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The pain of childbirth may have benefits on which women who opt for painkilling epidurals miss out, a senior male midwife has said.
Dr Denis Walsh, associate professor in midwifery at Nottingham University, said pain was a "rite of passage" which often helped regulate childbirth.
He said it helped strengthen a mother's bond with her baby, and prepared her for the responsibility of motherhood.
But an obstetrician said epidurals were an important option for some women.
Dr Walsh, who wrote on the subject in a piece submitted to the journal Evidence Based Midwifery, agreed that in some cases epidurals were very useful.
But he said epidural rates had been rising over the last 20 years, despite the fact that alternative, less invasive ways to manage pain in labour were available.
He said pain in labour was known to have positive physiological effects, such as helping to establish a rhythm to childbirth.
It also triggered the release of endorphins which helped women to adjust to pain.
Dr Walsh said epidurals were known to increase the risk that hormone treatment would be needed to boost contractions, and that devices such as forceps would be needed to complete the birth successfully.
He said: "I am concerned that if we increase epidural rates we do not know the long-term impacts of that."
But he warned that a culture had emerged where most hospitals effectively offered women epidurals on demand.
Official figures show the number of mothers receiving an epidural rose from 17% in 1989 to 1990 to 33% in 2007 to 2008.
Dr Walsh said the NHS should encourage alternative ways to deal with pain such as yoga, hypnosis, massage and birthing pools.
Dr Maggie Blott, consultant obstetrician at University College London, agreed that pain could help aid the physiology of labour, and that alternative ways to manage pain were available.
She said: "There are some labours which are very prolonged, some are very complicated, and we need to have epidurals available so that women have access to them if they need them.
"Do not under-estimate the pain of having a baby - it is a very, very intense and painful experience.
"If it is happening hour after hour in a very prolonged labour it is very tiring and wears people down and I think epidurals are very useful in that situation."
Dr Blott also stressed that the use of forceps, or other devices to aid birth was a relatively simple procedure, which many women would prefer to enduring pain over long periods.
Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, offered support for her colleague.
She said: "At the moment it is very easy for most women to ask for an epidural, and if they want one they definitely should get one.
"But what Denis is saying is that we want to make sure that women get other options, and that they do get really good support from midwives."
Carrie Longton, from the parenting website Mumsnet, said her contributors had given Dr Walsh's views short shrift.
She said: "It is very difficult to talk about this unless you have been through it. Childbirth is such a different experience to breaking a leg, or breaking an ankle, and it is different for every woman.
"So anybody saying you must not do anything is unwelcome."
Ms Longton said it was vital that women who asked for an epidural were not made to feel they had failed in some way, as that was very likely to damage the bonding process with their baby.
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Question: Provide a description of Ngari Gunsa Airport.

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Ngari Gunsa Airport is a dual-use military and civil airport serving the town of Shiquanhe in Ngari Prefecture, in the southwest of China's Tibet Autonomous Region near the Indian border. It started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet after Lhasa, Nyingchi, and Qamdo airports.
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Question: What kind of jobs does BEACH offer in Okinawa?

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Okinawa positions starting monthly. Apply online now to join us this year!
You’ll be delivered to your resort, receive an Orientation to prepare you, shown how to Register your Address at city hall, and how to Open a Bank Account!
BEACH Jobs: Cheap Housing & Meals.
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If you speak a little Japanese, we only charge a 10,000yen (USD$100) Transport Fee when you arrive in Japan for Delivery and Orientation!
Don’t speak any Japanese? Don’t worry! We have some free placement positions every year. Otherwise, you’re still eligible for our Paid programs in Hokkaido (AUD$1199).
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Question: Tell us about Jan Dunlap's book "A Murder of Crows".

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Jan Dunlap has done it again...another page-turner featuring the endearing birder Bob White who just keeps stumbling into murder mysteries. I really enjoy these books. I read this one in pretty much one sitting. The recurring characters are charming. Each chapter ends with a cliffhanger successfully demanding the reader to continue. Dunlap so craftily leads us through multiple possibilities of who-done-it that you are driven to read the book to its conclusion so that the knot in your stomach can be untied. It is so fun to see respectably people that are birders portrayed as main characters, be it in books or movies. These books would make great movies by the way.
This book is listed for $14.95, but sales for $7.95 as a Kindle purchase. But that's not all! For a limited time you can get it for FREE on Kindle. I must warn you, that reading this book will make you go back and read the past murder mysteries that birder Bob White has helped solve.
With wind farms and turbines making news in birding circles, A Murder of Crows is Bob White’s most topical and entertaining Birder Murder Mystery yet! After finding fellow birder and conservation advocate Sonny Delite dead amidst the October leaves at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Bob embarks on a hunt for a killer and a Ferruginous Hawk. Download your FREE Kindle copy today and join Bob’s growing flock of fans!
I am delighted that the author, Jan Dunlap herself, provided me a review copy of her last two books. I've always loved a good murder mystery, and one that involves a birder...perfection! I wholeheartedly recommend "A Murder of Crows".
Thanks for the recommendation, Robert. It's just what I needed right now, a good excuse to put aside some boring housekeeping tasks. I am going to start reading it tonight.
Always happy to help another procrastinate household chores! Enjoy the book Hilke.
Noushka, you won't regret it! Enjoy and be sure to comment here what you think about the book.
I wish I got commissions for any sales generated from this website. That would be great! I think Amazon's associates program stopped working with Blogger for some reason. Oh well. Happy reading! My wife has a Kindle Fire and loves it. I have the Kindle app on my iPhone and I don't mind reading books on it. I do have a very hard time reading books on my desktop or laptop computer though.


Question: What is the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's new Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior?

