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  1. Nov 2019
    1. African-American migrants arrived after waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

      Here is the mention of, or at least a hint towards, the Slavic immigrants.

    2. closed to avoid interaction among bickering groups

      This is certainly an interesting way to refer to the turmoil between groups. I would not describe it as "bickering."

    3. black workers seeking to get to and from employment were attacked

      This corresponds with how the EBSCO report mentioned the attacks on stockyard workers.

    4. The turmoil came to a boil during a summer heat wave with the death of Eugene Williams

      This phrasing is almost exactly the same as in the EBSCO report on the riot.

    5. It is considered the worst of the nearly 25 riots in the United States during the "Red Summer" of 1919, so named because of the racial and labor related violence and fatalities across the nation.

      Here is where the article brings this riot into the perspective of riots as a whole.

    6. on July 27, and ended on August 3, 1919

      The EBSCO source references that the riot officially ended with the withdraw of the militia on the seventh, not the third.

    7. Early reports detailed injuries to police officers and a Chicago fireman.

      It should be noted that some police officers were beaten in retaliation for unjustly beating then innocent citizens.

    8. The majority of the rioting, murder, and arson was the result of white ethnic groups attacking the African American population in the city's Black Belt on the South Side.

      Although this is true, there were also events where whites were attacked or killed in this area just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    9. The Cook County Sheriff deputized between 1,000 and 2,000 ex-soldiers to help keep the peace.

      Doesn't note that some of these ex-soldiers were African-American and therefore there were incidents where African-Americans were attacking each other.

    10. Governor Lowden noted his opinion that the troubles were related to labor issues rather than race.

      I think this riot was due to several key factors one of which was labor issues, however I think it was mostly due to race so I don't agree with this statement.

    11. Ragen's Colts

      It was good for this gang to be mentioned due to the fact that they were involved in many of the events and murders that occurred throughout the riot.

    12. rom 1916 to 1919 the African-American population in Chicago increased from 44,000 to 109,000, a 148 percent increase.[5][8]

      This is a pretty large increase in the black population for only three years.

    13. Meanwhile, the Irish had been established earlier, and fiercely defended their territory and political power against all newcomers.

      I had noticed that there were a lot of Irish people involved in gangs and murders when creating my spreadsheet of events. So this information stood out to me and gave more insight on why I was seeing Irish people involved a lot.

    14. two-thirds of the injured being black and one-third white

      I find this statistic to be very interesting after doing some research about this riot. It puts the situation into perspective that is easy to comprehend.

    15. provoked by white Americans against black Americans

      This race riot was initially provoked by whites against blacks. However it also ended up including blacks against blacks and whites against whites. I believe this should have been stated here as well due to the fact that it makes this riot important and stand out compared to some of the others.

    16. Chicago race riot

      After discussing what different labels mean and having to determine which label appropriately fit each riot, I do believe they are correct when labeling this a race riot and not one of the other labels we discussed.

    17. The rioting impacted Chicago's economy. Some of the South Side's industry was closed during the riot. Businesses in the Loop were also affected by closure of the street cars. Many workers stayed away from affected areas. At the Union Stock Yard, one of Chicago's largest employers, all 15,000 African-American workers were initially expected to return to work on Monday, August 4, 1919.

      one major effect of the riot seems to be the loss of jobs in chicago. the economy started to plument causing Afican-Americans to fall further down the social economy ladder with the lost of jobs.

    18. The rioting escalated when a white police officer refused to arrest the man who threw the stone at Williams. He instead arrested an African American on a white man's complaint of some minor offense. Anger over the arrest, coupled with Williams' death and rumors among both communities, escalated into five days of rioting. Most casualties were African American and most of the property damage was inflicted in African American neighborhoods. Having learned from the recent East St. Louis Riot, Chicago quickly stopped the street cars to try to contain the violence.

      The mass amount of racism causes African-Americans to be held accountable for issues that whites can simply get away with. Their lives are striped away in the hands of power.

    19. white police officer not only failed to arrest the white man responsible for Williams' death

      Does not mention how a black officer originally wanted to arrest Stauber, but was stopped by the white police officer.

    20. injuries attributed to the episodic confrontations stood at 537,

      I found the terms "episodic confrontations" was an interesting way to refer to the mob beatings that happened during the riot.

    21. violent racial conflict

      This article calls the riot a "racial conflict", which is a term I have not heard when referring to the race riots, although I think it is an accurate description of the events in Chicago.

    1. He considers the evolutionist doctrine to be a major philosophical and scientific error. Schumacher argues that the evolutionist doctrine starts with the perfectly reasonable explanation of change in living beings, and then jumps to using it as an explanation for the development of consciousness, self-awareness, language, social institutions and the origin of life itself. Schumacher points out that making this conceptual leap simply does not meet the standards of scientific rigor and the uncritical acceptance of this leap is, for Schumacher, completely unscientific.

      The evolutionist doctrine makes a philosophical error in its leap from its rightful explanation of biological change to the development of consciousness, self-awareness, language, and the origin of life itself.

    2. He observes that the mere mention of spirituality and spiritual phenomena in academic discussion is seen as a sign of 'mental deficiency' among scientists. Schumacher argues that where there is near total agreement a subject becomes effectively dead; it therefore is the subjects where there is doubt that deserve the most intense research. Schumacher believes in contrast to materialistic science that what is in doubt should be shown prominently, not hidden away or ignored.

