from 'pg-catalog.pg-class :inner-join 'pg-catalog.pg-namespace :on (:= 'relnamespace 'pg-namespace.oid) :where (:and (:= 'relkind "r") (:not-in 'nspname (:set "pg_catalog" "pg_toast")) (:pg-catalog.pg-table-is-visible 'pg-class.oid)))) ;; => "(SELECT relname FROM pg_catalog.pg_class ;; INNER JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace ON (relnamespace = pg_namespace.oid) ;; WHERE ((relkind = 'r') and (nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'pg_toast')) ;; and pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(pg_class.oid)))"
sql
is a macro that
will simply compile a query, it can be useful for seeing how your
queries are expanded or if you want to do something unexpected
with them.
As you can see, lists starting with keywords are used to express SQL commands and operators (lists starting with something else will be evaluated and then inserted into the query). Quoted symbols name columns or tables (keywords can also be used but might introduce ambiguities). The syntax supports subqueries, multiple joins, stored procedures, etc. See the S-SQL reference manual for a complete treatment.
Finally, here is an example of the use of prepared statements:
(defprepared sovereign-of (:select 'sovereign :from 'country :where (:= 'name '$1)) :single!) (sovereign-of "The Netherlands") ;; => "Willem-Alexander"
The defprepared
macro creates a function that takes the same amount of arguments
as there are $X
placeholders in the given query. The
query will only be parsed and planned once (per database
connection), which can be faster, especially for complex
queries.
(disconnect-toplevel)
The reference manuals for the different components of Postmodern are kept in separate files. For using the library in the most straightforward way, you only really need to read the Postmodern reference and glance over the S-SQL reference. The simple-date reference explains the time-related data types included in Postmodern, and the CL-postgres reference might be useful if you just want a low-level library for talking to a PostgreSQL server.
Simple-date has no concept of time zones. This means that using it is rather error-prone, and if you really need your time-keeping to be reliable and/or universal you should either not use the types it provides or think really hard about the way you handle time zones.
Recently, a lot of work has been done on local-time, which solves the same problem as simple-date, but does understand time zones. The 1.0 repository currently has code for integration with CL-postgres, though this might not be stable yet.
The Lisp code in Postmodern is theoretically portable across implementations, and seems to work on all major ones. I am not actively testing against new releases or obscure implementations, but if you run into problems you are welcome to contact me through the mailing list, and we can try to solve them. Implementations that do not have meta-object protocol support will not have DAOs, but all other parts of the library should work (all widely used implementations do support this).
The library will definitely not work for PostgreSQL versions
older than 7.4 (it uses a client/server protocol that was
introduced in that version). On versions prior to 8.1, retrieving
date and time objects is broken, because their binary
representation was changed. Part of the functionality of insert-dao
(automatic defaulting of unbound slots) only works in PostgreSQL
8.2 and up.
It would be a nice feature if Postmodern could help you with defining your database schemas and, more importantly, updating your databases when your code changes. It would theoretically not be hard to build a function that compares a schema on the Lisp side with the state of the database, and helps you to interactively update your database. PostgreSQL has a quite complete introspection system. Unfortunately it would be a lot of work to implement this, since databases can contain so many different types of entities (tables, views, indices, procedures, constraints, sequences, etc.) which are all created, changed, and dropped in different ways.


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Fremantle star Jesse Hogan hospitalised after car crash in Perth
Fremantle forward Jesse Hogan has been hospitalised after he was involved in a car accident in Perth on Sunday morning.
A club spokesperson confirmed Hogan was taken to Fiona Stanley Hospital as a precaution but has since been released.
The key forward did not sustain serious injuries in the crash, which saw him hit a parked car in the Perth town of Bicton at around 11pm AWDT.
It is understood the 24-year-old’s air bag deployed, with a witness reportedly calling an ambulance to the scene..
He will not train with the Dockers tomorrow, with the club confirming he has been given the day off.
A Fremantle team doctor was with him at the time while he was in hospital.
His manager Jason Dover told the Herald Sun Hogan would make a quick recovery.
“He is fine. He presented to hospital and they were worried about concussion symptoms after a member of the public rang the ambulance, but he was discharged quickly and he has been cleared by the doctors,” Dover said.
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Verb Doubling
Chapter 4. Jargon Construction
A standard construction in English is to double a verb and use it as an exclamation, such as “Bang, bang!” or “Quack, quack!”. Most of these are names for noises. Hackers also double verbs as a concise, sometimes sarcastic comment on what the implied subject does. Also, a doubled verb is often used to terminate a conversation, in the process remarking on the current state of affairs or what the speaker intends to do next. Typical examples involve *win*, *lose*, *hack*, *flame*, *barf*, *chomp*:
“The disk heads just crashed.” “Lose, lose.”
“Mostly he talked about his latest crock. Flame, flame.”
“Boy, what a bagbiter! Chomp, chomp!
Some verb-doubled constructions have special meanings not immediately obvious from the verb. These have their own listings in the lexicon.
The *Usenet* culture has one tripling convention unrelated to this; the names of ‘joke’ topic groups often have a tripled last element. The first and paradigmatic example was alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (a Muppet Show reference); other infamous examples have included:
These two traditions fuse in the newsgroup alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb, devoted to humor based on deliberately confounding parts of speech. Several observers have noted that the contents of this group is excellently representative of the peculiarities of hacker humor.
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package name. |
When a package is loaded the normal way, using library()
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This attractive town is one of the West Country's most attractive cruising destinations. Its bustling harbour offers something for everyone; wonderful sandy beaches, plenty of sheltered water for dinghy sailing or simply messing about in boats, a quiet anchorage in a remote creek or a mooring in the heart of the action.
Add to all this, a wealth of good restaurants, irresisible waterside pubs and quaint narrow streets and you have everything most cruising folk look for. It is also the home of the legendary Island Cruising Club, based on the distinctive black and white Mersey Ferry boat, Egremont.