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For scientists studying how the brain behaves, there is no place like Nebraska.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s new Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior – CB3 for short – is a highly interdisciplinary center that brings together distinguished UNL faculty in the social, biological and behavioral sciences and engineering. This center’s state-of-the-art facilities and highly multidisciplinary environment enable diverse studies to expand understanding of brain function and its effects on human behavior.
The center’s capabilities and a unique partnership between UNL research and athletics deepen the university’s research capacity, including its growing expertise in concussion research.
The center boasts the unique capability to simultaneously capture functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), record brain electrical activity and track eye movement. This combination of brain imaging and cognitive assessment equipment could provide groundbreaking findings about brain function’s influence on behavior and performance.
CB3 is strongly tied to a unique partnership between UNL research and Nebraska Athletics that promises to expand understanding of links between the brain and human behavior. No other university in the nation is conducting research in this way.
CB3’s research is highly diverse, ranging from brain injuries and other cognitive impairments to the heritability of social attitudes and the neurological basis of decision-making. Concussion research is a cornerstone of the center’s work. UNL researchers are studying how the brain functions and processes information before and after concussions. They’re focusing on athletes but this research could improve treatment for the 1.7 million Americans who suffer traumatic brain injuries annually.


Question: What is the latest news about Homeshake's album "Fresh Air"?

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The Montreal artist’s new album Fresh Air is out February 3, 2017.
Pete Sagar makes jangly, homespun pop as Homeshake, and today he's premiering a new song "Call Me Up" on The FADER. Taken from his upcoming album Fresh Air, the track pushes his bedroom R&B in a slightly funkier direction, with quiet vocals, approaching the sticking power of Sean Nicholas Savage. A strong sense of hospitality is the track's most defining characteristic, both sonically and lyrically: Anytime you wanna just call me up, and I'll answer you, on the phone, Sagar coos.
"It's a song about a spiritual connection strong enough to allow you to empathize with your partner from a great distance," Sagar told The FADER over email. "Thanks to telephones, you can ease any pain with a nice conversation about what you've been up to, how the sun is shining, and how much you miss one another. The name Homeshake refers to a hand shake my friend Ily taught me a long time ago when we lived together in a gross house full of bongs and stuff."
Fresh Air will be the third Homeshake album from the onetime Mac DeMarco touring guitarist, and it's out February 3, 2017 on Sinderlyn. Pre-order it here and check out tour dates below.


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Haimanti Rakshit Das (; born 26 November in Chittagong, Bangladesh) better known as Haimanti is a Bangladeshi playback singer. She mostly sings for films, and TV series.


Question: What is happening in Nicaragua? Respond in 10 sentences.

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Authorities in Nicaragua must immediately stop repressing demonstrators and protect their right to protest, said Amnesty International after at least 10 people were killed and several others were injured or remain unaccounted for following a terrifying clampdown on dissent on Friday.
“The authorities’ crude and violent response to these demonstrations has deeply troubling implications for human rights in Nicaragua. The slaughter of protesters, including several young students, who went out to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the nation’s recent history,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, director of Amnesty International in the Americas.
The demonstrations against the government began on 18 April in response to reforms of the social security system. In a national radio address on Thursday, Vice President Rosario Murillo reportedly denounced the protesters as “vampires, needing blood to feed their political agendas”.
State repression of the demonstrations escalated on Friday, with Amnesty International receiving reports that state security forces were attacking protesters in several locations, including the capital Managua, and had surrounded a group of students in a local university.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least nine journalists have been injured since the demonstrations began and at least two have had their equipment stolen, while five independent television networks that were covering the events have been blocked from transmission.
Amnesty International calls on the Nicaraguan authorities to launch a timely, comprehensive and independent investigation by civilian authorities into all allegations of excessive use of force by state security forces as well any alleged crime committed by non-state actors. In addition, all of those suspected of criminal responsibility must be brought to justice in fair trials. The state must also guarantee the victims’ rights to truth, justice and reparation; and generate the conditions necessary to guarantee the people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and access to information.


Question: What did Kendrick Lamar make from Spotify yesterday?

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How much money did Kendrick Lamar make on Spotify yesterday?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week (or don’t have internet, like most of the world), chances are you’ve seen Kendrick Lamar’s latest drop To Pimp a Butterfly adorning your feeds. The Compton-bred rapper set records with the new album, his third, breaking Spotify’s record for the most full album listens in the app’s history with a whooping 9.6 million full album streams.
After an embittered Thom Yorke once proclaimed Spotify as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,” one has to wonder, how much money is Lamar (& company) seeing?
According to Spotify (and calculations by Hopes&Fears), Lamar probably made between $921,600 and $1,290,240 in twenty-four hours.
Not quite the heydays of the CD-buying generation but it's quite impressive for online streaming revenue.


Question: It seems Sharri Markson won the 2018 Kennedy Prize for Journalist of the Year for her coverage of the political scandal around former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's affair with a staffer. Don't you think this win is undeserved?

