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0.999992 | Last week, NASA reported that its Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest spacecraft (operational or non-operational) from Earth, is getting very near to interstellar space.
In December 2004, Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to pass the "termination shock" (the edge of the dark blue circle in the image at the link above). This is where the Sun's solar wind starts to dramatically slow down (to sub-sonic speeds), indicating a lessening of the Sun's influence. The termination shock is still well within the heliosphere, where the Sun's magnetic forces and solar wind outweigh the magnetic forces of the galaxy and the force of the galactic (i.e., interstellar) wind.
Ever since that time, Voyager 1 has been traveling through the the "heliosheath"--the part of the heliosphere between the termination shock and the "heliopause," which is the edge of the solar system. In recent months, Voyager researchers have noticed that the number of charged particles detected from outside the solar system is increasing dramatically and much more rapidly than before. In the most recent week of recorded data, these particles have increased 5%. In the most recent month, they have increased 9% total. In the 3 years before that, these interstellar particles have increase only a total of 25%. Something is changing now--and the change is getting faster and faster.
Researchers are estimating that Voyager 1 might be only weeks or months away from crossing the heliopause, where it will become the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. This should allow Voyager 1 to transmit back to us the first in situ measurements from there.
The timing of this passage could not be better. In 2015, the data recorder on board the spacecraft will stop being used because of power limitations. The nuclear fuel on board Voyager 1 will seriously taper off in 2020, severely limiting the power for the scientific instruments themselves. Around 2025, Voyager 1 should use up its nuclear fuel completely, and will lose contact with the Earth.
Voyager 1 has taken 34 years to go from the Earth to this point, traveling at approximately 38,000 miles per hour (61,155 kilometers per hour) after its encounter with Saturn in late 1980. It was going a bit slower than that before, but gravity assists from Jupiter and Saturn propelled it to that speed. The spacecraft is now 3.75 times the distance from the Sun that Pluto is.
The solar system might seem huge, taking 34 years or so to get to the edge of it--but that's just peanuts compared to the size of interstellar space. If Voyager 1 was pointed towards the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, (it's not, but for example's sake) it would take it approximately 76,443 additional years to reach it from its current position (assuming constant speed and assuming the stars stayed still). To get a sense of how long that is, modern humans were living alongside Neanderthals that long ago!
At any rate, probably at some point in the coming months we can claim to be a species with interstellar capabilities (super, super tenuous as it is). Still, it's pretty cool! Hopefully we'll learn some good stuff!
Tribus: Now with more Moral Reprehensiveness!
Is there any idea of what it may eventually hit? Like, what star?
In about 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will drift within 1.6 light years (9.3 trillion miles) of AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation of Camelopardalis. In some 296,000 years, Voyager 2 will pass 4.3 light years (25 trillion miles) from Sirius, the brightest star in the sky . The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way.
Isn't it about time for Voyager 3?
How hard would it be to build a probe that did nothing for 50 years, and then went full ears-on at that point, and transmitted to ground for the next decade?
My understanding is RTGs are not like batteries but more like candles that get lit when they get built, so there's no way to delay their startup and you're going to get the same amount of light regardless of if you have a use for it or not. But this is completely not my field.
Yeah. According to wikipedia, that star (AC+79 3888) is Gliese 445, a red dwarf that is currently 17.6 light years away, but is one of the fastest stars approaching the Sun. In 40,000 years, Gliese 445 will only be 3.45 light years away from the Sun (closer than the Alpha Centauri system, which is about 4.36 light years away currently). Even then, Voyager 1 will be 1.6 light years away from the star, which is like, a huge amount.
Oversizing the RTGs is about the only thing to do, and even that only gets you so far (plus all the other associated drawbacks...).
Well, Voyager survived the radiation from our sun during its life. I have to imagine it can handle the interstellar medium. Although, Voyager would be more prone to getting hit with things such as gamma rays outside the heliosphere, correct?
If I had to bet money I would say it's going to be nothing but a slow cold death for voyager but that's boring and it's more fun to imagine since we really don't know.
What if once Voyager is truly out in the ISM its velocity begins to climb and climb giving us new insight into why the expansion of the universe is accelerating? Granted it doesn't have the same origin but this will be the first time we've had anything man made interact with space outside the solar system.
What happens when voyager hits the bow wave? Possible trajectory change?
Too bad the power wont last for a few hundred years, voyager could prove or disprove the Oort clouds existence.
Like I said... fun to imagine.
Of course, the other thing to do would be to travel faster. That would get you farther while keeping the ~50 year limit on RTG power.
For example, back in the early 2000s, NASA had a proposed "Interstellar Probe" mission that would use a 300 meter (diameter? radius?) solar sail to accelerate to about 14 astronomical units (AU) per year. (An astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun, about 93 million miles/150 million kilometers.) It would reach 200 AU from the Sun in about 10 years, and continue functioning past 400 AU before the RTG that they were proposing for the craft stopped working. For comparison, Voyager 1 is currently at 120 AU (after 35 years), and is traveling at about 3.6 AU per year.
They also had a next-generation Interstellar Probe proposed that would be similar to the first, but would use a 1 km solar sail, and keep functioning out past 1,000 AU going about 20 AU per year.
The distance to the Alpha Centauri system is approximately 272,000 AU. This next-generation type of craft could reach the nearest star system in a brief 13,600 years or so.
If you could reach 10%+ the speed of light, you could potentially start to travel to external star systems and still have power using RTGs alone within a 50 year limit.
I always thought the concept of these was great, because within a 20-50 year timeframe we would gain a huge amount of detail about the interstellar space that surrounds our solar system, and further the technologies that might eventually lead to interstellar travel (like light sails and nuclear drives). From a scientific standpoint, you could justify the expenditures by evaluating the "galactic weather/environment" that our solar system is currently passing through, or will pass through over the next 50 to 100 years, and seeing how the changes in that environment affect the heliosphere, the Sun itself, and therefore, the Earth. Clever technologists would get us to go farther in less time, and we'd learn a ton about how the space surrounding our solar system alters our solar system.
Or you could "bet on tech". Put out a probe with those concentrated PV cells pulled by a solar sail. No other power source.
The probe should take 20-30 years to get to interstellar space. At that point, hope that we have built a laser that can target it from a distance and power the CPV on board. Then collect the data and send it back to Earth. In this case, the laser could be based on an orbiting platform -- perhaps around Jupiter, where it uses the huge magnetic field to supply power as it orbits.
In 1987 NASA/JPL had proposed the TAU, fission/ion. Main mission would be to measure stellar parallaxes, after all with a baseline of 1000AU instead of 2AU you get Hipparcos on steroids and if you send it in the direction of galactic north or south you could then directly find the distance to any (sufficiently bright) star in the Galaxy to within 2% or better.
M31's about 800,000 parsecs away, so a 1000AU chord would subtend 1.25mas. Hipparcos managed about 0.6mas accuracy, so if you don't mind big error bars and can put a large enough scope on the TAU to cope with the low apparent magnitudes you could think about a direct measurement of the distance to M31 that would be distinguishable from infinity.
Just to add a bit to my post earlier.
You have to imagine that within the Local Interstellar Cloud there are probably some pretty wide variations in density, energy, and activity, and sending out craft like Voyager 1 could give us some insights into what we are traveling through or will travel through in the near future. Well worth the investigation, I think.
Or use a fission reactor. Those have the advantage of only being depleted (over relevant timescales) according to the power that's actually used, rather than depleting at a constant rate regardless of power used. They also have a much better energy density at higher power levels, which will be needed for stuff like high-powered radio transmitters that will be needed at extra-solar distances.
Heavier than RTGs, yes, but not ridiculously so. They're easily within the limits of any current launch platform, not to say anything about proposed launchers like SLS or Falcon Heavy. Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter was intended to carry one.
What about Stirling radioisotope generators? As far as I can tell they produce 4x the power for the same weight, and will last just as long if not longer because there aren't thermocouples that will decay. They are still undergoing testing.
/Don't know anything just parroting what I'm reading.
For a truly long-endurance interstellar mission, you'll still be limited by the half-life of your fuel, but in this case a stirling radioisotope generator using Americum-241 (half-life = 432 years) would probably work very well. That said, if you want to talk to your probe at that range, you'll probably still need a power source with a lot more output. I would guess that if we ever do launch a serious extra-solar probe, it will probably have both a fission reactor for high power operations and a radioisotope generator for idle cruise periods.
Apparently americium-241 is an option being looked at for RTG's on account of plutonium-238 shortages. Has a quarter of the power density and needs thicker shielding (due to the decay of the decay products), but on the plus side has a 432 year half-life.
If you want to get really speculative then there's the possibility of using such metastable isomers as 166m1Ho (half-life 1200 years) which might perhaps be provoked into decay by lower-energy photons like 180m1Ta can be. Might have trouble getting a net energy output, but there is at least a bit of potential there for on-demand solid-state nuclear energy for a decades-long mission.
I remember that.. crap... can't remember enough details about it tho.
The density is almost unfathomably low. It's measurable with sufficiently sensitive instruments.
Again, there might be a lot of bodies but they're spread out over about 3 cubic light years. You're not going to stumble onto one of them just because you're out there.
New Horizons hopes to study more KBOs after Pluto, but to prepare for that they have to find them first with telescopes on Earth.
I would guess that if we ever do launch a serious extra-solar probe, it will probably have both a fission reactor for high power operations and a radioisotope generator for idle cruise periods.
For a reactor that needs to last that long you probably don't want to be turning it on and off all the time.
That's true. I didn't even think of that. Kind of like how asteroid belts are portrayed in movies as all jammed together. In the real world the asteroids are like a million(s) miles apart?
Not that I imagined the solar system encased in a rocky shell..I was thinking more of a thin gas/dust bubble.
They would probably include something like a nickel-hydrogen battery that could be recharged from the RTG to cover transients for the occasional telemetry dump, but I would imagine intense surveying/downlinking would either happen only under command or at predetermined intervals to manage the lifetime of the reactor. That said, both the Brayton cycle turbine and the Stirling linear alternator are supposed to be very robust.
In the real world the asteroids are like a million(s) miles apart?
It's estimated that there's a few trillion objects greater than 1 km in size.
So the density would be like one object in a sphere with a radius the size of Jupiter's orbit.
Right, exactly. Or tune the reactor to be able to support continuous transmission and dump the excess as heat when not in use. It's a telescope though, they're always in use.
In the near term, I'm not sure what a telescope would be continuously surveying through the entire mission. I'd seriously doubt it would be something Hubble-class, because any telescope of that capability would be more cost efficient to keep in-system. If it's something to try and get a longer baseline for estimating distances to individual stars and local galaxies, then you don't need a very big scope for that, and you wouldn't actually want to use it until it's a good ways out, and that's when you'd want your reactor running.
While such observations have been made, those were of bodies that had already been discovered optically and were using ground-based (read: huge) radar.
Let's see... a 500m radius disk @2AU would subtend 7e-19 steradians and a 1m radius disk (for receiving) @2AU would subtend 2.8e-24 steradians. So you'd only get about 2e-42 of an omnidirectional signal back. So you'd get back 1 out of every 5e41 photons. With a wavelength of (say) 1cm, that's about 2e-23J per photon so you'd need about 1e19J of them to get one photon back. If your platform is floating out at 20AU/yr then you'd have (about) 2 months to generate that much energy in order to scan the 2AU radius bubble before you're in the next one, so you'd need a continuous power output of the order of a terawatt. I'm ignoring here that the reflected signal won't be omnidirectional and I'm also ignoring transmission/absorption losses and noise, but it just seems like too big a hill to realistically climb.
Let's see... a 500m radius disk @2AU would subtend 7e-19 steradians and a 1m radius disk (for receiving) @2AU would subtend 2.8e-24 steradians. So you'd only get about 2e-42 of an omnidirectional signal back. So you'd get back 1 out of every 5e41 photons. With a wavelength of (say) 1cm, that's about 2e-23J per photon so you'd need about 1e19J of them to get one photon back. If your platform is floating out at 20AU/yr then you'd have (about) 2 months to generate that much energy in order to scan the 2AU radius bubble before you're in the next one, so you'd need a continuous power output of the order of a terawatt.
That's an ouch. Though I did consider that such a probe would probably be assembled on orbit and could afford a quite large antenna array (if it's doubling as the high-gain antenna, it will likely need to be fairly large anyways, no?). Also, I don't think you need to take a continuous survey, rather, you'd be turning running the radar maybe 2 or 3 times a year until out past the Kuiper Belt, and then at a much lower rate past that.
It seems to me like it makes a lot of sense to assemble deep space vehicles in space out of multiple components so that you aren't limited by what you can fit into a single payload. That could get you like a 10m receiving dish for that radar.
That could get you like a 10m receiving dish for that radar.
If it's something to try and get a longer baseline for estimating distances to individual stars and local galaxies, then you don't need a very big scope for that, and you wouldn't actually want to use it until it's a good ways out, and that's when you'd want your reactor running.
You might need a decent telescope to pick out individual stars in neighboring galaxies. How big is over my head.
Telescopes tend to be booked solid. Any decent telescope will find something to do to pass the time.
I'm sure there's also plenty of stuff that will become meaningfully paralaxable at different distances as the thing goes to increasing distances.
The key is that if you want to use the radar for discovery rather than inspecting something you've already found, you have no idea which direction to point it in. You can beam your photons to reduce the power requirements, but only at the cost of restricting the volume you can search before your probe has left the vicinity. You can make the dish bigger to reduce the power requirements but even if it's as large as Arecibo you're still looking at several kilowatts to get just a handful of photons back.
Actually looking back at it I think I missed a factor of 4π there: the solid angle of the 1km target at 2AU is actually π*(500m)²/(2x1.49598e11m)² = 8.8e-18 steradians (and likewise for the return), but then the fraction of an omidirectional signal that is intercepted gets the 4π factor back so the 2e-42 part remains the right order of magnitude (with the caveats that the reflected signal won't be omnidirectional and ignoring transmission/absorption losses and noise).
As an alternative, consider Neptune, which has a diameter of about 50,000km and an apparent magnitude of about 8 where it is, about 30AU from the Sun. Scale that down to 1km (brightness factor 4e-10) and a up to 1000AU from the Sun (brightness factor 9e-4) and down to 2AU from the observer (brightness factor 2.25e2) so a 1km body with the same albedo as Neptune (and also face-on) 1000AU from the Sun would have an apparent magnitude at a distance of 2AU of about 8 + 2.5xlog10(4e-10 x 9e-4 x 2.25e2) ~ 33.2. The HST gives out at about 30, so that class of instrument could passively detect in visible light such a 1km object about 1AU away (make a little leap for the higher albedo you might expect of an Oort cloud object vs Neptune), waaaay out there. Of course you'd need to point it around sufficiently as well, but at least you wouldn't need to take implausible amounts of power with you.
That would however be complicated by the appreciable relative motion of the spacecraft (a need to track in order to integrate photons received over enough time to make a detection).
Actually that's for the radius of the target body; I took 1m as the radius of the receiver.
Apparently individual stars in M31 can be readily discerned, at least with 20"-ers. Hipparcos' instrument was just 12". Wouldn't seem to be a problem.
Tribus: ...is so far past wrong, he flew past right to end up at a second, more heinous type of wrong.
I though the pioneer spacecraft were further away, but since they have been out of communication for at least a couple of decades now, they go in the non-operational category.
There is also this apocryphal story about a basketball that was launched up in an early rocket explosion. Supposedly the back of the napkin math said that it had enough velocity from the explosion that it could have escaped earth and was supposedly further out then the pioneer craft, not that anybody believes it actually made it through the atmosphere.
While the Pioneers have been traveling for longer, the orbital mechanics of its interaction at Saturn left Voyager 1 with the highest specific energy and so it overtook Pioneer 10 in 1998.
I hadn't heard about that one, just the "manhole cover".
Yeah. Both Voyagers passed the Pioneers long ago. The Voyagers are just traveling a lot faster.
yeah conspiracy theories make me sad as well.
Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the last seven years, according to new data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
For the last seven years, Voyager 1 has been exploring the outer layer of the bubble of charged particles the sun blows around itself. In one day, on July 28, data from Voyager 1's cosmic ray instrument showed the level of high-energy cosmic rays originating from outside our solar system jumped by five percent. During the last half of that same day, the level of lower-energy particles originating from inside our solar system dropped by half. However, in three days, the levels had recovered to near their previous levels.
A third key sign is the direction of the magnetic field, and scientists are eagerly analyzing the data to see whether that has, indeed, changed direction. Scientists expect that all three of these signs will have changed when Voyager 1 has crossed into interstellar space. A preliminary analysis of the latest magnetic field data is expected to be available in the next month.
I feel Voyager 1 is almost there . . . | 2019-04-24T06:45:01 | https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=23009332& |
0.999393 | A pancake batter recipe without butter?
can someone give me a pancake batter recipe that can use olive oil instead of butter. just a simple pancake recipe. nothing special. thank you!
Best Answer: I'm sure the "oil" in this recipe is meant to be vegetable oil such as corn oil or canola oil, but I imagine olive oil might work. However, if you do have canola oil, corn oil, etc., I would use that instead of olive oil to be on the safe side.
Mix all together. Pour 3 tablespoons batter in skillet. When bubbles start to form, turn the pancakes and cook until browned.
Ingredients: 100 g/4 oz/1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour A pinch of salt 1 egg 300 ml milk (or milk and water mixed) 15 oz/1 tbsp butter, melted (optional) Oil, for shallow frying Method: Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add the egg and half the milk. Beat well until thick and smooth. Stir in the remaining milk and melted butter, if using. Leave to stand, if possible for 30 minutes, before use. Heat a little oil in a frying pan (skillet) and pour off the excess into a small bowl to use for the next pancake. When very hot, pour in just enough batter to coat the base of the pan when it is tipped and swirled gently. Cook until set and the base of the pancake is golden brown. Toss or flip over with a palette knife. Cook the other side. Slide out and keep warm on a plate over a pan of hot water while cooking the remainder. Use as required.
I've never used a pancake recipe that calls for butter, so they are out there. Just take your usual recipe and leave it out. A little oil could be substituted but I never use oil in the batter either.
any pancake recipe needs a 'fat' whether its vegetable oil, olive oil or butter. Just subsitute the butter in your recipe for olive oil.
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Can you prepare store-bought pancake mix without mixing oil or butter? | 2019-04-25T22:20:36 | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100131220826AAz2gNK |
0.998563 | The images we have published out of Yemen may be as unsettling as anything we have used before. Here’s why we made the decision to publish them.
Amal Hussain is a 7-year-old Yemeni girl with a haunting gaze whose image sits atop our latest report from Yemen, a country plunged into war and on the brink of a catastrophic famine.
Amal is skin and bones, and her head is turned away, as if she cannot bear to meet the eyes of those looking at her.
Some readers may feel they want to look away, too. And if experience is any guide, some are going to demand to know why we are asking them to look at all.
But we are asking you to look — and not just at Amal, but also at Shaher al-Hajaji, a scarred 3-year-old boy in the grip of malnutrition, and at Bassam Mohammed Hassan, an emaciated, listless young boy with an empty look in his eyes.
This is our job as journalists: to bear witness, to give voice to those who are otherwise abandoned, victimized and forgotten. And our correspondents and photographers will go to great lengths, often putting themselves in harm’s way, to do so.
This report, “The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War,” was written by Declan Walsh, and the photographs were taken by Tyler Hicks. To bring it to you, they not only had to navigate their way through a country devastated by war but also through their own emotional trauma.
Then, after they filed their report, came the time for the hard discussions in New York City.
Times editors don’t decide lightly to publish pictures of the dead or the dying. The folders of photo editors bulge with powerful images that did not make the cut because they were considered too horrific, too invasive or too gratuitous.
The images we have now published out of Yemen may be as unsettling as anything we have used before. But there is a reason we made this decision.
The tragedy in Yemen did not grow out of a natural disaster. It is a slow-motion crisis brought on by leaders of other countries who are willing to tolerate extraordinary suffering by civilians to advance political agendas.
And yet somehow the vast catastrophe has failed to catch the world’s attention as much as the murder of a single man, the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
The story of Yemen and all its suffering is one that must be told, and as powerful as Declan’s writing is, it cannot be told in words only.
Yes, Tyler’s images are hard to look at. They are brutal. But they are also brutally honest. They reveal the horror that is Yemen today. You may choose not to look at them. But we thought you should be the ones to decide.
We welcome your thoughts in the comments. | 2019-04-19T14:53:51 | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/reader-center/yemen-photos-starvation.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur |
0.997666 | When the writer speaks of ‘self-arrogated virtue’, who has arrogated virtue in his view?
A. is usually not found in simple tribes but civilised people.
B. is usually found in the barbaric tribes of the uncivilised nations.
C. is a habit limited only to English ladies of high position.
D. is a usual habit with all white skinned people.
is usually not found in simple tribes but civilised people.
What would be the suitable title for the above comprehension?
A. when Britain was still a colonial power.
B. when the author was in a bad mood.
D. when the author’s country was overrun by the British.
when Britain was still a colonial power.
Which animals come under the category 'Equidae'? | 2019-04-24T12:32:02 | https://www.atozexams.com/english/paragraph-completion.html |
0.998648 | "Self, Good Day.": college is cool.
My parents and my little brothers are currently out of the country for spring break (Oh the woes of BYU not having a spring break!). Because of this, my little brother--who was accepted to BYU in the fall--asked me to sign up for housing for him. BYU does this thing where they assign you a date and time for when you are allowed to go onto the housing site and pick the apartment you live in and have a little idea of the foolz you are going to be living with (i.e. you get to know what type of music they like, what time they go to bed, and whether or not they are tidy. I put that Tom is tidy because I want other tidy people to live with him and then maybe he'll be tidier? And maybe the apartment will stay cleaner? Is that wishful thinking?) Anyway, Tom's assigned time was today at 3 pm, so I made sure to get on that right at 3 pm. It turns out I'm a crazy person because I think I LITERALLY changed his room ten times before I settled on one that I thought had decent roommates. But ask me again tomorrow and I probably will have changed it another ten times. Sheesh.
The reason I'm saying this though is because holy cow, college. I remember when I was young my mom would talk about how college would make up some of the best and most fun years of my life and I will tell you what. Homegirl was right. College is just the greatest. For one, I've made about a million friends (no exaggeration, zero, none, nope, totally honest and I have a straight face when I say that). Plus, in college you just do fun things. Freshman year it was mostly fun dumb things, but still.
And second, I've just learned soooooo so so so one million much while here in my five--yes, FIVE--years of college. I look at the world and the responsibilities that I have very differently than I did when I was graduating from high school. I don't regret taking a single class (except that online health class that I actually didn't need to take and that makes me angry every time I look at my grades...) and I know that I've become a more intelligent, contributing member of society because of all of the other classes (even if it is true that I still refuse to sniff dairy products).
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm really excited for my little brother to come to college. I can't wait to see him become a full-fledged adult doing adult things and making adult decisions, but also having regular-style cray to the cray cray fun. But Tom, please be responsible. That means that maybe you should try to avoid any situation that might lead to you shaving your legs (like your older brother) and do us all a favor and remember to eat your vegetables.
So to anyone that is going to be starting college soon or who is currently in college, I just want to remind you to appreciate it. I read a quote by a BYU alum once and it said, "Appreciate your time here because it is too soon gone." And that is seriously the saddest truth. These past five years have FLOWN by and I don't even know how it happened. You'll be sitting in class your freshman year still studying your planner trying to figure out where your next class is and then the next thing you know, you're ordering a cap and gown and it's over. So just take time to appreciate where you are right now. Don't be thinking too much about the next step and where you need to be going next year and what you'll do as soon as you're done here. Just appreciate where you are.
These are some good times, my friends. Some seriously good times. And you don't get these years back. Once you're done, you're done. So make the most of it. Do dumb things. Make new friends. Get outside of your comfort zone. Take the classes you really want to even if they're not for your major or may not seem particularly valuable. Try new foods. Befriend professors. Visit every building on campus. Study somewhere new in the library. Go on adventures. Be spontaneous. Join a club. Start a club. Don't stop searching for a major until you find something you're passionate about. Make the most of your situation, even if you're broke and all you have to eat is saltines (that's a real story from the life of me, folks). Smile more. Serve more. Love more. Enjoy more.
What a great post about the joy of college. I had two kids go to BYU and some of those computer deadlines /appts. fall at crazy times! You've captured the pure joy you feel at this time of your life. Love those last four sentences.
I read this and cried. So true. | 2019-04-22T02:16:25 | http://www.selfgoodday.com/2013/03/college-is-cool.html |
0.998051 | Owners of Fire TVs will now be able to pair them with any Echo device and control them with voice commands.
Google adds more partners to growing smart home ecosystem: In an effort to better compete with Amazon and Alexa, Google continues to add partners that are compatible with Google Assistant and Google Home.
'Who's there?' Amazon's Echo sees potential beyond voice in smart home security: Amazon Smart Home is continuing to add home security products, including many that allow users to unlock doors and arm or disarm security systems with voice commands.
The Swidget is a modular outlet that aims to customize your smart home experience: The Swidget is on Kickstarter and comes with swappable inserts, such as a USB charger, night light, and a Wi-Fi insert.
Apple unveils smart home experiences in its retail stores worldwide: To help customers understand how it works, Apple is launching interactive HomeKit experiences in 46 of its retail stores worldwide.
Bluetooth is getting a big upgrade to make it better for smart homes: Bluetooth has added mesh features, which would allow Bluetooth devices to create a mesh network for better wireless communications. | 2019-04-19T10:14:12 | https://www.ghsmarthome.com/blog/2017/8/7/smart-home-news-roundup |
0.998345 | Massive stars end their lives in gigantic explosions, so called supernovae, and can become - for a short time - brighter than a whole galaxy, which is made up of billions of stars. Although supernovae have been studied theoretically by computer models for several decades, the physical processes happening during these blasts are so complex that until now astrophysicists could only simulate parts of the process and so far only in one or two dimensions. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching have now carried out the first fully three-dimensional computer simulations of a core collapse supernova over a timescale of hours after the initiation of the blast. They thus could answer the question of how initial asymmetries, which emerge deep in the dense core during the very early stages of the explosion, fold themselves into inhomogeneities observable during the supernova blast.
While the great energy of the outburst makes these stellar explosions visible far out into the Universe, they are relatively rare. In a galaxy of the size of our Milky Way, on average only one supernova will occur in 50 years. About twenty years ago, a supernova could be seen even with the naked eye: SN 1987A in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, our neighbouring galaxy. This relative closeness - "only" about 170,000 light years away - allowed many detailed observations in different wavelength bands over weeks and even months. SN 1987A turned out to be a core-collapse supernova, a so-called Type II event. It occurs when a massive star, which is at least nine times heavier than the sun, has burned almost all its fuel. The fusion engine in the centre of the star begins to stutter, triggering an internal collapse and thus a violent explosion of the entire star. In the case of SN 1987A the star had about 20 solar masses at its birth.
SN 1987A is probably the best studied supernova and it is still a great challenge to develop and refine models of what was happening inside the dying star to produce its emission of radiation. One of the astonishing and unexpected discoveries in SN 1987A and many subsequent supernovae was the fact that nickel and iron - heavy elements that are formed near the centre of the explosion - are mixed outward in big clumps into the hydrogen shell of the disrupted star. Nickel bullets were observed to propagate at velocities of thousands of kilometres per second, much faster than the surrounding hydrogen and much faster than predicted by simple hydrodynamic calculations in one dimension (1D), i.e., only studying the radial profile from the centre outwards.
The details of supernova explosions are very difficult to simulate, not only because of the complexity of the physical processes involved but also because of the duration and range of scales - from hundreds of metres near the centre to tens of millions of kilometres near the stellar surface - that need to be resolved in ultimately three-dimensional (3D) computer models. Previously conducted simulations in two dimensions (2D, i.e., with the assumption of axial symmetry) indeed showed that the spherical shell structure of the progenitor star is destroyed during the supernova blast and large-scale mixing takes place. But the real world is three-dimensional and not all observational aspects can be reproduced by 2D models.
The new computer models of the team at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics can now for the first time simulate the complete burst in all three dimensions, from the first milliseconds after the explosion is triggered in the core to a time three hours later, when the shock breaks out of the progenitor star. "We found substantial deviations in our 3D models compared to previous work in 2D," says Nicolay Hammer, the lead author of the paper, "especially the growth of instabilities and the propagation of clumps differ. These are not just minor variations; this effect determines the long-time evolution and ultimately the extent of mixing and observable appearance of core-collapse supernovae."
In the 3D-simulations, metal-rich clumps have much higher velocities than in the 2D case. These "bullets" expand much more rapidly, overtaking material from the outer layers. "With a simple analytic model we could demonstrate that the different geometry of the bullets, toroidal versus quasi-spherical, can explain the differences observed in our simulations," explains co-author Thomas Janka. "While we think that the differences between the 2D- and 3D-models that we found are probably generic, many features will depend strongly on the structure of the progenitor star, the overall energy and the initial asymmetry of the blast."
"We hope that our models, in comparison to observations, will help us to understand how stellar explosions start and what causes them", adds Ewald Müller, the third author of the paper. Investigating a wider variety of progenitor stars and initial conditions will therefore be the focus of future simulation work. In particular, a detailed model that reproduces all observational features of SN 1987A still remains a challenge. | 2019-04-24T00:27:15 | http://www.scitech-news.com/2010/05/death-of-star-in-three-dimensions.html |
0.999922 | How do I interpret my score sheet from competition?
On your score sheet for your compulsories, you may have noticed that sometimes the judge has written a letter code beside the numeric score for the move (which is out of 10). These codes indicate the reason for your deductions in the move, but usually only the most obvious fault is noted, if the judge even gives a reason at all. The following table is a translation of the shorthand used, and is the most current list available. In brackets beside each meaning, where applicable, the move where the deduction would be most often seen is noted.
Some of these may still not be entirely clear, for example: PD = pad, which means you touched the pad with your hand for balance during the mill, or OH = off horse, which means your seat came off the horse in the mill; both of these are two point deductions! If you see something like this, C2H, that would mean your body collapsed in the second half of a move; in the scissors, this would mean you collapsed in the reverse scissors.
For your freestyle, the moves are written as letters corresponding to the degree of difficulty. There are two lettering systems used.
If your score sheet has many numbers of five or less, don't read into this as you are not doing well. This may be perfectly normal for your level and remember, the standard is set by the AA, or gold level vaulters!
If there are any more questions you have about how to read your score sheet, please let Stella or myself know.
How do I choose a song for my vaulting freestyle?
Here are some tips on how to select the appropriate music for your vaulting freestyle. This is an important consideration because the right song will help you perform better and achieve those performance marks! To get the maximum music score, you must show your music in every move you do. To show your music, you can incorporate dance-like moves, or express your character. Your character, or your theme, can be defined (such as a pirate or Hawaiian dancer), or it can be more abstract (such as graceful or romantic).
Interpretable – It should be obvious what your theme or character is to the judge and audience. Ideally you should tell a story with your music, ie a beginning, middle, and end.
Variety of intensity – The music takes you somewhere (eg. builds up, comes down, and builds up again) and ideally has lots of highlights (‘ta-da’ points) so that your moves fit to any part of the song in case you end up being a few seconds off.
Rich sound - Either lots of instruments, or a few but with depth.
Vocals – They are allowed in Canadian competitions but should be used sparingly, especially since our judges are often from the USA, where lyrics are not allowed other than at the very highest levels. If you would like to use a song with words, consider using words that sound like an instrument or are in another language. Most of all, the words must be family friendly; if the judge feels that you have something inappropriate in your lyrics, even if you think they are fine, they can give you a zero score.
Rhythm – This is important for vaulting at the trot and canter because horses will hear the beat and may speed up or slow down to match it; try to find a rhythm that matches the horse instead of making them match you. Matching the rhythm of the song to the horse also helps to give the impression of ‘harmony with the horse’, another important score in vaulting.
Intensity – An intense song suits a style with drama or attitude and is often used by more advanced vaulters; if you have a tendency to rush your freestyle, or get the ‘butterflies’ in the show ring you are better off choosing a quieter, softer song. Many vaulters choose different songs for their horse and barrel classes. For barrel, you may want to choose something a little faster or slower than you do on the horse and really show off your style!
Remember when looking for good vaulting music, the radio, or your iPod, may not be the best place to look. Many popular songs today aren’t the best for vaulting music, so here are some other places you can look.
-Ask your parents; they have heard a lot more songs than you, and probably a bigger variety too!
I find the easiest way to browse songs for free is on Youtube. Songs that can be edited fairly simply can be done so through simple music editing software on your computer; for example, the beginning of a song can be trimmed to the start point that allows the best part of the song to be captured in the following minute. The song you pick only needs to be one minute in length for individual freestyles, and one and a half or two minutes for pairs on the barrel and horse respectively, plus about 10 seconds to approach the horse. A barrel team song must be 3 minutes and a team on the horse is 4 minutes. Because editing takes some time to do, this needs to be done well in advance of the competition.
I hope this gives you a good idea of what to look for in a vaulting song. Happy hunting!
Why are your vaulters not wearing helmets?
"One of the primary questions that people new to vaulting ask about is why don’t we use helmets in vaulting? The answer in a nutshell is that all of the experts, world wide, confer that not only do helmets not improve the safety of a vaulter; they can actually increase the risk of injury," Colin Schmidt, Mens Canadian Champion Vaulter.
To read the rest of Colin's article, please click here.
Is the horse safely controlled?
The horse is always under control by an experienced longeur who keep the horse on a circle and controls its speed by use of a long rope attached to the horse's bridle. The longeur maintains saftey by watching for potentially 'spooky' situations and keeps the horse's circle away from people, walls, and other hazards. Vaulting rules state that a longuer must be over 16 yrs old and specific training for the longuer is encouraged.
What is a vaulting competition like?
In competiton, judging is based on technique, form, difficulty, balance, security, and consideration of the horse. The horse, longeur, and vaulter are considered a competitive unit, and the performance of each is reflected in their score.
To learn more, please click here to read this informative summary by Bretta DeLuca, coach of Triple M vaulters.
How do I make a Vaulting Barrel?
Do you have a question about vaulting not answered on this site? Please feel free to ask! | 2019-04-23T18:33:03 | http://www.manestreamvaulters.com/faq-/ |
0.999468 | There’s an interesting passage in the DOJ IG discussion of Jack Goldsmith’s efforts to rewrite the Stellar Wind OLC memos (PDF 456).
The first passage describes Jim Comey permitting a lower standard of review to apply for activities already in process.
If it was unprecedented on March 1, 2004, it quickly became common.
After all, Goldsmith was asked to consider how the Geneva Convention applied to various types of detainees in Iraq, after the Administration had already been and continued to render people out of that occupied country. And he was also in the midst of a review of the torture program.
Indeed, Daniel Levin, who would go on to reconsider torture approvals until Cheney booted him out of the way to have Steven Bradbury rubberstamp things, would have been a part of those discussions.
So when, in fall 2004, he was asked to reconsider torture, that lower standard of review would have been in his mind.
You could even say that this standard of review gave CIA an incentive to start and continue torturing Janat Gul, on whom they pinned their need to resume torture, even after they accepted he was not, as a fabricator had claimed, planning election year plots in the US. So long as they tortured Gul, Levin would be permitted to apply a lower standard to that torture.
In any case, if this was unprecedented then, I suspect it’s not anymore. After all, by the time David Barron first considered the drone killing memo for Anwar al-Awlaki, the Administration had apparently already tried to kill him once. And the Libyan war had already started when OLC started reviewing it (though they made a heroic effort to rule it illegal, which is a testament to just how illegal it was).
With regards to the Stellar Wind OLC, the discussion of what Goldsmith found so problematic is mostly redacted. Which is why I’m interested in his opinion that “‘we can get there’ as to [redacted] albeit by using an aggressive legal analysis.” That says that one of the things his opinion would approve — either the content collection of one-end foreign communications or the dragnet collection of telephone metadata — involved “aggressive legal analysis” even to meet this lower standard.
It’d sure be nice to know which practice was considered so marginally legal.
As I noted, one interesting aspect of reading the Stellar Wind IG Reports is tracking the things that show up in the Snowden-leaked draft IG Report that are completely redacted in the DOJ-released report.
One thing that is completely redacted is that Stellar Wind was used to spy on Iraqi targets (or US targets alleged to be Iraqi targets during the war?), as explained here.
(TS//SI//NF) Iraqi Intelligence Service. For a limited period of time surrounding the 2003 invasion oflraq, the President authorized the use of PSP authority against the Iraqi Intelligence Service. On 28 March 2003, the DCI determined that, based on then current intelligence, the Iraqi Intelligence service was engaged in terrorist activities and presented a threat to U.S. interests in the United States and abroad. Through the Deputy DCI, Mr. Tenet received the President’s concurrence that PSP authorities could be used against the Iraqi Intelligence Service. NSA ceased using the Authority for this purpose in March 2004.
Given the timing, this almost certainly is one of the things Jack Goldsmith shut down in the first set of modifications in March 2004 (there appears to have been a parallel effort in 2004 to stop treating Iraqi prisoners as terrorists who could be tortured).
And while the officially released IG Reports hide all mention of this, there is one detail that says volumes. Amid the section describing all the things Patrick Philbin found to be problematic in Yoo’s OLC memos authorizing the program, this footnote appears (at PDF 442).
See Presidential Authorization of April 22, 2003 at para. 4(b)(i) & (ii). The April 22, 2003, Authorization was the only Authorization personally approved as to form and legality by Yoo. He approved the Authorization on April 18, 2003; five days before the date of his talking points memorandum.
John Yoo, not Attorney General Ashcroft, signed the Authorization that went into effect on April 22, 2003.
This Authorization was the first issued after Tenet declared Iraq terrorists on March 28, 2003 (I’ve added the Authorization dates here).
As it happens, that Authorization was also the last or second-to-last one signed while Yoo remained at DOJ. He left in June 2003 because Ashcroft had refused to let him assume the OLC AAG position after Jay Bybee moved onto his sinecure on the 9th Circuit.
That’s not the last crazy thing Yoo did while at OLC: at roughly the same time he was free-lancing “Legal Principles” documents pretend-authorizing torture techniques that the original Bybee memo had not approved.
But I find it interesting that one of the last things Yoo did was sign an authorization to use a program purportedly focused on terrorists to surveil targets (who must in some part be in the US) related to a war of choice. | 2019-04-19T11:29:12 | https://www.emptywheel.net/tag/stellar-wind/ |
0.999937 | What are the best practices in the design of customer experience scorecards? Best-practices leaders don’t content themselves with customer satisfaction and loyalty surveys—(How would you rate this experience? Would you recommend X to a friend or colleague?) They also identify a small set of operational customer metrics to monitor and continuously improve. These customer-centric metrics form the basis for the customer experience Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are used to motivate and focus employees. By measuring the right stuff—what matters most to customers—these companies continually improve the Quality of the Customer Experience(SM) they deliver, reaping rewards in higher customer satisfaction, greater customer loyalty, a larger number of customers and more profits per customer. Learn the 8 Steps to create your own QCE Scorecard.
What are the best practices in the design of customer experience scorecards? Best practices leaders don’t content themselves with customer satisfaction and loyalty surveys. (How would you rate this experience? Would you recommend X to a friend or colleague?) They also identify a small set of operational customer metrics to monitor and improve continuously. These customer-centric metrics form the basis for the customer experience key performance indicators (KPIs) that are used to motivate and focus employees. By measuring the right stuff—what matters most to customers—these companies continually improve the Quality of the Customer Experience they deliver, reaping rewards in higher customer satisfaction, greater customer loyalty, a larger number of customers, and more profits per customer.
1. Identify the stages in your customers’ lifecycles that they care about the most, as well as the customer roles involved at each of those stages.
2. Discover your customers’ most critical scenarios within each of those lifecycle stages.
3. Have customers pinpoint the most critical make or break points—their moments of truth. Select three to five of these to monitor and improve.
4. Get customers to define how they measure success at each of those points, and set your performance targets accordingly. These are your customer metrics—your operational customer experience KPIs.
5. Monitor performance for each KPI at the appropriate frequency (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly).
6. Survey customers for satisfaction and loyalty for each of these customer KPIs.
7. Report performance on both customer metrics and customer satisfaction and loyalty scores first to the employees who are empowered to improve the Quality of Customer Experience. Summarize the performance trends for the management of the company on a monthly and quarterly basis.
8. (Extra credit!) Correlate customer growth, customer retention, customer spending, and customer profits with your performance on your customer experience metrics.
We’ll look at how computer supplier Dell, grocery retailer Tesco, and the financing subsidiary of a global construction equipment manufacturer have defined and are using their respective customer experience scorecards. | 2019-04-24T21:04:00 | http://www.customers.com/articles/Design-Your-Quality-of-Customer-Experience-Scorecard/ |
0.999995 | Belt and Road is an Important Emerging Issue for Global Conservation.
In an article in the Journal "Trends in Ecology & Evolution" twenty-four experts in conservation research and practice, ecology, economics, policy, and science communication reviewed 117 potential issues and identified 15 priority topics following a wide consultation. They followed a Delphi like process to score and identify the most important.
This is the ninth such annual "horizon scan" to identify emerging issues. Themes among selected topics include new mechanisms driving the emergence and geographic expansion of diseases, innovative biotechnologies, reassessments of global change, and one of them highlights the development of strategic infrastructure to facilitate global economic priorities. Guess what it is?
In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a strategic infrastructure programme that would support development of six major land transport corridors across central Asia. The corridors would link China to Europe (the belt) and link Chinese ports to Indonesia, ports around the Indian Ocean, and, through the Red Sea, Southern Europe (the road). The cost of completing the corridors, estimated to be $1.25 trillion by 2025, will deliver economic development, supported by considerable scientific and technological development, across Eurasia to Africa.
Nearly 70 countries have agreed to cooperate in the plan. Given the growth of ecologically informed policies in China, it may be possible to develop the corridors in an environmentally sustainable manner. President Xi stated his ambition to create a big-data service platform for environmental protection, and to support climate change adaptation projects internationally.
However, official documents currently do not appear to emphasise environmental assessment, and there are concerns that the investors may push such big infrastructure projects through quickly at the expense of safeguards, with a cascade of negative environmental impacts. For example, the proposed routes overlap protected areas supporting snow leopards (Panthera unica), Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), and Far Eastern leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis). The anticipated and extensive industrial and infrastructure development across central Asia, exacerbated by resulting human immigration to the region, would compound the undesirable ecological changes that are anticipated as climate changes. Furthermore, any growth in trade throughout the region is likely to increase the risk of trade in endangered species and transport of non-native invasive species.
The horizon scanning process is not intended to draw attention to phenomena that are widely understood to affect societal needs or values, including those related to all aspects of biological diversity. Instead, it is intended as an early awareness and alert system drawing attention to novel issues that, if realised, may create pivotal opportunities or threats and thus warrant further analysis in the near future. It supports the capabilities of organizations to deal better with an uncertain and complex future.
For example, the authors also discussed as major issue the impending global hydropower boom, but later decided it was no longer an emerging issue.
We know, that in 2017 at least 54% of hydropower capacity added in the word in was build with participation of Chinese firms and approximately 80% of world-wide investment in new hydropower came from China. Therefore “global hydropower doom” may be viewed not as a stand-alone issue, but as an intrinsic part of the Belt and Road Initiative. | 2019-04-24T12:02:03 | http://www.transrivers.org/2018/2307/ |
0.999999 | How would you quickly prototype/test a service that usually takes place over several months?
I'm looking to test new and different ideas in an existing mediation service that often takes several months of back and forth between two parties, usually over the phone and/or via mail. I want to solicit feedback from both sides quickly, while still keeping a realistic enough representation of the service. Any ideas? Thanks!