      The subjects about which there is the most doubt, should be researched the most prominently.

    3. He uses the term scientism because he argues that many people, including some philosophers of science, have misunderstood the theory behind instructional science and believe that it produces truth. But the instructional sciences are based on induction; and as David Hume famously points out induction is not the same as truth. Furthermore, according to Schumacher, instructional sciences are primarily concerned only with the parts of truth that are useful for manipulation, i.e. they focus on those instructions which are necessary to reliably produce certain results. But this does not mean that an alternative instruction set won't work, or indeed an alternative instruction set based on quite different principles. For Schumacher, instructional sciences therefore produce theories which are useful: pragmatic truths. By contrast, Schumacher argues that the descriptive sciences are interested in the truth in the wider sense of the word.

      Instructional sciences don't produce truth, but pragmatic truth.

    1. James Powell

      Does not mention that James Powell was a 15 year old black boy. He was shot multiple times when white police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan believe that he had a knife.

    1. The Treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,– nothing to make the defeated Central Powers into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it promote in any way a compact of solidarity amongst the Allies themselves; no arrangement was reached at Paris for restoring the disordered finances of France and Italy, or to adjust the systems of the Old World and the New.

      Treaty just repeats the previous pattern of victories and losses in the centuries-old series of European wars; another war would shortly follow because the peace did not even attempt to create a harmonious political system in Europe

    1. Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: simple wakefulness, one's sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within", or “nothing at all”; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain; having phanera or qualia and subjectivity; being the ‘something that it is like' to 'have' or 'be' it; being the “inner theatre” or the executive control system of the mind.[10]

      Research is not always adequte to this task.

    1. 5.2 Metformin[edit] Reduced serum levels of vitamin B12 occur in up to 30% of people taking long-term anti-diabetic metformin.[71][72][73] Deficiency does not develop if dietary intake of vitamin B12 is adequate or prophylactic B12 supplementation is given. If the deficiency is detected, metformin can be continued while the deficiency is corrected with B12 supplements.[74]

      Fascinating overlap of two emergent life-extension-enhancement treatments.

