Acne was much worse on the face of Samuel than Jason because _ never washed his face.
Option 1: Samuel
Option 2: Jason
Answer: 1<|endoftext|>", according to the UAW. Think of the cars of the Malaise Era, then this all makes sense. Thankfully, the plant closed...

Only to be reopened by a joint venture between Toyota and GM. It was Toyota's first plant in the US and they wanted to see what it was like running a plant in the US versus Japan. They eventually got the QC up to par. GM wanted to learn some of the more efficient Japanese manufacturing policies and implement them at other factories. That didn't happen.

Mercifully, the Ponitac Vibe was killed and the plant was shut down in '09, only to be resurrected by our South African overlord, E-lon Musk.

Suggested By: Loping Camshaft, Photo Credit: AP Images

5.) VW Westmoreland

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

They were right. It wasn't a Golf. themanwithsauce:

From 1978 to 1987 it languished around as a facility that made the rabbit, rabbit GTI, and rabbit pickup along with some Jettas at the end of its time as a VW plant. However the rabbits they made in AMerica were nowhere near the quality of the German made Golf. The workers were assembled as a mix of those from the UAW plants in Detroit and a large pool of unemployed labor. VW picked the ones that had been out of work for the longest. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Because the VW plant was paying LESS than the Detroit plants but was also represented by the UAW, there was a strike for equal pay within the first few months of the plant opening. Walkouts were common and dispute over minorities plagued the plant for its entire life. In the words of the New York Times, the plant began life with a strike and then lurched from problem to problem before closing.

It gets better - stamping facilities were 4 hours away in Virginia. 4. Hours. Away. That is absolutely stupid. Parts were rushed via private jet sometimes to keep production going. And they would, because the plant needed to run at 85% capacity to break even. It was outdated when built and had poor quality labor in a plant that lacked automation in an era where robots and machinery were replacing the excessively large and unreliable labor force.

It is absolutely impressive that VW was brave enough to come back at all. Westmoreland was a textbook case of how to do everything wrong when you make a new auto plant.

Suggested By: natrat, Photo Credit: c5karl

4.) Zwickau

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

They fixed everything by kicking it as hard as they could until the part was roughly in line. Then, they tried to sell them to you.

SheikhБлять also heard rumors about a North Korean connection:

You have no idea how crazy the Zwickau factory actually was.

Toward the end, they flew out North Korean workers from Pyongyang once a week (one of Air Koryo's only flights to the West at the time) to work on the assembly line, hand cutting the Duraplast. It is a testament to their skill (and fear) that Trabant 1.1s exist and appear to be the most strangely polished models of Trabi.

Suggested By: Maxton86, Photo Credit: AP Images

3.) Rootes Group Linwood

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

Remember the Volvo P1800? Well, you want the S version because it was built in Sweden instead of Scotland, along with many of the Chrysler-Rootes Group cars. ranwhenparked has more:

The Chrysler-Rootes plant in Linwood, Scotland was pretty terrible. It was constructed specifically to build the Hillman Imp (full disclosure, I actually kind of like that car, my dad's British expatriate friend had one for decades).

Chrysler wanted to build the car at their existing factory in Ryton, but oh no no, the UK government had other ideas. With Scotland's shipbuilding industry essentially dead (partly, OK, heavily due to government policy), the idea was to replace it with car production. So, Chrysler was denied the necessary permits to expand the Ryton plant, but was given generous subsidies to build a new factory in Linwood and really needed to build the car somewhere, so they went with it.

All their suppliers were still located in England, Linwood was basically in the middle of a vast no-man's land for the auto industry, which led to high transportation costs and frequent parts shortages. The local workforce was inexperienced in car assembly, which led to poor quality and low productivity (the rush to get production going was also to blame, as it shortened training time). Turnover was high and labor problems were rampant - there were over two dozen strikes in one year alone. The factory operated deep in the red throughout its existence and was ultimately closed in the mid '70s after only 13 years in operation.

Suggested By: Fl1ngstam and ranwhenparked, Photo Credit: Getty Images

2.) The DeLorean Plant In Dunmurry

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

John DeLorean might have had a clue about building cars, but his Irish employees certainly didn't. DennyCrane knows what the problem was:

While in theory, it was relatively cheap labor with tons of tax incentives, what it ended up being was hiring thousands of people who had absolutely no clue how to build a car, with inadequate training leading to tons of quality issues. They had to perform extensive quality control testing afterwards, and even then issues still got through.

I'm sure if the company had lasted longer, the issues might have been sorted, but... well, the rest is history.

Suggested By: DennyCraneDennyCraneDennyCrane, Photo Credit: AP Images

1.) British Leyland Longbridge

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

They built it the wrong way around and they left their garbage all over the place.

Luckily, My X-type is too a real Jaguar's X-Type wasn't built there:

523 union stoppages, ancient infrastructure, utter crap build quality.

The British had to sacrifice a few historic brands to get over this.

Top Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons<|endoftext|>Misinformation, Mulligans, and (No) Mistrials: The Trial of Stephen Arrowsmith

On December 11th, 1678, six cases at the Old Bailey resulted in guilty verdicts carrying the punishment of death. Upon his sentencing of the guilty parties, the judge made several declarations of the grief he felt at seeing the Youths forfeiting their lives to villainy and debauchery. He spoke of the nature of their crimes, and of the mercy the court had shown them. Whereat he made this statement:

“I do therefore in the name of the Court pronounce this Judgment upon you all… you shall go from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of Execution, where you shall severally be hanged by your necks till you be dead; and Jehovah the Lord of Heaven and Earth have mercy upon your Souls.”

The six criminals destined for the Executioner were guilty of a range of offences:
Susan Banster, for stealing goods of 13 l. value…
Stephen Arrowsmith, for a Rape committed upon Elisabeth Hopkins…
Richard Bradshaw, for high Treason, in clipping the Coyn of this Kingdom.
John Leak, for stealing Cloth off of the Tenters
Edward Preston, for stealing of a Mare…
Nathaniel Russell, for the Murder of William Midgley.

While the record of Stephen Arrowsmith’s trial is not as substantial as many others on the Old Bailey site, the record does allow for several intriguing observations to be made:
1. That, as the list of guilty parties above illustrates, in 18th Century London, the systematic rape of a small child over the course of six months carried the same punishment as theft, murder, and coin debasement.
2. That while the law’s concerning rape were firmly established, the public may have been largely ignorant of exactly what those laws were.
3. That said laws were still barbaric by today’s standards.
4. That it was common practice at that time (and remains so today) for Judges to overrule a jury’s decision if the decision is unsatisfactory, or to allow the jury to deliberate further, if their initial ruling was made in ignorance of the law.
5. That prejudicial errors on the part of the court were not grounds for a mistrial in 18th Century London.

The first witness in the trial against Stephen Arrowsmith was a young girl of nine or ten who, having not been sworn in, testified that on July 7th of the previous year, she “saw in a Room, the Prisoner lying a top of the little Girl, but what they did she knew not, but the Girls Petticoats were up, nor did she cry out.” Whereupon the victim of the trial testified (also without being sworn in) that “[Arrowsmith] had had to do with her for half a year together every sunday, that she was hindred from crying the first time, by his stopping her

", according to the UAW. Think of the cars of the Malaise Era, then this all makes sense. Thankfully, the plant closed...

Only to be reopened by a joint venture between Toyota and GM. It was Toyota's first plant in the US and they wanted to see what it was like running a plant in the US versus Japan. They eventually got the QC up to par. GM wanted to learn some of the more efficient Japanese manufacturing policies and implement them at other factories. That didn't happen.

Mercifully, the Ponitac Vibe was killed and the plant was shut down in '09, only to be resurrected by our South African overlord, E-lon Musk.

Suggested By: Loping Camshaft, Photo Credit: AP Images

5.) VW Westmoreland

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

They were right. It wasn't a Golf. themanwithsauce:

From 1978 to 1987 it languished around as a facility that made the rabbit, rabbit GTI, and rabbit pickup along with some Jettas at the end of its time as a VW plant. However the rabbits they made in AMerica were nowhere near the quality of the German made Golf. The workers were assembled as a mix of those from the UAW plants in Detroit and a large pool of unemployed labor. VW picked the ones that had been out of work for the longest. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Because the VW plant was paying LESS than the Detroit plants but was also represented by the UAW, there was a strike for equal pay within the first few months of the plant opening. Walkouts were common and dispute over minorities plagued the plant for its entire life. In the words of the New York Times, the plant began life with a strike and then lurched from problem to problem before closing.

It gets better - stamping facilities were 4 hours away in Virginia. 4. Hours. Away. That is absolutely stupid. Parts were rushed via private jet sometimes to keep production going. And they would, because the plant needed to run at 85% capacity to break even. It was outdated when built and had poor quality labor in a plant that lacked automation in an era where robots and machinery were replacing the excessively large and unreliable labor force.