Once inside, shelter is complete, but the entrance is protected by a shallow bar. In settled weather (or an off-shore wind), with sufficient rise of tide, this presents no problem, and both the day and the night leading lines are easily identified. In a strong onshore wind with the ebb running, the entrance is dangerous and it is best to divert to either Dartmouth or Plymouth.
Practically all boat services can be found here. It does not have a conventional marina. There are plenty of visitors' mooring buoys as well as space to anchor. There are along-side berths on visitors pontoons, but they are not attached to the shore. There are several dinghy landing pontoons and a short-stay (1/2 hr) pontoon off the town for getting water and supplies.
Dinghies - visiting yacht tenders should use the inside (west) side of Normandy pontoon (the seaward southerly one) which is free and reserved for them. Tenders left on Whitestrand pontoon (the northerly one) or foreshore OVERNIGHT in July and August will pay a fine.
In the season, one of the Harbour Master's launches will probably approach the boat and offer help and advice on where to moor. The alongside berths on the visitors pontoon are situated in "The bag". On payment of harbour/mooring fees, 2 free tokens for the showers at Salcombe Yacht Club are included.
Garbage - there are disposal facilities on pontoon moored off Whitestrand and on visitors pontoon in the Bag. There is NO facilities ashore. Public toilets at Whitestrand adjacent to Harbourmasters Office and slip.
Last updated January 2015.


Passenger’s attempt to smuggle 4 gold, metal detectors thwarted
by Egypt Today staffCAIRO - 16 November 2019: An attempt by a passenger coming from Dubai to smuggle four gold and metal detectors was foiled at Cairo International Airport’s Terminal 2 on Saturday.
The passenger had an underground water detector that he carried with him when leaving Egypt. However, representatives of the Customs Authority noticed that the device was heavier than usual so they disassembled it and found the gold and metal detectors.
Recently, the Border Guard Forces confiscated 22 devices used in illegal mining, which is a phenomenon the state has been trying to combat by encouraging investments in the sector in parallel to security measures.
Few days ago, the customs authorities at Hurghada International Airport thwarted a passenger’s attempt to smuggle counterfeit $10,000 banknotes into Egypt.


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studio symbiosis tackles air pollution in india with proposed 'aura' cleaning tower
by Amit Guptain a bid to clean up the air of delhi, studio symbiosis has designed a series of solutions under the title ‘aura’. comprising of four different elements, the project proposes a comprehensive strategy to tackle and rectify the imminent threat of pollution, which is denying clean breathable air to the residents of delhi national capital region (NCR).
as of november 2019, residents of delhi are breathing about 25 times more toxic air than the permissible limit according to WHO (world health organization) guidelines. the national capital has a blanket of thick smog all over the city and its neighbouring areas are filled with high levels of PM 2.5 (a micro pollutant that enters the bloodstream and causes clots, blocking the blood flow, leading to heart attacks and other diseases). the AQI level has reached 1350 and the PM 2.5 level has reached 999. in short, air pollution in the indian capital is at dangerous levels.
aura city
all images courtesy of studio symbiosis architects
the first part of the project is the aura cleaning tower. developed using principles of aerodynamics, the twisting elliptical towers are designed as 60 m and 18 m high respectively. they can intake polluted air from 360 degrees and have two main chambers. one to increase the relative velocity of the air and the other cleans the massive intake of air before expelling it. the cleaning tower designed at 18 m height is able to clean 32 million cubic meter of air every day and the capacity to clean 1,300,000m3 per hour.
aura hotspot and aura falcon
the secondary system of ‘aura hotspots’ have been designed to be grafted within the city. these towers are designed as 18 meters high and they create a grid that ensures clean air in the city. the hotspots are effective, even when wind speeds drop and the pollution level increases. these towers have a smaller range of 1 sq km and are highly effective in cleaning the city during days with low wind speeds and higher pollution levels. hotspots are proposed for each neighborhood, so residents can enjoy close proximity to clean air in the evenings or at the weekend.
aura hotspot
the third system looks at objects in motion, moving through the city of delhi. so as not to play with nature and generate artificial wind, a simple attachment on top of cars has been designed. this element looks at the aerodynamics of a car and the streamlines as achieved during computational fluid analysis, are being pushed through these ‘aura velocity’. the more these cars move in the city, the more they clean the city. these cars will act as a hive of micro air purifiers. as a consequence, everyone who has inadvertently become a part of the problem, will contribute as being a part of the solution.
aura velocity
the fourth system looks at a network of drones, flying through the city of delhi. these ‘aura falcon’ drones are components nested within the cleaning towers that detach and move around the city guided by live updates of the pollution levels. they double up as cctv cameras with an added feature of security. this defensive and preventive network of ‘aura hive’, looks at creating a clean future for the city of delhi and as well as various other cities around the globe, making clean air accessible to everyone, not just the people who can afford it.
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project info:
project name: aura: breathing lungs of the city
architects: studio symbiosis architects
design: amit gupta and britta knobel gupta
team: amit agrawal, kartik misra, sonal dongre jain, dewesh agrawal, chinmay chowdhary, mandeep chaudhary pallav chaudhary, keshav sapra
designboom has received this project from our ‘ DIY submissions ‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here.
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Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa to Maye Musk, a model and dietician from Canada, and Errol Musk, an engineer from South Africa. The Musks were an affluent family in South Africa.
Kimbal Musk, Elon's younger brother is born.
In 1974, Tosca Musk was born. Compared with his siblings, Elon was introverted and quiet while his siblings were more outgoing.
During his childhood Elon was a voracious reader. He devoured a wide variety of books, reading up to 10 hours a day.
Elon runs out of books to read at the library and reads the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.
Elon's parents divorce and he chooses to live with his father. Life with Errol Musk was difficult and tough; Errol would sometimes lecture Elon and Kimbal for hours. This experience was key in Elon's personal development.
"My father was very strict," Tosca remembers. "So while everybody in South Africa had maids and servants, he'd have us play this game. It was called America, America, and when we played it, we'd have to do everything an American child would do. We'd have to clean the house, mow the lawn, do all sorts of American chores." — Tosca Musk
Elon developed an interest in computing with the inexpensive home computer, Commodore VIC-20. He teaches himself programming, learning BASIC by finishing a 6-month course in 3 days.
