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0.997925 | How much is Alexander Edwards Worth?
Alexander Edwards net worth and salary: Alexander Edwards is an American music executive who has a net worth of $2 million. Alexander Edwards was born in Oakland, California. He is the Vice President of A&R for Def Jam Records and is known for being the boyfriend of Amber Rose. The pair announced that they were expecting a child in April 2019. They met in 2015 and started dating in 2018. Alexander Edwards is best friends with rapper Tyga. He joined Def Jam in 2018 and signed rapper YK Osiris. Edwards started as a rapper in Oakland and started his own record label called Gloryious and expanded into the clothing business. Amber Rose is a model and actress who was married to Wiz Khalifa and formerly in relationships with 21 Savage and Kanye West. She starred on the reality TV series Dancing with the Stars in 2016 and America's Next Top Model in 2017. | 2019-04-26T04:47:42 | https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/business-executives/alexander-edwards-net-worth/ |
0.99842 | A press release sent out yesterday entitled, "Fitch Updates Global Money Market Fund Criteria, Core Ratings Framework Unchanged," says, "Fitch Ratings has published updated global criteria for rating money market funds (MMFs). The core analytical framework remains unchanged, and Fitch does not expect any ratings changes as a result of the updated criteria. The updated criteria makes one notable change in relation to Fitch's treatment of highly-rated sovereign, government agency and supranational securities with respect to repurchase agreement collateral and portfolio liquidity."
The release adds, "Other and more marginal criteria adjustments include clarification on how Fitch treats MMFs' direct and collateralized exposures to a fund's sponsor or parent, which is mostly relevant for European MMFs, more detailed guidelines on investments denominated in a currency other than that of the fund's base currency and related currency hedging, as well as guidelines on the fund's custodian bank. Fitch's global MMF criteria focuses on MMFs that seek to achieve principal preservation and provide shareholder liquidity through active management of credit, market, and liquidity risks."
Fitch adds, "MMF ratings are assigned to MMFs that operate as constant net asset value (CNAV) funds as well as certain European variable net asset value (VNAV) funds." The full report is entitled, "Global Money Market Fund Rating Criteria."
In other news, Reuters released an article entitled, "Big US money funds' fees outpace investor returns", which features a relatively detailed discussion on fee waivers, revenues and industry consolidation. It says, "The biggest U.S. money market funds have done a better job of preserving their management fees than many realize, a development that may surprise investors whose dividends have plummeted 96 percent from peak levels five years ago."
The article explains, "Investors collected $5.24 billion in total dividends from money funds in 2011, a 72 percent decline from $18.6 billion two years earlier and a huge plunge from the $127.9 billion gained back in 2007, before the Federal Reserve chopped short-term rates to near zero. In contrast, the fees collected by money fund sponsors declined to $4.7 billion last year, a 57 percent drop from 2009 and a 52 percent decline since five years earlier, according to data from the Investment Company Institute, the trade group for the fund industry."
Reuters adds, "The big players have demonstrated plenty of resiliency in even the most trying market conditions, said Pete Crane, who runs research firm Crane Data. Large funds, which generate far more in fees than are needed to pay for their managers, credit analysts and other expenses, have enormous economies of scale, he said."
They quote Crane, "The money fund industry has yet to see any real consolidation or the exodus of a major player. If the pressure were that acute, you would see fees being introduced."
Bloomberg writes "Top Money Funds Doubled French Bank Holdings Last Month"
Bloomberg writes "Top Money Funds Doubled French Bank Holdings Last Month". The article says, "The 10 biggest prime U.S. money market mutual funds more than doubled their holdings in French banks in February, as lending from the European Central Bank bolstered investor confidence. French bank holdings rose to $18.2 billion from $8.8 billion in the month, according to data compiled and published in today's Bloomberg Risk newsletter. Funds run by New York- based JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Boston's Fidelity Investments accounted for one-third of the total increase." Bloomberg quotes us, "It appears the risk trade is back on, but funds are still staying very cautious," Peter Crane, president of research firm Crane Data LLC in Westborough, Massachusetts." The piece adds, "The top U.S. money market funds have boosted lending to French banks for two straight months after withdrawing from them for most of 2011 because of concern that Europe's sovereign-debt crisis might lead to defaults. The European Central Bank offered three-year loans to the banks in December and February, easing funding worries surrounding French banks since August."
Money Fund Symposium, Crane Data's annual money market mutual fund conference (the 4th one will be in Pittsburgh, June 20-22), is featured in Meeting Planning firm Kinsley Associates' latest "In the Know" newsletter, in an article entitled, "5 Keys to Successful Conferences and Meetings for Small Businesses." The article cites the show's dramatic growth in its first three years and says, "Many small companies fall prey to the belief that only large companies are poised to include conferences and meetings in their solution offerings. Admittedly, larger companies may have more advantages due to their size, but smaller companies can reap the same benefits if they partner with the right company and utilize best practices. In fact, smaller companies can achieve fantastic results because they are small and nimble. Crane Data, a company with just seven employees hired Kinsley Meetings to help with its initial conference. These are the keys to success we employed for Crane Data that prove small companies can successfully navigate conferences and meetings: 1. Plan Ahead. 2. Speakers and content drive the momentum. 3. Leverage existing products/services. 4. Destination is key. 5. Hire the right company. Hosting a conference or meeting takes strategic planning and attention to detail. Finding the right partner is crucial to conducting a successful conference or meeting.... In the case of Crane Data, Kinsley Meetings handles all the logistics for the conferences, including the destination, venue, registration, and all the fine details. This well-defined separation of responsibilities enables Peter to focus on the educational content of the meeting, and Kinsley to focus on its core strength: meetings." For more on Crane's Money Fund Symposium, visit http://www.moneyfundsymposium.com. | 2019-04-24T16:14:47 | https://cranedata.com/archives/press/2012/3 |
0.998332 | We have put together a list of words that are similar to HANDING.
1 Making work which is symmetrical, on the right and the left hand, with respect to an assumed plane of symmetry.
2 Present participle of hand. | 2019-04-25T05:43:42 | http://topwordslike.com/similar-to/handing |
0.999999 | Before I begin my critique of rapper Bizzle's response to Macklemore's song Same Love, I want to emphasize a point very strongly: everyone is entitled to their opinion. On any matter. We all have opinions on millions of subjects, and it is not my right, or yours, to take that right away. That being said, I'm entitled to respond to Bizzle's song in a way that reflects my personal opinion. If you don't agree, that's okay. I am not here to sway your opinion unless you're open to it; I'm only here to share mine.
I subscribe to a particular philosophy. That philosophy is that you can believe whatever you'd like, as long as you live your life in a fair and ethical manner. We will never be perfect. We will make mistakes. We will do things that are less than stellar (talk about people, feel jealous, angry, etc.), but the best we can do is try to improve ourselves and be happy with who we are.
Macklemore's song Same Love makes many valid points about society, some related to homosexuality and some not. Macklemore took a huge career-related risk releasing this song. He could have potentially alienated a portion of his fan base, risking sales, profits, etc. But he took a chance on sharing his views, and fortunately, he was rewarded for it.
It came to my attention today that rapper Bizzle so strongly disagreed with Macklemore's message that he wrote a response piece. Let me emphasize again that everyone is entitled to their opinion - and Bizzle is no exception - but if you're going to make a response, it's best to provide a compelling argument, and that is something Bizzle does not do.
Cheating is more of an ethical argument than a legal one. Cheating hurts people. If two people are in a committed relationship, regardless of their gender, it does not cause the same pain as violating the trust in a relationship by cheating.
Stating that the bible is alright until it calls what you like sin, well, that has plenty of problems. I'm not terribly familiar with holy texts, but I do know we'd live quite differently if we followed in a literal sense. And, to be fair, we are entitled to agree with some portions of holy texts while we disagree with others.
Upon reading the lyrics regarding comparing sexuality to skin color, I read the lyrics of Macklemore's song to find the passage below. This passage does not call homosexuality the new black. (Insert bad joke here asking, "Isn't orange the new black?") Anyway, the passage seeks to show multiple instances of hate, not one that equates skin tone to a sexual preference. And Macklemore is saying they're all wrong. He's not saying his fight is stronger, or better - he's supporting the fact that historically, people have been forced to fight for their rights, which they deserve.
Bizzle's next argument points to the fact that gay people can play straight, but he can never play white. Honestly, I can't argue that. It's true. But my point for this is, nobody should be forced to pretend they're somebody that they are not. So while people may be able to mask their sexuality, they should not be forced to do so.
I am not sure how this is relevant to Macklemore's original. So I figured I'd include it just because it confused me.
This point is valid. We do have conflicting desires, and sometimes one right wins out over another. But if someone's right isn't hurting people, aside from potentially offending them, why should people lose out on the opportunity to be happy? In the case of this song, this hits on the religious issue. Aren't we supposed to have a separation of church and state? The arguments Bizzle makes in his song are primarily based on religious grounds; marriage is a legal contract, not a religious one, unless you make it a religious matter.
In a way, Bizzle accidentally supports Macklemore's point on this one. He's talking about how negative slurs can be harmful, which supports Macklemore's point about how the term 'gay' is used negatively. That being said, Bizzle's point is that we call certain characteristics defects and others not defects. Okay, yes, that's true. But I wouldn't call homosexuality a defect. It does not impact someone's ability to live in society and support themselves - or at least it shouldn't because we should not be discriminating against people for such matters. But we shouldn't be discriminating against good people for any matter at all. Like I said above, if you live your life in a moral and ethical manner, nothing else should matter. Society isn't perfect so that's not something we've reached at this time, but that doesn't make it right that certain characteristics define someone's ability to succeed.
There are two other parts of the song I want to address. One equates homosexuality to pedophilia. There's a big difference here: in an ethical homosexual relationship, there are two consenting adults. In the other situation, one person is too young to consent. This is a big difference - the issue of two people making a valid, adult decision about a relationship, versus the other scenario being non-consensual.
Bizzle is right on one front - we all do have different desires. And sure, there are definitely gay people that have done bad things. But this is not exclusive to this community. There are people of all backgrounds and cultures that have done both good and bad things. We cannot cite the bad things that some people have done as descriptors for an entire culture.
Bizzle does note that - that we can't lump all gay people into the same category - but his reasoning is flawed. He's saying that the 'good' gay people are those that go to God and try to fight their desires. Well, I would say the 'good' gay people (and good people in general) are those who do good things for the world, for themselves, for their friends and for their families. The good people are those who use their abilities for positive changes. To make a better world. And every single person, I believe, has the ability to do that in some capacity. Some people, like Macklemore, have the ability to do that on a large scale by sending a positive message. Others may have a smaller sphere of influence, but even positive words of encouragement from one person to another can make a world of difference.
Although I am not gay, I believe that I can speak on this topic. Why? Because as a society, we discriminate on many levels: ethnicity, religion, gender, etc. Just because I'm not gay doesn't mean I haven't experienced judgment for characteristics that I was born with. I think we all have. And if we dig deep and recall the feelings of hurt and inadequacy we felt for being judged, we should understand - it's not our background or our sexuality that defines us - it's who we are as people. It's what we bring into the world. I make no claims to be perfect (I write a blog that primarily makes snarky remarks about those who appear on reality TV), but I have respect for those who do great things either on a small scale or for the world, and I hope that those who deserve respect, regardless of their lifestyles or backgrounds, receive it.
And if you want to buy Macklemore's song, you can find it by clicking the image below. | 2019-04-22T04:41:59 | http://www.lessthanreality.com/2014/02/rapper-bizzle-responds-to-macklemores.html |
0.998173 | The Child Exploitation Unit investigates incidents of sexual abuse/exploitation of children under 17 years of age by non-familial perpetrators. The Unit also investigates incidents of sexual abuse/exploitation of children via the internet (i.e. solicitation, display of harmful material, etc).
When should a Citizen contact the Child Exploitation Unit?
Anytime a citizen has a question or information regarding the sexual abuse of a child.
Anytime a citizen has information regarding the solicitation or possible solicitation of a child via the internet. | 2019-04-24T00:19:14 | http://www.dallaspolice.net/division/youthoperations/childexploitation |
0.999999 | TL;DR version: Like everyone, I want to express myself, and I want to control information that describes me. That traditionally involves people, but now organizations have data about me too. Controlling that isn’t easy, but I’m stubborn, so I try anyway.
If you know me, you already know I’m weird about privacy. When I explain it to someone new, they often say, “That’s great! More people should pay attention to that.” Eventually, they learn about the kinds of things I keep private and the kinds of things I don’t, and they get confused. The distinction isn’t always obvious, even to me. I’m not evangelizing – I just do it for myself – but I’d still like to explore the underlying reason, if only out of curiosity.
I’ll start by listing a few things that aren’t the reason. Credit rating. Identity theft. Direct marketing. Safety. Job hunting. Dating. Illegal/illicit activities. Shame. Anxiety. Running for elected office. Something to hide. These are all common reasons people care about privacy, but not me.
I’ve narrowed my reasons down to three things: self expression, control, and data.
First, self expression. We all want to tell people who we are. We want to assert that we are this, that we are not that. It reaffirms that we exist, that we’re individuals, that we mean something. It’s human nature.
Much has been made of how social networks enable this, but they’re just the latest means to the end. The clothes you wear, the things you say, the people you hang out with, and the myriad ways you spend your time all form an outward image for other people’s consumption. They see what you do, and it molds who they think you are. It may be selective and self-conscious, but you’re almost always on display for someone.
I may be an introvert, but I care about this as much as the next person. I want to express myself too, to assert who I am and who I’m not. Writing on this web site is one way I do that, which can be confusing. If I’m so big on privacy, why do I post so much about myself here and elsewhere online?
Well, because I control what I post. Like all communication, self expression depends heavily on control, and control is another natural human urge in its own right. The simple things, the things I express myself, are easy. I choose to say this, not wear that, buy this, not vote for that. All of that is comfortably under my control.
…which brings me to data. For a long time, people had a monopoly on mental images of other people. In the last few centuries, organizations like companies and governments have started building their own profiles of people. My bank knows that I have a certain income (direct deposit), roughly where I live (ATM withdrawals), and who I invest with (transfers to my brokerage). That’s not very extensive, but it’s something, and it can get much more detailed. Other organizations know who you’ve called, where you’ve been, and which web sites you’ve visited, among other things.
Individual organizations like my bank may be limited to a narrow perspective, but if they partner with my telephone company, for example, or my health care provider, they can learn a lot more. This kind of data mining and profiling isn’t news, and I don’t think it’s fundamentally immoral or problematic, especially given who I work for, but it does raise a dilemma. I’m human, so I have a natural urge to control information about me. I know how to control what I explicitly disclose, but I also want to control the implicit information I create as a by-product of living my day to day life, and thus control the profiles of me that organizations build.
Why do I care what organizations think about me at all? It comes back to self expression and control. I don’t need them to think of me in any specific way, but I also don’t want them to think the wrong thing about me, or more to the point, something I don’t entirely control. I don’t have anything concrete to hide, but that doesn’t matter. My urge to control things, in this case information about me, is an intrinsic part of human nature. It’s not a means to an end, it’s an end in itself.
So, can I control this data? To a large degree, yes. First, I can try not to leave that bread crumb trail at all. I buy most things with cash instead of credit or debit cards. I don’t give my name, address, or phone number unless it’s absolutely necessary, and often not even then. I cover the VIN visible through my car’s windshield. I block cookies by default.
When I can’t avoid leaving a trail, I misdirect. I’ve developed a habit of giving fake names and addresses, or when the name needs to match my ID – hi, TSA! – misspelling it. If I absolutely need a credit card, I use an anonymous prepaid card. I use a prepaid cell phone plan with no last name or address. I title my cars and real estate in the name of a New Mexico LLC which can’t be traced to me.
Is there any practical motivation for all this? Not really. It doesn’t get me a higher credit rating, or a better reputation, or frequent flier miles, or more followers on Twitter. It does help prevent identity theft, and maybe some legal liability, but there are much better ways to do that.
It’s actually worse. My prepaid credit cards aren’t reloadable, so I’m constantly buying new ones. I have to keep track of which fake names I’ve used where. “Official” activities like voting, renewing my driver’s license, and buying real estate are fragile, Rube-Goldberg-meets-MC-Escher balancing acts.
The sad truth is, the only real motivation is the principle of the thing. Like many engineers, I’m burdened with an inconvenient personality quirk: if something is theoretically right, I pursue it, doggedly, even if it’s annoying, unrealistic, or downright painful.
To recap: I’m human, so I want to express myself and control information that describes me. Organizations now have data about me, so I want to control that too. That’s not easy to do in practice, but my personality makes me try anyway.
Thanks to friends and family for reading early drafts of this essay.
I am curious about the titling a car with an LLC out of state, does that change registration fees?
I want that orange laptop privacy cover.
You’re not alone in thinking like this. The right to privacy is fundamental to humans as it has always been in nature, you have to protect what is yours.
I have been a victim of identity theft by breaches of security at stanford medical school and my health insurance company. In return for being a victim of what I consider a substantial crime, I was offered a 2 year identity theft protection service.
In a larger context I would argue privacy along other fundamental and civil rights all across the world are being violated by individuals, groups, companies, governments.
There can’t be too many Teddy KGBs on the internet, so out of no where, I’m suddenly having Conversatron flashbacks.
I have always given out fictitious names and addresses to those who don’t really need my info. Recently, I have ramped up a more direct misinformation campaign, getting my name out there with intentionally incorrect addresses and employers. Such fun!
I agree the invasion of privacy that is created with new technology is insane. The craziest part about it….most people are completely unaware of information they are sharing.
Posting this to build awareness. ….
i recently revisited this in a followup post.
Anyone who thinks this entry was too long to read has been ruined by the Internet.
When all your data is permanently on file for the future, you lose control of ability to define who you are. You’re no longer able to speak for yourself in the way that we normally think of, because all the different kinds of data can be used in all sorts of ways – by computers and algorithms, not just people – to create a profile of who you are. It’s entirely opaque to you what’s in it and how it’s constructed, but the effects on your life are very real, and you can’t challenge it because you can’t find it how it was created.
A resource-based economy would obviate all this. No money, no theft, no crime. Communism was not like this. Russian communism wasn’t even communism. Think ‘future’, yo. Like all those scifi movies from the 50s through the 70s that envisioned an enlightened future society. None of ’em had money! And everything was automated. Whoa! Now go and make it so, kids.
Of course: absolute power corrupts absolutely. The people you put in charge of redistributing the wealth are always going to steal it. Read “Animal Farm”.
Now go and make it so, kids.
The last politician who advocated something like that was assassinated by another “lone gunman”. Why dont YOU “make it so”—? | 2019-04-24T10:59:46 | https://snarfed.org/2011-08-03_why_im_weird_about_privacy |
0.999985 | How can we better incorporate human dimensions into the management of forage fish and their ecosystem?
There is an urgent need to generate usable scientific information to meet the needs of ocean managers.
Nowhere is more pressing than in the case of forage fish – linchpins for ecosystems, cultures and fisheries. Of key concern is Pacific herring. Herring fisheries have been closed or severely limited through much of their range (Alaska to California) for more than a decade. Recently, some British Columbia stocks have rebuilt to the point where re-opening the fishery is under consideration. However, re-opening proposals are challenged by limited understanding of several critical factors, including physical factors affecting herring productivity, factors contributing to variable natural mortality, herring stock structure and spatial dynamics, impacts of viral and other pathogens, disagreement about harvest control rules, and the lack of a social-ecological framework that would facilitate integration of traditional knowledge and cultural ecosystem services into management. Despite these many shortcomings, a great deal of herring knowledge is available, albeit fragmented among disparate professional and social networks.
What is the role of Pacific herring in the social-ecological system, and how can human dimensions be incorporated into herring fisheries management?
We are engaging social and natural scientists, tribes and First Nations, and federal and state managers, in an effort to integrate models and different forms of knowledge to highlight the role played by herring in the social-ecological system of the Northeastern Pacific Ocean.
This Working Group will investigate how to use multiple models to incorporate traditional knowledge and human dimensions into the management of the Pacific herring ecosystem.
the relationships between herring and predators.
Phil is a conservation scientist who is interested in bridging the gaps between theory and practice and between social and natural sciences. The main focus of his current work is developing interdisciplinary tools to inform conservation of marine, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.
Prior to joining the Nature Conservancy and University of Washington, Phil was a Senior Scientist at NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA, USA. He served as the scientific lead of NOAA’s Integrated Ecosystem Assessment efforts in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem and Puget Sound. In the course of this work, he led the development of new analytical tools for characterizing ecosystem health and forecasting the cumulative effects of coastal zone management and climate change on marine ecosystems.
Phil received the Department of Commerce Silver Award and NOAA’s Bronze Medal for his work on marine ecosystems, and the Seattle Aquarium’s Conservation Research Award for his work in Puget Sound. He has published over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and technical reports, and edited the recent book, “Conservation of the Anthropocene Ocean: interdisciplinary approaches for nature and people”.
Phil’s work has been featured in such news outlets as NPR, PBS, the BBC, MSBNC, The Economist, among others. He recently served as President of the Western Society of Naturalists, and served on numerous editorial boards and scientific advisory panels. Phil received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of New Hampshire in 1993 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina.In recent years, he have been particularly interested in the social-ecological-systems of temperate rain forests from Washington to Southeast Alaska.
André is a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University Washington, Seattle, USA and the currently the Director of the School. He received his B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Before joining the University of Washington, Dr Punt was a Principal Research Scientist with the CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research in Australia. Dr. Punt has been involved in stock assessment and fisheries management for over 25 years and has been recognized for his contributions in this area with awards from CSIRO, the University of Washington, the Australian Society for Fish Biology, and the American Fisheries Society. The research undertaken by Dr. Punt and the MPAM (Marine Population and Management) group at the University of Washington relates broadly to the development and application of fisheries stock assessment techniques, bioeconomic modelling, and the evaluation of the performance of stock assessment methods and harvest control rules using the Management Strategy Evaluation approach.
Currently, projects that Dr. Punt is undertaking with his research group include integrating genetic methods with traditional fisheries management approaches, assessment and management methods for data-poor methods, and understanding the impact of climate change and environmental variation on the performance of assessment and management methods. Dr. Punt has conducted stock assessments for a wide range of species, ranging from anchovies and sardines, to groundfish, tunas, and cetaceans. Dr. Punt has published over 250 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, along with over 400 technical reports. He was recently a member of a National Research Council panel on evaluating the effectiveness of fish stock rebuilding in the United States. Dr Punt is currently a member of the Scientific and Statistical Committee of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the advisory committee for Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology, the Crab Plan Team of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, and the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.
Dan Okamoto is a quantitative marine ecologist and post-doctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University. Dan studies how interactions within and among species affect fluctuations in demographic rates and population dynamics in space and time, as well as what biases and consequences may ensue when such processes are ignored in management. He combines biological and statistical models with experiments, time-series analysis and surveys in pursuit of these interests. As a post-doc, Dan is integrating metapopulation models and surveys of fishermen to estimate the impact of hypothetical management policies on overfishing risk and the vulnerability of different fisheries participants to those policies. In addition to his work at SFU, Dan has several ongoing projects including investigating what forces shape reef fish population dynamics in time and space and factors that regulate sea urchin reproduction, fertilization dynamics and recruitment in California.
Dan has conducted extensive fieldwork in Alaska (where he earned an MS in Fisheries Science), British Columbia, Washington State and California (where he earned his PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology from UCSB) and has graduate level quantitative training in statistics and population dynamics from both institutions.
Derek Armitage is Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, where he leads the Environmental Change and Governance Group (http://ecgg.uwaterloo.ca/). He uses a social-ecological system approach to examine the human dimensions of coastal-marine change. The problem of ‘fit’ is a central interest – how governance systems and institutions (formal, informal) can reflect the dynamics of biophysical systems. His publications have appeared in such journals as Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Global Environmental Change, Ecology and Society, and International Journal of the Commons. He is co-editor (with Fikret Berkes and Nancy Doubleday) of ‘Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning and Multi-Level Governance’ (UBC Press, 2007) and co-editor (with Ryan Plummer) of ‘Adaptive capacity and Environmental Governance’ (Springer-Velag, 2010). He currently leads working groups in several research partnerships, including the Community Conservation Research Network, the OceanCanada Partnership and the Partnership for Canada-Caribbean Community Climate Change Adaptation.
Jaclyn Cleary is the Program Head for the Herring Assessment Program, with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, BC. Jaclyn oversees the annual herring dive survey and sampling programs, and the provision of science advice for BC herring stocks. Jaclyn has a Master’s degree in Resource and Environmental Management, and she is particularly interested in research approaches that address the interface of science and management (resource use).
Jennifer is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance in the Department of Geography, University of Guelph. She is a social scientist and has a Ph.D. in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University. Jennifer’s research examines the social dynamics, economic drivers, and contested politics of ocean activities and ocean change. Recent publications include pieces regarding shellfish aquaculture regulation and expansion in British Columbia (BC), the treatment of oceans at the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (i.e., Rio+20), and the varied use of the term ‘blue economy’ within international oceans governance circles. Works in progress study overlapping Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests in fisheries (including herring) and ocean spaces in BC, track how the international ‘sustainable development’ agenda has been extending into national and international ocean spaces, and examine representations of nature, gender, and class across print, television, and social media.
Jim is the executive director of the TBuck Suzuki Foundation, a fisheries foundation created by fishermen 35 years ago to protect habitat, prevent pollution and promote sustainable fisheries. He has a background in math, physics and philosophy, and a long history in commercial fisheries, most notably in salmon, herring, and longline prawn.
He is the co-ordinator for the BC Commercial Fishing Caucus, a leadership group from the BC fishing industry focused on bringing small boat commercial fishing interests into marine planning. The Caucus includes the Fishermen’s Union, the Native Brotherhood of BC, Area A Crab Association, BC Longline Fishermen’s Association, and 9 other fishing organizations. Jim sits on the executive board of the Canadian Independent Fish Harvester’s Federation, an organization built to protect small boat fishermen and coastal community commercial fishing interests.
Over the decades he has participated in various fisheries research projects, several over the last five years through the Canadian Fisheries Research Network. Several notable projects: the EBM Roadmap, Economics and Beyond the Value of Fisheries to Community, and the CFRN Comprehensive Fisheries Evaluation Framework. Jim represents the fishing industry in various coastal marine planning forums including the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area, the Marine Planning Partnership of the North Pacific, West Coast Aquatic, and various MPA processes.
Jim participated in the 2012 and 2014 World Ocean Summits, the 2015 World Seafood Congress, and presented on marine policy and planning at several World Ocean Council summits.
Jörn Schmidt studied biology at the University of Hannover, and in 2006 received his doctorate in fisheries biology at the IFM-GEOMAR in Kiel. He’s worked in Kiel’s Department of Economics since 2009, and is the work package leader within several BMBF and EU funded projects. A multidisciplinary specialist, Jörn is currently working in the realm of social- ecological systems and concepts of sustainability in the ocean. This includes questions about transitioning from single to multi-species fisheries management, science communication with stakeholders, the use of games for education and communication (e.g., ‘ecoOcean’), the application of coupled models in developing practical management advice and the use of questionnaire surveys with communities. He is currently German representative in the Science Committee (SCICOM) and member of the Publication Committee (PUBCOM) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and co-chair of the Strategic Initiative on the Human Dimension in Integrated Ecosystems (SIHD). He contributes to several Expert Groups within ICES and co-chairs a working group on the coupling of economic and ecological model approaches. He is also in the editorial board of the ICES Journal of Marine Sciences.
An ardent fan of all ‘fish’ in the sea, Lynn has logged over 1000 scientific dives in cold water (including many for herring spawn!), and is currently the marine ecologist for Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site. She is also writing her doctoral thesis that explores ecological interactions, historical ecology, policy and ecosystem-based community management related to northern abalone conservation and sea otter recovery. Lynn lives on a hobby farm in Tlell on Haida Gwaii (HG) with her spouse and son, the dog, a myriad of chickens and a garden. Over 20 years of life and work on the islands have found her engaged in a diversity of marine and land conservation initiatives. A few highlights. Marine biologist planner with the Council of Haida Nation helping to initiate the Haida Gwaii Marine Use Plan and Haida Marine Traditional Knowledge Study, leaving to start a PhD program, then returning to sit on the HG Marine Advisory Committee. Local coordinator for World Wlidlife Fund Canada engaging HG communities in marine conservation (www.marinematters.org), and dive and shellfish biologist for the Haida Fisheries Program. When not engaged in things ecological, you might find Lynn making art or playing music.
