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0.998257 | A bounty of organic produce at the Alameda Natural Grocery.
In the year since I have been writing this column, readers have sent in many questions about organic foods. With the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture planting organic gardens, these questions have become more urgent.
Q:What is the difference between "100% organic" and "organic"?
A: Organic has a precise meaning under the USDA's organic program. Certified 100% Organic means that all the ingredients in a product have been grown or raised according to the USDA's organic standards, which are the rules for producing foods labeled organic. Certified Organic requires that 95 to 99 percent of the ingredients follow the rules.
-- Plants cannot be grown with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, genetic modification, irradiation or sewage sludge.
-- Animals must be raised exclusively on organic feed, have access to the outdoors, and cannot be given antimicrobial drugs or hormones.
-- Producers will be inspected to make sure these practices are being followed to the letter.
Q:How do we know "organic" truly reflects our beliefs?
A: I am guessing this question refers to the spirit of organics. In the 1920s, the British botanist Albert Howard learned from observing farmers in India that human health depends on growing foods sustainably. Indian farmers taught him the importance of protecting soil nutrients through composted manure, crop rotation and appropriate cultivation, and using biological pest controls. Later, these methods were called "organic."
But USDA organic rules do not say a word about sustainability. This gap occurred as a result of the history of the organic standards (as I recount in "What to Eat"), but also as a result of the USDA's inherent conflicts of interest. The USDA's main job is to promote industrial agriculture. Organics, the USDA says, are just different, not better. Alas, the USDA has not always been a loving home for the organic program.
Q:Do food companies use the word "organic" in the same way they use "health"?
A: USDA organic rules are about the letter of the law, not its spirit. Food marketers, however, take advantage of public perceptions that "organic" implies spirit - sustainability and better nutrition. Companies that follow the rules can legitimately market highly processed foods as organic, taking advantage of their health aura to command higher prices.
No wonder so many big food companies have bought organic product lines (see links.sfgate.com/ZHKJ).Yes, organic junk food is free of synthetic pesticides, but the foods still have calories. As I like to put it, an organic junk food is still a junk food.
Q:Which is worse: eating nonorganic produce full of pesticides or not eating produce at all?
A: Research demonstrates substantial health benefits from eating fruits and vegetables. Although I wish we had more definitive research, these benefits appear to greatly outweigh any risks of pesticides.
If you want to compromise, you can save your organic dollars for the foods most likely to be high in pesticides. These, according to the Environmental Working Group (ewg.org), are peaches, nectarines, apples, bell peppers, strawberries, cherries, pears, raspberries, imported grapes, celery, potatoes and spinach.
In contrast, foods that you peel - onions, peas, bananas, sweet corn and tropical fruits, for example - tend to be low in pesticides.
Q:Is organic food nutritionally worth its higher cost?
A: Foods grown on sustainable soils ought to contain higher levels of nutrients - and some studies show that they do - but organic certification does not require higher nutritional values. Without testing, I'd be hard-pressed to know whether the organic foods I'm buying really are nutritionally better. The main point of organics is production methods, and these require hand labor and careful management, both of which come at a higher cost.
If you believe, as I do, that growing foods according to organic practices is better for the environment, then paying more is worth it if you can afford to.
Q:Aren't organics elitist? People can't buy organic foods if they aren't available at an affordable price.
A: I once heard Eric Schlosser answer a similar question aimed at his book, "Fast Food Nation." He pointed out that social movements have to begin somewhere and that several began with elites but ended up helping the poor and disenfranchised - the civil rights, environmental and women's movements, for example.
I would add the organic movement to this list. It has already forced mainstream food producers to start cutting down on pesticides and to raise farm animals more humanely. As the supply of organic foods increases, and the Wal-Marts of the world sell more of them, organics should become more democratic.
But please don't blame organic producers for the high prices. Until the latest farm bill, which has a small provision for promotion of organic agriculture, organic farmers received not one break from the federal government. In contrast, the producers of corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton continue to get $20 billion or so a year in farm subsidies.
Industrial agriculture also benefits from federally administered marketing programs and from cozy relationships with congressional committees and the USDA. In contrast, the USDA considers fruits and vegetables "specialty crops." This kind of food politics shows up as higher prices in the grocery store.
Dealing with the elitism implied by the higher cost of organics means doing something about income inequities. If we want elected representatives to care more about public health than corporate health, let's work to remove the corruption from election campaign contributions. If Congress were less beholden to corporations, we might be able to create a system that paid farmers and farm workers decently and sold organic foods at prices that everyone could afford.
The organic gardens at the White House and USDA send an important signal that the way we grow food makes a difference. Let's hope they also symbolize a new era in agricultural policies, one that unites the letter and spirit of the organic movement. | 2019-04-20T10:55:23 | https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Certified-Organic-may-not-be-100-3294410.php |
0.998707 | The word on the street is that James Bond will return, and Daniel Craig will pick up another giant paycheck for playing 007 at least one more time. As much as I enjoyed Casino Royale - the best outing since Goldeneye in my opinion, despite the huge box office success of Skyfall , I think Ross Douthat makes some excellent points in his film review below.
THE first James Bond movie I can recall seeing was The Living Daylights , one of the two Timothy Dalton outings; its most memorable moment featured Bond and his latest girl sledding across an Iron Curtain border atop a cello case. “We’ve nothing to declare,” he cried to the guards. “Except this cello!” the girl chimed in.
At the time, believe it or not, the Dalton movies were what passed for Gritty Bond—a 007 who womanized a little less and scowled a little more. They were also, perhaps not coincidentally, only middling performers at the box office, and they gave way to the Pierce Brosnan era, whose campy absurdism (think Denise Richards as a nuclear scientist named Christmas in The World Is Not Enough , or Brosnan parachute surfing a tsunami in Die Another Day ) escalated from one film to the next, asymptotically approaching what might be called the Roger Moore Horizon.
But after four Brosnan efforts, and in the shadow of 9/11—and perhaps in the shadow of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery as well—it was decided that what Bond needed now was a genuinely dark and gritty, Dark Knight–style reboot, featuring a 007 who wouldn’t just scowl: He would bleed and suffer, and more than that, he would even dare to love.
The result was the Daniel Craig era, which reinvented Bond as a grim-visaged roughneck carrying the sorrows of empire on his corded shoulders and resolutely refused to let its hero have any sort of fun. In his first outing, Casino Royale , he lost his beloved, Vesper Lynd, to the schemes of an international crime syndicate; in his second, Quantum of Solace , he pursued that syndicate all the way to the very un-Bondian landscape of rural Bolivia to mete out justice.
As if this weren’t enough to establish that we weren’t watching Diamonds Are Forever anymore, the next Craig movie, Skyfall , brought in Sam (American Beauty) Mendes and the great cinematographer Roger Deakins to make things feel as self-serious as possible. And dark is what they delivered: The movie began with Bond trying to vanish into an ascetic retirement and ended with the destruction of his family’s Scottish estate, a scramble through a priest’s hole into a ruined chapel, and his longtime boss M (Judi Dench) expiring bleeding in his arms.
I generally try to give any movie with priest’s holes and ruined chapels the benefit of the doubt, but I didn’t love Skyfall , mostly because it dropped the romanceand- revenge narrative that gave the first two Craig outings most of their energy in favor of a lot of sub–John le Carré stuff about how it’s hard out there for a spy. Still, it was a handsome movie, and it seemed as if it closed the circle pretty effectively on the Craig era; with MI6 bombed, M dead, and the Bond ancestral home despoiled, we seemed to have reached a natural stopping point for this particular iteration of Ian Fleming’s spy.
But Skyfall made $300 million at the domestic box office, almost as much as Casino and Quantum combined, and so Mendes and Craig came back for one more go-round: the newly released Spectre . And Spectre —well, Spectre is quite strange. It has the same doomy atmospherics as Skyfall and the same urge to offer some sort of politically relevant statement about spycraft (there’s a nefarious plan afoot to replace the whole Double-O program and its licenses to kill with surveillance satellites and drones), and it explicitly follows the through-line of the previous three Craig installments, complete with tragic references to all the women (Vesper, M) that he’s let die and a love interest (Léa Seydoux) whom I think we’re supposed to take seriously as a potential soul mate for Bond.
But it also tries to assimilate the more larkish Bondian past into this Dark Knight of the British Empire era in the franchise—not only Q (Ben Whishaw) and Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), who popped back up in Skyfall , but all the gonzo elements (volcano lairs, bizarre henchmen, exotic forms of torture) associated with the supervillains who menaced Connery and Moore.
And the assimilation doesn’t really take: We get a Big Bad, played by a distracted-seeming Christoph Waltz, who’s supposed to be a classic Bond Villain (down to his Dr. Evil–esque outfit, fluffy cat, and secret name) and also somehow part of the Craig era’s Bondfamily melodrama, with very personal (if still e-e-e-evil) reasons for wanting to see 007 trussed up and interrogated. It’s a combination that lets down both approaches. In the end, Spectre is neither gritty nor escapist, neither brooding nor campy, but an indigestible combination.
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0.997919 | The much hyped Aishwarya Rai Hollywood venture Pink Panther 2 has failed to please the critics who attended the film's trials.
The much hyped Aishwarya Rai Hollywood venture Pink Panther 2 has failed to please the critics who attended the film's trials. Even though the film formally releases on February 6, this initial response sends across bad signals for the film.
Some excerpts from the film's reviews.
Pink Panther 2 is a total waste of time. You can pretty much guess what happens: Clouseau says inappropriate things, Clouseau breaks stuff, Clouseau winds up being smarter than anyone else in the movie. While the vintage Panther movies were never known for their unpredictability, at least Peter Sellers was always delivering the laughs. Martin can't come close to the original when it comes to hauteur or a silly French accent, and it's painful watching him try. At least they all got a trip to France out of this.
And if for no other reason than to guarantee a boffo opening weekend in India, lovely Bollywood icon Aishwarya Rai Bachchan comes along for the ride playing an expert on The Tornado, even though the film gives her nothing funny to say or interesting to do.
Once I was watching The Office on DVD, and spent 10 minutes watching deleted scenes before I realised it wasn't the actual episode.
The Pink Panther 2 is pretty much the same experience, making you wonder if there's a cut of the film that doesn't linger so needlessly on Clouseau's love triangle, or leaves out the scenes (Clouseau karate fights with tweens?) that have nothing to do with the plot.
But apparently Martin and Zwart really did want to make a movie this aimless and derivative, aware that their target audience of children won't know what they're missing. Would that the rest of us could be so lucky.
No mention is made of her in the review.
Steve Martin's second outing as Inspector Clouseau is a hit-and-miss family entertainment, which relies heavily on the audience's affection for the bumbling policeman to make up for a paper-thin storyline and a drab visual palette. Aiming almost too broadly for kids, this second film in the reignited franchise might bore adults expecting more sophisticated humour from seasoned pros such as Martin, John Cleese and Lily Tomlin.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all at sea as the glamorous Sonia in the face of such talented comics.
Aishwarya Rai hit the pink carpet at the premiere of Pink Panther 2 in Los Angeles. She was hand-in-hand with hubby Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan.
Ash was looking rather dramatic in an all-black ensemble with statement diamond jewellery. Also seen at the premiere was Anil Kapoor. Guess they're making sure everybody puts the Slumdog-bashing chapter behind them. | 2019-04-25T09:57:06 | https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/pink-panther-2-trashed-by-critics/story-e2LPeCA7oVnqkSaL5MPF9O.html |
0.999983 | The X stands for reissue from Marshall Amps; but is this 2061X amp as good or better than the 1971 original?
The Marshall 2061X amplifier is a reissue of the original 2061 which was made between about 1968 and 1973. The original amp was a hand made point to point main board and the transformers were made by Dagnall Transformers at that time.
What do you get in this reissue? Marshall on this one released a Hand Wired amp with specifications as near as possible to the original - and it 's damn close. Take out the chassis and you are catapulted back to those early days when Jim Marshall and his team were making small(ish) numbers of these amps. The old originals cost real money these days, and Marshall has identified a hole in the marketplace so the released this unit.
If you want that original sound then this amp does deliver, and being just 20 watts or thereabouts it will not break your windows (but it might break your bank). If you do the jumper trick like on all old Marshall amps then this amp sounds really good. It's a strange little beast in many ways. Firstly it uses EL84 tubes which are not really known for the Marshall sound - and there's no Standby switch - it's either on or off. Because it uses EL84 there's no biasing tubes and all that palaver - you just plug the new ones in and away you go.
One of the first things I did was to obtain some really old NOS (new old stock) tubes - Brimar from 1962 and fit them. Now that made a big difference believe it or not. But those tubes cost me about £50.00 pounds. So this amp in my book with a tube change is sheer magic. Crank it up and you get that familiar Marshall sound (I don't know how with these EL84's) and what's a little weird, is that if you turn up the treble (yes the treble) on the hi channel you get more distortion in a very good sort of way.
By the way I was using the 2061CX cab that was specifically made for this amp. And that changed the tone to something great - as opposed to using this amp in a regular 4x12 - this sounded much better. The 2061CX is actually a 2x12 and uses G12H-30 Celestions in there. The cab is smaller than a regular 4x12 but looks the same design - really cool. With this cab it's good, without this cab it's less good.
If you buy this amp AND cab (not just the amp) you will not be disappointed, but make sure you get both - and retube it with decent old tubes - it makes a lot of difference. The other bad bit is the price. This amp head retails for about £1100.00 pounds here in the UK and the cab is £500 pounds or thereabouts - totaling £1600.00 pounds for this small 20 watt rig. It IS a big investment but for some this is the golden fleece - in more ways than one.
My rating though for this amp is 9 out of 10 - it is actually worth getting a well looked after second hand one to save some money - but EL84's tend to pop - so change the tubes without hesitation.
This amp and Cab combination really is awesome especially if you want Classic Rock tones without that window breaking level of sound. But do take in to account that you CAN gig this amp - I reckon it's just loud enough. This amp might be good for funk and blues and maybe even jazz if you don't crank it too high. Recommended.
and hare are some images of the reviewed amplifier but alas no video on this one. | 2019-04-23T11:52:28 | https://tonymckenzie.com/marshall_2061x_reissue_review.htm |
0.998498 | Debates : Left vs Right Can They Compromise?
Left vs Right Can They Compromise?
In reading through these many posts, and talking to others, it seems the left and right wings are so far apart on so many issues they can't seem to agree on anything (except that they dislike each other). For 200 years left and right wing lawmakers worked together to craft legislation, it was called "compromise" neither side got everything they wanted, but both sides got some. In the last 20 years however "It's My Way or the Highway!" is now the prevailing attitude. This has led to a gridlocked government, and little progress on anything. So, will the left and right wings ever learn to work together again like the framers of our constitution intended, or will gridlock be the permanent state of our government?
In reading through these many posts, and talking to others, it seems the left and right wings are so far apart on so many issues they can't seem to agree on anything (except that they dislike each other). For 200 years left and right wing lawmakers worked together to craft legislation, it was called "compromise" neither side got everything they wanted, but b ...[text shortened]... framers of our constitution intended, or will gridlock be the permanent state of our government?
Years back candidates like Trump and Sanders would have been considered too extreme and gotten little support. Now they were two of the three most popular candidates. If we continue to have more extreme views, it will be harder to compromise.
As a white man, Mchill presents an absurdly overidealized view of the history of US politics.
"For 200 years left and right wing lawmakers worked together to craft legislation ..."
For most of that period, all (or almost all) American lawmakers were white men.
Don't white nationalists yearn to return to the 'utopia' when only white men could vote or hold public office?
"It was called "compromise" "
under popular sovereignty, to decide whether to allow slavery in their borders."
could decide whether or not slavery would be legal there.
"A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law was enacted."
The Compromise of 1850 essentially 'kicked the can down the road' on states' divisions over slavery.
And when this system of 'compromise' broke down, a consequence was the US Civil War.
politician asks that the slave be set free, exactly what 'compromise' would Mchill endorse?
this black person as both 'half-free' and 'half-slave"?
the States, old as well as new — North as well as South."
Lincoln apparently believed that no compromise is practicable upon some fundamental issues.
and other people had practically no voice in it--is insensitive and offensive toward many Americans.
I don't expect the racist troll Mchill, to care much about offending people other than white men.
I present historical facts, however much the ignorant racists hate them and prefer their propaganda.
have been a wonderful 'compromise' making black people both 'half-slave' and 'half-free'.
I present historical facts, however much the ignorant racists hate them and prefer their propaganda. Mchill's free, of course, to argue that Abraham Lincoln was wrong and that there oculd have been a wonderful 'compromise' making black people both 'half-slave' and 'half-free'.
called "compromise" neither side got everything they wanted, but both sides got some."
For most of these 200 years, 'both sides' consisted of white men.
Non-white people and women hardly had their interests represented.
This is the kind of narrow US politics that Mchill apparently prefers to idealize.
The problem on this site is that most of the right-wingers are extremely right wing Americans.
Even right wing Europeans seem left wing to them (calling Tony Blair and Obama socialists, for example).
There is no way to compromise with people who's reality is based on assumptions like: America first, anything-even-Trump-is-better-than-Clinton, there's nothing wrong with racism & abortion is murder.
It's like putting me in a cage with Geert Wilders... only one's gonna come out alive.
There is no way to compromise with people who's reality is based on assumptions like: America first, anything-even-Trump-is-better-than-Clinton, there's ...[text shortened]... murder.
That's right. The extremist right has been pushing back against the liberal inroads being made and they just can't take the idea that they might soon be in the minority even among Americans. That's why they've been fighting to get non-white Americans kicked off voter rolls so they can not only get their white boys' club elected, but to also call their sick, twisted agenda a "mandate" when they do get elected. They even went so far as to completely ignore the US Constitution to steal a Supreme Court Justice nominee position to further their aims. They love to talk about George Soros while conveniently forgetting that the extremist right also has a higher proportion of billionaires to fund their attempted takeover of America.
No worries, though. The Resistance is alive and well.
Lincoln was willing to accept the Corwin Amendment which would have protected slavery in the States from Federal government interference. He may well have believed in 1858 that the States themselves would eventually abolish slavery in their own jurisdictions, but he was willing to accept the Corwin Amendment as a compromise in 1861 in an attempt to resolve the secession crisis.
yeh, sanders is too extreme. extreme views that are the norm pretty much in every civilised country on earth. extreme views the majority of americans agree with. extreme views such as healthcare as a right, not a privilege, money out of politics and multi millionaires should pay their taxes. outlandish.
I already knew that President Lincoln declared that his priority was preserving the Union rather than abolishing slavery.
While he personally believed slavery was wrong, Lincoln did not campaign as an abolitionist.
The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was."
in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
as they shall appear to be true views.
modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free."
I once ordered a pizza with a Dim. He wanted peperoni and I wanted sausage on my pizza. We fought for hours and hours. I made signs and protested in the streets and he torched a car.
At the end of the day we settled for a vegetarian pizza. | 2019-04-19T20:26:10 | https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/debates/left-vs-right-can-they-compromise.173891 |
0.96638 | This feature has changed significantly in the HTML5 specification. Be sure to read usage details below.
What does <img width=""> do?
Indicates the intrinsic width of the image, in CSS pixels.
3.1 Should I use width?
Before the advent of CSS, the display width of an image was controlled by the width attribute. This usage has been deprecated. In the absence of any CSS rules defining the display width of the image, it will still work in most browsers. However, this is specifically contrary to the HTML5 specification.
For controlling how an image displays you should use CSS instead.
Generally speaking, you usually don't want to control the exact width of an image. Every visitor who comes to your website has a potentially different size screen. If you specify the width, it may be much too small for some users and much too big for others. Most of the time, the best option is to make sure that your image is inside of a responsive (percent-based) container and then let it fill the container.
If you want to ensure a fully-responsive, optimal experience for all users, you can also use srcset to specify additional image sizes or the <picture> element to provide alternate image designs.
The actual purpose of the width attribute, according to the specification, is to inform the browser of the actual, intrinsic width (in CSS pixels) of the image file. In other words — the width attribute should be used to describe the source file, not how you want it displayed. This information can then be used by the browser in optimizing the rendering. This means that if you use CSS the way should, then the CSS — and not the width element — will determine the actual display size of the image.
Note: On most screens, the image would overflow the container if it was actually 1280 pixels wide.
Doing this will stop that annoying jump that happens when a freshly loaded images suddenly takes up space in the document and shoves all the content down, causing the user to lose their place on the page. So yes, use the width (and the height) attribute. But use it correctly — to identify the intrinsic height of the image file, not to specify the desired layout size. | 2019-04-21T10:49:01 | https://html.com/attributes/img-width/ |
0.997945 | I have just started a website and I have a million dollar question how can I get my website to show on Google first page? I would like to be on the first page when people are looking for how to make money! Can anyone explain how those websites get on the first page of Google search?
First you have to submit your website to Google search so that it can be indexed! Create an account and submit your website at Google Webmaster Tools, it's free! To help Google index your website don't forget to submit sitemap! Now that you have your website submitted and indexed by Google lets talk about how to get your website on Google first page.
So to get your website on the first page of Google your website need to have good pagerank! The better page rank your websites gets the higher it will rank on Google search!
Find a quality back-links from Blogging, Blog commenting, Social Media Book Marking, Forum commenting, Article Submitting and so forth. You can start from the above to make your search engine result pure and get index quickly.
Do SEO right but not just any I mean stay away from black hat one only do white hat SEO.
What you need is to post more unique, original and high quality content, Google loves web-sites doing that and rewards them by increasing their PR and rankings so that they can finally get on the first page and start generating a ton of traffic. | 2019-04-21T00:57:18 | http://letsforum.com/Thread-How-to-get-on-first-page-of-Google |
0.999972 | Considering that this may have an impact on the future of computerized role-playing games I have felt it to be of importance to educate these gaming giants in an effort to help them understand the only thing that matters to them. In order to sell role-playing games you need an audience willing to buy the product and if a company consistently puts out dodgy shooters in the guise of apparent role-playing games they'll only destroy their reputation and go bankrupt. I know that the word bankrupt is a word that these money hungry companies recognises and so I emphasise one point, try to sell dodgy shooters to role-playing fans and you will go bankrupt!
Personally, I have been a role-playing gamer for about thirty years and I fell in love with only two systems that I probably can't name because of article writing guidelines. What I can say is that very few game producing companies have come even close to the pen and paper versions of the best role-playing games on the market, you know, the ones that people actually enjoy playing. I will say that I rejoiced when role-playing games became computerized as it meant I could do my role-playing without the need to hunt for people with similar tastes and even though some games have risen to become great role-playing games, they are sadly few and far between. On that note, of the styles of role-playing games that include pen and paper, computerized games and online games, there is only one type that can meet the fully immersive needs of a role-player and I'll reveal why later.
Okay, what are the elements of a great role-playing game then? I'll give you one at a time but the very most important piece of advice to keep in mind during this whole discussion is immersion. To be a truly great role-playing game, it has to grab the players attention and not deliver diversions that allow the player to slip back into the reality of the real world. The player must be kept in the fictional world if they are to feel that they have experienced a great role-playing game.
One of the most vital elements of immersion is a storyline; a really believable and yet gripping storyline. A role player doesn't want to load up the newest game and find to their dismay that storyline consists of the flimsy idea that they have to kill heaps of things to get enough experience to kill the apparent bad guy. Who wants to play a game where the bad guy is designated the bad guy without good reason? Have you played a game where you are part of one group of people and you've been chosen to defeat the other group of people but there's no actual evidence that shows why the other group is bad? The worst of these are the recent thug games where one criminal organisation wants to defeat another criminal organisation and you're the hitman. Who is really that stupid to fall for such a terrible storyline? It's certainly not for intelligent role-players.
A good storyline can't be a shallow excuse for a war and it has to be something you'd want to be a part of. The storyline also has to be included in the gameplay itself and delivered in a way that doesn't interrupt the reality of the gameplay either. There's nothing worse than a big cut-scene that drops into the middle of the game and makes you sit idle for more than a minute or two. For role-play gamers, the immersion of the game comes from being the character, not from watching the cut-scenes as if you were watching television. What's next... advertisements?
Another part of a great game play experience is being aware that you have been a part of the fictional world since you were born. This is conveyed by knowing where things are in the world and knowing who the current leaders are, along with knowing current events. This can be done cleverly by feeding snippets of information in a natural manner during conversations with non-player characters. Some extremely vital information can be revealed in otherwise meaningless banter, just like in the world you're immersed in right now.
One thing that will jolt a role player out of a game is a sudden unwanted conversation with a hastily introduced character who explains where the next local town is and that you have to be careful because there's a war on or some such thing. This is only done in games where the maps are updated as you discover places of interest. Making a major city that lies not ten miles from your current position something that you have to discover is ridiculous at best and only suits scenarios where you've been teleported into a new reality or you've lost your memory although the latter should be used sparingly as there are already too many games out there that rely on the character having amnesia. Discovery can be implemented in far more subtle ways by having secret areas within already well-known places and it is this that gives a role-player a sense of discovery.
Another immersion problem is the introduction of a love interest in a game without any participation on your part. You're playing away, minding your own business and then all of a sudden, one of the infatuated characters that you never knew existed, has an impact on gameplay because of a supposed vital role they play in the group you're a part of. They should, at the least, allow a bit of flirting in the conversation paths before a love interest is thrust into the mix. For me, someone suddenly having that kind of interest is an immersion breaker because there was nothing at all that prompted a relationship. If there is a love interest possibility in the game, then it needs to be introduced in a believable way and shouldn't be out of the characters control.
I'm only going to add one more element to the mix because I just wouldn't reach a conclusion if I allowed myself to point out every requirement of the best role-playing games. As I stated before, the important factor is immersion. A real deal breaker for me is the inability to develop the type of character I want. I've encountered this more often than not in games where you have no choice over the skills that you character can develop. Of course, this is the worst scenario and there are many games that allow limited development but there are only a handful of games that allow a real sense of development.
A truly great role-playing game has to allow players to develop in any direction and compensate for this flexibility by incorporating multiple paths through the game. There's no point in creating a computerized role-playing game if the character does the same thing in every single play through of the game. The most annoying of these issues is a game where you can have a spell wielding character but they develop the exact same spells at exactly the same point in every run of the game. It's a little more forgivable for warrior types but even in this case there are many games which allow for dozens of different fighting styles.
Now, if I were to continue with this discussion I'd add other topics like the renaming of attributes with no good cause, allowing for more than one quest to be given at a time, real world purchase requirements during the game and other ridiculous practices.
I did promise to show which game type was the best for role-playing games though so, here it is. Non-online computerized games are the only games that allow for full immersion and I'll explain why.
Unlike table-top games, you aren't interrupted by the requirement to physically reach out and move pieces which takes you out of the role of the piece itself. Compared to pen and paper games, you aren't required to look up tables or enter long boring discussions on how rules should be interpreted. Massively multiplayer online role-playing games don't meet the requirements either and I know some of you will be surprised but when was the last time you were playing a computerized role-playing game and one of the other players had to leave because they had to go to work and they informed you it was a different time in their part of the world.
Computerized role-playing games are the only role-playing game type where the characters stay in the game, you don't have to suddenly work out if something is allowable by the rules and the user interface stays consistent so that the immersion is most efficient.
In conclusion, the best role-playing games are stand-alone home computer based and don't involve interaction with other real world people who will throw a spanner in the immersion works. The storyline must be solid and delivered in a natural manner, a deliverable assumption that your character already knows the fictional world, no instant love interests out of nowhere and the ability to develop your character in any direction seamlessly along with plot paths that allow for these developments.
I only hope that the gaming companies pay attention to this and realise that they are making role-playing games for role-players and if they're not in the market for role-players, then they should call their games by a different genre. | 2019-04-26T06:41:47 | http://xxxfede.blogspot.com/2016/11/secrets-to-amazing-role-playing-game.html |
0.998004 | A very impressive and satisfying ghost story.
"O.K. first of all I have to say that there were plenty of great reviews for this film on other websites, some calling it one of the best horror films of the year and scariest film ever and blah, blah etc. So was this film worth all the hype? I would definitely say yes!. The Orphanage is the latest supernatural thriller/horror film from Spain, its a slick and quietly chilling piece of work blending traditional scares with modern touches. The way this film works is that it manages to get under your skin and makes you think about it for a while after its ended, the ending was quite moving, sad and horrifying at the same time. The film also had a great storyline which tells a great ghost story that was very original and it was beautifully directed by Juan Antonio Bayona which also happens to be his directorial debut and in my honest opinion he did a wonderful job, the film was also produced by Guillermo Del Toro so you can see how influential his films were to The Orphanage so if you liked Pan's Labyrinth or any classic haunted house films like The changeling, Burnt Offerings and The Haunting then your going to love this.
The acting was phenomenal especially from Belen Rueda as Laura who was very distraught but still strong as the mother looking for her missing son and she showed a wide range of emotions its no wonder that she won several awards for her performance in this film. The plot deals with a woman named Laura (Belen Rueda) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there she discovers that the new environment awakens her son's imagination but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing, check out the knock on wood game the kids play during the beginning then the following similar scene that happens during the course of the film that has got to be one of the scariest scenes I've ever seen and once you've seen the film then you'll understand why I'll just leave it at that, I never thought that a kids game could be so damn scary I thought it was very clever. Laura's son Simon also happens to have a fatal illness he seems to be HIV positive and frequently requires some medication, his actions later on begins to worry his mother his erratic behavior and the fact that he seems to have more imaginary friends becomes even more bizarre and at one point during a party with the disabled kids he vanishes and Laura is simultaneously attacked by a mysterious child in a sack mask, she imediately suspects Simon's 'new friends' and to make matters worse Simon needs his medication before its too late. Laura becomes frightened and increasingly more paranoid as it is very hard for her to explain these things to people especially her husband Carlos played by Fernando Cayo and she even brings in a medium to find out where her son disappeared to.
The film had some great drama as well as some nice intense moments and the use of locations in this film was terrific, first of all you have the huge and creepy mansion thats been used many times in these type of films but was still quite effective then theres this cave near the beach as well as others so the film uses different locations utilising some great cinematography. The director has fantastic use of mood and setting as the ghosts are used to creep out the viewer and doesn't have to get messy doing it which is something that Hollywood needs to learn when making a horror film, it doesn't have any gore but there is a horrific car accident and plenty of scares which catches you off guard like the Knock on wood game and it has a very ominous and eerie setting that was very well shot and the characters are very well developed and I'm not going to over analyze the characters cause I've noticed that other reviewers have done that already I'm the type of person who enjoys a film without questioning what the main character's motivations are or why they did this particular thing in the first place unless it was a dumb blockbuster and besides I'm not a snobby critic ;-).Anyway The Orphanage is a very unique Spanish horror film and one of the best I have ever seen, an entertaining and great horror film thats guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat and I highly recommend this so what are you waiting for GO WATCH THIS NOW!."
"THE ORPHANAGE is the latest supernatural film from Spain which definitely has the feel of Guillermo del Toro's influence. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, based on the screenplay by Sergio Sanchez; the film is an enchanting, creative gothic horror film that follows the footsteps of "The Devil's Backbone", "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Others". Much like the aforementioned films, "The Orphanage" has a theme to it, it is not a fast-paced horror thriller with the usual clichés. The film is a clever, inspired production that gives a "nudge" towards our imagination. After all, our imagination and innocence gets lost when we grow up, corrupted by our own personal experiences.
The Orphanage's plot is complex and intelligent, with a powerful script that grabs the viewer that may even give the feeling of a fable. The film has multiple themes as to what it is trying to say; such as listen to what children are telling you, interpretations of childhood and adulthood fears, and the danger of being stationary as time passes you by. The film is more of a mother's point of view of a certain fairy tale that takes a stab at our imagination and the things we take for granted. The film's execution is full of intrigue that is a welcome break from all the Asian horror remakes that Hollywood has bombarded us with. The proceedings have a creepy and eerie feel at times, dare I say also seductive?
The film is also emotionally driven and it does take its time for us to get to know the characters. Laura played by Belen Ruede is a mother bent on helping children, the actress definitely expresses the needed emotions in supporting its carefully constructed story. While the film may support a slight pacing issue, I can excuse this minor fault since this film is Juan Antonio Bayona's full length directorial debut. Laura is a mother very much in tuned to her emotions while her husband Carlos is more of the rational kind. Once Simon disappears, the film takes off into a more intense but curiously enchanting pace; as Laura searches and obsesses in finding her son. The introduction of resident psychic Aurora and the policewoman, Pilar adds more controversy on the plate, since they were obviously set to confuse Laura and the viewer's opinions. Just who is Aurora? Is she a real medium or is she a con artist?
It is very difficult to review "The Orphanage" without spoiling a lot of its effect. I believe I should stop here, before I say anything else. Suffice it to say that if you are expecting something scary on a very graphic scale or if you are expecting an experience that will give you non-stop visual chills, this film may not be for you. Don't get me wrong, the film does have its share of credible chills and shock value but it's the kind that stabs in your imagination. This type of feature will entangle you into its web and the more you're entangled, the better you'll enjoy it. The film is a genuine attempt in creeping you out more than scaring the pants out of you. It is a perfect execution of spirit world storytelling that leaves you an emotionally driven climax with a sensation of terror and disturbing comfort.
Video/Audio: 2.35 anamorphic widescreen. Clean and impressive transfer with accurate colors. The 5.1 Dolby Digital Spanish Language track is very powerful and clear. Subtitles are excellent.
"Before I start I'd like to clear up a wildly popular misconception about this flick.
It was not directed by "Pans Labyrinth" director Guillermo Del Toro.
This was the best ghost flick I've seen since "The Sixth Sense"
and easily one of the most atmospheric to date.
& every angle is expertly covered.
regardless of how subtle some might seem.
are easily the MOST relevant.
everything was Genius, pure genius!!
which in my opinion could have been viewed as either happy, or sad, or both.
All around, it's an excellent flick!!
A worthy addition to any cinephiles collection.
I personally couldnt recommend it enough!
That which was loved, can never be forgotten."
"A true gothic chiller in every sense of the word. From the beginning, the viewer is made aware that there's something very disturbing about "The Orphanage" and its sense of dread and doom prevail through the duration. Laura returns to the orphanage where she once lived with the hopes of establishing a home for children with special needs. In tow are her adorable son and her loving, if, at times, skeptical husband. Life couldn't seem sweeter as they settle into the foreboding structure they now call home. Shortly upon their arrival, the boy (Simon) prone to fits of fancy announces to his mother that he has met a boy that lives inside a seaside cave, which they stumbled upon shortly after their arrival. This friend, Tomas, whom no one but Simon can see, starts revealing things to him; things that he would have otherwise never known, including among them, that he was adopted and that he is ill and will soon die. After several other unsettling incidents, Simon announces that he now has five additional imaginary friends. One afternoon, while Laura is preparing to host a gathering for prospective residents, Simon enrages her and she strikes and scolds him before heading out to attend to the arriving guests. During the party she has an unsettling feeling when she sees a child with a sack mask seemingly staring at her. A child that we later realize no one but she can see and one that bears a striking similarity to one her son drew earlier in a portrait of his new friends. She runs back inside the house to seek out her son but is unable to find him, ending up in the bathroom. As she stands in the doorway she notices the child with the sack mask standing at the end of the hall and who slowly starts moving in her direction. After a brief altercation in which she is knocked inside the bathtub, the masked child closes and locks the door. Simon, we are later informed, is nowhere to be found and the parents are understandably crestfallen. What follows is a series of disturbing events that slowly illuminate all that has transpired, all while the landscape darkens and the sensation of tragedy and doom are heightened and the viewer is left to hold his breath. This is first rate story telling and the director's talents are in full evidence from the word go. This is textbook example of content over bombast. There a no special effects to speak of and gore non-existent. The characters are finely etched and the performances, uniformly excellent. From the imposing architecture of the house, to the rain swept, rocky coastline, solitary lighthouse and shadowy interiors, The Orphanage is a treat for the true lover of gothic horror and suspense. The conclusion is positively heartbreaking, yet equally beautiful and no one that sees it will soon forget it. Exquisite filmmaking, proving, once and for all, that restrain and subtlety pay dividends and when characters and not characterizations propel a story. If you loved The Devil's Backbone, The Others, The Sixth Sense or my personal favorite ghost story, The Changeling, you will more than love this wonderful atmospheric experience." | 2019-04-20T14:43:56 | http://www.swapadvd.com/Orphanage-Blu-Ray/dvd/189629/ |
0.998412 | Find out about sales professions in Arkema.
The sales manager is in charge of the customers in a given geographic region for a particular product category.
The sales assistant's role is to follow up with customers and their files.
The sales representative canvasses customers, welcomes and advises them, and builds up customer loyalty. | 2019-04-19T14:16:34 | https://www.arkema.com/en/careers/our-professions/business-professions/sales/ |
0.999984 | When a soldier has to leave his or her family for extended service, it's an emotional time for all involved. It can be especially confusing and upsetting for children, who long for the comfort and security of a parent's presence. Papa's Backpack honors the bond between a parent/soldier and a child, and acknowledges the difficult and emotional process of separation during deployment. A young bear cub dreams of accompanying Papa when he leaves on a mission, wanting to stay close to provide comfort and moral support, ultimately overcoming adversity together.
The separation of a military parent from his or her children can be very painful. This simple story about a young bear wishing he could ride in his father’s backpack as he goes to war is highly relatable and beautifully represents the fear and loss felt by children of military parents. The illustrations are rich in color and texture and tell a poignant story even without the text. The book provides families with an opportunity to share their emotions and support one another through a potentially difficult time. Ages 4 and up.
Papa’s Backpack begins with a thoughtful dedication to military families but becomes a much more universal allegory for separation by employing the simple symbolism of a child riding piggyback. Carroll’s use of spare and emotional language and earthy illustrations that play on contrasts and negative space expertly boils down and concentrates the confusion and longing a very small bear feels when separated from his Papa. The abstract nature of phrases (“We’d feel the sting, the twisted wind. We’d taste the angry rain.”) convey the feeling of conflict without specifics. Rather than ending with the question of Papa’s return, Carroll turns the focus back on the little bear who poignantly and earnestly reasserts that “if he could, he would” go too. The ambiguous nature of Papa’s journey makes this title uniquely applicable to many situations where a very young child and parent must be separated. VERDICT Carroll has created powerful work of stark beauty that honors the longing felt by those who must stay behind.
A young bear wishes it could travel along in its father’s backpack when Papa has to “go away for awhile.” The cub understands that Papa is a soldier and that he leaves in order to protect the cub. Maintaining a child’s perspective, the little bear expresses its sadness, imagines what the journeys are like for Papa, and then creates a miniature version of itself that really will fit in Papa’s backpack. For a child with a military parent, this story offers a thoughtful, poetic path toward expressing emotions. In this fantasy world, animals walk upright; carry sticks, not guns; and wear decorative feathers with sweaters and jackets, making the characters recognizable but not realistic. In swirling, rich colors, block-print-like illustrations add to the mystical effect. In one double-page spread, a group of animals walk along, heading toward conflict, on top of a land foundation inscribed with “Mother-Father-Daughter-Son-Sister-Brother.” The emphasis on family ties is powerful, echoing the bear cub’s wish to stay connected to Papa. Comfortingly rhythmic language and expressive images combine to create a memorable narrative.
A small bear wishes he could join his soldier father while he is away. Carroll (The Boy and the Moon) places the bears in a kind of tribal society: they wear feathers on their heads and tunics decorated with spirals and stripes, and the bear’s fellow soldiers are a mixed-species outfit of spear-wielding rabbits, birds, and other creatures. Throughout, Carroll emphasizes soldiers’ nobility (“sometimes soldiers go…/ away for a while,/ to help for a while,/ so I can stay/ and play,” says the young bear), as well as the tenderness of the bear’s father. Rather than fighting their fellow animals, the warriors combat a giant bird that seems to emerge from a storm cloud. The effect is more akin to battling a dragon or the elements (“We’d feel the sting,/ the twisted wind./ We’d taste/ the angry rain”), which helps make the bear’s wish to accompany his father easier to imagine. Blending scratchboard-like textures with dense swirls of color, Carroll’s illustrations dazzle; the story itself is best suited for families who wish to recognize the importance of soldiers while shielding children from the brutality of war. All ages.
J. (Jim) Carroll's work has been displayed around the world, including at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science & Technology in Milan andat the United Nations in NYC. He has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts and at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art. His work has also been featured in Zoom, HOW, PRINT and Communication Arts magazines. The Boy and the Moon is his first children's book. | 2019-04-22T14:51:38 | https://sleepingbearpress.com/shop/show/11694 |
0.999997 | A bartender suffered agonising second degree burns when the e-cigarette he bought off eBay exploded into a fireball.
Marc McParland, from Glasgow, was rushed to hospital after his hand was engulfed in flames as he inhaled from the 'Cherry Bomber' vaporizer device.
The 21-year-old, who works at a hotel, was left needing specialist treatment for severe burns to his hand, wrist and fingers, and can't return to work until his wounds have healed.
Mr McParland gave up smoking a year ago and bought the £26.99 device from an eBay seller based in China in November.
He said: 'I heard a crackle and hiss before the vape burst into a huge flame like a proper fiery explosion.
'My whole hand went black and shaped into several blisters in the fire.
'My first reaction was to try and stamp out the vape. Part of me was scared that if I touched it I would cause a further explosion, but I couldn't let the flame rage on in case it spread onto the floor.
'I managed to kick it out by the time someone heard me shouting in pain and helped me.
He has warned others on the dangers of buying equipment over the internet.
He added: 'I agree that these devices can be used to aid quitting smoking, but I feel a lot more caution should be put in place for online sales.
'I think they would be safer if there was more one-to-one interaction with a professional before buying.
'The device arrived with no actual instructions, the only real information I could gather was which extra equipment to acquire in terms of batteries and a multi-meter.
The eBay seller was unavailable for comment.
Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive of health charity ASH Scotland, said: 'It is always terrible to hear of people suffering harm like this, and ASH Scotland welcomes new regulations coming in this year which will help to regulate these devices more tightly. | 2019-04-20T03:41:58 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3417305/Bartender-21-suffered-agonising-second-degree-burns-e-cigarette-bought-eBay-exploded-fireball-using-it.html |
0.999799 | Copperheads were "Peace Democrats" - Northerners who believed for various reasons that the Civil War should be ended. They were called "copperheads" because their opponents viewed them as "snakes." Taking the name as a badge of honor, they wore literal badges that were a play on the words "copper" and "head."
Copperhead badges were the head of Lady Liberty stamped on copper 1-cent coins. Sometimes the coin was pierced and worn as a watch fob. More often, Lady Liberty's head was cut out and worn as a pin. The Dayton (Ohio) Daily Empire explains, "the 'Copperhead' emblem, or 'Badge of Liberty,' 'mark it well,' is made of the head of the Goddess of Liberty, cut from a copper cent, with the word 'Liberty' stamped across the top of the cap."
Both men and women proudly wore these badges - or secretly wore them, if public feeling against them was violent. Emotions ran high between Copperheads and their opponents, the "War Democrats" and Republicans. I found a wealth of primary sources detailing everything from inter-family arguments to city-wide riots between the two factions.
Those wearing Copperhead badges faced the real possibility of having the badge literally ripped from their clothing by their opponents. Here is a typical story. "The Muskadine (Iowa) Journal says there was an exciting time at the anniversary exercises of Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, June 26th. It seems that a dozen persons from Marion appeared in the crowd with copperhead pins. About two thousand persons were present, the exercises being held in a grove. "On the appearance of the secesh emblems all business was suspended by the tumult, and every copperhead badge was hastily taken from its owner, and he forced to hurrah for the Union. A gray-headed traitor, who has been blatant for the Southern Confederacy, declared that he would not hurrah for the Union; but a little choking brought him to terms. One woman had on the Southern badge, which was torn from her breast, clothes and all, by another young woman. The latter had her bonnet destroyed in capturing the pin, and some young men raised eight or ten dollars instanter to replace the bonnet. The copperhead pins being all 'cleaned out,' the exercises were resumed and passed off very satisfactorily."
What Were the Copperhead's Issues?
In spite of this opposition, Copperheads existed all throughout the Civil War. In fact, the movement had grown strong enough by 1864 that the Peace Democrats wrote the Democratic party platform and ran a candidate (George Pendleton) for Vice President. What were the issues that motivated so many people in the North to oppose the war?
A wide range of topics brought Peace Democrats together but they all boiled down to two basic issues: A conservative view of the Constitution, and a desperation to see the horrors of the Civil War end. The Peace Democrats warned at the beginning of the war that Lincoln's party was twisting the Constitution and encroaching on personal liberty. They forecasted dire consequences from national recession to the loss of personal freedom and even to the loss of the war. As the war went on and the death toll mounted, their worst predictions were fulfilled and the Copperhead movement gained traction.
Here is a quick list of some Copperhead grievances.
When you look at this list and also consider how badly the war went for the North during the first several years, it's easy to see why the Copperhead movement gained traction. Most Copperheads believed secession was legal (actually, most Americans believed that until the Civil War). They didn't want the Southern states to secede but felt that the best way to prevent it was to deal with the issues that prompted secession, not go to war.
Senator James A. Bayard of Delaware summed it up: "I differ from honorable Senators as to what constitutes the life of the nation. In my judgment, the life of a free people consists in the preservation of their liberties, not in the extent of their dominion."
With the Northern victories at Atlanta in the East and Mobile Bay in the West, many Peace Democrats changed their minds and just wanted to finish the war victoriously. Thus, the Copperhead movement essentially died with the reelection of Lincoln in November 1864.
My research of the Copperheads started when a customer asked me if there were Copperhead cockades. As nearly as I can tell, Copperheads stuck to their Lady Liberty badges, occasionally varying them with a butternut (also a Southern emblem). It was their opponents, Republicans and War Democrats, who wore the tricolor cockades.
The Dayton (Ohio) Daily Empire described the opposing emblems this way: "The 'Abolition emblems,' mark it well, are the eagle buttons, the tri color, and the stars and stripes. The 'Democratic emblems,' are 'copperheads' and 'butternuts'." copperhead badge My reproduction Copperhead badge!
After painstaking research, I partnered with a local craftsman jeweler to create beautiful exact reproductions of the Copperhead badge! I will be premiering them in my shop this week. Of course, I also carry "tricolor" Union and 1864 campaign cockades too - so whether your sympathies are with the War Democrats or the Peace Democrats, there's a badge there for you!
Need a quick summary to remember the Copperheads? Here's an infographic to save! | 2019-04-21T20:49:02 | https://creativecockades.blogspot.com/2014/08/copperheads-peace-and-constitutionalism.html |
0.999995 | What Is the Width and Length of the Average Car?
In 2007, the average mid-size sedan was 190 inches long and 71.4 inches wide. A large 2007 sports utility vehicle averaged 208.0 inches long and 78.2 inches wide. A 2007 compact car averaged 177.2 inches long and 68.8 inches wide.
Cars were once an inch or two narrower. In 1990, an average mid-size sedan was only 70.5 inches wide. A large 1999 SUV was 76.7 inches wide. A 1990 compact car averaged 66.4 inches wide. Cars seem to be getting shorter as they get wider. An average 1990 mid-size sedan was almost two inches longer than a 2007 sedan. A large 1999 SUV averaged 219 inches long, almost 10 inches longer than a 2007 large SUV. | 2019-04-25T06:09:44 | https://www.reference.com/vehicles/width-length-average-car-9eb7b00283fb1bd8 |
0.999681 | Is prediction of the allergic march possible on the basis of nasal cytology?
