What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence is something we are losing in today's modern world,
it’s the emotions that are a hidden due to modern day stress and expectancies. Self-awareness and the ability to listen
to others with patience are great practices of emotional intelligence. I believe Maori culture is a good example of
expressing and engaging with self-emotions and using culture as a good guide to behavior. There is hui (meetings) where
ideas are passed around the room until everyone agrees. There is kapahaka where emotions are expressed through waiata-a-ringa,
a time for being happy and expressive, moteatea-a time for sadness and grievance, and the haka- a time to let out the anger
and frustration, all of which displayed for everyone to see and feel. And then celebrated by a cup of tea with more korero
about each other's well-being. I believe it is this structure that acts as a great guidance for your own behavior and emotions
and awareness for others how they are feeling, and by this we create a happy mind frame with room for exceedance.
How is it different to IQ?
EQ is self-awareness and detail to what others are feeling, where-as IQ is intelligence
without factoring in emotional response. Intelligence is what got us here today and without it we wouldn’t have achieved what we have today,
but someone could have a high IQ and lack of EQ which ultimately will show in their work and leadership skills.
Why is it important?
It is very important to keep in mind the true values of EQ if we want to live a balanced
life-style and be great leaders. A lack in EQ means we are unaware of what other people, weather they are your workers or peers are
feeling, which results in a buildup of uncertainty and lack of confidence. Listening to others and also yourself creates a happy
mind frame and confidence to deliver full potential. It will help with happiness and stress and is very sought after in work
environments in all industries.


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Start by making a copy of the page you want to A/B test, or build a completely different alternate version. The difference can be as slight as a change of color - or an entirely redesigned splash page. As long as both versions have the same target link, Open A/B can help you improve CTR.
When both versions of a page are online, you are ready to set up a new test on Open A/B. From the dashboard, create a new test, entering your original page as the url. On the next screen, select the target link or button you want users to click. Then enter the url of the alternate version, and select the equivalent target link on this page.
After you create a test, Open A/B will create a code snippet for you to put on both versions of the page you want to test. When you include this code, Open A/B will redirect 50% of your users to the alternate page and track views and conversions on both pages. The resulting statistics are displayed on the dashboard.


I was out looking for a nice pussy willow to plant in the back yard when I saw them - Heavenly Blue MG seeds, $1.00/2gm pack.  I bought 6.
I looked up prior postings and decided that 8gm would be a decent dose. I washed the seeds (they look like elongated peppercorns) in a bowl with warm water and a tiny bit of dish soap, then rinsed them well in a strainer. I ate a couple and waited a half hour, to see if there were any surprises - there weren't - so I ground the seeds real fine in a coffee grinder, mixed them with water in a glass, and let is soak for another 1/2 half hour or so.
I drank the liquid, refilled the glass, and waited some more...
Mild effects, minor visuals, mild nausea...
Drank the liquid again. Tasted much stronger this time, sort of like peanuts, sort of like magic mushrooms...
Got progressively more nauseous. Finally used my finger to puke, and puked and puked and puked and lay down on the floor and puked and puked. Awful. Tripping now, too, great fun... I could see how a novice could TOTALLY lose it under these conditions. Nausea didn't feel like nausea anymore, it felt like twitchy anxiety and impending panic, then I'd puke and be totally fine for 5 minutes. (My life became a phrase: PUKE = GOOD).
The trip that followed was actually nice, though - no visuals, but nice emotional experience and a zoomy head. Hardly worth it, however...
An interesting point - an unusual aspect of this was that stimulation was generally unpleasant - I wanted to be in a dark, quite place, with my woman around talking but not touching me. I felt twitchy, and I didn't want to move my head at all. I did the whole trip in bed...
Moral of the story: Acid is only $2.00 a hit.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


API model information
The cancellation or refund of an order on the marketplace
| Property | Required | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Items | True | OrderItemCancellation array | The items to be refunded or canceled |
| OrderID | True | string | The unique identifier (generated by the site) that represents this order |
Use the JSON code below as an example of how this model will be serialized.
- {
- "OrderID": "M456W",
- "Items": [
- {
- "ID": "M333W",
- "SellerSku": "LIGHTSABER_BLUE_MED",
- "Quantity": 1,
- "Reason": "BuyerCanceled"
- },
- {
- "ID": "M222W",
- "SellerSku": "LIGHTSABER_RED_LG",
- "Quantity": 2,
- "Reason": "CustomerExchange"
- },
- {
- "ID": "M000W",
- "SellerSku": "REBEL X-WING",
- "Quantity": 3,
- "Reason": "MerchandiseNotReceived"
- }
- ]
- }


I come from Mumbai, India. So essentially a western coast of an eastern country. I have been around for 4 years at Cornell. And I think the word "oblong" is really fascinating.


