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0.99888 | Are Susanna Reid and Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish getting married, when did she break up with her ex-partner and how much weight has she lost?
SUSANNA Reid is best known for co-presenting Good Morning Britain alongside Piers Morgan.
How old is Susanna Reid? Where is she from?
Susanna Victoria Reid, 48, is from Croydon, South London.
She was born on December 10, 1970.
She was educated at the independent Croham Hurst School, followed by the independent Croydon High School and then St Paul's Girls' School in London.
Susanna studied politics, philosophy and law at the University of Bristol , where she was editor of Epigram, the student newspaper, which was short-listed in 1991 as Best Student Newspaper in The Guardian/NUS student journalism awards.
She then undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism.
Is Susanna Reid dating Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish? Are the getting married?
Susanna went public with her new boyfriend, Steve Parish, 53, on November 4, 2018 when they were pictured at a Crystal Palace v Chelsea match.
A friend said: “They have known each other for several years through their connections to Palace."
In January 2019 Susanna revealed she was "very happy" with her new beau, but insisted she didn't want to get married.
Has Susanna been married before?
The TV star was previously with the former sports presenter Dominic Cotton from 1998 until they separated in February 2014.
They have three children together – Jack, Sam and Finn.
Where did Susanna Reid start her career?
After leaving University, Susanna began her career at BBC Radio Bristol and then became a reporter for Radio 5 Live, as well as a producer before joining BBC News 24, where she spent two years as a reporter.
When the 11pm presenter didn't turn up one night, Susanna became a stand-in presenter for an hour (while three months pregnant with her first child), which turned into a permanent position.
Before going on maternity leave, she presented on the BBC's online interactive service and then became a reporter for Breakfast News in 1998.
After a second maternity break, she became a presenter on the BBC News Channel.
From 2003 Susanna became one of the main presenters on BBC Breakfast, with Bill Turnbull on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and previously presented with Charlie Stayt on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
In 2010, Reid stepped down from presenting Breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays to take a role on a new programme Sunday Morning Live.
When was Susanna Reid on Strictly Come Dancing?
In December 2013, Susanna was a runner-up in the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing with partner Kevin Clifton.
She lost out on taking the glitterball trophy to model Abbey Clancy.
She previously participated in the Children in Need special of the show, pairing with Robin Windsor and eventually winning it in November 2011.
How long has Susanna Reid presented Good Morning Britain?
In February 2014, it was reported that ITV were attempting to recruit Susanna for their new breakfast programme, with a £1million salary.
Susanna had previously rejected claims of moving to ITV in December 2013, during her Strictly Come Dancing stint, claiming she would "bleed BBC" if cut open.
But on March 3, 2014, the BBC confirmed her move to ITV to front rival breakfast programme Good Morning Britain, which replaced its former show Daybreak.
She now co-hosts the show alongside Piers Morgan and Ben Shephard every Monday to Thursday from 6am to 8.30am.
She earns an annual salary of £500,000 a year for GMB.
How much weight has Susanna Reid lost?
In January 2019 Susanna revealed she lost one and half stone after she ditched alcohol.
She said the doctor warned her to cut out the booze after her BMI was dangerously high.
A doctor had warned her she had crept up to the "top end" of the body mass index scale.
Was Susanna Reid once an actress?
Susanna was known for treading the boards when she was younger.
As a child, she appeared as an actress in a stage production of Agatha Christie's Spider's Web (1982) with Shirley-Anne Field.
She then starred alongside Peter Barkworth and Harriet Walter in The Price (1985) on Channel 4.
But her biggest role to date was starring in Dreamworks animation Trolls in 2016 where she lent her voice to the character of Grandma Rosiepuff (UK release only). | 2019-04-26T08:05:47 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/2532708/susanna-reid-boyfriend-steve-parish-good-morning-britain-piers-morgan/ |
0.993331 | Derek Mackay is facing a crunch vote on his Scottish Budget proposals on Thursday.
Scotland's finance secretary has said he is "open to compromise" as he tries to strike a deal to allow his tax and spending plans for the next year to pass at Holyrood.
Derek Mackay is facing a crunch vote on his Scottish Budget proposals, with all the opposition parties having previously indicated they cannot support the package.
Labour have urged the other parties to join with them and "vote down" what they branded a "cuts budget".
Mr Mackay said the "ongoing uncertainty" caused by Brexit meant "there has never been more need for MSPs, of all parties, to act responsibly and not add to that uncertainty".
With the SNP not having a majority in the Scottish Parliament, the finance secretary has to convince at least one of the four rival parties there to back him.
Speaking ahead of Thursday's crunch Holyrood vote, Mr Mackay said: "Our spending plans for the coming year contain additional money for schools and hospitals, protecting vital public services and investing in our economy, while also providing stability amid the ongoing uncertainty caused by Brexit.
"With that backdrop in mind, there has never been more need for MSPs, of all parties, to act responsibly and not add to that uncertainty.
"So I urge all MSPs to unite behind the 2019-20 Scottish budget - that is what people the length and breadth of Scotland expect."
The Finance Secretary insisted the Scottish Government was "investing in essential public services, particularly the NHS" at the same time as ensuring 55% of income taxpayers in Scotland pay less than they would if they were living elsewhere in the UK.
"Taken together with the personal allowance, 99% of taxpayers will pay less income tax next year on the same income," Mr Mackay added.
He stressed: "Since introducing the Budget Bill, I have sought to engage with all parties in order to secure support for our spending plans.
"We are open to compromise in order to ensure we deliver the budget that the country expects and I am confident others will approach things in the same spirit."
The Scottish Greens, who supported his budget in the previous two years, said at the weekend they could not do so this time round without changes being made, claiming the current proposals were too "damaging" for local services.
Patrick Harvie, Scottish Green co-convener, later indicated he could still do a deal if Mr Mackay was "willing to give ground".
He tweeted: "It's disappointing that we still don't have a fair compromise from the Government.
"But if @DerekMackaySNP is still willing to give ground, we are still focused on achieving what's needed for Scotland's local services, the people who deliver them and those who rely on them."
Labour Holyrood finance spokesman James Kelly said the budget needs major alterations. He said: "Derek Mackay has produced a cuts budget - £319m worth of cuts in funding for local government and cuts in tax for high earners.
"No credible anti-austerity party would ever propose it and all credible anti-austerity parties should vote against it. "The budget needs a fundamental rewrite, not more tinkering around the edges.
"That's why opposition parties should vote down the budget and tell Derek Mackay to come up with a better plan, like a 50p top rate of tax so that the richest pay their fair share." The tax and spending package currently before MSPs includes an additional £730m investment in health services in Scotland and £180m aimed at boosting attainment in schools.
It also outlines #5 billion of capital investment, including £1.7bn spending on transport infrastructure and a #50 million town centre fund to support struggling high streets.
Meanwhile, tax changes proposed in the budget will increase differences between Scotland and the rest of the UK. From April, taxpayers south of the border will only pay income tax at the 40p rate if they earn more than £50,000 a year - while in Scotland it is proposed people will pay the higher rate of 41p on earnings above £43,430. | 2019-04-21T07:14:14 | https://stv.tv/news/politics/1435108-holyrood-finance-secretary-open-to-compromise-over-budget/ |
0.999999 | Modifying plans: My original plan was to cross from Bulgaria to Turkey, then go down to Syria and Jordan and through Iraq to Iran. However, because of a disease outbreak in Syria, the Turks had closed the border. This is why I decided to go down through Greece, then Cyprus and take a boat from there to Lebanon. In Vienna, I had met a young American named Bob. He was intrigued about my plans to go to the Middle East and we decided to travel together for awhile. While we had originally planned to meet up again in Athens, we bumped into each other in Sofia, and traveled together for the next six weeks, as far as Teheran.
Beirut descended into civil war in 1975, but there was not active fighting at the time we arrived.
That said, Bob and I traveled out of the boat accompanied by two other backpackers as we tried to get our orientation and to figure out what to do next. Any hotels around the port area were semi-destroyed or pock marked and we definitely did not like the “vibe” of the place. After a couple of abortive attempts to find a reasonably secure place to stay, I suggested taking a cab to the Canadian Embassy on Rue Hamra. After a couple of kilometres of driving through a devastated urban wasteland we crossed what was the “green line”, then manned by Syrian troops, and headed to a different part of the city. By the time we got to Rue Hamra, it was like we were in a completely different country. There was virtually no evidence of the war, there were lots of shops and cafes, and it looked like any other normal busy urban centre.
A couple of days later, we headed back into the “war zone” for an hour or two, only because that was the departure point for taking a collective taxi to Damascus. Driving out of Beirut, and almost all of the way to the Syrian border, scenes of structural damage and devastation were everywhere. And once across the border in Syria, all evidence of war and damage totally disappeared.
For whatever reason, in my experience in visiting “pariah states” in the Middle East, such as Syria or Libya, the level of inquisitive interest and hospitality was among the warmest I have found anywhere in the world. While I only visited Damascus, my memories of interpersonal interaction with the Syrians was universally polite and positive. At the youth hostel in Damascus, I met two blonde Austrian women who were hitch-hiking through Syria. I asked if they considered it dangerous. They said they were “street savvy”, were aware of the cultural context, knew how to avoid trouble, and did not believe themselves to be at seriously greater risk than a male, if they took appropriate cautions.
From Damascus, we took a bus down to Amman, Jordan. Two of the great highlights are Petra and the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is so saline that one floats above the water more dramatically than in any other body of water. Petra is one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world. Jordanian truck drivers were great at giving lifts to hitch-hikers, even two males traveling together, though we did have a three hour wait in the midday heat at the turnoff for Petra. We stopped for a bite of dinner at a hotel at the entrance to the Siq, then proceeded at sunset to walk through the Siq, a narrow canyonlike defile that is the entrance to Petra to arrive at the first and most impressive temple of all, the Treasury. We decided to sleep in our sleeping bags inside the Treasury overnight. At about 0300 in the morning, I could see a shaft of blue light entering the Treasury from outside. I woke up Bob and we both walked outside. What we saw was not the moon, but the most intense display of stars and the Milky Way that I have ever seen in my life.
Getting a visa to go east out of Jordan proved to be a rather vexing problem that took some time to resolve. Saudi Arabia did not give tourist visas, and was only prepared to give a 3-day transit visa if you already had a visa for the next country. Kuwait and Iraq, the two countries en route east towards Iran were petroleum wealthy. Their Embassies were overwhelmed by Jordanians and other Arabs from less prosperous states trying to get visas to work there. But the biggest problem was that the Gulf countries were very conservative in orientation, and had enough petroleum reserves that tourism, especially from backpackers, was irrelevant and usually unwanted. We had to give up on Iraq, then give up on Kuwait. Then we checked with the Embassy of Bahrain. The officials said that if we flew into the country, we could get a three day transit visa on arrival. So a few days later we boarded a Lufthansa flight from Amman to Bahrain, en route to Bangkok.
Our “free form” travel came to an abrupt halt on arrival in Bahrain at 0130. Without an onward ticket, immigration would not let us leave the airport. We waited a few hours for everything to open and about six hours later bought a ticket to Shiraz in Iran. The cheapest hotel rooms in Bahrain were running around $25 per night. So we asked around at a couple of churches and a missionary kindly offered us a place to stay. Two days later, one of the missionaries arranged for us to participate in a meeting with Bahrain’s then head of state, Sheikh Isa Bin Sulman Al Khalifa.
Later our benefactor mentioned that he had a friend named Bert, who was living in Ajman in the United Arab Emirates. To close the story, Bert met us at the airport, we spent a few days in Dubai, Ajman and Sharjah, then changed our flights to Bandar Abbas in Iran. In the late 1970s, the Emirates were one vast construction zone. I estimated that in many parts of the country there were at least as many modern buildings under construction as completed buildings. Compared to the comparative austerity of Eastern Europe, Syria and Jordan ( indeed almost anywhere else I was to visit over the following year in Asia), the material wealth and excess was remarkable. We flew from Dubai to Bandar Abbas across the Gulf into Iran. Shortly more than a decade later, the shooting down of that aircraft brought the long war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s to a close.
The cultural shift from Arabia to Iran was dramatic. In my experience, the hospitality to strangers in the Arab Middle East was replaced by hustle, and even a certain amount of aggression. There were also many beggars. Demonstrations against the Shah had already begun, which may have accounted for the palpable tension in the air. Once into Iran, and throughout the rest of my time in Asia, I no longer hitch-hiked, but traveled by local transportation. Iranian busses between the major cities invariably traveled overnight, usually arriving inconveniently at around 0400 in the morning.
Overland travel through Asia in the late 1970s was popular and well established. Global political and security developments wax and wane over time. However, the major events in the 1960s to the mid-1970s which rendered parts of Asia inaccessible all occurred in Southeast Asia. The expanding war in Indochina first put Vietnam, then Cambodia, then finally Laos off limits. The convulsions from Portuguese Timor and the Indonesian occupation broke the cheapest “overlanding” route – island hopping through Indonesia to Dili, then capital of Portuguese Timor, then catching a cheap flight to Darwin, also off limits. Yet the huge convulsions which were to envelop West Asia and continues to this day, were only just beginning. Within a year of my trip, these well established and widely used backpacker routes were no longer accessible.
And the cheapest trade routes were the most traveled. Once we had left Athens for the Middle East, for the most part, there were very few backpackers. In the few weeks we traveled in the Arab Middle East, I could have counted the travellers I met on the fingers of both hands. Starting in Shiraz, more notably in Isfahan, and overwhelmingly once I arrived in Teheran at the famous Amir-Kabir Hotel, this was a well trodden route and on almost all local transport, Western backpackers were a significant contingent of those traveling.
Travelling on the cheap in West Asia in those days was different than in Europe. With the “Eurail/Interailpass” mentality in Europe, you constantly met other travelers. Yet for the most part, save for remote parts of Scandinavia, there was such an array of choice for your next destination, that while you might bump into the same people from time to time, it was not a constant feature. From Iran to Kathmandu, however, I was constantly meeting the same travelers over and over again. While the comfort of other travelers provides an always stimulating way to experience travel, it differs in solo travel in that your encounters, save for the transactional, tended to be with other travelers..
To Afghanistan: I followed the “thick red line” that went across to Mashad in eastern Iran, then across to the border town of Islam Qala. We arrived in Afghanistan just after the border had officially closed for the day, though the customs official also ran an inexpensive hotel next door. We were processed the following day. About a dozen of us eventually took a bus to Herat. The amazing thing about entering Afghanistan was the sense of almost literally going back to the 13th century. Herat had a wonderful reputation in the 1970s. To me, it was a relief of getting out of Iran, combined with the quiet Wild East, where you saw more people on horseback than in vehicles. Afghanistan was a very popular adventure destination in those days. In a typical bus ride in Afghanistan in those days, between 20 and 40 percent of the passengers would be Western backpackers.
Local buses were good. Afghanistan had used its neutrality during the Cold War to have a series of paved roads built by the Soviets and the Americans during the 1960s and 1970s. As late as the 1950s, places like Bamian were only accessible after horse or foot journeys lasting weeks. By the time I went through, the main trunk roads from the Iran Border – Herat – Kandahar – Kabul – up to Mazar-i-Sharif, and from Kabul, down through Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass and on to Peshawar were all along good paved roads.
Using Kabul as a base, I went up north for a few days to Mazar-i-Sharif and Balkh, then back, then into central Afghanistan to Bamian and the lakes of Band-i-Amir and back, then down through the Kabul Gorge to Jalalabad, across the border at Torkham, and into the tribal regions of Pakistan to Landi Kotal, through the Khyber to the Indo-Gangetic plain and on to Peshawar.
“Afghanistan is already on my list of “must return” countries”.
“Yet another fine day in Afghanistan”.
“Such an magnificent mountain topography en route to Band-i-Amir which looked like a one sided Grand Canyon – with a series of crystal blue lakes at the bottom”.
Many travelers at the time lingered for weeks in Afghanistan, then usually scooted quickly through Pakistan to India. Once in India, there was an enormous amount to explore, but the overland route generally headed across the north to Varanasi and then on to Kathmandu. I too, did not linger long in Pakistan. However, I did take a flight from Rawalpindi up to Skardu in Baltistan for a few days. For me, Baltistan was even more austere toward women than Afghanistan. On the streets in Afghanistan, you would at least see the burqas wandering along the street (I am excluding my experiences in what was then the comparatively cosmopolitan city of Kabul). In the bazaars and along the street in Skardu, there were only men.
The cultural change crossing from Pakistan to India was also dramatic. Suddenly, not only were there women on the street, they were also police officers, directing traffic and running commercial shops. India always invokes strong reactions in travelers and will not leave you indifferent. For all its contradictions, I am a great fan of India. I coined a phrase that for me sums up the reality of first coming to India. “The rest of the world is in black and white, India is in technicolour”.
My route to Nepal followed a fairly typical route at the time, from Amritsar up to Srinagar and the fabled houseboats of Dal and Nagin lakes. Then along the well traveled route to New Delhi, Agra, Varanasi, and then by a combination of trains and buses across the border to Raxaul and Kathmandu.
For me, and for a great many other travelers in the 1960s and 1970s, Nepal was the ultimate Holy Grail. The Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara and the lake of Phewa Tal, and going trekking in the Himalaya – the Annapurna Circuit, Annapurna Sanctuary, the Everest Trek, Langtang and Helambu were the most popular choices at that time. Because of the great restaurants and cheap prices, and people coming back from and heading out on treks, Kathmandu was the place where I bumped into many people I had seen along the way. When I first got there, I met those who had been going at a faster pace than me, and after coming back from my trek I once again saw those arriving who had been going at a slower pace. I spent the better part of a month in Nepal, some of it exploring the Kathmandu Valley, some of it chilling with other travelers, as well as a sixteen day trek in the Annapurna Region to Mutkinath and the Thorong La. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Trekking in the Nepal Himalayas had been, for me, the most anticipated part of my entire trip. It did not disappoint. | 2019-04-21T02:51:11 | http://deglobalnomad.com/leg/overland-to-kathmandu/ |
0.999898 | is Proper Response to "Gun Control"
We have discussed recently the Washington State ballot initiative, successful in the recent election, that will outlaw all private sales of firearms (because a sale in which the prospective buyer's criminal history--and increasingly even medical history--is first combed through by the FBI, is anything but "private"). That discussion was about the threat posed by this new approach by the gun ban zealots--using a lavishly funded media blitz to dupe low information voters into passing oppressive "gun control" ballot initiatives. A very useful breakdown of the future of that threat in other states can be found here, by the way.
For Washington gun owners, though, it's too late to worry about how to stop such measures from succeeding--the billionaire backers of I-594 have already won, and the law they bought goes into effect in about two weeks. The question now is what to do about it.
This is practically unheard of in the modern era; not only will 5,500 people deliberately violate the law through civil disobedience, but will violate felony gun laws.
Actually, according to the Facebook page associated with the event, the RSVP list of planned attendees is now over 6,200, with nearly 2,000 more "maybes." Among those planning to attend is tireless liberty advocate and perennial thorn in the collectivists' sides Mike Vanderboegh, who despite some serious health issues, intends to travel from Alabama to Washington for the party--about as far as one can go in a straight line within the continental U.S.
So what will they actually do at the event? The plan is to publicly exchange guns without a background check--a felony under the new law. As the event's Facebook page says, they plan to "violate I-594 in every possible way."
Now, a Washington State Patrol spokesman says people won't be arrested for exchanging guns.
"We don't think that we could prove that that's a transfer," said Bob Calkins, spokesman for the patrol.
It's not easy to believe Calkins' contention that they "don't think that [they] could prove that that's a transfer." The text of I-594 explicitly defines the word "transfer" for purposes of the law: "Transfer means the intended delivery of a firearm to another person without consideration of payment or promise of payment including, but not limited to, gifts and loans." With these "transfers" being made in public and in plain sight, the police could record them on video if they wished--sounds like a pretty easy proof.
The vastly more plausible reason that the state police have no intention of trying to arrest a gathering of thousands of angry, armed citizens is that they are smart enough to be terrified of starting a shooting war against an armed citizenry with both right and numbers on their side.
In short, several weeks before the rally, its planners have already won a key victory. The state's enforcers have already tacitly acknowledged their inability to do anything more than stand on the sidelines and watch as the law is violated thousands of times in front of their eyes. Nothing breeds contempt for a law as quickly as the knowledge that it can be openly violated with utter impunity.
We have seen this before. Tens of thousands (or scores of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?) of owners of banned (but "grandfathered") "assault weapons" in Connecticut are defying that state's mandate that they register them, and the state has been at an utter loss as to what to do about it.
In New York, compliance with the obscenely misnamed "SAFE Act's" similar requirement to register "pre-ban" "assault weapons" is unknown. Why? Because the state refuses to say, dubiously claiming that to release this aggregate data would be to violate gun owners' privacy (as if that would bother New York politicians). The far more reasonable explanation is that compliance is embarrassingly low there, too.
The movie "Defiance," about the Bielski brothers' desperate struggle to save themselves and hundreds of other Jews from the Nazis in Belorussia, is, despite its unfortunate choice of Daniel Craig for the leading role, an inspiring movie, with a tagline very applicable to this situation: "Freedom begins with an act of defiance." In Washington and everywhere else under the thumb of onerous "gun control" laws, it's time to get freedom started. | 2019-04-18T18:55:01 | http://jpfo.org/articles-assd04/defiance-is-gc-response.htm |
0.999996 | We have put together a list of words that are similar to GALAXY.
1 The Milky Way, that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope.
2 A very large collection of stars comparable in size to the Milky Way system, held together by gravitational force and separated from other such star systems by large distances of mostly empty space. Galaxies vary widely in shape and size, the most common nearby galaxies being over 70,000 light years in diameter and separated from each other by even larger distances. The number of stars in one galaxy varies, and may extend into the hundreds of billions.
3 A splendid or impressive assemblage of persons or things.
7 Any of numerous large-scale aggregates of stars, gas, and dust that constitute the universe, containing an average of 100 billion (1011) solar masses and ranging in diameter from 1,500 to 300,000 light-years. Also called nebula.
9 An assembly of brilliant, glamorous, or distinguished persons or things: a galaxy of theatrical performers.
10 In astronomy, the Milky Way, a luminous band extending around the heavens. | 2019-04-24T02:36:49 | http://topwordslike.com/similar-to/galaxy |
0.99937 | What if I want my dumpster in Bastrop picked up early?
When you make arrangements to rent a dumpster in Bastrop, part of your rental agreement comprises a stated duration of time you're permitted to use the container. You normally base this time on the length of time you think your project might take. The bigger the job, the the more time you'll need the dumpster. Most dumpster rental firms in Bastrop give you a rate for a certain amount of days. Should you exceed that amount of days, you'll pay an extra fee daily. In case the job goes more quickly than expected, you may be ended with the dumpster earlier than you anticipated.
If this is the case, give the dumpster business a call and they'll probably come pick your container up early; this will enable them to rent it to someone else more instantly. You normally will not get a reduction on your own rate if you ask for early pick-up. Your rental fee includes 7 days (or no matter your term is), whether you use them all or not.
If you would like to rent a dumpster in Bastrop, you'll discover that costs vary considerably from state to state and city to city. One means to get actual estimates for the service you need is to call a local dumpster business and ask about their costs. You can also request a quote online on some sites. These sites may also comprise full online service that's constantly open. On these sites, you can choose, schedule and pay for your service whenever it is convenient for you.
Variables which affect the price of the container comprise landfill fees (higher in some regions than others) and also the size of the container you choose. You should also consider transportation costs and also the kind of debris you will be placing into your container.
Price quotes for dumpster rental in Bastrop normally comprise the following: the size of the container, the kind of debris involved, the base price for the dumpster, how much weight is included in the quote, a given rental period and delivery and pickup fees.
2. Give you and also the rental company lots of time. It is better to call ahead at least a week or two before you want the dumpster. If you attempt to schedule an appointment sooner than that, you could have a small variety.
3. Keep in contact with all the rental company. If anything changes in your program, contact the business when possible to inform them. That way, you can fix the appointment as needed without limiting your choices.
One of the most significant things to do when you're contemplating a construction or remodeling job is to plan ahead. Section of that procedure will probably be researching your dumpster needs for the project. Knowing ahead of time how dumpster rental in Bastrop functions will make things easier when you start the procedure. You will find most of the typical advice you need online, but for advice unique to your area, you may need to call your local business. Be sure to ask about any hidden or extra fees so you do not get stuck with a surprise statement.
Among the greatest parts of your research will be establishing the right size container you need to rent based on the size of the job. This is going to be your largest cost, so ensure you get a size that is large enough to survive for the whole project. Other issues to research first comprise a possible place for the container, the kind of waste that you're throwing away and the duration of time you'll need the dumpster.
Dumpster bags may offer an option to roll of dumpsters. Whether this option works well for you, however, will depend on your own endeavor. Consider these pros and cons before you pick a disposal option that works for you.
It's difficult to conquer a roll off dumpster when you've got a large undertaking that may create plenty of debris. Most rental companies include dropping off and picking up the dumpster in the costs, in order to prevent additional fees. Roll off dumpsters typically have time constraints because firms have to get them back for other customers. This really is a possible drawback if you're not good at meeting deadlines.
Dumpster bags are often suitable for small jobs with loose deadlines. In the event you don't need a lot of room for debris, then the bags could function nicely for you. Many businesses are also happy to allow you to maintain the bags for so long as you want. That makes them useful for longer jobs.
The quantity of time that you have to rent a dumpster in Bastrop ordinarily depends on the type of job you are working on. A little endeavor, including a cellar clean out, will likely take a couple of days to finish while larger projects, like constructing a brand new house, could take several months.
Most dumpster rental businesses in Bastrop are happy to adjust their schedules to suit your needs. Keep in your mind, nevertheless, that the the more time you keep the dumpster, the further you'll need to cover it.
When you contact dumpster rental businesses in Bastrop, ask them how long their terms are. Many will allow you choices such as several days or one week, but there are typically longer durations accessible, also.
Most cities or municipalities don't have many regulations regarding dumpster rental in Bastrop as long as you keep the dumpster entirely on your own property during the rental period. If you need to position your container on the road at all, you will likely have to obtain a permit from the correct building permit office in your town.
Most dumpster rental companies in Bastrop will take care of securing this permit for you if you rent from them. Make sure that in the event you're intending to set the dumpster on the road, the business has made the appropriate arrangements. You must also make certain you get the permit in a timely manner and at the right cost. If you thought the dumpster business was getting a permit and they didn't, you will be the one who will have to pay the fine that is issued by the authorities. | 2019-04-22T12:46:11 | http://www.dumpstersla.com/dumpster-rental/bastrop/ |
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0.999954 | "No, you keep it," I told students, as they tried to hand me their papers at the end of class. "Why did I do it if you're not even going to collect it? What kind of teacher are you?" students replied, before balling up their papers and throwing them on the floor.
Did I appreciate students responding like this? No, but I did appreciate why they responded like this. It was early in the year, and they'd been conditioned for years to see it as a teacher's duty to collect every assignment. There was no incentive for students to lift a finger unless they knew an assignment was going to be collected.
To give them feedback that will help improve their understanding.
Design tests and other graded activities so that earnest effort on class work (and homework if you assign it) ensures success/improvement on those graded activities.
Assign grades for class work (and homework) based on effort rather than accuracy.
Just a couple of ways to establish why students should lift a finger even when they aren't being graded: it'll lift their performance when they are being graded. | 2019-04-21T18:24:04 | https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/coach_gs_teaching_tips/2011/05/assessment_over_grading_and_effort_over_accuracy.html |
0.999989 | Converting Japanese jō to Japanese kanejaku value in the length units scale.
TOGGLE : from Japanese kanejaku into Japanese jō in the other way around.
Convert length measuring units between Japanese jō (丈) and Japanese kanejaku (曲尺) but in the other reverse direction from Japanese kanejaku into Japanese jō.
This online length from 丈 into 曲尺 converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals.
10.00 曲尺 is converted to 1 of what?
The Japanese kanejaku unit number 10.00 曲尺 converts to 1 丈, one Japanese jō. It is the EQUAL length value of 1 Japanese jō but in the Japanese kanejaku length unit alternative.
How to convert 2 Japanese jō (丈) into Japanese kanejaku (曲尺)? Is there a calculation formula?
1. in practicing Japanese jō and Japanese kanejaku ( 丈 vs. 曲尺 ) values exchange.
How many Japanese kanejaku of length are in 1 Japanese jō? The answer is: The change of 1 丈 ( Japanese jō ) unit of length measure equals = to 10.00 曲尺 ( Japanese kanejaku ) as the equivalent measure for the same length type.
In principle with any measuring task, switched on professional people always ensure, and their success depends on, they get the most precise conversion results everywhere and every-time. Not only whenever possible, it's always so. Often having only a good idea ( or more ideas ) might not be perfect nor good enough solution. If there is an exact known measure in 丈 - Japanese jō for length amount, the rule is that the Japanese jō number gets converted into 曲尺 - Japanese kanejaku or any other length unit absolutely exactly.
Conversion for how many Japanese kanejaku ( 曲尺 ) of length are contained in a Japanese jō ( 1 丈 ). Or, how much in Japanese kanejaku of length is in 1 Japanese jō? To link to this length Japanese jō to Japanese kanejaku online converter simply cut and paste the following.
The link to this tool will appear as: length from Japanese jō (丈) to Japanese kanejaku (曲尺) conversion.
The length converter from 丈 ( Japanese jō ) measure to 曲尺 ( Japanese kanejaku ) equivalent. | 2019-04-21T06:45:26 | https://www.traditionaloven.com/tutorials/distance/convert-japan-jo-unit-to-japan-kanejaku-unit.html |
0.985344 | How can I accurately relate the analysis of a sample portion of a census to an entire population?
I am reseraching Norwegian female immigrants to Chicago during the turn of the 20th century for a graduate history paper I am writing. I am using the 1% random selection from the 1880, 1900, and 1920 censuses to look at how many of the Norwegian immigrant women in Chicago from those selections were married, employed in certain types of jobs, etc. However, I am not sure how to relate my findings to the larger Norwegian female immigrant population of Chicago or if it can be done accurately. Even if it cannot be done, what is the best way to report my analysis of these much smaller segments accurately and explain the sample.
Yes, this is possible via the use of sample weight variables. Ethnicity and immigration status variables are person-level variables and so you will want to use the PERWT variable in your analysis. For more information on sample weights, see here. For specific information about the sampling designs of particular census samples, see here. | 2019-04-21T20:54:11 | https://forum.ipums.org/t/how-can-i-accurately-relate-the-analysis-of-a-sample-portion-of-a-census-to-an-entire-population/1696 |
0.99977 | Does someone havethe score of Wittgenstein's transcription of the 'Coro a Bocca Chiusa" from Madamma Butterfly, by Puccini?
You'll find it in volume 3 of his School for the Left Hand, available on IMSLP.
I have it here! I was looking exclusively for "Coro a Bocca Chiusa" and it appears as Sailor's Chorus in here!
A few Russian inspired works for left hand.
Wonderful, Malcolm. Quite an interesting selection of pieces. I find the Terteryan prelude the most challenging for me with the inner voice being somewhat difficult to bring out--but most interesting!
Thanks Malcolm. Very charming LH pieces indeed.
There are some worthy recent one-handed works as well. These include Robert Helps's difficult "Music for Left Hand. Three études for piano solo" (Associated Music Publishers, 1976) and Leon Kirchner's marvelous (virtuousic, but playable) "L.H. : for piano left hand " (Associated Music Publishers, 2005). Richard Rodney Bennett's "5 Studies for piano" (Universal Edition) includes both a left hand alone and right alone study; each is challenging, but fun to play. | 2019-04-19T15:12:50 | http://www.pianophilia.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=431&start=40 |
0.998136 | Lesson 5-17 Remove gaps from Excel charts Description: This video lesson explains how to deal with empty data points in Excel 2013 charts. You'll see the problem that empty data points can cause when gaps are shown on a chart. You'll see how to correct this problem using the Hidden and Empty Cells settings to connect data points together and remove gaps from charts. You'll also learn about how... Excel's drop-down menus are useful for creating order forms and navigation for larger files like records of sales. The options in the menus are references to cells elsewhere on the spreadsheet.
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Lesson 5-17 Remove gaps from Excel charts Description: This video lesson explains how to deal with empty data points in Excel 2013 charts. You'll see the problem that empty data points can cause when gaps are shown on a chart. You'll see how to correct this problem using the Hidden and Empty Cells settings to connect data points together and remove gaps from charts. You'll also learn about how how to create ribbons in ullustrator swirling Completely delete the cell contents so that it is truly an empty cell. This assumes that the Hidden and empty cells option is at the default of Gaps . Have your formula return an #N/A and the chart will hide the data point regardless of any other settings.
Excel: Get rid of gaps in line chart. Ask Question 2. 1. I have a table that contains the data with some absent values. If I create a line chart for that, there are gaps in place of absent values, but I'd like to have the line just follow through to the next value. Is there a standard and simple way to do this without touching the data (e.g. using settings for the chart)? I'm able to solve how to use on delete cascade When you create an Excel chart that has your data organized by date, any gaps in the data will make your chart look incomplete or incorrect. When Excel creates a chart with dates in the data set, it automatically fills in any gaps in the dates and includes them in the X-axis.
Delete Gaps In Cells (postcodes) Jul 20, 2009. I have a load of postcodes over 8 different tabs, the problem is the format of the postcode is wrong.
The add-in is included in out Text Toolkit for Excel that contains 8 useful add-ins to manage text data in Excel (remove extra spaces, substrings and non-printable characters, change case, split cells, etc.). | 2019-04-20T06:35:54 | http://candydinner.com/ontario/how-to-delete-gaps-in-excel.php |
1 | You are given a function rand(a, b) which generates equiprobable random numbers between [a, b] inclusive. Generate 3 numbers x, y, z with probability P(x), P(y), P(z) such that P(x) + P(y) + P(z) = 1 using the given rand(a,b) function.
The idea is to utilize the equiprobable feature of the rand(a,b) provided. Let the given probabilities be in percentage form, for example P(x)=40%, P(y)=25%, P(z)=35%..
1) Generate a random number between 1 and 100. Since they are equiprobable, the probability of each number appearing is 1/100.
2) Following are some important points to note about generated random number ‘r’.
a) ‘r’ is smaller than or equal to P(x) with probability P(x)/100.
b) ‘r’ is greater than P(x) and smaller than or equal P(x) + P(y) with P(y)/100.
c) ‘r’ is greater than P(x) + P(y) and smaller than or equal 100 (or P(x) + P(y) + P(z)) with probability P(z)/100.
This function will solve the purpose of generating 3 numbers with given three probabilities. | 2019-04-21T11:08:11 | https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/write-a-function-to-generate-3-numbers-according-to-given-probabilities/ |
0.999994 | Is the use of psychiatric or neurologic medications during pregnancy associated with higher (or lower) incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children? This has been a difficult question to answer as pregnant women are often excluded from clinical trials. Further, separating out whether effects on children stem from exposure to medications or from increased risks associated with the mother's medical diagnosis has not been possible using prior study design methods. This week in JAMA Psychiatry, Janecka and colleagues use an innovative study design strategy to test whether prenatal exposure to drugs that act on neurotransmitter systems is associated with increased or decreased prevalence of ASD.
The authors obtained data for 95,978 children born between 1997 and 2007 from a health maintenance organization in Meuhedet, Israel, and verified that maternal prescription rates and ASD prevalence in the sample matched the national rates. The sample population consisted of all children who had received an ASD diagnosis before 2015, randomly sampled ASD and non-ASD individuals, and all siblings of ASD and non-ASD individuals. They then grouped individuals based on the neurotransmitter system that was targeted by the mother's medication (55 non-mutually exclusive medication groups in total; for example, the serotonin system), in contrast to previous studies which grouped individuals by medication. They next calculated the hazard ratios, a measure of the relative risk of outcome in one group compared to another group, using a statistical method that simultaneously evaluates how several factors influence the rate of a particular event happening (in this case, an ASD diagnosis) at a particular timepoint [Cox proportional hazards regression]. Importantly, the models tested also took into account the mothers' psychiatric or neurological conditions (e.g. anxiety disorder), number of maternal medical diagnoses within 1 year prior to birth (e.g. acute bronchitis), birth year, maternal and paternal age, and socioeconomic status.
Due to the number of factors that may play a role, establishing a clear relationship between prenatal exposure to psychiatric drugs and altered risk of ASD is difficult. A link between neuronal acetylcholine receptor α antagonists, such as certain medications used to treat epilepsy, and increased rates of ASD was the only clear finding in this study that remained significant after accounting for all other factors, although there were very few women who took these medications during pregnancy. Certain medications used as anti-analgesic/anti-inflammatory agents were found to be associated with decreased rates of ASD when the number of maternal diagnoses was also taken into account, though the associations were not statistically significant in subsequent analyses. The authors found no other statistically significant links between medication group and ASD when all variables were considered, indicating that the use of most neurologic medications, including antidepressants and antipsychotics, during pregnancy is not associated with increased or decreased prevalence of ASD. Of all factors considered, the number of maternal medical diagnoses appeared to have the greatest effect on whether a relationship between medication group and ASD was found, suggesting it may be confounding previously observed associations.
In contrast to previous reports, this study found no evidence that the use of drugs that act on the serotonin system (as well as most other neurotransmitter systems) during pregnancy increase a child's risk of ASD. Instead, it suggests that maternal general health can impact the risk of ASD, indicating that prior studies that found a link between prenatal medication use and ASD may need to be re-evaluated. Large-scale population-based studies such as this one are imperative for informing prescription practices of doctors treating pregnant patients.
Janecka et al. Association of Autism Spectrum Disorder with prenatal exposure to medication affecting neurotransmitter systems. JAMA Psychiatry (2018). Access the original scientific publication here. | 2019-04-25T07:05:35 | https://www.brainpost.co/weekly-brainpost/2018/11/6/prenatal-exposure-to-neurotransmitter-targeting-medications-and-autism |
0.998761 | What is Hydroquinone and Sunscreen?
Hydroquinone and Sunscreen (for the skin) is used to lighten areas of darkened skin such as freckles, age spots, melasma (sun damage), or chloasma (darkened skin caused by hormonal changes).
Hydroquinone and Sunscreen may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
You should not use Hydroquinone and Sunscreen if you are allergic to hydroquinone or peroxide.
It is not known whether Hydroquinone and Sunscreen will harm an unborn baby. Do not use this medicine without a doctor's advice if you are pregnant.
How should I use Hydroquinone and Sunscreen?
Hydroquinone and Sunscreen is usually applied each morning and at bedtime. Use exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
Hydroquinone and Sunscreen is for use only on the skin. Avoid getting this medicine on your lips or inside your nose or mouth. Hydroquinone may cause numbness of these areas.
Before you start using Hydroquinone and Sunscreen, you may choose to apply a "test dose" to see if you have an allergic reaction to this medicine. Apply a very small amount of the medicine to a small area of healthy skin, and check the area within 24 hours. If there is no reaction other than minor redness, begin using the full prescribed amount of the medicine.
Do not use Hydroquinone and Sunscreen on open wounds or on sunburned, windburned, dry, chapped, or irritated skin.
Call your doctor if your symptoms do not improve after 2 months of treatment with Hydroquinone and Sunscreen.
Use Hydroquinone and Sunscreen regularly to get the most benefit.
An overdose of Hydroquinone and Sunscreen is not expected to be dangerous. Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222 if anyone has accidentally swallowed the medication.
Avoid exposure to sunlight or tanning beds. Hydroquinone and Sunscreen can make you sunburn more easily. Wear protective clothing and use sunscreen (SPF 30 or higher) when you are outdoors. Some hydroquinone products may contain sunscreen. Check the medicine label or ask your doctor to be sure.
Avoid getting Hydroquinone and Sunscreen in your eyes.
Hydroquinone and Sunscreen may make your skin more sensitive to weather extremes such as cold and wind. Protect your skin with clothing and use a moisturizing lotion as needed.
Using Hydroquinone and Sunscreen together with benzoyl peroxide, hydrogen peroxide, or other peroxide products may stain your skin. This staining can usually be removed with soap and water.
What other drugs will affect Hydroquinone and Sunscreen? | 2019-04-24T15:51:52 | https://www.drugs.com/mtm/hydroquinone-and-sunscreen.html |
0.999939 | What can teachers and other school officials do to reduce the spread of influenza?
1. Recognize the symptoms of flu. The symptoms of flu are fever (> 100°F or 37.8°C), cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Sometimes diarrhea or vomiting may occur; however, these symptoms are usually not the main problem.
2. Prevent others from becoming sick. Children with symptoms of flu (see above) should be removed from the classroom as soon as possible. Send the child to the school nurse or designated school official. Keep ill children apart from others while waiting for someone to take them home.
3. Contain ill persons. Designate an area where ill children can stay while waiting to leave school. This area should be away from common rooms or areas where others could be exposed.
4. Designate staff to watch ill persons until they can be sent home. Limit the number of people involved. Designated staff should not be at increased risk of influenza-related complications (i.e., pregnant individuals, immunocompromised persons, persons with chronic health conditions, etc.).
5. Follow exclusion guidelines. Inform parent/guardian that the child is to be excluded from school and school activities (sports activities, clubs, dances, etc.) until at least 24 hours after their fever is gone without using fever-reducing medications, even if the child is taking an antiviral medication.
What can you do to prevent or reduce the spread of flu in your school?