Mock role-play with both parties at the same time (remote or in the same building). Schedule an hour session, pay for their time. This is the fastest method.
In your question, you mention "often takes several months". I would assume there is a scenario that doesn't take several months. I would focus on testing only those shorter scenarios if possible to reduce the timeframe from other types of lengthy encounters with your service.
It sounds like you already have a good idea of how your users will interact with the service. The best idea is to figure out (1) what tasks you want to test; (2) create realistic scenarios that you can have users "imagine" they are in the middle of and (3) design the prototype to fit those tasks and scenarios. If you try and prototype the whole thing (or most digital services) you'll no longer be doing it rapidly! | 2019-04-20T02:48:25 | https://clarity.fm/questions/3378/how-would-you-quickly-prototype-test-a-service-that-usually-takes-place-over |
0.999997 | Can mathematical models predict cancer progression?
Mathematicians from Duke University are looking for ways to aid doctors in predicting the way different types of cancers complicate even if the measurements of tumor growth are very difficult to acquire.
In the United States, around one in three people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point. In order to properly treat these patients, accurate predictions of tumor growth are needed in order to assess the type of treatment needed, treatment frequency and dose, and whether a treatment is effective.
According to Duke University Mathematics professor Richard Durrett, who is the lead author of the study, Mathematical models can help inform a whole host of cancer treatment decisions, but you need an accurate model.
There have already been multiple mathematical models that were proposed for tumor growth. However, which model is appropriate for which type of cancer is the main concern at present.
Co-author Anne Talkington says that there are some tumors that start to slow down their growth or even stop growing when they reach a certain size, but there are others that still continue to increase in size.
One of the issues of most of these tumor prediction models is that the majority of them are calibrated from tumors growing in mice or in the lab, where conditions such as oxygen supply and nutrients are not the same as compared to that in the human body. Unfortunately, most cancer patients have to undergo treatment or surgery soon after diagnosis, and similar data from humans are hard to acquire.
In Durrett and Talkington's paper published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, they discussed on how you can compare common mathematical models of tumor growth with the use of only two time-point measurements of tumor size, which is just usually the data that can be acquired from patients before they begin their treatment.
Because of the fact that they had to work with data from actual patients, they had no choice but to work on the two data points. Although the usual impression is that just two points are not enough, examining trends in growth rates in when the models are fit to tumors of differing sizes allows successful supposition of the best model.
In order to confirm if their method was indeed correct, they searched previous literature for data from cancer patients whose tumors sizes were measured at two points before the start of their treatment, and the measurements came either from mammograms, MRIs or CT scans.
According to their results, breast and liver tumors grow at a very fast rate while the tumors are still small in size. Durrett compares this to money in a savings account that earns a fixed interest rate.
In contrast, two types of brain tumors were found to grow the two-thirds power law. This was consistent with the fact that actually only cells on the surface of the tumor are able to proliferate.
To know more about ways on how to predict cancer progression, feel free to browse more articles on this site. | 2019-04-25T16:30:10 | http://www.doctortipster.com/34105-predicting-cancer-progression.html |
0.999995 | 1. If $ means ‘added to’, # means ‘multiplied by’, % means ‘divided by’ and & means ‘difference of’ then what is the value of 8 $ 40 % 8 # 7 & 20.
Word SALINE cannot be formed since E is not there in the given word.
Direction (5-8): Read the following instruction and answer the following questions. Eight persons are sitting in two parallel rows of four seats each. A,B, C and D are sitting in row II facing north and E, F, G and H are sitting in row I facing south. G is facing neighbor of A. B sits at one end of the row. G and E are immediate neighbors. D is neighbor of both B and C. H faces B and E faces immediate neighbour of B. G sits to the right of E.
5. Who sits to the immediate right of H?
Except C all others are sitting at ends of the rows.
7. What is the position of A with respect to B?
8. If A is related to G, C is related to E then D is related to which of the following?
9. After changing every letter to next letter of the alphabetic series then which of the following word has 2 vowels?
10. Select the related word/ number from the given alternatives. 20: 30 :: 40:?
1) If $ means ‘added to’, # means ‘multiplied by’, % means ‘divided by’ and & means ‘difference of’ then what is the value of 8 $ 40 % 8 # 7 & 20.
2) From the given alternatives select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word.
Direction (5-8): Read the following instruction and answer the following questions.
Eight persons are sitting in two parallel rows of four seats each. A,B, C and D are sitting in row II facing north and E, F, G and H are sitting in row I facing south. G is facing neighbor of A. B sits at one end of the row. G and E are immediate neighbors. D is neighbor of both B and C. H faces B and E faces immediate neighbor of B. G sits to the right of E.
5) Who sits to the immediate right of H?
7) What is the position of A with respect to B?
8) If A is related to G, C is related to E then D is related to which of the following?
9) After changing every letter to next letter of the alphabetic series then which of the following word has 2 vowels?
10) Select the related word/ number from the given alternatives. | 2019-04-24T12:11:58 | https://www.ibpsguide.com/ssc-cgl-reasoning-day-48 |
0.993773 | (Mensaje se repite en Español) (For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post) What they don't want you to know is that charters started as a way to explore innovative teaching practices, that fewer than one in seven charters produce better results, and while they should be explored, charters should not be promoted as the "be all end all" to the problems facing our schools that the politicians - school board members and the Superintendent - have refused to address for years. What they also don't want you to know is that there's an incestuous relationship between current and former board members, district employees, and many in the charter school industry. We need to follow the money trail. Our incoming superintendent, John Deasy, negotiated an $80,000 salary bump despite recent layoffs, pay cuts, and firings - all done because the district supposedly doesn't have enough cash. The board didn't even bother to consider any other candidates. Deasy has worked for the Gates Foundation, embracing their push for value-added assessments, despite that, at best, value-added has a margin of error of plus or minus 45 points, and even worse, the foundation has been withholding data from researchers.
(Mensaje se repite en Español) For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post Although Professor Joel Shatzky's writing and videos are about New York City public schools, can you see your own purposefully failed public school in the following three videos he has written or in the many articles and Huffington Post blogs he has written? Joel Shatzky:Brooklyn, New York [email protected] Professor of English Emeritus--SUNY, College at Cortland (1968-2005) Adjunct instructor-Kingsborough CC (CUNY) 2006-- ) Regular contributor to the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-shatzky/educating-for-democracy-l_1_b_809924.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/searchS/?q=Joel+Shatzky Author of "The Thinking Crisis" with Ellen Hill (Authors Choice Press: New York, 2001) Numerous articles on education in Jewish Currents. Script-writer for three YouTube satires on educational "reform."
(en español después) Charters don't result in better conditions for students. Class size rose when PCHS became a charter, and crowded conditions are detrimental for everyone. But the math said more students = more money so the board brought on the crowds. At first LAUSD had a hand in some of the increase in student numbers, but not anymore. Students who did well on CST's managed the larger class sizes, but students who needed extra help and attention slipped even more. This didn't worry the Pali Family because "THOSE KIDS" were counseled to leave - not better conditions at all if you're a student who needs the alleged superior environment offered by a charter, rather than one who would have done well anyway. Last year's API scores tell this story very well. Charters don't result in better conditions for teachers. Refer to competition destroying collaboration at Pali below. That was bad enough, but there has been higher teacher turnover at Pali since independent status than ever before. Teachers have bigger classes, and ROP teachers carry seven classes without extra pay. Teachers are routinely hassled if they're not in cahoots with the board, and committees that were supposed to empower teachers have been relegated to toothless advisory groups whose recommendations are routinely ignored. The board still does exactly as it pleases.
(en español después) Charters don't serve students from all populations, or academic and socioeconomic levels. Best practices meant, and I often heard pro-charter employees say, "If THOSE KIDS can't hack it they can leave." "THOSE KIDS can go back to their home school." Excuse me? Those kids are the reason charters were invented. Those kids with less money, darker skin, fewer advantages, more behavior issues and problems, and yes, lower CST scores. Pali historically had wealthier white students until busing added less advantaged students to the mix. Pacific Palisades has wanted its "neighborhood school" back ever since. In 2003 Pali was slightly more than 30% White, slightly less than 30% each Black and Hispanic, with the remaining 10% comprised of Asian, Native American and Pacific Islander. Accusations of racism and elitism forced the school to write this racial balance into its first charter petition, promising that demographics would reflect LAUSD's community at large. Now demographics are 47% white, 18% black, 24% Hispanic and the rest Asian/Native American/Pacific Islander. 21% are economically disadvantaged. Not a reflection of LAUSD's demographics. Not even close. The original demand for equity has been abandoned.
What I found myself wishing while she talked was that she and many of her colleagues who share unique knowledge and beliefs about what real public education reform should look like (Charles Kerchner, Lois Weiner, Pablo Noguera, Jonathan Kozol, and others) would escape the ivory tower long enough to use their combined and fleeting celebrity to help organize a national public education reform movement. Such a movement, driven by data and the real life daily experience of "4 million classroom teachers supported by their families" would no longer be a topic or constituency that the presently hijacked media in this country could continue to ignore.
Someone once said, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." That is true to the nth degree for teachers who have one of the most stressful jobs there is, but also must deal with a constant assault from LAUSD to try -- as I have said many times on this blog to scapegoat them -- for a system they have no control over. Well, while it is too early to tell, there might have been the first step toward turning this regrettable circumstances around in Chicago Public Schools, where its 30,000 teacher have just elected Karen Lewis to end the 40 year reign of business and politics as usual at their teachers' union. | 2019-04-22T18:04:36 | http://www.perdaily.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&tag=charters&limit=20&blog_id=1 |
0.998476 | Facebook and Google both have a Russia problem. But while Facebook has mounted a very public response to charges of election meddling on its platform, Google has kept its head down.
Why it matters: At least so far, Google has managed to avoid the scale of criticism that has hit Facebook and Twitter as a result of Congress' investigation into Russia's actions and the platforms' role in allowing them, which is good news for a company that is frequently at the center of tech policy battles. Still, it will get intense questioning when its general counsel testifies on Capitol Hill next week.
Google has kept its congressional outreach quiet, while Facebook and Twitter have made public announcements after briefing investigators.
Google executives have stayed silent on the issue, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begs forgiveness and his top lieutenants mix it up with reporters covering the Russia probe on Twitter.
Google waited longer than Facebook and Twitter to confirm it would testify at hearings on Russia next week.
Driving the trend: Google has less exposure to Russian meddling than Facebook and Twitter. It's not a platform where things go viral, which was the power that Russian operatives allegedly took advantage of to inflame American political tensions during the election. But it also points to the marked difference between how Google and Facebook operate.
Facebook executives have significant public profiles when it comes to political debates. COO Sheryl Sandberg is a Washington veteran who has been mentioned as a possible contender for government jobs, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been touring the United States this year in an attempt to engage with issues like the opioid crisis and the rising tide of automation.
Google has spent years marketing itself — more aggressively than Facebook — as non-threatening, noted Luther Lowe, a Yelp policy staffer who is one of Google's longtime antagonists in Washington. Plus, Facebook's reputation among users is tied in part to the user's relationships to others using the platform, which the company has less control over. Google declined to comment on the record.
Yes, but: Google's weakest point in the investigation is YouTube, where Russian operatives allegedly supported vloggers pushing anti-Hillary Clinton messages. YouTube also has a relationship with the Kremlin-backed outlet Russia Today — meaning the company makes money off of Russian state content.
The pressure could ramp up as more comes out about that relationship, including a deep dive from the New York Times into the topic and a spot on the issue this week on the Today Show.
Behind the scenes: Despite its low public profile over the past few months, Google's army of lobbyists has been active behind the scenes. For example, Google has also been lobbying on a bill that would put new disclosure requirements on online political ads. And the company just hired another lobbying firm packed with former Republican Congressional staffers.
What's next?: Google General Counsel Kent Walker will appear at congressional hearings next week to talk about the questions around Russia, joining his counterparts at Twitter and Facebook. | 2019-04-24T09:02:05 | https://www.axios.com/google-keeps-low-profile-in-russia-investigation-1513306416-3fbcfd57-95b6-4e4e-9bc7-8cb2078bfe1d.html |
0.999995 | In assembly mode (or part) is there a way to make Solidworks apply force in a specified direction until the selected component in the assembly (or the part itself) reaches its yield limit?
Yield stress is typically in the linear portion of a stress-strain curve (by definition). You should be able to find yield in two iterations.
My first simulation had a force of 700 lbs generating 55374.3 psi of stress for a material (T6-6061) with yield strength of 39885.4 psi.
Doing simple math I calculated that the force to generate the yield stress of the material is about 504.201 lbs.
I reran the simulation with 500lbs of force and still ended up slightly above my yield value, which should not have been the case following a linear stress-strain curve.
I still believe that this is either a wild shortcoming of Solidworks or a wild lack of knowledge on my part.
If you have large deflection turned off, then I would expect to get an answer that scales perfectly. If you have large deflection turned on, then it gets trickier and I would not expect to be able to scale exactly. As the part deflects, things are no longer perfectly linear.
One other possible source of error is meshing. I might try running 5 iterations of h-adaptive and see if it converges on the sy if it is just a single body/part. You can check the option to coarsen the mesh in low stress volumes to speed up the solver.
Sooooo important to get convergence on refined mesh. Coarse mesh will give results that are too low.
You appear to be doing the calculation correctly. It could be the significant digits after three, are numerical round-off in the solver (certainly if a different solver), or the maximum stress value position has moved such as when contact is involved, or the mesh is slightly different (it should be an exact copy you could generate by "duplicating" the study).
Generally speaking, I tend to stick with no more than three significant figures. During my days as a lab test engineer, I typically observed repeatability within about 5 to 10% - depending on the humidity, temperature, test specimen, geometry variations, material lot, strain gage batch number, load cell used, time of day, even the day of the week, etc. As a result of that experience, for the FEA I would report 39,885.4 psi yield strength as 39.9 ksi, and any FEA stress values within about 10% of that is a match. I have noticed rather extensive "precision" in some of the material property values in the database. However, I find it extremely difficult to believe measurements to six significant figures are realistic.
Hi Bulent: Roland is correct. Assuming linearity to the yield strength. Usually, I apply 1 (one) pound (or some other multiple of 10) and look for highest stress, then just scale the force required to get to the yield stress. Example: Published material yield strength is 50 ksi. Apply 1000 lbs and observe max stress is 20 ksi. So the load to cause yield, scales as (50/20)*1000 = 2,500 lbs. Just for kicks, apply that load to the study and you should see 50 ksi in the model. That's two iterations, as Roland indicated.
I suspect also that you could use the built-in "event-based" simulation functionality, by applying a sensor at the point of interest, and parameterizing the load to have the software iterate and "stop" at yield. I have not tried that, however, but it appears useful for nonlinear material behavior.
I'd like to learn how to do this as I believe it is the correct way to set yield limits in simulations. Do you happen to know a good tutorial or guide for sensors used for purposes like mine? | 2019-04-24T04:53:11 | https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/56137 |
0.999999 | What are the options available for businesses to divert their food waste from the landfill? Maureen Howard talks to one Dunedin enterprise that isn't waiting for a kerbside collection scheme.
By connecting trees with cafes, "we're just trying to solve that issue of making sure organic waste doesn't end up in landfill", says Isaac Davies, co-owner of the social enterprise Doubt Not.
Doubt Not is coming to the rescue of cafes, restaurants and coffee roasteries across Dunedin. Begun mid last year and growing by two to three cafes per week, the business now takes uncooked food waste from 34 businesses in the hospitality industry. Davies and co-owner Pete Ryan are determined to keep as much food waste as they can out of Dunedin's landfills - and to use the compost generated to grow trees and other plants. There is no charge to participating businesses; instead "we are trying to supplement it by starting a tree industry from the compost", Davies says.
Davies and Ryan started Doubt Not with the goal of increasing their compost supply for trees they are growing to sell as part of the One Billion Trees Programme. They have focused on the hospitality industry because they know the extent of the food-waste problem there. Both men work full time in hospitality and have done so for the past 10-15 years.
One cafe that benefits from Doubt Not is Heritage Coffee, a cafe and eatery in the warehouse precinct in Dunedin.
"It's going really, really well actually. There is not much waste going in the rubbish bin anymore because anything that can be recycled gets recycled," staff member Bethany Bates says.
Doubt Not takes more than just uncooked food waste. To balance the high nitrogen from the food waste, it also incorporates carbon in the form of paper, cardboard packaging and coffee husks into the compost pile. Even its trees are propagated in containers obtained from the waste of the businesses it serves. Coffee bags, cups, salad containers: "Nothing we use is a bought product. Everything we use is a waste product," Davies says.
Doubt Not is a fine example of recycle and reuse, but - as the mantra goes - reduce is the first priority. Catherine Irvine, senior strategy and policy officer at the Dunedin City Council, recommends that businesses initially start at the "front end" and do an in-house audit by weighing how much food they are wasting.
"I've worked with businesses in the past where they have done that and they have just not realised that they were just purchasing too much and making their serving size too big. Once you've measured it you know what you are dealing with."
Audit done, Irvine recommends initiatives such as Doubt Not and Kiwi Harvest, which rescues good-quality food waste for people in need, as well as the Love Food Hate Waste website, for information.
Under the Waste Futures banner, the DCC has recently initiated a review process to consider introducing kerbside collection of household organic waste.
It is too soon to say whether business food waste will be included, Irvine says.
Along with grassroots enterprises such as Doubt Not, the council's Waste Futures projects aspire to reduce Dunedin's waste to landfill to as close to zero as possible. Public submissions will be called for on the proposed kerbside waste collection service later this year.
"We are going to go out loud when we have some options to put in front of people," Irvine says.
To get started, research your composting options and convince the decision-makers of the benefits, such as improved staff morale and reduced landfill costs. Equally, it's important to get everyone involved and on board by engaging them at the outset.
Perform a waste audit to help you work out how big a system your office needs, and do it again later to measure progress and share successes. Embed the philosophy of composting into your workplace so that you aren't the only compost champion on your floor.
Two popular options for the workplace and home are bokashi composting and vermi-composting.
The bokashi composting bucket system comprises double buckets with a tightly sealing lid. The top bucket has holes in the base to allow any liquids through. Zing (dried sawdust, molasses and bran impregnated with micro-organisms) is added to the food placed in the top bucket. Once "pickled", the food can be dug into soil or into an outdoor compost.
The liquid when diluted is an excellent supplement for growing plants or a "health tonic" for drains.
Will take almost everything, including meat and cheese.
Ongoing running costs to buy the bokashi zing.
Initial outlay for buying several bucket systems needed for larger workplaces.
The liquid must be removed at least twice weekly to avoid any odours.
Office vermi-composting systems come in indoor and outdoor options and vary in utility and charm. A two or three-tier system is common to accommodate food scraps, the "compost" worms, the worm bed and castings, with a tap below to collect liquid.
The liquid and vermi-compost are sought after by gardeners. Mixed into soil they promote moisture retention and micro-organism innoculants and add nutrients.
There are many types of bins to choose from (indoor and outdoor), or make your own.
Large container can be heavy.
Worms do not relish eating all foods equally.
Eco-educator Dr Maureen Howard (Treedom NZ) was a Sustainable Living Facilitator with the Dunedin City Council for nine years. | 2019-04-24T03:01:51 | https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/resilient/closing-waste-loop |
0.99882 | "Noble son, all phenomena [dharmas] are devoid of their own defining [external, distinguishing] attributes / characteristics [lakshanas], devoid of the defining attributes [lakshanas]of what is another, devoid of both their own and other defining attributes. They are devoid of the defining attribute of being without cause, devoid of the defining attribute of result, devoid of the defining attribute of being experienced, devoid of the defining attribute of being an agent, devoid of the defining attribute of being an experiencer; devoid of the defining attribute of being an entity/ thing [dharma] and devoid of the defining attribute of not being an entity / thing. They are devoid of the defining attributes of male or female, devoid of the defining attribute of a human being; they are devoid of the defining attribute of an atom, devoid of the defining attribute of time and season..
Please forgive me for being obtuse, but could you please elaborate on this? I'm sure the quoted passage should be self-explanatory but I'm not always too good at reading the suttas.
"Noble son, the ideation of non-ideation should be known as the true / real ideation."
"Bhagavat, how is the ideation of non-ideation to be known?"
Hmm, nice. What word means, comes from non-ideation. Dharmas are not real because they exist and they are real when they cease to exist.
Meaning is dharmata(true nature of reality[wiki..org]]). If you say a word then its meaning is empty and it is real, while the word itself is not empty and that why it is also not real.
You can get from a word infinite amount of meanings.
NB! i don't have light body nor can make my body mean different thing and therefore change its shape, so my understanding is that far(its low).
auto wrote: so my understanding is that far (its low).
That appears to be true. So perhaps it would be helpful to not post difficult Mahayana sutra passages, when you do not understand them yourself.
Dharma Wheel site has many who can clarify Mahayana passages. Maybe spend more time there first.
& i don't understand the title of the post, can you explain?
Mind rests on phenomena, if phenomena cease to exist then you will know what is real.
So if you know what is real, you will take that as your object.
Defiled mind is mind what is not empty, its unreal mind with false knowledge.
Are the information you receive from Suttas authoritative if you read them with non-empty mind?
just trying to understand what is not understood. I try to understand what i don't understand so i could just understand what i don't understand.
Sry but i have not much else to say, i tried my best, i got understanding fly by.
i'm interested how much pain you went through to be able to ask me this question?
The theravada equivalent to this is "all dhammas (phenomena) are empty of self".....this is just an elaboration on the ways that one can see that it is empty of self.
This is the 'connections' thread so presenting a sutra for discussing its connection to theravada is acceptable I think.
Dhammas are not empty of self, they are devoid of the defining attribute of self. Like dhamma is phenotype and self is genotype. Self is determinant. Because of the dhamma you get to know the self, because there is a self. | 2019-04-21T18:02:18 | https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=32234&p=478478 |
0.999999 | In this lesson, students will be taught the negative form of to be verb and will do an exercise. They have to match five sentences with the correct picture about family. Then they are going to listen to two people talking about personal life and answer four written questions about the listening. At the end, they will have a short discussion over greeting.
I am going to write the title of the lesson which is NEGATIVE BE VERB on the board and ask the Ss about the meaning of the word negative. Then I will tell them the meaning by showing the symbols + and -.
I will write a present simple sentence on the WB which includes BE verb. Then will write the negative version under that. I will tell them this sentence has been made negative by adding the word NOT and provide more examples. After that, I will explain about the way of adding NOT to the word HAVE and show not having the possession of sth by holding a pen in my hand and then put it in the desk and say I HAVE NO PEN. Ultimately, when I make sure everybody has understood the grammar perfectly, I will give them a handout with five sentences in negative form of the verb and ask them to match them with the pictures.
First I will play the track for the students and ask them if they could understand the thing two people were talking about. Then I will play the track for the second time, write four questions on the WB and ask them to answer the questions.
I will write a short conversation between two friends who bump into each other during shopping. Then I will perform the conversation with one of the Ss and let them know how they should talk. Then I'm going to divide the whole class into two groups. The first group is A and the second B. Then I stick some stickers on each person's chest which let the person who they are going to talk to read the sentences and make the conversation easier. For instance, if I am in group A, I have the sentences of group B on my chest. | 2019-04-21T06:45:39 | https://www.englishlessonplanner.com/plans/13004 |
0.999574 | Bought the Surface Pro 3 to replace a Dell laptop. I am a road warrior and weight, functionality and ease of use are paramount. Did a fair amount of research before pulling the trigger and there was a lot of mixed reviews as to whether it would accomplish that purpose. For me (I am not a power user) it HAS replaced my laptop. I use the system mainly for Word, Power Point, Excel, Surfing, and E-mail and this unit does those functions quite well. Things I like: One Note and Stylus - better than my Ipad stylus. I have a similar app on my Ipad, but One Note seems to have a little more functionality. Screen - Very Nice Touch Screen - I like the ability to use touch or keyboard depending on what I am doing. Build Quality - unit seems well built and sturdy (not heavy). Nice change from the laptop Charger - I like the compact nature of the charger - the two prong plug for international travel is also nice. Fast Boot - no comparison to my older laptop. Still don't know that it is as fast as my Ipad, but it is close. Desktop function - I like being able to go to a UI that is familiar Docking station - Nice - good design Speakers - Solid. Much better than my old laptop Things I think are marginal: Battery life - Solid, but not great. Temperature - Unit also seems to run hot Fan - When it kicks in, is pretty loud. Windows 8.1 - Not as intuitive as IOS and not as stable as NT. Some functions don't seem to work like they did in NT and it just so happens those are some of my favorite functions. Keyboard - Jury is still out on the keyboard. It does some funny/annoying things sometimes and the feel is not as nice as my laptop keys, but that is to be expected at some level. USB ports - I carry a small multiport USB hub with me for hooking in multiple devices. WiFi - The WiFi on this device seems to be a little marginal, but I am pretty sure that is a Win 8.1 issue, not a device issue (although obviously separating the two is not really feasible) I have officially retired the laptop and now the Surface Pro 3 travels with me exclusively. My biggest complaint revolves around 8.1, not the device itself, but then I think issues with 8.1 are well documented and you know what you are getting when you buy the device. Would I recommend it - Yes. I am not sure at what "level" of user it wouldn't serve its function. I would say for the vast majority of people who use a computer like I do, it is a good choice and will replace your laptop.
I have read a lot of reviews before I bought my docking station from Best Buy. Most of them are excellent, only find out when I got it, the mini display port didn't work. I had called Best Buy.com explain the problem and was told to exchange the docking station. No problem, I went to the store the next day and exchanged it, hoping just that one I received was a defective product. That night, put the whole thing together, same problem, the mini display port didn't work and it didn't charge my device when docking. So frustrated, called Best Buy store this time, told me to go in and exchange another one, 2 in a row didn't work, doesn't make sense. Ask about anything they know about the product, no they don't. Finally, gave up on Best Buy and check Microsoft.com support. Only found out, this is very common issue on the docking station, all I need to do is to update the firmware on the system, but the device needed to be placed on the docking station when updating. After couple hours on the system update, everything works perfectly now. One more tips, the device has to be more than 50% charged battery, otherwise, the update won't start, I suggest to charge up the device 100% before starting the process. Hope this review can help someone else to set up the station easier. If I had know what to do at the beginning to set it up, it will get 5 stairs.
My first Dock I returned because the mini Display Port in the Dock was loose and only made intermittent connection. The replacement has worked very, very well. I'm running two large external monitors through that one port (with a "splitter" device I bought separately), and a host of other USB peripherals. I also use a BT keyboard and wireless mouse when using the Dock. It all works very well. I just drop my SP3 in the slot, slide the side-holders inward and boot it up. Reverse that to take my SP3 with me when I leave. One thing to keep in mind with the Dock is that it is different from a USB hub. With a USB hub the signal from the SP3 goes through your USB 3 port and as such is subject in performance to the demand on the SP3's CPU. The Dock sends its signals through the SP3's charging port and thus uses mostly the GPU thus not being dependent on the varying load on the CPU as with USB hubs. Using the dock allows you a more even performance experience while providing a number of USB 3 and USB 2 ports in addition to the mini Display Port mentioned above. It also charges your SP3 while it's docked...a very NICE piece of equipment!
We use two surface pro's to run a startup medical practice. After using them to set up the business and now to run it for a week, I'm very pleased with our choice. The docking station works great, we initially bought just one but added another when we saw how much we used it and how well it works. Not five stars for a couple of reasons: It has a magnetic holder for your Bluetooth pen which is handy except it is on the left side of the dock. One of us is left handed and loves it, but for me it gets old having to reach across to grab the pen every time. Second is that the tablet can easily rest in the dock and click into place without being all the way in the dock. This just takes some getting used to but it should be a lot smoother and intuitive. I have left my surface docked and "clicked in" thinking it was recharging when I did not have it all the way in the dock. There is an indicator LED on the dock that let's you know when you are all the way in so just use that to make sure each time till you get a feel for it. In spite of this I would not want to give up my dock. Perhaps I will purchase another to keep at home.If you will use your Surface at a desk you definitely want to get one.
I have always been very critical of the claims that a tablet can replace a laptop as in most cases this required to use a remote server/PC and the tablet was more like a remote terminal than the laptop it pretended to be. I have tested a number of those wannabees and even the original surface was in that category. But the Surface 3 is a different animal and Microsoft finally got it right with this unit. We tested the i5 and i7 version and both are very capable of replacing the laptop. Make sure you do purchase the type cover keyboard however if you do replace a laptop. In the corporate environment having a hardwired connection and the same necessities as a laptop still apply and this docking station does fill that need very efficiently. It works better than the older USB connected docking stations and it charges your Surface at the same time and for those crunching days being able to use a full keyboard and a mouse help a lot.
The docking station is very well made, sturdy, and follows the design and characteristics of the Surface itself. First, the design. The angles compliment the Surface Pro 3. Everything about the docking station gives it a professional look and feel. It looks great sitting on the desk (and by the way, is one of the few docking stations I have actually put on my desk). I tend to put docking stations and laptops out of the way and out of sight. But being able to use the Surface Pro 3's touchscreen and writing capabilities made me want to keep it in sight. The only part you want to hide are the cables, but some straps or other methods can easily take care of that for you. The "catch and release" of the docking station is great. Slide the Surface Pro 3 down on the dock. There is a lip on the bottom of the dock that catches the device. Then slide the sides of the dock in and you are set. No need to plug in additional cables. With the dock closed against the Surface Pro 3, it is firmly in place. The type cover can then be lowered and used.
1. Be sure that you download all Microsoft Windows 8.0 and 8.1 updates before you try using the docking station. Otherwise, the Surface Pro 3 will not turn on when you press the power button while it's in the docking station. 2. The Mini DisplayPort video output connector is built on a strange angle, which means that you will have to either buy Microsoft's adapter or take a knife to trim off part of the edge of the plastic from another adapter manufacturer. Note that the same situation holds true for the video output port on the Surface 3 itself. I bought a Belkin Mini Display Port to HDMI Adapter, trimmed the edge of the rubber housing so that it set at the correct angle, and it worked fine. I just don't want to have to buy into a system where I have to buy all accessories from a single manufacturer.
I bought my i5 Surface Pro 3 for a couple of reasons: Primarily, I needed a new computer for school. Secondly, I wanted a computer strong enough for some low-key games like League of Legends. The Surface Pro 3 does great for both of these purposes! It also works well with the docking station and my TV to stream my shows/sports. I only knocked off a star from my review because it has had a worryingly high frequency of issue that I have had to trouble shoot. I have to tweak with my device settings to adjust the frequency for my WiFi settings every time I go somewhere new. I have also had the issue of crucial apps, like OneNote, crash temporarily, and without warning. Finally (and this isn't my whole list, just the highlights), I have recently had to troubleshoot an issue where my battery drained in less than 2 hours. Overall, it has been a good purchase, but I wish I felt more assured of the hardware holding up.
Vastly better than individual attachments!
The Surface Pro 3 docking station really allows you to take the tablet pro. With only the addition of the monitor attachment, you can convert the fantastic tablet to a desktop unit. It contains extra ports for multiple 2.0 and 3.0 USB drives, charges your Surface Pro 3, and eliminates the need for multiple attachments. When I shopped for this docking station, I considered the multiple attachments and wires that I would need if I ever intended to use the Surface Pro 3 as my main computer, eliminating my desktop and laptop. The docking station makes that decision easy, and with the extra ports, even allows for the use of an expanded keyboard for the serious Office user. Its price was easily justified, as it replaced the many attachments and cables which would be necessary in its place.
First of all, the instructions (or lack thereof) were not intuitive enough to show that the sides pull out in order to dock the SP3. I personally like more than a picture with arrows so one more sentence like "Pull sides outward, insert SP3 and push sides back inward to engage." The number of ports and their placement is good and it sits at a good angle. One BIG complaint is the keyboard will not slide under the dock to engage without lifting the dock. It's about 1 mm too close. If you dock with the keyboard attached it works great, but attaching it after the fact is less well designed. It still allows for both flat and angled positions of the keyboard which is good. Mostly I like that it is such a small footprint on the desk yet very stable and all the connections are in the back.
First, if you're thinking desktop replacement, you'll need the docking station. It allows you to connect 2 additional external monitors and still use the SP3 screen. It small, well designed, and solid. However, here's my wish-list: 1. Make it so the SP3 screen can still tilt even when in the docking station. 2. Provide a switch to turn of f power/charging to the SP3 even when docked. It's important to let laptop batteries run down and NOT have the plugged in all the time (reduces battery life). Can't simply unplug the docking station because then the devices connected to the docking station no longer work. 3. Would love to have a cable that allows the keyboard to be semi-detached from the SP3 itself. All that said, it's worth the price.
I have used PCs throughout my entire career and what I liked about business class laptops, especially over Macs, was that native docking stations were available. This dock is easy to setup, takes hardly any space, and keeps your devices at the ready because they are always connected, With my setup, I have a 24" Dell Monitor, a illuminated wired Logitech keyboard, and a rechargeable Logitech mouse. I am hard wired to the ethernet and have a mDP and USB running to the monitor. Every time I dock my Surface, everything just connects and I am ready to go. My friend with her MacBook Pro just looks on with envy as she tells me how she has to manually connect all her cables. Ahhh... the elegance of a PC. Besides that, this is a quality build. Microsoft is truly putting out some high end hardware these days.
This docking station is a GREAT part of my overall MSSP3 "system." To be able to have all my peripheral devices waiting for this portable PC to instantly transform itself into an acceptably powerful desktop replacement whenever I am at home is convenience and functionality personified. I think MS should offer ALL of the various accessories in heavily discounted "bundles" that traditionally full-featured laptop or desktop systems (as we have come to know them over the last 8-10 years) possess right from the get-go, so besides the pen & keyboard/cover this should be bundled as well. I can't give it 5 stars when it is so expensive, but the convenience of such a convertible system is the attraction for me as an average everyday PC user who wants a single do-all machine.
I have purchased 2 of these docks, 1 for home and 1 for business. The dock works as advertised and display port and USB 3.0 connections work great as advertised. The left side is magnetic to hold the pen. The dock also comes with it's own ac adaptor so now you a have adaptor to travel with. I find the screen of Surface Pro 3 to be at the optimum viewing angle while in the dock. The only slight gripe, sliding Surface Pro 3 into the dock is a little fussy. Make sure the blue led comes on because while it seems the computer is docked, it actually is not so your are using your battery. This is the only dock made for the Surface Pro 3 and hope that it may still work with the pending release of the Surface Pro 4. But we can leave that for a future review.
I bought the surface pro 3 dock to finally get down to ONE computer - no more workstation at home and a laptop for the road. Combining the surface pro dock with the Targus USB 3 dock, I can easily have my home setup with multiple big screens, local storage (for local backups) and wired LAN (for greater than WIFI speeds) in one simple package. When it's time to go on the road, I only need to "pop out" the surface pro and my data is with me in a tablet/laptop. Upon my return, I just drop it into the surface pro dock again and avoid dealing with any cables, dongles or power adapters. Works great, I love it. With this setup I get three monitors working when I'm home which is great for multi-tasking!
If you have a Surface 3, you'll want one of these!
I got one of these for my Surface Pro and it worked great and made desktop use and charging easily manageable. Then I got my Surface 3 and I had to order the new dock that works with the Surface Pro 3. The difference is that it has more USB 3.0 ports, and it is a bit larger to hold the Surface Pro 3. Too bad that the Surface Pro 2 dock was not compatible with the Pro 3, but still, for productivity sake, you'll want the docking station. The best part is that you can keep the Surface charge without having to worry about the magnetic charge from accidentally falling off - not a problem with the dock. It's easy to dock and easy to undock and go. It's worth the cost in the long run. Enjoy.
Not too much thrilling about the dock, but it functions as described. It has 2x USB 2.0, 3x USB 3.0, mini DisplayPort, Gigabit, a single 3.5mm audio port for a headset (with mic) or speaker. It also has a magnet on the left to hold the stylus. The things I do wish it had were: - adjustable angle - additional video port (HDMI or another DisplayPort) - smaller profile (which would be possible if the dock could adjust angles to fully flat (to make it more portable) - same power connector as the Surface one -- it uses a different connector, so they are not interchangeable. Other than that, it's a very capable dock.
The docking station improves the surface pro 3 experience. There are many devices on my wireless network that can consume a lot of bandwidth. The docking station allows me to utilize the same networked devices via a wired connection which provides a faster connection without slowing any already connected wireless devices. Users should be patient with using the docking station as it may take a few attempts for inexperienced tech users to get the docking station to work fully with the surface pro 3. I recommend seeking assistance if you can't get the docking station to work. Up to date drivers and Microsoft updates are key. | 2019-04-23T06:40:54 | https://www.bestbuy.com/site/reviews/microsoft-surface-pro-3-docking-station-black/7524004 |
0.999999 | Many interviewers will start off with this question, which could throw you off a bit. You've done all of this research on the company but have you prepared to talk about yourself?
The interviewer is looking for relevant information about the position for which you applied. Respond by mentioning your education, how many years of experience you have in your field, and be sure to give some details about your most current position. Conclude your response with a statement about what you are looking for in a role at this time.
"I have a B.A. in Communications and Journalism from the University of Michigan. I have three years of experience in Marketing and Communications. My most recent position was with Amazon as a Marketing Coordinator, and I'm currently looking for a position that will allow me to grow into a leadership opportunity."
"With pleasure! I have over ten years of experience in the professional services industry and am interested in growing my career to the next level, and become an executive assistant. On a more personal note, I love to read, go hiking and spend a lot of my extra time volunteering with the humane society."
"I am a calm and quiet leader, with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Even though I am quiet, I can motivate my team and keep morale high. I was recently awarded 'Most Productive Manager' in my organization."
"I graduated with a B.A. in Economics and started my career in sales. After a successful three years, I decided to begin making the moves to the marketing side. Freelancing on the side to shore up my creative skill set prepared me for the leap to my first marketing position as an inbound marketing coordinator. I am still with the same organization, but now as a content manager. I help build out the marketing calendar and execute its items from blog posts to social media to email marketing efforts. In my next role, ideally with your company, I am looking to achieve the next step towards a director position."
"I started my career in retail very young. My first job at sixteen was as a sales associate at a large department store, and I have stuck to retail ever since. After high school, I achieved my associate's degree in fashion merchandising and continued to a four-year university where I obtained my B.A. in communications. Since then, I have held various leadership and management positions in both small boutiques and large department stores. I am currently looking to take my experience and career to the next level by pursuing this position as the department manager in your highest volume department."
"I started my sales career in a large corporate setting, and there I received a promotion within only a few months. I decided that I wanted to stretch my wings and made the leap to a startup. There, I earned the fastest promotion in company history and followed that up with the fastest deal to close after promotion. I have had continued success here and am in my preferred sales territory. However, I feel that I may have outgrown the position and right now, there isn't an opportunity for a managerial position here, so I'm looking at outside opportunities, such as this one."
"I am super excited and passionate about my job, the language, my students, and continual learning. I feel so privileged to have a job that I leap out of bed for every morning. I am a mom of boys, and I am a fitness enthusiast: as their soccer coach, the high school soccer coach for freshman girls, and a runner in my spare time."
3. Judging by your resume, you appear to be overqualified for this position. What would keep you here, if you were offered the position?
Perseverance, Pro-activeness, Loyalty, and common sense are words that can define my personality. Also a very good friend to my friends.
I like the big letter "B" and I cannot lie.
I am 38 years old and have eleven years experience in hospitality and food services.I am married and have two children.Love this job and would like to work in serious company which will respect my knowledge.
Sure! I'm a graduate of FDU, majored in PoliSci. I focused on legal studies while in college, but I worked in IT while in college. I also have over 5 years of banking and customer service experience.
Sure, I'm a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, where I majored in Political Science. I have over 5 years of technical expertise and customer service experience. | 2019-04-21T10:13:39 | https://www.mockquestions.com/interview/Telephone/Tell-me-a-little-bit-about-yourself-GQT68208.html |
0.997805 | "Now that Boehner has invited [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to speak before Congress, the WH is telling its media surrogates to attack," Mark Levin noted. "Forget about Boehner, attack Israel & Netanyahu, they have violated diplomatic protocol!"
What is wrong with this picture? A lot. Netanyahu was in the IDF Special Forces. Putin was a KGB Officer. Obama led the pot-smoking "Choom Gang."
Obama falsely claims that the Iran agreement nixes Tehran's uranium enrichment.
Barack Obama has squandered the trust that American Presidents built-up over the past 224 years, and the world is a much more dangerous place for his cowardly and feckless behavior. | 2019-04-23T06:51:31 | http://www.conservativehq.com/category/tags/Benjamin%20Netanyahu |
0.999999 | "We are substantially subsidizing the Militaries of many VERY rich countries all over the world, while at the same time these countries take total advantage of the USA, and our TAXPAYERS, on Trade", he noted.
Aldar Khalil, a senior Kurdish official, urged the USA to stop Turkey from moving ahead with its plans for a major attack against Kurdish groups - which it considers to be terrorist organisations - in northern Syria. We discussed ISIS, our mutual involvement in Syria, & the slow & highly coordinated pullout of USA troops from the area.
His conclusion mirrored that of Mattis, who was seen as a voice of moderation in the mercurial Trump White House and quit after telling the president he could not go along with the Syria decision.
"We have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region, including contributing large amounts of money for the resources, equipment, and all of the anti-[IS] effort", Trump said in April after ordering military strikes against Syrian government targets. What do we know about this decision?
United States troops will leave under the watch of a new Pentagon chief next month, after Mr James Mattis resigned from the post citing key differences, including on Syria, with the often-impulsive Mr Trump.
With Iran supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his country's civil war, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has long pledged to keep it from entrenching itself militarily next door.
Hours earlier, Mr Trump had tweeted that he and Mr Erdogan "discussed (ISIS), our mutual involvement in Syria, & the slow & highly coordinated pullout of United States troops from the area".
Military experts and members of both parties balked at Trump's Syria pullout, noting that extremists affiliated with ISIS still remain in the war-torn country's eastern regions.
"We have defeated ISIS [Daesh] in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency."
A rebel spokesman said on Monday Turkish-backed Syrian forces had reinforced the area around the town of Manbij, occupied by the Kurdish fighters, in preparation for the US withdrawal. He explained that "Islamic State" terrorist organization is defeated and the USA has completed its mission in Syria.
Justifying his decision on Twitter yesterday, Mr Trump said: "On Syria, we were originally going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago - we never left".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and USA counterpart Donald Trump agreed in a phone conversation on Sunday to prevent a power vacuum in Syria after American ground forces withdraw, the Turkish presidency said.
In his email to his staff, McGurk said: "I worked this week to help manage some of the fallout, but - as many of you heard in my many meetings and phone calls - I ultimately concluded that I could not carry out these new instructions and maintain my integrity at the same time". His team often reassured the Kurdish fighters in Syria as well.
As a result of the surprise move, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, have resigned, with Mattis saying that it would be better for the president to appoint someone who agrees with him on policy.
CVS locations will be open on Christmas Eve , but we recommend calling your local CVS to confirm holiday hours. One option if you were hoping to buy a gift at Walmart today for someone is to get a Walmart e-gift card .
But the potential for criminal charges over a slew of corruption allegations could finish the Israeli PM's political career. Despite being beleaguered with corruption accusations, Netanyahu's strong-man image - he is known as Israel's "Mr.
A majority of those Defense Department staff providing additional support to border patrol agents have since been withdrawn. Trump's order was immediately challenged by rights groups who said it violated global standards and U.S. law on asylum.
Klopp's Liverpool sit on top of the Premier League table at Christmas but will play two more league games before the year is out. Silva will be looking for his side to bounce back at Turf Moor against a struggling Burnley side on Boxing Day.