Introduction: The term allergic march has been used to describe natural evolution of the atopic disease in children, accompanied by the change in organ manifestation with time. The aim of the study was to analyze the role of the cellular components of the nasal cytology as a tool for prediction of atopic diseases and clinical symptoms preceding allergic march.
Material and methods: In a retrospective manner out of a group of 1620 children, 146 symptomatic children (60 girls and 86 boys) meeting inclusion criteria (age below 4 years at first visit, symptoms suggesting allergy, nasal cytology performed at the beginning of observation, observation of at least 4 years) were included in analysis.
Results: Mean age of children at time of enrollment was 27 months (SD 10 months). After 4 years allergic rhinitis (AR) was diagnosed in 85 children (58.2%), atopic eczema/dermatitis syndrome (AEDS) in 51 (34.9%) and asthma in 48 (32.9%). Nonallergic etiology was identified in 36 patients (22.5%). All patients with asthma suffered from AR. Significant differences between groups were found in number of eosinophils (p < 0.001), neutrophils (p < 0.001), and lymphocytes (p = 0.028) in cytological examination of nasal mucosa. In children with AR (alone or combined with other comorbidities) nasal eosinophilia was higher than in children with AEDS (18% v. 3%; p = 0.004) or non-allergic disease (18% v. 4%; p < 0.001). Nasal eosinophilia of at least 8% was predictive for development of AR (sensitivity 80%, specificity 95%).
Conclusions: In children below 4 years nasal eosinophilia ≥ 8% was predictive for AR development. Allergic march was observed in children with AEDS or/and gastrointestinal allergy symptoms present at the beginning of observation. Nasal eosinophilia in small children might be predictive for the risk of allergic march.
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0.999913 | What are some really good and believable conspiracy theories?
They can be about anything. I’m interested.
The Navy has traditionally followed the rule that, when international relations are critical, the fleet puts to sea. That is exactly what Admiral Kimmel did. Aware that U.S.-Japanese relations were deteriorating, he sent 46 warships safely into the North Pacific in late November 1941 — without notifying Washington. He even ordered the fleet to conduct a mock air raid on Pearl Harbor, clairvoyantly selecting the same launch site Admiral Yamamoto chose two weeks later.
When the White House learned of Kimmel's move it countermanded his orders and ordered all ships returned to dock, using the dubious excuse that Kimmel's action might provoke the Japanese. Washington knew that if the two fleets met at sea, and engaged each other, there might be questions about who fired the first shot.
Kimmel did not give up, however. With the exercise canceled, his carrier chief, Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, issued plans for a 25-ship task force to guard against an "enemy air and submarine attack" on Pearl Harbor. The plan never went into effect. On November 26th, Admiral Stark, Washington's Chief of Naval Operations, ordered Halsey to use his carriers to transport fighter planes to Wake and Midway islands — further depleting Pearl Harbor's air defenses.
On 29 November, US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (Hull, Cordell) showed a reporter from The New York Times a message saying that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked on 7 December. As the attack approached, the American government received information from numerous sources that 7 December would be the day. On 1 December, Naval Intelligence in San Francisco worked out from news reports and signals picked up by shipping companies that the Japanese fleet that had disappeared from home waters was then to the west of Hawaii. Those who believe that Roosevelt knew about the attack all along maintain that a number of other reports say that the Japanese would strike at Pearl Harbor, but they have yet to be declassified.
"...on 26 November 1941, Churchill's private secretary Anthony Bevir sent by hand to the American Embassy their second message for the day, to be transmitted to Roosevelt accompanied by a note: "I enclose a telegram from the Former Naval Person to the President for dispatch as soon as possible. I am so sorry to trouble you at this hour."
Of all Churchill's voluminous correspondence with Roosevelt during World War II, this is the one message that cannot be read, since the file containing it is withheld from the Public record office in London for the next seventy years. According to Britain's Foreign Secretary, to release it would harm national security."
"On 26 November there was received specific evidence of the Japanese intention to wage offensive war against Great Britain and the United States"
But no details of what this "specific evidence" consisted of were placed before the inquiry.
Page 141, paragraph7,.............and................ 142 paragraph1.
U.S.Navy Inquiry into Pearl Harbor, July to October, 1944.
Admiral Kimmel: "Do you recall whether on or about 26 November you received information from the office of naval intelligence that gave specific evidence of Japan's intention to wage offensive war against Britain and America?"
Admiral Stark refused to answer saying:" It would involve disclosure of information detrimental to the public interest."
Aliens already living among us will soon take over the world destroying humanity by a cunning means, encouraging is to wage war against each other. When we have killed ourselves, they will take over easily killing any survivors.
"Good" as in "entertaining" or "good" as in "correct"?
There aren't any conspiracy theories that I find believable.
Not sure if these are conspiracies anymore since proven true.
The CIA did introduce crack cocaine to the black community to destabilize it.
Type in Illuminati backwards into your computer and you will be on a NASA website.
Ultra MLK govt tried mind control of unsuspecting people in the 60s and 70s.
The Dalai Lama was a CIA puppet who was there to disrupt Chinese modermization and society.
Tuskegee experiment. The govt did infect black men with syphilis to try and find a cure.
Canadians had a gaydar experiment back in the 60s and 70s. Something about dialated pupils could identify if one was gay. Done to keep them out the military and mounties.
Govt tried to poison the alcohol to keep prohibition going.
Govt collected dead body parts from dead children after the 2 atomic attacks to study the effects of radiation.
MK ultra was proven true.
I’d beleive that Neil Armstrong was actually warned off the moon.
Not that beleivable nor do I really beleive it but I always thought the LBJ killed JFK theory makes sense.
The end of trolleys in America. There are conspiracy theories out there a dime a dozen, mostly crackpot theories by nutters, but the oil and rubber industries conspired to get rid of trolleys for obvious $$$$ reasons. This was a real conspiracy.
The Lincoln Kidnapping Conspiracy is very interesting; in the end, the conspirators shot Lincoln and stabbed the Secretary of state in a plot.
How what is happening today in the US with illegal aliens undercutting jobs similar to the time in Roman Empire when slaves did same thing?
Are Herodotus and Thucydides reliable historical writers?
Why was the Casey Anthony trial so interesting to so many people? or why the media gave it so much attention? | 2019-04-19T22:54:02 | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20181018031407AAqmMxx |
0.999779 | inexpensive private jsp servlets inexpensive private jsp servlets How do I know that? I did it in 2001 and still rank number one in Google for the phrase in 2005. On another of my sites I rank #1 for the phrase "Screeching Camels" by simply putting it on the page once in a comment about silly SEO guarantees. I'll wager that many phrases you've targeted for your business are almost as silly and deliver NO traffic to your pages from the search engines. Don't take that too personally. Simply look at your traffic statistics to see what phrases are bringing visitors to your web site.
inexpensive private jsp servlets If your logs show no delivered traffic for keywords you thought were golden, you've targeted the wrong phrases. I'm always fascinated when discussions of search engines focus excessively on ranking of a particular site in one particular search engine without checking corresponding statistics about referred traffic delivered to the site from the targeted keyword phrase. Referred search visits from engines is not taken into account. Anyone who looks at their rankings without looking at how much traffic is referred and DELIVERED to your site through the rankings is missing the most important part of the story! When you check your site traffic statistics for where visitors are coming from and in what numbers, for which keyword searches and from which search engines, you will be astonished to see that things you think are important are sometimes not so important. I've struggled for years to gain top rankings for "Small Business Ecommerce" and have achieved #1 at Google #5 at MSN and #13 at Yahoo (at this writing).
inexpensive private jsp servlets But guess what? Nobody searches for that phrase in significant enough numbers to deliver any traffic from it! I'm not saying that this was wasted effort, because in the over 1000 pages at WebSite101 we have enough related phrases that the targeted phrase contributes to the rank of hundreds of related phrases. "Open Source Ecommerce" gets huge traffic for one single page, ranked at # 29 in Yahoo, #7 at MSN and #1 in Google (as of this writing). But the really interesting thing is that even on phrases that rank equally well across all three major engines, Google delivers referred traffic at a rate of 65% compared to MSN at less than 1% and Yahoo about 5% of all referred visitor traffic. In NO case does Yahoo or MSN refer any clickthroughs at higher than 10% of all referred traffic. Referred traffic being visitors that clicked on your link from search results or links.
inexpensive private jsp servlets This applies both in single instances for specific keywords and cumulatively for all referred traffic. Hear this very clearly - it has nothing to do with ranking! There are dozens of search phrases that visitors have searched on all three of those engines that deliver traffic to my site that I can't find my own site for in the top 100 results at ANY search engine. In every case, Google delivers more than twice the traffic for every keyword combination than does MSN or Yahoo!. In many cases, I rank HIGHER on both Yahoo and MSN for many of those phrases, yet Google delivers far more referred traffic for those phrases ranked higher at MSN and Yahoo! Does that make any sense? If your referred traffic from top rankings at MSN and Yahoo send you no traffic, why be concerned that you rank well with either of them? This same scenario has played out across dozens of client sites I've reviewed traffic statistics for. No matter how the site is structured, no matter how many pages they have, no matter what keywords they are targeting. | 2019-04-24T10:16:15 | http://www.yourtechguys.com/links/inexpensive-private-jsp-servlets-1.html |
0.998616 | The standard ice rink in North America measures 200 feet long by 85 feet wide. And every NHL game in North America is played on a standard-size rink, which means conditions in every building should be identical.
Make that nearly identical. There are subtle differences in every building that most people never notice because the rinks are the same size.
But players do notice that not every rink is the same despite being the standard 200-by-85. There are all sorts of things that change from venue to venue -- lighting patterns, the size of the boards, the style of the boards, the color of the seats, the color of the ceiling. After all, there is more to hockey than just skating, passing, checking and shooting. There are elements, and players have to know about elements.
When Mike Liut was playing for the St. Louis Blues between 1979 and 1985 at the old St. Louis Arena, he noticed there was a totally different lighting system was installed in the building, which set the old place apart from the other 20 NHL rinks of the time. The lighting forced Liut and other netminders to take a somewhat different approach when they played in St. Louis.
"It wasn't difficult to play there, but St. Louis was a rink where most of the NHL pictures, which would show up in magazines, were taken in St. Louis because they had a strobe (lighting) system," Liut said. "The lighting was conducive to taking those type of pictures. The strobe would go off and at times you would notice it, but not that it would really bother you.
The young-at-heart Canadiens were a precocious lot in 1985-86 and it paid off as Patrick Roy, Stephane Richer and Claude Lemieux helped win a Cup.
Mom, Dad: Guess who invited me to dinner?
"It was just brighter (in the building), without a glare. It was different than Washington (where Liut played at the old Capital Center from 1989-92), that had the dark blue seats and the black roof; it was just a darker building."
Liut played home games in two buildings that had quirks. It was too light in St. Louis and in Landover, Md., pucks, which are black, would come at him through a background of blue seats and a black roof. Neither place, however, compared to Calgary in terms of adjustments.
"Actually for me, it was Calgary (the Saddledome) because to me there was a glare to it more than just bright. It was super bright. I liked the old one (Stampede Corral). The one with the high boards, it didn't impact me, but I liked watching the little guys climbing over them," he said with a laugh.
"I was just never comfortable playing in Calgary, there was just something visually to me, I just saw it, it was very bright and there almost a glare. I was just never comfortable there."
There is a lot more to goaltending than just stopping pucks. Goaltenders have to know buildings inside out.
"(Goaltenders) come to understand that," Liut said. "A building that has a blue dasher versus a yellow dasher at the bottom (of the boards), that is a difference. You look at the old rinks, Toronto, Maple Leaf Gardens, the Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium, Buffalo, they were smaller rinks, there were quirks off the boards -- all affects playing goal."
The small rinks are gone now, but those small rinks greatly affected play according to Tony McKegney, who spent the first four seasons of his NHL career (1978-83) in Buffalo playing at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, which featured an ice surface that measured 185 feet by 85 feet. Buffalo had a fast-skating team in those days and had a significant home-ice advantage that affected goaltenders like Liut.
The Buffalo rink had a shorter surface between the blue lines, which changed the Sabres' strategy.
"Yeah, actually we got used to the small rink and we used to really go after people," McKegney said. "We used to forecheck really well there, we got used to it. It was to our advantage to be at home. When we got to the big rink, we had a pretty good skating team, so for us it was actually going to a large ice surface like Montreal or Quebec or a lot of different rinks, it was easier for us to go into those rinks. It gave us more room, more freedom, you adjust to it. We had a good team, so we could play well anywhere."
In Buffalo, the space between the blue lines caused the problem.
"I liked the old one (Stampede Corral). The one with the high boards, it didn't impact me, but I liked watching the little guys climbing over them."
"That was the shortest thing, that was the part that was the toughest to adjust to, between those two lines," McKegney said.
Liut and McKegney played in an era where there were different rules that applied to the two-line pass. McKegney does think about the current rule change and what the game might have been like with the present two-line pass rule in place when he played in Buffalo with forwards like Gilbert Perrault, Rick Martin, Rene Robert and Danny Gare.
"I think in the smaller rink, it would have been an advantage," McKegney said. "It would be a little bit more advantageous to do it there versus a larger surface. But we seemed to manage to score goals, which in retrospect when you think of then versus now, where they don't score as much, it is kind of weird to think they could be doing."
The old St. Louis Arena, along with the old one in Buffalo, are long gone, as are the Cap Center and the Stampede Corral. Those buildings were filled with quirks. The St. Louis Arena was big enough to fit a 13-story building inside of it and had a roof that was designed to support a building so steel pillars wouldn't be needed in the stands, which was a common design when the arena opened in 1929.
The building housed two NHL teams, the St. Louis Eagles from 1934-53 and the Blues, a team that started in 1967 and remained there until the building's closing in 1994. The Chicago Blackhawks also played "home" games in the building in the 1950s.
"The St. Louis Arena was a great place to play," said Liut who also played in Hartford from 1984-90. "(Hartford) was a standard building that was also a comfortable building. It was steep for the fans. But it was good."
Hockey is so much more than a game played on a 200-by-85 foot surface. There are so many small things that stand out, particularly if you are a goaltender. You better know seat colors, dasher-board colors and lighting, or you might let in a bad goal that can cost your team. | 2019-04-20T06:27:49 | https://www.nhl.com/news/not-every-200-foot-by-85-foot-nhl-rink-is-the-same/c-501626 |
0.99977 | Here are instructions on configuring Microsoft Outlook Express for sending and receiving the E-Mail associated with your LexiConn account.
1. Click the "Tools" menu at the top to pull down a list of it's options and select "Accounts"
2. Click the button that says "Add". This will open up a small menu with three options. Select "Mail".
3. Where it says "Display Name:", enter your name in the box next to it if it is not automatically entered and click Next.
4. Where it says "E-mail Address:", enter your E-Mail address in the box next to it.
NOTE: If you are setting up Outlook to check a POP box that has an alias pointed to it, you will need to enter the address of the alias since this is the E-Mail address that you want to have show up as the From address when you send an E-Mail. If you are not sure of whether the account you are trying to set up is an alias or not, contact us at [email protected] and we will let you know your settings.
5. Where it says "My incoming mail server is a:", select POP3 if it is not already selected.
6. Where it says "Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) server:", enter mail.your_domain.com in the box next to it, replacing your_domain.com with your domain name.
8. Where it says "Account Name:", enter the login name for your E-Mail account. Usually, this is the first part of your E-Mail address (the part before the @ symbol). If you are aliasing a different address to this account, do not enter the alias here. If you are not sure of whether the account you are trying to set up is an alias or not , contact us at [email protected] and we will let you know your settings.
9. Where it says "Password:", enter the password which corresponds to the POP box. If you are setting up the POP box for your main account (i.e. your_domain@your_domain.com) then you will need to enter your main account password.
By default, the "Remember password" box is checked. If you do not want Outlook to remember your password, uncheck this box. If you do so, you will need to enter your password each time you open Outlook and check for new E-Mail.
10. Leave the box that says "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" unchecked. Click Next.
11. Click Finish. The window will close.
13. Click the "Send/Recv" button in the upper left to check for new mail.
Why do I get an error when trying to send mail through my domain? | 2019-04-18T20:20:40 | http://support.lexiconn.com/kb/questions/165/Outlook+Express |
0.999969 | Is the startup party over?
India's start-up funding pace has slowed down drastically compared to last year, with number of deals falling nearly 47 per cent in the first quarter of 2017 to 237, compared to the same period last year, data from financial research firm VCCEdge shows.
Combined deal values dipped by 23 per cent to $165 million in the first quarter as opposed to the same period last year, and down 46 per cent from the preceding quarter. The quarterly deal value was the lowest in over three years and fell below $300 million for the first time in nine quarters.
While early stage funding deals have slowed down to a trickle, mid to late stage deals saw an uptick, with Series B funding rounds growing at 22 per cent compared to last year, according to the report.
However, companies that have been focusing on profitability are still finding favour with investors.
"Enterprises which can work on a combination of strong revenue models and continuously updated technological know-how which ensures a great consumer experience will continue to attract investors," said Gaurav Roy, Business Head at VCCEdge.
In the latest quarter, seed funding and angel funding fell both in terms of value and volume. The number of early stage deals fell by more than half with 120 deals in Q1 2017, compared to 245 deals in the same period last year. Series A funding rounds declined by 65 per cent in terms of deal value, while Series B rounds saw a 22 per cent increase in value even as the number of deals fell by 16 per cent.
After years of aggressive fundraising, the startup space appears to also be showing early signs of maturing, with growing industry consolidation with mergers and acquisitions, which have been a source of much needed exits for startup investors. However, a complete revival in fundraising is still some ways off as investors continue to take a more cautious approach towards investing, according to the report.
Mergers and acquisitions deal activity saw a whopping 75 per cent jump in the quarter compared to last year in terms of number of deals. Top deals include the $130 million acquisition of Citrus Payments Solutions; the $41 million purchase of One Mobikwik, and the $31 million acquisition of ZipDial Mobile Solutions; and the $16 million acquisition of Local Cube Commerce.
The growth in mergers could eventually help attract more investor interest as late stage venture capitalists see value in combining players, increasing the economies of scale of the businesses, and eventually floating possible public offerings. Indian public markets have also seen record highs recently thanks to strong earnings growth and foreign funding inflows, which could be a good avenue for further capital raising for the companies.
Fintech, which covers financial technology services, remained the hottest sector for startup fundraising with 11 deals worth $18.5 million in the first quarter, followed by food tech at eight deals worth $11.1 million, and real estate tech at two deals worth $10 million.
Among Indian cities, Bengaluru was the most active for startups, with 40 deals worth $96 million, followed by Delhi NCR, which saw 38 deals worth $44 million. | 2019-04-22T14:00:00 | https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/03/india-startup-funding-falls-by-nearly-half-in-first-quarter-but_a_22067074/ |
0.999921 | Given three String variables that have been declared and given values, firstName, middleName, and lastName, write an expression whose value is the initials of the three names: the first letter of each, joined together. So if firstName, middleName, and lastName, had the values “John”, “Fitzgerald”, and “Kennedy”, the expression ‘s value would be JFK”. Alternatively, if firstName, middleName, and lastName, had the values “Franklin”, “Delano”, and “Roosevelt”, the expression’s value would be “FDR”. | 2019-04-20T03:21:37 | https://matthew.maennche.com/2014/05/given-three-string-variables-declared-given-values-firstname-middlename-lastname-write-expression-whose-value-initials-three-names-first-letter/ |
0.999606 | Let's be honest, the Wii U has had a less-than-amazing run so far. While Nintendo's current console has had many great exclusives such as Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros., and Hyrule Warriors, as it stands, the console has sold barely 10 million units. Our friends over at VentureBeat say that recent events may point towards a premature, yet controlled, development downswing of the Wii U. Nobody is saying this is because "Nintendoomed" but more because recent events are coming together in a less-than-appealing fashion. Between the delay of Zelda U (which isn't much of a surprise alone), the reveal of Nintendo diving into the mobile market with DeNA, and their latest announcement of the NX, things are starting to look a bit suspicious.
VentureBeat goes on to talk about the sad sales numbers of the Wii U, which even fellow Nintendo fans must admit are rather lacking. Compared to the PS4's 18 million in sales, and the XBox One's 10 million in sales, Nintendo's roughly 10 million Wii U sales may not seem that awful, but you have to remember that the Wii U launched a year before the other two. The Wii U was revealed in April 2011 and was released worldwide in late 2012, six years after the Wii was originally released. While the Wii had a lifespan of six years before the Wii U launched, it may be that the Wii U will only be four or five years old by the time the NX is released, a lifespan shorter than that of the similarly ill-fated GameCube. Furthermore, the Wii sold the same number of units in six months that it has taken the Wii U almost two and a half years to sell! While Iwata did confirm that the NX would not make any appearances this year, such an announcement wouldn't have been made if they didn't intend to release it within two or three years.
Nintendo is known to delay Zelda titles, with Shigeru Miyamoto famously being quoted as saying, "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." Such an event occurred with the delay of Twilight Princess, which later became a launch title on the Wii. While it may be broad speculation, it's not crazy to think that this could also happen to Zelda U for the NX. However, this would make the Wii U the first modern Nintendo home console without a canon Zelda game on it, which seems a bit unlikely. VentureBeat also mentioned that perhaps Nintendo is having us look towards the future to overlook the present. The Wii U may be a nifty console, but we have to remember that Nintendo is a business with investors. No doubt their financial supporters (outside of the average consumer) want to know how Nintendo is going to turn around the slow-moving Wii U, and with possible far-future reveals, perhaps they're trying to do that as much as possible.
Lastly, the most intriguing part of the speculation: where are the future Wii U titles? Recently we've received information on Zelda U, Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, and Splatoon. Aside from potential reveals at E3, we don't have much more to keep the Wii U chugging along. Granted, these titles all look and sound amazing, but three or four games won't hold a console for two or three years. However, as mentioned, Nintendo could be holding out for an impressive E3. While we should hope it's the latter, it is possible Nintendo is actually on the downward slope of Wii U development.
I've personally been a supporter of Nintendo as long as I've been a gamer. They're my go-to company for entertainment; however, that doesn't mean I believe they have a flawless track record. While no company can be perfect all of the time, Nintendo still shows they know how to make fun games and run the portable market; hopefully Nintendo can learn from the mistakes it made this generation and come back next time full-throttle! Everybody has to admit, despite everything that may go on with Nintendo, they always keep us on our toes.
What do you think of the current situation with the Wii U? Let us know in the comments below! | 2019-04-21T18:02:42 | https://www.gamnesia.com/news/analysts-say-wii-u-development-is-on-the-down |
0.999949 | Can I put a stop payment order on a cashier's check?
Can the bank pay a check after I place a stop payment on it?
A cashier's check is drawn directly on the bank that issues the check, not on your account. Generally, a bank must honor a cashier's check when it is presented for payment.
However, a stop payment can be placed in the event of a lost or fraudulent cashier's check.
Yes. You may stop payment of a preauthorized withdrawal (recurring monthly payments to a third party such as a life insurance company). You can do this by notifying the bank within 3 business days before the transfer is scheduled to be made.
You can notify the bank orally or in writing. However, if you notify the bank orally, the bank may require that you then provide written confirmation within 14 days. If you fail to provide written notice by the deadline, the oral stop payment order will no longer be effective.
Generally, national banks honor a stop payment request. If you properly record a stop payment order and the bank cashes the check, the bank may be liable for the cashed check.
you fail to provide sufficient noticeto implement the stop payment order.
In addition, a written stop payment order often expires after 6 months. It can be renewed for another 6 months.
If you issue a stop payment order orally and do not confirm it in writing, it lapses after 14 calendar days. | 2019-04-25T07:45:15 | http://helpwithmybank.org/faqs/banking_stop_payment.html |
0.998199 | Sebastian Vettel is known to have a fiery personality that you can see on track and hear on the team radio come Grand Prix Sundays. His intensity and competitiveness switch on when he hits the grid, and he doesn't let up for anyone, even his own high-skill teammates. He has proved this in the past with Mark Webber at Red Bull and once again at Ferrari with Kimi Raikkonen. However, Vettel claims that his current teammate in Maranello is his favorite ever, and it all boils down to his apolitical demeanor.
In an interview with Motorsport.com, Vettel explained that out of all his relationships with past teammates, Kimi remains the best.
“Obviously it makes it a lot easier if you have somebody who you are working with that you feel the respect," Vettel explained. "You know, many times people tend to make things much more complicated than they are, especially in Formula 1, so it’s good if you can work with somebody where there are no politics or no confusions or anything.
“In this regard, Kimi is probably the best teammate that I had. He is pretty straightforward, but I also got along well with Daniel [Ricciardo]."
Kimi's no-nonsense persona helps the Ferrari duo to worry about one thing only–winning races. Seb has brought up in the past that there have never been any issues regarding team orders between the two saying, "I can't speak for other people, but Kimi and myself were racing each other the whole year."
Vettel explained that these past three seasons at Ferrari have been some of the best of his career despite not having won championships like he did at Red Bull. It boils down to the significance that Ferrari has in Grand Prix racing, making driving for the team a feat in its own.
The 30-year-old four-time champion plans on staying in red.
Will he be able to close out a 1-2 finish for Mercedes in the Drivers' Championship?
Will teammate Sebastian Vettel follow suit?
The Finn hasn't won a race since 2013. | 2019-04-22T08:02:59 | https://www.thedrive.com/start-finish/15153/sebastian-vettel-calls-raikkonen-his-best-f1-teammate-ever |
0.998646 | Can you put a price on faith? That is the question churchgoers are asking as the tradition of tithing -- giving 10% of your income to the church -- is increasingly challenged. Opponents of tithing say it is a misreading of the Bible, a practice created by man, not God. They say they should be free to donate whatever amount they choose, and they are arguing with pastors, writing letters and quitting congregations in protest. In response, some pastors have changed their teaching and rejected what has been a favored form of fund raising for decades.
I have to admit that this lede confused me. I think it might have been a good idea to define tithing more precisely for the purposes of the story. Judging from most -- but not all -- of the remaining anecdotes and reportage, the backlash is against the view that giving ten percent of one's income is a biblical requirement. But that's not how Sateline defines it, exactly.
Many Christians who don't read the Bible literally say that by tithing they are not misreading the text, but rather interpreting it differently. Tithing has its roots in the Biblical tale of Abraham presenting a tenth of the war spoils to Melchizedek, the king of Salem. In the Old Testament, Jews brought 10% of their harvest to a storehouse as a welfare plan for the needy or in case of famine. That percentage, say pro-tithers, can be a useful guideline for Christians today. "It's the best financial discipline I know," says Terry Parsons, stewardship officer for the Episcopal Church.
For Judy Willingham, of San Antonio, 12 years of tithing came to an end earlier this year. She says she gave a tenth of her pay to Cornerstone Church because the pastor, the Rev. John C. Hagee teaches, "'If you obey God and you tithe, God will return it to you 30, 60, 100 fold.'"
Ms. Willingham, who earns $26,000 annually as an administrative assistant, says she started to research the practice, reading criticism online and studying the Bible, and concluded that she'd been "guilted into tithing." She quit the church and hasn't found another one.
Mr. Rohr, 35, is now supporting his family by driving trucks. He says he still believes what he wrote to Mr. Engel: "All decisions to give and how much to give are between the believer and their God, not meant to be used as stumbling blocks or judgments against others."
I am somewhat upset that my name and book was not mentioned. I spent literally hundreds of hours pouring over old e-mails from the past six years to furnish names and information to the Wall Street Journal for this article. The names of all of the key persons interviewed in the article were provided by myself . . .
He raises an interesting point. A good reporter will spend countless hours researching a story. I don't think many folks outside the media have any idea how much information has to be left out of a given story. But particularly since Sataline devoted a bit of her article to anti-tithing scholarship, it seems she could have at least plugged Kelly's work on the matter. What do you think? | 2019-04-24T08:13:52 | https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2007/11/to-tithe-or-not-to-tithe |
0.999315 | One brand, one message, one world-wide audience, one advertisement. Sounds like a perfect world to anyone managing a global brand, in a global organisation, serving customers increasingly operating across multiple geographic markets. However, there is another world; where each market is riddled with unique regulatory, structural and social differences - making it necessary to develop specific campaigns for each very different markets. Finally, there is a third scenario oscillating between the other two. Welcome to the real world of healthcare marcoms.
Some global organisations take the "one-size-fits-all" approach because it's the easy option. They structure, market and communicate globally. This is, however, very unlikely to be the optimal approach. It may even be the wrong response to asking the wrong question. The paradigm is superficial. The question is not: should a brand take a global or local approach? The question is: which aspects of the brand are best expressed globally and which are best expressed locally? I'll limit this discussion to advertising execution. To cover all aspects of global versus local would leave little room for anything else in the magazine.
Most healthcare brands are the product of global R&D undertaken to meet needs in a universally understood therapeutic area. This should dictate that the brand must be positioned globally, yet this is not always the right response. The exception is generally thought to be where the prevalence, or perceived importance, of a particular therapeutic area differs markedly from market to market - or where the availability of specialist healthcare professionals is limited or non-existent.
Avoiding a knee-jerk "let's go global" response needs more subtlety than this and entails more than simply comparing advanced and developing markets. Although the quality of healthcare seems to be a universal concept, one study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology in April 2006, explored how physicians, patients and parents (in paediatric care models) differ in their perceptions of high-quality care and how their beliefs might vary by country.
Researchers found that: Overall, parents' responses differed more among countries than those of physicians; the magnitude of the difference between parents and physicians varied by country. This discrepancy highlights a potential mismatch between patients' and physicians' views about the desired components of healthcare delivery, in particular the application of American quality standards for healthcare to systems in other countries.
To put this in words too bold for the report's authors - people in different markets respond differently to the same stimulus. If you want people to respond in the same way across markets - for instance, prescribing a given pharmaceutical for a particular indication - you have to vary the stimuli.
When a global brand positioning is appropriate - and this remains most of the time - the local expression of that positioning may need to alter to cater for language, cultural and social differences, that is varying the stimuli to keep the response the same.
The reasons for this are illustrated well by KCI International and its global positioning of VAC therapy for wounds - the success of which is indicated by a 20 per cent growth rate per year in markets as diverse as France, Germany, Canada, the UK and the US.
Following extensive customer research across key markets, a core advertising message for KCI's VAC therapy was developed in English. Like most global pharma companies, KCI chooses to use English as its lingua franca. The phrase that best summarises the advantages of VAC Therapy is Better wound care. It is simple, clear, understated and, one would tend to think, universal. Literal translation however, would have resulted in some marked behavioural differences in different markets. Some Scandinavian markets actually wanted to see the phrase in English rather than in translation.
To the French that would be cultural imperialism. Indeed, in France, a literal translation sounded aggressive and assertive - not simple and understated - so the phrase was toned down. In Turkey, with its highly modified Latin alphabet, only the native speakers can be sure that the message is right. English speakers can only be reassured by seeing the appropriate reaction of Turkish healthcare professionals.
Of course sometimes mistakes happen. Famously, when Vicks first introduce its cough drops to the German market, they were chagrined to discover that to German ears Vicks sounds very like a slang word for sexual penetration.
Another interesting observation from the VAC therapy campaign is just how different the amount of information demanded by healthcare specialists in different markets is.
In the US, every possible benefit the therapy could provide must be listed, anything else would be under selling. In most European markets, it is better to limit the number of messages to a few key points, except in Germany, where you would do well to list every benefit, feature and physical or practical detail with as much precise supporting information as possible.
One thing that KCI didn't change in its advertising campaign between countries was the creative execution. The basic concept: open a really up-to-date medical textbook and you ought to find a reference to VAC therapy, its efficacy and the rapidity of reaching therapeutic goals.
If you open that text book you would feel like alerting your colleagues to these advantages by way of marking the page with a sticky note. This tells us that it is indeed possible to discover themes that are more-or-less universal.
A Brit, Canadian, Turk and Norwegian react in the same way to the concept of a dictionary or a text book. Similarly, we all understand the concept of the Post-It note thanks to the global approach to marketing by makers 3M.
Be careful with symbols. The HSBC campaign shows the danger of assuming that symbols - from a thumb's up to a head shake - are global.
Year 3 - local markets and global markets fall out and go their own way.
This closed cycle creates no opportunity for learning. Oscillation can be minimised in three ways. First by agreeing clear roles for global, regional and local elements in the development of a brand and its communication campaigns. In general, positioning and core values are global tasks. Messaging and creative themes are regional tasks. Localisation and campaign delivery are local market tasks.
Second, by creating toolkits for local markets, not finished campaigns. Give local markets the creative equipment and marketing guidance they need to create campaigns that are on-brand and on-message and in-line with the activities of other markets.
Third, learn from every experience by ensuring a common means of evaluation and measurement across markets. In fact, measurement and evaluation may be the only things that absolutely must be one size fits all. | 2019-04-22T02:20:14 | http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/one_size_doesnt_fit_all_11820 |
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Darüber hinaus können Sie aus Musikdateien Videos mit Visualisierungen oder statischem Hintergrundbild erstellen. Es stehen hierfür rund 25 elegante Visualisierungen und Animationen - wie etwa der bekannte Matrix-Effekt - zur Auswahl. Die Musikdatei wird dann als AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP Video gespeichert oder als Video-DVD gebrannt.
Wer es noch etwas ausgefeilter magazine, bekommt mit Audacity eine Software program für die tiefgreifende Bearbeitung von Musikstücken und Klangdateien. Hier kannst Du sehr viele Dateiformate lesen und speichern, darunter die beliebten verlustfreien WAV und AIFF. Die Aufnahme von Stimmen und Instrumenten, die Nutzung von Klangeffekten und mehr sind damit möglich. Audacity funktioniert mit Home windows, Mac OS X, Linux und weiteren Betriebssystemen. Und das Beste: Audacity ist ebenfalls kostenlos und bietet wesentlich mehr an, als nur das reine Musik schneiden.
Wählen Sie das gewünschte Audioformat aus und klicken Sie auf "Konvertieren". Ein ausgefeiltes Programm, zu dem es eine populäre Various für Windows gibt: mp3DirectCut ist ein weiteres geeignetes Werkzeug, deutschsprachig (auch wenn die Webseite auf Englisch ist) und ebenfalls kostenlos erhältlich.
Alle unterstützten Video- und Audioformate lassen sich in MP3 umwandeln. So konvertieren Sie auch exotische Audioformate ins MP3-Format oder erzeugen aus Musikvideos Audiodateien. Die Crossfade-Funktion ermöglicht es Ihnen, Lieder so miteinander zu verbinden, dass sie fließend ineinander übergehen.
AudioShell ist eine Freewareerweiterung für das Windows-Kontextmenü. dateien direkt im Explorer. bearbeiten. Die ID3-Tags einer Sounddatei sind eine. wird, wenn man eine MP3-CD im Auto abspielt. AudioShell hat man jederzeit zur Hand, weil es. Merge MP3 unterstützt Batch Mode-Vorgänge, damit ganze Ordner voller Audiodateien mit wenigen Klicks verbunden sind.
Um Aufnahmen so bearbeiten zu können, dass Du beispielsweise ein einzelnes darin enthaltenes Instrument passgenau ausschneidest (etwa um später Beats selber machen zu können), mp3 zusammenfügen freeware deutsch findest Du auf delamar einen eigenen Artikel. Hier erfährst Du zudem, wie Knackser und andere unerwünschte Nebeneffekte beim Audio schneiden vermieden werden.
Sie haben noch Fragen? Als nächstes legen Sie unter "Gewählte Titel" per Drag&Drop die Reihenfolge der Audiofiles fest. Stellen Sie - falls gewünscht - unter "Optionen" die Länge der Pause ein, die vor dem Abspielen des jeweils nachfolgenden Titels eingehalten werden soll. Im Anschluss daran brauchen Sie nur noch auf der rechten Seite Informationen wie "Titel", "Album" oder "Style" einzugeben und das Ausgabeformat einzustellen. Zum Abschließen des Vorgangs drücken Sie einfach auf den "Dateien vereinen"-Button und wenige Augenblicke später taucht das fertige Werk im Zielordner auf.
Der Any Video Converter Free Obtain verschafft euch ein Konvertierungstool, mit dem ihr sehr viele Video- und Audioformate untereinander konvertieren und außerdem Videos von Downloadportalen herunterladen und solche auf DVD brennen könnt. und Output unterstützt werden: MP3, AC3, OGG, AAC.
Achtung: Für das reine MP3 schneiden sollte das Programm nicht deine erste Wahl sein, denn beim Speichern des zurechtgeschnittenen Musikstücks als MP3-Datei wird die Datei neu komprimiert, was einen Verlust der Klangqualität zur Folge hat. Kostenlose On-line-App, die Audiotitel für Sie konvertiert. Die App unterstützt alle Formate, verarbeitet Ihre Dateien schnell und erfordert keine Installation.
Es ist ein Fehler beim Laden der Kommentare aufgetreten, bitte versuchen sie es spдter erneut. Ausschließlich Sie haben Zugriff auf Ihre Sitzungen. All Ihre Daten und Dateien werden wenige Stunden, nachdem Sie die Bearbeitung abgeschlossen haben, automatisch gelöscht.
Als nächstes legen Sie unter "Gewählte Titel" per Drag&Drop die Reihenfolge der Audiofiles fest. Stellen Sie - falls gewünscht - unter "Optionen" die Länge der Pause ein, die vor dem Abspielen des jeweils nachfolgenden Titels eingehalten werden soll. Im Anschluss daran brauchen Sie nur noch auf der rechten Seite Informationen wie "Titel", "Album" oder "Style mp3 zusammenfügen freeware deutsch" einzugeben und das Ausgabeformat einzustellen. Zum Abschließen des Vorgangs drücken Sie einfach auf den "Dateien vereinen"-Button und wenige Augenblicke später taucht das fertige Werk im Zielordner auf.
Wie man aus der Überschrift entnehmen kann möchte wma audio dateien in mp3 dateien umwandeln!!! Das erste Fenster, welches sich nach dem Starten öffnet, ist zugleich das Hauptfenster und damit Herzstück des Programms. Im Gegensatz zu den Alternativen WMA und MP3 ist das OGG-Verfahren weder durch Patente geschützt, noch unterliegt es einer geräteübergreifenden Standardisierung. Wir raten bei der Set up des Tools allerdings unbedingt zur Vorsicht, da dieses mitunter versucht zusätzliche Adware zu installieren, die ihr eigentlich gar nicht haben wolltet, sondern lediglich überlesen habt.
Wenn Sie auf eine Anzeige für ein Gesponsertes Produkt klicken, werden Sie zu einem Amazon Detailseite gebracht, wo Sie mehr über das Produkt erfahren und es kaufen können. In fast allen Fällen sind WMA Dateien Teil des fortschrittlichen Advanced System Format (ASF), einem proprietären Containerformat für digitale Video und Audiodateien von Microsoft. Bescheissen, wie der Eine oder Andere meint tu ich persönlich keinen, im Gegensatz zu Denen, die Mp3 über die diversen Tauschbörsen ilegal beziehen. Windows Media Audio (WMA) ist ein proprietärer Audio - Codec von Microsoft und Teil der Home windows-Media -Plattform. Nicht ganz, habe mal bei Planetopia on-line gesehen, das das ganz authorized wäre wenn man seine wma Dateien auf CD als Audio CD brennt und dann zum Beispiel mit dem Audiograbber als MP3 rippt. Dies bedeutet, dass Sie einfach konvertieren Sie Ihre Sammlung in WMA, WMV-oder ASF-Format MP3.
NoteBurner WMA DRM to MP3 Converter kann iTunes AAC, M4P, M4A oder M4B Musik in MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, OGG und FLAC Audiodateien konvertieren. Wo hingegen bei der verlustbehafteten Datenkomprimierung eine ungefähre Ausgabe der ursprünglichen wma zu mp3 Daten erfolgt, was zu Lasten der ursprünglichen Klangqualität geht, sich aber in einer besseren Komprimierungsrate auswirkt. Funktionalität - nämlich das Umwandeln von Audiodateien - steht hier klar im Vordergrund.
WMA Encoder Decoder is an audio convertor that encodes AudioCD, MP3, OGG and WAV files to WMA files, and decodes WMA information again to WAV files. Mp3 Converter Cutter & RingtoneMaker ist eine von Mp4 To Mp3 delicate entwickelte App. Erstmal schauen bevor man die Festplatte zumüllt mit Programmen die Mac OS X schon integriert hat. Wird eine Audiodatei von einem verlustbehafteten Format in ein anderes konvertiert (z.B. vom MP3 in Vorbis ), wird die Qualität immer durch Generationsverlust verschlechtert. Wenn er keine MP3 abspielt, wird er bestimmt auch keine WMA abspielen, also werden es wohl nur AudioCDs sein die er kann. MP3 verzichtet auf einige der in einem Lied aufgezeichneten akustischen Informationen, die unser Ohr nicht wahrnehmen kann, und wendet dann komplexe Algorithmen an, um die Dateigröße zu verringern.
Mit Direct Audio Converter und CD Ripper kann man die ganze Musiksammlung zum anderen Format konvertieren und dabei die Ordnerstruktur beibehalten. Free WMA MP3 Converter helps ID3 tagging; the ID3 tags in the authentic recordsdata will be reserved after conversion. Zudem ist WMA bei geringen Bitraten perfekt (die Anzahl der Bits, welche professional Zeiteinheit verarbeitet werden). Bekannte Vertreter sind z. B. der Windows Media Player umwandlung wma in mp3 , der Quicktime Participant oder Apple iTunes. Deine wma Datei ist mit dem digitalen rechte managment evrsehen und kann weder bearbeitet noch geändert werden. Machen Sie Movies von jeder App, nehmen Sie On-line-Streaming-Movies, Webinare und sogar Skype-Anrufe auf, speichern Sie Clips in allen populären Formaten zum Anschauen auf verschiedenen Geräten. Free WMA to MP3 ChangerConverter unterstützt Batch-Konvertierung von Windows Medien-Dateien in MP3.
WMA (Windows Media Audio)-Format, allgemein auf vielen Musik-Obtain-Dienste verwendet, ist mit vielen Home windows-basierten Programmen kompatibel. Die Lizenzierung für die Verwendung des MP3-Dateiformat der Fraunhofer Gesellschaft wurde alleine im Jahr 2005 auf €a hundred,000,000 berechnet (oder über $ a hundred and eighty,000,000 U.S.). Die Thompson Unterhaltungselektronik besteht auch darauf die Lizenzierungsrechte auf dem MP3-Dateiformat in den USA, Japan, Kanada und den EU-Ländern zu halten.
Um die Produktentwicklung zu erhalten und Ihnen hochwertige Software program bieten zu können, enthalten DVDVideoSoft Produkte Links zu anderen Webseiten und Installationen der Drittanbieter-Anwendungen (z.B. Toolbar). Dank ihrer Popularität können WMA Dateien sehr oft aus dem Internet downloadet werden. Xilisoft WMA MP3 Converter kann Ihnen helfen, gängige Audioformate in WMA u. MP3 umzuwandeln, wie z.B. WAV in MP3, WMA in MP3 umwandeln. Die neu erzeugte MP3 Datei finden Sie in dem gleichen Ordner, wo sich die WMA Datei befindet. Andererseits können Sie mehrere Video- und Audiodateien zu einer einzigen Audiodatei zusammenfügen.
Ich bin Vangelis, der Inhaber und Administrator von Ich bin begeisterter Windows-Fan und habe die letzten Jahre zusammen mit meinem Team aufgebaut.Stetig arbeiten wir daran Lösungsvorschläge für alle möglichen Windows-Probleme zu freue mich sehr, wenn Euch unsere Tipps und Tricks auf helfen. Hatte heute keine Zeit zu experimentieren... werde aber Meldung machen, sollte ich das in diesem Leben nochmal auf die Reihe kriegen. Einige Programme, ändern dies in eine sixty wma zu mp3 four-Bit-Ganzzahl, ohne Vorzeichen, um die Datei-Größenbeschränkung zu umgehen, aber es ist noch nicht die Customary Umsetzung des WAV-Dateiformates. Nach dem Konvertieren lassen sich doppelte Dateien mit wenigen Klicks von dem Programm auf Ihrem Windows PC finden und entfernen.
No less than four instances a day I convert one thing - dollars to euro, cm to inches or PDF recordsdata to PPT depending on what I am going about. A: Individuals Convert TTA recordsdata To FLAC format for varied purpose, nonetheless, most of them Convert TTA for the 2 frequent ones, first the TTA information .tta to .flac are too giant, they need to avoid wasting area, second their moveable units do not recognize TTA format in any respect, however these units are capable of taking part in FLAC information without any compatibility issues.
Hey all, I'm wondering if there's a software that may reliably break up atta file into particular person tracks (which I'll convert to both mp3 v0 or ogg later for mobile use). I've tried Bigasoft audio converter, however it doesn't do it perfectly all the time and it might add a second at the finish or whatnot.
4.Audio joiner utility lets you join a number of audio recordsdata into one massive audio file. Compress to LossyWav, making a lossy output + correction file. TTA recordsdata will be effortlessly was FLAC by using our TTA to FLAC Converter. Flacon extracts particular person tracks from one big audio file containing the whole album of music and saves them as separate audio files.
4.Audio joiner utility permits you to be a part of a number of FLAC audio files into one big audio file. The TTA lossless audio codec permits for the storage of up to 20 audio CDs value of music on a single DVD-R , specify retaining the unique CD high quality audio, plus detailed info in the ID3 tag format.
Choose one or more TTA recordsdata you need to convert after which click Open. WAV PCM, MS-ADPCM, IMA-ADPCM, A-Regulation, u_Law, GSM610, Float-Double and so tta to flac on to WMA, MP3, AAC, M4A, AMR, VQF, OGG, FLAC, APE, WAV codecs. To ensure efficiently break up the TTA audio, thecue file shall be in the same folder with the TTA audio file.
TAudioConverter is an advanced, multithreaded audio converter-extractor and CD Ripper. It may convert any audio format to aac, mp3, wav, flac, ac3, ogg, opus, mpc, ape or tta. It might probably additionally, extract audio streams from video recordsdata. It might probably apply numerous results to audio streams.
A: TTA ( The True Audio ) is a free lossless audio codec associated with True Audio Software program. TTA can scale audio information down to about 30%-70% of their authentic size, and the compression runs on multichannel eight, 16 and 24-bit data of WAV tracks.
2.Including the TTA files you wish to convert to MP3. Nonetheless, this audio format will not be appropriate with most media players like iTunes, QuickTime, or moveable units like iPod, iPhone, PSP, BlackBerry or MP3 player tta to flac converter. Worse still, if the TTA audio is one big file which comprises multiple tracks, it's tough for us to split them into individual songs.
A: TTA ( The True Audio ) is a free lossless audio codec related to True Audio Software program. TTA can scale audio files all the way down to about 30%-70% of their unique size, and the compression runs on multichannel 8, sixteen and 24-bit information of WAV tracks.
4.Audio joiner utility permits you to be part of multiple audio files into one huge audio file. Compress to LossyWav, making a lossy output + correction file. TTA information could be effortlessly was FLAC by using our TTA to FLAC Converter. Flacon extracts individual tracks from one massive audio file containing the whole album of music and saves them as separate audio files.