It is absolutely impressive that VW was brave enough to come back at all. Westmoreland was a textbook case of how to do everything wrong when you make a new auto plant.

Suggested By: natrat, Photo Credit: c5karl

4.) Zwickau

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

They fixed everything by kicking it as hard as they could until the part was roughly in line. Then, they tried to sell them to you.

SheikhБлять also heard rumors about a North Korean connection:

You have no idea how crazy the Zwickau factory actually was.

Toward the end, they flew out North Korean workers from Pyongyang once a week (one of Air Koryo's only flights to the West at the time) to work on the assembly line, hand cutting the Duraplast. It is a testament to their skill (and fear) that Trabant 1.1s exist and appear to be the most strangely polished models of Trabi.

Suggested By: Maxton86, Photo Credit: AP Images

3.) Rootes Group Linwood

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

Remember the Volvo P1800? Well, you want the S version because it was built in Sweden instead of Scotland, along with many of the Chrysler-Rootes Group cars. ranwhenparked has more:

The Chrysler-Rootes plant in Linwood, Scotland was pretty terrible. It was constructed specifically to build the Hillman Imp (full disclosure, I actually kind of like that car, my dad's British expatriate friend had one for decades).

Chrysler wanted to build the car at their existing factory in Ryton, but oh no no, the UK government had other ideas. With Scotland's shipbuilding industry essentially dead (partly, OK, heavily due to government policy), the idea was to replace it with car production. So, Chrysler was denied the necessary permits to expand the Ryton plant, but was given generous subsidies to build a new factory in Linwood and really needed to build the car somewhere, so they went with it.

All their suppliers were still located in England, Linwood was basically in the middle of a vast no-man's land for the auto industry, which led to high transportation costs and frequent parts shortages. The local workforce was inexperienced in car assembly, which led to poor quality and low productivity (the rush to get production going was also to blame, as it shortened training time). Turnover was high and labor problems were rampant - there were over two dozen strikes in one year alone. The factory operated deep in the red throughout its existence and was ultimately closed in the mid '70s after only 13 years in operation.

Suggested By: Fl1ngstam and ranwhenparked, Photo Credit: Getty Images

2.) The DeLorean Plant In Dunmurry

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

John DeLorean might have had a clue about building cars, but his Irish employees certainly didn't. DennyCrane knows what the problem was:

While in theory, it was relatively cheap labor with tons of tax incentives, what it ended up being was hiring thousands of people who had absolutely no clue how to build a car, with inadequate training leading to tons of quality issues. They had to perform extensive quality control testing afterwards, and even then issues still got through.

I'm sure if the company had lasted longer, the issues might have been sorted, but... well, the rest is history.

Suggested By: DennyCraneDennyCraneDennyCrane, Photo Credit: AP Images

1.) British Leyland Longbridge

The Ten Worst Car Factories In History

They built it the wrong way around and they left their garbage all over the place.

Luckily, My X-type is too a real Jaguar's X-Type wasn't built there:

523 union stoppages, ancient infrastructure, utter crap build quality.

The British had to sacrifice a few historic brands to get over this.

Top Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons<|endoftext|>Misinformation, Mulligans, and (No) Mistrials: The Trial of Stephen Arrowsmith

On December 11th, 1678, six cases at the Old Bailey resulted in guilty verdicts carrying the punishment of death. Upon his sentencing of the guilty parties, the judge made several declarations of the grief he felt at seeing the Youths forfeiting their lives to villainy and debauchery. He spoke of the nature of their crimes, and of the mercy the court had shown them. Whereat he made this statement:

“I do therefore in the name of the Court pronounce this Judgment upon you all… you shall go from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of Execution, where you shall severally be hanged by your necks till you be dead; and Jehovah the Lord of Heaven and Earth have mercy upon your Souls.”

The six criminals destined for the Executioner were guilty of a range of offences:
Susan Banster, for stealing goods of 13 l. value…
Stephen Arrowsmith, for a Rape committed upon Elisabeth Hopkins…
Richard Bradshaw, for high Treason, in clipping the Coyn of this Kingdom.
John Leak, for stealing Cloth off of the Tenters
Edward Preston, for stealing of a Mare…
Nathaniel Russell, for the Murder of William Midgley.

While the record of Stephen Arrowsmith’s trial is not as substantial as many others on the Old Bailey site, the record does allow for several intriguing observations to be made:
1. That, as the list of guilty parties above illustrates, in 18th Century London, the systematic rape of a small child over the course of six months carried the same punishment as theft, murder, and coin debasement.
2. That while the law’s concerning rape were firmly established, the public may have been largely ignorant of exactly what those laws were.
3. That said laws were still barbaric by today’s standards.
4. That it was common practice at that time (and remains so today) for Judges to overrule a jury’s decision if the decision is unsatisfactory, or to allow the jury to deliberate further, if their initial ruling was made in ignorance of the law.
5. That prejudicial errors on the part of the court were not grounds for a mistrial in 18th Century London.

The first witness in the trial against Stephen Arrowsmith was a young girl of nine or ten who, having not been sworn in, testified that on July 7th of the previous year, she “saw in a Room, the Prisoner lying a top of the little Girl, but what they did she knew not, but the Girls Petticoats were up, nor did she cry out.” Whereupon the victim of the trial testified (also without being sworn in) that “[Arrowsmith] had had to do with her for half a year together every sunday, that she was hindred from crying the first time, by his stopping her mouth, and that he gave her money afterwards…” The two young girls were the only eye witnesses to the crime.

Several witnesses provided hearsay evidence in the trial,


It took longer to read the book than the letter because the _ was shorter.
Option 1: letter
Option 2: book
Answer: 1<|endoftext|>'s got a presence that just exudes into the audience, but when you could spend time with him, you could feel that even on the most personal level, he was somebody who was passionate and involved and interested and wanted to learn and explore and wanted to give and also experience and learn. He serves in my imaginary board of advisors.

Tana Amen: Oh, that's amazing.

Jeff Zeig: When I have a problem, I convene my imaginary board of advisors, and there's wonderful mother magicians and father magicians in my imaginary board-

Tana Amen: I love that.

Jeff Zeig: ... and whatever problem I can put on the table, I just commune with these spirits and find some wisdom that will help me to be a better Jeff Zeig, and that's what we're all striving for. I love the way the two of you are together, that you can demonstrate your different perspectives and your different strengths and that the union between you is still so strong.

Tana Amen: Oh, I agree, and I think that Daniel actually grounds me in a lot of ways. I probably add a little fire to his life, but he grounds me.

Daniel Amen: I am so attached. I am so, so attached. Back to three ways to create meaning. Being productive, that's work, or it's a hobby or it's volunteering.

Jeff Zeig: Yeah, definitely, yeah, making the world just a little bit better place by virtue of you being on the planet.

Daniel Amen: Which is one of the things that you often say, "Why is the world a better place because you breathe?"

Tana Amen: "... a better place because you breathe?"

Jeff Zeig: Right.

Daniel Amen: Then love, is it ...

Jeff Zeig: Connection, that's loving whatever it is that you're loving. You could loving an animal or loving your creativity, but most importantly loving the people who are central to your life.

Tana Amen: Now, would gratitude be included in that?

Jeff Zeig: Absolutely.

Tana Amen: In love, okay.

Jeff Zeig: Then the Buddhists would say, "All life is suffering," that would be the first principle that the Buddha preached, and then what is it that you do in the face of suffering. It's like, when I went to Viktor Frankl, another memory just surfaced, like he asks me to sign his guest book, well, it was the second guest book. I looked through the first guest book to sign the second guest book, and the entries in the first guest book are like Heidegger, Jaspers, Husserl, all of the great existential philosophers, and I'm signing his guest book in the lineage of all of these people who I studied when I was in college, these profound thinkers.

Tana Amen: That's amazing.

Jeff Zeig: Even Heidegger, who had some sort of, I think, Nazi leanings, but who was somebody who Viktor Frankl really admired in terms of the depths of his thought and philosophy, well, the existentialists would say, "When you wake up, the first thing to consider is suicide." Okay, you open your eyes, you consider suicide. Now, once you put your bedroom slippers on the floor, it's no longer the right question, and then the question is, "What will I do now that's meaningful?" If we can exercise that part of our brain and build that part of our brain-

Tana Amen: I actually do that a lot. I don't consider suicide, but I often think to myself, "At the end of my life, like, we're all dying." I often say to myself, "We're all dying, okay, so just at different rates. What difference is this going to make? I'm going to be dead, and is this going to matter?"

Daniel Amen: That's not my thought at all.

Jeff Zeig: Well, how can I make it matter?

Daniel Amen: My thought as soon as I wake up-

Jeff Zeig: You make it matter.

Daniel Amen: My thought as soon as I wake up is, "Today is going to be a great day."

Tana Amen: Yeah, no, I don't say it when I first wake up.