1. Get the flu vaccine every year. The single best way to protect against seasonal flu is for children and staff to get a seasonal influenza vaccine each year. Flu vaccination is recommended for all children aged 6 months and older.
2. Wash your hands. Wash your hands several times a day using soap and warm water for 15-20 seconds. Check restrooms regularly to ensure that soap and paper towels are always available. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are also effective.
3. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers. Alcohol-based hand gels may be used in classrooms to minimize disruption. Hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol is effective in killing germs on hands when they are not visibly soiled. Appropriate times to practice good hand hygiene are after coughing, sneezing, or contact with infected surfaces (i.e., desks, doorknobs).
4. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Make sure tissues are available in all classrooms. Tissues should be thrown away immediately, and then followed by cleaning your hands. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow or shoulder; not into your hands.
5. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. Germs are spread this way.
6. Stay home when you are ill. Any student, teacher, or staff member reporting flu-like symptoms should stay at home or be sent home until at least 24 hours after their fever is gone without the use of fever-reducing medications, even if the individual is taking an antiviral medication.
7. Clean surfaces frequently. In the school, clean commonly used surfaces such as door handles, handrails, eating surfaces, desks, etc., frequently with detergent-based cleaners or EPA registered disinfectants that are normally used in the school setting. Special cleaning products are not needed. Use cleaning products according to directions on the product label. For bleach solutions, mix 1/4 cup chlorine bleach with 1 gallon of cool water. Bleach solutions should be changed daily. Additional, extensive cleaning of school settings by wiping down floors and walls is not necessary as this has not been demonstrated to decrease the spread of influenza.
8. Remember the school bus. Clean commonly handled interior surfaces (i.e., door handles, hand rails, etc.) between groups of students. Consider making tissues and alcohol-based hand gel available on buses since hand washing facilities are not available.
9. Report high absentee rates to your local health department. Your health department will work with you to help stop the spread of illness.
Purpose What can teachers and other school officials do to reduce the spread of influenza? What can you do to prevent or reduce the spread of flu in your school? | 2019-04-20T04:31:37 | http://digitalprairie.ok.gov/cdm/ref/collection/stgovpub/id/365935/ |
0.99935 | I'm evaluating Revit MEP at the moment. Unless I'm missing something, I'm not too impressed with the basic structure presets and manipulation so I've been using Inventor to quickly throw a structural frame together then importing into Revit. My question is how do you go about designing a building? Do you use multiple programs?
1) Inventor - the structural frame (basic as possible, mainly standard PFC and Beams mitred to suit); the floor slabs; custom components not to be repeated.
Is this common? My boss would ideally prefer we had an all in one solution. I've made an extreme sideways step in my career from manufacturing design (using Inventor) to these building services type drawings recently so, without meaning to sound daft, I'm asking myself "maybe I am making an arse of this?" .
The entire building can be done in Revit. If you are not happy with the out of the box options which are fairly limited, custom families can be found on the internet from manufacturers and users alike. I see a lot of people getting very frustrated with Revit because they want everything all at once but there is a need to build a decent library of families that are tailored for your use. How far can you get with AutoCAD before you need to start building a block library?
1. I'm not moaning about libraries and families, I'm not daft and I don't expect a magic solution (even if the powers that be do). I understand I'll need to detail my own 'library'. I'm asking if I 'should' be able to easily detail structural frames etc in Revit 'MEP' or should I be using Revit Structure (or as I'm doing just now, Inventor).
2. I'm looking for someone to comment on the processes they go through to create these drawings, if they use several programs.
I am not very familiar with using Revit Structure but it is included with the top level Revit suite. I have worked with structural models linked into MEP from a couple different sources, so it is being accepted in the industry.
If you're using Inventor then you're doing it all wrong. Keep it all in Revit. I believe Revit MEP already has the majority of structural framing components and families pre-installed. Granted, you don't have all the feature that Revit Structure has but you can get very far. Just can't do any analytic data or truss design or anything "structure specific". Revit in more than capable of handling all your needs when reconstructing a building. If you have the need for very accurate detail, then you'll want to add Revit Architecture and Structure to the mix. But all MEP design needs are your basic structural, wall, floor and misc. arch details (windows, doors, glazing, etc) laid out. RMEP gives you all that capabilities and then some.
Revit MEP does not allow you to place Structural families (columns, framing, joists, etc).
We use Building Design Suite Premium which gives us all the tools (RAC2012, RMEP2012, RST2012, and Revit 2013 (all inclusive)) we need for very little more upfront cost.
Really? I thought I have before. Then again I have the suite so I could be wrong. I know I've been able to manipulate structural components once in place using Revit MEP.
Once the components are in place, you can modify them all you want. You just cannot copy them or place new components.
You CAN place structural elements in family editor though. Then bring the family into your project. I once built an entire building structure within family editor...then we upgraded to BDSP.
I've fought with it a lot in the past.
Lee Roy, thanks so much for confirming my sanity. I have received a quote for the Building Design Suite also, in terms of additional costs it is minimal so I'll just go with that.
I'm assuming, after modelling the structure using RST, I'll somehow be able to link within the file for auto updating etc? Like an xref almost? Can you recommend any websites or articles to help 'understand' the process? I'm struggling to find any documentation. Sometimes I feel Autodesk are awesome at saying "and you could do this fancy thing! *insert pretty rendered image here*" but not actually telling you how you go about it. Our reseller is absolutely useless as well, perhaps because we're a small fish and only buying one license.
Yes, you can Link Revit models and it works just like XREF's do in AutoCAD (in principle). | 2019-04-22T02:00:26 | https://www.cadtutor.net/forum/topic/42660-how-do-you-model-your-project/?tab=comments |
0.99999 | Kevin Hunter has been fired as an executive producer on his estranged wife Wendy Williams' show, as the $215K Ferrari he bought for his baby mama is towed away, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Williams decided she finally had enough of her philandering husband of nearly 22 years and served him divorce papers at her TV studio in Manhattan last Thursday.
The 47-year-old was fired from the show and as Wendy's manager, a source on the show confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The source also said Hunter had been given 48 hours to remove his belongings from their marital home in Livingston, New Jersey as she was seen apartment hunting in New York City on Tuesday.
Wendy reached her tipping point after learning Hunter had been living the high life with his decade-long mistress Sharina Hudson, who gave birth last month, splurging on Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and gifting her with diamonds.
Hunter released an apology on Tuesday admitting he was not 'proud of his recent actions' and was 'trying to right some wrongs' while taking 'full accountability' for what he had done.
His groveling statement came after the flashy $215,000-plus gold Ferrari Portofino he gifted Hudson was seen being towed away - a day after Wendy hit him with the divorce papers.
The source said: 'Kevin had expected to stay on at the show and as Wendy's manager. He ran the show with an iron fist, he was the guy who kept the vultures away.
'But when Wendy saw the photos of him and Sharina last week on the Daily Mail going out for dinner and her driving around in a Ferrari she was furious.
'That's what tipped her over the edge, she was like, "he's gotta go". She now wants him out of her life completely, she's given him 48 hours to clear his office and clear his belongings out of the house.
A day after DailyMail.com published photos of the new Ferrari that Hunter gifted Hudson, it was loaded onto a truck and taken away.
A Ferrari dealership from Greenwich, Connecticut, picked the golden car up, as two men who appear to be helpers for Hunter looked on.
Hunter's statement on Tuesday read: '28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, I didn't realize that she would not only become my wife, but would also change the face of entertainment and the world.
'I have dedicated most of our lives to the business empire that is Wendy Williams Hunter, a person that I truly love and respect unconditionally.
I am not proud of my recent actions and take full accountability and apologize to my wife, my family and her amazing fans. I am going through a time of self-reflection and am trying to right some wrongs.
'No matter what the outcome is or what the future holds, we are still The Hunter Family and I will continue to work with and fully support my wife in this business and through any and all obstacles she may face living her new life of sobriety, while I also work on mine.
On Monday, Wendy kicked off her Hot Topics segment by revealing she was just a few days away from moving out the sober living facility she has called home for the past few weeks, and is ready to start a new life for herself and her son Kevin Jr. - the son she shares with Hunter.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed in early March the TV host had been living in the sober home in Queens, New York, to battle an addiction to alcohol and prescription pills, her downward spiral sparked by learning Hunter was still seeing Hudson.
Meanwhile, Hunter has been spending time with Hudson, who recently gave birth, at a hideaway in Edgewater, New Jersey.
The two seem to be living the high life, going out for dinner dates and driving new luxury vehicles.
Hunter was seen driving a new maroon convertible Rolls-Royce last Saturday to pick up Hudson and take her out to dinner, with the massage therapist proudly showing off her post baby pooch.
The 33-year-old, whose hair was freshly curled, carried a $5,200 quilted Chanel purse while wearing a chunky diamond chain necklace and diamond studs.
While Hunter treated his baby mama to a Ferrari, he seems to have also treated himself to new cars, including the luxury Rolls-Royce.
Hudson was seen driving her new sports car last Monday, exiting the flashy vehicle in a $1,260 Thom Browne tracksuit that showed off her post-baby body.
And Kevin has spared no expense on his own duds as well, seen one day in a $1,500 Fendi vest, $490 Fendi hat, $770 Fendi pants and $515 Fendi sunglasses.
The couple have been hiding out in New Jersey weeks after Hudson was secreted away to Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia to give birth in order to avoid media attention.
Hunter has been seen at the secret hideaway chauffeuring Sharina around.
Kevin was served with divorce papers from Wendy last Thursday morning at the TV studio, according to TMZ.
Extra security was hired in case Kevin, known to have a temper, got enraged on set. But there were apparently no outbursts.
The split will most likely be contested as Hunter is an executive producer on Williams' TV show and told Hudson that he couldn't afford to split from Wendy because she paid all the bills, a source previously told DailyMailTV.
In New Jersey, parties can file fault or no-fault. Fault allows a judge to dock alimony based on the seriousness of the offense. Proving will not be hard for either side in this case.
Reasons for fault include adultery, abandonment, physical or emotional abuse, and alcohol or drug abuse.
Williams filing for divorce comes after DailyMailTV revealed she had been living in a sober living home in Queens, New York, being treated for addiction to booze and prescription drugs.
Her downward spiral was sparked in December after she learned Hunter was still seeing Hudson, his mistress of more than a decade.
Meanwhile, Williams seemed to be in good spirits on her morning show on Thursday.
A source previously told DailyMailTV that Wendy was keeping her ring on during filming until she worked out what to do with Hunter, but was taking it off once outside of the studio.
A recently resurfaced excerpt from Williams' memoir reveals that she vowed to leave her husband if another woman had his child.
Wendy wrote in her 2001 memoir it would be one of the only things that would make her part ways from Hunter once and for all after revealing he'd already cheated on her earlier on in their relationship.
Williams' marital problems are the root of cause of her addiction to booze and pills, kicking off last December when the star hired a private investigator to spy on Hunter who she suspected was still carrying on with Hudson, DailyMailTV revealed last month.
In 2017, Hudson had been at the center of a DailyMail.com investigation that exposed her ten-year affair with Williams' husband.
After being told the secret affair was still very much alive, the TV host confronted Hunter demanding to know why he was still seeing the 33-year-old qualified massage therapist.
During the heated clash, it's believed Williams fell and hit her shoulder on the ground, suffering a hairline fracture.
Devastated, Williams quickly plunged into a depression while recovering from the injury and began drinking heavily. During the time away from hosting her show, Williams' drinking - coupled with powerful pain medication - proved a potent cocktail. Williams, who has a history of drug addiction, became hooked.
After returning from rehab in Florida, Williams began living in a sober home in Queens, which is situated above a barbershop in an unassuming red brick building in Long Island City.
But when news broke that Hudson had given birth to a little girl in late March, she checked herself out of her sober living home and started drinking - eventually being found by her team who took her to the hospital to sober up.
It's understood the star's sober coach, who had been with her 24 hours a day, raised the alarm.
A studio source told DailyMail.com: 'She was in a bad way and disappeared from the studio after her show Monday.
'She went back to the sober house only to check herself out and decided to start drinking.
They continued: 'Word got back to the studio and there was panic and concern, everyone was looking for her, no one knew whether there would be a show today.
Although Hudson has made several ultimatums to Hunter, insisting he leave Williams so they can settle down and start a family together, Hunter told her he can't leave Wendy because she paid all the bills.
'Kevin is in love with Sharina but he told her he can't leave his wife, but the only reason he is still with Wendy is because he and Sharina can't take care of themselves - they need her money,' a source told DailyMailTV. | 2019-04-25T21:53:20 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6928711/Wendy-Williams-husband-Kevin-Hunter-apologizes-FIRED-executive-producer-show.html |
0.999083 | Where can I buy these plants?
About five years after the publication of A Native Hawaiian Garden, people began asking me when a second edition would appear. There were two reasons for my hesitation. The first was that with a book you can only make changes by publishing new edition after new edition – what do you do if there's really only a handful of things you want to change but that handful contains some REALLY important changes? The second reason for my hesitation was my lack of experience with many plants. My expertise is with coastal and dry lowland plants. (Hey, I've lived on the westside of O‘ahu for nearly twenty years!) And, while I've grown many native plants of Hawai‘i's mesic and wet forests, that experience is limited – too limited for me to feel comfortable sharing it with a large audience. So, what to do.
Well, I think this website is the solution. Much to my surprise, creating (and, most importantly, modifying) a website really isn't hard. So, it is here that I will share what I know and what I have learned since 1999, and what I continue to learn. To address my second hesitation, I intend to ask native plant horticulturists with expertise outside my own to contribute pages to this site. I hope, over time, this will become less and less my website and more and more a communal site of shared knowledge.
I hope you find the site useful. However, I ask you to be patient. So the site doesn't consume my life, I will be adding pages slowly. Perhaps, this will keep you coming back again and again. I hope so. Understand too there's still lots of useful information in A Native Hawaiian Garden that may never appear at this site. Therefore, I encourage you, if you haven't already, to borrow or buy a copy if you're anxious to get started with native Hawaiian plants. This recommendation does not stem from a desire to make an extra buck in royalties. (Believe me, you would laugh at the amount of my biyearly royalty checks!) Rather, it stems from my desire to say thank you to the University of Hawai‘i Press (with your money) for taking a chance on John and me, two trained marine biologists who fell in love with Hawai‘i's native flora. Click the UH Press logo to the right to go to the UH Press website for a look at A Native Hawaiian Garden.
Undoubtedly, this site will contain errors in spelling, grammar and (hopefully, not too many) dates and facts. I apologize in advance for these. If you wish to contact me about these errors or comment on the website, please email me at: [email protected].
Lastly, a note on webpage title colors. To help you decide which native plants to try first and which ones you should wait awhile, I have color-coded the titles so a green title means an easy to grow and maintain plant, a red title means a plant with significant challenges to success, and an orange title is for all those plants somewhere inbetween. | 2019-04-23T21:01:28 | http://www.nativehawaiiangarden.org/ |
0.999943 | Were PKP Cargo responsible for the tank wagon?
16 people have been killed and some 50 were injured last night in the Italian coastal resort of Viareggio after a goods train consisting of 14 LPG tank wagons derailed. The local fire brigade said that the gas spilt from the wagons had reached neighbouring houses before it exploded. The ensuing fireball engulfed people, vehicles and buildings like something out of a horror film. Several victims survived the blasts but were killed when their houses collapsed on top of them.
The train was travelling through Viareggio on its way from the port of La Spezia to Pisa. The driver of the train, who was only slightly injured, reported feeling a jolt some 200 metres after his engine had passed the Viareggio Station. Shortly afterwards, 5 wagons at the rear of the train derailed, some fell on their sides and the LPG started to leak out. There then appear to have been at least two major explosions.
Accident investigators will be concentrating on the condition of the wagons and the track at the point where the accident occured. There seems to be some confusion as to who was responsible for operating and maintaining the wagon that jumped the rails. The Times reported yesterday that the derailed wagons were registered to PKP Cargo and Deutsche Bahn, while The Independent reported that the lead derailed wagon – which suffered a buckled or broken axle – was owned by the US company, GATX Corp.
During trials carried out by the Centrum Naukowo-Techniczne Kolejnictwa, the Polish Railway Research and Technology Centre, a train consisting of two Siemens Eurosprinter ES64U4 locomotives – one at each end – and three Z1A coaches reached 235 km/h – a record for a locomotive hauled trains in Poland. The trials were carried out on the nights of 27/28 and 28/29 May at a time when no other trains were running on track 1 on the CMK line between between Psary and Gora Wlodowska. They were part of the homologation process necessary before the locomotive can be granted type approval by the Polish railway regulator, Urzad Transportu Kolejowego, the Office of Railway Transport. On the first night, the train reached 210 km/hour, on the second, 235 km/h (146 mph). The locos as delivered to Poland would seem to be speed governed as the driver reported that at top speed the power appeared to be cutting out.
The Eurosprinters delivered to Austria are not so inhibited. The world’s fastest locomotive is now Eurosprinter 1216 050-5, a multi-system locomotive owned by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). It reached a record speed of 357 km/h (222 mph) on the new Ingolstadt – Nuremberg line.
The top speed ever achieved by a train in Poland is 250.1 km/h (155mph) achieved by a Pendolino ETR 460 multiple unit in 1994. That record run took place near Biala Rawaska also on the CMK.
Polish TV news reports the record.
Edward Teague, aka Postman Patel, aka Lord Patel was one of Britain’s finest bloggers. At times a botanist, industrialist, writer and artist he was also a railway enthusiast and offered encouragement to BTWT during its early days. He was the great grandson of LB&SR Chief Mechanical Engineer, William Stroudley. The latter was the designer of Gladstone, the first railway engine ever put in a museum, which can still be seen today in York.
Edward Teague had excellent sources and his UK TOP SECRET Postman Patel blog maintained a long tradition in British journalism of exposing corruption and misjustice. It carried many stories which others were afraid to publish or knew that they would never have seen the light of day in the mainstream media.
Never a political activist in the traditional sense, he was a genuine libertarian with no time for the humbug and rhetoric of the left and right. The blog he ran as Postman Patel/Lord Patel became a port of call for anyone seeking to unravel what was really going on behind the headlines. His scientific training made him ask questions, and seek answers, where others feared to tread. Never daunted, though sometimes dismayed, by a changing world, he throve upon challenge, to which he brought a perspective which spanned two centuries and drew upon many contacts – whether he was discussing the De Menezes shooting, the fact that the US brought greater firepower upon Libya in 1986 than the English had done in the Falklands… .
A slighty longer version of this article appears on Tunnel Vision.
Model maker at work. Photo Muzeum Kolejnictwa.
The Warsaw Railway Museum’s model workshop at Jelenia Gora is to close when its last orders are fulfilled. At its peak the workshop employed 30 people, making large scale models of historical rolling stock. A large scale model locomotive would usually take a model maker one year to construct. Janusz Sankowski, who filled the post of museum director for many years, cared little for full sized exhibits, and once famously told Fedecrail President, David Morgan, that the future for railway museums lay in displaying models of historic railway exhibits.
Negotiations between PKP Estates Department – who want to clear the museum site for redevelopment – and the Office of the Governor of Mazowsze Province – who own the museum’s exhibits – are currently deadlocked. Until matters are resolved the museum’s priceless collection of historical railway exhibits continue to deteriorate in the open.
Ferdynand Ruszczyc, the Museum’s current Director, would be interested in receiving offers from anyone interested in taking over the workshop as a going concern. Contact details for the museum’s management team are available here.
It’s been so long since I travelled on an internal sleeping car service in Poland that I had almost forgotten that they existed! The first time I tried out one of these services was in the 60’s when I travelled in a so-called ‘hotel train’ from Szczecin to Warsaw. I remember little of the journey other than that the dirty train, full of cigarette smoke, kept stopping to let more important freight traffic pass us by. The next time was in the 70s, when I travelled by sleeping car from Warsaw to Zakopane. That service was luxurious in comparison to the ‘hotel train’ and – as to be expected – more expensive.
Three passengers can sit or lie in comfort.
When my friends decided to travel from Przeworsk to Poznan in a sleeping compartment on the Przemyslanin – which runs daily from Przemysyl to Swinouscie between 25 June and 26 September – I was a little aprehensive. I needn’t have worried – the sleeping compartment, the corridor and toilet were spotlessly clean and remained in that condition throughout the whole journey. With the centre bunk dropped down the tiny ‘bedroom’ became a very comfortable sitting compartment. For an extra 70 zloty on top of the second class fare you get your own bunk, plus a bottle of mineral water, plastic cup, face flannel and a tiny bar of soap – luxury indeed!
By Poznan the train had acquired a post office coach.
On the outward journey my friends handed out some beers. Five bottles seems to be the amount that a Pole requires to sleep soundly in a sleeping coach irrespective of the quality of the track. On the return journey half a bottle of Zubrowka worked just as well and had less long-term side effects. British travellers wishing to try the same medecine are recomended to halve the quantities.
Apologies for the break in posting, the last few days involved quite a bit of travelling around Poland. I hope the material that I brought back is some compensation. Today’s pictures were taken yesterday and are from a trip on a special train on the Przeworsk Railway – an ex PKP narrow gauge in Lower Carpathia that runs through scenery very reminiscent of North Wales. Parts of the line have a decided resemblance to the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway!
After several days heavy rain it is clear that culverts are due for clearing and new ditches need to be laid.
Although the ride is smoother than on the Smigiel line, the permanent way needs work in a lot of places. If any platelayers out there are wondering what to do now that the WHR track laying has been completed, the General Manager of the Przeworsk Railway would welcome you with open arms.
Remember the last competition. The picture of the retired goods wagons (taken from the other side) stumped everybody!
The line climbs the side of a valley and features some stunning landscape views. There are many viaducts and Poland’s only narrow gauge railway tunnel.
The fine station building at Dynow is still in good shape.
There were orginally plans to extend the line to the South along the valley of the River San to Sanok. Sadly these came to naught. Had they come to fruition the line would have been more prosperous and Dynow would have been an important half-way station. The line’s raison d’etre was the sugar refinery at Przeworsk. Now with the refinery closed the railway runs a Sunday tourist service during the holiday season plus special trains on demand and a very occasional freight service.
Smigiel – Stare Bojanowo train in December 2008. Photo pedro.
SLB railcars near Alltag, Austria. Photo SLB.
I couldn’t resist showing these two photographs together. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
Wladyslaw Reymont wrote some good books and beat off rivals Thomas Mann, Maxim Gorky and Thomas Hardy to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. Railways were a an important part of his life. His first steady job was as a level crossing keeper at Koluszki. Injured in an accident on the Warsaw Vienna Railway he was awarded 40,000 roubles in compensation. The money allowed him to fulfil his passion for travelling round Europe by train.
So it is rather fitting that this year’s Reymont Day celebrations included a steam-hauled vintage train from Lodz Fabryczna to Lipce Reymontowskie, close to the village of Krosnowa where Reymont lived for a time. The organisers of the event included PKP InterCity, PKP Linie Kolejowe (PKP’s infrastructure company) and the Chief Executive of Skierniewice District Council. The sponsors included Bombadier Transportation. Now if only someone could persuade PKP LK to be equally accommodating to steam specials in other parts of the country… .
Polskie Koleje Panstwowe S.A. (the PKP holding company), PKP Intercity (PKP’s long distance services operator) and the local authority owned operating company, Przewozy Regionalne (Regional services), have signed an agreement regarding the operation of their ticket offices at 19 stations. Passengers will be able to continue buying PKP Intercity tickets from Przewozow Regionalnych ticket counters and vice versa.
Six months after the handover of PR’s long-distance services to IC, this “breakthrough” merits a press release all of its own. Yet, in any customer-focussed railway, the details of the new ticketing arrangements would have been worked out before the split. It is a ‘no-brainer’ that the new arrangements should have included the ability for PR ticket holding passengers to painlessly trade up to IC services and for IC tickets to be accepted on the cheaper PR services.
Dyspozytor found his credit card voucher and managed to get a refund for his unused PR-issued IC ticket after all!
Warsaw cares, but PKP doesn’t give a fig!
I had a series of meetings all round Warsaw and chose to travel by public transport. I took a Sybka Koleje Miejska train from Warszawa Zachodnia to Warszawa Ochota, a tram to Warszawa Gdanska, the Metro from Gdanska to Polytechika, a bus to Saska Kempa, a bus to Powisle, another bus to Polytechnica, the Metro to Centrum and finally a tram to Warszawa Centralna.
My journeys – 8 journeys in all – would have cost me some 17 zloty (approx £4) using the appropriate tickets for the single hops. But thanks to the ticket accord in Warsaw, negotiated by the Mayor of Warsaw with the city’s public transport operators, a single 9 zloty (£2) City Transport Department (ZTM) all day ticket sufficed for all my wanderings. Top marks Warsaw for making public transport easier.
In the evening I travelled to Lodz. Now its no doubt my fault that, as a Polish transport commentator, I had not picked up the news that PKP Przewozy Rejonalne (PR) – who had handed over all their long distance Pospieszny trains to PKP InterCity – have just introduced three of their new InterRegio (IR) long-distance trains between Warsaw and Lodz.
It transpired that my chosen train – the 19.45 from Warszawa Centralna – was in fact one of the PR IR services. So, together with some 20 other passengers who had made the same mistake, I had to have my IC ticket endorsed and pay 28 zloty for a brand new ticket complete with 5 zloty surcharge for buying a ticket from the guard. Don’t worry, he said, show your unused tickets to the cashier at Lodz Fabryczna and your cash will be refunded.
In Lodz the lady in front of me in the refund queue explained patiently that when she bought her ticket in Warsaw she specifically said that she was travelling by the 19.45 and couldn’t understand why she was being made to pay a penalty because she had been sold the wrong ticket. She was told that she should have told the cashier that she wanted an InterRegio ticket. She countered that you shouldn’t need a Ph.D. in railway transport economics to travel by train in Poland. In my case I was refused a refund because I had paid for my tickets by credit card and had not kept the credit card receipt. I will be taking this up with the authorities!
PKP, if you want to survive in the cut throat world of passenger transport, you really must learn to look after your customers.
Competition 3 – We have a WINNER!
Competition 3 is now CLOSED.
Shortly after midnight last night John Hyde – who already held three points – made a number of bold moves which brought him one more deciding point and victory in our third competition. Congratulations John!
John’s first post related to ‘Tiebreaker B’. John suggested Przeworsk yard. However, while the Przeworsk line as a whole runs through hilly terrain (and has Poland’s only narrow gauge tunnel) the area around Przeworsk itself is flat and lacks the hills that are visible in the back of the picture. But there are no penalty points for a bad guess so John was still in with a chance. John’s next move 12 minutes later was to go back to ‘Tiebreaker A’ and tentatively ask, Is it Southall? Finally 8 minutes later still John had decided and made the winning post, In fact I’m convinced its Southall.
I’m off to Warsaw early tomorrow morning so a detailed post mortem analysis of the Competition and the clues that were embedded in a few innocent looking articles will have to wait!
Starachowice railway gets 2.8 m PLN.
Starachowice Railway – The Southern section.
Two and a half kilometres of missing tracks – stolen by scrap thieves – are to be relaid between Marcule and Lubienia on the Starachowice narrow gauge railway thanks to a 2.8 m EU-funded project. This section of line lies in Mazowia Province and the office of the provincial governor Adam Struzik has agreed to make the cash available from the Regional Operating Programme funds.
The line is in the process of being taken over by the Starachowice District Council. 85,000 PLN towards the required ‘own funds’ component will be provided by the Council with another 341,000 PLN being coming from the budget of the provincial council.
The District Council – the custodians of the line – have our congratulations for progressing with the restoration of the railway and not waiting for negotiations for their takeover of the railway land from PKP to be completed. When this section of line is completed a further 3.5 km of track will remain to be relaid on the next section – from Lubienia to Lipie which lies in Swietokrzyski Province. The Council are already negotiating for a slice of the Swietokrzyskie RPO funds and provincial governor, Adam Jarubas, is reported to be well-disposed to the project.
The success of the Swietokrzyskie Railway project is due to the work of lot of people. The current operator – the line’s third – is the Upper Silesia Railway Society. Much credit is due to members of the Polish Narrow Gauge Railway Association (FPKW) who worked hard to persuaded the Starachowice District Council to take over the line, carried out much of the initial restoration work on the line and introduced tourist services on both ends of the railway.
Starachowice District Council’s enthusiasm for the line has has increased considerably since those early days. Currently, Krzystof Niedopytalski – responsible for the Council’s Culture, Promotion and Developmnt Department – is very much in the driving seat of new developments. His long-term plan is to connect the line with the Wielki Piec steelworks museum at the other end of the town.
For an interactive map of the line and the iron ore narrow gauge railways which preceded it click here, and then click again on the phrase, “kliknij aby przejść do mapy”.
Warsaw-bound train waiting at Gora Kalwaria.
Gora Kalwaria is a dormitory suburb some 30 km by road to the South of Warsaw. It lies on the Skierniewice – Lukow line and was also linked to Warsaw from 1900 until 1971 by a 1000 mm gauge railway. Although several thousand people commute daily from Gora Kalwaria to Warsaw, for the last 15 years the station has been without any passenger services. During the rush hour the car journey can take up to two hours.
Koleje Mazowieckie (Mazowia Railways) suggested restoring train services between Gora Kalwaria and Warsaw and. Barbara Samborska, the Mayor of Gora Kalwaria, made 170,000 PLN available to resurface the platform at the station and provide shelters.
The first train ran on June 2. Among those present at a short ceremony at Gora Kalwaria Station was Janusz Piechocinski, deputy chairman of the Sejm Infrastructure Committee. At present 4 trains a day link Warsaw and Gora Kalwaria with one of the trains continuing to Pilawa. Trains from Gora Kalwaria join the Radom – Warsaw line at the 4-way junction at Czachowek.
Michael Dembinski has written several articles about the new service and describes a couple of journeys along route on his blog Wwa Jeziorki. As always the accompanying photos are terrific. He delights in Poland’s sylwan railway junctions.
I’m mentioned Czachowek a few times; it is a railway junction some 10 miles/16km south of Jeziorki. It’s noted for having a couple of hundred inhabitants and four railway stations. Two were out of use, though with the new rail service, Czachowek Wschodni has been re-opened.
Mike has even provided a helpful little diagram showing where the stations were. So I thought I should include a diagram of my own. In its prime Czachowek had 6 railway stations, not four!
PKP’s Estates Company, PKP Nieruchomosci, are offering ‘Kriegslok’ Ty2-1226 for sale by tender. The locomotive, works number 12524 was built by Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft (BMAG), in Berlin.The locomotive was withdrawn from the active stock list in Febuary 1991 and served for several years as a stationary boiler at Tluszcz. It is in ‘ex-Barry’ condition.
Tender documentation can be requested by e-mail from PKP Nieruchomosci at: wwa.mienie5@pkp Further information can be obtained from Bogdan Rozycki (Roo-jy-tzki) tel. 022-47-458-93 between 08.00 – 14.00 hrs. Offers have to be submitted by 09.30 hrs on 23 June 2009. There is an indicative price of 91.830,00 PLN. Tenders have to be accompanied by a 10% deposit.
Still from time-lapse photography film shot by Network Rail at Bathgate during July 2008, when the Bathgate and Edinburgh line was closed for 16 days. During this time 200 staff, shifted 12,500 tonnes of ballast, laid 3,000 metres of track and fitted 12 points.
The £300m Airdrie to Bathgate Rail Link Project is one of Network Rail’s flagship investments in Scotland. The project will reinstate the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway between Airdrie and Bathgate, which was closed to passengers in 1956 and to freight in 1982. It will link the North Clyde Line of the Glasgow suburban railway network, which currently stops 2km beyond Airdrie at Drumgelloch, to the Edinburgh to Bathgate Line.
The line will be double-tracked and electrified from Edinburgh to Glasgow and passengers will be able to travel from Edinburgh Waverley station to Glasgow Queen Street Low Level in 74 minutes. It will provide a fourth rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh, complementing the existing 50 minute “shuttle” services which run via Falkirk.
The project also involves a £7.3m diversion of National Cycle Route 75. After the Airdrie-Bathgate line was closed in 1982, 16 km of railway line became a public footpath and cycle track. This section was closed on 19th October 2008 to allow work to begin on the reinstatement of the line. It is planned that by the end of 2010 a new cycle path will run alongside the reopened railway line, connecting local communities to new stations along the route.
Although the new railway is being built on the track of the old, a £ 3.8m contract was awarded to Norwest Holst Soil Engineering to carry out ground and site Investigations. Given the need to minimise risk and comply with modern environmental legislation – a not unreasonable decision. So it is with some incredulity that we read an article in the Daily Express that Network Rail contractor Carillion – who won a £80 million contract for works on the line – lost a £40,000 mechanical excavator in a peat bog near Armdale!
It is reasonable to ask the question, how did Norwest Holst’s soil engineers manage to miss this little bog? Perhaps they were running late and decided to skip forward a bit? Or were Carillion just too busy to read Norwest Holst’s report?
However, accidents do happen and, faced with a 20 ton excavator buried up to its roof, not many of us would know what to do. Carillion’s workmen have to be congratulated for coming up with an unusual solution. They covered the remains with branches! Unfortunately the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency does not see things the same way and has now launched an investigation over fears that pollutants inside the machine could seep out.
Forest narrow gauge railway, but where?
Nobody identified the location of the last tie breaker! I have spent half of today applying to become a Member of Network Rail and the other half sorting out a dusty suitcase of railway photographs. What a strange collection? Who else, I wonder, would keep photos of steam engines in the Gdansk shipyard mixed up with shots illegally griced at Willesden MPD? Or Southall Shed and Szczecin? Or Feltham Depot and a Forest Railway somewhere in Poland?
Which brings me to today’s mystery photograph. One of the bonuses of being an advocate of railway revival is that sometime your co-workers give you copies of their photographs. But in the case of the photo above and its companions, I forgot to take a note of the location and I have lost touch with the photographer. Do you know where the above photo was taken? And can you prove it? It’s a tie-breaker so there is only point. Good luck!
Gavin Whitelaw, who has his own website of amazing photographs, called Vintage Britain has kindly offered to fund a prize for the winner – a bottle of Zubrowka, Bison Grass Vodka.
After three years of discussions, meetings and investigations, the takeover by local government of the Ostroleka-Lapy line looks set to go ahead. BTWT has been informed by a reliable source that Krzysztof Kozicki, the Starosta (Chief Executive) of Lomza District Council, is about to make a formal application to PKP for the transfer of the Ostrolka – Sniadow section of the line including the branch to Lomza, At the same time, Jozef Zajkowski, the Wojt (Chief Executive) of Sokoly Parish Council, is applying for the transfer of the Sniadow – Lapy section. Kozicki is interested in re-establishing a commuter serviceto Warsaw. Zajkowski wants to safeguard his freight services and to exploit the line’s tourist potential.
If all goes well the result will be a standard gauge line, ‘preserved’ Polish style, within 60 miles radius of Warsaw. Steam specials or footplate trips anyone?
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, comments on the tube strike. Part of the Mayor of London’s website.
Please find below a letter I have today sent to the London Mayor.
In response the Mayor has refused face to face negotiations and London Underground are trying to deny an agreement was reached.
The Mayor even walked out of a TV debate today rather than deal with me directly. City Hall and TfL seem to be in disarray.
I have again told the Mayor that an agreement was reached last night but was then vetoed and as such the Mayors management team last night clearly did not have the authority to conclude an agreement and have said I am available for direct talks with him and / or his Transport Commissioner.
I am very confident that thanks for your magnificent support for the strike that we are in a position soon to reach an agreement. Let’s keep up the pressure to protect jobs conditions and for a decent pay deal.
This is my 31st year as a member of the RMT and a worker on London Underground and in all that time I have never experienced such dishonesty from any management that I have dealt with.
I am writing to you as both Mayor and Chair of Transport for London to urge you to agree to direct face to face talks with myself to resolve this dispute and to also address the pack of lies that have been fed to media.
The facts are that yesterday the RMT negotiating team and myself attended nearly seven hours of talks at ACAS and the end of which I was confident we had the basis of agreement which could settle this dispute.
On the question of pay your management made a revised offer of a two year deal or four year deal. It was agreed that would go away, speak to our members and representatives and come back to them. We said it didn’t need to be decided immediately and that we would suspend the action on this issue.
With regard to disciplinary procedures it is an out and out lie that we were only interested in the two sacked drivers, instead there have been widespread and prolonged abuse of the procedures. It was therefore agreed that ACAS would look at all cases and we said that we would be able to suspend the action to allow this to go ahead. Simarly we agreed an end to management abuse of sickness procedures.
In respect of redundancies we were simply asking for your management to honour a longstanding agreement reached in 2001 that there would be not compulsory redundancies. You will be aware that this agreement was borne out of well founded fears that the part privatisation of the tube would be a disaster for tube users and workers alike. At 6 o’clock last night and an hour before the strike was to begin, this issue was also agreed with Acting Managing Director, Richard Parry. In fact I signed a document to this effect and this was to go back in front of RMT Executive immediately so that we could suspend the strike.
Then astonishingly at 6.35 whilst awaiting the final typed agreement we were told by management that they had made a phone call and that they could no longer abide by the agreement – they reneged before the ink was even dry. We were stunned that management could be so dishonest.
I have no doubt that the phone call made was to the Transport Commissioner or City Hall who instructed the management team to pull the agreed deal. It is an absolute disgrace that we should reach an agreement in good faith only for that agreement to be sabotaged.
Either your senior management are completely dishonest or have no authority to negotiate. Or it is the case that you have personally intervened to scupper the deal in the belief that a confrontation with tube workers will serve your political agenda.
Londoners will be appalled that you are playing politics with the tube and will be entitled to ask why you, not only as Mayor but also as Chair of Transport for London are running away from face to face talks.
It is absolute nonsense, as some are trying to suggest, that there is some personal animosity between us. I am prepared to meet you anytime and anywhere to resolve this dispute and look forward to hearing from you by return.
I am copying this letter to members of the Transport for London Board, members of the GLA and London MPs.
Deserted platforms at Greenford station. Behind the bushes is the spur from the GWR mainline at Old Oak Common to the GW&GCJR extension from South Ruislip to High Wycombe. It is here that Dyspozytor used to see Kings and Castles speeding to Birmingham in the 1950s. Photo by Sunil060902.
Oyster pay as you go is being accepted on National Rail journeys in Greater London.
reply the train operators. See below for a very informative thread.
More on the background to the strike. The link should work for seven days.
Transport Briefing – Underground shut down as RMT strike does ahead.
BTWT has had a phenomenal 14 months. Reaching a cumulative daily total of 108,000 hits is quite an amazing achievement for a first-time blog, and at one moment our readership growth was actually outstripping that of Tom Harris’s And Another Thing, one of the most candid and interesting blogs published by a member of parliament.
However, over the last 5 months our monthly totals have been hovering steadily at a few hundred over the 9,000 mark, and it has become clear that, if we want to go further, something has to change. We have a core readership of some 300 readers who enjoy the juxtaposition of English and Polish railway news and see nothing strange in reading about what that the deputy mayor of Smigiel said to Howard Jones one day and what the former minister said to Gordon Brown the next. However, we see our future growth coming from two distinct groups: those who are actively interested in Poland, including the country’s railways; those who are interested in why the UK’s railways are in such a mess, and would like to do something about it.
Starting 14 June, we will be publishing a sister blog, Tunnel Vision, to cover rail developments in the UK. Like its parent, Tunnel Vision will be a campaigning blog. It will disect government transport policy and showcase local efforts to open new rail links and improve rail services. We will write about what tactics have worked in one part of the country with a view to other groups reusing proven-to-work methods elsewhere. Meanwhile BTWT will sharpen its focus on Poland and carry more news stories.
Until 1st July, both blogs will carry UK articles, after this date BTWT will have a primarily Polish focus. (One is reminded of how the Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan and District Railways built parallel tracks until they came to an agreement over running rights!). Tunnel Vision is beta testing right now. If you would like to help us give it a final polish, please drop me an e-mail at railfan [at] go2 [dot] pl. Do not forget to remove the spaces! | 2019-04-24T22:48:16 | https://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/06/ |
0.999999 | What is the difference between Moissanite and Cubic Zirconia? This question is not so difficult to answer given that both stones perform so differently in many respects. The main thing that they have in common is the fact that they are both man made stones. In addition, they are both diamond simulants, meaning that they try to mimic the look and feel of genuine diamonds.
That said, there is a huge difference between the two. If you want to skip reading the rest of the text, here is your answer right at the beginning. Cubic zirconia (CZ) stones are no real match for moissanite diamonds if compared across the whole range of features. The only advantage of cubic zirconia over moissanite that I can think of is their relatively low price.
To support the above claims, let us examine the physical and optical properties of both gems, step by step.
Moissanite is silicon carbide, a compound with chemical formula SiC. On the other hand, cubic zirconia is zirconium dioxide, ZrO2. Moissanite is composed out of silicon and carbon, whereas CZ in its crystal lattice contains zirconium and oxygen. Diamond, as you probably know, is pure carbon. If you compare both of them to diamond, moissanite comes much closer. In fact, moissanite can be understood as being obtained by replacing some of the carbon atoms in the crystal structure of diamond with silicon. Even the local bonding is very much preserved, because silicon has the same valence as carbon and can be accommodated in the same environment. Cubic zirconia is much more different, as it contains zirconium, which is a relatively heavy element with totally different properties. This is why CZ has a higher specific gravity — around 6 — which is almost twice as much as moissanite's specific gravity of 3.2.