Audio is processed in 64-bit float accuracy for finest outcomes. Helps gapless encoding and decoding. Uses gapless pattern rate conversion. Supported input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA). Batch mode for multiple information conversion process, TTA to FLAC Converter can convert hundreds of TTA files directly.
Select one or more TTA recordsdata you want to convert and then click Open. WAV PCM, MS-ADPCM, IMA-ADPCM, A-Regulation, u_Law, GSM610, Float-Double and so tta2flac forth to WMA, MP3, AAC, M4A, AMR, VQF, OGG, FLAC, APE, WAV codecs. To ensure efficiently break up the TTA audio, thecue file shall be in the same folder with the TTA audio file.
FLAC is a lossless audio format that gives compression in measurement without loss in high quality. This open source codec works just like ZIP archiving, however gives higher compression particularly for sound data (up to 60%). FLAC audio is supported by nearly all of platforms like Windows, Unix, Amiga. This is the one non-proprietary lossless codec with well documented specs and API. Helps 4-32 bps decision, 1-8 channels. In streaming protocol FLAC uses CRC checksums.
Unfortunately, the transformations that make up 'mastering' will be fairly elaborate, and for professionally-produced music there may be little incentive to let the general public see their project recordsdata - though they are sometimes made accessible for remixers.
C'est maintenant doable avec 2011, et sur PC également (à confirmer également). RM/MP3/WAV/WMA Audio Converter est un utilitaire de conversion qui permet d'encoder des fichiers audio RM, RA, RAM, RMVB, RMJ, WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, AVI, MP2, AIFF, AU et VOX, aux formats WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA ou RM. Très easy d'utilisation, cette utility supporte le glisser-déposer, supporte le traitement par lot et dispose d'outils de personnalisation de l'interface.
La conversion se fait bien, mais lorsque j'essaie de faire jouer le morceau via le cd player de Windows 2000 j'obtiens le message suivant : n'est pas une software win32 valide. Vous pouvez convertir des fichiers WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, AC3, AMR, 3GP, MP2, RM, RMVB, RAM, VCD, VOB, AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, and so forth en format AMR rapidement et facilement. C'est pourquoi, d'une configuration à une autre, une musique MIDI sera interpretée différemment : de bonne qualité avec un synthé professional mp32wav, et de moins bonne qualité avec une carte son de sort AC'ninety seven par exemple. Juste copiez et collez vos fichier MIDI et le reste est fait par Direct MIDI to MP3 Converter automatiquement.
C'est inclus dans la plupart d'entre eux (même pour les utilisateurs de PC, pas de jaloux), mais ça te le convertira par défaut en AAC, donc assure toi que tu puisses lire les AAC, sinon change les paramètres pour que la conversion se fasse vers un format MP3. Il assure mp32wav une conversion rapide et efficace de divers codecs audio dont OGG Vorbis, WMA. J'ai donc cherché à convertir un fichier mp3 en Wav, et cela se fait très facilement et rapidement.
Il ne nécessite par ailleurs que peu de ressources matérielles lors de la lecture et contient des informations permettant l'application optionnelle d'un Replay Gain (normalisation avec loudness) avec les applications compatibles. Donc en réponse aux questions posés par l'auteur du matter : si tout est en wav et que tu ne t'imagines pas voir tout converti en mp3 320, convertis-y en AIFF pour une meillleure gestion des tags et la prise en cost des artworks et organise ta musique dans iTunes. Vous pouvez obtenir la musique fantastique de sortie MP3 que vous aimez vraiment après l'édition.
Chacun peut proposer, télécharger du gratuit, commenter, documenter,.. un logiciel gratuit disponible en telechargement. La procédure expliquée précédement (avec fichierbat) ne fonctionne pas, et je n'arrives pas à lancer (programme pour créer les tags) à la fin de l'encodage. Si tu mets %1/%2/%4, les fichiers seront placés à l'arborescence suivante : auteur/titre_de_l'album/titre, avec création automatique de ces dossiers. Vous pouvez illustrer visuellement cette compression en jouant vos fichiers dans votre DAW avec un plugin EQ graphique sur votre piste (fabfilter pro q, par exemple).
MP3 est un format de musique numérique qui permet de compresser les pistes d'un CD à environ un dixième de leur taille normale sans une perte significative de qualité. Glissez-déposez les fichiers MP3 que vous désirez convertir dans la fenêtre du convertisseur. Et les rip YouTube c'est vraiment horrible, c'est pire que du mp3 128 je crois ! With MP3 to WAV Converter we are able to encode multiple recordsdata concurrently and configure the output parameters. Movavi Video Converter supporte plus de one hundred eighty formats audio et vidéo et vous permet d'enregistrer les fichiers pour les lire sur plus de 200 sorts des appareils mobiles. J'ajouterais qu'une grande partie des DJs/producteurs professional qui tournent dans les plus grands golf equipment du monde, jouent du mp3 320. J'ai beaucoup de vidéos VOB que je veux les convertir en fichiers audio avec certains des outils de conversion gratuits sur Internet.
On doit avouer avoir un peu douillé pour la rendre la plus claire et easy doable… Un MP3 160kbps est techniquement considéré comme en haute résolution, mais nous, nous te recommandons le 320kbps pour un meilleur résultat. Inutile d'installer un logiciel, tout est fait Téléchargez des MPhaute qualité avec notre Convertisseur vers MP3. A compression égale, un fichier WAV offre une meilleure qualité sonore qu'un fichier MP3. La compression MP3 n'est pas une compression à proprement parler, mais plutôt une suppression d'informations, ce qui réduit naturellment la qualité d'écoute. La mode de la fournée vous aide à convertir plusieurs pistes MIDI à MP3 simultanément. Supporté par Home windows mp32wav eight.1, 8, 7, XP, 2003 et Vista, ce logiciel convertit par lot des fichiers MP3 en WAV. La taille du fichier est considérablement réduite, avec une dégradation relative de la qualité sonore.
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or extra generally often called WAV because of its filename extension) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format customary for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. La compression appliquée lors de la conversion en mp3 consiste principalement à réduire le spectre, sur les extrêmes (very sub-bass et very excessive). Faites une recherche sur internet en écrivant « filtre directshow AAC », téléchargez-le et installez-le sur votre ordinateur. Ce sort mp3 en wav de format suggest un ratio qualité taille du fichier plus performant qu'un fichier MP3. Maintenant, je suis d'accord que si la sono est de piètre qualité, alors mp3 ou wav, personnes n'entendra la différence. Avant tout, le website Le logiciel gratuit est une communauté de personnes qui partagent les logiciels libres et gratuits du net à telecharger. Une compression non destructrice est appliquée (comme pour une archive ZIP en quelque sorte) afin de préserver l'espace disque.
J'enregistre en WAVE et utilise NERO Wave Editor pour transformer le WAVE en MP3. Et là, tu n'entendras plus de différence avec pas mal de CDs, dans le domaine de l'électro en tout cas. Merci d'avoir essayé de m'aider (d'autres également automobile pour lier un fichier son avec un diaporama, il faut avoir un fichier de taille réduite. La raison d'être de ce programme est de s'adapter à tout utilisateur (Home windows, Mac OSX). La conversion est des plus simples, en utilisant les icônes situées sur le côté droit.
En raison de l'adoption de la dernière technologie d'accélération, il peut vous offrir une vitesse super-rapide lors de la conversion vidéo/audio en MP3. Lancez-le et cliquez sur la flèche de menu déroulant se trouvant dans le coin en haut à gauche de la fenêtre. AIFF (.AIF) (Audio Interchange File Format), un normal défini par Apple (Mac OS). Ne prend pas en cost les fichiers au-delà de 750 MB - celui-ci fait readableSize. Pour éviter la mauvaise surprise des malwares et autres joyeusetés du style, AIMP propose une bonne resolution de conversion sur LAPTOP Dans notre exemple, nous utilisons la model four. Son seul défaut est de ne pas proposer nativement le MP3 en conversion, mais il est doable de l'ajouter manuellement. The results that AV Voice Changer Software Primary gives you can be recorded straight into recordsdata in MP3, WMA, WAV and different sound formats. Il est évident que du MP3 128k c'est de la soupe et qu'il faut au minimum du 192k.
WMA-Dateien können in den meisten gängigen Softwareplayern wie Winamp und natürlich dem Home windows Media Player abgespielt werden. Im Media Player 10 klicken Sie in der oberen Menüleiste auf den Eintrag Brennen. Fazit : Einfach zu benutzender und kostenloser Konverter für WMA-Dateien in MP3. Sie können einerseits die Quellvideodatei schneiden, um den gewünschten mp3 zu wma Teil zu konvertieren. Bei der Konvertierung können Sie noch Einstellungen wie Bitrate und Frequenz Ihren Wünschen entsprechend anpassen und dann mit diesen Einstellungen gleich mehrere Dateien in einem Arbeitsgang umwandeln. Es gibt sehr viele Audiokonverter auf dem Markt, aber bis jetzt hatten wie noch keinen gefunden, der diese Aufgabe so einfach und schnell wie Freemake Audio Converter ausführt.
Die Erstellung von Bitraten unterhalb 128 kbps nominal (Ratio ]1:10) zum Beispiel mit nominal sixty four kbps geschieht außerhalb aller Spezifikation und Eignungsprofile und logischerweise kommt da nur eine Ansammlung von Artefakten mit Musik drumherum bei raus, für solche Sachen ist mp3 einfach nicht ausgelegt. Es gibt aber auch noch ein weiteres Downside: Grafische Oberflächen gelten zwar gemeinhin als benutzerfreundlicher als Kommandozeilen-Befehle, sind aber oft entweder mit Optionen überfrachtet oder bieten, damit es besonders einfach ist, zu wenig. Power MP3 WMA Converter can burn mp3, wma, wav, ogg, ape, asf(audio part), wmv(udio half) recordsdata to cd immediately.
FF Multi Converter ist eine übersichtlich gehaltene grafische Oberfläche, die sich zum Konvertieren von Audio-, Video-, Bild- und Dokument-Dateien eignet und die meisten populären Formate unter einer Anwendung unterstützt. Ja das tut es. Verallgemeinernd kann man nur sagen, daß es gegenüber mp3 unterhalb nominal 128 kbps bessere Alernativen gibt. Dadurch ist es weniger geeignet, um die eigenen Musiksammlung zu verwalten, denn schon bei der Konvertierung zu einem verlustfreien Format wie FLAC spart man große Mengen Speicherplatz ein. Ich kann aber auch nicht am Ende alle auf wma filtern und die löschen, solange noch nicht umgewandelte dazwischen sind. Er unterstützt Batch-Herunterladen der Movies mp3 in wma konverter von YouTube/Google/Metacafe/Vevo/Howcast/Facebook/Nicovide und Batch-Konvertierung zu MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A und OGG.
Wenn du da eine Audio CD erstellst und oben Mp3 CD auswählst, dann alle Titel reinziehst (per Drag & Drop) fragt er, ob er konvertieren soll. Dein Hinweis darauf, dass sich mp3 in Atrac wandeln lassen, ist ein Bärendienst und endet in einem minderwertigen drm-behafteten Atrac3plus-Datei, die sich nur auf einem Sonygerät abspielen läßt. Muß ich die Lieder zuerst auf eine CD brennen und dann umwandeln oder geht das direkt ohne die Lieder auf eine CD zubrennen. Windows zu haben bedeutet nicht, dass du auf die Verwendung des Home windows kostenloser mp3 zum wma konverter Media Participant beschränkt bist. Jetzt können Sie ganz einfach die WMA Dateien zu iTunes hinzufügen, entweder per Drag & Drop oder Manuell, auf Ihrem Mac auf Mac OS X. Die App kann gleichzeitig verschiedene Dateien in einem Batch umwandeln und speichert diese dann in einem ZIP-Archiv, um das Herunterladen zu beschleunigen. Ich codire immer in 256 kb/s alles andere ist einfach zu schlecht und mehr unterstützt mein Participant nicht.
Si vous aimez un bon livre audio, vous pouvez prendre le iPod au format M4b utilisant MP3 to iPod Audio Ebook Converter. Quand aux pertes de données entre le mp3 et l'AIFF, je me repète, j'ai testé les 2 en soirée sur un DDJ SZ avec des Nexo PS15 + les caissons de basse Nexo....Plusieurs personnes se sont prêtées au check convertisseur mp3 à m4b, not possible de détecter une différence à l'oreille.... certes cela est peut être vrai avec des appareils de mesure, mais à l'oreille même sur du bon matos c'est quasiment indétectable en soirée... alors avec des enceintes moins pêchues que les nexo j'en parle même pas...!
Donc pour moi, à l'heure actuelle, Waltr constitue la meilleure solution de transferts de contenus sur un iDevice sans iTunes sur Mac et Windows. Il est connu que la musique achetée sur iTunes en M4P format venir avec DRM, courtroom mp32m4b pour la gestion des droits numériques. Ce programme vous donnera automatiquement les informations kin à la musique.
Fonction WavePad avec des fichiers MP3 ou WMA; vous pouvez également ajouter quelques « effets spéciaux » dans le fichier que nous utilisons pour personnaliser les fichiers audio. Mais, étant donné que le m4b est un dérivé de l'AAC, la conversion en mp3 (ou AAC regular convertir mp3 en m4b) est potential en dehors d'iTunes. NoteBurner Audio Converter pour Mac peut graver les musiques protégées par DRM sur un lecteur CD-RW virtuel où vous pouvez obtenir les sortie de non protégés MP3, WMA, WAV.
FLAC ist die Abkürzung für Free Lossless Audio Codec, der auch für die verlustfreie Kompression bekannt ist. Flac Converter : mp3 to flac, ape to flac m4a to flac, wav to flac , alac to flac. Der Konverter ist eigentlich sehr einfach zu bedienen und hat die Fähigkeit, DRM-geschützte Audio-Bücher in mp3-Formate zu konvertieren. AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) ist ein Dateiformat (Containerformat) zum Speichern von LPCM-Audiodaten. Danach prüfte ich den ganzen Signalweg vom Mikrofon über Ableton bis zu den Export-Einstellung.
Es ist ideally suited, M4A MP3 Converter die in der Lage ist ,kann es M4A in MP3 als auch MP3 in M4A umwandeln. Ich in schon vor einigen Jahren auf WavPack umgestiegen, da ich mit FLAC immer wieder Schwierigkeiten beim Tagging hatte (dauerte zu lange, produzierte mitunter corrupted information online aiff in m4a konverter) und einfach kleinere Information haben wollte. Über die Untermenüs „Optionen und das Register „Musik kopieren gelangen Sie zu den „Einstellungen zum Kopieren von Medium.
Es wurde von Apple entwickelt und ist das Pendant zu Microsofts WAVE-Dateiformat (WAV). Schneiden Sie das Videofenster zurecht und kürzen Sie es. Sie können auch mehrere Videodateien zu einer Videodatei zusammenführen. Um beliebige Movies aiff zu m4a in MP4-Format umwandeln zu können braucht Ihr einen Konverter. Mein Name ist Thorsten aka DJ Rewerb und diese DJ-Tipps schreibe ich, um dich als DJ auf neue Gedanken zu bringen.
Zu WAV- oder MP3-Dateien beispielsweise wird ein separates Cuesheet als Datei erstellt, während dieses bei FLAC direkt in den Audiodateien abgespeichert wird. Dieser Konverter ist einfach zu bedienen und macht es möglich, dass Sie iTunes in MP3-Format konvertieren. Bigasoft M4A Converter unterstützt Audio aus Video und speichern Sie sie als M4A-Formate. Audacity ist ein freier, leicht zu bedienender und sehr mächtiger Audioeditor und -recorder für GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Home windows aiff in m4a und andere Betriebssysteme.
Der MKV Konverter für Mac erlabut Ihnen noch mehrere Dateien zu einer zu verbinden, um sie als eine komplette Datei auszugeben. Kostenloser Obtain Bigasoft M4A Converter und genießen Sie Ihre Musik überall fantastisch. ITunes konvertiert allerdings keine reinen AAC Dateien, sonbdern m4a - additionally MPEG4 Audio Format welches AAC enthält. Was geschieht, ist, dass der Decoder diesen Rahmen, um in der Lage, die Länge der Datei zu verfolgen.
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Convert audio files corresponding to wav or m4a to mp3. Or convert mp3 to wav, m4a and more. CDA to MP3 Converter converts CDA information to MP3 and other codecs similar to AAC, M4A, WMA, OGG, and so forth. So to listen to the audio in iPod or MP3 Player. ConverterLite is an easy interface to make converting simple. Simply add the recordsdata that you must convert, choose the output device to play to audio or video and then convert with FFmpeg.
Drag and drop your CDA file onto your library and click "Create MP3 Version" in the appropriate-click on pop-up menu. It will probably be part cda format to mp3 online converter of CDA information to 1 massive AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, M4A, M4B, MP3, OGG or WMA. Click on on the button on the top of Home windows Media Player that is clearly labeled "Burn." This opens a brand new column in Windows Media Player. | 2019-04-25T22:25:02 | http://www.ceskaastrologie.cz/konference/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=308 |
0.998979 | What is the name of the antioxidant that the brain loses as it gets older? There was a clinical trial being done to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's and they were using high levels of B 12 and fish oil plus an antioxidant but I do not know the university doing the trial.
I think it is glutathione. But since glutathione is destroyed when taken orally, they use N-acetyl cysteine, which is a precursor for glutathione synthesis. | 2019-04-21T06:31:23 | https://talk.biotechniques.com/channels/1696-general-methods/posts/36912-an-antioxidant-that-the-brain-loses-as-it-gets-older |
0.999685 | Add some CMC to the sugarpaste. Keep on adding the CMC gradually until you feel that the paste gets thick (you have to use quite a lot of pressure to knead it). The paste needs to be thick/firm so that the squares won't lose the shape.
All squares need to be the same thickness (if they are not the same thickness it will be visible and you won't get a neat finish). To get the same thickness of all squares I used spacers to roll out the paste.
To make 3 mm spacers I stuck two lollipop sticks (each 1.5 mm thick) together with double sided tape. Since the sticks are short you might have to reposition the spacers to roll out the whole piece of paste.
To avoid cutting out too many squares I suggest rolling out a few pieces of paste, sticking the squares on and making more later once you run out of them.
Leave the pieces of paste to dry for a few minutes (or longer, depending on the amount of CMC added). The paste can't be too stretchy (soft) because the squares will lose the shape.
Squares are square, right? Yeah, I thought so too ;) until I had the chance to use different brands of cutters ;) Most of the cutters available on the market have slightly rounded corners. To make a checkerboard I suggest using the ones with square corners ;) I used Fine Cut cutters.
Before cutting the squares out, make sure that the paste doesn't cling to the board. If it does - flip it to the other side and allow the underside to dry for a few minutes. After that time flip the paste back to the other side. Place the cutter on the surface of the paste. Press the cutter firmly all the way down to the board. Once the edges of the cutter reach the board make a few circular moves on the board (as if you'd like to rub the edges against the board). Lift the cutter. If the paste stayed in the cutter rub the edges with the surface of your hand (clean cut). Gently push the paste from the cutter.
When holding the cutter don't press it from the sides - if you do, you will damage the shape of the cutter (it will no longer be a perfect square and you'll have difficulties with making an even checkerboard pattern).
Leave the squares to dry for some time. Meanwhile cut out the rest of the squares. If the squares are quite firm, press them gently from the top with a smoother to even them (sometimes the corners are raised slightly after pushing the squares out from the cutter).
Check if the squares are firm enough (you need to be able to pick them up and stick them on so that they don't lose the shape. If they are firm - apply some glue (thin coat) on a small section of the board (f.ex. 1/5).
Start sticking the squares on. Make sure that they are positioned straight and in one line. Use the metal ruler to line the squares up if there's need (don't press too hard - you don't want to damage their shape). Don't press them to the board. You will press them from the top with a smoother later.
The squares which are positioned near the edge need to be trimmed slightly (as shown in the photo) before sticking them on (if they are not trimmed they might keep on detaching).
I suggest trimming the tiny pieces (a few mm ones) to their final size (so that you don't need to trim them later; the tiny ones are difficult to trim later).
Press the surface of the squares from time to time with the smoother. Don't move the smoother around the surface, because that might move the squares. Just press gently from the top (press, release the pressure, change the position of the smoother, press, release and so on).
If the squares are firm you can trim them. The scalpel needs to be clean and dry or else it will pull the paste. If you notice that the scalpel is pulling the paste and damaging the shape of the squares (even though it's clean and dry), that means that the paste is too soft and it needs to dry a bit more.
Trim one square at a time. If you cut a few at a time you will notice that the paste from one square is being pulled onto the next piece. I suggest cleaning the blade of the scalpel after each cut square. Rather than making many moves up and down with the scalpel, make one smooth move (cut) downwards following the curve if the board. Hold the scalpel straight.
Continue sticking the squares on.
Once all squares are on and trimmed, smooth the surface of the board by pressing gently with the smoother.
Leave the board to dry completely before placing the cake on the board. | 2019-04-25T02:45:57 | http://crumbavenue.com/tutorials/checkered-cake-board |
0.998726 | section "review place order". Sending a gift at doorsteps? There are many Internet websites devoted to promoting these deals and vouchers online, as well as Facebook groups offering items such as student discounts and 2-for-1 restaurant voucher deals. Any documentary evidence supporting the entries dominos 1 for 1 free coupon recorded in the books of accounts, establishing the arithmetic accuracy of the transaction, may also be referred to as a voucherfor example, a bill, invoice, receipt, salary and wages sheet, memorandum of association, counterfoil of paying-in slip, counterfoil. Mobile phones edit A voucher is a recharge number sold to a customer to recharge their SIM card with money and to extend the card's availability period. In One line and under one roof! Service providers collect them to return to the tour operator or travel agent that has sent that customer, to prove they have given the service. Then, go to "apply promo code?".
Was this article helpful? Contents, in tourism edit, vouchers are used in the tourism sector primarily as proof of a named customer's right to take a service at a specific time and place. Many companies have opted to use voucher codes for the last few years but with a massive incline in use towards late 2008 and early 2009. A voucher is produced usually after receiving a vendor invoice, after the invoice is successfully matched to a purchase order. So, the life of a voucher is as below: Customer receives vouchers from tour operator or travel agent for the services purchased.
1 In other countries such as the United States, Ireland, and many Nordic countries, there is a growing trend of customers using Card Not Present recharge options such as online payments, or by using their mobile handsets to call the operator and recharge with. Vouchers are typically sold at retail outlets, such as phone stores run by the mobile operator or by distributors, grocery stores, and gas stations. Alternatively, you can apply the Promo Code by clicking on "view BAG" instead in Step. If the issue persists, contact support noting: A description of the issue, the items in your cart and the total value of your cart. Alternatively, you can apply the Promo Code by clicking on "Have a gift certificate or promo code? . Step 4 : Once you have filled in your Promo Code, click on "apply". Step 1 : Go to Checkout by hovering over "My Bag" icon and clicking on "checkout NOW". Many companies have started their business around coupons. They may be provided: Through the website, in which case they can be used with any account. Store, discounts on your favourite brands? Step 3 : Once you have filled in your Promo Code, click on "apply". | 2019-04-20T22:30:21 | http://earlyyearseducation.eu/22144-use-voucher/ |
0.999963 | What will happen after mining 21 million BTCs?
Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, designed it in such a way that there could never be more than 21 million coins. This will ensure that Bitcoin will retain its value in the long-term since the number of coins will be finite.
By 2140, the last Bitcoin would have been mined, and no single bitcoin would be created afterward even if there is a high demand for them. If it is to follow the law of demand and supply, the price of the cryptocurrency could rise significantly once it has attained a fixed amount.
A look at the history of Bitcoin indicates that an increase in price is most likely following a halving event which takes place every four years. Mining becomes less profitable following each halving while investor interest rises and the BTC price also increases. This intensifies the theory that the BTC price could continue to grow as supply reduce and more halving events take place. Other factors could also play a role in determining the BTC price such as regulations. If the crypto sector is to receive favorable rules all over the globe, then this could widen Bitcoin’s acceptance and increase the price and value of the leading cryptocurrency. However, adverse controls could harm the crypto space and could see the BTC price dwindle over the coming years.
Once the last Bitcoin has been mined, miners will stop getting rewards from blocks, but instead, make earnings for securing the network and approving transactions. There are some who believe that receiving transaction fees would not be sustainable for miners once they stop getting block rewards. Some miners would turn to transaction fees earlier as mining gets harder due to block difficulty and the high cost of electricity and mining equipment. There are suggestions to increase transaction fees to ensure that miners continue tending to the Bitcoin network even when the last block has been mined.
In my @WhatBitcoinDid interview I mentioned how Bitcoin should have had a 0.1% or 1% monetary inflation tax to pay for security.
Something I didn't mention - and should have - is I think the 21 million BTC limit is so fundamental it's more likely Bitcoin will die than change it.
The developer believes that the cryptocurrency should have a monetary inflation tax (block reward) to enable it to pay for the network security. While some crypto enthusiasts suggest that people would fork away from Bitcoin if it has inflation tax, Todd pointed out that it already has 4 percent inflation tax and no one is forking away.
The concern amongst some developers such as Todd is that once the last BTC has been mined and miners stop receiving block rewards, then they would not be necessarily motivated to secure the blockchain and approve transactions.
At the moment, several variables affect the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Bitcoin users and investors do not want taxes and high inflation while miners wish to ensure that their mining efforts stay profitable.
I don't understand the 2 points where it says removing the 21 million Bitcoin limit will make Bitcoin not a currency, and not digital gold. Gold mining didn't stop after 140 years and there's never been a currency with 0% inflation. Is everyone retarded?
I don't think it should have, Peter.
If not for the fixed supply pitch bitcoin's bootstrap would have been much slower and bitcoin might not have won the race for establishing dominate network effect.
If Bitcoin's price stays roughly where it's at (which I think is more of a possibilty that most of community is willing to admit), then this will be a problem after the next, next halving.
Predictable and reliable Bitcoin inflation schedule is one of its greatest features. And the main distinction from any fiat or shitcoin. Bitcoin can not earn status of hardest money without it.
1/2 Won't the finite amount of bitcoins be a limitation?
Bitcoin's value proposition is as a sound, un-inflatable money. A 21 million coin limit. Without that, it's worthless.
I would add: 21 million Bitcoin is not a law of the universe - only if YOU run a full node and reject blocks that breach this limit makes it law.
Bitcoin news and social sentiment for Q1 2019: Our analytics show that news sentiment for Bitcoin is now oscillating in a positive range, while social sentiment is still oscillating between the negative and neutral zone. | 2019-04-22T20:23:41 | https://predicoin.com/blog/the-bitcoin-21-million-limit-what-will-happen-after-and-why-some-ask-to-raise-it |
0.999999 | After filling in one of my major cultural blindspots by finally reading Hamlet, I have decided to start a recurring series on the blog in which I watch and discuss different cinematic interpretations of arguably Shakespeare's greatest, most fascinating play. To kick things off, I have decided to watch the 1948 version, starring and directed by Laurence Olivier.
Hamlet, both the play and the character, looms so large over Western culture that it's amazing to think that anyone would dare to take it on. Fascinating and infuriating in equal measure, Hamlet is a character who can be interpreted differently by pretty much any actor, and as such is a daunting role for anyone to undertake: there can be no definitive take on Hamlet because his nature is so fractured and ambiguous that he can be whatever the actor and audience want him to be. It's for that same reason that every generation gets its own Hamlet, whether he is played by Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh or Mel Gibson, and why the character remains so vital and relevant no matter how many times he is revisited: you can take Hamlet and place him in any context but his essence will always shine through.
In 1948, Laurence Olivier directed and starred in the first English-language film version of Hamlet ever produced. (Though the play had been brought to the screen in a number of silent versions, and there was one sound film that pre-dated Olivier's: an Indian version produced in Urdu some years before.) Having already brought one Shakespeare play to the big screen in the form of Henry V, for which he was given an Honorary Oscar, Olivier turned his attention to The Dane, and was duly rewarded for his efforts with an Oscar for Best Actor, whilst the film itself won Best Picture despite being up against The Red Shoes and The Treasure of The Sierra Madre. Considering its importance within the canon of Shakespeare on film, does Olivier's Hamlet still hold up as a rendition of a classic work, or has time rendered it a period piece in more than just its setting?
The first thing that surprised me about Olivier's film is just how genuinely cinematic it is, at least in comparison to what I was expecting going in. I'm loathe to trust sweeping generalisations in film criticism because I find them horrible reductive and stultifying, but one of the few that I tend to subscribe to is that great actors make for pretty poor directors. There are obvious exceptions to this rule: one of the greatest films ever made, The Night of the Hunter, was directed by Charles Laughton, a phenomenal actor who had never directed before and never would again, and recent films like Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur and Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus demonstrated that just because someone is best known for being in front of the camera doesn't mean that they can't be a wiz behind it. However, most of the time when an actor decides to direct, their work tends to be visually flat, favouring performance over other considerations.
Whilst Olivier's film is very focused on its performances - how could an adaptation of a Shakespeare play not be? - it also displays some incredibly striking visuals and set design that really take the play out of the realm of theatre and into that of cinema. The castle of Claudius (Basil Sidney) does not resemble a castle so much as a colossal labyrinth, and from its opening shots, Hamlet establishes that this place is not necessarily real, but a metaphorical representation of Hamlet's mind. The use of deep shadows and stark black and white photography, as well as an oppressive, ever-present fog, recalls the murky, rain-soaked streets of many a film noir, and the high-ceilinged rooms and endless, winding staircases owe a clear debt to German Expressionism. Olivier does not merely mirror the works of his contemporaries, but also seems to point towards the future as well. His camera glides around the castle like a restless spectre, and his astonishing tracking shots display a craft and sophistication that predicts the great work that Stanley Kubrick would do on Paths of Glory. It's a film that feels like a film, rather than just a filmed play.
The other aspect of the film that surprised me was the sensuality of it, and the way that Olivier chose to play up the Oedipal aspects of the play by casting Eileen Herlie as Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, despite her being 13 years younger than Olivier. There's an unnerving frisson between Hamlet and Gertrude that adds a real edge to the story, and casts Hamlet's reaction to Claudius marrying his mother in a very different light. It would be considered pretty brave for a version of Hamlet made now to take this overtly sexual approach to the mother-son relationship, so for Olivier to take that approach in 1948 must have been nothing short of shocking.
And what of Hamlet himself? What does Olivier bring to one of most frustrating and compelling figures in all of Western literature? Whilst his performance does capture many of the different facets of the character - his sadness, his cruelty, his moments of fancy - and he delivers the key moments with aplomb (his rendition of the "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy is pretty hard to beat), his take on the character winds up being a touch dull. He approaches Hamlet from a largely heroic viewpoint, and his decision to excise the political subtext of the play - there is no mention of the fact that Hamlet's father had brought the country to the brink of war with a neighbouring nation or that Claudius is trying to broker peace - takes away a lot of the ambiguity from Claudius' character. He is no longer a man who committed a terrible act for potentially good reasons, but one who committed it for reasons of pride and greed. In that context, Hamlet can only be a hero, even though he is also spiteful and destructive. It's not an approach to the character that is without merit, but it is a touch too easy, and seems to work against the darkness - both literal and figurative - of the film itself.
Despite the rather cut-and-dried approach to Hamlet himself, and a few moments of technical awkwardness brought on by the limitations of technology at the time, Olivier's Hamlet is a marvellous realisation of the play. The atmosphere and mood of the piece are sublime, perfectly capturing the anxious mood of its hero and expressing his psychology through the physical world, rather than relying solely on performance. Even more than six decades later, it remains a vibrant and exciting work befitting both its source and its director, who displays his singular understanding of Shakespeare's work by taking it out of the theatre and on to the screen in glorious fashion. | 2019-04-18T22:57:52 | https://www.amightyfineblog.com/2012/02/film-review-hamlet-1948.html |
0.999999 | Why are German Shepherds sometimes called Alsatians?
After World War I and II, German things were not looked upon too kindly by the Americans and British. To avoid using the word German, the name Alsatian was given to the German Shepherd, after the region of Alsace-Lorraine.
What is the German name? What do the Germans call their breed?
Deutsche Shaferhund, pronounced DOY-cha SHAY-fer-hoond. Deutsche means German. Shafer means shepherd. Hund means dog.
Males stand about 24-26 inches at the shoulder and weigh 75-100 pounds. Females stand about 22-24 inches and weigh 60-80 pounds. Some breeders, though, deliberately produce oversized "giant" German Shepherds that reach 28 or 30 inches at the shoulder and 140 pounds. Some of these dogs are ponderous - a far cry from the athletic, agile build the breed is supposed to have.
The German Shepherd was developed to be a police dog, right?
Actually he was developed to herd sheep - hence the name shepherd. But during World War I, his intelligence, trainability, and protective instincts were put to use as a messenger dog, rescue dog, and sentry dog, and eventually he became the world's leading guardian, police and military dog, search and rescue dog, bomb and narcotics detection dog, and guide dogs for the blind.
Today, because so many temperament and health problems have become embedded in the breed's gene pool, it's difficult to consistently find or breed healthy, stable German Shepherds for working purposes. Today, breeds like the Belgian Malinois and Labrador Retriever are overtaking the German Shepherd in fields where the German Shepherd used to predominate.
What kind of temperament and personality does the German Shepherd have?
To get an idea of what a breed might be like, always look at what he was developed to do (see the question above). Many of the German Shepherd's characteristics - his powerful body, intelligence, trainability, loyalty, and enthusiasm for working - are hardwired into his genes because they helped him excel at his work.
Saddleback pattern, where the black overlays the dog's back and both sides of his body (like a saddle). The rest of the dog is tan, red, cream, or silver. Usually there is a black mask on the face.
Blanketback pattern, where the black extends further down the shoulders and hips.
Bicolor pattern, like a Doberman, where the dog is virtually all black with the markings confined to his face, throat, chest, and legs.
Even less common are two colors that are frowned upon by German Shepherd purists - blue and liver. Blue dogs and liver dogs have inherited a color-modifying gene that changes their black pigment to smoky gray (many blue dogs look like they've been dusted with flour) or brown (any shade from light brown to dark brown). All of their black pigment is affected, including their nose and the pads of their feet. Even their eyes are hazel or yellowish.
Blue or liver can occur in any of the patterns described above, i.e. if a German Shepherd would have been a black and tan saddleback, his blue modifying gene makes him a BLUE and tan saddleback. If he would have been a red sable, his liver gene makes him a liver sable, with the normally black-tipped hairs becoming brown-tipped. If he would have been solid black, his blue or liver gene make him solid blue or brown instead.
Blue and liver are considered "faults" by the official German Shepherd clubs and breeders who show their dogs in the conformation ring. But you can still register these dogs and compete with them in activities such as obedience and agility.
Finally, German Shepherds can be solid black or solid white.
I heard that white isn't an accepted color in German Shepherds.
It depends on what you mean by accepted. As with blue and liver, you can register a white German Shepherd with the AKC and show him in competitive activities such as obedience and agility. But the official clubs and show-dog breeders assert that white is a disqualified color for showing and breeding purposes. White dogs, they say, are too visible to make effective guard dogs and too camouflaged against sheep and snow to make effective herding dogs.
White Shepherd enthusiasts aren't deterred, however. They've formed their own club, which holds its own conformation shows. Because most breeders of whites don't breed their dogs for protection work, white German Shepherds tend to have a softer, milder temperament that fits well into many families.
What kinds of coats do German Shepherds come in? They can be longhaired, right?
Yes, German Shepherds can have short hair or long hair. Both coats are the same breed. But short hair is much more common. In some countries, longcoated German Shepherds are considered fine for showing and breeding, but in the U.S., long coats are frowned upon by the official clubs and show-dog breeders. Only the short coats are considered "correct."
Actually, to be completely accurate, there are FOUR kinds of coats in German Shepherds, not just two.
The short coat, you see, can be very short, or it can be a little longer and thicker and then it's called (informally) a plush coat. Show-dog purists prefer these plush coats. Either way, short coats are always double coats, consisting of a short outer coat (harsh to the touch), plus a woolly undercoat (for insulation).
The long coat also comes in two types - with an undercoat, and without an undercoat. The long coat without an undercoat is considered the worst coat of all because German Shepherds are really supposed to have an insulating undercoat to help them in cold-weather work. Some longcoated German Shepherds have exceptionally long hair, which requires a lot of grooming to avoid mats and tangles. Other longcoated German Shepherds are barely worthy of the name - they have a short body coat that looks similar to a regular shorthaired German Shepherd, except for tufts of feathering around their ears, on the backs of their legs, and on their hindquarters and tail.
Some breeders focus on breeding only Long Coated German Shepherds, and since they don't breed their dogs for protection work, longhaired German Shepherds tend to have a softer, milder temperament that fits well into many families.
Oh, my. They shed a lot. An awful lot. A great deal! German Shepherds, in fact, are one of the "worst" shedding breeds in all of dogdom. They shed constantly, you see. Most breeds shed a few hairs here and there throughout the year, with the bulk of their shedding occurring twice a year, for three weeks in the spring as their winter coat switches over to a cooler summer coat, and three weeks in the fall as their summer coat switches over to a thicker winter coat.
Not German Shepherds. They shed moderately 365 days a year. Plus they shed a TON during those three-week spring and fall coat-switching seasons.
Are there different builds in German Shepherds? My brother has a German Shepherd from show lines, which looks different than the German Shepherd the police department uses. | 2019-04-25T08:47:33 | http://www.alcazarzwinger.com/Puppies/german-shepherd-puppies-short-hair |
0.999966 | For many people across the world, eating habits are closely associated with their daily lifestyles. For instance, some people cannot eat while doing other activities like reading. Many people also eat in response to certain external and internal stimuli such as loneliness, boredom, anxiety, anger, or fatigue. Bad eating habits are very difficult to break, and the only sure way to overcome them is coming up with new eating habits through consistency.
Pulling out such behaviors and completing resisting a habit that that had become part of your day-to-day life is extremely difficult. However, with consistency and determination, you can easily develop new good eating habits. Especially, if you are looking forward to dropping some of your body weight, it is very important that you practice good eating habits.
The following tips and strategies can really help you overcome the heavy burden of bad eating habits.
1. Make sure that you eat at least 4 meals in a day __ which should be spaced about four to three hours apart. This is very important as it keeps your general body metabolism high. You must also cease from the habit of skipping breakfast. In addition, make sure that you eat an equal amount of food or make sure that you decrease you progressively decrease the portion of the food each time you eat.
2. Eat slowly and be sure to put down your fork and spoon when chewing food __ Also, ensure that that you chew the food at least ten times and then swallow it before picking up the fork and the spoon.
3. Settle in very cool place at home or in the office and enjoy all your food from there until you are satisfied __ This is very important; as it will help, you avoid mindless eating in the kitchen and snacking. Avoid eating while walking as it is not healthy.
4. Eat mindfully __ If you are eating, it is very important that you avoid doing other activities such as working, talking, watching television, or conversing over the phone. When you talk as you eat, you can easily be chocked with food. Just concentrate on the food you are eating alone.
5. Do not store your food anywhere in the house if not in the kitchen __ Keeping food in easily accessible places encourages snacking and mindless eating. Therefore, always make sure that you do not store your food on the counters and other places that you can easily access. For instance, put them away in the cupboards.
6. Before buying any type of food, make sure that you have a plan to guide you throughout your shopping __ But most importantly, make sure that you stick to the shopping plan. In addition, keep off from buying junk foods, instead, buy healthy foods that can keep you fit all through, and foster weight loss.
7. It is very important to keep the serving dishes away in the kitchen especially when you are eating a family meal __ Do not place the dishes in the middle of the table as they might encourage unnecessary overeating, which is not healthy for your general body fitness and weight loss.
8. Some people are conditioned to using big plates when eating , which is not good as it encourages overeating __ Instead of using big plates, use smaller plates. Research shows that when a small portion of food is served in a small plate, it appears bigger and can easily help in avoiding overeating.
9. Make sure that you do not clear everything on the plate when eating. Some are used to eating until they see their plates clear __ Try as much as possible to leave a small quantity of food on the plate every time you have a meal. By doing this you can easily curb overeating.
10. If you find it hard to change your bad eating habits, it is important that you seek help from other people who possess good eating qualities __ Try as much you can to find a friend or a relative who is willing to correct you each time you go wrong. For instance, you can ask your friend to pinch you each time you clear all the food on the plate. With time, you will find yourself doing these things on your own.
Breaking from bad eating habits will take you time, but you need to be determined and focused in everything that you do, if you must come out successful. | 2019-04-26T13:36:38 | http://eblogfa.com/5621/10-ways-break-bad-eating-habits |
0.999999 | Read the information and answer the questions that follow.
The Eiffel Tower is one of the most successful tourist attractions in France.
Paris has increased security around its most popular attractions following recent terrorist attacks in the city.
Currently the Eiffel Tower has metal barriers around its base as a security measure to prevent further terrorist attacks. The metal barriers do not look attractive in the photographs taken by tourists.
French authorities are planning to remove the metal barriers at the front of the Eiffel Tower and replace it with permanent bulletproof glass walls. The rest of the metal barriers will be replaced with more attractive fencing.
Give ONE reason why the French authorities want to replace the existing metal barriers at the Eiffel Tower with bulletproof glass walls.
Predict what could happen if management relaxes the existing safety measures at the Tower.
Identify ONE other criterion that will ensure the continued success of the icon, apart from ensuring safety at the Eiffel Tower.
The bullet-proof glass will give better protection to tourists in the event of future terror attacks.
• To upgrade and improve safety at the attraction.
• To get rid of the metal barriers that obscures the view of the tower to get better photo opportunities.
• The tower is one of the iconic structures in France that attracts many tourists and needs extra protection.
The Eiffel Tower, being one of the most popular tourist attractions in Paris, could become the target for large-scale terror attacks with huge loss of life.
• Destruction of an iconic structure symbolising engineering abilities of the time.
• Fewer visitors to the attraction because tourists will not feel safe.
• The absence of visible policing may increase criminal activities.
The continuous international marketing of the icon.
• General upkeep of the tower and the area around the tower.
• Making the tower accessible to people with special needs (universal accessibility).
• Allow opportunities for entrepreneurship around the tower.
• Professional image of the staff.
• Keeping the tower sustainable through good environmental management plans.
• When visitors leave the tower with a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. | 2019-04-25T08:23:25 | https://studyroom.co.za/?qa=2186/information-answer-questions-follow&show=2186 |
0.999118 | chaangH bpenM satL seungF meeM khaL naatL dtuaaM yaiL theeF sootL naiM banM daaM satL bohkL thangH laaiR Elephants are the largest terrestrial animal.
chaangH saaR maatF rapH khamM saawnR haiF thamM dtaamM khamM sangL khaawngR khohnM daiF saaR maatF feukL haiF thamM ngaanM dtaangL dtaangL daiF laaiR yaangL Elephants are able to learn to follow human commands; they can be trained to do many and various kinds of work.
laeH naiM saL maiR gaawnL meeM gaanM feukL chaangH haiF bpenM phaaM haL naH naiM gaanM thamM sohngR khraamM And, in the past elephants were trained to be military transport (animals).
chaangH jeungM bpenM satL theeF theuuR waaF phiH saehtL gwaaL satL euunL euunL johnM theungR haiF meeM dtamM naengL meeM yohtH meeM raatF thinM naH naamM Elephants, therefore, are considered more special when compared with other animals; thus they are given official positions, rank, and royal titles.
khwaamM phiH saehtL khaawngR chaangH nanH bpraaM gohtL naiM phaaM saaR theeF chaiH samR rapL chaangH duayF kheuuM chaangH bpaaL chaiH lakH saL naL naamM waaF dtuaaM chenF diaaoM gapL satL euunL euunL The elephant’s uniqueness shows itself in the language as well. That is, the classifier for wild elephants is “ตัว ”, like other animals.
chaangH theeF namM maaM feukL haiF thamM ngaanM haiF khohnM laeH bpenM satL liiangH khaawngR khohnM chaiH lakH saL naL naamM waaF cheuuakF Elephants which are trained to work or are (otherwise) domesticated are given the classifier “เชือก ”.
suaanL chaangH theeF kheunF raH waangM bpenM chaangH luaangR chaiH lakH saL naL naamM waaF chaangH As for elephants which are enrolled for royal or government work, the classifier “ ช้าง ” is used. | 2019-04-23T14:20:47 | http://thai-language.com/id/590164 |
0.999893 | Based on: 10-K (filing date: 2019-01-31), 10-K (filing date: 2018-02-02), 10-K (filing date: 2017-02-16), 10-K (filing date: 2016-02-10), 10-K (filing date: 2015-02-24).
The primary reason for the decrease in Return on Equity (ROE) over 2018 year is the decrease in profitability measured by Net Profit Margin.
The primary reason for the decrease in Return on Equity (ROE) over 2018 year is the decrease in effect of taxes measured by Tax Burden.
The primary reason for the decrease in Return on Assets (ROA) over 2018 year is the decrease in profitability measured by Net Profit Margin.
The primary reason for the decrease in Return on Assets (ROA) over 2018 year is the decrease in effect of taxes measured by Tax Burden.
The primary reason for the decrease in Net Profit Margin over 2018 year is the decrease in effect of taxes measured by Tax Burden. | 2019-04-19T20:50:14 | https://www.stock-analysis-on.net/NASDAQ/Company/Charter-Communications-Inc/Ratios/DuPont |
0.99871 | Student holds an unsteady object in their hand while walking with their dog for 15 feet and enters through a door.
Excellent: Leash remains loose or tightens 1 time with 0 to 1 cues; dog is within 2 feet of student; and object is not spilled, dropped, or crushed.
Needs Work: Leash tightens 2 to 3 times, or student gives 2 to 3 cues to loose leash walk, or dog is between 2 to 3 feet of student >50% of time, or student struggles to hold object.
Incomplete: Leash tightens 4 or more times or is consistently or mostly tight; or student gives 4 or more cues to loose leash walk; or object is spilled, dropped, or crushed.
A. Student holds an unsteady object in their hand while walking with their dog to maneuver around household items.
B. Student asks their dog to back up 3 feet.
A. Leash remains loose or tightens 1 time with 0 to 1 cues.
B. Dog backs up with 1 cue (3 steps from student equals 1 cue) and responds to cue within 3 seconds.
A. Leash tightens 2 to 3 times, or student gives 2 to 3 cues to loose leash walk, or student struggles to hold object.
B. Student gives 2 to 3 cues to back up or dog needs 4 to 5 seconds to respond to cue.
A. Leash tightens 4 or more times or is consistently or mostly tight; or student gives 2 to 3 cues to loose leash walk; or object is spilled, dropped, or crushed; or team "splits the obstacle."
B. Student gives 4 or more cues to back up, or dog does not back up 3 feet, or dog does not respond to cue within 5 seconds.
Student asks dog to stay until released, in a sit or down, while student places an unsteady object on a chair.
Excellent: Dog stays with 1 cue.
Needs Work: Student gives 2 to 3 cues to stay, or student resets dog 1 time.
Incomplete: Student gives 4 or more cues to stay, or student resets dog 2 or more times.