Throughout his childhood Elon was severely bullied. He was once hospitalised when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then beat him until he lost consciousness. It was a difficult time for Elon.
 — Elon Musk
Elon writes his first video game, Blastar, and sells the BASIC code to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for US$500.
Elon goes through a teenage existential crisis. He continues reading books to figure out the meaning of life.
During this time, he was shaped by books such as The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Foundation Trilogy, and The Lord of the Rings.
Elon's father takes him to work and makes him do real work
Graduates from Pretoria Boys High School. Moves to Canada to avoid serving in the South African military and obtains Canadian citizenship through his mother.
Stays with relatives while working odd jobs one of which was shoveling dirt in a boiler room for US$18/hour.
Begins undergraduate studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. There he met Justine Wilson, an aspiring writer. They would marry and have five sons togehter, twins and triplets, before divorcing in 2008.
Elon would also cold call
executives he read in the news and sell computers out of his dorm room.
In 1992, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania double majoring in physics and economics. While there, Musk and fellow Penn student Adeo Ressi rented a 10-bedroom fraternity house, using it as an unofficial nightclub.
1995: Elon Musk graduates from University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. (He leaves the school in 1995, but technically graduated in 1997).
"When I was at Penn, I started thinking about what would most affect the future of humanity," he said. "The three things that I thought would be the most effective were the Internet, the transition to sustainable energy economy, and space exploration, particularly extension of life to multiple planets." — Elon Musk
1995: Elon moves to California to begin a PhD in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations. He frequently hangs out with his brother, Kimbal, brainstorming entrepreneurial ideas.
1995: with US$28,000 of their father's money, Elon and Kimbal started Zip2, an internet "city guide" dot-com software company. Later on, after Musk was pushed out from CEO to CTO by his investors.
February 1999: Compaq buys Zip2 for US$307 million, the largest sum ever paid for an intenret company. Musk receives US$22 million for his 7% share.
March 1999: Musk funnels US$10 million to co-found a start-up called X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company which exploited what he saw as a dearth of online innovation in financial services.
2000: After competing for customers with another banking startup Confinity, they merge together in March 2000 into what would be renamed as Paypal in 2001. The company's early growth was driven mainly by a viral marketing campaign where new coustomers were recruited when they received money through the service.
October 2000: Musk is ousted from his role as CEO (although he remained on the board) due to disagreements with other company leadership, notably over his desire to move PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure to Microsoft Windows. Nevertheless, Musk continued to invest into PayPal.
2001: Musk begins to dream up a miniature experimental greenhoues that he could land on Mars. The greenhouse, which he called "Mars Oasis," would contain crops and would, he hoped, rekindle well-faded public interest in space exploration..
Musk pitches his ideas to an aerospace consultant named Jim Cantrell on making mankind a multiplanetary species. Musk also continues devouring books, learning how to build rockets from books.
October 2001: Musk travels to Moscow with Adeo Ressi (his best friend from college) and Jim Cantrell to buy refurbished Russian ICBMs that could send the envisioned payloads into space. Business negotiations fell apart; They were spat on by the
Russian sellers who saw them as novices and priced a rocket at US$21 million for one when Elon was ready to buy three Russian ICBMs for US$21 million. They returned empty handed.
"They taunted him," Cantrell says. "They said, 'Oh, little boy, you don't have the money?' I said, 'Well, that's that.' I was sitting behind him on the flight back to London when he looked at me over the seat and said, 'I think we can build a rocket ourselves.'" — Jim Cantrell
February 2002: The group returns to Russia to look for three ICBMs, bringing along Mike Griffin, who had worked for the CIA's venture capital arm. The group met again with Kosmotras, and were offered one rocket for US$8 million, however, this
was seen by Musk as too expensive; Musk consequently stormed out of the meeting. On the flight back from Moscow, Musk realised that he could start a company that could build the affordable rockets he needed.
Musk created a spreadsheet that detailed the costs of the materials needed of the materials needed to build, assemble, and launch a modest-sized rocket that catered to a market that specialised in carrying smaller satellites and research payloads to space. The spreadsheet also laid out the hypothetical performance characteristics of the rocket in fairly impressive detail.
"I looked at it and said, I'll be damned — that's why he's been borrowing all my books." — Jim Cantrell
Early 2002: Musk seeks out competent staff for his new space company, soon to be named SpaceX. Musk approaches renowned rocket engineer Tom Mueller (now SpaceX's CTO of Propulsion) and Mueller agreed to work for Musk.
May 2002: Elon Musk founds Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX. Musk is CEO and CTO of the Hawthorn, California-based company. SpaceX develops and manufactures space launch vehicles with a focus on advancing the state of rocket technology.
SpaceX started with the smallest useful orbital rocket, instead of building a more complex and riskier launch vehicle, which could have failed and bankrupted the company.
Justine and Elon's first son, Nevada Alexander Musk, dies of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of ten weeks. They later had five sons through in vitro fertilisation — twins in 2004, followed by triples in 2006.
October 2002: PayPal is acquired by eBay for US$1.5 bilion in stock. Musk was PayPal's largest shareholder, owning 11.7% of PayPal's shares. He received US$165 million from the sale.
Musk invests US$100 million of his early fortune into SpaceX. Musk calculated that the raw materials for building a rocket actually were only 3 percent of the sales price of a rocket at the time. By applying vertical integration, producing around 85% of launch hardware in-house, and the modular approach from software engineering, SpaceX could cut launch price by a factor of ten and still enjoy a 70 percent gross margin.
With his early wealth, Musk begins to think about building electric cars at a time when industry and consumer interest in Electric Vehicles (EV) were waning.
"Since big car companies were killing their EV programs, the only chance was to create an EV company, even tho it was almost certain to fail" — Elon Musk
2003: Tesla Motors Inc. is incorporated by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, a pair of engineers. They were influenced to start the company after GM recalled all its EV1 electric cars in 2003 and then destroyed them. Eberhard and Tarpenning
financed the company until the Series A round of funding.