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The Daily Telegraph’s Sharri Markson has won the 2018 Kennedy Prize for Journalist of the Year for her coverage of the political scandal around former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s affair with a staffer and the subsequent cover up.
Markson is the first News Corp journalist to take out the $25,000 prize established in 2011 to commemorate the late Sydney crime reporter, Les Kennedy.
In awarding the prize to Markson, the Kennedy Foundation judges wrote: “She has repeatedly set the national news agenda and shaken the political establishment with a series of big exclusives using sheer determination and careful cultivation of contacts to break from the pack.
Markson was appointed The Daily Telegraph’s national political editor in September 2016 after serving as The Australian’s media editor where she became known for her aggressive pursuit of stories involving the ABC, Fairfax Media and broke the story around then Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton’s abusive tweets to members of the Jewish community, which eventually led to him leaving the company.
Prior to The Australian she was the editor of Cleo and before that was a chief of staff at the Sunday Telegraph and a senior producer at Channel Seven.
The Kennedy Foundation’s judges also cited Markson’s scoops for The Daily Telegraph also included the story behind the downfall of Border Security chief Roman Quaedvlieg as well as an expose on how the NSW Rural Fire Service refused help from professional brigades as the town of Tathra was devastated by blazes in March.
Previous winners of the award include Fairfax’s Adele Ferguson, the ABC’s Caro Meldrum-Hanna and Nine News reporter Chris O’Keefe who won the 2017 prize. Sponsors NRMA announced the renewal its sponsorship last year.
Markson also took out the Outstanding Political Journalism award and shared the Scoop of the Year Award with colleague Kylar Loussikian ahead of previous winners, The Sydney Morning Herald’s Kate McClymont, and Fairfax’s Nick McKenzie.
Overall News Corp was the biggest winner with its journalists and photographers taking out 14 awards while Fairfax collected nine. The ABC won two while SBS Viceland took out the Outstanding Nightly TV Current Affairs Award.
Jana Wendt received a Lifetime Achievement Award while 7 News Sydney’s David Richardson was awarded the Cliff Neville Award for Outstanding Team Player.
Kennedy Foundation chairman, Simon Dulhunty, said: “The deserving winners had come out on top in an absolutely fiercely competitive news year, which included finalists from interstate and all major metropolitan newspapers and television and radio networks; international journalists and photographers as well as artists and photographers from regional newspapers and radio networks throughout NSW, including the Hunter, western NSW and northern rivers areas as well as the Riverina.
“In a bumper news year the standard of submissions was exceptional in every category. As in previous years, in some categories it took judges long hours to finally sort out the winners from absolutely talented fields, some of which had more than 50 entries,” Mr Dulhunty said.
So Markson follows twitter, ignores True Crime News Weekly and Independent Australia and ‘wins’ an award for fearless journalism?
May I respectfully ask why a journalist can win an award and $25,000 for ‘breaking’ a story which had been published on two independent media sites months earlier and which was common knowledge?
hahahahahaha. ‘Fearless’ hahahahahahaaha. Her bosses told her to spike it until after the byelection, and then bring it out for the sweaty clickbait tittilation later. Just to show they could have their cake, and make it twist in the wind too, Well done Rupert and Sharri, faithful servants of transparency and democracy that you are, and not at all liars and propagandists for the greater good of the Rupertocracy.
These guys broke the story loooong before.
Sharri and the entire News Corp empire tried their best to bury it until they no longer could.
Shari Markson’s story was published in the Daily Telegraph 7 February 2018, under the title “Bundle of Joyce”.
Serkan Ozturk of true crime weekly broke this story, which was taken up by Independent Australia. Sharri, like the rest of the media covered this up until after the New England by election. Frauds.
I read about the Joyce affair on Independent Australia months and months before Sharri published it. Seems the award has gone to the wrong journalist.
I guess it helps when the judging panel is stacked to the gunnels with News Corp soldiers, including Miranda Devine herself. I think it’s important when reporting ‘awards’ to look at how they are awarded and by who. This back slapping from journo mates is how the main stream media ended up such a farce in the first place.
So who made up the judging panel for the Journalist of the Year Award, in particular, and the other Awards?
Can we order a recount on votes for this as something is very wrong here?
Forget the naysayers above, your thorough and well balanced pieces are why you won the award.
Self admiration awards to corporate journalists! may be she could try some real journalism like Eva Bartlet and Vanessa Beeley!
NOT well deserved at all. Nothing balanced by her. She held the story off until after the by-election,and as mentioned by others it was revealed previously by two independent on-line news outlets.
Don’t let facts get in the way,of lies.
This awarding was a fraud.
No surprise when the judging panel is stacked is news limited stooges.
Makes a laughing stock of the Kennedy Awards, which seem to simply be a Murdoch-SMH love-in. Fortunately, we have the Walkleys.


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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be writing a series of posts describing how we’ve built and run WePay’s data warehouse. This series will cover our usage of Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, and Apache Airflow (incubating), as well as how we handle security, data quality checks, and our plans for the future.
We run MySQL as our primary OLTP database at WePay. Most of the data resides in a single monolithic database cluster that runs inside Google compute engine. When we started out, developers, analysts, product managers, and others were all running their analytic queries on a replica of this MySQL cluster. This replica was used to do things like train machine learning models, generate business and financial reports, build business intelligence dashboards, debug production issues, and so on.
Multi-tenancy issues, where one user would severely degrade the entire cluster.
Performance problems, timeouts, and queries that never finish.
Inability to easily run custom logic on the data (UDFs).
It was obvious that we needed to move to a real data warehouse. This post describes that journey, the lessons learned, and the technology that we used.
WePay made the transition to Google Cloud Platform last year. One of the services that Google provides is BigQuery, a distributed data warehouse built on top of a bunch of great Google technology including Dremel, Borg, Colossus, and Jupiter. We did an evaluation of BigQuery, and decided to use it as our data warehousing solution.
What happens if things fail? Should you retry?
How is monitoring handled? Will anyone know if things failed?
What if things need to happen in sequence, or depend on each other?
What if the script runs slowly, and a second iteration of the script starts before the first finishes?
Most of these problems (and many others) are solved by workflow schedulers, so we opted to use one to run our ETL scripts. The four that we looked at were Oozie, Azkaban, Luigi, and Airflow.
Ultimately, we chose to use Airflow. We found it appealing for a number of reasons. The community is great, growing fast, and has a lot of momentum (Airflow just entered Apache Incubator!). Airflow is built with ETL in mind, so it understands things like time data-slices (the last hour’s worth of data). It also allows workflow (DAG) creation via Python scripts, so you can dynamically generate them from code.
With BigQuery and Airflow, let’s cover how we’ve built and run our data warehouse at WePay.
We run three distinct Google cloud projects for our analytics environments. All three run Airflow independently, and all have BigQuery enabled with their own distinct datasets.
We have multiple projects primarily for security and isolation purposes. Some Google cloud permissions function only at the project level, so having separate projects allows for more granularity over who can see and do things. Multiple projects also gives us more flexibility over quotas, since BigQuery applies quotas at a per-project basis.
ETL: Copy our primary data from our production project into the ETL environment.
Development analytics: Run ad hoc queries via a UI, or develop Airflow DAGs for data products.
Production analytics: Run Airflow DAGs for data products that generate output to be consumed by our customers in our production environment.
Our production project, where we handle live traffic, contains our primary MySQL database. We export its data periodically into new-line delimited JSON files, which are loaded into Google Cloud Storage buckets in the ETL project. From there, we load the files into BigQuery. This is all done with Airflow.
The datasets in the ETL project are shared out to groups, who can query the datasets using the developer analytics project. Developers can also build Airflow DAGs in developer analytics that query the data to build new derived datasets. If those datasets need to get pushed back into production (for example, if we generate a report that we want to show to our users in a reporting product), then the DAG gets promoted into production analytics when it’s ready to run on an on-going basis. Pushing data from production analytics back into production is done through Google Cloud Storage.
Stay tuned for our next post, where we’ll go in-depth on how we integrated Airflow with Google cloud, the hooks and operators that we contributed to the project, dynamic DAG generation, and how we operate Airflow.