    1. In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Rousseau, anticipating the language of Darwin, states that as the animal-like human species increased there arose a "formidable struggle for existence" between it and other species for food.[34] It was then, under the pressure of necessity, that le caractère spécifique de l'espèce humaine—the specific quality that distinguished man from the beasts—emerged—intelligence, a power, meager at first but yet capable of an "almost unlimited development". Rousseau calls this power the faculté de se perfectionner—perfectibility.[35] Man invented tools, discovered fire, and in short, began to emerge from the state of nature. Yet at this stage, men also began to compare himself to others: "It is easy to see. ... that all our labors are directed upon two objects only, namely, for oneself, the commodities of life, and consideration on the part of others."
    1. Please change "Adrianna Salvatierra" as acting president to "Jeanine Áñez". I don't understand why this keeps getting reverted. Coming from a Bolivian user myself who literally just made an account to edit this - Adrianna Salvatierra resigned on November 10th, thus discluding her from the presidential line of succession. Since the vice-president, president of the Senate (Salvatierra), and the first vice-president of the Senate have resigned too, Jean Áñez (the second vice-president the Senate of Bolivia) is next in line. SpicyCheese (talk) 8:12 am, Yesterday (UTC−8) ^ Bolivia Sets Date For Referendum On Evo Morales Re-election Telesurv, 15 October 2015
    1. In 2001, AI founder Marvin Minsky asked "So the question is why didn't we get HAL in 2001?"[167] Minsky believed that the answer is that the central problems, like commonsense reasoning, were being neglected, while most researchers pursued things like commercial applications of neural nets or genetic algorithms. John McCarthy, on the other hand, still blamed the qualification problem.[168] For Ray Kurzweil, the issue is computer power and, using Moore's Law, he predicted that machines with human-level intelligence will appear by 2029.[169] Jeff Hawkins argued that neural net research ignores the essential properties of the human cortex, preferring simple models that have been successful at solving simple problems.[170] There were many other explanations and for each there was a corresponding research program underway.
    2. The first indication of a change in weather was the sudden collapse of the market for specialized AI hardware in 1987. Desktop computers from Apple and IBM had been steadily gaining speed and power and in 1987 they became more powerful than the more expensive Lisp machines made by Symbolics and others. There was no longer a good reason to buy them. An entire industry worth half a billion dollars was demolished overnight.
    3. Eventually the earliest successful expert systems, such as XCON, proved too expensive to maintain. They were difficult to update, they could not learn, they were "brittle" (i.e., they could make grotesque mistakes when given unusual inputs), and they fell prey to problems (such as the qualification problem) that had been identified years earlier. Expert systems proved useful, but only in a few special contexts
    4. The neats: logic and symbolic reasoning[edit source] Logic was introduced into AI research as early as 1958, by John McCarthy in his Advice Taker proposal.[100] In 1963, J. Alan Robinson had discovered a simple method to implement deduction on computers, the resolution and unification algorithm. However, straightforward implementations, like those attempted by McCarthy and his students in the late 1960s, were especially intractable: the programs required astronomical numbers of steps to prove simple theorems.[101] A more fruitful approach to logic was developed in the 1970s by Robert Kowalski at the University of Edinburgh, and soon this led to the collaboration with French researchers Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel who created the successful logic programming language Prolog.[102] Prolog uses a subset of logic (Horn clauses, closely related to "rules" and "production rules") that permit tractable computation. Rules would continue to be influential, providing a foundation for Edward Feigenbaum's expert systems and the continuing work by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon that would lead to Soar and their unified theories of cognition.[103] Critics of the logical approach noted, as Dreyfus had, that human beings rarely used logic when they solved problems. Experiments by psychologists like Peter Wason, Eleanor Rosch, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman and others provided proof.[104] McCarthy responded that what people do is irrelevant. He argued that what is really needed are machines that can solve problems—not machines that think as people do.[105] The scruffies: frames and scripts[edit source] Among the critics of McCarthy's approach were his colleagues across the country at MIT. Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert and Roger Schank were trying to solve problems like "story understanding" and "object recognition" that required a machine to think like a person. In order to use ordinary concepts like "chair" or "restaurant" they had to make all the same illogical assumptions that people normally made. Unfortunately, imprecise concepts like these are hard to represent in logic. Gerald Sussman observed that "using precise language to describe essentially imprecise concepts doesn't make them any more precise."[106] Schank described their "anti-logic" approaches as "scruffy", as opposed to the "neat" paradigms used by McCarthy, Kowalski, Feigenbaum, Newell and Simon.[107] In 1975, in a seminal paper, Minsky noted that many of his fellow "scruffy" researchers were using the same kind of tool: a framework that captures all our common sense assumptions about something. For example, if we use the concept of a bird, there is a constellation of facts that immediately come to mind: we might assume that it flies, eats worms and so on. We know these facts are not always true and that deductions using these facts will not be "logical", but these structured sets of assumptions are part of the context of everything we say and think. He called these structures "frames". Schank used a version of frames he called "scripts" to successfully answer questions about short stories in English.[108] Many years later object-oriented programming would adopt the essential idea of "inheritance" from AI research on frames.
    1. In 1988 Apple sued Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on the grounds that they infringed Apple's copyrighted GUI, citing (among other things) the use of rectangular, overlapping, and resizable windows. After four years, the case was decided against Apple, as were later appeals. Apple's actions were criticized by some in the software community, including the Free Software Foundation (FSF), who felt Apple was trying to monopolize on GUIs in general, and boycotted GNU software for the Macintosh platform for seven years.
    1. Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) developed its own Lisp machine, named Jericho,[7] which ran a version of Interlisp. It was never marketed. Frustrated, the whole AI group resigned, and were hired mostly by Xerox. So, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center had, simultaneously with Greenblatt's own development at MIT, developed their own Lisp machines which were designed to run InterLisp (and later Common Lisp). The same hardware was used with different software also as Smalltalk machines and as the Xerox Star office system.
    2. In 1979, Russell Noftsker, being convinced that Lisp machines had a bright commercial future due to the strength of the Lisp language and the enabling factor of hardware acceleration, proposed to Greenblatt that they commercialize the technology.[citation needed] In a counter-intuitive move for an AI Lab hacker, Greenblatt acquiesced, hoping perhaps that he could recreate the informal and productive atmosphere of the Lab in a real business. These ideas and goals were considerably different from those of Noftsker. The two negotiated at length, but neither would compromise. As the proposed firm could succeed only with the full and undivided assistance of the AI Lab hackers as a group, Noftsker and Greenblatt decided that the fate of the enterprise was up to them, and so the choice should be left to the hackers. The ensuing discussions of the choice divided the lab into two factions. In February 1979, matters came to a head. The hackers sided with Noftsker, believing that a commercial venture fund-backed firm had a better chance of surviving and commercializing Lisp machines than Greenblatt's proposed self-sustaining start-up. Greenblatt lost the battle.
  2. Oct 2019
    1. Determinacy is a subfield of set theory, a branch of mathematics, that examines the conditions under which one or the other player of a game has a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies. Alternatively and similarly, "determinacy" is the property of a game whereby such a strategy exists.
    1. is dosed with seed microorganisms and stored for 5 days in the dark room at 20 °C to prevent DO production via photosynthesis

      Does the BOD measurement and interpretation depend on the organism the sample is seeded with?

    2. The generally lower values in the U.S. derive from the much greater water use per capita than in other parts of the world

      Wow, that is amazing to know. Wonder how this cultural shift started historically?