Daniel Amen: Then my brain will figure out why it's going to be a great day. I did that this morning, and you immediately, your face popped in my mind because I knew we were going to talk today.

Tana Amen: Yeah, you actually said that when you first woke up.

Daniel Amen: Right.

Tana Amen: I was half asleep, and he's like, "Oh, we're going to interview Jeff today," and I'm like, "I know. Why are you waking me up?" No, I'm not saying I say that when I first wake up. I do try to focus on gratitude first thing in the morning, but when things bother me I try to put it in perspective, it's like, "Really, is this going to matter? Because we're all going to die," so ...

Daniel Amen: Before we run out of time, I want to make sure we talk about the School of Psychotherapy that Viktor Frankl founded, which has to do in large part with meaning, and it's called logostherapy, correct?

Jeff Zeig: Logotherapy.

Daniel Amen: Logotherapy.

Jeff Zeig: Yeah.

Daniel Amen: "Logo" is Greek for "meaning", is that correct?

Jeff Zeig: Absolutely.

Daniel Amen: Talk to us. If someone went to a logotherapist, what would that be like?

Jeff Zeig: Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah. Well, there were some techniques, like paradoxical intention. Viktor Frankl would work with somebody, for example, with anticipatory anxiety, this is anxiety about anxiety, and sometimes you use paradoxical intention. Let's say it's a young man and he's afraid of talking to young women, and Viktor Frankl says, "Okay, you're going to a party on Friday. Dress up, wear your nicest clothes. When you get to the party, get two glasses of champagne, fill them to the top, walk around the room until you find the most attractive woman that you can find, and as you get to her you're going to be shaking, you're going to be spilling this champagne all over yourself, and when you get to her you just trip and you'll pour the champagne all over yourself." Then he would say, and I can't remember the German phrase, but, "Better a moment of horror, than horror without end."

Tana Amen: Oh, my gosh. Love that.

Jeff Zeig: He would invited people to live through their greatest fear, but he wanted them to laugh, he didn't really want them to do the activity. He wanted to prompt laughter as a way of blocking anticipatory anxiety. He was really one of the first people to invent the use of paradox, which he did in the 1920s as a technique for helping people. Now, also, he would focus people, of course, on meaning. Now, unfortunately, there are no videos of Viktor Frankl doing therapy. There are lots of audio and video of Viktor Frankl lecturing, but there's nothing that I can find in the archive that shows an example of him doing treatment, but these techniques, like paradoxical intention, dereflection, if he was working with somebody who was obsessive-compulsive, but then overall, as long as you have that light, like the moth is attracted to the light, and that light is meaning, then whatever tragedy befalls you, how can you do alchemy?

How can you find the lemonade in the lemon, and how can you make that the wall, as Tana was talking about, that you're focusing on so you're not focusing on the problem, you're focusing on what it is that will create meaning, just ... There's a video, Alex Vesely, Viktor's grandson, is a filmmaker, and he's in Los Angeles, and he made a documentary movie both about Viktor Frankl and also about, another documentary about Dr. Erickson. If you looked and searched a little about Viktor Frankl or Alex Vesely, you could find the movie of interviewing people who knew Viktor Frankl. Certainly I would highly, highly-

Daniel Amen: How do you spell his name?

Jeff Zeig: ... recommend reading "Man's Search for Meaning". It's an easy read, and it was a book, I can't even remember, it's 40 different languages, in its 100th printing, and I don't even know that Viktor Frankl got a penny for that book. It was not, he was not a [inaudible 00:44:12] person, he wasn't interested in money. He was interested in inspiring people, and he did a very good job of it.

Daniel Amen: How do you spell Alex's last name?

Jeff Zeig: Veseley, V-E-S-E-L-E-Y.

Daniel Amen: Wonder

's got a presence that just exudes into the audience, but when you could spend time with him, you could feel that even on the most personal level, he was somebody who was passionate and involved and interested and wanted to learn and explore and wanted to give and also experience and learn. He serves in my imaginary board of advisors.

Tana Amen: Oh, that's amazing.

Jeff Zeig: When I have a problem, I convene my imaginary board of advisors, and there's wonderful mother magicians and father magicians in my imaginary board-

Tana Amen: I love that.

Jeff Zeig: ... and whatever problem I can put on the table, I just commune with these spirits and find some wisdom that will help me to be a better Jeff Zeig, and that's what we're all striving for. I love the way the two of you are together, that you can demonstrate your different perspectives and your different strengths and that the union between you is still so strong.

Tana Amen: Oh, I agree, and I think that Daniel actually grounds me in a lot of ways. I probably add a little fire to his life, but he grounds me.

Daniel Amen: I am so attached. I am so, so attached. Back to three ways to create meaning. Being productive, that's work, or it's a hobby or it's volunteering.

Jeff Zeig: Yeah, definitely, yeah, making the world just a little bit better place by virtue of you being on the planet.

Daniel Amen: Which is one of the things that you often say, "Why is the world a better place because you breathe?"

Tana Amen: "... a better place because you breathe?"

Jeff Zeig: Right.

Daniel Amen: Then love, is it ...

Jeff Zeig: Connection, that's loving whatever it is that you're loving. You could loving an animal or loving your creativity, but most importantly loving the people who are central to your life.

Tana Amen: Now, would gratitude be included in that?

Jeff Zeig: Absolutely.

Tana Amen: In love, okay.

Jeff Zeig: Then the Buddhists would say, "All life is suffering," that would be the first principle that the Buddha preached, and then what is it that you do in the face of suffering. It's like, when I went to Viktor Frankl, another memory just surfaced, like he asks me to sign his guest book, well, it was the second guest book. I looked through the first guest book to sign the second guest book, and the entries in the first guest book are like Heidegger, Jaspers, Husserl, all of the great existential philosophers, and I'm signing his guest book in the lineage of all of these people who I studied when I was in college, these profound thinkers.

Tana Amen: That's amazing.

Jeff Zeig: Even Heidegger, who had some sort of, I think, Nazi leanings, but who was somebody who Viktor Frankl really admired in terms of the depths of his thought and philosophy, well, the existentialists would say, "When you wake up, the first thing to consider is suicide." Okay, you open your eyes, you consider suicide. Now, once you put your bedroom slippers on the floor, it's no longer the right question, and then the question is, "What will I do now that's meaningful?" If we can exercise that part of our brain and build that part of our brain-

Tana Amen: I actually do that a lot. I don't consider suicide, but I often think to myself, "At the end of my life, like, we're all dying." I often say to myself, "We're all dying, okay, so just at different rates. What difference is this going to make? I'm going to be dead, and is this going to matter?"

Daniel Amen: That's not my thought at all.

Jeff Zeig: Well, how can I make it matter?

Daniel Amen: My thought as soon as I wake up-

Jeff Zeig: You make it matter.

Daniel Amen: My thought as soon as I wake up is, "Today is going to be a great day."

Tana Amen: Yeah, no, I don't say it when I first wake up.

Daniel Amen: Then my brain will figure out why it's going to be a great day. I did that this morning, and you immediately, your face popped in my mind because I knew we were going to talk today.

Tana Amen: Yeah, you actually said that when you first woke up.

Daniel Amen: Right.

Tana Amen: I was half asleep, and he's like, "Oh, we're going to interview Jeff today," and I'm like, "I know. Why are you waking me up?" No, I'm not saying I say that when I first wake up. I do try to focus on gratitude first thing in the morning, but when things bother me I try to put it in perspective, it's like, "Really, is this going to matter? Because we're all going to die," so ...

Daniel Amen: Before we run out of time, I want to make sure we talk about the School of Psychotherapy that Viktor Frankl founded, which has to do in large part with meaning, and it's called logostherapy, correct?

Jeff Zeig: Logotherapy.

Daniel Amen: Logotherapy.

Jeff Zeig: Yeah.

Daniel Amen: "Logo" is Greek for "meaning", is that correct?

Jeff Zeig: Absolutely.

Daniel Amen: Talk to us. If someone went to a logotherapist, what would that be like?

Jeff Zeig: Mm-hmm (affirmative), yeah. Well, there were some techniques, like paradoxical intention. Viktor Frankl would work with somebody, for example, with anticipatory anxiety, this is anxiety about anxiety, and sometimes you use paradoxical intention. Let's say it's a young man and he's afraid of talking to young women, and Viktor Frankl says, "Okay, you're going to a party on Friday. Dress up, wear your nicest clothes. When you get to the party, get two glasses of champagne, fill them to the top, walk around the room until you find the most attractive woman that you can find, and as you get to her you're going to be shaking, you're going to be spilling this champagne all over yourself, and when you get to her you just trip and you'll pour the champagne all over yourself." Then he would say, and I can't remember the German phrase, but, "Better a moment of horror, than horror without end."

Tana Amen: Oh, my gosh. Love that.

