I deserve to have deeply satisfying relationships.’ I deserve to have deeply satisfying work. This job may not be a Dickensian workhouse, but I deserve better. You also call quitting an ‘act of love.’ What do you mean by that? So, which neurons fire to propel you into that quitting moment? You might contemplate quitting your job for years, but there has to be that one moment when you do it. While there might be a great cloud of history that goes before we quit something, there has to be that moment of decision. What happens inside our brains when we make a decision to abandon one path?… What are the chemical and electrical triggers that initiate stopping one kind of behavior and doing another? I discovered in my research that an emerging focus of neuroscience is the science of quitting. You write that the new science of giving up can set you free. That seemed to be how the interviews were going far more often. It was sold to people, like cars and cornflakes and smartphones.īut you also talked to people who said how happy they were as a result of quitting, and how it changed their life. If you didn’t, you’d end up rolling around in the gutter with a bottle of gin. We were told explicitly that if you worked hard, you would be successful. I really think that started back in the 19th century when material success was connected to hard work. There’s definitely that connotation: You’re a loser. I interviewed people who said, ‘Well, I wouldn’t call it quitting. Most people I interviewed regret the things they should have quit but didn’t, rather than the things that they did quit.Įverybody has a quitting story, but people hate the word quitting. What were the themes you heard from the people you interviewed? Things have worked out for her, but it’s been a great struggle. But she had three children and said: ‘I know the statistics about single mothers raising children, what happens to them economically, socially, culturally.’ The marriage was disintegrating it became very toxic. Her first book was a memoir about leaving her marriage. One of the people in the book was a college classmate of mine, Michelle Weldon we went to Northwestern together. It’s that moment of quitting when we go from one thing to another. So, it’s often small things upon which our lives can turn. It was like: ‘What are you doing? You’ve trained for this! You have all this!’īut she’s really very happy and credits one dog she adopted, a stray she found who was near death and who she nursed back to health. She gave up a job at Cleveland Clinic and said her family was just aghast. To cut to the chase, she now is a director of one of the large animal shelters in the Cleveland area. But she just wasn’t quite there.Īnd she had been volunteering at an animal shelter. One of my favorite interviews in the book was a woman who was the head of the cardiac unit at Cleveland Clinic. You interviewed 150 people about their quitting experiences. ![]() ![]() Read: Americans are ‘more afraid of running out of money than death’ So, my own quitting history is like all of ours. Other jobs, I’ve left maybe a little bit before I should have or maybe stayed a little bit too long. The quitting was good, the method of quitting was bad. So, in a great fit of bravado, I quit that job - didn’t give notice, which I think is a terrible thing to do. The very first job I had was at a small newspaper in Ashland, Kentucky, and they were paying me less than a quarter of what they were paying the man who’d done the exact same job before me. People I know who are ‘retired,’ and I’m using dreadful air quotes there, do more now than they ever did during their so-called working lives.” “It’s doing many different things, instead of just one thing. There isn’t this line of demarcation where you turn in your keys for your desk at IBM and go home and sit around the house and play pickleball,” said Keller, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, novelist and former Chicago Tribune book critic. ![]() “Almost everybody I know now who is of age, that’s just what they’ve done. Read: ‘You don’t want to die at your desk sending an email.’ Beyond the numbers, are you ready to retire? ![]() It’s about letting some things go, but not letting everything go.Īs Keller told me when I interviewed her by Zoom in her Ohio home, unretirement - when you quit a job in your 60s or so to work part-time and use newfound free time to do other things - is a great example of quasi-quitting. That’s a kind of precision quitting, when you leave a full-time job with the intention of going off in a different direction.