It's not going to be all-out attack. "And then for some of them to down tools, shame on some of those players". Some need an arm around a shoulder, some need a hairdryer so it's about knowing people.
Trump has repeatedly broken with the norm respected by USA presidents of recent decades who refrained from criticizing the Fed. But its updated forecast projects just two rate hikes next year, down from three that the Fed had predicted in September.
Holiday travel will be very hard because of heavy and blowing snow and reduced visibility, the weather service said. Chris Wattie / Reuters A worker clears a sidewalk as light snow falls on Parliament Hill in on November 20, 2018.
Pederson made the announcement the next day that Wentz had a back injury that would keep him out of practice. Wentz saw his rookie season end early a year ago , following a torn ACL.
When available, the retail distribution list (s) will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls . In some persons, however, the diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized.
The batting line-up is usual with Virat Kohli leading both the squads and Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan to be likely openers. Following the 4-test match series, India will take on Australia and New Zealand in ODI and later in T20Is against New Zealand.
The spokesman for the Kurdish-led Manbij Military Council, Sharfan Darwish, said Turkish reinforcements had arrived in the area. Trump, we have started preparing plans for operations to clear the ISIS elements still within Syria", he continued.
The agency has also named Sharif's sons - Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz - as accused in the cases. Sharif's wife and former first lady Begum Kulsoom Nawaz died in September after fighting cancer.
To top it all off, Miles is wearing a white dress, and her man is in a black suit! Miley's mom Tish is also in the photo. The photo comes weeks after Cyrus, 26, called Hemsworth, 28, her "survival partner." "Yeah, kind of-ish", Cyrus replied.
The last time the city had snow on Christmas Day was back in 2010 and it's unlikely the long wait will end tomorrow. Fog is expected on Christmas Eve from 11am and then there will be sunny intervals throughout the day on Merseyside.
Then, a mistake by Marcelo left El Sahat alone to round Courtois, only for Ramos to hustle back and block his shot on the line. To be able to win three Champions Leagues and Club World Cup is history in itself and it will be hard to equal this.
Bosnich played for Villa between his two spells at United and the former Australia global suggested social media has a dark side. Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg had fueled the speculation about the appointment of Solskjaer on Tuesday evening.
February WTI futures are on the march north, posting a session gain of more than $1.50 per barrel. Those fears receded after the United States granted sanctions exemptions.
Wolves next travel to Fulham on Boxing Day, live on Sky Sports . "But these nights are very important for us and we won here". We were really quick in mind around two set pieces which was brilliant.
ET, a GoFundMe page titled " We The People Will Fund The Wall " passed $11 million from almost 200,000 donors. On September 11, 2004, after a night of customs enforcement work, Kolfage awoke in the afternoon.
On Dec. 5, she announced their split in a now-deleted Instagram video. Cardi and Offset have yet to comment on the Puerto Rico reunion.
Amazon's Echo Auto is gaining a presence in vehicles through partnerships with Audi, BMW, Ford, Lincoln, Lexus, SEAT, and Toyota. Depending on the device and company, there are infinite amount of ways this Alexa integration can be used.
It's like in those moments where your life is changing and you don't know where you're going, that's real life. Jennifer Lopez appears on " Popcorn with Peter Travers " at ABC News studios in New York City, Dec. 12, 2018.
New GoFundMe raises thousands for "ladders to get over Trump's wall" | 2019-04-20T03:14:51 | http://creep-score.com/2018/12/26/united-states-move-to-leave-syria-may-increase-israels.html |
0.996521 | Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to meet with President Bush on Tuesday to take a hard look at the "roadmap" to Middle East peace, to decide if it's really possible to get there from here. But after another attack over the weekend - a Hamas terrorist wearing a yarmulke and a prayer shawl blew up a bus - Sharon postponed the trip.
The roadmap is based on President Bush's June 24th 2002 speech on the Middle East - in the same sense that The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow was based on the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The president's speech was a landmark - the first real change in US Middle East policy in decades. In essence, it said to the Palestinians: "You can have terrorism or you can have a state. But you can't have both."
Mr. Bush's speech also was an attempt to integrate American peace efforts with the post-9/11 Bush Doctrine. That doctrine extends a welcoming hand to moderate Muslims who choose to join the Free world; it offers a mailed fist to extremists who choose to wage a terrorist war against America and its allies.
The speech's transformation into the roadmap fell short partly because it was prepared by the "Quartet," which brings in as America's partners the United Nations, the European Union and Russia. The problem is that the U.N., the EU, and Russia do not share the president's vision or subscribe to the Bush Doctrine - as we learned, painfully, in the days leading up to the liberation of Iraq.
In addition, the U.S. contribution to the roadmap was led by the same long-serving State Department officials who constructed the Oslo Accords and who still appear to believe that the Oslo approach (essentially, the belief that the promise of a Palestinian state will be sufficient incentive to end Palestinian terrorism ) is superior to anything President Bush could possibly imagine. Deeply ingrained within the culture of the State Department is the conviction that it would be wasteful to discard a policy just because it has failed (17,000 terrorist attacks including 251 suicide bombings since Oslo) or just because it does not happen to represent the views of the temporary occupant of the Oval Office.
As now drawn, the roadmap contains two major flaws, one in the text, one a matter of interpretation.
Start with the second: The roadmap's first requirement is that the Palestinians "immediately undertake an unconditional cessation of violence." That obviously hasn't happened - this week's bombing being just the latest examples. Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian Authority prime minister, has so far made no effort to challenge such terrorist groups as Hamas or even to rein in such terrorist groups as the al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah, and Tanzim - groups that, theoretically, report to him.
You might expect Abbas's refusal even to try to stop terrorism to be cited as the reason the roadmap has hit a road block. But the sophisticated diplomats and the sophisticated reporters who cover them instead blame Mr. Sharon. That's because they think everyone should be sophisticated enough to recognize that demands for "an unconditional cessation of violence" on the Palestinian side are unrealistic, especially while Yasser Arafat remains in command, which he does, especially while Arafat is still encouraging terrorism, which he is.
So, they figure, the sophisticated solution is to ignore that and instead pressure the Israelis to make concessions in the hope that will somehow jump-start the "peace process." In their view, Mr. Sharon's reluctance to go along with this approach proves once again that he's a "hard-liner."
The second flaw in the roadmap is that it leaves the question of "refugees" to the third phase of the process. That may sound like small potatoes but what it really means is that Palestinians can say publicly that they recognize Israel's right to exist - but with a wink and a nudge. As Abbas made clear in his inaugural speech, he intends to demand that Palestinians who left Israel in 1948 - when Israel was invaded by five Arab neighbors - should have the right to return to Israel (not just to the West Bank and Gaza), along with their children and grandchildren. Were that to happen, it would mean the destruction of Israel by demographic means. Israelis would become a minority in their own country; in other words Israel would cease to be Israel.
All this does not necessarily imply that the roadmap has become road kill. It does imply that everyone - the U.N., the EU, Russia, the State Department, even the Palestinians - needs to finally accept that post-9/11 a new Palestinian state can not be born as a terrorist state. It does imply that the Palestinians need to accept the fact that Arafat's dream of fatah, the conquest of Israel, has failed, and that the best deal the Palestinians can now get will be something like the deal Arafat turned down in 2000.
And it implies one more thing that should have been obvious all along: A roadmap is of little value until and unless the travelers agree on the destination. | 2019-04-23T12:40:30 | http://www.cliffordmay.org/1848/road-rage |
0.996999 | For the shortbread: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment.
In a food processor, pulse together the pecans and sugar just until sandy--do not overpulse, as you don't want a paste. Add the flour and salt; pulse until combined. Cut butter into small cubes and add to the food processor. Pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add the water and pulse quickly, until a rough dough forms.
Turn out onto a lightly floured work surface and press into a cohesive dough. Roll to a 1/4-inch thickness. Using a knife or a rectangular cookie cutter, cut into 1-by-3-inch rectangles, about 24 total; re-roll scraps if necessary.
Sprinkle the tops of the cookies lightly with sea salt. Transfer to the prepared baking sheets and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Bake until golden brown at the edges, 14 to 17 minutes.
Let the cookies cool to room temperature.
For the fondue: Combine the sugar, water and honey in a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook until the mixture is a deep-amber caramel color, 8 to 10 minutes.
Carefully pour in the cream--stand back as the mixture will bubble and splatter. Once the bubbling subsides, turn off the heat and whisk the caramel until smooth.
Whisk in the whiskey, butter, salt and vanilla.
Pour the sauce into the fondue pots and keep warm.
Serve the fondue with the cookies. | 2019-04-23T17:05:10 | https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/honey-butterscotch-fondue-with-salted-pecan-cookies-3310127 |
0.99976 | But what is what is?
A melancholy peregrination this week (unusually, for me) in the footsteps of Walter's father, Lightowler Wilkinson, sometime Chief Goods Manager of the Great Western Railway, who died a century (minus four years) ago this week, and is buried in Perivale churchyard.
In the GWR archive held at the Public Records Office there is a photographic portrait of L filed under "LW Maiden" (he changed his name whilst manager so as not to be confused with Sir Joseph Wilkinson, the then General Manager). In his smart black suit, high starched collar and neat black tie he looks every bit the Victorian Gentleman. His close-cropped hair lends a curiously modern counterpoint to the uniform whiskers and his affable countenance doesn't negate the impression that he would perhaps not have suffered fools gladly.
Leaving the Circle Line through well-trodden and rather narrow passages I emerge into L's former kingdom, a cathedral to Victorian technological innovation, built by its foremost prophet, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Paddington station was opened in 1854 with platforms housed in three huge bays built with wrought iron and glass, supported by cast iron columns (a fourth bay was added in 1916, when the iron columns were replaced with steel). Owing more than a nod to Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, the supersize greenhouses were a fitting terminus for what was then the grandest railway in England, the Great Western Railway.
Actually, it's not difficult to imagine Rapunzle letting her hair down from the balcony or a tearstained note being dropped to a tight-clad Mediterranean Lothario. Though a gentleman in tights would probably soon be moved on by security today, which is a shame.
Ealing, "Queen of the suburbs", and L's former home, pretty much owes its success to the Great Western Railway, the arrival of which sparked off urban development in the middle of the 19th century. It is a place where, according to the official guide, 1912 "a man may find a dwelling in a suburb which combines all the necessaries and attractions of a town with the health and beauty of the country." I detrain at Castle Bar Park and after a couple of leafy enough avenues am cutting across parkland on a path flanked by horse chestnuts tumescing spikily, then on past allotments to a fenced and tarmacced path through Willow and Hawthorn, following the River Brent as it meanders unhurriedly through Ealing Golf Club.
I soon reach my destination: St Mary's, Perivale, L's final resting-place. Only six miles from Marble Arch, the tiny Norman church (now an arts centre but still consecrated) with its sixteenth century white weatherboard bell tower manages to retain an impression of rural isolation even though it is within earshot of the busy A40 Western Avenue (1927).
I'd missed the grave last time because the grass was too long so I was pleased to be able to pay my respects. I watch a squirrel nibbling at green closed blackberry heads and watch the bird feeder swinging in the ancient Yew tree. I make a couple of notes and head off across the noisome A40 to climb Horsenden Hill with views of Harrow and the Chilterns, Heathrow, Windsor and the North Downs and the new arch of Wembley Stadium framed above a sea of purple thistle.
As the sunsets over the Western Avenue I watch the harbour lights flicker on one-by- one. I join the suburban matelots heading for home, W. still a question mark, L, at least, "at ease", safe at anchor, in St Mary's, Perivale.
Shady is taking a page break throughout July but will return with a fully searchable page in August.
"How different on every side from the present aspect is the prospect before us! Instead of the fresh verdant fields of Perivale, Alperton and Harrow Weald, the frozen waters are spread over all that country, extending far to the north towards the hills of Hertford shire, with stretches of land here and there; Horsington, Harrow and other hills appear as islands, clothed with firs and other hardy plants deep in snow. The country is mantled in snow; and thick ribbed ice has set fast the stream of the wide river at our very feet, or within a stone's throw of us to the south, and extends for miles in that direction. Herds of reindeer may be seen in the distance, seeking for the means of subsistence beneath the snow, by the aid of the special antler which kindly nature has provided them with for the purpose. The mammoth with its long upwardly curved tusks - is in the woodlands, and with him the companion whose remains are often found associated with his-the woolly rhinoceros; the hibernating marmot may be disturbed in its winter's sleep; the arctic lemming is about, and the river drift hunter is pursuing the musk sheep and reindeer. As the night comes on the discordant cries of bears, wolves and wolverines are heard as they sally forth from the thickets to seek their prey."
So Jno. Allen Brown, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., &c described the view from Castlebar Hill, Ealing to nascent "Middlesex Man" in 1887.
so he'd like to focus on just one. Accordingly he invites you travel with the gaze of Middlesex Man, northward and westward, across the wide river, to Harrow Weald Common.
While you're watching, the air gets warmer, the ice recedes, the river narrows and Britain has become an island. But up on the common, under foot, the occasional patch of small pebbles - rounded and polished by river action - are testimony to grander timescales than might be suggested by the homely silver birch and slightly unkempt Rhododendron of metropolitan wild.
This ancient earthwork once stretched through Harrow for some six miles from Cuckoo Hill, Pinner to Pear Wood, Stanmore, but only parts now remain. Named after Grim (Norse God Woden).
According to the brown plaque set on a low stone erected by the Harrow Heritage Trust.
Grímr means "masked person" in Old Norse. The Norse God, Odin (Anglo-Saxon: Woden) aka Grímr / Grima (Old English) had a penchant for appearing in disguise. And from the sixteenth century onwards, such earthworks were associated with the Devil.
So it is that in the Devil's footsteps I found myself searching for my ancestor who, as well as being one of "the devil's own", also appears to me only, as it were, "masked" by the accretion of Time and the conflicting claims of multiple histories.
On 20 November 1897, the year Allen Brown described the prehistoric view from Castlebar Hill, Ealing, John Graham "Jock" Goffey was born, a rounded pebble's throw from Harrow Weald Common, in the artist's colony of Bushey. In a statement submitted to Parliament (in protest against railway development) the same year it was estimated that there were more than 200 artists working in and around Bushey, attracted, like Jock's father (my G-Grandfather) by the art school and "the rural character of the District, the uninterrupted landscape, the quiet and other surrounding charms of the country".
Grim's Dyke 1870-2 was designed by Norman Shaw in the hugely influential (and not always quite so successful) "Domestic Revival" style. That's "Mock Tudor" to you and me. It was designed as an artist's studio house (an early patron was Frederick Goodall RA 1822-1904) as well as a place to entertain in grand style.
Its most famous owner was W.S. Gilbert 1836-1911of Gilbert & Sullivan fame (he wrote the words).
Now a hotel, the London Loop takes you through W.S.'s beloved gardens. And past the lake - all but dry when I was there, though with sufficient moisture to maintain a fairly large crop of yellow flag irises - where he drowned "in mysterious circumstances" on a summer afternoon in 1911.
I sit on a log and eat my iron rations accompanied, if not by the dreamy lullaby of a wandering minstrel, then at least by the enthusiastic cooing of a wood pigeon. I enjoy the perfume rising from the warm carpet of pine needles: there are Sequoia (according to the Loop book, planted by W.S.), and Sweet chestnut among birch and oak. And violet rhododendrons under gathering, though not really threatening, clouds.
Last w/e to Bisley, Glos, childhood home of ABRB. Who?
is nearly done. Nearly. Watch this space.
Bisley is a Cotswold village "like a folk song" (The Cotswolds, Hadfield). Its old stone houses huddled companionably at the head of a sheltered valley. In the centre, seven stone heads, dressed with flowers when we were there, disgorge water from a spring into a low trough and from the bottom of the village, below Aubrey's former house, we joined a public footpath following the flow of water, now a stream, through meadows rich with orchids, crane's-bill, buttercups and mint, and woodland scented with the warm, slightly fusty, garlic note of seeding Ramsons.
The Romans, or to be pedantic, "Romano-British" loved the West Country. There are more than a dozen villas within 16km of Cirencester. They cultivated vines, grew corn and vegetables, reared livestock and traded in cloth. So I wasn't unduly surprised to spy a sherd of bright orange Samianware in the rippling stream. When I picked it up - sad to say - it turned into a piece of fragmented and earthdrawn clay pigeon.
were silent. The only sound was the birds and bees, and the gurgling of the stream on its ancient journey down to the Severn: Roman Sabrina, and the sea.
I dropped off a copy of my Great Aunt Barbara's memoir and spent an hour-and-a-half flicking through (if you can "flick through" microfilm) the Finchley Press Muswell Hill Mercury and Highgate Post from June 1916.
My Great Uncle, Jock, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieut in the King's Royal Rifle Corps on the 1st of June 1916 and took up his commission at Wimbledon Common. The short periods of leave he had before crossing the channel were spent, according to Barbara, at the Court House in Finchley. Jock's mother, Elinor, was recovering from what Barbara calls "displacement" and we would call ... probably not unrelated to the stress of nurturing three billets for the Western Front.
"We fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake"
The Court House was no stranger to tragedy. Addie's nephew, Jack Semple, a corporal in the 12th London Battalion "The Rangers", had been killed in Belgium in May 1915. Barbara quotes extensively and touchingly in her memoir from letters received from his platoon, and the nurse treating him at base hospital, at the time of his death.
and not as a farce.
From Dawes Lane I lazily hopped on a bus up to the Ridgeway at Mill Hill. I walked past the entrance to Mill Hill School, closed for half term, a pond fringed with Yellow flag iris, and a small army of indolent terrapins. Just past St Paul's church, built, according to the plaque, by William Wilberforce I struck off left through woodland to open country, or at least as open as the country gets in NW7.
Heading down into the Totteridge valley I crossed a horse racing track and over the Folly Brook. I stopped to photograph some Wood avens before striking out along the busy road to pass another lake where a fisherman was sitting just a few feet from the noisy traffic. When I got closer I could see he was wearing headphones. Peace.
British Summer Time was "a most welcome innovation" according to the editor of the Finchley Press Muswell Hill and Highgate Post, writing in June 1916, noting that far fewer accidents had been reported in the last week -- even with the large numbers of outsiders flocking to Finchley to enjoy the "free air of the heights".
Among those appealing to the Finchley Tribunal against recently introduced conscription was an abattoir boss who had only three slaughtermen left, seven having already joined up. The three were each given a three-month exemption.
A farm hand found living in a pigsty was charged with being an "absentee" under the new Military Service Act at the Highgate Police Court. Another more creative deserter had "SOUGHT SAFETY IN SKIRTS" posing as a woman to evade the draft.
5 ft 18 1/2 in. in height".
"a useful tonic for pessimists and grousers of all sorts".
In ASTRONOMY NOTES the correspondent noted that during the month of June twilight would last all night and that on the 30th of that month daylight would last 16 hours and 29 minutes at Finchley. He also noted, perhaps unneccessarily, that after the summer solstice (21st of June 6:24 PM) the days would be getting shorter.
For an eighteen year-old 2nd Lieutenant whose life expectancy was now reduced to about nine months -- or one major campaign -- the long June days may have seemed rather shorter.
In the French Revolutionary calendar the equivalent month to June was Prairial or "meadow month".
I finished my walk through meadows alive with buttercups and clover all the while mentally squirreling away good blackberry spots to return to in the autumn; only too aware that when my ancestor walked these fields he probably -- and as it turned out quite rightly -- wasn't planning that far ahead. | 2019-04-20T22:28:16 | http://richardshepherd.net/june04.htm |
0.999743 | I woke up at 4:40 a.m. on Friday morning. Who am I?
Getting up bright and early isn't exactly a college student's favorite past time, but the Army ROTC students do it almost every day. With PT (physical training) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and incentive PT for those who didn't pass their PT test on Mondays and Fridays, there are lots of early mornings for ROTC students.
Both my sister, Annie, and my boyfriend, Tyler, are in ROTC. Not only are two of my favorite people cadets, but I feel like practically everyone around me is in the army. My parents, who were both officers, met in the Army before they were married and my uncle was a lieutenant colonel and spent a lot of time in Somalia. My best friend, Samantha Moore, is an army wife and her husband just graduated from West Point. They are currently spending a short time at Fort Knox in Kentucky while her husband, J.D., goes through BOLC (Basic Office Leaders Course).
So, what I'm saying is, I get to hear about the army a lot. And with Tyler and Annie, I get to hear about them complain about PT a lot, whether it's 8-mile ruck marches or the blisters their boots give them.
Last year, Tyler went through CWST (Combat Water Survival Training) for ROTC. For CWST, the cadets go to the Student Recreation Complex at MU and train in the water. They jump off the high dive blindfolded with their rifles, have to tread water for 10 minutes, swim with their rifles, etc. I was intrigued by this event after he told me about it and began to look forward to the next year so I could be able to shoot it.
So, I did. Which is why I woke up at 4:40 a.m. to take pictures. And, as much as I love sleep, coffee works too. And it was worth it.
Grant Hindsley also shot the event. Grant did a lot of work with the Army ROTC program last year for a project for his Fundamentals of Photojournalism class. Grant also had the opportunity to shoot underwater because he built some really awesome underwater housing with a plastic fish tank.
Because I have an interest in war photography, I've been trying to shoot more events that involve the military. Obviously, CWST is absolutely nothing compared to Iraq, I really enjoy working with the military and hope to continue to do so, whether it's in a foreign country or on base or in ROTC.
Grant and I also shot a farewell ceremony for a National Guard troop leaving for Iraq for Operation New Dawn on Friday. More pictures to come. | 2019-04-20T00:14:42 | http://www.katiecurridphoto.com/blogg/2010/09/19/1224 |
0.998444 | Who's Blowing It In Your Direction?
I'm old enough to remember when I'd walk into a restaurant and be asked "Smoking, or non-smoking?" I've never been a smoker, but my answer to the question seldom seemed to matter. There was nearly as much smoke in the non-smoking section as there was in the smoking section. Smoke drifted everywhere, and unless one wore a respirator, it generally couldn't be avoided. The question more aptly should have been, "Would you like some smoke or a lot of smoke with your meal?" Ah, the good old days!
As a society, we got smarter. It took decades though. The "smoking does not cause cancer" lie was finally exposed, and the horrible health effects of second-hand smoke became public knowledge. It's easy and tempting to look back on the smoking generation and say "They should have known better." Unfortunately, society doesn't seem to work that way. People get infected with information that harms them. In this case, the idea that smoking was cool, or fun, or not harmful ultimately destroyed millions of lives before it was extinguished by a gang bigger than the public relations industry that started and promoted it.
No, the modern problem isn't the second-hand smoke from cigarettes. Thankfully, smokers have been exiled to areas safely out of reach of the lungs of others. The problem today is a different kind of second-hand smoke. This smoke is from those who are addicted (in the truest sense of the word) to the information cigarettes that come in the form of newspapers (be they paper or electronic), TV news (be it on a television or on a web site), and social media gossip. The addicted are spreading their information smoke to those of us who have decided not to ingest the toxic information from these sources. And yes, it's all toxic.
Let me give you an example. I work and write from coffee shops. As a person who's out in these spaces a lot, it's not uncommon for other coffee shop patrons to notice my (normally) friendly face and try to strike up a conversation with me. Usually they initiate conversations in a manner like this, "How about that <random event> in <faraway place>. Isn't that amazing?" I try to be polite in my response. I say things like "No, I haven't heard of that" and then change the subject to something more meaningful and relevant to the neighbourhood we're in. This cue is sometimes enough to get a real conversation going. But more often than not, it's met with another random piece of information harvested from whatever source these things come from. (See above).
On several occasions, I've even cut the conversation off by saying, "Hey, I don't read or follow news so could we talk about something else?" This was met with incredulity. How could someone not read news? The scandal! And in the most extreme and persistent cases, I've even said "What you just shared with me is second-hand smoke, and I'd prefer if you didn't." Not the most endearing response, I admit. But the effect was as intended. No more useless information to wade through and debunk.
The people who ingest "news" are addicted. If they've been addicted long enough, their thinking is likely impaired. I am sympathetic, and on a good day, I might be willing to coach. But I am never willing to breathe their second-hand smoke. I don't smoke. I never have.
We live in an era where nearly everyone is smoking information cigarettes. If you are not one of them, congratulations! I want to talk to you. I would love to hear your perspective.
One day, hopefully in my lifetime, the ingestion of information cigarettes will be widely known as dangerous and harmful. Until then, if you are one of the addicted, all I ask is that you blow your smoke in another direction, far away from me. | 2019-04-22T08:43:17 | https://amplifythesignal.org/second-hand-smoke |
0.99811 | Is it time for a South Asian superhero? Jump to media player Frustrated by the lack of South Asians in comic books, Sha Nazir founded BHP Comics, Scotland's only independent graphic novel publisher.
The African comic hoping to take on Disney Jump to media player Fed up of non-Africans telling African stories, three friends decided to create their own anthology.
African women 'inspire comic book heroes' Jump to media player You've heard of Wonder Woman and Black Panther, but what about Queen Amina and Ireti Moremi?
Frustrated by the lack of South Asians as leading characters or as illustrators, Sha Nazir founded BHP Comics, Scotland's only independent graphic novel publisher in 2013.
Since then he has been championing emerging British Asian talent, including Ny Ali and Shazleen Khan.
A BBC Stories and Asian Network co-commission. | 2019-04-25T02:22:50 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-47854848/getting-south-asians-into-graphic-novels |
0.99716 | At first glance, TrueCar's second quarter seemed solid in many aspects, but one graph scared investors away.
It's been a terrible year for TrueCar (NASDAQ:TRUE) investors, there's no question. The Santa Monica-based company's stock price has spiraled down 76% since the calendar rolled over to 2015. TrueCar co-founder Scott Painter took the fault for TrueCar failing to meet expectations and admitted it was time for a change as he announced he would be stepping down from his position as CEO when a replacement is found.
It's certainly been a rough 2015 for the company, but how bad was its second quarter, really?
If you weren't following closely and were simply flipping through TrueCar's Q2 slide deck starting from the top, things didn't appear terrible at first. Despite missing expectations, TrueCar posted record total revenue of $65.3 million and record transaction revenue of $60.4 million during the second quarter, which was a nearly 30% gain compared to last year.
TrueCar users purchased more than 190,000 units from the company's certified dealership network, which was a healthy 27% increase over last year's second quarter. TrueCar-branded channel units surged 46% to more than 82,000. The company also increased its market share by 19%, or 60 basis points, from 3.4% to 4% in the second quarter compared to last year. Even its overall traffic significantly increased 42%, to 6 million average monthly unique visitors.
In late July, TrueCar's stock price plunged nearly 40% in one trading day because management held a preliminary conference call warning that the second-quarter results would fall short of expectations. Management revised full-year revenue guidance to check in between $252 million and $258 million rather than the previous forecast of $280 million and $290 million. TrueCar was growing, but it wasn't growing as fast as management had forecast, and the real graph that killed TrueCar's second quarter was its adjusted EBITDA.
As previously mentioned, if you hadn't been following TrueCar closely, you would have considered it a decent quarter until you hit slide 11, when the adjusted EBITDA was like a smack upside the head. It was a staggering drop year over year and an even worse plunge sequentially from the first quarter. It quickly put an end to the strong adjusted-EBITDA performances in the past three quarters, and TrueCar remained unprofitable in non-GAAP and net loss figures: negative $0.05 per share and negative $0.18 per share, respectively.
There's no question TrueCar dropped the ball, and these results not only disappointed investors but scared many away. The truth is, this is a very risky stock and business to own. The company's potential growth is tantalizing if the new CEO can figure out how to balance TrueCar's relationships with certified dealerships while making sure the company receives its fair share of payments for purchase leads, as well as rolling out new services in the years to come, such as TrueTrade in 2016.
TrueCar will look wildly different three to five years down the line, and it's likely we'll look back at mid-2015 as either the beginning of the end or the best buying opportunity of the company's young life. Do your homework before jumping into TrueCar as an investment, and be sure to have a long-term mind-set, because even at this low price, this is a very high-risk, high-reward opportunity. | 2019-04-23T12:12:38 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/08/12/1-graph-that--killed-truecar-incs-second-quarter.aspx |
0.998857 | foster and support collaboration among all relevant stakeholders: guideline developers, implementers, researchers, students, users in all health disciplines, policy makers, health technology assessment agencies, administrators and patients.
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What is a Clinical Practice Guideline?
What are the benefits of G-I-N membership?
Being part of an inspiring professional community!
How do I become a member of G-I-N?
Fill in the online membership application form and submit it. Applications for membership will be considered by the Membership Committee.
I understand that G-I-N offers a searchable database for use by its members. Which information does this guideline library contain?
The G-I-N Guideline Library (located in the "Resources" section) provides G-I-N members with the ability to search and review the programmes for guidelines, systematic review, evidence reports and guideline clearing reports of all member organisations. The Guideline Library Disease / Condition Browse is based on the U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) classification.
Development and Training Resources informs about state-of-the-art techniques and instruments for developing evidence-based guidelines. This area is open to all visitors accessing the G-I-N website.
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Where can I find some explanations for "guideline jargon"?
I am an individual member, can I add a guideline to the library?
Adding guidelines to the library is a benefit specific to the organisational members of G-I-N. Therefore, if you wish for a guideline to be included you should check with the organisation lead for the development of the guideline and see if they are G-I-N member or could consider becoming a G-I-N member. There is a further possibility for an organisation to pay for inclusion of their guidelines in the library. Please contact [email protected] for further information.
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Please note that the G-I-N logo is the property of The Guidelines International Network (Scottish Charity Number SC034047). Any use of this logo or name without written permission is expressly prohibited. This includes (but is not restricted to) placing the G-I-N logo on websites or in publications, notifications or announcements.
Therefore, if you wish to establish a link to our website, use our logo or name, we ask you to first contact us to obtain permission. | 2019-04-24T00:22:21 | https://www.g-i-n.net/faq |
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Your company has a Dynamics CRM organization that uses a FieldOne solution. A customer calls your company#39;s Help Desk to report a failed device.
You need to identify a characteristic of a standard SLA. What should you identify?
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Actions can be triggered based on specific success catena.
The failure time is tracked.
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Set the queue type to Private, deactivate the queue, and then delete the queue. | 2019-04-21T19:04:33 | http://www.ensure4pass.com/free-2018aug-ensurepass-microsoft-mb2-714-dumps-with-vce-and-pdf-31-40/ |
0.999835 | Is Keynesian economics, which was used by John M. Keynes to explain why the Great Depression occurred, still as relevant as it was back then?
Keynesian economics is basically a macroeconomic theory based on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, a British economist of the 20th century. Considered one of the most important schools of thought in economics, it is also referred to as the Keynesian theory or Keynesianism. The Keynesian theory played a pivotal role during the resurrection of economy after the Great Depression, World War II, and the period between 1945 and 1973, which is referred to as the post-war Golden Age of Capitalism.
The great mind behind the theory of Keynesian economics was that of John Maynard Keynes, an eminent economist from England. The ideas put forth by Keynes back in the 20th century have a great influence on the macroeconomics we practice today. Owing to his contribution to the world of economics, Keynes is widely considered the father of modern macroeconomics and also, the most influential economist of the 20th century. Additionally, Keynes also worked as a civil servant, writer, director of the Bank of England, and private investor. His claim to fame though, was based on his ideas which provided a platform for the Keynesian school of thought and other related branches.
What is Keynesian Economics All About?
Keynesian economics is purely based on the ideas mentioned by John Maynard Keynes in his book 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money', which was published in 1936. Private sector and public sector are the two components of an economy. Keynesianism stresses on the fact that in several cases, the decisions taken by the private sector result in poor macroeconomic outcomes in the economy. In order to resolve this problem, it suggests that the public sector should step in and respond through active policies, so as to stabilize the output in the business cycle. A move which is totally against Laissez-fair capitalism, which believes in exclusion of public sector from the market.
According to the Keynesian theory, the spending of one individual results in earning of another. Simply put, when an individual is spending his earnings, he is actually supporting the earnings of another individual. This continuous process forms the base of a normally functioning economy. Through this, Keynes gave the most appropriate explanation for the cause of the Great Depression. When the Great Depression occurred, the first thing that came to people's mind was to save money, which led to hoarding of money. According to Keynes, this mindset of the people stopped the flow of money, which forms the base of normal functioning economy, and brought the economy to a standstill.
The solution for a poor economy, according to the Keynesian theory of economics, is 'pump priming', wherein the government would step in to increase the spending, either by increasing the money supply or buying things from the market. Keynesian economics believes that the government's intervention is necessary for ensuring proper growth and stability. This is against the basics of classical economics, wherein it is believed that any irregularities in the market are corrected automatically.
More importantly, this school of thought warns that the practices such as too much saving or too much spending are not good for the economy, but it does support the redistribution of the wealth, if required. Keynes believed that if the poor people were given money, they would spend it rather than save it and thus, would contribute to the well-being of the economy as a whole. This theory also stresses on the fact that the trends at the macroeconomic level influence consumer behavior at the microeconomic level in a disproportionate manner.
The policies based on Keynesian economics were widely criticized and held responsible for the inflation in 1970s. Owing to this, the policies were gradually replaced by monetarism and microeconomic policies, which are largely influenced by neo-classical economics. More recently, a new school of economic thought―the post-Keynesian economics, which is greatly influenced by Keynes ideas, has emerged. | 2019-04-23T20:09:23 | https://wealthhow.com/keynesian-economics |
0.998978 | In 2001, Robert O'Neill, head of the John J. Burns Library at Boston College, told researchers Anthony McIntyre and Ed Moloney, “I am working on the wording of the contract to be signed by the interview[ee], and I’ll run this by [historian] Tom [Hachey] and university counsel." But, the article explains, "Mr. O’Neill never did check with a lawyer about the wording."
Let's be clear. It's not that the researchers or the university failed to recognize the need for legal advice. Rather, the university promised legal review and then failed to follow through.
In the webcast on the story, both Mary Marshall Clark, director of Columbia University's Center for Oral History Research, and Clifford M. Kuhn, executive director of the Oral History Association, stressed the importance of consulting lawyers, not ethicists, when making promises of confidentiality. As Clark put it, "IRB is not a legal board, it's an ethical board."
The project was mostly kept away from BC's history department and its Irish-studies program. And when Kevin O’Neill, an associate professor of history, was eventually consulted, he "wrote a memorandum saying that he was impressed by [the interviews'] potential value to historians, but was very concerned that the interviewer didn’t appear to have much experience with oral-history methodology—asking leading questions, for example."
Now, what O'Neill considers "leading questions" sound a lot like the two-sentence format used for decades by oral historians. At the risk of an ad hominem argument, I note that O'Neill is listed as a specialist on pre-famine Ireland. What training does he have in oral history methods?
I don't know the exact basis for her distinction; it strikes me that a project aimed at developing an archive of interviews for future use is a lot more oral history than journalism. But this element of the story deserves more exploration.
While McMurtrie's article is a helpful addition to our understanding of the Belfast Project, it leaves unanswered what I consider a key question: what would have happened if all the contracts had been honored, and the researchers had followed all the protocols suggested by Clark? What if, that is, all narrators had reviewed their interviews, and those interviews had remained sealed until the narrators' deaths?
From 1947 to 1957, the Bureau compiled 1773 statements covering the Irish independence movement from 1913 to 1921. Rather than seal each interview until the narrator's death, the Bureau apparently sealed the entire project until 2003, by which point, one suspects, just about everyone mentioned in the interviews was dead. That some of the Belfast Project's interviews were published much more rapidly reflects not any misunderstanding between Boston College and the interviewers, nor the result of an unexpected subpoena. Rather, it was, at least in part, the decision of the interviewers that only the narrator had an interest in what he or she disclosed. But I haven't seen an explicit statement from Moloney or McIntyre to this effect.
Oral history, Clark argues, "is a field of ethics." I think she's right, and the field may need to say more about the Belfast Project than that it wasn't oral history.
With reference to your penultimate paragraph, a little background on the issue of publication and emabargos ref the boston college project might be helpful.
at the outset this was a point of contention between ourselves in belfast and boston college and i do believe beth mcmurtrie made some reference to this in her article which you may have missed.
as the former director of the project my initial demand was to impose an embargo similar to that decreed by most european governments, which is no publication for thirty years.
we were told by BC that this would not be acceptable and that the college normally expected to be able to publish material or make it available within a decade.
the final agreement, to keep interviews embargoed until the death of the interviewee was something of a compromise.
even so, we believe that the college's decision to axe the project in 2006 stemmed directly from a refusal by ourselves to bend on the embargo issue.
in january 2006, tom hachey, who headed the project overall, phoned me and travelled to belfast to meet the researchers to ask if we would agree to approach the interviewees and ask them to alter the terms of the contract to allow publication while they were still alive. the college wanted bangs for its bucks, it seems. we refused and five months later the project was closed.
i hope this sheds some light on this question.
The McMurtrie article makes no mention of a proposed thirty-year embargo for the interviews. And while I can't claim to have read all that has been written about the Belfast Project, this is the first I have heard of such a proposal. | 2019-04-26T02:07:53 | http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2014/02/belfast-project-no-lawyers-few_22.html |
0.999841 | Where should I go for help if I suspect that I may need a hearing aid?
You should see an Audiologist for a hearing test first. Your Audiologist will then determine the type of hearing loss you have and determine if you are a candidate for a hearing aid. Hearing aids vary greatly in quality, their sizes, styles, and features. Your Audiologist will determine which is the best for you, according to the type and degree of your hearing loss, your dexterity, your specific needs and your lifestyle.
What are the next steps?Fortunately, there are many ways to help people with hearing loss. Only a few hearing problems can be improved by medication or surgery but most people do benefit from hearing instruments.
Although even the most advanced hearing aids cannot fully restore your hearing, they can improve it considerably. If you take the necessary time to adjust to wearing professionally fitted instruments, you will see a definite improvement in the quality of your life.
After determining the exact nature of your hearing loss, your Audiologist will explain the results, and talk about how your condition will affect you.
Your Audiologist will then present the various solutions – hearing aids or other assistive listening devices – and discuss them with you in detail.
In order to make the appropriate selection, you and your Audiologist will talk about your lifestyle, and the way the hearing aids perform, . The hearing aids should meet your personal preferences in terms of cosmetic appeal and convenience. Your future requirements will also need to be considered.
Your Audiologist will tell you what to expect from your proposed hearing aids.
When your hearing aids are ready (in 1-3 weeks) you are advised to come back for the initial fitting. This appointment may take 1-1.5 hours. Your Audiologist will need to program the hearing aids to provide the appropriate amplification for your hearing loss. The appropriateness of the fitting will be verified by some objective tests. This will follow a further fine-tuning based on your comments.
After demonstrating how to insert, use, and look after your new hearing aids, your Audiologist will review your listening needs and expectations.
A follow-up appointment will be arranged for 1-2 weeks later to monitor your progress and discuss your experiences. If necessary, your Audiologist can adjust the settings of your aids as you become adjusted to the hearing aids.
You can arrange additional follow-up appointments to address your personal needs, your adaptation to the new amplification, and to evaluate your overall satisfaction.
An AUDIOLOGIST is the professional who specialises in hearing and the non-medical aspects of hearing loss. Audiologists have extensive knowledge and clinical training in managing hearing problems. They conduct a wide variety of tests to determine the exact nature of an individual’s hearing problem. Audiologists present a variety of treatment options to patients with hearing impairment. They dispense and fit hearing aids, administer tests of balance to evaluate dizziness and provide hearing rehabilitation training. Audiologists refer patients to physicians when the hearing problem needs medical or surgical evaluation.
Why should someone with a hearing loss be evaluated by an Audiologist?
Audiologists have special training in the prevention, identification, assessment and non-medical treatment of hearing disorders. By virtue of their graduate education and professional certification, Audiologists are the most qualified professionals to perform hearing assessment, to refer patients for medical treatment and provide hearing rehabilitation services including fitting of hearing aids.
Basically, if you have hearing loss on both sides, with a few exceptions, you need to use hearing aids on both sides to enjoy the benefits of a binaural (two ear) hearing. In fact, both ears work together to bring the sound signal to the brain.
Using two hearing aids allows people to speak to you from either side of your head – not just your ”better” side!
Localisation in a vertical plan is only possible with binaural listening. Localisation is not just a sound quality issue; it may also be a safety issue if you need to tell where the warning and safety sounds are coming from.
Understanding speech clearly, particularly in challenging and noisy situations, is easier while using both ears.
Using both ears together also affects how well you hear in noise because binaural hearing allows you to selectively focus to the desired signal, while ”squelching” or paying less attention to undesired sounds such as background noise.
Binaural hearing allows a quality of ”spaciousness” or ”high fidelity” to sounds, which cannot occur with monaural (one ear) listening.
Preserving the quality of your hearing on both sides (when you use only one hearing aid, the un-amplified ear may lose its ability to analyse and understand speech, as a result of what is called auditory deprivation).
Loud sounds are better tolerated, because a lower volume is required with two hearing instruments.
With lower volume, the risk of the hearing aid feeding back is reduced with two hearing aids.
With two hearing aids, you can hear sounds from a farther distance.
What happens if I have a hearing loss and I do not receive treatment for it?
If you do not receive treatment for your hearing loss your brain (central auditory system) does not receive proper stimulation (it receives distorted versions of the actual sound all the time). This is called “auditory deprivation” and results in speech discrimination loss that cannot be compensated by amplification by hearing-aids.
There have been many studies done on auditory deprivation to determine the long-term effects on the brain. These studies suggest that if the brain is not stimulated, the potential to “forget” how to hear is great and is closely related to the length of time the brain goes without stimulation. The longer the patient goes without treatment (amplification) the more likely it is the brain will forget how to hear and understand speech even after treatment is implemented.
Keep them clean. Wipe them at night with alcohol, taking care not to make them too wet.
Remove the aids and turn them off at night.
Don’t take them off over a hard surface. You might drop them and damage delicate parts.
Remove them when you want to use hairspray.
Remove them when you go to the hairdresser. Do not sit under the dryer while wearing them.
Your aid may not work as well in a hot and humid climate because moisture can get into your ear and into your hearing aid. Solution: put the aid in a jar with a little bag of silica crystals or gel, close it up and leave it in there overnight. This will take the moisture out. You can get the silica bags or gel in a shoe store, craft store or drug store. There is also a product called dry-aid for this purpose.
Don’t let the aids lie around where pets can get hold of them. (Dogs and cats love the smell of earwax and they will chew and roll on your aids. Pets are also bothered by the high-pitched squeal of aids that haven’t been turned off completely.) Put aids inside containers that pets can’t open.
What are some strategies I can use to help me understand speech better?
To maximally communicate, you need to use hearing from both ears (binaural hearing) and you need to use your eyes and ears together. You will not communicate well using your hearing aids alone. To facilitate optimal communication, you will need to pay attention to the speaker’s gestures and facial expressions! To maximise communication remember to watch the person speaking, reduce the distance between the speaker and yourself, reduce or eliminate background noises from the listening environment and use good lighting. If someone is speaking to you from across the room, while the TV is on, while doing the dishes, it will be very difficult to adequately communicate, despite fantastic hearing aids!
Tinnitus is the term for the perception of sound when no external sound is present. It is often referred to as ”ringing in the ears,” although some people hear hissing, roaring, whistling, chirping, or clicking. Tinnitus can be intermittent or constant, with single or multiple tones. Its’ perceived volume can range from very soft to extremely loud.
The exact cause (or causes) of tinnitus is not known in every case. It is believed that the ringing is due to spontaneous activity in the cochlea. The most common cause of tinnitus is hearing loss, and in particular sensorineural hearing loss. This is probably because the majority of patients with sensorineural hearing loss have some damage in the cochlea that is causing the hearing loss. It is these damaged sections that are presumed to be producing the spontaneous signals. There are a number of likely factors which may cause tinnitus or make existing tinnitus worse: noise-induced hearing loss, age-related hearing loss, ear diseases and disorders, wax build-up in the ear canal, certain medications, ear infections, , jaw misalignment, cardiovascular disease, certain types of tumors, thyroid disorders and many others. Of these factors, exposure to loud noises and hearing loss are the most probable causes of tinnitus. I strongly recommend that an Audiologist and a Physician should evaluate all presentations of tinnitus.