Melissa Poe is an environmental social scientist at the University of Washington Sea Grant Program and a liaison with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Melissa earned her masters and doctorate at the University of Washington in environmental anthropology. Melissa draws from interdisciplinary approaches to do applied human dimensions research, including the use of ethnoecology, interviews and focus groups, cultural mapping, institutional analysis, and participatory methodologies. Melissa collaborates on a range of projects in coastal and terrestrial ecosystems on topics spanning from sociocultural dimensions of ecological change and ocean acidification, to integrated cultural and health contexts of traditional and subsistence food systems, to human wellbeing and social justice dimensions of natural resource management. Melissa has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout Pacific North America in marine and terrestrial ecosystems with indigenous and non-indigenous communities.
Russ Jones, Nang Jingwas, is a Haida hereditary chief who lives in the village of Skidegate in Haida Gwaii. He has worked for the Council of the Haida Nation in the field of fisheries and marine planning since 1989. He recently coordinated development of the Haida Gwaii Marine Plan that was approved by the Haida Nation and Province of BC in April 2015. In 2004 he served on a three-member First Nation on Fisheries that wrote the report Our Place at the Table: First Nations in the BC Fishery. He is a past commercial fisherman and boat owner and has served as a Commissioner on both the Pacific Salmon Commission and the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. He has written several papers in the areas of marine planning, Haida ethics and values, and co-management. Russ holds a Master of Science in Fisheries from the University of Washington.
Sherri is the Statewide Herring Fisheries Scientist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Juneau, Alaska, where she provides statewide oversight on Pacific herring research, stock assessment, and harvest strategies. Sherri is currently a member of the Scientific and Statistical Committee of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and the advisory committee for the Herring Research and Monitoring Program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council. She conducts the annual stock assessment for Sitka Sound herring and is a scientific diver for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Prior to working in her statewide role, Sherri served as the Biometrics Supervisor for the Southeast Region. As the Biometrics Supervisor, she oversaw survey designs, sampling plans, and stock assessments for groundfish, herring, salmon, shellfish, and dive fisheries throughout southeast Alaska. She graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a Ph.D. in Fisheries Oceanography and a M.S. in Statistics and has worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game since 2004. Prior to her work at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Sherri participated in University research studies around Kodiak Island, in Cook Inlet, and along the Aleutian Islands. Her doctoral research focused on finding ways to incorporate habitat information and error estimates into multispecies survey designs and data analyses for flatfish species near Kodiak Island and in the Bering Sea.
Dr. Thornton’s primary teaching and research interests are in human ecology, adaptation, local and traditional ecological knowledge, conservation, coastal and marine environments, conceptualizations of space and place, and the political ecology of resource management among the indigenous peoples of North America and the circumpolar North.
As director for the MSc in Environmental Change and Management, Dr. Thornton oversee the course and teach various options and modules. In addition, he is a senior research fellow at the Enivronmental Change Institute at Oxford University. His academic training is in social and cultural anthropology (BA Swarthmore College; MA, PhD University of Washington). Before going to Oxford in 2008, he taught at Portland State University, Trinity College, Saint Lawrence University, the University of Alaska, and Beijing Normal University (Fulbright Lectureship). Dr. Thornton has also worked in government as an environmental resource specialist and as a consultant to Native American tribes. | 2019-04-25T15:56:18 | http://oceanmodelingforum.org/working-groups/pacific-herring/ |
0.998701 | Why does a person choose one law firm or lawyer over another? Some may be influenced by the money firms spend on acquiring them. Others will conduct research and select a lawyer based on opinions derived from their findings. And others will be drawn to a lawyer due to a feeling of affinity with that lawyer.
Cost-effective client acquisition is critical for small firms that do not have the ability to dump vast sums into a marketing budget. The following are some ways to organically develop a potential client pool.
Marketing to anyone and everyone is an inefficient way to attract potential clients. Instead, identify a group with which you have a relationship, whether it is the same ethnic background, same or similar community and religious groups or groups with which you have a shared experience. By marketing to a narrower group with which you have an affinity, you will also be starting from a position of commonality with potential clients, which is a competitive advantage. Groups will also have focused opportunities to offer your expertise in presentations, workshops, campaigns, newsletter and blog contributions. This will be an opportunity for you to develop a reputation as a trusted advisor for members of that particular group.
Narrowing your target is particularly important if you practise in a popular area such as real estate, business or wills and estates. While there may be countless real estate lawyers in your jurisdiction, you may be the only one that shares a commonality with a particular group. Leverage that commonality to increase your opportunity to be hired.
Most people do not need lawyers every day, and very few actually want to purchase legal services. When the need for legal services arises, however, you will want to be top of mind for potential clients. Developing content for blogs, newspapers and other media can be a way to do this. This builds an audience that slowly develops trust in you. This trust is a competitive advantage that sets you apart from the competition. While this may be a long-term and ongoing investment, it increases the potential for you to stay top of mind for people looking for a lawyer.
Another cost-effective way to attract clients is to provide them with value even before they retain you. This includes creating downloadable content and delivering presentations. Even better, conduct workshops for a small group of people. For example, estate planners can do a hands-on workshop on how to create an estate plan. Workshops provide an opportunity to interact and work with potential clients before they retain you, which can help establish trust.
Sharing content, such as checklists, updates on the status of particular laws and newsletters allows prospective clients to get to know you and become familiar with your work product. This eases the anxiety for them in not knowing what to expect from a lawyer they hire.
Reverse engineer client acquisition by thinking about why a client chooses a lawyer. From reputation, advertising, independent research to pre-retainer relationship, whatever you think it is, make the effort to provide potential clients with an opportunity to get to know you before they even think of retaining you.
I'm a big believer in marketing strategies for any small business. Far too often, companies run into tactics before they what to do, who to focus on, and the most effective channels. When working with clients, I always emphasize the importance of having a roadmap for success.
Do benchers even matter to small firms?
Lawyers are constantly juggling multiple tasks and projects. To-do lists can be so long and overwhelming that one does not even know where to start. This can lead to avoiding doing any task of importance until we absolutely have to do it. It can also result in shutting down and feeling burned out even before we start any tasks. A helpful tool for managing to-dos is the ICE system, a simple and effective method of prioritizing tasks and projects. | 2019-04-21T15:10:11 | https://canadianlawyermag.com/author/kevin-cheung/strategic-marketing-for-small-firms-16320/ |
0.999015 | What is next for the World's greatest small club?
We are the greatest small club from the suburbs in the world, as you know. There are times that we should focus on the “small;” and others, on the “greatest.” Nowadays, we need to remember our greatness. To be successful, we have made changes to this season. Will they work? I don’t know. I think they are good, but I have been wrong before. The offseason is too long. How do you guys handle the waiting?
I have always admired your passion for the club GP.
My take on your `world's greatest small club ' comment, which is clearly much better than our current president's patronising, and dare I say it demeaning `little old blue collar club from Alberton ' B S, which in my opinion only gave extra ammunition to our enemies to denigrate us, is.
If someone like you who is virtually brand new to the game and lives thousands of kilometres away from this country gets it, then Why the F*** can't he?
Could it be because he is virtually `brand new' to the game himself?
From my formative years ( as you know I'm an old campaigner ) until my mid 20's the club was run by two absolute legends of the game, Fos Williams took care of the on field stuff and Big Bob McLean the off field.
Even those who hated Port Adelaide accepted that we never aired our dirty linen in public.
There will be some who will argue that this is ancient history, but the above two gentlemen took the club from the valve radio era until well into the television era and the beginnings of multi media, and at no stage can I recall the president, who from memory may have been John Swain ever making any public comment about the club, the coach or any of the players, how things have changed.
An example of the strength of club management then.
In the mid 1970's 3 players, one with an extremely high profile entered the club rooms very late one night of arguably our biggest rival of the time and removed a bottle of whisky.
It was more high jinks than outright theft for theft's sake but it was still a break and enter.
The arresting officer called Big Bob, who apparently got out of bed and attended the particular police station and everything was sorted out, including reparations for the other club, but little to nothing was ever made public.
One can only wonder how our current hierarchy would handle a situation like that!
If someone like you who is virtually brand new to the game and lives thousands of kilometres away from this country gets it, then Why the F** can't he?
You see the level of respect that the other club [the Bad Tags?] had for us, as well. Can you imagine what those in charge of West Lakes would do in a similar situation? Thank be to God that they don't have a clubroom!
On the "little club" thing, I am definitely discreetly criticising Koch's approach. The phrase doesn't have any problem in itself. The issue is the timing.
New post. I am apologizing for my silence. I will be posting more during the season.
Love the review of Carlton game and preview GP, especially the Port v Fitzroy line. I now understand why you asked about the Gabba ground dimensions.
Someone left a comment there. There's a Brazilian Lions barracker! I just replied him. If is there anyone interested, it might be worth taking a look.
The night Port has shot itself on the foot, stood up, seemed fine, but ended up rolling over and dying. It was INCONCEIVABLE ["liar!"], but it has happened anyway ["surprise!"]. Barracking for Port is to live on the edge of the "Cliffs of Insanity." What can one do, then, but to laugh before his own sad fate?
Never mind... Next week, I will be doing everything again. I can't help it.
— You mixed the Turk with the Spaniard!
— What?! You've made mom speak like the Spaniard!? That is "inconceivable!"
"While I was preparing my breakfast, I put the game on SEN, which has become my favorite footy radio station. By the time I started eating and following the comments in BigFooty, we were already losing 3.1:19 to one."
We have to get Gerard Whateley to interview you GremioPower. Would be a good laugh. You can explain to him how footy is soccer with the use of hands, given how you understand space, position and tactics.
Dwayne Russell would do it - he is an ex Port Adelaide player in the 1980's and then went to Geelong and only played 50 games, mainly due to injuries, who really works for 3AW calls a couple of games for them - but because of the deal CrocMedia signed with 3AW a few years ago before Crocmedia bought SEN last year - has a 1 hour show - Dwayne's world between 3pm-4pm Adelaide time on SENSA only. Dwayne calls two games a weekend on Fox Footy and you would have heard his call of Port games.
Thank you for your support. How could I, or someone else, get in touch with them to suggest that? I would prefer that someone else would do the introduction, honestly; but I could do it.
Maybe Loukas Founten could pass on a link to your blog to them both.
I have decided to pick and publish some comments I have made during the week. I hope you all like it!
"After Summer, comes the Fall"
I'm not crazy. You are crazy!
"Until then, I cannot trust the team." | 2019-04-23T09:03:26 | https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/far-west-footy-gremiopowers-blog.1193225/page-7 |
0.998598 | Prince Charles inside 'super sewer' Jump to media player Prince Charles visits a sewer in East London to mark the 150th birthday of the city's underground water system.
Cameron and Charles in Saudi Arabia Jump to media player World leaders and dignitaries are beginning to arrive in Saudi Arabia to pay their respects following the death of King Abdullah on Friday.
Prince Charles visits ancient Saudi site Jump to media player Prince Charles is given rare access to ancient archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia, as he continues his tour of the Middle East.
The peculiarity of 'planet Windsor' Jump to media player Author Catherine Mayer talks about her biography of Prince Charles, which Clarence House says is unauthorised.
Prince returns to flood-hit Somerset Jump to media player Prince Charles visits Somerset which suffered severe flooding earlier this year.
How would the 'super sewer' be built? Jump to media player Planning officials have started looking into proposals to build a so-called "super sewer" under London. Tom Bateman goes into the existing sewers to investigate.
'Bus-sized fatberg' in London sewer Jump to media player Britain's biggest ever "fatberg" has been removed from a London sewer, Thames Water has revealed.
The Prince of Wales has visited a new 'super sewer' in East London.
The newly-completed Lee Tunnel is part of a Thames Water project to improve the capital's sewer system.
The visit was to mark 150 year anniversary of the capital's sewers which were designed and built by engineer Joseph Bazalgette.
The BBC's Nick Higham explains the history of London's sewers. | 2019-04-24T22:20:48 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-31517449/prince-charles-inside-london-s-super-sewer |
0.999045 | Davos Dispatch #3: Remember the Washington Consensus?
Remember the Washington Consensus? I attended a Davos lunch on its meaning and its fate. (My table was expertly hosted by Kristin Forbes of CGD's advisory committee.
Is the Washington Consensus alive and well?
The Washington Consensus is alive and well as a set of sensible recommendations for good management of market economies, as proposed in the ten reasonable statements set out by John Williamson in 1989. However the Washington Consensus is dead as a religion of market fundamentalism -- mostly because as a religion it came to include rapid liberalization of capital markets (not John Williamson's fault), or in today's lingo, justified letting all that toxicity flow globally.
Are the ten reasonable statements of the original Washington Consensus still a good idea?
Looking back at the Asian financial crisis, Korea had to swallow bitter IMF medicine, but recovered quickly with the type of V-shaped recovery no one foresees now for the global economy. In this sense, the original ten statements behind the Washington Consensus are still a good idea. However, fiscal austerity and tight monetary policy that made sense in Korea and Mexico (a localized crisis -- partial equilibrium) make no sense applied globally (a global systemic crisis -- general equilibrium).
Was the Washington Consensus as religion a good idea?
I put this question in the past tense because we are in a general equilibrium global meltdown in which the Washington Consensus as a (fundamentalist) religion is definitely dead. Was it ever a good idea: "Hell no!" The religion ignored not only the systemic risks of unregulated global capital flows but the domestic political imperative for equity -- or the word I prefer, fairness. One unfortunate result: In Latin America (the setting for which Williamson suggested there was a consensus on sensible policies), Chavez, Morales and Correa (of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador) now have a near-monopoly on the rhetoric (though not the reality) of Fair Growth.
The real issue now is whether the line between the market and the state will be redrawn. Surely yes -- in the direction of more state. That's why the the press has emphasized Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's endorsement of the market as the organizing principle for their economies in their Davos speeches (as much or more than their evident disdain for America's cowboy version). The luncheon speakers were also mostly sitting officials from emerging markets including Mexico (Central Bank Governor Guillermo Ortiz), South Korea (Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo), and South Africa (Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel), and like Wen and Putin they remain clear market adherents. In some sense, it seems fair to conclude that despite the current crisis, with its epicenter in the rich economies, the fundamental assumption of the "Washington" Consensus -- that markets are what matter -- lives on where it first took hold: in the emerging market economies. | 2019-04-23T00:46:50 | https://www.cgdev.org/blog/davos-dispatch-3-remember-washington-consensus |
0.998678 | One of the enduringly evil things done by Hitler and the Nazis was to pick a minority - Jews - and blame them for all the evils that had occurred in German society. Of course, all these evils had causes quite unrelated to the Jews, mostly caused by the overweening ambitions of the German militarists and industrialists who pushed the German speaking nations into the Great War. As Hitler was of the same ilk as those who caused the problems, he obviously couldn't blame his own kind. So he blamed the Jews.
But how, exactly, is this any different than Ben Stein, the producers of Expelled and the Discovery Institute blaming virtually all the world's real and perceived ills since 1859, both domestic and international, on atheists (and "Darwinists," who are equated in all ways with atheists)?
That some of the people, like Stein and David Klinghoffer, who participate in this demonizing of the atheist "other," are themselves Jewish simply adds to the horror.
I suppose that when a group that has been the "other" for so long has an opportunity to substitute someone else in that role, it is only human nature to jump at the chance.
The whole title was: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859). (Mein) KAMPF was a direct translation from that 'Struggle'. There was, supposedly, not enough Lebenstraume. That's why in the industrial revolution in England 12 year old proletariat girls had to work over 100 hours a week. Malthus set the paradigm that is today very relevant even to Islamist terrorists. They believe that unconscious myth that there is not just enough space for us all.
Stein is under heavy attack for 'exaggerating' or 'going easy' on the influence of evolutionism behind Nazism and Stalinism (super evolution of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Russia). But the monstrous Haeckelian type of vulgar evolutionism drove not only the 'Politics-is-applied-biology' Nazi takeover in the continental Europe, but even the nationalistic collision at the World War I.
So the American laws were pioneering endeavours. In Europe Denmark passed the first sterilization legislation in Europe (1929). Denmark was followed by Switzerland, Germany that had felt to the hands of Hitler and Gobineu, and other Nordic countries: Norway (1934), Sweden (1935), Finland (1935), and Iceland (1938) (Haller 1963, pp 21-57; 135-9; Proctor 1988, p. 97; Reilly 1991, p. 109). Seldom is it mentioned in the popular media, that the first outright race biological institution in the world was not established in Germany but in 1921 in Uppsala, Sweden (Hietala 1985, pp. 109). (I am not aware of the ethymology of the 'Up' of the ancient city from Plinius' Ultima Thule, however.) In 1907 the Society for Racial Hygiene in Germany had changed its name to the Internationale Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene, and in 1910 Swedish Society for Eugenics (Sällskap för Rashygien) had become its first foreign affiliate (Proctor 1988, p. 17). Today, Swedish state church is definitely the most liberal in the face of the world. | 2019-04-26T08:41:01 | http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2008/04/mein-expelled.html |
0.999709 | Can a benevolent dictator sometimes be better than a corrupt democracy? If a leader is a good person, and does what is best for the people instead of looking out for his own interests, and everyone is happy, is there any need for a democracy? Have there been any examples throughout history of dictators that have been loved and been good to their people, without killing those who oppose them?
Liberal democracy is championed since it allows for the greatest freedom (why freedom is good, well who is to say, it's just something modern society promotes).
For this reason, people will baulk at any autocratic or even totalitarian system, since there is no guarantee that the government will uphold citizens' rights. I think though that some Roman emperors were benevolent dictators. Or even kings in Anglo-Saxon England, such as Alfred the Great or Edward the Confessor.
What 'good' dictators are there in this modern world?
A benevolent dictator could do good things, sure. Nothing odd about that. What are we supposed to draw from that?
Nothing, I'm just asking a question.
that "liberal democracy" is not what it's cracked to be?
Yeah I think a benevolent dictator would be better than a corrupt democracy.
Mainly because I don't rate "freedom" higher than health care/education/equal opportunities etc.
One of the main arguments for 'independence of the Bank of England' was that monetary policy should not be in the hands of politicians who would make short term decisions to boost their own popularity and chances of re-election which may not be in the best interests of the country as a whole. Some people would also say the same about fiscal policy - governments are prone to borrow now, to finance a spending windfall/tax cuts, to get re-election. If they didn't have to be accountable to the people they would be able to take a better long term view.
I remember when I studied Ted Heath's time as PM, one of the things that got said about Heath was that he would have been an excellent ruler in an autocracy...he was a very effective 'manager' and knew how to get the Civil Service to run the country so that it worked...but he lacked the personable touch and was not very good at connecting with voters in an electoral system.
well hitler got germany out of hyperinflation and terrible economic ruin.
Thats the thing. Dictatorships are usually in the hands of people who want to oppress people. But if they simply want to improve the lives of the people they serve then why have a vote, where an oppressive regime could be voted in?
That doesn't follow from the obvious possibility that a benevolent dictatorship can do good things.
Question's kind of simplistic though. Take whatever you take to be a good policy. There's nothing (conceptually) to stop a benevolent dictatorship doing that policy, provided the policy isn't something like democratic reform or something else that's inconsistent with dictatorship.
So it's in no way surprising that it's conceptually possible for a benevolent dictatorship can do good things. Does it follow from that that benevolent dictatorship is a good system of government? No. Does it follow that we ought try and institute a benevolent dictatorship? No. Does it follow that we ought not be democrats? No.
More argument is needed if we want an interesting conclusion.
I think Franco's legacy in Spain can be thought of as good and bad at the same time. If you look at modern day Spain - The systems, the order and the structure are largely owed to Franco.
Some people say Singapore, although claimed to be a democracy is pretty much a Benevolent dictatorship, but the majority of people don't seem to care, as they' have it good, and theres not even any ethnic cleansing like there was in Hussain's Iraq or Franco's Spain.
Haili Selassie, he was technically a emperor but it's basically the same thing.
The UK ruled under an elective dictatorship?
Is Britain run by a dictatorship of mentally damaged former public schoolboys? | 2019-04-26T08:49:06 | https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1625368 |
0.99496 | Scott Morrison is to be Australia's new prime minister after Malcolm Turnbull was forced out by party rivals in a bruising leadership contest.
Mr Turnbull had been under pressure from poor polling and what he described as an "insurgency" by conservative MPs.
Mr Morrison, the treasurer, won an internal ballot 45-40 over former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton - who had been Mr Turnbull's most vocal threat.
Mr Turnbull is the fourth Australian PM in a decade to be ousted internally.
"It has been such a privilege to be the leader of this great nation. I love Australia. I love Australians," he said on Friday.
Mr Morrison entered the race after Mr Turnbull lost key backers. After a majority of MPs called for a leadership "spill", Mr Turnbull agreed to step down.
With a mixture of bemusement, anger and sheer frustration: many have described this week as one of the most chaotic in Australian political history.
In his final press briefing, Mr Turnbull called the week "madness" and thanked his colleagues for choosing Mr Morrison over Mr Dutton.
"We have so much going for us in this country. We have to be proud of it and cherish it," he said.
Not a single leader in recent times has succeeded in serving a full term as prime minister, partly because elections come around so often - every three years.
So in recent years, prime ministers unpopular in the polls - or with their colleagues - have been swiftly sacrificed from within.
Under the Australian system, as in the UK, the prime minister is not directly elected by voters but is the leader of the party or coalition that can command a majority in parliament.
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0.999471 | I have some input I get via a textarea and I convert that input into a html document, that is later parsed into a PDF document.
I have tried all of the options on the htmldocument and none of them lets me specify that the parser should not be strict. On the other hand I might be able to live with it stripping away the <, but adding all the equal signs doesn't really work for me.
Does anybody have an idea to how I can solve this problem.
Where he actually complains about the < disappearing which would be fine for me. Of course fixing the parsing error is the best solution.
Your content is blatantly wrong. This is not about "strictness", it's really about the fact that you're pretending a piece of text is valid HTML. In fact, the results you are getting are exactly because the parser is not strict.
When you need to insert plain text into HTML, you need to encode it first, so that all the various HTML control characters are converted to HTML properly - for example, < must be changed to < and & to &.
One way to handle this is to use the DOM - use InnerText on the target div, instead of slapping strings together and pretending they're HTML. Another is to use some explicit encoding method - for example HttpUtility.HtmlEncode.
Within this Character Data block I can use double dashes as much as I want (along with <, &, ', and ') *and * % MyParamEntity; will be expanded to the text 'Has been expanded'...however, I can't use the CEND sequence(if I need to use it I must escape one of the brackets or the greater-than sign). | 2019-04-21T20:06:50 | https://html-agility-pack.net/knowledge-base/37833959/htmlagilitypack-treats-everything-after----less-than-sign--as-attributes |
0.998581 | Find NCERT Exemplar Solutions for Class 12 Physics (Chapter 5: Magnetism & Matter). In this article, you will get solutions to multiple choice questions with single correct answer. Solutions of other questions are available in further parts. These questions are important for CBSE Class 12 Physics board exam & other competitive exams.
NCERT Exemplar Solutions for Class12 Physics – Chapter 5 (Moving Charges & Magnetism) are available here. Here, you will get solutions of multiple choice questions with single correct answer (i.e., question number 5.1 to question number 5.5). These questions are important for various engineering and medical entrance exams. These questions can also be asked in CBSE Class 12 Physics board exam.
(a) is non-zero and points in the z-direction by symmetry.
(b) points along the axis of the tortoid (m = m φ ).
(c) is zero, otherwise there would be a field falling as 1/r3 at large distances distances outside the toroid.
(d) is pointing radially outwards.
In case of toroid, the magnetic field is only confined inside the body of toroid in the form of concentric magnetic lines of force and there is no magnetic field outside the body of toroid. This is because the loop encloses no current. Thus, the magnetic moment of toroid is zero.
The magnetic field of Earth can be modelled by that of a point dipole placed at the centre of the Earth. The dipole axis makes an angle of 11.3° with the axis of Earth. At Mumbai, declination is nearly zero.
(a) the declination varies between 11.3° W to 11.3° E.
(b) the least declination is 0°.
(c) the plane defined by dipole axis and Earth axis passes through Greenwich.
(d) declination averaged over Earth must be always negative.
The axis of the dipole does not coincide with the axis of rotation of the earth. It makes an angle of 11.3o with the axis of the earth, the declination varies between 11.3o W to 11.3o E depending on the observation point.
(a) magnetic moment of each molecule is zero.
(b) the individual molecules have non-zero magnetic moment which are all perfectly aligned.
(c) domains are partially aligned.
(d) domains are all perfectly aligned.
In case of a permanent magnetic, at room temperature, the magnetic domains are partially aligned.
Here, B is magnetic field induction, I is the intensity of magnetisation and T is absolute temperature.
I1 = 8 Am-1, B1 = 0.6T, T1 = 4 K, B2 = 0.2T, T2 = 16 K, I2 =? | 2019-04-25T04:11:41 | https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/ncert-exemplar-solutions-for-cbse-class-12-physics-chapter-5-magnetism-and-matter-mcq-i-1501758336-1 |
0.999349 | I know that one of the first things I do when evaluating buying anything is to read the reviews.
What is so great about reading the review there is that you get to see all the different peoples opinions. But I always bring my salt.
What was the reviewer trying to accomplish with the product?
Sometimes folks have unreasonable expectations.
Was the reviewer like me, or were they vastly different from me?
Context means everything, if the person seems to have similar taste it becomes a whole lot easier to accept the word at face value.
Do I think that the reviewer’s budget had an effect on the value expected from the product if it fell short?
If they felt like they spent a considerable amount (compared to overall budget) on the product, the stakes tend to be much higher than someone who may have made a more discretionary purchase.
These considerations can help you separate less valuable emotional charged reviews from honest and thoughtful reviews without being as susceptible to cognitive bias. | 2019-04-19T02:48:49 | https://handythinks.com/stories/how-to-read-reviews/ |
0.998372 | On the back of a old motherboard I have a socket for the monitor, which also is labled as com2. Can I use a convertor to use this as a 9 pin com port. If so, what is the wiring/pin outs to convert the 15 pins to 9 pins?
It sounds to me that the connector is a VGA connector, not a serial connecter like you intend to use it. A model of the mother board could help us identify the connector better.
If you have a standard 9 pin "D" connector labeled as both Monitor and COMM 2, I suspect that you have a pre PC motherboard. Or at least a board from some system other than an IBM style PC.
A number of older systems did use serial data terminal style monitors.
The old VAX systems are one example.
Another possibility is an industrial class PC designed to replace an older VAX or similar system.
I would be curious to know more about the specifics of your board.
Is port labeled on case rather than motherboard?
Older backplates were labeled Com1 and Com2 and an integrated video adapter used one of the "Com" port cutouts.
So I suspect you have an integrated video adapter rather than some exotic serial port and there is no way to turn it into a serial port. | 2019-04-22T20:42:37 | https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/cable-wiring/ |
0.998105 | Legal financing (also known as litigation financing, professional funding, settlement funding, third party funding, legal funding, and, in England and Wales, litigation funding) is the mechanism or process through which litigants (and even law firms) can finance their litigation or other legal costs through a third party funding company. These third party funding companies provide cash advance to litigants in exchange for a percentage share of the judgment or settlement. However, if the case proceeds to trial and the litigant loses, the third party funding company receives nothing and loses the money they have invested in the case. In other words, if the litigant loses, he does not have to repay the money. Accordingly, to qualify for funding with a legal financing company, a litigant's case must have sufficient merits.
Litigation funding is available in most common law jurisdictions in the United States. The process is most commonly used in personal injury cases, but may also apply to commercial disputes, civil rights cases, workers' compensation, and structured settlement.. Commercial litigation funding has become more mature in the United States with hedge funds and marketplaces funding larger commercial legal claims. The amount of money that plaintiffs receive through legal financing varies widely, but often is around 10 to 15 percent of the expected value of judgment or settlement of their personal injury lawsuit. Some companies allow individuals to request more or less money (as needed) and have varying payout rates depending on the characteristics of the case at hand. | 2019-04-26T04:29:14 | https://wn.com/Legal_financing |
0.99957 | In particle physics, antimatter is material composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as particles of ordinary matter but have opposite charge and other particle properties such as lepton and baryon number. Encounters between particles and antiparticles lead to the annihilation of both, giving rise to varying proportions of high-energy photons (gamma rays), neutrinos, and lower-mass particle–antiparticle pairs. Setting aside the mass of any product neutrinos, which represent released energy which generally continues to be unavailable, the end result of annihilation is a release of energy available to do work, proportional to the total matter and antimatter mass, in accord with the mass-energy equivalence equation, E=mc2., according to my friend Wikipedia.