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The idea is to deduce what kinds of consumers buy certain products. Behind the mannequin's dead eyes hides a camera that uses facial-recognition software that can identify a shopper's age, race and gender. ![]() The company Almax has developed a bionic mannequin called EyeSee that could be placed in clothing stores. Companies that want to know more about the people who buy their products could one day use a creepy combination of tailored marketing and surveillance. International spies aren't the only ones who have an interest in watching other people. Espionage activity is also carried out in cyberspace. Government Accountability Office, a watchdog agency within the government, to urge the Food and Drug Administration to require the companies that make such medical devices to eliminate these vulnerabilities. So far, no one has documented a case where malicious forces have fiddled with someone's implanted medical device - at least that we know of. A few years earlier, hackers raised the possibility that wirelessly controlled pacemakers could also be hacked. ![]() In the eighteenth century each general was responsible for developing his own intelligence network. After studying espionage in the American Revolution for the last twenty-two years, I have discovered that both the American and British relied heavily on espionage. At a 2011 Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas, hacker Jerome Radcliffe showed that it was possible to hack his own insulin pump. As digital footprints have become easier to follow, the espionage game has changed. So James Bond and the cold war is just the latest and therefore the most well known. It's not just a plot point on Showtime's "Homeland" medical devices that can be wirelessly controlled and battery operated - such as insulin pumps, implantable defibrillators and pacemakers - can be hacked. This Comment suggests that a possible solution, given the barriers prohibiting the development of wide-reaching regulations of cyber espionage, is to begin by. Unfortunately for the spies, the high-tech kitty often wandered off in search of food. Then, they spent hours training it to hop through obstacle courses. They implanted a microphone into a cat's ear canal, a radio transmitter next to the skull, and a battery into its abdomen, and turned its tail into an antenna. spies got the bright idea to use an animal's cochlea to spy on the Soviets. Unlike animals, which have cochleae in their ears that filter out noise, listening devices were historically bad at filtering out background noise. ![]() The Soviets also developed a lipstick gun known as the "kiss of death," which fired a single bullet at close range, Houghton said.ĭuring the Cold War era, a few outlandish ideas made it past the drawing board. The rise of modern nations, however, caused espionage gadgets to flourish.ĭuring the Cold War, the golden era of James Bond's spy gadgets, a real-life Bulgarian assassin used an umbrella to fire a toxic pellet of the poison ricin into a Soviet defector in London. Both the ancient Babylonian law called Hammurabi's Code and the Bible's Old Testament described espionage as a way to gain an edge on adversaries, Houghton said. Spying is almost as old as human civilization. Maddie needs a car, and she’s willing to romance a (legal) teenager, so off she roller skates for what she hopes will be a quick and easy venture into sex work.īut of course, it’s never about the destination but the friends we make along the way, and “No Hard Feelings” would never deny us that journey. Her car’s been just repossessed, towed by her ex Gary (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and with unpaid property tax bills looming, she needs wheels.Įnter the weirdest Craigslist ad of all time: A pair of wealthy helicopter parents ( Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) would like to “arrange” for a young woman to date their sheltered, nerdy son, Percy ( Andrew Barth Feldman) in exchange for a Buick. There simply aren’t enough female dirtbags in cinema, so Lawrence’s Maddie Barker - Uber driver, surly bartender and pissed-off Montauk townie - is a refreshing character. It’s a “Superbad”-style story with the sensitivity and class consciousness of John Hughes, a delightfully raunchy streak, and Lawrence going for broke in a bold and bawdy performance as a rowdy Long Island surfer girl doing her best Mae West. Her follow-up swings in the opposite direction, kicking up her heels in a good old-fashioned sex comedy, “No Hard Feelings,” which she also produced.ĭirected by Gene Stupnitsky ( “Good Boys”), “No Hard Feelings” is a direct descendant of ‘80s teen coming-of-age comedies but evolved for a new generation. Last year, Lawrence produced and starred in the gritty indie film “Causeway,” as a veteran recovering from a traumatic brain injury, for a first-time female director, Lila Neugebauer. It was a smart move, because Lawrence is back now, and it’s a whole new ball game. ![]() So she fired her agents and took a break to get married and have a baby. ![]() ![]() ![]() But not all of those films were good, and Lawrence didn’t seem to be having all that much fun. 