They then meet Elon Musk and pitch their ideas to him.
April 2004: Musk comes in as a leading investor, funding the large majority of the Series A capital investment rund of US$7.5 million with personal funds. Eberhard remains as CEO while Musk joins Tesla's board of directors as its chairman as well
as in operational roles.
Tesla's early primary goal was to commercialise electric vehicles, starting with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then movin as rapidly as possible into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable compacts for the mass market, serving "as a catalyst to accelerate the day of electric vehicles".
2004: Justine Musk gives birth to Elon's twin sons both of whom were conceived through IVF.
March 2006: The maiden flight of SpaceX's first rocket, the Falcon 1. It launched from Omelek Island in the Marshall Islands but explodes with the root cause being a corroded nut.
July 2006: SpaceX is one of two companies selected by NASA to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the International Space Station under the new Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. If successful, NASA will have the ability to use the demonstrated capability to resupply the ISS after the 2010 retirement of the Space Shuttle. NASA's seed money kick starts the development of Falcon 9.
"By stimulating the development of commercial orbital spaceflight, the NASA COTS program will have the same positive effect on space travel as the Air Mail Act of 1925 had on the development of safe and affordable air transportation." — Elon Musk
August 2006: Musk becomes 1st investor in SolarCity. The initial concept for SolarCity was provided by Musk before his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive co-founded it in 2006.
Elon Musk's underlying motivation for funding both SolarCity and Tesla is to help combat global warming.
End 2006: Justine Musk gives birth to Elon's triplet sons all of whom were conceived through IVF.
March 2007: After being delayed several months due to a wide range of issues, a new Falcon 1 rocket carying a DemoSat payload for DARPA and NASA is launched. While first stage burn and transition to second stage was successful, Falcon 1 failed
to reach orbit due to harmonic oscillation and premature engine shutdown.
Though it did not reach orbit, the flight proved over 95% of Falcon 1's systems and the vehicle gathered enough data for operational flights.
Economic disaster: The 2008 financial crisis occurs and its effects are felt across the United States of America and the world.
March 2008: After a plethora of development and production issues, the first Tesla customers get their Roadsters at US$109,000. However, Tesla is still losing money. Tesla cuts staff and scales back expansion.
Justine and Elon Musk file for divorce. They share custody of their five sons. A few months later Musk begins dating English actress Talulah Riley after meeting her at a London nightclub.
I had turned into a trophy wife — and I sucked at it." — Justine Musk
August 2008: Third Falcon 1 launch fails due to residual stage 1 thrust that led to collision between stage 1 and stage 2 which prevented successful completion of the mission. All 4 satellites aboard are destroyed.
"For my part, I will never give up and I mean never." — Elon Musk
It is an extremely difficult time for Elon. In addition to going through a divorce with Justine Musk, SpaceX and Tesla are both facing challenges and running out of cash. All of Musk's money, including the total of US$180 million he made from
the PayPal deal was invested in both companies.
"I remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas in 2008, and thinking to myself, 'Man, I never thought I was someone who could ever be capable of a nervous breakdown.' I felt this is the closest I've ever come, because it seemed...pretty dark." — Elon Musk
September 2008: SpaceX's 4th Falcon 1 flight carrying a dummy payload (a mass simulator) is a success. It is the first ever commercial space vehicle to successfully achieve orbit.
October 2008: Elon Musk takes over as CEO of Tesla and further laid off an additional 25% of Tesla's workforce.
December 2008: SpaceX wins a US$1.6 billion NASA contract for 12 resupply and cargo delivery flights to the International Space Station until 2016.
"NASA called and told us we won a US$1.5 billion contract," Musk said in an interview. "I couldnt even hold the phone. I just blurted out, 'I love you guys!'" — Elon Musk
He
reveals in his biography that he cried realising that SpaceX just barely escaped bankruptcy.
December 2008: Hours before Tesla would have gone bankrupt, Musk bluffs during a 5th fonud of funding. He told the investors tha the would take another loan from SpaceX and fund the entire round—all US$40 million—himself. The tactic worked: Tesla raises US$40 million in a debt-financing round and narrowly escapes bankruptcy.
March 2009: Tesla unveils the first Tesla Model S, a more affordable full-electric luxury sedan. However, Tesla faces mass scaling issues as most of their manufacturing is outsourced and they do not have a large dedicated manufacturing facility.
June 2009: Tesla takes a US$465 million loan from the United States Department of Energy.
June 2010: Tesla launches its Initial Public Offering on the Nasdaq echange offering 13.3 million shares at a price of $17 per share, raising a total
of US$226.1 million.
October 2010: Tesla buys a large assembly plant for cheap from Toyota and General Motor's failed joint venture.
2010: Elon Musk marries Talulah Riley after dating her for two years.
September 2011: Musk announces reusable rockets to reduce spaceflight costs by a factor of 100.
February 2012: Tesla unveils the Model X (SUV).
March 2012: Talulah Riley and Elon Musk undergo a divorce.
"It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day." — Elon Musk
May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon resupply spacecraft successfully docks with the International Space Station.
June 2012: Tesla starts shipping the model S at US$75,000. Despite some issues with Tesla's cars, it is a commercial success buoyed by Tesla's customer service.
September 2012: SpaceX starts trying to land dummy rocket Grasshopper vertically from a small altitude.
September 2012: Tesla launches supercharger network across the USA for easier long distance driving. All Tesla car owners have free access for charging at the supercharger stations.
July 2013: Musk marries Talulah Riley again.
August 2013: Musk publishes his first ideas and designs of the Hyperloop high-speed rail, a proposed futuristic method of transportation.
September 2013: SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage performs the first propulsive-return over-water tests on 29 September 2013. Although not a complete success, the stage was able to change direction and make a controlled entry into the atmosphere.
June 2014: Tesla starts buiding the Gigafactory to mass produce batteries.