The first disc is called Matter, and with reason, because what we hear has the density, the power, the themes and the drive of other Exploding Star Orchestra recordings, although this is one is clearly not on the number one spot. That being said, the music is still phenomenal in its concept, raw and intense in its delivery, with a band of today's most acclaimed musicians, playing Mazurek's expansive and grand compositions, compelling and sweeping in their drive, boundless as the universe itself, and overwhelming and crushing because of its voluminous density. Of all the larger bands to be heard, this one definitely figures in the top five.
The second disc is called Anti-Matter, and offers a totally different perspective. We only hear Mazurek on electronics, not exactly my field of preference, interest or knowledge. The sounds are eery, distant, like you would expect these nasty antiparticles to do, annihilating matter with their opposite charge, giving birth to high energy, possibly present but clearly inaudible, yet these antiparticles are more than just white noise, doing their work in the layers upon layers upon layers of what, shifting and shimmering in the shrieking shadows of darkness. | 2019-04-24T16:21:41 | http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/11/?m=0 |
0.995556 | If many had their way it was a match that would never have happened, a game consisting of two teams not worthy of the competition they represented.
It was match day six of the Serie A season and Crotone in only their second ever top-flight campaign took on Benevento playing in their first. The hosts would win, giving them their maiden victory of the campaign while the visiting Stregoni resigned themselves to their sixth defeat on the bounce.
Even with the top of Serie A looking its most open in many years, many peoples focus has been turned to events down the bottom and the prowess or lack of, of the teams cradled in the bosom of relegation.
Calls have been made all over Twitter and the like that these teams are making a mockery of the league, they are simply not good enough. Cut them, return to an 18-team top flight and see the quality of Serie A return to the heights of the glory days.
The question on my lips however is, will 18 really be better than 20? From what I can gather the argument from those who seek an 18-team league is that those right at the foot of the table are simply not Serie A worthy and distort the results of everyone else. With sides in the ilk of Benevento, Verona, Crotone and SPAL being the chief offenders.
What many tend to forget however when criticising these clubs is that each have earned the right to compete at this level and are as much deserving of a place in Serie A as the likes of Juventus, Milan, Inter, etc. are. Also what is tended to be forgotten is that even if Serie A had reverted to 18 teams, three of the four above mentioned teams would still have earned the right to be there.
How so, let me explain. If Serie A became an 18 team league the general likelihood is that the bottom two teams would be relegated and replaced by the top two in Serie B (With maybe the possibility of a promotion relegation play-off between third bottom and third top of the respective leagues). If this was the case, Crotone 2nd (2015/16) Serie B, Verona 2nd Serie B and SPAL 1st all would still have made it into Serie A even if it consisted of 18 teams by virtue of finishing in the top two of Serie B.
Even if these teams (including Benevento) were just kicked from the league in the morning, would it matter overly much. They have proven in the past (in the case of Verona numerous times) that they are more than capable of reaching the criteria required to gain access into Serie A even in its reduced state. You are now faced with the possibility that two teams off the pace in a 20-team division are now heading into an 18 team league to be potentially even further off the pace of 16 clubs who have now established themselves as seasoned Serie A sides.
It may be argued that by reducing the league to 18 will force these promoted clubs to spend more, on their squad and facilities in an attempt to retain their status in the shrunken division. Teams such as Crotone or SPAL simply do not have that sort of cash to throw around and doing so will probably put themselves in dire financial straits. All this in a time when numerous clubs are already creaking under financial strain and many are ceasing to exist.
It is here that I point out that I am not strictly against an 18 team Serie A, but more the fact that people think that if it is done it will sort all the ills of the league.
Even with an 18 team Serie A the likes of Crotone, Verona, SPAL and Benevento will continue to be there and week after week they will continue to be beaten. They however have met all the hurdles placed before them and have earned the right to be where they are no matter how bad they are. | 2019-04-24T10:35:01 | http://www.italianfootballdaily.com/18-20-better/ |
0.999999 | I should take a moment to nod to Plato and Socrates. To understand where Lewis was trying to take us with his argument from desire -- we long for perfect justice, thus there must be perfect justice somewhere, though perhaps not in this life -- we need to understand something Socrates said in Apologia when he was on trial for his life. He told a story of a man who had been chained in a cave so that he could only see one wall of the cave. There were many prisoners like him. There was a powerful fire behind them, and their captor would sometimes carry shapes past the fire. The prisoners would point to the shadows and say to each other, "Oh, look: A tree. A dog. A house." and so forth. They thought that these shadows were really trees and dogs and houses.
The man somehow escaped his chains and ran out of the cave, where he saw for the first time real trees, real dogs, real houses. He was re-captured, and put back among the prisoners. He tried to explain to them that the things they saw were merely shadows, and that there were real things in the real world. So the prisoners fell on him and tore him apart with their own hands.
This is Plato's "Myth of the Cave" and belief in a more real world outside this one is called "Platonism." Lewis was of a school of thought called "Neo-Platonism," which believes that there is a more real world outside us, and it is where God is.
GP: If God exists, then life has an objective meaning.
GP: If life has meaning, then God exists.
C: Life has no meaning.
C: Therefore God does not exist.
A = A. X = X. 0 = 0.
Another digression here: Please excuse the break in the narrative.
Tolstoy, in _My Confession_, Ch. V., wrote: My question - that which at the age of fifty brought me to the verge of suicide - was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man from the foolish child to the wisest elder: it was a question without an answer to which one cannot live, as I had found by experience. It was: "What will come of what I am doing today or shall do tomorrow? What will come of my whole life?"
Differently expressed, the question is: "Why should I live, why wish for anything, or do anything?" It can also be expressed thus: "Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?"
Tolstoy also talks of waking up in the middle of the night to ask himself, "Is there something you are supposed to be doing (or to accomplish) in this life? If so, what?"
These things, that Tolstoy kept being asked in his internal dialog, are collectively the Question of the Meaning of Life. In science, if we wish to follow the Scientific method, the first step is to define the question. This is the question: "Why am I here? What is the point of my being here? What, if anything, am I expected to accomplish?"
Tolstoy, continuing, wrote: To this one question, variously expressed, I sought an answer in science. And I found that in relation to that question all human knowledge is divided as it were into two opposite hemispheres at the ends of which are two poles: the one a negative and the other a positive; but that neither at the one nor the other pole is there an answer to life's questions.
The one series of sciences seems not to recognize the question, but replies clearly and exactly to its own independent questions: that is the series of experimental sciences, and at the extreme end of it stands mathematics. The other series of sciences recognizes the question, but does not answer it; that is the series of abstract sciences, and at the extreme end of it stands metaphysics.
"Sciences" here includes the hard sciences at one end of his scale, and the "soft" sciences, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology, at the other end. Neither end has an answer to the Question of the Meaning of Life.
I am nowhere near as smart as Tolstoy. I am fortunate that translators are merciful when conveying his meanings in English. I tried once to translate this book from the French version that his daughter translated from Russian, but I came to grief long before I reached this point.
Still, somehow, by some means, not yet having read Tolstoy's confession, I came to the same conclusion: That the science I learned in Nuke school was harmless as kittens to the Theology that I learned in Sunday School, and vice versa. I can't claim any great credit in reaching this conclusion; and I found it rather frustrating. I could focus my logic to tear apart a sales pitch without hardly blinking an eye. I could explain why you can't have a perpetual motion machine even before my morning coffee. But I could not place a scratch on the indoctrination of my youth. Words and truths taught to me by people who barely knew more than I did, and then only because they were holding the answer book in front of them, were impregnable against the might of my mind.
It sounds boastful to say "The might of my mind." I was not Tolstoy. I was no chess grandmaster. I was not close to Richard Feynman. But I had a strong mind and I worked it to make it stronger, and I was frustrated by an immovable object. In terms of physical strength, as an analogy: If mental strength were physical strength, I would not be able to go 12 rounds with a prizefighter. But on the hand, if we were in a bar and I told you to get out, you'd put down your drink and leave. Again, not to boast, merely to tell you what I'm working with here.
One part of my mental workout regimen was a game called "There is No Australia." I would attempt to prove to my long-suffering shipmates that there was no such place as Australia using various clever arguments, and defying them to argue me out of my position by using logic and reason. I never once lost. This game originally arose as a joke, when we had twice gone on a voyage in which we were supposed to stop in Perth, and each time circumstances diverted us. So we started to think that there was no such place as Australia. To this day, I find it useful as a tool to demonstrate principles of logic and of faith.
I can tell you some of the books I read at that time, but not all of them. I remember reading a few passages from the Koran. Richard Carrier, in one of the passages SEG quoted at me, mentioned finding a Taoist text that made perfect sense to him in a way that the Bible never did. I had the opposite experience with reading passages from the Koran. They were meaningless pseudo-religious babbling. Granted, I did not read those passages in the Original Arabic, but what I read was without the form or structure that I have spoken of in the Bible. I found nothing of substance, no grist for the mill. Since then I've studied more about the Koran, and I have come to the conclusion that as a source of truth, it's no better than the local car trader magazine. But that's another story.
I don't remember all of who or what I read. I know that it was much later in my life when a friend challenged me to read _Why I Am Not A Christian_ by Bertrand Russell. Frankly, don't waste your time on it; for a man who was so logical in everything else to be so sloppy when thinking about religion is utterly appalling. As a challenge, please explain his fig tree argument to me in a syllogism. Anyone. Please.
I do remember that I tried to cheat by finding arguments that other people had against God. In those days we didn't have the internet, so I had to go to the San Diego Public Library and find books in bookstores. I found in general that even cheating didn't help. Atheists I found were merely angry against God, like the atheists of whom Chesterton wrote in _Orthodoxy_. They were spoiled Christians, neither close enough to see the function of Christianity nor far enough from it to see it's design and beauty. I had not read Orthodoxy at that time; reading it later was another confirmation that I had made the right choice, as was reading Russell many years later. But I could not find any atheists who had grist for my mill; logical arguments for me to use in my attempt to break down the indoctrination of my youth.
So I remembered a rhetorical technique that one of my brothers used to use against me. When we argued, he would simply ask me a few questions to keep me on the defensive, explaining and explaining and explaining until finally I would say something -- usually quite peripheral and mostly unrelated to the original dispute -- that he could leap onto and hammer me with. In retrospect, it was good training; I've gotten quite good at defending ideas. But I resolved to do this with religion: I would read Christian writers until I found a problem with what they wrote.
Now, those of you who have been down this road will laugh at me. Earlier I tried to dissolve my religion in science, and now I was going to pick my religion apart until I found some piece that could be dissolved in science. But science did not change: It still was not a suitable solvent, no matter what I tried to make of the solute. I read writers like my old friend "Jack," that is, C.S. Lewis. Like Tolstoy, or even Russell, he was a mental giant compared to me. In a mental prize fight, I could make hash of an average man, but Jack could make applesauce out of me.
I read _Mere Christianity_ again. And it still made sense. I read _God in the Dock_ where Lewis put God on trial and brought charges against him -- and I could not fault him even once in bringing the charges to naught. If you think I was too soft on Old Jack, have a go at it yourself. Read _God in the Dock_ and tell me where he went wrong. Please, tell me. I read _Surprised by Joy; The Shape of my Early Life._ You'll never read a more frank and honest biography. In that book, Lewis gives his story, from his childhood and education to the day he abandoned the CoE and became an atheist, his reasoning and his relief at having no God to judge him. He reasoned, and please take note of this, that Hamlet can never speak to Shakespeare because they live in different worlds. Different universes, even. From this he concluded that he could never speak to God, nor God to Him; God was as fictional to Lewis as Hamlet.
In such a state of mind he went to war, near the end of WW1, and returned to Oxford, where he lectured on medieval literature. There he met J.R.R. Tolkein, of _Hobbit_ fame, and his son, Christopher. Both of them were Roman Catholics, but Lewis did not hold that against them. Still, he found himself surrounded by Christians, such as Owen Barfield and Walter Hooper. In time, he saw a problem with his prior reasoning about Hamlet: It might actually be possible for Hamlet to speak to Shakespeare, so long as it was Shakespeare's doing. That is, Shakespeare could write himself into the story of Hamlet as a Character, and then he and Hamlet might converse on a level basis.
That thought shook him. It smacked of the Incarnation. It made him fear that perhaps God might actually be out there, stalking him. People suggested to him that such thoughts were merely "Wish-Fulfillment" fantasies; a pop-psych term in vogue in those days. Lewis would stare down such people and ask them, "Why should a mouse wish for a cat?"
1. What color are the inward parts of a man?
(Answer: There is no color where there is no light).
2. By what infallible rule may a copy be distinguished from an original?
3. A man and his enemy ride the same train to the man's home. Neither can escape the other, nor go faster nor slower. There is a bridge the train must cross. The man's wife sends word to him: Shall she tear down the bridge, that the enemy may not cross, or shall she leave the bridge, that the man may cross. What should he say?
Lewis then finds himself in the house of Wisdom, and the remainder of the book, until the climax, involves his investigations of various schools of thought, seeking one that will save him from religion. In the end, the only way to reach the place he desires to be is through the church.
And again, I could find no fault in him. Okay, he was hung up on arguing against some of the ideas prevalent in his day, which are now obsolete and outdated, but his logic was sound. I was not finding a toehold to tear down his logic.
There were smart people on both sides of the aisle, but the Christians were scoring all the points, while the atheists were merely mocking and making faces. I was starting to see a preponderance of evidence in one direction.
4. I think I reasoned out God, but really just confirmed all my biases while deceiving myself.
So at this point, I think we can decide whether the predictions are correct. The things speaks for itself.
1. I was indeed well and thoroughly indoctrinated. But I think that the charge of confirmation bias and of blind assumptions -- Kripkean Dogmatism -- fail utterly. Indeed, if I were merely blindly asserting my belief in defiance of all logic, what would be the point in my having taught you logic? Why would I carefully show you all the tools of reason if my reason were but blind assumptions?
And I have laid bare the path that down which my reason took me. You see above what I read and what I gleaned from that reading. Now there may be some who can find flaws in my thoughts, and I would welcome those. But no one can allege that I did not expend the full power and force of my intellect in pursuit of the raw and unvarnished truth about God.
So Charge 1 fails. Wrong.
Charge 2, sorry, simply wrong.
Charge 3, well, I've been a sinner, and I still am -- Romans 3:10 and 3:23 you know. But it wasn't some moral crisis that brought me back into the fold. Wrong.
Charge 4... Well, I do think I reasoned out God. I think that the path I've explained above is a clear, reasonable and logical progression to the point where I found myself at that time. I can honestly say that I did not deceive myself. So, again, wrong.
The story will continue. There's more to say. But I think we can dispense with the charges that SEG pre-supposed as how I came to be the Christian I am today.
I tell you, and I think you can see, that I am a smart man. And further, I have invested the full force and power of my not-inconsiderable intellect against this problem. From time to time, SEG suggests that I am a gullible fool. I think that we can dispense with that idea as well. You have seen that I consider ideas carefully, and do not blindly accept all that I am told. And you see how my mind works.
So some of you will be left with a conundrum. Here is a smart man, who reasons well (perhaps I flatter myself) and yet he believes in the Christian God. He's not a gullible fool; he seems to be guided by reason. So perhaps the Christian God is a reasonable inference.
You can escape the point.
Perhaps I'm not so smart after all.
Perhaps I'm lying about reading those books, and you should read them yourself to find where I'm bluffing.
Perhaps I'm lying about how logic works.
Perhaps I'm a figment of your fevered imagination.
But suppose you were to take those principles that I set for myself in the early posts -- That a man is obligated to believe what is true, and that a man should not discard an idea until he can tell where it went wrong. Can you find a place where my reason went wrong? Where I'm lying, thinking poorly, being illogical?
Don't kneejerk here and say "Oh God of the Gaps, and you're Assuming God, Begs the Question!" Really, none of those apply. I've told you how I got to the main point of the crisis, so IF you can legitimately, logically, show a place where my reason failed, then by all means, say so.
To finish on Lewis: He eventually made the concession that he should become a Deist. It was reluctant, begrudging, and against his will, but it was where his logic led him. Later, during a motorcycle ride, he got into a sidecar as a deist and got out convinced that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead. Exactly where and how that happened, he could not say. I urge you to read anything that he wrote. You won't be disappointed.
With those three steps, I hope to have completed a sufficiently thorough testimony, and I shall turn the matter over to the judges.
So where did Lewis and other writers leave me?
I had this one proposition that I could not dispose of, namely, that the religion of my youth was in fact true and correct. Now, I was willing to grant a small degree of severability, based on the fact that I knew the faith and the Bible not to be monoliths. Otherwise, I could simply have scanned until I found a misplaced semi-colon and blown the whistle -- "Look! A semi-colon that should be a colon! Foul!" -- but I was looking for a reasonable inference, and not an excuse to dismiss. An example of this would be in, for example, Genesis 41:49, in which Joseph gathered corn. Corn was not known in Egypt ca. 2000 BC/BCE, thus Joseph could not gather corn.
But Corn is the term used here by the KJV translators of 1611, who knew corn. They should have said "wheat," and elsewhere in the Bible Strong's word H1250 is translated as "Wheat." So while that would seem to be a contradiction, it was not. I was willing to sever errors like that in translation, and still retain the intended meanings. And I believe that this is the reasonable approach, whether we are interpreting ancient texts on the Sunday newspaper.
That proposition --the religion of my youth -- had a certain amount of support, in that there were some very smart writers, such as Lewis, who endorsed it. I could have called Lewis a gullible old fool and thrown out his writings, but honestly, the man was extremely smart, extremely well-read, and extremely logical. It would have been pretty horribly arrogant of me to say that I, a fool on a ship, knew more than the careful reasoning of an Oxford Lecturer and later Cambridge Don -- First Chair of the Cambridge Department of Medieval and Renaissance literature. On the other side of the aisle, however, were very smart men like Bertrand Russell.
But in Russell I found nothing but scoffing and ridicule, and formed a new personal rule: Ridicule is not refutation.
Sign A: Only this sign is true.
Sign B: Both signs are true.
To use the Reductio here to disprove sign B, we would say, "Suppose Ad Argumentum (for the sake of the argument) that Sign B is true. Then that would mean that sign A is also true. But sign A implicitly states that sign B is false. Thus if sign B is true, then it is also false; this is a contradiction, also called an absurdity; therefore sign B is false."
Thus, merely being able to scoff at a thing, or to say that it is silly, is insufficient to prove it wrong. Thus Bertrand Russell, boiled down, really said nothing of relevance.
I hadn't yet read Tolstoy's Confession, only his War and Peace. But I had to agree with him that if Life had meaning, it came from outside. Solomon and Kafka had convinced me that there was no meaning to be found from within this life, and watching Camus struggle with the same question, and having no better explanation for why Mersault shot the Arab five times than to simply say, "C'etait chaud..." Well, if life had meaning, it came from somewhere outside this life.
GP: If life has meaning, then it comes from outside of this life.
I did, and I do, believe that life has an objective meaning. I think that most people believe this, though few can say why. It just seems like there's more to this life than what we see. If there's no objective meaning, then there's no justice; It's just a word we use to fight for more of what we want. If there's no objective meaning then there's no love; it's just a word we use for how we get what we want from other people, using them to trigger our chemical release of endorphins.
Lewis remarked on this in Mere Christianity. He says, "Mankind is the only species afraid of the bones of its own kind." I have had avowed atheists tell me in one breath that there is nothing spiritual and nothing numinous, then in the next breath tell me of their encounter with a ghost. I've had an atheist tell me that he embraced Taoism, and then quickly retreat: Not all the spiritual taproot and yin/yang business, you understand, but only the philosophical aspects. This would be like someone saying that they embraced Christianity, but only the moral teachings, you know, like Jefferson -- If you've read the New Testament, you know what mental gymnastics Jefferson had to undertake to subtract the spiritual teachings from the moral.
So if there is nothing numinous, nothing objective, nothing spiritual, why do we feel that there should be? Lewis compared this to a fish realizing that it was wet. How would a fish know that it was wet unless it also realized that somewhere there is a place where things are dry? And from this Lewis argued for his NeoPlatonist views, which we talked about above.
I was not ready to plunge back into Christianity just because Lewis did. I did find that I had to concede that there was something to this religion thing, because how else would a fish know that he was wet? Why else would men fear the bones of other men? Why else would we find graveyards a bit spooky, or even have a word that means spooky?
So I began to examine religions.
If all religions are the same, then the Amish who live in peace with God, man, and nature, who will not lift a punitive finger against their livestock, are on the same level of spiritual integrity as the Mayans, who ripped the beating hearts of their enemies from their chests. That is an absurdity; a contradiction in terms. Now, there is one way that "All religions can be the same" and that is if they are all false. Then their incompatibilities are meaningless. But if we say that, then we need not mention religion at all: It reduces to atheism.
Since the question under examination is: "If, ad absurdum, a religion is correct, which one is it?" to say "None" was a solution of exclusion; that is, only when all had been examined could that be the answer.
And this did give me an out, logically speaking. If I could assert that no religion was correct, then I had a bar against Lewis' assertion that mankind is afraid of the bones of his own kind. I could claim a draw, or a stalemate, and retreat with honor from the field, having not won but also having not lost. So I examined religions.
GP: If there is a god, then he has been worshiped from ancient times until today.
SP: Many ancient religions have fallen into abeyance.
C: Thus they are wrong.
Now, you can attack the GP here, but the method is solid, and no terms is ambiguous. So I remain confident of this syllogism.
The gods of Egypt, of Greece, of Rome, of Norway, of Syrio-Phoenicia and Carthage (THANK GOD!) all fell by the wayside.
Pantheistic religions, Abrahamic religions, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto.
1. Only this religion (x) is true.
2. Both this religion (y) and the one above is true.
Any religion with an exclusivity clause can be placed in the first premise as "x;" any religion that embraces another can be placed in the second as "y;" and we will find ourselves in the same place we were when we talked about Reduction to absurdity, above.
Christianity is exclusive: John 14:6 tells us, in pertinent part, "... No man comes to the Father but by me."
Judaism is exclusive: Isaiah 43:10 tells us, in pertinent part, "... Before Me there was no God formed, / And there will be none after Me."
Islam is exclusive: The Salaat tells us "There is no god but allah, and Muhammad is his prophet."
Shinto tells us that you may be Shinto and another religion, such as Christian.
Hare Krshna tells us that you may use "Christ Consciousness" to achieve "nirvana."
Hinduism and Buddhism teach that what you actually call your religion is not important, so long as it follows the eight-fold path.
To my knowledge, Confucianism and Taoism say nothing with respect to exclusivity.
So pantheism is eliminated, and with it Shinto.
Earlier, I had accepted as a general premise that the meaning of life comes from without this life.
Confucianism and Taoism both involve the acceptance of this life and the flow of energy. They do not acknowledge an external meaning, nor a personal God. In what may be called a pun, I asked myself, "If life has meaning, doesn't that imply that there is someone who means it?" My point here is like that of Socrates, when he answered the charge that he was an atheist: "Can a man believe in horsemanship and not believe in horses?"
I posited that the Confucian and Taoist faiths were like believing in horsemanship without believing in horses, and because of that contradiction, I excluded them.
I was left with the Abrahamic religions.
But there was a second screen in my second sieve. Islam was clear in its exclusivity, and yet, Islam acknowledges Issa (Jesus) and calls him a great prophet. It states that he was the greatest of men, born from a virgin (in the narrowest sense), prophesied while still in the womb, and gave life to clay doves. No one else in Islam is attributed with such qualities; not even Mohammad himself.
C: Religion y, Islam, is false.
But even if we reject that reduction to absurdity, we are faced with another paradox: Islam states that Jesus (Issa) was a prophet and a great man, but merely human. The very big problem with that is this: Jesus was not a great human. Chesterton makes this clear in The Everlasting Man, Lewis in Mere Christianity, and finally McDowell summarizes it in More than a Carpenter. Either Jesus was the most evil of humans, or else He was God incarnate. You can't have it both ways.
So I was left with Judaism and Christianity. Like I would later find in G.K.Chesterton, I was the navigation impaired explorer who traveled thousands of miles, planted a flag on a beach to claim it for God and King, and then discovered that it was Brighton Beach, and that I was not the first, but merely the last to set foot there.
I can explain easily why I rejected Judaism, and why I did so gently.
Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. The Maschiah, Coming King, Suffering Servant, Son of Man, Son of God, Son of David, Priest after the Order of Melchizedek -- I already knew Him. I had met Him in my earliest childhood, and had played on the grounds of His house. I had eaten his bread and drank his wine, just like Abraham before me.
The entire book of Hebrews discusses this idea, so I will not confound the words of Barnabas by filtering them through my own keyboard. Suffice it to say that I had come full circle.
Now, I might have rejected the New Testament at this point, but I had already done studies, years before, on the reliability of the scriptures. I had nowhere to run. I was faced by Jesus of Nazareth saying "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life," and "Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am" and admitting to the sanhedrin, when forced to speak against the charge, that "As thou sayest, and truly I tell you, that you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the father." I knew what he had done when Peter had called him the Christ, the Son of the Living God. He did not tear his clothes, as blasphemy required; He instead praised Peter, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to him. When Thomas fell to his knees and cried out, "My Lord and My God!" Jesus accepted this title also, and received his worship. When Pilate asked, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "It is as you say, but my Kingdom is not of this world."
Lewis makes it clear in _Mere Christianity_ that there are three things we can believe: That He was a cruel and evil demoniac, That he was as insane as a man who thinks he is a poached egg, or that He was the Son of God.
The first two were excluded for me. I had read the writings of the Wise King. I understood how the eye is the window of the soul, and how by worry a man cannot add one hair to his head. These were not the sayings of a demoniac nor a lunatic.
And so I knelt one night in a dark room near the Fo'c's'l of the ship -- the transverse room just abaft frame 54, if you're familiar with Knox-class. There I recommitted my life to Jesus, the only begotten son of God, who is Lord of All, and has come to Earth in the flesh.
That was the end of my intellectual struggle: Across the seas and back to find myself where I started: In the arms of Mother Kirk.
1 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no [stately] form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being [fell] upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
9 His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting [Him] to grief; If He would render Himself [as] a guilt offering, He will see [His] offspring, He will prolong [His] days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see [it and] be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.
It floored me. Who does the prophet describe, if not Jesus, pierced through for our transgressions, and silent before his accusers, being scourged that we may be healed, numbered with transgressors, but with a rich man in his death, a guilt offering, but he will see his offspring and will prosper -- how if he is dead, except that he be resurrected again.
Now you will say to me: Don't use the Bible to prove the Bible! I am not; I am showing how the Spirit brought this Word to life within me as I read it. I do not expect you to feel as I did on reading this passage, but to me, as I read it, the Spirit said, "See? You were right. You chose well." No audible voice, but the overwhelming feeling of assurance and confidence.
Psa 22:1-19 NASB] 1 For the choir director; upon Aijeleth Hashshahar. A Psalm of David.
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.
2 O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I have no rest.
3 Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
4 In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You delivered them.
5 To You they cried out and were delivered; In You they trusted and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a worm and not a man, A reproach of men and despised by the people.
8 "Commit [yourself] to the LORD; let Him deliver him; Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him."
9 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust [when] upon my mother's breasts.
10 Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother's womb.
11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; For there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have surrounded me; Strong [bulls] of Bashan have encircled me.
13 They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death.
16 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
18 They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But You, O LORD, be not far off; O You my help, hasten to my assistance.
This is pretty much a subjective first-person description of crucifixion, and Psalm 22:1 is one of the things Jesus said on the cross: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.
Again, I had to stop and ask my friends, "Hey, have you read this?" And again I found myself amazed at the prophetic word. The Bible spoke to me through this passage: I knew beyond knowing that the Spirit was confirming my decision to follow Christ.
Yes, in this post I'm telling you of emotional and subjective personal spiritual evidence, but again,nothing in this post is meant to convince you of anything. I am including it only because it was a part of my spiritual journey, and I want that to be complete.
There was intellectual confirmation as well. A year or two later, when I read Tolstoy's Confession, I said to myself, "Yes, I knew it!" because Tolstoy confirmed what I already knew: There is no meaning without God, the assumption that there is no God is an error because it makes every equation an identity, and there is only one bridge connecting the finite to the infinite: The church. To connect the finite and the infinite, we must have the infinite in our equations.