    1. Queen Gorgo advised them to clear the wax off the tablet. She is described by David Kahn in his book The Codebreakers as one of the first female cryptanalysts whose name has been recorded.[5]

      Thx for the edification, @blackroomsec! :D

    1. foundation of empathic design is observation and the goal to identify latent customer needs in order to create products that the customers don't even know they desire, or, in some cases, solutions that customers have difficulty envisioning due to lack of familiarity with the possibilities offered by new technologies or because they are locked in a specific mindset. Empathic design relies on observation of consumers

      people don't always know what they want

    1. The obesity epidemic has been widely publicized in the media worldwide. Investigators at all levels have been looking for factors that have contributed to the development of this epidemic. Two major theories have been proposed: (1) sedentary lifestyle and (2) variety and ease of inexpensive palatable foods. In the present review, we analyze how nutrients like sugar that are often used to make foods more appealing could also lead to habituation and even in some cases addiction thereby uniquely contributing to the obesity epidemic. We review the evolutionary aspects of feeding and how they have shaped the human brain to function in “survival mode” signaling to “eat as much as you can while you can.” This leads to our present understanding of how the dopaminergic system is involved in reward and its functions in hedonistic rewards, like eating of highly palatable foods, and drug addiction. We also review how other neurotransmitters, like acetylcholine, interact in the satiation processes to counteract the dopamine system. Lastly, we analyze the important question of whether there is sufficient empirical evidence of sugar addiction, discussed within the broader context of food addiction. ... there is strong evidence of the existence of sugar addiction, both at preclinical and clinical level. Our model has demonstrated that five out of eleven criteria for SUD are met, specifically: use of larger amounts and for longer than intended, craving, hazardous use, tolerance, and withdrawal. From an evolutionary perspective, we must consider addiction as a normal trait that permitted humans to survive primitive conditions when food was scarce. As we evolved culturally, the neural circuits involved in addictive behaviors became dysfunctional and instead of helping us survive they are in fact compromising our health. From a revolutionary perspective, understanding the molecular, and neurological/psychological intricacies of addiction (sugar, drugs of abuse) will permit the discovery of new therapies (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) and possible management of at least one crucial factor in the occurrence of obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234835/

    1. In contrast to the episcopal polity of the Anglican and many Lutheran and Methodist churches, continental Reformed churches are ruled by assemblies of "elders" or ordained officers. This is usually called Synodal government by the continental Reformed, but is essentially the same as presbyterian polity, with the elders forming the consistory, the regional governing body known as the classis, and the highest court of appeal being the general synod. The Reformed Church in Hungary, its sister church in Romania, the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, and the Polish Reformed Church are the only continental Reformed churches to have retained the office of bishop.

      use for differneces paragraph

    1. The world can be resolved into digital bits, with each bit made of smaller bits. These bits form a fractal pattern in fact-space. The pattern behaves like a cellular automaton. The pattern is inconceivably large in size and dimensions. Although the world started simply, its computation is irreducibly complex.
    1. Peirce was born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Sarah Hunt Mills and Benjamin Peirce, himself a professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard University and perhaps the first serious research mathematician in America.[citation needed] At age 12, Charles read his older brother's copy of Richard Whately's Elements of Logic, then the leading English-language text on the subject. So began his lifelong fascination with logic and reasoning.

      so normalized for child-hood environment he wasn't an outlier at all...

    1. The Latin alphabet evolved from the visually similar Etruscan alphabet, which evolved from the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, which was itself descended from the Phoenician alphabet, which in turn derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics.[1] The Etruscans, who ruled early Rome, adopted the Cumaean Greek alphabet, which was modified over time to become the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn adopted and further modified by the Romans to produce the Latin alphabet.

      But did the Latin alphabet really come from Greek?

    1. Not having an additional child

      This has been much criticized

      • Accounts for emissions mutiple times - parents responsible for their children's emissions and grandchidlren's emissions, children responsible for their own and their children's emissions etc.
      • Explicitly excludes scenarios where we are successful in achieving zero emissions targets (with zero emissions, the emissions due to children are zero).

      Comment on 'The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions

    1. urakami has expressed since early on a frustration with the lack of a reliable and sustainable art market in post-war Japan. Largely for this reason, he formulated a strategy wherein he would first establish himself in the Western art world and then import himself back to Japan, building a new type of art market in the

      something

    1. Indigenous Territories in Brazil Main article: Indigenous peoples in Brazil This is a list of the Brazil's indigenous or native peoples. This is a sortable listing of peoples, associated language

      really coooool!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. Content marketing attracts prospects and transforms prospects into customers by creating and sharing valuable free content. Content marketing helps companies create sustainable brand loyalty, provides valuable information to consumers, and creates a willingness to purchase products from the company in the future. This relatively new form of marketing does not involve direct sales. Instead, it builds trust and rapport with the audience.

      Alternative concept

    2. Content marketing is a form of marketing focused on creating, publishing, and distributing content for a targeted audience online.[1] It is often used by businesses in order to: Attract attention and generate leads Expand their customer base Generate or increase online sales Increase brand awareness or credibility Engage an online community of users

      General concept

  3. Sep 2019
    1. Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

      is this effectively do unto other as you would have them do unto you? or be the change you want to see in the world?

    1. Bartoli is considered a coloratura mezzo-soprano with an unusual timbre. She is one of the most popular (and one of the top-selling) opera singers of recent years.[1]

      This can maybe be expanded more. While stating that her voice is "unusual" is accurate, it does not describe what that means to a non musician and someone who doesnt know her music. It also fails to acknowledge her important parts of her youth and her years growing post Conservatory Santa Cecilia.

    2. [edit] In 2012 Bartoli became the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, an extension of the traditional Salzburg Festival, which produces performances during Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic programming of her predecessors, she reformulated the festival's programming—returning to "the old recipe of organizing beautiful programs and inviting great artists"—resulting in record ticket sales and placing the festival on the international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.[7]

      Bartoli was also the first female director in Salzburg.