July 2014: After continued water-landing tests, the Falcon 9 booster has achieved its next milestone. It is now able to consistently perform reentry at hypersonic velocity, restart main engines twice, deploy landing legs, and touch down at near zero velocity for a soft water landing.
January 2015: SpaceX begins attempting to land the first stage of Falcon 9 rockets onto a floating landing platform, the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship.
April 2015: Elon Musk unveils the compact, affordable, and simple to install Powerwall during a Tesla event. It is a lithium-ion product designed for home and commercial energy storage to make renewable energy more attractive and viable.
June 2015: SpaceX CRS-7 a resuppply mission to the International Space Station with the Falcon 9 rocket fails. Total loss of mission due to structural failure and helium overpressure in the second stage. However, this is the first failure in a string of nine successful flights by the Falcon 9 rocket..
September 2015: The first customers get their Tesla Model X. Tesla's value per stock is now US$250.
December 2015: The first attempt by a Falcon 9 first stage to land on solid ground succeeded flawlessly.
SpaceX still continues to pursue a successful landing on their autonomous sea barge due to the large amount of fuel that will be saved
by landing in the sea along the rocket's natural path instead of turning back to land on solid ground.
December 2015: Musk announces the creation of OpenAI, a not-for-profit artificial intelligence research company. OpenAI aims to develop artificial general intelligence in a way that is safe and beneficial to humanity.
March 2016: Elon Musk co-founds Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup company to develop implantable brain-computer interfaces. The company's headquarters are in San Francisco. The company aims to make devices to treat serious brain diseases in the short-term, with the eventual goal of human enhancement.
8 April 2016: After multiple landing errors and explosions, the first successful first-stage landing on a floating platform happened on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Of Course I still Love you during the SpaceX CRS-8 mission. This is a major milestone for SpaceX and reusable rocket technology.
Late 2016: Talulah Riley splits up with Elon Musk. The divorce is finalised in late 2016. A few months later Elon Musk begins dating Amber Heard, an American actress.
December 2016: Musk founds the Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunneling company that aims to create an underground tunnel transportation network.
January 2017: Tesla's Gigafactory starts mass producing lithium-ion battery cells, which will be used in Tesla's energy storage products and Model 3.
March 2017: Tesla unveils the Model 3 with a base model pricing of US$35,000 but owners will have to pay for Supercharger access. It is very well-received with a few hundred-thousand reservations for the car.
2022: First unmanned launch of Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT).
2024: Launch of first manned MCT Mars flight to colonise Mars.
"I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact." — Elon Musk
Future: Develop and manufacture electric vehicle alternatives for other motor vehicles, starting with a heavy-duty electric truck. Together with SolarCity, Tesla will reduce the Human race's dependency on non-renewable energy.
Future: Initiatives, research, and development by Hyperloop and The Boring Company will create faster and more energy efficient means of transport for Humanity.
Future: Research and development from OpenAI and Neuralink will create solutions and services that could greatly improve the quality of human lives and allow us to overcome the limits of the human brain.


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Former child actor charged with murder
Toronto Star | Submitted by: Reverend Bustanut
"Tyson Talbot, charged with second-degree murder in the death of
Christopher Shelton, is a former child actor who appeared on the popular
Degrassi television series. The Toronto-based Degrassi franchise, which
began as The Kids of Degrassi Street in 1980, featured Talbot playing the
role of Billy Martin, "the kind of character who ran for school president
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Nude man on the roof of a vehicle on I-95
Delco Daily Times | Submitted by: astonhomies
"A nude man on the roof of a vehicle on I-95 was among many of the
reports Patrolman Ralph Conte received as he began investigating what came
in at the county 911 dispatch center as a stolen vehicle incident, about
4:30 a.m." Check these charges out: "She’s additionally charged with simple
and aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and stalking,
disorderly conduct, driving under the influence of alcohol or controlled
substances, careless driving, reckless driving, driving without a license,
and accidents involving damage to unattended vehicle or property", criminal
attempted homicide and DUI offenses. "He’s charged with simple and aggravated
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Nurse jailed for blaze that killed billionaire
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"A male nurse who set fire to a Monaco penthouse in an arson attack that
killed his billionaire boss was today jailed for 10 years. Ted Maher had
believed he would be a hero in banker Edmond Safra's eyes if he had saved
him from the blaze. But Mr Safra died, trapped in a bathroom."
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Naked bumper car driver humped pavement
Kitchener Waterloo Record | Submitted by: meatload
"A young man who rammed his purple Cavalier into several vehicles along a
Waterloo road last winter was dancing, naked, in the street, a witness
testified yesterday.
Harvey then switched from being "very happy to being very mean and
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For sale: Victorian taxidermy collection
Wire Services | Submitted by: SR
The 19th century equivalent of Dogs Playing Poker:
"The collection is one of the most elaborate surviving examples of the 19th-century craze for anthropomorphic displays of preserved dead animals. Some of the pieces were lent last year to London's Victoria and Albert Museum...
The collection was created by Walter Potter, who began his taxidermy career
in the mid-1800s by painstakingly dissecting and stuffing his pet canary after
it died. The somewhat lumpy result is still part of the collection."
 It might swallow our Sun, like a huge crocodile. It might seem
ridiculous to say that the Sun, which has a radius of 700 thousand kilometers,
can be squeezed to the size of a soccer ball.  Its gravity is monstrous, and it cannot
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into vats of acid, staging mock execution and repeated raping of women. It
also described a vicious method of torture known as falaqa, in which victims
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Study: Pot is not a gateway drug
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first tried cannabis or not. A spokesman for the UK charity Drugscope... said
people who used harder drugs were more likely to have "risk averse" lifestyles
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"Fourteen women were injured Monday after a wild monkey went on the rampage
in a residential area of Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, authorities said.