The crystal structure of Moissanite is hexagonal, with stacking order ABAC for tetrahedral structures. The structure of CZ (cubic zirconia) is obviously cubic. This as a consequence has the fact that moissanite is not isometric, and is doubly refractive, unlike cubic zirconia or diamond.
The double refractivity means that each light ray entering a double refractive crystal or gemstone is decomposed into two rays, unless the crystals are observed from a special direction called optical axes where there is no such effect. Moissanite is often cut in such a way that the table facet is perpendicular to its optical axis, so if you look at it from the top facet of the stone you won't see this doubling effect. On the other hand, it can be argued that the very same doubling effect contributes to the increased beauty of moissanite. i.e., it leads to high brilliance (refractive index) and fire (dispersion).
Let us take a look at the optical properties of Cubic Zirconia and Moissanite, in particular, their brilliance and fire. The brilliance is closely related to the refractive index of the material. In case of moissanite it is around 2.7 which is considerably larger than the refractive index of diamond (2.4) or cubic zirconia (2.15). If you decide to buy a moissanite diamond we are sure you will appreciate this amazing property of moissanite. The brilliance simply tells you how much of the incident white light is being reflected back to your eyes. That feature is heavily dependent on the artistry of cutting and polishing. The brilliance of CZ obviously lags behind both diamond and moissanite. When it comes to their fire, that is, to their properties of dispersing light, moissanite has a dispersion of 0.1 which is considerably larger than 0.06 which is the value of cubic zirconia. In this case they both have larger fire than diamond with its merely 0.04. In practical applications this means that there will be more rainbows (colored light) in both moissanite and CZ than what you would see in diamonds.
The cubic zirconia gems are perfectly transparent and perfectly white. That is one of their notable features, one that sets them apart from the other more valuable precious stones and simulants. Even if you are not trained in gemology, you will be able to tell CZ from moissanite or diamond. Due to the complicated process of production, moissanite diamonds are neither perfectly white and transparent, nor flawless. They often possess slight greenish or even yellowish hues, along with some imperfections in the structure. In this respect moissanite is more similar to diamond.
Recently some colored moissanite samples have appeared on the market. The colors range from a peach pink, canary yellow, and beautiful intense light green to dark green.
When it comes to durability, the durability of a gemstone is determined largely by its hardness. But, other factors can also come into play, such as internal strains in the structure, so be careful. Even though all three stones, moissanite, diamonds, and cubic zirconia, are relatively hard, that does not mean they are unbreakable. The hardest and most durable is diamond with the maximum possible hardness of 10 on the corresponding scale. Moissanite is dangerously close with 9.2, and the least hard of them is CZ with 8-8.5.
Another property worth examining is the toughness. It is the resistance to breaking. Cubic Zirconia has a very poor toughness when compared to Moissanite: 2.4 versus 7.6. Moissanite is almost three times tougher, i.e., three times more resistant to breaking and chipping.
Moissanite is by far more resistant to dirt than CZ. All kinds of dirt, cosmetics, oils, powders, etc. will stick to CZ's surface more easily, resulting in a significant loss of luster. While Moissanite will accumulate dirt with time, it will be at a much slower rate than CZ. Just a little bit of dirt will make your cubic zirconia look dull, so you would have to clean it more often when compared to moissanite gemstones.
When it comes to comparing prices, you should know that here we are able to give only general guidance. The actual prices depend on a number of factors, including design, use of other complementary stones and precious metals in the process of jewelry manufacturing, etc.. As a general rule, diamonds are understandably on the top, followed by moissanite diamonds, whereas cubic zirconia can be so inexpensive that they are readily used in costume jewelry production.
The metaphysical properties of diamond and its spiritual significance and symbolism are generally well known. What about Moissanite and CZ? As artificial stones, their metaphysical power is diminished, especially if compared to natural diamonds. But you should take into consideration that even natural diamonds are often artificially enhanced. There are also some rare finds of natural moissanite, however that's not even close a gem quality material.
Check the video below to compare the look of similar size standard cubic zirconia ($3-$6 per carat), lab-grown white sapphire ($240+ per carat), lab-grown Moissanite ($400+ per carat), and D color internally flawless ideal cut 1.12 carat genuine diamond ($50,000+ per carat).
At the end, let us summarize. Are you in a dilemma what to choose: Moissanite or CZ? Choose moissanite by all means. Provided that you can afford the more expensive moissanite, we cannot actually think of a situation where cubic zirconia would be a better choice.
The author is a blogger and owner of moissanitediamonds.net.
Moissanite is basically silicon carbide, which as far as I know is used as an abrasive and is relatively common. How come it is so expensive?
The abrasive silicon carbide is in a form of polycrystalline powder and as such relatively inexpensive. Moissanite is a sizeable single crystal, and as such very veru difficult to make and thus very expensive. Charles & Colvard hold the patent for moissanite production.
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0.999991 | This article is about the Korean Buddhist master. For people with the given name Seongcheol, see Seongcheol (name).
Seongcheol (April 6, 1912 – November 4, 1993) is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Zen) Master. He was a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, being responsible for significant changes to it from the 1950s to 1990s.
Seongcheol was widely recognized in Korea as having been a living Buddha, due to his extremely ascetic lifestyle, the duration and manner of his meditation training, his central role in reforming Korean Buddhism in the post-World War II era, and the quality of his oral and written teachings.
Born on April 10, 1912 in Korea under the name of Yi Yeongju(이영주), Seongcheol was the first of seven children of a Confucian scholar in Gyeongsang province. He was rumored to have been an exceptionally bright child who read constantly, having learned to read at the age of three, and being proficient enough to read such Chinese classics as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West by age ten. His enthusiasm for reading was such that he once traded a sack of rice for Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a teenager.
Having read numerous books on philosophy and religion, both Western and Eastern, he reportedly felt dissatisfied, being convinced that these could not lead him to truth. One day, a Seon monk gave Seongcheol a copy of The Song of Attainment of the Tao (Hangul: 증도가, Hanja: 證道歌), a Seon text written by Yeongga Hyeon-gak (永嘉玄覺) in the Tang dynasty. Seongcheol felt as if "a bright light had suddenly been lit in complete darkness," and that he had finally found the way to the ultimate truth.
Immediately, he started meditating on the "Mu" gong-an (Japanese: koan) and started ignoring all his responsibilities at home. Deciding that his parents' house had too many distractions, he promptly packed his bags and went to Daewonsa (Daewon temple). After obtaining permission to stay in the temple, the young Seongcheol started to meditate intensively. Later in life, he would say that he attained the state of Dongjeong Ilyeo (see Teachings below, Hangul: 동정일여, Hanja: 動靜一如) at this early point in his life in only forty-two days.
"There is a way. No one will reveal the secret. You must enter the door yourself. But there is no door. In the end, there is not even a way."
Smiling once and turning around, the blue mountain stands amongst the white clouds as before.
Having attained enlightenment, Seongcheol began pilgrimages to various temples in order to validate his experience and to examine other monks and their levels of attainment. But he was frequently disappointed, noticing that inka (validation of a monk's attainment by a master) was given too carelessly, thereby falsely recognizing many monks as having fully attained enlightenment. During his retreat at Songgwangsa, he was also dismayed at Jinul's theory of Dono Jeomsu (sudden enlightenment, gradual training), and how it was the widespread theory during the time. Later during the 1980s and 1990s, his contribution to the revival of Hui Neng's traditional theory of Dono Donsu (sudden enlightenment, sudden training) would have a significant effect on the practice of Seon in Korea, China, Japan, and other countries where Seon/Zen is practiced.
Seongcheol's reputation soon began to spread. Numerous factors contributed to his growing recognition.
One of the more famous anecdotes is Seongcheol's Jangjwa Bulwa (Hangul: 장좌불와, Hanja: 長坐不臥). Literally translated as 'long sitting, no lying,' it is a meditation technique that some monks employ to intensify their practice. Sitting meditation is equivalent to most other practices, except that the practitioner does not lie down to sleep, but stays in the lotus position even during sleep, with the intention of minimizing sleep through the position. Seongcheol was known to have practiced this for eight years after his enlightenment. He reportedly never once lied down and denied sleeping at all.
Another anecdote recounts how while Seongcheol was staying in Mangwolsa in Dobong mountain, an old monk by the name of Chunseong refused to believe this. He wanted to catch Seongcheol dozing off to sleep, so spied on him secretly throughout one night. But having witnessed the truth of the rumor, Chunseong was struck with amazement and himself started employing the technique. It is said that the stress of the practice and the old age at which he started the technique caused all of his teeth to fall out later in life.
Seongcheol's reputation for intensive practice was not limited only to his meditation per se. He was also known to be completely indifferent to the outside world, focused intently only on meditation and guiding fellow monks to enlightenment. His indifference was so thorough that he even refused to see his mother when she visited him at Mahayunsa in Kumgangsan mountain. "No need to see her" was reportedly his reply to her visit, to which his fellow monks burst out in anger, stating that although they were monks devoted to asceticism and meditation, refusing to see his own mother was too extreme an action. Afterwards, Seongcheol accompanied his mother, showing her the sites of Kumgangsan mountain.
To follow the Vinaya and practice the teachings of the patriarchs in order to attain the great enlightenment.
With the exception of the Buddhist teachings, no personal opinions or philosophies will be tolerated.
The necessary items for daily living should be obtained on his own, without dependence on lay people, including daily chores of field work, firewood, etc.
Absolutely no assistance from the lay people in terms of cooking, clothing, alms, or gifts.
To eat only gruel in the morning, and to not eat at all after noon.
The monks' sitting order follows the dates of ordination.
To only meditate and be silent in the rooms.
The reformation movement started around a small group of monks centered on Seongcheol, but quickly grew by reputation, attracting monks all over the country who were also intent on bringing back the Korean tradition of intense meditation, strict celibacy, and study of sutras. Among these younger generations were Weolsan (월산), Ubong (우봉), Bomun (보문), Seongsu (성수), Dou (도우), Hyeam (혜암), Beopjeon (법전), etc. Not only did this group become the future leaders of Korean Buddhism, but produced two Supreme Patriarchs (Hyeam, Beopjeon) and three chief administrators of the Jogye order.
Unfortunately, the Bong Am Sa experiment ended prematurely in 1950 when the Korean War broke out on the peninsula. With constant bombing raids and the presence of soldiers of both sides around the temple, it was impossible to continue the strict monastic life of Bong-amsa.
After the war, the reformation gained momentum and significant changes were set in motion, although it would be years until they were solidified. Central to the reformation was the issue of celibacy. While all the Buddhist canons emphasized the celibacy of monks, Japanese Buddhism had undergone significant changes during the Meiji Restoration, most notably the end of monastic celibacy. During the Japanese occupation, Korean Buddhism was severely oppressed and the Japanese style was advocated, thereby converting most Korean monks into little more than monastic residents officiating over ceremonies, married, with a business and income. Seongcheol and the new leaders were very critical of the Japanese style of Buddhism, maintaining that the tradition of celibacy, hermitage, poverty, and intense meditation were not only central to Korean Buddhism but to the true spirit of Buddhism as a whole. Korean post-war sentiments towards Japan could not have been worse at this time, and with the help of the populace and president Syngman Rhee, the traditional Korean style began to take hold and became the dominant form of Buddhism by the 1970s.
Seongcheol insisted on giving away all monastic assets to the public and reverting to the original Buddhist way of wandering and begging for alms while investing all energy into meditation. He contended this was the only surefire way for true reforms to take place, warning that otherwise, full-scale conflict could ensue between bikkhus and married monks fighting over temples. The leaders of the reformation refused to follow, stating that his assertions were too extreme. Seongcheol's predictions, though, did come true and Korean Buddhism has had numerous conflicts between monks over temple jurisdiction ever since then up to the present day, many of them escalating to violent measures by both sides (e.g. paying gangsters to physically harm opponents). Many ordination restrictions were loosened by the bikkhus in order to increase their numbers in their efforts to assume control over temples such that men of questionable social standing (e.g. former convicts and criminals) were ordained as bikkhus, leading to more violent fights amongst monks. A particularly embarrassing chapter in Korean Buddhism was in the late 1990s when monks fought over Jogyesa, the main administrative temple in Seoul, by not only employing gangsters but joining the fight themselves using weapons, including Molotov cocktails, to violently subdue each other.
In 1955, Seongcheol was appointed as the patriarch of Haeinsa, but disappointed by the direction that the reformation was taking, Seongcheol declined, removing himself from the forefront and moved to a hermitage near Pagyesa in the Palgong mountains near Daegu to deepen the meditative and enlightened stage that he had attained. The hermitage was named Seongjeonam and it was here that Seongcheol began to build the scholarly foundations that would later support his spiritual teachings. Seongcheol surrounded the hermitage with barbed wire so as to keep outsiders out (except for a few assistants) and himself within its boundaries. Never leaving the boundaries of the small hermitage for an incredible ten years, he deepened his meditation and studied the ancient Buddhist canons, Zen texts, sutras, modern mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and even taught himself English so as to keep current on international affairs. This decade of self-education would affect his future teachings significantly.
Seongcheol finally opened the doors of Seong Juhn Am hermitage in 1965. The temple he visited was Gimyongsa, where he gave his first dharma talk in a decade. In 1967, with the insisting of Jawoon, Seongcheol became the patriarch of Haeinsa temple. That winter, he started his daily two-hour dharma talks to monks and the lay people, thereby beginning his famous Hundred-Day Talk (Hangul: 백일법문, Hanja: 百日法門.) Applying his decade of scholarly studies, he began to break the stereotype of the "boring and stuffy" dharma talks and transformed them into an electrifying hybrid of Buddhism, spiritualism, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and current affairs, ushering in a new kind of dharma talk aimed at reaching the modern audience living in an age of globalization and intellectual diversity.
Ushering in a revival of the Seon tradition of intense meditation and strict monastic lifestyle, Seongcheol spearheaded the reformation of modern Korean Buddhism from the rubbles of Japanese colonialism into an epicenter of meditation training. During his tenure as patriarch of Haeinsa, the temple transformed into a training ground for meditation, sutra studies, and Vinaya studies, attracting monks from all over the country. The meditation center averaged approximately 500 monks per biannual retreat, which was unheard of since the days of Hui Neng and Ma Tzu.
Mountain is mountain, water is water.
원각이 보조하니 적과 멸이 둘이 아니라.
보이는 만물은 관음이요 들리는 소리는 묘음이라.
Declining all formal ceremonies as Supreme Patriarch from inauguration to his death, Seongcheol never left the mountains, stating that a monk's true place was in the temple. There was initially a huge protest against his semi-hermetic policy, but this was eventually replaced by sense of respect that had been lacking since the Joseon period, and helped to vastly improve the image and treatment of monks in Korea.
During his years as patriarch of Haeinsa and as Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye order, Seongcheol's reputation kept growing. Amongst monks, he was famous for being a very strict teacher, being called the tiger of Kaya mountain. When monks would nod off to sleep during meditation, he would beat them with wooden sticks while yelling, "Thief, pay for your rice!" (referring to the donations of the lay, and the monks' debts to society and therefore his duty to practice to the utmost of his abilities).
He was also known for his unique three thousand prostrations. After the Korean war, Seongcheol built a small cave-hermitage near Anjungsa temple and named it Cheonjegul. Around this time, many people came to pay their respects to him, and to further guide the pilgrims in their practice, Seongcheol first started using his famous 3000 prostrations. Nobody could visit with him unless the person completed 3000 prostrations in front of the statue of the Buddha in the main hall. Later, some lay people would accuse Seongcheol of arrogance, but he maintained that this practice was used to help guide practitioners in their own practice by helping them destroy their ego and more easily attain one-mindedness (N.B.: the 3000 full prostrations are actually a mainstay of the Korean Buddhist training regimen, performed at most temples in Korea on a monthly basis. It would take approximately eight to twelve hours, depending on the experience of the practitioner, and the technique is used frequently to "clear the mind," instill a sense of humility, and increase the awareness and focusing power of the practitioner). As his fame and reputation grew, the prostrations became more necessary as more and more people asked to meet with him. What was unique was that this requirement was uniform, i.e., he would never make any exceptions regardless of the person's wealth, fame, or power. A famous anecdote serves to illustrate the daunting task of the 3000 prostrations and Seongcheol's strict adherence to his own rules. When Park Chung-hee, the president of Korea, was opening up the new highway between Seoul and Pusan, he happened to visit Haeinsa. Hearing that the president was visiting, the head administrative monk quickly sent word to Seongcheol to come down from his hermitage to greet the president. But true to form, Seongcheol demanded the president go to the main Buddha hall and perform the 3000 prostrations before meeting with him. Park refused and the two never met.
During the latter years of his life, Seongcheol presided over many publications, including eleven books of his lectures and 37 books that translated many Zen classics not well known to the general public (see official website). The former included the full transcriptions of the Hundred-Day Talk, lectures on Huineng's sutra, Shin Sim Myung (Hangul: 신심명, Hanja: 信心銘), Jeung Do Ga (Hangul: 증도가, Hanja: 證道歌), Illumination of Sudden Enlightenment (Hangul: 돈오입도요문론, Hanja: 頓悟入道要門論), and his dharma talks. The latter was called Seon Lim Go Gyung Chong Suh (Hangul: 선림고경총서, Hanja: 禪林古鏡叢書) and was a collection of Chinese and Korean Zen classics that until publication was known mostly only to monks. These publications helped to spread his teachings to the general public and raise the general awareness and knowledge of Buddhism.
English translations of Great Master Seongcheol's work include "Echoes from Mt. Kaya", Changgyonggak Publishing, Seoul, 1988 (currently out of print), and "Opening the Eye", Gimmyeong International Co., Seoul, 2002. Both are translations from Korean by Brian Barry.
Deceiving people all my life, my sins outweigh Mount Sumeru.
Falling into hell alive, my grief divides into ten thousand pieces.
It hangs on the blue mountain.
I've lived my entire life as a practitioner, and people have always asked me for something. Everyone is already a Buddha, but they do not try to realize that fact and only look towards me. So, in a way, you could say I've deceived people all my life. I've failed to get this message across to everyone so I'm suffering in a kind of hell.
His death was followed by the largest funeral ever seen in Korean history for a monk, with over 100,000 people attending. His cremation took over thirty hours and his sarira numbered over a hundred.
Citing Taego Bou (太古普愚: 1301-1382) as the true successor of the Linji Yixuan (臨済義玄) line of patriarchs rather than Jinul (知訥: 1158-1210), he advocated Hui Neng's original stance of 'sudden enlightenment, sudden cultivation' (Hangul: 돈오돈수, Hanja: 頓悟頓修) as opposed to Jinul's stance of 'sudden enlightenment, gradual cultivation' (Hangul: 돈오점수, Hanja: 頓悟漸修). Whereas Jinul had initially asserted that with enlightenment comes the need to further one's practice by gradually destroying the karmic vestiges attained through millions of rebirths, Huineng and Seongcheol maintained that with perfect enlightenment, all karmic remnants disappear and one becomes a Buddha immediately.
He also expounded on the true definition of the Middle Way (Hangul: 중도, Hanja: 中道), stating that it was not limited to avoiding the two extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification as many understood, but that it was also an explanation of the state of nirvana where all dualities fuse and cease to exist as separate entities, where good and bad, self and non-self become meaningless. He compared this to the common misconception that had ruled pre-Einsteinian physics, that energy and mass were two separate entities, but which Einstein had elucidated as interchangeable dual forms with the relationship described by E=mc², thereby proving the equivalence of one to the other. He also compared this to the fusion of space and time into spacetime, and also formed the analogy of ice and water. The Middle Way is not the 'middle' or 'average' of ice and water, but the true form of each, H2O, and maintained that the state of nirvana was also like this, a state where the true form of all dualities is revealed as equivalent.
A monk once asked Dongsan Chan Master,"What is Buddha?" Dongsan replied, "Three pounds of flax" (Hangul: 마삼근, Hanja: 麻三斤).
In the waking state, one mind (Hangul: 동정일여, Hanja: 動靜一如): the state where the practitioner can meditate on a gong'an continuously throughout the day without interruption, even through talking and thinking.
In the dreaming state, one mind (Hangul: 몽중일여, Hanja: 夢中一如): the state where the practitioner can meditate on a gong'an continuously in the dreaming state.
In deep sleep, one mind (Hangul: 숙면일여, Hanja: 熟眠一如): the state described above, where the practitioner can meditate on a gong'an continuously through even the deepest sleep.
In death, attain life (Hangul: 사중득활, Hanja: 死中得活): from the previous state where all thoughts are overtaken by the gong'an (therefore, the practitioner is considered mentally "dead"), the moment of attaining enlightenment, that is, "life."
Great, round, mirror-like wisdom (Hangul: 대원경지, Hanja: 大圓鏡智): the state of perfect enlightenment, using the analogy of the bright mirror for the great internal wisdom that comes forth during enlightenment. The final state where the practitioner loses the sense of self, is liberated from his karma, and therefore, all future rebirths.
Seongcheol was very critical of the Japanese style of Zen meditation. The Japanese style favors a gradual study of many gong'ans, similar to a curriculum where the practitioner would improve from an easier gong'an to a more difficult one as he mastered each one over time. Seongcheol, and many other masters, stated that this would achieve nothing since the whole point of meditation was to rid one's mind of all divergent thoughts, which was the cause of karmic rebirths and its concomitant suffering, by focusing the mind deeply on only one gong'an until it destroyed all other thoughts. By studying gong'ans like a curriculum, one was only exercising the mind even more, which was diametrically opposed to the original goal of extinguishing the mind. Thus, this gradual style of meditation was not only similar to Jinul's gradual cultivation, it was a complete waste of time to the practitioner in that Zen became nothing more than an exercise in sophistry, with higher positions being given to those who could solve more riddles. Gong'ans can never be solved with such rational, or even intuitive methods, and only the final, perfect enlightenment could give the solution to the gong'an, and simultaneously all gong'ans. Therefore, Seongcheol repeatedly made clear that the study of many gong'ans was antithetical to true meditation. He stated that attaining perfect enlightenment was equal to becoming a Buddha, and this was also equal to definitively solving the gong'an, remarking that this was not his unique teaching, but that of numerous masters including Huineng, Ma Tzu, all the way down to current masters. Being able to solve multiple gong'ans was pure delusion believed by many practitioners, and Seongcheol devoted much of his teachings to elucidating this point.
It's the scientific age, so let's talk in the language of science. Einstein's general relativity proves that energy and mass, previously thought as separate, are actually one and the same. Energy is mass, and mass is energy. Energy and mass are one.
The fact that energy and mass are equivalent means that nothing is truly created or destroyed. This is what the Buddha was talking about when he relinquished both creation and destruction. It is like water and ice. Water converting into ice and vice versa does not mean that either of them gets destroyed. It is just the change in the form of H2O, which itself never changes, just like energy and mass. If we compare mass to 'form' and energy to 'formlessness,' the Heart sutra says the same thing as general relativity. Form is formlessness and formlessness is form. Not only in words, not only in the realm of philosophy, but in truth, in nature, measurable by scientific methods. This is the Middle Way!
The three poisons that prevent us from realizing our true selves are desire, anger, and ignorance. Among those, desire is the basis for the latter two, and desire comes from 'I'. The attachment to the 'I,' the ego, and the indifference to others, these are the basis of all suffering. Once you realize that there really is no you or me, self or non-self, you will understand that all things are inter-related, therefore helping others is helping oneself, and hurting others is hurting oneself. This is the way of the universe, the Middle Way, dependent origination, and karma.
Removing the clouds that are blocking our pure light of wisdom, we can become liberated from the chains of karma, thereby becoming truly free. But how do you do this? There are many methods, but the fastest is meditation and the fastest of those is the hwadu, or gong-an. By going beyond the level of being able to meditate in deep sleep, you will reach a place of perfect serenity, your original, bright, shining mirror devoid of all dust that had sat on it. You will see your original face, your true nature, the nature of the entire universe, and realize that you had always and originally been a Buddha. This is nirvana.
No one can help you with this endeavor. No books, no teachers, not even the Buddha. You must walk this road yourself.
Do not sleep more than four hours.
Do not talk more than necessary.
Do not wander or travel frequently.
Many practitioners believe that they have attained enlightenment. Some say they have attained it multiple times. This is a big delusion. There is only one true enlightenment, such that the attained state never disappears and then reappears, but is constantly present even through the deepest sleep. As Ma Tzu said, 'attained once, attained forever.' Any enlightenment that comes and goes or has gradations is nothing more than delusion.
Seongcheol played a key role in revitalizing Korean Buddhism which had been in deep disarray from the Japanese occupation. He was one of the leaders in the reformation, bringing back celibacy, strict practice, monasticism, and mendicancy back to Korean Buddhism. Later in his life, with his growing recognition, he helped to rectify Buddhism's discredited reputation amongst the general public, from a group of nominal monks who would get married, own businesses, and frequently collude with the Japanese occupiers, to that of serious practitioners, who never got married, and owned no possessions. Seongcheol also contributed significantly to bringing back Huineng's 'sudden enlightenment, sudden cultivation,' and clarified the notions of gong'an practice, meditation, monasticism, and enlightenment. More than a decade after his death, his books are still widely read and respected, and pilgrimages to Haeinsa are a mainstay for Buddhists.
Dharma talk: On "Dharmas are neither produced nor extinguished"
This article includes content from Seongcheol on Wikipedia (view authors). License under CC BY-SA 3.0. | 2019-04-21T03:06:06 | https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Seongcheol |
0.998477 | A longstanding question among scientists is whether evolution is predictable. A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara may have found a preliminary answer. The genetic underpinnings of complex traits in cephalopods may in fact be predictable because they evolved in the same way in two distinct species of squid.
Last, year, UCSB professor Todd Oakley and then-Ph.D. student Sabrina Pankey profiled bioluminescent organs in two species of squid and found that while they evolved separately, they did so in a remarkably similar manner. Their findings are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Oakley, professor and vice chair of UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, and Pankey, now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of New Hampshire, leveraged advances in sequencing technology and cutting-edge genomic tools to test predictability in the evolution of biological light production.
They chose to work with the Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) and the swordtip squid (Uroteuthis edulis), a Japanese species used for sushi. These distantly related species are two of five genera known to have bioluminescent organs called photophores. The photophores contain symbiotic, light-emitting bacteria, and the squid are capable of controlling the aperture of their organ to modulate how much light is produced.
The scientists wanted to know how similar the two species' photophores are in terms of their genetic makeup. To find the answer, they sequenced all of the genes expressed in these light organs, something that could not be done using older sequencing technology.
"They are much more similar than we expected in terms of their genetic makeup," Oakley said. "Usually when two complicated organs evolve separately we would expect them to take very different evolutionary paths to arrive where they are today. The unexpectedly similar genetic makeup demonstrates that these two squid species took very similar paths to evolve these traits."
More specifically, the researchers demonstrated that bioluminescent organs originated repeatedly during squid evolution and then showed that the global gene expression profiles (transcriptomes) underlying those organs are strikingly -- even predictably -- similar. To confirm their hypothesis and findings, Oakley and Pankey enlisted the assistance of statisticians from the University of Washington and UCLA, who developed new statistical methods to test the idea of convergent (separately evolved) origins.
"I did find some individual genes that were counter to the main pattern, which means we can no longer study just one gene anymore in order to test these questions about the genetic basis of convergence," said Pankey. "We're at the point now where we need to -- and can -- study all of them."
Some previous experiments have indicated that these squid use their bioluminescent capabilities for camouflage, as counterintuitive as that may seem. "If you imagine lying on your back in the deep ocean and looking up, almost all the light comes from straight above," Oakley explained. "There's no structure like walls or trees to reflect the light, so if there's something above you, it's going to cast a shadow. The squid can produce light that then matches the light from behind them so it blocks their shadow to a viewer below, which is a type of camouflage."
The team's results demonstrate that the evolution of overall gene expression underlying convergent complex traits may be predictable. This finding is unexpected and could indicate unusually strong constraints: The probability of complex organs evolving multiple times with similar trajectories should be vanishingly small, noted Oakley. Yet the team's novel bioinformatic approaches indicate the evolution of convergent phenotypes is associated with the convergent expression of thousands of genes.
"These results have broad implications for workers in the fields of evolution, genetics, genomics/bioinformatics, biomaterials, symbiosis, invertebrate zoology and evolutionary development," Oakley concluded. | 2019-04-22T22:32:11 | https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/uoc--ltb102014.php |
0.999929 | Years ago I was asked to teach Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains to teachers. If I had to pick the one most important statement in the taxonomy it would be this; the ability to paraphrase is a test of comprehension. In other words, the more ways I can state a concept (paraphrase) the better I understand (comprehend) the concept.
For example, consider the Distance Formula from analytic geometry.
Is the ability to use the above formula in a Scratch program that computes the distance between an ant and the mouse-pointer a test of the programmer's comprehension of the formula? That is, the Scratch program is a paraphrase of the distance formula. I've answered that question in the affirmative because I know how to express the formula in code that Scratch understands.
Watch this short video that will hopefully convince you that the project is truly a paraphrase of the distance formula. As the mouse-pointer is moved, the distance between it and the ant is continuously updated.
Here is a second example. This Scratch project is an effort to dynamically 'explain' the angle concept. The project is dynamic because it actually constructs the requested angle.
This project can also be viewed and downloaded at the following link.
Now a third and final example. This project is also dynamic in that it constructs the perpendicular to a point chosen at random on a line segment. Watch this short video.
Click on this link to view or download the Perpendicular project.
What do you think? Is programming (coding) a higher-level cognitive process than just memorizing a definition? As you can probably guess, I answered that question for myself a long time ago and I want learners, of all ages, to share the joy I experience when I successfully code a program. | 2019-04-23T02:53:22 | http://www.scratch-blog.com/2014/04/angle-mouse-and-other-scratch-geometry.html |
0.999874 | What is a typical punishment for a misdemeanor? Are they the same in every state? What are some general sentencing guidelines?
If you've been charged (or convicted) of a misdemeanor, or if you know somebody who has, the first thing you should do is look on the bright side - you are very lucky that it is not a felony which generally carry harsher sentences and are more likely to be on your record much longer.
Every state has their own set of sentencing guidelines and generally you see a different interpretation of these sentences from county to county (or even from city to city). For this reason you should not rely solely on internet research for your criminal defense - it can give you a good basic understanding, but you need to talk to an attorney who is a member of your state's bar to get real legal advice.
First of all, each state chooses their own classification system. For instance, one state might refer to different classes of misdemeanors as Type A, Type B, Type C, etc. while another state may call them 1'st, 2'nd and 3'rd class. In general, the higher the number or the letter, the less serious the crime. So, for instance, a class A misdemeanor would be worse than a class B misdemeanor and a 1'st degree felony is worse than a 2'nd degree felony.
These classifications usually indicate the maximum sentencing guidelines for each type of misdemeanor (jail time, fines, probation, etc.).
Some states such as California, however, do not classify misdemeanors in these broad categories at all - in California a misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. Sentencing guidelines are determined by the actual charges in states like California. | 2019-04-18T21:19:45 | https://misdemeanorguide.com/Sentences-for-misdemeanors.php |
0.999106 | Hello, I found your website and I feel you give great advice. I know I am young and people always say "you're young, move on" etc., but please give me your honest answer and tell me if this is normal.
I started dating my boyfriend in high school. We were together for 2 years but then he started going back to his partying ways and it damaged our relationship and we broke up. A year later he calls me saying he's mature now, has a job and is doing well. So we decided to work it out - although he's the one that cheated, messed us up, and apologized for it a thousand times. In addition, he always treats me as if I'm the one that hurt him. He's always questioning where I am, always calling me when I'm with my family, and never believes me. Then he makes me answer and if I don't, it's a big fight. He keeps telling me I don't love him the same and it's not true; I do love him but I hate drama and I gave him another chance...not the other way around. He does not understand this.
Is this normal? What should I do? I don't feel happy anymore but I do love him. I have tried talking to him about it but I still feel that he won't understand.
A normal relationship is equal, with the two partners having about half their activities and interests in common, while also being able to do their own thing independently of each other. Is your relationship like that?
An abusive relationship is when one partner has a life, is independent and more or less can do anything, but the other is completely answerable, controlled, without freedom. Typically, such a relationship becomes more and more constricted, until the person is isolated from friends and even family, may lose control of money, and is constantly scared of breaking rules.
If you think your relationship with this man is more like the second, then you can be sure it will get worse with time. It's a slippery slope. There is also something called the "cycle of abuse." One version is at http://www.respect4women.org/what-is-abuse/the-cycle-of-abuse/. See if that fits your history. Note that abuse doesn't need to include violence, but is defined by control, and unequal power.
On the basis of these ideas from me, decide whether you love him enough to put up with his behavior or not. You deserve respect, decency, and love in return for love.
One final thing: look up http://bobswriting.com/psych/relationships.html.
Read inspirational books. They will guide and inspire you.
"Outer beauty pleases the eye. Inner beauty captivates the heart."
The time to relax is now; the time to enjoy your success is now; the time to be happy is now. | 2019-04-21T19:14:33 | https://www.queendom.com/advices/advice.htm?advice=906 |
0.999999 | Question: A recent study indicated that women took an average of 8.6 weeks of unpaid leave from their jobs after the birth of a child. Assume that this distribution follows the normal probability distribution with a standard deviation of 2.0 weeks. We select a sample of 35 women who recently returned to work after the birth of a child. What is the likelihood that the mean of this sample is at least 8.8 weeks? | 2019-04-20T09:19:52 | https://www.mathtrench.com/statistics-hypothesis-testing-29540/ |
0.999829 | Why doesn't fear motivate sales people? Or does it?
Bob Knight, the now retired coach of the Indiana Hoosiers, once said, "Right here is the key to success in coaching. Probably no motivational device I've ever come across is as good as this." He was holding a bullwhip.
Did fear motivate the Hoosiers? Bob Knight led the Indiana Hoosiers to three NCAA championships and eleven Big Ten Conference championships. He was also recognized as Coach of the Year multiple times. And the bullwhip… it was a gift from a player.
So, why doesn't fear motivate sales people? Or does it?
Yes, these are powerful sources of fear. Yes, sometimes this fear can be translated into activity, and activity into productivity. However, external attempts to sustain (sales) organizational progress based on the inspiration of fear at some point fail. First of all, not every leader can pull it off like Bob Knight. Second, organizations must endure beyond the tenure of any given leader.
The inspiration of fear is not sustainable because it is not external. The inspiration of fear is intrinsic; it is something known to a certain breed of sales person and athlete. External attempts to harness this source of progress are fleeting, even if sales managers could manage sales meetings while brandishing a bullwhip.
Sales Managers can use "The numbers" as a motivational tool because they are measureable, tangible, and visible. But this is not enough and certainly won't push the intrinsically driven producer past any threshold s/he is already destined to reach. Fear is the science of negative consequence which, at best, only works within a culture that leverages positive consequence.
So, it's about culture because it's about people inspired to do more.
Inspirational sales managers engender trust through honesty, hard work, candor, and humility. They resist the temptation to crack the whip too often because the cost is too high and the benefit is too brief. Cold weather enthusiasts know not to lick chapped lips for the same reason. Inspirational sales managers know the numbers and use the numbers (as of course they should); they also celebrate success, reinforce the positive, and demonstrate a vigilance and discipline in how they make it about the team and not themselves. Inspirational sales managers create and sustain environments that enable information sharing and that encourage risk taking. Inspirational sales managers inspire results by fostering self confidence. Jack Welch once said, "Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act".
Inspirational sales managers "do belief" because it works, and they inspire others to do the same. They don't "do fear". Again, certain leaders have an edge that is effective. Bob Knight was apparently such as leader and he demonstrated some of the other positive attributes that we have discussed.
Another interesting lens to measure effective leadership behavior is glassdoor.com. For example, glassdoor.com publishes an annual list of top rated CEOs; the data is garnered through current and former employee engagement on the site.
Interestingly, Apple's Tim Cook is #1 on glassdoor's "Top 25 Highest Rated CEOs 2012" list. Tim has been described as soft spoken, thoughtful, and humble. His approval rating is 97%. This is quite an accomplishment given the fact that Tim followed Steve Jobs.
Fear is fleeting, true inspiration is lasting. Just look back in time and think about the best manager you ever had; the one with whom you did more. I bet it wasn't about fear. | 2019-04-23T14:04:08 | https://www.treelineinc.com/blog/the-inspiration-of-fear/ |
0.999999 | TL;DR : A ship that was ill equipped with lifeboats was sailed, on fire, through an iceberg infested area at full speed.
Details about coal fires : the coal fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. This fire broke out in a mine in the Northeast United States and has proven impossible to put out. How impossible you ask? It’s been burning since May 27, 1962.
What will happen to Earth, mankind, the universe in the next billions of years ?
TL;DR : l'ancêtre commun de l'homme et du chimpanzé avait des mains "humaines".
Qui a (vraiment) fait tomber les nazis?
Stanislav Petrov et Leonard Perroots : 2 héros inconnus qui ont sauvé le monde. | 2019-04-19T00:17:03 | http://shaarli.callmematthi.eu/?searchtags=History |
0.999997 | How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? Why are they here? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.
It's the meta-data. I like that. I once mused that asking the question, "Do you have self-confidence?" can be an effective interview question not for the answer that's given (everyone will say yes) but for the meta-data that comes with the candidate's answer: body language, tone, approach, etc.
Jobs also says in the interview that when it comes to choosing strategies, "We do no market research. We don't hire consultants."
Once again I question the use of the word “meta.” The right word here is “implicit” (vs. the explicit data of the answer itself).
Here’s a meta-question: does using the prefix “meta” make Jobs’ quote seem smarter, even if he is using it incorrectly?
By the way, not everyone will answer “yes” to the self-confidence question. The people you hang out with will.
What Jobs is saying is that the actual answers to the questions are not the data he’s looking for. The data he is looking for is, for example, “How do I feel about this person?” The answer to *that* question is not data about the answer to the original question (as the Wikipedia definition requires). It’s just different information. *Implicit* information.
If he had said “I look at body language to determine whether the answer is sincere,” then THAT would be meta-data, because it is actually information about the answer (it would also be implicit). | 2019-04-23T16:21:43 | http://casnocha.com/2009/09/the-metadata-that-comes-from-certain-interview-questions.html |
0.999996 | By Tracey Maclin. Tracey Maclin is a professor of law at Boston University School of Law. He teaches constitutional law and criminal procedure.
Today, in response to a perceived increase in crime and violence, the Clinton administration has proposed police practices reminiscent of 18th-century British search tactics.
Responding to the pleas of residents of a crime-plagued Chicago housing project, the administration announced its support for warrantless searches of public housing apartments, frisking of suspicious persons, and the installation of metal detectors in the lobbies of buildings.
While the administration's proposals may please those calling for more ``law and order,'' the options developed by the Clinton plan are inconsistent with the constitutional principles James Otis helped inspire.
The secretary's treatment of the Constitution leaves a lot to be desired. The Fourth Amendment guarantees everybody the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. It is a ``made in America'' freedom - a product of our battle against British law enforcement methods.
Unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment never has been popular, particularly during tough times. During the Prohibition era, the federal government routinely conducted illegal wiretaps to catch suspected bootleggers. In the 1960s and 1970s, state and federal officials continued this unlawful practice against alleged dissidents and political enemies.
The ``war on drugs'' involves officers going onto buses and trains and demanding to see the identification and tickets of passengers. The Supreme Court has said that police officers - acting without a warrant or any evidence of criminality - do not violate our privacy when they confiscate and search our garbage. News programs regularly show police officers, using sledgehammers and accompanied by menacing dogs, raiding the homes of persons suspected of selling narcotics.
Looking for illegal drugs, a Boston police SWAT team using a no-knock warrant burst into the apartment of a 75-year-old minister, chased the minister through his home, and broke down a bedroom door to grab him. While being handcuffed, the minister died of what was later diagnosed as a heart attack. The police subsequently discovered they had raided the wrong apartment.
President Clinton now wants better security measures at the nation's public housing projects. Tenants will be encouraged to sign ``consent clauses'' that allow police to conduct unannounced searches of their apartments. Questioned at a press briefing, the acting associate attorney general conceded that consent clauses could ``in some circumstances'' be a mandatory condition of a tenant's lease. Housing officials have also been encouraged to conduct warrantless sweeps in the case of an ``emergency.'' These measures, the public is assured, do no violence to Fourth Amendment freedoms.
Perhaps, to make it truly voluntary, tenants should be informed of their right to reject such ``consent clauses'' and to revoke consent that has been given previously. This is their right under the Constitution. On this point, however, the Clinton proposals are noncommittal. People with limited choices about where to live should not be presented with ``take it or leave'' leases that require the sacrifice of rights that the rest of us enjoy.
Administration officials say that tenant support for warrantless searches and mandatory consent clauses are relevant criteria for deciding the legality of these measures. But these officials know that Fourth Amendment rights are personal; they cannot be waived by majority rule. If 99 percent of the tenants of a housing project favor police sweeps, they are free to open their doors anytime they wish. Their desires, no matter how reasonable, should not control the Fourth Amendment rights of those who want to protect their privacy.
Now, administration officials favor immediate sweeps in emergency conditions, but leave it up to local authorities to define when emergency conditions exist. This sort of verbal back-and-forth will not satisfy constitutional norms. A warrantless search is permissible in an emergency, but the search must be directed at a specific target and supported by concrete evidence. Dragnet sweeps that encompass searching every apartment in a building do not meet these standards.