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Rory is accepted to Chilton, a private school that would get her to her lifelong dream to study at Harvard. One writer later said that the brief given to the writing room at the outset was "This show is about a mother and a daughter who are best friends as well as being mother and daughter, and every conflict and dynamic should ticktack back and forth on that one point." Along with series-long and season-long arcs, Gilmore Girls is also episodic in nature, with mini-plots within each episode - such as town festivals, issues at Lorelai's inn, or school projects of Rory's. The quirky townspeople of Stars Hollow are a constant presence. Kim repeatedly tries to find Lane a future Korean husband who is medical school-bound, she dates Henry Cho, one of Rory's Chilton classmates, Dave Rygalski, the guitarist in Lane's secret band, and Zach Van Gerbig, the lead singer of the same band whom she later marries. Kim, a very strict, religious, and protective Korean immigrant, Lane struggles to hide her love for rock music and other aspects of pop culture from her mother, including dating. ![]() Throughout the series, one of the main characters and Rory's best friend, Lane Kim's love life is followed in addition to those of Lorelai and Rory. The contrasting mother-daughter relationships of Emily/Lorelai and Lorelai/Rory become a defining theme of the show and a lens through which many of the female relationships are viewed. This sets up one of the show's primary, ongoing conflicts: the Gilmore family is forced to face their differences and complicated past, their interactions fueled by these weekly Friday night dinners together. In exchange, Rory and Lorelai have to come to Emily and Richard’s house for dinner every Friday night. ![]() They also deal with Lorelai's appearance-obsessive and very wealthy parents, Emily and Richard Gilmore, who help to pay for Rory's tuition at an exclusive private school in Hartford, Connecticut. The two women have big ambitions they try so desperately to achieve: Lorelai wants to own her own inn, while Rory wants to attend the prestigious Harvard University. In 2016, the main cast and Sherman-Palladino returned for the four-part miniseries revival Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, which streamed on Netflix and later aired on The CW.ģ0-something single mother Lorelai Gilmore and her intellectual teenage daughter Rory Gilmore. Since going off the air in 2007, Gilmore Girls has been cited in TV (The Book) and Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest television shows of all time. The series has been in daily syndication since 2004, while a growing following has led to its status as a 2000s American cult classic. It was a success for The WB, peaking during season five as the network's second-most-popular show. Gilmore Girls received critical acclaim for its witty dialogue, cross-generational appeal, and effective mix of humor and drama. Gilmore Girls ran for seven seasons, the final season moving to The CW and ending its run on May 15, 2007. The show debuted on October 5, 2000, on The WB and became a flagship series for the network. I think that probably shows in how our characters related to each other - that we liked and respected each other right off the bat.Gilmore Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham ( Lorelai Gilmore) and Alexis Bledel ( Rory Gilmore). So maybe some of that is just instinctual. "And I think that there's part of me that felt protective of her right away as a fellow actor and someone that recognizes how unique of a person she is. "Alexis is such a wonderful person, and I do think that as soon as I met her as a person you just recognize that she's an intelligent, special individual," Agena replied. "I didn't want to insert myself into that time of their lives." Despite lacking closeness, Agena had only kind things to say about Bledel after Patterson said their onscreen friendship seemed "effortless." "I also think I was so - worried is the wrong word - but, you know, they worked so many hours that their off-set time, I thought, was so precious to them," Agena said. Agena also admitted that she tiptoed a bit around Bledel and co-star Lauren Graham because they were both so busy starring in the popular show. She is the COO and handles all the day to day operations. ![]() How do you set aside and prioritize time with your children and spouse?ĬC: I’m blessed that I get to do this alongside my wife. TRDB: Being an entrepreneur/business owner is, as you probably know, very time-consuming. We get to create products that people can stand behind and be proud of. What started as a way to help my own skin turned into us making over 125 different products and having 20 people on staff that we get to help create product lines for other companies as well. I started to hear about the benefits of natural oils and products and it just blossomed from there. I have dealt with self image my entire life because of it. TRDB: What inspired you to start The Rugged Company?