Police and local health officials armed with tranquilizer guns and nets
launched a hunt for the 1-meter tall Japanese macaque, but it remains at
large... Police said the 14 victims, from women in their teens to those in
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placed on catamarans in the seas off desert areas, and could be moved
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Band director accused of mailing raccoon head
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Horses heads are harder to come by these days: "A suburban high school
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for allegedly mailing a raccoon head to a school official during a teachers'
strike. Police said Donald Sullivan admitted that he mailed the severed head
to Maple Heights High School Principal Deborah Houchins in the final
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Officer dumps coffee on suspect
Boston Globe | Submitted by: pillowbiter-blue
"A police officer is serving a suspension this week for pouring coffee on a
handcuffed suspect who was lying on the ground... [Officer] Myette had spilled
coffee on himself on the way to the call, Finnegan said. When he arrived, he
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Devilish Michael Jackson on crutches from spiderbite
CNN | Submitted by: SR
"Explaining the crutches and the white athletic sock he was wearing on one
foot, Jackson told reporters; "It is a spider bite. It is real bad. If I showed
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Neuroplasticity Neuroplasticity is the change in neural pathways and synapses that occurs due to certain factors, like behavior, environment, or neural processes.  There are two types of neuroplasticity, including: Functional plasticity: The brain's ability to move functions from a damaged area of the brain to other undamaged areas. Structural plasticity: The brain's ability to actually change its physical structure as a result of learning.
The Growth Mindset The Growth Mindset is when people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. The opposite of the Growth mindstate is the fixed mindstate. In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success without effort. They're wrong.
A Fixed mindset believes attributes & abilities are inherently fixed & will not change no matter how much effort put in. The Growth mindset is the polar oppositeTo me I feel these concepts constitute hope so therefore unless your willing to deny hope in the human experience the idea of Will comes in to play, also the growth vs fixed mindstate concept is one that I've contemplated long before joing Dev Academy or be it by another name. Duality can be found in all aspects of nature.
I even believe parts of a fixed mindstate can be intergrated appropriately to help the Growth mindstate advance. Isn't a certain amount of stubborness a pre-requsite of determination & resilience when faced with adversity? I actually do think and choose to believe this. I would have already quit if that wasn't true. It's seems like if one's willing to keep an open mind then by definition they're in the Growth-Mindset.


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The setting was my grandmother's house, where I happen to be staying. Due to her impaired mobility, I had the upstairs largely to myself. It was a rainy day.
My set was one of curiosity. I wanted to know what would happen if I combined amanitas with salvia. I had read the two reports, but decided that these negative experiences were the result of taking too much and receiving much more effect than anticipated. My intention was to smoke a small amount of salvia on the amanita comedown. I had no immediate and demanding obligations, though there were a number of big things on my to-do list, which may have influenced my salvia journey.
The amanitas arrived a few days before in a clear sealed plastic bag. Very clean; whole dried caps attached to stems. Quite pretty. My method of ingestion was simply to chew on the caps and swallow the material.
First I tried small amounts. One cap at a time. No effects were noted from these experiments. But this time I weighed out four caps: just over 12 grams. From previous experience, I knew that ought to do something (even though, thanks to variable potency, I couldn't really say what it would do). I ate them at 9:45 AM. A bit later I started finding it hard to concentrate, and I felt slightly nauseous. Soon the difficulty in concentration became quite severe, and I decided to go upstairs so as not to behave strangely around Gran. (10:50)
I lay on my bed thinking about nothing in particular. It was hard to get my mind thinking about something, and hard to keep it there, but I could if I really tried. While trying this, I noticed little jerks or convulsions in various parts of my body, especially my hands. This would continue throughout the trip, and would have been the most notably odd thing about me to an observer.
Growing tired of lying down, and feeling more comfortable with my state of mind, I went downstairs and made some camomile tea. I exchanged some words with Gran and with P., the cleaner. Somehow I always came out with the right thing, even though I couldn't formulate a reply in my mind before speaking.
I went back up, lying there for a while. Hadn't expected it to be this strong. Came down again (why?), sat at my computer, and tried to learn some course material! I spent a lot of time trying to concentrate, but I don't remember a great deal of it. After a while I felt the effect wearing off, and part of me was relieved.
Sitting at my computer, I decided that I had come down enough to try the salvia. Having read the reports of over-the-top experiences, I was quite cautious. I was pretty far down: not far enough to drive, but far enough to interact with just about anyone. I could feel the effects, but they did not interfere with ordinary activity. So I went upstairs, put a little plain leaf in my pipe and smoked it. I did not measure it at the time, but I have had much experience with measured doses of that batch of salvia, which is made up of small homogeneous flakes, in that pipe, and I'm pretty sure it was about 80mg. I'd be very surprised if it was under 60 or over 100 mg. Normally this would have taken me on a short and relatively mild journey (there are no trivial salvia journeys, no matter how mild!)
13:10. I inhaled, held, exhaled. I was going quickly. In a moment I'd forgotten who I was. In front of me (though I couldn't really see it; it was more like a transparent impression layered on reality) was something that I could only describe as a 'matrix of obligations', little square boxes that disappeared as they were fulfilled. When the boxes were all fulfilled I would be back. Luckily something else seemed to be doing all the fulfilling, and I just hung on as reality returned, slowly realizing that I was an individual, a human, sitting on a bed, in a room, in a house etc.
It was 13:18 when I could next look at the clock. Not even ten minutes.
I'd been pretty far out; couldn't even remember my name. I tried and tried, but it was a bizarre sort of trying, as if the name was trying to get to me. It seemed to be calling out from a great depth, but I just couldn't grab on to it. No idea of normal reality. I could not have responded in any way if spoken to. There was no fear at all. Last time I was that far out on salvia alone, on a much higher dose, I was terrified. This time I just sat and waited. Amanitas have quite a strong anxiolytic effect on me, which makes sense for a GABA agent.
There were the usual sensations of pressure moving over various parts of my body, and of membranes over parts of my visual field, and these were more than I would have expected from this amount of plain leaf. But the real difference came in the dissociative effects -- the loss of identity, of the ability to relate sensation to meaning, of situational awareness, of one's short-term memory and consequently one's ideational and behavioural purposefulness. I did nothing in that state, because I could do nothing, unable to form any intention.