Requiring police officers to obtain warrants undoubtedly delays the process of searching. To some, this may seem too high a price to pay, but it is the price of liberty.
James Otis recognized as much when he observed: ``A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.'' The Opinion/Essay Page welcomes manuscripts. Authors of articles we accept will be notified by telephone. Authors of articles not accepted will be notified by postcard. Send manuscripts by mail to Opinions/Essays, One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115, by fax to 617 -450-2317, or by Internet E-mail to [email protected]. | 2019-04-22T05:59:52 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0524/24191.html |
0.998676 | Are You Using a Monopod Correctly For Sports And Wildlife Photography?
Using a monopod correctly will make your video and your still photographs come out better in several ways. You'll also make the whole shooting experience more enjoyable when you don;t have to support all that weight with your arms.
Monopods make your videos look less like an amateur shot them and more like a professional was behind the video camera. As like many other skills, using the right equipment in the right way can have a dramatic effect on your results.
There are several aspects to this topic and each deserves some attention.
The first aspect is the most basic of all but quite important. If you're using the wrong technique with any tool, you'll be disappointed with the results you get. How to Use a Monopod for sharper photos.
If you are shooting still photos there are several ways to stand along with several positions to place your monopod tip and pole to get the sharpest pictures without blur.
The two primary reasons for using a monopod to shoot still photos are to steady the camera for sharper photos and also to support the weight of the camera. For shooting video, monopod make it much easier to creates smooth panning motions and a more fluid feel to your videos.
Size matters. In general, you only need a really light monopod for small point and shoot cameras and heavier-duty monopods for digital SLRs, bigger lenses and video cameras. You can adapt the formula for choosing the right height of a tripod and apply it to figure out how tall your monopod should be.
How tall does your tripod need to be?
Both the maximum extended length and the minimum contracted length are important aspects of using your monopod tool. How tall you are affects the maximum height you need. Although almost all monopods will pack away easily, how you choose to transport your monopod affects how small you wish it to compact to.
It's awkward. Can you use a monopod without a head? Yes, but only when you're shooting in a very limited way. Here's what I mean by that. In order to shoot with your camera aiming upward or downward you'd have to tilt your entire monopod forward or backward to aim it at your subject.
Not only does that destroy your ability to hold your camera steady, it also makes it really hard to follow a moving subject. Using a ball head on your monopod makes it easier to adjust your camera to the precise position you want and follow the action if you have a moving target. Using your monopod without a head is fine if you're only shooting at a subject that is always positioned at the same height of the camera.
When you're using a heavier long telephoto lens to get up close and personal with wildlife a monopod is very helpful. I shot this lion photo with a 100-400mm lens.
Combined with the full frame DSLR I was using, the lens and camera combination weigh over 5 lbs. Even if you're a regular at the gym, having the extra support from a monopod helps with steadiness for video and still photography.
This is even more true when your targeted subject for wildlife is bird photography. Whether you're using an even longer lens or you've added a tele-extender it's a challenge to hold a heavy lens steady with such high magnification.
When you're using a powerful zoom lens to shoot sports photography a monopod lets you move quickly from spot to spot. I shot this goalie during warmups at 400mm.
I usually have a camera with a shorter lens around my neck and have my heavier lens and 2nd camera mounted on a monopod. This makes it real easy to switch from one to the other quickly. This might be a bit too much for you, but having the support of a monopod during an hour long game is always welcome, even if you're keeping it simple with one lens and one camera.
I find it very useful to be able to move around alot during a sporting event in search of the best angle to give me clean backgrounds. Monopods are easy to relocate with. This is very helpful when your targeted subject is on the move.
Monopods are easy to reposition quickly to get the best angle on the fast moving subjects in sports photography.
Another important aspect of using your monopod correctly is having it properly equipped. One of the first mistakes I made with my newly acquired monopod was using it without any kind of head. It was early on in my photo blogging experience and I had no prior experience with using a monopod.
It was not a very expensive monopod and it only came with the standard mounting screw and plastic plate to mount the camera. In some situations this can be an adequate set-up, but there isn't much versatility going on there.
First, you are limited to shooting photos with the camera in the horizontal of "landscape" position. Second, you have limited ability to aim you camera upward or downward without significantly tilting your monopod leg forward or backward to a less stable position.
I used my monopod to take a series of photos with intentionally blurred background while photographing a bicyclist at various shutter speeds. The photos were composed in a horizontal format and the only motion I used was panning horizontally, following the movement of the biker as he rode by. It worked well in that situation, but with a tilting monopod head, I didn't have much versatility.
You can buy tilting, panning or ball heads separately or some monopods come with a head as part of the package. This gives you the ability to shoot an infinite number of angles as well as change to vertical "portrait" compositions. Here are more thoughts on Monopod Accessories.
One of the least used methods of using your monopod is to use it as a video camera stabilizer. How many lousy videos have you seen with jerky movements that make it difficult to watch?
This video is short and simple. It Explains and shows you how easily it is to improve your video with by using a simple monopod.
Whether it's a dedicated video camera, a point and shoot camera, and to a lesser extent a full-sized DSLR, the stabilizing effect still works.
This method is not as effective as the professional steadicam-type of image stabilizing brackets that sell for hundreds of dollars, but it is a great step in the right direction.
If you take a look at this Steadicam model, it's essentially a sophisticated monopod with a handle and balancing weights to fine tune its balance. The cheapest dedicated video stabilizers can be found for as low as $15 but their effectiveness is quite questionable. You can pick one up in the $75-$100 range that have goold solid ratings.
Using a monopod correctly involves using the right stance, the right accessories for the right situation and choosing a monopod that fits the camera you are using as well.
Monopods are a great tool for the beginning photographer, the enthusiast, the professional photographer and videographers. You can find out more information by reading monopod reviews by others who have bought and use monopods: Reviews by Buyers and Users of Monopods on Amazon. Have a blast using your monopod! | 2019-04-23T22:25:31 | https://www.better-digital-photo-tips.com/using-a-monopod.html |
0.999977 | Stock Market Blahs - Or Price Breakout?
CAUTION is the pattern for Wall Street. There's occasional volatility in the Dow Jones industrial average, but within a lackluster trading range. That pattern of modest ups and downs, analysts suggest, is apt to continue through June and possibly into fall. Still, the consensus here is that the long range direction for the market - barring any unexpected shock - is for the Dow to move past the 3,000 mark. In recent days the Dow has been running around 2,890.
Almost anything is possible for the stock market, as longtime watchers know too well. For the moment, however, the market is characterized by the blahs. The ``players [investors] just aren't out there right now,'' says Larry Wachtel, a market analyst for Prudential Bache Securities. Two weeks ago the Dow shot up some 70 points in a few days, notes Mr. Wachtel, but on very limited volume of share sales. Then on June 18, the market fell more than 53 points, but once again on limited volume. When trading volume is low, program trading can easily kick the market up and down in short bursts.
John McElroy III, who is a principal with 1838 Investment Advisors, based in Philadelphia, also sees a pattern of caution and sluggishness, in part reflecting low volume and continued belt-tightening by the Federal Reserve Board. The Fed does not appear particularly eager to ease interest rates, despite the slowing of the economy.
1838 Investment was the investment advisory arm for Drexel Burnham Lambert Group until the Philadelphia office went independent in a management buyout in 1988. 1838 Investment manages some $3.5 billion in assets. About 47 percent of that sum is now in stocks, another 47 percent in bonds, and the rest cash.
The percentage of assets placed in stocks has been reduced somewhat in recent months, reflecting Mr. McElroy's perception of a modestly overvalued stock market, as well as the relative attractiveness of bonds. If he felt that stocks were a little cheaper, McElroy would be prepared to buy back into equities. He's even willing to allocate as much as 70 percent of the portfolio to stocks.
McElroy figures one way to invest in stocks is to look for companies with a solid global presence.
For now, he sees a somewhat drifting market, and even, perhaps, a slight downward market correction during the next year - but with the long-term direction upward.
Could that upturn come even sooner?
Some analysts say yes. Gene Jay Seagle, director of technical research for Gruntal & Company, says the market may flounder for the next few weeks, yet push through 3,000 this summer. The market, he notes, hit an all-time high of 2,935.89 on June 15. June, Mr. Seagle claims, is historically slow for the market, although he's not quite sure why. But he expects the Dow to crack the 3,000 level and settle out at around 3,150 by the end of the year or early next year.
Stockholders can only hope he's right. | 2019-04-18T20:34:31 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1990/0625/fwal25.html |
0.998922 | Community gardens provide city residents with many benefits, like healthy local produce, social connection and can even stress reduction. But pollution in urban areas, particularly ones with industrial histories, can potentially pose health risks to gardeners and the people who eat their produce.
How serious is the risk? It depends a lot on the gardener. A study conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute surveyed urban gardeners in Baltimore, to better understand their knowledge of potential soil contaminants and remediation techniques. The paper was published in the open-access journal PLOS.
With help from the Community Greening Resource Network, information was gathered from 70 gardeners through semi-formal interviews. In exchange for participating in the survey, the researchers offered to help gardeners get their soil tested.
The researchers found that gardeners had minimal concern about soil contaminants, and often assumed that if the garden was established then contamination issues had already been addressed. This could be a problem not only because contaminants may make their way into food grown at the garden, but also because contaminated soil may pose a risk to gardeners who touch it.
The most worrisome chemical to community gardeners was lead, and rightly so considering tests show higher levels of lead in Baltimore soils than other potential contaminants. However, the researchers write that knowing the history of a plot is key to testing for the right substances.
The most common method of avoiding polluted soil within the surveyed group was the use of raised beds with imported soil. However, raised beds can still become contaminated when dirt from outside of the beds is kicked up, from atmospheric particles settling into the beds, and when roots reach deeper than the beds. The community gardeners didn't mention some of the best practices for avoiding contact with chemicals of concern, like growing produce away from busy streets, application of soil amendments, removing shoes to avoid tracking contaminants into the home, washing produce, and peeling root crops.
Fortunately, a number of the study participants were quick to acknowledge their limitations and were eager to learn how to avoid contaminants.
"One theme that emerged from informant interviews was the need for a central repository where gardeners could access information about soil contamination," the authors write. This could be done by an organization that already has a relationship with community gardens or though the local government.
They also write that face-to-face information, through workshops or from master gardeners, is an important means of sharing information. Although 83 percent of the study participants had a bachelor's degree, getting information from fellow growers may be an important way of reaching less educated and lower income gardeners. The authors also suggest that some responsibilities such as soil testing could be handled by city governments.
Despite the dangers of soil contamination, the researchers emphasize the need to balance warnings with information about the benefits of gardening, so as to not discourage gardeners from planting altogether.
Community gardens provide many benefits to city residents, but pollution poses health risks. | 2019-04-18T23:02:01 | https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/how-can-we-keep-pollution-out-urban-gardens-and-farms.html |
0.999978 | Why is there so much interest in the youth demographic? Put simply, the Middle East's youth population bulge makes it too big to ignore.
"In 2015, close to one person out of five in the region was aged between 15 and 24 years," the World Economic Forum recently noted, following on an earlier observation that "one-third of the population is below the age of 15 years".
The forum goes on to suggest that one of the main challenges will be the empowerment of youth and the huge pool of talent, energy, and resources it represents.
How does the Arab Spring fit into this issue? In 2011, the Arab Spring led to regime change in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, as well as further protests across the region. For many, the abiding images of the period feature large crowds of young people armed with little more than their phones.
The use of phones to coordinate activity and share images and status updates with the world via Facebook and Twitter helped facilitate change, but views vary on the extent of its contribution.
Malcolm Gladwell's 'Why the revolution will not be tweeted' and John Pollock's 'How Egyptian and Tunisian youth hacked the Arab Spring' offer two perspectives, while Clay Shirky's exploration of 'The political power of social media' placed events in a wider historical context about technology's contribution to civil society and the public sphere, and internet freedom as a tool of statecraft.
Whatever your point of view, the Arab Spring highlighted that everyone -- from governments, to businesses and researchers -- needs to understand the concerns, attitudes, and behaviors of Arab youth.
What's changed since the Arab Spring?
It's a mixed bag. Digital adoption has grown and become more mainstream, so Arab youth are more connected than ever. But many of the underlying causes of the Arab Spring remain, such as unemployment, underemployment, lack of voice, and participation.
"Like their peers in the West, young Arabs today are digital natives," Sunil John, founder and CEO, ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller, tells ZDNet.
"Smartphone penetration across the region is nearly 100 percent. So, deficits in accessing wired internet, which are serious in parts of the Middle East, are somewhat remedied by the availability of smartphones and data services."
John's company has tracked the attitudes and behaviors of this cohort through the annual Arab Youth survey, which in 2018 celebrated its 10th anniversary.
"Young people view the digital revolution as the third most important development shaping the region over the past 10 years, after the rise of Daesh and the Arab Spring," he says."But the digital revolution is seen as the most important positive development in the region, with 60 percent of young Arabs viewing it as a good thing."
He argues that the biggest change has been how young Arabs consume media.
"Young Arabs are now getting their news first on social media, not television. This year, our survey reveals almost two thirds (63 percent) of young Arabs say they look first to Facebook and Twitter for news. Three years ago, that was just a quarter."
Where young Arabs get their news.
Although young Arabs have benefited from increased technological adoption, which in turn has resulted in changing digital behaviors, many of the wider political and socio-economic factors that contributed to the Arab Spring endure.
World Bank data indicates that youth unemployed is more than double the global average, while according to the World Economic Forum youth unemployment across the region stands at 31 percent, five times higher than the adult average. University graduates constitute nearly 30 percent of the total unemployed.
The World Economic Forum set out unemployment by age in the Middle East.
In 2012, a year after the frustrations felt by many young people bubbled over and onto the streets, Booz & Company (now Strategy&) published a detailed report on the attitudes and behaviors of the Arab Digital Generation. In many cases, little has changed since this report was published.
Produced with Google, and polling more than 3,000 digital users born between 1977 and 1997 in nine Middle East countries, they found a cohort with "less traditional ideas about family, religion, and marriage", and clear expectations and preferences for tech to enable greater e-government and e-commerce, as well as improved healthcare and education.
Although progress has been made in these areas, more clearly needs to be done.
What are the key opportunities and challenges?
A key implication of the regions demographic timebomb, as the UNDP explains, is that "the region needs to create more than 60 million new jobs in the next decade to absorb the large number of workforce entrants and stabilize youth unemployment".
Elsewhere, in 2016, Sophie de Caen, acting director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States in UNDP, suggested that, "Arab countries can reap the huge demographic dividend that its young population represents if they invest in enhancing the capacities of their youth and enlarging opportunities available to them".
ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller's John is optimistic about the future, arguing that the UAE and Saudi Arabia will be catalysts for growth in the tech sector.
"Governments are aware they have to provide rewarding, fulfilling jobs for their overwhelmingly young populations. In the UAE, we've seen the cabinet appoint a Minister for Artificial Intelligence; Dubai has pledged to be the leading AI-driven administration in the world, and the first 'blockchain government'," says John.
"In Saudi Arabia, the sovereign wealth fund, PIF, has teamed up with Softbank to create a $100bn fund for tech investment, the biggest such fund of its type in the world. But Arab countries won't achieve these goals unless they address the core issue of education."
John says across the Middle East, 29 percent of young Arabs identified modernizing the education system as one of the top three things that governments must focus on to move the region in the right direction.
"Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have woken up to that in recent years and have pledged greater emphasis on STEM education. But the region as a whole needs a focus on building a modern education system that can prepare the region's youth for the jobs of tomorrow," he adds.
One reason why this focus is needed, the World Economic Forum said last year, is that "by 2020, 21 percent of core skills in the countries of the GCC and 41 percent of those in Turkey will be different to skills needed in 2015".
Northwestern University in Qatar (NUQ) has undertaken an annual regional survey exploring media use patterns, content preferences, and attitudes toward topics such as censorship and digital privacy, freedom of speech and cultural preservation.
A persistent theme from NUQ's studies is the variety of digital experiences across the region. It's an issue that John also alludes to, highlighting the mixed nature of digital progress.
"Businesses will see that there is huge untapped opportunity in expanding their services to reach young digital natives," he says.
"For example, just over half of young Arabs say they shop and bank online, with varying degrees of frequency. But that suggests that almost half are yet to embrace online shopping.
"And we see in the geographic splits that while GCC youth are more familiar with online spaces -- almost three-quarters have shopped and banked online and half have banked online -- in North Africa, around 70 percent have not used the internet for shopping or banking."
This chart shows the use of online banking and views about it among young Arabs.
"How people interact with technology always evolves. In media, we'll continue to see traditional media lose out to new channels," John argues.
Specifically, he suggests, we will start seeing more apps and services created by Arabs and for Arabs.
"We've seen e-commerce startups like noon.com move into that space; we have homegrown blockchain specialists starting to emerge, and, with the right investment and motivation, we'll see young Arab startups occupying spaces that have traditionally been dominated by Western companies."
World Bank data indicates that the Middle East has one of the lowest levels of entrepreneurship in the world, with just one newly registered firm per 1,000 working age adults.
Yet, according to a 2016 survey produced by the World Economic Forum, one in two young Arabs identified creating their own business or working on an entrepreneurial project as a key area for potential empowerment.
It's an interest that John has also seen emerge through the Arab Youth Survey.
"This year is the first in which technology has emerged as the preferred sector in which young Arabs want to set up a business, chosen by 18 percent of those surveyed. In previous years, retail and real estate have always been the favoured sectors," he says.
Navtej Dhillon, the former director of Brookings' Middle East Youth Initiative, argued back in 2008 that the youth challenge is the most critical 21st century economic development challenge facing the Middle East.
"In a region where almost 65 percent of the population is under the age of 30, long-term prosperity and stability hinges on the opportunities afforded to this generation."
A decade on, that sentiment remains true. As the United Nations Development Programme explained last year: "The Arab region is home to the youngest population in the world, with over 100 million young men and women between the ages of 15 and 29."
Meeting the needs of this large, tech-savvy and often frustrated demographic is important for the stability of the region, as well as its growth.
Digital technologies have exposed Arab Youth to new possibilities and global cultures, as well as enabling different ways of communicating, spending their time and interacting with the world around them.
They're a vibrant, digitally confident cohort, who will inevitably shape the future of the region. Doing the best by them will be essential if the region's full post-petroleum potential is to be unlocked. | 2019-04-24T02:36:48 | https://www.zdnet.com/article/middle-east-youth-and-tech-whats-happened-since-the-arab-spring/ |
0.999935 | Ask an Expert: Can the flu lead to such a disease?
Can the flu lead to such a disease?
I have two friends that have recently been diagnosed with autoimmune diseases; one has been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, and the other has not had a name put to her diagnosis as yet. Both friends, not in physical contact with each other at that period, had flu symptoms just before they contracted the disease(s). Are flu symptoms a precursor to autoimmune diseases and/or can the flu lead to such a disease?
With Myasthenia Gravis, there is an autoimmune trigger within the body (thymus pathology) that is often the driving factor in the autoimmune attack of myasthenia gravis.
I say this because in the large majority of cases of Myasthenia Gravis, thymus hyperplasia or a thymoma is found. This is not to say that it is impossible for a viral infection in rare circumstances to trigger the disease. It has not been identified as a strong factor.
As mentioned, viral infections can often worsen myasthenia gravis in patients who already have the disease. Hope this information helps. | 2019-04-24T10:01:39 | http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/81696.htm |
0.999998 | First of all, how could my input help?
I have been lucky enough to work with many Canadian and international content creators of film, television, web series, narrative apps, transmedia experiences and games. I have developed and been involved with the implementation of digital marketing and audience engagement strategies for many of these projects and have researched the online space and consumer behaviour from this perspective extensively. It has given me insights that could be invaluable as the Canadian government tries to figure out how to “strengthen the creation, discovery and export of Canadian content in a digital world.” I have some definite arguments about what makes CanCon viable, the value of audience, how niche global strategies are key to the future, and how Canada, perhaps more than any country in the world, has everything it needs to take advantage of these digital opportunities.
First real question, what the heck is VIABLE Canadian content?
The word “viable” has come up in the documentation provided by the government as well as in the online conversations around #DigiCanCon, although I would argue not as often as it should. What is viable Canadian content or, for that matter, a viable creative economy, business model or career? The answer to this question or questions is far from simple.
However, at its core, the answer to the viability question for every CanCon creator is that they need to have an audience for their work and that hopefully they can make a living from their creations (for which an audience is key). In our government-subsidized content ecosystem, the revenue model for creators has often had more to do with triggering public money than about finding an audience or generating revenue directly from growing that audience. While we should be grateful to have this kind of public support for creative work, it has insulated our creators from current market realities significantly.
Our existing funding system for media incentivizes plugging into the old model of broadcast television, theatrical distribution and film festivals, a model that is out of touch with the way most consumers demand their content in the digital world. The reality is, the audience has never been more empowered and creators, funders and traditional gatekeepers need to understand them better than ever or risk becoming obsolete. The digital audience holds the key to the future and there is lots of opportunity for those who understand their digital audience best.
OK, so what do we need to know about the digital audience?
Audiences are the new gatekeepers. We are living in an age of content abundance, and there is no putting that genie back in the bottle. But while the amount of content continues to grow, there are still only 24 hours in each day. The one thing, perhaps the only thing, that is in short supply is audience attention. Content consumers are unbelievably empowered in the digital world by the amount of choices they have for their free time and their control over their attention. For this reason, every marketing and engagement strategy needs to be led by deep knowledge of its target audience(s) and there is no one-size-fits-all.
Audiences are VERY impatient. We live in an age of instant gratification. We have forgotten how to wait for things, mostly because we don’t have to. This impatience contributes to online piracy and is something that creators should be taking into account when it comes to marketing and distribution of their content. Once the awareness and demand is created, people will want it NOW. They don’t want to wait for six months, one month or even a week. The old media business model is based on scarcity of content and access, with geographic territories and release windows maximizing sales. This methodology no longer fits with how consumers DEMAND content. They don’t care about the revenue model or technology limitations or IP ownership. They want what they want, when and how they want it and that is not likely to change.
Audiences want more. When people love a story they often can’t get enough. MORE can mean behind-the-scenes tidbits, additional story conveyed through different media, opportunities for fans to participate in conversations, the ability to act inspired by the story, and so on. A single linear storytelling medium like a movie is often not enough to feed an insatiable fandom. Content creators should figure out ways to create stories that stir up these kinds of passions, and to fulfill that desire across not just one installment but an entire body of work. Content creators also have to become more comfortable with the audience taking more ownership of beloved characters and storyworlds and even find ways to collaborate and participate in the fan creations. It is also tapping into this kind of passion that leads to successful crowdfunding or micropatronage campaigns.
Audiences are fragmented. Because we have so many choices when it comes to content, audiences are very fragmented. This means content creators outside of the mass mediaverse (aka Hollywood in the North American context) do not have a chance of reaching EVERYONE, or even a demographic slice that includes, say, all women between 18-34. The road to success for most content lies in leveraging niche appeal wherever possible. Speaking to the hearts of a relevant niche about themes and issues that mean a lot to them, can stir up those passions I mentioned above. And once the right niches are engaged they will amplify and spread the word for you (because every audience member has an audience now). Luckily, identifying, understanding and reaching niche audiences has never been easier because of the opportunities created by the digital world.
So how do we make the powerful, impatient, ravenous and fragmented digital audience work for viable CanCon?
Get out of the mass media business. We live next door to the huge Hollywood machine and do not have the money to effectively compete for the attention of the masses, especially on purely Canadian funded English language projects. When looking at the traditional model of broadcast television (which is driven by subscription and ad dollars that are declining), conventional theatrical distribution (where even blockbusters let alone indie films struggle), we have not had many recent Canadian financial success stories. The business models based on (pre)selling into geographic territories and/or reaching a mass global audience is in great jeopardy and does not favour the smaller players (as can be seen in the heated discussions around the single EU digital market). Canada IS a smaller player and should look for more strategic opportunities based on its own cultural assets. Mass media should not be the goal for Canadian content.
Embrace Canada’s diversity & niche appeal. We are one of the few countries in the world that has been built, for better or for worse, on mass immigration over the last 150+ years. It has left us with a very diverse population who have many unique stories to tell. Unlike the American melting pot, we have talked the talk of embracing the diverse mosaic of Canadian citizens. Our media, however, has been slow to reflect this multiplicity, being primarily driven by investment in stories mainly championed by straight, white men. While they are an important part of the Canadian story, it is only one part. Increasing public funding and support for diverse voices and stories dovetails beautifully with the fragmentation opportunity. In the digital world, creators can find deep and passionate niche audiences across the world who can create community and conversation around their content, which can become a path to a viable business model.
Invest in and incentivize strategic experimentation & early development that is audience driven. In the new digital paradigm, there is a lot more that could be included in development beyond scripts and prototypes. I would argue, in fact, that a story or project without an audience is not viable CanCon and that the two should be explored together. For instance, early development deliverables should not just include the delivery of a treatment or early concept, but also proof of audience & interest (through identification of target niches, influencers, online conversations and a demonstration by the content creator that they understand who their audience is and how this project/story will resonate with them). As script and concept development progresses, so should a more fully realized plan for audience development and engagement, perhaps with some early focus group testing and experimentation to further hone the strategy. Special provisions and support should also be provided for those without a track record in the funding system so that more diverse storytellers are encouraged to apply and are on-ramped into the public system.
Invest in and share content/audience data with creators & MAKE IT EASY. In the old media content model, there was very little data available to content creators. While there are still black holes in the digital dataverse (hello Netflix!), there is more data available than ever before. Data is the story of your audience, the one they tell with every action they take online. Data can make creators very powerful if they listen and respond. Giving creators access to tools they wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford and training to maximize this opportunity will be key for success in the digital world. Besides data on their own projects, it would also be great to get anonymized data from across Canada that could be sampled by different criteria (i.e. content type, genre, content length, etc). This information could provide important intelligence so creators can understand what has gone before so every project can start ahead of the game, set realistic goals and refine their strategies based on relative market intelligence. Every CanCon creator who gets public money should be required to contribute to this collective knowledge base. No data sharing should mean no money.
Incentivize & invest in audience development & engagement. Tools like Telefilm’s Success Index incentivize participation by creators in the old content business model, and keep diverse and innovative creators out who have not been a part of the public system in the past 5 years. No value is currently given to any metrics in the digital world. This needs to change if the government truly wants to get serious about DigiCanCon. Proof of a digitally engaged audience must be part of such criteria. Serious money also needs to be invested in the content creator taking ownership of growing this audience. I would suggest the equivalent of at least 10% of the production budget should be allocated for digital marketing and audience development by the CanCon creator. This audience should be a long-term asset that follows the creator throughout their body of work increasing the viability of their content and careers.
Embrace our digital superpower, which is our nation of diverse voices, and get out of the mass media business.
Weave audience development into every part of CanCon financing.
Incentivize data sharing by our content creators and pay for access to data tools they couldn’t otherwise afford.
Ensure there is significant budget set aside on every project for digital marketing and audience engagement by content creators.
Incentivize better participation in the digital world with a new Success Index that includes key digital audience engagement metrics.
And, finally, leverage the brand of Canada outside of the country by curating Canadian content on a digital hub, that itself actively cultivates and engages with key niche audiences around the world (walking the digital walk and setting an example for content creators).
Thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this inquiry, both the online conversation and this platform. I am sure there are many great ideas pouring in, and a focus on audience, data and diverse niche content will help set Canada up for great digital success in the future. | 2019-04-21T17:16:21 | http://www.veria.ca/digicancon-audience-data-diversity/ |
0.999495 | The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) held the third event of its second season, the Welsh Amateur Poker Championship in Cardiff's Grosvenor Casino, on 12th-13th January. The event had 190 entries plus alternates, who qualified by high finishes in the last round of APAT Regional Events, online satellites and direct payment and I was one of the qualifiers. Players were once again offered a £75 freeze-out with 10,000 starting chips, a 40 min clock, £3,350 to the winner plus significant added value from new tour sponsors BlueSquare.com via the form of an entry package into a GUKPT event in 2008 in London worth $3,000 to the winner in addition to their cash prize, trophy, medal and Player of the Year ranking points.
Through Day One some familiar APAT names were amongst the chip leaders including former champion Rich Offless, On Live winner Michael Patterson (MickeyP) and James Edwards (The Thinker). Chip Leader for much of the day was Liv Boeree, helped by finding AA versus her opponent's Kings. Other players moving to the head of the field after the dinner break were Andy Price, handsomely paid with trip tens by a missed flush draw that had pushed on the flop, Jason Taylor and Steve Harrison.
My exit hand which was also my first hand on my new table was Kings v Ace Queen offsuit. Blinds are 200/400 I raised in early position to 1400 and was re-raised to 5400 and once action got to myself I instantly pushed all in for 10300 chips with my kings to be called by loose aggressive person with ace queen. The annoying thing is that the ace never landed but 2 queens did and a king was my only help which never landed, so I exited just 5 minutes before the dinner break. I don't think getting a rub down helped and so I found solice in 2 bottles of champagne shared with fellow APAT'er GMAC.
Several key hands were to frame the latter part of the first day's play. Paul Sloggett from Bristol who was on my first starting table out-drew Keith Thomas's Queens with his Pocket eights in a 70,000 chip pot. James Edwards' pair of Queens hit trips on the turn to beat Suraj Shah's Aces and then Liv Boeree found a pair of Kings on the last level of the night in response to two all-ins in front of her. The Kings held to propel her to the head of proceedings as the day finished. Meanwhile consistent throughout the day were Jeldon Fernandes, Darren Starnes and Matt Fowler to be comfortably placed.
Blinds began the final table at 6,000-12,000 so the choice for the majority of finalists was stark: they simply had to make quick progress to be in contention for the final.
First to depart was David Potter, calling all-in with Ace-Queen having been limp re-raised all in by chip leader Tim Magnus, with Kings. The kings hit a set on the flop to put Magnus in a dominant position in the tournament with approaching half the chips in play eight handed. Magnus then struck again, flopping four to the nut flush and two overcards with AQ of spades which hit on the turn to knock out Steve Harrison who had pushed with second pair on the flop to depart in eighth. In seventh Liv Boeree had become short and her A6 was beaten by Simon Auckland's A9, for Liv to go in seventh.
Six handed Tim Magnus had yet to put a foot wrong with three times as many chips as his nearest pursuer Fernandes. Sam Morris was then knocked out by John Murray, hitting a full house on the turn. Jeldon Fernandes then won an all-in race with pocket sevens against King ten suited to knock John Murray out in 5th and close the gap on Magnus.
Four handed Magnus had 800,000 and Fernandes 600,000 followed by Sloggett with 450,000 and Auckland 150,000. In a key pot then Sloggett turned two pair to out draw Auckland's slowplayed flopped two pair to double up and felt Auckland who departed in 4th, failing to outdraw Tim Magnus' AK with QJ suited.
So, into the medal positions with Magnus leading the way ahead of Sloggett and Fernandes. Eventually an inevitable confrontation occurred, Fernandes with Ace King and Magnus Queens. All-in pre-flop Magnus spiked a trip queen, and Fernandes hit two pair but was knocked out in 3rd leaving Sloggett and Magnus heads up for the title, with Magnus having a healthy chip lead.
There are tells and there are blatant tells!! | 2019-04-24T12:34:00 | https://uk.pokernews.com/news/2008/01/uk-apatcardiff.htm |
0.99993 | Showing results for tags 'reasonable'.
http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/rules-hub/rules-modernization/major-proposed-changes/proposed-change--reasonable-judgment-in-estimating-and-measuring.html The proposed rule says: In talking with a few USGA folks, they've said this is mostly for estimating where a ball crossed the margin of a penalty area or GUR or whatever, or for measuring 20" or whatever (i.e. if they measure but the stick is half an inch from the ball, and they drop at the 20" mark, that's fine) on drops. But then in the "reasons for change" they specifically say this: Does 0.7" count as a "small inaccuracy"? To me, for a well-sighted athletic young woman, "reasonable" is a pretty small window. I don't think placing the ball 0.7" away is at all "reasonable." Especially when she did nothing but lift the ball a few inches and put it right back down. She didn't walk away and forget that she'd marked the ball to the side. That's why I still don't think that rule would have saved her. It would have simply led to more controversy. Wayne likely doesn't feel it was "reasonable" either: I think she's at fault of more than a "small inaccuracy," particularly when you consider that she lifted the ball only a few inches and was staring down at it the entire time. If you ignore Wayne's talking, you'll see many replays in a row of her lifting and replacing the ball… poorly. Unreasonably. | 2019-04-19T13:17:14 | https://thesandtrap.com/tags/reasonable/ |
0.999101 | AS the Gulf war enters its third week, Jordan's King Hussein is coming under enormous international and domestic pressure which is pulling him in two different directions. On the one hand, according to Jordanian officials, the country's refusal to support the coalition forces arrayed against Iraq is leading Jordan's already weak economy toward collapse. At the same time, popular pressure to give more support to the Iraqi people is growing.
So far, the king has successfully reconciled two difficult objectives: keeping his country out of the war and remaining firm in his opposition to the coalition attacks on Iraq.
The most serious form of pressure, Jordanian officials believe, was the attacks by coalition planes early last week against Jordanian civilian vehicles and nine oil tankers on the highway between Baghdad and the Jordanian border. The government said four Jordanians were killed and several injured.
Foreign Minister Taher al-Masri protested the attack to the United States ambassador in Jordan, describing it as a violation of the Geneva conventions. ``We have an agreement with the United Nations that excludes [oil] imports from Iraq [because of an international embargo],'' he told parliament. The UN has approved oil imports from Iraq despite the embargo, although officials in Amman yesterday reportedly requested that Syria supply the oil.
Mr. Masri, however, said that Jordan will not change its position on opposing the attack against Iraq. ``If this [attack was] intended to make us change our position, it will not.... We will keep to our principles,'' he vowed.
Although officials say Jordan is trying not to be drawn into the war for fear of an Israeli invasion, Masri warned that Jordan reserved the right to fight back if air raids against civilians and oil tankers were repeated.
Another means of pressure Jordan believes it has been subjected to has been the decline of foreign financial aid to the kingdom. Officials say that Jordan has not received any of the pledged aid from European countries while the US and Saudi Arabia - once its two main financial backers - have stopped the flow of aid to the country.
Jordan's only port of Aqaba is under de facto blockade by US and other coalition navies. Jordanian officials say the country is finding it difficult to secure the import of food stuffs and medicine as importers fear the goods will find their way to Iraq.
Real wages have been cut to one-third of their value; unemployment stands at 15 percent and is expected to reach 40 percent; many factories have reportedly closed down. Remittances from Jordanians working in the Gulf states - which once constituted 80 percent of foreign-currency income - have halted.
``This is a bankrupt country,'' says an Arab diplomat.
On the other hand, as the raids against Iraq continue many Jordanians feel that King Hussein should take practical steps to help Iraq and some are even pressuring the government to engage actively in war.
According to analysts, political enthusiasm for Iraq by far overrides frustrations at the rapidly deteriorating standard of living.
All sectors of Jordanian society and Palestinians in the refugee camps have engaged in the fund-raising campaign. Specifically, people are sending trucks of milk, flour, and medicine to Iraq, while Jordanian physicians are volunteering to serve in Iraqi hospitals.
Jordan's political groups and professional, students and women's unions, launched a series of solidarity activities with Iraq across the kingdom last week. Organizers said that demonstrations, sit-ins, fund-raising campaigns, and seminars will continue as long as the coalition forces bomb Iraq.
Analysts say the surge of pro-Iraqi activities in Jordan was triggered by Iraq's ability to hold out after two weeks of intensive air attacks. The euphoria that has swept Jordan, according to political observers and analysts, contrasted with the state of shock that prevailed in Jordan during the first days of the war.
``We felt paralyzed and shocked, we could not believe that Baghdad was being attacked,'' says Reem Khalil, an executive secretary.
But when Iraq held out, the mood changed to one of defiance.
``You have to remember that this is the first war in modern history in which Arabs have not been defeated after six days,'' says Jamal Shaer, a former Jordanian minister.
Thus, for Jordanians and Palestinians, the confrontation between the coalition forces and Iraq has emerged into the long-awaited battle with Israel and assertion of Arab independence from US influence.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has captured the Jordanian imagination with his missile attacks against Israel. Jordanians who watch Israeli television say that they feel that finally an Arab leader has been able to hit back at Israel.
``For a long time, Israel was using its military supremacy to silence Arab reaction.... It is their turn to taste the bitterness of fear and suffering they have inflicted upon us,'' says Mansour Muhammad, a Palestinian refugee. | 2019-04-26T07:54:03 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0204/ojord.html |
0.999864 | Des Moines, Iowa The Cherkin study that has just appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine (October 8, 1998 issue) and appears to have taken the media by storm is an inaccurate and unfortunate representation of the patients who normally seek chiropractic care for low back pain. It underscores the dangers of generalizing the results of randomized clinical trials which themselves represent a specialized application of therapies under restrictions that are not necessarily indicative of either the actual therapists or patients whom they see. Worse, its design flaws are so numerous and serious, as will be summarized below, that its validity is compromised to the point of misleading the reader from what is actually shown in the trial.
One must be aware that several chiropractic techniques are applicable to the management of low back pain, some of which are low-force (Logan Basic Technique, Flexion-Distraction, use of a drop table, or traction). In this trial, only one high-velocity technique (side-posture) was applied and this may not be equally effective for all patients (particularly older people). Furthermore, important ancillary procedures that are intrinsic to the chiropractic visit appear to have been denied to patients; in particular, extension exercises were denied and patients most likely were not given any literature even though these two options might be considered part of a customary chiropractic regimen. The implication is that both these elements were only permitted in the other two arms (educational booklet and McKenzie method) of the trial reported. In short, chiropractic treatment in this particular trial appears to be only a pale shadow of the actual therapy administered to patients in the real world. The fact that back pain recurrences as reported by the authors were 50% by the end of the first year and 70% by the end of the second year confirms this point of view, not only for chiropractic but for the McKenzie physical therapy modality as well.
What was the purpose and what were the details of the arm of the trial involving the educational booklet? One is left wondering what form of therapy this is supposed to represent in real life, and whether any attention (and of what kind) was given to the patient in addition to this literature. Finally, no details of any kind are provided as to the presentation and actual content of the booklet.
No details are provided as to how patients were polled regarding their expectations of treatment, how the questioning was phrased, and whether the instrument was validated. The consequences of patient expectations have been given inadequate attention. Once patients were eligible to participate, how many refused to participate and for what reasons? The percentage of patients who had prior chiropractic care for low back pain appears to be substantially lower for those patients in the chiropractic arm (24%) than for either the McKenzie or medical booklet cohorts (35% and 40% respectively). Yet the authors themselves quote from another prominent investigation that "the British study found the benefits of chiropractic treatment to be most evident among patients who had previously been treated by chiropractors, a group presumably favorably inclined toward chiropractic care." Consequently, one can easily argue that the patients in the chiropractic cohort appear to be doomed to diminished outcomes.
Baseline values regarding severity among the three groups tested appear to create a bias in the outcomes. First, the chiropractic group shows the highest tendency in percentages of patients who, due to low back pain and prior to their therapy, encounter (a) greater than one day of bed rest (35% vs 24% and 22% for the McKenzie and booklet groups respectively), (b) more than one day of work lost (39% vs 41% and 30% for the McKenzie and booklet group), and (c) greater than one day of restricted activity (72% vs 65% and 52% for the McKenzie and booklet cohorts).
Second, the initial bothersome and Roland-Morris disability scores of 4 and 7-8 are substantially below the respective values of 6-7 and 10 which are more frequently observed in trials involving significant low back pain. This means that any observed changes are compressed within an artificially narrow range and that statistical variations become more disruptive. The effect of both of these aberrations is to compromise the monitoring of back pain resolution.
Sufficient details regarding patient compliance are lacking. In addition, there would appear to be a wide variance between the percentage of patients therapists considered to be the level of compliance (55%) as opposed to what patients in at least the McKenzie groups have reported (78%). What were the levels recorded in both the chiropractic and booklet groups? How, when, and how often was the question posed to study subjects? Since compliance is closely linked to satisfaction and has a major bearing on outcomes, this issue cannot be ignored.
There is no way to draw a meaningful conclusion from the cost data as presented.
Requisite statistics regarding costs are totally ignored, such that one cannot assess whether costs follow a normal distribution or are skewed (and to different extents) in each of the three regarding modalities. Furthermore, it is incomprehensible that the HMO costs regarding laboratory services, medications, and radiology should constitute 50% of the chiropractic bill when the norm within the United States indicates that about 80% of chiropractic costs are borne within the therapist s office and 20% are allocated to external services while precisely the opposite distribution of percentages is observed in the offices of allopathic physicians.
The grounds for exclusion and symptoms of sciatica were not provided. In addition, patients attitudes towards provider groups should have been assessed for inclusion in the trial as these would have significant impact upon both their compliance and outcomes.
In summary, the study is a poor representation of therapies as applied to the live patient in the physician s office. If left unanswered, these inquiries would appear to be of sufficient import as to render the data seriously compromised and the study as a whole unreliable. It would be a grievous error at this point to accept the study as Gospel and the authors are invited to respond.
The Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) is the largest not-for-profit chiropractic organization devoted solely to the funding and distribution of chiropractic research. For more information on FCER, please call (800)637-6244. | 2019-04-26T11:45:05 | https://chiro.org/research/ABSTRACTS/rosner.shtml |
0.999724 | Over the next five years, the analysts that follow this company are expecting it to grow earnings at an average annual rate of 0%. This year, analysts are forecasting earnings decrease of -83.33% over last year. Analysts expect earnings growth next year of 22.73% over this year's forecasted earnings. | 2019-04-21T00:28:39 | https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/scwx/earnings-growth |
0.999999 | What does the size of the font translate to exactly?
I have a 40 pixel font that I'm trying to translate into custom images. I'm trying to match the size of the image exactly, but I'm having some problems getting exactly the right size. Basically, what it comes down to is this. When a font says it is X pixels, what does this physically mean?
This is an excellent question, which has a rather unsatisfactory answer.
The size of type, whether specified in pixels, points (1/72") or millimetres, is the height of an em-square, an invisible box which is typically a bit larger than the distance from the tallest ascender to the lowest descender.
it's not very meaningful or useful, other than as an approximation.
In your case, work out what size you need to specify in Photoshop to match the browser's rendering by experimentation. You should find this to be a constant ratio for any font, but I wouldn't expect this to be the case if you change browser or OS.
Note the two letters above are different sizes, but their bounding box is the same. As such, in terms of points, both of those fonts are the same size.
Nowadays, we don't make much type in lead and wood and most of it is digital. However, the concept of the point sizing still exists in that there is a virtual box that is the same height for every letter that the type is placed on. Again, it's this virtual box that defines the point size rather than the physical measurements of the letterforms themselves. The actual size of the letterforms are often smaller than the point size (but can also be larger as well).
Measuring type in pixels doesn't work because of that, however, you can 'set' type in pixels in CSS and the like. The browser does a translation as best it can between the px size declared. But it's always a fuzzy estimation.
Ultimately, there's no accurate way to get two typefaces letterforms exactly the same size short of looking at them visually and changing the size of each until you see them as being the same size.
The "font size" of a font refers to the font's "em height", which isn't necessarily the same as the height of particular characters in the font.
As you can see, none of the individual letters cover that whole span.
With digital fonts, the "em height" of a font is a choice made by the font designer, and does not have to conform to this convention at all: a digital type designer can pick any foundation for their em size. However, fonts still tend to adhere, at least roughly, to the sort of convention described above. In old days when type consisted of metal blocks, the "em height" was the height of one of those blocks, which needed to be high enough not only for any character in that typeface but also for any ascenders, descenders, and accents.
Now, many modern typefaces include accents on capital letters too (such as Ć) - these accents extend outside the traditional typographical ascender and thus these (and possibly other special characters) fall outside the top of the "em". For historical reasons we don't adjust the em size to allow these, we keep the em size and just have these extend out of it - any typographer using such accents will need to ensure there is space for them to extend into, though usually the line gap is adequate in body text.
The line gap in body text is a space left between the descender of one line of text and the ascender of the line below it - that is, the "font size" does not include this line gap measurement. It can be influenced by the CSS field line-height, where 1.4 means that the line gap is 0.4 times the em height, and thus an entire line of body text will take up 1.4 times the em height including the line gap. In other applications the line gap can be specified differently: word processors often specify in terms of a multiple of "single" line spacing, but unlike in CSS, usually "single" spacing does not mean no line gap, but some "default" line gap, where the application tries to come up with a default based on metadata in the font file. There are multiple standards for specifying metrics in the font (eg in Truetype, there are different Mac and Windows/OS2 standards) so the default line gap can vary between applications and operating systems.
Now, even if a designer does follow a predictable convention for their em height, this still doesn't tell you the size of capital letters (cap-height) or the size of say an o (x-height or midline) as these can vary freely between typefaces in relation to the ascender height. Within a font family, these will usually be consistent though. So for example, Times New Roman Bold and Times New Roman Regular will have the same character sizes for the same em size, which should include ascenders, descenders, cap-height and x-height.
Try typing in the vertical bar character ('|') and measure that. If I duplicated your situation correctly and your antialiasing isn't blurring it too much, it should be 22px.
22px represents the height of the block of type. But each character fills the block differently. A 'g' or 'q' will occupy the lower region of that 22px, while capital letters and lowercase letters like 'b' or 'd' will occupy the upper portions. '|' is one of the only (if not the only) character that will entirely fill the 22px space.
I don't know about how to compare to your CSS settings, but that explains how Photoshop interprets text height.
Are you sure your font is measured in pixels? Most of the time fonts are measured in points. A point is 1/72 of an inch. So a 40 pt font is 40/72" or 5/9" tall. The kicker is that that is the dimension from the top of the ascenders on tall letters to the bottom of the descenders on letters that hang below the baseline. That's why the x-height is sometimes used, as mentioned above. That is the height of the lower-case letters that don't stick up or down.
Either way, the measurements are never exact anyway, unfortunately. You'll just have to some measuring and figuring (and/or trial-and-error) to accomplish what you're trying.
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How to get font to align on the ascender line instead of the baseline? | 2019-04-23T13:57:33 | https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/4035/what-does-the-size-of-the-font-translate-to-exactly/4074 |
0.995886 | Writing an introduction is another part in the process of composing a research paper. There, you should tell the readers more about your topic, its importance and share some background information. Usually, this piece of writing does not have a strict word limit. But it should be as brief and concise as possible. Therefore, it can be tricky to compose your introduction without a hitch.
Compose a strong and catchy opening sentence.
The first sentence makes the first impression, so you should craft it carefully. It is fine to rewrite your opening for a few times to ensure that it fits perfectly. Try to write to the point from the very beginning and avoid general phrases. Consider choosing a quotation as your first sentence.
Provide some background information at the beginning.
It makes sense to begin your introduction with providing vital background information about your subject and related issues. In other words, you should set the scene and add a context to your writing. Sometimes, it is a good idea to write a short historical narrative and mention the most famous researchers in the field.
Describe the rationale for your research.
After the background information, you should describe the rationale for your research. Identify the gap that you are going to fill, explain what impact your work may have, and tell the readers how you are planning to reach the research goals. Here, you can also formulate your thesis and study hypothesis.
You should point towards the potential weaknesses in your research from the start. You should warn your audience about the shortcomings and assumptions. For example, you can emphasize that data collection could be complicated and, as a result, you may miss some data for analysis. So, you would have to make some generalizations.
If you have a 20 or 30-page research paper, you may need an outline for your introduction as well as for the entire assignment. However, you can compose a shorter assignment having a simple list of ideas in mind. Remember that the introduction should narrow down your research problem and explain your hypothesis. You should do your best to keep it short, define the goal of your work clearly, and organize all the important elements in a logical sequence. This piece of writing should flow and make your readers want to learn more about your research, e.g. to read the entire paper. | 2019-04-25T03:43:47 | http://www.augustastateuniversitylife.com/four-points-to-know-about-a-research-paper-introduction |
0.999756 | Vince Russo On Why Seth Rollins Isn't A Draw, Rollins - Shawn Michaels, Why Roman Reigns Was Booed - Wrestling Inc.
As noted, former professional wrestling writer, producer, and performer, Vince Russo recently debuted his Nuclear Heat podcast with Wrestling Inc. last week. During the debut episode, Russo talked about why Roman Reigns got booed at Royal Rumble 2015 and why Seth Rollins is not over with the fans.
According to Russo, Reigns got booed out of the building at Royal Rumble 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania because WWE unnecessarily put Daniel Bryan in the over-the-top-rope battle royal and Reigns was left in the match with other performers who had no chance of winning and going on to headline WrestleMania 31.
"It had a lot to do with putting Daniel Bryan in that match, which they didn't have to put him in, having him eliminated, leaving Reigns in there with three other guys that had no chance of winning the match, so they put Reigns in a horrible position. The people booed him out of the building." Russo continued, "From that day on, from where I sit, my professional opinion is that the WWE has been catering to the internet, the internet wrestling community, the small audience with the loudest voice! Everything they said they weren't going to do, now they are doing. They are catering to that crowd, which they already have. The casual fans are no longer there."
Russo claimed that during Attitude Era Vince McMahon instructed the WWE writing staff to ignore the IWC and focus on attracting casual viewers.
"I can remember back in the day working for the WWE, we were told to ignore the internet. 'Don't read what the internet is saying; that is the minority with the loudest voice; those are traditional wrestling fans that are going to watch the product no matter what'", Russo added, "The key to success is to go out and get those casual television viewers and make wrestling cool again. That's what the Attitude Era was all about."
Also, on the premiere episode of Nuclear Heat, Russo stated that Rollins is not over because his character has been written in such a way that makes it impossible for the audience to connect with him.
"Seth Rollins is a great wrestler, Seth Rollins is not over," Russo said. "The reason Seth Rollins is not over is because creative has butchered his character. He [has] got more personalities than Sybil. One week, he's running away. The next week, he's standing up to Dean Ambrose. The next week, he's running away. The next week, he's standing up to Triple H. There have been so many changes with this Seth Rollins, there is no way anybody in the audience can be emotionally attached to him."
Russo went on to compare Rollins to WWE Hall of Famer, Shawn Michaels.
"[If] you want to see the difference in what I am talking about, go back to the Attitude Era and watch [when] Shawn Michaels was the [WWE] Champion. Watch the consistency of his character. He always stayed true to himself! Seth Rollins is a Duncan Yo-Yo, it's up, it's down, up and down, up and down, up and down."
Click here to check out the rest of the debut episode. You can check out the second episode of Russo's podcast in the video above, or on our audio channel below. You can also download the episode directly by clicking here. In the episode, Russo talks about when he stopped watching WWE and why he started watching again, if he is bitter over his WWE and TNA departures, WWE not creating new superstars, if he is a fan of NXT, why casual AND traditional fans are tuning out of the current product and more. Please take a moment to subscribe to the Wrestling Inc. audio channel on iTunes as well as our RSS feed, which you can use to subscribe through any podcast app. | 2019-04-24T19:01:59 | https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2015/10/vince-russo-on-why-seth-rollins-isnt-a-draw-602550/ |
0.998365 | Move on from regular Chicken Fried Rice, because we have a dhamaaka of a recipe that's going to change your world! With a few ingredients and a packet of Ching's Schezwan Fried Rice Masala, you can create a dish that's going to leave everyone guessing (and drooling)! Follow these simple steps to find out how.
Step 1: Soak the quinoa for 2 hours and boil it.
Step 2: Take a pan add oil, saute the onion, garlic, ginger, green chilli.
Step 3: Add the chopped french beans, carrots, cabbage and saute it for a while.
Step 4: Add the quinoa, stir fry it with Ching’s schezwan sauce and a bit of soya sauce.
Step 5: Season it with salt and garnish it spring onion. | 2019-04-25T13:53:13 | http://chingssecret.com/recipes_details/chicken-fried-rice |
0.99998 | Like many poker fans, you may be worried about the passing of the Law Breaking Internet Gambling Act last year. Does the law make it illegal to play poker online?
First of all, you must know that even before the law was passed, online gambling was considered illegal by 11 countries. I assume this means that state law considers online poker illegal - I am not familiar with all state laws, but that is what I will conclude. The 11 states where online gambling is considered illegal - and still do so today - are Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin. I repeat, online gambling remains illegal in these countries. However, as far as I know, no one has ever been sued by any state for gambling online.
In California, where I register poker, the law does not equate "poker" with "gambling" but considers playing games, and professional poker players are not considered gamblers, but as professional game players.
After the law was passed, nothing really changed with regard to the legality of online gambling. As I said, it remains illegal in 11 states. But the law does not make online gambling illegal in the United States as a whole. Following this line of thought, logically there are 39 US states where online gambling is legal, as before the Law was passed.
However, there are still a number of online poker sites that accept real money players from the United States. If you are a US citizen and find yourself banned from one poker site, then don't worry - you are sure to find one that lets you play.
After all, there is controversy over whether the new bill can even be implemented. After all, online poker sites are located outside the United States. So how is the United States law made to apply to them?
Is it legal to play online poker in the United States? The answer is yes, it is valid - at least in 39 of 50 countries. But the new bill has made it harder for US players to make money from it. | 2019-04-20T16:43:20 | https://sildenafil7online.com/index.php?page=law-breaking-internet-gambling-act |
0.998902 | When you have a recipe that calls for beer, and you want or need to leave it out, you have quite a few options. If you've made the recipe in question before, you should be able to gauge whether it can withstand a bit more sodium or sweetness, and you can choose your substitution accordingly.
Here are the best and easiest-to-find substitutes for most recipes.
You can use chicken broth, ginger ale, white grape juice, or white wine if your recipe calls for light beer. Use beef broth, chicken broth, mushroom stock, apple juice, apple cider, root beer, or coke instead of dark beer.
With all of these ingredients, you want to be sure to replace the beer measure for measure to keep the liquid volume the same in your recipe.
If the beer is being used to tenderize meat, use a soda substitute (root beer or ginger ale). It'll do the same job and add minimal flavor. Soda will add sweetness, however, unless you choose a sugar-free option, or use plain soda water which is also a good replacement.
You should also go with a soda substitute if the beer is in a bread recipe. The recipe probably needs the acidity and/or carbonation to activate the yeast or baking soda that's being used to leaven the dough. Without an ingredient to fill this role, your bread won't rise like it's supposed to.
If none of these variables is a factor for you, choose whichever substitute seems like the best flavor match for your recipe.
None of these substitutes is a perfect flavor match for beer, but any one of them should still work nicely in your recipe. If you decide to use soda or juice in place of the beer called for in your recipe, expect your dish to be a bit sweeter than it would if beer was used.
This is easy enough to remedy with a bit of vinegar or lemon juice. Just taste your recipe and adjust it a splash at a time until you're happy with the results.
Using broth as a beer substitute will add a wonderful depth of flavor to your recipe, but it could also add some sodium. Use a sodium-free broth or consider omitting the salt called for in your recipe until you've had a chance to taste the dish. You might find that the broth has added all the salt you need. | 2019-04-19T00:53:54 | https://www.thespruceeats.com/beer-substitute-1388879 |
0.999813 | Sweet shop has a weighty problem!
Refusal : Jean McDermott refuses to sell sweets in metric measures.
SWEET toothed folk could be without a traditional treat -as trading standards officers 'weigh in' on a Stalybridge shopkeeper.
Jean McDermott has been serving loose confectionery for the past 18 years using pounds and ounces. But under the 1994 Metrication Regulation (of the Weights and Measures Act 1955) shops such as E&J McDermott in Market Street, Stalybridge, must he able to serve in kilos and grams.
And Jean says converting from her imperial scales to metric will cost at least £180. "Why should we change over?" protested Jean. "We've not agreed to it, we've not even had a say and we're certainly not get any contributions from the government for the new scales. "The cost of new scales would take such a long time to make up, I'll just have to stop selling the sweets."
Jean adds nobody has asked her to weigh goods in metric units, and even children, who are taught to use the European system at school, prefer their sugared goodies in 'quarters'. But one trading standards officer said they don't want to make life difficult for business owners.
"The last thing we want to do is prosecute, we're offering as much advice as we can," said senior trading standards officer, John Davies.
"We realise it's difficult for smaller shops to afford the changes and they would benefit from some kind of grant, but the pubs changed to the metric system in 1996 and there was no help for them.
"The alternative for Mrs McDermott would be to sell prepacked goods" Mr Davies says Tameside Scales (on 0161 3396501) can adjust a 'fan scale' to have metric measures for £75. Currently traders must indicate the price food using metric measures, but until 2009 they can also display prices using imperial measures.
HAVING spent thousands of pounds on new equipment to comply with new regulations enforcing the EU's compulsory metrication directives, Peter Ellis, whose Network Seafood in Newhaven, East Sussex, supplies fish to hundreds of hotels, restaurants and catering firms, was horrified to see business slumping.
His customers couldn't understand that salmon now being sold by the kilogram - more than 2lb - hadn't actually doubled in price. Dozens told Mr Ellis that they hated the new metric system, so he has now told Keith Pogson, head of East Sussex trading standards, that, to save his business, he has gone back to selling his fish in pounds and ounces.
His customers are delighted. Terry Shurman, landlord of the Greyhound pub at Keymer, says: "Mr Ellis is right. To take English fish out of the English Channel and weigh them out in kilograms is outrageous. Those officials are not only despots, they're tosspots." Mike Bingham, a caterer, says: "We're all fed up with Brussels bureaucrats pushing things down our throats. Every day someone dredges up something else."
Last Wednesday Dave Stephens, the Essex butcher in the forefront of the growing campaign against metrication, led a delegation to the Department of Trade and Industry, accompanied by the UK Independence Party MEP Nigel Farage, challenging officials to allow a prosecution to test the law.
He has had thousands of messages of support, including one from the comedian Max Bygraves, who wrote: "Count me in to be your cellmate in prison." But the officials fear a test case because of legal opinions suggesting that, for procedural reasons, the UK regulations might be ruled illegal.
My comment : I would like to ask Mr Ellis and Mrs McDermott how many fingers they think they have on each hand. Metric is much more sensible than imperial measure. Just because a load of old ostriches stick their heads in the sand and try and hang on to what they know rather than embracing change (which is typical of conservative Britain),doesn't mean that sooner or later metric will inevitably come to rule (so to speak),and so it should. The metric system as it is being based on powers of ten,makes kilometres more sense than the imperial system.
Decimal pointless? Recall the confusion that greeted the new monetary system in 1971.
The measurements in physics a streamlined by using metric,and currently even scientists are wandering between the two systems when speaking. Use of two measuring systems increases the chance of error,and no doubt clock turners like the duo above would be the first to complain if some accident occurred because of an error brought on by mixing units of measure in some critical instance.
The reaction of the two people here is typical of Britons who refuse to accommodate change,even when it makes sense to do so,and become xenophobic about the origins of metrication and patriotic about their own idiotic system. This reaction no doubt is because of their inability to count in tens,something which should be second nature to everyone,and having to accommodate something new. This is similar to the averse reaction to technology encountered amongst those who have no clue how it works and become frustrated at their own inadequacy.
When the currency was decimalised there was the same attempt to kick and scream and make a fuss because those with limited brain matter couldn't cope with having to change how they calculated. This is indicative of the mentality people have towards mathematics.They see it as a necessary evil,rather than the beautiful and powerful thing that it is.
It's no wonder that in a country having such basic problems with maths skills we're prone to believe mystical ideas and hanging on to old systems of calculation.Mr Shurman might ask himself who in fact is the "tosspot" since the officials are only trying to institute a sensible system and get rid of an antiquated one. Such tradespeople are only showing their "math phobia" and indicating their fundamental ignorance. If someone offered two choices,one of putting your head in the oven and the other of using an oven for it's given purpose,then why would any sane person choose putting their head in the oven, just because a load of other people do it?
Staying with imperial measure is for post-war clock turners who stick their feet in the mud,out of some misplaced patriotism.Imperial measure is anachronistic and irrelevant to today's world. The modern metric weights are defined with atomic precision.Does anyone know where the defining yard exists,as we do the metre and kilogramme? I bet tradespeople do not know,and much less do they care.For their accuracy need only be measured with limited precision. Modern engineering techniques required a modern system of weights and measures,and Imperial - isn't it.
My comment : Let's answer some questions - what is wrong with dual marking products? Supposing someone uses the wrong measurement for taking medicine? Supposing an accurate measurement is needed on an aircraft ballbearing and the wong measurement is used - I guess Mr Parry will be the one in the queue waiting to sue his doctor or the airline because they were stupid enough to put TWO measurements on a product when only one was needed. Not to mention all the extra cost and confusion involved.What happened to the Burton's (above) is indication enough of why we do not need TWO measuring systems.
Mr Martinez and Mr Jamil are exactly correct - today's science needs Metric and the old has-beens who prefer imperial are only hanging onto such things out of misplaced patriotism and fear of learning something new. To Mr Elliot the "meaningfullness" of the measures is all in the mind - if you have used metric - 250g of flour is just as meaningful as 4 ounces - meaning is a personal subjective response - measures are an objective discernment of actuality - the "right sort of numbers" are those that accurately reflect what is in front of someone - and metric does this better than imperial -which is why all scientific notation is metric - only silly old Blighty hangs onto imperial along with its US cousins - as Mr Jamil says - we are stuck in the medieval times over this - let's move into the 21st century with the correct mensuration system. As Mr Kwateng points out - a yard is something where you keep your yardbrush - we do not have 12 fingers - we have 10 - why is it so hard for Britons to use tens?
Why not look at the LENGTHS to which science goes to provide accuracy and then you will see just how defunct the imperial system is. | 2019-04-25T16:20:02 | http://leebor2.100webspace.net/Zymic/weight.html |
0.996222 | Why study at a partner college?
Why choose a Brookes course?
I wasn't 100% sure about committing to university for 3 years, as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do once I finished my degree. Doing an apprenticeship is allowing me to get experience at the same time as studying a full-time degree, and is giving me the opportunity to decide what career path I want to go down in the future.
What do you enjoy most about your Oxford Brookes academic course (at Abingdon and Witney College)?
I enjoy being able to relate the theory we learn to the industry. This helps consolidate what I have learnt and makes it more fun and easy to remember what we are studying on the course. All of the lecturers are great as they try and relate aspects of the course to the industry that you are in. Many of the assignments can be related to the business that you work in which makes it easier to write. Most of the people that are doing this course are also Level 6 apprentices, which makes it even better to talk about what we are going through. We all get on as a group too which is even better!
What do you think are the challenges and benefits of combining work and study through an apprenticeship?
I think that working in a full-time role and doing an apprenticeship is never easy. Time management, at first, was my biggest challenge. Ensuring that I was spending enough time on work, studies and myself was hard, but this definitely got easier as I worked out how to manage my time. The benefits outweigh the challenges. I am able to use what I learn in the classroom to my day to day work, which is really useful, also allowing me to bring new ideas to the team. This apprenticeship has also allowed me to find out what I find most interesting, helping me choose what role I would like to go into in the future.
Can you give an example of where your learning through your apprenticeship has had a positive impact on your role at work?
There are many ways in which studying has helped me in my role at Nielsen, one aspect of the marketing module helped me identify why one of my client's products were in decline. This really helped my client as well as my manager to understand one of the possible reasons for the products decline.
I enjoy doing sports, such as Netball. I also go to the gym and classes at my local gym. I spend a lot of time with the other apprentices outside of work and Uni, going to the cinema, shopping and going out on the weekends. We are definitely not missing out on the normal uni life!
What are your career/development plans once you have completed your apprenticeship?
I hope to find a permanent role within Nielsen, and find a job that I am passionate about by the end of my apprenticeship.
Anything else you'd like to contribute that would give other potential students a feel for what it's like to study a Brookes degree as part of an apprenticeship?
Doing a degree as well as an apprenticeship was the best decision I made, I am gaining experience in the industry as well as learning the theory behind it. This is different to doing a 'normal' degree as I am able to find a job I enjoy and am passionate about at the end. Even though it is hard work, I really enjoy myself and I know others do too. | 2019-04-21T01:19:34 | https://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/courses/foundation-degrees-and-partnership-courses/student-profiles/tiffany-pedley/ |
0.994241 | Two months ago, we embarked on a rather industrious plot. For every proceeding month, I promised you, the reader, an article that discloses the mysteries of some of our most common small kitchen appliances. I regretted having to take a month's leave of absence but dutifully promise a great read for the future. This month is no exception, as we delve into the inner-workings of one of the larger of small appliances, the slow cooker.
Also known as a crockery cooker or a crock pot, the slow cooker, like the electric skillet, is a very useful item. As usual, I wish to end this article with some useful recipes. To the delight of our editor-in-chief, I will be including my world famous Herb and Seasoned Chicken. (Well, OK, it's not THAT famous but it is rather tasty) But let us wind back for a moment and look at slow cookers of today.
The slow cooker is a very simple device. It works on the premise that consistent, low-wattage heat will more thoroughly penetrate and cook the food mass. A heat source, at the bottom of the product, delivers its energy through the materials of the cooker and via conduction, into the food. Liquids, such as broth and internal juices and fats, aid in the cooking process by retaining the moisture and the heat. The whole process is capped, quite literally, by the product's cover, which like the skillet, induces convection and aid the cooking process.
Some slow cookers, especially of this era, address an interesting problem. How does one serve the cooked food immediately and to the awaiting mouths of the hungry? It is rather difficult to take the entire appliance to the table and, conversely, it is also difficult to take the food out, keep it warm, and not make a mess. The latter means other vessels to store the food in; more clean-up in the long run. Today, however, the cooking vessel is removable and can be stored, covered, for later use. And the vessel is unique as well. You have the choice between a glazed, clay crock or a simple metal vessel. There exists an argument for which vessel is the best. Metal cookers, with non-stick interiors, may lend themselves to shorter over-all cooking times due to the heat transfer efficiency. Crock cookers may lend themselves to slower times but enhanced thermal diffusion into the product. In the end?
In the end, both products run identically and it is up to the consumer which model they prefer. Below, I've evaluated some pros and cons for both models.
Metal slow cookers come in comfortable oblong and rectangular shapes. They store easier in shelving both in and out of the refrigerator. One obvious drawback is the look. However, manufacturers have addressed this issue with the external aesthetics by adding kitchen-sensitive decoration to the outside. Patterns such as florals are available in colors that should not interact unpleasingly to any home décor.
The robust feel of crockery cookware fits in some homes. But shapes are limited to circular due to constraints in manufacturing. This may hinder storage both in and out of the refrigerator. Additionally, care must be taken with crocks as their glaze wears more quickly over time compared to metal-nonstick surfaces. And when dropped, crocks tend to not survive. Serving-wise, however, the crock has a more pleasing presence both on and off the kitchen table or buffet.
Unlike our friend, the electric skillet, slow cookers are limited to what and how a food or meal can be prepared. In the end of this article, the two recipes you will find can suffice as the entire family's main course, to be supplemented with greens and dessert if so desired.
The best food products that lend themselves to be cooked with a slow cooker are larger proportion meats, stews, and soups. For example, whole turkey breast, duck, and small chickens fill the poultry side. Beef, pork, and lamb roasts finish this category. Other meats may include fish if one wished to cook it down into a soup or stew. Vegetables are a tricky item as some absorb moisture as they take on to cooking, and some lose their mass to the cooking process. It is very important to balance which vegetables and add them at the appropriate stages to the dish. You will see the case in point for the beef roast below. Water-heavy vegetables such as cabbage, celery, and onions should be added near the end of the dish. Water-absorbent vegetables such as potatoes, leeks, and carrots, added sooner if not at the beginning of the dish. My personal preference is for carrots, for example, to be added mid-way so as not to be over-cooked. Potatoes at the very beginning so as to soak up juices and flavors.
When I prepare a meal or dish with my slow cooker, I begin the cooking in the morning, letting it cook throughout the day, and it is ready for consumption when I return home from work. I use the lowest possible heat setting so as to ensure thorough cooking but to not destroy or dry out the food.
Let's now look at some simple recipes that incorporate the ideology of the modern slow cooker.
To begin, prepare one whole fryer chicken. Remove the liver, neck, and innards if needs be.
Create and apply a simple salt and pepper rub for the entire chicken, and allow to sit for roughly ten minutes.
In a small bowl, add two tablespoons cold-pressed, first-run olive oil and 1 cup water. Season with thyme, basil, oregano, and dried parsley. Add first to the slow cooker.
Place the chicken into the slow cooker and put the appliance on LOW. Add potatoes.
In four or five hours, add remaining vegetables, making sure to stir up the both and re-position the chicken.
The dish is finished in an hour or two, when the meat begins tearing away from the bone or when a deep cut reveals minimal pink on the inside.
*The vegetables may be seasoned overnight in a soy sauce drink that includes more of the above seasonings. This flavour carries on thoroughly in the chicken as well as other meats.
Prepare a beef tip roast by piercing the skin with a knife. Dual pierces will result in a cross-shaped cut. Make ten to twelve of these pierces and stuff a clove or garlic into each cross.
Add to one cup water the seasonings of your choice. Some seasonings that compliment beef include oregano, thyme, mustard seed, and crushed black pepper. Finish this with two teaspoons of dry red sherry or Worcestershire sauce, depending on your tastes.
Again, with the cooker at LOW, add the beef and sauce mix, covering and letting cook for 6 hours or so. Check the meat every hour or so, if possible, and stir the juices for flavor penetration into the meat.
Slice thinly and serve over rice or with mashed potatoes.
In a sauce pan, prepare a simple white sauce roux. Begin with 1 table spoon cold, unsalted butter. With low heat, melt the butter and gently but brightly stir in 1/4 to 1/3 cup all-purpose flour.
With the heat at a minimum, add roughly one cup of milk, slowly, stirring at all times for full incorporation. Continue to stir until sauce thickens. Add flour or milk if needed.
In the sauce pan, add one large fillet of whitefish being sure to immerse it fully into the sauce. Cover and allow to simmer under low heat and cook for 5 - 10 minutes.
Pour sauce, fish and all, into the slow cooker. On HIGH, add 1 cup chicken stock and cook for an hour, stirring every so often as to break up the fish. Season with spices such as cayenne or mustard powder.
Serve warm, over a heavy European bread. | 2019-04-20T04:27:14 | https://seasoned.com/blog/1999/05/product-focus |
0.997567 | A small Russian software company learns that Adobe doesn't pull its punches when an engineer is arrested for creating a program to crack the eBook format.
Attention, software pirates, security researchers and those out to prove a point: Adobe Systems doesn't pull its punches.
That's the lesson Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian software programmer, learned Monday when FBI agents arrested him in Las Vegas for allegedly publishing a program that removes the security protections from Adobe eBook files. The bureau said such activity was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Sklyarov, who has been moved to San Jose, Calif., for trial, is the latest casualty in a fight between software maker Adobe and Elcom, a 20-person company in Moscow.
The jailed programmer is one of the authors of the Advanced eBook Processor, an application designed to strip various security measures from Adobe's eBook format, a function that Elcom claims is necessary to allow backups required by Russian law and that Adobe claims is tantamount to software piracy.
"Adobe would like to make great money on the eBook market but used an absolutely improper format for that: PDF," Vladamir Katalov, managing director of Elcom, said in an e-mail interview with CNET News.com. That's "really nice, but not secure. And by pushing it, they simply create a lot of trouble (for) publishers and authors."
The jailed programmer Sklyarov had outlined problems with Adobe eBook and PDF security in a paper presented at the Def Con hacker convention.
Elcom's claim that the company had benign intentions is dodging the issue, said Adobe spokeswoman Susan Altman Prescott.
"The truth is that piracy is not a new issue, and copy protection of digital content is not a new issue," she said. "No software on the market is 100 percent secure against a determined hacker. We are not new to this business. We understand the nature of copyright violation and how to prevent it."
Sklyarov's arrest comes three weeks after Adobe sent notices requesting that Elcom stop selling the program and demanding that Verio, Elcom's Internet service provider, disconnect the company's Web site.
The notice sent to Elcom on June 25 gave the company five days to remove the software from its site, but Verio removed the site the next day. While Elcom's Katalov said the company complied with Adobe's demands--selling fewer than 10 copies of its program before the software was pulled--its credit card service was soon suspended as well.
On June 26, according to the affidavit filed in the Northern District of California, Adobe requested an investigation by the FBI into Elcom's activities. After several demonstrations that the program did, indeed, remove the security of eBook files, FBI agent Daniel O'Connell filed his affidavit July 11, a day before registration opened at Def Con.
Adobe, for its part, would not confirm its role in the investigation.
"The issue is not one of Adobe vs. a software hacker," said Adobe's Prescott. "At issue is copyright protection for artists and publishers."
While Prescott first portrayed Adobe as somewhat removed from the investigation, she later acknowledged that the company "brought it to the attention of the U.S. government." The FBI affidavit, however, shows that Adobe seems to be the only victim in the case and had at least three people working on gathering information about Elcom's software for investigators.
Only the second case to be filed under the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the strongest law to date supporting publishers of copyrighted content, the trial could be an important testing ground for the DMCA, said Jennifer Granick, clinical director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society.
"It's the DeCSS case but criminal," she said, referring to the New York case that is trying Web sites that linked to code that could break the encryption on DVD movies. "The fact that it is someone from outside the country highlights the problems with the law, because this is the U.S. enforcing its laws on another country."
Granick believes the case highlights an important weakness in the DMCA.
"Companies are allowed to take fair use away with our technology," she said, "but we are not allowed to take fair use back with technology." | 2019-04-24T12:09:29 | https://www.cnet.com/news/russians-arrest-latest-in-copyright-fight/ |
0.998903 | As I have already mentioned, the functional blocks shown in Figure 3 relate very closely to, even though they are not necessarily identical with, the computer's physical components. The computer's physical components are normally known collectively as the hardware. Software is a term often used to refer to a computer program or a collection of computer programs which enable a computer to carry out its tasks. As the course progresses you will find out a great deal about computer hardware and software, including the processor and the programs it runs. You will generate some programs yourself and look at the operation of the processor to see how it executes the instructions within them. Through this you will gain an understanding of what form the data used by the processor and memory must take, and hence understand the role of the input and output subsystems.
So the electrical signals that travel along the computer bus, and hence to the output subsystems and from the input subsystems, are all binary signals. Unfortunately, the electrical signals produced by input devices or needed by output devices are not necessarily binary, or even digital. Hence an important task of the input and output subsystems is to transform between the binary signals on the computer bus and whatever signals are used by their particular input or output device.
Keyboard, display, 500 GB hard drive, 6 GB DDR3 RAM, speakers, touchpad, SD reader.
The keyboard and mouse relate to input devices. The display and speakers relate to output devices.
To decide whether the 500 GB hard drive relates to the secondary memory, to the secondary memory subsystem or to the combination of both you need to make an intelligent guess about what those who wrote the advert meant. In this case I suspect they probably meant the combination of the two.
The 6 GB DDR3 RAM relates to main memory.
The SD reader relates to secondary memory.
The laptop shown in Figure 2 contains a sound card and a network card. What problem arises if you try to relate these two items to the functional blocks of Figure 3?
The problem is that a sound card is used for both input and output (it takes inputs from a microphone and delivers outputs to one or more speakers). The network card is also used for both input and output (it both sends signals to and receives signals from the telephone network). Therefore these items do not at first seem to fit neatly with Figure 3. But remember that the diagram is showing functionality. So you can relate the input functionality of the sound card to the ‘input subsystem’ item in Figure 3 (the microphone would be the input device), and the output functionality of the sound card to the ‘output subsystem’ (the speaker or speakers would be the output device). In the case of the network card, its input functionality relates to the ‘input device’ in Figure 3 and its output functionality to the ‘output device’.
The terms input-output device and input-output subsystem are sometimes used where items have both input and output functionality. Hence a sound card is an input-output subsystem.
Finally, just as you are just becoming familiar with all of the terms I have been introducing, I need to add a word of caution. When you read books or other literature about computers you may find some of the terms I have defined used differently. This is not necessarily a problem, and is common when technical terms become part of everyday language. However, throughout your study of this unit you do need to make sure that you use the terms as defined here.
One term I have not used here that you might come across is computer system. Historically some people used the terms ‘computer’ and ‘computer system’ rather differently. But that is no longer the case, and nowadays the word ‘system’ tends to be omitted. A good example is the use of the term ‘personal computer’, which would several years ago have often been described as a ‘personal computer system’. | 2019-04-22T11:11:24 | https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/computing-ict/computers-and-computer-systems/content-section-2.4 |
0.999421 | Although this correlation [i.e., between opposing abortion and believing that Roe was wrong] exists, we also ought to assume that one's position against Roe is purely jurisprudential and from a different source than her opposition to abortion generally.
I didn't intend to claim that we "ought to assume that one's position against Roe is purely jurisprudential[.]" My claim was (intended to be) more limited (and less interesting): "It's one thing -- isn't it? -- to think, based on observations, experience, and anecdotes, that anti-abortion views likely correlate with a view that, as a matter of constitutional law, Roe was wrong. It seems like another thing, though, to think that the reason Roe was wrong is because abortion is wrong."
Like Hillel, I do not think I know enough about Ms. Miers to be confident that her opposition to Roe does not depend on her moral opposition to abortion. But I do think that "conservatives" who are making the move from "Miers opposes abortion" to "Miers thinks Roe was wrong" are not (necessarily) guilty themselves of "confusing policy preferences with jurisprudence."
I don't for a moment believe that the majority of the people who are interpreting these signals ("she favored a constitutional amendment, so she must want to overturn Roe") have put much thought into these questions either. Many of them oppose Roe simply because they believe that abortion is wrong. And that's the very same thing they accuse liberals of, except in the reverse.
I'm not sure. My own impression -- which could be wrong, of course -- is that the pundits, commentators, and law-types who are "interpreting these signals" actually do believe that Roe is wrong as a matter of constitutional law and not just because abortion is wrong. (I'm not talking here about politicians or even persons-on-the-street. For non-law-types, I imagine that -- on both sides -- one's "views" on abortion are entirely reducible to one's "views" about abortion). What's more, my impression is that there is actually more "separation" between views on abortion and views on Roe among those who are anti-abortion than among those who support abortion rights.
Hillel asks, "Don't many [conservatives] start with the proposition that abortion is fundamentally and morally wrong, and therefore it can't possibly be protected by the Constitution?" I don't think so, actually. In my own experience (which certainly could be unrepresentative), anti-abortion critics of Roe concede that the Constitution, properly understood, insulates many "morally wrong" actions from government regulation.
In any event, though, Hillel and I agree entirely that "conservatives should be careful to note that the question of whether [conduct] is immoral or bad is different from the question of whether it ought to be legal[.]" I am cheating a bit, I know, and editing "abortion" out of Hillel's question. This is because it could be that the reason why abortion is immoral (if it is) serves also as a stronger-than-usual reason why it should be (generally) illegal (cf., e.g., lying to a friend). But, as a general rule, I am happy to agree -- indeed, I believe strongly -- that the law need not, and should not, prohibit every vice or require every virtue. Thanks, Hillel! | 2019-04-22T10:49:52 | https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2005/10/what_does_part_.html |
0.999198 | Identity theft is a relatively new phenomenon. It has been in the news a few times but is something that's really in its infancy. Generally, Identity thieves are after sufficient information about a person that will enable them to purchase things and make cash withdrawals at somebody else's expense. The point is that the victim is rarely the target of the crime. the victim is often just a hapless bystander. The criminal - like all criminals - wants things and money but is too idle to work for them in the normal way. The fact that they do 10 times as much work as everybody else in order to get the information etc. doesn't seem to occur to them.
Who are Identity thieves? It's not really possible to identify a specific group as identity thieves. It's like asking whether all the people in London left-handed. Obviously, the people who do it are technically capable but they're not all the aggrieved computer "nerds" and "geeks" that popular fiction imagines. The only things that do bind identity thieves together is time - Identity theft takes time and patience. It also takes privacy and investigative powers. Frequently such people work alone although groups can be involved. Those that seem to be convicted in the courts seem mostly to be disaffected and unemployed teenagers - frequently with a grudge against society or an immature outlook. Having said that, organised criminals in the former USSR are very keen on credit card fraud - a form of identity theft.
How do identity thieves work? Mostly they work via the Internet. The press likes the idea of criminals rooting though the rubbish bins and stealing sacks of rubbish in order to read the details off bank statements etc. The reality is though that while that might be the case for some criminals and the would-be sleuths of this world, most criminals prefer to sit in a nice, warm house, drinking cold beer while they commit their crimes. Criminals - like other people - see no reason why they should go outside if they can make a living inside. Some of the information can come from bogus web sites they set up. It's relatively easy to set up a bogus web site that takes credit card information. This site, for example, doesn't take credit card information - instead, the "Buy Key" buttons redirect the user to a German web site that specialises in online software sales. It would, however, be quite easy to set up a site with bogus buttons that ask for the user's credit card number and address etc. Once the thief has that information, it can be used to buy things online. In August 2002, a spammer in Russia sent out an email offering credit card numbers that had been stolen. Obviously an astute user should check that the site from which they're ordering is genuine but how many people check to see whether there's a padlock in the bottom right hand panel of their web browser or that the web page address begins https?
Keep copies of all bank statements, credit card bills etc.
Keep copies of all receipts etc.
Don't buy anything online or over the telephone unless you can verify the company is genuine - No address equals no business. Don't be satisfied that the address is genuine. Check the telephone book to make sure the company exists where it says it does and ring the number in the phone book and verify the web site is genuine. The council in the company's locality - particularly the Consumer Protection department can occasionally be helpful in providing information.
Don't let your credit cards out of your sight.
Whether home or abroad, make sure you know where your passport is - at all times. When abroad - if you trust your hotel - lock it in their safe or carry it on your person (preferably tucked away in a pocket no thief can reach).
Shred all official correspondence once it is no longer required.
Tick the "Do not share my address with others" box on every form you complete.
Do not allow the phone company to list your details in the phone book. Not only will this stop the majority of telephone canvassers but it will also keep your information off the internet. All phone books are available for viewing via the internet. Somebody in Australia can check to see the phone number of Bill Nobody of No Street, No Town in Britain, if they desired.
Do not store your personal details online. It's quite common for bored children to hack into web sites and email inboxes and then to prove they have done so by posting the details on newsgroups.
Do not store your credit card details on your own PC. Microsoft Wallet, for example, is secure only until somebody gets a virus onto your system that will transmit the contents to their email account.
If you publish your resum online or send it to a recruitment company online, omit the details of your referees and both your home address and your home phone number. If the recruitment company is genuine, it'll understand and cooperate. If not, it'll come out with vague threats or nag for the address.