    3. In 2012 Bartoli became the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, an extension of the traditional Salzburg Festival, which produces performances during Whitsun (Pentecost) weekend. Forgoing the academic programming of her predecessors, she reformulated the festival's programming—returning to "the old recipe of organizing beautiful programs and inviting great artists"—resulting in record ticket sales and placing the festival on the international opera calendar. In 2012, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, in 2013 the title role in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and in 2014 Rossini's La Cenerentola.[7]

      Failed to mention that the production of West Side Story in 2016 was their biggest success with her as artistic director.

    4. Bartoli lives with her husband, the Swiss baritone Oliver Widmer, on the Goldküste shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, and in Rome, part of the year. The couple married in 2011 after 12 years together.[11] Bartoli lived in Monaco in the early 2010s.[12]

      Switch the order of this paragraph. This should somewhat follow chronological order and begin with her years in Monaco. Then move to her marriage and currently dwelling.

    1. In 2007, Wikipedia introduced three templates to reduce the proliferation of templates at the top of article talk pages: {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}, {{WikiProjectBanners}}, and {{ArticleHistory}}. If you come across a talk page where you can't see the table of contents until you scroll down, adding one of these templates might help. If one or more of these templates are already in place, consider putting {{skiptotoctalk}} at the very top of the page, before any other templates. This template provides a quick link for other editors to bypass the templates.
    1. Yes, Downey is Iron Man, but he really is Actor Man ... In the realm where box office is irrelevant and talent is king, the realm that actually means something, he has always ruled, and finally this summer he gets to have his cake and let us eat him up all the way to the multiplex, where his mastery is in full effect.

      Downey has become blockbuster biggest hit with the release of Iron Man. After all the struggle he faced with his drug issue and knew what he had to do in order to be successful in his career. He turned his whole life around and became the man we all know today which is a super hero by the name of Iron Man. Well respected man around the world. Downey has become one of blockbuster most talented people, which they crown him as talent king. Master of his craft.

    2. when he knew he would likely be facing another stint in prison or another form of incarceration such as court-ordered rehab, "I said, 'You know what? I don't think I can continue doing this.' And I reached out for help, and I ran with it. You can reach out for help in kind of a half-assed way and you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems ... what's hard is to decide to do it.

      As Downey quoted " what's hard is to decide to do it."a lot of people suffer with addiction and they always wonder, when is it the right time to stop and will it actually help me out or will it be a waste of time. A lot of people are afraid to move forward ask for help. What mostly holding them back is the judgement of other people. reach out for help and make a difference in your life.

    3. Downey was arrested for possession of heroin, cocaine, and an unloaded .357 Magnum handgun while he was speeding down Sunset Boulevard. A month later, while on parole, he trespassed into a neighbor's home while under the influence of a controlled substance, and fell asleep in one of the beds

      The type of problems that drugs can bring into your life. how it affects you and your lifestyle. where it could take you which it could either be prison or death. How drugs can affect your mindset and start making you do things that you never pictured of doing

    4. explaining in 1999 to a judge: "It's like I have a shotgun in my mouth, and I've got my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal."

      As Downey explains to the judge how it feels to take drugs. As he quoted "I like the taste of the gun metal" and from my perspective view to me is that once you start and it finally gets into your body. A trigger is being pulled and it releases all the chemical into your body and you get that high feeling that you been craving which gets you addicted cause it feels really good. That makes you wanna keep taking it over and over again.

    5. Downey was "surrounded by drugs." His father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father later said he regretted.[17] Downey later stated that drug use became an emotional bond between him and his father

      As we are born no one really decides the type of lifestyle we are going to live and the type of issue that are going to come with it. As we grow and learn the first person we are ever to be taught is by are parents. The example they give us on what good and whats wrong. If there gonna lead us to the right path or the wrong path. The decision is all up to the parents leading by example.

    1. has been the musical instrument industry standard interface since the 1980s through to the present day.[5] It dates back to June 1981, when Roland Corporation founder Ikutaro Kakehashi proposed the concept of standardization between different manufacturers' instruments as well as computers, to Oberheim Electronics founder Tom Oberheim and Sequential Circuits president Dave Smith. In October 1981, Kakehashi, Oberheim and Smith discussed the concept with representatives from Yamaha, Korg and Kawai.[21] In 1983, the MIDI standard was unveiled by Kakehashi and Smith.[22][23]

      Possibly combine with history?

    2. ome universally accepted varieties of MIDI software applications include music instruction software, MIDI sequencing software, music notation software, hard disk recording/editing software, patch editor/sound library software, computer-assisted composition software, and virtual instruments. Current developments in computer hardware and specialized software continue to expand MIDI applications.

      Expand to talk about Open Sound Control

    3. arly pioneers included Luigi Russolo, Halim El-Dabh,[4] Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ikutaro Kakehashi,[5] and King Tubby.[6] Music technology has been and is being used in many modernist and contemporary experimental music situations to create new sound possibilities.

      Expand section to include Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Boulez. Talk about IRCAM. Talk about Voders, Vocoders. Talk about analogue instruments—such as the theremin, trautonium and ond maretenot.