Jeff Zeig: He would invited people to live through their greatest fear, but he wanted them to laugh, he didn't really want them to do the activity. He wanted to prompt laughter as a way of blocking anticipatory anxiety. He was really one of the first people to invent the use of paradox, which he did in the 1920s as a technique for helping people. Now, also, he would focus people, of course, on meaning. Now, unfortunately, there are no videos of Viktor Frankl doing therapy. There are lots of audio and video of Viktor Frankl lecturing, but there's nothing that I can find in the archive that shows an example of him doing treatment, but these techniques, like paradoxical intention, dereflection, if he was working with somebody who was obsessive-compulsive, but then overall, as long as you have that light, like the moth is attracted to the light, and that light is meaning, then whatever tragedy befalls you, how can you do alchemy?

How can you find the lemonade in the lemon, and how can you make that the wall, as Tana was talking about, that you're focusing on so you're not focusing on the problem, you're focusing on what it is that will create meaning, just ... There's a video, Alex Vesely, Viktor's grandson, is a filmmaker, and he's in Los Angeles, and he made a documentary movie both about Viktor Frankl and also about, another documentary about Dr. Erickson. If you looked and searched a little about Viktor Frankl or Alex Vesely, you could find the movie of interviewing people who knew Viktor Frankl. Certainly I would highly, highly-

Daniel Amen: How do you spell his name?

Jeff Zeig: ... recommend reading "Man's Search for Meaning". It's an easy read, and it was a book, I can't even remember, it's 40 different languages, in its 100th printing, and I don't even know that Viktor Frankl got a penny for that book. It was not, he was not a [inaudible 00:44:12] person, he wasn't interested in money. He was interested in inspiring people, and he did a very good job of it.

Daniel Amen: How do you spell Alex's last name?

Jeff Zeig: Veseley, V-E-S-E-L-E-Y.

Daniel Amen: Wonderful. I'll have to see if I can find that.

Jeff Zeig: I hope I didn't put an ... V-E-


Nelson sent a formal invitation to Robert to come over for high tea, because _ likes to send fancy invites.
Option 1: Nelson
Option 2: Robert
Answer: 1<|endoftext|>, in which an expectedly difficult event is revealed to be incredibly easy or of paltry importance.

  Critics may also label the falling action as an anti-climax, or anti-climactic. The climax isn't always the most important scene in a story. In many stories, it is the last sentence, with no successive falling action or resolution.

4. Falling action

  The falling action is the series of events which take place after the climax; it is where the protagonist must react to the changes that occur during the climax of the story. The events and complications begin to resolve them. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and denouement).

5. Denouement / Resolution

  This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story. The part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs- the way things are going to be from then on. The author often ties up the loose ends of the story to have the plot reach a conclusion.

  In a story, the events maybe rise and fall repeatedly and actually a plot develops a series of complications or intensification of the conflict that leads to a moment of great tension. Sometimes the author will use some techniques in writing the plot to make the story more interesting or to add a twist or turn. Foreshadowing is where the author may hint at what might happen in the future. Flashback is where the author might tell us something that has happened in the past to help explain the present. Irony is when the author has something happen in the story that is the opposite of what the reader expects.

  In general, plot can be divided into two types, they are closed and open. This is based on the way how an author presents the resolution of his story, they are: a.

  Closed plot: in this type of the plot the end of the story is clear because the author presents a definite resolution of conflict. Most narrative works use closed plot, because the end of the story is clear, readers do not have to think a lot about it.

  Open plot: this type of plot has little or no resolution at all. The author, however, creates some clues in the story that will lead his readers to conclude the resolution of the story.The Concept of Plot states that any novel or drama represents a composite of three elements: action, character, and thought. Plot is the particular synthesis of the three elements. He divides plot into three kinds,

  1) Plot of Action: in this kind of plot the interest lies in “what happens next”, while the character and thought are portrayed minimally. We rarely, if ever, find any serious or intellectual issues.

  2) Plot of Character: this kind of plot deals with the process of change in the moral character of the protagonist.

  3) Plot of Thought: this kind of plot deals with the process of change in the thought of the protagonist and in his feeling.”

  In a well plotted story, things precede or follow each other not simply because time ticks away, but more importantly because effects follow causes. In a good story nothing is relevant or accidental; everything is related and causative. The controlling impulse in a connected pattern of causes and effects is conflict, which refers generally to people or circumstances that a character (often the protagonist) must face and try to overcome (often the antagonist). Conflict brings out the extremes of human energy, causing characters to engage in the decisions, actions, responses, and interactions that make up most stories. Conflict is the major elements of plot because opposing forces arouse curiosity, cause doubt, create tension, and produce interest.

2.9. Setting

  The setting is not only shows the place or time of the sequence of events, but it also expresses the character in a story. For example: the setting describes in a house, and then the house will express the character of the owner. In this case, we can see from the interior of the house, if the owner is a rich man then his house is big and filled in the expansive things.

  According to Wellek and Warren through their book Theory of Literature describe that: “Setting is environment and environment especially domestic interior, maybe viewed as metonymic, or metaphoric, expression of character” (1949:221).

  Setting is the natural, manufactured, political, and temporary environment, including everything that characters know and own. Like all human beings, fictional characters do not exist in isolation. Just they become human by interacting with other characters, they gain identity because of their cultural and political allegiances, their possessions, their jobs and their location where they live and move and have their being. Stories must therefore necessarily include description of places, objects, and backgrounds. So, setting includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. Setting has been referred to as story world or milieu to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings of the story. Elements of setting may include culture, historical period, geography, and hour. Along with plot, character, theme, and style, settingis considered one of the fundamental components of fiction. A setting is the time place and social environment a story takes place.

  Writers describe the world they know. Sights, sounds, colors, and textures are all vividly painted in words as an artist paints images on canvas. A writer imagines a story to be happening in a place that is rooted in his or her mind. The location of a story's actions, along with the time in which it occurs, is the setting. Setting is created by language. How many or how few details we learn is up to the author. Many authors leave a lot of these details up to the reader's imagination.

  Setting is a key role in plot, as in man vs. nature or man vs. society stories. In some stories the setting becomes a character itself. In such roles setting may be considered a plot device or literary device. The term "setting" is often used to refer to the social milieu in which the events of a novel occur.

  Characters may either helped or hurt by their surroundings, and they may fight about possession and goals. Further, as characters speak with each other, they reveal the degree to which they share the custom and ideas of their times.

  a. Nature And The Outdoors

  The natural world is an obvious location of many narratives and plays. It is therefore important to note natural surroundings (hills, valleys, mountains, meadows, fields, trees, lakes, streams), living creatures (birds, dogs, horses, snakes), and also conditions in which things happen (sunlight, darkness, calm, wind, rain, snow, storm, heat, cold)

  • – any or all of which may influence character and action.

  b. Objects of human manufacture and construction

  To reveal or highlight qualities of character, and also to make fiction life, authors include detail about buildings and objects of human manufacture and construction. Houses, both interiors, are common, as are possessions such as walking sticks, fences, park benches, toys, automobiles, hair ribbon, necklace, and so on.

  c. Cultural conditions and assumption

  Just as physical setting influence characters, so do cultural conditions and Assumptions, such as characters live, the primitive beliefs, human sacrifice, modern scientific beliefs, and so on.

2.10. Theme

  The theme in a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight. It is the author's underlying meaning or main idea that he is trying to convey. The theme may be the author's thoughts about a topic or view of human nature. Fiction necessary embodies issues and ideas. Even stories written for entertainment alone are based in an idea or position. In fiction ideas take from of an underlying theme or central idea, which helps to tie the work together. Often the author makes theme obvious, it does not much imagination to state the theme.

  In reading a story the reader will discover, not taught, human values. The meaning of as inseparable part of it, not something apart from the story. The observation and the way in which it is made trough the interrelationship of the various elements reveals what it is called the theme of the story. A novels theme is the main idea that the writer expresses. Sometimes the theme of the story is stated explicitly. However, frequently it is left implicit. Theme can also be defined as the underlying meaning of the story. The theme of a novel is more than its subject matter, because an author‟s technique can play as strong a role in developing a theme as the actions of the characters do. Rarely can a novels theme be interpreted in only way. Because of the length of novels, and the various characters, conflicts, and scenes found within them, readers can look at different aspects of the work to uncover different interpretations of the meaning of the tale.

  A common theme in novels is the conflict between appearance and reality. Another common theme is the search for personality identity. The theme of individual who strikes out alone to face the world is used in many works. Some novels feature people who cannot break from their society‟s convention and instead become disillusioned with conflict between their inspiration and the reality of their lives. Throughout the history of the novel, a major theme has been whether people can change their situation in life or whether they are in the grips of forces beyond their

, in which an expectedly difficult event is revealed to be incredibly easy or of paltry importance.

  Critics may also label the falling action as an anti-climax, or anti-climactic. The climax isn't always the most important scene in a story. In many stories, it is the last sentence, with no successive falling action or resolution.