ĬC: I started The Rugged Company out of necessity really. We are constantly launching new products. We manufacture over 125 different products. We make bath bombs, shower steamers, body butters, shampoo, conditioner, jar and beard oil, shave soaps, clay face masks, rose water toning spray, texture spray, candles, and I can keep going. The Rad Dad Box: Can you tell us about your company and the types of products you offer?Ĭorey Cole, The Rugged Company: At The Rugged Company we make natural products for men, women, and children. (Image to the left shows Corey and his daughters on a hike, courtesy of Corey Cole) We sat down with owner, founder, and Rad Dad to two daughters, Corey Cole, and chatted about business, work-life balance, and fatherhood. This month, we’re proud to support a Dad-owned business! Your August boxes will have a bottle of liquid hand soap from The Rugged Company. ![]() ![]() This time we are going to bring you some recent update regarding our code completion optimization, Maven improvements and pre-release version of our Java extensions. Combined with the power of core VS Code, these extensions give you a lightweight and performant code editor that also supports many of the most common Java development techniques. Those steps are essentially "run a command on save", and it turns out someone has already written an extension! emeraldwalk/vscode-runonsave reads Visual Studio Code settings, matches files on a regular expression, and then runs a user-supplied command. Hi everyone, welcome to the March update of Visual Studio Code Java. Edit Java in Visual Studio Code Support for Java in Visual Studio Code is provided through a wide range of extensions. After about 10 minutes into the exercise, I realized that this plugin was going to be quite dumb: In this post will show you how to create Java project using maven by utilizing the VSCode plugin. One of pupular plugin of VSCode which supports Java is Extension Pack for Java. ![]() I started down the path of writing my own Visual Studio Code plugin to run google-java-format as a formatter. Visual Studio Code has many plugin in supporting various programming languages. I also stumbled across Dev-Snippets/vscode-google-java-format-provider, which seemed promising, but I was unable to get it to register as a formatter (and I am not the only one). Worse, it modified things like license headers, rendering them invalid. While this does change the default format of the code, in my testing it did not match the output of running google-java-format directly from the command line. Java on Visual Studio Code Update December 2022 Nick Zhu December 15th, 2022 4 2 Hi everyone, we are near the end of year. This seemed like a great fit, since I am already using RedHat's Java Language Support. This will instruct the editor to use the "GoogleStyle" when formatting code instead of the built-in style. We managed to skip probably an hour or so wait since we were the only party of two present. Do not think they always go in sequential order either. If you do not make your presence known, you may fall back another 10 numbers, which could add an hour to your wait! Some blogs have noted that you need to remain close or be good at timing numbers because they put you back into the queue if you are not there within 10 or 15 minutes of your call time. You may have to work to get the attention of the “hostess” who likely doesn’t speak English. There are menus in English and Chinese and you must get a number on arrival. Tim Ho Wan interior – very small restaurant He made the decision to open his own restaurant, serving quality dim sum at really affordable prices. The mastermind behind the restaurant is Chef Mark Pui Gor, who used to be the chef of the Four Season’s Three Michelin Starred restaurant. Tables are pushed together and you will be sitting literally elbow to elbow with strangers, but the food is definitely worth it! The non-descript tiny storefront is located on the street level of an older apartment building and probably has about 10 tables total - if you have clausterphobia issues, this might not be the place for you. Tim Ho Wan is not what most people would expect in a Michelin-starred restaurant. Fortunately, I spotted the line of people outside so we hurried over and got a number to secure our place in line. ![]() It’s a very short walk from Langham Place and easy to miss if you do not know what you are looking for. After a little shuffling, we decided to check them out on Sunday morning for their dim sum.