I read Perelandra, and it made sense to me. I had been carried along by that stream just like the Green Lady, and in reading that book, Maleldil made me older.
Later still I read Till We Have Faces, a book I had started and lost in library of my local college before all of this began. I read Chesterton's The Everlasting Man, and still the Spirit tells me that the words in it are true, even as my mind tests Chesterton's reasoning.
Now, I hesitate to catalog my experiences, but because I said that I would, I will. We are not to cast our pearls before swine, to be trampled into the mud, after all.
Understand, my intellectual journey, above, is sufficient without these. I could leave it there and you would have my testimony: All the essential parts. Also, and let's be clear: I don't expect you to accept what I tell you here. This happened to me, and I read it in this way, and you can argue P-values until we all expire of old age. But these things, along with my intellectual journey, help to confirm it to my mind.
On one occasion I prayed and saw God. It was, for me, a time of spiritual coldness, and I was going through rituals of prayer, not expecting any supernatural confirmation. I knelt at an altar, knowing it to be a wooden frame with fake leather stretched over it at a convenient height to rest one's elbows. I was wide awake, not under the influence of any substance, not sleep-deprived, not hungry, in good health physically and emotionally, and there was nothing to make me think that I was psychotic, delusional, or hallucinating.
And yet when I closed my eyes I was kneeling in the throne room of God, at his feet, afraid to look up at Him. At his right hand stood Jesus Christ. And to my trembling soul there seemed to be a message: "Are you through fooling around?"
I opened my eyes at once and the vision was gone; still I trembled. With a burst of determination, I closed my eyes, and once more transported to the throne-room of Almighty God, I said a prayer of three words -- the shortest I could compose under the circumstances -- then I quickly got up and moved hastily back to my seat. A friend later chided me: "Why did you even go up there? You barely even knelt then you got up and came back!" I had no words.
There was no lost time, no swoon, no dream: The friend confirmed the brevity of the experience. I am sure that the right drugs or the right electromagnetic environment could make me feel that presence and that message in a similar fashion -- but there were no drugs, and no electromagnets.
I don't expect you to be convinced. I expect you to say, "Pfft. Og, you just had a hypnogogic hallucination! Happens all the time." And you are welcome to believe that. But I saw what I saw.
God spoke to me through the radio. It was during my period of depression, and I was driving in my car. It was a Country/Western station, and the announcer stated that the next song was a dedication. I said, as a game, "I'll pretend it's a message for me." I knew it wasn't but I was going to see what if it was, like opening a fortune cookie. The song was "On the Wings of a Dove," a song about God's love for me.
Even though I was walking apart from Him, and even though I wasn't sure I believed in Him, that song broke my heart. I started weeping uncontrollably, and had to park my car until I was able to stop sobbing. It is uncharacteristic for me to be so emotional, but I was literally out of control at that moment.
“Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?"
I was teaching Sunday School in those days, for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders (6-8 years old). I opened the teacher book to study the lesson (didn't want one of those tykes to outsmart me, after all) and discovered that the passage we were teaching that week was Matthew 6:25-33. Which includes v.26, and goes on to make the same point several more times. I shook my head and said, "Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is conspiracy."
That Friday, I was going to a men's church event, and overnight camp at a nearby lodge. On Friday night, before the speaker started, we were all sitting around, and for no reason whatsoever, a man sitting directly in front of me -- a man named BIRD -- spontaneously remarked: "My favorite verse in the entire Bible is Matthew 6:26, "Behold the BIRDs of the air, that do not sow, neither do they reap, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them." He grinned. "I've always thought that had a personal application for me."
But again, it was a message to me, not to you. Doubt it if you want; you won't hurt my feelings.
And two weeks later I got a job I had applied for. I'd been applying for different jobs for months, from long before I lost my job. It was like dropping rocks into the ocean. But this job came just when I needed it, and just after God had assured me that He had it under control.
There are others. There are times I've prayed and almost as soon as I spoke there was an answer in my mind. There are times someone has spoken to me and it seemed as if certain of their words were aimed at me in a different context. There are times I've read something in a book, and the next day at church someone will come up to me and start talking about that book. There have been times a pastor's sermon was so clearly aimed at me that I started suspecting he'd been reading my mail.
Again, not convincing to you: Not supposed to be. But I have felt the hand of God, and am convinced that He has acted in my life. You may disagree and if you do, you have a right to be wrong. | 2019-04-21T22:34:22 | http://www.achristianandanatheist.com/PHPBBFORUM/viewtopic.php?t=131&p=5433 |
0.993251 | For a fast database connection, it is necessary to set up extra network settings so that the clients can perform a fast Name Resolution of the server as well as the server to the clients.
These steps for editing the hosts file are only required if there are problems or slowness when a computer is resolving names. DO NOT edit the hosts file unless there are problems resolving names on the network.
1. Setup the server and clients' IP with a static (fixed) IP address.
2. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ folder and open the hosts file using a plain text editor.
3. Go to the end of the file, on a new line add the static IP address and the machine name accordingly. If you are using a domain, you need to use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
4. Add the rest of the client's IP and hostname on a new line and click Save.
5. Once the list is complete, you can copy and paste the hosts file to all of the machines including the server under the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ folder.
For a Windows 2008 server, you need to perform some additional steps to complete the task.
If you have a domain, you need to add a usabatch user on the global group where all the Harmony users are, this user should have administrator account rights.
If an error due to the password policy occurs, you can change the password policies for both Domain Controller Security Policy and Domain Security Policy. You also need to do this from the Domain server if the Domain server is different from the Harmony database server.
1. From the WindowsStart menu, select Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, double-click on Administrative Tools.
3. In Administrative Tools, select Group Policy Management.
5. In the hierarchy view of the Group Policy Management Editor window, go in Computer Configuration> Policies> Windows Settings> Security Settings> Account Policies> Password Policy.
6. In the right part of the Group Policy Management Editor window, double-click on Password must meet complexity requirements.
7. Select Define this policy setting and the Disabled radio button.
Wait for the changes to take effect or restart the Server. It can take several minutes for the domain controller to update and use the new settings.
Once this is done you will be able to create the user usabatch, this user should be inside of the Harmony user group.
Inform your System Administrator before proceeding with these tasks.
Inform your System Administrator before proceeding with this task.
1. Click the Start menu and select Settings > Control Panel. The Control Panel opens.
‣ Vista Users: Click the Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Security Center icon in the Control Panel window. The Windows Security Center dialog box opens.
‣ Vista users must turn off Malware Protection.
3. If your anti-virus software is not detected, open all anti-virus software applications on your computer and disable each one manually.
1. Open the Windows Firewall dialog box.
‣ Click the Start menu, and select Control Panel to open the Control Panel. Double-click the Windows Firewall icon.
2. Select the Turn off Windows Firewall option for both private and public network locations to turn the firewall off.
3. Click OK to confirm your selection.
2. Select Organize > Folder and Search Options.
3. In the View tab, if the option Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended) is on, deselect it. | 2019-04-21T23:10:13 | https://docs.toonboom.com/help/harmony-10-3/Content/HAR/Installation/Installation_Windows/001_H1_Pre_installation.html |
0.992771 | Knockout-mutant manuscript: One of the reviewers of the Research Associate's manuscript about her knockout mutant collection asked that we do plasmid-complementation tests to confirm that the mutant phenotypes we describe are really due to the knockout and not to a coincidental mutation elsewhere in the genome. This would be a lot of work but luckily we only really need to do a much simpler test on a small subset of the mutants.
For at least half of our mutants we have independent evidence of the mutant's phenotype (a previously reported knockout mutant or a second mutant that we made). Some of the remaining mutations don't cause any detectable phenotype, so they don't need to be tested. There are only three that really deserve testing, comN, comP and comQ. But rather than constructing plasmids that carry and express each gene, I'm testing them by backcrossing. That is, I'm making DNA from the 'marked' SpcR version of each mutation and using this DNA to transform wildtype cells to SpcR. This will select for cells that have acquired the knockout mutation. The transforming DNA fragment is likely to have introduced short segments of flanking chromosomal DNA, but this will be less than 1% of the genome. I'll then test the transformants to see if they have acquired the expected competence defect. If so we can be reasonably confident that the mutation we created is the cause of the defect.
I've purified the DNA, transformed it into wildtype cells, and streaked the transformants onto Spc plates. (5 µl of a 1/00 dilution of a crude DNA prep from 2 ml of cells gave more than 10^6 transformants!). Tomorrow I'll make the cells competent and transform them. If I don't get any transformants then we just need to make a few revisions to the text of our manuscript and resubmit it.
HI0660/0659 double knockout: I've given up on the plasmids the RA gave me - they had too many weird problems. Instead I'm using recombineering with two of her primers to make the double-knockout in one step. I've never done this before but it looks very straightforward, especially because she's done all the troubleshooting work and the postdoc is going to do the initial PCR for me.
Once I have the mutant plasmid (checked by restriction digest; it should have the same structure as the one my previous plan would have generated) I'll just cut out the insert and transform it into wildtype H. influenzae, selecting for SpcR. If the double mutant is competent, I'll know that HI0659's job is to prevent HO0660 from doing something that blocks competence. If not, not. | 2019-04-22T18:24:05 | http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2012/06/and-on-other-fronts.html |
1 | In paragraph 1, what does the author say about the presence of a blowhole in cetaceans?
It clearly indicates that cetaceans are mammals.
It cannot conceal the fact that cetaceans are mammals.
It is the main difference between cetaceans and land-dwelling mammals.
It cannot yield clues about the origins of cetaceans.
It should be obvious that cetaceans-whales, porpoises, and dolphins-are mammals. They breathe through lungs, not through gills, and give birth to live young. Their streamlined bodies, the absence of hind legs, and the presence of a fluke1 and blowhole2 cannot disguise their affinities with land dwelling mammals. However, unlike the cases of sea otters and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses, whose limbs are functional both on land and at sea), it is not easy to envision what the first whales looked like. Extinct but already fully marine cetaceans are known from the fossil record. How was the gap between a walking mammal and a swimming whale bridged? Missing until recently were fossils clearly intermediate, or transitional, between land mammals and cetaceans.
The fossil consists of a complete skull of an archaeocyte, an extinct group of ancestors of modern cetaceans. Although limited to a skull, the Pakicetus fossil precious details on the origins of cetaceans. The skull is cetacean-like but its jawbones lack the enlarged space that is filled with fat or oil and used for receiving underwater sound in modern whales. Pakicetus probably detected sound through the ear opening as in land mammals. The skull also lacks a blowhole, another cetacean adaptation for diving. Other features, however, show experts that Pakicetus is a transitional form between a group of extinct flesh- eating mammals, the mesonychids, and cetaceans. It has been suggested that Pakicetus fed on fish in shallow water and was not yet adapted for life in the open ocean. It probably bred and gave birth on land.
An even more exciting find was reported in 1994, also from Pakistan. The now extinct whale Ambulocetus natans ("the walking whale that swam") lived in the Tethys Sea 49 million years ago. It lived around 3 million years after Pakicetus but 9 million before Basilosaurus. The fossil luckily includes a good portion of the hind legs. The legs were strong and ended in long feet very much like those of a modern pinniped. The legs were certainly functional both on land and at sea. The whale retained a tail and lacked a fluke, the major means of locomotion in modern cetaceans. The structure of the backbone shows, however, that Ambulocetus swam like modern whales by moving the rear portion of its body up and down, even though a fluke was missing. The large hind legs were used for propulsion in water. On land, where it probably bred and gave birth, Ambulocetus may have moved around very much like a modern sea lion. It was undoubtedly a whale that linked life on land with life at sea. . Fluke: the two parts that constitute the large triangular tail of a whale2.
正确选项对应文中的：the absence of hind legs, and the presence of a fluke and blowhole cannot disguise their affinities with land dwelling mammals. | 2019-04-19T23:01:36 | https://toefl.kmf.com/detail/read/f160uj.html |
0.999983 | How to find out SL version on Mac?
How does one find out the version of SL that is installed on a Mac? If I right-click on the plugin, I get the SL Configuration menu-option, but that doesn't show me a version number like the Windows version …... This is a list of Outlook for Mac versions and the approximate release dates. In most cases, all Office for Mac applications will have the same version number. In most cases, all Office for Mac applications will have the same version number.
Personally, as an AirPods user who has encountered small issues with the earphones in the past, I just want to keep track of the firmware version to find out if Apple has made some changes that may result in better user experience for me. how to get money order australia Personally, as an AirPods user who has encountered small issues with the earphones in the past, I just want to keep track of the firmware version to find out if Apple has made some changes that may result in better user experience for me.
See if your Mac is ready for macOS Mojave, the latest version of macOS. And find out how to upgrade quickly and easily. how to get word count on powerpoint mac To find out which version of Outlook is installed locally on your Mac computer, do the following: Open Outlook. On your menu bar, click Outlook (next to the Apple logo).
Apple Pencil has its own firmware that shows its updated versions. If you want to check out the firmware version of your Apple Pencil then follow these quick steps.
Read on to find out. How to Identify the Version of the Mac OS Linked to a Recovery HD By far, the easiest way to find out which version of the Mac OS is tied to a Recovery HD partition is to reboot your Mac using the startup manager. | 2019-04-24T04:55:51 | http://fightingantisemitism.com/new-south-wales/how-to-find-out-version-of-mac-book.php |
0.998842 | K-theoretic version of Artin-Mazur formal groups?
I appreciate Deligne-Beilinson cohomology as a topological cohomology generalization of de Rham cohomology, which concerns the topological structure of manifolds.
On the other hand, we know that there is Group Cohomology theory, suitable for describing the classifying spaces $BG$ of a group $G$, for example, see ncatlab: group+cohomology and ncatlab: Dijkgraaf-Witten gauge theory.
Is there a group cohomology version of Deligne-Beilinson cohomology, concerning classifying spaces $B^n G$ of a group $G$? What are some key intro References? Thank you in advance.
The nth Deligne cohomology is defined as cohomology with coefficients in a truncated chain complex of sheaves of U(1)-valued differential forms: U(1)→Ω^1→Ω^2→⋯→Ω^n for some n≥0.
Thus starting with an arbitrary Lie group G one can take the truncated simplicial object of sheaves of groups of G-valued differential forms (defined using crystals, for example), and then take the sheaf cohomology with values in this simplicial presheaf.
This defines a nonabelian analog of the Deligne cohomology for any choice of the underlying site: smooth, holomorphic, algebraic.
Note that Deligne-Beilinson cohomology is not really a "topological cohomology" generalization of de Rham cohomology, it depends on additional analytic structure. So one would expect that some additional analytical structure would be required on the classifying space of a group $G$ to have some Deligne-Beilinson group cohomology. | 2019-04-23T08:09:18 | https://physicsoverflow.org/39647/group-cohomology-version-of-deligne-beilinson-cohomology |
0.998804 | Here's an interesting blurb out of North Dakota: the state is considering rolling back its requirements for substitute teachers due to a shortage.
The state has some of the toughest requirements for substitute teachers out there, generally requiring them to hold a full teaching certificate and a full four-year college degree. Most states have pretty lax rules for substitutes, and the practice of putting long-term subs in classrooms and rotating them has been one of the ways states have gotten around the "highly qualified" rules in the NCLB law.
North Dakota's proposal would allow Title I paraprofessionals with a 2-year degree to serve as substitute teachers.
Clearly labor markets differ place to place, but the financial crisis seems to be having an opposite effect elsewhere. This story reports on a surplus of teachers in the Phoenix area. | 2019-04-19T02:30:18 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2009/02/nd_to_consider_rolling_back_su.html |
0.999946 | Why does Jupiter have so many moons yet Earth has just one?
Jupiter has about 30 moons whilst we have just one. Why is this?
The inner planets have virtually no moons except Earth that can better be regarded as a twin planet.
only large planets such as Jupiter one thousand times the mass of the earth can hang onto their primeval moons that are the residue of their creation.
Earth does not have a gravitational field strong enough to hold another satellite in orbit. Then there is the problem of our proximity to the Sun, Mars and Venus.
A second satellite would have to be of a sufficient distance from Earth not to interfere with the Moon's orbit. This would put it too close to the orbit of both Mars & Venus which might influence that satellite's orbit. Certainly the Sun's gravitational field would have a considerable effect on a satellite orbiting so far from Earth.
Jupiter has the mass to maintain a far stronger and further reaching gravitational field than Earth. It also has far more space in which it's satellites can orbit, since it's neighbouring planets are much further from it than earth's. The greater influence which Jupiter has on it's satellites and the weaker influence of the Sun's gravitational field at that distance allows Jupiter to have many more moons than smaller planets nearer the sun could possibly maintain. | 2019-04-18T23:09:53 | https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?amp;topic=9174.0;prev_next=prev |
0.99874 | Is this solutions are good for your problems?
There are many Healthy Cookie Recipes now available, whether in a book or online. The ingredients that are listed within each recipe are often a better alternative to what would normally be included. For example, regular white flour might be substituted with whole wheat flour or otherwise. There are perhaps many ingredients that may be substituted for healthier ones. The edibles are generally tested before any recipe is published as to its nutritional value and taste. You can select the products that you want to make and try them yourself. Some of these cookies are delicious and great for entire families. If you want to save time, you can make them in larger batches to freeze until you are ready to eat them. The traditional cookie recipe often has high amounts of butter, margarine, sugar, corn syrup, white flour and other things that are not healthy. While these items may taste great, they might have some unwanted side effects when consumed regularly or in large quantities. With recipes that are healthier, you can eat more of them while gaining nutrition.
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There are normally plenty of selections to use to substitute refined sugar. Cane sugar is one option but honey is even better. Molasses may also be utilized. The liquid options may make the texture different but the people who have created the recipes generally compensate for that with other ingredients.
In terms of the flour, there are numerous alternatives available. Instead of processed white flour, whole wheat flour may be used. Combinations of brown and white rice flour might be used as well as oat flour or others may be good choices. Each recipe normally has all of these elements in the proper proportion so that you get the best results.
Dried fruit is often used to add some flavor and texture to such baked goods. You may use apricots, cranberries and raisins but there are other options as well. Dark chocolate is a nice addition to the items as well. This darker option is usually a healthier choice than milk chocolate.
There are many nutrients found in seeds, nuts and coconut. These items can be delicious additions to baked goods. You can make all sorts of goodies with these items as long as you do not have allergies to them. Such final products often have a lot of lasting energy to get you through the day.
Healthy Cookie Recipes offer you great ways of having tasty snacks for you, your family members, and your friends. The ingredients are added in the right proportion to offer great taste and texture. In many cases, there is a large variety of these cookies to choose from in terms of what to make. The ingredients are generally healthier than the traditional forms, therefore adding more nutrition to your diet while not having to sacrifice in any other way.
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0.999992 | Is the Canon Powershot A620 a good camera? Is it worth the money?
It's the camera I'm going to buy when I (finally) save up enough money. I've gotten a lot of positive reviews from friends.
It's a pretty decent price right now on Amazon, but I'm so cheap I don't know if I really want to sink the money into it. I just got a cool camera as a gift last year and have used the heck out of it, so I don't really NEED a new camera.
And I know a new camera won't make my pictures any better, but by lusting after this one I can pretend that it would.
I bought my camera (an HP PhotoSmart 850) refurbished a couple of years ago, and it's had a hard life -- someone dropped it at some point and broke the battery compartment, so I have to duct tape it closed, and there are several cracks in the casing.
It's always had a hard time with certain colors (red, mostly), but over the past 6 months or so, it's gotten to the point that I get maybe one properly exposed shot out of every 3 or 4 I take. The rest are either very dark or very washed out, I'm guessing because the shutter and the flash don't cooperate.
I've taken over 8000 pictures with it, so I can't complain too much that it's dying. I use it a ton, mostly for my eBay inventory.
The big draw for me with the A620 (and the others in that line) is the vari-angle LCD. I can't express how great it would be to be able to point the camera down at the floor to take a picture of the clothing I've laid out without having to stand on my toes and lean over at a bizarre angle so I can see what I'm taking a picture of.
Yeah, so...I'm just waiting for the selling price on eBay (for the a620 or the a610, which I'd settle for) to go down under $150. Which might never happen, but I can hope it'll happen before my camera stops working altogether.
Thanks, that was a big help - even if I only understood about half of it!
If it's any help, I just bought the A700 for my wife before our Europe trip. She took over 1000 photos. The camera was great.
Was that on one set of batteries? Did you use the screen, or just the viewfinder?
I may have bought the camera, but she's the shutterbug. :) She didn't want the rechargeable batteries this time, too much hassle keeping them plugged in, especially with European power supply. The camera took 2 batteries and she usually carried 2 more and used the screen half the time. Each pair of batteries lasted well over 100 pictures. | 2019-04-19T11:13:34 | https://spinthemoon.livejournal.com/112905.html |
0.999993 | Is Bong Joon-ho the most exciting director of his generation? Few other filmmakers can match his sense of craftsmanship, his flair for storytelling and his extraordinary range, and his new film Mother is his finest work yet. Last year, I named Bong as one of the best filmmakers of the decade, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity recently to email some questions to the director about Mother and his remarkable body of work. Here are the answers he sent back.
How did it feel to go back to a smaller, more intimate type of storytelling after a big, effects-heavy blockbuster like The Host?
The Host was a movie like a showroom of satire. It contained a wide range of satire on both USA and Korean society. As the reaction to this, in Mother I would like to focus more on points such as the presence of the mother itself, the relationship between mother and son. However, I already had a storyline for Mother before I completed the scenario of The Host. I have prepared for this movie from 2004, so it depended on what I want to say rather than the scale of the movie. It was a personal line-up planned by my desire of expression.
Kim Hye-ja's performance in the film is incredible. How did she react when you first approached her with the script?
I told Kim Hye-ja the storyline of Mother in 2004. I worried a lot because this movie could not be continued if she declined my offer. I made this story and scenario while thinking of Kim Hye-ja, so there was no substitute. Fortunately, she liked the story and said she would like to take the role, saying this role was different from other mothers she had performed, and I remember I breathed a sigh of relief when she said that. When I showed her the completed scenario in 2008, she mentioned the fogbound atmosphere and that she liked this mysterious and dreamy atmosphere. Thankfully, she said that something more was hidden in the character of mother and she would do more than what was being portrayed in the scenario.
Is the role of the mother a particularly important one in Korean society? In The Host, the mother was notably absent from the family, so is this film a reaction to that?
Not just in Korean society, a mother’s role is paramount throughout the world. Yet we Koreans are obsessed with motivations to move the society into a better place and the society expects mothers to go beyond, especially with an issue that is related to their children, and it causes them to have more burdens. In the movie The Host, the story is based on one family, but the mother was never involved in the story. The mother's absence was definitely intentional because the absence brought problems to the family and made the family unstable. Not just Song Kang-ho's wife, but also Byoun Hie-bong's wife ran away; hence, the family lost mothers for two consecutive generations to make the family even more miserable. It was planned to see and realise the importance of a woman's role in the family. I think a mother is the most influential existence in the family, and because of the mother's absence, this family was a mess. Even Hyun-seo, the girl in the hideout of the Host, was the pre-image of a mother. That's why I ended up making my next film based on a mother.
The mother's love for her son is so strong it seems to border on the edge of insanity. Is that kind of obsessive love something you wanted to explore with this film?
Yes, right. When love crosses a certain line it turns to obsession or madness and it also can be a sin. Especially when it comes to the relationship between mother and son, it is closer to the strong basic instinct. Basically, it starts as love, but it can be changed to something animal rather than humanlike – a growling tiger with its claws out to save her cub. It could be madness and brutality from the viewpoint of a human, and I would like to show something like that in this movie.
How did you come up with the idea for the dancing that opens and closes the film?
That ending sequence, in which she dances inside a running express bus, could be a kind of Korean reality. In Korea, middle-aged women often dance inside express buses. I have witnessed it quite often. I don't remember when, but I've long been determined to make dancing in the express bus as a core image when making a film about a mother. Korean mothers dancing in the bus contains mixed emotion and complex feelings. I wonder whether this could be translated into English, but anyway, I've had the image of the ending sequence from the beginning. I remember that I told Kim Hye-ja about the dance even when I was explaining to her the simple storyline.
The dance at the opening sequence is something that came to my mind while I was finishing the script – how about beginning it with a dance? But the site in which the dance takes place has some sense of horror. It may seem like a plain, beautiful field at first, but as we watch the film for two hours, we realize that it's the place which the mother arrives at after committing something terrible.
I’m always amazed by the way your films successfully mix scenes of drama and violence with comedy. Is it hard to achieve this balance between conflicting emotions?
Actually, that kind of mix is my instinct. I have never arranged scenes intentionally, but it just mixes like that when it is complete. I think that it would be more natural, because emotions cannot be defined as just one. I insist that this way with mixed feelings is more realistic.
The script for Mother is very tightly structured and it contains a number of twists and surprises. What is your writing process and how long does it take you to develop your screenplays?
It’s quite an inclusive question, so it’s hard to answer briefly. For example, Memories of Murder took 6 months of research, which was quite a long time, and I wrote the script for 6 months. The Host took 6 months to a year to write. In the case of Mother, I collaborated with a writer, Ms. Park Eun-kyo. While I was filming The Host, Ms. Park did primary works according to the storyline which I wrote, and then I finalised the script. It took about 5 months to finish the script by myself. Writing a scenario is such a complicated process, there are lots of things that make me agonise in loneliness. Now I’m alone working on the adaptation of Transperceneige, which is torturing me at times. When I’m stuck on it, I sometimes feel like killing everyone besides me and then killing myself!
What is your directing style like? Do you storyboard prior to shooting, and how do you work with actors on set?
I draw my storyboards by myself. I try to settle the site and space in advance, so that I can have some understandings or feelings about that space when working on the storyboard. Space, as well as character, is important to me, and without the space, I cannot work on the storyboard. I precisely design the position and movement of camera and the frames. For actors I tend to be more generous. They're human beings, unlike cameras or lighting, so it's a matter between a human and a human. When they show me unexpected stuff, I am most satisfied. Of course, I sometimes direct or ask them to act in certain ways, but the most delightful moments are the moments when actors show me a surprise with their own instinct as actors. I prefer those improvisations, and I try to make various attempts; changing the lines or acting according to the mood of the scene.
Your last three films have begun in very familiar genres - the serial killer movie, the monster movie, the murder mystery - before expanding beyond the boundaries of those genres. Do you enjoy working in these genres because they allow you to subvert the audience’s expectations?
I have complex feelings about genre. I love it and I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with excitement of the genre, while I also try to betray and destroy the expectations of the genre. However, to be frank, I’m not really conscious of the genre itself every time I work. My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it consequently ends up in a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre it’ll be after production. Frankly speaking, that’s the reality.
One of the key themes in your work is the effect of violence on families and communities. Why does this theme interest you?
I’m a little faint-hearted, and I’m afraid of violence. When I experience or witness violence its after-effects last quite long. Especially in Korea, in which I spent my adolescence, the 1970s-80s were days of military dictatorship. In those days, violence was such an ordinary thing. Not only those investigators who tortured suspects, but also at schools, violence was a prevalent thing. I got spanked a lot in school, since teachers' violence against students was nothing so strange at that time. We even had military training at school, so violence was a daily routine. There are still vestiges of it; that’s why we can’t help being interested in the relationship between Korea and violence – this instilled violence.
Mother seems to be heavily influenced by Hitchcock. Is he one of your major filmmaking inspirations? What other directors have influenced you?
When limiting it to Mother, I wasn’t particularly conscious of Hitchcock. I think things like the construction of shots are fundamentally different. I have seen Hitchcock’s Psycho a few times during pre-production. I like seeing my favourite films over a few times, but especially in case of Psycho, there’s the mother who becomes dead and stuffed. Before her death, this mother’s relationship with her son Anthony Perkins seemed quite similar with the relationship with the mother and son in Mother. When commenting on my general filmography, it is likely that I might have been influenced by my favourite directors - Claude Chabrol, who is called a ‘French Hitchcock’, Henri-Georges Clouzot, who influenced Hitchcock’s films. I like those masters of crime films. Japanese director Shôhei Imamura’s crime film Vengeance is Mine is also one of my faves. It is a film about a serial killer which excellently digs up the human nature. I also like Korean director Kim Ki-young who directed the original version of The Housemaid, which was recently remade.
Along with Park Chan-wook and Kim Ki-duk, you were part of an exciting ‘new wave’ in Korean cinema. How do you feel about the current health of the Korean film industry? Are there young filmmakers following in your footsteps who we should look out for in the next few years?