Your address can be traced from your phone number. A few years ago, a free CD was available that allowed people to see anybody's contact details. The full version of the CD cost a mere two hundred pounds. As the owner of one business remarked: "That's the equivalent of only four bounced cheques". Once your phone number has been entered, your address can be traced along with a list of everybody living with you. Don't publish your phone number.
Don't automatically assume you have privacy. Privacy is a right that everybody had before computers took it away. Now one must work hard to maintain one's privacy and safety.
How do I know that I'm the victim of identity theft?
Strange entries and charges appear on your phenol.
Strange entries and charges appear on your credit card bill.
Strange direct debits or withdrawals appear on your bank/building society statements.
Share transactions are documented that you know nothing of.
Bills start to appear from organisations of which you know nothing.
Strange letters start to arrive, demanding payment or notifying you of your account status or that an account has been opened.
The Police or Customs and Excise come visiting, looking for people you've never heard of or asking about items about which you've never heard.
Speeding tickets or Parking tickets begin to arrive for cars you don't own or for cars that you do but about times and places that are inconsistent with your movements.
Road tolls arrive that are inconsistent with your movements.
What do I do if I suspect I am the victim of identity theft?
Be very suspicious of the evidence. If it comes in the form of a letter, take it to the police as evidence of possible identity theft. It could be somebody writing a spurious letter in the hope of a reply, confirming your existence.
Alert your phone, credit card companies and banks to your suspicious and give the reasons.
Inform the police and insist on being given a crime number.
Do not wait for more evidence to arrive. Act quickly but don't forget to check to see whether it's a genuine bill for something you have bought for yourself.
Keep copies of everything. It may be necessary to prove your financial record over the last few years.
Keep copies of all your receipts and travel tickets. You might have to prove you were in a different country.
It's a lot of work to do to keep safe. It's a lot of work to do to prove your innocence too and it requires constant vigilance to ensure your identity is not stolen. The world is getting increasingly less safe, with online bandits and real-world bandits taking over both the internet and the streets. The watchword of the 21st century is vigilance just as it was in the 19th. | 2019-04-18T17:12:14 | http://www.sageworld.co.uk/newdotorg/Identity-theft.php |
0.99649 | There is emerging (and tantalizing) evidence of links between “natural” climate variability, and climate change. Recent results suggest that climate feedbacks (including cloud feedback) are correlated between forced climate change and climate variability on interannual and decadal timescales. There are hints, too, of relationships between the magnitude of climate variability on long (e.g. decadal) timescales in coupled climate models (CCM) and their climate sensitivity. However, such relationships remaining poorly understood, limiting our confidence in using them as constraints for future forced climate change. Here we use low-order deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems (DS) to understand the fundamental processes driving such relationships and ask how robust they might be, how important are radiative feedbacks, and what basic physical process are driving them. To answer this, we use the DS and CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 of the World Climate Research Programme) results to address the following questions: Why is the range of natural climate variability so large in CCMs in the first place, and what is the role of radiative feedbacks in this spread? What is the tightest relationship we should “expect” to find between climate sensitivity and climate variability on annual, decadal or multi-decadal timescales? How important are climate radiative feedbacks in this relationship? Would we “expect” to find a closer relationship between variability and transient climate response than equilibrium climate sensitivity, and what do the CCMs say? It is highly important using new methods to process and analyse climate data in our study.
Sergei Soldatenko was graduated from Military Aerospace University (MAU), St. Petersburg with MSc degree in Atmospheric Sciences. In 1983 he got the PhD from the same university, in 1992 the Doctor of Science degree in Math and Physics from the state university of St. Petersburg. Since 1990 to 1999 he was a Chairman of the Department of Meteorology at, Hydrology and Geophysics at MAU and then for a number of years he was a Lab Head at the Institute of Computer Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2011 he is a senior professional officer at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Identification of coal reservoir families is important for the prediction of gas in place and potential sweet spots. This task is challenging especially for ultra-deep coal seams. In this study, we propose an approach for identifying coal reservoir families which is fully data-driven and based on hierarchical clustering of target coals.
The Cooper Basin is selected as a study area which is a world-class unconventional gas resource located in the South Australia and Queensland. A large amount of information about the physical parameters of the deep coal seams from 1194 wells is available. We proceeded with ten relevant target coal characterisation parameters (DCCPs).
In order to identify the coal gas reservoir families, we develop a decision tree (DT) for partitioning the original dataset into clusters that can be interpreted as reservoir families. At each node of the DT, the quality of the cluster is evaluated and clustering is conducted. The partitioning process stops when the cluster quality is acceptable. The cluster quality is assessed statistically through a cluster validity criterion.
Ten meaningful clusters are generated to identify coal reservoir families in the Cooper Basin. Furthermore, these clusters are analysed and interpreted by a geologist.
A hierarchical clustering approach has been applied to identify coal reservoir families in the Cooper Basin. The method can assist geologists in detection and mapping of potential sweet spots. This application demonstrates how traditional practices of reservoir modelling can be improved using machine learning.
Tauqir Moughal is a data scientist with significant experience in machine learning. He is a member of CSIRO Geoscience Data Analytics team, a team of computational scientists who develop and implement data-driven techniques in various geoscience applications.
The Australian Climate Science Data-enhanced Virtual Laboratory (DeVL) focus has been to further develop the Australian research environments and data management capabilities for Australia’s contributions for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). This includes a) major upgrades and improvements to data organisation of the Earth Systems Grid Federation Node at NCI b) upgraded data analysis environments at NCI c) improved data FAIRness and d) updated user support information.
The Climate DeVL is a collaborative project between NCI, CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, the ARC Centre for Climate Extremes and co-funded by the Australian Research Data Commons. The Climate DeVL builds on previous Australian e-infrastructure programs to support national and international collaboration on priority climate research across these partners, and other government programs.
Data management for improved use within a High Performance Data (HPD) environment.
Access to international best-practice tools and common workflows for enhanced collaboration and innovative digital research methods.
Easy access to new climate data for use across a number of different research areas both directly at NCI as well as remotely.
Data publication services that support a range of access methods for communication and translation of research outputs with other research communities, for policy development, and industry.
Training and user support materials for more effective use of new capabilities.
While this project addresses the Community’s immediate goals for CMIP6, the need to extend this capability to prepare for future technical challenges is already emerging.
Clare Richards is an experienced project manager for major research infrastructure and modelling software projects including engagement with internal and external stakeholders to develop project plans for implementing new business systems, applications, services and websites. Before joining NCI she was with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Clare holds a B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from the University of South Australia, a Master’s degree in Media Practice from the University of Sydney and an MBA from La Trobe University.
Most machine learning research on chemical systems study either materials, with periodic structures, or molecules. Often for surface catalysis, the relevant information is in-between both systems. For this study, our dataset contains molecules on different surface defects, namely catalytic active centres. These are N-doped graphene pores supporting one or two single metal atoms.
The binding energies (BE) is an indicator for the strength of the interaction of the molecule with the surface and is used as the label. The data includes around 1600 structures of molecules on various different active centres and their BE. The geometric data comprises of the 3-dimensional coordinates of all atoms in a periodic cell. The main problem is describing features which are meaningful for a wide number of structures, as different structures have different atom types, adsorbed species and number of atoms. Through different descriptions of the geometrical structure in the systems, we try to link the BE to essential geometric features.
Meli Fischer completed her Bachelor and Master of Science at Ulm University, Germany. She specialised on physical and theoretical chemistry with an emphasis on material science. For her further studies, she received an international postgrad scholarship from the University of Queensland and graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry in 2018. Since January 2019, she is working on material data science at Data61, Docklands.
Accurate yield estimation at early stages of growth is critical to the competitiveness of Australian agriculture industry. For example, in viticulture, yield estimation is currently undertaken by the growers in a manual, destructive, and spatially sparse sampling regime. This method is inherently limited and typically results in ~33% error rates with the following factors as contributing to the variability: bunch number (~60%), berry number (~30%), and berry weight (~10%). Being able to robustly and accurately estimate the bunch number and berry number would be of major benefit to the Australian industry.
We are developing an AI based platform for yield estimation and fruit quality prediction. We have done some research on the yield estimation by using deep learning to detect inflorescences and fruit sets from video footages acquired at vineyards in SA and the results look very promising. We are also using machine learning for analysis of hyperspectral data for fruit quality prediction and classification. We would like to further develop these technologies into a generic platform for various fruits including grapes, avocados etc.
Once such a platform is developed for the grape industry it could be applied to other horticulture fruit crops, and the application to fruit quality is not only in the field to determine when to harvest but also throughout the supply chain from farms to consumers.
Dr Dadong Wang is a Principal Research Scientist & the research team leader of CSIRO Quantitative Imaging Research Team, part of the CSIRO Data61. The research team has extensive experience and a track record in developing intelligent end-to-end imaging and image analysis solutions and via collaboration with innovation partners bringing them to the market. One of the solutions has been licensed to a world leading cellular imaging company and about 1,500 licenses have been sold so far, giving research laboratories around the world access to the most advanced image analysis algorithms developed by the team.
Dadong is also an adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Accurate characterisation of the microscopic structure of mined resources such as coal is fundamental to understanding its utility and environmental impact. Such information is also critical to understanding the provenance and potentially hazardous nature of dust, sediments and other environmental samples. Such microscopic analysis typically requires an expert petrographer or environmental scientist to characterise the samples manually, a time consuming and expensive process.
CSIRO has developed an automated Component Grain Analysis (CGA) system to reduce the time required to segment and characterise coal and dust samples. The system manipulates 300 GB sample images with sub-micron pixel resolution, using automated processing to resolve this data intensive task. CGA provides reliable statistics on the distribution of maceral types and impurities in coal samples, and component materials in dust samples.
A recent breakthrough development is the incorporation of machine learning (ML) algorithms to the complex task of particle segmentation. Specifically, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been employed due to their demonstrated successes in the semantic segmentation of natural images, their capacity for learning texture, their computational efficiency, and their suitability for distributed computation. State-of-the-art CNN models were trained on microscopy images and ground-truth labels (provided by CSIRO petrographers) and consistently converged to segmentation accuracies on validation data of more than 95% – exceeding the estimated noise in the expert labelling.
Further steps for the development of the ML system include hyper-parameter refinement, label noise reduction, and model augmentation for the automatic characterisation of component materials and intra-particle segmentation for complex particles.
Alex Pitt is a software engineer in the Energy division at CSIRO. He graduated from the University of Queensland in 2011 with a B.E. (Software), and worked on data-engineering products for Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. After returning to Australia, he joined the CSIRO where he has worked for the last 6 years on sensor integration, signal processing and computer vision.
Early-science data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) are coming fast. Wide-area radio projects such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) and the Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe’s Magnetism (POSSUM) already have terabytes of ASKAP observations for use in early-science and survey planning. We have applied unsupervised machine learning methods to learn a meaningful representation of these early-science observations and demonstrated that this representation generalises across different sets of observations. We use this representation to address physical problems such as polarised source characterisation and physical model-fitting. Our approach provides a way to use early-science data even without full understanding of the unique instrumentation effects brought to the table by ASKAP.
Matthew is an astrophysics student at the Australian National University and Data61. They are interested in applications of machine learning to wide-area radio surveys, with a focus on the upcoming EMU (continuum) and POSSUM (polarisation) surveys to be conducted with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder.
Workshop preparation: Come with a laptop.
Workshop breakdown: Workshop is half-day, includes a hands-on component.
Workshop requirements: Wifi for ~40 attendees, no special seating.
Workshop content is relevant to all means of accessing and using Jupyter notebooks.
Dr Carina Kemp leads the AARNet eResearch team and engagement in Australian eResearch community. She has also worked as a research scientist, a company geophysicist and a consultant to industry. Her enduring interests include Open Data, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and High Performance Computing.
This workshop is targeted at data librarians, research support, and eResearch professionals interested in: what the Jupyter notebook does; how the notebook works; and how the notebook can be used to train researchers in basic programming skills; and some key research data management and research collaboration considerations (e.g. higher education, government and industry partnerships). Workshop participants will want to know where the Jupyter notebook fits into different researchers’ toolkits (along with Excel, SPSS, Stata, RebExr, RStudio, or MatLab). The workshop is targeted* towards researchers using AARNet’s CloudStor service (with Jupyter notebooks integrated).
Ingrid Mason (Deployment Strategist), Dr Frankie Stevens (Research Engagement Strategist) for AARNet, are eResearch specialists with extensive experience in researcher engagement, training, and have expertise in research data and technologies across HASS and STEM research areas.
This presentation is a overview of our recent development in data-constrained modelling (DCM) methodology for quantitative and sample-non-destructive (SND) characterization of 3D microscopic composition distribution in materials, and microstructure-based predictive modelling of material multi-physics properties. Potential impacts are illustrated with examples in a range of R&D disciplines. Data and computational challenges will be presented.
Dr Sam Yang (PhD in Statistical Physics) is a Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO Manufacturing BU. He has invented data-constrained modelling (DCM) in 2007 and has been leading its development. DCM has been applied for quantitative microstructure characterization in a range of disciplines worldwide. He has also researched on fundamental and applied statistical physics, applied complex system science, bio-physics, computational and simulations sciences, and has published over 100 research papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters and patents. Dr Yang is leading a major project in non-destructive quality evaluation of additively-manufactured (AM) metal components funded by the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) and five global industries. | 2019-04-25T09:28:53 | http://www.c3dis.com/category/from-research-data-to-understanding |
0.999816 | In the last few weeks, I have had several OBEs during sleep.
In one of them, (after about a half hour of astral adventures inside my house), I was in my dark kitchen, traveling back to my bedroom. As I passed by, the space over the cabinets had a light and something like a bubble light show projecting onto the wall.
In the other one, a few days ago, I was sitting (though out of my body) on the side of my bed. I was looking towards my dresser mirror which had an image of a beautiful cave set in a golden woodland area. I realized the cave was a doorway of sorts, and I was welcome to go into it. I am not sure why I didn't, but I started to lay back down in my body. As I did this I noticed that there was a gentle light coming from under my bed, illuminating the floor. I thought to myself "Oh, there's a light under my bed." Then I woke up.
I am a person who snores, so I wonder if I am actually losing oxygen and basically dying in my sleep, and coming back to life.
What's with the light coming from behind the cabinets and the bed?
I want to add that, on the same night that I saw the cave, I heard a (very quiet and far away voice) say: "You get to live your life. They need me here." I heard this right before I woke up.
Had another one last night. I recall that I was in my kitchen again (apparently my favorite hangout when out-of-body) and looking at the digital clock on the oven: 1:10. I was concerned (for some reason?) about the time. I was worried that my daughter, whose bedroom is upstairs, was not in her room. I went up the stairs and stopped near her door and looking down the stairs as if I were near the ceiling. I went into her room. Now, although it was dark I could somehow see in the dark. No, there was no light but I could see everything. I hovered over her bed and she was there, sleeping. I felt the warmth of her body and I saw exactly how she was positioned in the bed-- guys, it was so clear, no one can tell me this was a dream. I said to myself "OK, she's here." I briefly thought about giving her a kiss but didn't... instead, I guess I went back to my bedroom and went back to sleep... it fades from memory after that.
It's weird, and I could accept that it was just a dream, if it weren't for how absolutely clear she appeared in her room and her bed. I didn't just see her, I felt the warmth radiating from her body, I saw her breathing. Her hair was all spread out over the pillow. Some parts of it seem dreamlike but that part doesn't.
Very vivid experience you were having! I don't know much in the way of OBE's but every one I read is very fascinating. They are all very personal to the person and perhaps can have an insight to whats going on with them.
Hopefully someone with similar experiences to yourself comes on board for a chat and we can all discuss.
I appreciate you sharing this experience with us.
Your hunch may well be right that you are dying to a certain extent. My guess is that you suffer from sleep apnea. The snoring is a typical symptom. Most people think its just an awkward bedroom issue and treat it lightly. Don't make that mistake. Sleep apnea causes heart attacks, general lack of energy, and regularly kills people.
Please get yourself checked by a physician asap!
This happened to me and it triggered a burn-out from which I am still recovering a year later.
DennisMe wrote: Your hunch may well be right that you are dying to a certain extent. My guess is that you suffer from sleep apnea. The snoring is a typical symptom. Most people think its just an awkward bedroom issue and treat it lightly. Don't make that mistake. Sleep apnea causes heart attacks, general lack of energy, and regularly kills people.
I am very sorry to hear about this, Dennis. I’ve never come across sleep apnea and had no idea it could be so dangerous. It is very wise of you to suggest that this issue be checked out as soon as possible, especially in view of the words blue heard.
blue102 wrote: I want to add that, on the same night that I saw the cave, I heard a (very quiet and far away voice) say: "You get to live your life. They need me here." I heard this right before I woke up.
Blue, when I was having my first OBEs in the early '90s I used to stumble into warnings or obstacles, designed to keep me from seeking more of these experiences. One of the warnings came from my physical body itself, though it wasn’t as profound as the one you are reporting (“They need me here”). It was more of a selfish request (my body called out and said “Don’t go. Please stay and cry with me”), and it wasn’t in a quiet voice but in a moaning voice. So I’d take Dennis’ recommendation very seriously, and if you do not suffer from sleep apnea, then that’s fine. At that point one could actually consider the quiet voice as a soothing reassurance speaking to your physical body.
blue102 wrote: In the other one, a few days ago, I was sitting (though out of my body) on the side of my bed. I was looking towards my dresser mirror which had an image of a beautiful cave set in a golden woodland area. I realized the cave was a doorway of sorts, and I was welcome to go into it. I am not sure why I didn't, but I started to lay back down in my body. As I did this I noticed that there was a gentle light coming from under my bed, illuminating the floor. I thought to myself "Oh, there's a light under my bed." Then I woke up.
The light coming from behind the cabined and under the bed could be the energy field surrounding everything which is not usually visible to the naked eye, but can be seen when out of body or under other circumstances.
I was especially touched by the dresser mirror appearing as a doorway of sorts inviting you in, because I have very often used mirrors in my OBEs as a portal to otherworldly settings. In your experience I was also reminded of the inviting appearance of gateways and lights that NDErs report (which once again reminds me of Dennis' warning).
blue102 wrote: Had another one last night. I recall that I was in my kitchen again (apparently my favorite hangout when out-of-body) and looking at the digital clock on the oven: 1:10. I was concerned (for some reason?) about the time. I was worried that my daughter, whose bedroom is upstairs, was not in her room. I went up the stairs and stopped near her door and looking down the stairs as if I were near the ceiling. I went into her room. Now, although it was dark I could somehow see in the dark. No, there was no light but I could see everything. I hovered over her bed and she was there, sleeping. I felt the warmth of her body and I saw exactly how she was positioned in the bed-- guys, it was so clear, no one can tell me this was a dream. I said to myself "OK, she's here." I briefly thought about giving her a kiss but didn't... instead, I guess I went back to my bedroom and went back to sleep... it fades from memory after that.
This also sounds a very wonderful experience, especially the part relating to you hovering over your daughter and watching her during her sleep. Hanging out in the kitchen and looking at the clock is again something I can personally relate to, as I too used to explore the astral version of my house a lot, before I started visiting other settings by crossing various portals. It would be interesting to know whether your OBE actually took place at 1:10.
The reason you may find that some part of the experience were dreamlike and others didn’t could be because the differentiation among dreams, lucid dreams (dreams in which you know that you are dreaming) and full blown OBEs can depend on our level of lucidity, and it can happen that during what we would call an ordinary dream, we acquire the awareness that we are dreaming and become lucid (which makes the experience much more vivid and allows our critical mind to come into play) and then gain further lucidity and experience an OBE, with our mind awake (once again this can happen at varying degrees) and our body asleep. Many report shifting in and out of that special awareness we have during a full-blown OBE.
In the light of Dennis’ warning though, I will say no more on the subject until we hear that you are not suffering from lack of oxygen. Thank you so much for sharing these experiences.
Thank you all. I will definitely get checked out for sleep apnea (that could very well be why I ALWAYS feel tired and depressed)!!!
I really don't want to die just yet, lol.
"(that could very well be why I ALWAYS feel tired and depressed)"
Another big indicator for sleep apnea!
Please do get that checked out by a doctor though. | 2019-04-25T19:45:18 | http://nderf.me/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=1508 |
0.997292 | To make this light grey shirt, ZILLI has selected the finest quality Egyptian cotton, combed with 2 strands for the softest, most comfortable feel. The “3IS Triple Stitch” silk thread highlights the collar and the cuffs. Sublimed with Australian mother of pearl buttons, this button-down collar shirt is made in the ZILLI Shirts Workshop in Bergamo and hand assembled by using traditional techniques for unrivalled quality.
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0.999306 | Hundreds of Syrians suspected of involvement in anti-army attacks have been swept up, as refugees call raids 'unjust'.
Ersal, Lebanon - To Kasem al-Zein, last Thursday was one of his worst days on the job.
Amid a Lebanese army raid on Sept. 25, the 50-year-old former field doctor with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), who now runs a hospital in Arsal, recalled chaos inside local tent villages housing throngs of Syrian refugees. Tents were invaded and in some cases set ablaze; al-Zein said he treated several patients suffering from smoke inhalation and a young girl with third-degree burns on her leg. By the time troops left, hundreds of males, including children as young as 13, had been rounded up and taken away for questioning.
"The situation was very bad," al-Zein told Al Jazeera. "The refugees think the raids are unjust because they haven't done anything wrong."
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According to the Lebanese army, the Arsal raids resulted in the arrest of 22 Syrian men suspected of involvement in attacks against the army - bringing the total number of Syrians detained in similar raids over the past two weeks to an estimated 450. Dozens more have reportedly been freed after interrogation.
Arsal is the first stop for many civilians fleeing Syria's three-year-old civil war, but its refugee camps have been badly damaged by the ongoing fighting, prompting refugees to seek shelter in the town itself. Last month, Arsal was the scene of a deadly spillover of violence, as clashes killed dozens and rebels captured a group of Lebanese soldiers.
The war in Syria has divided Lebanese citizens. Security is a top issue, with skirmishes along the border, and Lebanese residents have become increasingly anxious amid media warnings and rhetoric that paints Syrian refugees as a risk to be contained. Syrian detainees are often accused of either being members of groups such as the al-Nusra Front, Syria's al-Qaeda wing fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime, or supporters of those groups.
Public anger towards the Lebanese army's actions in Arsal is concentrated mostly in Sunni areas, especially in northern Lebanon. A demonstration was held in Tripoli last week to protest the army measures.
"Resentment here [is] starting to grow," said Khaldoun Taleb, the mayor of Fnaydeq, a Sunni town in northern Lebanon - although in general, he noted, residents support the army. "About 3,000 of our sons are enlisted."
Taleb cited a perceived double-standard with respect to Hezbollah, which sent its men to fight alongside Assad's troops, and Sunni fighters who support the Syrian opposition. Many in Fnaydeq who went to fight with the FSA were questioned by Lebanese army intelligence about their involvement in Syria, he said, while Hezbollah fighters freely cross official checkpoints to take part in battles alongside Assad's regime with no questions asked.
"We are starting to question why we are being treated differently," Taleb said.
Among those detained and later released in Thursday's raids was Syrian refugee Sleiman Khaled, who claimed he was blindfolded, beaten and interrogated by soldiers at an unknown location.
"They took all the men randomly," he said. "When we got there they asked for our IDs, and those who had them on hand were separated from those who didn't. They didn't tell us why [we were being detained], only that they suspected we were cooperating with ISIS and Nusra."
Another Syrian refugee residing in the Asaleya camp in Arsal, who requested anonymity, said soldiers had put a bag over his head when they detained him.
"I have nothing to do with ISIL, but that's what the army was accusing us of," he said. "I can accept beatings, but they are doing more than that - they are hurting our dignity."
Meanwhile, security sources said Lebanese soldiers clashed briefly with fighters overnight on Friday after raids on suspected hideouts across border areas, including Wadi Hmeid, on the outskirts of Arsal. One security source, who requested anonymity, confirmed that Syrian warplanes had also carried out air raids on militant hideouts in Wadi Rahwe and Wadi Zamran on Friday morning.
In an effort to mitigate rising tensions, Lebanese Army Chief General Jean Kahwagi said the military's actions in Arsal were meant to protect refugees. "Arsal is not under siege," he told reporters after meeting with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian.
According to Aram Nerguizian, a Lebanese Army expert and analyst with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the army crackdown in Arsal is a necessary measure to root out fighters.
"There had been an attack from within the refugee population [in Arsal]," he said. "You have something like 38 refugee camps and the LAF [Lebanese Armed Forces] needs to increase its intelligence... on who's operating [in the camps]."
The army is in the midst of an operation using both air power and intelligence to identify any refugees who may be collaborating with armed groups, he said.
"If you have a force within your own territory which could act out, the LAF has to take precautions. The LAF is not out to win a popularity contest; they want to do this as delicately as they can," Nerguizian said. "It's an ugly thing and there's no elegant way to do it. You run the risk of alienating people." | 2019-04-19T08:20:48 | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/09/lebanon-refugee-camp-raids-fuel-resentment-201492885154365173.html |
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0.999996 | Was Pharaoh Drowned in the Red Sea?
Scholars of antiquities would love to know the definitive answer to this question, for it bears directly on the question of who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus. If the Pharaoh of the Exodus perished in the Red Sea, and his firstborn died before he could ascend to the throne, then these facts might point to the end of a dynasty, and help to identify the particular Pharaoh among the many candidates.
Some say that Pharaoh himself did not drown in the Red Sea – only his armies. On the other hand, Flavius Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian says “And thus did all these men perish, so that there was not one man left to be a messenger of this calamity to the rest of the Egyptians”(Antiquities of the Jews, 2:16). What does the Word say?
This text is prophetic: it was spoken before the event – even before Pharaoh decided to “follow after”, that is, to pursue the departing Israelites. At first sight, this seems to say that Pharaoh himself would be killed along with his armies, and in this way, God would “be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host.” This would be a great proof-text for the drowning of Pharaoh if the word translated as “and” could only mean and. But in both Hebrew and Greek, the common word for and can also mean even. It might be that God is anticipating the honour he will gain from destroying Pharaoh's army. Pharaoh might conceivably, as Kings usually do, take his place on a height away from battle to observe and command. Or he might have led the cavalry into the sea. This cannot be determined with certainty from the text.
This might also be read “overthrew Pharaoh, even his host”.
But it does not tell us whether Pharaoh was among them.
But it sheds no light on our query.
There seems to be no single text that unequivocally declares that Pharaoh himself was drowned in the Red Sea. However, it would be over-hasty to dismiss the question on that basis alone. For one thing, there is not a hint anywhere in Scripture that Pharaoh walked away from this debacle, like Yul Brynner in the movie. That would seem odd, if he had indeed escaped with his life, wouldn't it?
For another, Exodus 15:9 may not be worthy of such a quick dismissal as Gill's comment suggests. The great Reformed scholar and Hebraist may have made a mistake here. In his day, it was common to use the word, “horse” in a military context, as a collective noun. That is not quite the same thing as plural: the plural in English is “horses”. One could speak of “a cavalry of five hundred horse”. But could the Hebrew word have the same meaning? That is the crux of the matter. Gill gives us no proof of his contention, and none of the commentaries I consulted agree with him.
Furthermore, his comment is not really coherent. The text reads “For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea”. If the word horse means “all the horses of his that drew in his chariots, and all on which his cavalry was mounted”, then why would he need to say that all his horses went in to the sea with his chariots and his horsemen? Who would ever imagine otherwise? But if it means Pharaoh's personal steed, the sentence makes perfect sense.
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint, translated by Hellenistic Jews, before the coming of Christ, renders the word for horse in the singular.
This seems to me decisive of the question, for why would his horse go in without him?And what would be the point in marking the death of Pharaoh's horse if Pharaoh himself escaped? The song begins with these words ”I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea”(15:1). This seems to be also the refrain of the song (see 15:21). While the term, “the horse and his rider” can and should be understood generically, it surely does not exclude the most important horse and rider (or driver) of them all – the one who commanded them!
Pharaoh himself had his own personal chariot (v.6), and so may not have been riding on a horse. When the Scripture says that “the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea”, it might have been the horse that drew his chariot. Heavy chariots, with more than one occupant, require two or more horses to draw, or else speed is sacrificed, so it is likely that Pharaoh drove his own light chariot. But in view of the trouble the Egyptians had with their chariots on this occasion, it is possible that Pharaoh abandoned his chariot and continued his hot pursuit riding his horse just before the end.
It follows that the other verses we have considered, which did not give us the certainty we sought, should be understood in accord with this conclusion. And should not be understood as even in these texts, and “the Egyptians” must include the King of Egypt.
But there is another reason why I think Pharaoh was drowned with his troops. It has to do with his character and his acts. This was not the Pharaoh who “knew not Joseph”, who instigated the oppression of the Hebrews, who first commanded the midwives to murder the Hebrew boys at the birthing-stool (Exodus 1:15-16), and then, when that failed, charged all his subjects to throw them into the Nile whenever they found them (Exodus 1:22). That monster was already dead when Moses returned to Egypt. It was another Pharaoh, who inherited the totalitarian slave-state that Egypt had become; who ratified the inhuman “Hebrew policy” of his predecessor, and augmented it by cruelties of his own (Exodus 5:7-19). Think what it meant to the Hebrews, humiliated and crushed already, to be told that they were shirking! And that from now on, they would have to somehow provide their own straw, without diminishing the full tally of bricks!
We do not know how many Hebrew children were thus sacrificed; but we do know that this means of suppressing the population also failed, through the super-abundant fertility with which God blessed his people, the persevering faithfulness of the midwives who feared God; and probably the reluctance of ordinary Egyptians to obey such a wicked law. (For how could the children of Israel have continued to multiply at such a rate throughout the oppression, if it had been rigorously enforced?) But there is no doubt that much innocent blood was shed by the Egyptian tyrants and their people.
The first of the Ten Plagues was the turning of the waters of the Nile into blood. The last judgment of God upon Egypt was the drowning of Pharaoh and his armies in the Red Sea. Both miracles recall the drowning of innocent Hebrew baby boys by the Egyptians. The celebratory song of Moses uses the expressions, “the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea” (Exodus 15:1) and “Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea (15:4); which are not literally true. But these are not just arbitrary poetic exaggerations; they are expressions designed to remind us that Pharaoh had caused the Egyptians to “throw” or “cast” the Hebrew babies into the river to drown them (Exodus 1:22).
God was not just fighting a war against Egypt: He was avenging the blood of innocents. It was not enough that Pharaoh's nation and army be destroyed. The principal living offender must pay with his life for a crime so great. Would it be right to punish the servants and spare the master? How fitting, rather, that he at whose word so many were drowned should be drowned himself – indeed, that he should first be made so mad with impotent rage that he should, in effect, drown himself!
This should cause us to reflect upon the enormity and heinousness of America's sin of abortion. What judgments are reserved for us, a nation that has probably murdered a thousand times more innocent babies than Egypt ever did? God's vengeance, reserved for us, must be terrible indeed!
I am a military man, I would think that the Pharaoh of that time would have been stationed in a high position, after the entanglement and confusion of the chariots clashing with each other after the cloud which held them at bay while the children were crossing the Red Sea. I believed Jehovah wanted the Pharaoh to see that honor he wanted to get from the Pharaoh. A dead Pharaoh would not know Jehovah did to him.
The book of Jasher though non canonical, sheds light and deeper details to many happenings not only in the Exodus out of Egypt but many other subjects. Throughout the writing, The God of the Israelites is exalted from Adam all the way to Moses, and even the Torah is spoken of as the book of the Law. In Jasher, it says that the Pharoah was the only one spared of the great army of Egyptians, and that he ".. gave thanks to the Lord and believed in him, therefore the Lord did not cause him to perish at that time with the Egyptians. And the Lord ordered an angel to take him from amongst the Egyptians, who cast him upon the land of Ninevah and he reigned over it for a long time." Jasher also says that Reuel the Midianite who imprisoned him in Midian for 10 years also came to know Yahuwah the one true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Pretty cool stuff to consider!
Thank you for such an informative article. It actually helped me in an article I'm writing.
Very informative. It´s clear, from different Biblical accounts, that Pharaoh, together with his army, died in Red Sea.
Taking Gods actions in different parts of the Bible, He didnt need to keep Pharaoh alive to show him Gods power. Even humans, in most cases, didnt leave their enemies alive, to demonstrate their power against the enemy. They destroy the enemy. This is what Jehovah did. He destroyed His enemy Pharaoh, at red red, and made name for Himself, as we read the account today, and glorify Jehovah..
I wish these Scholars refer to the Holy Qur'an to get the correct answer to their inquiry and the truth. | 2019-04-22T14:13:57 | https://www.hernarpchurch.com/historytheology/was-pharaoh-drowned-in-the-red-sea |
0.999987 | The tweet says Yankees general manager Brian Cashman called the news was "disappointing ". According to multiple reports , the highly coveted Japanese pitcher/outfielder will not be signing with the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox.
Rosenqvist start from pole position, drop to 11th with an uncharacteristic half-spin at the first cornerand then brilliantly work his way up to finish second across the line behind Abt after leader Edoardo Mortara also spun late in the race.
He told reporters: "Liverpool at home, winning at Stamford Bridge, at Napoli, against Shakhtar, gives you confidence". "I've played in my career against lots of managers and I will never judge the way opponents play against one of my teams".
While Jamaal Williams has been solid in the past two weeks, particularly in the passing game, he doesn't pack the rushing punch that Jones does. He had missed one game earlier in the year after he initially broke his ribs in Week 5 at Dallas. | 2019-04-23T00:58:30 | http://profishingrods.com/sports/page/229/ |
0.999948 | Newegg Pickup Faster than Shipping?
When I order from Newegg, it gives me three choices of receiving: have it delivered to my address, pick it up at a Newegg location, or pick it up at a FedEx location. Which method is the fastest of the three? (I don't want to pay any extra for faster shipping.) Thanks!
The newegg location has always been the fastest option for me! | 2019-04-22T19:57:52 | https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/newegg-pickup-faster-than-shipping.3409008/ |
0.998513 | The Quadrophenia tour reunites The Who with production partners Eighth Day Sound, who have worked with the iconic rockers on their last three major tours. This time out they're carrying a pair of SD7 desks (each running the latest MACH III software) for FOH and band monitors, plus an SD-Rack at FOH. The audio crew is comprised of longtime Who FOH engineer Robert Collins, Simon Higgs on monitors with support from Eighth Day's Senior Audio Engineer Mark Brnich, and sound techs Drew Marbar and Carl Popek.
The Who's 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia-which sets the tale of teen Jimmy Cooper amidst the global sociocultural upheaval and psychological angst of the times and the rivalry between Britain's mods and rockers-has been reprised in a multimedia display on the band's latest outing.
The 37 date tour, which began in November and ran through until the end of February, celebrated the four-decade anniversary of the album's release and marks the band's first major North American tour in four years.
Even long-departed drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle make cameo appearances, joining remaining original members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. Entwistle's virtuosity and famous bass solo on "5:15" are showcased in live footage shot at the Royal Albert Hall in 2000, which streams onscreen. They also pay tribute to the late Keith Moon; their performance of "Bell Boy" incorporates video footage of a 1974 performance, with Moon's vocals dubbed in from the LP (one of the only times in Who history his vocals were heard on an album).
Robert Collins started with the band in the late 1990s-early 2000s, and has also worked with Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend on their solo projects, trading tours with engineer Paul Ramsey in between tours with Eric Clapton and others. "Paul used to look after me; he was my systems tech on The Who. I made sure the team was put in place, you know, 'cause an English band should have an English engineer-or British, I should say.
I'm Welsh, though. So here I am back. They wanted to get me back for this, and luckily it worked out timing-wise with the schedule. It's worked out with Eric so I can go do that as well this year."
and honestly I couldn't justify going to an SD7 working with a four-piece (like Clapton) playing blues and such, you know? I mean, that thing can run a small country, can't it?! But for this tour, it seemed like it was time."
I find that this console is musical. I feel musical on it. I feel as if I'm doing something on it. Not to mention any names, but there are other digital desks and I don't get anything out of them. It's like working a laptop, for God's sake! That's one thing about all the boys at DiGiCo: they came from the old school. They knew what we wanted. They spoke to engineers. But they didn't just speak to them like every other company; they listened to them.
"I think DiGiCo consoles are the best out there. What you can do with this one is way beyond me. I don't need to go down that line. Don't tell James [Gordon, DiGiCo's managing director], but I'm still not using Snapshots! I still do it all myself; I like to do it myself. I want to be part of it. I want to switch the guitar on when it's supposed to be on. I feel part of it, and that's what I want to feel. I don't think in the digital domain."
Monitor engineer Simon Higgs presides over the other SD7 at stage left, managing approximately 112 inputs for IEMs and such for the nine-piece band. He's also a veteran Who member, starting in '98 with Townshend on his Lifehouse project. He's a diehard DiGiCo engineer, having also used the consoles since their release a decade ago.
150-odd songs, all programmed in. The Who's monitor mix was analog for a long time until it started getting bigger and bigger and we realized we had to move to digital. So we started using two D5s, but that filled up quick. We currently are using an analog console for Pete, who has his own operator, and I look after the rest of the band on the SD7."
he couldn't have a half-dozen wedges all around him like he used to. So he's gone through the whole process of getting used to in-ears. They're all on Jerry Harveys, and that's really enabled the band to work again. Pete's still got conventional fill monitors; he's got four around him, just split up, one doing vocal, a stereo pair doing something else, and there'll be acoustic guitar in the wedge, and then a monitor behind him that has sound effects for 'Quadrophenia' or the loops that are in 'Who Are You' and 'Baba O'Riley.'"
For effects, he's primarily using what's in the console, save a few outboard pieces, including a Lexicon PCM 60 for the snare drum, and a Bricasti M7 reverb for Roger's vocal that he says "is absolutely amazing."
'Amazing' is often the tone of reviews streaming in from critics and fans, not only heralding the show but also the durability of both Townshend and Daltrey. Their "My Generation" anthem notwithstanding ("I hope I die before I get old"), the founding members did just that (both are now in their late '60s) and if the Quadrophenia tour is any indication, they still have a lot of rockin' left to go. As for engineer Robert Collins, it's a full-circle homecoming of sorts, having grown up on their music.
Who'd have thought that when I was growing up trying to play in little bands and not very good, listening to all these great singers, that I'd end up engineering for many of them?" | 2019-04-24T08:51:42 | http://www.gtaust.com/news_item/category/live/id/427/The%20Who%20Touring%20with%20a%20Pair%20of%20DiGiCo%20SD7 |
0.998832 | Within the story shell of an architect's work, students are asked to create a tiled courtyard with a rotationally symmetric pattern. There are many possibilities - just putting a tile on every square for example - but the challenge is to use the minimum number of tiles. Students don't have to know what rotational symmetry means to start with (although it is explained in part on the card), because the challenge makes sense in the context of the story. Once created, the design can be used to create more designs using transformation such as translation and reflections.
and even making fans and extractor fans more aesthetic and efficient, as in this example in the ceiling at at Trädgårdstadsskolan, Sweden.
The second image shows the original tiles using white dots. Eighteen tiles have been added. This is the minimum solution. The courtyard can be viewed from all four sides and will look the same. But what clues could the students use to develop this solution?
Choose one side - say the left half.
Which squares are already black when you get to the bottom half? These will tell you which additional squares on the left half should have been black to start with.
Now rotate the new bottom half to become the right half. Fill in the blacks and also fill backwards again, this time into the bottom half first, then back again to the left half.
Rotate to the top half and repeat, filling back three times as necessary.
Check the whole visually from each side.
This approach combines the mathematician's strategies of breaking a problem into parts and working backwards. Of course, there will other ways students will examine this problem and reach the same conclusion.
Use a drawing program or the table facilities of a word processor to make an electronic form of the courtyard as a record of the solution.
Students design their own rotationally symmetric courtyard.
What happens if the original courtyard is an equilateral triangle grid tiled with equilateral triangle tiles? Can we still create a rotationally symmetric tiling as viewed from the three buildings bordering the courtyard? Which such tiling uses the minimum number of tiles?
The 8x8 tile at the left end is the solution to the task. It has been reflected in a vertical line through its right side. This second tile has been reflected again the same way. Then the third has been reflected the same way to create the fourth. The whole might be a tiled section of a railway platform. Children enter at the left end and exit at the right, stepping only on black. How many different pathways can they take?
Of course, the same challenge could be offered using simply the original 8x8 solution tile.
This Investigation Guide is a double page of wheels which display point symmetry but do not also display line symmetry. It includes the challenges below (choose what is appropriate for your class) or use it as a starting point to generate interest in the world of rotation around us.
Which wheels belong together? Why? Discuss.
Invent your own car company, then design a rotationally symmetric logo for it.
Design an alloy wheel, or wheel trim, which is rotationally symmetric.
Design an alloy wheel, or wheel trim, which is rotationally symmetric even when your company logo is included.
Most vehicle wheels are attached to the axle by 4 or 5 or 6 nuts (...and we are not talking about the mechanics!). Design an alloy wheel which is rotationally symmetric even when your company logo and the nut positions are included.
We would love to see the results of your students' work.
Most schools have multi-coloured collections of tiles and the tiles are usually about 2.5cm square. Using the table facility of a word processor, it is easy to create an 8x8 grid for these tiles, although your printer would need to operate with 0.5cm left and right margins. Two centimetre wooden blocks are an alternative and a grid to take those would fit better on the width of a page. Each pair of students would need about 40 tiles of the one colour.