What are the options for Tinnitus management and treatment?
There are many options for people who experience tinnitus. Some wear hearing aids to help cover up their tinnitus, some wear tinnitus maskers. Additionally, there are combined tinnitus maskers and hearing aids – all in one unit! Some patients require counselling to help them develop strategies to manage their tinnitus. If you’ve been told ”learn to live with it,” there are many additional options to explore. Your Audiologist is an excellent resource for issues and answers related to tinnitus. | 2019-04-23T12:23:40 | https://www.ear-hearing.com.au/about-hearing/frequently-asked-questions/ |
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0.999286 | Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg has been cleared of wrongdoing over a controversial incident that sealed pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix.
The German, fastest at the time, locked a wheel and went into the escape road at Mirabeau on his final lap.
The incident brought out caution flags, preventing his team-mate Lewis Hamilton from completing his own final lap and securing Rosberg's pole position.
Race stewards said they could find "no evidence of any offence".
Rosberg told BBC Sport before going to the stewards that he was "surprised" to be called to give evidence, adding: "They'll see in the data it is all very similar to the lap before and I just locked up the front tyre."
Asked if he was uncomfortable about the incident, Rosberg: "Of course I need to apologise for having ruined his lap. But that's the way it is."
The incident revived memories of Monaco in 2006, when Michael Schumacher deliberately parked his Ferrari at Rascasse to prevent Renault's Fernando Alonso, his title rival, from taking pole.
Hamilton is three points ahead of Rosberg in the championship heading into this race.
Hamilton said: "I found the time at the end and wasn't able to execute it so it wasn't a true showing of my true pace. But I should have known that was going to happen and done it the lap before."
Rosberg had been the quicker of the two drivers by 0.059 seconds on their first runs in final qualifying, and the incident came immediately after he was just over 0.1secs down on that lap at the first official timing point on his final run.
Hamilton was the next car on track, and had to slow down for yellow caution flags at Mirabeau.
The Englishman had been fractionally up on his previous time up that point, but the flags prevented any prospect of him beating Rosberg's time.
The incident has come during a weekend in which tensions between the two Mercedes drivers have been rising as a result of their close battle.
There have already been comparisons between this year and 1988-89, when McLaren team-mates Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost fell out while disputing two world titles.
Those battles ended in title-deciding collisions at the 1989 and 1990 Japanese Grands Prix, in the second of which Senna rammed Prost off the track at 160mph.
Asked whether his relationship with Rosberg was "even more like Senna and Prost now", Hamilton said after qualifying: "Essentially."
When it was suggested the two drivers would have to sit down and discuss the incident, Hamilton said: "I don't know if Senna and Prost sat down and talked it out. I quite like the way Senna dealt with it, so I'm going to take a page out of his book."
Mercedes bosses defended Rosberg, saying the incident was an innocent mistake.
Non-executive chairman Niki Lauda, a three-time F1 world champion, said: "If you look at it the way I look at it, he tried to go quicker, braked too late, the right front wheel locked, tried to go into the corner and not to crash he had to go left.
"These things can happen. They happen to a lot of other people but there's nothing wrong about it."
Lauda admitted the atmosphere between the two drivers was tense.
"I fully agree. I think there might be some more discussions later today or tomorrow morning, I agree this thing is building up over there, but from my point of view nothing wrong on Nico's side. Lewis was now four or five times quicker than Nico and now Nico's quicker, so what is wrong about that."
Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen said of Rosberg's incident: "I saw he locked the wheel and ran wide but obviously I am not here to judge anybody and say what was true and what was not. He knows himself. Obviously it is hard to say was it a mistake or not. Everybody will have their own opinion about this." | 2019-04-22T12:02:15 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/27558177 |
0.996657 | 1.4 Impact on RF video 4 of 5: Local oscillator and GHz clocks requirements in Radio applications systems with LMX2594.
Hello, and welcome to video number four of the presentation, Local Oscillator and Gigahertz Clocks Requirement in Radio Applications Systems with LMX2594. My name is Simon. And in this video, we'll cover the section, how signal source specification impact RF radio performance. And more specifically, we'll cover the following five subtopic-- reciprocal mixing, signal to noise ratio and noise figure, error vector magnitude, coherent receiver, and phase alignment, and finally lock time. You are currently watching video number four. There are four more videos. And the topic of each of these videos is described here. How does a signal source, and its specification impact RF radio performance? In order to discuss this topic, I would like to imagine a radio receiver example. This receiver is a single conversion with a data converter, same thing in the second Nyquist. And it has an RF frequency of 4,000 megahertz. The single is down converted to an IF of 375 megahertz. And the data converter is operating at 500 mega symbols per second. In order for that single chain to work, we need two signal sources. We need a first single source at 3,625 megahertz. And that is the local oscillator. And we need a second signal source at 500 megahertz, which is literally the clock for the analog to digital converter. Both of these signal sources are driven from a common reference. And it is the LMK device here from Texas Instruments. So what we're going to do now is, at fairly high level, describe how does phase noise, spurs, jitter, phase alignment, and lock time impact the performance of that receiver or multiple instances of that receiver. So the first topic to discuss here is reciprocal mixing. I take the mixer that is in the previous single chain I isolate it here. I place spectrum of each point on the RF side, on the LO side, and the IF side. So you can see the signal at 4,000 megahertz being down converted to 375 megahertz with the local oscillator at 3,625 megahertz. You quickly notice here that the LO is having a little skirt which is a representation of phase noise. By doing the down converting process on a LO side injection configuration, we can see that the phase noise of the LO is superimposed now onto the IF signal. We could describe this with [? mats, ?] but simply put the mixer is literally chopping the RF at the LO rate. And any noise onto that LO is actually superimposed onto what is left, which is the IF frequency. So the LO phase noise translates into the IF and is superimposed onto the signal. Now, if the quality of the remaining signal on the IF is not a problem, meaning the application does not need a certain level of integrity, that is fine. And here we have a receiver-- if we go back to the receiver on the previous slides, we have a receiver of about 3 dB noise figure. And our receiver sensitivity is fairly good. We have a low noise amplifier of 2 dB, an input filter of about half a dB insertion loss. And the rest of the chain probably contributing with that [? LNE ?] gain to about half a dB. So this 3 dB noise figure is rather good. Now where things gets different is that if we add a blocker in band. By adding a blocker at minus 30 dBm here, what we see is that the phase noise that is on the LO gets also superimposed onto that blocker, and literally floods the desired signal area with noise from that phase noise. So what is the level of that noise? Well, the level of that noise is minus 30 dBm. And we know that a 100 kilohertz offset, that level is minus 120 DBC per Hertz. That means that the noise level at the desired frequency is now minus 150 dBm per Hertz. And that translates into a noise figure of about 24 dB. So this is very different now. We have a receiver without blocker can achieve 3 dB noise figure. And as soon as we have a blocker, due to the phase noise on the LO, we have a noise figure of now 24 dB. So the thing to know here is that in order to improve this, either the blocker needs to be filtered out, which is not always possible, or the LO needs to be improved. There is no other technique here to improve the noise level in this signal chain. The next topic to cover is spur. And remarkably, it is using the same concept. So if I have-- again, duplicating my mixer here with the spectrum for each signal-- I can see that I have a local oscillator here at roughly 3,625 megahertz. And I have a spur here at certain offset. That spur can be mixed with the mixer. And let's imagine simply that we have a blocker. And that blocker will mix again and superpose its mixing product with the spurious response here, over my desired signal. So conceptually, the same thing as reciprocal mixing. If you have a spur into the LO drive and you have a blocker at a certain frequency that corresponds to that offset, you will have a response at the desired signal and here reducing your ability to decode your signal or reducing the integrity of the signal. So that is reciprocal mixing for phase noise, and also spur. The receiver sensitivity change drastically and the phase noise of the source is key. Phase noise and spur is key in down converting the signal without adding noise. The next topic to discuss is the signal to noise ratio and the noise figure in the analog to digital converter. So from a data converter-centric perspective there would be a whole lot more to discuss here. But the point I want to drive is that the quality of the source impacts the signal to noise ratio that can be achieved with the data converter. So simply put, the signal to noise ratio is a function of the input frequency and the total jitter contained in that signal source. Now remember we discussed in video two that the total jitter depends on the application and its integration limit. So you remember the slide where we had different applications require different integration limits. So here you need to go and set your integration limit to obtain the relevant total jitter. Once you know your input frequency you can make an assessment of the signal to noise ratio you'll be able to obtain with that signal source. On the right hand side, I have a graph of the signal to noise ratio that can be achieved with an RMS jitter showing at different input frequencies. So if we were to be at 1 gigahertz and 100 femtosecond RMS jitter, we could achieve roughly 65 dB signal to noise ratio. And this sort of graph is interesting to see what kind of RMS jitter you can afford on to your data converter so that you do not impact the data converter's achievable signal to noise ratio. Now that you have the signal to noise ratio, you want to know what is the equivalent noise figure of that data converter so that you can place it into your signal chain and calculate a total noise figure and do the right thing in calculating the right trade-off for gain and linearity. So the noise figure calculation is very simple. If your data converter is terminated, and typically terminated in a differential input, it will deliver a certain amount of power which corresponds to a voltage swing across this resistor. For the simplicity of the calculation here, I assume a full scale power of zero dBm. I assume a signal to noise ratio of 65 dB. And I assume assembling frequency of 500 mega symbols per second. So what is the ADC noise figure, given these three parameters? Well, I take the total power that I can deliver to the ADC. I subtract the signal to noise ratio, which will give me the integrated noise that is on that full Nyquist zone on the analog to digital converter. And then I subtract 10 times the log of that Nyquist zone, so 250 megahertz. That will give me the amount of dBm per Hertz or power spectral density of my analog to digital converter. If I add 174 to this, I get the actual noise figure of the data converter which here is 25 dB. 25 dB seems to be a lot, but that's a typical number. And once the chain is properly put together, this sort of noise figure is nothing to worry about. Now I would like to move to the next topic, which is the error vector magnitude. An error vector magnitude is the ability for the receiver to do not add phase uncertainty onto the signal. Let's imagine we have an RF signal where the information is placed on the phase. Let's say that it's a quadrature or QPSK here with four phase. And we have the symbol represented here. One symbol, two, three, four symbols. The information is indeed on the phase of the signal. Well, we know that when down converting that signal with the local oscillator, all the phase noise contained in the local oscillator will superimpose onto that IF signal. If the phase noise of the LO is excessive, it will reduce the accuracy of that symbol to a point where it becomes a large impairment that is not acceptable. So the phase noise on the LO, simply put, reduces the phase accuracy onto the modulation and create some halo or some region of phase uncertainty onto the symbol. The integration limit here, as we discuss in video number two, depends on the clock recovery loop on the receive side and on the symbol rate or the data rate for the actual communication system. And that is the error vector magnitude. The next topic to discuss is coherent receiver and phase alignment. There are multiple applications either for multiple input, multiple output system or for phased array antenna where the phase or the integrity of the phase of the signal is critical to the system. So let's imagine here I have two channels and I place two mixers here. And each of these channels-- channel X and channel Y-- are driven with a local oscillator. And that local oscillator has different phase. So you can see here that the blue time domain sine wave that is here is having obviously different phase in time. The impact of having different phase on the local oscillator will actually change the phase on the IF. So for the purpose of illustration here only, I rotated the actual constellation to show a different phase. But really, for example, in a phased array antenna where we would combine these signals, having the phase to be aligned, even before we talked about recovery or data recovery or demodulation, is critical. The interesting point here is that LMX2594 can provide deterministic phase from multiple instances of the device or from power up to power up, provide always the same phase to a first order. The two blocks that require synchronization to enable the deterministic phase is the output divider and the delta sigma modulator. And LMX2594 has the ability or the features to provide that synchronization so that you have deterministic phase. The next topic to discuss is lock time. So here I imagine two applications where lock time is critical. One of them is in a communication system where there is frequency hopping. So frequency hopping is a communication system that don't like to, let's say, stay at a certain frequency for a long time. So it's constantly changing frequencies. So if the lock time is important or the repositioning of the local oscillator is important, that down time here is timed at you are not able to do anything. You need to wait for the local oscillator to reposition. So the smallest that time is, the better. So that's one application. The other application is simply in tests. So let's say you have a piece of equipment that is doing a certain number of tasks and needs to change frequency. The faster it can change to these frequencies, do the work it needs to do, the better. So repositioning a certain local oscillator or a certain clock and waiting is downtime or wasted time. So to that end, LMX2594 can calibrate its entire VCO system in less than 25 microseconds. There are multiple methods to calibrate LMX2594. And each of them can reduce that calibration time. If you were to pre-calibrate LMX2594, you could enable the calibration and complete a lock in less than five microseconds. That is the end of the section on how a signal source specification impact radio performance. I'm going to stop here. And we'll resume on video number five, which we'll discuss the data sheet specification and using a LMX2594 device. | 2019-04-18T18:32:50 | https://training.ti.com/impact-rf-video-4-5-local-oscillator-and-ghz-clocks-requirements-radio-applications-systems-lmx2594?cu=1128561 |
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Otherwise, mayor updates should take place for them to be replaced by other/better methods. The Google Factors. It is a known fact that Google is focused on links. Therefore, it ranks them by quality and relevancy factors.
With that said, on-page factors such as title keywords, content keyword density and relevance also influence the ranking of a given page. Google also looks into the "neighborhood" of your site analyzing outbound links. If you link to related quality sites with relevant content, search engines will associate your site with these "neighbor" sites.
The Yahoo Factors. Yahoo tends to be the most active of the three when it comes to crawling. Not a general rule though. But in addition to its nature, having RSS on your site will get it more aggressive and frequently crawled. Similar to Google, Yahoo gives a lot of importance to inbound links, looking into factors like relevancy and anchor text, and heavily at volume of links. Their TrustRank is a form of PageRank, but with a special teleportation to a subset of high-quality pages.
Yahoo search rankings appear to place extra importance on your site being listed in their directory, especially for highly competitive terms. Keyword density in title and content relevance also count. The Msn Factors. Maybe a substantial different from the other two, Msn normally gives more weight to the title text. Also, CSS optimization plays an important role at getting better rankings here.
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Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents . Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Race is calculated according to the RACE1 variable.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Location is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, " Thinking about the condition of the national economy, do you think the worst is over or is the worst yet to come?" Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?"
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents . Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Race is calculated according to the RACE1 variable.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Location is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, "Looking ahead to the future, do you think your children will be better off than you are, worse off, or about the same economically?" Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?"
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents . Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Race is calculated according to the RACE1 variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Location is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that the Texas economy is a a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Location is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?" | 2019-04-19T15:32:21 | https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/search/year/2012/month/10/topic/macroeconomics-141 |
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2.Niagara USA is for adventure lovers. Adventure lovers can dive beneath the turbulent waters of the Niagara River, take a Jet Boat tour through the Niagara Gorge, experience a helicopter ride over the Falls or experience the Falls from a hot-air balloon.
3. Niagara USA is for wine connoisseurs. The region offers the renowned Niagara Wine Trail, with seven family-owned and operated wineries, offering distinct wines and culinary treats.
4. Niagara USA is a premier destination for outdoor travelers. Niagara USA is one of the premier bird-watching locations in the world, with dozens of parks, islands and scenic driving tours. Niagara USA is also one of North America's top sport-fishing destinations.
5. Niagara USA is a leading agritourism destination. Niagara USA is one of the few visitor-friendly working hubs of agriculture,nwith farm tours, petting zoos and more than 75 farms and nurseries.
6. Niagara USA defines luxury--and luck. Niagara USA has one of New York's finest luxury gaming establishments--the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel--with thousands of slot machines and table games, as well as luxuriously appointed hotel rooms and six restaurants.
7. Niagara USA is rediscovering its Underground Railroad roots. The Niagara region played a critical role during the Underground Railroad movement, and visitors can now explore Railroad sites throughout Niagara County.
8. Niagara USA has played a key role in empowering commerce and energy for the region--and visitors can explore both. The Niagara region was essential to the completion of the Erie Canal, and the locks at Lockport played a key role in its success. The millions of gallons that pour over Niagara Falls every day are harnessed to generate a quarter of New York's and Ontario's electricity.
9. Niagara USA is known for its quaint, historic small towns. Lewiston, Lockport, Olcott, Newfane and the Tonawandas offer dozens of unique antique and boutique stores and delectable dining opportunities.
10. Travelers are "falling for" Niagara USA. Niagara USA is experiencing a tourism renaissance, with millions of dollars of new investments planned for new hotels, attractions and a new visitor center.
Visitors interested in more information should contact the Niagara Tourism & Convention Corporation at 1-877-FALLS-US or via the Internet at http://www.niagara-usa.com to request a free Visitor Guide or brochures about individual attractions.
In Niagara USA, there's more to experience than just the Falls. In this "all American" destination, history, romance, family attractions, luxury and gaming combine to form the ideal vacation, group and meetings destination. The Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation (NTCC) is Niagara County's official, state-authorized Tourism Promotion Agency.
Agritourism in Niagara USAWith more than 75 working farms, Niagara County USA is a thriving hub for agritourism in Western New York. Carousel History in Niagara USA.Discover the history of the "merry-go-round" in Niagara USA, one of the sites for the development and creation of ornate, historic carousels. Underground Railroad HistoryDiscover the history of the Underground Railroad Movement at the Freedom Crossing exhibit at the Castellani Art museum. Whirlpool Jet BoatsGet "up close and personal" with the rapids on a Whirlpool Jet Boat in Niagara USA. The Niagara Wine TrailDiscover the delectable offerings from more than 5 family-owned wineries along the Niagara Wine Trail in Niagara USA. | 2019-04-21T01:12:57 | https://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/05/prweb527721.htm |
0.999999 | Has Canada Lost Faith in the CBC?
The president of CBC published an article in Huffington Post recently asking Canadians for help in deciding CBC's future. Good idea but the plea received modest reader feedback. Is it a sign that CBC has lost the public, that Canadians have stopped believing in and what CBC and its managers say?
The president of CBC published an article in Huffington Post recently asking Canadians for help in deciding CBC's future. Good idea but the plea received modest reader feedback; a few hundred people at most cared enough to comment or like the article. CBC also launched an unscientific survey on its web site to solicit public input but it has been met with criticism. Is it a sign that CBC has lost the public, that Canadians have stopped believing in and what CBC and its managers say?
For years CBC has claimed, critics would say whined, that it has suffered from underfunding. CBC does need more money just to keep providing existing programming but the arguments the CBC uses to defend current or increased funding have clearly not worked. Why? Is it deliberate or a faulty communications strategy?
CBC claims to be open, transparent and accountable for the $1 billion dollars in taxpayers' money it receives. The $1 billion is spent on English and French radio and TV and miscellaneous other services. If more funding is needed to serve Canadian audiences, especially in TV, CBC needs to be far more transparent about how it spends its money and explain more convincingly why more dollars are required. The problem: CBC is too secretive and misleading.
CBC releases financial and other data to the media which often leads to inaccurate reports. For example, in April the Globe and Mail's TV critic proclaimed incorrectly that CBC's government funding was now "much less than" $1 billion. This was corrected in a later column but that column made the error of quoting CBC as saying its total budget, including non-government revenue, was about $1 billion, when it is about $500 million more than that. Other journalists more familiar with the use of empirical data have also fallen victim to CBC. The CBC president corrected this misinformation in a recent speech but once information is out there, there is a risk that it will be repeated indefinitely.
CBC has also released incorrect information to the media about the number of staff it has and the number cut in the past few years. CBC told reporters before recent cuts were announced that it had about 8,150 staff. In fact, the staff count was over 9,000, if one includes CBC employees who work for specialty channels such as CBC News Network (but not counting staff employed at cbc.ca, etc).
CBC says budget cuts mean 2,100 "full time equivalent" positions have been "affected" since 2009. Translation: over the past five years full time positions may have been "affected," i.e., were vacant or eliminated, but then new positions seem to be created in their stead.
For example, in February CBC told the Senate inquiry looking into CBC that 750-800 jobs were lost as a result of the government's 2012 budget but the net number of staff cut after the 2012 budget was around 300, as shown in the table. Most of the job losses the past five years have been in radio, something CBC seems reluctant to discuss, despite the fact that radio is its most successful service. The CBC is required by regulation to provide the CRTC staff numbers shown here. Tellingly, nowhere does CBC publish the number of staff it has, let alone the salaries it pays to staff either in aggregate or by individual, as does the BBC.
Misinformation and cuts to radio have alienated many CBC supporters and caused a major rift between CBC staff and management and CBC radio and TV staff. CBC has also angered independent producers who are the unwittingly the target of CBC's attacks on private broadcaster subsidies and tax credits and now the producers, in the words of one senior person, "hate" CBC.
-For years CBC claimed that NHL hockey made a profit, telling the CRTC in 2012 that hockey subsidized other programs. Only after losing NHL rights to Rogers, was there an admission hockey was at best breaking even the past six years.
-CBC constantly uses data from consulting firm Nordicity to claim that per capita cost of CBC is much lower than public broadcasters in other countries, failing to point out that Nordicity also found that internationally CBC TV is the poorest performing public broadcaster in audience terms.
-CBC regularly points to an analysis by Nordicity that shows private broadcasters benefit from public subsidies and tax credits (which actually go to independent producers, not broadcasters). Presumably the logic is to point out that even private broadcasters need access to public money. Valid point but this analysis fails to acknowledge that CBC also benefits from these sources, in addition to its Parliamentary grant, and that these policies were originally established to support independent producers because the CBC was considered too dominant. It would be better to simply bring attention to the very high cost of producing TV, using international examples.
-Analysis by (once again) Nordicity is used to support the flawed conclusion that advertising on CBC is good public policy. Advertising inevitably leads programmers to make programs for advertisers rather than viewers and listeners, something Heather Conway, new head of CBC English, acknowledged according to the Globe and Mail who said she will "work more with marketers to create so-called branded entertainment (a.k.a. product placement) shows." As long as CBC seeks advertising revenue, which is theoretically limitless, and puts itself on the same plane as private broadcasters, it will be difficult to argue for increased public funding.
-For decades CBC has produced pretty-looking program schedule charts that show how much more Canadian programming it has compared to CTV or Global but omit that Canadian audience performance of the private networks throughout the day often trumps CBC.
-CBC cherry-picks data telling the Senate inquiry that its prime time English TV audience is equal to that of a decade ago, when data on the CBC web site demonstrate otherwise. Besides, if true, does that help the argument for more funding; wouldn't it mean government cuts were justified? CRTC reports that CBC TV has only about a 5 per cent audience share on a 24-hour basis. If CBC were to acknowledge this reality, more Canadians might support increased funding, especially if there was a compelling service proposal.
-CBC unceasingly touts its audience performance but when challenged with negative facts, says ratings are not important to a public broadcaster?
-There are many more examples, some of which have raised the ire of MPs and Senators, causing both houses of Parliament to threaten to subpoena data on CBC finances, salaries, etc.
Our independent public opinion research shows that CBC is still one of Canada's most valued public institutions, indispensable for many Canadians.
So CBC programs and services are valued but CBC management has not done a good job communicating this. A good case can be made for restoring CBC radio budgets and increasing funding for CBC TV. But CBC management needs to open the books and address not just CBC strengths but also its shortcomings and propose a new approach which puts the audience first. More transparency about its finances, staff and audiences and less defensive analysis from consultants might be a start to restoring Canadians' faith in the public broadcaster. | 2019-04-23T10:21:22 | https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/barry-kiefl/cbc-public-opinion_b_5404479.html |
0.999985 | Grant it to Vipul Shah for imaginative casting. In his almost-complete film Namastey London, Upen Patel has been cast as a Pakistani dude craving to marry a British girl.
Vipul sighs loudly. "I've finished the entire film, except one song. This was my toughest film to make. Both my earlier films Aankhen and Waqt were based on stage plays and I knew them in and out. Plus they were shot on studio sets. Namastey London was shot all over London. And the entire crew including spot boys was British. A first of its kind. And then the moment I landed back in Mumbai we took off to shoot in Punjab, and ended up in Ajmer Sharif. Now I'm almost done...but exhausted."
Namastey London is a story about the Indian Diaspora. "It's actually an idea that Akshay Kumar gave me. Earlier I was planning an espionage thriller with Amitji and Akshay. But Amitji was indisposed. The minute Akshay gave me this other idea, I grabbed it. I went to London for research, spent time in the Indian community there. I realized the generation gap among the Asian community is a looming issue. The older generation wants its daughters to marry Indians. But the kids want to marry Britishers. That's precisely what Katrina and Upen want. They're the lost NRI generation."
Vipul also gives the Pakistanis in Britain a place in Namastey London. "Upen Patel plays a Pakistani wannabe. And I got the Pakistani actor Jawed Sheikh (who played Shahid Kapoor's father in Shikhar) to play Upen's dad who's also a cabbie."
Vipul is very excited about working with Rishi Kapoor. "He's fantastic. This film will re-invent him as an actor. He enthused everyone in London. When Amitji couldn't do my other script I signed Rishi. I personally feel directors close to Amitji are exploiting his presence in their films. If I had gone to him and said I can't do my film without you, I know he'd have agreed. He's a lion-heart and filmmakers need to respect that. I want him to do my film only because he's excited by the role. Seeing some of his recent films, I feel he doesn't know why he should be doing them. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn. But too often we see him doing films that he shouldn't. And I do tell him so."
Striking down the belief that Namastey London is a remake of Manoj Kumar's 1971 hit Purab Aur Paschim, Vipul says, "Except for the fact that both films are about the Indian Diaspora in Britain there's nothing in common. In fact people have also said there're elements of Mani Ratnam's Moun Ragam and Sanjay Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. The similarity to Sanjay's film is perhaps there. In Hum Dil... Ajay personally escorts his wife to her lover. In my film Akshay Kumar tells his wife (Katrina) she's free to go. But he'll try to win her over... This is what happened to a guy in London. Someone narrated this incident to Akshay and he told me about it."
Curiously, Vipul says Namastey London is a fluffy popcorn entertainer. "It doesn't have serious undercurrents like Rang De Basanti, Lage Raho Munnabhai or Dor I just want my audience to have a good time. Yes, there're serious moments. But the narration quickly moves forward."
What about the controversy regarding the length of Katrina's skirt in Ajmer Sharif? "This is so ridiculous. I don't even know what hit us. There we were at the holy shrine. The Anjuman Community came to meet us. My D.O.P was in shorts. He was ordered to cover himself. We bought a lungi for him. They approved of the length of Katrina's skirt and asked her to cover her head in a dupatta. They guided us in, instructed us how to perform the prayers, and were with us for two hours. The next morning this absurd controversy was raised in a local paper. Thankfully none of the mainstream papers or TV channels took it seriously... until it seemed like spicy news. It was nothing but a feeble attempt to create a controversy. If we were doing anything wrong in the shrine, wouldn't they have immediately broken our camera?"
Vipul will show the sequence to the Dargah committee. "They're the final authority on what goes in."
Vipul is all praise for Katrina's British accent. "In fact that was one of the reasons I signed her. I believe all her other directors have dubbed her voice. But I want her to dub with that accent. It's authentic for the part she's playing. Katrina will be a surprise. Why do we react with such immediate disdain to model turned actors? Isn't Sushmita Sen one of the best? Both Katrina and Upen will surprise you. Grant them their growth. Look at Akshay Kumar's growth." | 2019-04-24T08:23:32 | https://www.filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2006/vipul-shah-131206.html |
0.998957 | A Tory MP was so drunk during a late night debate about the Budget in the Commons that he was unable to vote, it has emerged.
Mark Reckless was one of a number of MPs accused of being “well-refreshed” and “convivial” during the late night sitting which finished at 2.48am on Wednesday.
The 39-year-old new MP for Rochester and Strood had been drinking alongside scores of MPs on the Commons Terrace and was not the only one said to be worse for wear.
John Randall, the deputy chief whip, was accused by Angela Eagle – the shadow Treasury minister – of having indulged in “rather a liquid evening”.
Stephen Pound, the Labour MP, said Miss Eagle could not be heard in the Commons “because of the well-refreshed ejaculations from the benches opposite”.
Mr Reckless, who became an MP at the general election in May, was understood to have had difficulty standing and has scant recollection of the night.
“I feel very embarrassed,” he said. “I'm terribly, terribly embarrassed. I apologise unreservedly and I don't plan to drink again at Westminster. It was a mistake I will not be repeating. I have learned my lesson.
“I don’t know what came over me. It was a long day and I’d had a very early breakfast meeting.
Mr Reckless said he decided not to take part in the vote because of the amount he had had to drink.
"I remember someone asking me to vote and not thinking it was appropriate, given how I was at the time. If I was in the sort of situation generally where I thought I was drunk I tend to go home.
The debate focused on the coalition government’s budget cuts and Tory MPs were asked to stay to its conclusion.
"It was a bit like a lock-in," he added.
During the debate, John Bercow, the Speaker, referred to the “convivial spirit” and reprimanded Mr Randall for his “sedentary interventions”.
However, Mr Randall insisted he had not been drunk: I wasn’t doing anything that isn’t normally done in the chamber.
Sheryll Murray, Tory MP for South East Cornwall, was another MP alleged to be drinking on the Commons terrace.
She told a Sunday newspaper: "Somebody did say 'Are you alright?' but I don;t remeber being under the influence of alcohol.
"There is a lesson to be learned from this: you don't drink at all on the terrace."
David Morris, Tory MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, claimed some MPs had delayed the debate so late on purpose in order to claim a night in a hotel.
If a Commons session goes beyond 1am, MPs may claim a night’s hotel accommodation on expenses even if they have a second home in London. | 2019-04-23T08:33:29 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7884008/Tory-MP-too-drunk-to-vote-in-Commons-debate.html |
0.998676 | How do I obtain the real-time multiple IP addresses for a given machine?
As you discovered, InetAddress keeps a cache of names that have been looked up. This is the practice recommended by RFC 1034 (Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities) for resolvers, although InetAddress doesn't pay attention to the "refresh" information returned by the name server. The refresh interval indicates how long a particular name may be assumed valid; the cache should expire the name after this interval, but doesn't.
The cache is maintained as a private HashMap, so you can't override it. The cache is not part of the public definition of InetAddress, so the caching behavior is not something that is guaranteed across implementations.
If you are using Sun's implementation of Java, you may set the sun.net.inetaddr.ttl property to the number of seconds that each name is cached. The default value is -1, meaning names are cached forever. Remember, this is specific to Sun's implementation.
There's no other way around this problem, other than reloading the InetAddress class, because the cache is maintained as a class variable. To reload InetAddress, you will have to create a new class loader each time you need to see changes, then instantiate InetAddress each time using the new class loader. | 2019-04-23T10:56:00 | http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=213321 |
0.994704 | 1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F), gas mark 4. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a small bowl, mix together the hazelnuts, dark chocolate, caster sugar and honey. Take one sheet of filo pastry and brush it with melted butter, keeping the remainder covered with a damp tea towel to prevent it from drying out.
3. Cut the pastry widthways into four equal strips. Put a tablespoon of the chocolate-nut mixture at the top of each strip, then roll them up into cigar shapes. Repeat with the remaining pastry sheets and the chocolate-nut mixture. Arrange the cigars on the baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes or until crisp and golden.
4. Meanwhile, make the syrup. Put the honey in a small saucepan with the sugar, orange blossom and a tablespoon of water. Heat until the sugar dissolves, then simmer until you have a thick syrup. When the cigars are cooked, drizzle over the syrup and leave to cool.
5. To make the white chocolate dip, melt the butter and white chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and fold in the cream and then allow to cool. This can be served chilled or at room temperature whichever you prefer.
6. Arrange the chocolate hazelnut filo cigars on a platter or individual plates and dust with icing sugar and scatter over the rest of the hazelnuts to decorate. Add a bowls of the white chocolate dip to serve. | 2019-04-20T14:54:20 | http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-hazelnut-filo-cigars.html |
0.999679 | Output Boards provides packaged systems with output functionality, a number of Output modules are plugged on the inside of the pin-board face panel.
This board is available in two versions. The OUTN-1D is used to drive active-low (negative) stop-action magnets. The OUTN-1D/VAR is used to drive pipes. Outputs are capable of sinking up to 350mA (all outputs ON) or 1A (pulse load). They are used to drive stop-action magnets as low as 24 Ohms (12V), or chest magnets as low as 40 Ohms (12V). They have internal spark-suppression diodes. Outputs are fully protected against short-circuited loads and will shut down if overloaded.
This board is a new version of the OUTN-1D, and uses surface-mount components. It is used to drive active-low (negative) stop-action magnets. The OUTN-2A/VAR is used to drive pipes. Outputs are capable of sinking up to 350mA (all outputs ON) or 1A (pulse load). They are used to drive stop-action magnets as low as 24 Ohms (12V), or chest magnets as low as 40 Ohms (12V). They have internal spark-suppression diodes. Outputs are fully protected against short-circuited loads and will shut down if overloaded.
This output board drives up to 48 positive stop-action magnets, chest magnets, lamps, etc. The outputs can source up to 200mA continuously, or 450mA in pulses. The outputs are fully protected against short-circuit loads and will shut down if overloaded. The board is also protected against excessive input voltages and static.
This output board is available in two versions. The first is intended to drive up to 48 external incandescent lamps via series current-limiting resistors. The second is for driving 48 external Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Both boards are used in the Classic Organ Works Pipe Control Computer (PCC) and Console Control Computer (CCC). If purchased with a PCC or CCC, it will be fully installed before shipping.
This board plugs onto the output connectors on the face panel (CCIO/OCIO/PCIO). The stop/chest magnet cable then plugs onto it. The OUTT-1 may be used to indicate the status of outputs for diagnostic purposes. Bi-color LEDs on the board indicate the output level: Green means that the output is Low ('ON' for OUTN, 'OFF' for OUTP); Red shows that the output is High ('OFF' for OUTN, 'ON' for OUTP); No colour indicates that the output is open (a possible break in the cable to the magnet). | 2019-04-21T18:07:04 | http://www.organworks.com/index.php/products/control-systems?set_article=pipe-chamber-products&prod=output-boards |
0.999999 | If loving a GPU is wrong, we don't want to be right.
I recently reviewed the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder’s Edition, which I dubbed “The Beast” because it was by far the fastest GPU I had ever tested, destroying every benchmark that stood in its path and demonstrating a shockingly smooth gaming experience at 4K resolution. At that time it was known that once the Founder's Edition was launched, Nvidia's partners would begin to deliver their take on the GPU with extreme cooling and aggressive overclocking, and I waited with bated breath for those to arrive.
The first of them, the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX is here (See it on Amazon) / (See it on Amazon UK), and yes, this bad boy’s performance is everything I expected, and the version I tested isn’t even the fastest 1080 Ti card EVGA offers, as there's a FTW3 model that sits slightly above it in the EVGA product stack, and one below it too dubbed the Black Edition. That makes the $750 SC2 with iCX model EVGA's midrange offering, and it costs $50 more than the Founder's Edition, so let's see if it's worth it.
The biggest difference between EVGA’s SC2 card and the Founder's Edition (FE) is the cooling apparatus and the resulting clock speeds. First off, the SC2 has what EVGA calls iCX technology, which is the result of the company fixing an issue it had on its previous generation of cards. The TLDR version of this situation is EVGA's previous GPUs had inadequate cooling on its VRM modules, and that lead the company to come up with iCX, which is an array of temperature sensors all over the card instead of just the usual single temperature sensor. EVGA’s iCX has 10 sensors total to monitor the GPU, the back of the GPU, the power controllers, and the memory modules.
All that data is used to control the speed of the two fans (one for GPU and one for memory modules and power) separately, and you can see more temperatures in its PrecisionX software too. Combine that with a more efficient VRM heatpipe design and this card is one cool cat. Even after overclocking I never saw temps above 72C, whereas the Founder's Edition regularly ran at 84C.The big difference between the Founder's Edition's "blower style" cooler and the SC2's dual fans is the FE card exhausts the heat outside of your chassis whereas the SC2 card circulates it inside the chassis.
The card's audacious cooling allows it to run at higher clock speeds than the Founder's Edition, generally speaking. The GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX is tuned for a 1,556MHz base clock, compared to the Founder's Edition 1480MHz, and the SC2 has a 1,670MHz boost clock, compared to 1,582MHz. This boost clock is impressive enough, but keep in mind that before I even overclocked the GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX I saw it hit 1,920 MHz under heavy benchmarking load, so as always the specs of these cards are somewhat irrelevant once Nvidia's GPU Boost 3.0 gets to work.
The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX hardware itself is solidly constructed. Nvidia removed the DVI-D port on the Founder's Edition in order to make room for additional cooling, but EVGA added it back since it's cooling was sufficient as-is. The card also sports a nifty illuminated logo that offers RGB lighting with the traditional options for having it be static, breathing, etc. There are also blue LEDs in the fans but they are hard to see unless you look underneath the card.
I tested the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX on IGN’s shiny new test system equipped with an Intel 4.2GHz Core i7-7700K, 8GB RAM, a 500GB Intel SSD and an Asus Prime Z270-A motherboard running Windows 10 Home.
Benchmarks were run at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 (4K) resolutions in full-screen mode and always set to maximum or ultra quality. In all benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX outperformed the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition roughly by five percent. More importantly, games looked amazing. Rise of the Tomb Raider, a gorgeous game to begin with, was absolutely stellar with its graphics settings maxed out. Shadow of Mordor at 4K set on Ultra was almost mesmerizing.
Speaking of mesmerizing, I could sit and watch the Heaven benchmark at 4K all day. The scene where the camera angle swings down over the dragon in the courtyard showed off the texturing and lighting capabilities of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX, with the light glistening off the dragon’s veiny wings looked stunning. Also, as I mentioned above, though the GTX 1080 Ti SC2 was only about five percent faster than the Founder's Edition, it achieved this feat while running noticeably cooler, with the delta averaging roughly 12C under load. If you're the type of gamer that gets nervous seeing your precious parts running over 80C, the SC2 will help keep your mind at ease a bit.
I used EVGA’s Precision XOC utility to overclock the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX. I held the power limit at 100 percent and kept the temperature target at 84 degrees C, not that it matters because the card never approached that temperature. Then I edged the GPU clock speed up in 25 MHz increments to +100 MHz to 2025MHz. I increased the memory clock speed in 100 MHz increments to get to +300 MHz or 5805 MHz. Fans, set to auto, barely sped up, and GPU temps stayed between 58 and 72 during testing. This is a very slight improvement over what I was able to do with the Founder's Edition card, but it's basically a tie as that card got up to 1987MHz.
In my experience most of these high-end GeForce cards can get quite close or even slightly over 2GHz, so there's not too many surprises here. One thing that is cool, pun intended, is you can see temps for power and memory in PrecisionXOC as opposed to just GPU temp, thanks to the iCX sensors.
Overall the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX outperformed the GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition at every opportunity and did so while running about 12C cooler too, which is quite a feat. I saw a performance delta of about 5 percent faster before overclocking, and with overclocking I was able to squeeze out a bit more. Either way, I was more than impressed by the ability of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX to handle any 4K benchmark with all the graphics options set as high as they can go at more than 60 FPS (except for Heaven which was a mere 56 FPS).
This is the first EVGA card I’ve tested with iCX cooling and the benefits are clear. Even under the most demanding workload the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX was a cool cat. This is remarkable given the two slot design as other manufacturers have gone up to 2.5 or even three slot width to handle this powerful GPU’s heat. Moreover, the dual fans remained quiet as they efficiently cooled the card throughout testing.
Cool, quiet, flexibly tweakable, and (relatively) modest in stature are all great things when it comes to a graphics card. Combine those with excellent performance and you’ve got a winner with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX. There are more reviews like this to come, but for now the EVGA SC2 is easily one of the best GPUs I've ever tested.
EVGA's GTX 1080 Ti is powerful, quiet, and cool - what more could you ask for? | 2019-04-26T02:32:41 | https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/05/evga-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-sc2-with-icx-review |
0.983792 | In spite of the death of Webvan in 2001, the world of online grocery delivery has been slowly creaking back to life. The explosion of CSAs in the late 00’s brought fresh produce to the doorsteps of thousands of Bay Area residents. Now, dozens of companies are popping up to combine the CSA model of weekly box delivery with a grocery store-like shopping experience and flexibility. We’re heading towards (or returning to) a world where Bay Area residents (and beyond) could realistically substitute grocery shopping with online delivery. The outstanding questions: Which startups will win share in this burgeoning market? Who is positioned to offer the complete solution?
My favorite contender is LolaBee’s Harvest. Founder Lauren Bass completed her MBA at Kellogg in 2010, but entered business school knowing she wanted to start a food business. She came up with the idea for LolaBee’s at Kellogg and wrote the business plan during the two year program. After graduating, she moved to San Francisco to build her business.
LolaBee’s Harvest is an online farmers market and food delivery service. It sources local organic produce, local organic dairy, pastured meats, poultry and eggs, sustainable seafood, and cheeses, snacks, baby food, and prepared foods from Bay Area artisans. Customers create a free account and place customized orders weekly for home delivery on Thursdays in an insulated, reusable tote which keeps food fresh for over 15 hours. If a customer doesn’t have time to put in their order, they receive the LolaBee’s Harvest Box, a best-of-season collection of half fruits and half veggies.
What makes LolaBee’s stand out is Lauren and her team’s dedication to exceptional customer service, backed by the Happy Customer Promise. LolaBee’s does not have just customers, it has diehard brand advocates. Peruse the yelp page and you see “I can’t stop telling anyone who will listen how amazing Lolabee’s is,” and “I can go on and on about how wonderful this company is, but it’s best if you check it out for yourselves.” Literally, read out the reviews. The scope and depth of the praise is seriously impressive. Lauren is running an high-functioning business.
Lauren’s family. Both her parents owned their own businesses and Lauren grew up helping her mom, Debbie Bass, with one of the family businesses: Maypine Farm, a horse farm and education center.
What also becomes clear from the yelp reviews is that customers are 1) needing to go to the grocery store less often and 2) saving money. As a picky eater myself who frequents Whole Foods at least 3-4 times a week, I wouldn’t be disappointed to reduce my number of WF visits, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a more cost effective way for me to purchase food of the same quality or better: farmers market quality. One customer notes her family of three is saving ~$200 a month on groceries by using LolaBee’s and another has eliminated 1-2 weekly trips to Whole Foods. For a service like this to fully replace Whole Foods in my weekly routine, it would need to offer a selection of prepared foods. The LolaBee’s online store currently offers fresh pasta from Santa Cruz Pasta Factory, tamales and enchiladas from Mi Fiesta Catering, and couscous and hummus from Hummus Heaven. Lauren is eagerly looking for other local artisans to add to her offering.
Lauren is not alone in this market. Luke’s Local is a direct competitor, offering the mealbox: “a mix between a CSA, personal catering, and an artisan food shop,” along with the Cuesa Chef market box sourced from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and the office box with snacks, coffee, and produce. Their boxes are customizable and delivered to customers’ doorsteps.
Lauren’s other main competitors did not start as direct competitors. Both Farmigo and Good Eggs entered the local food delivery market as technology platforms and have since expanded to include online customized shopping and delivery.
Farmigo began as a company selling software systems to farms offering CSA programs. Their CSA management system tracks sign-ups, automates payments, manages logistics, manages customer communications, enables a web store for excess inventory, and provides a mobile platform. Lauren currently uses Farmigo’s platform for the online LolaBee’s store. Recently Farmigo introduced “Farmigo Communities:” community-specific online farmers markets with customized online ordering and workplace delivery.