ACCES platform to help discover music talents in Ghana - Hatitye
by Simon Asare, GNA
Accra, Nov. 24, GNA - Eddie Hatitye, Executive Director of Music in Africa Foundation (MAF), has said bringing music industry professionals from more than 50 countries to Ghana, will help discover Ghanaian music talents.
The third edition for the much-awaited Music In Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases (ACCES) under the auspices of the MAF, would take place in Accra from November 28 - 30, 2019 as African musicians connect with other and suggest ways to help develop the African music.
According to Hatitye, the platform offers massive opportunities for local musicians to learn about new things and would also create opportunities.
''ACCES is a platform where you find all the essential information about Africa music and a platform where African musicians can connect and create opportunities which would be mutually beneficial.
“ACCES just is vehicle to push for sustainable engagement between African acts for the development of the African music.
''We bringing to Ghana big industry players from around the world not only to share information and ideas but to also discover talents and we would during this conference provide the platform for these talents to market themselves,'' he said at a press briefing.
He urged local musicians to capitalize and be part of the conference which is free and they might be the next biggest stars on the continent.
Some Leading speakers at this year's event include Banky W, Sway, Obrafour, Sarkodie, Efya, Samini, Kyekyeku, John Collins, Ebo Taylor, Bibie Brew, Wanlov the Kubolor, among many others.
Music stakeholders who are interested can log on www.musicinafrica.net/acces and register to be part of ACCES 2019.
GNA


Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott does the 'Dak Dance' to celebrate touchdown vs. Lions
by Joe RiveraDak Dance fever has infected Ezekiel Elliott.
Prior to last Sunday night's game vs. the Vikings, NBC highlighted quarterback Dak Prescott's interesting pregame routine, which includes what can best be described as a "hip thrust."
During Sunday's Dallas-Detroit throwdown in Motown,Prescott's running mate caught the fever, as well,following a touchdown vs. the Lions.
The Cowboys would go on to win 35-27, with the Dance once again taking center stage.
The Dak Dance (or Prescott Pirouette, if you prefer), took Twitter by storm —and the NFL soonafter. Earlier this week,49ers players Jimmy Garoppolo and Nick Bosa were caught mimicking thePrescott Pirouette.
This might be the best bromance the NFL has seen, while the dance is already better than the Floss, the Wu-Tang and the Electric Slide.


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pg_tty() returns the TTY name that server side debugging output is sent to on the given PostgreSQL connection resource. Note: pg_tty() is obsolete, since the server no longer pays attention to the TTY setting, but the function remains for backwards compatibility.
A string containing the debug TTY of the connection, or FALSE on error.