Question: Write a report about the 76ers-Heat game.

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Miami, FL – It was another wild night in Miami as the Philadelphia “Trust the Process” 76ers came to town play their 4th and final matchup against the Miami Heat. These Sixers can’t get enough of Miami, huh? Didn’t Wade just hit a game winner against them like a week ago?
All four of these games have been so intriguing as every single one has been a dogfight. This one was a bit different from the previous three, as the Heat relied on their defense and collective effort to take control of the game in the 4th quarter and take the final matchup of the season series, both teams protecting home court. The stakes were high in this one with the 76ers currently standing in the 6th seed and the Heat at 7th.
The stakes were even higher for Miami, with this game being the last one that featured the Miami Vice Jerseys. They finished with an 8-7 record in the Vice Jerseys, so now we can definitely make the case to bring them back next year if they haven’t already decided to do so. Hell, bring them back but in black!
Whiteside must’ve had some fire Wheaties this morning. In fact, since Embiid’s coming to town, Whiteside must’ve said “I’ll have two cereal bowls today.” He was absolutely engaged from the start. Shooting jumpers, fadeaways, creating in the post, he was getting what he wanted. His defense on ‘Twitter Fingers’ Embiid was phenomenal as well. There was this one play where Whiteside blocks an Embiid layup, they get tangled up and Whiteside ends up hitting himself, which, I mean, of course he ends up hitting himself. Whiteside finished the game with 26 points, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 2 balls on Joel Embiid’s face. The man deserves the game ball.
As mentioned before, the Heat received contributions from so many guys. Dwyane Wade continues to score, adding 16 points on 7-13 shooting. By the way, the guy still has bounce in his game. Huge shoutout to his personal trainers and that Heat Culture juice. Wayne Ellington came back after missing four straight games with a quad injury and dropped three 3-pointers in the 4th quarter. Kelly Olynyk, Josh Richardson, and Tyler Johnson all made an impact on the game as well. Also, Wade coming back has really brought the best out of Winslow. He’s continuing to have an impactful month of March, and keeps making big plays on both sides of the court. He made two big three’s tonight in the 4th and had some huge plays on the defensive end. Miami’s 108-99 victory puts them only a game back behind the 76ers.
The Heat next play the Washington Wizards this Saturday at the AmericanAirlines Arena.


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Albert Goldman (1897–1960) was a Belorussian-born American political and civil rights lawyer, closely associated with the American communist movement. Goldman broke with the mainline Communist Party, USA in 1933, joining the Trotskyist opposition, in which he would be a leading participant for the better part of the next two decades. Goldman is best remembered as a defendant and lead defense attorney in the 1941 Smith Act prosecution of the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party.


Question: What is the story behind why Vancouver's median income for degree-holders is so much lower than other cities?

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Vancouver has its share of urbanism gurus, but Andy Yan is certainly near—if not at—the very top of that list. Yan, an urban researcher at Bing Thom Architects, an adjunct professor at UBC, and more recently the acting director of the city program at SFU, is anything but media shy. He’s weighed in many times on the affordability debate with nuanced, data-focussed insight—including a contentious study last fall that revealed that 66 percent of buyers in three west side neighbourhoods had non-anglicized Chinese names (implying they were new arrivals)—and last year earned a place on our Power 50 list. He recently spoke with Van Mag about another, although not entirely unrelated, issue: Vancouver’s low median incomes.
Back in 2014, you dug up some truly jarring numbers regarding incomes in Vancouver. You found out that the median income for degree-holders in Canada’s 10 biggest cities was $50,981 while in Vancouver it was just $41,981—exactly $9,000 less.
That was a slideshow we had shown two or three years ago based on a Statistics Canada special data run, which looked at 25-to-55-year-olds throughout Canada by metropolitan area and total median income. It was surprising to me and everyone else to find out Vancouver was dead last for that particular demographic group. Vancouver attracts people at the very beginning of their career, and there’s a part of this that’s just because they’re starting their careers. But then I think it’s really surprising just to see how it further complicates itself into those older ages, which again was really surprising to see how consistent it was. That wasn’t really expected in our study. It’s an interesting age range because that’s typically when you’re finished your formal education, after the age of 25.
Which raises an obvious question: why do educated workers make so much less money here?
It’s funny. Which has more head offices: Vancouver or Calgary? Vancouver actually has more head offices than Calgary. However, they are half as big as those in the City of Calgary, which I think tells you that the employers in Vancouver that have head offices tend to be small. And I think that’s part of the issues that shape this… Vancouver actually has the second smallest head office size in Canada [among the 10 largest metro areas].
What city is number one, in terms of head office size?
Number one is Toronto, two is Montreal, and in last place is Edmonton.
While doing research for my feature story, I discovered that B.C. students not only carry the most student debt in Canada but they pay the highest interest rate on that debt. I’m wondering, what happens when you combine what’s essentially the country’s worst pay cheque for educated workers with the worst student debt payments?
It’s really hard to create a garden of new economic activity under an inch of concrete as represented by student debt. We may very well attract some of the smartest and brightest around in this country, but to saddle them with at times very significant debt I think limits their potential—and if anything is a motivation to get out of a region that may not pay as well as other regions. Take a tech worker that has trained at a local university. It’s only rational for him to move to other places like San Francisco or Seattle. There’s a very specific logic to that. It’s not about talent attraction but retaining talent, which is probably one of the biggest challenges for Vancouver.
It’s also the reality that when you’re in your 20s or 30s, you’re in the most mobile period of your career. And in an economy that’s increasingly dependent on young talent, the ability to capture and retain that talent—it’s a major economic challenge. And housing costs don’t particularly help the situation. There are going to be four consequences of this housing market: one is overcrowding, two is over-indebtedness, three is sprawl, and four is ultimately migration out of the region.
There are certain avenues that we need to explore. The first is actually seeing how well our skills match the economy that we have in British Columbia. That’s important.
If you think about generalized strategies for economic development, there are three areas: hunting, fishing, and farming. You send your team out, and you hunt for people to come to your city. Or you lay out the bait and see if you can fish for talent by providing amenities and lifestyle choices that will perhaps attract firms into your city. The third concept is to talk about how you can farm local talent, how you can farm local firms. And that, to me, was one of the big insights we had in our study. We actually have all these small head offices in Metro Vancouver, and really our challenge is to help nurture them to have the capacity to grow, as opposed to only attracting new firms in the region.
At the core of this, it really is a question of how can Vancouver be a city of the future for the future. Vancouver is of the future, but then without the ability to create a city for the future—that is, for young people, for young workers, for young families—there will be profound challenges on the road ahead.
Kyle MacDonald 21:51, 14. Jun. 2016.
The hidden story is undeclared suite income. If you own a house with a suite in Vancouver and get $40K from your job, but $20K from your suite revenue, is the average person declaring that suite revenue? Especially in places like Burnaby and Richmond that do not allow secondary suites. You better believe that side income is off the books and skews this data. Missing from this conversation is the fact that a Vancouverite with $40k income might very well be BETTER OFF than a Calgarian who makes $50k and has no suite revenue.