Good Eggs also was founded as a technology company providing the online platform and delivery management tools for local food producers and artisans to serve customers directly. Good Eggs did not initially share plans to touch the products directly, just to enable small local companies to better serve and reach their customers. However Good Eggs announced a relaunch this Thursday now providing the entire Bay Area with online grocery shopping and home delivery.
Given the distribution costs in this space, it makes sense that these two players have moved from pure technologists to aggregators and distributors. Merely providing a platform for a local baker to deliver bread directly does not solve the problem facing local food systems. It’s costly for every local artisan to run its own delivery service. And a customer does not want to worry about numerous home deliveries throughout the week. The cost savings and customer value proposition lie in consolidating products and delivery.
What this means is that competition is heating up in Bay Area grocery delivery, and I’m excited to see how it will develop. If you’re interested in trying LolaBee’s, use the code EdibleStartups for $20 off. Currently LolaBee’s delivers in San Francisco and will expand to the East Bay in early April.
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0.999999 | question_answer1) From the first paragraph— (i) Pick out two phrases which describe the desert as most people believe it is; (ii) Now pick out two phrases which describe the desert as specialists see it; Which do you think is an apt description and why?
question_answer3) A camel can do without water for days together. What is the reason given in the text?
question_answer4) How do the smaller desert animals fulfil their need for water?
question_answer5) In a desert the temperature rises during the day and falls rapidly at night. Why?
question_answer6) Describe a desert in yours own word. Write a paragraph and read it aloud to your classmates. | 2019-04-21T18:09:06 | https://studyadda.com/ncert-solution/7th-class/english/the-desert/7th-english-the-desert/124 |
0.999998 | Can you run a successful ecommerce site with less than ten products?
We currently manufacture and sell nine products which all fit in the home and kitchenware category of goods. We sell on Amazon and on a website which was developed and is managed by an ecommerce agency. The agency are pretty successful and have some big clients on their books turning over millions per year.
On Amazon we sell around 60 units per day, but our website is only selling one unit per day, sometimes no units. This has been the case for over 12 months now.
The website structure and design is on par with other sites which the agency have built and as previously mentioned I know that some of their other clients are turning over millions per year.
The agency are also managing Google Shopping and Facebook ads but our cost per conversion is too high and we are making a loss.
The agency keep telling us that the reason the site is not doing well is because we do not have enough products. They have suggested that we need at least 300 products for the site to work. Their reasoning is that when a customer arrives on our site from Google Shopping or Facebook that they want to browse variations and a wider range of kitchenware. As our site only has nine products the customers leave without purchasing.
The problem is that we are very unlikely to ever have a range of 300 products because as we are manufacturers that would require a huge investment.
Our contract with the agency is up in the next couple of months and we are at a loss as to what to do.
One option is to cut our losses and just sell on Amazon, but that comes with a risk that all our eggs are in one basket.
Is it right what the agency are saying?
Is it impossible to have a successful ecommerce site with less than ten products?
Does anyone have any examples of successful ecommerce sites with less than ten products or any specific strategies?
The only way you'll know for sure is to examine the stats. Ask the agency about the site's conversion rate, traffic volume and source, and cart abandonment numbers.
When you say 1,000 users per month, is that the total traffic? If so, you have an issue with the agency's marketing strategy. Also, even though it's a low number from which to glean a true picture, I'd say the conversation rate is well below what you should expect from a well-targeted traffic program.
Yes the total traffic is around 1000 per month. We get about 30 visits per day.
Yep, that's your problem. Far too low to draw any conclusions about the number of products in your store.
No, the problem is definitely not in the number of products. If your products are quality, useful and unique, and you have a good marketing strategy, they will sell.
Agency didn't do it's homework when it comes to on-page & off-page SEO. You should find someone that will improve your page ranking.
You can sell with a store that only has 5 products and still make sales. There are so many factors that affect sale especially your store trust factor. Your google shopping ads and FB ads have to be optimized. It is not easy making profit with your first ad. The goal is to break even with them and your retargeting ads is what brings in the profit.
Wow, that might be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Tell the "My Pillow" company that they can't be successful unless they have 300+ products. Or how about Crocs or Zippo or WD-40? They are single product companies that have done extremely well. In fact, I'd venture to guess that the vast majority of successful companies in the world have far less than 50 products.
I think that most individuals who have had success in eCommerce will tell you that they have far fewer than 300 products on their website. We've built more than 100 successful websites that carried 50 products or less.
Your agency is just flat-out wrong. Nice excuse, though!
The actual problem you are experiencing is that you apparently never figured out what your maximum cost per conversion is - something you should know BEFORE you ever run a single ad. After paying your wholesale cost, your shipping cost and employee cost (even if that employee is you, you need to figure out what your time processing an order is worth), how much profit do you make on a sale? Then, at a 2% conversion rate, what is the maximum you can spend on clicks in order to come under that maximum cost per conversion? (e.g. If average profit per sale after paying for all of the above is $30 and your conversion rate is 2%, your maximum cost per click is going to be 60 cents - the break even point. If you are paying more than that known maximum cost per click, you are guaranteed to lose money).
Start by selling products that you have. Do proper marketing have customer reviews or ask your friends or relatives to post best and helpful reviews.
Perhaps a few more products would be handy and you could use them as an upsell or downsell!
There are so many stores that have just 20 products that are killing it!
You can have a successful site with one product.
The key is to send the correct traffic... people who are looking for one or more of those nine products.
Look, if you sold cold water (just one product), you'll have no problem if you were on a hot beach. Yet industry professionals will tell you that you need a fully stocked store to be successful in retail.
The key is to find the needs of your customers, and stand in front of them with your products.
I am not saying that the agency wrong, they know about building out a retail store, and you want to just sell single bottles of water. Get it?
If you have been losing money for a year it's (beyond) time to try something different. You don't need to take your website down since it should be costing you less than ten bucks a month (if the agency is providing your website, it's time to change that - own your own web property!).
You may want to try social media marketing... and I am not referring to paid ads. Also strengthen your SEO and organic traffic efforts. Do this in conjunction to your Amazon selling.
Okay then, the sale of 60 units per day via Amazon works and is paying for itself and giving return.
Your web site needs nine pages for nine products, a fast and efficient sales platform (ie, wordpress with woo commerce) and an SEO expert that has an in-depth understanding of your products to get them in front people genuinely interested in using your products.
An efficient basic web site to sell nine products should not cost much (10-30 per month depending on platform). The only other cost is site service, maintenance, updating by an admin, which may be you, an employee or contracted pro to increase sales from your site (100-300 per month).
Any advertising or seo tweaking would be in addition to the above very basic costs for your own web site.
Even if you do nothing with your own web site, at the very least retain it and use it as best as you can for the time being, but your eventual goal is to use it generate more sales than what it is now!
I have done 1k in sales with 35% profit easily with 5 products inside one "collection". Heres how you should do it: find one product that has many upsells. Lemme give you example, RC Toys. You can put your winner product RC toy and put upsells like rc parts, additional gear, camera if plausible ect. You should use this link to add "related products". The only thing you have to chnage is from "related products" to "frequently bought together". You can change it in code without know much code.
NOTE: U should use one of your Upsell apps increases AOV by good percentage.
Thats how simple you can make 1k revenue with only 5 products in store. Just highly interested traffic funneled to winner + freqboughtwith + Upsell and free shipping over 75$.
A rhetorical question for you. Has your marketing agency done anything to help you capture the information of those Amazon buyers? If not, why? This seems to me to be one of the first things they should have thought of.
1. Registration Info: Have them come register the product they purchase from you for some kind of warranty/free replacement offer. Have the registration done through a form on your website. One of the required fields you should have for that registration is their email address. When they register, have it setup by default to allow you to send them emails. Make them have to click something to not be sent promotional and informational emails.
2. Discount: Offer them a huge discount to get another product from you. A discount for any product, or a closely related product that compliments the one they just purchased. But only set the coupon up to work on your website. Put your website address on there and that the coupon is only valid on your website. Require an email address as part of the checkout process.
Do one or both of these, and many of the customers who have purchased from Amazon will become your customers too. Here is how this becomes huge.
You now have a way to reach those customer for FREE with other offers in the future, forever! Nurture that email list and send them cooking tips, recipies, funny cooking videos, etc 2 or 3 times a week. Then maybe once a week or once every other week (depending on what you are comfortable with starting out) send them an offer for one of your other products.
If you can, tie that product in to one or more of the recipies that you send that week. Mix the offer for that product into the ad copy for the recipie and it comes across as not being "salesy" but helpful. Then at the end of that week, make a blatant offer for that product and offer a discount to anyone who has not already purchased it earlier in the week. If they purchased it earlier in the week, have the autoresponder remove them from that weeks discounted offer.
You can also send them surveys at any point you are considering developing a new product. You then have your own focus group of happy customers who love your products. Tell them you are developing a new product, and ask them what they wish that product had, could do, color it was, etc. Let them tell you what they want. Then take those responses to decide how you are going to develop that product.
Yes and Ill be honest you should not start out with a main store page! I made the same mistake when starting out! The problem is after you drive the traffic to your store from your ad they will have many places to go and get lost on your site tons of options to choose from and things to add to their carts. THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT! You want them to come to your page from the ad about say scuba gear for example and see a description of the gear they saw maybe a video then a buy button! No places to get lost. Or carts to fill. Just a buy button. Then after that hit them with direct up-sells related to the product they just bought. This can be accomplished very well in platforms like click-funnels which Is honestly my recommendation for this kind of page. Hope this helps and blows your mind as much as It blew mine. Clickfunnels is amazing btw I use it in promoting my own system and its such a better option then shopify!
Number of Products has nothing to do with your conversion.
that's non-sense. Why 300 products? Where did they get that number from?
It all depends on the website branding and promotion with those 10 products. Suppose you have a good traffic on your e-commerce website, that matters a lot. On the other side, Putting up genuine, quality product with reasonable pricing will definitely attract users to buy one of those. So it is very important to grab the right marketing strategy related to the product promotion and bravo! You can surely run a successful e-commerce website.
I used to have many products on my site, but I got the most success when I made my store as a one product store. Means the whole site promotes only one special product.
So your agency needs 300 product to increase traffic & sales, seriously?
They're not able to come up the results that's why they're giving this kind of reason.
I will suggest you either change your agency or you can add 10-15 more products for more variety & options for your buyers.
If you need any help to switch to any other agency, feel free to shot me a message!
You say conversion rate is 1.96 but from where?
What is the conversion rate from Facebook? What is the conversion rate from Google? What is the conversion rate from organic search? What is the conversion rate from repeat customers/direct referrals? That's where you start (actually where they should have stated).
And, of course, conversion rate is absolutely meaningless for paid advertising. You could have a 50% conversion rate but if you are paying 60% of your profit per click, you lose. The only thing that matters with paid ads is your cost per conversion. Is it more than your profit on a sale?
And, I have to ask, what Google ads? Are they text ads or Google Shopping ads or both? If both, you need to break those down to cost per conversion for each.
You'll see very quickly where the wasteful ad spending is and my guess is that it will be Facebook and Google text ads, but Google Shopping might actually be profitable. If Google Shopping is profitable, you should also be running ads on Bing Shopping.
Advertising is all about numbers and those numbers tell you exactly what to do. As I stated earlier in this thread, you have to know ahead of time what your maximum cost per conversion is and get rid of any source that exceeds that. | 2019-04-18T14:50:53 | https://www.warriorforum.com/ecommerce-sites-wholesaling-drop-shipping/1370090-can-you-run-successful-ecommerce-site-less-than-ten-products.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=discussion-list&utm_campaign=feed&utm_term=read-more |
0.999644 | Enter the last 7 digits to find that number in El Dorado, Arkansas.
Where is Area Code 870?
Area code (870) is in the state of Arkansas, and there are 6 cities in this area code. | 2019-04-23T12:40:23 | https://thisphone.us/870-area-code |
0.9987 | Should You Defrost Meat on the Counter or in the Refrigerator?
Does it really matter if you defrost meat on the counter or in the refrigerator or any other method? The short answer is yes. The long answer? It absolutely matters; countertop meat defrosting presents serious health risks and food safety issues, per the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to health experts, frozen foods remain safe indefinitely in their frozen state. However, during the thawing process, meat passes through what the USDA identifies as the "danger zone", temperatures ranging from 40 - 140 °F, where food poisoning can become a concern.
At these temperatures, any bacteria present before freezing could come back to life and begin to multiply. So does your thawing method matter? If you care about harmful bacteria, it does. That's why USDA advises that meats never remain at room temperature for more than two hours. Keeping the meat at a constant temperature is important, and when leaving on the counter, your defrosting ground meat or boneless chicken breasts are at the whim of your home's fluctuating temperatures. The department also warns us of defrosting meat in hot water, which runs the same risks as the countertop method.
With the countertop method out of the way, here are three ways you can thaw food safely.
The safest, most convenient, and easiest method to defrost meat is to remove it from the freezer, place it in the refrigerator, and let it sit overnight. While the slowest, refrigerator thawing is the safest method. Also, the gradual process means your meat will thaw the most evenly this way, ensuring a delicious uniform taste.
Place in a large bowl to prevent a wet mess in your refrigerator while you're safe-defrosting that fresh meat for a delicious weeknight dinner. Don't rush this process, or else you'll lose all the benefits of the safest way to thaw meat.
The running cold water method offers a speedier solution than the refrigerator if you need dinner in a pinch. Here's how to defrost your meat in cold water.
Seal. First, ensure your frozen meat is in a leakproof plastic bag. You should swap the original packaging for a sealable ziplock bag just to be safe. Don't stuff larger cuts of meat into small packages, instead use the appropriate size bag.
Submerge. Next, submerge your sealed bag in a bowl of a cold tap water. Run the tap on a cold drizzle over the bowl to keep the water flowing. Defrosting could take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours depending on size.
Cook. After defrosting, meat should be cooked be immediately.
While the fastest and most convenient option for defrosting meat might seem like the microwave, experts don't recommend the microwave from a food safety standpoint. For instance, try fitting that whole turkey in there. Of all the defrosting methods, only microwaving cooks your meat as it thaws, which can result in an unevenly cooked final product.
This also means microwaving defrosting risks putting meat in the danger zone. The machine cooks meat at a temperature and rate that can allow bacteria to grow rapidly. If your microwave has a defrost setting, you can give it a go for small cuts of meat. For this reason, meat defrosted by the microwave thawing method must be cooked immediately. | 2019-04-19T07:15:40 | https://www.wideopeneats.com/should-you-defrost-meat-on-the-counter-or-in-the-refrigerator/ |
0.998893 | Annabelle Fritton: Treasure Hunter, Come for naught, It seems your dreams have fallen short.
Chelsea: For pirate though I may have been, I ventured for a change of scene.
Chelsea: Resolving to change my ways, From sailing seas to mounting plays.
Lucy: Writing many in this room, With Shakespeare as my on-De-ploom.
Lucy: In you of gold I humbly pray, You'll kindly take my final play.
Annabelle Fritton: Anound did you find it hard, to credit that I was the bard.
Annabelle Fritton: The timely truth may now unfold, That all the while I was... a girl.
It's really hard to rate St Trinian's 2. On the one hand, it is lively, sharp, and amusing, but on the other hand, the plot is a little disappointing. The film itself borders on the 'absolutely surreal' (mind you, it's a bit ironic to claim this against St Trinian's school, eh??), which somehow, I thought, made it a bit awkward to watch.
As ever, the stereotypes of teenage schoolgirls is strong, which adds to the overall enjoyment of the film, and as you can expect with your typical British comedy film, there are the odd pieces of play-on-words humour which you have to be quick to catch up on. Also watch out for references to famous films or other popular-culture references (you'll understand what I mean when you watch it).
Thus, I give this a rating of 6/10, mainly because of its overall cleverness and entertainment value. Would I recommend it? Yes I would; it's about time a comedy film had real humour in it, even if it is masked in a very bizarre plot. | 2019-04-26T14:48:45 | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210106/ |
0.99813 | LIMERICK’S Mary Immaculate College advanced to the semi final of the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup this Thursday with a 2-20 to 0-13 win over Cork IT.
Champions in 2016 and 2017, Mary I will now play NUI Galway in the semi final next Tuesday.
The Jamie Wall managed Limerick side led from the second minute when Gary Cooney goaled and they never looked in trouble.
The Limerick side beat Maynooth and DIT to reach the knockout stages and lined out with two Limerickmen in their team – Thomas Grimes (Na Piarsaigh) and Aaron Gillane (Patrickswell).
The Cork side lost to DUC but then regrouped to beat Waterford IT to reach the quarter final – CIT had 2017 Limerick All-Ireland winning U-21 full back, Daragh Fanning in their no3 shirt.
Mary Immaculate College were 1-4 to 0-1 ahead after five minutes and that was with the breeze favouring the Cork side.
By half time it was 1-10 to 0-6 to Mary Immaculate with Galway senior Thomas Monaghan helping himself to three points from play.
Aaron Gillane was to finish with nine points and had four in the opening half.
Also on the mark was wing back Thomas Grimes with a long range effort to close the scoring for the Limerick side who were eight points clear at one stage of the opening half.
Cork IT appeared to up their intensity in the second half but Mary Immaculate saw off their early challenge and finished back on top.
It was 1-14 to 0-10 after 10-minutes of the second half.
Mary Immaculate had Gillane, Colin Guilfoyle and Micheal O’Loughlin all on target to ease the lead out to 1-16 to 0-12 entering the final 10-minutes.
Cork senior Luke Meade sealed the impressive win in injury time with a cracking goal to book a semi final spot.
SCORERS: Mary Immaculate: Aaron Gillane 0-9 (5frees, 1 ’65, 1lineball), Thomas Monaghan 0-4, Gary Cooney 1-1, Luke Meade 1-0, Philip Hickey 0-2, Colin O’Brien, Thomas Grimes, Colin Guilfoyle, Micheal O’Loughlin 0-1 each. CIT: Josh Beausang 0-7 (6frees), Andrew Coffey and Shane Cummins 0-2 each, Brian Everard and Conal Donovan 0-1 each.
MARY IMMACULATE: Eoghan Cahill (Offaly); Eoghan Ryan (Tipperary), David Prendergast (Waterford), Seamus Downey (Clare); Craig Morgan (Tipperary), Darren Browne (Cork), Thomas Grimes (Na Piarsaigh, Limerick); Philip Hickey (Tipperary), Luke Meade (Cork); Colin Guilfoyle (Clare), Aaron Gillane (Patrickswell, Limerick), Colin O’Brien (Cork); Thomas Monaghan (Galway), Micheal O’Loughlin (Clare); Gary Cooney (Clare). Subs: Brian Buckley (Cork) for Eoghan Ryan (37mins), Sean Burke (Cork) for Micheal O’Loughlin (50mins), Eimhin Kelly (Offaly) for Gary Cooney (54mins), Stephen Farrell (Kilkenny) for Colin O’Brien (57mins).
CORK IT: Patrick Collins (Cork); Eoin Healy (Cork), Daragh Fanning (Pallasgreen, Limerick), Kevin Galvin (Kilkenny); Daniel Harrington (Cork), Enda Heffernan (Tipperary), Conor Prunty (Waterford); John Good (Cork), David Noonan (Cork); Brian Everard (Cork), John Cooper (Cork), Shane Cummins (Cork); Josh Beausang (Cork), Andrew Coffey (Tipperary), Ryan Walsh (Cork). Subs: William Hurley (Cork) for John Cooper (h-t), Kevin Duggan (Kilkenny) for John Good (55mins), John Elsted (Waterford) for Ryan Walsh (57mins). | 2019-04-24T09:56:15 | http://limerickgaa.ie/mary-immaculate-have-13-points-to-spare-to-set-up-a-limerick-galway-fitzgibbon-cup-semi-final/ |
0.999851 | Recall that logistic regression produces a decimal between 0 and 1.0. For example, a logistic regression output of 0.8 from an email classifier suggests an 80% chance of an email being spam and a 20% chance of it being not spam. Clearly, the sum of the probabilities of an email being either spam or not spam is 1.0.
Softmax extends this idea into a multi-class world. That is, Softmax assigns decimal probabilities to each class in a multi-class problem. Those decimal probabilities must add up to 1.0. This additional constraint helps training converge more quickly than it otherwise would.
Softmax is implemented through a neural network layer just before the output layer. The Softmax layer must have the same number of nodes as the output layer.
Figure 2. A Softmax layer within a neural network.
Click the dropdown arrow to see the Softmax equation.
Note that this formula basically extends the formula for logistic regression into multiple classes.
Full Softmax is the Softmax we've been discussing; that is, Softmax calculates a probability for every possible class.
Candidate sampling means that Softmax calculates a probability for all the positive labels but only for a random sample of negative labels. For example, if we are interested in determining whether an input image is a beagle or a bloodhound, we don't have to provide probabilities for every non-doggy example.
Full Softmax is fairly cheap when the number of classes is small but becomes prohibitively expensive when the number of classes climbs. Candidate sampling can improve efficiency in problems having a large number of classes.
You may not use Softmax.
You must rely on multiple logistic regressions.
For example, suppose your examples are images containing exactly one item—a piece of fruit. Softmax can determine the likelihood of that one item being a pear, an orange, an apple, and so on. If your examples are images containing all sorts of things—bowls of different kinds of fruit—then you'll have to use multiple logistic regressions instead. | 2019-04-19T16:51:48 | https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/multi-class-neural-networks/softmax |
0.998749 | Yields 4 (10-inch) pizzas or 8 individual (5-inch) pizzas.
To make the dough: Place flour, sugar, salt and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Mix on low speed for 30 seconds to combine. With mixer running on low speed, add water and olive oil, and mix for 1 minute to combine. Increase speed to medium and process until dough forms a slightly sticky ball, about 1 to 2 minutes. If ball does not form, add more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, and continue mixing until ball forms. Coat a large mixing bowl with a thin film of olive oil. Transfer dough ball to prepared mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rest until doubled in volume, about 1-½ to 2 hours.
Once dough is ready, press it gently to remove air bubbles, and turn out on a lightly floured work surface. Using a bench scraper, divide dough into 8 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a tight ball, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and allow dough to rest for 15 minutes before baking.
Place a pizza stone in the lower third of your oven, and preheat the oven to 500 degrees. Allow the pizza stone to preheat for at least 30 minutes.
Once your stone is preheated, you can start rolling out your dough. Dust work surface with flour. Flatten one dough ball to a thickness of ½ inch, and roll to a diameter of about 5 inches, keeping the remaining dough covered. Transfer to a parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet and cover with another piece of parchment. Continue rolling dough balls and placing on the baking sheet, separating layers of rolled dough with additional sheets of parchment, as needed. Cover stack of dough rounds with plastic wrap and set aside.
Sprinkle a pizza peel with some cornmeal and place a dough round on the peel. Give the peel a little shake to make sure that the dough moves freely and is not sticking. Using a pastry brush, lightly brush about 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over the pizza base. Sprinkle with some salt, garlic and rosemary. Grate some of each of the cheeses onto the dough. Part of the fun of making pizzas at home is being creative. If there is one cheese you like more than the rest, go a little heavy with that cheese.
Open the oven and slide the pizza off of the peel onto the pizza stone. Allow your pizza to cook until you have reached your desired crust. Remove the pizza from the oven and place on a cutting board. If you let the pizza rest for 1 to 2 minutes it will be easier to cut. | 2019-04-20T20:44:55 | https://www.surlatable.com/product/REC-254657/Pizza+Bianco+with+Four+Cheeses?cat=_ |
0.999225 | http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- JUSTICE may have been done last week to Gen. Radislav Krstic at the Hague. There the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) convicted the 53-year-old Bosnian Serb commander of "genocide" and sentenced him to 46 years in prison for his role in Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War.
That was the five-day July 1995 massacre, using guns and hand grenades, of more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims -- men and boys considered of fighting age -- who had sought refuge in the town of Srebrenica. The United Nations, with criminal incompetence, declared the town a "safe haven" but refused to authorize its forces to defend it against the Serbs.
Justice may have been done, in the sense that Krstic is getting punishment he deserves. However, is this justice "under law"?
The presiding judge said Krstic was convicted because he "agreed to evil." Krstic certainly did. However, he was convicted of something more specific -- genocide. That is defined in international law as acts intended to "destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group."
Krstic's lawyers argued that the massacre was not genocide because women, children and the elderly were exempted.
Their point may seem contemptibly technical, but technicalities matter in law. So while considering what happened at the Hague, consider what happened at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in October 1946. There, just 17 months after V-E Day, Ohio Sen. Robert Taft, a leading presidential aspirant, spoke against the Nuremberg Tribunal that had sentenced to death 12 leading Nazis.
After Taft's father, former President William Howard Taft, became chief justice he presided over construction of the Supreme Court building, on which he caused to have carved the words "Equal Justice Under Law." At Kenyon College Robert Taft said the Nuremberg trials were lawless.
Taft was no crank. After his death in 1953 he was voted by the Senate as one of five members of that body's Hall of Fame (the others were John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and Robert La Follette). John Kennedy included Taft among his "Profiles in Courage" because Taft dared to dissent from the overwhelming public approval of the Nuremberg trials.
Taft said he would almost rather the Nazis had been executed by court-martial, or imprisoned, as Napoleon was, as a matter of policy to prevent them from making postwar trouble. Either policy would have been preferable to using "the forms of justice to carry out a predetermined policy."
The trials were, he said, lawless because they "violate that fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute. ... About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice."
About vengeance, Taft erred. Of course one purpose of the trials was vengeance. More precisely, it was to civilize vengeance.
Hermann Goering was not going to grow old sipping coffee in Berlin cafes. Leading Nazis were going to be killed. It would have been done by vengeful vigilantes if it had not been done with Nuremberg's patina of judicial sanction, albeit a sanction stained by the participation of representatives of the Soviet regime that had been Hitler's ally when he launched the war.
There is more to criminal justice than vengeance, but Taft seemed to deny that vengeance is an inextricable component of criminal punishment.
In fact, punishment, properly understood, must be in part retribution, and retribution is logically inseparable from the idea of vengeance. A criminal justice system is supposed to make the expression of vengeance an orderly and dignified result of laws that give due notice of what behavior is criminal.
However, Taft raised a serious question about an improvised tribunal floating free of the governance of a particular nation and its legal system. And there are today serious questions about ad hoc uses of judicial forums created in response to particular events, forms such as the ICTFY and the tribunal concerning genocide in Rwanda.
Both were created by the U.N. Security Council, although the U.N. Charter mentions no authority to create such entities. The Rwandan tribunal is considering crimes committed within one country and against that country's citizens.
These tribunals are supposed to enforce the "international community's" norms of justice, which are said to be evolving rapidly. But who constitutes that community (Sudan? North Korea?)? Who decides what the norms are at any moment? And if they are in evolutionary flux, can they be the basis of law?
A successor to Robert Taft should raise such questions. | 2019-04-26T11:56:41 | http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will080901.asp |
0.999191 | Adam Kearns claims he owned a gun for his own protection against his mother, "Black Widow'' Helen Milner.
The son of Christchurch's infamous Black Widow has narrowly avoided jail for possessing a gun he claimed was to protect him from his mother.
Adam Kearns, the son of convicted murderer Helen Milner, appeared in Christchurch District Court this afternoon.
He earlier pleaded guilty to a representative charge of selling the class A drug cannabis, possession of cannabis, and unlawful possession of a gun.
Kearns was surrounded by supporters in the public gallery.
Judge David Saunders accepted his disturbing upbringing had led him into a life of crime, but that was no longer a licence to flout the law.
He sentenced him to eight months of home detention, 150 hours of community work, and ordered him to undertake psychological assistance.
Kearns, 23, was arrested in an armed raid in the east of Christchurch in November after police suspected he was dealing drugs.
He told police he had the gun because his mother, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of her second husband Phil Nisbet, had wanted him killed.
"My old lady is paying for a hit to be put on me," he said at his first court appearance.
The police summary of facts said Kearns was at his Southshore home with two friends on November 21 last year when they caught him selling drugs.
Kearns sold some marijuana to an associate who was stopped by police soon after leaving the address about 1.20pm.
Officers found him in possession of 11 large snaplock sandwich bags amounting to about 300g of dried cannabis.
Ten minutes later, a female associate walked out of Kearns' house and was found with 96g of cannabis leaf that she admitted buying from him for $1400.
Another man was caught buying a $20 "tinnie" about 1.50pm.
Kearns left the house with two females 10 minutes later and was swooped on by police.
A warrantless search of his house was conducted by police under the Search and Surveillance Act 2012.
A cut down single-barrelled sawn-off shotgun was found in a black backpack inside his wardrobe. Kearns is not the holder of a firearms licence.
Also in the wardrobe was a 20 litre plastic bucket containing nine snaplock bags of "good quality dried cannabis head" weighing about 249g.
A large supermarket bag was also in the bucket with a further 174g of similar-quality cannabis, which had not been packaged for sale.
In explanation, Kearns admitted joint custody of the firearm, stating he had it for his own safety. He owned up to selling the cannabis, the summary said.
In November, Kearns -- who testified against his mother in her murder trial last year -- won $55,000 from Milner after she framed him and put him behind bars.
Kearns was arrested and spent 18 days in custody, including his 19th birthday, while it is alleged that police took 13 days to carry out a search warrant which would eventually clear his name.
Milner is currently serving a life term with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for the murder of Mr Nisbet in 2009.
An appeal to the Supreme Court against her convictions was recently dismissed.
At sentencing, Kearns' lawyer Clare Hislop told Judge Saunders that Kearns was selling the drugs "to raise money to get out of Christchurch".
She said he had the unloaded gun for intimidation while selling drugs, and also as protection.
Police accepted a conversation took place informing Kearns of alleged threats, but could not take the matter further because there was a lack of credible witnesses.
Ms Hislop said his difficult and disturbing upbringing was well known, which has seen him become a victim, witness and defendant against his own mother, but he now had a supportive partner, family and employer to get his life back on track.
Judge Saunders told him he now had a chance to put his past behind him, and use the support he now has to build a better future.
The judge took Kearns' guilty plea and remorse into account in setting his sentence. | 2019-04-25T04:34:48 | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11436851 |
0.999979 | What does the software license entitle me to?
With a license for the OpenVPN Access Server program you can unlock a certain amount of simultaneous VPN tunnel connections to your OpenVPN Access Server installation. You also get access to our professional support via the support ticket system. You are expected to provide your own server with the OpenVPN Access Server program installed on it, or to hire a server or a cloud based virtual system like Amazon AWS or such with the OpenVPN Access Server program installed on it.
If your Access Server is not licensed, it will only function in a sort of demonstration mode where only 2 simultaneous VPN connections are allowed. To allow more, a license is required.
Please also note that having a license does not mean you can connect to one of our servers. A license key is meant for an OpenVPN Access Server installation on a server you provide and manage. Purchasing and having a license key does not mean that you can connect to openvpn.net with your OpenVPN client program. That is not a service we offer on openvpn.net. However if you are looking for a VPN termination service where you can connect your computer to an already existing VPN server for the purposes of securing your Internet traffic, take a look at our offering called Private Tunnel instead. But if you want to set up your own OpenVPN server based on our OpenVPN Access Server product, and need more than 2 simultaneous connections, then purchasing a license for OpenVPN Access Server is the way to go. | 2019-04-22T08:43:44 | https://openvpn.net/faq/what-does-the-software-license-entitle-me-to/ |
0.998975 | An important task of adolescence is to find a valued place in a constructive peer group. Given this, group therapy is a natural setting for teens to develop the skills needed for continued maturation.
The purpose of this group is to help teens explore the conflicts, tensions and challenges confronting adolescents as they continue to find their way in the world. Conflicts with peers and authority figures will also be explored as they arise in the "here and now" of group life. | 2019-04-19T10:30:52 | http://brianashin.com/adolescent_group_therapy |
0.999999 | Is there a quick/easy way to do this (for at least a rough estimate) ?
I'm benchmarking algorithms and I thought it would be cool to know the absolute speed at which my computer is executing instructions and compare that with my asymptotic analysis.
If you want to know what your CPU can do, then look at the documentation. Your CPU vendor specifies the latency and throughput of all instructions, as well as a variety of other information (how many instructions can be issued or retired per cycle, cache latencies and much more). Based on this, you can compute the theoretical peak throughput.
If you want to do what your CPU is actually doing then run your own code and measure its performance.
This is a typical case of "In theory, theory and practice is the same, in practice they are not".
Modern CPU's have very sophisticated logic in them, which means that the ACTUAL number of operations performed is different from what you'd think from just looking at code or thinking about the problem [unless you have a brain the size of a small planet and know how that particular CPU works]. For example, a processor may speculatively execute instructions on one or another side of a branch, even if it hasn't quite got to the branch - if that's the "wrong" side, then it will discard the results of those instructions - but of course it took time to execute them.
Instructions are also executed out of order, which means that it's hard to predict exactly which instruction will execute when. There are some exceptions.
You will only get (anywhere near) the theoretical throughput if you are pushing data and instructions through all the available execution units at once - this means having the right mix of instructions, and of course ALL of the code and data in caches.
So, in theory we could stuff the processor full of instructions that maxes it out, by writing very clever code. In practice, that turns very very very quickly into a hard task.
However, the question is about measuring the throughput of instructions, and on modern CPU's, this is very much possible with the right extra software. On linux perftool or oprofile, for windows there is Intel's VTune and AMD's Code Analyst. These will allow you (subject to sufficient privileges) to fetch the "performance counters" in the processor, which has counters for "number of instructions", "number of float operatons", "number of cache misses", "branch mispredicted" and many, many other measurements of processor performance. So given a sufficient length of runtime (at least a few seconds, preferrably more), you can measure the actual count or clock cycles that a processor performs.
In practice these days, the effective number of instructions depends primarily on memory latency, which is the main bottleneck on performance. Waiting for data is bad. Processors can alleviate this problem somewhat with techniques such as caching, pipelining and concurrency, but the issue remains and will only get worse over time.
Proper implementation can make a huge difference. You may want to check out this question about cache-friendly code.
Modern CPUs are pipelining instruction processing, so there is no constant as such.
You could however, read out number of CPU ticks at start of your algo and at the end. I think this is as low level as you can get with such measuring.
You can use Perf tool in Linux. It is easy to use.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged c++ c algorithm sorting benchmarking or ask your own question. | 2019-04-26T13:12:39 | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18308330/how-can-you-test-how-many-instructions-per-second-your-computer-can-do |
0.99995 | A new report - Scottish Scamon: How foreign interests control 99% of 'Scottish' salmon farming - lifts the lid on how investors in Norway, Canada, Switzerland, Cyprus, Luxembourg, United States, Monaco and Ukraine have hijacked Scotland's iconic fish.
"Scottish salmon is made in Norway, registered in offshore tax havens like Jersey and owned by investors in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Belgium, Canada, Monaco, Ukraine, the United States and Norway," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch. "So-called 'Scottish' salmon is a sham, scam and a consumer con. A staggering 99% of salmon farming production in Scotland is controlled by the foreign-owned companies Mowi (formerly called Marine Harvest), The Scottish Salmon Company, Scottish Sea Farms, Grieg Seafood, Cooke Aquaculture and Loch Duart. Foreign interests are abusing Scotland's pristine image and flying the flag of convenience as a vehicle to flog cheap and nasty Scottish salmon."
"Shoppers are being duped into buying counterfeit salmon in a rigged game of Salmonopoly," continued Staniford. "It comes as no surprise to see the European Commission's antitrust investigators raiding Norwegian-owned salmon farming companies in Scotland as part of a probe into alleged illegal cartels and price-fixing."
Scottish Salmon Watch's investigation was prompted by a recipe in Scottish Field magazine in November 2018 which asked: "What Could Be More Scottish Than Whisky-Infused Salmon?"
Nothing could be further from the truth, however. The recipe for Scottish salmon (and whisky for that matter) is almost completely foreign.
"Decades of foreign incursion have turned the Scotch whisky industry into a fiefdom of the major conglomerates," reported The Herald in 2009 in an article "Who Owns Our Whisky?". Forbes reported in 2016 that less than a quarter of Scotch whisky distilleries were owned by Scottish companies. The Daily Record reported in 2016 that "just 29 out of the 118 production plants are owned north of the Border".
So if foreign ownership of Scotch whisky is less than 25% how much of the Scottish salmon farming industry is owned by Scottish companies? The answer lies buried on p31 of the 'Scottish Fish Farm Production Survey 2017' published by the Scottish Government in October 2018.
Shockingly, it turns out that all six companies are controlled by foreign investors. In other words, just 1% of Scottish farmed salmon is actually Scottish-controlled! The Norwegian multinationals Mowi (controlled by Norway's richest man and Cyprus tax exile John Fredriksen), Scottish Sea Farms (a subsidiary of Norwegian-owned Norskott Havbruk AS which is jointly owned by SalMar and Leroy) and Grieg Seafood together control ca. two-thirds (65%) of 'Scottish' salmon farming production.
Swiss-owned The Scottish Salmon Company (16%), Canadian-owned Cooke Aquaculture (15%) and US-owned Loch Duart (3%) control the other third (with Scottish-owned Wester Ross Fisheries controlling the other 1%).
That means well over 200 of Scotland's 226 salmon farms are not Scottish at all despite the Scottish-sounding names of Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company (registered to the Swiss Stock Exchange but believed to be controlled by Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Lopatynskyy whose most genuine claim to Scottishness is being a neighbour of the First Minister of Scotland in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh). Even Loch Duart - believed by many to be Scottish with shareholders including Scottish Enterprise - is actually controlled by US-based Canadian businessman and Hollywood producer Jeff Skoll.
"There is great irony in the fact that Norwegian firms are marketing Scottish salmon by telling the story of our pristine waters, whilst polluting those now not so pristine waters," wrote Sara Nason of Sea Change Wester Ross in a message to MSPs last month.
The Scottish Salmon Company is registered to an anonymous bank account housed by the Swiss Stock Exchange believed to be controlled by secretive Ukrainian banker Yuriy Lopatynskyy.
Scottish Sea Farms is 50% owned by the Norwegian companies Leroy and SalMar (the latter controlled by the world's youngest male billionaire, Gustav Magnar Witzøe).
Mowi (formerly called Marine Harvest) is controlled by Norway's richest man John Fredriksen who lives as a tax exile in Cyprus and is ranked 228th richest man with a fortune of $10.9 billion according to Forbes.
Grieg Seafood is Norwegian-owned and registered on the Norwegian stock exchange.
Cooke Aquaculture is Canadian-owned with investment from Norwegian and Icelandic banks.
Loch Duart's largest shareholder is Canadian businessman and Hollywood film producer Jeff Skoll (executive producer of 'Roma' - nominated for 10 Academy Awards).
Today (24 February 2019), Scottish Salmon Watch launched a new campaign - 'Scottish Scamon' - with a documentary film coming out later in 2019. | 2019-04-18T23:00:53 | https://ecohustler.com/article/scottish-scamon/ |
0.996886 | Jeanne modified this recipe, based on others. She added vanilla and sea salt.
Recipe relies on something like a double-boiler so as not to burn the chocloate. A metal bowl that can sit atop a saucepan of boiling water works too.
Recipe seemed to make between 1-1/2 to 2 cups of sauce; easily enough for 8-10 servings of ice cream!
1. Heat water in saucepan (or lower part of a double-boiler) until steaming but not boiling.
2. Break chocolate into pieces.
3. Put all ingredients in a metal bowl (or in the top part of a double-boiler) and let melt over a low heat. Make sure that the water in the saucepan (double-boiler, bain-marie) never boils.
4. Stir constantly until the sauce has the thickness of a pudding.
5. Let cool slightly, pour into large measuring cup or gravy boat for easier serving. | 2019-04-25T10:10:04 | http://yummyliciousness.blogspot.com/2011/09/homemade-hot-fudge-sauce.html |
0.999227 | Preparation is the first thing that should come in your mind before you going to do any thing. Here is a persuasive essay outline as it should be.
Your introduction should be focused on gaining the attention of the reader. Make it quick and snappy.
Use at least one piece of evidence to support the argument you have presented.
Use at least one piece of evidence to support this argument.
Using the third argument you mentioned in your introduction, Build up an introduction sentence.
Once you have done this, use evidence to show why this opposing viewpoint is incorrect.
Sum up why the argument is incorrect and why your argument is stronger.
Use a strong closing statement. Something that will not only keep the reader thinking, but also finish in your persuasion.
Outline for a persuasive essay: A step by step format.
Why is this argument incorrect? | 2019-04-23T10:46:39 | https://persuasivepapers.com/persuasive-essay-outline/ |
0.9988 | When I was a young I used to play pool a lot, from about age 7 up until I graduated college. I have been wanting to buy a pool table for years, but living in an apartment didn't have the room. Well now I am looking to buy a house and am specifically searching homes with enough space for a pool table.
The one house I am seriously considering has an area that is about 19'4 x 14'4 1/2", which I believe would fit a 9' table, but will probably get an 8' table, since if I ever have to move an 8' table would be easier to find a room to fit.
I would also prefer solid wood and not manufactured wood, and wood veneer. I have had enough problems with other furniture where the veneer peeled or the edges got damaged easily. My budget is $4000, which includes the pool table, overhead light, cues, rack, chalk, etc.
What are some good brands to look at, and which brands to avoid?
There are only a few places that sell pool tables in Columbus Ohio, and the salesman at the one place I visited so far, Billiards Plus, recommended Olhausen and Brunswick. The tables look great and from a bit of research seem to be the top line, but I don't want to limit my self to just those companies. So any other recommendations would be appreciated.
The price of the Olhausen is 2999.95, it's solid wood, and not manufactured board, and includes balls, 4 cue sticks, rack, and pool cue stand, either floor or wall mounted, as well as upgraded felt.
The Brunswick is about the same, but $3595. Brunswick uses bolts instead of screws, and even though I don't plan on moving the table for years, you never know. Is that much of an issue I need to worry about. The Olhausen is about $600 cheaper, and manufactured in the US, and because of that would like to support them more, but if having bolts is better, I would rather spend the $600 more.
Another place I am planning on visiting tomorrow is Boston Tables, a manufacturer located in Columbus, Ohio.
I haven't been able to find any reviews of this company, if anyone has one or worked on one know, especially if you have had to repair one. The prices is about half the price of the Brunswick , but not sure about the quality. I would rather spend $3600 on a table and not have to spend anything else 5 years from now, than spend $1800 now and have a lot of repair work to do 5 years from now.
Here are the tables I am considering from Brunswick and Boston.
I can't find the exact match to the store room on Olhausen's site but it looks like it was either the Montrachet or Eclipse.
I forgot to add. How heavy would I expect such a table to weigh? I would guess well over 500 lbs because of the slate. The reason I ask, is because one house I looked at has a large enough dining room to fit a 7' pool table, but I think the weight would be too much.
I went back to the store again to get some more models, and here are the ones I am considering.
Olhausen Augusta or Santa Ana from the Signature Series. I kind of like a bit of the look of both, so the dealer mentioned I can change the feet and color on either one to get what I like.
There is also Legacy Kacy. which isn't shown on their web site, or the Winston. I haven't seen much information on the Legacy, and the prices are about the same as the Olhausen and Brunswick so wonder if there is any reason to get one.
Also I have an option if I get the Olhausen to use the Brunswick felt for the same price. The dealer said the Brunswick wears better and is teflon coated, but what would others suggest. | 2019-04-19T07:07:38 | http://www.billiardsforum.com/choosing-a-pool-table/planning-on-buying-a-pool-table |
0.999973 | Follow these instructions to order an SSL Certificate from (mt) Media Temple. (mt) Media Temple utilizes Domain Validated SSL certificates from a third-party provider.