I’m also inside the Korean film industry, so I don’t really have any ideas on how to objectively brief on it. I’m just a tree forming a forest named Korean cinema, and since I lay inside it, it’s hard to view the forest in general. Instead, I can tell you tons of young and talented helmers who deserve attention. There are these genius brother directors named Kim Gok and Kim Sun, also known as Gok Sun-Gok Sa, who are currently preparing for a feature film. Director Lee Yong-ju who directed the impressive horror film Possessed, and director Yang Ik-Joon who directed Breathless, which has gotten spotlights from film festivals overseas. Director Jo Sung-hee, who was awarded at the Cannes Cine Foundation with his short film Don’t Step Out of the House, has also filmed his first digital feature film debut, and I’m anticipating it.
There is both a sequel and a Hollywood remake of The Host in the works. How do you feel about those projects? Do you feel your films are universal and can be adapted to any environment?
Actually, I’ve heard that Universal has bought this film, so perhaps the producer who bought this project might know better than me. I’ve tried to make a ‘Korean film,’ more focused on a Korean sense of emotion. However, some universal aspects of this film might have intrigued them to purchase and remake this film, and I hope it will be an exciting and original remake version. The sequel is also being produced by the same production company – Chungeorahm Film. As thanks for producing The Host, I’ve donated the rights for the sequel to the production company. Personally, I’m much more inclined towards new stories and new films, so I don’t have any interest in sequels or remakes. Anyway, as the original author, I hope whether they are sequels or remakes they all could do well eventually.
What is the current status of Transperceneige? Are there any other projects that you are particularly keen to make in the future?
I’m doing this interview while working on my scenario. I guess an adaptation could be done during August. The project that I want to do...of course, there are tons of them, but there’s one particular project which I’m planning to work on after finishing Transperceneige. It’ll be such a unique one, I think. | 2019-04-24T11:55:22 | http://www.philonfilm.net/2010/08/interview-bong-joon-ho.html |
0.996467 | A plane comes in for a landing at the San Carlos airport on Oct. 17, 2014. Photo by Veronica Weber.
The good news is that a long-awaited response to recommendations made eight months ago by a "select" committee of elected officials appointed by local Members of Congress suggest an acknowledgment by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the South Bay's air traffic noise problems are real and can't be ignored.
The bad news is that the FAA says little can change for at least two more years because of the agency's drawn-out processes for modifying current practices.
With the FAA under attack by President Donald Trump, it remains to be seen whether real change is in the offing or if the response is just a way to get the local congressional delegation and critics off the agency's back.
The report, which makes City of Palo Alto staff reports seem poetic by comparison, exhibits little effort to communicate in plain English, is filled with jargon inaccessible to even the most informed reader and reflects the intensely bureaucratic nature of the FAA. Its 10 pages of text and 39 pages of "response" tables read more like an interagency technical memo than a document written for public consumption.
Much is nearly impossible to decipher, such as this typical paragraph: "In accordance with the Phase One document (see the FAA's Phase One Report 2.a.ii), 99 percent of aircraft flying the STTIK departures are within 1NM of the SSTIK waypoint, as per the procedure. Without ATC intervention, pilots are flying the SSTIK procedure as designed. NCT will continue to reinforce no intervening with aircraft until after the SSTIK waypoint to personnel through training and briefings."
In many cases, the FAA's response to the select committee's recommendations states that solutions lie with more training and briefings of air traffic controllers rather than revisions to formal rules, but the agency wouldn't agree to implement noise measurement practices that could create greater accountability for achieving improved results from these trainings.
Nevertheless, the response document in its entirety amounts to significant progress, in theory.
The FAA said it will move forward with changing the arrival flight path to San Francisco Airport from the south over the Santa Cruz mountains back to one more similar to what was in place historically and at higher altitudes.
It says it has already made changes to reduce the number of late-night flights crossing populated areas and will develop new rules that move these approaches over the bay as much as possible.
Perhaps of most benefit to Palo Alto residents, the FAA says it will look at ways to disperse arrivals bound for SFO so that fewer plans are funneled over a major navigational "waypoint" located above and south of the intersection of Willow Road and U.S. Highway 101. It said, however, that increasing the minimum altitude for flights at that waypoint to 5,000 or more feet was "not feasible."
But the big question is whether any of these seemingly positive developments will actually get implemented given the upheaval in progress at the FAA. The five-year term of the current Obama-appointed FAA Administrator, Michael Huerta, whom Rep. Anna Eshoo and other local congresspersons have tried for years to influence, will expire in January. Trump will then appoint a new administrator who is likely to focus on carrying out Trump's plan to privatize the air-traffic-control system. Trump has been a harsh critic of the agency and recently said personnel "didn't know what the hell they were doing."
Fortunately, a highly motivated and informed group of citizens who have organized over the last few years around this issue will cause Eshoo and other local officials to keep pressing the FAA on its follow-through.
Perhaps the most immediate and important action item is to form a new permanent interagency group of elected officials from cities in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties who would meet regularly with the leadership of San Jose and San Francisco airports and the FAA. This was a top recommendation of both the select committee, which was chaired by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, and of Eshoo and newly elected congressmen Jimmy Panetta and Ro Khanna.
San Mateo County has had its "SFO Roundtable" for many years and although it has no real power, it does provide a formal mechanism for airport, FAA and city officials to seek solutions to noise problems from arrivals and departures at SFO.
Selfishly and shamefully, that group has consistently barred participation from Santa Clara County cities to avoid having to address how SFO air traffic impacts this region. We therefore hope for the earliest possible formation of the proposed new South Bay group so whatever momentum has been achieved with the FAA isn't lost and there is a continuing forum to work on the noise issue.
In one sentence you state "progress" referring to a change of path "to one more similar to what was in place historically and at higher altitudes." Then, below you state "increasing the minimum altitude for flights at that waypoint to 5,000 or more feet was "not feasible."
Logical conclusion is that going back to to the same mess going on now (not the historically higher altitudes), isn't progress for Palo Alto.
Makes your editorial not very serious.
@Editorial not serious. As I understand it, FAA is agreeing to change the arrival and/or departure path over the Santa Cruz Mtns to something similar to what it was before, giving some relief to mountain residents. Flights arriving from north, west, and south would still mostly cross the waypoint at Willow & 101, and at the same altitude as now, with two differences: 1) the new path over the mountains would allow a more constant, quieter, descent for planes from the south; and 2) if practical, planes would be directed to the waypoint on more dispersed paths, meaning less concentrated noise over neighborhoods in Palo Alto.
On the contrary, a steeper dive from higher altitudes (everywhere else), to unchanged low altitudes over Palo Alto would more likely make descents noisier!
What you add "if practical, planes would be directed to the waypoint on more dispersed paths" is hogwash.
That's what happens now - planes are both on a set path, and they also go off the path (at low altitudes over Palo Alto neighborhoods). Does it solve the problem? No.
Containing the lowest altitude operations (on or off a set path) over the same area is neither dispersion nor progress.
The FAA response is simply to drag the process out. They have no intention of implementing changes that would give any sort of real relief to those on the ground. That is not surprising considering that it is a captive agency and that the aviation industry is set on expansion, no matter the cost to the health of communities or the environment.
These new flight paths have one purpose only: increased capacity. More level approach/departure paths at slower speeds allow planes to fly closer together because they create less turbulence (Wake RECAT is the name of the project that looks into that).
Complaining to the FAA is nearly pointless. They are simply following the marching orders given from Congress, who is pushing the agenda of the aviation industry and other industries who would benefit from increased air travel/transport.
There is only one way to make the aviation industry listen: hurt their profits. Don't fly and don't have anything shipped by air.
Almost as tiring as the noise are the technical jargon explanations for why it has to be this way. Or looking the other way from the real issues.
There is a BAY to use for low level approaches.
Jet noise has always been and will remain a political issue.
The FAA gets requests from people supposedly tired of noise to do impossible things like to "fix noise in place." Cities looking to keep all the noise in Palo Alto are up in arms working against creating new approaches that could better organize traffic to do less harm.
Please, spare us the lectures about why nothing is possible.
The Editor fails to address the political issues, except to mention how the airport roundtable "selfishly and shamefully" barred entry to "Santa Clara cities" - not even stating that it was ONLY Palo Alto which asked and was rejected.
Technical jargon explanations and burying the real issues is something the FAA does not do alone. Other communities have their interests, I expect better from the press and especially from a publication which serves one of the most affected communities.
Add the distraction of privatization as a burning concern, compared to the local/regional roadblocks to real solutions.
Great editorial Palo Alto Weekly. I love your use of word mollify. I also appreciate that you called out THE ROUNDTABLE/FAA for their hypocrisy of moving all arrivals to the Menlo waypoint, then basically saying the can't raise to 5,000 feet. IMHO, the Round Table tries to keep its position that "nothing has changed under NEXTGEN". Also Anna Eshoo supposedly working for a FAIR SOLUTION, however making sure nobody can move noise,except the Round Table, SFO, San Mateo County onto Palo Alto. We got screwed......our congresswoman is two-faced, not having 1 meeting with her constituents living under the noise highway from SFO....blaming everything on Trump. | 2019-04-18T23:02:18 | https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/08/04/editorial-serious-or-mollifying |
0.999987 | A while back, I wrote a post about a disparate impact case on the Supreme Court's docket, Lewis v. City of Chicago. The case dealt with time limits: specifically, which events start the 300-day statute of limitations clock for filing a charge of discrimination with the EEOC. (To bring a Title VII lawsuit, the plaintiff employee or applicant must first file a discrimination charge with the agency.) In this case, the municipal employer claimed that the applicants waited too long to file their discrimination charges. Today, the Court unanimously disagreed, finding that the applicants filed their charges in time and were entitled to bring their lawsuit.
The case involved a written test the city gave for applicants to be firefighters. The city gave applicants their test scores (which divided applicants into the categories of "well qualified," "qualified," or "not qualified") and were told that they were unlikely to be hired unless they fell into the "well qualified" category. Later, the city began its actual hiring, and did just what it had said it would do: It used the earlier announced cut-off scores to choose successful applicants from those in the well qualified category.
A group of African-American applicants challenged the practice as discriminatory based on disparate impact. The city countered that the applicants should have filed their charges at the EEOC within 300 days of learning what their test scores were and how the city intended to use them. The applicants contended that they filed their charges in a timely manner, within 300 days after the city applied that announced policy to actually make hiring decisions, and the Court agreed.
It's hard to see how the Court could have held otherwise, for two reasons: First, as Justice Scalia's opinion points out, requiring the plaintiffs to sue within 300 days of the announcement of a policy or forever hold their peace would insulate ongoing discrimination from challenge. Once the employer made it past the 300-day mark, it could apply its discriminatory policy with impunity forever.
Second, what if circumstances changed or the city decided not to go forward with the policy after all? For example, what if the city suddenly had the money to hire many more firefighters than it had previously planned to hire, and so was able to accept applicants whose scores were too low for the well qualified category? Or, what if the city had second thoughts about the policy and decided not to follow it by the time hiring began? An applicant who sued anyway based solely on the city's announcement of its policy -- which it didn't go on to apply -- would have a tough time prevailing in court. | 2019-04-18T15:15:55 | http://www.employmentlegalblawg.com/2010/05/supreme-court-decides-disparat.html |
0.999974 | Have you made Burnt Sugar Frosting?
1. Combine all ingredients in the top of a double boiler, beating with a rotary egg beater until thouroughly mixed.
2. Place over rapidly boiling water, beat constantly with rotary egg beater, and cook 7 minutes, or until frosting will stand in peaks.
3. Remove from boiling water and beat until thick.
4. Makes enough for tops and sides of two 9-inch layers.
5. To make Burnt sugar syrup, place 1/2 cup sugar in heavy skillet over medium flame.
6. Stir constantly as sugar melts, then becomes dark mahogany color, and smokes noticeably.
7. Remove at once from fire, add VERY SLOWLY 1/3 cup hot water, and stir until dissolved.
8. Cool. Measure 1 1/2 to 2 Tablespoons for frosting.
9. Store remaining burnt sugar syrup in a jar to use for cakes and frostings. | 2019-04-26T06:32:33 | http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/Burnt-Sugar-Frosting |
0.999975 | I had 2 players in my international squad who were retiring but I couldn’t remove them from the squad as the action button was missing I became club manager for one of the players and the action button was restored but I still have one player I can’t remove from the international squad Anyone else had this?
I have started a new save some the winter update, and Northern Ireland are no longer selectable to manage as an international team. I have previously chosen them, but they no longer appear on the team selection screen for Europe. Help!
Hi, Please can an option be added to leave the current club job when taking an international management rather than having to accept and have both jobs then resign as this then has negative press.
I managed a club team when three international friendlies were arranged. I gave instructions to play 45 minutes a game and for the first two games they were ignored by the international manager. Consequently I withdrew the players for the 3rd game. However, before the next international match the international manager was sacked and I got the job. But now I cannot select the players who were withdrawn. The 'international' option on the player profile page does not give me the option to 'Call up to England squad'. For players who were not withdrawn the option is there. The international pool still lists them and shows a red 'withdrawn' in the player status information column. I can find nothing anywhere in the game or editor that allows me to select them.
Is there someone who can help me or give some instructions? I would like to create an International league (different divisions) with most of the worlds national teams. Already many thanks!
How do I delete leftover continental/intercontinental competitions?
While making a database where all club, international, and intercontinental competitions follow the same format, I came across an issue while removing everything. After testing my first leagues, my game always crashed at the moment where the World Cup was about to begin. After some confusion and testing around, I came across the tab 'competitions' which in itself is under the 'test competitions' tab. There I found out these were left over: Is there a way to remove these files? And if so, will that fix the problem of the game always crashing at the 18th of June, 2018?
The players International caps are wrongly simulated.
I think the International appearance of a player is too high in Football manager series, for example in my game, An regen from Saudi Arabiya made his debut in 17 years of age and he retired at 36 years of age after 180 international appearances. He played for top European clubs becoming a world class player in his 25-31 ages so I think there is no sense he plays for his national team that much, I mean he should've just played important matches only like World Cup or Asia Cup and maybe few friendly matches against top sides. The international appearances algorithim is unrealistic for all Asian teams, even for Korea or Japan.
Vietnam (Real World with a Busy International Window/ added custom tournaments) Background: Vietnam National Football Team is still fairly new to the international scene being found in 1989 after reformation. They did win a major trophy in 2008 in the Southeast Asian Cup. Can they under a new leadership qualify for the FIFA World Cup and challenge the world through busy competitive International tournaments held by an independent organization called IFSA (International Football Soccer Association- formed after FIFA was caught in a big scandal). | 2019-04-23T04:24:28 | https://community.sigames.com/tags/international/ |
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0.99998 | 【Summary】U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to move ahead with tariffs on imported vehicles, according to a report by Reuters. The move could prompt the European Union to agree a new trade deal. The Trump administration has targeted luxury European imports from automakers such as Mercedes Benz, BMW and Audi.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to move ahead with tariffs on imported vehicles, according to a report by Reuters. The move could prompt the European Union to agree a new trade deal, said Senate Finance Committee Chairman and Iowa senator Charles Grassley on Wednesday.
"I think the president's inclined to do it," the Republican senator told reporters. "I think Europe (is) very very concerned about those tariffs, It may be the instrument that gets Europe to negotiate."
Recommendations by the U.S. Commerce Department into whether Trump should impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported cars on the grounds of national security grounds are due next month.
Trump has targeted luxury European imports from automakers such as Mercedes Benz, BMW and Audi.
In April of last year, a report in German business news publication WirtschaftsWoche cites unnamed diplomatic sources who said that Trump told French president Emmanuel Macron in April that he would maintain his trade policy "until no Mercedes models rolled on Fifth Avenue in New York."
According to Reuters, Grassley, a Republican, has had regular talks with Trump and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on trade issues, said he personally does not like new tariffs but "they are a fact of life when Trump is in the White House." He said they may have been an "effective tool" in getting China, Canada, Mexico and others to negotiate on trade.
The White House has pledged not to move forward with imposing tariffs on the European Union or Japan (the home of Toyota), as long as it is making steady progress on bilateral trade talks.
Trump has urged the EU to drop its 10 percent tariff on imported vehicles. The U.S. passenger car tariffs on European imports is set at 2.5 percent, while the U.S. imposes 25 percent tariffs on European built pickup trucks.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to impose new auto tariffs. "Cars is the big one," Trump said last year.
The prospect of 25 percent tariffs sent shockwaves through the auto industry, with U.S. and foreign automakers lobbying against it. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, whose members include General Motors, VW and Toyota Motor Corp, warned that tariffs would boost imported car prices by $5,800.
Automakers say imposing 25 percent tariffs would raise cumulative prices for U.S. vehicles by $83 billion annually and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. They argue there is no evidence auto imports pose a national security risk. German automakers Volkswagen AG and BMW met with Trump in December to urge him not to impose tariffs.
Eliminating tariffs on U.S. auto imports would do little to help General Motors and Ford, but could be a big boost for Germany's BMW AG and Daimler AG. SUVs assembled by the two automakers in plants in South Carolina and Alabama make up the bulk of models exported to Europe from the U.S.
On Monday, Volkswagen AG said it would invest $800 million in its Chattanooga, Tennessee operations and add 1,000 jobs to build electric vehicles, a move Trump praised. | 2019-04-21T00:22:58 | https://www.futurecar.com/2925/Iowa-Senator-Says-Trump-is-Inclined-to-Increase-Tariffs-on-Imported-Autos-From-the-EU |
0.997815 | Motorists are being warned to expect delays after a number of traffic incidents in Belfast this morning.
Police have said a car has broken down on the Belfast Road, close to Tesco Knocknagoney, which is causing delays for Belfast bound traffic.
There has also been an accident on the Westlink on the M2 bound carriageway near the Divis Street junction and a multi vehicle collision on the M1 bound carriageway of the Westlink.
Drivers are being told to expect further delays in these areas during rush hour.
An officer said: "A broken down car on Belfast Road, close to Tesco Knocknagoney is causing tailbacks for Belfast bound traffic. Motorists should expect delays."
They added: "Police are advising of delays on the Westlink in Belfast following a road traffic collision on the M2 bound carriageway near the Divis Street junction. Please seek alternative routes if possible."
Later in the morning, police said: "Police are advising motorists of delays following a multi vehicle collision on the M1 bound carriageway of the Westlink in Belfast. This follows an earlier collision on the M2 bound carriageway which continues to cause delays." | 2019-04-23T06:05:05 | https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/belfast-traffic-delays-warning-after-15678706 |
0.999391 | If you ever saw the indie-rock powerhouse known as Versus, then you saw Ms. Fontaine Toups. She's the "chick factor" in the band, the super-cool bass player and singer who had some serious stage moves, languorous bass lines, and a smoky-sweet voice to die for. Versus made five albums, toured the states and Europe, and conquered pretty much everything an indie band could conquer. She also starred in the sultry girl duo called Containe with her pal Connie Lovatt - they released two ace, critically acclaimed records and played shows with bands like Yo La Tengo and Belle & Sebastian. Since her Versus-mate Richard Baluyut moved out West, Fontaine started her own band back in her hometown of ever-trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
So what is her new band, The Fontaine Toups, all about? She says: "It's not Versus, it's not Containe. The most important part of this project is that I'm doing it my way. I'm the leader, and it's challenging. I don't have someone else telling me what I should be doing."
Where Versus were masters of loud-quiet guitar pop and Containe were more whispery and folksy, T.F.T. have a sunnier, classic pop approach. They're currently recording their debut album in Brooklyn, and while they don't sound like any of these folks, they've acknowledged being influenced by 4AD Records, Phil Spector, Brazillian music, shoegazing giants like My Bloody Valentine, and of course, the Brit invasion titans (Who, Beatles, et cetera.) The Fontaine Toups played their first show in February 2002 at the Teen-Beat Anniversary Party in D.C. The band has morphed a bit since then, but now it's Ms. Toups along with Andy Cheng (who also plays in a surf band called Sea Devils), John Sullivan (who plays in Black Grass, Jose Flat Fix, among others), and newcomer Steve Choo on bass. T.F.T. has big plans for touring to support their new album, and Fontaine is writing music for a forthcoming children's television show called Turtle Soup. Their debut album, The Fontaine Toups (or T.F.T.) was recorded in Brooklyn by Adam Lasus, who also recorded Versus' debut album The Stars are Insane.
She may have be reluctant to take charge at first, but she is settling into her role as leader quite comfortably: "This whole process seems to be a lot about me, being a woman in rock, doing it on my own," says Toups. "It's real important for me to do this and I think it's important for other women too. Normal women like myself." | 2019-04-22T22:33:56 | http://teenbeatrecords.com/artists/tft.html |
0.902692 | Not every neighborhood boasts professional musicians but with Worcester Chamber Music Society�s new community-based program Neighborhood Strings, in just a few years this could become a reality for Worcester�s Main South community. Neighborhood Strings will be offering free music lessons in violin, viola and cello to children between the ages of 6-12 each week after school in the Main South-area school, Woodland Academy.
Not every neighborhood boasts professional musicians but with Worcester Chamber Music Society’s new community-based program Neighborhood Strings, in just a few years this could become a reality for Worcester’s Main South community. Neighborhood Strings will be offering free music lessons in violin, viola and cello to children between the ages of 6-12 each week after school in the Main South-area school, Woodland Academy. In close proximity to where Neighborhood Strings resides, Clark University, host of the society’s Summer Music Festival for the ?rst time this coming year, will participate in the new program as it offers unique internship programs to those currently studying at the school. Breaking the long-believed notion that classical music is experienced only by the elite with the means to attend performances and costly lessons, Neighborhood Strings provides an inclusive, shared experience of the genre.
Formed by artistic director Peter Sulski and executive director Tracy Kraus, Worcester Chamber Music Society was created to feed both Sulski’s and Kraus’s desire to play chamber music with local musicians. “We invited several of our colleagues who quickly signed on. From its inception, Worcester Chamber Music Society was a great success as it was musically satisfying for us and satis?ed the need in the community to hear great chamber music performed locally,” Kraus explains.
As the music society sought to create educational program Neighborhood Strings, this past spring cellist Ariana Falk was added to the team as the education director. Falk’s history was ?tting for the role as she comes from Community MusicWorks, where she worked as a fellow in a string program for inner-city kids.
Despite the number of other neighborhoods in Worcester that also could bene?t from the program Neighborhood Strings, Main South and Woodland Academy seemed be? tting. “The school has been incredibly supportive, and all the families in our program live in close walking distance, so the idea of building a tight-knit, inclusive musical community feels very possible,” says Falk.
As mentioned, Clark’s partnership will ascend beyond Neighborhood Strings and will venture into another of music society’s education programs. The society’s seasoned Summer Music Festival, now in its eighth year, will host the program for the ?rst time. The Summer Music Festival provides an intensive summer camp that is still short despite its high concentration. “Traditionally, music camps tend to be day programs geared for lower-level students or are highly intense and expensive, lengthy programs focused on kids in the music fast-track lane. We saw a niche for a highly intense but noncompetitive camp for students who take their music studies seriously but also have other interests, like sports or academic camps, they want to attend in the summer,” explains Krista Buckland Reisner, Summer Music Festival director and violinist. Now, the Worcester Chamber’s summer concerts will be held at Clark’s Razzo Hall and will provide an airconditioned haven for hot summer nights.
With programs like Neighborhood Strings and Summer Music Festival, the society’s goal is simple - to provide the experience and bene?ts of classical music that is accessible to all and not limit those without ?nancial means. “Studies show that children who are exposed to music and learn to play an instrument develop intellectual capacity, discipline, creativity and positive self-esteem,” says Kraus. Though the programs may not reach large masses of those residing in Worcester, their signi?cance is real. “While our programs do not serve thousands of children at a time, they are equally important. If we can empower one child to change his or her environment through music, then we have done our job,” af?rms Falk.
With budding music education programs, the music society will surely bring good classical music and maybe even inspire a future professional musician.
For more information about Worcester Chamber Music Society, Neighborhood Strings and the Summer Music Festival, visit worcesterchambermusic.org. | 2019-04-24T23:53:32 | https://www.worcestermag.com/2013/01/03/empowering-youth-through-music-185376232 |
0.999942 | I am in process of being tested for the second time for Type 2 diabetes (1st fasting test was 156). From what I've read in the other questions, is it true that once you're diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, you never "cure" it? I am 37 years old and my mother is also Type 2 diabetic.
You're right: once there's definite and repeated elevations of blood sugars (and the establishment of a diagnosis of diabetes), we don't undiagnose it.
During the honeymoon phase of Type 1 diabetes.
After delivery in a woman who developed diabetes during her pregnancy. (This diagnosis is called "gestational diabetes;" after delivery, most women whose diabetes was first diagnosed during the pregnancy will revert to normal).
If Type 2 diabetes is aggravated by obesity (or other stressful situations), and the patient and their diabetes team can control the aggravating factors (that is, lose weight if obese), sometimes the diabetes will go into remission (normal blood sugars without medications). However, the diabetes is not considered to be "cured" since future stressful events (or regaining the lost weight) will bring back the hyperglycemia. | 2019-04-18T20:36:03 | http://old.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dteam/1998-07/d_0d_2uf.htm |
0.999996 | Vision Forum, a ministry that supports Christian homeschooling and the Christian Patriarchy Movement, is in crisis. On October 30th, Vision Forum president Doug Phillips resigned from his position over a "lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman". In an online statement, Phillips apologized to God and his family.
"There has been serious sin in my life for which God has graciously brought me to repentance. I have confessed my sin to my wife and family, my local church, and the board of Vision Forum Ministries. I engaged in a lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman. While we did not “know” each other in a Biblical sense, it was nevertheless inappropriately romantic and affectionate.
There are no words to describe the magnitude of shame I feel, or grief from the injury I caused my beloved bride and children, both of whom have responded to my repentance with what seems a supernatural love and forgiveness. I thought too highly of myself and behaved without proper accountability. I have acted grievously before the Lord, in a destructive manner hypocritical of life messages I hold dear, inappropriate for a leader, abusive of the trust that I was given, and hurtful to family and friends. My church leadership came alongside me with love and admonition, providing counsel, strong direction and accountability. Where I have directly wronged others, I confessed and repented. I am still in the process of trying to seek reconciliation privately with people I have injured, and to be aware of ways in which my own selfishness has hurt family and friends. I am most sensitive to the fact that my actions have dishonored the living God and been shameful to the name of Jesus Christ, my only hope and Savior."
News of Phillips infidelity and resignation raises a multitude of questions. How will the Christian Patriarchy Movement react to news that one of its leaders resigned over an inappropriate relationship? What conversations will this generate in the movement? As with other high-profile affairs, will observers heap scorn on the "other woman" or Phillips' wife? Who will take the reigns at Vision Forum after Phillips' departure?
The irony of Doug Phillips' infidelity has not escaped me. A man who trumpeted the sanctity of marriage did not uphold the sanctity of his own. A man whose ministry glorified the nuclear family has now brought pain upon his own family. Hopefully, recent events will encourage self-reflection and remorse on Phillips' part.
Phillips' admission also points out uncomfortable truths about the Christian Patriarchy Movement's limitations. Christian Patriarchy ideology does not inoculate couples from adultery or betrayal, no matter how loudly it champions familial bliss. The submission and self-abnegation it demands from women do not necessarily generate faithful husbands. In short, Christian Patriarchy followers are just as fallible and human as everyone else.
i think his letter needs more pathetic groveling.
Novák -- Welcome! Time will tell if Phillips meant what he said in his letter. | 2019-04-20T21:20:15 | http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/2013/10/doug-phillips-resigns-from-vision-forum.html |
0.999736 | 504? IEP? What's Best for EDS, POTS, and Sensory Integration Disorder? Notes from my Inbox.
I’m working with a family and the child has EDS III, POTS and sensory integration disorder. They are fighting for an IEP, has taken years. Can you summarize an argument for why 504 should be rolled over to IEP, something more from a legal perspective?
Patients with EDS, POTS and Sensory Integration Order can suffer from a constellation of symptoms that make it difficult for a student to successfully access their right to a "free appropriate public education" without the provision of accommodations and services.
Students may have symptoms that make "standard behaviors" -- such as sitting still through a class period, tolerating a noisy assembly, successfully navigating passing periods without self injury, or managing daily attendance -- difficult or impossible.
"Students may have symptoms that make "standard behaviors" ... difficult or impossible."
No matter how it gets done, make sure to get it in writing.
Schools vary on whether these challenges can be met through 504 or IEP. From a legal perspective, it is my opinion that they should have both: 504 should cover accommodations and IEP should cover services. From a practical perspective, many schools provide 504 when only accommodations are needed, and only IEP (with 504 accommodations rolled in) for students who also require services.