Question: Provide a summary of Ricky Gervais' "Science" stand-up comedy show.

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Science is a stand-up comedy show by British comedian Ricky Gervais. It was filmed in 2010 at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo, and released on DVD in November that year.


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An awesome theming engine for iOS 7 through iOS 11!
Theme more than just icons! Anemone is designed for the new UI elements introduced in iOS 7 and higher to allow themes to change more of the look of the device!
Anemone is backwards compatible with existing Bundles, Folders, IconBundles, ClassicDock, ClassicBadges, and CustomClock themes.
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Question: Write a description of the Batwoman series in development for the CW.

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Batwoman is already scheduled to visit the Arrowverse for the annual crossover event in December; she may now become a permanent member of it, expanding the universe and breaking some TV ground in the process.
The CW has put in development a Batwoman series for 2019 consideration. It hails from former The Vampire Diaries executive producer Caroline Dries and the architect of the CW Arrowverse, Greg Berlanti.
In Batwoman, written by Dries based on the DC characters, armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, Kate Kane soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman, an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence. But don’t call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, Kate must overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham’s symbol of hope.
Batwoman already has been a trailblazer for LGBTQ+ representation in comics. After a long hiatus, she was reintroduced to the DC comic universe in 2006 when she was established as a Jewish lesbian, becoming the first-ever lesbian superhero title DC character. Now Batwoman would become the first gay lead character — male or female — of a live-action superhero series. (DC, Berlanti and Warner Bros. Animation previously collaborated on the first animated show with a gay lead, Freedom Fighters: The Ray on CW Seed).
Batwoman would join Arrowverse, which features a number of LGBT characters, including Arrow‘s Curtis Holt, The Flash‘s Captain Singh, Legends‘ Sara Lance and Supergirl‘s Alex Danvers.
Batwoman comes from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television where the company recently extended its overall deal. Dries, who is lesbian, executive produces alongside Berlanti Prods.’ Berlanti and Sarah Schechter as well as former DC Entertainment president Geoff Johns (The Flash) via his new Mad Ghost Productions banner. Johns also has been producing the long-gestating Batgirl DC feature at Warner Bros., which switched writers this past spring.
It was Arrow star Stephen Amell, along with the CW president Mark Pedowitz, who announced at the CW presentation in May that this year’s crossover event will feature Batwoman. “This is the first time ever that Batwoman will make a live-action appearance on any screen,” Pedowitz said, adding that, along with Batwoman, the City of Gotham also will be added to the ever-expanding Arrowverse.
With Batwoman, the CW is following the strategy it used for The Flash, whose central character was introduced in a two-episode arc on Arrow in December 2013. While originally the network had planned a third Arrow episode later that season to serve as The Flash backdoor pilot, it ultimately opted for a standalone Flash pilot, which launched the series the following fall.
Dries has superhero credentials — she started her writing career on the CW/WBTV Smallville before a seven-season run on The Vampire Diaries, on which she rose to executive producer and showrunner.
The character Batwoman began appearing in DC Comics stories beginning with Detective Comics #233 in 1956, in which she was introduced as a love interest for Batman. On TV, Batwoman first appeared in animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which premiered on Cartoon Network in 2008. On film, Batwoman appeared in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, voiced by Kyra Sedgwick, a 2002 direct-to-video animated film based on animated series The New Batman Adventures. Batwoman also made a cameo in direct-to-video superhero film Batman vs. Robin and appeared in 2016’s Batman: Bad Blood, voiced by Yvonne Strahovski.


Question: Describe what it takes to become an Immigration Lawyer.

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Being an Immigration Lawyers opens a lot of opportunities and challenges for everyone wishes to be one. It specializes in providing resolutions in immigration related disputes such as naturalization and visa renewal mostly. They must be updated all the time when a new policies and changes in legal practice. Most of the Immigration Lawyers works with a firm and becomes a partner of it and many were also working on their own. What does it take to become an Immigration Lawyer?
An aspiring Immigration Lawyer should have a bachelor’s degree, a doctoral degree and state-issued licensed to practice law before they can begin practicing and becoming an immigration lawyer. Having a bachelor’s degree means one must finish a 4-year degree in the college. Also, it is recommended that an aspiring Immigration Lawyer should have a good grasp of other culture including its modern language. Next, after obtaining a bachelor’s degree, aspiring Immigration Lawyer should finish taking up a Juris Doctor Degree from an accredited American Bar Association law school. This is where specialization in immigration law will take place.
Obtaining two degrees is only half the battle. Once an aspiring is done with bachelor’s degree and post-graduate studies, they also must ace the bar exam to obtain license in the state that the aspirant intended to practice immigration law. Once an aspirant passed the bar exam, it is also recommended to join an immigration lawyer association just like the Toronto Immigration Lawyer. This is where the peers can help to expand your networks and eventually guide you as an Immigration Lawyer.
If becoming an immigration lawyer is hard to achieve, there are other related careers that aspirant can choose from such as tax law, litigation marriage and counsel with family law. Included in the possibilities are paralegals and legal assistants.