Ī little research online indicated this was not a neighborhood secret – lines form sometimes an hour before the 10am opening and waits can easily reach three+ hours! We were eating a very late multi-course dinner so we decided to take our chances and go around noon since we wouldn’t be hungry in the morning. ![]() Ironically, we were staying at our beloved Langham Place in Mongkok again so we were quite interested in adding this one Michelin star restaurant to our list. ![]() A couple days prior to our departure, Andrew Zimmern tweeted about the best dumplings he’s ever had at Tim Ho Wan in Mongkok. For our most recent trip to Hong Kong last weekend, we had decided to concentrate on a few Michelin-starred restaurants that had been on our list. ![]() In February 2015, Hadid made her runway debut, walking for Tom Ford's Fall/Winter 2015 collection. ![]() In December, Hadid made her first cover appearance on Jalouse Magazine, and was featured on day 27 of LOVE Magazine 's Love Advent Calendar. She made her New York Fashion Week debut in September, walking for Desigual. Hadid signed to IMG Models on August 21, 2014. Hadid also modeled for Hanna Hayes' Fall/Winter 2013 Collection, and did campaign work for Chrome Hearts, the family brand of her best friend, Jesse Jo Stark. She also appeared in modeling projects such as Lesa Amoore's "The Swan Settings", alongside actor Ben Barnes, and Holly Copeland's "Smoking Hot". Hadid's modeling career began when she was sixteen years old with a commercial project for Flynn Skye. ![]() Hadid has also expressed an interest in acting. She suspended her studies to focus on her modeling career, but has expressed an interest in returning to school once she's done modeling to branch out into fashion photography. Īfter graduating from Malibu High School in 2014, Hadid moved to New York City to study photography at the Parsons School of Design. She was diagnosed, along with her mother and brother, with chronic lyme disease in 2012. Īs a teenager, Hadid was an equestrian and dreamed of competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, although she competed in equitation, which is not an Olympic discipline. The family moved to Beverly Hills after ten years. Hadid and her siblings were raised on a ranch in Santa Barbara, California. She also has two older paternal half-sisters Marielle and Alana. She has an older sister, Gigi, and a younger brother, Anwar, both of whom are also models. Through her father, Hadid claims descent from Zahir al-Umar, ruler of northern Palestine in the mid-18th century. Her father, Mohamed Hadid, is an Palestinian– Jordanian real estate developer, while her mother, Yolanda Hadid (née van den Herik), is a Dutch former model. Isabella Khairiah Hadid was born on October 9, 1996, in Washington, D.C. In 2017, Hadid broke Doutzen Kroes's record for the most Vogue September covers in one year by appearing in five international editions ( China, Spain, Brazil, Australia and Arabia). In 2016, she was voted "Model of the Year" by industry professionals for. She was signed to IMG Models in August 2014, and made her New York Fashion Week debut the following month. īorn in Washington, D.C., and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Hadid began her modeling career at the age of 16. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual list in 2023. In 2022, she was named Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Throughout her career, she has made 29 appearances on international Vogue covers. Mom Yolanda Hadid left a heart emoji while dad Mohamed Hadid wrote, "The princess." Supermodel sister Gigi Hadid also commented, "YUP.Isabella Khairiah Hadid (born October 9, 1996) is an American model. Of course, Bella's family members had nothing but love for the 24-year-old's post. "Did my best girl just reply me?! Plus hey, you are so gorgeous! Your eye bags are a work of art." The commenter seemed pretty surprised Bella responded-and quickly backtracked on their critique. "I….was….and just woke up….," she replied. While the post racked up more than 2 million likes and tons of complimentary comments, one fan couldn't resist noting, "You look so tired." Needless to say, Bella didn't waste any time clapping back. It all started after the runway star shared a series of selfies that showed her posing in a bikini and pouting her lips, proudly noting her heritage by captioning the snapshots, "Palestinian and Dutch." The supermodel put a follower in their place Monday, Feb. A word to the wise: Don't mess with Bella Hadid. ![]() This means that you can launch a wide range of Wii games from external hard drives. If you’re unfamiliar with the term WBFS, it denotes the Wii Backup File System. The user-friendly and simplistic interface comes bundled with a few buttons and menus to explore data, content, and other aspects. The simple interface lets you navigate through options and features with ease. Once the download is complete, you can start using the program. This is a lightweight program and many system resources remain unaffected. ![]() For Windows 7 and higher, the program doesn’t have too many requirements. Is WBFS Manager easy to use?