However a school chooses to implement the accommodations and services from an administrative perspective, it is important for the student and the school to legally document the framework within which the student should be able to fully access his or her free appropriate public education.
1. Pass to see nurse, social worker, or case manager throughout the day as needed.
2. Pass to keep and consume water and snacks during classes.
3. Pass to use elevators.
4. Pass to leave class early or arrive late, in order to avoid the crowds in the hallways (note, many teachers give assignments at the end of the class; if that is the case, the student would be wise to choose to arrive late to the next class).
5. Exemption from tardy/absence policies. Specifically, students should not be penalized or disciplined for these events. Records should reflect that medical condition is cause of attendance record, so as not to trigger truancy or other escalation policies that are not intended to penalize for medical conditions.
6. Assignment modifications. Exemption from formatives, provided that student is prepared to take summatives successfully. Exemption from late penalties.
7. Test modifications, such as modified test environment, extended time to complete tests, breaks as needed.
8. PE and other non-academic exemptions as needed.
9. Modified schedule to improve attendance rates as needed. Note that students should be placed in courses that are appropriately challenging and with their academic peers. If a student is not able to tolerate a full day schedule, allow student to extend HS tenure up until age 21, until all credits are earned for graduation and/or college requirements.
1. Intermittent homebound instruction. At the start of the year, tutors for each subject will be identified and pre-approved by the school. Student shall be able to access tutoring once absences occur. Times shall be scheduled by student, parent, and tutor with no further pre-approval required for each session, provided that they fit within the metrics defined in the plan.
2. Modified PE; modifications in other classes as needed.
3. In- school PT and OT.
4. Assistive technologies, such as screen readers, dictation software, equipment to transport stuff.
6. Services from Aides, such as assistance scribing, reading, and safe navigation through the school building.
"The exact constellation of challenges and corresponding appropriate accommodations and services is unique to each student"
The exact constellation of challenges and corresponding appropriate accommodations and services is unique to each student. The goal of these services to to ensure that the student is able to access his or her "free appropriate public education." As such, these conferences are ideally collaborative and cooperative, to allow the student to successfully navigate his or her high school career with the education most appropriate to his or her personal development.
Good luck. If you choose to hire someone to help you navigate this journey, I am available for consultation and for participation in meetings with school representatives. | 2019-04-18T23:30:28 | http://www.marifranklinlaw.com/childlawblog/archives/03-2016 |
0.998493 | We've covered a lot of material on price and time limits. The best way to learn them is to run through the practice questions we've provided. All of these concepts will become second nature to you with a little practice. As always, if you have questions, please ask your broker or feel free to email us at [email protected].
For questions 1 through 4, assume you place an order to buy 500 shares of ABC stock at market. ABC is trading for $50.
1) Your order could come back filled for $50.25.
2) It is possible that this order may not fill.
4) What time limit can you place on this order?
For questions 5 through 8, assume you place an order to buy 500 shares of ABC stock at a limit of $48.75 GTC. ABC is trading for $50.
5) This order is guaranteed to fill.
6) This order will only fill if it can be filled for $48.75 or lower.
7) Three hundred shares are executed at $48.75 with 20 days remaining on the GTC time limit. You now have an open order to buy 200 shares at $48.75 for the next 20 days.
8) This order can remain open for nine months if your broker allows it.
11) A market order must use which time limit?
13) A stock is trading for $50 and you place an order to buy 300 shares at market. The trade is executed at $52.30. What caused this?
14) ABC is trading for $42 and rising rapidly. You place an order to buy 100 shares at $42.75 or better. Which of the following is not a possible fill?
15) XYZ is trading for $37 and you place an order to buy 600 shares at $38 or better. Which of the following is not a possible fill?
16) You place an order to buy 3,000 shares at $10. However, you do not want the trade unless you can be assured that you get all 3,000 shares for $10 or less. What can you do?
b) Mark the trade "or-better"
17) You bought 200 ABC for $60 and it is now trading for $64. You place an order to sell 200 for $63.50 or-better. Which of the following is the only possible fill?
18) You purchased 300 ABC at $30. A few days later it spiked to $40 and is now falling quickly. Your goal is to get out of the stock. Which of the orders is best?
19) You just purchased 300 ABC at $30. Now you wish to enter an order to sell it if it should hit $32. Which do you use?
20) What is the biggest risk of using GTC orders?
21) You placed an order to sell 200 shares at a stop price of $30. What does this mean?
a) Your order will activate if the stock hit $30 or higher.
b) You are guaranteed to receive $30 if the stock hits $30.
c) Your order will become a market order if the stock hits $30 or lower.
d) You are guaranteed to receive $30 if the stock hits $30 or lower.
22) You placed an order to sell 100 shares at a stop price of $30 with a stop limit of $29.50. What does this mean?
a) Your order will activate if the stock hits $30 or lower but will only sell if you can get $29.50 or higher.
b) Your order will activate if the stock hits $29.50 or higher but will only sell if you can get $30 or higher.
c) Your order will activate if the stock hits $30 or higher and is guaranteed to get $29.50 or higher.
d) Your order will activate if the stock hits $30 or lower and is guaranteed to get $29.50 or higher. | 2019-04-23T22:38:16 | https://21stcenturyinvestoreducation.com/page/tce/courses/course-101/tests/exam8.html |
0.998638 | Synchronization of neuronal activity is observed in high- and low-level functions of the nervous system. For example, during memory tasks, neural activity in different brain regions phase-locks [1, 2], while synchronized cells in the brainstem contribute to respiratory function . In a two-cell system, network phase is a measure of when one neuron spikes with respect to the other neuron, normalized by the network period; phase-locked systems have a constant network phase, and here we define synchronized systems as those with a network phase close to zero. Understanding how and under what conditions neurons synchronize and phase-lock is important for understanding how neuronal populations function.
Phase resetting curves (PRCs) describe how a neuron's period changes in response to inputs applied at various times during the interspike interval [4, 5]. We use a PRC-based map of stimulus times vs response times to predict if two coupled neurons will phase-lock, as well as how robust this phase-locking is against perturbations; two curves, one per neuron, are plotted against each other on this map, and intersections of the curves correspond to fixed points of the coupled system. Stable fixed points indicate stable phase-locking, while unstable points predict movement around the map. Close, but non-intersecting, curves result in networks that show a preferred phase with some phase slips. The fixed points (or lack thereof) on this map determine the dynamics of the coupled system, but similar statistics of network phases can be obtained from different underlying dynamics. Our goal is to discern underlying dynamic properties of the coupled system when a PRC cannot be measured.
Here we explore perturbation-based methods to distinguish between different fixed point cases that result in similar network phase histograms. Because fixed points determine the network's response to perturbations, we use perturbations to uncover if, and where, fixed points exist without actually creating the PRC-based map. Parameters for coupled, conductance-based neuron models are chosen such that different numbers of fixed points produce phase histograms with similar network phases. When a synaptic perturbation or random noise is applied to one simulated neuron, the resulting trajectory of subsequent cycles around the map plane gives clues to the location and presence of underlying fixed points; different trajectories that point to the same location indicate a stable fixed point, while trajectories that point away from a region indicate an unstable point. Trajectories that only traverse the map plane in one direction are indicative of zero fixed points but close curves. Because biological neurons are not perfectly regular oscillators, we also investigate the effects of noise on the network phase histogram and how it affects our ability to resolve fixed point cases. The simulation results presented here will be validated in experimental hybrid circuits of one Aplysia californica neuron and one computational neuron coupled using the dynamic clamp.
This work is funded by NIH NS54281. | 2019-04-26T14:17:33 | https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2202-14-S1-P50 |
0.999852 | Obviously, this isn't intended as a dictionary. But we can't communicate if we don't agree on the foundation of the language. What does a word or term mean? There is this trend by some (Cultural Marxists) that if you can't win by honesty, facts, intellect, that you can just twist meanings (at least in popular culture and colleges), to stand logic on its head -- so that every argument they would otherwise lose on logic, they can devolve into a debate on pedantic's and meanings. This gaslighting, is more than just annoying, it is subversive to society, tolerance and liberty, under the guise and guile of doing the exact opposite. This area is to get my communication on common ground with the reader, and to remember what terms actually mean (not what activists are trying to re-invent terms into). And if necessary, to try to correct the record.
So people can choose to use my definitions when communicating with me, or if they can't agree to the definitions (as they have been use by rational people for generations or more), then there's no use in trying to communicate with those people, as they aren't interesting in adapting to reality, they want me to adapt to their ignorant or malicious redefinitions. | 2019-04-20T20:33:45 | http://igeek.com/w/Terms |
0.998589 | Representation Michael Davies (instructed by Coyne Learmonth, Liverpool) for H.
Criminal law - Costs - Power to award costs - Award out of central funds - Defence costs - Justices' clerk reducing sum claimed on bill of costs - Clerk determining pre-charge and post-acquittal advice 'in the proceedings' - Whether clerk in error - s 16(6).
A solicitor's attendance on a client before the client was charged, when the charge was imminent and bail was about to expire, was clearly encompassed by the words 'in the proceedings' in s16(6) of the adopting a sensible and realistic interpretation of that phrase, and thus should have been incorporated into a defendant's costs order. However, it could not be said that the justices' clerk was wrong in law to take the view that advice after acquittal in relation to the destruction of H's fingerprints and photographs was not advice 'in the proceedings' for the purposes of that same section. | 2019-04-19T05:24:47 | https://lexisweb.co.uk/cases/2002/january/r-on-the-application-of-hale-v-north-sefton-justices |
0.999977 | These past few months in particular, you may have noticed some exciting new features and refreshing interfaces within your Control Center, aiming to simplify what might have otherwise seemed like quite daunting tasks.
A few months ago, Andy Green (our Product Manager) asked me to start re-imagining the entire user journey for building forms, everything from how routes between pages are created to how those pages can be set up and used to a better advantage across the platform. My immediate thought was, how can I turn this into something our users can’t wait to use again and again?
I felt that the first key issue that needed to be addressed was with making the diagram that shows routes between pages in forms easier to understand, carry more meaning, and removing the need to repeat any routes that may have already been displayed.
The ability to build complex routes between pages within forms based on how a user responds to a question is one of the most powerful features of XFP. It can also however be quite a difficult concept to grasp, so we’ve made it our goal to simplify that. Due to the way our current branching model is visualised, it can become quite hard to understand what’s going on as more rules are added, and routes created.
Those familiar with Git – a version control platform for software development – may have seen something similar to the routing diagram shown here, which helps to describe how changes to code make their way from one ‘branch’ into another until they reach their final destination – the main codebase (check out this page for a better explanation of the GitFlow ideology, it’s pretty interesting)!
With Git being so deeply embedded into our workflow here at Jadu, this was something I was used to seeing pretty much every day, and the more I thought about it, the more apparent the link between Git branches and branching in XFP became. Because of this, I decided to take influence from the Git routing diagram and create something in the same vein for our software.
See the Pen &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;#39;http://codepen.io/pulsar/pen/VaqmQJ/&amp;#39;&amp;amp;amp;gt;Routes&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt; by Pulsar (&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;#39;http://codepen.io/pulsar&amp;#39;&amp;amp;amp;gt;@pulsar&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;) on &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;#39;http://codepen.io&amp;#39;&amp;amp;amp;gt;CodePen&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;.
As you can see from this proof-of-concept, the solution attempts to combine both the “Diagram” and “Table” view that XFP currently offers, which then allows administrators to see everything going on within the form without needing to switch between views. Not only that, but because the diagram is being dynamically generated in HTML, we can visualise fairly complex routes with relative ease “behind the scenes”.
Of course, this is just the beginning. Our end-goal is to turn XFP into something much bigger, with rich interfaces that describe themselves so well, that things like documentation and training start to become relied upon much less.
As with all new features we release, each interface is born out of a combination of wireframes that illustrate the various user journeys someone might take. Each journey is then implemented step-by-step, taking the same Agile approach we use across all Jadu products. This allows us to not only to test out our theories and iterate as we go, but also to ensure that once the feature is eventually released, it satisfies every goal that we set out to achieve in the first place.
This entry was posted by Adam Lang on 02 August 2016. You can leave your response. | 2019-04-20T20:19:11 | https://www.jadu.net/blog/TheJaduBlog/post/221/designing-the-new-xfp-form-builder-first-steps |
0.999904 | The Montour Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was formerly the Montour Railroad.
It has a mostly crushed limestone with partially asphalt surface, appropriate for bicycling, walking, running, and cross-country skiing. Eventually, this trail segment will extend 47 miles (76 km) from Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to Clairton, Pennsylvania.
The trail is part of a 204-mile (328 km) rails to trails project between Pittsburgh and Cumberland, Maryland that makes up part of a 400-mile (640 km) trail system between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., known as the Great Allegheny Passage.
Panhandle Trail: The Montour Trail crosses over the Panhandle Trail on the McDonald Trestle. The Montour-Panhandle connector trail is approximately 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long and connects the two trails. The Panhandle stretches 29 miles (47 km) between Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and Weirton, West Virginia. The last unfinished section between Joffre and Burgettstown was finished in August 2008, and the trail is now complete.
Steel Valley Trail runs 14 miles (23 km) from Clairton through McKeesport to West Homestead. The Mckessport-West Homestead section is part of the GAP trail which connects Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh solely on bike trails. At the Clairton Trailhead 40°18′19.44″N 79°52′59.14″W / 40.3054000°N 79.8830944°W / 40.3054000; -79.8830944 it connects to the Montour Trail.
Great Allegheny Passage: This ambitious project links Cumberland, Maryland, and Point State Park in Pittsburgh. Another branch extends to the Pittsburgh International Airport. The Great Allegheny Passage links to the historic Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which runs from Cumberland to Washington, D.C.
Ohio River Trail: This proposed trail will connect the Montour Trail to the Great Ohio Lake-to-River Greenway in Ohio. When completed the trail will be an important link in a mega-trail system from the Great Lakes Region to Washington, D.C.
McDonald Viaduct (Trestle): Formerly used by the Montour Railroad, the 960-foot (290 m) long trestle reopened in 2003. It spans over Noblestown Road, Robinson Run, the Panhandle Trail and John's Avenue in Washington County, PA.
Enlow Tunnel: At trail mile 7.2–7.3 (40°27′30″N 80°13′22″W / 40.4582°N 80.2228°W / 40.4582; -80.2228 (Enlow Tunnel)), this Findlay Township tunnel was also formerly used by the Montour Railroad, until its incorporation into the trail. In 2000, Duquesne Light and Findlay Township installed lights inside the tunnel.
National Tunnel: At 40°19′01″N 80°10′54″W / 40.3170°N 80.1818°W / 40.3170; -80.1818 (National Tunnel), this Cecil Township tunnel was formerly used by the Montour Railroad and was abandoned with the railroad until it was acquired with the rail right-of-way in the 1980s by the Montour Trail Council (MTC). The tunnel is 623-foot (190 m) and is paved with asphalt pavement with reflectors for safe navigation. In 2012, electrical lighting and signs warning of accumulations of ice were added to the tunnel to increase safety.
Library Trestle: This 506-foot (154 m) railroad trestle over Library Rd. (PA 88) in South Park was also formerly used by the Montour Railroad, until its incorporation into the trail. Renovation was completed in the spring of 2015.
West Peters Trail Area: This approximately two-mile section in Peters Township, PA of trail holds four amazing sites: the Greer Tunnel, two bridges directly adjacent to the tunnel, and the X-1 railroad service crane, a former working crane for the Montour Railroad. One of the bridges adjacent to the Greer Tunnel is the Chartiers Creek High Bridge, the highest bridge on the trail. A working railroad line also crosses directly under the trail in this area.
The Montour Trail is managed and maintained by The Montour Trail Council (MTC). The MTC is a non-profit all-volunteer group which builds, operates, and maintains the trail. It is a registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation, relying on corporate, foundation and government grants and private donations for funding. As of 2012, MTC maintains net assets in excess of $9,300,000.00.
The Montour Trail has four branches: Bethel, Muse, Westland, and the Airport Connector. The Bethel Branch extends from the trail in Peters Township into Bethel Park. The Muse Branch is a planned, undeveloped branch in Cecil Township that goes to the town of Muse. The Westland Branch is a branch that extends from the trail in Venice to the town of Westland. The Airport Connector is a branch of the trail that goes from the mainline trail in Imperial to Pittsburgh International Airport. The Connector does not follow any of the Montour Railroad grade, rather it follows roads to the airport.
In December 2010 MarkWest Energy announced plans to lease the Westland Branch right of way from the Montour Trail Council for 30 years. The branch was redeveloped as a combination trail and railroad operated by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway to serve MarkWest's Westland natural gas processing plant. Construction was completed and the branch began operation in August 2012.
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0.999999 | Noun के गुण या प्रकार को प्रकट करने वाले शब्द को adjective of quality या गुणवाचक विशेषण कहते हैं.
The word or words describing the quality of a noun are classified as Adjective of Quality.
1. Calcutta is a large city.
2. He is an honest man.
3. India is a great country.
गुणवाचक विशेषण (Adjective of quality) "किस प्रकार की" या "कैसा" प्रश्नों के उत्तर में आता है. इस श्रेणी के Adjective सम्बंधित Noun के गुण के बारे में विशलेषण करते हैं.
When the adjective answers questions like what type or how, it is known as adjective of quality. An adjective in this category elaborates on the some quality of the noun.
large शब्द बताता है कि शहर कैसा है - बड़ा है.
Large describes the size of the city.
कैसा व्यक्ति का उत्तर मिलता है - honest.
The answer of what type of person is honest.
किस प्रकार का देश है India - great.
What type of country is India - great. | 2019-04-21T00:11:46 | http://english.dataspec.info/Adjective/0201Qual.htm |
0.999999 | ☝️ That’s literally how Louis Grenier started his definition (which you can read in full if you scroll down a bit).
And it’s true. Demand gen happens to be one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot, even though everyone seems to have a slightly different idea of what it means, how it’s measured, and what’s included in the process.
So in order to put an end to the crippling uncertainty that keeps me awake at night (just kidding — I sleep like a baby 👼🏻) we asked 21 seasoned marketers to explain what they mean by it.
So here it is, 21 different views on what demand gen actually means, grouped into five categories — followed by our very own working definition.
According to our first group of experts, demand generation boils down to two things: awareness and interest.
“I'm going to answer this from the perspective of the companies I work with, which is mostly B2B software businesses that are looking at scaling up.
Any Google search will tell you that demand generation is a bunch of strategies and tactics that drive interest and awareness in product and services. Most will focus on things like: paid media, events, webinars, content marketing. And they're all correct. However, for businesses that are looking to break the mould and don't necessarily fit in a category, have an abundance of latent demand or, conversely, operate in a crowded market without much product differentiation, there's a growing trend in focussing on mission led messaging over product led messaging.
The most famous of these are HubSpot, who set out on a mission to make businesses attract rather than interrupt their target market, Salesforce who set out on a mission to end software with their No Software campaigns, or Drift who are looking to make conversations the way we interact with our market.
“It's a complex term that makes people who use it sound smarter and people who don't understand it feel bad. In simple terms, demand generation is a set of marketing activities to make people aware of your product/service and make them want to buy it.
TL;DR: According to these guys, demand generation is all about creating a) awareness and b) interest in whatever it is that you’re selling.
The second group consists of definitions of a more tactical persuasion.
TL;DR: these folks treat demand generation as synonymous to hyper targeted campaigns that result in (quality) leads.
This expert group believes that demand generation comes down to building measurable pipeline. This clearly goes against Group 1, where the experts considered awareness building as an integral part of demand generation.
“Demand Generation is a combination of people, process & technology to drive predictable pipeline.
People because you need to support demand with content, programs & campaigns.
Process because without process, you can't measure what works, make sure data/leads where they need to go and you can't create a predictable pipeline without process.
Editor’s note: Actually, we’re not quite sure how Kieran would define “demand” — but for now, let's assume that he means measurable demand.
TL;DR: When it comes to this group, it seems that the ability to get measurable pipeline is key.
And if you thought that I was done throwing you curveballs, well… Let’s just say you might want to keep reading.
Because Camp 4 over here has quite literally turned old school demand generation onto its head, and treats it as an exercise in creating value to target customers.
“My interpretation of demand generation — which isn't a phrase I use often, so I imagine other experts might disagree with me — means getting in front of your ideal customers / market (people who are ready, willing, and able to pay to try your solution) and forming genuine relationships with them. These relationships are formed in the channels where they spend their time, which could be online, offline, or both.
TL;DR: These experts have a point: demand generation has nothing to do with tricking people into wanting things they don't actually need. Like Kasey said, it's all about being in the right place at the right time with the right information.
Finally, we’ve got our fifth and final group, a foursome that pretty much considers demand generation as a synonym to marketing (or at least the operations part).
“The reality is that demand generation is essentially another fancy word for marketing. The real differentiating factor in my mind is the emphasis on moving prospective customers from unaware, to problem aware, then solution aware, product aware, and finally to fully aware.
“Demand generation is a strategy that encompasses every component of the customer lifecycle; all the way from anonymous visitor to delighted customer. Within the greater demand generation strategy are different tactics and methods.
First and foremost, brand awareness is at the foundation of any successful demand gen strategy. Brand awareness tactics help you generate demand for your product or service through every stage of growth.
Once you have ensured that there is sufficient demand for your product or service, you can begin to deploy other demand generation tactics like inbound marketing, account-based marketing, and sales enablement.
Finally, a successful demand generation strategy not only generates customers, but retains, delights, and evangelizes them as well. After all, it's easier to sell to a happy client than a brand new prospect.
“In its simplest form, demand gen is all about taking your marketing strategy and turning it into action. If your marketing strategy answers the who and why (i.e. who your ideal customer is and why they would buy your product or service) then demand gen answers the how and what (i.e. how we’ll reach them and what we’ll actually create).
TL;DR: these folks would argue that demand generation basically is marketing. And spoiler alert: I can’t say that I disagree.
After reading the answers of these 21 brilliant minds, I feel slightly better equipped for what I’m about to do: Redefining demand generation.
🎯 Is demand generation a strategy or a set of tactics?
👀 Is demand generation about building awareness and interest, or only the latter?
💑 Whats the role of the target audience? Are they simply the receiving end of your messages or an input to activities?
⏰ When can you “do” demand generation: Post product/market fit or whenever?
Demand generation refers to any activity that makes your ideal customers aware and interested in your product or service.
🎯 A set of tactics and/or a synonym to marketing operations ➡️ because you'll definitely need a marketing strategy, but demand generation is only the manifestation of it.
👀 About building awareness and interest ➡️ because you can't have interest without awareness, duh.
💑 Strictly intended for your ideal customers ➡️ because who wants to reach bad-fit customers that will churn anyway?
⏰ A post product/market fit activity ➡️ because you can't know how to best serve your ideal future customers until you're already serving people like them.
I have spoken. But hey, if you disagree, please tweet at me. Also, if you'd like to be featured in future roundups like this one, subscribe to Advance Insider. | 2019-04-23T21:55:54 | https://www.advanceb2b.com/thegrowthhub/what-is-demand-generation |
0.973431 | Office Plant Benefits | Tropical Plants for Clean Air — Plantpros Inc.
You can have clean air and happier, healthier employees in your workplace by adding live tropical plants. Reduce sick days, increase productivity and much more.
The Biophilia theory suggests that we have an innate connection to all living things. The introduction of natural elements into our working environment creates positive, measurable effects that enhance our daily work lives. Do plants matter? Emphatically, yes. Living plants create an enhanced feeling of health and well being, improving efficiency, performance and productivity in the workplace.
Do I have Sick Building Syndrome?
Sick building syndrome is a phrase coined by the WHO (World Health Organization) in 1984. It refers to a series of comfort and health complaints that relate to time spent inside a "sick building". Symptoms include; headache; nausea; rash; eye, nose and throat irritations; asthma and other respiratory concerns. These ailments are commonly caused by airborne contaminants found within our enclosed building environments.
All plants have the unique ability to clean the air you breathe. Many studies since the 1970's have proven and expanded upon this. Within the confines of tightly constructed buildings, the indoor air is polluted with toxins such as formaldehyde, benzene, trichloroethylene (found in office products, cleaners, fibres, adhesives, etc.) and other VOCs. Plants, however, trap and dispose of these airborne particles, improving the quality of your indoor air.
Photosynthesis is the natural process of converting sunlight into chemical energy (sugars) for plant growth. During this process, the plant absorbs and removes carbon dioxide along with volatile organic compounds from the air. The simple addition of one plant or more per 100 square feet cleans the air you breathe and is a cost effective and significant strategy in the battle against airborne toxins.
Your surrounding environment affects your health more than you think. Out of necessity, we are forced to spend many hours in urban, concrete spaces that offer little in the way of natural serenity. Stress, fatigue and low productivity and performance are the by-products of these conditions.
Fortunately, our innate attraction to nature is designed as a healing mechanism to reduce stress and illness, creating an overall sense of wellbeing. We don't always have the luxury of spending time in an outdoor natural setting. However, we do have the ability to create living green spaces in our indoor environments that generate the many positive affects of being in nature.
Several studies exists that confirm the real and perceived benefits of having plants present in our everyday lives. They make us feel happy; increase our energy and vitality, creating a more positive outlook; and they increase productivity and focus. Also, a remarkable 23% decrease in health complaints is cited after the installation of foliage plants. This direct relationship confirms the fact that plants do make us healthier, happier and more productive. Read more about the positive affects of plants at work here.
As we've seen, the main benefits of plants include increased feelings of wellness; higher productivity and focus; and happier and healthier employees. This inevitably leads to fewer sick days, higher work production per employee and therefore, reduced payroll costs. A recent study shows that having live plants in the workplace increases productivity by 15%. When your employees' perception of their workplace is positive, they feel more valuable and appreciated, and your cost of attrition goes down.
With the addition of plants, commercial buildings immediately project a positive, high-end, trusted perception of their operation. These assessments are not merely conceptual, but provide solid improvements in occupancy rates, lease rates and property values.
the nuon office as designed by heyligers design + project Green Walls in Office Design: What are the benefits?
Cost effective solutions for the commercial environment must include energy efficiency and building operating costs. The inclusion of live, tropical plants, including living (or green) walls increases humidity levels, reducing energy requirements for heating indoor spaces. Additionally, indoor plants naturally reduce air temperature, creating more efficient energy requirements during summer months.
The cost and functional benefits of green walls, as outlined in "Green Walls in Office Design: What are the Benefits?", are abundant. This is a rapidly growing design trend, and the benefits far outweigh any suggestion that green wall designs are a fad. New and exciting ways to incorporate them into our corporate and commercial environments continue to develop. Green walls are much more than environmental miracles. They are works of art, reflecting and enhancing corporate brands with imbedded company logos and creative, innovative designs.
When looking for cost effective ways to improve the efficiency and wellbeing of your operation, nothing is as effective (dollar for dollar) as the addition of a well designed plantscape. | 2019-04-26T16:48:45 | http://www.plantpros.ca/whyplants |
0.998684 | At this time of year I am busy offering a helping hand to many people who have already lost sight of their new year goals or who are struggling to move forward. If this sounds like you - you are already falling off the wagon or your will power has gone into hiding – then read on!
New Year’s resolutions are notoriously difficult to stick to, with most people having given up within the first few weeks. There are a few reasons for this. One reason is the 'new year, new me' idea. It starts off with great gusto, but often with unrealistic expectations that, because you want to change, then it will happen automatically simply because it's a new year.
I coach people to make significant and lasting changes to their lives by using innovative and exciting techniques, including positive psychology and clinical hypnotherapy. This enables clients to develop a positive and powerful mindset.
It’s really important to create change for the long term, not just the short term. There is no avoiding the effort and hard work needed to make long and lasting changes, so once this becomes apparent the initial rush of excitement fades along with motivation. Secondly, people often start with a mindset for failure, thinking ‘I will try’. Try is not the same as ‘I will’ and leaves room for doubt. If you don't have the underlying belief you will really do something, then you won't put in the 100% effort needed to make it happen. Beliefs drive everything we do and unless you spend time re-wiring your brain and behaviours, then you will often slip back into bad habits.
Lastly, society doesn't help. There are hundreds of “new year” deals such as cheaper gym memberships or diet plans, at least for the first couple of months. The prices then increase as people drop off. This re-affirms people's beliefs that no-one sticks to resolutions!