Dog and student are allowed up to 5 minutes to explore and acclimate to the testing area. Dog should remain on-leash during this time. Food treats, petting, toys, and on-leash games may be used freely during the Warm-Up Time.
Excellent: Dog does not eliminate, or dog eliminates in potty area, or student successfully interrupts and redirects dog to potty area if dog starts to eliminate out of potty area.
Needs Work: Dog eliminates out of the designated potty area, or needs more than 5 minutes to acclimate before continuing evaluation.
A. Student calls dog to come from 20 feet away and pass by distractions placed between the dog and student.
B. Student asks dog to sit or down, and attaches leash and detaches long line before releasing the dog.
A. Dog comes to student with 1 cue to come (and 1 cue to leave it, if needed) and responds to cue within 3 seconds, and dog's nose does not investigate within 2 feet of items.
B. Dog sits or downs with 1 cue until released.
A. Student gives 2 cues to come and/or to leave it, or dog needs 4 to 5 seconds to respond to cue, or dog's nose investigates within 2 feet of an item but does not touch item.
B. Student gives 2 to 3 cues to sit or down until released, or student resets dog 1 time.
A. Student gives 3 or more cues to come and/or to leave it; or dog does not respond to cue within 5 seconds, or touches an item, or dog passes by student, or dog does not come.
B. Student gives 4 or more cues to sit or down, or resets dog 2 or more times; or dog does not sit or down.
A. Student asks their dog to sit or down, and an unfamiliar person approaches student and dog.
B. Person greets dog and gently pets dog's head, ears, and back.
A. Dog sits or downs with 0 to 1 cues.
B. Dog allows petting of head, handling of ears, and stroking of back.
A. Student gives 2 to 3 cues to sit or down, or student resets dog 1 time, or dog jumps up 1 time.
B. Dog does not allow handling in 1 of the 3 (head, ears, or back) areas, or dog jumps up 1 time.
A. Student gives 4 or more cues to sit or down, or student resets dog 2 or more times, or dog jumps up 2 or more times.
B. Dog does not allow handling in 2 of the 3 (head, ears, and/or back) areas; or dog jumps up 2 or more times; or dog growls, snaps, or bites during any part of handling.
Student asks their dog for 15 seconds of eye contact after an unfamiliar person knocks on the door and enters the testing area.
Excellent: Dog watches student for 15 seconds with 0 to 1 cues.
Needs Work: Student gives 2 to 3 cues to watch student for 15 seconds.
Incomplete: Student gives 4 or more cues to watch, or dog does not watch student for 15 seconds.
Student asks their dog to settle in a down until released while student and an unfamiliar person sit at a table for a snack for 1 minute.
Excellent: Dog settles with 1 cue until released.
Needs Work: Student gives 2 to 3 cues to settle, dog touches unfamiliar person, or student resets dog 1 time.
Incomplete: Student gives 4 or more cues to settle; or student resets dog 2 or more times; or dog does not settle; or dog whines, barks, or tries other attention-getting behavior.
8. DO YOU REALLY KNOW SIT?
Student asks their dog to sit 3 separate times, varying the student's body position each time.
Excellent: Dog sits with 1 cue for each variation, responds to each cue within 3 seconds, and maintains each sit for 2 to 3 seconds until released.
Needs Work: Student gives 2 to 3 cues to sit, or resets dog 1 or more times, for one or more variations; or dog needs 4 to 5 seconds to respond to one or more cues.
Incomplete: Student gives 4 or more cues to sit, or resets dog 2 or more times, for one or more variations; or dog does not sit; or dog does not respond to one or more cues within 5 seconds.
BONUS 1: DO YOU REALLY KNOW SIT?
With Honors: Dog sits with 1 cue for each variation, responds to each cue within 3 seconds, and maintains each sit for 2 to 3 seconds.
Dog uses his nose to touch each of an unfamiliar person's hands on cue.
With Honors: Dog targets each hand with 1 cue and responds to cue in 1-3 seconds. | 2019-04-21T01:14:38 | https://mydoghasclass.com/about/exams/phd/scoring/ |
0.999238 | A teenage boy has been stabbed to death by a group of men who chased him and then attacked him in west London.
The men pulled up in a vehicle near Syon Park, Isleworth, and chased the 17-year-old boy before catching up with him and stabbing him, police said.
The boy, who had been with a group of other people, was found injured outside a block of flats in Union Lane at about 22:35 GMT on Friday.
Officers gave first aid but he died at the scene. No-one has been arrested.
The Metropolitan Police has started a murder investigation but officers said they were "keeping an open mind" about a motive.
Post-mortem tests and a formal identification are due to be held later.
A section 60 order, granting police increased stop and search powers across the area, is in place.
A couple who called the police said there was "blood everywhere".
The 35-year-old woman, who did not want to be identified, said the teenager was still alive when she and her husband saw him.
"There was someone else there trying to help by checking his pulse. He was responding but he couldn't speak," she said.
A second witness said the teenager was assaulted by two people, one wearing a mask.
"It was one guy who was massive with a mask on his face and another small guy. They were kicking him, but it was dark so it was hard to see exactly what was happening."
Halima Abubaker, 22, said she saw two males "running for their lives" around the time of the incident.
She said: "I just heard loads of people, then there was seven police cars and two vans."
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, described the teenager's death as "heartbreaking".
"This is a 17-year-old boy who has lost his life because of a knife attack," he said.
"My thoughts and prayers, as I'm sure are those of all Londoners, are with his family."
There have been 28 deaths classed as "homicides" in London this year. | 2019-04-19T04:38:42 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47677792 |
0.830878 | Money kept in a savings account for emergencies could be used in the event of job loss or medical issues.
Some people put their spare change in a container to be used for later emergencies.
An emergency fund is a savings account that is intended to be used only in case of emergency, such as an unexpected job loss or high medical bills. Financial advisers often recommend that individuals and families set up emergency funds just in case, and the amount on the account should be based on one's monthly income in comparison to monthly bills. It can take time to set up an emergency fund, but it is an important step to financial security.
In general, experts recommend an emergency fund that would pay the bills for between six and eight months without any income coming in; if a job was lost, for instance. To determine this amount, begin by making a list of all the bills that are absolute necessities, and their amounts for each month. This includes items such as the mortgage, groceries, a car payment or gas for the car, electricity, and heating bills, among others. Non-necessities might include things such as cable television bills or the amount spent going out to restaurants.
Once the monthly bill for necessities has been determined, multiply it by six or eight to determine how much would need to be saved in order to live for that amount of time. It may be a good idea to open a separate savings account to use just for the emergency fund, so the money is out of sight and out of mind. In addition, a savings account will allow the money to earn some interest, whereas a checking account will not.
It is generally not a good idea to use cash as an emergency fund, nor is it advisable to use a retirement account or any other account that cannot be accessed quickly and without tax penalties being assessed. Investments and retirement funds are important as well, but should be separate from an emergency fund. One excellent way to add to an emergency savings account is to set up an automatic withdrawal at a bank; for example, the automatic withdrawal might occur every two weeks after a paycheck is deposited, for a set amount.
This way, the money will automatically go into a savings account, and will not risk being spent. The method in which one chooses to pay off debts such as student loans, credit cards, and car loans is ultimately one's own decision, but some financial advisers recommend paying loans while simultaneously creating a savings account for emergencies. This way, if one's employment is lost, there will at least be a small amount of money to fall back on.
How Do I save Emergency Money?
What Are the Best Tips for Building Financial Security?
How do I Choose the Best Business Savings Account?
What is a Cash Flow Budget? | 2019-04-20T08:30:30 | http://www.wisegeek.net/what-is-an-emergency-fund.htm |
0.999758 | What's Missing from China and Japan's East China Sea Crisis Management Framework?
Japan and China will agree to exclude territorial waters and airspace from their maritime crisis management mechanism.
While tensions in the South China Sea continue to heat up between China and the other claimants, the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea remains relatively cool. As The Diplomat has noted recently, China and Japan are in the middle of a slow-but-sure thaw in the area and are looking to finalize a bilateral liaison mechanism to manage maritime crises and prevent unintentional escalation.
Diplomatic momentum toward a bilateral consultative mechanism began in 2012, but was derailed by a general rise in tensions over the disputed islands in 2013. The dispute reached a tipping point when China unilaterally declared an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over disputed waters in the East China Sea in November 2013. Since January 2015, however, the overall process has been constructive.
This week, reports emerged that the maritime liaison mechanism between the two governments will exclude territorial waters and territorial airspace. The primary effect of this provision will be that the disputed islands will be excluded from the crisis management mechanism. The exclusion will be noted in a written agreement, and Japan and China are expected “to start operating the mechanism this summer at the earliest,” according to the Yomiuri Shimbun.
It was always likelier than not that a finalized consultative mechanism would exclude the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, since including those as part of a mechanism would necessitate a conversation on the dispute itself. Japan continues to maintain that there is no dispute with China over the islands.
The 2015 resumption of bilateral talks between the two countries on the consultative mechanism is also taking place with an acknowledgment of last fall’s four-point consensus document, in which the two countries acknowledged their political difficulties over the issue. In that document, China and Japan “acknowledged that different positions exist between them regarding the tensions which have emerged in recent years” over the disputed islands.
That proved to be a face-saving position for China, which could enter a period of warmer relations with Japan after over 18 months of rising tensions in the East China Sea.
At this point — based on the territorial waters and airspace exclusion provision — both Japan and China would react to forces from the other country entering their waters within the rubric of their domestic law. For Japan, this means that if Chinese aircraft, ships, or even drones entered airspace over the Senkakus, Japan would continue its status quo policy of scrambling jets or ordering its coast guard to approach the vessels.
The two governments have their sights set on concluding this consultative mechanism on maritime crisis management by the end of this year. The conclusion of this mechanism will go a long way toward preventing unintended escalation in the East China Sea, creating an atmosphere for constructive bilateralism between Tokyo and Beijing. | 2019-04-23T21:07:00 | https://thediplomat.com/2015/06/whats-missing-from-china-and-japans-east-china-sea-crisis-management-framework/ |
0.999999 | - Could AI help us find aliens??
Could AI help us find aliens??
The study uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, estimating a probability of life in each case, which could be used in future interstellar exploration missions.
The team, based at the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University, have trained their network to classify planets into five different types, based on whether they are most like the present-day Earth, the early Earth, Mars, Venus or Saturn's moon Titan. All five of these objects are rocky bodies known to have atmospheres, and are among the most potentially habitable objects in our Solar System.
Mr Bishop comments, "We're currently interested in these ANNs for prioritising exploration for a hypothetical, intelligent, interstellar spacecraft scanning an exoplanet system at range."
He adds, "We're also looking at the use of large area, deployable, planar Fresnel antennas to get data back to Earth from an interstellar probe at large distances. This would be needed if the technology is used in robotic spacecraft in the future."
Atmospheric observations -- known as spectra -- of the five Solar System bodies are presented as inputs to the network, which is then asked to classify them in terms of the planetary type. As life is currently known only to exist on Earth, the classification uses a 'probability of life' metric which is based on the relatively well-understood atmospheric and orbital properties of the five target types.
Bishop has trained the network with over a hundred different spectral profiles, each with several hundred parameters that contribute to habitability. So far, the network performs well when presented with a test spectral profile that it hasn't seen before.
The technique may also be ideally suited to selecting targets for future observations, given the increase in spectral detail expected from upcoming space missions such ESA's Ariel Space Mission and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. | 2019-04-22T18:03:12 | http://www.dpaonthenet.net/article/152104/Could-AI-help-us-find-aliens--.aspx |
0.999814 | IBM has given itself a tall order - a full-year profit target many analysts think it will have trouble meeting.
Big Blue has made solid progress as it shifts into high-growth areas such as cloud-based services, and both profit and revenue beat analysts' expectations in the second quarter.
But the company may have over-promised by sticking to its full-year adjusted earnings forecast of at least $13.50 per share, analysts said, especially after it indicated that profit in the current quarter would come in below estimates.
In order to meet the target, IBM would need to turn in its best sequential improvement in profit in nine years in the fourth quarter, according to Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi.
"Possibly achievable? Yes, but unlikely, at least statistically," Sacconaghi said.
IBM, which reported a profit of $14.92 per share from continuing operations last year, has missed its full-year target for the last two years.
The company's shares were down slightly at $159.53 in early afternoon trading on Tuesday, having risen about 16% since the start of the year.
Sacconaghi raised his price target to $140, from $135 in April, mainly to reflect the rise in the S&P 500 over the past three months.
On a post-earnings conference call with analysts on Monday, Chief Financial Officer Martin Schroeter indicated IBM would report a third-quarter profit of $3.11 to $3.24 per share.
That means IBM will need to report a profit of between $4.96 and $5.09 per share in the fourth quarter to hit its target.
Analysts on average expect earnings of $3.22 per share for the third quarter and $4.96 in the fourth, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, which would mean IBM would earn $13.48 per share for year, two cents shy of its target.
Investors and analysts have raised doubts about IBM's ability to increase revenue growth in its newer cloud-based and analytics businesses at a pace fast enough to make up for falling revenue in its traditional hardware businesses.
Still, at least eight brokerages raised their price targets on IBM's stock after the company reported its smallest revenue decline in eight quarters.
Citigroup raised the most, to $160 from $140, saying there were "marginally more positives than negatives vs. prior quarter earnings, which were typically disappointing."
The median price target on the stock is $160 - around where it was trading on Tuesday.
Of the 25 brokerages covering IBM, seven rate it a "buy" or higher, 13 "hold" and five "sell" or lower. | 2019-04-21T04:47:40 | https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate/ibms-full-year-earnings-forecast-greeted-with-scepticism/53295448 |
0.99914 | Question 2: What does the picture show about the panorama it depicts?
Question 1: Why did you start to work in black and white?
Question 1: How was the picture constructed and what is the significance of the subject?
Question 2: Was the mural in the picture painted in black and white?
Question 3: How does the picture relate to sound - and to pleasure?
Question 2: Does the picture relate to 19th century history painting?
1: What does the picture show? | 2019-04-24T08:20:11 | https://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=Photographs&type=media |
0.999999 | Participants and groups answer questions (which are dependent on the leader and participants), and put their group's sticker on that balloon. After all questions are asked, participants can play a game with the balloons.
Questions to ask (questions can be based on what participants are learning, theme of the week/month, random facts and trivia, etc.). Make sure the questions are at the participants skill levels.
Blow up the balloons (could have participants help with this task).
Give each group a beanbag (ensure each group has a different coloured beanbag).
Give each group a set of stickers (each group should have a different theme of stickers). Themes could be: SpongeBob, Phineas and Ferb, Transformers, smiley faces, cars, and so on.
Each group will stand in a line, and the first participant in each line will hold their group's beanbag.
The leader will place a hoop somewhere in the activity area.
First participant in each line for their group will be the first trivia masters.
The leader will hold a balloon up, and read a question (questions could be about a subject participants are learning in school, about a theme for the week/month, random questions, math, spelling, geography, food groups, etc.). Please see the attached document for examples of questions given different topics. Make sure the questions are appropriate for the participants.
As soon as the leader says, "Go", the trivia masters throw their beanbag trying to get it inside the hoop (or the closest to the hoop).
The participant that got their beanbag closest to the hoop, or inside and closest to the centre of the hoop, gets to answer the question first.
If they get it right, they get the balloon, and put their group's sticker on the balloon and put it next to their group.
If they are incorrect, they get a balloon taken away from them (if they had at least one already), and the participant that was second closest to the hoop gets a chance to answer the question.
Then the participants collect their beanbags, and the next participants in line are the new trivia masters.
The leader can move the hoop for each question.
Play until there are no balloons left, or until a group gets 5 (or another number) balloons.
OR only use two balloons, and each time a group gets an answer right, they put their sticker on the "correct balloon". If they get the answer wrong, they put a sticker on the "incorrect balloon". When all questions are asked, they count the number of stickers on the "correct balloon" and the "incorrect balloon".
Have a bunch of balloons, and each question will only be for one group. If they get it right, they get the balloon and put their sticker on it. If they are incorrect, then the group that answers correctly gets to take a balloon from that group and put their own sticker on that balloon.
Place the balloon somewhere in the activity space, and the first participant to hit the balloon (with a whiffle ball or another lighter object) gets to answer the question. | 2019-04-24T18:41:08 | http://activeafterschool.ca/activities/balloon-trivia |
0.999999 | In the opening paragraph of their paper, the authors write that "assumptions about an increase in extreme flood events due to an intensified hydrological cycle caused by global warming are still under discussion and must be better verified," while noting that some historical flood records indicate that "flood frequencies were higher during colder periods (Knox, 1993; Glaser and Stangl, 2004), challenging the hypothesis of a correlation between the frequency of extreme floods and a warmer climate." Thus, they decided to further explore the relationship between level of warmth and degree of flooding as it may have manifested itself in southern Germany over the past 450 years.
Working in Lake Ammersee in southern Germany (48°00'N, 11°07'E), which is fed primarily by the River Ammer, Czymzik et al. retrieved two sediment cores from the deepest part of the lake in June of 2007 that they analyzed via what they describe as "a novel methodological approach that combines microfacies analyses, high-resolution element scanning (µ-XRF), stable isotope data from bulk carbonate samples (δ13Ccarb, δ18Ocarb), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses (Brauer et al., 2009)."
The six scientists determined that the flood frequency distribution over the entire 450-year time series "is not stationary but reveals maxima for colder periods of the Little Ice Age when solar activity was reduced," while reporting that "similar observations have been made in historical flood time series of the River Main, located approximately 200 km north of Ammersee (Glaser and Stangl, 2004), pointing to a wider regional significance of this finding."
As time marches on and as ever more studies of this nature are conducted in Europe and elsewhere, it is becoming ever more clear that the climate-alarmist assumption -- as Czymzik et al. describe it -- of "an increase in extreme flood events due to an intensified hydrological cycle caused by global warming" is simply not correct. In fact, it appears to be 180 degrees out of phase with reality in a substantial majority of the studies that have been conducted to date. | 2019-04-26T07:51:47 | http://www.co2science.org/articles/V14/N6/C2.php |
0.999912 | 1. Clean your door. It should be free from oil-based paint, Wallpaper residues, latex and silicone. Disassemble the doorhandle.
2. Stir Wallpaper paste with cold water in a bucket. Stir, stir, stir and then leave it for about 30 minutes to soak. If you are using another paste follow its instruction.
3. Evenly apply paste to the Wallpaper parts. Note: the parts ordinary expand up to 2cm. Start with one of the center parts.
4. Hang Wallpaper parts to the door from top to bottom. There are numbers on the back of each piece which will help you.
5. Use a wallpaper-roll to release possibly remaining air bubbles. Roll top to bottom.
6. Do a little cut at the position of the doorhandle and remount it.
Door murals with glue have been developed to transform your doors into decorative highlights. The large range of motifs offers ample choice to decorate living and childrens rooms, bedrooms as well as kitchens and bathrooms. Additionally small scratches in your door can be optimally covered.
Photo door murals with glue are made of high quality poster paper which is printed with uv-resistant ink providing long lasting colour brilliance. The door murals are easily attached with glue included in the delivery. After a short time of soaking the single parts can be put on your door. For an optimal result the door has to be clean and free of oil-, silicone- or latex-bearing paints.
Door murals with glue consist of 3 parts which are applied beneath each other on the door leaf. Overlapping parts on the edges can easily be cut after the mural has dried. | 2019-04-21T03:03:37 | https://www.yourdecoshop.com/p/a-36475/ |
0.999874 | 2010: the Year of the Conservative Woman?
In 1992, when the number of women elected to the U.S. Senate soared from two to six, excited pundits dubbed that four-person breakthrough "The Year of the Woman." But it was a one-sided wave. Five of the six female senators in the 100-member Senate were liberal, pro-choice Democrats. Conservative women had long been active in Republican politics, of course, but rarely as officeholders. In those days, conservatism and feminism didn't mix, at least not easily.
This season's primary elections suggest that 2010 may become the Year of the Conservative Woman. The GOP's membership in Congress is still mostly male (as is the Democrats', of course, only a little less so). But a new generation of conservative women is running for office and winning Republican nominations, from California on Tuesday ( Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina) to Connecticut last month (Senate candidate Linda McMahon).
GOP primary voters, a deeply conservative bunch, don't appear to have much of a problem with strong women in public life anymore. Not only that: The GOP is consciously trying to turn gender into a selling point. This isn't just the march of equality; it's a strategy. Republican strategists say female candidates should run well this year, when voters are dissatisfied with incumbents of both parties, because women are, by definition, outsiders; they're not members of the "old-boys club."
Nikki Haley, the likely GOP candidate for governor in South Carolina, highlighted that fact explicitly, telling voters she wasn't part of the state capital's "frat party." Most candidates don't say it so explicitly; they don't have to.
"Men are always perceived as being in a back room making deals, and women are perceived as being shut out of the back room," says Linda DiVall, a pollster who has worked with the Republican National Committee.
In a report she gave Republican leaders last year, DiVall urged them to step up their efforts to recruit women. Conservative female candidates, she said, could appeal to swing voters more successfully than conservative men.
"Too often the Republican Party is seen as old, rigid, stern and out of touch," DiVall said in her report. "Recruitment of female candidates, especially from outside government, will help greatly in changing perceptions of the Republican brand."
For example, she said, when voters are asked which party's candidates are more concerned about "people like you," most normally choose the Democrats. But when the Republican candidate is a woman, that concern gap either narrows or disappears. A female candidate makes the GOP look warmer and friendlier.
The women who have been leading the GOP's effort to recruit more female candidates have taken up DiVall's thesis with enthusiasm.
"People feel that conservative women are more like them; that they know how to multitask, how to get the homework done in the evening, get the lunches ready for the next morning and have dinner in the oven before they go to work," Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Republican leadership in the House, told me. "Voters are looking for people who can get results, who can help the government get better organized. Those are all inherently women's skills."
"A woman is seen, by and large, as being a good listener, as being trustworthy and honest," said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the GOP's chief recruiter for female House candidates this year. "The Republican brand adds the element of fiscal responsibility, which is a growing concern for all voters."
Rodgers says it's often still a tough sell to persuade conservative women, especially women with children at home, to run for office. "It takes a woman two years to decide to run, on average," she said.
But changing social norms have made it easier, in part because of the gains made by an earlier generation of Democratic women.
Although Sarah Palin may be the most visible Republican woman, most of this year's successful Republican women haven't cast themselves in her mold.
Palin has made abortion and other social issues a central part of her appeal to supporters. Last month, Palin called for "an emerging conservative feminist identity" in a speech to the Susan B. Anthony List, an antiabortion fundraising group that bills itself as an answer to the liberal Emily's List. Palin said a conservative "pro-woman sisterhood" should be telling young women: "They can give their child life in addition to pursuing [a] career."
But most of this year's female candidates have campaigned as fiscal, not social, conservatives. "Jobs [and] the economy are the top women's issues this year," Blackburn said, echoing DiVall's polling. While most of the GOP's female candidates hew to their party's antiabortion tenets, that hasn't been the focus of their appeal.
Asked whether Palin could help GOP candidates around the country, Rodgers paused and said: "She brings a lot of enthusiasm. She's a force to be reckoned with. Whether or not she's an asset in every state…."
Nor are the GOP's new female standard-bearers all a product of the "tea party" movement, the conservative wave that has demanded ideological purity from Republican candidates.
Instead, they're a diverse group that includes a relatively centrist former corporate CEO (Whitman), a former CEO who has tacked farther to the right (Fiorina), a former CEO of the World Wrestling Federation (McMahon) — all of whom have financed their own campaigns with millions of dollars — as well as a tea-party activist who wants to abolish the departments of energy and education (Sharron Angle, whom Nevada Republicans chose Tuesday to challenge Harry Reid for his Senate seat in November) and a long list of more traditional-sounding state legislators seeking seats in Congress.
They're not all going to win. Even if they did, they wouldn't be a majority; politics in both parties is still a male-dominated pursuit. But they have already broken one of the remaining parts of the glass ceiling — the section over there on the right. | 2019-04-26T02:10:58 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jun-10-la-oe-mcmanus-20100610-story.html |
0.999992 | How can I figure out what size header I need?
Emily, when deciding what size header to install above your new French doors, you must first consider the size of the load being supported by the header and wall framing. For example, if you are installing the doors in an exterior bearing wall that is directly supporting the weight of the roof and possibly a second floor, then double 2 x 10s would be the bare minimum for a 96-inch opening. However, if that same size opening were in a non-weight bearing interior wall, or possibly even a non-weight bearing gable end wall with roof trusses above, then perhaps double 2 x 8s would be adequate. Of course, if there is a concentrated point load bearing directly on this header, such as an intersecting floor beam, then the opening may require a header made from double 2 x 12s or a engineered Glulam or a LVL beam.
If you are unable to positively identify the size of the load being supported by the new header, then you should hire an experienced carpenter or a structural engineer to determine the size of the header for you. After all, better to be safe then sorry when altering the structural integrity of your home's wall framing.
Because your new French doors will be installed inside an existing window opening, you may be able to gather some valuable information by examining the existing header, which will have to be removed to accommodate the taller dimensions of the new French doors. Perhaps your project is best accomplished by first removing the Sheetrock around the window opening and exposing the existing wall framing. This way you will be able to see what size the original header is and you can measure how much room there is below the wall's double top plate for the new header.
Another aspect of your project that bears serious consideration is how you will temporarily support the load above the existing header once that header is removed and the new header is installed. This challenge may be beyond your DIY skills and could require the help of an experienced carpenter. Don't assume that the load above the old window header will stay in place while you install the new door header!
If you need to familiarize yourself with simple header construction, then you should check out this diagram, which shows the main parts of a standard door header. You may also be able to gather some useful information at a local lumber yard that sells engineered wood products. Oftentimes the salesperson at the contractor's desk will be able to recommend a header size for you based on the species and quality of wood that they sell. Good luck with your project, and take it slow so you get it right the first time. | 2019-04-22T14:09:41 | http://www.reliableremodeler.com/ask/how-to-size-a-header-when-framing-a-door-opening/ |
0.998346 | I have just been reminded of why I quit financial journalism after 11 years in the saddle, including a spell as a Wall Street correspondent.
While the world of finance had its fascinations, I grew increasingly disillusioned by the dominant narrative that it was always about the money, rather than any other considerations such as values and social impacts. They never registered on the radar.
That's not altogether surprising, given the testosterone-fuelled dealing rooms and the fact there is very little connection between the decisions of City executives and their impact on ordinary peoples' lives.
This all came to mind the other evening as a result of spending time with a group of senior sustainability professionals in major corporations, and socially responsible investment managers at the 20th birthday dinner in London of BSR, America's largest sustainability membership organisation.
While there was talk of progress being made on the corporate front, the conversation kept coming back to the failure of the financial markets to understand the need for change.
It was, quite frankly, shocking to hear from the big companies present that at a time of increasingly pessimistic news about climate change and biodiversity loss, never mind a host of other challenges, that mainstream analysts still aren't asking a single question about environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues at company briefings.
How can this possibly be? The obvious answer is that they still don't believe, or don't want to believe that there is a business case for putting sustainability at the heart of business strategy.
On the surface this is strange, given the fact that the chief executives of a growing number of companies, who are looking 10-20 years ahead, absolutely understand the need to transform their business models. There is also plenty of emerging evidence that companies that are taking this seriously are over time outperforming their competitors.
Investors are supposed to take a rational approach, and the science is very clear about the scale of the dangers just around the corner, which will have a dramatic impact on all businesses. In the last week alone, we've had three reports, from the World Bank, UNEP and the International Energy Agency, warning we are heading towards catastrophic temperature rises. A couple of weeks ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers warned companies to start preparing for 4C or even 6C warming.
The failure of the financial sector to act in a meaningful way presents the greatest block to global progress. New emerging green technologies need capital if they are to reach scale and we need to choke off funds for fossil fuel-based infrastructure projects.
Boards are also far less likely to invest in sustainability initiatives if their efforts do not get reflected in the share price. The failure so far of analysts to build ESG into company valuations is something that Ian Cheshire, chief executive of Kingfisher, the world's third largest DIY chain, has been particularly vocal about.
Worse, investors are only too quick to savage directors for taking their eye off the ball if their sustainability strategies are accompanied by a blip in short-term profits growth.
Unilever chief executive Paul Polman has so far, thankfully, avoided this fate but how many City players are hoping he trips up so they can get back at him for breaking ranks by refusing to give quarterly guidance on financial performance.
Peter Bakker, who heads up the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, recognises the dangers. He told me recently: "The valuation of a business has to change … If the capital markets measured the sustainability of companies then people like Paul Polman at Unilever would be seen as a god."
So if it's so clear that the myopic vision of the financial sector is driving us closer to disaster, why is change happening so slowly?
At its heart, the answer is simple. The vested interests who control the financial architecture, and have an extremely powerful voice in the corridors of power, simply don't want to change because they still benefit hugely from the status quo, despite seeing the ruin they have brought on all of us.
You see this repeated in the energy sector with the fossil fuel lobby using every lever to maintain their incentive structures and prevent further regulation.
What is also clear is that there is a cultural problem. Money is not allowed to be discussed alongside morality.
This was highlighted at the BSR dinner by a writer from the Economist who questioned whether those pushing a more ethical investment approach would create confusion if they focused both on the business case for change alongside the need for "planetary husbandry."
This highlights the Catch 22 that leaders in socially responsible investment (SRI) find themselves in. If they stick only to the metrics of the ESG business case, they risk continuing marginalisation.
However, if they tear open their starched shirts and expose their hearts by linking financial decisions to the future of humanity, they risk being denounced as socialists and communists on Wall Street, and in the City of London as hippies who strategise around the camp fire.
That risks what credibility they have achieved from being snatched away. This is the power of the dominant narrative.
It's difficult to know where change is going to come from. Companies are changing because they are often closer to the problem, especially those who have direct connections to citizens around the world. They are recognising the world is changing and they can no longer hide behind the old adage that the purpose of business is business. The idea of social purpose is starting to seep back into the boardroom.
However, the complexity and opaqueness of the financial markets means that financial executives have so far escaped public scrutiny. This allows them to stay behind impenetrable walls and continue to believe they contribute to society solely by the wealth they create.
Politicians collude in this because they are scared that if they tamper with the financial markets, then they will kill the goose that once laid the golden eggs.
So could it be up to civil society to generate change? The Bank of England governor quite rightly wondered why there wasn't more outrage at the behaviour of the big banks, but the Occupy movement did show there is a river of anger below the surface that may well turn into a flood.
Or maybe it will just be the case that the financial markets will implode under the weight of their own hubris.
As John Fullerton, founder and president of the Capital Institute, wrote on the Guardian Sustainable Business network this week: "We will see that the entropy law, the second law (not theory) of thermodynamics, must and will assert its proper place as supreme ruler over the false abstraction of compound financial returns on an expanding stock of financial capital in the face of a diminishing stock of natural capital.
"A generation ago, we failed to comprehend the system under which we were living until it failed, ushering in the second world war. Let us have the insight and courage to grasp the true nature of our deeply flawed present-day system, and the transformation it demands, before it too fails." | 2019-04-19T15:15:34 | https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/desperate-failure-financial-markets-change?intcmp=122 |
0.998522 | For instance, it is not possible for you to argue for or against a declaration such as "Humans require air to breathe." However, it will be possible to argue, "Humans need political structures for them to continue thriving."
A good persuasive essay should, thus, comprise of a compelling introduction that helps draw the reader in, has been provided with a strong thesis declaration fully supported by strong proof, is able to address the arguments being raised by the opposing side, and is able to provide a strong conclusion with suggestions or questions that can help further the study.
But how do you go about writing persuasive essay?
The only reason why a persuasive essay exists is that the topic being discussed is polemical. This means that you can successfully be able to argue for or against the topic in question. Even though the normal tendency is for you to write about a side that you can easily agree with, this may not be the smartest move to argue.
For instance: if you are looking to talk about the various causes of global warming, and strongly hold the belief that global warming is a natural planetary process, then it might actually be easier for you to find evidence that helps argue that it is in fact brought about by human activity.
The position you choose should always be based on how easy it will be for you to find solid evidence to help you support that position.
Now that you have already selected a topic that you like, it will now be time for you to start researching that topic. Research requires you to read widely. It is the only way to find out what the most popular discussion themes for this topic are, the positions being held by different experts in that field.
As you read, start narrowing down on your research. This will help ensure that you are only focusing on credible sources. Note: credible sources should only comprise of blogs or credible applications that have been written by people who have a solid background in that particular subject matter.
In the course of your research, there is a high likelihood that you did indeed come across diverse topics on this subject, all of which proved to be interesting. However, the problem lies in the fact that it will not be humanly possible for you to explore all the topics in question.
As such, this will be the time to narrow down on the themes that provide strong evidence on the topic that you chose, as well as those that appear to be more compelling than the others. But keep in mind that this is not an invitation to only focus on the themes that have been argued by others over and over again.
You could choose to go the other way and focus on a theme that has been well-researched, but one that has not proven to be as popular as the others. This is always a great way to earn additional points with your professors.
Example: If your topic revolves around the global warming concept, you could choose to focus on new studies linking cell phone or electronic use to global warming. This may prove to be a fun, interesting, but not yet widely discussed argument on this subject.
Make sure that you introduce the discussion topic using a strong anecdote, if possible, choose a strong quote made by a respectable figure. You could also use other interesting words that will capture the imagination of the reader or quote a shocking statistic on that subject.
Any story given here should always act as a lead to the thesis statement where you will state the position that you have taken. This should also act as the last introductory sentence.
This is where you introduce the evidence and research that you will use to support the thesis statement.
At this point, you will need to entertain the argument that is being made by the other side. You will also need to explain why you are choosing to stick to your chosen side.
Suggest questions that are yet to be discussed. You could also suggest further research that can help lead to a better understanding of the subject.
It is critical that you get your thesis statement right. This is the statement that will strongly state the position that you will be arguing, and should, therefore, not leave any shred of doubt. Make sure that your wording leaves room for the other side to argue about the topic as well.
Example: Too many children today are accessing the internet without adequate parental supervision." This is a very weak statement, but "Stricter parental guidance or supervision policies needs to be implemented on the World Wide Web, "is a very strong statement that helps you get to the heart of what it is that you intend to communicate. It is also a statement that will be very easy to argue against.
When the outline is complete, and you have already fleshed out a winning thesis statement, then it is time to approach the home stretch. At this juncture, all that is remaining is for you to start filling in the remaining blanks. Use the evidence that you collected during the research phase to flesh out the remaining spaces.
Once the rough draft is complete, it is always tempting to want to go back to the starting point so as to read through it again and start editing the thesis. But you need to try and resist this temptation.
The best time to edit the thesis will be after you have allowed yourself some time to think and reflect things over. Give yourself enough time between the writing and editing phases. Doing so will make it easier for you to spot flaws in your logic, grammatical and spelling errors, as well as make it possible for you to get a sense whether your persuasive essay topic is flowing or not.
Having allowed yourself some space since the time you completed writing the first draft, it will now be time for you to start editing it. Do not just read through the draft to check whether it passable. Take your time to check whether there are ways in which it can be improved.
If you come across a certain piece of evidence that does not seem to be making sense or one that does not sound convincing, then do not hesitate to make some changes. Do not be afraid of taking on additional work if it will help your essay become more convincing.
At the end of it all, your essay will not only sound better, but the grade awarded by your professor will definitely have been worth it.
What is the role of media in sports life?
Are athlete’s better role models than rock stars?
Do you care that our society is no longer male-dominated?
Does modern Internet video impinge on the adolescent’s intellect?
Do you care that American and British musicians are more paid than the artists from the rest of the world?
Does it make sense to invest in your personal band for years?
Are cell phones safe for health?
Do you feel that our activity contributes to the global warming?
The recommended way to go about crafting the best persuasive essay topics is to always be prepared for the arguments that are likely to be raised by your opponents. Prepare a list detailing all these arguments. Go through your list and highlight the arguments that stand out above the others.
As you are doing your research, you will need to approach your research in a manner that can help you disprove all these arguments. By doing this, you will be ensuring that when you start writing the essay, you will not only be presenting your position, but you will also be subtly refuting the claims being made by the opposition.
When you are presenting your opponent's position, be sure to use a neutral language. This should be a language that does not demonstrate any kind of judgment against them. You should aim to talk respectfully about the position that has been taken by the other side, and choose to explain, albeit in a respectful manner, why it is that you do not agree with that position.
Persuasive essay topics should always be convincing. This means that you should not be afraid to make use of strong language if it will help you convince the people reading your essay. Always remember that the best persuasive essays are those that help the reader care about the topic in question. This will be the first step toward bringing them to your side. | 2019-04-21T06:15:33 | https://papersmarketplace.com/blog/how-to-write-a-persuasive-essay |
0.997874 | From an Irish pub to an Academy Award winning movie: The Mahones have come a long way in 28 years. Heralded as pioneers of the Irish punk scene, and internationally recognized as one of the best and hardest working punk outfits around, The Mahones formed on St. Patrick's Day in 1990, and have been working on their own brand of Irish punk ever since. With a working class ethic and a love of classic punk, Dublin-born Finny McConnell formed the band to combine his love of punk rock with his Irish culture.
The Mahones have released an incredible ten studio albums, three compilation albums, two live albums and two EPs. The band has toured through over 35 countries internationally, headlined festivals all over the world, and has been honoured to share a stage with nearly all of their favourite bands. The band grew from Irish pubs and punk squats, to halls, theatres and arenas, touring relentlessly since their start, and is famous for an incredible high-energy live show. | 2019-04-22T22:56:00 | https://www.stpatricksparty.ca/the-mahones |
0.999925 | Why is the tagline of the movie "just be you," when Sierra spends most of the movie doing the complete opposite?
1. Why is whole premise of the movie that Sierra's not "conventially pretty?"
Yes, she's not a contoured Instagram baddie, but shes looks like a typical cute teenager. It shouldn't really be a focal point tbh.
2. Speaking of which, aren't we done with the old "you can't have brains AND looks" trope yet?
Isn't everybody bored of this by now?
3. Why is the tagline of the movie "just be you," when Sierra spends most of the movie pretending to be Veronica?
She literally pretends to be somebody else — the tagline really doesn't apply here.
4. I know it's vital to the storyline, but why does Sierra think that lying is a good idea in the first place?
I just don't understand why anyone would think this would end well!
5. And doesn't this just romanticise catfishing?
Being a catfish is basically lying and being manipulative, but most of Sierra Burgess is a Loser makes it look really fun.
6. Why are there so many jokes about her "looking" like a lesbian?
It's 2018 people, time to get rid of these tired stereotypes.
7. And are we supposed to just gloss over the casual transphobia?
8. WHY ON EARTH DOES SHE PRETEND TO BE DEAF???
If she was that worried about Jamey recognising her voice, maybe she shouldn't have lied about her identity in the first place.
9. And if she was so concerned about the voice revealing her identity, why does she then make Veronica go on a date with Jamey?
Surely Veronica's voice would've been a huge giveaway?
10. Why does Sierra think it's okay to kiss Jamey without his consent?
Catfishing is one thing, but tricking someone into kissing you is morally wrong, and just plain weird.
11. Are we just meant to ignore the fact that Sierra publicly humiliates Veronica, purely for revenge?
She hacked into her "friend's" account and then posted an exposing photo for the world to see. Somebody needs to stop this girl!
12. And why does she then try to justify her terrible actions?
This is bad form, even for Sierra.
13. If Sierra is so clever, why does she continually make such terrible decisions?
She might be book smart, but her track record of life choices is pretty bad.
14. And why does she think her teenage angst is so unique?
15. Does writing the song really excuse all of the bad things that she's done?
"Sunflower" is a good tune, but does it really make up for her totally betraying Veronica, ditching Dan, and lying to Jamey?
16. Are we supposed to be rooting for Sierra?
17. After everything she's done, why does Jamey want a relationship with Sierra?
18. And why is she flattered by Jamey's "compliment"?
Jamey had me up until he said this — it has to be the most back-handed compliment in history.
19. What's the moral of the story?
If you wanna get the guy, be a catfish? If you hurt everyone, just write them a song and they'll love you again? I really don't know. | 2019-04-20T20:39:54 | https://www.buzzfeed.com/hanifahrahman/sierra-burgess-is-a-loser-questions |
0.999473 | This company (anonymous) is a provider of business process outsourcing services to the federal government.
This organization had the same sickness as most firms - employees were afraid to speak up. In some cases, there was no reason to be afraid, other than human nature. In other cases, employees knew they'd be punished for speaking up. This organization needed a way to fix it.
I served as a senior executive in this firm. One day when we had a company happy hour, Joe, one of my direct reports had too many drinks. He decided to speak up and challenged something I did. The next day he called me in the morning to apologize. I responded, however, that there was nothing to apologize for and thanked him for giving me feedback that would make me a better leader.
Later in the day I had a meeting with my senior staff. I told them that Joe gave me some great feedback on how I can improve myself and I was going to take Joe to lunch to thank him for that. I then announced that I'll take anyone to lunch who will give me any such feedback in the future, starting today. Everyone laughed. One person decided to carefully test the waters and somewhat jokingly said: "Here's one for you. You are forgetful sometimes. Just kidding."
I took advantage of that comment. I thanked him for giving it to me and offered to take him to lunch that day. He then changed the subject.
When it was time for lunch, I called him and offered to take him. He thought I was joking but agreed to join me. I took him to lunch and paid for it. When I put my card down, he finally realized I wasn't joking when he said: "Oh, I thought it was a joke..."
I confirmed to him that I was serious.
Later in the day, I received a phone call from another one of my reports who gave me some great feedback. I immediately scheduled lunch with him as well.
I followed up on my promise in several ways. First, I took everyone to lunch if they gave me feedback. Then, I came up with a plan on how I was going to deal with the problem (or the perception thereof). I presented it to the person that gave me feedback. I then executed the plan and made sure everyone was aware of it. I then thanked the person again for providing me with this feedback.
After a while, people saw that I was serious, I didn't punish people for any sort of feedback, I always thanked them and I did something about it.
Once people trusted me, I asked my staff to do the same with their people. This created a culture of trust in the organization. People became open with each other. No one was afraid to speak their mind. In fact, the opposite was true. The more you speak your mind, the more free lunches you will get.
People couldn't talk candidly even to their peers. Managers didn't know what their employees thought or wanted, or how they should be motivated. There was no culture of performance. Leader's awareness was close to zero. Leadership skills were mediocre.
A culture of 100% free communication. Employees could openly discuss issues with managers. Managers became leaders, and leaders became superleaders. Communications and performance improved. Leadership awareness became high. Politics and gossip disappeared. The level of trust in leadership became high. The level of personal accountability increased as well.
4. Execute. Follow up. Do as you promise.
Its really refreshing to hear the boldness you have to hear to frank opinion of your reports. I think managers majority of managers want to be like you but the issue is how much of the feedback can be implemented. Did you have any instance where you have said it cant be done or if you wanted to do but cant be done?
This is a great story! If only all leaders would experiment on themselves! It seems like it was relatively smooth sailing for you. I'd be interested in any bumps along the road and how you dealt with them—especially when it comes to the transition between one individual leader whose made a decision to behave differently and institutionalizing the change. I'd also love a bit more detail on how working life actually changed: did you get things done faster? Were you able to eradicate any bureaucratic processes? What tools did you use for communicating? Any new reward systems in place? etc.
Your approach to feedback reminds me of Marshall Goldsmith on this: he talks about feedback as "positive, simple, focused, and fast." No talking about the past, no judging ideas, just say thank you. He also says leaders should create "stop doing" lists rather than "start doing", which seems in line with what you created in your organization.
It might be interesting for you to check out MIX Maverick John Mackey on the subject of trust. Something quite striking he said: that we spend so much time trying to figure out how to "get" trust in organizations (as leaders), when we ought to be cultivating a way to *give* it (mostly be creating a culture of love and care, as you suggest above). | 2019-04-24T16:45:30 | https://www.managementexchange.com/story/improve-your-manager-get-free-lunch |
0.999906 | There is a rabbit on the floor of the stairs. Stairs have 3 steps, Rabbit can jump 1 or 2 steps. What is the probability of going to third step from the floor without visiting second step ?
floor -> 1 -> 3 ( This is the case we want).
So the answer must be .
Ok everything seems right. But if we represent this problem as a graph , In first step we must choose between 1 or 2 so the probability to go 1 is equal to . In second step we must choose between 2 or 3 so the probability to go 3 is equal to . So the overall the probability is equal to . Second solution have some differences from the first solution but I couldn't figure out what it is.
That's because the probabilities for cases 1, 2 and 3 aren't necessarily equal. Look at case 3. You can notice that the probability is actually 1/2 and not 1/3. Cases 1 and 2 are symmetric so both will have 1/4 probability.
I think ekkreamy's comment seems true. If you think that is wrong. Can you please explain ?
Imagine at a given moment you are at 2. Is there a difference between jumping 1 step or 2 steps?
No. So the probability to get from 2 to 3 with visiting 2 is 1.
Obviously the probability to get from 3 to 3 with visiting 2 is 0.
Now imagine we are at 1. The probability to get to 3 with visiting 2 is (1/2 * (probability from 2 to 3) + 1/2 * (probability from 3 to 3)) = 1/2 * 1 + 1/2 * 0 = 1/2.
Finally let's look at the moment when we are at the floor. We have 2 options. Go to 1 or go to 2.
Then the probability to visit 2 will be 1/2 * (probability from 1 to 3) + 1/2 * (probability from 2 to 3). This means that this probability is 1/2 * 1/2 + 1/2 * 1 = 3/4.
Then the probability to not visit 2 is 1 — 3/4 = 1/4.
Then the probability to visit 2 will be (probability from 1 to 3) + (probability from 2 to 3). You are wrong in this sentence because the first and second steps are not identical. Rabbit can go to the second step from the first step but it cannot do the reverse action of this action so this is why the probability of going to first step in the first jump is not it is .
That's not how probabilities work.
I still think that , because of this. We choose one of this options so choosing the first step in the first jump is as you can see.
Your problem is not properly defined. What does the rabbit randomly choose? The path or the next step?
Considering the rabbit randomly chooses the next step from the current step, your second solution is correct. In your first solution, the probability distribution of the 3 paths is not the same. You cannot directly say 1/3 by choosing 1 out of the 3 paths.
Experimental probability is the true solution to this problem. Calculating the probability via experiment: We have 3 options for going the third step from the floor. So we have 3 probabilities for the first jump. Two of them are the first step, one of them is the second step. We do not want to go to the second step so going the first step at the first jump has a probability of . Using the same method, the second jump must be the third step which has a probability of . Multiplying this two jumps gives us the answer .
Yeah your idea seems right.
No, just because you have three possible outcomes doesn't mean each has probability one in three (aka the probability of winning the lottery is not one in two just because you either win it or you don't). In this case, in 2 you have only one option and will always go to 3. In 0 and 1 you can make two choices, I'm assuming that we select one uniformly. So the first two sequences above have probability , and the third one probability . So the answer is .
Second step and the first step are dependent so that's why we cannot say that going to the first step in the first jump is not .
MrTEK I think we can relate it to the problem of finding the probability of reaching a particular leaf in a tree from the root. According to your first idea it should be 1 / (total leaves), hence all leaves are equiprobable, but it is wrong.