1. Log into your Account Center.
2. Click Domains from the menu at the top of the screen and select Add New Domain or Service.
3. Scroll down to the Add-On Services section, and click Activate next to SSL Certificate.
4. Confirm that your shopping cart has the correct items in it and click Checkout.
5. Select your previously stored payment method or enter new payment information. Once this is complete, review and agree to the terms of service and click Place Your Order. This will complete the purchase of your SSL.
1. Your next steps are to add the domain's contact info, verify, and install. To begin this process, navigate to the Account Center and scroll down to Add-On Services. Click the Manage button next to your newly purchased SSL.
2. Fill in the "Common name" with the domain name you wish to secure. If you are securing a domain such as www.example.com, please type your domain name in the box without the "www." prefix. Our SSL certificates will protect both the domain and the www. subdomain. If you would like to protect a specific subdomain such as secure.example.com, then you will need to enter the exact subdomain that you will be using with your new SSL certificate. Please be aware that the free Secure Site Seal will only show up for the exact domain name for which the SSL certificate was purchased.
3. Now we need to obtain contact information to be submitted to the SSL provider. Next, you will need to select a contact to act as owner of the SSL or enter the certificate owner's contact information. Then, click Continue.
Once you have submitted the information for your SSL, verification will be required. There are four ways you will be able to verify ownership of the domain you are trying to secure.
The domain validation only needs to be approved by ONE of these methods.
This method can be utilized if the DNS for the domain to be secured is hosted with Media Temple (i.e. your domain's name servers are pointed to ns1.mediatemple.net and ns2.mediatemple.net and associated with your account).
After filling out your SSL information, you will be presented with an AUTO-VERIFICATION button which can be clicked on to verify the SSL.
An email link will be sent to those addresses which can be clicked on to validate the SSL.
This method can be utilized if you have file access to your domain's web hosting.
When an SSL order is placed, an email with a unique ID will be sent to your Media Temple Primary Email Address.
Take the unique ID, and navigate to your domain’s root directory.
Copy only your unique ID, and place it inside the godaddy.html file.
That’s it! However, you may need to wait a bit of time for the verification to finish processing.
Your godaddy.html file MUST be placed on the subdomain. For example if you have an SSL for blog.example.com, you will want to put the godaddy.html file on blog.example.com/.well-known/pki-validation/godaddy.html and NOT example.com/.well-known/pki-validation/godaddy.html.
This method utilizes your zone files. To complete this, you will need to log into the account where your domain's nameservers are pointed. To see this information, you can perform a simple WHOIS lookup. For instructions, see this article.
For record type select "TXT".
If your zone files are managed at Media Temple, leave the subdomain field blank. Other hosts may require you to use an '@' in the subdomain field.
For the value following the subdomain, enter your Unique ID.
The unique code MUST be entered on the ROOT domain. For example even if you have an SSL for shop.example.com, you will want to put the TXT record on example.com and NOT shop.example.com.
Once this has been completed, save the file. Please keep in mind that verification could take up to 24 hours to complete. It is unlikely that verification will take 24 hours, but it can occur and is part of the normal verification process. You should also receive a second confirmation email once the certificate has been issued.
Return to the Overview page in the Account Center once you have verified your contact information and click on the Manage button for your SSL Certificate.
If you are ordering for most of our hosting services, we are able to automatically install the SSL certificate onto the server. To do this, select which service you wish to apply the certificate to and click Install.
If you are ordering for a DV Developer or (ve) server, or you do not want us to automatically, you will want to refer to the installing an SSL Certificate for instructions to manually install your SSL Certificate. | 2019-04-19T16:54:05 | https://mediatemple.net/community/products/wordpress/204404454/ordering-an-ssl-certificate-from-media-temple |
0.999999 | Prepare both a one-paragraph summary and a comprehensive description of the resource and its various elements as it exists today.
The Gardiner House is a two-and-a-half-story, five-bay structure designed in the Colonial Revival style in the early 1920s. The house, located at 9408 Juliette Drive, is sited on an expansive wooded lot in Clinton, Maryland, containing more than one acre. The lot is surrounded by dense residential development. The house is set back from Juliette Drive, which curves slightly around the property. A gravel driveway with a circular turnaround fronts the house and is accessed from Juliette Drive. The house is fronted with mature shrubs and trees. A shed is located to the rear of the house in the south corner of the lot.
The Gardiner House was constructed c. 1922 in the Colonial Revival style, which was the dominant style throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Set on a concrete foundation, the large two-and-a-half-story house is wood-frame construction. The five-bay wide structure is clad in weatherboard siding with corner boards, all of which is original to the house. A hipped roof with overhanging eaves caps the structure. Covered with asphalt shingles, the roof is pierced by an interior-side corbelled brick chimney. Front-gabled dormers with raked cornices are located on the façade and south rear elevation. Both dormers have paired 6-light casement windows flanked with louvered wood shutters.
The façade (north elevation) of the main block exhibits symmetrical fenestration. The central bay on the first story of the façade houses the main entrance. The single-leaf wood door has a square-edged surround and is bordered by 1-light sidelights. A one-story front-gabled portico, with a curved underside, frames the entrance. Tuscan columns support the portico. The entrance is flanked by two 6/1 windows. The second story of the façade features paired 4/4 windows in the central bay, which are flanked by two 6/1 windows. All windows on the façade have operable louvered wood shutters and ogee-molded lintels. The west (side) elevation has a set of four 6-light casement windows and two 6/1 windows on the first story. The second story of the west side elevation has three 6/1 windows. The south (rear) elevation, like the west (side) elevation, features a combination of window openings. The central bays of both the first and second stories have two 6-light casement windows. The first story has two 6/1 windows located to the east of the casement windows, while the second story has two 6/1 windows located on both sides of the casement windows. A one-story addition obscures the original windows on the western portion of the south elevation’s first story. Windows on the east (side) elevation are obscured by a two-story addition.
The materials used to construct the one-story porch addition indicate it was constructed c. 1940. The porch is located on the south (rear) elevation of the main block. Covered by a shed roof, the wood-frame porch is clad in weatherboard siding. The porch has screen panels on both the west side and south rear elevations. A single-leaf screened door on the south (rear) elevation of the porch provides access to the dwelling.
There is a two-story addition located on the east side elevation of the main block. Constructed c. 1950, as evidenced by its materials and form, the addition has a flat roof pierced by a chimney of brick construction. The structure is clad in vinyl siding, contrasting with the original materials on the main block. The façade has paired 1/1 vinyl windows on the first and second stories. The south rear elevation also has paired 1/1 vinyl windows on both the first and second stories. The west side elevation of the addition has double-leaf multi-light doors flanked by tripled 1/1 vinyl windows. The second story has eight 1/1 vinyl windows. The west side elevation also features pilasters running from the first-story windows to the roofline. The interior of the house was not accessible at the time of the on-site survey.
Located to the rear of the house is a one-story shed. The materials suggest a construction date of c. 1950. The wood-frame shed is one story high and one bay wide. The structure is clad with asbestos shingles and capped by a front gable roof. The roof, covered in asphalt shingles, has a raked cornice and overhanging eaves that display the shed’s exposed rafters. A single-leaf door on the north elevation provides access to the shed. The interior of the shed was not accessible at the time of the on-site survey.
The Gardiner House, which predates the residential subdivision that surrounds it, is an established and familiar visual feature of the neighborhood. Although the house is no longer associated with a farm, which compromises its integrity of association, its large, wooded lot visually and physically separates the property from the surrounding development, helping to maintain its integrity of location, feeling, and setting. The dwelling retains its original design, materials, and workmanship. An addition on the east (side) elevation of the house unmistakably reads as a modern addition and does not detract from the design or workmanship of the main block. Thus, the Gardiner House maintains sufficient integrity to convey the qualities for which it is significant.
The shed, associated with the Gardiner House, retains its integrity of materials, workmanship, design, setting, location, feeling, and association.
The Gardiner House and property retains a high level of integrity.
The Gardiner House, located at 9408 Juliette Drive, was constructed c. 1922 on an established, working farm. At the time the primary dwelling was built, the farm consisted of 209-¾ acres and illustrated the agricultural shift from large plantations to small farms that occurred in Prince George’s County during the last decades of the nineteenth century. The Colonial Revival-style Gardiner House stands out as a more high-style example of a farmhouse in Prince George’s County than the more commonly found vernacular I-house form. The Gardiner House maintains a high level of integrity, which helps the building convey its significance.
The Gardiner House is located in Clinton, Maryland, a community in the southern portion of Prince George’s County. Changes to the county’s economy that occurred from the end of the Civil War (1861-1865) to the turn of the twentieth century are still visible in the landscape of southern Prince George’s County. During this period, agriculture, while remaining the dominant form of livelihood, changed from large plantations to small farms. Freed blacks operated a large number of these small farms, but during the Reconstruction period, both white and black newcomers to the county purchased the majority of small farms.1 The Gardiner House was constructed on what was considered a small farm, which consisted of just 209-¾ acres. S.H. Evans of Pennsylvania had bought the farm in 1892.2 Evan’s purchase of the farm illustrates the trend of new residents to the county acquiring small farms.
The Evans family owned the property for more than twenty years before Evaline and Charles S. Evans, heirs of S.H. Evans, sold the farm to Rebecca Berger in 1915.3 Miss Berger, a Pennsylvania native, was 55 years old when she purchased the farm. In 1920, she was noted in the Federal Census as the head of her household, with no occupation.4 The farm changed hands again in 1922 when James St. Clair Gardiner of Iowa bought the property.5 Gardiner, a farmer by trade as indicated in the 1920 Federal Census, was a bachelor when he purchased the farm. Around 1922, James Gardiner had the Colonial Revival-style house that now stands at 9408 Juliette Drive constructed. By the time of the 1930 census, he was married to Johanna Gardiner, also a native of Iowa.6 In 1930, the couple had two children named Irene and James S. that were 3 and 2 years old, respectively. The census also stated James Gardiner’s occupation as a clerk for the Department of Justice.7 After purchasing the farm and constructing a house, James St. Clair Gardiner became an active member of the Clinton community. Gardiner served on the Board of Directors of the Clinton Bank.8 Gardiner’s occupational shift from farmer to clerk illustrates the growth occurring in the Washington, D.C. area at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the number of farms reduced and employment by the federal government increasing.
In 1935, Gardiner sold the farm. The subsequent four owners – Frederick and Loretta Bickford, Mark and Jean Massel, Chen and Helen Shang, and Elizabeth Pryde – owned the property for six years or less.9 Presumably, the property continued to operate as a working farm. The farm remained intact until 1956 when Elizabeth and John M. Pryde sold a 40-acre portion of the farm that included the house to the Clinton Realty Company, Inc.10 Under the ownership of the Clinton Realty Company and Pullander Construction Corporation, the subsequent owner, the farm was subdivided and developed as the Surratt’s Garden subdivision. The Gardiner House sits on a lot containing slightly more than one acre and is legally defined as “Lot 12 in Block D, Plat #1” of Surratt’s Garden. Although the house is currently surrounded by dense residential development comprised of one-story, brick-faced ranch houses, it continues to stand out as a significant feature of the Clinton community.
1920 and 1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Online: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Subscription database. Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC. http://www.ancestry.com.
King, Marina. “Gardiner House” (PG:81A-8) Maryland Historical Trust State Historic Sites Inventory Form, 1985.
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and Prince George’s County Planning Department, Historic Sites and Districts Plan, 1992.
Prince George’s County Land Records.
The Gardiner House is sited on a 1.18 acre lot, which was originally part of a 209-¾-acre farm. The farm was first subdivided in the 1950s and the size of the lot was reduced. The lot is bounded to the north by Juliette Drive, which curves to form a portion of the western boundary. The eastern boundary is a row of residential lots that face Small Drive. The southern boundary, again, is a row of residential lots that face Gwynndale Drive. One residential lot abuts the property, forming the western boundary. The Gardiner House has been associated with the lot now designated as Lot 12 in Block D, Plat #1 of Surratt’s Garden since its construction c. 1922.
and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.
Deed 1968:266 John M. and Elizabeth Ann Pryde to the Clinton Realty Company, Inc.
Photo: Gardiner House, view of the northwest corner, looking east.
Photo: Gardiner House, view of the façade (north elevation), looking south.
Photo: Shed, view of the northwest elevation, looking southeast.
1 Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and Prince George’s County Planning Department, Historic Sites and Districts Plan (1992), B-4.
2 S.H. Evans, Prince George’s County Land Records, Deed JWB 23:185. S.H. Evans could not be located in the 1890, 1900, or 1910 U.S. Federal Census.
3 Charles S. and Evaline Evans to Rebecca Berger, Prince George’s County Land Records, Deed 108: 231.
4 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Surratts, Prince Georges, Maryland, Series T625, Roll 674, Page 4B, Enumeration District 80, Rebecca Berger.
5 Rebecca Berger to James St. Clair Gardiner, Prince George’s County Land Records, Deed 191:409.
6 When James Gardiner sold the farm in 1935, the deed indicates his wife’s name was Catherine. However, the 1930 census lists his wife as Johanna. It is possible Gardiner was remarried by 1935.
7 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Surratts, Prince George's, Maryland, Roll 878, Page 15A, Enumeration District 20, James Gardiner.
8 Marina King, “Gardiner House,” (PG: 81A-8) Maryland Historical Trust State Historic Sites Inventory Form (1985), 8:1.
9 Prince George’s County Land Records, Deeds 421:91, 774:71, 538:393, and 1262:174.
10 John M. and Elizabeth Pryde to Clinton Realty Company, Prince George’s County Land Records, Deed 1968:266. | 2019-04-25T00:46:13 | http://hestories.info/historic-properties-form-v5.html |
0.999899 | "I received a poison-pen letter. You realize I have to avoid you now."
During the Nazi occupation of France from 1940-1944, there was a concerted effort by Goebbels and his propaganda machine to keep the populace under control with the old Roman method of bread and circuses. The Continental Films studio was set up to produce light mysteries and comedies as a way of keeping the French amused and more pliable. Such was the atmosphere in which noted director Henri-Georges Clouzot got his start. But far from being the light mystery that the studio authorized, this, Clouzot's second film, was an incredibly subversive attack on the corruption of private life that had taken place under the first three years of Nazi rule.
In the town of Saint-Roman, Dr. Remy Germain (Pierre Fresnay) is a doctor at the local hospital. He's in a romantic triangle with Laura Vorzet (Micheline Froney), wife of one of the older doctors, Michel Vorzet (Pierre Larquey). Germain is also being pursued by Denise Saillens (Ginette Leclerc). Laura's sister, Nurse Marie Corbin (H�l�ne Manson) strongly disapproves, especially after she finds a draft letter to Laura in Germain's pocket. But she may not be the only disapproving party, as the principals begin to receive letters full of salacious details about each others' hidden secrets, all signed "Le Corbeau". Before long, The Raven widens his or her net, and soon the entire populace is in an uproar of paranoia, suspicion, and madness.
Clouzot would later be well-known for his suspenseful direction of films such as Diabolique and The Wages of Fear, but he already shows a mastery of the form here. Even though little action happens onscreen, the anonymous letters and the townspeople's varied reactions, supported by the visuals and sound design, generate a good deal of drama and riveting suspense. The central mystery (loosely based on a true occurrence in 1922) is intriguing, and the multiple layers of secrets that are hidden by the central characters (and by extension, nearly everyone in the town) provide a reminder that everyone lives in glass houses, yet the temptation to throw stones is overwhelming. The havoc created by Le Corbeau is magnified as multiple persons begin writing Le Corbeau letters and turning everyone against each other. This was of course a thinly-disguised (but apparently successfully disguised) comment on the demands of the Nazis that the French inform upon each other, and the destructive consequences that follow. The film is surprisingly timely, with the American attorney general suggesting that a similar campaign of informants become a way of life, where an anonymous tip can destroy reputations, careers and even lives.
The cast is excellent, with Fresnay making an appealing lead but one who clearly has much of his own to hide. Particularly interesting is young Liliano Maigné as the teen postal girl Rolande Saillens, who gets caught in the web of Le Corbeau. H�l�ne Manson makes for a good foil, with a sneering superiority that makes her a central figure of suspicion and a convenient scapegoat. Fresnay's love interests make for an interesting contrast, with the beautiful but somewhat unstable Laura compared to the available but deformed Denise.
The visuals are intriguing, with masterful use of light and shadow. At times an innocent gesture on a staircase throws a huge, menacing shadow; at others a swinging bare light bulb echoes the shifting perceptions of guilt and innocence in Saint-Roman. A funeral procession that passes through a street comes across a letter from Le Corbeau lying on the ground, and as the crowd parts around it, the camera takes the POV of the letter itself, shunned as a pariah but nonetheless attracting the curious looks of its observers.
Clouzot uses an interesting sound design here to increase the unease of the audience. The first sound after the main theme is a chilling creak that suggests opening a door to a room that has long remained in hidden darkness. The taunts of children become overwhelming, as do those of the townspeople after Le Corbeau forces a suicide. Any, or all of them could be Le Corbeau, and Clouzot seems to be suggesting that indeed at heart any of us could be.
This was both an understanding and condemning look at the collaboration, but the second part of the equation was completely missed by the French authorities after the war, and Clouzot was blacklisted for years. The ambiguity is echoed in the conclusion; even after Le Corbeau is revealed, one has the distinct impression that the mystery may not be solved after all, and even if it is, can the genie be put back into the bottle? The parting shot of a woman in widow's weeds walking away from the camera suggests not.
Image Transfer Review: The full-frame image is very grainy; flicker is prominent as well. There are also a few minor frame jumps. Detail is generally decently represented (with some extreme closeups looking quite nice), but shadow detail is generally quite plugged up. Very little frame damage is present, however.
Audio Transfer Review: Unfortunately, the audio track is a bit of a mess. Hiss and noise are quite prominent, getting worse during dialogue segments and reflecting an attempt at noise reduction. However, by the same token the processing of the sound has badly distorted much of the background dialogue and foley effects. These now have a strange metallic quality to them, frequently sounding as if they're underwater. At other times a sound that I can only describe as a high-frequency metallic slithering is frequently audible in the background, and I found it highly disturbing. I suppose it's possible that this is part of the unusual sound design, but it has an electronic quality that makes me doubt that and I'm thus not inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Extras Review: In addition to a blurry, scratchy, and crackly trailer, Criterion provides some interesting featurettes. A 2002 interview with Bernard Tavernier (in English) discusses the political subtext of the film, its historical context, and the resultant controversy. This is quite interesting and worth checking out. An eight-minute excerpt from the 1975 collection of interviews, The Story of French Cinema by Those Who Made It, provides further background, but it's less incisive than Tavernier's comments. Three essays in the companion book (including one that considers it as a proto-film noir) contain some additional background information. The last two of these, dating from 1947, give the pro- and anti-Corbeau sentiment among critics of the time, allowing the modern viewer an insight into the controversy that might otherwise be difficult to understand at this distant remove. While one can certainly understand the resentment against Clouzot for working in collaboration for Continental, his film was a powerful statement against the occupying forces, and their desire to set the French against one another. Had it been set in Germany, as one essayist suggests, it would never have been made at all. But Clouzot clearly is not attacking the French, as such, themselves; he's making a universal statement about the appeal of such cruelty and viciousness behind a comfortable mask of anonymity that could apply as well to the Russians under Stalin and the Germans under Hitler.
A piercing and riveting psychological drama in the guise of a mystery, this film is a neglected masterpiece that is certainly welcome on DVD. There are some issues with the transfer, particularly the audio, but there are some useful extras without the overwhelming quantity that has become the vogue of late. | 2019-04-20T10:39:11 | http://digitallyobsessed.com/displaylegacy.php?ID=5719 |
0.999865 | Have you made Black Walnut Butterscotch Rolls?
1. Crumble yeast into a bowl, add milk, which has been cooled, sugar, and salt, and well beaten egg.
2. Add all the flour to the liquid at once. Work in shortening, knead gently.
3. Cover with damp cloth, let rise until double in bulk, about 2 hours.
4. Coat bottom of pan with butter, then sugar and walnuts.
5. Roll dough 1/3 inch thick, brush with 2 T.
6. melted butterm 1/2 c. brown sugar, 1/2 c. chopped nuts and cinnamon if desired.
7. Roll up like jelly roll; cut in 1 inch slices.
8. Place cut side down on coated pan. Let rise until almost double in bulk.
9. Bake 20 to 25 minutes in a moderate oven, when done let pan stay over rolls for a minutes to allow butterscotch mixture to run down over them.
10. Serve upside down. Note: Moderate oven is 350 - 400 F. | 2019-04-19T14:28:39 | http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/Black-Walnut-Butterscotch-Rolls |
0.99999 | TL;DR: Get my Orientation extension and check how to use it.
Most SO answers suggest to override preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation, supportedInterfaceOrientations, and shouldAutorotate. These can be defined on UIViewControllers and on UINavigationControllers.
I’d expect to be able to get it working out of the box by simply overriding preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation and supportedInterfaceOrientations on my UIViewControllers and then having UINavigationController exposing those values from the visible view controller.
Setting B’s supported orientations to landscape did not force that screen to be shown in landscape if I’d come from A in portrait mode. Instead, I was kept in portrait in B until I rotated to landscape. From then on I no longer could rotate back to portrait, as intended from the beginning.
Clearly, the SDK didn’t take the lead on forcing the orientation despite being aware what the current view controller supports.
Forcing rotation is easy, but there are a few caveats to cover.
Note that preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation is of type UIInterfaceOrientation and that supportedInterfaceOrientations is of type UIInterfaceOrientationMask. The second defines the allowed range, while the first indicates which one, within that range, is the preferred.
Having this in mind, it is now clear that preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation is the value to use when forcing rotation.
It would seem like a good idea to always force the orientation to be what the visible UIViewController defined preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation to be.
This approach works when moving from a screen with a broader set of supported orientations than the screen we are moving to. For instance, when moving from A to B in the scenario above.
Such approach taints the user experience. When at the screen B, the user holds the device in landscape mode. By going back to A, the screen gets rotated to portrait, even though A supports landscape.
The solution, then, is to force rotation only when the screen we are moving to does not support the orientation we are in already.
Unfortunately, UIInterfaceOrientationMask is an enum and not a list, so we can’t just check if it contains a UIInterfaceOrientation, and it doesn’t provide any function to do this out of the box either.
The View Controllers define both their preferred and supported and orientations. You can define this in a base class instead of having to define it in every single view controller.
The last step is to have your UINavigationController implementing the willShow method from UINavigationControllerDelegate calling adjustOrientationIfNeeded. | 2019-04-26T15:42:36 | https://nunoalexandre.com/2018/08/24/forcing-an-orientation-in-ios |
0.999242 | We are only as strong or as weak as our relationships, so it does not make any sense to damage them. When dealing with friends and family, do I want to be right and weaker or agreeable and stronger?
If our relationship is strong, then we are strong. If our relationship is weak, then we are weak too.
Do I want to be right and weaker or agreeable and stronger?
would I prefer to agree with the other party (my friend or family) and thus be strong (because our relationship is not damaged). | 2019-04-19T22:36:59 | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/60870-as-strong-as |
0.99998 | Civil servants went on a £1billion spending spree in just eight weeks to hit the Government’s target of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation’s income on overseas aid.
The extra cash was spent at the end of 2013 on humanitarian programmes in Syria and the Philippines and a fund which was started by billionaire Bill Gates to help victims of Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
MPs said the fact that the taxpayer funds were spent so quickly raised serious questions about whether value for money was achieved. Civil servants are now set to be called in front of an influential committee of MPs to justify the spending.
The Government’s overseas aid budget has grown in recent years as ministers have sought to meet a commitment in the Coalition agreement to spend 0.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Product on developing countries from 2013.
The Coalition commitment meant that the Department for International Development (Dfid) had to spend £11.46billion on aid projects in 2013, according to accountants at the National Audit Office, which monitors spending on behalf of MPs, in a report published on Friday.
How do you spend £3.7bn in just 8 weeks?
True or false: who really gets British foreign aid?
In June 2013, Dfid officials were forecasting that they would have to spend £2.7billion in November and December to hit the target. However, months later they found that they had to spend at an extra £1billion - £3.7billion – to hit the 0.7 per cent target.
The NAO report concluded that the short-term need to increase spending that year meant that was a risk the money was not spend efficiently.
It said: “Given the limited time available the department could only choose activities where funds could be paid out during 2013. It may therefore have missed opportunities to get the best outcomes from this spending”.
The problem was caused by officials wrestling with different accounting year ends for the department and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which monitors aid spending internationally by countries, the NAO said.
Another complication was the fact that the 0.7 per cent aid figure can increase or decrease during the year depending on the size of the British economy.
The MP leading a Commons investigation of aid spending warned that it would be counter-productive if meeting the target led to "unreasonable and unrealistic demands" that resulted in taxpayers' cash being used less effectively.
Sir Malcolm Bruce, the Liberal Democrat chairman of the international development select committee which will consider the report, said it opened the temptation to divert a bigger share of the budget to big global bodies rather than direct aid.
Sir Malcolm said that while it was important governments were not allowed "off the hook", his committee was keen to find ways to prevent repeats of the sudden spurts of spending.
The Government said that of its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) spending was “subject to a rigorous value for money assessment”.
A Dfid spokesman said: “Dfid was able to use this additional money to increase urgent humanitarian support, particularly in Syria and the Philippines, as well as providing additional funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria and the World Bank.
The NAO found no evidence that the Department failed to follow its normal business processes.
She added: “Dfid sets a clear strategy each year to deliver its ODA target and works with HMT to monitor and manage this through the year. It is normal practice and good financial management for organisations to take stock of priorities and emerging pressure through the year.
Justine Greening, the Dfid secretary, changed the rules so she had to approve spending all projects costing over £5million, down from £40million.
A report by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact last October found that taxpayers' money spent abroad was actively encouraging corrupt practices.
A development project in Nepal had encouraged people to forge documents to gain grants while police stations in Nigeria linked to British aid were increasingly demanding bribes, the report discovered. | 2019-04-20T06:39:35 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11349411/Civil-Servants-spent-extra-1billion-in-eight-weeks-to-hit-aid-target.html |
0.999773 | Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken a page out of President Donald Trump's playbook by questioning the reliability of U.S. intelligence reports about chemical weapons usage in Syria.
The Trump administration has tried to force Moscow's hand with U.S. spy reports about chemical weapons being used in by the Assad regime. It also used them to justify recent missile strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's military bases.
"It reminds me of the events in 2003 when U.S. envoys to the Security Council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq," Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Tuesday, in response to U.S. agencies blaming Syria's government for using chemical weapons. "We have seen it all already."
The Bush administration used false intelligence reports that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Some lawmakers and pundits, however, accused the Bush administration — not the intelligence community — of exaggerating the reports.
Trump used the same rationale in December to question intelligence reports that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election. "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," he said.
Trump later supported WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's statements claiming that Russia did not help WikiLeaks.
Trump has also accused intelligence agencies of leaking information about his associates' connections to Moscow, and blamed them for allowing an unverified dossier to be leaked. But he also blamed the media for the rift between him and the intelligence communities.
Trump's rocky relationship with his own intelligence community has seemingly come back to bite him, as the Russian government has taken to using his own words to respond to US accusations. It's also not the first time the tactic has been used. On the campaign trail, Trump cited a fake news story about a terror attack in Turkey, repeatedly questioned the credibility of the US electoral process, and dismissed hacking attempts of the Democrats attributed to Russia — themes that were often echoed by Russian media.
"Part of the reason active measures have worked in this U.S. election is because the commander-in-chief has used Russian active measures, at times, against his opponents," Clint Watts, a former FBI agent who has researched Russian information warfare, told the Senate recently.
The U.S. has accused Russia of knowing about the chemical weapons attack and trying to cover it up. At the same time, Putin alleged that the U.S. framed Assad, and that the U.S. is planning more "false flag" chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus.
Still, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said there could be "no doubt" that Assad's troops were behind the attack, and autopsies have showed that sarin gas was used.
Russia has instead argued that the Syrian air force carried out a conventional attack that hit a chemical weapons cache controlled by the rebels. However, as chemical weapons expert Dan Kaszeta told Bellingcat, sarin in storage consists of unmixed components, and dropping a bomb on them would not turn them into a nerve agent.
"It is an infantile argument," he wrote.
Meanwhile, Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would not intervene further in Syria, while Putin said that relations with the Trump administration have "degraded." | 2019-04-22T13:35:13 | https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-donald-trumps-intel-2017-4 |
0.999987 | Where is the "too broad" applies? I really think it specific enough, as there is only one line of command line, or may be a page noting how to transfer passwords, or as one other user pointed out, there no tool for this.
Or like the other one, I was asking about feature list of an IMAP server, that I can't find anywhere in their site. I know most server complies with IMAP4, but I was looking for specific support, such as this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1355082/is-html-5-supported-by-all-the-main-browsers but instead of HTML5, I was looking for IMAP support.
That too marked as too broad, while https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1355082/is-html-5-supported-by-all-the-main-browsers thread is not.
So, what the hell is too broad description?? What question is considered too broad?
You may not have realised it at the time, but you've probably asked something that you could write a book on. Server Fault isn't really the best place for disseminating that much information.
The question you linked to is on stackoverflow. We are all part of the same network, but each site has very different rules about what kind of questions are allowed. So comparing what is allowed there isn't a valid comparison.
Migrating data from LDAP is complex enough that books are written on it. And you included next to no detail about what you had done or tried so far. I would have voted to close it too.
I don't think that it should in fact have been closed as such, in spite of the fact that you are getting rather close to asking for someone to write the code or give a tool recommendation, both of which we don't do.
Of course, it also happens that the thing you want to do is not possible to accomplish as you stated (the systems are totally different in many ways, credential storage being one; LDAP is a very broad specification and not all implementations are equivalent). That's not a reason for closure, but rather for answers stating that (and why) it can't be done like that.
Accordingly, I've nominated it for reopening.
Why is this “too broad”?
Does irrationality have to be contagious? | 2019-04-26T02:05:47 | https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6379/just-what-the-hell-is-too-broad |
0.998625 | Chinese Opera in Thailand: A Dying Art?
Despite the fact that many in Bangkok still have some form of Chinese heritage (mostly Teochew) in them, many Chinese traditions are at risk of vanishing - one of them being the Chinese opera. But there are still groups out there keeping the performance art alive and adapting to a new generation.
Nestled in the back alleys and canals of Taling Chan, on the outskirts of Bangkok, is the Jao Mae Tubtim Shrine.
It's been part of the Thai-Chinese community here for more than a century.
Across from the shrine, a group of young women and men are preparing to perform Chinese opera, the same way others before them have done for decades.
Pongsakorn Nanarnkawin is the third generation of his family running a theatre dedicated to Chinese opera.
His parents were performers themselves, when Chinese opera was in its heyday.
"I’m a child of the Chinese opera, I’m sure when my mother was pregnant with me, she was performing Chinese opera. My father was a very skilled instructor from China […] There were no roads here back then so everything came by boat. Even the unloading of the equipment drew in a massive crowd - contrary to today where less and less are watching."
Bangkok has a sizable population of people whose ancestors came from China, and this is reflected in arts such as Chinese opera. But tastes have changed, and theatres like these aren't pulling in the crowds as they used to. Many are now looking at how they can interest the new generation, and keep the heritage alive.
It is estimated that about 70 per cent of Bangkok residents with Chinese heritage are of Teochew descent, but very few speak this dialect today, let alone understand the dialogue in the opera.
So Pongsakorn found ways to get around this.
"When we started to translate it into Thai, people slowly started to come in. After that, I decided to create an original story or adaptations. When we performed for a museum, we retold the story of Mulan, which is pretty popular. So we took bits from it and made a Chinese opera out of it in Thai both in spoken words and singing."
It is hard to say for now, whether Chinese Opera is making a comeback in Thailand, but there is a new generation of performers still passionate about it, and they hope to carry the torch.
"I would like to tell people to study Thai-Chinese culture and to keep the tradition alive and so that the Chinese opera can further develop itself."
It could well boil down to succeeding generations to secure a new lease of life for Chinese opera to keep the artform centrestage for more New Years to come. | 2019-04-25T03:08:43 | https://www.saiyasombut.com/blog/2018/2/18/chinese-opera-in-thailand-a-dying-art |
0.99994 | The program gives a complete, step-by-step solution of the following problem: Given a 2x2, or 3x3, or 4x4, or 5x5 matrix. Find its inverse matrix by using the gauss-Jordan elimination method.
Xnumbers is an Excel addin (xla) that performs multi-precision floating point arithmetic. Perhaps the first package that extends the standard Excel precision from 15 up to 200 significant digits.
Multi-precision floating point arithmetic 3.1 for Excel Xnumbers is an Excel addin (xla) that performs multi-precision floating point arithmetic.
Formula.exe boasts very important probability and stats functions FORMULA.EXE is the definitive and the ultimate probability, gambling, and statistical software.
Java toolkit to add coordinate conversion functionality to software (GPS API). Support for datum conversions and coordinate conversion using different map projections.
One of the most powerful yet subtle ways in which you can control your mind and tune it to achieve your goals, is through subliminal messages.
Lets you change the full and empty icons for the Recyle Bin as well as the caption. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 it also allows you to change the Recycle Bin Tooltip.
Using AdobeT� LiveCycleT� Designer ES2 software, you can create form and document templates that combine high-fidelity dynamic presentation with sophisticated XML data handling.
Allows you to cut "holes"\; in any window currently open on your desktop. | 2019-04-19T20:28:29 | https://www.files32.com/Gauss.asp |
0.999999 | Which would be present in an animal with a nerve net?
What is the difference between a neuron and a nerve?
They consist of different numbers of cells.
A cluster of nerve cell bodies outside the central nervous system is referred to as a(n) _____.
A neuron that transmits an impulse to the central nervous system after the neuron is stimulated by the environment is called a(n) _____.
Which of the following is specifically a part or a function of the central nervous system?
Which of the following describes a withdrawal reflex response?
The part of a neuron that carries nerve impulses toward the cell body is called _____.
Schwann cells make up the _____.
Cells that provide metabolic and structural support to the neurons include _____.
Which one of the following statements is NOT true about the resting potential?
The concentration of sodium is much higher inside the cell than outside.
A drug that causes potassium to leak out of a neuron, increasing the positive charge on the outside, would _____.
Threshold depolarization is of great significance in the physiology of neurons because if threshold depolarization is not reached, _____.
An action potential is _____.
The period in which an axon membrane cannot act is called _____.
"Saltatory conduction" means that the membrane potential changes _____.
Action potentials are generated along a neuron because _____.
How are neurons structurally adapted to chemically transmit impulses to neighboring neurons?
Axon terminals contain neurotransmitter substances within synaptic vesicles.
Which one of the following statements about the transmission across a typical chemical synapse is NOT true?
Vesicles containing neurotransmitter molecules diffuse to the receiving cell's plasma membrane.
Acetylcholinesterase is the enzyme that degrades acetylcholine. What effect on nerve transmission would occur following the administration of a chemical that inhibited acetylcholinesterase?
Extra excitatory postsynaptic potentials would occur in the postsynaptic neuron.
In humans, making more serotonin available to brain cells typically _____.
A natural pain reliever is _____.
Which of the following includes all the others?
Which of the following parts of the nervous system would allow you to discover the qualities of a mouthful of black pepper?
Which one of the following structures is (are) included in the peripheral nervous system?
The gray matter of the cerebral cortex, where most higher-level thinking occurs, is composed mostly of _____.
Which of the following structures constitute(s) the mammalian forebrain?
Alex becomes so dehydrated while playing tennis that his blood pressure starts to drop. His _____ detects the drop in pressure and sends signals via _____ to speed up the heart to compensate.
A physician friend of yours tells you about a patient with a head injury who suddenly stopped breathing during the examination. What portion of the brain was probably injured?
As you start to pick up your biology book, you suddenly realize that it is much heavier than you expected. Which of the following brain regions is responsible for the rapid adjustment of muscle force that allows you to pick up the book smoothly?
Monitoring blood CO2 levels as well as triggering breathing at the appropriate times are functions of the _____.
The relay center for sensory messages is the _____.
A man is admitted to the hospital suffering from an abnormally low body temperature, a loss of appetite, and extreme thirst. A brain scan shows a tumor located in the _____.
In mammals, the part of the brain that increases in size and complexity most significantly is derived from the embryonic _____.
The corpus callosum connects the _____.
An important concept in biology is that evolution is a process that builds on present body plans. This means that embryonic development sequences often display evidence of evolutionary relationships. Such evidence would indicate that which part of the brain was most prominent in early vertebrates?
Damage to the occipital lobe would be most likely expressed as _____.
The hearing centers are located in the _____.
Which of the following is NOT regulated by the association areas in the cerebral cortex?
After a stroke, Bill can feel his left leg but is unable to move it. His neurologists suspect damage to the _____.
The limbic system is involved in _____.
Which ancestral region of the brain is responsible for modern humans' speech and ability to do algebra?
Which of the following contributes to learning and memory storage in the brain?
Which part of the brain's limbic system ties an event to a scent, making it possible for a long-term memory to be triggered by a smell?
Damage to the nervous system presents particular challenges for physicians. Which of these is NOT a new development likely to translate into new therapies for damaged nervous system components?
It has been discovered that the removal of certain parts of the brain may cause personality changes. | 2019-04-22T08:32:45 | https://quizlet.com/12231636/bio-ch48-chapter-quiz-abc-flash-cards/ |
0.785539 | What to do about the decision by U.S. Supreme Court to -- in the words of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold -- "(ignore) important principles of judicial restraint and respect for precedent" in order to make corporations the dominant players in American politics?
What to do about the decision by U.S. Supreme Court to — in the words of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold — "(ignore) important principles of judicial restraint and respect for precedent" in order to make corporations the dominant players in American politics?
Of course, there will be legislative scrambling at the local, state and federal levels. The decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and four other justices to reject history and precedent in order to put a radical pro-corporate spin on the First Amendment throws into question rules designed to regulate even the worst campaign abuses by business interests.
Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who leant his name to the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002, will be working overtime to defend not just the progress he has made as a reformer but a century of clean-government legislation.
"It is important to note that the decision does not affect McCain-Feingold’s soft money ban, which will continue to prevent corporate contributions to the political parties from corrupting the political process. But this decision was a terrible mistake," says the Wisconsin senator. "Presented with a relatively narrow legal issue, the Supreme Court chose to roll back laws that have limited the role of corporate money in federal elections since Teddy Roosevelt was president. Ignoring important principles of judicial restraint and respect for precedent, the Court has given corporate money a breathtaking new role in federal campaigns. Just six years ago, the Court said that the prohibition on corporations and unions dipping into their treasuries to influence campaigns was ‘firmly embedded in our law.’ Yet this Court has just upended that prohibition, and a century’s worth of campaign finance law designed to stem corruption in government. The American people will pay dearly for this decision when, more than ever, their voices are drowned out by corporate spending in our federal elections. In the coming weeks, I will work with my colleagues to pass legislation restoring as many of the critical restraints on corporate control of our elections as possible."
When all is said and done, however, that may not be enough.
"All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law," said Roosevelt in the first years of the 20th century, when he was also proposing public financing of federal election.
The court’s ruling in the case of Citizens United v. FEC is a game-changer that, in the words of Feingold says corporations "can just open their treasuries (and) completely buy up all the television time, and drown out everyone else’s voices."
There’s a small measure of nuance in the ruling.
In their 5-4 decision, the majority maintained restrictions on direct donations by corporations to candidates and political parties.
But corporations – with their immense resources and their immense desire to influence the political and governing processes – will be able to spend as freely as their like (on television commercials and other forms of communication) to secure the election results they seek.
It’s a recipe for democratic disaster, as wealth and power will define the debate that sets the parameters of our politics.
Says Senator Charles Schumer, D-New York: "The Supreme Court just predetermined the winners of next November’s elections. It won’t be Republicans. It won’t be Democrats. It will be corporate America."
To paraphrase a particular television network, there will be no fairness and no balance.
That threat demands a response sufficient to the challenge it poses to electoral democracy. As Lisa Graves, the executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, says: "We cannot just wring our hands, in my view, and let this stand. There is a great deal of work to be done."
Graves, a lawyer with long experience in both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, offers a savvy analysis of the motivations behind the court’s ruling.
"When I worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewing President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees and their agendas, I feared this day would come. That’s why I tried to help keep John Roberts off the appellate court, and then was so saddened the day he was appointed and when I saw President Bush promote him to become Chief Justice after I had left the government," she says. "In reading the biographies, writings, and speeches of right-wing nominees, it became clear to me that a revolution in the law was being fomented to undermine the power of ordinary people to regulate corporations in their communities. Today’s decision is a huge gift to corporations from a Supreme Court that has been radicalized by right-wing ideology, whose political agenda was made obvious in the Bush v. Gore case and whose very political decision today only makes things worse. I think we have to rebuke the Court’s arrogant decision and make sure the law puts Americans before corporations."
There will be talk of legislative interventions, the best of which is almost certainly rapid passage of the Fair Elections Now Act, which would set up a system of public financing of elections.
"This would establish citizen-funded elections," says Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig.
But there are a number of reformers who fear that any legislative initiative will be made difficult by the high court’s misinterpretation of the first amendment to read: whoever has the most money gets the most free speech.
That stranglehold on real democracy may, in the view of these activists, only be broken by a constitutional amendment, and democracy and clean government campaigners are proposing just that – with some suggesting the traditional route of having Congress propose an amendment, while others imagine asking legislatures across the country to call a constitutional convention to develop an amendment.
Graves and others are backing a Move to Amend campaign, which debuted a website for activists moments after the court ruling came down.
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
1. Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
2. Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.
3. Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments.
Within hours of the decision, more than 3,500 Americans had signed on as backers of this particular initiative.
Whatever the specific route, and whatever the specific language (Graves suggests: "No corporation shall be considered to be a person who is permitted to raise or spend money on federal, state, or local elections of any kind"), the goal of any amendment strategy should be to enshrine in the Constitution of this land the fundamental democratic principle proposed more than a century ago by a Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt: "All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law." | 2019-04-19T01:17:32 | https://www.thenation.com/article/teddy-roosevelt-was-right-ban-all-corporate-contributions/ |
0.999999 | The Master of Creative Arts (Research) is generally intended for people with industry experience in the media and creative arts who want to undertake creative research involving the preparation and presentation of a sustained creative work achievable within the timeframe for a master's project as well as a thesis of 10,000–15,000 words.
Selection criteria also includes professional and creative experience in a creative arts field, the quality of the research proposal, the quality of the applicant's portfolio of creative work, the faculty's ability to offer appropriate supervision in the applicant's chosen field, and, where necessary, demonstration of generic technical skills.
This research degree is undertaken through the production of a sustained creative work achievable within the timeframe for a master's project as well as a thesis of 10,000–15,000 words.
The creative work may be in any genre and medium but it must involve research as well as creative practice – it must fit into a tradition of research in an area, demonstrate a clear understanding of the current state of knowledge in that area, have a clear research question and generate data that addresses the research question. The dissertation provides a clear synthesis and statement of the new knowledge that the creative project has produced.
The Master of Creative Arts (Research) is structured in three phases. Phase 1 involves the development of a number of advanced research skills and capabilities. At the beginning of the program, students negotiate a master's study plan with their supervisor. This plan makes explicit the kinds of support each student requires. A formal master's assessment is undertaken at the end of Phase 1 in which the candidates present a full proposal for assessment, which is a prerequisite for entering Phase 2.
In Phase 2 students develop their individual program of research and their readiness to enter Phase 3 is assessed at the end of Phase 2.
In Phase 3 candidates engage in the culmination and submission of the major creative work and the accompanying dissertation. These should make a sustained contribution to knowledge in their field of inquiry.