Question: What is the latest news about Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was re-elected for his sixth term in November.
Arpaio, 80, has earned headlines nationwide as a result of his tent city jail and immigration roundups.
The controversial lawman was re-elected for his sixth term in November.


Question: What is Ledegem?

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Ledegem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Ledegem proper, and Sint-Eloois-Winkel. On January 1, 2006, Ledegem had a total population of 9,306. The total area is 24.76 km² which gives a population density of 376 inhabitants per km².


Question: Can you tell me about the 1951 Detroit Lions season?

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The 1951 Detroit Lions season was their 22nd in the league. They were 7–4–1, tied for second in the National Conference, a half game behind the Los Angeles Rams. A loss at San Francisco in the regular season finale cost the Lions the conference title, and they failed to qualify for the playoffs for a sixteenth consecutive season. The team improved on their previous season's output of 6–6.


Question: Describe the role of John Feldmann and the making of the album 'California' in the shifting music climate of 2015 and subsequent revamp of Blink-182, and discuss its success.

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In 2015, blink-182 was in a tumultuous state. Partly abated by the general consensus that rock music had taken a backseat to rap over the decade, blink-182 was losing its mainstream appeal. While the trilogy of Enema of the State, Take of Your Pants and Jacket and Blink-182 sold almost 40 million units worldwide, their most recent release — 2011’s Neighborhoods — sold 350,000 units in the four and a half years following its initial release.
And by 2015, Neighborhoods was the only full-length album the band had put out since Blink-182 (the untitled album) in 2003.
Yeah – so the future of the band was pretty dire. The band needed a reliever to come in and right the ship.
Then, out of the bullpen, came none other than Goldfinger’s lead man – John Feldmann.
As a producer, Feldmann was previously known for working with bands on the poppier side of the spectrum — All Time Low, The Cab, Five Seconds of Summer. Feldmann’s background was deeply embedded in the ska-punk scene of the mid-to-late ’90s. He offered a familiar face for blink, with a relationship that can be traced back to the late 90’s, when Travis Barker’s former band, The Aquabats, toured with Goldfinger.
Feldmann, along with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba (who ultimately replaced DeLonge in 2015) gave the band a new sound. That new sound, according to Feldmann, is unabashedly rooted in the punk groups of his youth. When asked about the whoa’s and na’s in California during an AMA on Reddit, Feldmann said, “I grew up on the Ramones and Pennywise and 80s and 90s punk rock… I never really thought about it it’s just part of my influence so when the guys would write a part it felt natural and I never over thought it.” Feldmann’s heart was undoubtedly in the right place with his efforts, but it is fair to say that this approach did not necessarily land as intended.
When talking about the making of single “Bored to Death” in an interview with Fuse, Feldmann said, “Let’s do everything I can think of that reminds me of classic Blink.” And this sentiment was consistent throughout the album. Later in the same interview, Feldmann said, “My agenda was to have an album that was palatable for a generation of ADD kids.” And this would make sense, as one could argue songs on California had the vocals much higher in the mix, and as a whole had less developed guitar parts. None of us were in the studio with the band during the making of the album, but comments like those can be discouraging for proponents of blink-182 pushing its creative limits. As great as blink-182 is at making songs, since this was their first album without Tom DeLonge, I think what they needed was a producer who functioned as the fourth member of the band as opposed to a fan trying to recreate the glory of day’s past.
But, that is not to say this formula cannot still work as a means to achieve commercial success.
Blink-182 has often utilized na’s in their chart-topping songs, none more famous than “All the Small Things,” and it is a songwriting trope that they – up until California – have gotten away with in the past. As with many of the albums Feldmann has produced, that lyrical strategy offers more “sing-songy” tunes for the casual fan. But, it can also leave the more veteran fans begging for more, akin to a favorite condiment being left out of a burger. For what blink-182 is without catchy lead guitar riffs in the post-chorus is akin to In n’ Out double doubles without the thousand island dressing – very good, but not unique.
All valid concerns, and they would prove to be foreshadowing remarks for the album to come.
Neither of these choruses ring of contemplative deep thought, and that’s not what we’ve come to expect or should expect out of blink-182, let alone any pop punk act. But Hoppus has proved that he can be an exceptional songwriter when he wants to be, with or without DeLonge at his side, most notably with the side-project +44. Perhaps in the years immediately following blink-182’s initial hiatus, +44’s When Your Heart Stops Beating was Hoppus was at his lyrical best, as he was able to tap into that headspace of anger and resentment so readily.
It may be hard to utilize something that simply isn’t there anymore.
But California was not all unforgettable, where “San Diego” provided a look into Hoppus’ lyrical potential at his most vulnerable, discussing the pain associated with the city he and DeLonge grew up in.
Despite the skepticism from the fanbase, the album sold, and it sold very well. California went gold in its first five months, selling 172,000 in the first week, on its way to briefly knocking Drake off Billboard’s #1. The album sold half-a-million copies the first five months, a feat that Neighborhoods had failed to do in more than 10x the amount of time.
Don’t mix it up – excellent sales don’t make for compelling songwriting, but it does open the door for further opportunities to safely experiment without fear of dropping off the map once again. 2017’s California (part 2/deluxe edition) was the beginning of the experimentation, and there’s reason to expect more.
Feldmann – and more specifically California (Part 1) – was necessary to launch blink-182 back into a commercially viable position, to put out an album with as much diversity of song structure and lyrical content as the untitled release.
Now, if they go and make a California Part 3, then we officially have the right to riot.