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I just checked a registrar and "lakenagasin.com" is currently available. So, register that domain. Put up a bunch of information about Lake Nagasin and maybe fishing in general. Be sure to mention "Nagasin" plenty of times. Sign up for Google Adwords and add those to your page. Next, this is key, grab the top 10-20 search results for Nagasin and add them as links from your page.
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(Boston) When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.
The imbroglio will soon pass, but it raises a bigger question: Why is it so bad to pay someone to write something on Wikipedia?
The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" requires articles to have a "neutral point of view." But most contributors surely have some personal motivation to dive into a subject, whether it's adoration of "Star Trek" or a soft spot for geraniums.
What's to say contributors who get paid have a harder time sticking to the golden path of neutrality? And doesn't Wikipedia have a built-in defense mechanism -- the swarms of volunteer editors and moderators who can quickly obliterate public-relations fluff, vanity pages and other junk?
That is precisely what ran through Gregory Kohs' mind last year when he launched MyWikiBiz, a service that offered to write Wikipedia entries for businesses for $49 to $99.
A market researcher in West Chester, Pa., Kohs believed that the corporate world was underrepresented in the sprawling Web encyclopedia, which is dense with obscure topics.
"It is strange that a minor Pokemon character will get a 1,200-word article, but a Fortune 500 company will get ... maybe 100 words," he said.
Kohs, 38, said he was committed to having MyWikiBiz create only legitimate Wikipedia entries -- neutral, footnoted and just on companies or organizations with a sizable presence.
"I was not going to write an article for Joe's pizza shop at the corner of Main and Elm," he said. After all, Kohs was fine with Wikipedians editing his clients' entries however they saw fit, but he didn't want the articles to be taken down entirely for being irrelevant.
Kohs researched Wikipedia to see if his idea violated the site's communal spirit. He found what appeared to be an answer in his favor: Wikipedia's Reward Board.
The board is Wikipedia's internal forum for people who would like to see certain topics introduced or improved so they have a chance of achieving the rare status of "featured article," earned when editors consider an entry supremely well-written and fair.
Here's what got Kohs' attention: Offers for barter or even cash are common on the forum, and the person making the offer can remain anonymous. Indeed, on Wednesday, someone was ponying up $55 for whoever could get an article about Lithuania to reach featured status.
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Kohs noted that he was openly identifying himself as the author of his clients' pages. And he cited the Reward Board.
Wales was unswayed. But he told Kohs he could create Wikipedia-like entries for his clients on MyWikiBiz.com. Then Kohs could reach out to Wikipedia editors and see if they'd like to "scrape" the pages -- use them as Wikipedia entries.
Around that time, however, Wikipedia's volunteer crews were tweaking the site's conflict-of-interest policy. As Kohs read one new rule, he could post his clients' copy on his own personal user page inside Wikipedia, rather than on MyWikiBiz.com. Presumably that would make it easier to attract Wikipedia editors' interest.
Wales had earlier told Kohs that step would be forbidden. So Kohs wrote Wales that it appeared the community now disagreed with him. Wales shot Kohs down in a terse e-mail.
"Absolutely unacceptable, sorry," Wales wrote.
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Wales agreed in an interview that companies and regular people likely are surreptitiously editing their own entries, doing in secret what MyWikiBiz was open about. But that doesn't mean the site should give up trying to prevent public-relations efforts, Wales said.
"It's one thing to acknowledge there's always going to be a little of this, but another to say, `Bring it on,'" he said.
Wales was asked why it mattered if Microsoft or anyone else paid to have copy written on Wikipedia, since there's no guarantee that the site's vigorous editors and moderators would let it remain. He called that notion akin to a city with stellar trash collection telling its denizens to go ahead and litter, since the garbage wouldn't be around long.
It's certainly understandable that Wikipedians would want to limit the rubbish they have to sweep away, given that they spend a fair amount of time fighting PR's more nefarious cousin: use of the site to denigrate rivals. Last year, for example, Wikipedia temporarily blocked access from some computers assigned to Congress after a series of partisan pranks. In one, the entry on Sen. Robert Byrd was altered to give his age as 180 rather than 88.
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I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but I am nobody's fool. For there is no language that I cannot speak, though I never went to school. What am I?
I come in winter. I cannot see, hear, or feel. I can't eat, but you can eat parts of me. What am I?
I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, or I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
but no man made it.
but no man wards it.
A wonder on the wave / water became bone.
I await a sword's kiss.
Hard iron on horse / cow's hide on man.
of the sea's blue skirt.
I die when I reach land.
A wave on the ocean.
my limbs are light-freighted / I am lapped in flame.
I'm a grove leaf-bearing / and a glowing coal.
shall flourish skyward / beneath my fostering shade.
Swings by his thigh / a thing most magical!
stiff-set and stout / it swivels about.
He's oft filled it before. / Now he fills it again. | 2019-04-23T14:08:11 | http://www.thievesguild.cc/riddles?p=15 |
0.998327 | Mommy, who is Michael Jackson?
One afternoon last week, judging by the special coverage on every local Los Angeles television station, you'd have thought someone had flown an airliner into a skyscraper. The actual news, of course, was that Michael Jackson had died suddenly, mysteriously, before the world could even learn if his comeback would be a success.
The concerts next month could never have generated as much money as the act of dying will. The extra positive media exposure and public forgiveness are incalculably large. What a great, if unintentional, career move.
However high his psychic apogees as the "King of Pop" his low points must have been frightening. His parents rode him hard and put him away emotionally wet. He spent his adult life searching for lost youth, questioning his fading talent, explaining his bizarre behavior and hiding his face from cameras - a living hell like that could be no worse than the imaginary fiery afterlife everyone seems to believe in..
But everything is different now. (I heard someone say exactly that on a TV news program.) Amidst the OJ-like media excitement over the as-yet unannounced upcoming Jackson funeral plus expectations of lawsuits, box sets, tribute productions, interviews of his children (once they turn 21), documentaries, made for TV biopics and, eventually, enough tell-all books to fill an elementary school library, America wants to know right this minute how the future will remember Michael Jackson.
Many people think Mike will end up at the top of the dead media legend tree next to Elvis. Hardly likely. My guess is that he'll end up several branches lower as the biggest name from the second-most relentlessly conformist and trivial era of popular culture ever. But the post-baby boom generation finally has its own John Lennon. Or is he their Tupac Shakur.
The important issue is whether Michael's fan base will replicate itself over time. When the current five-year olds who are listening to their parent's Michael Jackson albums grow up, they'll reproduce. Here's an imaginary conversation around the year 2040 between one of those kids and her tweener daughter.
Daughter "Mommy, who is Michael Jackson?"
Mom "He was a singer your Grandmother used to like when she was your age."
Daughter "Why does he look so funny."
Mom "Because he had plastic surgery to make him look younger."
Daughter "His eyes are sad. Why was he sad?"
Mom "Because he was so talented and so rich and so famous that he became unhappy."
Daughter "I thought famous people were always happy. Where is he now?"
Mom "He died a long time ago when he was fifty."
Daughter "No wonder he was sad. Fifty is REALLY OLD."
Mom "Don't tell your Grandmother. Now finish your bowl of Mr. Fizzy Mango Flavored Enviro-flax Sugar Treats and then you can watch that new show that you like on the 3-D Disney channel. Won't that be fun?"
Daughter "Oh boy!" Long pause. "Mommy, who is Miley Cyrus?"
The Michael Jackson Through The Year 2022 graphic came from here. Gessner Allee is, apparently, a theater in Zurich. The graphic is at least 3 years old.
I found these pictures reblogged on This Isn't Happiness. See if you can identify their common theme.
These pictures can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here or there. These links might help you find the original source blogs. Some of the pictures will enlarge if you click them. Ah ha.
Ask any blogger. They'll tell you that keeping a valid blogging license means periodically posting pictures of your pets. Cute pictures are best. This humanizes us a little bit. We don't want you to think we're all cranky loners with strange ideas and unsupportable opinions who constantly misspell words while stealing copyrighted material from other websites.
This years parade begins with our dog Chowderhead. Not his best angle.
Here is Crackle. He's shy.
This is Spackle, twin sister to Crackle.
Finally, a serious portrait of Miss Ivy Turnstiles Smith-Perkette. She can be really annoying.
You'll have to ask for an explanation of Ivy's full name. Click any picture for enlargement.
Here's the previous Blog License preserving post (Jan. 08).
Here are pictures of The Ackles (that's Crackle & Spackle) as kittens. They were cute kittens. They're now 3 years old.
Rain Random is a two-minute music composition with video images. The images are of rain. The piece is very cold and wet. Very empty. Like waiting for a bus on a street corner where there is no bus shelter without a raincoat during a huge rainstorm and everything around you just gets more blurred and dismal. More wet. More soaked. Please enjoy Rain Random.
Rain Random copyright (c) 2009 by David Ocker - 122 seconds.
If you have trouble with the embedded player, try here.
My buddy Roger Lebow has a strange malady - every ten years, when the second digit of his age number turns to zero, he throws himself a big birthday party. Like yesterday afternoon.
My buddy John Steinmetz roasted Roger. I made a video with the point'n'shoot in my pocket. In an era of instant picture posting this is available the morning after - just like those old-fashioned newspaper things.
As always, my apologies for the sound (I was far away in a boomy room) and for the occasional camera jerk (I laughed sometimes too). If you go to the YouTube page you can annotate the video with your own comments.
Other Mixed Meters videos in a similar vein which you may enjoy: Vinny Introduces Anne and Vinny Introduces Me.
Click here to see John Steinmetz's many Mixed Meters appearances, most recently about the Push Poke Prod Press. This is Roger's first feature appearance but he has been thanked previously.
And before I forget: Happy Birthday, Roger. I was gonna get you a card - but this will have to do. | 2019-04-19T07:05:13 | http://mixedmeters.com/2009/06/ |
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0.999987 | Choose a CORRECT r-controlled word to make a proper sentence.
Jerry built a big ______ for his cows.
Little Tracy was feeding the ______. | 2019-04-25T19:44:10 | http://mytestbook.com/test_questions.aspx?test_id=591&topics=Grammar%20R-Controlled%20Vowels&subject=LanguageArts&grade=2 |
0.999964 | By now, the term practical psychoanalysis has become an oxymoron. The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted, it is extremely impractical: it doesn't serve the needs of the vast majority of potential patients. Understandably, people who seek the help of mental health caregivers want a therapy that will provide maximum relief from emotional distress as quickly as possible. Most clinical psychoanalysts offer instead a lengthy journey of self-discovery during which too much concern with symptom relief is considered counterproductive. "Self-awareness" is the main goal; symptom relief is of secondary importance and is expected to arrive, if at all, only after a while.
No surprise, then, that psychoanalysis has come to be regarded by the public at large as an esoteric practice which promotes a self-involved escape from real life, rather than a treatment method that helps the patient live real life more happily. No surprise, either, that all over the world fewer and fewer patients seek psychoanalytic treatment, and that those who do are for the most part people who want to become psychoanalysts themselves or fellow travelers who have an intellectual interest in the field. Clinical psychoanalysis has become, deservedly, the stuff of New Yorker cartoons.
This unfortunate state of affairs is ironic, considering that psychoanalysis got its start on the basis of its therapeutic efficacy. In the course of their researches, Breuer and Freud stumbled upon a method for relieving notoriously difficult to treat hysterical symptoms. Though Freud was a fascinating and imaginative writer who developed far-reaching ideas about culture and society, as well as about individual psychology, the world originally paid attention to him because of the extraordinary cures he and Breuer achieved—and achieved very rapidly, too, in contrast to the expectations of contemporary psychoanalysts.
Over the years, psychoanalysis drifted away from its original orientation toward symptom relief as the desired outcome of treatment and became increasingly preoccupied with a special, specifically psychoanalytic goal: the achievement of "insight" for its own sake. In the process, psychoanalysts not only made themselves irrelevant to most peoples' needs, but, as many critics have pointed out, also compromised clinical psychoanalysis as a scientific investigative tool. How can the validity of insight be assessed? Insights reached by analyst and patient together about the latter's psychology are inevitably influenced by the former's theory. Therefore, unless insights are validated by correlation with symptom relief (an outcome criterion that is not theory driven) a closed system is set up in which successful clinical analysis consists of analyst and patient discovering what the analyst assumed a priori to exist. Impractical psychoanalysis is also unscientific psychoanalysis.
Clinical psychoanalysis has become impractical, but it does not have to be impractical. In order to offer patients practical psychoanalysis, however, clinicians cannot conduct treatment on the basis of received wisdom. To begin with, psychoanalysts cannot assume the virtue of any particular set of procedures—use of the couch, frequency of sessions, even the method of free association. These are techniques, and in the progressive development of any scientifically based clinical practice, techniques will alter, even alter dramatically, as empirical evidence accumulates; some prove valuable and are retained, others are discarded. Only two hundred years ago, for example, the best available medical science indicated that bleeding the patient through use of leeches or by venicotomy was part of the responsible standard of care for most illnesses. Almost every patient who consulted a physician was bled. We now know that this technique, which was practiced as state of the art by the best physicians for centuries, was useless in almost all cases and dangerously detrimental in many.
Similarly, we have every reason to expect that the techniques of a scientifically based clinical psychoanalysis will alter over time. Therefore, it makes no sense to define clinical psychoanalysis as a particular set of techniques. Nor does it make sense to define clinical psychoanalysis as a particular set of theories, for these, too, will alter as science progresses. Even the most fundamental psychoanalytic concepts and principles should be critically reviewed at every turn, and we can anticipate that most will eventually be found obsolete. That's what happens in science. Practical psychoanalysis means remaining open-minded with regard to theory, holding nothing as axiomatic; and it means retaining an experimental approach to technique—i.e., searching for whatever way of working together with a given patient seems to make progress toward the desired goals of treatment.
If practical psychoanalysis cannot be defined in terms of any particular theory or technique, how can it be defined? The sensible way to define practical psychoanalysis is in terms of its area of study and its objectives. Sciences are usually defined in terms of their subject areas and applied sciences in terms of their objectives (e.g., chemistry is the study of compounds and pharmaceutics is the creation of useful drugs by applying chemical knowledge). Psychoanalysis is a scientific study of the mind, and clinical psychoanalysis an application of psychoanalytic science to therapy.
Practical clinical psychoanalysis is a treatment that aims to help the patient feel less distress and more satisfaction in daily life through improved understanding of how his or her mind works.
Practical clinical psychoanalysis is a treatment that aims to help the patient feel less distress and more satisfaction in daily life through improved understanding of how his or her mind works. Another way to put this is to say that in a successful practical analysis the patient is able to revise various aspects of the way he or she constructs reality, with the result that the patient feels better.
We might even take a traditional view, following Freud, and add that practical analysis brings the unconscious into consciousness. However, if we want to continue to use that conception, we must be prepared to update our definition of "the unconscious." It was Freud's idea that clinical psychoanalysis brings into conscious awareness certain thoughts that are available to consciousness but remain unconscious because the patient is motivated not to be aware of them—what Freud termed repressed thoughts or the dynamic unconscious. And it is true that successful practical analysis usually does, to a certain extent, involve the patient identifying ideas, feelings, memories, etc. that he or she has been holding out of conscious awareness for one reason or another. But it is also true that a very significant part of what happens in practical analysis consists of the patient becoming conscious of thoughts that have never been repressed, thoughts that the patient simply never had the opportunity to think before. These thoughts arise from novel perspectives provided by the analyst—explicitly or implicitly, intentionally or unintentionally—in the course of an intimate, mutually engaged exploration with the patient of his or her difficulties.
In every professional community, there are some psychoanalysts who treat patients practically. These clinicians help their patients achieve therapeutic benefits as rapidly as possible. The patients feel better, the quality of their lives improves, and their friends and families can see it. For that reason, practical psychoanalysts, contrary to the general trend, have more referrals than they can handle—and their practices are filled with patients who are neither analysts in training, nor hapless souls who are encouraged to remain for many years in treatments that produce no significant symptom relief.
Unfortunately, practical psychoanalysts tend not to publicize what they do with patients; instead, they quietly set many traditional psychoanalytic theories and techniques aside and go about doing what works. Good for practical psychoanalysts and for their patients! But not good for the field. There are many clinicians who would like to learn more about how to conduct a practical psychoanalytic treatment, and many patients who would like to know how to recognize one. This book is addressed to readers in both categories.
In the chapters that follow, I will discuss what I have found to be basic principles of practical psychoanalytic treatment. I will use a casebook format, presenting concepts via illustrative clinical examples. I do that for two reasons: first, because I find that abstract formulations about psychoanalytic theory and technique, by themselves, are difficult to understand, let alone apply on the line in work with patients; and second, because my recommendations are not based upon findings from systematic, controlled empirical research (nobody's recommendations are, in psychoanalysis, since adequate research methods have not yet been developed) and I want to share with readers, as best I can, the clinical experiences that have led me to reach my conclusions.
This is not intended as a scholarly volume. I haven't presented a survey of the literature, noting whose ideas have been the same or similar to mine and whose have been different. No background in psychoanalysis is required to understand what I have written. When I speak of an "analyst," I do not refer to someone who has attended an official psychoanalytic training program; I only mean a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist—and since most of Freud's important ideas have long since percolated into the cultural surround, any contemporary psychotherapist who is at all eclectic in his or her orientation will inevitably be psychoanalytically informed. My aim is to discuss in a down-to-earth way what, in my experience, can be useful for both analyst and patient to keep in mind when collaborating in an effort to help the latter feel better; and I think the best way for me to do that is to offer a collection of anecdotes, together with my thoughts about them.
Excerpted and adapted from Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients by Owen Renik, MD. Published on Psychotherapy.net with written permission from the author.
Also see An Interview With Owen Renik, MD.
Copyright © 2006 Other Press. All rights reserved.
Owen Renik, MD, is currently a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society. He was Editor in Chief of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly for ten years, Program Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association for two terms, and served as Director of Training and Associate Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco. He maintains a private practice in San Francisco. In his book, Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients, Renik makes use of clinical anecdotes to describe how to begin treatment, how to end it, and how to deal with the in-betweens in an engaging, practical, and down-to-earth style that will be valuable to therapists of any orientation. | 2019-04-24T18:41:02 | http://www.psychotherapy.net/article/renik-practical-psychoanalysis |
0.998282 | Is there anything inherently wrong with transfering human genes into other species?
Is the pursuit of knowledge enough to justify carrying out experiments involving pain and/or distress to an animal?
When primates are no longer needed for research, should they be destroyed humanely or retired to a primate sanctuary?
If research involves dogs, is it better to use purpose-bred laboratory dogs or unclaimed strays from a pound?
The informed public expects scientists to have thought through these and other issues. To do this, scientists need to see the ethical issues not as someone else's field, not as peripheral to the scientific enterprise, but as an essential element of being a scientist (Monamy, 2000).
The word philosophy, derived from the Greek literally means "love of wisdom". In keeping with its roots, the Cambridge International Dictionary defines the word philosophy as "the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of reality and existence, the use and limits of knowledge and the principles that govern and influence moral judgment". As an academic discipline, philosophy’s chief branches include logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
Although "ethics" is an academic discipline in its own right, it is useful for scientists to understand the concepts used in ethical discussions. Just as a discussion of business ethics should involve business people, so a discussion of ethics in science should actively involve scientists, as scientists bring an in-depth knowledge and data, necessary to inform decision making. Discussion of any of the issues listed at the beginning of this module would benefit from an understanding of the scientific data associated with the issue.
Ethics is derived from the Greek ethos meaning custom, people, the predominant community spirit. Within that community spirit, morality is the distinction between right and wrong. The field of ethics, also called moral philosophy, involves developing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behaviour. There has been a tendency for scientists to view themselves and their work outside this realm; however, increasingly science is being seen as part of society rather than apart from it. For example, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is mandated by Parliament to promote, assist, and undertake health research that meets the highest standards of ethics. It now has an ethics secretariat and ethics directors associated with each of the Institutes.
Philosophers divide "ethics" into three distinct but related kinds of inquiry: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
Metaethics, also known as analytical ethics, investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean. For example: Are ethical principles merely social inventions? Do they involve more than expressions of our individual emotions? Answers to these types of questions focus on issues of universal truths, the will of God, the role of reason in ethical judgment, as well as the meaning of ethical terms themselves.
In the context of animal experimentation, a metaethical question is the role of reason in motivating moral actions.
the opposing stance; true moral action is motivated only by reason when it is free of emotion and desire (Kant).
Current thinking tends to favour a rationalist approach and focusses on the reasoning and argumentation process that takes place when making moral choices. According to Baier, proper moral decision making involves giving the best reasons in support of one course of action versus another.
Normative ethics, also known as substantive ethics, involves a more practical task which is to arrive at moral standards or norms that regulate right or wrong, good and bad for evaluation and decision.
Applied ethics is the philosophical examination of problems in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment. By using tools of metaethics and normative ethics, discussions in applied ethics try to resolve controversial issues such as abortion, environmental concerns, the rights of animals, and the morality of animal experimentation. It is in the area of applied ethics where scientists have the most to contribute, recognizing that philosophy is not just about analysis and clarification of moral dilemma, but can also be used to seek answers.
Concerns about the use of animals in science have existed for almost as long as animals have been used to better understand the workings of the human/animal body. In order to understand the basis of some of today’s attitudes to the use of animals and the philosophical debate, it is useful to have an appreciation of the history of animal-based research and the underlying ethical attitudes.
The detailed history of animal based research has been outlined in many publications. Here only a few key landmarks are given, in order to give a background to the time-frame for the debate of the use of animals in science. Alongside are given some of the key ethical attitudes about the use of animals. It should be clear that almost from the outset that scientists have concerned themselves with discussions of the "rightness or wrongness" of the use of animals, and in considering what conditions should be placed on the use of animals for scientific purposes.
In 1989, the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs published an impressive list of medical advances made possible through research using animals including, among others: studies on autoimmune deficiency syndrome, behaviour, cardiovascular disease, cholera, haemophilia, malaria, muscular dystrophy, anesthesia, nutrition, and the prevention of rabies. Such research resulted in subsequent benefits for humans and non-human health. Further lists of medical milestones during the past century can be seen on the Research Defence Society website and Americans for medical progress.
With World War I, the focus on antivivisection shifted; benefits to human health through animal research were welcomed by the public, and in addition, for those who had witnessed the human suffering as a result of the war, consideration of animal pain seemed "faintly ridiculous" (Ryder,1989). After World War I, groups with an interest in the well-being of animals used in science were formed such as the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW). UFAW commissioned a philosopher and a microbiologist, William Russell and Rex Burch to write The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique (1959), a guide which pioneered the notion of the Three Rs that became a uniting focus both for the animal welfare and the scientific community worldwide, including in Canada.
The timeline above could be filled with many other examples and should be overlaid with considerations of the shift of societal values over time. The role of religion, the shift away from creationist philosophies, the movement to end slavery, to give women the vote; the shift from a rural to an urban-based economy, etc. are all relevant in the context of an evolving societal ethic of animals in science. The timeline can be used both as a brief overview and to pinpoint where the genesis of some of the thinking of today’s philosophers originated.
In parallel with the emergence of physiology, the school of thought called "Positivism" developed which shaped ideas about the nature of science. Positivism resulted from Auguste Comte's (1798-1857) attempt to create a clear distinction between the study of the material world and other branches of human thought such as theology and metaphysics. Science, as seen by the Positivists, is concerned only with what we can observe. It asks purely empirical questions: what, where, when, how much? Within this system, ethical questions — good and evil, right and wrong, should and should not — have no obvious place. Positivism helped to reinforce the distinction between the empirical and the ethical. However, that distinction expanded into the much broader view that science should not, or cannot, concern itself with ethical questions at all — that science is an island of pure, empirical investigation, unattached to ethical values.
By the end of the Second World War, this view was actively being challenged. At that time, experiments were being carried out, some of them lethal, on human beings who had been imprisoned and then forced to serve as subjects solely on the basis of race, religion, or mental development. Other experiments focussed on designing weapons of mass destruction. Even after the war, there were renowned scientists who conducted painful or harmful experiments on human subjects. These were clear cases where no one could portray scientific research as a disinterested search for knowledge, unrelated to ethical values or social agendas. In the wake of such tangible examples, many scientists found it necessary to reconceptualize their roles to incorporate both the empirical and the ethical issues inherent to science.
No experiment should take place if the necessary information could be gained by observation.
Only experiments that would result in the fulfillment of clearly defined and attainable aims ought to proceed.
Unnecessary repetition of an experiment must be avoided — particularly if reputable physiologists had been responsible for the original experiment.
All experiments must be conducted with a minimum of suffering.
All physiological experiments should be witnessed by peers, further reducing the need for repetition.
At present there is no widely accepted comprehensive moral theory pertaining to research involving laboratory animals. Ethical theories for animal-based research have lagged behind those of human medical ethics, partially because of the focus on human research ethics following the experiments during World War II, but also because concern for non-human animals did not and still does not fit well with the dominant intellectual paradigms driving the development of the field of bioethics.
The 1970s and 1980s saw increased interest in the use of animals among moral philosophers. Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation (1975) together with Richard Ryder’s Victims of Science (1975) and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights (1983) were published. Because these publications were both accessible to the lay public as well as firmly rooted in ethical theory they attracted the attention of opponents of animal research as well as academic philosophers. Reviving Bentham’s utilitarianism (1789), Singer argued for the liberation of animals based on equality of consideration of "interests" and their capacity to suffer, and claimed moral status for animals on that ground. Singer has been criticized by other philosophers as a preference utilitarian for his approval of the use of less sentient animals. Ryder based his considerations more on the ability of animals to experience pain, an extension of the concerns expressed by the physiologists Boyle, Hooke, and Lower as well as the English essayists Pope and Johnson. Another moral view, supported most strongly by Tom Reagan involves animal "rights." The beginnings of this theory can be seen in Primatt’s extension of the principle of justice beyond the human sphere. Other philosophers, such as Frey, Wren etc. have argued for the interests of individual species, and for the right to use animals in research.
The distinction between those who recognize rights in animals and oppose research and those who opt for animal welfare and permit or endorse humane research may be useful, but it does not accurately reflect the positions taken by leading contemporary philosophers. Some of those who advocate animal rights, such as Jerrold Tannenbaum, support the humane use of animals in research. Others, like Singer, do not claim rights for animals, but are strongly opposed to research involving animal subjects. The aim here is not to engage in a lengthy discourse of the various philosophical standpoints. Interested readers are encouraged to consult the reference list accompanying this module for a more in-depth understanding of current philosophical theories. In particular, Monamy 2000, Smith and Boyd 1991, and Tennenbaum 1999 provide a synthesis of the current philosophical discussion concerning the ethics of animal-based research.
In the absence of a universal ethic of animal experimentation, animal welfarists, both within science and without, have plotted a different course of action recognizing that animal researchers have a role to play as moral stewards. To a certain extent this view can be said to be based on the approach of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Nobel Peace Laureate, medical practitioner, and doctor of philosophy — i.e., to cause pain or death when it can be avoided is wrong. In addition, it signifies the beginnings of a move towards an ecological ethic, where the preservation of a greater whole is seen as important, occasionally at the expense of individual animal lives. In this context, animal experimentation is viewed as a "necessary evil," which is justifiable as long as those who conduct the experiments are in tune with their moral obligations — to society and to the animals in their care (Monamy, 2000). The CCAC policy statement on: ethics of animal investigation (1989), expresses these concepts for the CCAC. Building on principles first outlined by Marshall Hall; it also enshrines the Three Rs into the CCAC system.
This is the convergence point for 2,000 scientists, veterinarians, animal care technicians, students, community representatives and animal welfare organizations representatives participating in the CCAC system of ethical review and oversight for the care and use of animals used in science in Canada since 1968.
Do we as a society want xenotransplantation as a medical procedure?
Should marine mammals be kept in captivity?
Should society permit stem cell research involving fusion of human-mouse embryos?
When we have the answers to these types of questions, or rather when we have some understanding of where we stand as a society on these issues, at this time, in this place, then we are able to engage in the process of developing guidelines which accept as the societal norm that animals are going to be used for research, teaching and testing; or that xenotransplantation should only proceed under a set of prescribed conditions; or that it is necessary to keep some marine mammals in captivity to engage the public in concern for the marine environment.
The CCAC guidelines development process provides a framework under which the activity can take place, based on a willingness to do our best, taking into consideration all the information available. Scientists have a key role to play here in ensuring that the guidelines are based on sound scientific evidence.
Institutional animal care committees (ACCs), whose functioning is described in more detail in the Guidelines module, make ethical decisions on individual projects involving animal use. ACCs, composed of scientists/teachers, animal care personnel, personnel who do not use animals, and community representatives, function as a microcosm of society, using the guidelines and policies of the CCAC and their own expertise, experience, values, and common sense to reach decisions about what animal-based work should be allowed to proceed and under what conditions.
Scientists have a crucial role to play in ensuring responsible experimental animal care and use, and in fostering a caring attitude towards animals in the conduct of their research. Beyond overseeing the appropriate conduct of their own projects, the role that scientists play on ACCs is essential. Scientists provide ACCs with informed views on the need for animal use in science, and exchange views with all other members of the committee, including those with informed views on animal welfare and community representatives, to arrive at decisions that balance costs to animals with expected benefits for humans and animals. ACCs strive to reconcile public demands for medical, scientific, and economic progress with demands that animal welfare and integrity be protected.
The CCAC Assessment and Certification Program is peer review-based, and depends on the active involvement of scientists on CCAC assessment panels, sharing their expertise and experience with the members of the institution being assessed. Scientists also play a crucial role on the CCAC Assessment and Certification Committee, a standing committee that reviews all CCAC assessment reports and institutional implementation reports, and makes final decisions on the CCAC status of each institution in the Program.
A key element of the CCAC system is the involvement of the public in all of the CCAC’s activities, namely in establishing ethical standards through guidelines development, in ethical decision-making at the level of each institutional ACC, in providing sound judgment on each CCAC assessment panel, and in providing a public perspective on the CCAC Council. This integrated approach is essential to ensure that an external perspective is actively provided to all discussions and decisions on animal care and use in science, and that those who conduct the experiments are in tune with their obligations to the animals in their care, as well as to the other members of society.
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Smith, J.A. and Boyd, K.M. (eds.) 1991. Lives in the Balance: the Ethics of Using Animals in Biomedical Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | 2019-04-20T06:43:17 | https://www.ccac.ca/en/training/modules/core-stream/ethics-in-animal-experimentation.html |
0.999728 | Can Windows 10 save Windows Phone?
The future of Windows Phone is hanging in the balance: If the launch of Windows 10 doesn't improve the struggling mobile operating system's fortunes significantly then Microsoft may have no choice but to abandon it.
I'm a two-smartphone kind of guy. My current smartphones of choice: The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Apple iPhone 6.
I'm a two-smartphone kind of guy. My current smartphones of choice: The Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4. | 2019-04-19T08:30:49 | https://www.cio.com.au/tag/smartphones/features/ |
0.999688 | Question 2: Jeff Green left Georgetown for the NBA, while Roy Hibbert returned. Did they each make the right decision?
I think they both made good decisions. Jeff Green is going to be in the lottery, which is always a key for a kid who leaves early. It was unsure whether Hibbert was going to be drafted that high. Plus, his offense really started to develop over the second half of the season, so he is now in the process of improving. Without Green back, there is going to be more heat on Hibbert to score more, which I think is going to help him.
I think they did. Both players are very mature and both did what was best for them. Jeff Green is a tremendously skilled big guy who can go out on the floor and shoot the three. He passes well, can handle the ball and can shoot off the dribble. His stock could not have been any higher, coming off the Big East Player of the Year award. I think he is ready and made the wise decision. Roy Hibbert has come a long way at Georgetown and has gotten better each year. He certainly could play in the NBA, but would most likely be on the bench and not seeing much playing time. In his case, another year of college will definitely help him.
I think they both made the right decision. By going back to Georgetown, Hibbert has the opportunity to be next year's Greg Oden if he continues to work on his footwork and getting up and down the floor a little quicker. His overall understanding of the game is there, and I think he can be the centerpiece of the Hoyas' success next season, as well as the center that people will be paying attention to all season. Jeff Green's game is ready to go to the NBA right now. If he had gone back to school, he potentially could have been one of those guys that stayed a year too long, giving scouts a chance to pick apart his game and find some deficiencies. He is striking while the iron is hot and made the smartest decision he could make. | 2019-04-18T12:19:44 | http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/draft/nba_questions2.html |
0.999998 | My significant other is a member of a research project that I coordinate. How to allocate funding?
I'm responsible for a large research project, with many members and some substantial funding for traveling to conferences. However, I'm now in a relationship with one of its members. How should I proceed regarding allocating funds to my significant other? I'm worried that I may be accused of being unethical if I allocate whichever amount to them. What should I do? Namely, I would like to declare a conflict of interest, but there does not seem to be a way to deal with this conflict without some drastic consequences.
You should avoid putting yourself in a conflict of interest with respect to the grant and your significant other, if at all possible.
The point of the “if” qualifier is that, as you seem to believe, it may not in fact be possible to avoid without taking unreasonably drastic measures such as you or your SO resigning your roles.
You should avoid creating the appearance of an unmanaged conflict of interest, period. No exceptions.
The point of “appearance” is that it’s not just the conflict that needs to be avoided but also the appearance of one. You may be the most ethical person on the planet, or you may even know certain facts that not everyone knows that explain away the conflict and make you confident what you are doing is fine, but the appearance of a conflict can invite consequences that are just as bad, and possibly worse (e.g. a headline in the New York Times followed by calls for your resignation, a public lynching or whatnot), than the conflict itself.
The point of “unmanaged” is that if you can’t avoid a conflict - and one of the surprising things I learned is that conflicts can not always be avoided, nor is avoiding all conflicts at any cost even a desirable goal to have - then the next best thing is to find a way to manage the conflict. For example, at many institutions one can set up a conflict management plan, which may involve additional levels of oversight (for example a department chair or dean signing off on your funding allocation decisions pertaining to your significant other, and maybe additional reporting requirements such as you filing a letter of explanation justifying any such decision).
This goes without saying, but you should find out all applicable rules and policies that govern your situation.
The bottom line is, you should ask for guidance from your institution and your funding agency on how to address the situation. Have in writing documents, written (or at least reviewed and approved) by people in authority, which specify how you are expected to handle the situation. Then follow what these documents say.
However, I'm now in a relationship with one of its members. How should I proceed regarding allocating funds to my significant other?
The best thing to do here is to disclose the conflict-of-interest to your Head of School** and ask that they allocate a different academic to decide the funding allocation. The Head of School might have a different idea, and might decide that they want you to make the decision anyway, and if so, they will direct you to do that. By suggesting you be removed from making the decision you will have given yourself protection in the event that you are asked to make the decision and then later accused of bias. That will put you in a strong position if you are later accused of any mismanagement or bias.
I would like to declare a conflict of interest, but there does not seem to exist a way to deal with this conflict without some drastic consequences.
That is ridiculous. There certainly should not be any adverse consequences merely for declaring a conflict-of-interest prior to making a decision. The whole point of a conflict-of-interest policy is to encourage people to disclose potential conflicts-of-interest so that alternative decision-making arrangements can be made to avoid the conflict. The onus is on you to declare the conflict to your Head of School, and the onus is then on the Head of School to decide how to proceed. If your university has a conflict-of-interest policy then you should read it and follow its reporting rules, and if there is no such policy then you should declare the conflict directly to your Head of School with a simple email.
Also, you are not required to find a solution to your own conflict-of-interest. The whole point of the conflict is to make your decision-making suspect, and thereby taint decisions you make on the matter. Once you have disclosed the conflict-of-interest to your Head of School, the onus of decision-making will be on him/her to decide if and how they would like to alter the normal decision-making mechanisms.
** Throughout this answer I will refer to disclosure to your Head of School. Depending on your level in the university it might be sufficient to make disclosure to your own supervisor, even if this staff member is lower than Head of School. For simplicity, I will refer to disclosures to HoS.
You report the conflict of interest to your superior, and ask for help developing a management plan moving forward. Full stop.
The ethical way is to allocate funds in the same way you would if the other person wasn't in this relationship.
The "safe" way to make the decision and avoid appearances of impropriety is to somehow share the decision with either an independent party or the members of the group itself. It is harder to claim unethical behavior if the decisions are made in public, with full transparency. In extreme cases you could delegate the decision to someone else, such as a superior, if that is possible.
TL;DR: 1. Involve an impartial party in decision making; 2. lots of transparency.
As other answers suggest, it is important to recognize and disclose the fact that you are in a conflict of interests. However, that is not enough - it is merely the beginning. You can also not rely on higher-ups to provide adequate (or any) remedy to this situation: They might help, or they might not - it depends on the specific rules and organizational culture in your institute. Don't be surprised if they will be mostly annoyed at you creating more headaches and trouble in their already overly-busy schedule.
Someone who is not you interfering, supervising or participating in your decisions regarding how funds are allocated and to whom. This should not be a person you choose, but rather someone which is chosen either by consensus of the people affected by the funding decisions, or by higher-up academics or management which the people affected hold in high enough regard. The extent of involvement is also something that should have wide agreement, and I suggest you err on the side of caution, i.e. the more you can offload the decision to such an external party the better off this would be ethically. Of course, the price is more burden on that person, plus there will possibly be professional considerations which you are more capable in making - but that's the price you pay for better fairness when you have a conflict of interests.
Note: In my opinion, someone having authority over all of you choosing the external party is not in itself good enough, since that higher-up might not be trusted by the people affected.
Transparency in all possible stages of the process: What funds are available; what the external obligations are; what actions you are taking to secure more funds or to convince people to do things which affect fund allocations; the timelines for funding decision making; the criteria and formulae used in allocation; the input material and appeals by relevant people (including but not limited to your SO) for funding etc. Such transparency should be in face of those people who may be affected by the decision, including those which otherwise you would not have felt obligated to discuss these matters with.
As a side-note, I would very much recommend not to try something like democratizing the funding decisions, unless you're democratizing many other aspects of the project or the research group. The reason is that as a central person with more influence and power, you are likely to be able to form majorities even around less-favorable positions, and to deter juniors from opposing your position. Plus, you and your SO are two people, biasing the process even more in favor of your potentially-coordinated decision.
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Recommendation letter by significant other if you worked with them professionally? | 2019-04-19T07:06:55 | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/123303/my-significant-other-is-a-member-of-a-research-project-that-i-coordinate-how-to |
0.999999 | Nestl considers a Swiss exit if executive salary is capped | City A.M.
NESTLÉ, the world’s biggest food company, has warned that it could pull out of its home base in Switzerland if the government’s proposal to cap top salaries is approved.<br /><br />Group chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe yesterday said: “It would be the beginning of an end,” and said that if the move succeeded: “We must ask ourselves whether Switzerland is still the right location for us.” Brabeck-Letmathe received a 13.9m Sw Fr (£8.06m) total salary, including bonuses, for 2008. <br /><br />The global economic crisis and mounting public uproar against excessive pay for executives has meant the Swiss Federal Council, has been studying measures to cap “abusive” pay. <br /><br />But Brabeck-Letmathe said that to cave to “populist pressure” would be “damaging for the location”. “Switzerland was once known for not ceding to such demands.” A recent landmark settlement with USauthorities saw Swiss bank UBS agree to name the identities of 4,450 US clients. Many feel it means the end of Swiss banking secrecy.<br /><br />A Nestlé spokesman told City A.M. that the group would be considering all options. | 2019-04-19T22:51:08 | http://www.cityam.com/article/nestl-considers-swiss-exit-if-executive-salary-capped |
0.999999 | Ask these people questions with How long ? Write their answers using the words in brackets.
you: How long did you speak to him for?
Tim: I spoke to him for about five minutes.
you: How long did you spend to write essay ?
you: How long will you play golf?
Tony: I will play golf for four years.
You: How long did you play the guitar?
William: I played guitar for two years.
You: How long are you going away on holiday?
Cindy: I will be away on holiday for three weeks .
You: How long does it take to fly to America.
Elenor: It takes seven hours to fly to America.
you: How long did you sleep last night?
Cyril: I slept for ten hours last night.
you: How long have you had a cold?
Liza: I have had a cold for three days.
you: How long are you going to the coast this afternoon?
Mandy I am going to drive for 2 hours this afternoon.
You: How long did you live in England?
John: I lived in England for six months.
Fill the gaps in the sentences below with for, in, until or by.
She studied medicine by in the age of 25.
They got the lunch ready by 12.30.
He learnt to swim in six weeks.
They lived in Newcastle until 1973.
My father ran a bookshop for two years.
We did all our housework in a couple of hours.
We did some housework for a couple of hours.
I finished my homework by suppertime.
We discussed politics until three in the morning.
They reached the top of the mountain in four hours.
I borrowed my neighbor’s power drill for a few days.
He got all the letters typed by four o’clock.
The concert was over by half past nine.
He saved up $200 by Easter.
I studied French for five years.
She became a qualified physiotherapist in twelve months.
I dug the garden in a couple of hours.
He stayed in bed until lunchtime.
a. but they didn’t find it for six days.
b. but it was six days before they found it .
a. but they didn’t marry till 48.
a. but I didn’t know the lawn till mid-week.
b. but it was mid-week before I mowed the lawn.
a. but she didn’t go back home for several years.
b. but it was several years before she would go back home.
b. but it almost a year before it was over. | 2019-04-24T11:59:33 | https://www.merospark.com/content/74/duration-meaning-into-words-grade-xii/ |
0.999808 | Where Is Karl Rove's Feared American Crossroads Machine?
The super PAC was a major player in the 2012 election. But so far, it hasn't spent a dime on midterm elections.
If 2012 was the campaign of the super PAC, 2013 is shaping up to prove the maxim that there's an unceasing appetite for groups to spend money in politics. But there's one power player that's lying low in the off year: Karl Rove's American Crossroads. Even with the influx of outside cash, the granddaddy of all super PACs hasn't spent a dime on campaign activity this year.
At a time when growing numbers of GOP strategists believe that (very) early engagement against opponents is preferable to a last-minute blitz, Crossroads' passivity stands out. Crossroads hasn't spent any money to soften up Democratic senators in trouble next year. At this point in 2011, it spent early money to hit Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and former Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. There's no similar ad blitz being planned to soften up vulnerable Democrats in 2014.
Indeed, the group has held its fire since starting off the year on a controversial note. Soon after the 2012 elections, American Crossroads launched the Conservative Victory Project, a spinoff group designed to prevent weak candidates from emerging in big Senate races. It immediately drew harsh criticism from grassroots conservatives, and hasn't been heard from since February. Meanwhile, the party still faces the very real threat of a Todd Akin-like candidate emerging in ruby-red Georgia, and GOP recruiting in the traditional battleground states has lagged.
Meanwhile, the group drew fire from Republicans when it stayed out of this year's high-profile Massachusetts Senate race, declining to assist the party's Hispanic nominee whose campaign was badly outspent by Democratic outside groups. Based on its polling, Crossroads didn't think the race was winnable, and didn't want to start off the year with an expensive defeat. But it was also a leap to assume Gabriel Gomez couldn't win without giving him the resources to get his message out.
It's in stark contrast to the flurry of early political activity around them, where money from other outside groups is being spent with abandon. On the left, the League of Conservation Voters already dished out $2 million this summer against Republicans, hitting Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who's not even on the ballot until 2016, along with other vulnerable representatives. The Democratic House Majority super PAC spent big against South Carolina's Mark Sanford, while its Senate counterpart helped Edward Markey win the vacant seat in Massachusetts.
On the right, the Senate Conservatives Fund has been irritating Republican senators with a slew of radio ads urging them to defund Obamacare. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, facing a challenging reelection, even has his own super PAC attacking his opposition.
And independent New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is continuing to spend big bucks attacking gun-supporting politicos. Last month, he spent $350,000 to back two Democratic Colorado state senators, both of whom lost recalls this month for supporting gun-control legislation in their state.
Several factors are contributing to American Crossroads' lower profile this year. Donations to the super PAC are down in the off year. Through the first six months of 2013, it raised $1.86 million. During the same period in 2011, it raised $3.93 million. After Mitt Romney's defeat and losing 11 of 13 Senate races it spent money on in 2012, big donors are less willing to pony up.
The emergence of state- and race-based super PACs is also playing a role in diverting money and focus away from American Crossroads. Crossroads President Steven Law, a former McConnell chief of staff, is on the board of the Kentuckians for Strong Leadership super PAC, which has already been up with ads against McConnell's Democratic opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes. The Americans for Progressive Action super PAC emerged to help Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate special election, though it lacked the firepower of the opposition.
"Consultants are trying to be entrepreneurial, by design. They want advisers who have state-specific, candidate-specific expertise," said one Republican super PAC strategist.
America Rising, the GOP's opposition research and rapid response start-up, is also laying the groundwork for future attack ads, diminishing the need for early engagement. With resources devoted to research and tracking, they've been able to generate unfavorable news coverage for Democratic candidates at a lower cost than expensive TV buys. Republicans now view different groups filling different roles as a more efficient allocation of party resources than a one-size-fits-all super PAC.
"From our perspective, when we engage, we have a long-term sustained strategy we're pursuing rather than spending $80,000 in March of the off year. Early spending is important but it needs to be sustained as part of a longer-term strategy," said Crossroads' Law. "These short-term skirmishes are more designed for a brief impact, and to generate fundraising, and brand positioning. That's something we never have done much of."
So far this year, the group spent its time focused on policy over politics, launching small, six-figure publicity campaigns against Obamacare and persuading skeptical Republicans to support comprehensive immigration reform. That shift fell short, with immigration all but dead in Congress and Republicans divided on tactics on battling the president's unpopular health care law. Rove, the group's founder, has become deeply distrusted by some conservative activists, who view him as the face of the dreaded establishment.
American Crossroads sources said they haven't begun raising money in earnest for the new cycle; their fundraising efforts are ramping up this fall. Law said the group still expects to spend about $100 million on the 2014 midterms, around the same amount that went toward congressional races in the 2012 elections.
But even with an imposing budget, it's striking to see how much more competition the group now faces—with donors, within Republican ranks and in the wider super PAC world. In GOP circles, having a clear and coordinated message is now seen as more important than spending huge sums of money. Indeed, the Senate battleground landscape next year is filled with races in small states -- Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, among them -- where it doesn't take that much money to saturate the airwaves with negative ads. The bar for entry is much lower than in the past, inviting much more ideologically-driven competition.
Crossroads helped fashion the current campaign finance landscape, and the group will play a pivotal role in 2014, with control of the Senate up for grabs. But if Republicans fall short again, it could easily find itself displaced in a rapidly evolving and growing world of well-funded outside groups. | 2019-04-19T06:37:28 | https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/where-is-karl-roves-feared-american-crossroads-machine/279786/ |
0.999278 | The billionaire said Bernie Sanders was lying when he said his supporters are not told to go to Trump's events.
Donald Trump has threatened to send his supporters to disrupt Bernie Sanders' campaign events.
Trump said "fervent" supporters of Sanders were to blame for the violence that caused his campaign event in Chicago to be canceled Friday evening due to security concerns.
But Sanders denied he had sent protesters to Trump's rally. "As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar," Sanders said. "Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump's rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests."
Trump tweeted Sunday that Sanders was lying when he said he had not ordered his supporters to protest at his events and warned him to "be careful."
Trump's rally was scheduled to take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion, but protests and scuffles both inside and outside the arena caused the event to be called off at the last minute, leaving sullen Trump supporters to file out to the cheers of protesters.