    4. Although in the 2010s, the term is most commonly used in reference to modern electronic devices and computer software such as digital audio workstations and Pro Tools digital sound recording software, electronic and digital musical technologies have precursors in the electric music technologies of the early 20th century, such as the electromechanical Hammond organ, which was invented in 1929.

      Delete sentence. Mention analog technology

    5. Music technology is connected to both artistic and technological creativity. Musicians and music technology experts are constantly striving to devise new forms of expression through music, and they are physically creating new devices and software to enable them to do so. Although in the 2010s, the term is most commonly used in reference to modern electronic devices and computer software such as digital audio workstations and Pro Tools digital sound recording software, electronic and digital musical technologies have precursors in the electric music technologies of the early 20th century, such as the electromechanical Hammond organ, which was invented in 1929. In the 2010s, the ontological range of music technology has greatly increased, and it may now be electronic, digital, software-based or indeed even purely conceptual.

      Rewrite in the active voice.

    6. Use in music education

      Add paragraph to discuss how computer music and early RCA synthesizers started in academic institutions.Add paragraph on music notation software in schools and Computer Music and production programs at universities.

    7. Computer and synthesizer technology joining together changed the way music is made, and is one of the fastest changing aspects of music technology today. Dr. Max Matthews, a telecommunications engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories' Acoustic and Behavioural Research Department, is responsible for some of the first digital music technology in the 50s. Dr. Matthews also pioneered a cornerstone of music technology; analog to digital conversion.

      Expand this section to talk about Max/MSP/Jitter, the Disklavier, Csound, Barry Vercoe.

    1. On 18 December 2015 it was announced that Arktis would be the title of Ihsahn's sixth studio album, due in 2016.[11]

      was this album ever released? If so, change the wording to "...sixth studio album, which was released __"

    2. As he explained in 1994, he considered Satanism to be hard to define, as there are different ways of Satanism, and to be more of a category the individual would have to set for themselves. He considered most other adolescents to be "soulless" people, too involved in materialistic things

      Needs citation

    3. He is the brother-in-law of Einar Solberg, the lead vocalist of the band Leprous, Kenneth Solberg, former guitarist of the band Leprous, and Lord PZ, who was a part of the band Peccatum together with both Ihsahn and his wife.[12]

      This sentence is awkward and needs revision.

    4. Mentioned collaborators include Jørgen Munkeby once again[9] and Devin Townsend, who in a November 2011 interview mentioned that he was "singing a song for Ihsahn's new thing", but added that he could not elaborate any more at that point in time.

      This sentence is awkward and needs revision.

    5. The move was kept top secret, was only known by a handful of people, and they only played three songs. This was to announce the reuniting of the band for a few shows around Europe and America in 2006, namely at Wacken and Inferno Festival.

      Citation needed

    6. In December 2002, Ihsahn won the "Notodden Kommunes Kulturpris",[4] a culture prize given by his home city, Notodden, which is populated to about 12,500 inhabitants. He won the prize because he is considered the best-known inhabitant of Notodden, a great musician, a music teacher, and he arranges a lot of concerts for unknown bands. The fact that his band sold more than 500,000 copies was also a reason for getting the prize. 2002 also saw Tveitan contribute guest vocals to the song "Radical Cut", off Arcturus' album The Sham Mirrors.

      This paragraph is awkward and needs revision.

    7. n style terms, his solo work and work with other artists have shown multiple musical forms from classical music to industrial metal to progressive metal and more

      This sentence is awkward and needs revision.

    8. Born in the town of Notodden, Norway, Tveitan began playing piano at seven and guitar at ten and began recording songs shortly thereafter.

      This sentence is awkward and needs revision.

    1. Abbate's dissertation, entitled The "Parisian" Tannhäuser, addressed historical and aesthetic issues related to the Parisian premiere of Richard Wagner's opera in 1861. A significant excerpt from this work was published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society in 1983. In 1990, she published a translation of Jean-Jacques Nattiez's Musicologie générale et sémiologie under the title Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music.

      If there is going to be a title labeld "Musicological Work" I think there should be more secondary sources provided, accounts of other people that have read her works and reviewed them. and Instead of not citing these, we dont know where the information is coming from. How do I know "Abbate's dissertation "The Parisian" Tannhauser, is accurately represented here ?

    2. Music--Drastic or Gnostic?". The latter offers a reappraisal of the value of hermeneutic musicological scholarship, favoring meditations on music as performance ("drastic") to those on music as encoded meaning ("gnostic").[citation needed]

      Here is a link to the Drastic or Gnostic article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/421160?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents This could be cited, I like this explanation provided here, but I think there would be more put in here to explain her work.

    3. born November 20, 1956) is an American musicologist, described by the Harvard Gazette as "one of the world’s most accomplished and admired music historians".[1] She is currently Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University.[1] A practitioner of the field’s traditional methodologies, she challenged their limits, mobilizing literary theory and philosophy to provoke new ways of thinking about music and understanding its experience.[2][3] From her earliest essays she has questioned familiar approaches to well-known works, reaching beyond their printed scores and composer intentions, to explore the particular, physical impact of the medium upon performer and audience alike. Her research focuses primarily on the operatic repertory of the 19th century, offering creative and innovative approaches to understanding these works critically and historically. Some of her more recent work has addressed topics such as film studies and performance studies

      Abbate is not just "mobilizing literary theory and philosophy in search for new ways to approach new works, but she also explores sound technology. But I do not believe this is a clear representation of Abbate's work, at least not for an introduction.