4. Falling action

  The falling action is the series of events which take place after the climax; it is where the protagonist must react to the changes that occur during the climax of the story. The events and complications begin to resolve them. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and denouement).

5. Denouement / Resolution

  This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story. The part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs- the way things are going to be from then on. The author often ties up the loose ends of the story to have the plot reach a conclusion.

  In a story, the events maybe rise and fall repeatedly and actually a plot develops a series of complications or intensification of the conflict that leads to a moment of great tension. Sometimes the author will use some techniques in writing the plot to make the story more interesting or to add a twist or turn. Foreshadowing is where the author may hint at what might happen in the future. Flashback is where the author might tell us something that has happened in the past to help explain the present. Irony is when the author has something happen in the story that is the opposite of what the reader expects.

  In general, plot can be divided into two types, they are closed and open. This is based on the way how an author presents the resolution of his story, they are: a.

  Closed plot: in this type of the plot the end of the story is clear because the author presents a definite resolution of conflict. Most narrative works use closed plot, because the end of the story is clear, readers do not have to think a lot about it.

  Open plot: this type of plot has little or no resolution at all. The author, however, creates some clues in the story that will lead his readers to conclude the resolution of the story.The Concept of Plot states that any novel or drama represents a composite of three elements: action, character, and thought. Plot is the particular synthesis of the three elements. He divides plot into three kinds,

  1) Plot of Action: in this kind of plot the interest lies in “what happens next”, while the character and thought are portrayed minimally. We rarely, if ever, find any serious or intellectual issues.

  2) Plot of Character: this kind of plot deals with the process of change in the moral character of the protagonist.

  3) Plot of Thought: this kind of plot deals with the process of change in the thought of the protagonist and in his feeling.”

  In a well plotted story, things precede or follow each other not simply because time ticks away, but more importantly because effects follow causes. In a good story nothing is relevant or accidental; everything is related and causative. The controlling impulse in a connected pattern of causes and effects is conflict, which refers generally to people or circumstances that a character (often the protagonist) must face and try to overcome (often the antagonist). Conflict brings out the extremes of human energy, causing characters to engage in the decisions, actions, responses, and interactions that make up most stories. Conflict is the major elements of plot because opposing forces arouse curiosity, cause doubt, create tension, and produce interest.

2.9. Setting

  The setting is not only shows the place or time of the sequence of events, but it also expresses the character in a story. For example: the setting describes in a house, and then the house will express the character of the owner. In this case, we can see from the interior of the house, if the owner is a rich man then his house is big and filled in the expansive things.

  According to Wellek and Warren through their book Theory of Literature describe that: “Setting is environment and environment especially domestic interior, maybe viewed as metonymic, or metaphoric, expression of character” (1949:221).

  Setting is the natural, manufactured, political, and temporary environment, including everything that characters know and own. Like all human beings, fictional characters do not exist in isolation. Just they become human by interacting with other characters, they gain identity because of their cultural and political allegiances, their possessions, their jobs and their location where they live and move and have their being. Stories must therefore necessarily include description of places, objects, and backgrounds. So, setting includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. Setting has been referred to as story world or milieu to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings of the story. Elements of setting may include culture, historical period, geography, and hour. Along with plot, character, theme, and style, settingis considered one of the fundamental components of fiction. A setting is the time place and social environment a story takes place.

  Writers describe the world they know. Sights, sounds, colors, and textures are all vividly painted in words as an artist paints images on canvas. A writer imagines a story to be happening in a place that is rooted in his or her mind. The location of a story's actions, along with the time in which it occurs, is the setting. Setting is created by language. How many or how few details we learn is up to the author. Many authors leave a lot of these details up to the reader's imagination.

  Setting is a key role in plot, as in man vs. nature or man vs. society stories. In some stories the setting becomes a character itself. In such roles setting may be considered a plot device or literary device. The term "setting" is often used to refer to the social milieu in which the events of a novel occur.

  Characters may either helped or hurt by their surroundings, and they may fight about possession and goals. Further, as characters speak with each other, they reveal the degree to which they share the custom and ideas of their times.

  a. Nature And The Outdoors

  The natural world is an obvious location of many narratives and plays. It is therefore important to note natural surroundings (hills, valleys, mountains, meadows, fields, trees, lakes, streams), living creatures (birds, dogs, horses, snakes), and also conditions in which things happen (sunlight, darkness, calm, wind, rain, snow, storm, heat, cold)

  • – any or all of which may influence character and action.

  b. Objects of human manufacture and construction

  To reveal or highlight qualities of character, and also to make fiction life, authors include detail about buildings and objects of human manufacture and construction. Houses, both interiors, are common, as are possessions such as walking sticks, fences, park benches, toys, automobiles, hair ribbon, necklace, and so on.

  c. Cultural conditions and assumption

  Just as physical setting influence characters, so do cultural conditions and Assumptions, such as characters live, the primitive beliefs, human sacrifice, modern scientific beliefs, and so on.

2.10. Theme

  The theme in a piece of fiction is its controlling idea or its central insight. It is the author's underlying meaning or main idea that he is trying to convey. The theme may be the author's thoughts about a topic or view of human nature. Fiction necessary embodies issues and ideas. Even stories written for entertainment alone are based in an idea or position. In fiction ideas take from of an underlying theme or central idea, which helps to tie the work together. Often the author makes theme obvious, it does not much imagination to state the theme.

  In reading a story the reader will discover, not taught, human values. The meaning of as inseparable part of it, not something apart from the story. The observation and the way in which it is made trough the interrelationship of the various elements reveals what it is called the theme of the story. A novels theme is the main idea that the writer expresses. Sometimes the theme of the story is stated explicitly. However, frequently it is left implicit. Theme can also be defined as the underlying meaning of the story. The theme of a novel is more than its subject matter, because an author‟s technique can play as strong a role in developing a theme as the actions of the characters do. Rarely can a novels theme be interpreted in only way. Because of the length of novels, and the various characters, conflicts, and scenes found within them, readers can look at different aspects of the work to uncover different interpretations of the meaning of the tale.

  A common theme in novels is the conflict between appearance and reality. Another common theme is the search for personality identity. The theme of individual who strikes out alone to face the world is used in many works. Some novels feature people who cannot break from their society‟s convention and instead become disillusioned with conflict between their inspiration and the reality of their lives. Throughout the history of the novel, a major theme has been whether people can change their situation in life or whether they are in the grips of forces beyond their control. Other common themes in novels include how art and reflected in one another, the meaning of religion, and whether technology helps people or whether it is a harmful aspect of society.


 a 'changeling', a child stolen from its parents by fairies, i.e. Deflores or the Devil" (Loughrey).

sewer: shewer (Q)

distinction: state of being distinct, i.e., let it become mixed with the sewage

[hung]: hang (Q)

Beneath the stars...corruptible: The meteor she refers to is Deflores. According to medieval astrology, the stars that controlled men's fate (cf. "star-crossed lovers") were fixed and incorruptible; on the other hand, meteors, which are sublunary, were corruptible and subject to change, and heralded or were provoked by evil events on earth. Cf. Julius Caesar I.iii & II.i.

We are all there; it circumscribes [us] here: Cf. the note above on barley-break; there is an echo of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus II.i.

token: either his wound or (most likely) the wound he gave her; her not being able to forget it alludes to the nature of love tokens as forget-me-nots.

record: the heavenly record of misdeeds

quit/By proclamation: acquitted by a public proclamation of the truth

black fugitives: the souls of Beatrice and Deflores on their way to hell

opacous: opaque, darkened, and therefore ominous

that was paid before: i.e., Diaphanta paid with her life

innocence: 1) guiltlessness, 2) idiocy or "lunacy," being in the grip of love

still behind: still to come

break your own head: i.e., with cuckold's horns

stay: stop

Your only smiles: only your smiles

First on line: June 12, 1996
Last modified: June 12, 1998
Return to the Middleton homepage.<|endoftext|>Kayla got good grades in school while Rebecca didnt really care for school. _ got a scholarship in Harvard.
Option 1: Kayla
Option 2: Rebecca
Answer: 1<|endoftext|>The other day, my North Carolina community was abuzz with news: Triangle Transit had received approval from the Federal Transit Administration to begin planning a 17-mile light rail route between Chapel Hill and Durham. According to the News & Observer, it's pretty much the same route that's been proposed by various community advocates for more than 20 years.

So what's different now?

While much of the talk about the future of mobility revolves around the admittedly stunning and wildly popular Tesla, or the promise of Google's self driving cars, public transit — a transportation option that has often gotten short shrift in the U.S. — may be undergoing a well deserved revival. The reasons for this renaissance are as diverse as they are disruptive, but they all coalesce around a central truth: well-planned transit is much better suited to the modern, technology-enabled lifestyle than the 20th century paradigm of universal car ownership, commuting, and suburban sprawl.