Breaking: Islamic Jihad launches new wave of rockets
by News DeskBEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 P.M.) – Saraya Al-Quds of the Islamic Jihad (PIJ) unleashed a new wave of rockets towards the Israeli settlements near the Gaza Strip this evening.
According to reports from the region, the Islamic Jihad forces fired several rockets towards the Israeli city of Ashdod, which is located just south of Tel Aviv and north of Gaza.
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! DART software - Copyright UCAR. This open source software is provided ! by UCAR, "as is", without charge, subject to all terms of use at ! http://www.image.ucar.edu/DAReS/DART/DART_download ! ! $Id$ program stacktest ! FIXME: what is the 'right' size? start with 1 Mb and see where ! it dies. it seems like 128 Mb to 256 Mb should be sufficient. integer*8, parameter :: meg = 1000 * 1000 integer*8 :: count = 1 * meg integer :: reps = 16 print *, 'This program tests how large an array can be put on the stack.' print *, 'It will eventually crash. If it crashes before printing out 256' print *, 'you may need to use the "limit" command to increase the stacksize.' print *, '' ! call a subroutine that has large local variables on the stack ! to make sure the stacksize limits aren't too small. in this ! little test it's easy to see what's going on, but when you run ! filter it tends to die in random places if you've got stack ! limit problems and isn't easy to diagnose. do n = 1, reps print *, ' Testing stacksize with array size of: ', count/meg, ' megabytes' call orange_moose(count) count = count * 2 enddo ! not expected to reach here contains subroutine orange_moose(count) integer*8, intent(in) :: count ! large local variable: integer :: godzilla(count) character(32) :: junkbuf integer :: bob ! access the array contents to be sure we have enough stack space. ! in some of my tests the program did not crash on either of the ! varieties of assignment statement (disturbing), but then did ! crash with a stack exception when the values were accessed in ! the write statement. makes you wonder how much of memory was ! assigned 123, and whether it over-wrote some random memory location. ! should initialize the entire array, but doesn't always trigger a crash ! even if this is too large to fit on the stack. godzilla(:) = 123 ! try explicitly accessing the first and last elements. again, not always ! the fatal lines. godzilla(1) = 456 godzilla(count) = 789 ! this seemed to really make it die - not sure why this is different ! than the assignments above -- and it's an integer array so it's not ! a random illegal bit pattern causing a floating point trap - any bit ! string is a valid integer value. write(junkbuf, "(2I4)") godzilla(1), godzilla(count) ! now take the local var and explicitly pass it as an argument. ! some compilers can be told to put large local variables on the heap. ! but i believe that subroutine arguments have to be on the stack. bob = deeper(godzilla) write(junkbuf, "(I4)") bob ! if you get here, it is as good a test as i can devise. ! seems like the stack size is going to be ok. end subroutine function deeper(bigone) integer, intent(inout) :: bigone(:) integer :: deeper integer :: asize ! again, make sure to read the start and end of the array to be sure ! both parts are accessible. and make sure that the optimizer ! doesn't skip executing the lines because the results aren't used. asize = size(bigone) deeper = bigone(1) + bigone(asize) end function end program ! <next few lines under version control, do not edit> ! $URL$ ! $Id$ ! $Revision$ ! $Date$