    4. Abbate completed her BA at Yale University in 1977. While still an undergraduate at Yale, she reconstructed the score of Claude Debussy’s La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of

      Where can we find a citation for this, Is there a link for her reconstructed score?

    1. The Met was founded in 1880 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted in 1883 in a new building on 39th and Broadway (now known as the "Old Met"). It moved to the new Lincoln Center location in 1966.

      Needs a citation

    2. The average audience rate for the 3800-seat theater in 2011 was 79.2%, down from a peak of 88% in 2009.[91] Beyond performing in the opera house in New York, the Met has gradually expanded its audience over the years through technology. It has broadcast regularly on radio since 1931 and on television since 1977. In 2006, the Met began live satellite radio and internet broadcasts as well as live high-definition video transmissions presented in cinemas throughout the world. In 2011, the total HD audience reached 3 million through 1600 theaters worldwide.[91] In 2014, according to Wheeler Winston Dixon, high ticket prices are making it difficult for average people to attend performances.[92]

      need additional information

    3. The company's annual operating budget for the 2011-12 season was $325 million, of which $182 million (43%) comes from private donations.

      update this information

    4. The Philadelphia Met was designed by noted theater architect William H. McElfatrick and had a seating capacity of approximately 4,000. The theater still stands and currently functions as a church and community arts center.

      citations needed

    5. On August 7, 2019 the New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Opera and Levine both privately settled their lawsuits. Continuing with the lawsuits "could have put into the public record more details of accusations..." New York Times, August 7, 2019. Article by Michael Cooper

      more information needed here

    6. Following the investigations in March 2018, the Met stated that there was conclusive evidence for "sexually abusive and harassing conduct" by Levine.

      cite

    7. Joseph Volpe retired as general manager on August 1, 2006 and his post was given to Peter Gelb, formerly a record producer. Gelb began outlining his plans in April 2006; these included more new productions each year, ideas for shaving staging costs, and attracting new audiences without deterring existing opera-lovers. Gelb saw these issues as crucial for an organization which is dependent on private financing.

      citation needed

    8. . Volpe was the Met's third-longest serving manager until his retirement in 2006. He was the first head of the Met to advance from within the ranks of the company, having started his career there as a carpenter in 1964

      citation needed

    9. The immediate post-Bing era saw a continuing addition of African-Americans to the roster of leading artists. Kathleen Battle, who in 1977 made her Met debut as the Shepherd in Wagner's Tannhäuser, became an important star in lyric soprano roles. Bass-baritone Simon Estes began a prominent Met career with his 1982 debut as Hermann, also in Tannhäuser.

      cite

    10. ng modernized the administration of the company, ended[how?] an archaic[how?] ticket sales system, and brought an end to the company's Tuesday night performances in Philadelphia. He presided over an era of fine singing and glittering new productions, while guiding the company's move to a new home in Lincoln Center. While many outstanding singers debuted at the Met under Bing's guiding hand, music critics complained of a lack of great conducting during his regime, even though such eminent conductors as Fritz Stiedry, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Leinsdorf, Fritz Reiner, and Karl Böhm appeared frequently in the 1950s and '60s.

      cite

    11. Under Damrosch, the company consisted of some the most celebrated singers from Europe's German-language opera houses. The new German Met found great popular and critical success in the works of Wagner and other German composers as well as in Italian and French operas sung in German. Sadly Damrosch died only months into his first season at the Met.

      cite

    12. On April 26, 1910, the Met purchased the Philadelphia Opera House from Oscar Hammerstein I. The company renamed the house the Metropolitan Opera House and performed all of their Philadelphia performances there until 1920, when the company sold the theater and resumed performing at the Academy of Music. During the Met's early years, the company annually presented a dozen or more opera performances in Philadelphia throughout the season. Over the years the number of performances was gradually reduced until the final Philadelphia season in 1961 consisted of only four operas. The final performance of that last season was on March 21, 1961, with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli in Turandot. After the Tuesday night visits were ended, the Met still returned to Philadelphia on its spring tours in 1967, 1968, 1978, and 1979.

      these paragraphs are a bit confusing--combine with the first paragraph in this section

    13. The Metropolitan Opera began a long history of performing in Philadelphia during its first season, presenting its entire repertoire in the city during January and April 1884. The company's first Philadelphia performance was of Faust (with Christina Nilsson) on January 14, 1884, at the Chestnut Street Opera House. The Met continued to perform annually in Philadelphia for nearly eighty years, taking the entire company to the city on selected Tuesday nights throughout the opera season. Performances were usually held at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, with the company presenting close to 900 performances in the city by 1961 when the Met's regular visits ceased.

      cite

    14. The company performed not only in the new Manhattan opera house, but also started a long tradition of touring throughout the country. In the winter and spring of 1884 the Met presented opera in theaters in Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia (see below), Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington D.C., and Baltimore. Back in New York, the last night of the season featured a long gala performance to benefit Mr. Abbey. The special program consisted not only of various scenes from opera, but also offered Mme. Sembrich playing the violin and the piano, as well as the famed stage actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in a scene from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

      cite

    15. such as Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo, long maintained a close association with the Met, appearing many times each season until they retired.