Speaking to supporters at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, Saturday, the Republican frontrunner criticized what he said was the "disgraceful" behavior of anti-Trump protesters. He called the demonstrations "a planned attack" carried out by "organized, professionally staged wise guys."
"What happened yesterday was incredible," Trump said. "It was determined that if we go in it could cause really bad, bad vibes."
"You have to understand they want me to tell my people, ‘Please be nice.’ My people are nice!" he said to cheers. "They caused no problems. They were taunted, they were harassed by these other people."
Trump said some of the protesters represented "our communist friend" Bernie Sanders.
"Bernie, he should really get up and say to his people, 'Stop!'" Trump said.
The real-estate developer said there were no Hillary Clinton supporters at the rally because they lack the "fervor" of Sanders supporters. "Say what you want about Bernie, at least there’s fervor," he said.
In the aftermath of the Chicago event, Trump's opponents for the Republican nomination have also said he is ultimately responsible for the actions of his supporters due to his often incendiary rhetoric.
"I think a campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment, when the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence to punch people in the face,” Ted Cruz said. “The predictable consequence of that is that it escalates."
Speaking Saturday, Trump mocked his rivals for saying such behavior would not occur at their rallies. "They don't have any people at their rallies!" he said. | 2019-04-23T18:44:03 | https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/our-communist-friend |
0.997931 | wish to convey to non Catholic Christians?
Update: gotcatholic - just to point out, I am a former Catholic who was Catholic for over 20 years. So I do know what I am missing, but I don't view it as missing something, I have simply decided a teaching closer to what is in the Bible.
Best Answer: As a Catholic, I wish to convey my desire for the Lord's Church to be reunified -- we are brothers and sisters in Christ and there is no need for this discord, such as the multiple people above claiming that Catholicism is not Christianity or that it leads people astray. Also, I wish to convey my desire that non-Catholic Christians actually take the time to learn what Catholicism truly is, because you all seem to be operating under grave misconceptions that are easily disproved.
Isn't it fascinating that the Catholic responders are all saying things about building understanding, unity, mutual respect, while the majority of non-Catholics are using this as an opportunity to attack Catholicism? And yet Christ prayed that we would all be one!
As a non Catholic Christian, I would first like to express my desire that we be united in the "essential" doctrines of Christianity and stop bickering about the "non essentials".
As Christians, we are all here to further God's Kingdom and set our denominational differences aside.
Secondly, since I have been here on R & S, I have see a lot of "Catholic bashing" from all religions. One of the questions that is asked here on R & S repeatedly is "What is the difference between Catholics and Christians"? Obviously, many people are not aware that Catholics are Christians.
So I would like to address Catholics with this question.
What is the reason there is so much Catholic bashing and why are people not aware that Catholics are Christians???
Catholics always give the answer, that others have been misinformed and are mistaken about the Catholic Church.
Is this the truthful real reason or an easy denial?
I am a former Catholic, and now have no religion but do have deist beliefs.
What I'd like to convey to anti-Catholics is that they should not criticize what they don't understand. They should also respect the beliefs of Catholics, and accept that Catholics believe what they do for very good reasons. Chances are they understand their religion better than the haters do. Carebear above, for example, has listed a couple examples of what Catholics DON'T believe.
If you are going to reject Catholicism, do it for the right reasons. Don't do it based on misinformation you have been fed from radical fundamentalist Christians. Chances are the information is incorrect.
Creation: Did you know that chick.com is listed as an official hate site? It's on the hate map at the Southern Poverty Law Center website. Also, did you know that Catholics are not only Christians, but among the very first Christians?
I guess, I would like to convey to them that I am definately a Christian, I do not worship ANYONE outside of the Trinity. And I feel that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ.
I wish that all Christians could return to the Catholic Church, but I don't believe they will, so I'm not really concerned about "turning" people. When I answer anti-Catholic questions, my goal is to stop disinformation, not convince the poster that their current denomination is evil, or something.
I'd like to help stop the Catholic bashing and promote a little bit of understanding. When it comes to non-Catholic Christians, I've experienced a lot of compassion and a lot of real ugliness. I'd like to see us treat each other with compassion since we are all Christians.
Personally, I am saddened that so many Christians spend their time attacking my Church. That is why I am here. I have posted questions that are based on attacks by protestants in the hope that the truth can become known.
My entire family is protestant. I am a convert to the Catholic faith. I was an agnostic before. You cannot even begin to imagine what you are missing as a non-Catholic. There are really very few truly faithful Catholics in the Church and the other Catholics here can surely attest to that, I believe.
You honestly have *no idea* what you are talking about when you post your anti-Catholic "information". Truly, it's not the real story. That's what I am here for.
EDIT -- DMD, the vast majority of Catholics who were catechized after Vatican II haven't the slightest idea what the authentic teachings of the Church are. There have been many books written about it. Try Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church. I will send you a free copy if you like.
Many non Catholics want to convey to Catholics that we are not bible-based, that we worship idols, and that Mary is inconsequential. All of that is not true.
I would like to convey to non Catholics that we ARE Christians and to learn about Catholicism before making baseless accusations.
Me, Catholic: I want to tell my protestant brothers and sisters that I do not assume you're going to hell because you're not Catholic. I believe that the extent to which you love God and other people, you are participating in the Kingdom of God.
I would want to point out to some that I do not worship statues, Mary, or the Pope. Saying that I do over and over doesn't make it true.
To non-Catholic Christians - just the the fullness of Truth that Jesus intended.
That regardless of our differences we share far more than that which divides us. As long as we both call God Our Father we are brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters may not always agree but they are to love and assist each other.
As a Christian I would want to convey my respect for their desire to be close to God. And I would convey my wish for EVERY one of us to read and study the Bible for ourselves to discern the differences between what the Bible teaches and what the Catholic Church traditions (ie non - biblcal) teach.
Always this wish would be out of compassion & with a desire to see people come to know the truth of God's Word for themselves. I know many ex-catholics who, once they read the Bible for themselves feel that they were led astray by the Catholic Church.
What must happen if a non-catholic christian and a catholic wish to get married?
Non-Catholic Christians: Do you personally have anything against Catholics?
Are catholics really christians? (non-catholic pov)?
Why do non-catholic christians hate catholics? | 2019-04-23T00:46:18 | https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080413113208AAq2z67 |
0.999999 | tastybunns had the most liked content!
PUSH! Series 2 here we come! Awesome 3-0 win to beat Tampa completely out. Ehem I mean Syracuse. But ranting about the attendance: I can't help but feel a lack of dedication from the audience though. The arena was only half full. Maybe because its Thursday night, or maybe because people don't like risking buying tickets for TBD games. Not really sure how that works ticket return wise, but I kind of wish the Monsters were branded a little better in Cleveland. We're a hockey town and nobody even references the monsters as a pro team in Cleveland. People always mention how good and bad the Indians, Cavs, and Browns are doing. Nobody mentions the Monsters. Brand it appropriately! The only reception it gets is from young players, Youth and High School alike, but there's a real lackluster of adult attendance which I believe is a more desirable environment than feeling like you're at the circus. The amount of screeching children there outweigh the adults and it's not very pleasing to hear, nor is it even that loud, it's just outright annoying. Please make the Monsters like the Jackets. Perfectly balanced audience, with a loud audience that can rival NFL stadiums. I went to a Blue Jackets game in Columbus, and it was like nobody even recognized that I was wearing a Monsters Jersey. Somebody who was rooting for the Jackets that night came up to me and said nice Canucks jersey. I was astonished, because I got so many glares that night. Apparently I didn't represent the Jackets, rather some team foreign to even CBJ fans. The monsters aren't even branded down there either, and there's no reason they shouldn't be. With an affiliate in a 71 drive north, you would think that there would be some sort of a correlation, but nobody knows who the Monsters are. And there's the problem. Nobody knows we exist. Give us more media attention! End Rant TL;DR (The Monsters having a very lackluster audience for the playoffs is cause of horrible branding & marketing. A franchised affiliate so close they don't know we exist. People need to pay more attention. Support our playoff teams.) Go Jackets, Go Monsters! Square up Round 2!
I'm sorry, in the time that I haven't been in Cleveland because i'm in the Air Force; but what in gods name was the deciding factor in the re-brand? Was it you Mayor Jackspoon, was it you Danny Boy, or was it "Quicken Owns your life" trying to upscale a satellite company? Either way we're going to end up not calling it by what it is... Why don't you just Rocket my mortgage into crippling depression? Stop trying so hard.
I was just touring around another website that was found not too long ago by another user on this website, but we may have a future look on what this development may look like. With different stain of course. This is the Mjøstårnet. It is the tallest timber building in the world, just recently finished and built in Brumunddal, Norway. It reminded me of the Market Square building we'll be constructing. Not as tall, but definitely makes it up in street presence & darker a e s t h e t i c s. Found this on https://skyrisecities.com/ It has plenty of news, projects under construction, concepts, and finished projects all around the world. A big thing about this website shows the approach of other cities approach to architecture, their construction methods, and final outcomes of such megastructures. The only problem is that Cleveland doesn't have much of an image on this website yet. The only major thing I've noticed about Cleveland on the website is the praise we get for our RTA system. It needs to be way more than that. We need to show them what we're building and none of it's on there yet.
It's already being done. Well the neighborhood aspect. And as a mistake as placing the stadium there really is, there is no way there will be another stadium on the lakefront.
No way with the amount of capital the browns have, will they ever team up with a startup to build another stadium. I know there is a slight push to build another elsewhere, but considering its relatively young in age there is just no logic in tearing down fresh steel. Besides, remember that the county used the sin tax accumulation for the Q's new facade. $140 million just for a facade re-up ain't cheap. It's way more expensive to build new foundations for an NFL stadium. Also remember Atlanta's $1.6 BILLION stadium. They ain't cheap! The Raiders are building a freaking prison under the stadium, making the project cost just over $1.8 BILLION. I'll just say that tearing down a useful structure that is about as old as I am is a rubbish idea, although they didn't think it forward enough to leave the lakefront, FES lives on. There is no money for it.
Looks to be just about two weeks. But based on the current floor because it houses the amenities like the pool, additional cement & support is needed, so extra time allotted. We should be seeing beacon speed which was about a floor every week and half to two weeks.
also @KJP there is no alteration, the random colors create a gradient effect with like hues. It's basically going through a color wheel of browns.
NEEDco. from LEEDco. LETS GO!
Back on topic? Cant this go into a gentrification thread for controversial sake?
I'm sure the Halle parking is Art-Deco / Beaux-Arts. Also seems like lunch break for the workers.
What do you mean we don't care about how a parking garage looks? The one in Playhouse Square right behind the Crowne Plaza, just looks like any other Art-Deco style building. You may have not even noticed it was a parking garage because its well hidden. Also 515 Pre-Beacon had glass panels cascade the facade, and the garage for the casino at tower city doesn't look like hot garbage because it's got a very minimalist look. Geometric, and two toned. That's literally all we even ask for. Just make concrete not look like concrete.
I have in the past with the previous version of NuCLEus, but I have yet to update it with the newer version. | 2019-04-26T15:49:24 | https://forum.urbanohio.com/profile/2596-tastybunns/ |
0.999999 | Association: - Essential, - clarity, - Zentriertheit. Question: - What is essential for me?
Key words: Amplifier, - receiver, - transmitter, - power, - moon of the ground electrode innovation, - quartz, - moon of the harvest, amethyst, - butterfly's clan, Azurit, - cleanness, Herkimer diamond, - growth, fluorspar, - father the sun, - the druse which contains quartz or amethyst. Description: Crystals are minerals with identical, internal, periodically returning atomic orders, often with externally visible level surfaces. The people use the concept "Crystal" to call with it everything which has a crystalline manifestation, in particular stones from the quartz family. Rock crystal is an especially mighty crystal kind which receives life energy, sends out and strengthens. Some other crystalline minerals are also energy amplifiers. The special energy with which they can help may be inherent in you to all. General meaning: A time of the strength, - understanding of the life river, - better communication abilities, - inflexibility, - hardness, - can be a request to think over your settings anew and to accept new information. Association: Something harden, - a protecting sign, - clearly, - crystal ball. Transcendent meaning: To look at gift of the strength, - a revelation of that, as you see the world, - the ability, the things from another direction.
Crystal expresses the main features of the personality which are invariable. The crystal is in the dream a picture for the delicacy, the mistrust, the vulnerability and the distance of the dreaming to or compared with his environment. However, it also symbolises calculation and sobriety, as well as objective thinking. If crystals are formed in the dream, this is a tip to the harmony, incorruptibility, hardness and balance of the dreaming. The fine-polished crystal reveals that us only good manners can help to a success in the interpersonal area. If it breaks the light, we possibly stand there before the outside world in the twilight. A nice crystal stands generally for internal harmony which promises a happy future. Sometimes he also announces the acquaintance with a valuable person. A lilac crystal can symbolise an unsolved riddle in the life.
break: if means the end of an existing friendship.
Seeing a woman a dining room furnished with crystal, including the chairs, has them reason for the acceptance that from her very respected people this respect do not earn any more, - nevertheless, she will find out that were other in this space which are also concerned by this sombre dream.
see: the acquaintance of a straight lady approaches you. | 2019-04-23T10:24:12 | http://dreamtation.com/docs/2969.htm |
0.999941 | I've spent the last couple of months working an internship for The Linux Foundation, doing research on new developments and adoption trends in the open source industry. If you have spent any amount of time reading about open source over the last year, you have probably heard about Docker; a lot of people are talking about it these days and the impact it's going to have on virtualization and DevOps.
In a nutshell, Docker is an extension of Linux Containers (LXC): a unique kind of lightweight, application-centric virtualization that drastically reduces overhead and makes it easier to deploy software on servers. Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, explains this functionality well with his analogy of using standardized shipping containers to ship diverse goods around the globe. Docker allows systems administrators and developers to build applications that can be run on any Linux distribution or hardware in a virtualized sandbox without the need to make custom builds for different environments. These features are attracting a lot of big names and have turned Docker into one of the most successful open source projects of the last year. It seems Docker is here to stay, so what does this mean for Linux?
Red Hat has been at the forefront of Docker adoption and development, with Paul Cormier being one of the biggest advocates for its use. The company has been working closely with Docker since September of last year, and has focused on improving the functionality of Docker on the OpenShift platform. The overall focus has been on using Docker as a tooling mechanism to improve resource management, process isolation, and security in application virtualization. These efforts have culminated with the launch of Project Atomic, a lightweight Linux host specifically tailored to run Linux containers. The focus of this project is to make containers easy to deploy, update, and roll back in an environment that requires far fewer resources than a typical Linux host.
Another major focal point for Docker use is in the DevOps community. Docker has been designed in a way that it can be incorporated into most DevOps applications, including Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, and Ansible, or it can be used on its own to manage development environments. The primary selling point is that it simplifies many of the tasks typically done by these other applications. Specifically, Docker makes it possible to set up local development environments that are exactly like a live server, run multiple development environments from the same host that each have unique software, operating systems, and configurations, test projects on new or different servers, and allow anyone to work on the same project with the exact same settings, regardless of the local host environment. Finally, Docker can eliminate the need for a development team to have the same versions of everything installed on their local machine.
Spotify is working on incorporating Docker into their development work flow. The repeatable nature of Docker images makes it easier for them to standardize their production code and configurations. Their work has led to the creation of Helios, an application that manages Docker deployments across multiple servers and that alerts them when a server isn't running the correct version of a container.
eBay has focused on incorporating Docker into their continuous integration process to standardize deployment across a distributed network of servers that run as a single cluster. They isolate application dependencies inside containers to address the issue of each server having different software versions, application dependencies, and special hardware. This means the host OS does not need to be the same as the container OS, and their end-goal is to have different hardware and software systems running as a single Mesos cluster.
Remote Interview develops software for recruiters to test the development skills of job candidates. They released CompileBox, a Docker-based sandbox that can run untrusted code and return the output without risking the host on which the software is running. During the development of CompileBox, the team at Remote Interview considered using Chroot jails, Ideone, and traditional virtual machines, but Docker was selected as the best option. Chroot does not provide the needed level of security, Ideone can quickly become cost-prohibitive, and virtual machines take an exceptionally long time to reboot after they are compromised. Docker was the obvious choice for this application because malicious code that attempts to destroy the system would be limited to the container and containers can be created and destroyed quickly as needed.
A number of companies and organizations are coming together to bring Docker to desktop applications, a feat that could have wide-ranging impacts on end-users. Microsoft is even jumping on board by bringing Docker to their Azure platform, a development that could potentially make integration of Linux applications with Microsoft products easier than ever before.
Docker 1.0 was released on June 9th, during the first day of Dockercon, and it is considered the first release of Docker stable enough for enterprise use. Along with this launch, a new partnership was announced between Docker and the companies behind libcontainer, creating a unified effort toward making libcontainers the default standard for Linux-based containers. The growth of Docker and Linux containers shows no sign of slowing, and with new businesses jumping on the bandwagon on a regular basis, I expect to see a wealth of new developments over the coming year. | 2019-04-23T20:29:31 | https://opensource.com/business/14/7/docker-through-hype |
0.999951 | BanglaGamer - Prince of Persia - The Best Game Movie Ever?
Prince of Persia - The Best Game Movie Ever?
We're all used to seeing rubbish game-to-movie adaptations. Super Mario Bros was atrocious, Max Payne forgettable, Resident Evil mindless - and don't even get us started on anything Uwe Boll's ever touched. (No, really - he might put us in a boxing ring and beat the snot out of us).
So it goes without saying that when I plonked myself down in the Leicester Square Odeon this month to watch Disney's Prince of Persia: Sands Of Time, I wasn't expecting much.
In fact, the knives (or ancient daggers, in this case) were very much out - not least for Jake Gylenhaal's smug Hollywood face.
The movie kicked off with the expected eye-staggering blockbuster glitz - and it was very clear that no expense had been spared by Jerry Bruckheimer to make every inch of his desert tale scream 'epic'.
But then something very odd happened: Sands of Time smashed a summer blockbuster tradition... and didn't get rubbish halfway through. In fact, it only became more brilliant.
Against my expectations, I thoroughly enjoyed Prince of Persia - not least the ending; one of the more satisfying denouements that Tinseltown has thrown up this year.
Swash-buckling and CGI-laden it might be, but PoP also features a well-paced story, epic visuals and humour that caters for kids and adults alike. It's a genuinely fun film - and one that despite its teenage-pleasing agenda, doesn't treat you like a mug.
Sands of Time revolves around young Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), who's born on the streets and adopted by the King of Persia as a boy. After Dastan's father is assassinated, the Prince embarks on an epic journey - along with the lovely Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) - to save his kingdom from certain, evil magic-induced destruction.
Although the PoP film doesn't directly transfer any characters or scenes from the game over to the big screen, there are plenty of references to Ubisoft's franchise - including more than one visceral parkour leap and plenty of scrambles across Persian rooftops. Indeed, one telling camera swoop (we won't spoil it for you) suggests that the film-makers had taken note of another Ubisoft classic, Assassin's Creed.
The film's most significant link to the game series though is The Dagger of Time, which gives the Prince the power to rewind chronology using the titular Sands contained within.
Thankfully, director Mike Newell (Bruckheimer's on production duties here) doesn't waste the chance to be bit clever with the time-travelling plot, and the concept is presented in a variety of imaginative ways on screen.
In one scene - shortly after discovering the Dagger's enchanting abilities - the Prince manages stabs himself in the chest after a particularly mistimed rewind, only to pull back time again and have his torso magically repaired.
It's also fantastic to see the concept used for a less-than-obvious conclusion to the story - let's face it, a rarity for a Disney film - in which the film's writers monkey around with chronology in a very smart way.
Gyllenhaal and Arterton are well cast and have genuine on-screen chemistry - by which we don't just mean she looks hot. The spark between the pair is good news, considering most of the film's scenes rely on their interaction.
The supporting cast deserve a meaty mention too, with Alfred Molina (aka Dr. Octopus, Spidey fans) giving a fantastic performance and introducing much-needed comedy relief. Ben Kingsley plays the part he does best - the bald-headed English villain, and a very good one he is too.
While Bruckheimer's latest movie ultimately doesn't quite manage to top the charm and epic scale of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, it does offer a brilliant sense of adventure, a great cast of characters and action scenes that keep you immersed from start to finish.
I'm surprised. Perhaps it was the involvement of PoP game creator Jordan Mechner as scriptwriter - or perhaps it's a sign of a growing respect amongst Hollywood for gaming folklore - but to an extent, Sands Of Time represents a new dawn for gaming's relationship with the cinema.
Although it's probably not the highest accolade of Bruckheimer's career, I have no qualms in calling Prince of Persia the most fun game-to-movie adaptation yet.
And yes, that includes Hitman.
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nice review bro.. i've just seen the trailer, dont like the central cast. looking 4ward 2 watch it.
Just saw the TS of this movie and honestly to me this movie totally sucked. I mean there where no huge ogre/monsters which was in the game and the CGI looked totally crap. The story was totally meaningless.
I mean they are supposed to make the CGI(Computer Generated Images) in such a way that it would look real but in this movie it looked like the ones from movies like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Beowulf .
Even in Lord of the Rings they were able to bring in Monsters/Ogres but in this blockbuster Sands of Time they failed to bring a single monster.
The story ended in a stupid way. In the beginning of the movie the prince fights in such a way that he gets the title, "Lion of Persia" and towards the ending of the movie he struggles to take a Dagger from the Main Villain.
TS of any movie never can be good. I heard from my foreign friends & they said that "this movie is more than awesome. You now have a must must must movie in your watch-list."
i dont want see this movie now .. i'll wait for 1080p version .. jotoi late-e ashuk .. im holding myself ..
I am waiting for 360p as soon as it come. ...then 480p...then 1080p if I got.
to me ,dis is the most anticipated movie of this year !!!
Mine too. Hope it will be a blockbuster movie in the box office too.
waiting for iron man 2 & how to train your dragon 1080p quality also.
if "max payne" is the standard...then hell yeah this is the best amongst..
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0.999999 | Calculate the absolute value element-wise.
An ndarray containing the absolute value of each element in x. For complex input, a + ib, the absolute value is . | 2019-04-26T10:04:41 | https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.5.x/reference/generated/numpy.absolute.html |
0.64605 | A: Neurofeedback is a specific type of biofeedback procedure directed toward the renormalization of the brain and central nervous system. It utilizes the very tiny EEG (electroencephalogram) signals obtained from sensors on the scalp, to monitor the brainwaves and provide a corresponding signal (feedback) to the brain. In short, Neurofeedback is brainwave training, a tool for the brain to directly learn flexibility, mental control and increased stability. | 2019-04-24T00:18:49 | http://myrnamartin.net/blog/category/lens+neurofeedback |
0.998912 | Hailed by the Association of British Toy Retailers as one of the most successful girls' toys ever, My Little Pony dolls first went on sale in 1983. In 1990, the brand's popularity peaked and, in the following year, competition from rival toys entering the market led to the decision by toymaker Hasbro to stop manufacturing the ponies. But to celebrate My Little Pony's 20th anniversary last year, Hasbro decided to relaunch the toys and hired PR agency Mason Williams to raise awareness about its new product range among nostalgic mothers, young children and collectors.
To drive sales. To position My Little Pony as the latest fashion craze within the target audience.
The team wanted to use the retro angle of the story to move away from potential one-liners such as 'My Little Pony is back' and instead communicate the history of the brand.
Journalists from The Independent on Sunday were invited to the US to interview the designers of both the original and the new My Little Pony ranges. To interest the fashion press, the team asked London Fashion Week designers, such as Tracey Boyd and Michiko Koshino, to create a 1980s-inspired outfit for a My Little Pony.
The ponies were then snapped by professional lifestyle photographers to achieve high-quality, glossy and eye-catching pictures.
A press pack containing unusual facts about My Little Pony, a brief history of the brand, information about the new range and product samples were sent out to national, lifestyle, parenting, children's, collectors' and toy-retail trade press. National lifestyle and fashion press were offered exclusives in an effort to ensure that female readers who had grown up with My Little Pony, and might now have children themselves, were aware of the relaunch.
To generate coverage in celebrity magazines, Mason Williams researched famous figures, such as Beyonce Knowles, who had played with My Little Pony as children, and sent them product samples.
Furthermore, the PR team publicised the relaunch of other retro toys to sell in stories about the trend for other 1980s toys. This positioned the dolls as part of a fashion movement to encourage articles to appear analytical, rather than product-led.
To maintain publicity after the launch, Mason Williams used a variety of topical news hooks. For example, building on the pony theme of the dolls, the team publicised a collector's creation of a My Little Pony Hat for Ascot.
Exclusives appeared in The Independent on Sunday and Face. Every national newspaper covered the launch, along with nine TV news shows, 46 national magazines, 90 regional newspapers and 39 radio programmes.
One year from the relaunch, more than one million ponies have been sold, and Hasbro reports strong orders, according to market research firm NPD Group. | 2019-04-23T16:05:10 | https://www.prweek.com/article/221751/campaign-hasbro-resurrects-little-pony-brand---consumer-pr |
0.999997 | Now that I have your attention with the headline of this article, is the headline "The Catholic Church Teaches A False Gospel And Is Not Christian" TRUE or FALSE?
I'm a Catholic convert from a Pentecostal and Southern Baptist background with some of the Church of Christ sprinkled in. I do not believe the Catholic Church teaches a false Gospel and I do believe that the Catholic Church is a Christian Church. I also believe that faithful Catholics are Christians.
My wife and I have adult daughters and are fortunate that our own parents are still alive. Our parents are Protestant Christians but had ZERO issue with us becoming Catholics. They didn't fear for us falling for a false Gospel and no longer being Christian because we converted to Catholicism.
With the above stated, this article was sparked by a Catholic newsletter that I get via email which you will see more about further down this page from some communication with John Martignoni ( a Catholic Apologist ) and a Brady Tarr ( a Baptist Minister ).
"No Catholic who believes (as anyone who is a true Catholic must) the official and authoritative teachings of the ecumenical councils, the teachings of the Pope, the teachings of the current Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the teachings of the magisterium, is a Christian because what they teach is a false Gospel."
"The Catholic Church teaches a false Gospel where justification/the Gospel is not dependent on faith alone, but also on works and sacraments and is therefore a false church."
John Martignoni posed the question... "So, fellow Catholics, what say ye in regard to Minister Brady Tarr's understanding of Catholic teaching?" at the end of his newsletter, so I've decided to use my own article as a response to John's question.
So, fellow Catholics, what say ye in regard to Minister Brady Tarr's understanding of Catholic teaching?
My initial response to John's question is that what Brady Tarr listed about Catholic teaching is what I have found to be typical of those that do not truly understand Catholic teachings or maybe I should say in some cases even want to begin to point out that Catholic teachings are not false but actually true.
It's not uncommon for anti-Catholics who often say they are doing it out of love for Catholics and not really anti-Catholic to cherry pick things to prove their point that Catholic teachings are false and not Biblical.
I'm not going to address all 15 areas that John listed in his newsletter. I'll just pull out a few and give my response.
2) Brady Tarr: "The idea that Christ is called down from heaven, made into bread, and then sacrificed as a victim again as the same sacrifice contradicts the plain position of Scripture that Jesus suffered once for sins." John posed the question "How many Catholics reading this believe this is anywhere close to what the Church teaches?
I think Brady Tarr needs to do a deep dive into the TRUTH of what the Catholic Church teaches. I also believe that he needs to read, re-read, read and re-read John 6 in his Bible. Furthermore, Brady Tarr needs to read how worship was conducted in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries long before the Baptist church began in 1608 founded by John Smyth. And no, the Baptist church doesn't somehow magically jump back to the time of Christ. It started in 1608. PERIOD!
The Eucharist ( Holy Communion ) is the pinnacle of Catholic Mass. It was my understanding of the Eucharist that played a key role in my conversion. I searched for two key things: 1) Was it Biblical? YES! 2) What does the Catholic Church teach is happening vs. what people like Brady Tarr are saying? That is way to long to get into here. But the bottom line is that Brady Tarr is not accurate.
#5 - Brady Tarr: "Mary worship." John posed the question "How many of you guys worship Mary?"
The one about Mary worship gets old. I don't worship Mary, but even as a Protestant, I had great respect and still do for the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I don't personally know any Catholics that worship Mary. Any Catholic who worships Mary is not in line with actual Catholic teachings. The Catholic Church clearly teaches that Mary is NOT divine and that veneration is honor not worship.
Do I honor my on earthly Mother? YES! Is that Biblical that I honor my Mother? YES! Is it Biblical that Christ honor his Mother Mary? YES! Is it Biblical that I should be like Christ? YES! Should I honor Mary and be like Christ? YES!
Just like Mary said in John 2:5 ..."Do whatever he tells you.” That's the role of Mary to point us to Christ who deserves our worship.
6) Brady Tarr: "The act of baptism makes you a new creature and gives you full and complete forgiveness (without faith and repentance)." Yes, that's why so many people just walk into the Church to be baptized, because they don't have faith - they just wanted to get their hair wet.
When I went through RCIA ( Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ), some of us had been validly baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in other Christian faiths and others had not. I remember one individual in particular that came from a Hindu background. Had she been validly baptized before? NO! Did she have faith in Jesus Christ? 100%, sold out, strong faith without a doubt.
There are so many Biblical references to Baptism in the New Testament that when combined with the proper interpretation of the Catholic Church that has been around for 2,000 years vs. my fallible, private interpretation of scripture that changed my mind about how I see water Baptism. Look up every reference you can find about Baptism in the New Testament then read the first few versus before and after the text to help put the verse into context. But then, get yourself out of the way and cross reference what the Catechism and the Catholic Church states about Baptism. Also, go to Catholic.com and do some research. Then, continue to get yourself out of the way and pray about it.
One thing that you will not find is Baptism without faith and repentance gives you full and complete forgiveness. Again, just another misrepresentation.
8) Brady Tarr: "Those who do penance are pardoned for their sin." That's right...Jesus' death on the Cross had nothing to do with it. That's what we believe, isn't it?
Interesting that as a new Catholic of going on 6 months that I have NEVER got that idea from my understanding of Catholic teachings. Let's look at the TRUTH.
It is life changing when done with a contrite heart and that's coming from a convert who has done it the protestant way up until 2018.
During confession, I say AN ACT OF CONTRITION to God that goes something like this..."My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against you whom I should love above all things. I firmly intend, with your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. Our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. In his name, my God, have mercy."
Before I leave confession, the prayer of absolution from the Priest goes something like this "God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins; through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
Oh, and "Do Penance," yes, I have had the Priest give me penance to "do" for both confessions that I have had to date and in both cases, it was something simple to put my eyes back on Jesus. The first one was meditating on being at the foot of the Cross of Calvary. Hmmm... Sin separates me from God, reconciliation ( confession ) brings me back to a right relationship with God and the penance I was given to "do" points me to Jesus Christ on the Cross. The Priest never said in either case, once you do your penance, you'll be pardoned from sin.
Finally, my earthly Father once said something along these lines, "If you want to go to a Priest for confession, that's your business. My sins are none of his business. I can just go straight to God. I can just think it and I'm forgiven." I'm not saying that we cannot be forgiven going straight to God and God knows the heart. I also know the TRUE position of the Catholic Church, but what I will say is anyone who doesn't embrace confession does not know what they are missing. There is a reason that it's one of the 7 sacraments.
Remember, I have been on both sides of this. It's not uncommon for a member of a Protestant congregation to visit with his or her Protestant Pastor at the church office. The Pastor may then advise and pray with the member and say something like "Keep praying about this and stay focused on Christ. One way to focus on Christ is to keep your eyes on the Cross of Calvary." Hmmm... the Pastor simply doesn't use the word penance.
Sadly, over and over, I feel like the anti-Catholic stance is often a double standard ( a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups ). Furthermore, like John Martignoni has stated more than once in his newsletter, it comes down to a fallible, individuals private interpretation of scripture.
So on who's authority is the anti-Catholic standing upon? Their answer would likely be something like "The Holy Spirit and the Word of God." But that doesn't work when there are thousands of others saying the same thing about the Holy Spirit and Word of God but coming to a different conclusion.
Some of the other 15 points would either take too long to get into or I just need to stop for now or they are just not worth responding to how ludicrous the position is. For example, 3) Brady Tarr: "Jesus' work was not incomplete after he rose from the dead. It was finished then and it is finished now." Implying, of course, that Catholics teach Jesus' work is incomplete. My Comment: For someone to think that a faithful Catholic doesn't believe that Jesus work on the cross was complete is ludicrous.
First, he followed basically the same formula in each of his seminars. He would begin by mentioning a particular Catholic topic (e.g., penance, indulgences, Purgatory, the Eucharist, Mary, etc.), then he would cherry pick quotes about this topic from either the Council of Trent, or the Catechism, or both - with little comments from him mixed in - and then he would close with a section titled: "What Does the Bible Say About...," and he would proceed to give Bible quotes that "proved" the Catholic teaching was contrary to the Word of God.
So, in general, he misrepresented every Catholic teaching he discussed as being contrary to the Bible, when actually not a single Catholic teaching, properly understood, is contrary to the Bible, properly understood.
What Minister Tarr was doing, in fact, was not comparing Catholic teaching to what the Bible says, he was comparing it to what Minister Brady Tarr interpreted the Bible to say. Yes, Catholic teaching is contrary to Minister Tarr's fallible, error-ridden, interpretation of the Bible, I agree. However, Catholic teaching is not contrary to what the Bible actually says. Contrary to the Word of Tarr, not contrary to the Word of God.
1) Brady Tarr: "[According to the Council of Trent] Faith alone in Jesus is not sufficient preparation for receiving the [Eucharist]."
Trent does indeed say this very thing; however, Minister Tarr doesn't give you the full context. He is trying to make it seem that Catholics give short shrift to faith in Christ. Yet, what he fails to mention is why canon 11 on the Eucharist says such a thing. It's because earlier in the article on the Eucharist, 1 Cor 11 is cited by the Council - where Paul says anyone who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgment on himself. So, canon 11 says that faith alone is not enough, because one must be without mortal sin. One must approach the Eucharist with reverence and holiness. So, does Minister Tarr believe Paul was wrong in 1 Cor 11? Does he believe it is okay to approach the Lord's table in an unworthy manner, as long as you have faith in Jesus? Apparently so.
2) Brady Tarr: "The idea that Christ is called down from heaven, made into bread, and then sacrificed as a victim again as the same sacrifice contradicts the plain position of Scripture that Jesus suffered once for sins." How many Catholics reading this believe this is anywhere close to what the Church teaches?
3) Brady Tarr: "Jesus' work was not incomplete after he rose from the dead. It was finished then and it is finished now." Implying, of course, that Catholics teach Jesus' work is incomplete.
4) Brady Tarr: "Rome, by claiming Mary is the mediatrix of all graces, ends up giving her divine attributes which only God has..."
5) Brady Tarr: "Mary worship." How many of you guys worship Mary?
7) Brady Tarr: "Taking the Eucharist for the dead, praying for the dead, giving alms for the dead, and other good works of piety for the dead are considered doing penance to help the dead." "Taking the Eucharist for the dead?" Anyone ever heard of that?
9) Brady Tarr: "But another purpose mentioned repeatedly in Catholic literature is that of paying or atoning for one's sins."
We do not atone for our sins...Jesus did that. CCC #1992 - "Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men." We offer reparation, not atonement, for our sins.
11) Brady Tarr: "The Catholic practice of 'penance' is unbiblical & contrary to Scripture because it focuses on man's works in order to be forgiven, not the blood of Jesus and the work he accomplishes for Christians."
12) Brady Tarr: "The Bible says a person is justified by faith not works." Implying, of course, that Catholics teach one is justified by their works, and not by faith.
13) Brady Tarr: "Good works are required in order to obtain the grace of justification."
And he then quotes from Canon 9 of the article on Justification from Trent...which, by the way, says nothing at all about good works. Plus, he also leaves out any mention of Canon 1 from that same article on Justification which states: "If any one shall say, that man may be justified before God by his own works, whether done through the strength of human nature, or through the teaching of the law, without the divine grace through Jesus Christ; let him be anathema."
14) Brady Tarr: "The Catholic Church is saying that the punishment that Jesus paid on the cross for Christians was/is not sufficient and that his suffering was not enough to pay anyone's debt in full."
15) Brady Tarr: "Because Catholicism is authoritarian, individual Catholics don't need to read the Bible to learn about God or doctrines, but instead, they simply must believe what the church tells them they must believe in order to be a 'good' Catholic."
And that is by no means an exhaustive list of the errors put forth by Minister Brady Tarr.
Not related to Brady Tarr: It's statements like this sentence online that make me stronger in my Catholic Christian faith: "For Catholics who read this--if you will only believe the holy scriptures--the Bible (Authorized Version of 1611)--and nothing else, you can be released from deception today" ( Source ) I linked to the source here because I want to dive into this source more later which will likely lead to more content for me here on Catholic Transformation. Some of the private interpretations of people online is both comical and sad. | 2019-04-24T07:51:03 | https://www.catholictransformation.com/the-catholic-church-teaches-a-false-gospel-and-is-not-christian/ |
0.999991 | Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 American satirical black comedy film adapted and directed by Alan Rudolph, from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s 1973 novel of the same name. Though the producers entered it into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, the film was panned by critics and was a box office bomb that was withdrawn from theatres before going into wide release.
Dwayne Hoover, a car salesman who is the most respected businessman in Midland City, Indiana, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, even attempting suicide daily. His wife, Celia, is addicted to pills, and his sales manager and best friend, Harry Le Sabre, is preoccupied with his own secret fondness for wearing lingerie, worried he will be discovered.
Meanwhile, a little-known science fiction author, Kilgore Trout, is hitchhiking across the United States to speak at Midland City's arts festival. In search of answers for his identity quest, Hoover decides to attend the festival.
Lukas Haas makes a cameo as Bunny, Dwayne's son, who, in the novel, plays piano in the lounge at the Holiday Inn. For legal reasons, in the film Bunny instead plays at the AmeriTel Inn.
The film's soundtrack predominantly features the exotica recordings of Martin Denny to tie in with Hoover's Hawaiian-based sales promotion.
Much of the film was shot in and around Twin Falls, Idaho. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. makes a one-line cameo as a TV commercial director.
The film made $178,278 against a budget of $12 million.
Breakfast of Champions received negative reviews, scoring a rating of 26% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 47 reviews. The consensus says: "The movie is overwhelmed by its chaotic visual effects and disjointed storyline." In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "In many ways, Breakfast of Champions is an incoherent mess. But it never compromises its zany vision of the country as a demented junkyard wonderland in which we are all strangers groping for a hand to guide us through the looking glass into an unsullied tropical paradise of eternal bliss." Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "F" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Rudolph, in an act of insane folly, seems to think that what matters is the story. The result could almost be his version of a Robert Altman disaster — a movie so unhinged it practically dares you not to hate it."
In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Stack wrote, "Rudolph botches the material big time. Relying on lame visual gimmicks that fall flat, and insisting on pushing almost every scene as frantic comedy weighted by social commentary, he forces his actors to become hams rather than believable characters." Sight and Sound magazine's Edward Lawrenson wrote, "Willis' performance, all madness, no method, soon feels embarrassingly indulgent." In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas wrote, "As it is, Breakfast of Champions is too in-your-face, too heavily satirical in its look, and its ideas not as fresh as they should be. For the film to have grabbed us from the start, Rudolph needed to make a sharper differentiation between the everyday world his people live in and the vivid world of their tormented imaginations."
In her review for the Village Voice, Amy Taubin wrote, "Another middle-aged male-crisis opus, it begins on a note of total migraine-inducing hysteria, which continues unabated throughout." The French filmmaker and critic Luc Moullet, on the other hand, regarded it as one of the greatest films of the 1990s.
At the close of the Harper Audiobook edition of Breakfast of Champions, there is brief conversation between Vonnegut and his long-time friend and attorney, Donald C. Farber, in which the two, among making jokes, disparage this loose film adaptation of the book as "painful to watch."
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^ Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. "Breakfast of Champions" (CD Unabridged ed.). HarperCollins. | 2019-04-24T23:53:25 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions_(film) |
0.998663 | Write a function that takes a list value as an argument and returns a string with all the items separated by a comma and a space, with and inserted before the last item. For example, passing the previous spam list to the function would return 'apples, bananas, tofu, and cats'. But your function should be able to work with any list value passed to it."
Since I'm an absolute beginner to Python (and programming in general), I wanted to get some advice on how to make this code cleaner. It works with any size list, but I've reviewed some other solutions on SO and it seems like there are a million ways to build this out. How can I make this more straightforward?
by the last case, len(listVar) is run 4 times, which is very repetitive. Better to set it to a temporary variable, and check that each time.
instead of calling str() on everything as you build the string, why not call it up front, so it can't be missed somewhere along the way. Something at the top like stringList = [ str(i) for i in listVar ] will remove the need for all those str() calls sprinkled throughout the code.
Naming: listVar is a variable. It doesn't need to have 'var(iable)' in its name. How about 'inputList'? Names are important - they're messages to the future (you or whoever reads your code) about what you are/were trying to accomplish. Similar issue with the name commaCode.
range(len(listVar[:-1])) is the same as range(len(listVar)-1), which is both easier to read, and can take advantage of point 2 and end up written as range(listVarLen-1) which is definitely clearer.
Overall though, for a beginner, not bad!
@pjz had some very good points, so I'll skip those in my review.
Both function names and variable names are written in snake_case in python.
Instead of printing an error message, raise an appropriate exception.
You append a period for input of length 1 and 2, but not for longer output.
Using python list slicing you can actually remove some of your special cases.
Here's two suggested improvements, one easier and one more pythonic. I also included a short testing snippet to validate that the exception is raised.
This answer is less about the code you have produced, but more about how you could approach the problem if you were to do it again.
note, the python style guides promote snake_case over camelCase naming conventions, so I'll use these here.
Write a function that takes a list value as an argument and returns a string with all the items separated by a comma and a space, with and inserted before the last item.
What is the key functionality that needs to be done here?
Simply put, the main functionality of the code is to take the values in the list and convert this into a string.
This should immediately suggest that string.join() would be a good function for this.
We just need to insert the 'and '.
A quick analysis of the problem shows that we only need the 'and ' when there are at least two items, so we write a modification to do just that.
We could just add 'and' in the penultimate location in the list, but we don't want to end up with ['x', 'y'] -> 'x, and, y' so the simple solution to this is to replace the final input in this case with 'and ' plus the input.
The lambda clause is a shorthand method for defining smaller functions, rather than using the full def ... syntax.
It also uses list slicing, and both string and list concatenation. As long as you know your input list is only strings, this should be fine, but if you're unsure of especially the last element in the list, one of the approaches using .format() could be integrated just as well.
Update: just realized this will fail for lists of less than two items. So that's another assumption you'd have to make on your input. Wrapping the above in a slightly larger function that dealt with the two corner cases would be relatively easy to do.
The comma after tofu should not exist.
spam[:-2] slices spam and creates a sublist from the first to the second-to-last item. Have a look at python's slice notation.
[spam[-2] + ' and ' + spam[-1]] creates a list containing: spam's second-to-last item ('tofu'), the word 'and' and spam's last item ('cats'). Creating a list is necessary because python doesn't know how to concatenate a list + another type of object. We can only concatenates lists.
Edit: Oxford Comma is a thing, apparently. Well, hooray english.
This solution should be fairly clear to any reader, and to me reads as an encoding of the problem definition: given a non-empty list of words, join them with a comma. If there are more than one, add the word 'and' before the final word.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged python beginner python-3.x or ask your own question. | 2019-04-23T19:14:45 | https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/191654/comma-code-automate-the-boring-stuff/191657 |
0.997813 | Does a deposit need to be protected?
If a deposit is not protected it will be difficult for the landlord to evict the tenants and the landlord can be ordered by the Court to pay up to three times the amount of the deposit.
It is useful to take an inventory of the property before any tenants move in, to detail the contents and condition of the property. If the tenants then damage the property then they should pay for the repairs or replacement as required. Should the tenants fail to meet the cost of the damage, then this can be taken from the deposit at the end of the tenancy.
General wear and tear should however be accounted for.
What responsibilities does the landlord have?
The landlord therefore is entitled to reasonable access in order to carry out any maintenance and repairs to the property.
What responsibilities does the tenant have?
The tenant has moved out and left their belongings in the property, can I dispose of it?
Any belongings left behind by a tenant still belong to the tenant. If you dispose of the belongings the tenant may bring a legal action against you.
The first thing you should do is try to contact the tenant and request that they collect their belongings. If you do not have any contact details for the tenant you will be able to dispose of the belongings, as long as you can show that you made reasonable efforts to find them. You may however charge the tenant for clearing out any belongings from the property.
If the belongings are sold the money strictly belongs to the tenant, however this may be deducted from any rent arrears.
How can a landlord evict a tenant?
Depending on the type of tenancy agreement, there are strict procedures that need to be followed.
Generally the landlord must serve a Notice on the tenant and if the tenant does not leave the property, can apply to the Court for a possession Order. This will give the landlord a right to evict the tenant and take back possession of the property. Landlords should seek legal advice on evicting any tenants, to ensure the correct Notice and procedure is followed for the tenancy agreement. | 2019-04-25T04:18:32 | https://pmpl.co.uk/corporate-legal-services/landlords-tenants/frequently-asked-questions/ |
0.9986 | Jennifer Lawrence music videos on youtube and vevo, these are the most relevant videos found on the music category on youtube for Jennifer Lawrence, hear youtube music songs related to "Jennifer Lawrence".
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0.998618 | Will Windows 8 be the Right Tool for all Jobs?
The tablets, again according to rumor, will be powered by a quad-core ARM processor. Even with this lower-power chip, Windows 8 is supposed to be fully backwards-compatible with Windows 7, as Microsoft has repeatedly stated.
It also has uses for other areas of my life: for example, it has some nice filmmaking apps, note-taking capabilities and the like. In short, it's an awesome device for what it does.
Those programs aren't available on my iPad. They wouldn't work well on the iPad even if they were, given its relatively wimpy processor. I have no interest in using the iPad for those duties; the laptop is my device of choice.
And that's OK with Apple. It knows the iPad isn't all things to all people, and doesn't try to be anything else (of course, Apple's happy to sell you a MacBook Air for the heavier lifting). The right tool for the right job, as a carpenter might say.
It appears, from what I've been hearing and seeing, that Microsoft prefers a one-size-fits-all approach to Windows 8. A single tool for all the jobs. So rather than building an OS for everyone, they may instead be building an OS for no one.
Why not, for example, make Windows 8 (renamed, to distinguish it as a mobile platform) an OS built for mobile devices like phones and tablets, and leave Windows 7 and its successors for the laptop/desktop world? Yes, this is Apple thinking. But it's also good thinking. A mobile OS doesn't need to do the same things a desktop/laptop OS does.
Can Microsoft pull off the hybrid gambit? Perhaps. But it already has a great desktop OS in Windows 7, and a great mobile OS in Windows Phone 7. Why not continue to build on the strengths of each, instead of combining them in a goulash that may weaken both? | 2019-04-25T12:55:57 | https://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/onward-and-upward/2011/09/is-windows-8-right-tool-for-job.aspx |
0.999997 | Rallying is a little different. As a spectator, standing in the quiet night woods, the first thing you're aware of is the noise. While accelerating, the rally car is very like any other racecar - loud, well-tuned, aggressive. But the first time you hear it decelerate there's a whistling followed by explosive popping - then a huge bang and a flash of flame in the woods that looks and sounds like fireworks going off.