The Ti.iSpeech module(s) allows you to use the iSpeech.org speech APIs within your Titanium app.
Download the platform you wish to use:
If you are building from source you will need to do the following:
Import the project into Xcode:
To use this module, you need an iSpeech.org account with a developer API key.
Getting started:
Before running your project, you need to copy the platform folder, found {Your Project}/modules/iphone/ti.ispeech/{version}/platform to the {Your Project}/platform folder in your project. If you don't do this, you will not be able to build your project.
var ispeech = require('ti.ispeech');
The following outlines the methods available at the root of the Ti.iSpeech module.
Parameters : String : Required The setAPIKey takes one parameter, your API key obtained through the iSpeech.org developer portal.
Example
ispeech.setAPIKey("YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE");
The isAvailable method, can be used to determine if audio is available on the device.
Parameters None
Example
Ti.API.info("Is Audio available? " + ispeech.isAvailable());
Starting with iOS 7, you now need to request permission before using the microphone. To do this call the requestPermission method. This will request the permission and return the results. If permission has already been granted, true/false will be returned to indicate the status of the request.
Parameters None
Example
Ti.API.info("Has Microphone permission? " + ispeech.requestPermission());
The following properties are available from the module. These can be used to config the Recognizer and Dictation proxies.
TYPE_SMS - Optimized for SMS messages. TYPE_VOICEMAIL Optimized for handling voicemail TYPE_DICTATION Optimized for dictation TYPE_MESSAGE - Optimized for message taking TYPE_INSTANT_MESSAGE - Optimized for instant messages TYPE_TRANSCRIPT - Optimized for taking transcripts TYPE_MEMO - Optimized for Memos
The following outlines the methods on the Recognizer proxy object. This proxy allows you to trigger a callback based on key word commands.
You can also check if audio is available on each proxy as well as the module.
Parameters None
Example
var recognize = ispeech.createRecognizer();
Ti.API.info("Is Audio available? " + recognize.isAvailable());
The isRecording method is used to determine if we are already recording what is being said. This avoids duplication of action.
Parameters None
Example
var recognize = ispeech.createRecognizer();
Ti.API.info("Are you already recording? " + recognize.isRecording());
The start method is used to start the command recognization process. While you are speaking the iSpeech.org APIs will look for the keyword commands provided and trigger an event once matched. For example you can use this method to listen for a user saying a voice command such as "call Bob".
Parameters : Dictionary : Require The start method takes a dictionary with the following elements.
onComplete : Callback : required The onComplete callback is triggered on finish, error, cancel, or other completion action.
commands : Dictionary : required The commands dictionary defines the key works and phrases you wish to recognize.
silenceDetection : Boolean : optional The silenceDetection parameter is true by default. This toggle determines of the recognizer should complete based on silence detection.
locale : String : optional The locale used to determine the speakers language.
freeformType : Enum : optional The type of text operation you wish to have performed. By default this is set to TYPE_SMS.
model : String : optional If you are using a custom model, you can set this value to the model you wish to use.
Example The following shows how to recognize when someone asks to call one of the individuals listed below.
var recognize = ispeech.createRecognizer();
function recognizeCompleted(e){
Ti.API.info(JSON.stringify(e));
};
recognize.start({
onComplete:recognizeCompleted,
commands:[
{
alias:"officers",
command:"call %officers%",
values:["Mike", "Rocco", "Grant", "Alex","Bob"]
}
]
});
The following outlines the methods on the Dictation proxy object. This proxy allows you record longer messages.
You can also check if audio is available on each proxy as well as the module.
Parameters None
Example
var dictate = ispeech.createDictate();
Ti.API.info("Is Audio available? " + dictate.isAvailable());
The isRecording method is used to determine if we are already recording what is being said. This avoids duplication of action.
Parameters None
Example
var dictate = ispeech.createDictation();
Ti.API.info("Are you already recording? " + dictate.isRecording());
The start method is used to start the dictation process. While you are speaking the iSpeech.org APIs will be used to convert your voice into text. For example, this method can be used to record a voice note from a user.
Parameters : Dictionary : Require The start method takes a dictionary with the following elements.
onComplete : Callback : required The onComplete callback is triggered on finish, error, cancel, or other completion action.
silenceDetection : Boolean : optional The silenceDetection parameter is true by default. This toggle determines of the recognizer should complete based on silence detection.
locale : String : optional The locale used to determine the speakers language.
freeformType : Enum : optional The type of text operation you wish to have performed. By default this is set to TYPE_DICTATION.
model : String : optional If you are using a custom model, you can set this value to the model you wish to use.
Example The following shows how to recognize when someone asks to call one of the individuals listed below.
var dictate = ispeech.createDictate();
function dictateCompleted(e){
Ti.API.info(JSON.stringify(e));
};
dictate.start({
onComplete:dictateCompleted
});
The following outlines the methods on the Speak proxy object. This allows you to speak sentences or phrases.
You can also check if audio is available on each proxy as well as the module.
Parameters None
Example
var speak = ispeech.createSpeak();
Ti.API.info("Is Audio available? " + speak.isAvailable());
The isSpeaking method is used to determine if we are already speaking. This avoids duplication of action.
Parameters None
Example
var speak = ispeech.createSpeak();
Ti.API.info("Are you already speaking? " + speak.isSpeaking());
The start method is used to start speaking a phrase using the iSpeech.org API.
Parameters : Dictionary : Require The start method takes a dictionary with the following elements.
text : String : required The text which should be spoken.
onComplete : Callback : required The onComplete callback is triggered on finish, error, cancel, or other completion action.
voice : String : optional The voice parameter allows you to provide a custom voice. If this is not provided, the default voice will be used.
speed : Int : optional The speed parameter allows you to adjust the speed the speech is read.
bitrate : Int : optional The bitrate parameter allows you to adjust the bitrate used.
resume : Boolean : optional The resume parameter allows you to indicate if iSpeech should resume after being interrupted. By default this is false.
Example The following shows how to recognize when someone asks to call one of the individuals listed below.
var speak = ispeech.createSpeak();
function onSpeakFinished(e){
Ti.API.info(JSON.stringify(e));
};
speak.start({
onComplete:onSpeakFinished,
text:"Hello world"
});
Please check the module's example folder or
for samples on how to use this project.
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For module updates, Titanium tutorials and more please check out my blog at benCoding.Com.
Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.
iSpeech is a registered trademark of iSpeech, Inc.
Ti.iSpeech is available under the MIT license.
Copyright 2013 Benjamin Bahrenburg.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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