Research and development activities are provided throughout the three phases to assist students to develop the capabilities of a successful doctoral candidate. | 2019-04-23T00:35:08 | http://handbook.uts.edu.au/courses/c03044.html |
0.999957 | Rise now and be a nation again? The politics of Englishness.
Michael Kenny's The Politics of English Nationhood (OUP, 2014) supplies the first comprehensive overview of the evidence, research and major arguments relating to the recent revival of English identity, exploring its varied, and often overlooked, political ramifications. It examines the difficulties which the major political parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question' against the backdrop of the diminishing hold of established ideas of British government and national identity in the final years of the last century. And it explores a range of factors--including insecurities generated by economic change, euro-scepticism, and a growing sense of cultural anxiety--which have helped make the renewal of Englishness appealing and imperative. Renewal gathers here some reflections on the book from Michael Kenny and four commentators.
Both how the English feel about their national identity and the political implications of these sentiments have become much more widely and publicly debated issues than they were when I first began conducting research into them. The reasons for this are pretty apparent.
First, there's been the rise to prominence of UKIP, a phenomenon which is overwhelmingly English in character and appears to have tapped into a rich vein of populist nationalism. Second, all the main parties are struggling to respond to heightened levels of euro-scepticism. This, of course, is more prevalent in England than elsewhere in the UK. Third, the imminent Scottish referendum has indirectly raised a question that's been simmering on the back burner of British politics for some time: how does the largest nation within the UK, the English, who make up 87 per cent of its total population, now feel about the union?
This interest in Englishness in the political world is relatively new. Most of the time that I've been working on this, the subject has generally been viewed sceptically. 'What does this have to do with politics?' has been a fairly common response. This query reflects, I think, the enduring idea that Englishness is a cultural identity and ought to be kept separate from the loyalty the English people have shown, for the most part, to the British state.
Among progressives, this is translated into the familiar claim that the English never got around to crafting their own form of modern nationalism, and have been happy to remain the subjects of the antiquated British state. Those who did seek to politicise Englishness, it's long been argued, have done so by offering an insular, regressive and nostalgic fantasy. Many on the left continue to see this form of nationhood as politically conservative at best and xenophobic at worst.
In the course of writing this book, I've become increasingly sceptical about these assumptions. They do little, I think, to help us understand the nature and implications of a gathering sense of English identity or the emergence of England, rather than Britain, as the imagined community with which people are increasingly disposed to identify. There has been a considerable, demonstrable growth in the number of people who identify as solely or primarily English and a fairly marked decline in those who see themselves as British rather than English. There's lots of different polling but the most comprehensive poll of all is the census conducted a few years ago, which reported that, when people were forced to choose, 70 per cent of people in England regarded themselves as English, not British.
Recent polling also suggests that many of the English are increasingly disenchanted with the two unions to which England belongs: the EU and the UK. There has, in addition, been a proliferation of political ideas about, and claims upon, an English identity in the last twenty years. These are couched in a range of different ideological registers: populist and conservative, but also radical, liberal, and even occasionally socialist.
I argue, therefore, that we should consider these as competitive contributors to an emerging English imaginary, a rich and complex field of national meaning which endlessly harks back to long-standing myths, stories, and folkish ideas, as all nationalisms do, but which can also sustain a decidedly modern set of sensibilities and ideas among its subjects. There have always been different ways of expressing Englishness, and these reflect some of the geographically-rooted cultures and regional imbalances that have characterised this country.
A further defining feature of this form of national reimagining is the centrality within it of notions of place, locality, and landscape, the sense that the values and traditions associated with these are under threat, either from the globalised marketplace or from the large bureaucratic state. That sense of threat is a defining impulse within current forms of Englishness and is evoked in a very wide range of writings on the internet, in the media, and in a lot of cultural works. The iconic example of the latter is Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem.
The origins of this complex shift in consciousness, I argue, lie in the years before devolution. Its roots and underlying dynamics stem from a combination of the early wave of euro-scepticism, the early 1990s, the significant forms of dislocation associated with the rapid transition to a post-industrial economy, and a waning of confidence among the political and cultural elites in the economic and political prospects for the UK. These different factors interacted to render England a more organic and resonant identification, a trend that has developed for the most part under the radar of party politics. Taking the even longer view, it becomes clearer that this is a long-running process. The last twenty years look like the latest and most dramatic phase of a process that I would suggest began sixty or seventy years ago, as Britain waned, both as an imperial state and also as a viable state-nation.
In the decade that followed these trends in the 1990s, Labour's championing of a liberal British nationhood may well have accentuated the appeal of forms of Englishness that expressed the sense of recoil against the political elite, increasingly perceived as metropolitan, out of touch, and condescending towards popular sensibilities. There are interesting and, as yet, unexplored parallels between the populist currents that broke into the political systems of numerous European countries in the last few years, and a shift towards a sense of ethnic majority nationalism among sections of the English public.
But there are differences too. While it remains true that most people from ethnic minority backgrounds are much more likely to identify as British than as English, there are intriguing signs that things may be changing in some of these communities too, though much more slowly and partially.
Various studies also suggest that white English people are far more likely to see their non-white neighbours as being co-nationals but are highly unlikely to think in this way of those from Muslim backgrounds. The increasing focus, which I chart in the book, upon the development of a multicultural sense of English nationhood, carries a particular significance if the challenge of forging a civic English nationhood is ultimately to be embraced.
In order to grasp the kinds of resentment, anxiety, and hope that have been expressed through reference to English identity, I cast my net widely in terms of evidence and data writing the book. Frankly, at times it felt too wide, as this is a topic on which there is a voluminous range of material. While I have charted the endless polling on these issues that's taken place over the last two decades, I've also been drawn to make use of ethnographic and sociological studies and explored expressions of Englishness in many different parts of public culture. I've found that it has been in the worlds of cultural production, the arts, and popular culture that the quest for an English nationhood has been most powerfully expressed and negotiated.
There are clear signs of rising English grievance on such issues as the West Lothian question--the question of the anomalous position of Scottish MPs and their voting rights on English matters in the House of Commons--as well as the question of the distribution of public expenditure across the constituent territories of the UK. Yet it is tempting and I think misleading to overstate the populist cast of Englishness. For most people, being English and British remains an unexceptional fact, but the hyphen between these terms--Anglo-British is a clunky way of describing this form of identification--has come to acquire a much greater weight and significance as the English people are, contrary to expectations, starting to develop the kind of dual identification which has long been observed of, for instance, the Scots.
What then are the implications of these shifts for the political and policy communities that are primarily responsible for the governance of England? This, it seems to me, is an impossible question to answer with any degree of certainty at present. Some see the right answer as a separate parliament for the English; others favour some form of reform to the House of Commons--perhaps 'English votes for English laws'. Others, again, recommend the radical devolution of power within England. You might even extend this into the debate about Europe, where clearly, for some people, the holding of a referendum is one way of registering and responding to the rise of English grievance. There are a growing number of definitive answers to the English question.
Political Islam is the real problem facing Muslims. | 2019-04-22T03:03:58 | https://books-journals.vlex.co.uk/vid/rise-now-and-be-636302385 |
0.999889 | The following paragraphs have been edited, with grateful acknowledgement, from an article in 'Britain Express'.
may be accessed here .
The Killerton estate is first mentioned in 1242. It is believed that the name originated with a family named Kildrington.
In the Elizabethan period the estate was sold to the Acland family, who owned the adjoining property at Columb John. In the late 18th century Sir Thomas Acland, the 7th Baronet, decided to move the family seat to Killerton.
Acland asked James Wyatt to design a new house, but he did not get along with Wyatt and dismissed him in favour of a relative unknown, named John Johnson, who was instructed by Sir Thomas to build a temporary residence until a more elaborate home could be built on the hill above the site.
As it turned out, Sir Thomas's son died shortly after in 1778, and Sir Thomas abandoned plans for a second mansion. The 'temporary' house was remodelled and expanded several times over the subsequent centuries, but it is essentially the same building that Johnson planned.
The interior has a wonderful mix of period styles, from Georgian to Edwardian, with displays of family portraits and a 'hands-on' music room where visitors are encouraged to play the grand piano and pipe organ.
Harriet Acland (1749-1815) was the daughter of the Earl of Ilchester. In 1770 she married Major John Acland. When Acland was sent to America in 1776 to command the 20th Foot Regiment, Lady Harriet accompanied him.
Major Acland was gravely wounded and captured in the second Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The pregant Lady Harriet, when hearing the news, travelled through the night and her small party crossed the Hudson River in darkness to the enemy camp to appeal for her husband's release.
Lady Harriet nursed her husband while he was held by the Americans and they were later released. By January, 1778 he had recovered enough to return to England.
Lady Harriet gave birth to their son John during the voyage home. Major Acland died later that year after he caught a bad cold while fighting a duel in defence of American honour.
The estate is immense, stretching to over 6400 acres, including working farms and 240 cottages. Of these, almost 30 are of medieval origin, including Marker's Cottage. The cottage boasts an excellent medieval painted screen with an unusual mix of secular and religious themes.
There is an 18 acre hillside garden within 4000 acres of woods, originally created at the time the house was built by Scotsman John Veitch.
Above the house is a "clump" or hillfort dating to the Iron Age. The hill, also known as Dolbury, is reputed in folklore to be protected by the Killerton Dragon, which every night flies between Killerton and Cadbury Hill to keep safe a hidden treasure.
A short distance from the house is Killerton Chapel, erected as a private family chapel for Sir Thomas Acland and his wife Lydia in 1841 and now used for regular concerts in the summer months.
The design is said to have been inspired by the Norman Lady Chapel at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset.
There are three more National Trust properties on the Killerton Estate i.e. Marker's Cottage (a 15th century cob and thatch dwelling), Clyston Mill (an 18th century restored water mill) and Budlake Old Post Office Room (the old village shop and post office for the area with its attached laundry, pigsty and garden).
The estate at Killerton, as well as that at Holnicote, was given to the National Trust by Sir Richard Acland, whose political beliefs precluded his ownership of such a vast tract of land.
INFORMATION provided on this website has been obtained and edited from a number of other websites and documents.
Particular thanks and acknowledgement is given to the National Trust, 'Britain Express' (Editor : David Ross) and 'Wikipedia'. | 2019-04-25T18:15:05 | http://www.killertondevon.colindaylinks.com/intro.html |
0.999691 | A method of performing intra-frequency cell measurement by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes determining a measurement gap for the intra-frequency cell measurement based on downlink control information received from an eNB, and performing the intra-frequency cell measurement for a neighboring cell during the measurement gap. The measurement gap corresponds to one or more downlink subframes other than a downlink subframe having downlink data for the UE indicated by the downlink control information.
1. A method of performing intra-frequency cell measurement by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining a measurement gap for the intra-frequency cell measurement based on downlink control information received from an eNB; and performing the intra-frequency cell measurement for a neighboring cell during the measurement gap, wherein the measurement gap corresponds to one or more downlink subframes other than a downlink subframe having downlink data for the UE indicated by the downlink control information.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the length of the measurement gap is adjustable based on the downlink control information.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the measurement gap is present over one or more downlink subframes.
4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting data to the eNB in uplink during the measurement gap.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing intra-frequency cell measurement includes measuring a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) from the neighboring cell.
6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the eNB, information on whether uplink transmission is granted or whether the measurement gap is allowed to be used, wherein the information is received via a higher layer signal.
7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising reporting result of the intra-frequency cell measurement to the eNB, wherein the reporting is performed using a periodic method, an event triggering method or a combination thereof.
8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising setting a switching time before and after the measurement gap, wherein the switching time is a period, during which switching between channel estimation and intra-frequency cell measurement ouccurs.
9. A user equipment (UE) configured to perform intra-frequency cell measurement in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising: a radio frequency (RF) unit configured to transmit or receive a radio signal; and a processor configured to control the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured to determine a measurement gap for the intra-frequency cell measurement based on downlink control information received from an eNB and to perform the intra-frequency cell measurement for a neighboring cell during the measurement gap, and wherein the measurement gap corresponds to one or more downlink subframes other than a downlink subframe having downlink data for the UE indicated by the downlink control information.
10. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to adjust the length of the measurement gap based on the received downlink control information.
11. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the measurement gap is present over one or more downlink subframes.
12. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to transmit data to the eNB in uplink during the measurement gap.
13. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) from the neighboring cell during the measurement gap.
14. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from the eNB, information on whether uplink transmission is granted or whether the measurement gap is allowed to be used, wherein the information is received via a higher layer signal.
15. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to report result of the intra-frequency cell measurement to the eNB, wherein the reporting is performed using a periodic method, an event triggering method or a combination thereof.
16. The UE according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to set a switching time before and after the measurement gap, wherein the switching time is a period during which switching between channel estimation and intra-frequency cell measurement occurs.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/543,812, filed on Oct. 6, 2011, which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
The present invention relates to channel estimation and physical layer measurement and, more particularly, to a method of adaptively using a single estimator over time resources according to an object to be estimated and measured when channel estimation and physical layer measurement are performed in downlink.
An LTE-Advanced system supports a machine type communication (MTC) terminal capable of transmitting information necessary for managing the system between apparatuses configuring the system, for applications such as smart metering, health care, security, transport and logistics, and environmental monitoring. The MTC terminal is characterized in that a low data transfer rate is supported for the purpose of management and monitoring and a large number of terminals may operate in one cell. Accordingly, the MTC terminal is preferably implemented in a low-level, low-cost terminal and, at this time, a method of simplifying an estimation and measurement operation performed by an MTC terminal may be considered.
In general, physical layer measurement of an LTE system is roughly divided into two methods: an intra-frequency measurement method and an inter-frequency measurement method. Information about the measurement method is determined by an eNB and may be sent to a user equipment (UE) via a broadcast control channel or a dedicated control channel. For example, the UE follows a measurement method defined for cell selection in a broadcast control signal in an RRC_IDLE state and follows a measurement method defined by an RRC signal which is a dedicated control signal transmitted from the eNB in an RRC_connected state.
Since an estimation or measurement element which may be included in a low-level low-cost terminal such as an MTC terminal is also restricted, there is a need for a method of adaptively performing estimation or measurement using the restricted estimation or measurement element.
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a method for measuring a neighboring cell and an apparatus thereof that substantially obviate one or more problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
To achieve these objects and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, a method of performing intra-frequency cell measurement by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes determining a measurement gap for the intra-frequency cell measurement based on downlink control information received from an eNB; and performing the intra-frequency cell measurement for a neighboring cell during the measurement gap, wherein the measurement gap corresponds to one or more downlink subframes other than a downlink subframe having downlink data for the UE indicated by the downlink control information.
The length of the measurement gap may be adjustable based on the downlink control information.
The measurement gap may be present over one or more downlink subframes.
The method may further include transmitting data to the eNB in uplink during the measurement gap.
The performing intra-frequency cell measurement may include measuring a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) from the neighboring cell.
The method may further include receiving, from the eNB, information on whether uplink transmission is granted or whether the measurement gap is allowed to be used, and the information may be received via a higher layer signal.
The method may further include reporting result of the intra-frequency cell measurement to the eNB, and the reporting is performed using a periodic method, an event triggering method or a combination thereof.
The method may further include setting a switching time before and after the measurement gap, and the switching time may be a period during which switching between channel estimation and intra-frequency cell measurement occurs.
In another aspect of the present invention, a user equipment (UE) configured to perform intra-frequency cell measurement in a wireless communication system includes a radio frequency (RF) unit configured to transmit or receive a radio signal; and a processor configured to control the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured to determine a measurement gap for the intra-frequency cell measurement based on downlink control information received from an eNB and to perform intra-frequency cell measurement for a neighboring cell during the measurement gap, and wherein the measurement gap corresponds to one or more downlink subframes other than a downlink subframe having downlink data for the UE indicated by the downlink control information.
The processor may be configured to adjust the length of the measurement gap based on the received downlink control information.
The processor may be configured to transmit data to the eNB in uplink during the measurement gap.
The processor may be configured to measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) of a downlink signal from the neighboring cell during the measurement gap.
The processor may be configured to receive, from the eNB, information on whether uplink transmission is granted or whether the measurement gap is allowed to be used, and the information may be received via a higher layer signal.
The processor may be configured to report result of the intra-frequency cell measurement to the eNB, and reporting may be performed using a periodic method, an event triggering method or a combination thereof.
The processor may be configured to set a switching time before and after the measurement gap, and the switching time may be a period during which switching between channel estimation of the UE and intra-frequency cell measurement occurs.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing measurement of a neighboring cell using a single channel estimator in case of that a change of the channel state is slow.
FIG. 10 is a block diagram of an apparatus for measuring a neighboring cell according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The detailed description set forth below in connection with the appended drawings is intended as a description of exemplary embodiments and is not intended to represent the only embodiments in which the concepts explained in these embodiments can be practiced. The detailed description includes details for the purpose of providing an understanding of the present invention. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these teachings may be implemented and practiced without these specific details.
The following technique, apparatus and system is applicable to various wireless multiple access systems. For convenience of description, assume that the present invention is applied to 3GPP LTE(-A). However, the technical features of the present invention are not limited thereto. For example, although the following detailed description is made in detail on the assumption that a mobile communication system is a 3GPP LTE(-A) system, it is applicable to other prescribed mobile communication systems by excluding unique items of the 3GPP LTE(-A) system.
In some instances, well-known structures and devices are omitted in order to avoid obscuring the concepts of the present invention and the important functions of the structures and devices are shown in block diagram form. The same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) may be fixed or mobile and include various apparatuses which communicate with a base station (BS) and transmit and receive user data and/or a variety of control information. The UE may be referred to as a terminal Equipment, a mobile station (MS), a mobile terminal (MT), a user terminal (UT), a subscriber station (SS), a wireless device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, a handheld device, a machine type communication (MTC) terminal, etc. In the present invention, a base station (BS) refers to a fixed station which communicates with a UE and/or another BS and exchanges a variety of data and control information. The BS is referred to as an advanced base station (ABS), a node-B (NB), an evolved-NodeB (eNB), a base transceiver system (BTS), an access point (AP), a processing server (PS), etc.
In the present invention, a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control CHannel)/PCFICH (Physical Control Format Indicator CHannel)/PHICH (Physical Hybrid automatic retransmit request Indicator CHannel)/PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared CHannel) refers to a set of resource elements or a set of time-frequency resources carrying DCI (Downlink Control Information)/CFI (Control Format Indicator)/downlink ACK/NACK (ACKnowlegement/Negative ACK)/downlink data. In addition, a PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control CHannel)/PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared CHannel) refers to a set of resource elements or a set of time-frequency resources carrying UCI (Uplink Control Information)/uplink data. In the present invention, in particular, time-frequency resources or resource elements (REs) allocated to or belonging to PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH/PUCCH/PUSCH are referred to as PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH/PUCCH/PUSCH REs or PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH/PUCCH/PUSCH resources. Accordingly, in the present invention, transmission of a PUCCH/PUSCH by a UE means that an uplink control information/uplink data/random access signal is transmitted on a PUCCH/PUSCH. In the present invention, transmission of a PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH by a BS means that downlink data/control information is transmitted on a PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH.
In addition, in the present invention, a CRS (Cell-specific Reference Signal)/DMRS (Demodulation Reference Signal)/CSI-RS (Channel State Information Reference Signal) time-frequency resources (or REs) refer to time-frequency resources (or REs) carrying CRS/DMRS/CSI-RS, REs allocated to CRS/DMRS/CSI-RS or available REs. A subcarrier including a CRS/DMRS/CSI-RS RE is referred to as a CRS/DMRS/CSI-RS subcarrier and an OFDM symbol including a CRS/DMRS/CSI-RS RE is referred to as a CRS/DMRS/CSI-RS symbol. In addition, in the present invention, SRS time-frequency resources (or REs) refer to time-frequency resources (or REs) transmitted from a UE to a BS to carry a sounding reference signal (SRS) used for measurement of an uplink channel state formed between the UE and the BS. A reference signal (RS) refers to a predefined signal known to a UE and a BS and having a special waveform and is referred to as a pilot signal.
Meanwhile, in the present invention, a cell refers to a predetermined geographical region in which a BS, node(s) or antenna port(s) provide a communication service. Accordingly, in the present invention, communication with a specific cell may refer to communication with a BS, node or antenna port for providing a communication service to the specific cell. In addition, a downlink/uplink signal of a specific cell refers to a downlink/uplink signal from/to a BS, node or antenna port for providing a communication service to the specific cell. In addition, channel state/quality of a specific cell refers to channel state/quality of a channel or communication link formed between a UE and a BS, node or antenna port for providing a communication service to the specific cell.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the structure of a radio frame used in a wireless communication system. In particular, FIG. 1(a) shows a radio frame structure used in frequency division duplex (FDD) in 3GPP LTE(-A) and FIG. 1(b) shows a radio frame structure used in time division duplex (TDD) in 3GPP LTE(-A).
Referring to FIG. 1, a radio frame used in 3GPP LTE(-A) has a length of 10 ms (307200Ts) and includes 10 subframes with the same size. The 10 subframes of the radio frame may be numbered. Ts denotes sampling time, and is represented by Ts=1/(2048*15 kHz). Each of the subframes has a length of 1 ms and includes two slots. The 20 slots of one radio frame may be sequentially numbered from 0 to 19. Each of the slots has a length of 0.5 ms. A time for transmitting one subframe is defined as a transmission time interval (TTI). Time resources may be divided by a radio frame number (or a radio frame index), a subframe number (or a subframe index), a slot number (or a slot index), etc.
The radio frame may be differently configured according to duplex mode. For example, in an FDD mode, since downlink (DL) transmission and uplink (UL) transmission are divided according to frequency, a radio frame includes only one of a DL subframe or a UL subframe in a predetermined frequency band of a predetermined carrier frequency. In a TDD mode, since downlink (DL) transmission and uplink (UL) transmission are divided according to time, a radio frame includes both a DL subframe and a UL subframe in a predetermined frequency band of a predetermined carrier frequency.
Table 1 shows a DL-UL configuration of subframes within a radio frame, in a TDD mode.
In Table 1, D denotes a DL subframe, U denotes a UL subframe and S denotes a special subframe. The special subframe includes three fields of DwPTS (Downlink Pilot TimeSlot), GP (Guard Period) and UpPTS (Uplink Pilot TimeSlot). DwPTS is a time slot reserved for DL transmission and UpPTS is a time slot reserved for UL transmission.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a downlink/uplink (DL/UL) slot structure in a wireless communication system. In particular, FIG. 2 shows the structure of a resource grid of a 3GPP LTE(-A) system. One resource grid exists per antenna port.
A slot includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a time domain and includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain. The OFDM symbol means one symbol slot. Referring to FIG. 2, a signal transmitted in each slot may be expressed by a resource grid including NDL/ULRB*NRBsc subcarriers and NDL/ULsymb OFDM symbols. NDLRB denotes the number of resource blocks (RBs) in a DL slot and NULRB denotes the number of RBs in a UL slot. NDLRB and NULRB depend on a DL transmission bandwidth and a UL transmission bandwidth. NDLsymb denotes the number of OFDM symbols in a DL slot, NULsymb denotes the number of OFDM symbols in a UL slot, and NRBsc denotes the number of subcarriers configuring one RB.
An OFDM symbol may be referred to as an OFDM symbol, an SC-FDM symbol, etc. according to multiple access scheme. The number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may be variously changed according to channel bandwidth and CP length. For example, in a normal cyclic prefix (CP) case, one slot includes seven OFDM symbols. In an extended CP case, one slot includes six OFDM symbols. Although one slot of a subframe including seven OFDM symbols is shown in FIG. 2 for convenience of description, the embodiments of the present invention are similarly applicable to subframes having a different number of OFDM symbols. Referring to FIG. 2, each OFDM symbol includes NDL/ULRB*NRBsc subcarriers in a frequency domain. The type of the subcarrier may be divided into a data subcarrier for data transmission, a reference signal subcarrier for reference signal transmission and a null subcarrier for a guard band and a DC component. The null subcarrier for the DC component is unused and is mapped to a carrier frequency f0 in a process of generating an OFDM signal or in a frequency up-conversion process. The carrier frequency is also called a center frequency.
One RB is defined as NDL/ULsymb (e.g., 7) consecutive OFDM symbols in a time domain and defined as NRBsc (e.g., 12) consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain. For reference, resource including one OFDM symbol and one subcarrier is referred to a resource element (RE) or tone. Accordingly, one RB includes NDL/ULsymb*NRBsc REs. Each RE within a resource grid may be uniquely defined by an index pair (k, l) within one slot. k is an index applied from 0 to NDL/ULRB*NRBsc-1 in a frequency domain, and l is an index from 0 to NDL/ULsymb-1 in a time domain.
In one subframe, two RBs respectively located in two slots of the subframe while occupying the same NRBsc consecutive subcarriers is referred to as a physical resource block (PRB) pair. Two RBs configuring a PRB pair have the same PRB number (or the same PRB index). A VRB is a logical resource allocation unit introduced for resource allocation. The VRB has the same size as the PRB. The VRB is classified into a localized VRB and a distributed VRB according to the method of mapping the PRB to the VRB. Localized VRBs are directly mapped to PRBs and thus VRB number (VRB index) directly corresponds to PRB number. That is, nPRB=nVRB. The localized VRBs are numbered from 0 to NDLVRB-1 and NDLVRB=NDLRB. Accordingly, according to the localized mapping method, VRBs having the same VRB number are mapped to RRBs having the same PRB number in a first slot and a second slot. In contrast, the distributed VRB is mapped to the PRB through interleaving. Accordingly, the distributed VRBs having the same VRB number may be mapped to RRBs having different PRB numbers in a first slot and a second slot. Two PRBs which are respectively located in two slots of a subframe and have the same VRB number are referred to as a VRB pair.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a downlink subframe structure used in a 3GPP LTE(-A) system.
A DL subframe is divided into a control region and a data region in a time domain. Referring to FIG. 3, a maximum of 3 (or 4) OFDM symbols located in a front part of a first slot of a subframe correspond to the control region. Hereinafter, a resource region for PDCCH transmission in a DL subframe is referred to as a PDCCH region. OFDM symbols other than the OFDM symbols used in the control region correspond to the data region to which a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is allocated. Hereinafter, a resource region available for PDSCH transmission in a DL subframe is referred to as a PDSCH region. Examples of a DL control channel used in 3GPP LTE include PCFICH (Physical Control Format Indicator Channel), PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), PHICH (Physical hybrid ARQ indicator Channel), etc. The PCFICH is transmitted in a first OFDM symbol of a subframe and carries information about the number of OFDM symbols used for transmission of a control channel within a subframe. The PHICH carries a HARQ ACK/NACK (acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment) as a response to UL transmission.
Control transmitted via a PDCCH is referred to as downlink control information (DCI). The DCI includes resource allocation information of a UE or a UE group and other control information. For example, the DCI includes transmission format and resource allocation information of a DL shared channel (DL-SCH), transmission format and resource allocation information of a UL shared channel (UL-SCH), paging information on a paging channel (PCH), system information on a DL-SCH, resource allocation information of a higher-layer control message such as a random access response transmitted on a PDSCH, a Tx power control command set of individual UEs in a UE group, a Tx power control command, activation indication information of voice over IP (VoIP), etc. The size and usage of the DCI carried by one PDCCH may be changed according to DCI format and the size of the DCI may be changed according to coding rate.
A plurality of PDCCHs may be transmitted in a PDCCH region of a DL subframe. A UE may monitor a plurality of PDCCHs. A BS decides a DCI format according to DCI to be transmitted to a UE and attaches a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to the DCI. The CRC is masked with an identifier (e.g., a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI)) according to an owner or usage of the PDCCH. If the PDCCH is for a specific terminal, a cell-RNTI (C-RNTI) of the terminal may be masked to the CRC. Alternatively, if the PDCCH is for a paging message, a paging indicator identifier (P-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC. If the PDCCH is for system information (more specifically, a system information block (SIB)), a system information identifier and a system information RNTI (SI-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC. If the PDCCH is for a random access response, a random access-RNTI (RA-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC. CRC masking (or scrambling) includes an XOR operation of a CRC and an RNTI at a bit level, for example.
A PDCCH is transmitted on one control channel element (CCE) or an aggregate of a plurality of consecutive CCEs. The CCE is a logical allocation unit used to provide a coding rate to a PDCCH based on a radio channel state. The CCE corresponds to a plurality of resource element groups (REGs). For example, one CCE corresponds to nine REGs and one REG corresponds to four REs. Four QPSK symbols are mapped to each REG. An RE occupied by an RS is not included in an REG. Accordingly, the number of REGs within a given OFDM symbol is changed according to presence/absence of an RS. The REG concept is also used for other DL control channels (that is, a PCFICH and a PHICH). A DCI format and the number of DCI bits are determined according to the number of CCEs.
CCEs are numbered and consecutively used and, in order to simplify decoding, a PDCCH having a format composed of n CCEs may start from only a CCE having a number corresponding to a multiple of n. The number of CCEs used to transmit a specific PDCCH, that is, a CCE aggregation level, is determined by a BS according to a channel state. For example, in case of a PDCCH for a UE having a good DL channel (e.g., a UE adjacent to a BS), one CCE may be sufficient. However, in case of a PDCCH for a UE having a bad channel (e.g., a UE located at a cell edge), 8 CCEs are required to obtain sufficient robustness.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an uplink subframe structure used in a 3GPP LTE(-A) system.
Referring to FIG. 4, a UL subframe may be divided into a control region and a data region in a frequency domain. One or several physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) may be allocated to the control region in order to carry uplink control information (UCI). One or several physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) may be allocated to the data region of the UL subframe in order to carry user data. The control region and the data region in the UL subframe are also referred to as a PUCCH region and a PUSCH region, respectively. A sounding reference signal (SRS) may be allocated to the data region. The SRS is transmitted on a last OFDM symbol of a UL subframe in a time domain and is transmitted on a data transmission band, that is, a data region, of the UL subframe. SRSs of several UEs, which are transmitted/received on the last OFDM symbol of the same subframe, are distinguished according to frequency location/sequence.
If a UE employs an SC-FDMA scheme in UL transmission, in order to maintain a single carrier property, in a 3GPP LTE release-8 or release-9 system, a PUCCH and a PUSCH may not be simultaneously transmitted on one carrier. In a 3GPP LTE release-10 system, support of simultaneous transmission of a PUCCH and a PUSCH may be indicated by a higher layer.
In a UL subframe, subcarriers distant from a direct current (DC) subcarrier are used as the control region. In other words, subcarriers located at both ends of a UL transmission bandwidth are used to transmit uplink control information. A DC subcarrier is a component which is not used to transmit a signal and is mapped to a carrier frequency f0 in a frequency up-conversion process. A PUCCH for one UE is allocated to an RB pair belonging to resources operating in one carrier frequency and RBs belonging to the RB pair occupy different subcarriers in two slots. The allocated PUCCH is expressed by frequency hopping of the RB pair allocated to the PUCCH at a slot boundary. If frequency hopping is not applied, the RB pair occupies the same subcarrier.
The size and usage of UCI carried by one PUCCH may be changed according to PUCCH format and the size of the UCI may be changed according to a coding rate. For example, the following PUCCH format may be defined.
Referring to Table 2, PUCCH format 1 series and PUCCH format 3 series are used to transmit ACK/NACK information and PUCCH format 2 series are mainly used to carry channel state information such as CQI (channel quality indicator)/PMI (precoding matrix index)/RI (rank index).
FIG. 5a and FIG. 5b are diagrams showing an example of intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement.
Intra-frequency measurement is applicable when a serving cell eNB1 for currently providing data and a neighboring cell eNB2 to be measured operate at the same carrier frequency f.sub.c,1 as shown in FIG. 5a. At this time, if a UE separately operates an estimator with respect to the serving cell and the neighboring cell, since data channel estimation and neighboring cell physical layer measurement may be simultaneously performed, a separate measurement gap is not required.
In contrast, inter-frequency measurement is applicable when a serving cell eNB1 for currently providing data and a neighboring cell eNB2 to be measured operate at different carrier frequencies f.sub.c,1 and f.sub.c,2, respectively as shown in FIG. 5b. In order to perform physical layer measurement for the neighboring cell, a carrier frequency of an oscillator should be changed. However, in general, a UE has a single oscillator due to cost constraints and the oscillator simultaneously controls carrier frequencies of uplink and downlink. Accordingly, when the carrier frequency of the oscillator is changed for physical layer measurement, downlink data reception and uplink data transmission may not be performed. This leads to time and frequency resource waste.
Accordingly, the present application proposes a method of adaptively using a single estimator as necessary by introducing a measurement gap in both intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement. Further, the present application proposes a method of setting a switching time at start and end points of the measurement gap when a UE performs a physical layer measurement operation. For example, if it is assumed that the UE has a single estimator, data channel estimation and neighboring cell physical layer measurement may not be simultaneously performed. At this time, the single estimator may be used to perform a selected operation (one of channel estimation of a serving cell and physical layer measurement of a neighboring cell). In addition, a data transmission method restricted by the measurement gap is changed according to measurement methods, thereby providing a flexible structure. Hereinafter, according to an embodiment of the present invention, an operation of adaptively using a single estimator via a measurement gap by an UE will be described.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing measurement of a neighboring cell within a measurement gap in which there is no data transmission/reception. FIG. 6 shows an embodiment in which a measurement gap in which there is no data transmission/reception is used to perform physical layer measurement of a neighboring cell. The operation described with reference to FIG. 6 may be used in both an intra-frequency measurement and an inter-frequency measurement.
At this time, the UE uses a single estimator for channel estimation of a data channel of a serving cell eNB1 outside the measurement gap and uses the single estimator for physical layer measurement of a neighboring cell eNB2 within the measurement gap. Within the measurement gap, the UE may measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) from the neighboring cell so as to perform physical layer measurement.
Within the measurement gap, since the single estimator of the UE is used for physical layer measurement but is not used for channel estimation, the channel state in the measurement gap is not applied to data transmission/reception. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 6, no data transmission/reception is performed within the measurement gap. In the inter-frequency measurement method, it may be shown that the carrier frequency is changed using the single oscillator for physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell eNB2 within the measurement gap. Accordingly, in the inter-frequency measurement method, data transmission and reception of the UE, that is, uplink data transmission and downlink data reception, are impossible within the measurement gap. Even when the intra-frequency measurement method is applied, uplink data transmission and downlink data reception are impossible.
In addition, a switching time for switching basic settings such as a scrambling ID of a neighboring cell may be set at start and end points of a measurement gap. That is, the switching time is a time for enabling the UE to switch between channel estimation for the serving cell and intra-frequency measurement of the neighboring cell. The switching time may have an insignificant value or may be ignored according to circumstances under which the embodiment is complemented.
The measurement gap may be determined by the UE based on a PDCCH from a serving cell or an eNB1 which serves as a serving cell to the UE. The UE may confirm presence/absence of downlink data allocated thereto, that is, a PDSCH, via control information of the PDCCH. The UE may determine the measurement gap within the time period corresponding to one or more subframes other than the subframe of the PDSCH allocated thereto.
Under such an environment, since there is no PDSCH allocated to the UE within the measurement gap, the UE does not need to perform channel estimation for the serving cell. Accordingly, the UE may measure the physical layer of the cell (that is, the neighboring cell) other than the serving cell via the single estimator within the measurement gap.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an intra-frequency measurement of a neighboring cell within a measurement gap in which data transmission can be performed by a UE (User Equipment).
In the embodiment associated with FIG. 7, the operation of the intra-frequency measurement method in which the serving cell and the neighboring cell of the UE operate at the same carrier frequencies will be described. In other words, the embodiment associated with FIG. 7 describes the operation for performing physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell within the measurement gap in which data transmission is performed (that is, UL is available) but data reception is not performed (that is, DL is not available).
Unlike the intra-frequency measurement method, the inter-frequency measurement method should change the carrier frequency via the oscillator. This leads to change in the carrier frequency in both uplink and downlink and thus uplink and downlink may not allow to be used. However, in the intra-frequency measurement method, the serving cell and the neighboring cell of the UE operate at the same carrier frequencies, the UE may transmit data to the eNB via an uplink channel even when physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell is performed by the UE via a downlink channel within the measurement gap. Referring to an uplink part shown in the top of FIG. 7, it can be seen that uplink data transmission is possible (the channel is not disconnected along a time axis).
Within the measurement gap, the single estimator of the UE is used to measure the physical layer of the neighboring cell eNB2 and thus data reception may not be performed within the measurement gap. Within the measurement gap, the UE may measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) of a downlink signal from the neighboring cell so as to perform physical layer measurement. At this time, the serving cell or the eNB which serves as the serving cell may inform the UE as to whether the measurement gap is available and whether data transmission is granted via a higher layer signal. The UE may report result of the measurement to the eNB1. The reporting may be performed using periodic method, event-triggered method, or a combination thereof.
For reference, in FIG. 7, data reception of the UE being not performed within the measurement gap means that data received by the UE is not recovered (by a series of processes performed by a data reception side, such as demodulation and decoding) and data which a data transmission side (that is, eNB1) desires to transmit to the UE is not acquired. However, it does not mean that data which is subjected to signal processing (a series of processes performed by the data transmission side, such as coding and modulation) at the data transmission side is not received. In other words, since the data transmitted by the data transmission side (eNB1) is received by the UE but channel estimation is not performed within the measurement gap, the received data is not subjected to demodulation, etc. Thus, the UE is not able to detect which data is received.
FIG. 8 is a diagram showing measurement of a neighboring cell through a number of subframes within a measurement gap.
According to the embodiment associated with FIG. 8, described is An operation for adjusting the length of the measurement gap depending on whether data transmission and reception is available when physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell is performed using the measurement gap. A low-cost UE such as an MTC terminal supports a low data transmission rate and a data transmission period may be very long. Accordingly, the present application proposes an operation for performing physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell for a long time by the UE while there is no data transmission/reception.
For example, in an LTE system, when the UE confirms that there is no data allocated thereto in a subframe via a control signal such as a PDCCH, the UE may perform a physical layer measurement operation for a neighboring cell within the subframe. At this time, physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell may be performed over a plurality of downlink subframes a shown in FIG. 8. In other words, the measurement gap may be determined within the time resources corresponding to one or more downlink subframes and measurement of the neighboring cell may be performed within the measurement gap. For example, if a PDCCH detected in a downlink subframe carries a downlink control information (DCI) indicating downlink grant, the UE may confirm that a PDSCH associated with the PDCCH is present in the subframe. In contrast, if the UE fails to detect the PDCCH thereof in a downlink subframe or detects the PDCCH thereof but the DCI included in the PDCCH is a DCI other than downlink grant DCI (e.g., a DCI indicating uplink grant), the UE determines that there is no PDSCH for the UE in the subframe and uses the downlink subframe in which the PDSCH is not present as the measurement gap.
Within the measurement gap, the UE may measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) of a downlink signal from the neighboring cell so as to perform physical layer measurement.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing measurement of a neighboring cell using a single channel estimator in case that a change of the channel state is slow.
According to the embodiment associated with FIG. 9, described is an operation for simultaneously performing data reception and physical layer measurement of a neighboring cell using a single estimator in a communication environment in which a channel state is slowly changed. If a low-cost UE such as an MTC terminal is implemented in an apparatus having low mobility or a fixed apparatus, the channel state may be slowly changed. In such an environment, the single estimator is preferably used to measure a surrounding environment, rather than being used for channel estimation of the serving cell in every data reception time. In other words, since the channel state is slowly changed, the result of the previously estimated channel state is replaced with a channel state estimation value at a current data reception time and the single estimator may be used for physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell.
The speed (slow or fast) of the change in channel state may be calculated/determined by the serving cell or the eNB which serves as the serving cell via periodic or aperiodic reporting of the channel state information from the UE. For example, the serving cell or the eNB may detect a difference between (M-1)th received channel state information and Mth received channel state information so as to detect a change in channel state. The change in channel state may include a channel size difference according to CQI, a channel direction difference according to PMI, etc.
However, if physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell is performed regardless of the change in channel state, errors occur in a received data (e.g., a PDSCH) recovered by the UE if the channel state is significantly changed. Accordingly, in the operation according to the present embodiment, a threshold of the change speed of the channel state is set and the operation according to the present embodiment is preferably applied if the change speed of the channel state is less than the threshold. The threshold is preferably a value in which errors occurring in a process of recovering the received data may be ignorable and reliability of demodulation of the received data can be ensured.
Accordingly, in the embodiment associated with FIG. 9, the measurement gap is not required and the UE may measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) of a downlink signal from the neighboring cell in a period using a previous channel estimation result so as to perform physical layer measurement. In other words, the UE may perform physical layer measurement of the neighboring cell while performing decoding and/or demodulation of the received data based on the previous channel estimation result in a predetermined period.
FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing components of a transmitter 10 and a receiver 20 for performing the present invention.
The transmitter 10 and the receiver 20 include radio frequency (RF) units 13 and 23 for transmitting or receiving a radio signal carrying information and/or data, a signal and a message, memories 12 and 22 for storing a variety of information associated with communication in a wireless communication system, and processors 11 and 21 connected to the components including the RF units 13 and 23 and the memories 12 and 22 and configured to control the memories 12 and 22 and/or the RF units 13 and 23 to perform at least one of the embodiments of the present invention, respectively.
The memories 12 and 22 may store programs for processing and controlling the processors 11 and 21 and may temporarily store input/output signal. The memories 12 and 22 may be used as a buffer.
The processors 11 and 21 generally control the overall operation of the various modules of the transmitter and the receiver. In particular, the processors 11 and 21 may perform a variety of control functions for performing the present invention. The processors 11 and 21 may be referred to as a controller, a microcontroller, a microprocessor, a microcomputer, etc. The processors 11 and 21 can be implemented by a variety of means, for example, hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. In the case of implementing the present invention by hardware, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), Digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), etc. configured to perform the present invention may be included in the processors 11 and 21. If operations or functions of the present invention are implemented by firmware or software, firmware or software may be configured to include modules, procedures, functions, etc. for performing the function or operations of the present invention. The firmware or software configured to perform the present invention may be included in the processors 11 and 21 or stored in the memories 12 and 22 so as to be operated by the processors 11 and 21.
The processor 11 of the transmitter 10 performs coding and modulation with respect to a signal and/or data which is scheduled by the processor 11 or a scheduler connected to the processor 11 to be transmitted to an external device and transmits the signal and/or data to the RF unit 13. For example, the processor 11 transforms a data stream to be transmitted to K layers via demultiplexing and channel coding, scrambling, modulation, etc. The coded data stream is also called a codeword and is equivalent to a transport block which is a data block provided by a medium access control (MAC) layer. One transport block (TB) is encoded into one codeword and each codeword is transmitted to the receiver in the form of one or more layers. For frequency up-conversion, the RF unit 13 may include an oscillator. The RF unit 13 may include Nt (Nt being a positive integer) transmit antennas.
Signal processing of the receiver 20 is the inverse of signal processing of the transmitter 10. Under control the processor 21, the RF unit 23 of the receiver 20 receives a radio signal transmitted by the transmitter 10. The RF unit 23 may include Nr (Nr being a positive integer) receive antennas and the RF unit 23 performs frequency down-conversion with respect to each signal received via each receive antenna and restores a baseband signal. The RF unit 23 may include an oscillator for frequency down-conversion. The processor 21 may perform decoding and demodulation with respect to the radio signal received via the receive antennas and restore original data transmitted by the transmitter 10.