I have found that smoking salvia while under the influence of alcohol intensified the experience, although not to the same degree. Dextromethorphan is also an intensifier, but not in the same way. I found that DXM, counterintuitively, intensifies the visual aspect of the trip more than the dissociative aspect. These generalisations may not hold for other users.
Right now (14:20) I am still feeling weak effects from the amanitas, but no salvia effect at all. It's a little awkward typing, but I seem to be managing OK, and the report seems sort of coherent.
Overall, I'd judge this experience a success, in that nothing bad happened and I both satisfied and piqued my curiosity. I would like to repeat this, with a higher dose of salvia.
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Some owning references are to things that should not be accidentally lost. To prevent accidental loss, we can declare contracts
with the keyword asset
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Cat Taro and Fox Jiro work with a square grid with N rows and N columns (N is even).
Each cell of the grid is painted either black or white.
You are given a
Taro works with the rows of the grid. He will take zero or more turns. In each turn he can choose any row of the grid and perform one of the following operations:
Jiro works with the columns of the grid. He thinks that a column is bad if there are more than N/2 consecutive cells of the same color in the column. He is happy only if there are no bad columns in the grid.
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Word based language models suffer from the problem of rare or Out of Vocabulary (OOV) words.
Learning representations for OOV words directly on the end task often results in poor representation.
The alternative is to replace all the rare words with a single, unique representation (loss of information) or use character level models to obtain word representations (they tend to miss on the semantic relationship).
The paper proposes to learn a network that can predict the representations of words using auxiliary data (referred to as definitions) such as dictionary definitions, Wikipedia infoboxes, the spelling of the word etc.
The auxiliary data encoders are trained jointly with the end task to ensure that word representations align with the requirements of the end task.
Given a rare word w, let d(w) = <x1, x2…> denote its defination where xi are words.
d(w) is fed to a defination reader network f (LSTM) and its last state is used as the defination embedding ed(w)
In case w has multiple definitions, the embeddings are combined using mean pooling.
The approach can be extended to in-vocabulary words as well by using the definition embedding of such words to update their original embeddings.
The proposed approach was tested on following tasks:
For all the tasks, models using both spelling and dictionary (SD) outperformed the model using just one.
Multi-token words like “San Francisco” are not accounted for now.
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Coffee could lessen the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
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caffeine are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, but this is one of the first studies in humans
to show that caffeine can help with movement symptoms for people who already have the disease."
Coffee can make you feel happier.
A study done by the National Institute of Health found that those who drink four or more cups of coffee
were about 10 percent less likely to be depressed than those who had never touched the java. And
apparently it’s not because of the "caffeine high" — Coke can also give you a caffeine high, but it’s
linked to depression. Study author, Honglei Chen, MD, PhD, told Prevention.com that the proposed reason
coffee makes you feel good is because of those trusty antioxidants.
Coffee can make you a better athlete.
The New York Times reports, "Scientists and many athletes have known for years, of course, that a cup of
coffee before a workout jolts athletic performance, especially in endurance sports like distance running
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{% extends "layout_task-list.html" %} {% block page_title %} Money Claims Prototype {% endblock %} {% block home_link %} ../../task-list {% endblock %} {% block content %} {% include "includes/phase_banner_beta.html" %} Make a money claim Claim details {{formData | safe}} Provide evidence (optional) You don't need to provide evidence unless this claim is defended - we'll let you know if that happens and what evidence you need. You can, however, mention any evidence that you do have at this stage. Explain what happened List your evidence -- Please make a selection -- Contracts and agreements Expert witness Letters, emails and other correspondence Photo evidence Receipts Statements of account Other -- Please make a selection -- Contracts and agreements Expert witness Letters, emails and other correspondence Photo evidence Receipts Statements of account Other -- Please make a selection -- Contracts and agreements Expert witness Letters, emails and other correspondence Photo evidence Receipts Statements of account Other -- Please make a selection -- Contracts and agreements Expert witness Letters, emails and other correspondence Photo evidence Receipts Statements of account Other Add another {% endblock %}
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Like Scott, I recently was paving my machine, but in my case it was getting my new laptop set up :).
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Grid Game is a board-like game concept by Andrew Faraday.
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Bulk select allows users to check multiple checkboxes at once and toggles a UI for bulk actions to be performed for the selected items.
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x % 2 != 0
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(x & 1) == 1
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College Football Playoff can learn a key lesson from the NFL's superior postseason model
by Bill BenderThe College Football Playoff caught a break this year.
There is not a compelling argument for a fifth team knowing there were three unbeaten teams in LSU, Ohio State and Clemson and a lone one-loss Power 5 conference champion in Oklahoma.
Critics are going to pound the eight-team drum in obligatory fashion, anyway, but expansion alone will not fixthe Playoff's core issue. It's the one that would allow the sport to take the next step in popularity. It's the one the NFL has sown to a science. You need more teams to participate in orderto maintain interest.
MORE: Why each CFP team will or won't win a national championship
Imagine if it were Alabama instead of LSU. The exclusivity of the haves in college football is what might ultimately drive the sport to an eight-team model, and it still won't fix the problem.
Ohio State won its third straight Big Ten championship. Clemson and Oklahoma have won five straight conference championships each. Alabama missed the Playoff for the first time. Those four schools have combined for 17 of 24 possible playoff appearances. That's four schools combining for 70.8 percent of the fun.
College Football Playoff appearances since 2014
| School | Appearances | Record* |
| Alabama | 5 | 6-3 |
| Clemson | 5 | 5-2 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 0-3 |
| Ohio State | 3 | 2-1 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1-1 |
| Oregon | 1 | 1-1 |
| Notre Dame | 1 | 0-1 |
| Washington | 1 | 0-1 |
| Michigan State | 1 | 0-1 |
| Florida State | 1 | 0-1 |
| LSU | 1 | 0-0 |
*Includes CFP championship matchups
Prop that up against the NFL's conference championship weekend,which is the equivalent of the four-team playoff. In the last five years (not including what will happen this year), a total of 15 different NFL franchises have participated in that weekend.