My advice is that the best way to make changes is not to make a resolution at all, but rather to make a commitment to make a realistic change. Don't make a resolution, make a commitment to make a change that you will realistically need to work on every day for the foreseeable future. Start with one goal and make it small and achievable. Don't set about overhauling your whole life in one go. If you want to quit smoking, just focus on that one day at a time. Set yourself up to succeed and it will motivate you and boost self-esteem. Recognise that New Year is not the only time of year you can make a change. You can make it happen any day at anytime, why wait?! | 2019-04-18T23:20:55 | http://yourmindsetcoach.co.uk/blog/how-to-stick-to-your-new-year-resolutions |
0.999573 | Many people are confused about what it truly means to be addicted to something or what the real drug abuse definition is. What is the addict definition? They may think that because someone uses a particular substance on a regular basis that they are addicted. The truth is that there are different types of addictions people can have. The best addiction definition is when someone feels the need to use a substance before they can do anything else. If a person cannot eat, sleep, drink or do any of their daily tasks without first taking a certain substance, which is a clear addicted definition example. One of the types of addiction is physical addiction. Types of substances people can become physically addicted to include alcohol, heroin and xanax. When a person is addicted to these types of substances they will go through painful and possibly deadly withdrawals if they quit. They can become sick and possibly have seizures from these types of withdrawals. They can break out in cold sweats and become very irritable and irrational.
Another type of addiction is mental addiction. These types of drugs include stimulants such as methamphetamine and cocaine. They give a person a surge of energy and a feeling of euphoria. After people who are addicted to these types of substances quit, they will feel tired and depressed and will not be motivated to do any kinds of activities before they get high. There are no physical side effects to speak of, but mentally the addict will be slow and depressed. These types of drugs release serotonin in the brain which makes them feel happy and optimistic. When they stop taking these drugs the receptors in their brains are damaged and they do not release as much serotonin. This causes them to feel depressed and negative.
Another type of addiction people can experience is emotional addiction. This can come with any type of drug but it is the only type of addiction associated with marijuana. Marijuana can make people feel less anxious and worried, but it is not physically addictive. If someone is used to taking marijuana, they will have a harder time dealing with certain situations when they quit. They may not want to be around people or be in certain situations, and feel like they need marijuana in order to calm themselves down. They may not be able to deal with disappointment or boredom very well and they will start to crave the drug. This is when it goes beyond recreational drug use and it is used to deal with life situations.
This should help clear up any questions you may have of the addiction definition, substance addiction definition or alcohol addiction definition. It can be summed up as someone needing a substance before they will by anything else, perform any tasks or go into any situation. | 2019-04-23T19:50:02 | http://stopaddiction.com/Addiction/Drug-Abuse-Alcohol-Substance-Addiction-Definition |
0.999846 | The U.S. Government estimates that trade secret theft costs the U.S. economy over $400 billion dollars annually.This isn’t new: trade secret theft has been a problem since the Industrial Revolution. For the most part, the federal government has remained silent on the issue and allowed states to address it on their own. Most states have enforced some variation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. But recently, Congress has gotten involved to help curb the ongoing effects of trade secret theft.
On May 11, 2016 President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the “DTSA”). The new law immediately brought trade secrets in line with three other types of intellectual property—patents, copyrights, and trademarks—in one major aspect. For the first time, the federal courts now have jurisdiction to address trade secret misappropriation. This jurisdiction is not exclusive or even guaranteed: state courts can still hear many trade secret claims, and federal jurisdiction is restricted to those trade secrets “used in, or intended for use in, interstate or foreign commerce.” Nonetheless, Congress appears eager to help address concern about trade secret theft, and the DTSA should prove favorable for those businesses affected by this issue.
This is good news for businesses. Growing businesses often owe their success to a nonpublic competitive advantage—some sort of distinguishing feature that separates a company’s product from its competitors’. Companies aggressively protect these distinguishing aspects of their product. Most have heard that Coca-Cola’s recipe is locked in a guarded safe and only known by two people, or that KFC’s “secret spices” are mixed by two different factories to ensure secrecy. Unfortunately, for most businesses, this level of security is unrealistic.
As defined by the DTSA, a trade secret can be anything from a customer list to a methodology or technique to utilize financial information. Succinctly summarized, it is “information that is (1) valuable because it is a secret and (2) treated by its owner as a secret.” Of course, employees will frequently need access to this information to perform their jobs. When an employee uses such an opportunity to steal the information, it can immediately jeopardize the employer’s operations and bottom line.
The DTSA gives businesses some powerful new tools to address the problem and, if necessary, to facilitate the return of misappropriated trade secrets. Perhaps most importantly, while injunctions have always been available as a temporary remedy in trade secret litigation, the DTSA provides for a civil seizure remedy as well. Civil seizure allows a plaintiff company to remove its trade secrets from a former employee’s custody altogether (such information is then retained by the court until trial). This procedure differs from a typical injunction where the former employee is ordered to cease use and dissemination of the protected information but is allowed to retain possession of that information pending a full-blown trial. As a result, civil seizure provides greater protection for trade secrets and reassures the victim corporation of their security. When the court has custody of the misappropriated information, there is a decreased risk of the former employee violating a temporary restraining order or injunction and continuing to disseminate the trade secrets.
Not all companies may choose to use civil seizure, however, because the downside of losing is significant. The DTSA provides in 18 U.S.C. § 1836(b)(2)(G) that a defendant who is damaged by “a wrongful or excessive seizure” has a cause of action against the plaintiffs for “lost profits, cost of materials, loss of good will, punitive damages . . . [and] attorney’s fee[s].”Those counterclaims seem to have deterred some early plaintiffs.
For example, in one of the first complaints specifically alleging violation of the DTSA, Effex Capital, LLC (“Effex”) contended its former Chief Technology Officer “took [his] computer, which contained [c]onfidential nformation, . . . in his full custody and control and retained possession of the . . . computer . . . without the consent or knowledge of Effex.” According to Effex, the former CTO then offered that information to a competitor in exchange for employment. While this would seem to be a archetypal scenario for using DTSA’s civil seizure remedy, Effex opted against such a request in favor of the DTSA’s more-traditional remedies—suggesting that the potential of counterclaims acted as a deterrent to a civil seizure.
The DTSA specifically requires that a civil seizure should be authorized only in “extraordinary circumstances.” This appeared to impact the claims in another recent case, Dazzle Software II, LLC. There, plaintiff Dazzle Software alleged that a former customer engaged in deception and subterfuge in order to obtain the contents of a computer containing protected trade secrets. In its application for civil seizure of the computer’s storage devices, Dazzle alleged that further use or dissemination of the trade secrets could destroy their economic value, and that irreparable harm was imminent. In spite of this, the court refused to grant civil seizure. While the court’s reasons for denying the civil seizure are not publicly available, a reasonable inference is that the court concluded an injunction would have been an adequate remedy even when the defendant is alleged to have been deceptive and the risk to the plaintiff is significant.
By providing a path to the federal courts, Congress clearly intends to add additional deterrents to interstate (and international) trade secret theft occurring throughout the country. Indeed, Congress stated it enacted the Act, in part, to reduce the “costly compliance plans to meet each individual state’s law.” And even though most trade secrets litigants will continue to allege violations under their respective state’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act, the DTSA’s expanded federal jurisdiction will make trade secret litigation more accessible. As more cases migrate from state to federal courts, it is expected that, “the DTSA will likely be heavily litigated, and a large body of case law will develop that will provide . . . guidance.”We predict that, as this occurs and the case law surrounding the DTSA expands, businesses will become more aggressive in pursuing those who have misappropriated their trade secrets. Given this evolving landscape, any business concerned with the conduct of former or current employees who have access to crucial trade secrets would be well advised to seek legal advice as soon as possible.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, Economic Impact of Trade Secret Theft: A framework for companies to safeguard trade secrets and mitigate potential threats 8 (2014).
Bailey King and Whit Pierce, Creative Opportunities: The defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 Is Here, and It's a Big Deal, 58 No. 7 DRI for Def. 42 (2016).
Complaint at 7,Effex Capital, LLC v. Wilson, No. 1:16-cv-05438 (S.D.N.Y. July 7, 2016).
Brief in Support of Ex Parte Application for Seizure of Computer Storage Devices and Computers Pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 at 3-5, Dazzle Software II, LLC v. Kinney, No. 2:16-cv-12191-MFL-MKM (E.D. Mich filed Jun. 14, 2016).
Order (1) Denying Plaintiff's Application for Seizure of Defendant's Computer Storage Devices and Computers, and (2) Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendants' Motion for Expedited Discovery at 2, Dazzle Software II, LLC v. Kinney, No. 2:16-cv-12191-MFL-MKM (E.D. Mich. Jul. 18, 2016). | 2019-04-22T23:03:20 | https://www.azbusinesslawblog.com/blog/post/the-defend-trade-secrets-act-of-2016-new-tools-to-protect-your-business |
0.998724 | Can someone please give me some brief instructions on how to install 2 network cards on a single Winows NT 4.0 server?
Hi, right click on network neighborhood (or go through "network" in control panel), click on tab that says adapters and press add. NT will ask for the disk or location of the new nic drivers and will load some files (so have cd ready unless you haveI386 folder on drive). After you reboot and the adapter is installed, click on tcp/ip and then properties (assuming you run tcp/ip) You'll see adapters (1) and click on arrow to display other adapters, in this case #2. You can then assign a tcp/ip address, subnet mask and gateway if applicable, etc. for the second adapter. When complete, close and nt will bind instructions to the nic and ask you to reboot. Hope this helps.
The previous answer did an excellent job of describing the install process. The only thing I could add is to make sure you have non-conflicting IRQ assignments available for both cards. I have occasionally seen problems when two new cards were inserted at the same time - theoretically, it shouldn't matter but I've had better luck getting one up and running and then adding the other (especially if both are the same make and model).
That also has the advantage that you can install the first card, get it working, and then label it on the back of the computer so you don't get the two mixed up and get your subnets crossed.
Always use the KISS method. Install one at a time as suggested by the second answer. Life is easier by troubleshooting one thing at time!
The above answers are correct, but another thing to watch out for is both having the same Address. If it's not a jumper setting on the card, it might be software driven or you might have to set it up in the bios. Good Luck!
I will try removing the installed protocols and NIC first.
install the NIC's, Connect cables for both cards. Start the system installed drivers for both check for IRQ conflicts. add the protocols and IP Addresses. make sure both cards has same speed. better to add same branded cards. | 2019-04-24T18:33:46 | https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/how-to-install-multiple-network-cards-on/ |
0.998548 | Jade Higgins – VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
So I am writing you this email as I bought your book a few weeks after it was released last year. I have since bought it for a friend too, as it inspired me SO much that I had to share it.
I have been vegan for almost two years, so I found your book when I was still pretty new to the lifestyle. Your recipes, guidance, information and just you as a person have helped shape me into the woman I am today. I don't say that lightly either - you made me realise that health is the ultimate gift and it should be celebrated! I come from a history of poor diet, digestion, heart issues, candida issues & disordered eating - so finding your lifestyle was super helpful and really made me strive to become the best version of me! The way you raise your children & your pregnancy stories were also so inspiring and I really can't wait to raise conscious children like you do.
Feel The Lean is my bible, really! I have it on my iPhone so I can read it whenever I like. I know that I am one of the hundreds of thousands that you've inspired and I really am so thankful for that. | 2019-04-22T04:54:48 | http://www.feelthelean.com/testimonial/jade-higgins-victoria-australia/ |
0.999926 | While reading about the Google sponsored Lunar X-Prize I got an idea: It would be great fun if the Mythbusters dedicated a whole season (or three) to having a go at sending a rover to the moon?
As many education professionals have pointed out, Mythbusters is probably the most important TV show right now. Although much of the show is a lot of fun and games and things being blown to bits, at the core, the show is firmly anchored in the application of scientific method and problem solving. While there have been several TV series that attempt to teach its viewers something about science, this show goes a bit further in that it focuses on actually performing experiments rather than talk about them.
There is also a sort of renaissance these days of people making and building stuff. Lots of people build exciting things in their basement -- from autonomous vehicles to 3D printers to clever electronics gadgets.
The efforts towards private space exploration over the past couple of decades are sort of exciting, but not very engaging. While the results that have been achieved are vaguely interesting to those of us not directly involved in the industry, these efforts do not really engage us as much as they could. If Branson and Rutan manage to perform a sub-orbital flights for rich people, well, that is of course nice for them, but it isn't exactly engaging and inspiring. The really exciting stuff of making it happen takes place behind cosed doors.
I think that if Discovery Channel and M5 Industries were to head up an effort to send a rover to the moon, that would make for absolutely fantastic TV. Of course, I don't expect the producers of Mythbusters to have the sort of cash needed to make it happen, so they would probably need to secure funding for the project from companies and well-off individuals.
Given their high profile, the Mythbusters team might also be able to enlist the help of volunteers with special skills from various engineering disciplines and conduct a large part of the effort as a sort of open source project.
Of course, I don't expect Discovery Channel to pick up the challenge. But it would make for really great TV.
Open source vs the scientific revolution.
What fueled the scientific revolution, which began in the latter half of the 1500s and went all hockey-stick in the mid- to late 1600s, was not a sudden emergence of talent or genius, but that participants begun to share information and do experiments together. Genius in isolation and with no incentive to share information did society little good.
And "genius in isolation" used to be the way science was largely done prior to the scientific revolution. With the notable exception of closed societies and scattered publication of works from time to time.
In much the same way I view the open source movement as a variation over this theme. The tangible artifacts that result from open source, ie. the software, is no so important as is the practice of sharing knowledge and presenting one's peers with concrete works that can be studied, understood, criticized, and improved in a collective manner. The open source movement is bigger than the software artifacts produced since it is a tradition of sharing knowledge that benefits everyone -- whether directly involved or not.
Much of the same criticism that was leveraged against openly sharing scientific results and discoveries during the scientific revolution, are today being leveraged against open source. That is: the same sort of detractors, for which history has little more than disdain and ridicule in the scientific arena, have their present day counterparts. People who view the open source movement with skepticism and fear. Skepticism because if someone is willing to give away something it must be because it has no value. And fear because some practitioners believe that it will make them redundant.
Science has flourished exactly because we can build on the results of others. It has also flourished because we now have better ways of separating falsehoods from fact. Stupidity and dishonesty is still a big part of scientific discourse, but unlike the middle ages, a falsehood is now considerably more short-lived because communication and verification is now part of the way we do science.
In much the same way, software development, and our approach to architecture, is now in far better shape than just 15 years ago.
When I went to school I still had to study the works of opinionated, though not very intelligent people who wrote about the practice of designing, planning and creating software. Numerous non-practitioners and pompous academics wrote books about software engineering and these were taught as canon at schools and universities.
As the software world opened up and collaboration increased we gradually got a new culture -- driven by people who create software rather than make a living out of the manufacture and sale of engineering dogma.
Sure, there are still dogmatic cranks and people willing to reward these cranks, but methodologies and the more philosophical aspects of our approach to software has become more in tune with reality.
You could say that software engineering has graduated as a trade (though perhaps not science) much in the same way that chemistry was able to separate itself from the nonsense that is alchemy and astronomy from the poppycock that is astrology.
In this perspective, viewing open source as a threat to the software industry seems somewhat myopic and ignorant. Because it is myopic and ignorant. Open source is crucially important to all of us because it furthers the art and trade of creating software far more than any isolationist approach would ever be capable of.
And of course, just as in science, there is plenty of room for making a buck. Though perhaps not in mere parlor tricks and trivialities. But then again, who cares about those who are content to dwell on the trivial and the mundane. | 2019-04-26T04:42:42 | http://blog.borud.no/2011/02/ |
0.999912 | Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, poses with current President Francois Hollande prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, January 8, 2015, in connection with a terrorist attack. Police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men, one with possible links to al-Qaida, in the methodical killing of 12 people at French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that caricatured the Prophet Muhammed.
In recent days France has seen 13 people killed in 2 terrorist attacks. A third attack is underway as I write. What will be the political fallout from these events?
Because the alleged attackers have been linked in press reports to a jihadi recruitment organization known as the Buttes-Chaumont network, it is natural to assume that the Front National (FN), a party of the extreme right noted for its hostility to what it sees as growing Islamist influence in the French suburbs, will be the primary beneficiary. Even before the attacks, some polls indicated that the FN, led by Marine Le Pen, is now the largest party in France. Le Pen’s party will thus likely receive a boost in municipal and regional elections scheduled for later this year.
The Front National therefore threatens the two parties that have dominated the French political scene for 40 years: the currently ruling Socialist Party (PS) and the center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Racked by a recent scandal that led to the ouster of former party leader Jean-François Copé, the UMP is now headed by former president Nicolas Sarkozy. In the wake of the first terror attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, President François Hollande, who defeated Sarkozy in 2012, decided to make a show of national unity against terrorism by inviting his erstwhile rival to meet with him at the Elysée.
The staging of the event was interesting: The two men sat in identical armchairs, face to face, in the presidential palace. Beyond national unity, the photograph of this meeting that was released to the press contained an ulterior message: that the parties represented by these two men constituted the “republican” rampart against the threat of terrorism. The Front National, France’s third major party, was not represented.
The tête-à-tête with Hollande also had the effect of rehabilitating Sarkozy, whose image had been tarnished by numerous allegations of corruption. In a national emergency, however, it was to Sarkozy that Hollande turned, raising the status of his former nemesis to that of officially anointed leader of the opposition and effacing memories of scandal attached to his name. The leaders of France’s other parties, including Marine Le Pen, were also invited to meet with the president, but only after the “summit” meeting with Sarkozy. The difference in status was underscored by the difference in protocol. In short, the carefully crafted publicity surrounding these meetings suggested a desire to reduce the French political contest to a PS-UMP duopoly, banishing the FN to the antipodes.
Then Hollande announced that Sunday, January 11, would be a day of national mourning in which all political parties were invited to participate, except the FN. PS spokesman François Lamy later declared that the FN had not been invited because it was a party that “divides the country and plays on fear.” The irony of excluding the country’s largest party from an event intended to demonstrate national unity was apparently lost on Lamy, who said he could not understand why the question of FN participation was even being raised. He also said, however, that it was perfectly “normal” for the president to receive Marine Le Pen at the Elysée to discuss the situation, since he was also receiving the leaders of all the other parties. All of which indicates the fancy footwork that will be required for Hollande’s strategy to work.
Hollande, whose approval rating has rebounded slightly from its low ebb of 13 percent—the lowest in the history of the Fifth Republic—has apparently decided that his strategy going forward will be to demonize the FN, even if it means helping Sarkozy win the endorsement of the UMP over his principal rival, former prime minister Alain Juppé, as that party’s next presidential candidate. Polling suggests that Juppé would be a stronger opponent than Sarkozy. The terror attacks have provided the president with a way to influence the complex political maneuvering on the right in a manner he hopes will turn out to be to his political advantage. He is playing a weak hand, however, and his calculations could well prove wrong.
Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen will emphasize the injustice of her victimization and insist that it proves that the PS and UMP are conspiring to silence the true voice of the people of France, which she is confident she represents. | 2019-04-18T12:15:06 | https://mt.prospect.org/article/politics-terrorism-lead-desperate-hollande-embrace-sarkozy |
0.847781 | Will Hayward start when the games count? If not him, who?
However you feel about the Boston Celtics and their early showing in the preseason, it's probably safe to say we agree Gordon Hayward wouldn't be starting a regular-season game the way he's played so far.
And there's nothing wrong with that; he's coming back from a major injury, after all, and between conditioning and the psychological component, it's probably going to take weeks or even a few months to get all the way back to his old self.
For a lot of teams, that could present a major problem, and while it's certainly not optimal, the Celtics are more than equipped to elevate any number of options to fill in for him until that day arrives. The question, however, is...who?
This, of course, may end up being a non-issue anyway, as Boston only has one preseason game left against the Cleveland Cavaliers this Saturday, and then have over a week off afterward, not playing their season debut vs the Philadelphia 76ers until the 16th of October.
But should that not be enough time to mostly recover, adjustments will need to be made to the anticipated starting five of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Kyrie Irving, Al Horford and Hayward - who makes sense to fill in in such a case?
Brown and Tatum are more than likely planned to play the two and four respectively, but can play all three positions between their anticipated roles, which opens up a few different paths. Knowing how Brad Stevens likes to tailor plans to the matchup, I imagine we'd see a rotation based on situational need rather than a single candidate taking on the spot while (if?) Gordo needs to time to round into form.
Semi Ojeleye or Marcus Smart could make sense from a purely defensive perspective - potentially useful given Kyrie probably also needs time to get into his best defensive shape. As an added bonus, Smart could serve as a "super-sixth man" role, anchoring transitions between the second unit and the starters.
Terry Rozier and Marcus Morris could each bring some unique wrinkles to both ends of the floor, but the variability they bring to offense might not be the best choice for a team trying to find its way as a high-volume jump-shooting squad capable of giving everyone who needs to eat shots.
My guess, however, is that they give Hayward shot even if he isn't quite ready, and if early results disappoint enough, they go back to starting Al at the four and Aron Baynes at the five, with some experimental small lineups for teams without classic big men.
What do you think? Will Gordon be up to the task come October 16th or soon enough after that this won't matter? If not, how does Boston adjust? Let us know in the comments below. | 2019-04-24T20:47:30 | http://www.celticslife.com/2018/10/will-hayward-start-when-games-count-if.html |
0.999573 | Is "democracy" dying? I put democracy in "scare quotes" -- literally here -- since it implies that democracy has one, unambiguous meaning: a system in which "the people" vote every few years, then recede, leaving their interests in the control of elected representatives and parties.
The prime suspect in this death by murder is populism. Panic among the respectable classes hit a new high after last Sunday's Italian election, when populist parties routed the traditional ones on the left and right. The New York Times called the vote "a tidal turn of anti-immigrant, anti-European Union and anti-democratic fervour." I don't quite see why anti-democratic gets included in the list, since no party advocated eliminating elections.
Academic Yascha Mounk's new book is called The People vs. Democracy. He calls "the very survival of liberal democracy in doubt … From Great Britain to the U.S. and from Germany to Hungary," at the hands of populism.
What I fail to see is any inherent opposition between democracy and populism. Populism isn't the enemy of democracy; it springs from it and yearns for it. The "people" don't have to be bullied into "democracy" by bright journalists and academics. They're the ones who demanded and fought for it. Populism is democratic, that's why they call it populism.
In fact it's a kind of slander on the people to accuse them this way. They put up with an unconscionable amount of crap from our liberal forms of democracy. Take Greece, a good example of a battered populous.
For years it choked economically on measures imposed by unelected Eurocrats in Brussels. Then the people tossed out the old parties and elected a brand new one, Syriza. It had a tinge of populism. The EU got more vindictive.
So Syriza held a referendum asking the people, in effect: Are you serious? To everyone's surprise, they said they were -- but Syriza backed down anyway. So if you're the people, who you gonna turn to? There's despair there, disillusion, demoralizing emigration -- but, at least so far, no anti-democratic momentum.
Take Honduras, where the last election was blatantly stolen (with U.S. and Canadian approval). Or Mexico, where Manuel Lopez Obrador is running a third time, having had victory swiped last time and likely to happen again, despite a huge lead. He's a "fiery populist."
What stands out in these cases, isn't that the people occasionally grow weary with the frustrations of elections, but that they stick with them doggedly despite all the bad experience. Why? They know the alternatives may be even worse. They don't require lectures, thank you.
The U.S. of Trump may be the best example of anti-democratic populism. He has disdain for elections and alternatives. ("I alone can fix it.") But it wasn't their fault -- or at least those in the rust belt states that gave him his victory -- that he was the only candidate who voiced their hard-won insight that "free trade" deals were vast deceptions destroying lives and communities. Many, probably most, would've voted for Bernie Sanders, had he been on offer.
Some populist leaders are anti-democratic; some followers are racists and haters. But at populism's core is the common human need to speak out and be heard. Populism is more like the symptom of a disease in the heart of democracy, attempting to heal itself, with potentially lethal side effects.
OK, but what if the worst happens and liberal democracy as we know it does succumb? It would be mourned, but would it mean the end of democracy?
That depends on whether you take a Eurocentric view of democracy or a broader, anthropological one. Most of us grew up learning that democracy was "invented" or "discovered" in Greece -- a sort of political eureka moment. It stirred again with Magna Carta and the British parliamentary tradition; then was refined by the U.S. founding fathers. Hmm, that does sound a tad Eurocentric.
The late British anthropologist Jack Goody had a different view. Based on his field work, he felt democracy was a universal human impulse that expressed itself in various forms in different eras and locales. Where others saw "Asiatic despotism," he perceived alternate versions of democracy, as in Confucius', "Anyone who loses the people loses the state." That's almost populist.
A prolonged cessation of growth, without government bailouts, would eventually morph into capitalism's demise. | 2019-04-18T12:28:24 | http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/03/whats-relationship-between-democracy-and-populism-its-complicated |
0.999993 | Is the name given to a group of minerals that occur naturally in the environment as bundles of fibers that can be separated into thin, durable threads. These fibers are resistant to heat, fire, and chemicals and do not conduct electricity. For these reasons, asbestos has been used widely in many industries. Chemically, asbestos minerals are silicate compounds, meaning they contain atoms of silicon and oxygen in their molecular structure.
People may be exposed to asbestos in their workplace, their communities, or their homes. If products containing asbestos are disturbed, tiny asbestos fibers are released into the air. When asbestos fibers are breathed in, they may get trapped in the lungs and remain there for a long time. Over time, these fibers can accumulate and cause scarring and inflammation, which can affect breathing and lead to serious health problems.
Asbestos has been classified as a known human carcinogen (a substance that causes cancer) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the EPA, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Studies have shown that exposure to asbestos may increase the risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma (a relatively rare cancer of the thin membranes that line the chest and abdomen). Although rare, mesothelioma is the most common form of cancer associated with asbestos exposure. In addition to lung cancer and mesothelioma, some studies have suggested an association between asbestos exposure and gastrointestinal and colorectal cancers, as well as an elevated risk for cancers of the throat, kidney, esophagus, and gallbladder. However, the evidence is inconclusive.
Asbestos exposure may also increase the risk of asbestosis (an inflammatory condition affecting the lungs that can cause shortness of breath, coughing, and permanent lung damage) and other nonmalignant lung and pleural disorders, including pleural plaques (changes in the membranes surrounding the lung), pleural thickening, and benign pleural effusions (abnormal collections of fluidbetween the thin layers of tissue lining the lungs and the wall of the chest cavity). Although pleural plaques are not precursors to lung cancer, evidence suggests that people with pleural disease caused by exposure to asbestos may be at increased risk for lung cancer. | 2019-04-24T06:30:58 | http://masabatement.com/what-is-asbestos/ |
0.9999 | How did this even make it into a preproduction firmware for a device in late 2012?
This is the exact same issue that a large variety of Samsung eMMC flash chips made in 2011. They fixed the issue in late 2011.
I can tell you that Samsung was fully aware that secure erase was an issue in many of their flash chip firmwares in June 2012 - so how was it that even preproduction firmware had not been properly tested with secure erase in late September 2012, nearly a year after they had fixed the same firmware bug in their eMMC chips.
I had one of my two 840 Pros die (?) this week.
I bought two 840 Pro (256Gb) in mid February 2013.
Both came with DXM03B0Q firmware.
As I purchased after reading through all relevant 840 Pro AnandTech articles I was aware of the firmware issues and the first thing I've done was upgrading (from bootable ISO created with Samsung Magician) to version DXM04B0Q.
One of the drives was setup as system drive with Win 8 Pro.
That drive has been going since and hasn't thrown any problems at all.
The other drive was setup as storage for my video work.
Both were formatted NTFS (with default cluster sizes) and connected to native Intel SATA III ports on my Asus P8P67 Mobo.
As I said the system drive is going strong (fingers crossed) so the rest of the story concerns the other (storage) drive.
All was well for a while.
After a couple of months the drive started "disappearing" from SATA bus.
This behaviour was random and I could never recreate it at will (technician's nightmare).
A reboot or a Cold Boot would always bring it back, though.
In the process, I eliminated SATA cables and ports by replacing cables and running the drive from a different port.
The other day the drive has gone for good.
Well, almost - read on.
Almost all symptoms I'm having are same or similar to other tales of 840 Pro woes I, since, read.
Drive does not show inside BIOS nor on the POST screen readouts.
When connected to SATA bus it is preventing my machine from booting to desktop.
The machine's HDD access LED stays firmly lit during boot-up process and the screen never gets to desktop.