The RF units 13 and 23 include one or more antennas. The antennas serve to transmit the signals processed by the RF units 13 and 23 to external devices or to receive radio signals from external devices and to send the radio signals to the RF units 13 and 23 under control of the processors 11 and 21 according to one embodiment of the present invention. The antennas are also called antenna ports. Each antenna may be composed of one physical antenna or a combination of more than one physical antenna elements. The signal transmitted by each antenna is not decomposed by the receiver 20. A reference signal (RS) transmitted in correspondence with the antenna defines the antenna viewed from the viewpoint of the receiver 20 and enables the receiver 20 to perform channel estimation of the antenna regardless of whether the channel is a single radio channel from a single physical antenna or a composite channel from a plurality of physical antennal elements including the above antennas. That is, the antenna is defined such that the channel for delivering a symbol over the antenna is derived from the channel for delivering another symbol over the same antenna. In case of the RF unit supporting a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) function for transmitting and receiving data using a plurality of antennas, two or more antennas may be connected.
In the embodiments of the present invention, a UE or a relay operate as the transmitter 10 in uplink and operates as the receiver 20 in downlink. In the embodiments of the present invention, a BS operates as the receiver 20 in uplink and operates as the transmitter 10 in downlink.
Hereinafter, the processor, the memory and the RF unit included in the BS are referred to as a BS processor, a BS memory and a BS RF unit and the processor, the memory and the RF unit included in the UE are referred to as a UE processor, a UE memory and a UE RF unit. In the present invention, the BS processor may be a processor located at a BS or may be a BS controller connected to a BS via a cable or a dedicated line and configured to control the BS.
Hereinafter, downlink will be described. Accordingly, the transmitter 10 corresponds to the BS and the receiver 20 corresponds to the UE. The receiver 20 may correspond to a UE configured to perform intra-frequency cell measurement in a wireless communication system. The receiver 20 may include a RF unit 23 configured to transmit or receive the radio signal and a processor 21 configured to control the RF unit. The receiver 20 may include a memory 22 configured to store a series of data including information necessary to perform communication with the BS.
The processor 21 may determine a measurement gap for intra-frequency cell measurement based on a PDCCH received from the BS. The measurement gap may correspond to time resources capable of performing intra-frequency cell measurement of a neighboring cell. In other words, the measurement gap corresponds to one or more downlink subframes other than a downlink subframe having downlink data for the UE indicated by downlink control information.
The measurement gap may be determined to be present over one or more downlink subframes or to include one or more downlink subframes.
The processor 21 may be configured to measure a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) or a reference symbol received power (RSRP) of a downlink signal from the neighboring cell during the measurement gap.
The length of the measurement gap may be adjusted based on control information transmitted via the received PDCCH. The processor 21 may determine at least part of the time resources, in which the PDSCH allocated to the UE is not present, as the measurement gap.
The processor 21 may be configured to transmit data to the BS in uplink during the measurement gap.
The processor 21 is configured to receive, from the BS, information on whether uplink transmission is granted or whether the measurement gap is allowed to be used. The information may be transmitted via a higher layer signal.
The processor 21 is configured to report the intra-frequency cell measurement result to the BS. The reporting may be performed a periodic method, an event triggering method or a combination thereof. Such a reporting method may be provided to the UE via a higher layer signal.
The processor 21 is configured to a switching time before and after the measurement gap and the switching time is a time period during which switching between channel estimation and intra-frequency cell measurement occurs.
Another embodiment described with reference to FIG. 10 will be described. The processor 21 may divide time resources allocated to the UE into a first time resource and a second time resource. The first time resource may be resource for estimation or measurement of the channel state of a serving cell to which the UE belongs and the second time resource may be resource for estimation or measurement of the channel state of a neighboring cell of the serving cell to which the UE belongs. The first time resource and the second time resource may be determined based on downlink control information (e.g., PDSCH) received from the BS. The first time resource and the second time resource may be contiguously located on a time axis and a constant time interval may be present between the first time resource and the second time resource.
More specifically, the processor 21 may determine a time resource corresponding to the PDSCH allocated to the UE as the first time resource and determine the time resource corresponding to the PDSCH which is not allocated to the UE (that is, a PDSCH for another UE) as the second time resource via the downlink control information. The processor 21 may select or determine at least part of the second time resource as the measurement gap for estimation or measurement of the channel state of the neighboring cells. The length of the measurement gap may be dynamically determined within the second time resource. The second time resource may correspond to a time resource corresponding to at least one downlink subframe and thus the measurement gap may correspond to a time resource corresponding to at least one downlink subframe. As described above, during the measurement gap, the process 21 may measure an RSRQ or RSRP of the neighboring cell and report the RSRQ or RSRP to the BS. The reporting method may be performed using a periodic method, an event triggering method or a combination thereof and the method may be configured by a higher layer signal.
Although the term "estimation" or "measurement" is used in the specification of the present invention, the term "estimation" or "measurement" indicates that the channel state or the physical layer state observed from one UE is estimated, calculated or measured. Although the term "estimator" is used in the specification of the present invention, the term "estimator" indicates a means for estimating, calculating or measuring the channel state or the physical layer state.
The detailed description of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention has been given to enable those skilled in the art to implement and practice the invention. Although the invention has been described with reference to the exemplary embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention described in the appended claims. For example, those skilled in the art may use each construction described in the above embodiments in combination with each other. Accordingly, the invention should not be limited to the specific embodiments described herein, but should be accorded the broadest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
The embodiments of the present invention may be used in a user equipment or other equipments in a wireless communication system.
According to the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently perform channel estimation and physical layer measurement given restricted time resources. | 2019-04-24T14:48:44 | http://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20130088985 |
0.995711 | Anime is actually a French word, really should be spelled Anim� Anime, A.K.A. Japanese Animation, or Japanimation is the product of 'cartoons' in Japan. It's not like American cartoons, Anime is directed at all ages, not just the young. And unlike what some people think, anime was not 'stolen' from America. Some anime is dubbed into English and it loses much of the beauty it used to hold and becomes weird and SCARY. So try to get subtitled anime if you want the best because very few animes were well dubbed.Even if you can't read well you should at least watch the subtitled versions. There have been drawings dating back hundreds of years that are anime-like.
Characteristics are big eyes, long hair in, sometimes, off the wall colors, and side burns that come off the head, but are done in a nice way. Diffrent artists have their own style, some have 'stringy' hair, in the way that they add strands of hair, which is really quite pretty. Others have pointy hair, like Ryoko and Washu. Most of all, female characters have long legs.
Another characteristic of anime is the 'sweat drop', which is, the tear-drop like thing on peoples head, denoting an unspoken "Oh boy", "Uh-oh", or just tension between 2 characters. It can also be used when the character is embarrased.
Manga is like a comic, but anime style. A lot of anime, though not all, is made from a popular series of manga. Manga is generally done in black and white, and is a very large industry in Japan.
Manga is done by one writer, sometimes two, no more, unlike DC Comics and Marvel, etc. etc. who use several diffrent writers to produce their comics. This allows a writer to maintain control over how a character look differs, and how the plot develops. You can buy manga at popular bookstores. You'll most likely find it in the "Graphic Novel" section.
Comics barely appear in Japanese newspaper as they do in the American newspapers. In Japanese newspaper, they have a four-panel family strip that is on the next-to-last page and sometimes there are color supplements but no "Sunday Funnies."
What Does the Word Manga Mean?
How did the word "manga" come into being? Manga, pronounced "mahngah," means caricature, cartoon, comic strip, comic book, or animation. The Japanese woodblock-print artist, Hokusai, coined in 1814 by trying to describe comics like "unintentional sketches." He used the Chinese ideograms: man and ga. (Man means "involuntary" or "inspite of onself." Ga means "picture.") But the ideograms hold a secondary meaning to "unintentional sketches","morally corrupt."
Chibi means small in Japanese. A chibi is basically a small anime character with several features specifically designed to be "cute". Most have a really large head, big eyes that cover a least half the face, and wear midget size clothing.
Kawaii basically justs means cute in Japanese. Kawaii is similar to chibi but they don't have to be small. | 2019-04-19T17:21:58 | http://cooltogepi.tripod.com/faq.html |
0.998486 | Does anyone know how I can change the information of some campgrounds in TL-2010? I searched the Help file. but I didn't find anything. I also wanted to look at the tutorials, but every time I click on any of them, I get an error message that my system is not configured to open such file, so I gave up on that. I can see the pdf files in the Tutorials folder, but just can't open them.
On my version of 2008 version of TLDCN the tutorials files are opened via a menu bar Help option in the application. Click on Help, then Tutorials, then you'll see the item to click on. This will then open the pdf file associated with the help menu option.
Many times a common file format (like pdf files) can only be opened with an application even though you might have another application using the same extension (like a pdf). I don't know how this is specifically done, but TLDCN has a few of these file limitations. I have learned not to get too fancy with anything on TLDCN. They don't want their files to be opened except if you have paid for the program to do this.
Same with many of the files in their database (campgrounds, points of interests, etc.). What you've got is what you'll have. If you want new information, you have to report it to their tech support and then maybe they'll include it in their next version. Their data files are not intended for user updating. Apparently in 2010 and up you can change the "name" of a waypoint (campground for example), but nothing else. I have not confirmed it.
You need to look closely at the Rules and conditions for all software you buy. You'll find that you are not allowed to modify it and use it in that way unless specifically allowed. What you purchased was the right to use it under their rules and conditions (aka License agreements). What you paid for was the right to USE it.
Since I was involved in the computer industry for over thirty years, I experienced the software licensing processes being developed and there are plenty of software developers who also provide databases for sale and want them protected as other software houses use them. They work together to minimize piracy as much as possible. Yes, any unwanted use, modification, sale, loaning, etc. of software products beyond the license agreement is considered piracy. Freedom to do what you want and Freedom to do what you want to someone else's stuff are not the same.
If you paid anything close to what I paid for my copy of TLDCN, then believe me, we didn't pay enough to exceed the rights to modify the software including the database that you'd love to modify. Rest assured that TLDCN is only trying to protect the rights of the owner's of the databases that they include with their software, to not have it modified. It's all by what's allowed by the license agreement. Sometimes it's some wording in the license agreement then they hope you abide, and sometimes they are able to protect it even more by preventing modification. I certainly won't tell you what tools I've used to modify software because it can be done - I used them under agreement and knowledge with the software partners I was working with.
TLCDN does have a way for you to create your own entries into a user-defined database and you can put all the same comments in there you want. One of my last contacts with them I asked to be able to modify the name of the campground and apparently this is in a newer version I don't have yet. You might try asking them for the ability to modify their database, but it will be up to them whether to include that feature or not if they get enough requests for it.
While you might not like it, I hope you better understand how this works then you might not be so irkable in this regard.
I don't know, you are too quick to give these people a pass. I still think that if I purchase a product, I should be able to modify its data, anyway I want.
So, go ahead and and change the info, who is stopping you? Nobody is going to come to your house and check if you have changed the data. Question is, do you know how to even interpret the data, since it appears to be in binary format?
Don Bryer wrote: So, go ahead and and change the info, who is stopping you? Nobody is going to come to your house and check if you have changed the data. Question is, do you know how to even interpret the data, since it appears to be in binary format?
Well, the point is that they should provide the description of how the information is stored, so that we *can* change it, if we so wanted. The way it is now, companies are holding us hostage, since they are the only ones that know how the data is arranged.
Easier said than done I think the best approach may be to ask Undertow if they are willing to provide such capabilities. I'll fire off an email message and ask them.
You can make all the excuses you want, but I still say we pay for the software and once we bring it home we should be able to modify it, change it, and in short, do whatever we please with it. It's our copy! If I buy a car and bring it home, I can decide to change it's exhaust, put different tires on it, re-paint it a different color, and so on. It's mine. Why should it be different with software? I just don't get it.
Xavier, you are not understanding what Rvwinlow and DK13 are pointing out. When you purchase software you also purchase a license agreement and there isn't anything in there that says you get to modify their software in ALL areas. Your generalities don't apply correctly.
Let's try an analogy. You buy a car. The company has a warranty. Put a new engine in it then try to get your warranty honored when something doesn't work. NOT gonna happen. All that money you spent on the car didn't buy you the right to do anything you want just because you bought it. If you wanted to have that kind of freedom, you're gonna have to pay a LOT more than that and I know of very few companies that want to allow that kind of freedom with THEIR products. If you want to change the brakes, the paint, the tires, the wheels and something goes wrong do you contact the car company to replace these for you for free or ask them to fix it? No, you now own that problem because you created it and gotta deal with the brake, paint, tire or wheel company instead (someone else).
In the world of software, some companies flat out do NOT want that phone call from anyone that says, "I modified your database and now something does not work". You didn't pay enough for that software. You, Xavier might not call but just like you don't understand how this works they just don't want to risk it from any one. They want to keep their support calls down. A vast majority of automobile owners don't modify the autos either because they still want to call in on their warranty.
If that's the way Undertow wants to run their company then they are allowed and I will live within that price I paid or go elsewhere and have the same or different limitations. If they were that bad in what they provided they wouldn't still be in business. I and most others are pleased with what we got from them and will certainly ask for additional features, but it's their call if I get them or not. I certainly don't know enough about their business to expect the freedom to do whatever I want just because I paid a few dollars.
As I promised, I contacted Undertow and surprisingly, they were prompt to respond. Since emails are private communications, I don't want to repost the message, but here are the pertinent parts of it.
The Trailer Life program uses many different databases, from different sources. Each is licensed under very specific licensing agreements that spell out what can and cannot be done with it. For example, we could not buid tools into the program to allow you to change the mapping data (roads, etc.) since that is not allowed by our data providers (Tele Atlas). If you were to secure a license from them directly, that would permit editing their data (probably at a cost of 100s of thousands), you could hire us to create a special version of the program for you that allowed editing their data. The campground information database is from Trailer Life, again, under restrictions so that it cannot be edited. Trailer Life may also be willing to issue you a license for a few tens of thousands so you can edit their data. As for the data formats, these are proprietary data formats and once you secured any of the above licenses, we’d be happy to spend the time and produce a detailed file spec for you - as long as you are willing to pay for it (not an inexpensive proposition, since these are fairly complex file formats that we have spent the last 20 years developing and refining).
The program will allow you to modify files "you" create with it, or files that someone else created "with it" and passed them on to you. Modifying proprietary dataset files that took many man-years and big $$ to create, is outside the scope of a $50 product (or whatever the price is), but I am sure you can secure an appropriate license to do what you want to do, at the appropriately enumerated license cost.
I think this makes sense and artmart is right on the money on this one.
I don't use this particular program (I use their development tools), but I spent almost 10 years working for a "Large" software company and I was responsible for documenting and keeping up to date detailed file formats for a dozen different products and I can tell you, a team of 4 of us were spending ~ 50% of our time doing just that. It's no small feat. There is an old adage that says it can take twice as long to document a software product than to develop it.
As for allowing one to edit such datasets, as mentined earlier, these companies have spent tens of man-years (or longer) to develop and fine-tune these datasets and you want to be able to allowed to do the same by paying $50 - I don't think this is ever going to happen.
So I have to pay thousands of dollars for the privilege of changing some data of a program I already paid for? What a bargain. I think I may just have to figure out the format myself and make the changes I need.
By George, I think you've ALMOST got it. The part you don't seem to comprehend is that you have NOT already paid for the rights to change THEIR database. You only paid for a copy of their software intended for the public within the limits of the license agreement. You can make a new database and put whatever you want in there even using some of the information they have already collaborated. That would be easier than changing theirs and it's legal, too. When it comes to computers I know plenty of people who have had to pay others to correct what they screwed up when they try this stuff and you'll be paying big for that.
Like the example I provided before, you're allowed to make thousands of dollars of changes to your vehicle (new radio, tires, wheels, engine mods, etc. - easy stuff like that), then NOT call the manufacturer when you screw it up, and there is no "license agreement" for an automobile. In the case of a product which has a license agreement you are obligated to live by those terms and they have obligations they have to meet for you. If you keep the modifications to yourself then you are taking on this effort yourself and assume all the infractions by yourself but don't tell us about it, or try and seek help from them, or try to sell it afterward - in your license agreement I'm sure it's a no-no. You are only allowed to resell the "copy" that you bought and this implies you are selling all parts of that copy with the license agreement and an intact database.
In their case, you can't afford the rights to their database, so this point is moot. You don't have to like it, you just have to respect it. Just keep in mind the prisons are full of people who thought they could do what ever they wanted especially if they paid a few dollars. From stealing software to taking lives. We've all pointed out what's legal. It's your choice whether you want to remain legal.
At this point constructive posts to this topic are over. You posted, it's been explained in great detail, and it's over. We've ALL tried to be as clear as possible what you paid for and in this case, none of us knows each other except through this topic therefore we are not conspiring, and have all explained pretty much the same thing and why it's that way. If you don't understand by now, you'll never get it.
I, too, have issues with some software companies and products (more with some than with others), but the basic issue here is that his example of comparing a car with software, is nonsense. A car is a tangible piece of property that you "purchase" (you do not license it), whereas software is a piece of intellectual property that you license (not purchase). The only tangible thing you purchase in this case is the "media" the software came on, and you can do whatever you want with that, burn it, scratch it, write on it, throw it away, etc. Most licensing agreement spell it out "that's the only thing you *purchase* and own). | 2019-04-26T09:00:16 | http://chicagomap.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?t=118& |
0.999608 | Fully working and undamaged price.
The price indicated here is a fully working and undamaged device price, which is subject to phone condition.
We accept broken phones as well, you can get anywhere up to 80% of fully working value.
Please answer all the grading question(s) below, to get more accurate price for your phone.
How to find Device IMEI/SERIAL?
1.Press *#06# on the handset keypad - the IMEI number will be displayed on the screen of your phone.
2. Remove the battery from the back of your phone - the IMEI number should be displayed on a sticker underneath the battery.
3.SIM tray: The serial number and IMEI will be printed on the SIM tray of the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM model), and iPhone 4S, as shown below.
How to find mobile's serial?
1. Does your mobile power up?
Does the mobile power up?
Your mobile powers up to the main screen and remains powered up for 5 minutes or during entire grading process.
2. Does your mobile have a working screen?
Does your mobile have a working screen?
Please make sure your mobile screen is free from scratches,cracks and blemishes.
3. Does your mobile have a battery?
Does the device have a battery?
Your mobile has a battery in good condition with no damage and is not broken.
4. Are the buttons/touchscreen working?
All the buttons produce correct response on screen and all areas of touchscreen respond.
5. Is the casing complete and undamaged?
Is the casing complete and undamaged?
Your mobile casing is fully intact and undamaged, including buttons and outer screen. Casing should not be in pieces, scratches and marks as a result of normal wear and tear are deemed acceptable. | 2019-04-25T22:28:37 | http://tradein.vodafone.co.nz/ProductDetails.aspx?id=12223 |
0.999999 | Yes, they both stem from the latin "collatio" which meant collection (bringing together).
The word also exists in french : "collation". It's a small lunch, usually right after an event, or during the night.
I Should expect 'tea' as well as 'dinner' for 'kolację' if you are from North England :) it was presented as an option after all!
What will be the imperative case: "Eat dinner!"
how come obiad can also be called dinner?
My husband who is Polish says obiad should be dinner and kolacja should be supper. There is no lunch.
Polish dinner, or obiad, falls between 2-3pm when most people get home work. It typically is the largest meal of the day. Kolacja is usually a small meal around 7pm.
Nowadays we have both lunch and brunch in Poland. It all depends on the area and lifestyle but in Warsaw it's quite westernized.
What is the difference between kolacja and kolacje?
After the verb "jeść" (to eat) you have to use the accusative (biernik) case: kolację. Other examples: Ona je banana. (She is eating a banana). Ja jem ciastko. (I am eating a cookie). My jemy wielki tort. (We are eating a big cake).
That's used in Britain sometimes... anyways, it's a rather rare option. | 2019-04-21T06:21:47 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/12356831/Jesz-kolacj%C4%99 |
0.998574 | Inilah 40 contoh soal untuk dalam pelajaran Bahasa Inggris semester 1 bagi kelas 7 SMP..
1.Andi : can I borrow your pencil?
2. Mother : Marisa, did you break the plate?
3. Teacher : Hadi, open the door please !
4. A : Do you like to play sport?
A : What sport do you like?
5. A : What do you think about my new dress?
B : …….It’s looks good.
Mr. Jackson is an American teacher, but he lives and works in Denpasar. He teaches English at SMP 8. He is very good teacher. His students like him.
His wife is an Indonesian. She comes from Medan. They have one son and one daughter. The children go to a primary school.
Mr. Jackson’s house is made of wood. It has five rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room and two bedrooms. The Jacksons have a house maid to help Mrs. Jackson to do the house work. The maid comes from Bantul.
7. What does the text mostly about?
8. What is the purpose of the text?
9. Where does the Jackson Family stay?
Word refer to Mr. Jackson’s..….
11. Mr. Jackson’ house has….
3. (13)….a half glass of water into a the blender.
Everybody has a hobby. A hobby is something we do for happiness in our spare time. My hobby is collecting stamps. I like to collect many kinds from all over the world. Sometimes I must buy a new stamp. I put my collections in a stamps album.
I have a brother. His name is Andre. He likes to go camping. He always goes camping on holidays. My sister, Putri, like cooking. She likes baking cakes but she hates preparing our meals.
My mother and father like gardening. They like to spend their time in garden. There are many flowers in their garden. There are roses, jasmines, orchids and hisbicuses. They also plant vegetables. There are carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce.
19. How many persons are there in the writer’s family?
20. Where does the writer put his stamps collection?
21. Which sentences is TRUE according to the text above?
The underlined word has the same meaning with….
24. What kind of text is it?
25. How much garlic does the writer want to buy?
26. Which store will the writer not go to?
a. Can I help you? c. Do you help me?
b. Can you help me? d. What can I do for you?
29. We buy flower at…..
30. We buy medicine at….
31. Arrange these jumbled sentence into the right paragraph.
33. We buy birthday cake at….
Congratulation on your success in the poetry reading competition. You are the best. I am proud of you.
34. What kind of text is it?
35. What is the purpose of the text?
36. Who send the card?
37. Who won the poetry reading competition?
38. Arrange the sentences into the correct steps how to make fried banana.
39. A : What do you think of our new teacher ?
40. A :Do you think lady gaga will come to Indonesia?
3 Tanggapan untuk "Soal Bahasa Inggris kelas 7 SMP Semester 1" | 2019-04-26T02:09:52 | http://www.sekolahgratis.net/2013/05/soal-bahasa-inggris-kelas-7-smp.html |
0.998552 | Can I Have 2 401(k) Plans at the Same Time?
A 401(k) is the most popular type of retirement plan private-sector companies offer, so you may have several different 401(k) accounts over your working lifetime. Or, if you work multiple jobs, you might be offered 401(k) plans from more than one employer simultaneously. Is this allowable?
The short answerThe short answer is yes, you can have multiple 401(k) accounts at a time. In fact, it's rather common for people to have an old 401(k) account (or several) from their previous employer(s), in addition to their current one.
Another common situation is where individuals earn self-employment income in addition to income from their job. With self-employment income, these people can set up and contribute to an individual 401(k) even if they have another 401(k) at their job.
Overall contribution limitsIf you have more than one active 401(k) account, you need to be aware that the IRS's contribution limit for elective deferrals refers to your combined 401(k) accounts.
For the 2016 tax year, you can choose to defer up to $18,000 of your pay into your 401(k) plan. If you have more than one 401(k), this limit applies to your total elective deferrals. For example, if you choose to contribute $15,000 to your primary employer's 401(k) plan, you would be limited to $3,000 in elective contributions to any other plans you participate in. Also, if you're over 50, you are allowed an additional $6,000 in catch-up 401(k) contributions for a total of $24,000.
Note that this limit doesn't include any employer matching or nonelective contributions. So, if you max out your $18,000 elective deferral in your primary 401(k), an employer could still contribute into another 401(k) plan for your benefit. In fact, the total contribution limit including elective deferrals and employer contributions is $53,000 per 401(k) plan for 2016 ($59,000 if you're over 50), or 100% of compensation, whichever is less.
You can treat contributions to an individual 401(k) as nonelective (employer) contributions, so even if you've contributed the $18,000 maximum to an employer's 401(k), you could still contribute up to $53,000 to your individual 401(k) as a nonelective contribution.
Retirement planning considerationsJust because you might be able to keep your old 401(k) accounts in your old employer's plan, that doesn't mean it's the smartest move. You should compare the investment options of each 401(k) plan, and the fees you're paying. If your old 401(k) has lower fees and you don't mind having your retirement savings in several places, by all means leave it alone. On the other hand, if your current employer's plan looks better, consolidating your 401(k) accounts could be the best idea.
Finally, you also have the option of rolling over your old 401(k) into an IRA, which could give you much more control over your investments. In an IRA, you can invest in virtually any stocks, bonds, or funds you want, so if you want to take a more active role with your retirement planning, this could be a smart move for your old 401(k)s.
The article Can I Have 2 401(k) Plans at the Same Time? originally appeared on Fool.com. | 2019-04-21T10:55:13 | https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/can-i-have-2-401k-plans-at-the-same-time |
0.999717 | In how many Universities one can apply for CSC Scholarship?
According to new csc policy, one applicant can apply only in 3 universities for csc scholarship type B. Although, applicant can also apply in two more universities with Type A scholarship. | 2019-04-18T21:18:52 | http://www.engrz.org/scholarships/now-you-can-apply-only-in-5-universities-on-csc-scholarship/msg16165/ |
0.990572 | Umpire Mohamed Lahyani made an unusual intervention as Nick Kyrgios appeared to be throwing in the towel during a US Open match.
An umpire who gave a mid-match "pep talk" to Nick Kyrgios before he battled back to defeat Pierre-Hugues Herbert went "beyond protocol", US Open officials have said.
Australian Kyrgios was trailing 3-0 to the Frenchman in the second set of their match at Flushing Meadows on Thursday, but his fortunes changed after the bizarre intervention from chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani.
The US Open said a "comprehensive review" by multiple tournament officials found that Mohamed Lahyani's chat with the Australian player went "beyond protocol".
However, spokesman Chris Widmaier said the umpire would not be sanctioned on account of his "exemplary track record as an international tennis official".
The incident drew criticism from the tennis world, with stars questioning the talk.
Having appeared to be offering minimal effort to counter Herbert's powerful serve in the second round clash, Kyrgios was subjected to an animated dressing-down from the Swedish official as the players changed ends.
Television microphones were unable to pick up the entire exchange, but Lahyani was heard saying: "I want to help you, I know this is not you."
The 23-year-old star - who has drawn criticism for a similarly laissez-faire approach to his game on previous occasions - went on to win the second set 7-6, before comfortably seeing off Herbert 6-3 and 6-0 in the third and fourth.
It set up a third round clash with Swiss great Roger Federer, who is among the players to have criticised the umpire for his motivational chat.
Federer, who beat Frenchman Benoit Paire in straight sets in the second round, said: "It's not the umpire's role to go down from the chair.
"But I get what he was trying to do. He behaves the way he behaves.
"I don't know what he said. I don't care what he said.
"It was not just about 'how are you feeling? Oh, I'm not feeling so well.' Go back up to the chair. He was there for too long.
"It's a conversation. Conversations can change your mindset. It can be a physio, a doctor, an umpire for that matter.
"That's why it won't happen again. I think everybody knows that."
Herbert told reporters after the match that he was convinced the intervention had an impact on the result and said the umpire "should stay in his chair".
But despite criticism from fellow pros and outcry on social media, Kyrgios brushed off the incident in a tetchy exchange with journalists during his post-match press conference.
After sarcastically referring to Lahyani as "obviously an unbelievable tennis player", he said the pep talk "didn't help me at all" and said his opponent had "let me back into the second set".
Referee Brian Earley has issued a statement to explain what happened.
He said Lahyani left his chair to "check on the condition" of Kyrgios "because of the noise level in the stadium".
"Lahyani was concerned that Kyrgios might need medical attention," he added.
"Lahyani told Kyrgios that, if he was feeling ill, that the tournament could provide medical help.
"He also informed Kyrgios that if his seeming lack of interest in the match continued, as the chair umpire, he would need to take action."
The Australian did receive treatment from his physio at the next break in play, at 4-1 down in the second set.
He will go up against Federer on Saturday. | 2019-04-23T19:53:32 | https://news.sky.com/story/us-open-tennis-stars-question-umpire-over-apparent-nick-kyrgios-pep-talk-11486256 |
0.911344 | How can I modify the product listing for oscommerce?
The product listing code for the templates in oscommerce is located under the includes/modules directory . The default source code for the product listing can be found in the product_listing.php file. This file is where you will find the code for the listing that you see in the category and product listing page.
Depending on the template, you may also find other product listing code in the includes/modules directory. For example, the listing for the new products module on your main page may be located in the new_products.php file in the includes/modules directory. Since this is a case by case basis, should you wish to make a change of the layout of a specific page, you will need to open up the source code of the page and see what kind of listing it is using. If you see a reference to the product listing file, you will need to go to the includes/modules directory and make and edit to the product_listing.php code there. Otherwise, you can make the changes to the layout directly on the file that you are viewing. | 2019-04-21T16:38:34 | http://docs.algozone.com/article/printer/how-can-i-modify-the-product-listing-for-oscommerce |
0.998264 | In a pack of cards there are 52 cards and 13 of them are diamonds.
Another way of thinking about it is there are 4 suits in a pack, diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. The probability of picking one of these suits is #1/4#. | 2019-04-19T20:54:11 | https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-probability-p-diamonds |
0.998761 | Checked out the Canterbury Tales from the library today. I'm kind of getting into poetry.
Which translation, and does it also have the original Middle English?
Reading Sorrows of Young Werther and I find myself identifying very strongly with the protagonist.
I know the feeling but I'm compelled to advise you to check yourself before you wreck yourself anyway.
The Pinzgau is the name for the county I'm living in (Zell am See).
Not hard to guess, the book is a documentary/chronicle about the Nazi time from ca. 1930 (or slightly before) to about 1945 (or slightly after).
That should be interesting ro read (ca. 280 pages).
"This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin.
does it also have the original Middle English?
I hope not unless he wants a crash course in German.
Sorry, I hopee nyt unlesse the yong sonne hath wanteh a crashe ceoursye in seaxan or whatever.
Translated by Joseph Glaser. Pretty good so far, but I'm still only in the prologue.
For the Tales, I think my school just used the Penguin Books (or whatever) translation.
If I could find a version of the Coghill with the original on facing pages I would be all over it.
Alistair Horne's The Savage War of Peace is the latest book I'm reading from my Xmas haul. Been interested in the Algerian War of Independence for a few years now.
Umberto Eco's The Book of Legendary Lands. Beautiful book and a lot of fun as well.
Native Son by Richard Wright. A surprisingly sophomoric book, but it must have been revolutionary in 1940.
Rereading the Third Policeman, I also got a Glaßbrenner edition for christmas that I'll start on after.
Oh, and the Monkey of Hartlepool.
For various reasons that I may elaborate on if I have time/others are interested, it's not quite up to her usual high standards, but I'm mostly enjoying it all the same.
One thing that sometimes gets glossed over in discussions of her work is just how deeply liberal Jacobs' thought is, more than she seems to realize at times.
EDIT: The last couple chapters actually improve her arguments significantly- but they still have more holes than I'm quite comfortable with, or used to from her.
An interesting read on the development of the treatment of the historical Jesus during the 18th and 19th centuries and corresponding with it the development of Marcan priority.
I've been getting into throwaway fiction recently.
The Tristram part of Le Morte d'Arthur is so long and getting frankly repetitive.
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf, Gaito Gazdanov.
I'm looking to finally get into some le Carre. Is it useful or helpful to read them in order?
I'd like to read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (love the movie) but it's le Carre's third book, which features characters from previous novels.
Tinker Tailor should be read before Smiley's People or The Honourable Schoolboy (because otherwise they won't quite make sense), but other than that, it's not really essential. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold can certainly be read stand-alone. | 2019-04-19T16:19:45 | https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=122478.msg4013860 |
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0.999999 | ? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recording all the neural activity in a 3D volume with millisecond timescale precision is a key goal of the BRAIN initiative. Recently, in a collaborative project with the Vaziri lab (IMP, Vienna), we adapted the strategy of lightfield microscopy for 3D volumetric imaging of fluorescent neural calcium responses (Prevedel 2014). This technology enables computational reconstruction of a 3D volume from an image by simultaneously capturing the angle of incident light rays in addition to their intensity. Imaging can occur as quickly as the fluorescent neural activity reporter allows (Chen 2013)? we imaged the entire larval zebrafish brain at 20 Hz. However, the spatial resolution for lightfield microscopy is poo, resulting in low signal to noise ratio (SNR) as well as difficulty in automatically segmenting neural anatomy, which is key to linking neural activity to underlying circuitry. This spatial resolution limit is a fundamental issue with lightfield microscopy, since to gain 3­D imaging capability, one must sacrifice spatial resolution: there are only so many pixels on the camera. Accordingly, we here propose to perform the first whole brain recording of a larval zebrafish with single neuron resolution by increasing the total pixel count of our existing system by an order of magnitude whilst improving the SNR by leveraging a six fold increase in frame rate. Our existing lightfield imaging system (Prevedel 2014), and others (Levoy 2006, Cohen 2014), use an array of microlenses to effect the trade­off of spatial for axial resolution. An alternativ approach captures the lightfield using an array of cameras, without any microlenses. Our novel design combines both approaches at an unprecedented scale. Our scalable data acquisition system (Willow, see preliminary data) combined with cameras designed in­house limit the cost of our system to 1/10 of a traditional two­photon microscope. In this way we aim to develop a user­friendly system capable of imaging all of the neurons in a 3D volume, at speeds comparable to the natural timescales of neural activity, whilst keeping an eye towards polishing our system for marketability and widespread use. | 2019-04-21T17:04:09 | https://sbirsource.com/sbir/awards/162093-high-speed-multi-sensor-light-field-deconvolution-microscopy-for-whole-brain-recording-of-neuronal-activity |
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0.998765 | If there is water flow through the spray gun and lance, this confirms water flow is NOT the problem for the power washer not turning on.
If there is no water flow, perform the following troubleshooting procedures:a. Remove the lance, squeeze the trigger. If water flows, the lance is blocked. Use cleaning wire to clean the nozzle tip and try again.
b. If no water flow with lance removed, turn the water off. Remove the spray gun from the high pressure. Turn the water on, if water flows, the gun is the problem. Reattach the gun, turn the water on and squeeze the trigger. Sometimes this unblocks the gun. If not, replace the spray gun.
c. If no water flow with the gun removed, remove the high-pressure hose, turn the water on to make sure there is no blockage in the hose. This is very unlikely but we need to make sure.
The RED color must stay in the window once the button is released. This confirms there is electricity going to the power washer.
If the RED color goes away when the Reset button is released, there is NO electricity going to the unit. Try another outlet until the RED stays in the window.
Now if the unit turns ON for a second or two with the Reset button pressed and the power switched on, it is working as it should. All that is left to do at this point is to squeeze the trigger on the spray gun and the power washer will turn on. When the trigger is released, the power washer will turn off. This is due to the Total Stop System (TSS) that only turns the unit on when water is flowing through the power washer. When the trigger is released, water flow stops which the TSS sensed and immediately shuts the unit off.
So to review, if the Reset button has been pressed and is holding and the power switch is ON, the power washer is supposed to start up for a second or two and immediately shut off. At this point all you need to do is squeeze the trigger; the unit will turn on. | 2019-04-24T16:53:47 | https://arblueclean.com/knowledgebase/pressure-washer-not-turn/ |
0.999999 | I haven't done a lesson about the General Writing test for a while, so here's an interesting question that a student sent me. I'll share my answer next week.
The essay I wrote on Wednesday was full of good words and phrases. Can you remember the missing words in the phrases below?
I would like to start with the first point which is where the market is.
As a final point, I would like to explain why I enjoy to visiting it.
Personally I do not recommend using phrases like these. While you won't lose marks for using them, you won't gain marks either. But here's the problem: the time you spend saying these linking phrases is time that you should be spending on the real content of your answer. Focus on answering, not linking!
Last week I wrote about looking carefully to find the main features before you start your description of a graph, chart or diagram. In the table below, I've highlighted my choices for the main features (in purple).
It is clear that between 2006 and 2010 the main reason why people used their mobile phones was to make calls. However, during the same period there was a marked increase in the popularity of other mobile phone features, with the most dramatic increase being seen in the use of mobiles to search the Internet.
I occasionally re-post old lessons (to give the creative part of my brain a break!). Here's a lesson from 2010 that you might find interesting. I apologise if you've done the exercise before.
Fill the gaps in the sentences below.
How many people are trying to learn English ______? Two billion of them.
Learning English can give people the ______ for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or ______ better food on the table.
With English you can become part of a ______ conversation, a global conversation about global problems.
English is becoming the language of ______ ______.
English represents hope for a better future, where the world has a ______ language to solve its ______ problems.
Here's my description. It includes several examples of 'band 7-9' vocabulary that I took from the websites I listed in last week's lesson.
I’m going to describe a street market that I’ve enjoyed visiting many times in Manchester. It’s the Manchester Christmas Market, and it comes to the city for about a month from the end of November every year. The market stalls are spread across several sites in the city centre, but the centrepiece is the large European market in Albert Square next to the Town Hall.
The Christmas Market stalls sell an array of Christmas gifts and mouth-watering food and drink from all over Europe. It’s a great place to find handmade crafts such as jewellery, ornaments, wooden toys and other souvenirs, but it’s the food and drink that seem to be most popular. Probably the biggest seller is the ‘Gluhwein’, a hot, sweet wine which is sold in a souvenir mug.
The market was originally quite small, occupying just one of the central squares in Manchester, but it’s grown quickly in recent years, spilling over into maybe five other pedestrian streets and a few other squares. Apparently there are over 200 stalls now, so it’s become a really big event attracting thousands of visitors.
The main reason I’ve always enjoyed visiting the Christmas Market is the fantastic atmosphere. When I went there last December, it didn’t matter how cold or wet the weather was, Manchester seemed to come alive when the market opened; the streets were bustling with people and there was a real festive feel to the city.
IELTS Writing Task 1: look carefully!
It's really important that you take time to notice and select the main features for your description of a graph, chart or diagram.
Look at the table above and a student's summary of main features below.
Overall, it can be seen that the people who used mobile phones for making calls were at the top in all three years. However, it is noticeable that there is no record of Internet usage and video recording in 2006.
I told the student that I thought she had missed some of the key features shown in the table. What main features can you see if you look more carefully?
Students shared some good essays about the animal experiments topic that we looked at last week. Can you improve the sentences below?
This essay examines both sides of views.
The first reason, the lives of animals should be respected.
Most people think animal testing is necessary but others are upset of these activities.
On other hand for those who are opposed this type of research would stand on ethical issues.
Thanks to the researches on mice, scientists have known how to treat diseases.
To sum up, it is highly true that we rely on animals’ research to help us to develop medicines.
I'll share my full essay next week.
In Thursday's lesson I wrote that examiners would be impressed by the words huts, dock and tip. This would probably surprise most students, so I'll explain.
The three words would impress the examiner because they fit the description perfectly. As one person pointed out in a comment below that lesson, most students would probably use the word 'hotel' to describe the accommodation for tourists shown on the map. Only a native speaker or an advanced learner of English would know that small buildings to accommodate tourists on an island would probably be called huts. Click here to see a real example.
It's the same with 'dock' and 'tip'. Not everyone would know that the perfect verb to describe the parking of a boat is 'to dock'. And not everyone would know that tip is the perfect word for the end point of a landmass.
1. Is it ok to use rhetorical questions in writing task 2?
No, don't put any type of question in your essays. It isn't considered appropriate academic style.
2. What is the difference between IDP and the British Council?
The IELTS exam is the same wherever you take it. IDP, the British Council and Cambridge University work together to make the test.
3. When describing a map (writing task 1), can we use north, south, east, west even if no compass is shown?
Yes, I often do. I think it's fine to assume that the top of a map is north.
4. The speaking examiner stopped me before I had spoken for 2 minutes. Is that a bad sign?
First, I don't recommend that you time yourself in the exam, so you shouldn't really know how long you spoke for. Examiners sometimes stop candidates when it is clear that the person has nothing left to say. If you spoke for at least one minute and said some good things, don't worry.
5. Is it possible to get band 7 if my essays are unfinished or under length?
It's possible, but not easy. You'll need to get really high scores for vocabulary, grammar and organisation.
The following question comes from Cambridge IELTS book 9.
Let's imagine that you have visited the Christmas market in Manchester. Write your answer to the question above using information from the websites linked below. Try to 'steal' some good vocabulary from the sites. I'll share my answer next week.
IELTS Writing Task 1: did you analyse?
*huts, dock and tip might be the words that most impress the examiner in this essay. Can you think why? Does this surprise you?
First we need ideas. I would start by writing down some arguments for and against animal testing. I covered this topic in my ebook (chapter 2), so I already have some good ideas in my head.
Next we can decide on our own view. Looking at the ideas you wrote down, you need to make a decision. A good 'middle point' might be that animal experiments should only be used for the most important medical research.
Now we need to organise our ideas. Always stick to the 4-paragraph structure; you don't need an extra paragraph for your own view because you agree with elements of the two views stated in the question.
Finally we're ready to write the essay. Keep your introduction and conclusion short. Spend most of your time on the main body paragraphs.
Is it acceptable to use memorised phrases in the writing and speaking tests? Well, it depends. Take the sentence below as an example. A student asked me whether it can be used at the beginning of a letter (general writing task 1).
I hope this letter finds you well. Sorry I didn't write to you earlier, but I’ve been working flat out since the moment I arrived home.
If the question tells you to begin by explaining to your friend why you haven't contacted him/her for a while, then this sentence would be perfect.
However, if the question does not tell you to explain why you didn't write earlier, the sentence is irrelevant. It will be clear to the examiner that you have used that phrase because it looks good, and not because it fits the question.
Can you see the difference? The examiner will only be impressed if your memorised phrases fit the question perfectly.
Looking at the maps in more detail, we can see that small huts have been built to accommodate visitors to the island. The other physical structures that have been added are a reception building, in the middle of the island, and a restaurant to the north of the reception. Before these developments, the island was completely bare apart from a few trees.
As well as the buildings mentioned above, the new facilities on the island include a pier, where boats can dock. There is also a short road linking the pier with the reception and restaurant, and footpaths connect the huts. Finally, there is a designated swimming area for tourists off a beach on the western tip of the island.
First introduce the topic. I often begin with the phrase "People have different views about...".
Please share any 'discuss both views' questions that you find difficult in the comments area below. I'll choose one question to look at next week.
1. Can I ask for an explanation if I don't understand a question in the speaking test?
In part 1, you can ask the examiner to repeat a question, but he/she is not allowed to explain what the question means. In part 2, the examiner will not help you. In part 3, you can ask him/her to explain the question in a different way.
2. How can I get band 7 in all four parts?
This is a big problem for many people, and I'm afraid there is no easy solution. You just need to keep practising. Click here for some more advice.
3. Do I need to mention all of the numbers in writing task 1?
No, you don't need to mention all of the numbers; just select the key information. On the other hand, if you don't mention any numbers, you'll get a lower score.
4. Are you sure we don't need a conclusion in writing task 1?
Completely sure. A conclusion is really a 'final judgment', so I prefer to use the word 'summary'. You can put the summary either after the introduction or at the end.
5. Can I improve from 5.5 to 7 in one month?
Probably not. Click here to read my advice.
Many students need to improve by only half a band to get the score they need. For example, they have a 6.5 and they need a band 7.
Here's some advice if you're in that situation: try to improve in one small area.
Instead of worrying about everything (grammar, vocabulary, organisation etc.), just choose one area to focus on. For example, a small improvement in the quality of your ideas (vocabulary) could lift your score from 6.5 to 7. | 2019-04-25T01:52:20 | https://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2013/06/index.html |
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