Hand out the grid sheets to each pair and display the equivalent on your electronic white board. Tell the story of Sanja the architect and fill in the starting point tiles on your display. Students match this on their grid. Now set the challenge and share ideas as groups work. End the lesson by reviewing the key steps in the process that led to the solution and highlighting the mathematics of rotational symmetry. Leave time for students to record the key steps and the answer in their journals. Use the lesson as a starting point for further investigations of rotation and other transformations. As suggested above there is room within this lesson to use drawing software or the drawing tools of a word processor. They all easily draw and colour grids which can be grouped as a unit and then rotated, reflected and translated.
At this stage, Paving Views does not have a matching lesson on Maths300. | 2019-04-20T22:49:24 | http://mathematicscentre.com/taskcentre/157pavev.htm |
0.999999 | The ability to climb a 75 foot Quint, touching each rung on the way up and down, non stop.
Applicant must be able to climb the Quint extended 60 feet from the platform to the top, touch the marked rung of the ladder, and proceed back down the ladder to the platform. This task is to be completed in a continuous climb and descent, without any stops or hesitation. The angle of the climb will be 50 degrees. | 2019-04-20T12:33:31 | http://tx-cedarhill.civicplus.com/498/Aerial-Ladder-Climb |
0.999754 | Why is it a holiday today?
Last night, one of my younger colleagues asked us over dinner the reason why it was a holiday today. We all laughed at her naivete - it was common knowledge: today we remember the 26th death Anniversary of Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino.
On a separate occasion, another friend asked if whether it was Ninoy's birthday or his death anniversary we are commemorating on Aug 21.
While both mistakes can be attributable to memory gaps and are forgivable, it made me wonder about myself: Do I really understand why it was a holiday today? Or am I just happy that I don't have to work? If I, who was already alive at the time of Ninoy's assassination (albeit too young to remember) can so easily forget, how much more so for those who were born much later?
Has Ninoy's symbol disappeared in the new generation?
I credit the people behind the "I am Ninoy" campaign for helping to strengthen Ninoy's symbol, permeating media and culture fully as he did so in those years before his death. Kudos to you!
I have read blogs lambasting this campaign as nothing more than money hungry institutions taking advantage of Ninoy's symbol. But to me and to the general public who do not have a personal relationship with this man, what is more relevant now are the ideals that Ninoy represented. In his death, Ninoy was immortalized through his legacy - his bravery to stand up against a dictator, his love and his faith for the Filipino People. And the "I am Ninoy" campaign has been instrumental in immortalizing Ninoy - through his spectacles - which has now become a symbol of patriotism for all Filipinos.
Even as I say it is more important to strengthen Ninoy's symbol, I also want to remember that he was not just a symbol, but a real person. The best way to do that is through his family. Ninoy and Cory's daughter Kris Aquino, of course, is a constant figure in Philippine television. Ninoy and Cory's only son, Sen. Noynoy Aquino, a political figure in his own right.
I would also like to mention Ninoy and Cory's eldest grandson, Jiggy Cruz, who has represented their family well during and after Pres. Cory Aquino's passing. He blogs at The Tangled Web.
Let's not make his death meaningless..."
We look up to him as "the greatest leader we never had" but we cannot say for sure if he really would have been. Right now, 26 years after his death, I think what's more important is to keep his symbol and his memory alive, to remember his sacrifice for the nation and for democracy, and to teach the young about how to be Ninoy. | 2019-04-23T01:56:58 | https://www.reyjr.com/2009/08/symbology-of-ninoy-filipino-hero.html |
0.99703 | A team of scientists from Canada, Britain and Sweden has pieced together fossils of what they believe was a giant predator that roamed the seas 500 million years ago — a century after the fossils were first discovered.
In a time when most creatures were no bigger than a fingernail, the 20-cm-long Hurdia victoria was a giant, earning its nickname as the Tyrannosaurus rex of the Cambrian era, researchers report in the Friday issue of journal Science.
The fossils, found in British Columbia's Burgess Shale, were originally thought to belong to several different species, with some parts attributed to jellyfish, sea cucumbers and arthropods, a groups that includes crustaceans, spiders and insects.
American paleontologist Charles Walcott made the initial discovery in 1909 and described Hurdia victoria as a crustacean-like animal. But the truth is much more complicated, said Allison Daley, the study's co-author and a Burlington, Ont.,-native working on her PhD at Sweden's Uppsala University.
"Back when he found them, he thought they were all separate animals and gave them separate names," said Daley.
"It was only when my co-author, Desmond Collins, did collecting in the '80s and '90s that he discovered that all these different parts ... were actually different parts of just one animal, the hurdia animal."
Once Collins and Jean-Bernard Caron — both of the Royal Ontario Museum and the other Canadian co-authors of the study — started assembling these pieces, it became clear that they were looking at a creature unlike anything they had ever seen.
It has a pair of tiny claws on its head that likely were used to shovel food into its large and toothy mouth, similar to another group of predators from that time, of the genus A nomalocaris.
But its most distinct feature is the shell, or carapace, jutting from the front of its head. While crustaceans often have shells to protect the soft parts of the body, the H urdia shell is empty.
"It's very odd," Caron told CBC News. "We don't understand the connection of this part to the rest of the creature very well."
Caron said the carapace likely slowed the creature down, leading it to probably spend most of its time feeding closer to the sea floor.
Also contributing to the study were Graham Budd of Uppsala University and Gregory Edgecombe of the Natural History Museum in Britain.
The Burgess Shale, located high in the Rocky Mountains, has provided paleontologists with a treasure trove of fossils from about 505 million years ago. It was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. | 2019-04-22T13:05:38 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/that-s-no-lobster-scientists-discover-t-rex-of-cambrian-period-1.855653 |
0.999325 | In this lesson students review, clarify and practice tag questions via guided discovery. The subject will be detective work. The lesson starts with a lead in about detectives and police interrogation and follows the context through reading and speaking tasks. The TL is highlighted, clarified and students then do controlled and freer practice.
T "Question tags are short questions at the end of statements." T writes some model sentences on the board. Meaning: CCQ "does this person want to continue the convesation?" " Is the conversation over" Form: T then invites Ss if they can come up with a rule themselves. "Negative QT behind positive statement" "Positive QT behind neg statement" Then WB: Your father can speak English. Can't he ....' T "We use the auxiliary or modal verb and subject pronoun of the statement to create question tags." ( show link - can/can't ) same modal verb ( show link - your father/he) subject pronoun WB: "He can speak English (positive so draw + under can) can't he ( negative - minus under ) WB: He wasn't born in Germany was he - swap positive for negative. Elicit if poss "If no modal in statement use don't/doesn't or didn't" WB 'You play drums, don't you" circle drums. You tells to use 'you' T " and the tense?" T "Keep your tense intact" WB 'She played the drums (past) didn't she?' T: Some exceptions - I'm attractive, aren't i - no form of am'nt Let's = shall There aren't any are there? Don't stop, will you? ( order v. positive) Pronunciation: Falling intonation finishes question tags Rising intonation keeps the conversation open. T gets Ss to say some model sentences- they stand up and ask a question. They say the same thing sit down, intonation goes down ( try it out) intonation - is it question or just conversation ( something i already know) NB* QT only appear in spoken English never in written form.
T divides them into 2 groups. Then gives instruction for HO:02 Ss will first read the passage they have but keep it secret from other group. First read alone, 3mins. Then make up questions from the text using QT, as a group. T goes between groups and feeds them question prompts. They have 5 mins. T then regroups them - each group is repaired. Example group member A1 with group member B1. They have 5 mins to ask each other tag questions to get complete picture. T then asks whole group for answers.
delayed error correction then After teaching the students about tag questions, let each student pick a card from a deck. Then the students can take turns saying the beginning of a sentence, with the goal of getting the teacher to say the "tag question" on his/her card. For example, if the student chooses the card with the words "did they?", he/she could say something like: John and Mary didn't come to school yesterday. . . The teacher then adds the tag question ". . . did they?" If time : crime questions "whats you favourite detective show" " What sort of crime do you have in your country" | 2019-04-18T14:58:57 | https://www.englishlessonplanner.com/plans/9961 |
0.999999 | The first vote by a Senate committee is due over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.
It follows Thursday's testimony by Mr Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault.
Dr Ford, close to tears, described the alleged 1982 attack in detail, saying it had "drastically" affected her life. Judge Kavanaugh angrily denied he had assaulted her or anyone.
President Donald Trump has urged the full Senate to approve his nominee.
That vote is expected next week. Republicans currently have a majority of 51-49 in the Senate, but a number of senators on both sides are said to be undecided.
Judge Kavanaugh's appointment would tilt the balance in favour of conservatives for years to come.
For this reason, Republicans accuse the Democrats of seeking to delay the confirmation until after the mid-term elections in November when they hope to win enough seats to stop it altogether. Democrats counter by accusing Republicans of trying to "railroad" the process.
The Supreme Court plays a vital role in US political life - appointed for life, its nine members have the final say on US law.
Republican Senator Jeff Flake, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who was believed to be wavering, issued a statement shortly before the committee began sitting on Friday morning stating that he would back Judge Kavanaugh.
On his way to the committee room following the release of the statement, he was berated by two women who said they were victims of sexual violence and urged him to change his mind.
As the committee began, the bitter political divide was clear as an attempt by Democrats to call a further witness - Mark Judge, who Dr Ford said was present during the alleged sexual assault - was defeated by the 11 Republicans voting against the 10 Democrats.
A subsequent motion to move to a vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination was passed despite vocal Democratic objections. Some Democratic senators refused to vote on that and walked out of the hearing.
In a letter after Thursday's hearing, Robert Carlson, head of the American Bar Association - the body representing US lawyers and students of law - urged a delay of the vote to enable the FBI to check the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh.
The association had previously supported Judge Kavanaugh for the role.
What did Christine Blasey Ford say?
Thursday's hearing, which lasted for nine hours, brought an outpouring of support for Dr Ford - a university professor - from the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault.
Prior to Thursday, no-one had heard from the 51-year-old publicly since the allegations arose.
"I am here today not because I want to be," Dr Ford said. "I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school."
She alleged he and his friend Mark Judge had locked her in a bedroom during a small gathering at a house in a Washington DC suburb in the summer of 1982, when she was 15 and Judge Kavanaugh was 17.
Dr Ford said Brett Kavanaugh had tried to remove her clothing, pinned her to a bed and groped her. Both men were "drunkenly laughing", she said.
She added: "Brett's assault on me drastically altered my life. For a very long time, I was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone the details."
Under questioning by a Democratic senator, she said her most vivid memory was "the laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense... They were laughing with each other - two friends having a really good time with one another".
In an answer to a question from another Democrat about claims of mistaken identity, Dr Ford said she was "100%" certain that Judge Kavanaugh had assaulted her.
How did Brett Kavanaugh respond?
The 53-year-old federal judge took a combative approach but occasionally became emotional.
"This confirmation process has become a national disgrace," he told the committee.
"The constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process, but you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.
"Since my nomination in July there has been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything to block my confirmation."
He insisted he would not be "intimidated" into withdrawing from the process.
"You may defeat me in the final vote but you'll never get me to quit. Never."
Judge Kavanaugh said he did not doubt that Prof Ford had been assaulted, but insisted: "I've never sexually assaulted Dr Ford - or anyone."
He admitted he had drunk beer while at high school, but said he had never got so drunk as to forget events.
He added that his calendars for 1982 - which he had kept - showed he had not attended a party at the location Prof Ford had described.
The Democratic senators on the committee have called on President Trump to "immediately withdraw" Judge Kavanaugh's nomination.
Moments after the hearing ended, however, President Trump tweeted that he was standing by his nominee and said he found Judge Kavanaugh's testimony "powerful, honest and riveting".
Mr Trump has repeatedly defended the judge's character, saying he is "one of the highest quality people" he has ever met.
Thousands of protesters against the nomination took to the streets on Thursday and 59 people were arrested near the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
The Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation could result in a recommendation that the candidate should be confirmed or rejected, or in no recommendation at all.
After Friday's panel vote, the full Senate could start taking procedural votes at the weekend.
A final vote by the full chamber could come as soon as Tuesday.
Judge Kavanaugh denies these allegations, and on Thursday called Ms Swetnick's allegation "a joke" and "a farce". | 2019-04-18T15:12:20 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45674139 |
0.999875 | You can take the bus from New York to Burlington for an average price of $58. There are 7 buses operating this route every day. The earliest bus leaves at 12:15 AM and the latest bus departs at 10:00 PM. The average travel time for this route is 18h 50m. | 2019-04-19T05:01:16 | https://www.busbud.com/en/bus-burlington/c/drgvn0 |
0.998608 | CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Some state troopers believe their evaluations are influenced by the number of traffic tickets they write and complain that the practice could have adverse effects on public safety.
A recent survey conducted by the state Legislative Auditor's Office found that a number of troopers - 23 percent - said they operated under an unofficial quota of "contacts" with the public.
The survey responses indicate that for each traffic ticket or warning issued, the trooper gets one point towards the quota.
The same goes with a felony arrest. The trooper gets one point, even though writing a traffic ticket takes considerably less time and effort than bringing a felony charge.
Some troopers say that while there was nothing in writing, the pervasive understanding was that they were to make at least 100 contacts every month.
Some said if they didn't reach that number, they were written up, and that could jeopardize any future promotion.
Some troopers were critical of the alleged practice.
"We are a numbers-oriented organization," one trooper commented in the survey. "We are encouraged to produce big numbers (and) supervisors make that trooper a 'shining star' and will compete that trooper with other troopers.
"I believe that this encourages poor quality of arrests and citations, and leaves no room for officer discretion and empathy towards the public that we serve."
Another trooper remarked, "Troopers who write a lot of traffic (tickets) are looked upon as hard workers, even if they slough off other calls."
One trooper said, "Ticket writers who have large amounts of activity via citations drive better vehicles, are treated better, etc."
The auditor's report was critical of the alleged points system, saying if such a system was to be used for evaluation, a speeding ticket shouldn't be worth as much as a felony arrest.
Officials in rural areas of the state, specifically in Pleasants, Wirt and Wetzel counties, complained last year that the alleged quota was detracting from local public protection, according to the report.
The Wetzel official told the auditor the troopers at the Hundred detachment spent most of their time working in the Wheeling area, where there was more potential for arrests and citations. The official told the auditor the practice "doesn't make sense if they are supposed to protect Wetzel County."
The auditor noted that traffic warnings were at a three-year high in 2006 - mounting to 110,000 - but dropped to below 60,000 when county officials began complaining about the lack of State Police coverage.
Colonel David Lemmon, State Police superintendent, said there is no quota set by headquarters. But that doesn't mean some detachment leaders don't set goals for the troopers in the field, he said.
"As a detachment commander, you watch and see what's going on," Lemmon said. "Each detachment commander should know what the demands are."
Lemmon said every time a trooper comes in contact with a citizen, whether it's to help change a tire or write a speeding ticket, that counts.
Lemmon said if there were a so-called "100-contact rule" in effect, it wouldn't be hard to meet each month. Lemmon said if a trooper just patrolled the roads, they could round up 100 contacts in 20 days.
Lemmon said if troopers had complaints that not meeting what they allege is a quota cost them a promotion, there's a grievance process. Lemmon wasn't aware of any such grievances.
As far as the quotas taking away from other areas of public safety, Lemmon said troopers' time is divided about equally between road patrol work and work on criminal investigations.
Some states have specifically banned these kinds of quotas, including California and Maryland. Bills were introduced in the West Virginia Legislature in 1999 and 2000 to ban the quotas, but the bills went nowhere.
Maryland in 2006 banned the use of quotas to determine promotions. Michael D. Smigiel Sr., a Republican delegate from Maryland's 36th District, sponsored the legislation.
A lawyer for the Fraternal Order of Police, Smigiel said many police officials denied that quotas existed. That was until he produced documented proof from one jurisdiction that ordered a certain number of arrests and citations in each category, he said.
"I think it's not good practice from the viewpoint of the citizens as well as the departments," Smigiel said Wednesday in a telephone interview with the Daily Mail. "It causes friction with the officers. They've got enough problems with the bad guys, let alone their supervisors. And no citizens I know think that quotas are a good idea."
Smigiel said he believes the quotas can make some officers overzealous to arrest people or issue citations and can cloud their discretion. He also believes quotas take time away from work on other investigations.
"I'd rather have a police officer who's free to work on what they think is important," Smigiel said.
Smigiel said there are better ways to gauge an officer's performance than setting an arbitrary quota. Some districts just don't see as much action as others. He suggested a better option might be setting some benchmarks for officers based on the average number of arrests and citations in their areas. | 2019-04-26T03:45:18 | http://www.hurherald.com/obits.php?id=31840 |
0.997928 | Chilodonella is a prevalent ciliated protozoan parasite and a common killer of goldfish. Under a microscope the chilodonella parasite appears leaf or heart shaped with a granular inside and a pharyngeal basket that appears as a clear bubble on the front side of the organism. These characteristics disappear after the organism dies; 5-7 minutes after a body scrape is taken. The dead organisms can be confused for what goldfish ich looks like under a microscope.
Chilodonella parasites can lie dormant for long periods but an outbreak can occur when a goldfish has a weak immune system caused by injury or stress. Goldfish stress is typically brought on by presence of poor water quality and improper goldfish care. A goldfish that has not been properly quarantined prior to being placed into a goldfish tank or pond can also easily infect a goldfish community.
Eventually a sick goldfish with Chilodonella parasites will show some or all of the the following symptoms.
and potassium permanganate are alternative options.
Potassium permanganate: Add 2 level teaspoons to 1gallon of distilled water and mix thoroughly. Use 3 tablespoons (45ml) of this mixture per 10 gallons. When the tank water turns from purple to amber, add hydrogen peroxide to deactivate the potassium permanganate. Follow the instructions on the bottle of potassium permanganate carefully to avoid doing more harm than good. | 2019-04-22T06:30:38 | https://www.caringpets.org/how-to-take-care-of-a-goldfish/parasite-chilodonella/ |
0.999777 | What is the difference between the following statements?
Latinos are closed to outsiders; they only do business among themselves.
Trust is important in the Latino community; to do business, you first need to build relationships.
These two concepts are often confused because they both involve making broad statements about a group of people. This is where the similarity ends.
When we make a generalization, we are attempting to look at the behavior of many people and note similarities. While we do this, we focus on being descriptive and not judgmental. We are also able to modify this broad view if we encounter new examples which disprove the description we are trying to make.
On the other hand, stereotypes tend to lock people into categories with the idea of limiting that group. Stereotypes seek to make judgments rather than to describe. Once we make stereotypes, we then are reluctant to modify them.
In the examples we mentioned earlier, statement #1 uses judgmental words like “closed” and “only.” By contrast, statement #2 gives examples to describe (and not judge) interpersonal behavior. We can use this second statement to inform how we might approach Latinos for the purpose of doing business.
The first statement gives us a negative view which doesn't allow any flexibility or growth; this negative view will be retained in our subconscious (where we don't think about it) and can influence our future interactions. On the other hand, the generalization of #2 gives us actionable knowledge which may (or may not) be borne out in individual interactions with, say, Venezuelans or Mexicans, for example. We don’t take the generalization as iron-clad, but it gives us principles to consider when we enter into relationships with members of that group.
Here’s a useful summary to keep in mind. | 2019-04-20T06:19:31 | http://feellikeyoubelong.com/whats-up-blog/2015/8/24/stereotypes-vs-generalizations |
0.99983 | Institute of Productivity - Are investors the problem?
Over the last 5 years - in fact since the great recession hit - many companies seem to have concentrated on short term gains - and have rewarded their CEOs with generous bonuses for producing them. This is in response to a real or imagined investor need for quick results and dividends - to offset money they might previously have received in interest payments on part of their capital.
So, the CEO gets his/her bonus; the company makes profits; the investor receives dividends. What's not to like?
Well, this is a recipe for declining productivity - or at least non-rising productivity. Money is going out in these term payments instead of being invested in infrastructure, new capital equipment and new technologies. It is those kinds of investment that replace labour with capital and drive up labour productivity. It is those kinds of investment that have not been made in recent years.
Now, as I said earlier, I am not sure whether the investor pressure for short term gains and immediate dividends is real or imagined - but perhaps we should find out. If investors would accept a longer term view, we could start to make those transformational investments and all would gain in that longer term. | 2019-04-20T16:40:19 | https://www.instituteofproductivity.com/page-18060/4100702 |
0.999957 | Essay composing does not need to be difficult. Should you be writing an academic essay. Composing your very first essay may be tons of pleasure! Enhancing is a vital element of article creating. To be able to write an exceptional opinion composition, you got to check out these 3 steps. We must keep the truth and objectiveness of this issue within our composition. While I cannot guarantee you’ll create a excellent grade, the subsequent ideas can empower you to guarantee that you only do all you maybe are able to to make your article incredible. The 2nd essay in the very first section relates to writing with regard to audience and reply.
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It’s challenging to locate an adequate composing career considering all of the scams. I presume it is an important skill in other countries, also. This is critical, as you really should view the defects in your early creating to be able to change it well. While there are not any warranties, a practical strategy is to publish only a couple of essays for lots of firms, this provides you with time to appraise the legitimacy of each and every business before committing a substantial quantity of moment with potentially expensive outcomes. This period is referred to as peer-review, and its importance is actually in enabling others the opportunity to inflict his or her prejudices and judgments upon your essay. For an all-inclusive materials search, the issue need to be contemplated. Introductory component comes with the preliminary information concerning the subject.
Don’t wait to modify your notes started on the review approach. Read different people’s critiques. Prior to beginning authorship, construct the stuff that you’ll need. Writing is a really genuine grammer check program art. Luckily the procedure for writing a thesis document was perfected over a few years. The movie addresses many different dilemmas. | 2019-04-21T10:59:44 | http://rocklandroadrunners.org/2018/10/whatever-a-larger-training-costs-them-many/ |
0.999832 | My mom has been healthy for nearly two years, but I'll never forget how I felt when she told me she had cancer. I had just rolled out of bed, my teenage mind occupied with the day's agenda: algebra test, volleyball practice, Girl Scouts troop meeting. My parents ushered me into my dad's home office and sat me down on the couch.
When my mom said the word, "cancer," my whole body went numb. I sunk deeper into the couch. I was so scared. "What's going on?" I asked them. "What does this mean?" To me, cancer was a death sentence, but Mom assured me that everything was going to be okay.
My mother is a fighter when it comes to her health. When she was pregnant with me, she had to have a pacemaker inserted. The cardiologist had said I would have died without it. When I was young, she had other procedures to remove her appendix, her ovaries, a tumor in her shoulder and another from her brain.
I helped her as much as I could during her recovery. Because I was always a step behind if not right beside her, my mom called me her shadow. After her brain surgery in 2010, she also called me her cane, her eyes, her voice, and her mind.
Although breast cancer runs in my family and my great-grandmother died of it, I never thought it could affect my mother. She was my rock and my best friend-not to mention my Girl Scout troop leader and my childhood teacher.
Luckily, the doctors found the small spot in her breast tissue at stage zero or pre-cancer. First, she had a lumpectomy to remove the pinhead-sized spot and began radiation several weeks later. My online class schedule let me to go to every single session with her-Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. for 33 days.
I usually wasn't allowed past the waiting room, but one morning I got to see the treatment in action. As my mom lay very still, nurses took 20 minutes to perfectly position her in the machine. The treatment only lasted five minutes and she never looked like she was in pain, but radiation was far from easy.
After each session, my mom got a burst of energy then crashed. Once she fell asleep during my volleyball practice. Seeing her slumped over in the stands almost gave me a heart attack. I was scared and confused. I remember asking God, Why is she going through this? She hasn't done anything wrong. Most of all, I was frustrated I couldn't just make her cancer disappear.
I was scared and confused. I remember asking God, Why is she going through this? She hasn't done anything wrong.
I tried to focus on what I could do: run errands, cook. When I wasn't helping my dad with meal prep, I was mixing up and baking snacks for my mom with whatever we had in the kitchen.
When she was too tired to get out of bed, I sat beside her scrolling through websites on my laptop about cancer treatment, research, and nutrition to make sense of what was happening to her. But everything I found was written for either adults or young children, either too technical or too simple for me. None of my friends had gone through something like this, so I couldn't turn to them either. Instead I learned by watching, listening, and just being there for her.
Radiation turned out to be successful. In April 2016, a year after my mom's diagnosis, the oncologist declared her cancer-free. We cried when we got the news. Once my family's nightmare was over, I realized that I had the potential to help other teenagers whose loved ones have cancer.
That summer, I thought up The Shoulder to Lean on Project, a website where teens could go for easy-to-understand information about the types of cancer and treatment, how to care someone dealing with side effects of radiation and chemo, and how to cope and care for yourself during those difficult times.
Over the next year, I worked on the site for my Girl Scout Gold Award, a capstone project and highest honor earned by a scout. One of my mom's nurses served as my advisor for the project and helped connect me with oncologists, members of the patient-family advisory board and other professionals from Wellstar, a state healthcare organization that is now sponsoring my project. I also recruited a genetic counselor to write articles and other teens to share their personal stories.
I hope my website is a resource for other teens with sick parents.
Earning my Gold Award in September was incredible, but the best part of the project has been realizing its potential to help others. Honestly, I think a lot of kids won't say anything to me directly about the site because they don't want others to know they're on it or need that information. (After all, I kept quiet about my mom's diagnosis for a while.) And that's why I made a website; it's anonymous and accessible.
But once when I presented the site to students, a girl whose father had passed away from cancer broke down in tears. Although she didn't have the website when she needed it, she said it was a huge weight off her shoulders just knowing that something like this existed now. All I want is to affect someone, so that meant so much.
Mom always says things happen for a reason. Obviously I wish that my mom didn't have to go through cancer diagnosis or treatment, but I'm glad I was able to turn the experience into something constructive. I've created a support system for teens and discovered my own dream of becoming a neuro-oncologist-a doctor who specializes in treating patients with brain cancer-in the process. Most of all, I'm grateful that Mom is healthy again and that I can continue holding her hand, serving as her shadow, and providing her a shoulder to lean on for whatever comes her way.
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0.999937 | Childhood and the adolescent years.
Understanding the knowledge and preparation required to plan, implement and evaluate a physical activity program for people of all abilities.
Demonstration of the social model philosophy for the inclusion of all.
Demonstrate an understanding of you and know how they learn (PLO 1).
Develop content knowledge and how to teach it (PLO 2).
Create and maintain a supportive and safe learning environment (PLO 4).
Engage professionally with colleagues, parent/carers and the community (PLO 7).
This course will contribute to your development of a range of Victorian Institute of Teaching and Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership National Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL).
Apply knowledge of the underlying principles and concepts of Exercise and Sport Science. Including the core areas of: Human Physiology, Anatomy, Functional Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, Biomechanics, Motor Learning and Control, Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, and Psychology (PLO 1).
Communicate knowledge through a variety of modalities (PLO 4).
Assess exercise clients using valid and reliable methods, and generate reports in an appropriate format (PLO 5).
This course will contribute to your development of a range of Victorian Institute of Teaching, Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership National Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL) and Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) requirements.
Relate a variety of factors to growth and motor development of individuals.
Identify key developmental and growth factors associated with infancy, childhood and adolescence.
Demonstrate an understanding of factors that impact the development of motor patterns, fundamental motor skills, sport specific skills and physical activity patterns of children and adolescents.
Apply a social model philosophy for the inclusion of all in physical activity.
Modify your teaching to maximise participation and enjoyment of all.
Lectures, tutorials, independent reading, partner and group work and practical experience are the key learning experiences in this course.
You will be expected to plan and modify for maximum participation and enjoyment.
Throughout the semester you will receive feedback on their learning in various forms.
You are encouraged to ask questions of lecturers and fieldwork supervisors on any aspect of the course content that may find difficult to understand. Written and/or verbal comments on submitted work is a more formal way of providing feedback on learning.
Six (6) hours per week for one semester comprising lectures, tutorials/ online activities and practical experience.
You will be directed to a range of web based readings related to various topics in the course. These will be available on myRMIT.
X All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Leaning & Teaching).
Demonstrate an understanding of how to modify to maximise participation and enjoyment of all.
Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of factors that influence the growth and motor development of individuals.
Demonstrate a social model philosophy for the inclusion of all in physical activity.
Presentation - This will be on a topic related to contemporary industry practices in inclusion or growth and development. | 2019-04-21T16:39:41 | http://www1.rmit.edu.au/courses/038235 |
0.999998 | In the transition state, noncovalent bonds are in the process of being made and broken. At least one encounter complex can be found prior to the transition state, with additional intermediates occupying the energy landscape past the transition state. What is the molecular basis of the transition state for protein-protein interactions? The bound state of two proteins is characterized by local specific interactions (e.g., van der Waals, electrostatic) between widely desolvated binding sites, whereas the unbound state is characterized by complete solvation and higher translational and rotational freedom. During formation of the complex, the proteins have to pass through a free-energy maximum where translational-rotational entropy is reduced and the binding sites are partially desolvated, but short-range interactions and precise structural fitting have not yet been attained. This state is naturally the transition state. The transition state can be approached from the unbound state (association) and from the bound state (dissociation). Yet, by the principle of macro-molecular reversibility, the nature and structure of the transition state should be the same.
ln kon =ln kon where Mkon is the basal rate of association in the absence of electrostatic forces, k is the inverse Debye length, and a is the minimal distance of approach [6,7].
If the AAGfn invoked by two individual mutations on each protein are additive, the two residues do not interact during the transition state; however, if the change is less or more than additive, one may assume that these two residues interact at the transition state. Probing the structure of the transition state of barnase/barstar and thrombin/hirudin by this method has shown that only charged residues, which are in close proximity in the final complex, already interact in the transition state. No significant interaction was measured between uncharged residues at this stage [8,9]. A somewhat different approach to probe docking trajectories experimentally uses the analysis of O values (O=AAGfn/AAGD). A O value close to one indicates that a specific interaction is formed at the transition state, while a O value close to zero indicates that the interaction is formed after the transition state. In a study of the HyHEL-10 Fab complex, multiple replacements were made in two positions, with most of the replacements having O values close to zero. This was wt on interpreted as the transition state being early along the reaction trajectory, before short-range interactions (which have the largest contribution on AAGD) are formed . The notion that short-range interactions affect koff, while longrange electrostatic interactions affect kon, was directly tested by introducing charged mutations at the vicinity, but outside the binding site of TEM1-BLIP. These mutations did increase specifically kon by 250-fold but did not affect koff (thus, the increase in kon equals the increase in KD and 0=1) . These data suggest that long-range electrostatic interactions increase the rate of association by lowering the free energy of the transition state by the same magnitude as the equilibrium constant (see Fig. 1). While mutations of non-charged residues do not significantly affect the transition state for association, they can significantly alter koff and KD. These data imply that the transition state is stabilized by electrostatic interactions and its structure already resembles that of the final complex, but the proteins are not yet close and oriented enough for short-range interactions.
While the major part of the activation free energy is required for desolvation of the binding interface as a prerequisite for the formation of specific short-range interactions, further intermediate states are postulated to occur on the pathway of complex formation (Fig. 1). Prior to the transition state, the two proteins diffuse in solution statistically until they enter a steering region, in which the progression along the association pathway is actively steered toward complex formation (Fig. 2). The forces important within this region are mainly electrostatic in nature, with nonspecific hydrophobic interactions contributing as well to steer association. Analysis of the contribution of electrostatic forces to the rate of association clearly indicates that their contribution steams from guiding the two proteins toward the transition state; from stabilizing the pre-transition-state encounter complex, in which the binding interface is still largely sol-vated; and from lowering the free energy of the transition state. Calculations of a three-dimensional energy landscape of these forces shows electrostatic steering by charged residues, which provides an energy funnel directed toward formation of the final complex . At physiological salt concentrations this funnel extends to less then 20 A of interprotein distance and fades rapidly upon rotation (at 60° rotation from the bound conformation, all electrostatic steering is lost; see Fig. 2). It was shown that charged "hot spot" residues have the largest effect on the size and depth of these energy funnels. Potential "hot spot" residues can now be identified computationally, making it possible to engineer pairs of proteins with much higher rates of association and affinity.
A second mechanism that potentially steers association is a partial desolvation of inter-protein hydrophobic surfaces. This effect plays a significant role in all association processes, but becomes particularly dominant for complexes, in which one of the reactants is neutral or weakly charged. The interaction provides a slowly varying attractive force over a small but significant region of the molecular surface. In complexes with no strong charge complementarity, this region surrounds the binding site, and the orientation of the ligand in the encounter conformation with the lowest desolvation free energy is presented in a conformation similar to the formed complex. While the electrostatic contribution toward faster association can be easily verified from mutational studies and the effect of the ionic strength on kon, the contribution of desolvation effects can be assessed only from theoretical calculations . The reason that mutation studies rarely identify noncharged residues, which significantly contribute to kon, may be attributed to the small contribution of individual side chains to desolvation-induced association, as this is more of a global effect of the protein.
Figure 2 Three-dimensional energy landscape of the association between wt TEM1-ß-lactamase with wt BLIP (A) and a much faster binding mutant (B). For demonstration, only the z-angle rotation is shown. The magnitude of the Debye-Hückel energy of interaction (AU) is plotted in three dimensions versus the distance and the relative rotation angle between the proteins. The arrows point at the 0° rotation angle, which is the X-ray crystallographic structure of the TEM1/BLIP complex. For details on the calculations employed, see Selzer and Schreiber . | 2019-04-23T16:12:10 | https://www.guwsmedical.info/protein-kinase/the-transition-state.html |
0.999982 | ISIL fighters captured the mainly ethnic Turkmen city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq overnight after heavy fighting on Sunday.
(BAGHDAD, Iraq) - The United States is contemplating talks with its arch-enemy Iran to support the Iraqi government in its battle with Sunni Islamist insurgents who routed Baghdad's army and seized the north of the country in the past week.
The stunning onslaught by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant threatens to dismember Iraq and unleash all-out sectarian warfare across a crescent of the Middle East, with no regard for national borders that the fighters reject.
Joint action between the United States and Iran to help prop up the government of their mutual ally Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister, would be a major turn of events after hostility dating to Iran's 1979 revolution, and demonstrates the urgency of the alarm raised by the lightning insurgent advance.
ISIL seeks a caliphate ruled on medieval Sunni Muslim precepts in Iraq and Syria, and is also fighting Syria's Iran-backed government. It considers all Shi'ites to be heretics deserving death and has boasted of massacring hundreds of Iraqi troops who surrendered to its forces last week.
ISIL fighters captured the mainly ethnic Turkmen city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq overnight after heavy fighting on Sunday, solidifying their grip on the north.
"The city was overrun by militants. Severe fighting took place, and many people were killed. Shi'ite families have fled to the west and Sunni families have fled to the east," said a city official who asked not to be identified.
Tal Afar is a short drive west from Mosul, the north's main city, which ISIL seized last week at the start of its push. Fighters swept through towns and cities on the Tigris before halting about an hour's drive north of Baghdad.
Iraq's army is holding out in Samarra, a Tigris city that is home to a Shi'ite shrine. A convoy traveling to reinforce the troops there was ambushed late on Sunday by Sunni fighters near the town of Ishaqi. Fighting continued through Monday morning.
U.S. President Barack Obama pulled out all American troops in 2011 and has ruled out sending them back, although he says he is weighing other military options, such as air strikes. A U.S. aircraft carrier has sailed into the Gulf.
A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Sunday that Washington was considering making contact with Iran to find ways to aid the Baghdad government. Publicly, the White House said no such contacts had yet taken place.
The U.S. overture came a day after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate elected last year, said Tehran would consider working with the United States in Iraq if it saw Washington was willing to confront "terrorist groups".
The only U.S. military contingent on the ground is the security staff at the U.S. embassy. Washington said on Sunday it was evacuating some diplomatic staff and sending about 100 extra marines and other personnel to help safeguard the facilities.
The sprawling fortified compound on the banks of the Tigris is the largest and most expensive diplomatic mission ever built, a vestige of the days when 170,000 U.S. troops fought to put down a civil war and mass sectarian cleansing that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion which toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
Iraqis now face the prospect of a replay of that extreme violence, but this time without American forces to intervene.
The prospect of cooperation between the United States and Iran shows how dramatically the ISIL advance has redrawn the map of Middle East alliances in a matter of days.
Rouhani has presided over a gradual thaw with the West, including secret talks with Washington that led to a breakthrough preliminary deal last year to ease sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program. But open cooperation against a mutual threat would be unprecedented.
Iraq is the only country closely allied to both the United States and Iran, but tentative past efforts by Tehran and Washington to cooperate there were fruitless. Tehran has longstanding ties to Maliki and the Shi'ite political parties that U.S.-backed elections brought to power after Saddam's fall.
Iran blames the United States and its Gulf Arab allies for stoking Sunni militancy in the region by backing the uprising against its ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria, where ISIL emerged as one of a dominant Sunni rebel group in a three year civil war.
Asked if Iran would now work with the United States against ISIL, Rouhani told a news conference on Saturday: "We can think about it, if we see America starts confronting the terrorist groups in Iraq or elsewhere.
"Where did ISIL come from? Who is funding this terrorist group? We had warned everyone, including the West, about the danger of backing such a terrorist and reckless group," he said.
ISIL fighters began their assault last week by capturing Mosul. They swept through other Sunni cities in the Tigris valley north of Baghdad, including Saddam's hometown Tikrit, where they captured and apparently massacred troops stationed at Speicher air base, once one of the main U.S. troop headquarters.
A series of pictures distributed on a purported ISIL Twitter account appeared to show gunmen from the Islamist group shooting dozens of men, unarmed and lying prone on the ground.
Captions accompanying the pictures said they showed hundreds of army deserters captured as they tried to flee the fighting. They were shown being transported in the backs of trucks, led to an open field, laid down in rows and shot by several masked gunmen. In several pictures, the black ISIL flag can be seen.
"This is the fate of the Shi'ites which Nuri brought to fight the Sunnis," a caption to one of the pictures reads.
ISIL said it executed 1,700 soldiers out of 2,500 it had captured in Tikrit. Although those numbers appear exaggerated, the total could still be in the hundreds. A former local official in Tikrit told Reuters ISIL had captured 450-500 troops at Speicher and another 100 elsewhere in Tikrit. Some 200 are believed to be held in Speicher to trade for jailed insurgents.
Power and running water were off in the city, leaving residents dependent on water being brought in by tanker trucks.
With ISIL's advance halted on the Tigris an hour's drive north of the capital, fighters also hold most of the Euphrates valley to the west, which they captured at the start of the year, bringing them to the gates of the city of 7 million.
Shi'ites, who form the majority in Iraq and are based mainly in the south, have rallied to defend the country, with thousands of volunteers turning out to join the security forces after a mobilization call by the top Shi'ite cleric.
Baghdad itself is divided between Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhoods and suffered intense street-fighting in 2006-2007. Peace never quite returned and districts are still surrounded by barbed wire and concrete blast walls.
ISIL emerged after Saddam's fall, fought against the U.S. occupation as al Qaeda's Iraq branch and broke away from al Qaeda after joining the civil war in Syria. It says the movement founded by Osama bin Laden is no longer radical enough.
Its advance in Iraq has been assisted by other Sunni Muslim armed groups, who have risen up against Baghdad because of what they consider repression from Maliki's Shi'ite-led government. Washington says Maliki must reach out to Sunnis to create a political coalition capable of reunifying Iraq.
Tareq al-Hashemi, a Sunni who was vice president until fleeing the country in 2012 after Maliki accused him of terrorism, said Maliki must go if the uprising is to end.
"What happened is an uprising by the Sunni Arabs in Iraq to confront oppression and marginalization," Hashemi told the BBC. "Resolving the conflict in Iraq comes through excluding Maliki from power."
The government's collapse in the north has also allowed forces of the ethnic Kurdish autonomous region to advance, seizing the city of Kirkuk and rural areas with vast oil reserves.
Residents in Tal Afar said Shi'ite police and troops rocketed Sunni neighborhoods before the ISIL forces moved in and finally captured the city overnight.
"The situation is disastrous in Tal Afar. There is crazy fighting and most families are trapped inside houses. They can’t leave town," a local official said on Sunday before the city was overrun. "If the fighting continues, a mass killing among civilians could result." | 2019-04-21T06:30:12 | http://salem-news.com/articles/june162014/us-iran-iraq-kh.php |
0.999361 | How Big is a Broaching Machine?
The broaching machine size will vary depending on the manufacturer and how it will be used. The following are some examples.
Model YHZ-050 has a maximum force of 5 tons and maximum stroke of 1200m/m. The maximum tooling length is 1200m/m. The cutting speed is 0~9m/min. The return speed is 0~13m/min and the power (HP) is 7 1/2H6P.
The cutting oil pump is 1/2HP and the maximum workpiece diameter is 380m/m. The machine height is 1800m/m and the floor space is 1300x1500m/m. It weighs 2800kg. The working table height is 1100m/m.
YHZ-070 has a working table height of 1150m/m and the machine weight is 3000kg. The floor space is 1300x1500m/m and the maximum workpiece diameter is 380m/m. The cutting oil pump is 1/2HP and the power (HP) is 7 1/2H6P. The return speed is 0~13m/min. The other specs are also similar to model YHZ-050.
The broaching machine size for this model is as follows: the weight is 3600kg and the working table height is 1150m/m. The workspace diameter is 460m/m. The cutting oil pump is 1HP. The power is 15H6P. The maximum force is 10 tons.