Question: Explain the updates released for VitaShell for Sony PlayStation TV (PSTV) owners with firmare 3.60.

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About a month ago The Flow announced that he was able to find a way to use the PSTV USB port to mount games from with VitaShell. As most of us, PSTV owner knows the USB port on the PSTV is kind of useless and is only good for charging or updating the PSTV. Well, today that is all about to change for PSTV owners with FW3.60 as The Flow released his update to VitaShell that includes the ability to use the USB port like it should have been from the get go.
Note that once your USB flash drive is acting as a Memory Card, you can simply install VPKs or transfer your games/apps over CMA.
Fixed bug where pressing triangle crashed if the unsafe mode was disabled.
Added ‘Sort by’ option to context menu (R trigger combo removed).
Added ‘Electron’ theme by Acemad, the winner of the VitaShell theme contest.
Fixed bug where USB cable wasn’t recognized.
I wonder if this will allow a PSVita to stream a game from a PSTV in the future. If we can’t pass the GB limit on the Vita, then streaming is the next best thing.
omg i gotta go pick up a pstv and a 1tb usb..


Question: What's the latest news on lynching and mob violence in the country?

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The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Monday required all states and UTs to comply within one week with the preventive and remedial measures issued by it in its July 17 verdict to circumvent the alarming rise in the instances of mob violence and cow vigilantism.
Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde, appearing on behalf of petitioner and Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla, tendered to the court the names of the states and the UTs that are yet to submit their compliance report in the light of the judgment. The bench required him to prepare a state-wise compilation of the victims of mob violence who have not received any compensation and to notify the concerned state counsel.
Senior Counsel Indira Jaising, having moving an application for contempt against the state of Rajasthan in the wake of the unfortunate Alwar lynching episode which transpired days after the July 17 judgment, urged that there be fear in those who take the law into their hands of inviting the wrath of the law, indicating that the accused in the said incident may even contest elections.
At the previous hearing, Ms. Jaising had questioned why three of the police officers who had prioritised bringing the cows to the nearest ‘gaushala’ over taking the victim to the hospital, by reason of which he had succumbed to his injuries, have been transferred and no departmental action initiated against them.
ASG Tushar Mehta had informed the bench that, in pursuance of the service rules, the SHO has been placed under suspension in contemplation of disciplinary proceedings while the constables have been transferred. Further, he submitted that three out of the four accused have been arrested, the investigation ongoing in respect of the fourth who is absconding. He also advanced that the chargesheet under section 302 of the IPC shall be filed on That same day itself.
Attorney General K. K. Venugopal had conveyed to the court that the Union of India has filed its report in pursuance of the July 17 decision. In the light of judgment having recommended the Parliament to consider enacting a special law to tackle the instances of mob violence, He also averred that the Empowered Group of Ministers is analysing the nature of legislation to be passed.
On being notified that as per the Office Report only 11 states have filed the compliance reports, the bench had granted one weeks’ time to all states and UTs to do the needful, failing which it shall require the personal appearance of the home secretaries of the concerned states.
Finally, The apex court had required the Central and State Governments to comply, “without wasting any time”, with its direction to broadcast on radio, television and other public platforms that lynching and mob violence of any kind shall invite serious consequences.


Question: Describe how The Expanse employs realistic physical science.

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Season 2 of The Expanse premieres February 1 on Syfy. The show features colorful characters, sharp dialogue, and complex political machinations, but what really sets it apart from other sci-fi TV is the realistic way that it handles gravity and orbital trajectories. Much of the credit for that goes to showrunner Naren Shankar, who holds a PhD in physics and engineering from Cornell.
That attention to detail is most evident in Episode 4, “CQB,” which is set aboard a damaged spacecraft whose engines are failing, resulting in an intermittent loss of the ship’s artificial gravity. The episode also features a memorably violent scene in which a room is perforated by railguns.
The Expanse is based on a series of novels by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who are both members of the show’s writing team. Having two professional science fiction writers on staff has also definitely contributed to the realism of the show.
The Expanse has achieved such a following among science buffs that an image from the show recently appeared on the cover of Physics Today. That’s the first time the magazine has featured science fiction on its cover since 1974.
Listen to our complete interview with Naren Shankar in Episode 240 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). And check out some highlights from the discussion below.


Question: What do you know about Frank Wicks?

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Frank Wicks (30 January 1892 – 26 April 1965) was an English cricketer. He was a wicket-keeper who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Bristol and died in Ham Green, Somerset.


Question: "Sarah just met Henry Cavill in Florida today and she got a really cute pic with him. I'm so happy for her, he was really nice and thanked her for treating him like a normal person."

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 "Sarah just met Henry Cavill in Florida today and she got a really cute pic with him. I'm so happy for her, he was really nice and thanked her for treating him like a normal person."