Here's why:

Smartphones and transit are a match made in heaven

look up transit options instantly, wherever we are, and we can track the exact location of the next bus, train or tram and plan our movements accordingly. E-tickets for transit are also promising to radically reduce the hassle and confusion associated with purchasing passes, as well as making transit operations more efficient and profitable.
But it's not just about increased access. Smartphones and tablets are also tools for productivity or entertainment. Why spend time stuck in traffic driving, when you can get started on your emails, catch up on the news, or do some research for your term paper? I recently met a man who had written an entire novel while commuting between Raleigh and Chapel Hill on the bus. Imagine the tickets he'd have gotten if he tried doing that in a car.

Technologically-empowered car sharing takes off

The car isn't going to disappear any time soon, but there are sure signs that we, in America at least, might be reaching the point of "peak car," where per-capita car ownership peaks and then begins to decline. Kids are waiting longer to drive, those of us who do own cars are driving less, and — crucially — the number of carless and one car families is growing. The rise of car sharing services like Zipcar mean transit users can complete that "last mile" of their journey by car, or access a car if they need to for groceries of other errands, but rely on transit for their day-to-day movements. In fact, one study suggests that every car in a car sharing service leads to 32 fewer vehicles being sold to private buyers. And fewer car owners means more transit riders. Carpooling apps like Lyft are also making things easier. You no longer need to worry about getting stuck walking in the rain, or getting stranded if the bus doesn't show — just tap your phone and you have a ride, with none of the hassles of ownership.

More walkable neighborhoods

It's not just modes of mobility that's changing. It's the distances that people need to travel. People are moving into cities at astounding rates, with some estimates suggesting that 9 billion people will be living in urban areas. That's more than the entire population of the planet right now. The popularity of urban living is leading to a shift in terms of city planning, with denser, more walkable neighborhoods becoming commonplace — neighborhoods that serendipitously make transit more viable. Here in the Triangle, for example, it always seemed hard to envision light rail because our communities were simply too spread out — why take the train if you have to drive to the station to catch it? Now we're seeing new apartment buildings and mixed-use neighborhoods springing up all over the Triangle, and it's no accident that many of them seem concentrated along the proposed light rail route.

Traffic jams suck

The flip side of cities being more suitable for walking, biking and transit is that they are really, really poorly suited car ownership. Searching for a parking place, navigating gridlock, paying congestion charges and other fees — none of this was remotely a part of the "freedom" that the motorcar promised back in the 20th century. From the growing realization in China that crushing air quality issues have to be tackled, and fast, to the sky-high popularity of "smart cities" like Copenhagen and Amsterdam, the world is moving toward a far less car-centric paradigm. Car companies are going to have to radically rethink their business models if they are going to thrive in the future that is emerging. In a fascinating Bloomberg article about the rise of the megacity, and what it means for car makers, Jeff Green and Keith Naughton argue that paradigms are already shifting rapidly:

The death of an icon

Every century has its defining icons, and the car was undoubtedly one of the most important icons for previous generations. Yet for young people who were raised on the Internet and mobile phones, who have lived through the financial crisis, and who are surrounded by the negative impacts of our fossil fuel addictions, owning a car often feels less like freedom, and more like an unnecessary hassle. While commute times and technology will have a profound impact on the viability of car culture, another, less tangible force may be at play too: we're just no longer interested in cars in the way we once were.

I, for one, am excited to see what comes next. For my community, it will look something like this:

Related on MNN: 10 bike-friendly cities around the globe<|endoftext|>Heroes Wiki

Heroes Wiki

Kasumi Todoh is one of the heroes from Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters video game series.

She was voiced by Masae Yumi before she replaced with Rui Tanabe.

Art of Fighting

Kasumi is the daughter of Ryuhaku Todoh. After her father was defeated in the Art of Fighting and disappeared as well, she went to find Ryo Sakazaki for revenge.

However, her mother Shizuka does not fully agree with this. Kasumi studied Aikido and Kobujutsu from the Aikido School from an early age and was taught to her by her father. As the sole heir to her family, she did her best to stand up for Todoh. When Ryuhaku stayed in South Town and married a man named Takuma Sakazaki, Kasumi stayed at her house, waiting for her father's return. A few months later, she got some bad news: Ryuhaku was defeated by Takuma's son Ryo Sakazaki and has never seen it since.

In retaliation for her father, she decided to fight Ryo and anyone else. Unfortunately, her mother Shizuko didn't like the idea. In the end, she makes peace with him and returns to Japan with her mother.

The King of Fighters

In the King of Fighters 96 tournament, Kasumi was called the event by King. She greeted and tested her other teammate, Mai Shiranui, through a short martial arts melee. She is very happy to participate in a grand event of a valuable teammate, she became a member of the female team. After she left to find her father, Kasumi clashed with rival waitress Li Xiangfei before the 1999 tournament. By chance, King and Blue Mary stopped their struggle and asked them to be their teammates. She was called a member of Yuri next year and accepted gracefully.

Considering that her father was discovered

 that Beatrice is regarding herself as a 'changeling', a child stolen from its parents by fairies, i.e. Deflores or the Devil" (Loughrey).

sewer: shewer (Q)

distinction: state of being distinct, i.e., let it become mixed with the sewage

[hung]: hang (Q)

Beneath the stars...corruptible: The meteor she refers to is Deflores. According to medieval astrology, the stars that controlled men's fate (cf. "star-crossed lovers") were fixed and incorruptible; on the other hand, meteors, which are sublunary, were corruptible and subject to change, and heralded or were provoked by evil events on earth. Cf. Julius Caesar I.iii & II.i.

We are all there; it circumscribes [us] here: Cf. the note above on barley-break; there is an echo of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus II.i.

token: either his wound or (most likely) the wound he gave her; her not being able to forget it alludes to the nature of love tokens as forget-me-nots.

record: the heavenly record of misdeeds

quit/By proclamation: acquitted by a public proclamation of the truth

black fugitives: the souls of Beatrice and Deflores on their way to hell

opacous: opaque, darkened, and therefore ominous

that was paid before: i.e., Diaphanta paid with her life

innocence: 1) guiltlessness, 2) idiocy or "lunacy," being in the grip of love

still behind: still to come

break your own head: i.e., with cuckold's horns

stay: stop

Your only smiles: only your smiles

First on line: June 12, 1996
Last modified: June 12, 1998
Return to the Middleton homepage.<|endoftext|>The other day, my North Carolina community was abuzz with news: Triangle Transit had received approval from the Federal Transit Administration to begin planning a 17-mile light rail route between Chapel Hill and Durham. According to the News & Observer, it's pretty much the same route that's been proposed by various community advocates for more than 20 years.

So what's different now?

While much of the talk about the future of mobility revolves around the admittedly stunning and wildly popular Tesla, or the promise of Google's self driving cars, public transit — a transportation option that has often gotten short shrift in the U.S. — may be undergoing a well deserved revival. The reasons for this renaissance are as diverse as they are disruptive, but they all coalesce around a central truth: well-planned transit is much better suited to the modern, technology-enabled lifestyle than the 20th century paradigm of universal car ownership, commuting, and suburban sprawl.

Here's why:

Smartphones and transit are a match made in heaven

look up transit options instantly, wherever we are, and we can track the exact location of the next bus, train or tram and plan our movements accordingly. E-tickets for transit are also promising to radically reduce the hassle and confusion associated with purchasing passes, as well as making transit operations more efficient and profitable.
But it's not just about increased access. Smartphones and tablets are also tools for productivity or entertainment. Why spend time stuck in traffic driving, when you can get started on your emails, catch up on the news, or do some research for your term paper? I recently met a man who had written an entire novel while commuting between Raleigh and Chapel Hill on the bus. Imagine the tickets he'd have gotten if he tried doing that in a car.

Technologically-empowered car sharing takes off

The car isn't going to disappear any time soon, but there are sure signs that we, in America at least, might be reaching the point of "peak car," where per-capita car ownership peaks and then begins to decline. Kids are waiting longer to drive, those of us who do own cars are driving less, and — crucially — the number of carless and one car families is growing. The rise of car sharing services like Zipcar mean transit users can complete that "last mile" of their journey by car, or access a car if they need to for groceries of other errands, but rely on transit for their day-to-day movements. In fact, one study suggests that every car in a car sharing service leads to 32 fewer vehicles being sold to private buyers. And fewer car owners means more transit riders. Carpooling apps like Lyft are also making things easier. You no longer need to worry about getting stuck walking in the rain, or getting stranded if the bus doesn't show — just tap your phone and you have a ride, with none of the hassles of ownership.

More walkable neighborhoods

It's not just modes of mobility that's changing. It's the distances that people need to travel. People are moving into cities at astounding rates, with some estimates suggesting that 9 billion people will be living in urban areas. That's more than the entire population of the planet right now. The popularity of urban living is leading to a shift in terms of city planning, with denser, more walkable neighborhoods becoming commonplace — neighborhoods that serendipitously make transit more viable. Here in the Triangle, for example, it always seemed hard to envision light rail because our communities were simply too spread out — why take the train if you have to drive to the station to catch it? Now we're seeing new apartment buildings and mixed-use neighborhoods springing up all over the Triangle, and it's no accident that many of them seem concentrated along the proposed light rail route.