When the car actually comes into view, you're blinded by the lights and then the fury and noise are on top of you. The lights swing away from the apex and then over it, the car slides at a crazy angle to the corner and the inside front wheel hangs over the ditch that is the apex of the turn. Brake discs glow orange through the wheels as the driver simultaneously uses the throttle and brakes to balance the car on its knife-edged slide. The four rooster tails of gravel and dirt spray the trees on the outside of the corner, causing any fans foolish enough to stand there to turn and cover their faces for protection.
If you're a performance rally fan, you may be smiling and nodding your head at this admittedly editorial description. If you're not a fan yet, you may be shaking it wondering, How does this work? As a competitor, I want to tell you a few things about the technology and techniques of rally.
The technology is remarkable: the fastest cars are all-wheel-drive, two-liter four-cylinder turbos with about 330 horsepower and - more importantly - about 320 ft-lbs. of torque low in the rev range. The AWD and torque allow the car to claw at the gravel - or snow, or ice, or sometimes tarmac - under dynamic (sliding) friction rather than the static (rolling) friction that is typical of most on-track racing.
Under dynamic friction, the optimum technique is to slide the car on an angle that keeps the front wheels pointing almost straight ahead and digging in the direction of the apex. With the power full-on, the car makes an arc around the apex of the corner, even while sliding on a 30- to 45-degree angle. For a very tight corner, it may be necessary to "pendulum" the car into it by sliding the opposite direction before the corner and then flicking the car around into the correct line.
Need to slow down? On loose surfaces, sliding sideways is more effective in scrubbing off speed than straight-line braking, so rather than choosing your braking point, you typically choose where to begin your slide. When the brakes are used, it's often by the left foot, and the driver plays the two pedals like the rudder of an aircraft. Pressing on the brake a little to transfer weight to the front of the car will increase the slide angle (and tighten the arc of the corner), and pressing on the throttle to transfer the weight to the rear will straighten the car out to open up the line. "Trail braking" makes no sense in a rally context; the way to initiate the slide into the corner is actually to turn the steering wheel and then stab the brake for a quick transfer of the weight to the front to dig it in and destabilize the tail. After that, you're feathering the brakes all the time for balance.
In order to be able to do the weight-transfer dance, it is necessary to have instant power on tap even at low revs - not a typical strength of a turbocharged engine. To cure this, all the leading cars have a turbo anti-lag system incorporated in the engine management computer that hugely retards the timing when the driver lifts the throttle. The exhaust valve is already open when the spark plug fires so the explosion doesn't push the piston down in the cylinder. Rather, it fires out the manifold and keeps the turbo spinning - this is the explosion and flame out of the tailpipe.
The racing line is a bit different too - if early-apexing is bad on the track, it's deadly in rallying. Typically we have little or no idea what's around the bend, and so a late apex is generally the rule. Combine this with the "sliding-to-brake" and the "turn-first-then-brake" techniques described above, and you can see why it takes a certain about of courage (or stupidity) to do it right. You have to trust that the car is going to claw through its late-apex slide and not fly off the outside.
Jumps have their own special challenges chicken out and lift the throttle on the launch and youll soon have a shorter front bumper. You have to brake a little just before launch then accelerate off the crest. And try to land one wheel at a time (ever seen a cat land?) so the rebound isnt synchronized, or youll get a bonus jump after landing. Oh, and be sliding a little sideways over the crest you never know which way the road is going to go on the other side.
Last but certainly not least, there is the strategy : for 300km you have to stay on the road, make the car last, know where to capitalize on your competitors, and pace your and your co-drivers emotions to be on the razor's edge only when it's most important. Of course, you still have to go obscenely fast. You just have to go fast, smart.
Got that? Good. Now youre flirting with the laws of physics. See you in the woods in 2003. | 2019-04-21T12:45:44 | http://www.oldrallysport.on.ca/articles/flirting.html |
0.99999 | 1. Facebook Homeschool Groups - There are Facebook groups out there where you can sell and swap curriculum. This is a great way to get books and bundles that are harder to find somewhere else.
2. Ebay--For years I would find my usually expensive curriculum way cheaper at Ebay. Teachers guides/textbooks and answer keys are also a wonderful find here!
3. Craigslist--Check out their book, garage sale, and free section.
4. Amazon--Amazon has great items at often rock bottom prices that you can find used. Click here for homeschool curriculum and school supplies.
5. Garage Sales--Several times I have found other homeschooling families who have had sales in my area who were getting rid of some of their books. I was able to purchase whole boxes of items--what a steal! Be sure to go when teachers are having sales too, you can find all kinds of great teaching supplies.
6. Homeschool Support Group--Moms in your support group are great for selling off their unneeded books. If you have a homeschool support group or circle of homeschooling mom friends you could also do a book swap and/or ask them to let your borrow some books for a year.
7. Online Groups--I am part of a Homeschool trading and selling group and there is so much available at such low prices!
8. Homeschool Used Curriculum Book Sales--Find out when these are in your area and save the date. Come prepared with list in hand of what you need and be ready to make a killing.
9. Homeschool Conferences--There are booths set up at these conferences that sell used curriculum and they also usually have a table for moms to sell their used curriculum. Be sure to check it all out and compare. Sometimes they will even have FREE boxes.
10. Library--Of course it is a great place to check out all kinds of items you need from books, audio and video--but also don't forget to find out when their used book sales are on. We have purchased loads of books and readers this way, all no more than a quarter each and sometimes less than that. At my library we have access to several other local libraries in the area and can request items from all of them.
11. Design Your Own--With the availability of the internet today, many ambitious moms are taking on the task of designing their own curriculum with low or no cost. Here is a book that I recommend which talks a bit about that: Homeschooling on a Shoe String.
12. Free Websites--There are free websites like Ambleside Online one that help you teach your children through the years. There are also tons of free sites that offer free printables for all kinds of subjects from handwriting to unit studies.
13. Thrift Stores-I have heard of mothers finding workbooks, classics, art supplies and all kinds of other things here. One mother had found a math workbook for just 20 cents for her fifth grader!
14. Sell Your Books--List your unneeded homeschool items on websites to make back some extra money to buy new books/supplies for the following year. I would also hold a garage sale in the summer for this very purpose.
15. Think Outside the Box--Don't feel pressured to just use what you see in the glossy homeschool catalogs. Be creative--there is always more than one way to skin a cat! Are there books already available in your home to teach a subject? Are there resources online you could use to teach a concept? I have heard of one mom who fell on hard times and used her older childrens old workbooks for her younger children by typing the lesson for the day on her computer and printing them out as new. Smart!
16. Buy with the Future in Mind - If you are buying for several children (like we are with 9 children) you might want to buy hardcover books that can be used over and over again. Passing down books have saved us a ton especially when they are durable quality hardcover type of books.
17. Share with Friends or Family - If you have homeschooling friends or family that homeschools why not ask them to borrow curriculum they are not using? I've let several friends borrow mine and was glad to be able to offer it. I really like this concept of helping each other and I like to do it frequently. This past year a sweet friend actually gifted us with curriculum that was worth $200 that we were wanting to use this year--what a blessing!
And might I also add that the most important thing that you should also do before anything here on the list is to PRAY!
many a homeschooling mothers prayers and needs.
This book has lots of great ideas and you can get a used copy for as low as a penny! | 2019-04-19T02:53:08 | http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com/2014/07/15-tips-for-getting-homeschool.html |
0.998699 | Type 1: Outputs the sum and difference of the X and Y inputs. Type 2: Outputs the sum and difference of the X and Y inputs summed with the X signal. Type 3: Outputs the sum and difference of the X and Y inputs summed with the Y signal. | 2019-04-24T12:04:23 | https://kyma.symbolicsound.com/library/triple-ring-modulated-morphing/ |
0.999581 | In mathematical expressions the carat character (^) indicates that the following term is an exponent.
PRESS OPINIONS ON "THE CANTERBURY PUZZLES."
"It is a book of remarkable ingenuity and interest."—Educational Times.
"The most ingenious brain in England ... a fascinating new book."—Evening News.
"A capital book of posers."—Daily News.
"The Puzzles ... reach the limit of ingenuity and intricacy; and it is well for the sanity of his readers that the author gives a list of solutions at the end of the book."—Observer.
"A book that will provide much entertainment for Christmas gatherings ... ingenious puzzles and problems invented by 'Sphinx,' the Puzzle King."—The Captain.
"Mr. Dudeney, whose reputation is world-wide as the puzzle and problem maker of the age ... sure to find a wide circulation ... as attractive in appearance as its contents are fascinating."—English Mechanic and World of Science.
"An exceedingly ingenious constructor and solver of fascinating puzzles, mathematical and otherwise."—School Guardian.
"A book which ought to be highly popular ... it is all mighty ingenious, and very intelligently put before the reader."—Sheffield Telegraph.
"It is matter for delight that Mr. Henry E. Dudeney has collected into a volume those mysterious puzzles of his which have appeared in many journals ... contains quite a number of ingenious new mental problems ... a valuable introduction."—The Lady.
"For the long winter evenings Mr. Dudeney's book of puzzledom is to be recommended. Mr. Dudeney has made a study of every kind of puzzle there is ... he supplies you with every kind of brain-twister."—The Daily Chronicle.
"Took up more of the reviewer's time than he could well afford to give it; he wanted to solve some of the curious problems that it contains, and for ingenious persons who want employment on a wet day, he promises from it abundant scope."—Yorkshire Post.
"A well-known master puzzler ... provides an abundance of seasonable occupation for the ingenious, with an introduction on the general question of puzzles, which is one of the most interesting parts of the book. He is a skilful inventor."—Nottingham Guardian.
"Will enjoy the entertainment provided ... ingenious and witty."—The Guardian.
"Extremely ingenious book, which abounds in problems that will keep the reader busy for hours—until in despair he turns to the answers at the end."—Manchester Guardian.
"The setting of these perplexities is novel ... a dramatic background being thus provided which prevents too great aridity.... The book should be much in request."—The Morning Leader.
By the same Author "AMUSEMENTS IN MATHEMATICS" 3s. 6d.
Author of "Amusements in Mathematics," Etc.
When preparing this new edition for the press, my first inclination was to withdraw a few puzzles that appeared to be of inferior interest, and to substitute others for them. But, on second thoughts, I decided to let the book stand in its original form and add extended solutions and some short notes to certain problems that have in the past involved me in correspondence with interested readers who desired additional information.
I have also provided—what was clearly needed for reference—an index. The very nature and form of the book prevented any separation of the puzzles into classes, but a certain amount of classification will be found in the index. Thus, for example, if the reader has a predilection for problems with Moving Counters, or for Magic Squares, or for Combination and Group Puzzles, he will find that in the index these are brought together for his convenience.
Though the problems are quite different, with the exception of just one or two little variations or extensions, from those in my book Amusements in Mathematics, each work being complete in itself, I have thought it would help the reader who happens to have both books before him if I made occasional references that would direct him to solutions and analyses in the later book calculated to elucidate matter in these pages. This course has also obviated the necessity of my repeating myself. For the sake of brevity, Amusements in Mathematics is throughout referred to as A. in M.
THE AUTHORS' CLUB, July 2, 1919.
The answer is simply that it gave us pleasure to seek the solution—that the pleasure was all in the seeking and finding for their own sakes. A good puzzle, like virtue, is its own reward. Man loves to be confronted by a mystery, and he is not entirely happy until he has solved it. We never like to feel our mental inferiority to those around us. The spirit of rivalry is innate in man; it stimulates the smallest child, in play or education, to keep level with his fellows, and in later life it turns men into great discoverers, inventors, orators, heroes, artists, and (if they have more material aims) perhaps millionaires.
In starting on a tour through the wide realm of Puzzledom we do well to remember that we shall meet with points of interest of a very varied character. I shall take advantage of this variety. People often make the mistake of confining themselves to one little corner of the realm, and thereby miss opportunities of new pleasures that lie within their reach around them. One person will keep to acrostics and other word puzzles, another to mathematical brain-rackers, another to chess problems (which are merely puzzles on the chess-board, and have little practical relation to the game of chess), and so on. This is a mistake, because it restricts one's pleasures, and neglects that variety which is so good for the brain.
And there is really a practical utility in puzzle-solving. Regular exercise is supposed to be as necessary for the brain as for the body, and in both cases it is not so much what we do as the doing of it from which we derive benefit. The daily walk recommended by the doctor for the good of the body, or the daily exercise for the brain, may in itself appear to be so much waste of time; but it is the truest economy in the end. Albert Smith, in one of his amusing novels, describes a woman who was convinced that she suffered from "cobwigs on the brain." This may be a very rare complaint, but in a more metaphorical sense many of us are very apt to suffer from mental cobwebs, and there is nothing equal to the solving of puzzles and problems for sweeping them away. They keep the brain alert, stimulate the imagination, and develop the reasoning faculties. And not only are they useful in this indirect way, but they often directly help us by teaching us some little tricks and "wrinkles" that can be applied in the affairs of life at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
There is an interesting passage in praise of puzzles in the quaint letters of Fitzosborne. Here is an extract: "The ingenious study of making and solving puzzles is a science undoubtedly of most necessary acquirement, and deserves to make a part in the meditation of both sexes. It is an art, indeed, that I would recommend to the encouragement of both the Universities, as it affords the easiest and shortest method of conveying some of the most useful principles of logic. It was the maxim of a very wise prince that 'he who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign'; and I desire you to receive it as mine, that 'he who knows not how to riddle knows not how to live.'"
How are good puzzles invented? I am not referring to acrostics, anagrams, charades, and that sort of thing, but to puzzles that contain an original idea. Well, you cannot invent a good puzzle to order, any more than you can invent anything else in that manner. Notions for puzzles come at strange times and in strange ways. They are suggested by something we see or hear, and are led up to by other puzzles that come under our notice. It is useless to say, "I will sit down and invent an original puzzle," because there is no way of creating an idea; you can only make use of it when it comes. You may think this is wrong, because an expert in these things will make scores of puzzles while another person, equally clever, cannot invent one "to save his life," as we say. The explanation is very simple. The expert knows an idea when he sees one, and is able by long experience to judge of its value. Fertility, like facility, comes by practice.
Sometimes a new and most interesting idea is suggested by the blunder of somebody over another puzzle. A boy was given a puzzle to solve by a friend, but he misunderstood what he had to do, and set about attempting what most likely everybody would have told him was impossible. But he was a boy with a will, and he stuck at it for six months, off and on, until he actually succeeded. When his friend saw the solution, he said, "This is not the puzzle I intended—you misunderstood me—but you have found out something much greater!" And the puzzle which that boy accidentally discovered is now in all the old puzzle books.
Puzzles can be made out of almost anything, in the hands of the ingenious person with an idea. Coins, matches, cards, counters, bits of wire or string, all come in useful. An immense number of puzzles have been made out of the letters of the alphabet, and from those nine little digits and cipher, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
It should always be remembered that a very simple person may propound a problem that can only be solved by clever heads—if at all. A child asked, "Can God do everything?" On receiving an affirmative reply, she at once said: "Then can He make a stone so heavy that He can't lift it?" Many wide-awake grown-up people do not at once see a satisfactory answer. Yet the difficulty lies merely in the absurd, though cunning, form of the question, which really amounts to asking, "Can the Almighty destroy His own omnipotence?" It is somewhat similar to the other question, "What would happen if an irresistible moving body came in contact with an immovable body?" Here we have simply a contradiction in terms, for if there existed such a thing as an immovable body, there could not at the same time exist a moving body that nothing could resist.
Professor Tyndall used to invite children to ask him puzzling questions, and some of them were very hard nuts to crack. One child asked him why that part of a towel that was dipped in water was of a darker colour than the dry part. How many readers could give the correct reply? Many people are satisfied with the most ridiculous answers to puzzling questions. If you ask, "Why can we see through glass?" nine people out of ten will reply, "Because it is transparent;" which is, of course, simply another way of saying, "Because we can see through it."
Puzzles have such an infinite variety that it is sometimes very difficult to divide them into distinct classes. They often so merge in character that the best we can do is to sort them into a few broad types. Let us take three or four examples in illustration of what I mean.
First there is the ancient Riddle, that draws upon the imagination and play of fancy. Readers will remember the riddle of the Sphinx, the monster of Boeotia who propounded enigmas to the inhabitants and devoured them if they failed to solve them. It was said that the Sphinx would destroy herself if one of her riddles was ever correctly answered. It was this: "What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?" It was explained by Oedipus, who pointed out that man walked on his hands and feet in the morning of life, at the noon of life he walked erect, and in the evening of his days he supported his infirmities with a stick. When the Sphinx heard this explanation, she dashed her head against a rock and immediately expired. This shows that puzzle solvers may be really useful on occasion.
Then there is the riddle propounded by Samson. It is perhaps the first prize competition in this line on record, the prize being thirty sheets and thirty changes of garments for a correct solution. The riddle was this: "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." The answer was, "A honey-comb in the body of a dead lion." To-day this sort of riddle survives in such a form as, "Why does a chicken cross the road?" to which most people give the answer, "To get to the other side;" though the correct reply is, "To worry the chauffeur." It has degenerated into the conundrum, which is usually based on a mere pun. For example, we have been asked from our infancy, "When is a door not a door?" and here again the answer usually furnished ("When it is a-jar") is not the correct one. It should be, "When it is a negress (an egress)."
There is the large class of Letter Puzzles, which are based on the little peculiarities of the language in which they are written—such as anagrams, acrostics, word-squares, and charades. In this class we also find palindromes, or words and sentences that read backwards and forwards alike. These must be very ancient indeed, if it be true that Adam introduced himself to Eve (in the English language, be it noted) with the palindromic words, "Madam, I'm Adam," to which his consort replied with the modest palindrome "Eve."
Then we have Arithmetical Puzzles, an immense class, full of diversity. These range from the puzzle that the algebraist finds to be nothing but a "simple equation," quite easy of direct solution, up to the profoundest problems in the elegant domain of the theory of numbers.
Next we have the Geometrical Puzzle, a favourite and very ancient branch of which is the puzzle in dissection, requiring some plane figure to be cut into a certain number of pieces that will fit together and form another figure. Most of the wire puzzles sold in the streets and toy-shops are concerned with the geometry of position.
But these classes do not nearly embrace all kinds of puzzles even when we allow for those that belong at once to several of the classes. There are many ingenious mechanical puzzles that you cannot classify, as they stand quite alone: there are puzzles in logic, in chess, in draughts, in cards, and in dominoes, while every conjuring trick is nothing but a puzzle, the solution to which the performer tries to keep to himself.
There are puzzles that look easy and are easy, puzzles that look easy and are difficult, puzzles that look difficult and are difficult, and puzzles that look difficult and are easy, and in each class we may of course have degrees of easiness and difficulty. But it does not follow that a puzzle that has conditions that are easily understood by the merest child is in itself easy. Such a puzzle might, however, look simple to the uninformed, and only prove to be a very hard nut to him after he had actually tackled it.
The number composed of seventeen ones, 11,111,111,111,111,111, has only these two divisors, 2,071,723 and 5,363,222,357, and their discovery is an exceedingly heavy task. The only number composed only of ones that we know with certainty to have no divisor is 11. Such a number is, of course, called a prime number.
The maxim that there are always a right way and a wrong way of doing anything applies in a very marked degree to the solving of puzzles. Here the wrong way consists in making aimless trials without method, hoping to hit on the answer by accident—a process that generally results in our getting hopelessly entangled in the trap that has been artfully laid for us.
Occasionally, however, a problem is of such a character that, though it may be solved immediately by trial, it is very difficult to do by a process of pure reason. But in most cases the latter method is the only one that gives any real pleasure.
When we sit down to solve a puzzle, the first thing to do is to make sure, as far as we can, that we understand the conditions. For if we do not understand what it is we have to do, we are not very likely to succeed in doing it. We all know the story of the man who was asked the question, "If a herring and a half cost three-halfpence, how much will a dozen herrings cost?" After several unsuccessful attempts he gave it up, when the propounder explained to him that a dozen herrings would cost a shilling. "Herrings!" exclaimed the other apologetically; "I was working it out in haddocks!"
[A] See footnote on page 198.
It sometimes requires more care than the reader might suppose so to word the conditions of a new puzzle that they are at once clear and exact and not so prolix as to destroy all interest in the thing. I remember once propounding a problem that required something to be done in the "fewest possible straight lines," and a person who was either very clever or very foolish (I have never quite determined which) claimed to have solved it in only one straight line, because, as she said, "I have taken care to make all the others crooked!" Who could have anticipated such a quibble?
Then if you give a "crossing the river" puzzle, in which people have to be got over in a boat that will only hold a certain number or combination of persons, directly the would-be solver fails to master the difficulty he boldly introduces a rope to pull the boat across. You say that a rope is forbidden; and he then falls back on the use of a current in the stream. I once thought I had carefully excluded all such tricks in a particular puzzle of this class. But a sapient reader made all the people swim across without using the boat at all! Of course, some few puzzles are intended to be solved by some trick of this kind; and if there happens to be no solution without the trick it is perfectly legitimate. We have to use our best judgment as to whether a puzzle contains a catch or not; but we should never hastily assume it. To quibble over the conditions is the last resort of the defeated would-be solver.
Sometimes people will attempt to bewilder you by curious little twists in the meaning of words. A man recently propounded to me the old familiar problem, "A boy walks round a pole on which is a monkey, but as the boy walks the monkey turns on the pole so as to be always facing him on the opposite side. Does the boy go around the monkey?" I replied that if he would first give me his definition of "to go around" I would supply him with the answer. Of course, he demurred, so that he might catch me either way. I therefore said that, taking the words in their ordinary and correct meaning, most certainly the boy went around the monkey. As was expected, he retorted that it was not so, because he understood by "going around" a thing that you went in such a way as to see all sides of it. To this I made the obvious reply that consequently a blind man could not go around anything.
He then amended his definition by saying that the actual seeing all sides was not essential, but you went in such a way that, given sight, you could see all sides. Upon which it was suggested that consequently you could not walk around a man who had been shut up in a box! And so on. The whole thing is amusingly stupid, and if at the start you, very properly, decline to admit any but a simple and correct definition of "to go around," there is no puzzle left, and you prevent an idle, and often heated, argument.
When you have grasped your conditions, always see if you cannot simplify them, for a lot of confusion is got rid of in this way. Many people are puzzled over the old question of the man who, while pointing at a portrait, says, "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." What relation did the man in the picture bear to the speaker? Here you simplify by saying that "my father's son" must be either "myself" or "my brother." But, since the speaker has no brother, it is clearly "myself." The statement simplified is thus nothing more than, "That man's father is myself," and it was obviously his son's portrait. Yet people fight over this question by the hour!
There are mysteries that have never been solved in many branches of Puzzledom. Let us consider a few in the world of numbers—little things the conditions of which a child can understand, though the greatest minds cannot master. Everybody has heard the remark, "It is as hard as squaring a circle," though many people have a very hazy notion of what it means. If you have a circle of given diameter and wish to find the side of a square that shall contain exactly the same area, you are confronted with the problem of squaring the circle. Well, it cannot be done with exactitude (though we can get an answer near enough for all practical purposes), because it is not possible to say in exact numbers what is the ratio of the diameter to the circumference. But it is only in recent times that it has been proved to be impossible, for it is one thing not to be able to perform a certain feat, but quite another to prove that it cannot be done. Only uninstructed cranks now waste their time in trying to square the circle.
Again, we can never measure exactly in numbers the diagonal of a square. If you have a window pane exactly a foot on every side, there is the distance from corner to corner staring you in the face, yet you can never say in exact numbers what is the length of that diagonal. The simple person will at once suggest that we might take our diagonal first, say an exact foot, and then construct our square. Yes, you can do this, but then you can never say exactly what is the length of the side. You can have it which way you like, but you cannot have it both ways.
All my readers know what a magic square is. The numbers 1 to 9 can be arranged in a square of nine cells, so that all the columns and rows and each of the diagonals will add up 15. It is quite easy; and there is only one way of doing it, for we do not count as different the arrangements obtained by merely turning round the square and reflecting it in a mirror. Now if we wish to make a magic square of the 16 numbers, 1 to 16, there are just 880 different ways of doing it, again not counting reversals and reflections. This has been finally proved of recent years. But how many magic squares may be formed with the 25 numbers, 1 to 25, nobody knows, and we shall have to extend our knowledge in certain directions before we can hope to solve the puzzle. But it is surprising to find that exactly 174,240 such squares may be formed of one particular restricted kind only—the bordered square, in which the inner square of nine cells is itself magic. And I have shown how this number may be at once doubled by merely converting every bordered square—by a simple rule—into a non-bordered one.
Then vain attempts have been made to construct a magic square by what is called a "knight's tour" over the chess-board, numbering each square that the knight visits in succession, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.; and it has been done, with the exception of the two diagonals, which so far have baffled all efforts. But it is not certain that it cannot be done.
Though the contents of the present volume are in the main entirely original, some very few old friends will be found; but these will not, I trust, prove unwelcome in the new dress that they have received. The puzzles are of every degree of difficulty, and so varied in character that perhaps it is not too much to hope that every true puzzle lover will find ample material to interest—and possibly instruct. In some cases I have dealt with the methods of solution at considerable length, but at other times I have reluctantly felt obliged to restrict myself to giving the bare answers. Had the full solutions and proofs been given in the case of every puzzle, either half the problems would have had to be omitted, or the size of the book greatly increased. And the plan that I have adopted has its advantages, for it leaves scope for the mathematical enthusiast to work out his own analysis. Even in those cases where I have given a general formula for the solution of a puzzle, he will find great interest in verifying it for himself.
A Chance-gathered company of pilgrims, on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, met at the old Tabard Inn, later called the Talbot, in Southwark, and the host proposed that they should beguile the ride by each telling a tale to his fellow-pilgrims. This we all know was the origin of the immortal Canterbury Tales of our great fourteenth-century poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. Unfortunately, the tales were never completed, and perhaps that is why the quaint and curious "Canterbury Puzzles," devised and propounded by the same body of pilgrims, were not also recorded by the poet's pen. This is greatly to be regretted, since Chaucer, who, as Leland tells us, was an "ingenious mathematician" and the author of a learned treatise on the astrolabe, was peculiarly fitted for the propounding of problems. In presenting for the first time some of these old-world posers, I will not stop to explain the singular manner in which they came into my possession, but proceed at once, without unnecessary preamble, to give my readers an opportunity of solving them and testing their quality. There are certainly far more difficult puzzles extant, but difficulty and interest are two qualities of puzzledom that do not necessarily go together.
The Reve was a wily man and something of a scholar. As Chaucer tells us, "There was no auditor could of him win," and "there could no man bring him in arrear." The poet also noticed that "ever he rode the hindermost of the route." This he did that he might the better, without interruption, work out the fanciful problems and ideas that passed through his active brain. When the pilgrims were stopping at a wayside tavern, a number of cheeses of varying sizes caught his alert eye; and calling for four stools, he told the company that he would show them a puzzle of his own that would keep them amused during their rest. He then placed eight cheeses of graduating sizes on one of the end stools, the smallest cheese being at the top, as clearly shown in the illustration. "This is a riddle," quoth he, "that I did once set before my fellow townsmen at Baldeswell, that is in Norfolk, and, by Saint Joce, there was no man among them that could rede it aright. And yet it is withal full easy, for all that I do desire is that, by the moving of one cheese at a time from one stool unto another, ye shall remove all the cheeses to the stool at the other end without ever putting any cheese on one that is smaller than itself. To him that will perform this feat in the least number of moves that be possible will I give a draught of the best that our good host can provide." To solve this puzzle in the fewest possible moves, first with 8, then with 10, and afterwards with 21 cheeses, is an interesting recreation.
The gentle Pardoner, "that straight was come from the court of Rome," begged to be excused; but the company would not spare him. "Friends and fellow-pilgrims," said he, "of a truth the riddle that I have made is but a poor thing, but it is the best that I have been able to devise. Blame my lack of knowledge of such matters if it be not to your liking." But his invention was very well received. He produced the accompanying plan, and said that it represented sixty-four towns through which he had to pass during some of his pilgrimages, and the lines connecting them were roads. He explained that the puzzle was to start from the large black town and visit all the other towns once, and once only, in fifteen straight pilgrimages. Try to trace the route in fifteen straight lines with your pencil. You may end where you like, but note that the omission of a little road at the bottom is intentional, as it seems that it was impossible to go that way.
The Miller next took the company aside and showed them nine sacks of flour that were standing as depicted in the sketch. "Now, hearken, all and some," said he, "while that I do set ye the riddle of the nine sacks of flour. And mark ye, my lords and masters, that there be single sacks on the outside, pairs next unto them, and three together in the middle thereof. By Saint Benedict, it doth so happen that if we do but multiply the pair, 28, by the single one, 7, the answer is 196, which is of a truth the number shown by the sacks in the middle. Yet it be not true that the other pair, 34, when so multiplied by its neighbour, 5, will also make 196. Wherefore I do beg you, gentle sirs, so to place anew the nine sacks with as little trouble as possible that each pair when thus multiplied by its single neighbour shall make the number in the middle." As the Miller has stipulated in effect that as few bags as possible shall be moved, there is only one answer to this puzzle, which everybody should be able to solve.
This worthy man was, as Chaucer tells us, "a very perfect, gentle knight," and "In many a noble army had he been: At mortal battles had he been fifteen." His shield, as he is seen showing it to the company at the "Tabard" in the illustration, was, in the peculiar language of the heralds, "argent, semee of roses, gules," which means that on a white ground red roses were scattered or strewn, as seed is sown by the hand. When this knight was called on to propound a puzzle, he said to the company, "This riddle a wight did ask of me when that I fought with the lord of Palatine against the heathen in Turkey. In thy hand take a piece of chalk and learn how many perfect squares thou canst make with one of the eighty-seven roses at each corner thereof." The reader may find it an interesting problem to count the number of squares that may be formed on the shield by uniting four roses.
5—The Wife of Bath's Riddles.
The frolicsome Wife of Bath, when called upon to favour the company, protested that she had no aptitude for such things, but that her fourth husband had had a liking for them, and she remembered one of his riddles that might be new to her fellow pilgrims: "Why is a bung that hath been made fast in a barrel like unto another bung that is just falling out of a barrel?" As the company promptly answered this easy conundrum, the lady went on to say that when she was one day seated sewing in her private chamber her son entered. "Upon receiving," saith she, "the parental command, 'Depart, my son, and do not disturb me!' he did reply, 'I am, of a truth, thy son; but thou art not my mother, and until thou hast shown me how this may be I shall not go forth.'" This perplexed the company a good deal, but it is not likely to give the reader much difficulty.
Perhaps no puzzle of the whole collection caused more jollity or was found more entertaining than that produced by the Host of the "Tabard," who accompanied the party all the way. He called the pilgrims together and spoke as follows: "My merry masters all, now that it be my turn to give your brains a twist, I will show ye a little piece of craft that will try your wits to their full bent. And yet methinks it is but a simple matter when the doing of it is made clear. Here be a cask of fine London ale, and in my hands do I hold two measures—one of five pints, and the other of three pints. Pray show how it is possible for me to put a true pint into each of the measures." Of course, no other vessel or article is to be used, and no marking of the measures is allowed. It is a knotty little problem and a fascinating one. A good many persons to-day will find it by no means an easy task. Yet it can be done.
7.—The Clerk of Oxenford's Puzzle.
The silent and thoughtful Clerk of Oxenford, of whom it is recorded that "Every farthing that his friends e'er lent, In books and learning was it always spent," was prevailed upon to give his companions a puzzle. He said, "Ofttimes of late have I given much thought to the study of those strange talismans to ward off the plague and such evils that are yclept magic squares, and the secret of such things is very deep and the number of such squares truly great. But the small riddle that I did make yester eve for the purpose of this company is not so hard that any may not find it out with a little patience." He then produced the square shown in the illustration and said that it was desired so to cut it into four pieces (by cuts along the lines) that they would fit together again and form a perfect magic square, in which the four columns, the four rows, and the two long diagonals should add up 34. It will be found that this is a just sufficiently easy puzzle for most people's tastes.
He produced a beautiful piece of tapestry, worked in a simple chequered pattern, as shown in the diagram. "This piece of tapestry, sirs," quoth he, "hath one hundred and sixty-nine small squares, and I do desire you to tell me the manner of cutting the tapestry into three pieces that shall fit together and make one whole piece in shape of a perfect square.
"Moreover, since there be divers ways of so doing, I do wish to know that way wherein two of the pieces shall together contain as much as possible of the rich fabric." It is clear that the Tapiser intended the cuts to be made along the lines dividing the squares only, and, as the material was not both sides alike, no piece may be reversed, but care must be observed that the chequered pattern matches properly.
The Carpenter produced the carved wooden pillar that he is seen holding in the illustration, wherein the knight is propounding his knotty problem to the goodly company (No. 4), and spoke as follows: "There dwelleth in the city of London a certain scholar that is learned in astrology and other strange arts. Some few days gone he did bring unto me a piece of wood that had three feet in length, one foot in breadth and one foot in depth, and did desire that it be carved and made into the pillar that you do now behold. Also did he promise certain payment for every cubic inch of wood cut away by the carving thereof.
"Now I did at first weigh the block, and found it truly to contain thirty pounds, whereas the pillar doth now weigh but twenty pounds. Of a truth I have therefore cut away one cubic foot (which is to say one-third) of the three cubic feet of the block; but this scholar withal doth hold that payment may not thus be fairly made by weight, since the heart of the block may be heavier, or perchance may be more light, than the outside. How then may I with ease satisfy the scholar as to the quantity of wood that hath been cut away?" This at first sight looks a difficult question, but it is so absurdly simple that the method employed by the carpenter should be known to everybody to-day, for it is a very useful little "wrinkle."
10.—The Puzzle of the Squire's Yeoman.
Chaucer says of the Squire's Yeoman, who formed one of his party of pilgrims, "A forester was he truly as I guess," and tells us that "His arrows drooped not with feathers low, And in his hand he bare a mighty bow." When a halt was made one day at a wayside inn, bearing the old sign of the "Chequers," this yeoman consented to give the company an exhibition of his skill. Selecting nine good arrows, he said, "Mark ye, good sirs, how that I shall shoot these nine arrows in such manner that each of them shall lodge in the middle of one of the squares that be upon the sign of the 'Chequers,' and yet of a truth shall no arrow be in line with any other arrow." The diagram will show exactly how he did this, and no two arrows will be found in line, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Then the Yeoman said: "Here then is a riddle for ye. Remove three of the arrows each to one of its neighbouring squares, so that the nine shall yet be so placed that none thereof may be in line with another." By a "neighbouring square" is meant one that adjoins, either laterally or diagonally.
"I trow there be not one among ye," quoth the Nun, on a later occasion, "that doth not know that many monks do oft pass the time in play at certain games, albeit they be not lawful for them. These games, such as cards and the game of chess, do they cunningly hide from the abbot's eye by putting them away in holes that they have cut out of the very hearts of great books that be upon their shelves. Shall the nun therefore be greatly blamed if she do likewise? I will show a little riddle game that we do sometimes play among ourselves when the good abbess doth hap to be away."
The Nun then produced the eighteen cards that are shown in the illustration. She explained that the puzzle was so to arrange the cards in a pack, that by placing the uppermost one on the table, placing the next one at the bottom of the pack, the next one on the table, the next at the bottom of the pack, and so on, until all are on the table, the eighteen cards shall then read "CANTERBURY PILGRIMS." Of course each card must be placed on the table to the immediate right of the one that preceded it. It is easy enough if you work backwards, but the reader should try to arrive at the required order without doing this, or using any actual cards.
Of the Merchant the poet writes, "Forsooth he was a worthy man withal." He was thoughtful, full of schemes, and a good manipulator of figures. "His reasons spake he eke full solemnly. Sounding away the increase of his winning." One morning, when they were on the road, the Knight and the Squire, who were riding beside him, reminded the Merchant that he had not yet propounded the puzzle that he owed the company. He thereupon said, "Be it so? Here then is a riddle in numbers that I will set before this merry company when next we do make a halt. There be thirty of us in all riding over the common this morn. Truly we may ride one and one, in what they do call the single file, or two and two, or three and three, or five and five, or six and six, or ten and ten, or fifteen and fifteen, or all thirty in a row. In no other way may we ride so that there be no lack of equal numbers in the rows. Now, a party of pilgrims were able thus to ride in as many as sixty-four different ways. Prithee tell me how many there must perforce have been in the company." The Merchant clearly required the smallest number of persons that could so ride in the sixty-four ways.
13.—The Man of Law's Puzzle.
The Sergeant of the Law was "full rich of excellence. Discreet he was, and of great reverence." He was a very busy man, but, like many of us to-day, "he seemed busier than he was." He was talking one evening of prisons and prisoners, and at length made the following remarks: "And that which I have been saying doth forsooth call to my mind that this morn I bethought me of a riddle that I will now put forth." He then produced a slip of vellum, on which was drawn the curious plan that is now given. "Here," saith he, "be nine dungeons, with a prisoner in every dungeon save one, which is empty. These prisoners be numbered in order, 7, 5, 6, 8, 2, 1, 4, 3, and I desire to know how they can, in as few moves as possible, put themselves in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. One prisoner may move at a time along the passage to the dungeon that doth happen to be empty, but never, on pain of death, may two men be in any dungeon at the same time. How may it be done?" If the reader makes a rough plan on a sheet of paper and uses numbered counters, he will find it an interesting pastime to arrange the prisoners in the fewest possible moves. As there is never more than one vacant dungeon at a time to be moved into, the moves may be recorded in this simple way: 3—2—1—6, and so on.
When the Weaver brought out a square piece of beautiful cloth, daintily embroidered with lions and castles, as depicted in the illustration, the pilgrims disputed among themselves as to the meaning of these ornaments. The Knight, however, who was skilled in heraldry, explained that they were probably derived from the lions and castles borne in the arms of Ferdinand III., the King of Castile and Leon, whose daughter was the first wife of our Edward I. In this he was undoubtedly correct. The puzzle that the Weaver proposed was this. "Let us, for the nonce, see," saith he, "if there be any of the company that can show how this piece of cloth may be cut into four several pieces, each of the same size and shape, and each piece bearing a lion and a castle." It is not recorded that anybody mastered this puzzle, though it is quite possible of solution in a satisfactory manner. No cut may pass through any part of a lion or a castle.
We find that there was a cook among the company; and his services were no doubt at times in great request, "For he could roast and seethe, and broil and fry, And make a mortress and well bake a pie." One night when the pilgrims were seated at a country hostelry, about to begin their repast, the cook presented himself at the head of the table that was presided over by the Franklin, and said, "Listen awhile, my masters, while that I do ask ye a riddle, and by Saint Moden it is one that I cannot answer myself withal. There be eleven pilgrims seated at this board on which is set a warden pie and a venison pasty, each of which may truly be divided into four parts and no more. Now, mark ye, five out of the eleven pilgrims can eat the pie, but will not touch the pasty, while four will eat the pasty but turn away from the pie. Moreover, the two that do remain be able and willing to eat of either. By my halidame, is there any that can tell me in how many different ways the good Franklin may choose whom he will serve?" I will just caution the reader that if he is not careful he will find, when he sees the answer, that he has made a mistake of forty, as all the company did, with the exception of the Clerk of Oxenford, who got it right by accident, through putting down a wrong figure.
Strange to say, while the company perplexed their wits about this riddle the cook played upon them a merry jest. In the midst of their deep thinking and hot dispute what should the cunning knave do but stealthily take away both the pie and the pasty. Then, when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast, finding there was nought upon the table, they called clamorously for the cook.
"My masters," he explained, "seeing you were so deep set in the riddle, I did take them to the next room, where others did eat them with relish ere they had grown cold. There be excellent bread and cheese in the pantry."
The Sompnour, or Summoner, who, according to Chaucer, joined the party of pilgrims, was an officer whose duty was to summon delinquents to appear in ecclesiastical courts. In later times he became known as the apparitor. Our particular individual was a somewhat quaint though worthy man. "He was a gentle hireling and a kind; A better fellow should a man not find." In order that the reader may understand his appearance in the picture, it must be explained that his peculiar headgear is duly recorded by the poet. "A garland had he set upon his head, As great as if it were for an ale-stake."
One evening ten of the company stopped at a village inn and requested to be put up for the night, but mine host could only accommodate five of them. The Sompnour suggested that they should draw lots, and as he had had experience in such matters in the summoning of juries and in other ways, he arranged the company in a circle and proposed a "count out." Being of a chivalrous nature, his little plot was so to arrange that the men should all fall out and leave the ladies in possession. He therefore gave the Wife of Bath a number and directed her to count round and round the circle, in a clockwise direction, and the person on whom that number fell was immediately to step out of the ring. The count then began afresh at the next person. But the lady misunderstood her instructions, and selected in mistake the number eleven and started the count at herself. As will be found, this resulted in all the women falling out in turn instead of the men, for every eleventh person withdrawn from the circle is a lady.
"Of a truth it was no fault of mine," said the Sompnour next day to the company, "and herein is methinks a riddle. Can any tell me what number the good Wife should have used withal, and at which pilgrim she should have begun her count so that no other than the five men should have been counted out?" Of course, the point is to find the smallest number that will have the desired effect.
"There is a little matter that hath at times perplexed me greatly, though certes it is of no great weight; yet may it serve to try the wits of some that be cunning in such things. Nine kennels have I for the use of my dogs, and they be put in the form of a square; though the one in the middle I do never use, it not being of a useful nature. Now the riddle is to find in how many different ways I may place my dogs in all or any of the outside kennels so that the number of dogs on every side of the square may be just ten." The small diagrams show four ways of doing it, and though the fourth way is merely a reversal of the third, it counts as different. Any kennels may be left empty. This puzzle was evidently a variation of the ancient one of the Abbess and her Nuns.
Of this person we are told, "He knew well all the havens, as they were, From Gothland to the Cape of Finisterre, And every creek in Brittany and Spain: His barque ycleped was the Magdalen." The strange puzzle in navigation that he propounded was as follows.
"Here be a chart," quoth the Shipman, "of five islands, with the inhabitants of which I do trade. In each year my good ship doth sail over every one of the ten courses depicted thereon, but never may she pass along the same course twice in any year. Is there any among the company who can tell me in how many different ways I may direct the Magdalen's ten yearly voyages, always setting out from the same island?"
19.—The Puzzle of the Prioress.
The Prioress, who went by the name of Eglantine, is best remembered on account of Chaucer's remark, "And French she spake full fair and properly, After the school of Stratford-atte-Bow, For French of Paris was to her unknow." But our puzzle has to do less with her character and education than with her dress. "And thereon hung a brooch of gold full sheen, On which was written first a crowned A." It is with the brooch that we are concerned, for when asked to give a puzzle she showed this jewel to the company and said: "A learned man from Normandy did once give me this brooch as a charm, saying strange and mystic things anent it, how that it hath an affinity for the square, and such other wise words that were too subtle for me. But the good Abbot of Chertsey did once tell me that the cross may be so cunningly cut into four pieces that they will join and make a perfect square; though on my faith I know not the manner of doing it."
It is recorded that "the pilgrims did find no answer to the riddle, and the Clerk of Oxenford thought that the Prioress had been deceived in the matter thereof; whereupon the lady was sore vexed, though the gentle knight did flout and gibe at the poor clerk because of his lack of understanding over other of the riddles, which did fill him with shame and make merry the company."
20.—The Puzzle of the Doctor of Physic.
This Doctor, learned though he was, for "In all this world to him there was none like To speak of physic and of surgery," and "He knew the cause of every malady," yet was he not indifferent to the more material side of life. "Gold in physic is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special." The problem that the Doctor propounded to the assembled pilgrims was this. He produced two spherical phials, as shown in our illustration, and pointed out that one phial was exactly a foot in circumference, and the other two feet in circumference.
"I do wish," said the Doctor, addressing the company, "to have the exact measures of two other phials, of a like shape but different in size, that may together contain just as much liquid as is contained by these two." To find exact dimensions in the smallest possible numbers is one of the toughest nuts I have attempted. Of course the thickness of the glass, and the neck and base, are to be ignored.
The Ploughman—of whom Chaucer remarked, "A worker true and very good was he, Living in perfect peace and charity"—protested that riddles were not for simple minds like his, but he would show the good pilgrims, if they willed it, one that he had frequently heard certain clever folk in his own neighbourhood discuss. "The lord of the manor in the part of Sussex whence I come hath a plantation of sixteen fair oak trees, and they be so set out that they make twelve rows with four trees in every row. Once on a time a man of deep learning, who happened to be travelling in those parts, did say that the sixteen trees might have been so planted that they would make so many as fifteen straight rows, with four trees in every row thereof. Can ye show me how this might be? Many have doubted that 'twere possible to be done." The illustration shows one of many ways of forming the twelve rows. How can we make fifteen?
"A Franklin was in this company; White was his beard as is the daisy." We are told by Chaucer that he was a great householder and an epicure. "Without baked meat never was his house. Of fish and flesh, and that so plenteous, It snowed in his house of meat and drink, Of every dainty that men could bethink." He was a hospitable and generous man. "His table dormant in his hall alway Stood ready covered all throughout the day." At the repasts of the Pilgrims he usually presided at one of the tables, as we found him doing on the occasion when the cook propounded his problem of the two pies.
One day, at an inn just outside Canterbury, the company called on him to produce the puzzle required of him; whereupon he placed on the table sixteen bottles numbered 1, 2, 3, up to 15, with the last one marked 0. "Now, my masters," quoth he, "it will be fresh in your memories how that the good Clerk of Oxenford did show us a riddle touching what hath been called the magic square. Of a truth will I set before ye another that may seem to be somewhat of a like kind, albeit there be little in common betwixt them. Here be set out sixteen bottles in form of a square, and I pray you so place them afresh that they shall form a magic square, adding up to thirty in all the ten straight ways. But mark well that ye may not remove more than ten of the bottles from their present places, for therein layeth the subtlety of the riddle." This is a little puzzle that may be conveniently tried with sixteen numbered counters.
The young Squire, twenty years of age, was the son of the Knight that accompanied him on the historic pilgrimage. He was undoubtedly what in later times we should call a dandy, for, "Embroidered was he as is a mead, All full of fresh flowers, white and red. Singing he was or fluting all the day, He was as fresh as is the month of May." As will be seen in the illustration to No. 26, while the Haberdasher was propounding his problem of the triangle, this young Squire was standing in the background making a drawing of some kind; for "He could songs make and well indite, Joust and eke dance, and well portray and write."
The Knight turned to him after a while and said, "My son, what is it over which thou dost take so great pains withal?" and the Squire answered, "I have bethought me how I might portray in one only stroke a picture of our late sovereign lord King Edward the Third, who hath been dead these ten years. 'Tis a riddle to find where the stroke doth begin and where it doth also end. To him who first shall show it unto me will I give the portraiture."
I am able to present a facsimile of the original drawing, which was won by the Man of Law. It may be here remarked that the pilgrimage set out from Southwark on 17th April 1387, and Edward the Third died in 1377.