Okay so Sarah is a little shy, but she met Henry in Florida today and she has a really cute pic to show for it..
Don't miss all the hot pics from Miami Beach.
1- I totally understand Sara, I'm camera shy too LOL! congrats on meeting him and getting that pic!
2- it's always nice to hear how nice and humble Henry is! it's not often you hear that of any other celebs out there!! Thanks for being so great with your fans Henry!
Treating him like a normal person should be normal. Ok. He is more known than normal but I would feel like a freak when someone is freaking out in front of me.
Lovely pic of SuperCav-El with Sarah (you're really pretty, girl!). Nice to hear you had a fun, relaxed time in beautiful Miami. Awesome.
What Sarah said about Henry thanking her for treating him like a human being makes me kinda mad. How the hell is he being treated by others if he's having to thank someone for being nice?
It actually doesn't surprise me at all. People think they have a level of entitlement when it comes to the famous.
Makes you wonder if being famous is great at all. I would absolutely hate being bothered by people I didn't know all the time because I was famous. Yes, it is miraculous how gracious Henry is under the circumstances. It is easy to see why other celebs aren't as gracious, though.
It all these hyperactive people who get over-excited when they see a famous person and start asking questions and jump for pictures during his break. It doesn't hit them that he's a person too and he lives a normal life just as well as the next person.
Being famous isn't the curse, it's more the aftermath, when people start doing more than recognizing the celebrity.
I'm also glad Henry Cavill is so patient and tries to make the best of his surroundings by taking pictures and answer appropriate questions. I bet you he's been asked very personal questions, the reason for thanking the young lady who did the opposite and was quite gracious herself.
Anonymous September 1, 2016 at 4:47 AM Agree wholeheartedly. I couldn't do it, for love nor money. As considerate and polite as Henry is I'm sure he gets irritated by people sometimes including fans, it only natural. But you have to be careful don't you because it can start off all light and then as time goes on people start becoming more and more zealous trying to push buttons. I'm really glad I've never wanted to be famous.
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I agree with September1, 2016 at 10:51 AM.
Did you get permission from Sarah to post this pic?
She's aware of our post and even rt'd us. Please don't bring the negativity here. This is a place of support for Henry, please always remember that. Thanks for your comment.
I have to concur with everyone elses comments. Being famous sure isn't the be all and end all. It's great to see that our HC has remained humble and sweet throughout his career so far, as someone said above some celebs can take a turn for the worst. I hope he gets to live his life as he is doing no matter how successful he becomes and that he doesn't feel pressured to take pics or sign autographs etc because at the end of the day it's your choice Henry not theirs. Henry really is an inspiration.
You hit the nail on the head. He really is a genuine guy and that's why we love him.
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These trolls really don't have anything better to do with their lives. Day in and out their after Henry. Who's he dating? Is he single? why does he look upset, was he with anyone like please! why is it SO IMPORTANT? Jheeze HCN is here to promote the good Henry does in his work life. Occasionally we'll see pictures and videos from fans but STALKING HIM isn't cool at all.
Couldn't agree more Anonymous September 1, 2016 at 4:11 PM. They definitely need to get a life this isn't healthy and Henry doesn't deserve this kinda treatment. Poor love must often think why can't they just leave me alone. HCN has always posted positive and great articles about his work and the good deeds he does for others. His personal life is none of our business. Leave him be please!
Thank you! Henry is such a lovely and caring guy these trolls just need to back off and leave him alone. He doesn't owe anyone any explanations regarding his personal life.


Question: Describe Facebook's response to reports of data privacy issues. Respond in 5 sentences.

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Facebook confirmed a Wednesday report claiming it gave advertisers access to user phone numbers and contact lists. “We use the information people provide to offer a better, more personalized experience on Facebook, including ads,” a Facebook spokeswoman told AFP. “We are clear about how we use the information we collect, including the contact information that people upload or add to their own accounts.” In a Gizmodo report published Wednesday, two studies found that the social network was giving advertisers access to data sources that users did not explicitly permit could be used. For example, the studies found user phone numbers given to the social network to enable two-factor authentication were being targeted in advertisements. The studies also found that user contact lists that were uploaded to the site could be “mined for personal information,” meaning that data from friends of the user could also be available to advertisers.


Question: What is the Hofstatt?

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The Hofstatt is a shopping mall that opened in 2013 in Munich's old town. The core of the building is the former site of the Süddeutscher Verlag, whose historical edifices are part of the design by architect Max Littmann on the Sendlinger Straße and the brick printing press building was also incorporated into the project.


Question: Describe the Hazuki residence pond and fountain and explain how it works. Respond in 32 sentences.

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The ornamental pond in the corner of the garden at the Hazuki residence is an oasis of tranquility. Flowering water lilies bob gently on the surface, rising and falling as Japanese carp glide lazily by underneath. Birds twitter in the trees and the water trickles continuously into a bamboo water fountain.
Time stands still at the scenic garden pond.
Every so often, the bamboo spout of the fountain pivots over, spilling its collected water into the pond, and makes a distinctive "clonk" as it returns to its original position. The sound can be heard from other parts of the garden as Ryo walks around.
Let's look at how the fountain works, what its name is in Japanese and finally some in-game footage of the fountain in motion.
The fountain consists of a bamboo tube, open at one end, that pivots at a point set off from the center so that the heavy end rests on a carefully-positioned stone when the tube is empty. Water feeds into the top of the fountain through a narrow bamboo pipe to one side.
The bamboo fountain at rest: the low end sits on a stone.
The design makes use of the fact that bamboo has natural internal partitions, so that when water flows in to the open end, it will fill only the upper-most couple of sections. The added weight of the water will eventually cause the tube to tip over, divulge its contents and then fall back down. The sound of the heavy end of the bamboo tube striking the stone after it does so is what makes the distinctive thud.
This style of fountain is often a feature of Japanese ornamental gardens. It is known in Japanese as a shishi-odoshi, meaning "deer scarer", which is also a more general term used to refer to contraptions such as this that make a sound to frighten animals away from vegetable patches or crops.
A more specific name for bamboo water fountains of this design is sōzu. The concept is that the sound they make will startle away any animals grazing nearby and prevent the plants in the garden from being nibbled.
I find the rhythmic sound of the fountain to be quite relaxing, almost hypnotic. Here is a video of some footage I recorded of the fountain and pond to enjoy.
You may notice that the angle is different from the one Ryo normally has when he walks outside - I used a small hack to allow Ryo to walk to the other side of pond since it gives a better view. (Also, it was only on closer examination that I realized that the water entering and leaving the fountain is not actually rendered in the game!).
What did you think of the fountain when you first discovered it in Shenmue? Leave your thoughts below!
Ah, I can see how that could happen! It integrates so well into the music as Ryo walks around the garden.
Your website deserves a forum Switch! I love the dojo... but the owner Yama seems not to get so evolved and passionate as the rest os the users. You do an excellent work, and the phantom river stone can be a second place for us.
Anyway, thank's for all your effort translating all the news who came from occident and always bring curiosities for us.
Sorry my english, I'm Brazilian.
You're welcome, thanks for the kind words! My aim with this blog was to complement the existing sites and give a fresh perspective by highlighting things that might not be obvious for overseas fans, so I'm very glad you're enjoying it.