Traffic jams suck

The flip side of cities being more suitable for walking, biking and transit is that they are really, really poorly suited car ownership. Searching for a parking place, navigating gridlock, paying congestion charges and other fees — none of this was remotely a part of the "freedom" that the motorcar promised back in the 20th century. From the growing realization in China that crushing air quality issues have to be tackled, and fast, to the sky-high popularity of "smart cities" like Copenhagen and Amsterdam, the world is moving toward a far less car-centric paradigm. Car companies are going to have to radically rethink their business models if they are going to thrive in the future that is emerging. In a fascinating Bloomberg article about the rise of the megacity, and what it means for car makers, Jeff Green and Keith Naughton argue that paradigms are already shifting rapidly:

The death of an icon

Every century has its defining icons, and the car was undoubtedly one of the most important icons for previous generations. Yet for young people who were raised on the Internet and mobile phones, who have lived through the financial crisis, and who are surrounded by the negative impacts of our fossil fuel addictions, owning a car often feels less like freedom, and more like an unnecessary hassle. While commute times and technology will have a profound impact on the viability of car culture, another, less tangible force may be at play too: we're just no longer interested in cars in the way we once were.

I, for one, am excited to see what comes next. For my community, it will look something like this:

Related on MNN: 10 bike-friendly cities around the globe<|endoftext|>Heroes Wiki

Heroes Wiki

Kasumi Todoh is one of the heroes from Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters video game series.

She was voiced by Masae Yumi before she replaced with Rui Tanabe.

Art of Fighting

Kasumi is the daughter of Ryuhaku Todoh. After her father was defeated in the Art of Fighting and disappeared as well, she went to find Ryo Sakazaki for revenge.

However, her mother Shizuka does not fully agree with this. Kasumi studied Aikido and Kobujutsu from the Aikido School from an early age and was taught to her by her father. As the sole heir to her family, she did her best to stand up for Todoh. When Ryuhaku stayed in South Town and married a man named Takuma Sakazaki, Kasumi stayed at her house, waiting for her father's return. A few months later, she got some bad news: Ryuhaku was defeated by Takuma's son Ryo Sakazaki and has never seen it since.

In retaliation for her father, she decided to fight Ryo and anyone else. Unfortunately, her mother Shizuko didn't like the idea. In the end, she makes peace with him and returns to Japan with her mother.

The King of Fighters

In the King of Fighters 96 tournament, Kasumi was called the event by King. She greeted and tested her other teammate, Mai Shiranui, through a short martial arts melee. She is very happy to participate in a grand event of a valuable teammate, she became a member of the female team. After she left to find her father, Kasumi clashed with rival waitress Li Xiangfei before the 1999 tournament. By chance, King and Blue Mary stopped their struggle and asked them to be their teammates. She was called a member of Yuri next year and accepted gracefully.

Considering that her father was discovered in the 2000 competition, Kasumi was still unable to arrive until The King of Fighters XI, when Malin contacted her. Once Kasumi reported to


Tanya made sure to always wear makeup compared to Felicia because _ was not vain.
Option 1: Tanya
Option 2: Felicia
Answer: 2<|endoftext|>, yet projecting an abnormal behaviour. All these levels of hypocrisy under which humanity exists, herald humanity’s sinful conditions.

The fourth and last level of hypocrisy is projected in cowardice. Interestingly, this is portrayed more in denominational Christianity, than any other grouping—except as including African politics. The deception that is found in Christianity does not mean that God has not revealed Himself to members of respective denominations. Leadership structures make it extremely difficult for ordinary people to express differing opinions.

Leadership makes decisions on behalf of the general laity. In other words the direction of any Church organization does not come from Christ—but commonly from denominational leaders. Pointing out some errors—deserving to be addressed— can actually attract removal from fellowship, or being censured—when not privileged to be in leadership.

It takes a very strong character to stand up against what is adopted—as practiced in any particular Christian denomination. This has remained a reality since the formation of Catholicism. Simple teachings of Christ have even been further complicated by Theologians—thereby enforcing authoritarianism—virtually, among all Christian organizations.

People who identify themselves as lay members prefer taking low profile—unwilling to stand up for the truth. They pretend to be good and obedient—yet deeply aware of the misdemeanours in their denominational Church organization.

In Zimbabwean politics, this type of hypocrisy was recently observed—as classically projected in ZANU PF—during military take-over. The former President had all along been treated as an iconic statesman. However, after the military coup, we saw the same group of supporters lampooning the old man—stating that they had only supported him under duress?

Those people had appeared as loyal members of ZANU PF—under the leadership of Mugabe. But deep inside their conscience, the same people had not supported him at all. They had avoided standing up for the truth, because there is comfort in pretending to be what one is not (hypocrisy). This is why Jesus declared:

The commendable thing about blatant sinners—like prostitutes—is that they do not pretend to be what they are not. That is why it is not difficult for them to accept the truth. They are not like hypocrites who merely seek to please people—than projecting their true colours. God is looking for the real you—not the one taking comfort in being the pleaser of other people.

Hypocrisy is associated with falsehood—being Satan’s chief attribute. Pretending to be one thing—when actually being something else—a person projects Satanism. Through the apostle John—in the book of Revelation—Jesus was referring to hypocrisy:

Notice that Jesus is actually comfortable with both the hot and the cold—rather than the lukewarm. The major problem with most Christians is in desiring to apply religion where it is not necessary. This leads them to falling prey to the schemes of the devil. See [Only the Red Hot Christians will make it into God’s Kingdom].

While at no point did Jesus apply religion—the hypocrites would rather stretch the Old Testament Laws into Christianity. They seek to manipulate those laws—using them as measuring standard to condemn others—rather than themselves.

Appearing as meticulous in keeping God’s laws, they seek to be justified as good people. Indeed, their followers shower them with accolades that elevate them—even ahead of Christ. Yet, as author of Christianity, Jesus simply introduced Kingdom principles—through the transformation of the mind—when behaving differently, for their application. (Romans 12:2).

The Print copy is now available at for $13.99

Also available as an e-copy at  for $6.99<|endoftext|>Seagate Enables Hard Drive With Wifi for Transfer to Android Phone

Memory cards are getting bigger and cheaper these days, and if you’re carrying an Android phone, you’ve probably got at least an 8GB memory card in there, if not double (or quadruple) that. But what do you do if you have 500GB of data that absolutely HAS to be accessible from your phone, all the time? WHAT DO YOU DO THEN?!?!?!? Seagate has your answer in a battery-powered hard drive with wifi, so you can wirelessly access your data from your Android phone (or even one of those iPhone thingies we’ve heard a little about.) You can interface with the device via a web browser for now, but an Android app should be available in a few months. It’s sporting a $200 price tag, but wireless accessibility and a 25-hour battery could wind up making this hard drive a must-have device for some people who are constantly on the go. Sure, you can get that storage cheaper, but good luck putting it in your pocket, taking it with you, and accessing it on the go, all without wires! Full press release below.

GoFlex Media™ App

Media Sync software

Loading Media

[via gizmodo]

  • HDD

    Oooh just as I was falling out with my Android I find I can get a wireless external hard drive for it?

    Do want.<|endoftext|>How Etsy Deploys More Than 50 Times a Day

by João Miranda on Mar 17, 2014 | NOTICE: The next QCon is in San Francisco Nov 3-7, Join us!

Etsy's development approach revolves around making many small, continuous changes. A direct consequence is the need to do many deployments a day. In the words of Daniel Schauenberg, at any given time every Etsy developer needs to know the answer to the question "how comfortable am I with deploying a change right now?". To be comfortable at all times, Etsy adopted a range of tools and practices: mandatory IRC-based communication; developer virtual machines; continuous integration; one-click deployments; thorough application and system monitoring; no blame post-mortems and on-call policies for both dev and ops teams.

Every developer has its own KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), configured by Chef. The same cookbooks used in production are also used on the developers' virtual machines, which means that each developer has its own full Etsy stack. Anyone can provision a virtual machine through Virtual Madness, a web application that automates the whole process.

On the continuous integration front, Daniel explained how Try is central to their process. Try is a tool that allows a developer to test his changes in Jenkins, the CI tool used at Etsy, without having to commit to trunk. Try helps to keep the trunk clean and thus deployable, while at the same time allowing the developers to test their changes quickly and reliably. The CI cluster must be powerful enough to support 150 engineers, and more than 14000 tests suites runs per day. LXC, Linux containers, parallelize the workload. They also provide the isolation needed to keep the executors from colliding with one another.

The deployment pipeline passes through the princess, or staging, environment before going into production. Princess is, for all intents and purposes the production environment, but only Etsy's employees have access to it. The Deployinator is the deployment tool made and used by Etsy that offers one-click deployments.