      Neither are retired (Renee doesn't really count...)--and let's get rid of Placido

    1. It is estimated that 13–16 million dogs are killed and consumed in Asia every year.[162]

      It is estimated that 13-16 million dogs are killed and consumed in Asia every year.

    2. It is estimated that three-quarters of the world's dog population lives in the developing world as feral, village, or community dogs, with pet dogs uncommon.[49]

      3/4 of all dogs are either feral or community dogs living in developing countries.

    3. There are many household plants that are poisonous to dogs (and other mammals) including begonia, Poinsettia and aloe vera.[53]

      Household plants that are poisonous to dogs. 😢

    4. A number of common human foods and household ingestibles are toxic to dogs, including chocolate solids (theobromine poisoning), onion and garlic (thiosulphate, sulfoxide or disulfide poisoning),[54] grapes and raisins, macadamia nuts, xylitol,[55] as well as various plants and other potentially ingested materials.[56][57]

      Household foods that are poisonous to dogs. 😢

    1. Language Oriented Programming in MetaLisp Gyuri Lajos's thesis 1992 University of Leeds

      Taking the idea of metalinguistic abstraction to its logical conclusion

    1. BACK TO THE FUTURE ◀ <small>go to: thefuture.builders )</small>


      in the 1960's there was a breakthrough within the sciences and it's methods of research and theory development

      They realized it would make more sense to collect information before making conclusions. This was called Grounded theory.

      40 years thereafter, about 20 years back in time from today - people finally began to take the above to mind; whereas Grounded theory now is in its early stage of becoming a more used and accepted approach on scientific research and theory development

      *Here's a video clip from a University lecture introducing Grounded theory to students from each and every one of all the universities within the country*

      https://youtu.be/o6ZQ5ZG9RXY?t=128


      untethered Development (uDev) is it's own branch of development based on; broad spectrum, Human centric empiric research within fields and branches such as; physics, mathematics, technology, information, systems, society, economics, biology, cognition, logic, ontology, perception, and more..

      the uDEv approach fundamentally differ from GT, but also share the most significant portions of the Grounded theory's base premises

      • uDev is largely based on elementary instrumentations that takes it quite further down to fundamentals, builds in inherited ethics and consent assurance, provides distributable mindtools and much more that allows taking on extreme complexities with any amount and kind of emergence, while not complicating it

      basic difference between uDEv and GT ◀ learn more )


    1. Inspired by such instrumental bands Duane Eddy and The Champs, 1958 saw the release of the first Brazilian instrumental rock song, Here's the Blue Jean Rockers by The Blue Jean Rockers

      Needs grammatical adjustment. The word "as" should included before listing bands. Comma splicing also present

    2. the result of close partnership between both and thereafter, her performance turned more rocker.

      This paragraph needs to be revised to add citations and to improve grammar and comprehension. Reads as if it was translated from another language

    3. Other artists and bands associated with the Jovem Guarda include Eduardo Araújo (and his late wife, Sylvinha Araújo), Martinha, Renato & Seus Blue Caps, Os Incríveis, Golden Boys, Os Vips, Vanusa and The Fevers.

      possibly move into a list?

    1. Professors rightly object to its use for final papers, but see it as a valuable jumping off point for research,

      The irony of an entry on the "Reliability of Wikipedia" posted on Wikipedia notwithstanding, the author(s) do make the point that I have heard directly from my professors and instructors; that Wikipedia is a good starting point and the footnotes and bibliographies can often lead to more accurate resources.

    1. Although individuals with a strong need for achievement can be successful lower-level managers, they are usually weeded out before reaching top management positions.

      Might be me.

    1. Since all neurons in a single depth slice share the same parameters, the forward pass in each depth slice of the convolutional layer can be computed as a convolution of the neuron's weights with the input volume.[nb 2] Therefore, it is common to refer to the sets of weights as a filter (or a kernel), which is convolved with the input. The result of this convolution is an activation map, and the set of activation maps for each different filter are stacked together along the depth dimension to produce the output volume. Parameter sharing contributes to the translation invariance of the CNN architecture. Sometimes, the parameter sharing assumption may not make sense. This is especially the case when the input images to a CNN have some specific centered structure; for which we expect completely different features to be learned on different spatial locations. One practical example is when the inputs are faces that have been centered in the image: we might expect different eye-specific or hair-specific features to be learned in different parts of the image. In that case it is common to relax the parameter sharing scheme, and instead simply call the layer a "locally connected layer".

      important terms you hear repeatedly great visuals and graphics @https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/

  4. Aug 2019
    1. some sources claiming up to 87%

      It's not so much "some sources claiming" as that the newer PHS are able to achieve 87%. Good source here

      RTE includes both hydraulic and equipment-related losses (pump, turbine, generator, motor and transformer). Typical PHS systems' RTE range between 65 and 80%, depending on the technical characteristics of their equipment . Naturally older stations have lower RTE, while technological breakthroughs of the last 25 years have resulted in modern systems with RTE up to 87%

      Pumped hydroelectric storage utilization assessment: Forerunner of renewable energy integration or Trojan horse?