That is even inthe shadow of New England, whichmade the AFC championship game in all five seasons. Green Bay is the only other team with multiple appearances.
NFL conference championship appearances since 2014
| Team | Appearances | Record* |
| New England | 5 | 7-2 |
| Green Bay | 2 | 0-2 |
| Denver | 1 | 2-0 |
| Philadelphia | 1 | 2-0 |
| Seattle | 1 | 1-1 |
| Carolina | 1 | 1-1 |
| Atlanta | 1 | 1-1 |
| LA Rams | 1 | 1-1 |
| Indianapolis | 1 | 0-1 |
| Jacksonville | 1 | 0-1 |
| Pittsburgh | 1 | 0-1 |
| Kansas City | 1 | 0-1 |
| Arizona | 1 | 0-1 |
| New Orleans | 1 | 0-1 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 0-1 |
*Includes Super Bowl matchups
Sure, New England dominates the sport, but look at all those franchises that have played conference title games in just five years. Baltimore and San Francisco,which have not played on that weekend in that the last five years,are the top seeds in the current NFL playoff picture.
The NFL playoff product is better —the best of any major sport —and it can say that because nearly half of the league has been involved in the last five seasons. If the league would just seed out the best teams 1-6 regardless of division, then that model would be untouchable. There are teams that should not be in the NFL playoffs, but they are generally weeded out immediately.
Wild-card weekend typically infringes on the College Football Playoff championship game. This year, it will be even worse because it will be the divisional playoff weekend.
What can college football do to combat that? Learn from it.
MORE CFP: 40-point offenses, transfer QBs, more separation than ever
When the eight-team model happens, make sure other teams get in on the fun. And ithas to be eight. Six looks too much like the NFL.Put quarterfinal games on campus. Sure, some teams would be undeserving, but they would get weeded out, too. Keep the semifinals on Jan. 1. That's unique to the sport. Keep it that way. More teams gives more chances for upsets.
That gap between the"haves"and"have nots," whichstill hangs over the sport, perhapswould not hang over so much.
That is on display again this year.After all, this is the second time Clemson and Ohio State have played in a semifinal in four years. Oklahoma is playing the SEC champion in a semifinal for the third straight year. LSU saved the world from a potential Clemson-Alabama 5matchup. There are only a handful of schools that can say they can win a national championship out of a 130-team field. Even if you go to eight, will that really change?
It's worth a try, and it would give blue-chip recruits more reasons to go to other schools. What do they really want? A national championship ring and an NFL future on a three-year timetable. How many schools can really providethat?
More NFL teams can say they have chances towin the Super Bowland mean it,and the rite that is conference championship weekend can be considered the bestin sports.
That is the difference between the two. When college football has a more wide-open field, then the Playoff might have a chance to be better.
The amount of teams in the Playoff doesn't matteraslong asthe four teams at the end are worth watching.


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This graph shows the specificity of your CSS selectors throughout your file. The left side is the first selector and the right side is the last one. Idealy you will have very low specificity throughout your whole file, and any higher specificity selectors will come at the end. This means you are overriding fewer things, and in turn, writing less redundent, and more maintainable CSS. This is heavily influenced by the ITCSS methodology.
Watch an hour long video explaining these ideas in detail, or get the TLDR in 3 pictures.
How should I organize my Sass files? Here's an example of one way.


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Recipe of the Day: Pasta With Butter, Sage and Parmesan - NYTimes.com
Plenty of sage in the garden, fresh pasta from the store - looks like we have a plan.


Recent Works
Prototyping the Future of Farming with AR and VR at the AGCO Acceleration Center
January - December 2019.
January 2019 • #tablet #maintenance #AR
GSI Portable Quiet Dryer: Smart Maintenance Manual
iPad • Vuforia Studio • Javascript • Creo Parametric
Farmers can dry grain in a sophisticated, computer-controlled dryer the height and length of a room, so the right level of detail for maintenance tasks is hard to depict in a traditional, paper manual. I developed an AR app that provides step-by-step guides that interactively highlight the location of parts for diagnosis and replacement procedures.
February 2019 • #hololens #smartFarming #AR
GSI GrainViz: Holographic Bin Health Visualizer
HoloLens • Vuforia Studio • Javascript • Paraview
The worth of a harvest’s yield can be made or broken by the how grain drying is controlled in the large, cylindrical grain bins farmers use. I delivered a HoloLens proof-of-concept app that expresses AGCO’s future vision of farmers having the power to walk around their grain storage and see that every bushel is healthy as if they had x-ray vision.
Here's a demo of the mobile version.If you would like to know more information about the Hololens version, please contact me.
Curious about GSI GrainViz? Here's a "live" demo of how the system’s customer portal makes it easy to remotely monitor and manage grain conditions, control fans and receive detailed inventory reporting via any Web-enabled device. Learn more at @GEAPSinfo Exchange Booth 2517 💛 pic.twitter.com/OGrDnOwHMF
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March – April 2019 • #oculusGo #marketing #VR
Fendt Tractors: Immersive Cab Experience
Oculus Go • Unity • C# • Audacity
With Lavania Nair.

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April - May 2019 • #hololens #marketing #AR
Cimbria Seed System: Holographic Plant Tour
HoloLens • Vuforia Studio • Javascript • Creo Parametric
With Erick Zhou.
Cimbria designs machines to cover the entire receiving-to-cleaning-to-storing process of seed processing systems. We showcased these machines in a model of a real-life plant displayed in HoloLens.
To ensure the viewer would have a comfortable and navigable experience within the small field of view of the HoloLens, I modularized the plant with scene switching. This allowed us to expose the more sophisticated geometry of each part, creating a delightful miniature that encourages people to inspect it from different angles.
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June 2019 • #tablet #installation #training #AR
AP Commander Fans: Interactive Installation Guide
With Erick Zhou.
Part numbers are hard to identify in paper manuals when a farmer is trying to find one for the part they need to replace. I programmed the ability to directly tap on the part you need and see the relevant information in our AR app.