Config flags, also known as feature flags, are an integral part of the deployment process. Through its feature API, Etsy is able to do A/B testing, completely enable or disable a feature or variants of a given feature.

Monitoring is key to the way Etsy's team builds the confidence to do Continuous Delivery. Developers do their own feature monitoring and everyone has access to all the graphs through dashboards. Etsy has a policy where, by default, everything that can be graphed is graphed. Over time, the number of metrics has increased steadily so Etsy has built Kale, to help detect anomaly patterns. All logs are available through Supergrep, a web based log streamer that increases the logs' signal-to-noise ratio.

IRC is the main communication tool throughout Etsy and is key to the collaboration culture of Etsy. There are lots of different chat rooms, each with a specific purpose. For instance, there is a #warroom where only outage related conversations are allowed. The room is used to coordinate the investigation, discuss counter measures and resolution monitoring. #warroom, as with other chat rooms, is one place where new engineers are encouraged to lurk around, as they are considered to be good places to learn.

After each outage, or near outage, everybody is invited to a post-mortem. Post-mortems are such a significant cultural event that even finance and support can attend if they want to. Post-mortems are meant to be a learning opportunity and so they are blameless. All the information related to a post-mortem is recorded in Morgue: dates; severity; IRC logs; graphs; remediation actions. Morgue is another tool built by Etsy for the specific purpose of post-mortem record keeping.

There are on-call policies for operations, developers, payments and support. Developers are usually on-call one week every four weeks, on a rotation basis. The policy aims to keep everyone aware of the day-to-day issues that face the site so that they can be taken into account when developing new features or improving existing processes.

, yet projecting an abnormal behaviour. All these levels of hypocrisy under which humanity exists, herald humanity’s sinful conditions.

The fourth and last level of hypocrisy is projected in cowardice. Interestingly, this is portrayed more in denominational Christianity, than any other grouping—except as including African politics. The deception that is found in Christianity does not mean that God has not revealed Himself to members of respective denominations. Leadership structures make it extremely difficult for ordinary people to express differing opinions.

Leadership makes decisions on behalf of the general laity. In other words the direction of any Church organization does not come from Christ—but commonly from denominational leaders. Pointing out some errors—deserving to be addressed— can actually attract removal from fellowship, or being censured—when not privileged to be in leadership.

It takes a very strong character to stand up against what is adopted—as practiced in any particular Christian denomination. This has remained a reality since the formation of Catholicism. Simple teachings of Christ have even been further complicated by Theologians—thereby enforcing authoritarianism—virtually, among all Christian organizations.

People who identify themselves as lay members prefer taking low profile—unwilling to stand up for the truth. They pretend to be good and obedient—yet deeply aware of the misdemeanours in their denominational Church organization.

In Zimbabwean politics, this type of hypocrisy was recently observed—as classically projected in ZANU PF—during military take-over. The former President had all along been treated as an iconic statesman. However, after the military coup, we saw the same group of supporters lampooning the old man—stating that they had only supported him under duress?

Those people had appeared as loyal members of ZANU PF—under the leadership of Mugabe. But deep inside their conscience, the same people had not supported him at all. They had avoided standing up for the truth, because there is comfort in pretending to be what one is not (hypocrisy). This is why Jesus declared:

The commendable thing about blatant sinners—like prostitutes—is that they do not pretend to be what they are not. That is why it is not difficult for them to accept the truth. They are not like hypocrites who merely seek to please people—than projecting their true colours. God is looking for the real you—not the one taking comfort in being the pleaser of other people.

Hypocrisy is associated with falsehood—being Satan’s chief attribute. Pretending to be one thing—when actually being something else—a person projects Satanism. Through the apostle John—in the book of Revelation—Jesus was referring to hypocrisy:

Notice that Jesus is actually comfortable with both the hot and the cold—rather than the lukewarm. The major problem with most Christians is in desiring to apply religion where it is not necessary. This leads them to falling prey to the schemes of the devil. See [Only the Red Hot Christians will make it into God’s Kingdom].

While at no point did Jesus apply religion—the hypocrites would rather stretch the Old Testament Laws into Christianity. They seek to manipulate those laws—using them as measuring standard to condemn others—rather than themselves.

Appearing as meticulous in keeping God’s laws, they seek to be justified as good people. Indeed, their followers shower them with accolades that elevate them—even ahead of Christ. Yet, as author of Christianity, Jesus simply introduced Kingdom principles—through the transformation of the mind—when behaving differently, for their application. (Romans 12:2).

The Print copy is now available at for $13.99

Also available as an e-copy at  for $6.99<|endoftext|>Seagate Enables Hard Drive With Wifi for Transfer to Android Phone

Memory cards are getting bigger and cheaper these days, and if you’re carrying an Android phone, you’ve probably got at least an 8GB memory card in there, if not double (or quadruple) that. But what do you do if you have 500GB of data that absolutely HAS to be accessible from your phone, all the time? WHAT DO YOU DO THEN?!?!?!? Seagate has your answer in a battery-powered hard drive with wifi, so you can wirelessly access your data from your Android phone (or even one of those iPhone thingies we’ve heard a little about.) You can interface with the device via a web browser for now, but an Android app should be available in a few months. It’s sporting a $200 price tag, but wireless accessibility and a 25-hour battery could wind up making this hard drive a must-have device for some people who are constantly on the go. Sure, you can get that storage cheaper, but good luck putting it in your pocket, taking it with you, and accessing it on the go, all without wires! Full press release below.

GoFlex Media™ App

Media Sync software

Loading Media

[via gizmodo]

  • HDD

    Oooh just as I was falling out with my Android I find I can get a wireless external hard drive for it?

    Do want.<|endoftext|>How Etsy Deploys More Than 50 Times a Day

by João Miranda on Mar 17, 2014 | NOTICE: The next QCon is in San Francisco Nov 3-7, Join us!

Etsy's development approach revolves around making many small, continuous changes. A direct consequence is the need to do many deployments a day. In the words of Daniel Schauenberg, at any given time every Etsy developer needs to know the answer to the question "how comfortable am I with deploying a change right now?". To be comfortable at all times, Etsy adopted a range of tools and practices: mandatory IRC-based communication; developer virtual machines; continuous integration; one-click deployments; thorough application and system monitoring; no blame post-mortems and on-call policies for both dev and ops teams.

Every developer has its own KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), configured by Chef. The same cookbooks used in production are also used on the developers' virtual machines, which means that each developer has its own full Etsy stack. Anyone can provision a virtual machine through Virtual Madness, a web application that automates the whole process.

On the continuous integration front, Daniel explained how Try is central to their process. Try is a tool that allows a developer to test his changes in Jenkins, the CI tool used at Etsy, without having to commit to trunk. Try helps to keep the trunk clean and thus deployable, while at the same time allowing the developers to test their changes quickly and reliably. The CI cluster must be powerful enough to support 150 engineers, and more than 14000 tests suites runs per day. LXC, Linux containers, parallelize the workload. They also provide the isolation needed to keep the executors from colliding with one another.

The deployment pipeline passes through the princess, or staging, environment before going into production. Princess is, for all intents and purposes the production environment, but only Etsy's employees have access to it. The Deployinator is the deployment tool made and used by Etsy that offers one-click deployments.

Config flags, also known as feature flags, are an integral part of the deployment process. Through its feature API, Etsy is able to do A/B testing, completely enable or disable a feature or variants of a given feature.

Monitoring is key to the way Etsy's team builds the confidence to do Continuous Delivery. Developers do their own feature monitoring and everyone has access to all the graphs through dashboards. Etsy has a policy where, by default, everything that can be graphed is graphed. Over time, the number of metrics has increased steadily so Etsy has built Kale, to help detect anomaly patterns. All logs are available through Supergrep, a web based log streamer that increases the logs' signal-to-noise ratio.

IRC is the main communication tool throughout Etsy and is key to the collaboration culture of Etsy. There are lots of different chat rooms, each with a specific purpose. For instance, there is a #warroom where only outage related conversations are allowed. The room is used to coordinate the investigation, discuss counter measures and resolution monitoring. #warroom, as with other chat rooms, is one place where new engineers are encouraged to lurk around, as they are considered to be good places to learn.

After each outage, or near outage, everybody is invited to a post-mortem. Post-mortems are such a significant cultural event that even finance and support can attend if they want to. Post-mortems are meant to be a learning opportunity and so they are blameless. All the information related to a post-mortem is recorded in Morgue: dates; severity; IRC logs; graphs; remediation actions. Morgue is another tool built by Etsy for the specific purpose of post-mortem record keeping.

There are on-call policies for operations, developers, payments and support. Developers are usually on-call one week every four weeks, on a rotation basis. The policy aims to keep everyone aware of the day-to-day issues that face the site so that they can be taken into account when developing new features or improving existing processes.

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