Ĭompared to Multi-Mod Manager for Wii, WBFS Manager uses a basic installation procedure, which doesn’t take more than a couple of minutes to complete. This program is quite useful for beginners who want to keep backups of their favorite Nintendo Wii games on PCs. You can also access backups without much technical knowledge or skills. The latest version of the program uses the same approach and functions to make backups accessible, but with a simpler interface. With this program, you can access Wii backups stored on formatted drives on the WBFS system. Direct burn from ISO, CISO, WBFS file, WBFS.WBFS Manager or Wii Backup File System Manager was specifically designed as a Graphical User Interface for the WBFS_Win command-line application.After a rip is complete, the disc is ejected and the next disc processed immediately when it's inserted. recovering the game's original disc title and ID. Support for Multiboot discs, convert each game partition back to full ISO or transfer to WBFS etc.Direct rip to ISO, CISO, WBFS file, WBFS.Mount custom folders on the drive pages.Use sparse ISO on NTFS drives, instead of WBFS files.Switch between them in the settings dialog, with the option to auto convert when a drive is mounted. ie.A single WBFS folder, or multiple sub-folders. Use any Filesystem for backup of WBFS files.Mount any drive with a WBFS folder and use it just like the WBFS drives.Add to WBFS drives from any of the readable file formats.Use on-the-fly titles for FAT32/NTFS files/folders, without changing the internal titles.Auto rename titles during drive/WBFS file transfers.Enable WiiTDB/Custom titles in the settings dialog.GameTDB = Title renamed on the fly from GameTDB database.Ĭustom = Title renamed on the fly from Custom database. ![]() Original = Titles that don't exist in the databases.
![]() ![]() Although the environmental impact of experimental ‘wet’ laboratories is more immediately obvious, with their large pieces of equipment and high plastic and reagent usage, the impact of algorithms is less clear and often underestimated. The sector of information and communication technologies (ICT) was responsible for between 1.8% and 2.8% of global GHG emissions in 2020 14-more than aviation (1.9% 15)-and, if unchecked, the ICT carbon footprint could grow exponentially in coming years 14. With the increasing scale of high-performance and cloud computing, the computational sciences are susceptible to having silent and unintended environmental impacts. Other recent frameworks can help to raise awareness: GES 1point5 12 provides an open-source tool to estimate the carbon footprint of research laboratories and covers buildings, procurement, commuting and travel, and the Environmental Responsibility 5-R Framework provides guidelines for ecologically conscious research 13. The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) is a widely adopted standard to monitor and reduce the carbon footprint of laboratory-based research 11. 10), and the yearly carbon footprint of a typical life-science laboratory at ~20 tCO 2e (ref. The life-cycle impact (including construction and usage) of university buildings has been estimated at ~0.125 tCO 2e m −2 yr −1 (ref. The 2019 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union was estimated to emit 80,000 metric tonnes of CO 2 equivalent (tCO 2e), equivalent to the average weekly emissions of the city of Edinburgh, UK 7 (CO 2e, or CO 2-equivalent, summarizes the global warming impacts of a range of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and is the standard metric for carbon footprints, although its accuracy is sometimes debated 8) The annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience was estimated to emit 22,000 tCO 2e, approximately the annual carbon footprint of 1,000 medium-sized laboratories 9. Recent studies have begun to elucidate the environmental impacts of scientific research, with an initial focus on scientific conferences and experimental laboratories 6. Given the connection between climate change and human health, it is becoming increasingly apparent to biomedical researchers in particular, as well as their funders, that the environmental effects of research should be taken into account 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Yet, science can, and frequently does, impact the environment, and the magnitude of these impacts is not always well understood. Scientific research and development have transformed and immeasurably improved the human condition, whether by building instruments to unveil the mysteries of the universe, developing treatments to fight cancer or improving our understanding of the human genome. |