Model CHI-360 has a broaching force of 3 tons. The max stroke is 600 mm and the broaching speed is 3~10. The return speed is 2~14. The maximum external diameter is 300 mm.
For model CHI-7513, the broaching force is 75(7.5 ton). The maximum stroke is 1300 mm and broaching speed is 3~9. The return speed is 2~13. The maximum external diameter is 380 mm.
It is a metal cutting machine used mainly for finishing off surfaces. This is accomplished by pressing the utility on the surface. In simple terms, the tool functions like a cutter. The broaching machine functions on the basis of proper workpiece offsetting.
The centerline of the workpiece and the broaching utility are positioned to offset one another by a degree. This setting generates a scalloping effect. It lets the tool shave the piece.
As the tool is rotated, the workpiece is kept in a fixed position. This means only the edge will be broached. This will keep the machine from broaching the entire surface.
Aside from the different broaching machine size, these are also available in different types. These include the vertical dual ram surface broaching machine and the internal type. There are more variants currently being sold today.
Last updated June 1, 2010 . | 2019-04-23T08:53:38 | http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/how-big-is-a-broaching-machine/ |
0.998782 | A Texas community is barring a Marine Corps veteran and his wife from flying the American flag outside their home, saying the display violates Home Owners Association (HOA) rules.
Former Marine Corporal Michael Pereira said the HOA is also keeping him from flying a Marine Corps flag outside his Rosenberg home two months after moving into the neighborhood.
'If they're going to take them down, it's going to be a fight to take them down, and no one fights harder than a veteran combat Marine,' Pereira told KPRC on Wednesday.
Pereira, who was in the Marines from 2002-2009, serving three tours in Iraq, said that he and his wife are outraged by the HOA's decision, adding that its an affront to every service member of the armed forces.
Pereira told KPRC that he never experienced a problem with the association until this week, positing that a neighbor in his Kingdom Heights community must have alerted them to the issue.
'I'm guessing somebody didn't like it or someone reported it or something because I got a call from the property manager who works for the Home Owners Association asking me to take them down,' Pereira said.
After being told by the HOA employee to remove the flags, Pereira's wife posted the situation on Facebook on their neighborhood page Tuesday night.
Within hours, the post garnered hundreds of comments, virtually all in support of the couple.
Ashley Johannsen, the couple's neighbor across the street, told KPRC that the HOA is being frivolous in its demands.
'It doesn't bother me. I think it's kind of silly to have someone take down their flags -- especially if he fought for the country,' said Johannsen.
Pereira said that he's already filed an exemption with the HOA and is waiting to hear back.
'If they don't get those rules changed, I'm going to start a petition to get the rules changed,' Pereira said. | 2019-04-25T04:16:50 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5236859/Veteran-told-fly-flags-home.html |
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The Research Manager’s team at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), however, began exploring the notion of conversational interactions with technology years before with the goal of helping businesses work more efficiently.
Kyle and his colleagues embarked on the project by studying literature about human-to-human communication and interactions. By understanding the conversational mechanisms that people use with each other, PARC developers and engineers can craft intelligent assistants that can readily help automate companies’ workflows and boost internal knowledge.
By examining human interactions, Kyle and PARC aim to make a clear distinction between voice and conversational technology systems.
To Kyle, conversational technology and dialogue systems represent a major opportunity to change how people interact with computers, likening it to the innovations spurred by the evolution from the command line to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and smartphones.
As the methods of interacting with computers changes, so do the types of applications and uses consumers can enjoy.
Just as a GUI made working with spreadsheets, for example, much simpler than the command line, Kyle said he sees a similar push of momentum with mobile interfaces.
Now, as organizations are beginning to push into the world of conversational interactions with computing systems, even Kyle is curious about what the emerging technology might enable users to do.
“It’s not an obvious answer, and I think it’s part of what we’ll find in the coming years,” he said.
Unlike the consumer-minded products from Amazon, Apple, and Google, PARC instead focuses on business applications of conversational technology.
“We’re looking more specifically at enabling that kind of intelligent assistance, but for knowledge workers and enterprises,” Kyle said.
That concentration presents a slew of different challenges, according to Kyle. Although Alexa and Siri can answer general questions by relying on widely available sources of information, businesses often have unique processes and store information in several unstructured manners.
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Instead, PARC is working on tools to streamline the process of gathering information, whether it be from text documents, internal wikis and webpages, or, most challenging, data stored in employees’ brains.
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0.999326 | Relate: About a month back I landed in the airport of a strange land I had never visited except in my prayers. With me I carried three suitcases, the two larger of which could not way over a hundred pounds. (They weighed in at 87). All that was in those suitcases was the sum total of my remaining possessions. Everything else had been sold or given away. Without a doubt, the hardest part of that pairing down process was the elimination of my library. To say I had hundreds of books would be a lie. It was closer to a couple thousand. Roughly half of these were theological in nature and a good chunk of the rest were history or science. I had to let go of treasures like The Bible, Rocks, and Time by Davis Young, The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, and Chaos by James Gleick among many, many others. These three, and plenty of other books have broadened my perspective, taught me more about this wonderful world our Creator has made, and given me a better understanding of who He is.
Science is a great teacher. It is an excellent tool and any Christian who fears it or its findings only demonstrates their personal lack of faith in a great big God who beggars definitions, defies limitations, and destroys the boxes we are so desperate to create for Him to keep ourselves comfortable. But science has its limitations. My first attempt at blogging more than a decade back took place in a forum that has become a ghost town called myspace. In my second blog on that site I proposed two difficulties that science and in the decade since I have still seen no adequate answer for them. I call these difficulties the pendulum problem.
If I were to start a pendulum and take accurate measurements, I could soon use math to chart exactly when and where that pendulum would reach the apex of each swing. I could tell you exactly where the pendulum will be at any given future moment in time. I could also work backwards and tell you where the pendulum has been at any moment in the past as well. The problem is, those math equations will not be able to tell us where and when my single, non-repeatable event of starting that pendulum took place. The numbers would push right past that moment into a fictitious past. In fact, if the further I go back, the more ridiculous the numbers my equations calculate would begin to look. The math that works so well for the present, future, and recent past simply become useless when an outside factor changes the game.
For the second problem, we need to imagine that our pendulum is the entire universe. It has been created and set into motion and those on that pendulum might be able to figure out a lot about the world around them. They might be able to create a workable series of laws about the what, where, and how of everything they are able to know, which is that pendulum universe. But those on that pendulum would never be able to understand the why of the pendulum, the origins of it, or anything of any existence outside that pendulum. They would believe the existence of that pendulum is the sum of everything without realizing that it is merely a tool serving a greater purpose. All of this would be impossible for them to know unless it were revealed to them by someone or something that exists beyond their pendulum.
React: Science has its place. It is a very important one. But science does not have final say. It can tell us much about our world, but there has been one who has come into our world from beyond it. He became one of us so that we can understand Him and emulate Him but He is far, far greater than the stuff of this earth. This intricate, amazing, beautiful, breathtaking world of ours is His work of art. As am I. So are you. He loves us and He loves it and when we learn to do the same, we can better begin to understand Him.
God, don’t let me ever lose the passion to learn more and more about You and this wonderful world You have made. You are the star breather. You spread out the galaxies with more ease than I pull aside a curtain. You have named each and every star, yet You have also counted every hair on my head. OK, that’s not hard, but for some other heads… You have not only set in place the tiniest particles in the quantum world but also continue to hold everything together by Your power. All of creation reveals Your greatness, and wisdom, and brilliance. Let me do the same.
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Well said, my friend. The visual of the universe as a pendulum is amazing.
I come from a family of atheists who say, ” christians are too stupid to be scientists. Saying you’re a scientist and a christian is an oxymoron because christianity is acceptance of made up stories that have nothing to do with fact.” I believe our God is an infallible God, but that we’re imperfect and that God is the mind behind the intelligent design, the will, the way.
The more I understand about science, the more clearly I see the hand of the Creator. Great post!
The “Pendulum”! I really like this. It is a great scientific explanation of what is happening, how it continues to happen but cannot explain when it started to happen or even how it started. I will remember this post. Thanks for your thoughts and wisdom.
As the pendulum swings, so does ones life. While one was not aware of the moment when their life began, it began all the same. We see the motion of the pendulum and can scientifically find answers to how fast and when it will reach each position of it’s movement, we cannot find when or how it started. While science searches for the begining of time, when this all began, it misses the target that someone had to start it, someone had to build the pendulum, someone was in the begining. A “Think Tank” question: who started the pendulum of life?
Thank you, and praise God, for the excellence of your posts. It is wonderful how God is blessing you and how your pour that blessing out.
I never tire of reading your posts! “Science is a great teacher. It is an excellent tool and any Christian who fears it or its findings only demonstrates their personal lack of faith in a great big God who beggars definitions, defies limitations, and destroys the boxes we are so desperate to create for Him to keep ourselves comfortable.” -This is completely true. Thanks for sharing!
Sorry, but I have to challenge you on word “exactly”. Your stamen reveals, that you are overestimating, mystifying math. That is you hold that math is infinitely accurate and able to describe, or even command how reality works. This is clearly not the case. If this would be the case, scientist would not need to build expensive instruments which goes “ping” (jk), to test that their math at least accurate to some degree. All they would have to do is to work out the math and we could be absolutely sure that reality is the same. Of course this is not what happening and rightly so. Math at most can give us a very accurate estimation but not exact description of how things work in the universe around us.
True, the math for the pendulum would only be exact in a vacuum. There would be other factors that must also come into play like wind, barometric pressure, etc. But the problem would not be in the math but in knowing what and how these factors would be accoumted for in he math.
No! The problem would be the math! Even if we could allow for all influencing things in the math. It still would be impossible to predict exactly where the pendulum would be. One of the problem is, we have to use Pi in our calculations, as the movement of the pendulum is on the circular path. Since we cannot have the exact value of Pi, just an approximation (3.14 …) the result also will be an approximation, therefore not exact.
To suggest belief is impossible for a scientist is silly for many do believe. Christianity has adapted to science we now have big-bang Christians and the Pope accepts the big bang theory. Those Christians who hold rigidly to the Bible account are becoming fewer as science produces more evidence for the great age of the universe. The main problem with Christianity is in the realm of ethics. | 2019-04-22T20:05:43 | https://theriverwalk.org/2016/04/30/john-13-creation-and-science/ |
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Have you ever wondered about what would happen if you gave up your desire to be an ideal business owner? Do you think there would be a catastrophe, something terrible, irreversible and destructive? Not at all. In most cases nothing special would happen. And often - changing your attitude from perfectionism to a more adequate perception of your work leads to significant improvements in the results that your company shows. How and why is this possible? Let's discuss.
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Why do you think this is happening? Return to the first sentence of this article and read it again. Right. You do most of the work yourself, without asking for help of other people, even if you have qualified employees who would have perfectly coped with these tasks. But you are convinced that if you do not control everything to the smallest detail, it will never be good enough. Yes, it will not - but only for you! Neither your business partners nor your customers will notice the difference. However, your body feels this difference perfectly. You do not even notice how emotional burnout and nervous exhaustion creeps up to you. It is important to know that the effectiveness of your work in this condition is falling and sooner or later it will be reduced to zero. Think about it.
Setting priorities is an impossible task for you. But the ability to correctly determine what needs to be done earlier, and what later, what now, and what then, allows you to make your work more efficient. Due to the fact that you consider everything absolutely necessary, urgent, important - and you are sure that all this should be done perfectly, it is simply impossible to set priorities. Therefore, you do everything, in huge volumes, to detail and very little detail, which as a result does not affect your earnings fundamentally, but it significantly influences you, your team and relations with it, on the effectiveness of your business.
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In case you answered no, I'll tell you how. Start with three balls in your dominant hand—let's assume your right—and two in your left hand. All tosses should make a high arc to the opposite hand. First, throw out of the hand holding three balls. The second toss should come out of your left hand, shortly after throwing the first. The third toss should come out of your right again. If you've done this correctly, the first throw should be coming down towards your left hand, so toss ball number four up the same path as ball number two and catch ball number one. Ball number two should then be coming down towards your right hand, so throw ball number five up the same path as one. You now have ball one in your left hand and ball two in your right, opposite where they started. So follow the previous steps, but in reverse. Then repeat. The balls follow a figure-eight pattern.
Now that you have the instructions, I'll ask you again: can you juggle five balls? Allow me to presume that the answer is still no. Juggling is not a philosophical or theoretical activity. It is not even primarily a mental one. It is a physical one made possible by an understanding about how your body works and a few million stored memories about movement and physics. Your conscious mind, by design, takes all this for granted. The neurological components activated in juggling are working in a manner that one cannot really call "thinking." The only way to accomplish it is by intelligent practice. Starting with learning to juggle three balls, or even one, would be a decent idea. The theory flows forth from practice, not the other way around.
By saying so, I wish to counter the idea that conceptualism ought to be introduced early on in the college art curriculum. For the purpose of this paper, I am not going to distinguish between conceptualism (an approach to art primarily dominated by ideas), critical theory (the interpretation of art objects according to postmodernist analytical models), critical thinking (which unfortunately has become a euphemism for critical theory in certain settings), and conceptual thinking (a horrible coinage that aspires to make the inculcation of critical theory sound like a respectable enterprise). By the time they reach the student, all of these impulses translate to an idea-driven art practice. After a dozen years of teaching art, I have come to the opposite conclusion: that a serious fine art education should embrace its roots in the physical. We should teach art more or less like dance, or juggling. The student should spend the bulk of his time acquiring techniques, and implementing those techniques in a way that interests him. It makes sense to favor the former early on and the latter later on.
Along the way we should encourage the student to think. Note that I did not say that we should teach them conceptual thinking. Neither did I say that we should teach them critical thinking. They're already thinking, and we ought to invite them to do it more, and do it better. But we're looking to turn them into great artists, not great thinkers, and the former hardly depends on the latter. Mostly we need them to labor, to put their talents to use. We need them to act.
In 2003 I was teaching art in Miami, and I had the opportunity to speak on a panel discussion with a variety of art educators. At one point I lamented the fact that a friend of mine, a figurative marble sculptor, had recently moved back to New England. Consequently, no one could teach figurative carving in marble in the entire lower half of the state of Florida. Smirking, the panel moderator let out a derisive huff of air. He then verbalized his objection to my remark: that a contemporary art education shouldn't privilege "fetish materials"—he actually called them that—and asked hypothetically why contemporary art students wouldn't be equally well-served by learning how to make sculptures out of, say, shoes. There's a simple answer to this: marble provides more possibilities of form. You could sculpt a shoe out of marble. You could not sculpt a realistic human figure out of shoes. One might ask, legitimately, whether we ought to teach both carving and assemblage. But that's not what Professor Shoe, as we'll call him, was suggesting. He was disparaging a medium and the techniques that go with it.
Techniques are not merely uses of tools. They represent a holistic understanding about the interactions of tools, materials, and the myriad details of human feeling that together give us the stuff of art. Too, a technique is not merely the way that one manifests an idea. Techniques define the space in which one can form ideas.
Paul Graham, in his seminal book on the programming language Lisp,1 makes an important assertion: "Programming languages teach you not to want what they cannot provide." I would suggest that mediums do this in general. You can use marble to produce outcomes of such enormous variety as to dwarf the possibilities of shoes. The converse is also true: mediums teach you to want what they can provide. Once you gain a certain amount of familiarity with plastic medium like marble, you start to imagine creative possibilities that would never have occurred to you before you learned to carve. The materials don't merely serve the imagination—they fire the imagination. Technique, seen properly as a relationship between desire and materials, causes new possibilities to appear to the artist. The materials not only have limitations, but potentialities. Stated poetically, materials have their own mind, and the artist interacts with that mind.
So why would someone argue against marble in favor of shoes? I learned subsequently that this notion derives from a particular reduction of postmodernist boilerplate. The idea, briefly, says that since the Western tradition of art-making values the carving of marble, and the Western artistic heritage is guilty by association with Western peoples and their often deplorable behavior over the course of several centuries, the denigration of marble carving qualifies as progressive. I have since seen the same opinion expressed by others whose preferences tend towards critical theory. The notion has at least two problems. First, in logic, we call this a genetic fallacy. Second, it amounts to arguing against possibilities in favor of hobbling yourself.
The Western tradition also produced the five-ball cascade, and while I've never seen anyone try to characterize the figure-eight pattern as a fetish shape or damn the pattern as a Western cultural construct, one could do so via the same genetic fallacy. Why not throw all the balls in a big circle, which was the native practice of China, according to the few depictions we have? The answer becomes instantly clear if you try it. The shower pattern, as we call the big circle, requires you to throw five balls consecutively with one hand before you make the first exchange, which is extremely difficult. Why privilege balls over, say, shoes? Because shoes fall in an irregular way, and they won't roll or bounce, and therefore provide fewer possibilities for manipulation. It turns out that the traditional techniques have an enormous wealth of information in them.
If you're a teacher, and a student comes to you interested in making assemblage sculpture out of shoes, you'll give him information about epoxy and thrift stores and working in an area with good ventilation. If a student comes to you interested in figurative marble carving, you'll give him information about chisels, and making drawings for different aspects of the final work, and covering your head so your hair doesn't get cut by marble shards. At least that's what you'll do if you're worth anything as a teacher. The irony of Professor Shoe is that he imagined himself as a progressive teacher who wouldn't force a future shoe sculptor to work in marble. He failed to see that he had become its mirror-image: a retrogressive teacher who would force a future marble sculptor to work with shoes.
Six years later, this kind of Oedipal thinking persists. Brett Sokol, reporting for New York Magazine on the graduate (or possibly postgraduate) school currently under development in Miami that will take the name Art + Research, quoted Yale instructor Henry Madoff saying, "Most art is conceptually based now. It's art based on an idea. It didn't turn out that the twentieth century's most influential artist was Picasso. It turned out it was Duchamp. ... We don't need to do foundation courses, how to draw, how to sculpt."2 This is true, in a way, presuming you don't want to draw or sculpt. The departure of one of the only people in the state who can carve figuratively in marble only constitutes a loss if you care about what he does. But one of the few things everyone agrees on in art education is that art school ought to generate more possibilities for the student. Certain things only become possible after an apprenticeship to one's craft. Drawing turns out to be one of them. If you can't draw, you never learn to want the things that drawing makes possible. Madoff's quote is not only description, but self-fulfilling prophecy. It aims to replace an arguably restrictive tradition with a demonstrably restrictive innovation. The supporters of this innovation don't see it that way, but like Professor Shoe, they can't.
There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is that no creature succumbs to habit quite like the assimilated rebel. As Hannah Arendt put it, "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." Railing against the hoary medium of marble, in all its Eurocentrism, phallocentrism, and oligarchic implications, apes writers who had their heyday in the early '90s and are now, if they're still alive, critiquing allegedly insidious hegemons from lofty, tenured perches in academia. A side effect of the institution of tenure causes fashionable ideas to remain in place long after intellectual hemlines have changed altitude, and a generation of students of these tendentious thinkers have cycled through college on their way to all manner of positions in the art world, including museum curatorships. Conceptualist curators demand conceptualist work, thus obliging educators to teach conceptualism to prepare their students for the art world. (Indeed, what self-identified progressive teacher doesn't want a position near the front, wherever that may be?) This is the second reason that conceptualist teachers don't see their innovation as restrictive: the road to conceptualism is paved with good intentions.
Conceptually-driven instructors substitute an easy kind of freedom for a hard one. When Professor Shoe challenged the place of marble in an art curriculum, he did so as an effort to expand beyond the traditional conception of art. He, and a lot of teachers like him, have invested heavily in the idea of infinitely increasing options. The modernist project consisted, at heart, of efforts to attain quality at the expense of previously known traits about art. Its prototypical examples come from postwar abstraction, which achieved the heights of art despite its jettisoning of what had been understood for hundreds of years as a picture. The conceptualist project seeks to establish the identity of objects as art objects at the expense of previously known traits about art. Instead of seeking the essence of art's quality, it seeks the essence of art's identity. Its prototypical examples are the readymades and collages of Duchamp. Contemporary objects that trace their lineage back to Duchamp's art pranks (and not, notably, his more crafted works) try to defy expectations of what art is supposed to look like, adopting a similarly anti-traditional stance. The theme of the 2008 Whitney Biennial was "lessness,"3 the title of a dreary rant by Samuel Beckett,4 and it encouraged the display of arrangements of detritus that hardly evinced human involvement, the most casual standards of photography, and happenings so devoid of originality or distinctiveness from the background of normal life that they could only be recognized as art by context. The Whitney Biennial opened during the inaugural show of the New Museum in its new building, entitled "Unmonumental," with largely the same aesthetic priorities.5 Then in October the Guggenheim opened "theanyspacewhatever," featuring artists for whom "an exhibition can be a film, a novel, a shared meal, a social space, a performance, or a journey."6 We're witnessing an effort, a hundred years in the making, to legitimize ever-increasing kinds of objects as art, starting with a bottle rack and culminating in a shared meal. This is a kind of freedom, a freedom of possibilities, maximized to an absurd scale that moots a discussion about marble carving. But it's a dissipated freedom that gives rise to exhibitions as lethargic as their titles. As is typical of perversions of modernism, it starts with the observation that intense labors do not necessarily result in the best art, runs it through the standard equine-vehicular reversal, and proceeds on the assumption that minimal labors result in good art.
But where there is only freedom of possibility, there is effectively no freedom at all. There's another kind of freedom that we need to address as teachers: the freedom of ability. I have the freedom of possibility to juggle six balls: circumstances, opportunity, and the general conception of juggling all permit it. But it's not going to happen, because I physically can't do it. Against a background of freedom of possibility, which is more or less given, one has to develop freedom of ability by dint of practice—physical repetition of skills with the desire to produce a particular outcome. We should recognize that we are dealing with an entirely different sort of freedom here. I can actually demonstrate the juggling of five balls, and even witnessing my doing so does not enable you to do the same, because juggling does not operate in the realm of ideas. Ideas can be communicated. Technique must be embodied. The profound pleasure of juggling five balls is available to you only secondhand, as an observer. The same is true of drawing, painting, and sculpting to the extent that you can't do these things. The common point about contemporary art practice, that manufacturing skills can be outsourced to artisans while some conceptual savant directs production, like Jeff Koons, for instance, results in a second-hand kind of art that can be thought about endlessly but is physically and emotionally lacking. It befits an art world that doesn't regard materials as legitimate unless supported by a conceptual framework. But there's a longstanding tradition, to which I adhere, that conceptual frameworks are not legitimate unless supported by the heartfelt use of materials. And while good art does not necessarily need a conceptual framework—as far as I can tell, good art does not necessarily need any particular thing—conceptual frameworks need materials or we're talking about philosophy instead of art. So there are not two sides to the equation, nor an agreeable midpoint somewhere. Time spent dealing with issues is time spent not making art. Such time may be fruitful and healthy, but we ought to see it for what it is—a break in the action.
So we need non-virtual classrooms where we let students serve their apprenticeships to their materials, occasionally picking up their tools for them so they can see how things are done, and letting them return to work. Our authority derives from a longer time spent in our own apprenticeship to materials, which we will never fully satisfy. Incrementally, the students develop technique. As technique builds, the materials start to suggest their own possibilities. The upward launch of art comes from freedom of ability. Freedom of possibility is the launch pad—necessary, to be sure, but not notable in itself. Freedom of possibility doesn't demand an apprenticeship. It needs simple establishment as policy. The students will take it from there. As for ideas, we ought to encourage a love of reading, writing skills, and articulate presentation. These three virtues self-evidently correlate to conceptual skills, whereas the willy-nilly introduction of issues into studio syllabi promises nothing of the sort.
Technique, understood correctly, is a form of freedom. A good education in art emphasizes technique because a good education, in the broadest sense, emphasizes freedom. If we mostly stick to teaching technique, we stay away from the question of what a student should be doing, which frankly is none of our business, and keeps us on the task of maximizing the student's capabilities, which is. The education of ideas as envisioned by Professor Shoe threatens to do the opposite. One could characterize the conceptualist mindset as an effort to prioritize ideas over technique, or stated conversely, an effort to drive the priority of technique below that of ideas. Freedom will follow suit.
1. Paul Graham: ANSI Common Lisp, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996.
2. Brett Sokol, "Miami Art Machine," New York Magazine, April 27, 2008.
3. Henriette Huldisch, curator, writing in the catalogue for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
6. Nancy Spector, curator, on guggenheim.org. The title is taken from Gilles Deleuze, "who used the term 'any-space-whatever' to describe a cinematic moment defined by multiple perspectives that are unmoored from the coordinates of time and space." | 2019-04-22T03:05:54 | http://www.franklin.art/writing/2009/mind-of-materials/ |
0.999232 | "The picnic is three friends—Adam, Erikk, and Nick—talking about culture, politics, and morality. Their conversations cut at weird diagonals across the preening, pedagogical grain of standard podcast style. The joy of them rests in their sincerely close (and wildly well-read) readings of a huge range of subjects"
Can someone tell me where to get started? I used to read one of them on tumblr and his stuff was really something, even if I didn’t always quite get it. Then I briefly tried the podcast and I... really didn’t get those lads.
So Chapo, but as a midday talk show instead of a morning zoo.
Can someone tell me where to get started?
The general consensus is that The Cave, a long hard look at death, is their best so far. I also like No World, which juxtaposes Elon Musk and the moon, and His Favorite Child, which is basically goofing on Redditors' reports of paranormal experiences.
At first, but they started moving away from current events around Episode 14.
I will admit that the first few episodes, when the guys were still finding their voice, are a bit rough, and I wouldn't begrudge anyone who wrote them off after hearing just those. But as mentioned above, "The Cave" marks a real turning point in their development, and is arguably still their best episode to date. I would also throw in "Shanksville" (in which they visit the 9/11 memorial there), "The Wreckage" (about the end of relationships), and "Just Citizens" (which somehow links John Dewey, Jimmy Carter, and Amazon customer reviews). I would defy anyone to listen to those episodes and call the Relentless Picnic a Chapo knockoff.
It sounds pretentious to say this, but a lot of their really good material is behind the Patreon wall -- their discussion of Carmen Maria Machado's "The Husband Stitch", for example, helped illuminate to me what was so unnerving about that story.
FWIW, I started listening around Ep 4, and I think that once you get into it, TRP is literally the best podcast that exists.
I tried "Just Citizens" last week; the discussion was great but the hate-reading of reviews felt pretty cheap. It made their point well enough; there was just way too much laughing at people that weren't hurting anyone for my tastes.
I just started listening and love it. I listened to "Just Citizens" and thought all the Jimmy Carter stuff was brilliant.
there was just way too much laughing at people that weren't hurting anyone for my tastes.
I think their point could have been made in a more direct, insightful, and less mocking way. | 2019-04-21T00:55:44 | https://www.metafilter.com/179315/I-never-went-to-grad-school |
0.999805 | A proof of Pythagoras Theorem.
Draw a square with sides of length A+B. Mark off the length B from each corner going around in a clockwise direction (say). Join up these marks to make a smaller, tilted square inside the larger square. Label the sides of the smaller, tilted square C.
Now the area of the larger square is (A+B)2, as is obvious to see.
The area of each of the triangles is (A*B)/2, as can be seen in the triangle on the left. So the total of all 4 triangles in the larger square is 4*(A*B)/2 = 2*(A*B). The area of the tilted square is C2, obviously.
Therefore (A+B)2 = 2*(A*B) + C2.
Expanding the left side we get A2 + 2*(A*B) + B2 = 2*(A*B) + C2.
Cancelling 2*(A*B) from both sides, we get A2 + B2 = C2. | 2019-04-23T08:38:10 | http://www.savory.de/maths11.htm |
0.997984 | Did you know Dakota Fanning is related to Kate Middleton?
After filming wrapped on The Phantom Menace (she had to skip the premiere to study for her high school finals), Portman decided to take a break from acting to attend Harvard. She was already signed on for the Star Wars sequels, though, so filmed Attack of the Clones during the summer break after her first year. She graduated in 2003 with a degree in psychology and gave the commencement address to the class of 2015.
Before she was an Oscar-winning Serious Actress™ and BFF of Emma Stone, Brie Larson took the tween world by storm with her debut album, Finally Out of PE. She promoted the release of her album – which, in the end, sold about 3,500 copies – by going on tour with a "Beautiful Soul"-era Jesse McCartney.
DeVito and Pearlman first met in 1971, married in 1982, have three children together, and founded a film production company called Jersey Films that's behind movies like Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich. They separated in 2012 after 30 years of marriage, but reconciled and called off the divorce a few months later – sadly, though, they called it quits again in March this year.
Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of Friends remembers Richard, Monica's much-older, moustache-wearing boyfriend, played by Tom Selleck. Selleck was born in January 1945, making him 51 years old when he started playing Richard in 1996. And Courteney Cox's birthday is 15 June, 1964 – meaning she's currently 52.
It's a pretty tenuous link, but research carried out by experts at Ancestry.com in 2016 determined that the Duchess of Cambridge and the Fanning sisters were both descendants of King Edward I, making them (very) distant cousins.
The same research discovered that Kate is also distantly related to Ellen DeGeneres and George Washington.
His black quiff is the definition of iconic, but Elvis's hair wasn't naturally that dark – he was a natural blonde. According to his hair stylist, Larry Geller, his hair had to be dyed every two to three weeks to keep its shiny, jet black look.
All three of them have won Grammys in the Spoken Word category (Obama has won it twice!), but despite being nominated 13 whole times since 2009, Katy has never won a Grammy.
Other surprising Grammy winners include ex-presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Yep, the man famous for Peter Griffin and Ted is actually a pretty decent big band musician. He's released three albums since signing with Universal Republic Records in 2011, and has even been nominated for two Grammys in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category.
He may have a mega-successful fashion line with Yeezy, but the journey hasn't all been easy for Kanye. He applied to study at Central Saint Martins – whose list of alumni includes Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney – but was turned down because he was "too famous".
Yep, despite the fact that his character is kind of an idiot, the youngest member of the Dunphy family is actually a certified genius – he's a member of Mensa, has an IQ of 150, and graduated high school early at the age of 13.
She may have risen to fame singing party pop songs like "Tik Tok" and "Your Love is My Drug", but that doesn't mean she's not smart. In a 2010 interview with NPR, she explained that she'd always done well in school and enjoyed learning: "I was in the international baccalaureate program, I loved physics and math, and I was in the marching band. After practice, I would drive to Belmont [a college in Nashville] and listen to Cold War history classes."
Pre-sliced bread was sold for the first time at a bakery in Missouri in July 1928. Betty White was born more than six years earlier, on 17 January 1922. Which means that the famous phrase should ~really~ be "the best thing since Betty White".
Yep! For some reason, this is totally mindblowing. Maybe it's because his character in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was called William?
In 1997, the Sound of Music and Mary Poppins star had surgery to remove benign nodules on her vocal chords – but when she woke up, she found that she was no longer able to sing. She sang professionally again for the first time in The Princess Diaries 2, and nailed the song on the first take, bringing tears to the eyes of the cast and crew.
Cage is actually a member of the Coppola family, who are basically film royalty – his uncle was Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, and his cousins are director Sofia Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzmann – but he wanted to change his name when he got into acting to separate himself from his famous family. He named himself after his favourite Marvel character, Luke Cage. His son Kal-El, is also named after a superhero – it's Superman's birth name.
Before beginning his incredibly successful acting career, Buscemi worked as a firefighter in New York City in the early '80s. When the September 11 attacks occurred in 2001, he temporarily rejoined his old company and helped with the clean up at Ground Zero. He even produced a documentary, called A Good Job, which examines the work of the New York Fire Department.
Meester's upbringing was worlds away from Blair Waldorf's Upper East Side lifestyle – she was born while her mother was serving a 10-year sentence for her role in a 1980s drug smuggling ring. After Leighton was born, she was sent to live with her grandmother until her mother was released from prison. Leighton is open about her upbringing, and says her experience helps her not to judge people based on their past. | 2019-04-19T16:58:07 | https://www.buzzfeed.com/eleanorbate/say-whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat |
0.998433 | How did you become a restaurant manager?
Bronwyn has been the restaurant manager of King's Buffet at Crown casino for over 2 years now, after having gradually worked her way up the restaurant hierarchy.
Initially attracted to the industry because of the large number of positions available in food and beverage, Bronywn started off working part-time as a waitperson while she was still at school.
Obviously, you don't just start off in a management role. You'll need some hospitality experience first, and some employers will encourage you to undertake formal training as well, such as a Certificate III in Hospitality. You can facilitate your professional advancement too, by increasing your food and wine knowledge.
"I love meeting new people, and it's a great atmosphere - working in such a busy restaurant," says Bronwyn. Every day is different, and I'm constantly learning new things... And the pay's great too!" she says.
"My role involves organising staff rosters, ordering food and beverage, ensuring that the restaurant is up to standard (that everything is working and cleaned properly), paying invoices, budgeting, attending meetings, and working on the floor during service times," says Bronwyn.
"It's a job that requires good organisation and leadership skills, and an ability to prioritise." She adds that you'll also need to be able to work well under pressure, "I'm always on the go, and have to be proactive rather than reactive."
Perhaps even more importantly, you will need strong interpersonal skills. "You definitely need to be a people person," stresses Bronwyn.
For those interested in following such a career path, Bronwyn also reminds us that like most jobs in this industry, you should be prepared to work long hours and do shift work at times.
However, unlike a bar or waitperson, as a manager, you will also have to contend with high rates of absenteeism and high staff turnover. Your organisational skills will be continuously stretched.
"Rostering plays a big part in absenteeism. If you want to minimise problems associated with understaffing, you need to be organised, and get staff timetables in before drawing up the roster. You also need to be flexible, and take into account factors that influence staff availability, such as public transport, and so on," says Bronwyn.
Any tips for getting a job as a restaurant manager?
Bronwyn advises, "You can't afford to be weak in any areas - you need to be as good at administrative duties as you are with people but it takes experience and determination to work your way up to a management position." | 2019-04-22T20:25:15 | https://www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au/jobs-careers/career-profiles/restaurant-catering-manager |
0.998739 | A young international rugby player described by his club as an 'exceptional talent' died after suffering a catastrophic brain injury in a car crash, an inquest has heard.
Assistant deputy coroner for Nottinghamshire Stephanie Haskey said former Scotland Under-20 international and Nottingham Rugby Club player Mitchell Todd could not have survived the severe head injuries he sustained in the crash near Normanton-on-the-Wolds in south Nottinghamshire.
The inquest, which was held in Nottingham this morning, heard the 21-year-old was found alone in a Citroen C3 on its roof in a field off Cotgrave Road just before 6am on Wednesday by a member of the public.
The passer-by called for an ambulance but Todd, from Nod Rise, Coventry, was confirmed dead at the Queen’s Medical Hospital in Nottingham.
A post mortem examination confirmed Todd, who represented Scotland Under 20s in last season’s Six Nations and featured in the Junior World Cup, died as a result of a catastrophic brain injury.
The player, who was born in Solihull, had just finished a degree in sports therapy at Coventry University, Nottingham Rugby Club said on Wednesday.
Miss Haskey said Todd suffered severe head injuries and could not have survived the impact of the crash.
The Specialist Crash Investigation Unit at Nottinghamshire Police are investigating the incident, she added.
No one else is thought to have been involved in the crash, which Miss Haskey described today as a 'tragic accident'.
Todd was formally identified by his mother Delia Todd following the incident. No family attended today’s hearing.
Nottinghamshire Police are appealing for any witnesses to the incident to contact them with information.
Paying tribute to the player in a statement yesterday, Nottingham Rugby Club said: 'He was an exceptional talent and a highly-valued member of the squad and he will be missed by all of those that knew him.
Todd signed a new contract with the club in May and was expected to make a big impact during the 2012-2013 season, the club added.
He qualified for Scotland through his Edinburgh-born father and had also represented Scottish Exiles from under-17 to under-20 level. He won 10 Scotland Under-20 caps and played in the IRB Junior World Championship.
Rob Brierley, the Scottish Rugby Union’s performance development manager for Exiles, said: 'Mitch was a quiet, sensitive bloke with a real steely determination never more evident than on the rugby pitch. | 2019-04-19T21:25:23 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2189971/Mitchell-Todd-dead-Rugby-star-died-car-crash-vehicle-went-road-ended-upside-field.html |
0.997366 | Why Is The U.N. In The War-Making Business?
The strangest aspect of the United Nations' "no-fly zone" war over Libya is the involvement of the United Nations itself. While Congress' approval was all but an afterthought, the Obama administration devoted intense diplomatic energy to winning the approval of the United Nation's Security Council. No one asked: Why the U.N. is in the business of approving military actions at all?
The United Nations, created to end wars, now prolongs and enlarges them. It is time to take a hard look at the U.N.'s war-ending, peace-making record. After all, the promotion of peace is supposed to be its main duty.
In the wake of World War II, political leaders looked out on a devastated world. They saw in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas new graveyards spring up filled with millions of young men. In the richest parts of Europe and Asia there were bombed and burnt cities. Fearing that another global war would spell the end of civilization, they built a global institution that was supposed to stop small wars from getting big and end big wars altogether.
The U.N. bureaucracy lost its way. The U.N. has sanctioned two wars against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and now has approved the aerial bombardment of Libya.
Whatever the merits of these wars, they are wars. And the U.N. approved them, as opposed to stopping them. It has morphed from a war-ending mission to a war-sanctioning vote. Of course there already are legislative bodies to declare wars: the U.S. Congress and the parliaments of various nations.
Duplication aside, there are good reasons that the U.N. should not be in the war-approving business.
Declaring war is an intimate act between a people and government, a solemn decision that weighs the lives and fortunes of its citizens against the state's interest in securing the safety and trade of its citizens. In any democracy, this balancing act produces a lively debate. Most U.N. representatives represent nothing more than the ruling cliques, which are unelected or elected dishonestly. The people who are going to pay for or fight in these U.N. approved wars have no way to hold U.N. representatives accountable and too many of the war-making discussions at the U.N. are held in secret.
More insidiously, the U.N. fuels and funds the small conflicts it is supposed to end. Its scandalous administration of the "oil for food" program extended a lifeline to Saddam Hussein, perpetuating his power and the dangerous instability he represented, while corrupting scores of officials at the U.N. and in governments around the world.
Or consider the case of the world's longest-running and most pointless war between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front, a ragtag group of rebels residing in an Algerian slice of the Sahara. The war has raged, on and off, since 1975--with the U.N.'s acquiescence.
The U.N. created a body called MINURSO that has utterly failed to end conflict or resettle the some 200,000 refugees now eking out a spare existence in a scattering of mud-brick hovels without running water or continuous electricity. I visited the rebels' refugee camps in 2010 near Tindouf, Algeria. The people call themselves the Sahrawi and they yearn to return to their homeland in southern Morocco.
While tens of thousands of them disappear into the desert every year and often reappear in the newly prosperous southern reaches of Morocco--where the king and his government have spent more than $15 billion since 1975 to build roads, hospitals, airports and apartment buildings--many more are trapped in the Polisario refugee camps either afraid to make the dangerous trek or afraid of retribution from the Polisario if they try. Those that don't run to Morocco, run into the arms of al Qaeda's North African offshoot.
Some attend al Qaeda's paramilitary training camps and serve in the growing army of al Qaeda in the Magreb (AQIM). The group specializes in taking European tourists hostage and carrying out attacks on army and police forces across North Africa. Other Sahrawis act as desert guides for AQIM or operate supply depots for it. As AQIM becomes bigger and stronger, it could pose a real threat to American interests in the region.
The Sahrawi's have good reason to run. There are no jobs in the camp and food is scarce. Young men cannot marry because they cannot afford to pay a traditional dowry. And the camps are essentially a one-party dictatorship. The Polisario claims to represent the Sahrawi people, but its elections are East German-style single-candidate rubber stamps. Thousands have fled the rebel refugee camps for a better life in Morocco.
In short, the Polisario is holding the Sahrawi hostage in the hopes of bargaining themselves into running a country they can rule while the camps become havens for al Qaeda affiliated terrorists and drug smugglers. As the situation worsens, the U.N. holds more meetings.
Yet the U.N. has leverage. The rebels survive on aid from the United Nations, grants from local European governments (mostly Spanish regional bodies run by leftists who feel guilty about Spain's colonial post in Southern Morocco) and by facilitating illegal trade in guns, drugs and women. In the past, the Polisario's leaders have been covertly aiding Al Qaeda's North African affiliate and depositing their loot in European banks. If the U.N. leaned on European governments to close the Polisario's bank accounts and cut its aid, the Polisario would be more likely to accept the King of Morocco's offer of amnesty and re-settlement of the refugees in their now prosperous homelands.
While the rebels are unable to win on the battlefield--Morocco built a 2,000-km wall of sand sensors and military bases to block cross-border raids--the Polisario fights on with endless motions before various U.N. bodies.
Indeed, the U.N. (and the media) are its primary battlefields. And without the U.N., there would be no war.
Meanwhile, the U.N. maintains a special envoy who is conducting yet another summit conference in New York.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon came in pledging to reform the institution. He could begin by closing down MINURSO and the Special Envoy's office. Without the U.N., the parties would have every incentive to settle their differences. Without the U.N., there would be peace.
That is quite an indictment of the world's biggest peace-making body.
Richard Miniter is an investigative journalist and bestselling author whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, New Republic and National Review. His latest book is Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. | 2019-04-19T23:15:25 | https://www.forbes.com/2011/04/18/united-nations-libya.html |
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