The Friar was a merry fellow, with a sweet tongue and twinkling eyes. "Courteous he was and lowly of service. There was a man nowhere so virtuous." Yet he was "the best beggar in all his house," and gave reasons why "Therefore, instead of weeping and much prayer, Men must give silver to the needy friar." He went by the name of Hubert. One day he produced four money bags and spoke as follows: "If the needy friar doth receive in alms five hundred silver pennies, prithee tell in how many different ways they may be placed in the four bags." The good man explained that order made no difference (so that the distribution 50, 100, 150, 200 would be the same as 100, 50, 200, 150, or 200, 50, 100, 150), and one, two, or three bags may at any time be empty.
The Parson was a really devout and good man. "A better priest I trow there nowhere is." His virtues and charity made him beloved by all his flock, to whom he presented his teaching with patience and simplicity; "but first he followed it himself." Now, Chaucer is careful to tell us that "Wide was his parish, and houses far asunder, But he neglected nought for rain or thunder;" and it is with his parochial visitations that the Parson's puzzle actually dealt. He produced a plan of part of his parish, through which a small river ran that joined the sea some hundreds of miles to the south. I give a facsimile of the plan.
"Here, my worthy Pilgrims, is a strange riddle," quoth the Parson. "Behold how at the branching of the river is an island. Upon this island doth stand my own poor parsonage, and ye may all see the whereabouts of the village church. Mark ye, also, that there be eight bridges and no more over the river in my parish. On my way to church it is my wont to visit sundry of my flock, and in the doing thereof I do pass over every one of the eight bridges once and no more. Can any of ye find the path, after this manner, from the house to the church, without going out of the parish? Nay, nay, my friends, I do never cross the river in any boat, neither by swimming nor wading, nor do I go underground like unto the mole, nor fly in the air as doth the eagle; but only pass over by the bridges." There is a way in which the Parson might have made this curious journey. Can the reader discover it? At first it seems impossible, but the conditions offer a loophole.
Many attempts were made to induce the Haberdasher, who was of the party, to propound a puzzle of some kind, but for a long time without success. At last, at one of the Pilgrims' stopping-places, he said that he would show them something that would "put their brains into a twist like unto a bell-rope." As a matter of fact, he was really playing off a practical joke on the company, for he was quite ignorant of any answer to the puzzle that he set them. He produced a piece of cloth in the shape of a perfect equilateral triangle, as shown in the illustration, and said, "Be there any among ye full wise in the true cutting of cloth? I trow not. Every man to his trade, and the scholar may learn from the varlet and the wise man from the fool. Show me, then, if ye can, in what manner this piece of cloth may be cut into four several pieces that may be put together to make a perfect square."
Now some of the more learned of the company found a way of doing it in five pieces, but not in four. But when they pressed the Haberdasher for the correct answer he was forced to admit, after much beating about the bush, that he knew no way of doing it in any number of pieces. "By Saint Francis," saith he, "any knave can make a riddle methinks, but it is for them that may to rede it aright." For this he narrowly escaped a sound beating. But the curious point of the puzzle is that I have found that the feat may really be performed in so few as four pieces, and without turning over any piece when placing them together. The method of doing this is subtle, but I think the reader will find the problem a most interesting one.
28.—The Great Dispute between the Friar and the Sompnour.
Chaucer records the painful fact that the harmony of the pilgrimage was broken on occasions by the quarrels between the Friar and the Sompnour. At one stage the latter threatened that ere they reached Sittingbourne he would make the Friar's "heart for to mourn;" but the worthy Host intervened and patched up a temporary peace. Unfortunately trouble broke out again over a very curious dispute in this way.
At one point of the journey the road lay along two sides of a square field, and some of the pilgrims persisted, in spite of trespass, in cutting across from corner to corner, as they are seen to be doing in the illustration. Now, the Friar startled the company by stating that there was no need for the trespass, since one way was exactly the same distance as the other! "On my faith, then," exclaimed the Sompnour, "thou art a very fool!" "Nay," replied the Friar, "if the company will but listen with patience, I shall presently show how that thou art the fool, for thou hast not wit enough in thy poor brain to prove that the diagonal of any square is less than two of the sides."
If the reader will refer to the diagrams that we have given, he will be able to follow the Friar's argument. If we suppose the side of the field to be 100 yards, then the distance along the two sides, A to B, and B to C, is 200 yards. He undertook to prove that the diagonal distance direct from A to C is also 200 yards. Now, if we take the diagonal path shown in Fig. 1, it is evident that we go the same distance, for every one of the eight straight portions of this path measures exactly 25 yards. Similarly in Fig. 2, the zigzag contains ten straight portions, each 20 yards long: that path is also the same length—200 yards. No matter how many steps we make in our zigzag path, the result is most certainly always the same. Thus, in Fig. 3 the steps are very small, yet the distance must be 200 yards; as is also the case in Fig. 4, and would yet be if we needed a microscope to detect the steps. In this way, the Friar argued, we may go on straightening out that zigzag path until we ultimately reach a perfectly straight line, and it therefore follows that the diagonal of a square is of exactly the same length as two of the sides.
Now, in the face of it, this must be wrong; and it is in fact absurdly so, as we can at once prove by actual measurement if we have any doubt. Yet the Sompnour could not for the life of him point out the fallacy, and so upset the Friar's reasoning. It was this that so exasperated him, and consequently, like many of us to-day when we get entangled in an argument, he utterly lost his temper and resorted to abuse. In fact, if some of the other pilgrims had not interposed the two would have undoubtedly come to blows. The reader will perhaps at once see the flaw in the Friar's argument.
"The sun from the south line was descended so low that it was not to my sight more than twenty-nine degrees. I calculate that it was four o'clock, for, assuming my height to be six feet, my shadow was eleven feet, a little more or less. At the same moment the moon's altitude (she being in mid-Libra) was steadily increasing as we entered at the west end of the village." A correspondent has taken the trouble to work this out, and finds that the local time was 3.58 p.m., correct to a minute, and that the day of the year was the 22nd or 23rd of April, modern style. This speaks well for Chaucer's accuracy, for the first line of the Tales tells us that the pilgrimage was in April—they are supposed to have set out on 17th April 1387, as stated in No. 23.
Though Chaucer made this little puzzle and recorded it for the interest of his readers, he did not venture to propound it to his fellow-pilgrims. The puzzle that he gave them was of a simpler kind altogether: it may be called a geographical one. "When, in the year 1372, I did go into Italy as the envoy of our sovereign lord King Edward the Third, and while there did visit Francesco Petrarch, that learned poet did take me to the top of a certain mountain in his country. Of a truth, as he did show me, a mug will hold less liquor at the top of this mountain than in the valley beneath. Prythee tell me what mountain this may be that has so strange a property withal." A very elementary knowledge of geography will suffice for arriving at the correct answer.
30.—The Puzzle of the Canon's Yeoman.
This person joined the party on the road. "'God save,' quoth he, 'this jolly company! Fast have I ridden,' saith he, 'for your sake, Because I would I might you overtake, To ride among this merry company.'" Of course, he was asked to entertain the pilgrims with a puzzle, and the one he propounded was the following. He showed them the diamond-shaped arrangement of letters presented in the accompanying illustration, and said, "I do call it the rat-catcher's riddle. In how many different ways canst thou read the words, 'Was it a rat I saw?'" You may go in any direction backwards and forwards, upwards or downwards, only the successive letters in any reading must always adjoin one another.
The Manciple was an officer who had the care of buying victuals for an Inn of Court—like the Temple. The particular individual who accompanied the party was a wily man who had more than thirty masters, and made fools of them all. Yet he was a man "whom purchasers might take as an example How to be wise in buying of their victual."
It happened that at a certain stage of the journey the Miller and the Weaver sat down to a light repast. The Miller produced five loaves and the Weaver three. The Manciple coming upon the scene asked permission to eat with them, to which they agreed. When the Manciple had fed he laid down eight pieces of money and said with a sly smile, "Settle betwixt yourselves how the money shall be fairly divided. 'Tis a riddle for thy wits."
A discussion followed, and many of the pilgrims joined in it. The Reve and the Sompnour held that the Miller should receive five pieces and the Weaver three, the simple Ploughman was ridiculed for suggesting that the Miller should receive seven and the Weaver only one, while the Carpenter, the Monk, and the Cook insisted that the money should be divided equally between the two men. Various other opinions were urged with considerable vigour, until it was finally decided that the Manciple, as an expert in such matters, should himself settle the point. His decision was quite correct. What was it? Of course, all three are supposed to have eaten equal shares of the bread.
Everybody that has heard of Solvamhall Castle, and of the quaint customs and ceremonies that obtained there in the olden times, is familiar with the fact that Sir Hugh de Fortibus was a lover of all kinds of puzzles and enigmas. Sir Robert de Riddlesdale himself declared on one occasion, "By the bones of Saint Jingo, this Sir Hugh hath a sharp wit. Certes, I wot not the riddle that he may not rede withal." It is, therefore, a source of particular satisfaction that the recent discovery of some ancient rolls and documents relating mainly to the family of De Fortibus enables me to place before my readers a few of the posers that racked people's brains in the good old days. The selection has been made to suit all tastes, and while the majority will be found sufficiently easy to interest those who like a puzzle that is a puzzle, but well within the scope of all, two that I have included may perhaps be found worthy of engaging the attention of the more advanced student of these things.
They had nine holes, 300, 250, 200, 325, 275, 350, 225, 375, and 400 yards apart. If a man could always strike the ball in a perfectly straight line and send it exactly one of two distances, so that it would either go towards the hole, pass over it, or drop into it, what would the two distances be that would carry him in the least number of strokes round the whole course?
"Beshrew me," Sir Hugh would say, "if I know any who could do it in this perfect way; albeit, the point is a pretty one."
Two very good distances are 125 and 75, which carry you round in 28 strokes, but this is not the correct answer. Can the reader get round in fewer strokes with two other distances?
Another favourite sport at the castle was tilting at the ring. A horizontal bar was fixed in a post, and at the end of a hanging supporter was placed a circular ring, as shown in the above illustrated title. By raising or lowering the bar the ring could be adjusted to the proper height—generally about the level of the left eyebrow of the horseman. The object was to ride swiftly some eighty paces and run the lance through the ring, which was easily detached, and remained on the lance as the property of the skilful winner. It was a very difficult feat, and men were not unnaturally proud of the rings they had succeeded in capturing.
At one tournament at the castle Henry de Gournay beat Stephen Malet by six rings. Each had his rings made into a chain—De Gournay's chain being exactly sixteen inches in length, and Malet's six inches. Now, as the rings were all of the same size and made of metal half an inch thick, the little puzzle proposed by Sir Hugh was to discover just how many rings each man had won.
Seated one night in the hall of the castle, Sir Hugh desired the company to fill their cups and listen while he told the tale of his adventure as a youth in rescuing from captivity a noble demoiselle who was languishing in the dungeon of the castle belonging to his father's greatest enemy. The story was a thrilling one, and when he related the final escape from all the dangers and horrors of the great Death's-head Dungeon with the fair but unconscious maiden in his arms, all exclaimed, "'Twas marvellous valiant!" But Sir Hugh said, "I would never have turned from my purpose, not even to save my body from the bernicles."
Sir Hugh then produced a plan of the thirty-five cells in the dungeon and asked his companions to discover the particular cell that the demoiselle occupied. He said that if you started at one of the outside cells and passed through every doorway once, and once only, you were bound to end at the cell that was sought. Can you find the cell? Unless you start at the correct outside cell it is impossible to pass through all the doorways once and once only. Try tracing out the route with your pencil.
"Methinks," said he, "yon window is square, and measures, on the inside, one foot every way, and is divided by the narrow bars into four lights, measuring half a foot on every side."
"Of a truth that is so, Sir Hugh."
"Then I desire that another window be made higher up whose four sides shall also be each one foot, but it shall be divided by bars into eight lights, whose sides shall be all equal."
"Truly, Sir Hugh," said the bewildered chief builder, "I know not how it may be done."
"By my halidame!" exclaimed De Fortibus in pretended rage, "let it be done forthwith. I trow thou art but a sorry craftsman if thou canst not, forsooth, set such a window in a keep wall."
It will be noticed that Sir Hugh ignores the thickness of the bars.
37.—The Crescent and the Cross.
"I have thought much of late, friends and masters, of the conversion of the crescent to the cross, and this has led me to the finding of matters at which I marvel greatly, for that which I shall now make known is mystical and deep. Truly it was shown to me in a dream that this crescent of the enemy may be exactly converted into the cross of our own banner. Herein is a sign that bodes good for our wars in the Holy Land."
Sir Hugh de Fortibus then explained that the crescent in one banner might be cut into pieces that would exactly form the perfect cross in the other. It is certainly rather curious; and I show how the conversion from crescent to cross may be made in ten pieces, using every part of the crescent. The flag was alike on both sides, so pieces may be turned over where required.
To-day we know that Abracadabra was the supreme deity of the Assyrians, and this curious arrangement of the letters of the word was commonly worn in Europe as an amulet or charm against diseases. But Sir Hugh had never heard of it, and, regarding the document rather seriously, he sent for a learned priest.
"I pray you, Sir Clerk," said he, "show me the true intent of this strange writing."
"Sir Hugh," replied the holy man, after he had spoken in a foreign tongue with the stranger, "it is but an amulet that this poor wight doth wear upon his breast to ward off the ague, the toothache, and such other afflictions of the body."
"Then give the varlet food and raiment and set him on his way," said Sir Hugh. "Meanwhile, Sir Clerk, canst thou tell me in how many ways this word 'Abracadabra' may be read on the amulet, always starting from the A at the top thereof?"
39.—The Snail on the Flagstaff.
It would often be interesting if we could trace back to their origin many of the best known puzzles. Some of them would be found to have been first propounded in very ancient times, and there can be very little doubt that while a certain number may have improved with age, others will have deteriorated and even lost their original point and bearing. It is curious to find in the Solvamhall records our familiar friend the climbing snail puzzle, and it will be seen that in its modern form it has lost its original subtlety.
"They do say, Sir Knight, albeit I hold such stories as mere fables, that the snail doth climb upwards three feet in the daytime, but slippeth back two feet by night."
"Then," replied Sir Hugh, "tell us how many days it will take this snail to get from the bottom to the top of the pole."
"By bread and water, I much marvel if the same can be done unless we take down and measure the staff."
"Credit me," replied the knight, "there is no need to measure the staff."
Can the reader give the answer to this version of a puzzle that we all know so well?
Sir Hugh's young kinswoman and ward, Lady Isabel de Fitzarnulph, was known far and wide as "Isabel the Fair." Amongst her treasures was a casket, the top of which was perfectly square in shape. It was inlaid with pieces of wood, and a strip of gold ten inches long by a quarter of an inch wide.
When young men sued for the hand of Lady Isabel, Sir Hugh promised his consent to the one who would tell him the dimensions of the top of the box from these facts alone: that there was a rectangular strip of gold, ten inches by 1/4-inch; and the rest of the surface was exactly inlaid with pieces of wood, each piece being a perfect square, and no two pieces of the same size. Many young men failed, but one at length succeeded. The puzzle is not an easy one, but the dimensions of that strip of gold, combined with those other conditions, absolutely determine the size of the top of the casket.
THEIR QUAINT PUZZLES AND ENIGMAS.
"Friar Andrew," quoth the Lord Abbot, as he lay a-dying, "methinks I could now rede thee the riddle of riddles—an I had—the time—and—" The good friar put his ear close to the holy Abbot's lips, but alas! they were silenced for ever. Thus passed away the life of the jovial and greatly beloved Abbot of the old monastery of Riddlewell.
The monks of Riddlewell Abbey were noted in their day for the quaint enigmas and puzzles that they were in the habit of propounding. The Abbey was built in the fourteenth century, near a sacred spring known as the Red-hill Well. This became in the vernacular Reddlewell and Riddlewell, and under the Lord Abbot David the monks evidently tried to justify the latter form by the riddles they propounded so well. The solving of puzzles became the favourite recreation, no matter whether they happened to be of a metaphysical, philosophical, mathematical, or mechanical kind. It grew into an absorbing passion with them, and as I have shown above, in the case of the Abbot this passion was strong even in death.
It would seem that the words "puzzle," "problem," "enigma," etc., did not occur in their vocabulary. They were accustomed to call every poser a "riddle," no matter whether it took the form of "Where was Moses when the light went out?" or the Squaring of the Circle. On one of the walls in the refectory were inscribed the words of Samson, "I will now put forth a riddle to you," to remind the brethren of what was expected of them, and the rule was that each monk in turn should propose some riddle weekly to the community, the others being always free to cap it with another if disposed to do so. Abbot David was, undoubtedly, the puzzle genius of the monastery, and everybody naturally bowed to his decision. Only a few of the Abbey riddles have been preserved, and I propose to select those that seem most interesting. I shall try to make the conditions of the puzzles perfectly clear, so that the modern reader may fully understand them, and be amused in trying to find some of the solutions.
41.—The Riddle of the Fish-pond.
At the bottom of the Abbey meads was a small fish-pond where the monks used to spend many a contemplative hour with rod and line. One day, when they had had very bad luck and only caught twelve fishes amongst them, Brother Jonathan suddenly declared that as there was no sport that day he would put forth a riddle for their entertainment. He thereupon took twelve fish baskets and placed them at equal distances round the pond, as shown in our illustration, with one fish in each basket.
"Now, gentle anglers," said he, "rede me this riddle of the Twelve Fishes. Start at any basket you like, and, always going in one direction round the pond, take up one fish, pass it over two other fishes, and place it in the next basket. Go on again; take up another single fish, and, having passed that also over two fishes, place it in a basket; and so continue your journey. Six fishes only are to be removed, and when these have been placed, there should be two fishes in each of six baskets, and six baskets empty. Which of you merry wights will do this in such a manner that you shall go round the pond as few times as possible?"
I will explain to the reader that it does not matter whether the two fishes that are passed over are in one or two baskets, nor how many empty baskets you pass. And, as Brother Jonathan said, you must always go in one direction round the pond (without any doubling back) and end at the spot from which you set out.
42.—The Riddle of the Pilgrims.
"You will put them," he said, "in the square dormitory that has two floors with eight rooms on each floor. There must be eleven persons sleeping on each side of the building, and twice as many on the upper floor as on the lower floor. Of course every room must be occupied, and you know my rule that not more than three persons may occupy the same room."
I give a plan of the two floors, from which it will be seen that the sixteen rooms are approached by a well staircase in the centre. After the monks had solved this little problem and arranged for the accommodation, the pilgrims arrived, when it was found that they were three more in number than was at first stated. This necessitated a reconsideration of the question, but the wily monks succeeded in getting over the new difficulty without breaking the Abbot's rules. The curious point of this puzzle is to discover the total number of pilgrims.
43.—The Riddle of the Tiled Hearth.
"I trow, my Lord Abbot, that a riddle is required of me this day. Listen, then, to that which I shall put forth. Let these sixteen tiles be so placed that no tile shall be in line with another of the same design"—(he meant, of course, not in line horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)—"and in such manner that as few plain tiles as possible be required." When the monks handed in their plans it was found that only Friar Andrew had hit upon the correct answer, even Friar Richard himself being wrong. All had used too many plain tiles.
44.—The Riddle of the Sack Wine.
"Forsooth," said he, "I am no good at the making of riddles, as thou knowest full well; but I have been teasing my poor brain over a matter that I trust some among you will expound to me, for I cannot rede it myself. It is this. Mark me take a glass of sack from this bottle that contains a pint of wine and pour it into that jug which contains a pint of water. Now, I fill the glass with the mixture from the jug and pour it back into the bottle holding the sack. Pray tell me, have I taken more wine from the bottle than water from the jug? Or have I taken more water from the jug than wine from the bottle?"
I gather that the monks got nearer to a great quarrel over this little poser than had ever happened before. One brother so far forgot himself as to tell his neighbour that "more wine had got into his pate than wit came out of it," while another noisily insisted that it all depended on the shape of the glass and the age of the wine. But the Lord Abbot intervened, showed them what a simple question it really was, and restored good feeling all round.
45.—The Riddle of the Cellarer.
"Now, varlet," said the Abbot, as the ruddy-faced Cellarer came before him, "thou knowest that thou wast taken this morning in the act of stealing good wine that was forbidden thee. What hast thou to say for thyself?"
"Prithee, my Lord Abbot, forgive me!" he cried, falling on his knees. "Of a truth, the Evil One did come and tempt me, and the cask was so handy, and the wine was so good withal, and—and I had drunk of it ofttimes without being found out, and—"
"Rascal! that but maketh thy fault the worse! How much wine hast thou taken?"
"Alack-a-day! There were a hundred pints in the cask at the start, and I have taken me a pint every day this month of June—it being to-day the thirtieth thereof—and if my Lord Abbot can tell me to a nicety how much good wine I have taken in all, let him punish me as he will."
"Why, knave, that is thirty pints."
"Nay, nay; for each time I drew a pint out of the cask, I put in a pint of water in its stead!"
It is a curious fact that this is the only riddle in the old record that is not accompanied by its solution. Is it possible that it proved too hard a nut for the monks? There is merely the note, "John suffered no punishment for his sad fault."
46.—The Riddle of the Crusaders.
"My Lord Abbot, knowing full well that riddles are greatly to thy liking, I will, by your leave, put forth one that was told unto me in foreign lands. A body of Crusaders went forth to fight the good cause, and such was their number that they were able to form themselves into a square. But on the way a stranger took up arms and joined them, and they were then able to form exactly thirteen smaller squares. Pray tell me, merry monks, how many men went forth to battle?"
Abbot David pushed aside his plate of warden pie, and made a few hasty calculations.
"Sir Knight," said he at length, "the riddle is easy to rede. In the first place there were 324 men, who would make a square 18 by 18, and afterwards 325 men would make 13 squares of 25 Crusaders each. But which of you can tell me how many men there would have been if, instead of 13, they had been able to form 113 squares under exactly the like conditions?"
The monks gave up this riddle, but the Abbot showed them the answer next morning.
47.—The Riddle of St. Edmondsbury.
"It used to be told at St. Edmondsbury," said Father Peter on one occasion, "that many years ago they were so overrun with mice that the good abbot gave orders that all the cats from the country round should be obtained to exterminate the vermin. A record was kept, and at the end of the year it was found that every cat had killed an equal number of mice, and the total was exactly 1,111,111 mice. How many cats do you suppose there were?"
"Methinks one cat killed the lot," said Brother Benjamin.
"Out upon thee, brother! I said 'cats.'"
"Well, then," persisted Benjamin, "perchance 1,111,111 cats each killed one mouse."
"No," replied Father Peter, after the monks' jovial laughter had ended, "I said 'mice;' and all I need add is this—that each cat killed more mice than there were cats. They told me it was merely a question of the division of numbers, but I know not the answer to the riddle."
The correct answer is recorded, but it is not shown how they arrived at it.
48.—The Riddle of the Frogs' Ring.
One Christmas the Abbot offered a prize of a large black jack mounted in silver, to be engraved with the name of the monk who should put forth the best new riddle. This tournament of wit was won by Brother Benedict, who, curiously enough, never before or after gave out anything that did not excite the ridicule of his brethren. It was called the "Frogs' Ring." | 2019-04-19T15:18:25 | http://hotfreebooks.com/book/The-Canterbury-Puzzles-And-Other-Curious-Problems-Henry-Ernest-Dudeney.html |
0.9988 | Should Bikes Be Allowed On Muni Metro?
A recent news report on an injured cyclist denied passage on the N Judah because she was carrying her (unfolded) bike received no small amount of attention this week, and now transit advocates are asking why bikes are unequivocally banned from Muni light rail vehicles at all.
As reported this Thursday by the Ex, cyclist Katherine Roberts "hit a metal plate that jutted open by the Muni tracks at Church and Duboce streets" at around 11:30 p.m. on April 11, and struck her head. Fearing the high cost of a San Francisco ambulance ride, she and fellow-rider Jym Dyer attempted to board an N Judah that had stopped nearby, bikes in tow.
She sported a black eye and a massive head bump, which she showed to the operator. She asked if he could give her and Dyer a ride to nearby UC San Francisco Parnassus.
“He said, ‘Not with your bikes, I can’t,’” Roberts recalled.
Roberts and Dyer argued with the operator and an inspector. The inspector denied them a ride to the hospital four stops away, but later allowed Roberts to board the next train.
The driver told them to get off the train and refused to move. He called over a fare inspector. The inspector forced them off the train and told them to call an ambulance if they needed help. But for some reason he also told them they could take the next train, which was right behind them (that’s three N-Judah’s bunched in a row, in case anyone’s counting). However, he still wouldn’t let Dyer on with his bike, folded or not, because it is a larger, folding cargo bike model. Dyer had to ride his bike behind the train while Roberts-with cuts and a large bump growing on her head-was left alone with her now-folded bike.
According to Streetsblog, the driver also "came out of the cab to yell at Roberts to 'secure her bike' which had flopped over on the floor. 'I was weak. I had a concussion,' she said. 'The car was almost empty. I wasn’t blocking anybody.'"
Speaking with the Ex, SFMTA spokesperson Erica Kato is apologetic, to a point.
The incident has inspired Streetsblog to wonder "why are we banning bikes on late-night trains in the first place!" Noting that bikes are allowed on BART, the website says that "Nobody’s arguing that full-sized bikes should be allowed during peak periods. But what would be the big deal if bikes were allowed, space permitting, during off hours?"
"If New York can handle bikes on its subway, and Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and many other cities can handle bikes on their Light Rail Vehicles, what makes Muni so special?"
Rachel Hyden, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Transit Riders, appears to agree. Her organization, which successfully pressured the SFMTA to allow all-door boarding in 2012, says “the incident with Katherine is disheartening, both in terms of how she was treated and in light of the strict enforcement of an antiquated policy, especially in an emergency situation."
As Hyden is the SFTRU's first executive director, and was hired just weeks ago, this seems like an ideal issue with which she can make her bones. I'd expect this discussion to continue until Muni either offers a legal reason they can't allow bikes on their vehicles or folds to the SFTRU's demands. This will be an interesting one to watch! | 2019-04-23T12:13:44 | https://sfist.com/2017/04/21/should_bikes_be_allowed_on_muni_met/ |
0.999911 | What were the 10 best films of 2016?
2016 had some great movies and the most popular which were released in the UK include epics like "Rogue One" and "The Revenant." We chose those we feel were some of the best films of 2016.
The latest Film off the "Star Wars" conveyor belt is one of the finest. Gareth Edwards picks up the mantle from the safe - but enjoyable - '"The Force Awakens," and raises the bar with a thrilling and surprisingly dark take on the "Star Wars" universe (you can read my in-depth review here).
"Room" is an absorbing and pensive story that flawlessly hits every intended emotional beat.
A great deal of the film hinges on the performances of Brie Larsson and child actor Jacob Tremblay - and the duo deliver in extraordinarily moving fashion." - quote from my January review.
Andrea Arnold's film follows an outcast group of youngsters, who travel across America selling magazines for a living. The breathtaking cinematography of Robbie Ryan is coupled with an excellently selected soundtrack to make this one of the most aesthetically arousing films of 2016.
"American Honey" is unashamedly grungy, unruly and misunderstood, but it is alive in a way that many films can only envy.
"Paterson" is an enchanting ode to the intricacies of life. Adam Driver plays a bus driver in the city of 'Paterson', whose love for his partner, his city and its people fuel his passion for poetry. Golshifteh Farahani also deserves a mention for one of the most delightful performances of 2016.
"Mustang" tells the story of five young girls struggling against the pressures of enforced gender roles and norms in rural Turkey. Deniz Gamze Erguven keeps a fine balance between charm and gravity, whilst bringing out excellent performances from his young cast. "Mustang"'s message is delivered with endearing authenticity and irrepressible spirit.
Finally, Leonardo DiCaprio got his Oscar. But this American epic owes much to the expert work of Alejandro G. Inarritu. He produces a series of unbelievable sequences and awe-inspiring visuals that make this an enthralling watch. Beyond the brilliance of Inarritu, Tom Hardy gives one of the best villainous performances of 2016.
This pulsating night out in Berlin is a one-take work of technical brilliance from Sebastian Schipper. "Victoria" effortlessly shifts through the gears from complete euphoria to deep contemplation, to utter despair. The result is a riveting and transformative night to remember.
Laszlo Nemes' debut feature undertakes the daunting task of representing the horrors of the Holocaust. Remarkably, he managed to produce one of the most visceral portrayals of a Nazi death camp put on the big screen. "Son of Saul" is a bone-chilling and devastating piece of cinema.
"The Arriva" gives an inventive and thoughtful take on the stagnant alien invasion genre. Amy Adams' performance as a linguist expert who must find a way to communicate with the visitors from outer-space is simply sublime.
Her remarkable display befits a film that is visionary and mesmerising throughout. Denis Villeneuve's tonally perfect film is only enhanced by Max Richter's beautiful music.
Charlie Kaufman's stop-motion animation masterpiece takes us into the mind of a self-destructive middle-aged man whose life begins to unravel on a lonely night in a hotel.
There are the expected Kaufman-isms of complex thought, tinged with an honest humour that trickles through the myriad of profundity. But it is the animation that gives Kaufman the freedom to play with voices and images in ways that, perhaps, missed the mark with audiences in 'Synecdoche, New York'.
Simply put, "Anomalisa is an indelible cinematic experience. | 2019-04-23T04:16:16 | https://uk.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2017/01/what-were-the-10-best-films-of-2016-001356469.html |
0.997977 | How can milk get into the airway? What can go wrong?
Always remember the three key points to ensure safe tube feeding: 1) Pass the tube gently, this means the tube will safely and easily pass into the oesophagus, not the airway 2) Pass the tube far enough so the tip is positioned well beyond the airway entrance, ensure it stays there throughout fluid flow 3) Ensure the calf’s head AND neck remain above stomach level throughout feeding.
The tube is not passed far enough beyond the windpipe/airway opening – Antahi tubers provide a size markings to indicate when you have reached the safe zone. If in doubt, pass the tube further, always use the size guides as a minimum.
The tube comes out of the oesophagus during flow – ensure the tube is not pulled out.
The head OR neck is lower than the stomach resulting in gravity back flow. Remember the oesophagus sit very low in the neck so it is essential the lower neck is higher than the stomach.
The tube is pulled out too early – wait until all liquid has exited the tube and passed down the oesophagus before removing.
The calf is overfed resulting in overflow of fluid from the stomach and up the oesophagus – monitor your calf throughout feeding to ensure any discomfort, bloating, or change in behaviour is noticed. If your calf becomes uncomfortably full then stop flow by lowering the bottle.
The calf is sick and the stomach is not working properly resulting in backflow of fluid up the oesophagus.
The tube has entered the airway – see note.
The tube is punctured or damaged resulting in fluid leaking behind the tube tip.
If at any point you suspect something is wrong, immediately lower the bottle to stop fluid flow. Split feeds into smaller volumes if uncertain about how much liquid the calf has already consumed.
Handle the calf gently and pass the tube gently. The calf will swallow easily when it is comfortable. Do not turn the calf’s nose up of force the tube downward when passing the tube, this creates a more direct line toward the airway. Remember the oesophagus is ABOVE the airway (and slightly to the left) so imagine the tube needing to curve over the airway entrance NOT down.
Pre-soften the tube in very cold weather, this will help the tube flex around the airway.
If you feel resistance when passing the tube, withdraw the tube, direct the tube tip to the left side of the throat, ensure the calf is comfortable, and repass the tube (do not force). Entering the airway requires force – despite what some people say, feeling a ‘pop’ is not a good indication of appropriate tube placement as a) this could be confused with airway entry or b) you are damaging delicate tissue surrounding the airway.
Double check tube position. Learn to look or feel for the tube in the oesophagus in the left neck groove.
We understand some calves wriggle more than others. When you have a wriggly calf it is recommended that you wait for a few moments for the calf to settle, rather than tube feeding a highly stressed animal. Check the calf position – is it comfortable? Are you using a back stop or corner of the pen to relax the calf and reduce necessary head restraint? If the calf has moved from a standing to a sitting position this is fine provided the calf is still comfortable. Check the tube position in the oesophagus. Check the tube has not pulled out of position. Pass the tube further down to increase wiggle room (consider the size markers a minimum, you are safe to pass the tube further without causing damage). Then allow the liquid to flow.
Please see our calf handling tips and read our safe-use guide to help optimise the experience for both you and your calf. We have a great anatomy video available on our videos page.
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0.998531 | Yesterday, Dr. Morgentaler died at the age of 90. For those who are not Canadian - Dr. Morgentaler is the person who brought to the Supreme Court of Canada the case that struck down Canada's abortion law as being unconstitutional in 1988.
It was a landmark decision - one that made it clear that a woman alone has the right to autonomy over her own body and that the law as it was, was an infringement on a woman's constitutional rights. The law as it was before 1988 imposed considerable barriers to accessing abortion in Canada. An abortion had to be medically indicated and approved by a panel of physicians as being appropriate. A woman could not have an abortion "just because" she did not want to endure pregnancy and childbirth. As a result, illegal abortions and their consequences were far more common. It is also likely that more children were put up for adoption, more children may have been neglected or abused, more women were derailed from the pursuit of education or careers. To the degree that Dr. Morgentaler made certain that women could determine for themselves whether or not to take on the mantle of pregnancy and childbirth, and improved the lives of women and children - he is a man who is to be applauded.
Although abortion remains controversial in Canada - a woman's right to access one is clear and it is a decision that is hers alone. Her care provider is not obligated to perform an abortion, but is obligated to not interfere with her right to access one.
Shockingly, the situation surrounding patient choice cesarean in Canada is more akin to the situation facing women wanting to access abortion prior to 1988. Currently, access to patient choice cesarean is subject to the whims of care providers and facilities and it seems as though some doctors and hospitals interfere with a woman's right to choose cesarean with impunity. In any other context - such interference with a patient's autonomy would rightfully be met with outrage, but when it comes to patient choice cesarean it seems as though the interference is met by only judgement for the woman who wants a cesarean. It seems as though the idea that a woman has the right to decide what is done with her body is forgotten when the decision is about how her child is born, even though the consequences of that choice are borne by the woman and her child alone.
As a result, women are often denied informed consent and informed choice in childbirth. As a result, tokophobic women, unsure of their ability to access a patient choice cesarean, may choose to abort much wanted children. As a result, some women who are subjected needlessly to a delivery they did not choose may suffer from PTSD. As a result, some women might have difficulties bonding with their children. Some may choose to only have one child. As a result, full reproductive freedom in Canada remains elusive.
There's a lot that can be learned by Canada's approach to abortion and applied to the situation regarding patient choice cesareans in Canada. I hope that one day - a woman's right to choose a cesarean and to informed consent will be as respected and as tolerated as her right to choose an abortion.
I have written previously about the case of Monica Cojucaru - a Romanian mother who endured an attempted vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) that resulted in an emergent cesarean and permanent brain damage to her son, Eric. She sued, she won at trial (a $4 million dollar judgement) - and they appealed, in part because substantial portions of the judgement were taken from the plaintiff's submission. The appeal was allowed - and Cojucaru appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. The case was heard in November, and today, the Supreme Court issued its decision.
To the relief of many lawyers and judges, the plagiarism was found to be acceptable.
To my relief - the court confirmed that Mrs. Cojucaru had the right to informed consent, and that Dr. Yue failed to acquire informed consent from Mrs. Cojucaru to undergo a VBAC and as a result Dr. Yue was found liable to Mrs. Cojucaru and her son for the damages that resulted from his delivery. Logically, this means that Mrs. Cojucaru had the right to choose a repeat cesarean for the delivery of her son as that was the alternative treatment that could have been undertaken.
So if a woman has a right to informed consent to undergo a VBAC (implying a right to choose a repeat cesarean), does she have the right to a primary elective cesarean and does the failure to obtain consent for a vaginal delivery result in a liability should a vaginal delivery be imposed upon her?
Maternal request cesarean is a women's rights issue - every bit as much as abortion or participation in the paid labour force, or the right to vote or own property. At its very core, it about a woman's right to self determination - her right to choose what to do with her own body, her right to decide which risks she is willing to accept and which risks she refuses. It is about a woman's right to be treated the same as any other patient - and not differently because she is a maternity patient. Both access to choice and recourse for unreasonable denial of choice is needed. I look forward to the day when I will know that a similar experience is extremely unlikely to happen to another woman - and while that day is closer now than it was three years ago, there is still a ways to go.
It is frustrating knowing that planning a homebirth in British Columbia, even a home birth after a previous cesarean is far easier than planning an elective cesarean. Finding a care provider who is willing to facilitate a maternal request cesarean is difficult as they do not generally advertise that they are willing to facilitate a woman's desire for one - and many family physicians, midwives and OBGYN's do not support maternal choice cesarean. This is despite rather clear evidence that a planned cesarean at 39 or greater weeks poses some health and safety advantages for the child and may be comparably safe for the mother as a planned vaginal delivery. Personally, I believe that planned maternal request cesarean at 39 weeks' is a far less risky proposition than planned home birth and a far, far less risky proposition than planned home birth after a previous cesarean.
If it is a matter of cost - I would think that there are some very strange economics at work. A single preventable brain injury or death would make the cost difference between planned home birth and planned cesarean disappear many times over. Even a preventable pelvic floor injury that results in some incontinence nearly obliterates the cost difference. Further - home birth does not eliminate the need for hospital resources to be available as many home births (upwards of 40 percent in first time mothers) result in a transfer to hospital. In deed, planned cesareans could be cost competitive with planned vaginal deliveries as the ability to plan resource availability is improved.
At the end of the day - I cannot see how one choice (planned home birth, and planned home birth after cesarean) is widely supported in British Columbia, and another choice - maternal request cesarean - generates a kind of loathing usually reserved for pregnant women who choose to light up publicly while swilling Manhattens and Martinis. | 2019-04-19T00:38:30 | http://awaitingjuno.blogspot.com/2013/05/ |
0.990783 | But one option not being discussed, he said, is the removal of USA troops from the Korean peninsula.
North Korea has committed "to the dismantlement and destruction" of all its uranium and plutonium-enrichment facilities in talks with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and South Korean leaders, US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said in a speech on Thursday. "We will get that, at some point, through a comprehensive declaration".
He added: "We must reach agreement on expert access and monitoring mechanisms of key sites to worldwide standards, and ultimately ensure the removal or destruction of stockpiles of fissile material, weapons, missiles, launchers and other weapons of mass destruction".
There was also pushback from the intelligence officials on North Korea.
CIA Director Gina Haspel meanwhile said the agency's analysts likely "value the dialogue" emerging between North Korea and the US, but likewise indicated Kim's intention to denuclearize remained dubious.
While seeking to advance trust and sustainable peace, Biegun also said that the US was also prepared for a scenario where talks did not work out. Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall. Or that Iran is, despite the absence of the United States to continue the nuclear agreement.
And he asserted that cutting the 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan would help bring America's longest war to an end.
Biegun held out hope, however, that the USA and North Korea would end decades of hostility, despite the failure of previous administrations to pressure the regime into abandoning its pursuit of a nuclear deterrent.
"This bright future, driven by investment, external engagement, and trade and built with the incredible resources of the Korean Peninsula is also part of our strategy to plan for success", he said.
"We say we will not lift sanctions until denuclearization is complete".
In May 2018, Trump withdrew the us from that accord, which he called a awful deal that would not stop Iran from going nuclear. "North Korea relations" is "prosperity, along with denuclearization and peace", he added.
Mr Trump also defended his decision to withdraw 2,000 USA troops from Syria on grounds Islamic State no longer posed a threat, and pointed to the progress in peace talks in Afghanistan as markers of his success in the Middle East.
She also accompanied her brother to the U.S.
Trump highlighted the points of contention between him and the intelligence community, he stressed that the US has made progress in respect to ISIS, North Korea, and talks in Afghanistan.
Biegun said both he and Trump were convinced it was time to move past 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula, but stopped short of suggesting the summit could yield an end-of-war declaration North Korea has been seeking. Yeah, we're going to announce it pretty soon. The signs read " We welcome North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's visit".
"When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond". The Democratic leader then called for an "immediate meeting" between Trump and his intelligence officers so they could "educate" the president about what's really going on with national security.
Still on the hunt for a head coach, the Bengals had reportedly been denied an interview by the Broncos with Kubiak. But the 49ers last season had two coordinators on offense, while Shanahan handled all of the play-calling duties.
Pep Guardiola will no doubt point to this result as an example of Liverpool's frailties, especially as we enter the title run in. But time went on and City couldn't find a crucial second.
Stone still possessed many of those communications when he gave false testimony about them, prosecutors said in the indictment. He briefly served on Mr Trump's campaign, but was pushed out amid infighting with then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Huawei officials also provided assurances to the US Congress that its business didn't run afoul of any US law pertaining to Iran. The US Department of Justice on Monday charged Huawei with theft of trade secrets, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. | 2019-04-25T08:01:40 | http://actv7news.com/2019/02/03/united-states-special-envoy-for-pyongyang-talks-to-meet.html |
0.988422 | Despite there being no clear evidence that the Syrian president launched a chemical attack, anyone who questions the common narrative is described as an "Assad apologist." Still, some are speaking out against the echo chamber.
Syrians frantically hosing each other down and toddlers with oxygen masks – videos which claim to portray Douma’s alleged chemical attack horrify and shock.
Upon the news breaking, originally from the White Helmets – a group that operates partly in areas under the control of Syria's opposition militants – French President Emmanuel Macron insisted that they had evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad had used chemical weapons in the militant-held city of Douma.
US President Donald Trump was eager to announce on Twitter that "smart" bombs would soon rain down on Syrian forces. UK PM Theresa May chipped in with a "significant body of information, including intelligence [that indicated] the Syrian regime is responsible for this latest attack" before joining the allies in a strike in the early hours of Saturday morning, without taking the issue to parliament.
Some are now querying the allies' line of logic. Are the videos legitimate? Why would Assad, who was about to retake Douma, bomb his own people? And where is the proof from reliable, third-party sources?
In a no-holds-barred monologue on his Fox News program, US journalist Tucker Carlson was quick to slam "genius" politicians, media, intelligence services, and think-tanks that confidently blame Assad for the alleged attack, despite not actually knowing what happened on the ground.
"All the geniuses tell us that Assad killed those children, but do they really know that? Of course they don't really know that. They're making it up. They have no real idea what happened," he said, while reiterating that both sides of the Syrian conflict have access to chemical weapons.
The Young Turks journalist ran a segment in which he acknowledged that he agreed with Carlson about Syria.
"It pains me to say this, but I think Tucker Carlson's exactly right," he said after playing the Fox News journalist's clip, noting that it is rare for him to agree with anchors on the network.
Uygur also replayed a clip of his own, in which he said the mainstream media appear to have been pushing Trump towards war with Syria. "The mainstream media poses as if they are neutral, objective," but that their perspective is almost always "war is great."
"So neocons, warmongers, defense contractors, and yes – mainstream media. Thank you very much," Uygur said on his April 9 broadcast.
The economist, UN special adviser, and Colombia University professor told MSNBC's Morning Joe program that the current situation in Syria is a "US mistake that started seven years ago."
Those seven years have been a "disaster," he said, recalling a covert CIA operation called ‘Operation: Timber Sycamore.’ The US "started a war to overthrow a regime."
"This is what I would call the 'Permanent State.' This is the CIA, this is the Pentagon wanting to keep Iran and Russia out of Syria, but we have no way to do that. And so we have made a proxy war in Syria.
"And so, what I would plead to President Trump is: Get out, like your instinct told you... Get out. We've done enough damage in seven years," he said.
Retired First Sea Lord, Lord West of Spithead told the BBC he doesn't understand the narrative that posits Assad as responsible for the attack. "President Assad is in the process of winning this civil war," he said. "And he was about to take over and occupy Douma.
"He'd had a long, hard slog capturing that part of the city. Just before he goes in and takes it all over, he decides to go and have a chemical attack. It just doesn't ring true."
West, who had a seat on the National Security Strategy Committee – wondered what "benefit is there for [Assad's] military." He added: "We know in the past some of the Islamic groups have used chemicals and there would be huge benefit in them labeling an attack as coming from Assad."
Multi-award winning journalist Robert Fisk is at the coal face on the ground in Douma, speaking to civilians, doctors, and nurses right there in the Eastern Ghouta city… none of whom, he says, can remember a chemical attack. They did, however, note that a panic was created in the underground hospital by members of the White Helmets while patients were being treated for hypoxia – Oxygen deficiency that was caused by a dust storm.
"I was with my family in the basement of my home three hundred meters from here on the night but all the doctors know what happened," a Syrian doctor, who was not an eyewitness to the attack, told Fisk. "There was a lot of shelling [by government forces] and aircraft were always over Douma at night – but on this night, there was wind and huge dust clouds began to come into the basements and cellars where people lived.
"People began to arrive here suffering from hypoxia, oxygen loss. Then someone at the door, a 'White Helmet,' shouted 'Gas!' and a panic began. People started throwing water over each other. Yes, the video was filmed here, it is genuine, but what you see are people suffering from hypoxia – not gas poisoning."
Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens has taken to his blog to express his doubts over the Syrian chemical attack. Hitchens points out that publicly available evidence – as in, not the mysterious, unspecified proof from Macron – has no sources or way to verify its accuracy.
"How in that case did they reach their confident conclusion that the Syrians did it?" Hitchens queried. "Unnamed witnesses are cited along with films allegedly recorded at the time on which aircraft sounds have been heard. Since so much weight is given to this evidence, it is frustrating that we are not, in this version, given any details of the sources or of the verification methods used."
Republishing a previous blog from earlier in April, Hitchens went on to say that: "In my view, a pretty arduous and definitive demonstration that the previous accusation of poison-gas use by Assad's forces had never been proven, though it had been made to look as if it had been. It is also, though I say it myself, fascinating in many ways, if you are interested in evidence at all."
Former British ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, appeared on Fox News, slamming trigger-happy President Trump and his advisers. “It's not certain by any means that it was a chemical attack,” Ford said. “There are reports from Western journalists who were in Douma yesterday that they could find no folks that could confirm that there had been a chemical attack.
“They went to the hospital where those videos were filmed and spoke to doctors – named doctors, so this can be checked – who said there was no chemical attack. What there was an ordinary bomb attack which had people streaming into the hospital with smoke inhalation problems.
“The White Helmets – the jihadist medical auxiliaries – started shouting ‘Gas,’ caused panic, and everyone went into gas mode, started with the hoses and the inhalers. Meanwhile, it was all being carefully videoed and put out by rich Arab country propagandists. There’s the distinct possibility that we’ve been deluded,” the former ambassador added.
There is also retired Gen. Jonathan Shaw of the British Army, whose interview with Sky News prior to the US-led attack was cut short by presenter Samantha Washington about a minute after it started.
Shaw, whose military career spanned three decades and was crowned with leading British troops in Iraq in 2006, said he saw no military reason for Damascus to launch a chemical attack in Douma. “The Syrians are winning, don’t take my word for it, take the American military’s word for it,” Shaw said, adding that he was concerned about the absence of any debate about this apparent lack of a motive.
Then Sky’s Washington interjected with “I am very sorry, you have been very patient for us, but we do need to leave it there,” before going to adverts. | 2019-04-22T12:31:41 | https://www.rt.com/uk/424505-fisk-hitchens-west-syria-attack/ |
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