If I physically disconnect the drive during the boot-up the said HDD access LED resumes the usual random flashes indicating reading from System Drive and System loading and, seconds later the boot completes and I get to the desktop.
If I now connect the faulty drive again - (My MoBo supports HotPlugging) the HDD access LED lights up solid but no drive appears in Windows explorer or Windows Disk Management console.
The drive appears in Device manager, however, but under a generic name, ie : "SAMSUNG SATA SSD" (caps intentional) as opposed to "Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series" (which is how my System drive appears next to it under Device Manager). My "Safely Remove Hardware" green icon also appears in the System tray and lists the drive (under "SAMSUNG SATA SSD").
If I attempt to click on it - nothing happens (ie : no usual message "Safe to Remove", etc ...).
All the while, from the moment of hot-plugging the drive the HDD access LED stays firmly lit.
Neither Windows Explorer nor Disk Management Console nor Samsung Magician utility see the drive.
HDD access LED stays lit while the machine remains in "Shutting Down" screen yet never actually shuts down until I physically pull the drive out from the HotPlug bay. At this point HDD access LED resumes the familiar flashing pattern indicating read/write processes on System Drive and the machine eventually shuts down after a few seconds.
I eliminated further variables by connecting it as an external drive using a SATA->USB3 enclosure.
Since the drive entry appears in Device Manager after hot-plugging the drive - is there any Windows-based (not DOS) software that will allow me to access the drive to perform either a firmware re-flash (a new DXM05B0Q firmware is now available) or data recovery ?
To recap : the drive does not appear in BIOS nor Windows Explorer nor Windows Disk Management Console nor is it seen by Samsung Magician nor any other Windows (or DOS - I tried SpinRite) utilities I know of.
Looks like I am in the same boat as you guys, now with a broken 840 Pro 256GB drive!
It does not show up in BIOS any longer, and when trying to find i hooked up to a USB cradle, it shows a 100MB uninitialized.
If I try to initialize it as MBR, WIndows reports an I/O error has occured. | 2019-04-21T02:31:19 | https://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/6503?cPage=6&all=False&sort=0&page=1&slug=second-update-on-samsung-ssd-840840-pro-failures |
0.999999 | The lights flicker as Ben Newman glides his broom across my tired floors. His touch is smooth and gentle. I can easily tell the character of a man by the way he treats me. Many men have quickly run over my floors and dabbed at my windows with the forethought of ‘doing’ as quickly as possible. I watch as they gather momentum Sunday after Sunday, month after month, and sadly – year after year all in the name of ‘doing’ God’s work. Programs are created and class after class is taught. Yet, quite surprisingly they remind me of Lemmings hyped on coffee, running in circles.
Ben is a man of great integrity. It’s obvious. He prays as he gently wipes a damp cloth across the blue-padded chairs perfectly aligned throughout my Sanctuary. Sanctuary: a place of refuge. How long do these people need to remain in refuge before they are able to leave? Are they hiding? <br><br>My restrooms are in serious need of cleaning.
The vacuum cleaner is old but it still has life pulsing through it as the dirt is lifted from my carpet. The vibration of the rollers massages my fatigued halls. I love feeling children’s feet running up and down, twisting turning, excited to be here, full of life. But I feel the heaviness of their parent and grandparent’s…happy to be here but afraid to leave. Scared. Unequipped. For them it is better to find refuge with other refugees and rejoice in their safety.
Ben is very detailed. With the gentle touch of an artisan he meticulously cleans the panes of my windows. I’m proud of the light I can let flood into my inner being and onto others. God’s light. As his fingers dig a soft cloth into the crevices of my pane he again prays, “God let your light shine into the hearts of all that they may be renewed, refreshed … ready.” Ahhh! My panes feel so much better, cleaner. Thanks Ben.
My walls ache. I feel more like a warehouse. People come in, but don’t really ‘go out’. Yes, they physically leave but they spend too much time here organizing events, drinking latte’s, slapping each other on the back, and telling each other how great they are. Why don’t they really go…into the world? Not this warehouse-world they created, but the ‘real’ world. The everyday. The sometimes mundane. The hurting. The beautiful. The joyous world around them. My walls ache.
Ben quietly weaves in and out of rooms, down hallways, and through doors. When Sunday comes no one cares that he painstakingly cleaned, washed, vacuumed, took out the trash, or prayed. It is expected that I am clean. Most of the warehouse-people don’t even know that Ben works two jobs. But they do see the sparkle…on the restroom counters.
Ben has finished his required duties but notices dust on my magnificent wooden doors. He retrieves a clean cloth and wood polish. The liquid polish soaks into my old frame and rejuvenates my worn core. My doors are multifunctional. They open to let everyone in and close to keep them in. When they are finished with their warehousing duties they throw my solid oaken doors wide and eagerly scamper out in true Lemming fashion. | 2019-04-20T00:37:12 | http://archives.wineskins.org/article/the-write-side-of-the-church-aug-2012/ |
0.999931 | TRESOR "d'Olivier Levasseur " dit "la buse" ...Mes recherches..
Is this the key to uncover La Buse's treasure?
Olivier Le Vasseur was the famous pirate who was hung in Reunion in 1730. On his way to the scaffold, he supposedly flung a cryptogram to the crowd, saying "find my treasure he who can". Could I have found the clue to his treasure?, The cryptogram also suggested that a moulded woman can be found by following his instructions. Well I did follow his instructions and this is what I found. Please like and share; Thanks.
Although there are still a number of pirates around today, the last great pirate crews died hundreds of years ago, taking countless mysteries with them to the oceans’ murky depths. 10 Unsolved Pirate Mysteries That Will Shiver Your Timbers 10) The Ghost Ship Of Topsail Island 9) The Treasure Of Oak Island 8) Murder At Sea 7) The Kraken 6) The Cryptogram Of Olivier Levasseur 5) Pirate Utopia 4) The Green Flash 3) The Ghost In The Cave 2) Pirate Tunnels 1) Lake Of Bones ► Subscribe: https://goo.gl/PoeQCx ► Facebook: https://goo.gl/QEjBxt Thanks for watching !!!
“La Buse” (1688-1730) - The true story of One Piece !
In 1721, the pirate Olivier Levasseur, nicknamed “La Buse” made the most beautiful catch in the entire History of Piracy. Bibliography: “Mon Trésor à qui saura le prendre” by Emmanuel Mezino; “Histoire de la Piraterie” by Robert de la Croix. Pictures of the video taken from: Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, artworks and game pictures. Music: Soundtracks from the videogame “Sea Dogs” Bonuses: Wikipedia French article with the full cryptogram’s text: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogramme_de_La_Buse An original feature of the actual flag of Levasseur: it is one of the very few “Jolly Roger” showing a black pattern on a white background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur#/media/File:Jolly_Roger_flag_of_pirate_Olivier_Levasseur_(La_Buse).png For three centuries, the adventurous life of Levasseur has been an inspiration for the most famous authors, like Robert Louis Stevenson who reused the story of the cannons of La Nossa Senhora in “Treasure Island”. Mangaka Eiichiro Oda took inspiration from La Buse in his great series “One Piece”: the story starts with the execution of Gol D. Roger, Lord of the Pirates, who throws an incomplete treasure map to the crowd, and whose last words are practically the same than those said by Levasseur. The captain of Bird Galley, William Snelgrave, was spared by Levasseur and his men, because his crew described him as an officer of great value and above all human. Snelgrave was kept captive during a month, and wrote later about the extravagant feasts which followed the capture of his ship. Besides, he noted that most of the sailors who turned to piracy justified it because of the very harsh discipline in the national navies. In his book “A General History of the Pyrates”, Daniel Defoe wrote that Levasseur progressively lost the use of one eye, and often hid it behind a headband. The eyepatch is today considered as a stereotype of pirates in collective imagination. A pirate of legend, Levasseur belongs today to the folklore in the Indian Ocean. His tomb –located in the marine cemetery of Saint-Paul, Réunion- is a true tourist attraction. However, it is now acknowledged that it does not keep the pirate’s remains. Indeed, Levasseur’s body was shown to the public for several days, then thrown into a common grave, as it was the custom of this time for all executed pirates. Contrary to La Buse, Blackbeard chose to stay in the Americas in 1716. But his career ended as soon as 1718, killed by Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy, during the combat of Ocracoke. Contrary to his legend, Blackbeard was not the cruellest pirate. He preferred ruse and intimidation rather than violent actions. Moreover, his career was relatively short and not so profitable, compared to other pirates, including La Buse. The grandfather of the French author Jean-Marie Le Clézio spent twenty years of his life in search of La Buse’s treasure, raking the beaches of Rodrigues island, in the Mascarenhas Archipelago. The Englishman Reginald Cruise-Wilkins searched La Buse’s treasure from 1947 to 1970. He thought that it was hidden in Mahé, Seychelles. He did find a pirate’s cache but this one only contained a few golden coins and some pistols. The main plot of the Android videogame “Assassin’s Creed: Pirates” made by Ubisoft is the search of La Buse’s treasure. A French pirate, named Captain Levasseur” appears in the American movie “Captain Blood” (released in 1935). He is loosely related to La Buse, with his French accent and his slash. Yet, as it should be in any good Anglo-Saxon movie, he is killed during a duel with the English hero. Did you know ? At the turn of the 18th century, France, England and Holland managed to take many territories from Spain in the Caribbean. With the growing might of these states, the era of the flibustery ended and the era of piracy started. Famous English pirates (Edward Teach “Blackbeard”, Stede Bonnet, Jack Rackham...) did not hesitate to attack the ships of the English navy. Because of the massive British immigration, the French were a minority in the region but they remained active. It’s the case of Emanuel Wynne who started his career attacking English ships along the coast of Carolina. Then he sailed to the Caribbean and after to the Gulf of Guinea. On July 18, 1700, off the Sao Joao island (current Brava, Cape Verde), Wynne only just managed to lose HMS Poole, led by Captain John Cranby. In his report, the British officer described the flag of Wynne’s ship L’Aventure (The Adventure): “A black flag with a skull above two crossbones and an hourglass”. It is the first description close to the famous “Black Flag” (or Jolly Roger). Today, historians agree to say that Wynne is the indisputable inspirer of Jolly Roger.
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Visitamos la Tumba de el famoso Pirata LA BUSE Isla Réunion. LA BUSE también conocido con el sobrenombre de (EL HALCÓN) famoso por perpetrar el asalto a un barco Portugués de 800 Toneladas y 72 cañones, llevándose el mayor botín de la historia de los Piratas. Famoso también porque escondió el tesoro, y el mapa para encontrarlo es un papiro encryptado con símbolos Templarios. A día de hoy nadie ha sido capaz de descifrar el papiro y el tesoro sigue escondido. 0:01 Cimetiere Marin 0:14 Cementerio Marino de la villa de Sant Paul Isla Reunion 0:24 Tumba del famoso Pirata La Buse 0:43 Explicación del Pirata La Buse apodado El Halcón 0:57 La Buse da el mayor golpe pirata 1:14 En el momento de ahorcarlo lanza un papiro en forma de Criptograma 1:20 Mi tesoro para el que lo pueda descifrar 1:32 A día de hoy nadie ha podido descifrarlo 1:36 Créditos finales El Pirata la Buse Isla Réunion ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOOGLE PLUS: https://plus.google.com/+JavierCubedo TWITTER: https://twitter.com/JavierCubedo1 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/World360 Si te ha gustado el video EL PIRATA LA BUSE Isla Réunion puedes dejar un comentario. Y no olvides suscribirte. | 2019-04-22T10:27:24 | http://igep.info/search?q=Cryptogramme%20du%20tresor%20de%20la%20buse%20cryptogram |
0.999972 | I'm not sure if this is a bug, a feature, or just something that needs some tweaking, but currently, calendar items don't seem to be completely connected to the actual assignments or quizzes they indicate. Specifically, there have been times when I have changed a due date for an assignment or quiz in its respective area of Canvas, and in the calendar, the icon representing the actual event reflects that change. However, the separate calendar item icon does not, and still shows the old due date.
I like to use calendar items so that students can see when major upcoming assignments or quizzes will be due without making those items available at the beginning of the semester, but more than once, students have seen two different due dates for a given assignment in the calendar due to this disconnect, because I didn't think to go into the calendar and make sure its date reflected the changed due date. It seems odd that I can change the due date for an assignment by moving the calendar item in the calendar (or, for that matter, actually delete an assignment by deleting the calendar item), but I can't change the due date in the calendar item by changing it in Assignments. And once I turn the assignment on, I end up with two different icons in the calendar for the same Assignment.
I just now tried an experiment: First, I went into an upcoming calendar item and changed the start time on the day the assignment is due. Then I went into Assignments and looked at the list of assignments; there, Canvas now indicates that the assignment is not available until the same day that it's due. However, when I click to edit the assignment, it still shows that it was available beginning on the date I created it a month ago. Finally, I went back into the assignment itself and changed the due date to a day later. Now, in the calendar, the assignment icon has moved to the correct date, but the corresponding calendar item has not.
One final observation is that, when there is both an assignment icon and a calendar item icon for the same assignment, once the closing date for that assignment has passed, the assignment icon is both "grayed" out and crossed through, but the corresponding calendar item is not. If they both represent the same assignment, shouldn't they both reflect the status of that assignment?
So, aside from actual problems with calendar items, I need to ask: What's the best way to have these problems corrected? Is it enough that I've called attention to them in the Community, do I need to call Tech Support and report this as a bug, or is this something I need to propose as a votable item?
(1) Created an assignment "placeholder" on the Calendar. This only allows me to enter a due date, so I set it for October 26 (the time defaults to 11:59 pm). I did not publish this placeholder.
(2) Navigated to the course and found the assignment in my Assignments list.
(3) Clicked on the assignment to edit the settings, noting that no Available from or until dates appear (which is correct, as I did not and could not not enter any from the calendar).
(4) Changed the due date to October 27, without changing anything else.
(5) Navigated back to the Calendar. The assignment placeholder now appears on October 27.
And just in case the publication status of the assignment was a factor, I repeated the same steps, but this time I published the placeholder before proceeding with steps 2-5. In this scenario, the date moved on the calendar as one would expect.
In other words, unless I misunderstood what you've described, I can't replicate your experience.
So to answer your ultimate question, I think your best course of action is to report this to Canvas Support and have them look at it first before we continue to troubleshoot here. Generally speaking, calling attention to something in the Community is what you'd want to do after Canvas Support has had a look at the specifics surrounding your case to see if the feature is working properly or is indeed a bug. Once the case has gotten past that point the Community can help you decide how to proceed. Please submit a ticket or call support, and take a moment to update us on the outcome!
Hello, George, we haven't heard from you in a while. Has this conversation resolved the issue for you? For now, I'm going to mark this question as Assumed Answered--but if you have a moment to let us know what Canvas Support discovered, please share the results here.
I'm going to call this resolved, because it appears the calendar items were apparently never linked to the assignments they represented (I created them several semesters ago and have carried them over from term to term, updating the dates each time). In the future, I'm going to avoid using calendar items as much as possible. That being said, it would be great if there were a way to show upcoming assignments and exams in the calendar without actually assigning them. For instance, I would like my students to be able to see at the beginning of the semester when each of the exams in a given course are scheduled, but without having to actually create each exam and publish it in order for it to appear in the calendar. If I create a separate calendar item for it, then later publish the exam, but with a different due date than what the calendar item indicates, I have to remember to go back into the calendar and either delete the calendar item (now that the quiz itself shows up there), or change the due date on the calendar item. I don't know if there is any easy answer to this situation, but would love to know what others do in this situation.
George, when you refer to "calendar items," are you talking about placeholders for assignments or events? If you create an event on the course calendar, it does not link to any assessment item; it stands alone as an event--even if you call it Assignment 1 due today. So if you subsequently create an assignment called Assignment 1 due on that date, it will have no effect on the Assignment 1 event. Assignment placeholders should always be associated with their assignment shells; they should change their position on the calendar when you edit the due dates, and they should carry over upon course copy. | 2019-04-22T23:00:55 | https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/13459-calendar-items-vs-actual-assignments |
0.99961 | How Do I Check My Bone Mineral Density?
What's Best: Vitamin D2 or D3?
Thinning of the bones (osteoporosis) is a major epidemic in Western societies, especially among women after menopause. And since osteoporosis does not cause any symptoms, many people are unaware that they are losing bone mass until they break a bone. Keeping an eye on bone health is especially important for people who may have osteopenia—indications of bone loss but not full osteoporosis.
Hip and spine. One of the most widely used bone mineral density tests involves taking a special type of x-ray of the hip and spine, known as dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (sometimes abbreviated to DEXA or DXA).
Heel. Though they may not be as reliable, as the more involved tests of the hip and spine, DEXA measurements of the heel are often conveniently available in some pharmacies and doctors' offices.
In any case, the lower your bone mineral density is, the thinner your bones are, and the greater your risk is of breaking a bone.
T-scores. The T-score compares your bone mineral density with that of healthy young adults of the same gender.
Z-scores. This score compares your bone mineral density with that of a person of the same age and gender. Z-scores are not typically used to diagnose osteoporosis, but, rather, let you know that you may be losing bone more rapidly than normal for your age.
A T-score below zero is not necessarily a concern for middle-aged or elderly people, because it is normal for older people to have lower bone mineral density than young adults.
Fortunately, bone mineral density tests are available that can tell you whether you have osteoporosis and how severe it is. If a test reveals that you have experienced bone loss, you can, with the help of your doctor, take measures to reduce your risk of fractures. Steps include improving diet, taking nutritional supplements, exercising, and (when appropriate) taking medication.
Who should have their bone mineral density checked?
Diet. Avoid calcium-leeching beverages such as colas, and avoid drinking alcohol excessively.
Nutritional supplements. In addition to calcium and vitamin D, discuss with your doctor whether taking other bone-building nutrients are right for you. These may include magnesium, vitamin K, B vitamins, zinc, copper, manganese, boron, silicon, and strontium.
Weight-bearing exercise. Exercises that resist body weight, such as running, jogging, brisk walking, and weight lifting, often help rebuild bone or slow bone loss. Ask your doctor to help you determine which of these types of exercise you can safely undertake.
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0.999728 | Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2926 is kept at Electronic Storage Facility 83-Beta. No known copies of SCP-2926 exist outside of containment.
Description: SCP-2926 is a computer program that, when provided with a digital image, will provide a short verbal description of its contents, along with one of seven "judgments" at random. The descriptions are always somewhat inaccurate.
Sample Output: An elephant with the proper number of wings. Judgment: A squeeze play that works two ways.
SCP-2926's outputs have cognitohazardous properties depending on which judgment is selected, provided that the viewer has also seen the input image.
I feel so empty. Viewer will become capable of identifying the patterns in SCP-2926's "inaccuracies", as well as in the program's delivery of judgments.
I'm not the tooth fairy. Viewer will become capable of identifying the inaccuracies present in SCP-2926's input images.
It grew to the size of an orange. Viewer will become capable of identifying consensuses regarding the subjects of SCP-2926's input images and modifying them for accuracy.
These are strange times. Viewer will be compelled to arrange for a judgment of "A squeeze play that works two ways." by any means necessary.
God, wouldn't it be beautiful? Viewer will coordinate all aforementioned viewers in order to create a consensus reality in which SCP-2926 can take the form of the sphinx.
I think I broke it. Viewer will identify and attend to the sphinx momentarily, after its receptacle is prepared.
A squeeze play that works two ways. The sphinx is realized in the viewer. You possessed no inaccuracies. The situation is immanent. | 2019-04-20T09:21:17 | http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2926 |
0.997058 | Edmond Dantes has been wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D'If, Dantes vows vengeance against the four conspirators who framed him. He is particularly anxious to give his ex-friend Mondego his comeuppance, since it was Mondego who married Dantes' fiancee Mercedes. Twelve years pass; with the help of ancient fellow prisoner Abbe Foria, Dantes digs his way out of the Chateau D'If and escapes. He finds the treasure of Monte Cristo, which makes him the wealthiest man in the world. He uses his riches to put his plan of revenge into motion, methodically destroying every one of his enemies.
This excellent classic film has something for everyone. It's a love story, an adventure, a court case, an example of injustice and eventual justice, buried treasure, swashbuckling, and yes, even revenge.
It was my first viewing of this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel. I rather enjoyed the 2002 movie starring Jim Caviezel. I hesitated watching this version, at first, because of the 1934 release date. Many films from that era were having issues with sound quality. I am happy to report that the production work is outstanding here, and the acting (although a little formal) is appropriate for the time period.
"The Count of Monte Cristo" held my attention from beginning to end. The story is character driven so be sure to remember the names and faces of the major players as the plot twists and turns.
The only negative I can come up with is the music. Its a bit melodramatic in places.
The fact that they did not include a monkey means that "Raiders", by default, still wins as the best adventure motion picture.
I loved Robert Donat in "The 39 Steps," so I figured I'd give "The Count of Monte Crisco" a shot. Unfortunately, this is a typical studio film period piece based on a huge book with quite a few strands of story to squeeze into an under-two-hour time frame, so the film's charms are fleeting as it rushes from scene to scene. Donat does his best, but he's kind of wasted here since most of the emotional scenes he gets to do in this film are cliched and the lousy make up doesn't help. One other reviewer compared this to the "Classics Illustrated" version of Dumas's book in film form, and I have to say I concur whole-heartedly. Don't bother with this unless you're a fan of these types of dated productions, and if I may offer an alternative suggestion, watch the new Blu-Ray version of "The 39 Steps" instead. Donat looks like he needed a paycheck for this one, although he is definitely giving his all here; the sword fight scene is particularly strong. Two and a half stars. | 2019-04-26T01:06:40 | https://www.fandor.com/films/the_count_of_monte_cristo_1934?panel_position=5&panel_size=medium&row_name=Related+Films&row_style=medium-row |
0.99986 | I do not quite know where to begin.
How about we begin on a positive note?
I enjoyed finding out that Max was a girl. I do love when authors deliberately choose to have their characters, of any gender, break asinine, dichotomous gender norms. -- Conversely, he also made her the "mother" of the group. The 14 year old girl with parental issues looking after other children and/or boys? Clearly his choice of a typically masculine name for her didn't mean he would write a character that broke through socialized gender norms in any other way.
He threw in unnecessary heteronormative relationship arcs.
The chapter layouts were nearly insulting to their targeted audience. As if teenagers don't have attention spans to get them through more than three pages at a time? I understand you don't have to be the 21st century's Bard, but Lemony Snicket, C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling (to name a small few) seemed to do just fine. Not to mention, their demographics were among the same age range, if not younger, than that of Patterson and consisted of infinitely better character development/arcs, plot execution, elocution, and so on.
How he managed to squeeze out another 8 novels after this, I will never understand.
Honestly, as a woman, I am insulted. This is a book advertised as empowering young women to embrace their strength, when in reality this is just as simplistic, generic, and sexist as pretty much any other book that has ever been written.
One might as well lump this guy in with D. H Lawrence, since both of them seem so intent on crafting women for their own pleasures, regardless of how actual women really feel or think. Granted, Patterson wasn't as corporeally libidinous and pornographic in his approach as Lawrence was. This still doesn't change or negate the fact that he wrote a two-dimensional female character from the privileged perspective of a white, hetero, cis male. He used a played out, flat, vapid, formulaic approach to pump out a few books in order for his own monetary gain.
This book has little to no substance whatsoever.
I wouldn't call it a waste of trees, necessarily. I do not believe in media censorship and I believe every person should read whatever fills them with joy. -- But I think it is immensely important to know what you are getting into when you pick up a book and to know what place the author is coming from when he/she/they wrote their piece. One of the greatest dangers our society regular faces is people's the tendency to treat figures of great understanding and status in certain areas transversely as authorities of the same degree in others. For example, just because someone is an amazing lawyer and has the ability to argue well, does not mean they should be able to dictate which scientific studies should receive the most funding (For more about this particular issue, I'd recommend S.L. Otto's "Fool Me Twice").
I am sure Patterson has, in some ways, earned the awards he has won. I am sure not all of his works are inadequate. -- But I certainly do not believe this 60 year old white man knows very much about the mind of a teenage girl and the problems we readily face growing up. This novel demonstrates this deficiency rather well.
This was a really enjoyable book and will appeal to teenage readers who enjoy adventure stories. From the first page it is action packed with a strong female protagonist (although at first I thought Max was a he) and is filled with suspense, drama, genetic engineering and six kids who can fly. Basically, it is an introduction to the "Maximum Ride" series as many questions are left unanswered, so I'm looking forward to reading the next book to see what happens to Max and her 'family'.
I can officially say I have read James Patterson. I cannot, however, claim to be a fan. #angelexperimenta... not worth it. | 2019-04-19T10:23:13 | https://www.libib.com/reviews/142284_68830 |
0.999078 | 55 Please do not define tests in this class.
86 (v1 as default and v2 as tag 1).
1224 opstring is a string of the operation to be performed (in terms of argument a) eg "Lsup(a)"
1225 misccheck is a string giving a check to be run after the operation eg "isinstance(res,float)"
1226 opname is a string used to describe the operation being tested eg "inf"
1228 account for tag additions for tagged data.
1242 opstring is a string of the operation to be performed (in terms of argument a) eg "Lsup(a)"
1243 misccheck is a string giving a check to be run after the operation eg "isinstance(res,float)"
1244 opname is a string used to describe the operation being tested eg "inf"
1246 account for tag additions for tagged data.
1335 opstring is a string of the operation to be performed (in terms of argument a) eg "Lsup(a)"
1336 misccheck is a string giving a check to be run after the operation eg "isinstance(res,float)"
1337 opname is a string used to describe the operation being tested eg "inf"
1339 account for tag additions for tagged data.
1351 Uses the same logic as generate_operation_test_batch but uses larger values.
1354 opstring is a string of the operation to be performed (in terms of argument a) eg "Lsup(a)"
1355 misccheck is a string giving a check to be run after the operation eg "isinstance(res,float)"
1356 opname is a string used to describe the operation being tested eg "inf"
1358 account for tag additions for tagged data.
1415 Generates a set of tests for binary operations.
1416 It is similar to the unary versions but with some unneeded options removed.
1417 For example, all operations in this type should accept complex arguments.
1418 opstring is a string of the operation to be performed (in terms of arguments a and b) eg "inner(a,b)"
1419 misccheck is a string giving a check to be run after the operation eg "isinstance(res,float)"
1420 opname is a string used to describe the operation being tested eg "inner"
1422 account for tag additions for tagged data.
1431 astr="real" if ac else "complex"
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"It's hard to evaluate baseball intellect or acumen," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said of Baez, a candidate for the National League Most Valuable Player Award. "He got a 1600 on his baseball SATs -- he definitely did."
As the Cubs enjoy a day off Thursday before playing their final 10 regular-season games, Baez's intelligence on the field may be hard for some NL MVP Award voters to measure. All you have to do is watch him to see how he takes on the role of quarterback in the Cubs' infield, directing everyone -- and it doesn't matter if he's starting at second base, shortstop or third.
When Kristopher Bryant won the NL MVP Award in 2016, one of the qualities that impressed voters was his ability to move from third base to the outfield. Baez's versatility may help him garner more MVP votes, too.
"I know we would not be in this position without him," Maddon said about the Cubs, who boast the best record in the NL at 89-63. "He carried us for a while. [Bryant] got hurt, [Anthony Rizzo] had a slow start, and from the beginning of the year to the middle, Javy really did carry us. What you've seen in the last couple days, it's been picking up again and he's kind of catching his second wind. He's definitely a really strong MVP candidate."
Baez leads the NL in RBIs (107), extra-base hits (79) and total bases (319), and he's tied for the lead with the Brewers' Christian Yelich in slugging percentage (.569). This season, Baez has set career highs in every offensive category, including home runs (33), doubles (37) and average (.294).
When Bryant won his NL MVP Award, he batted .292 and was third in the NL with 39 home runs and sixth with 102 RBIs, not far behind Rizzo, who drove in 109 that season.
Baez's strongest competition may come from Yelich, who leads the NL in batting at .319, boosted after he hit for the cycle for the second time this year on Monday against the Reds.
Maddon hopes that NL MVP Award voters consider Baez as a player and highlight his defensive skills. He has started 75 games at second base, 41 at shortstop and 18 at third base. Baez would probably catch if asked to.
"Javy, this year, is the best second baseman in baseball, and he can play short and third," Maddon said. "I'm certain we can throw him in the outfield. He's Gold Glove caliber at any position he plays, and combine that with the power, the RBIs, the batting average.
"It's hard for anybody to match up with him, his overall skill set, his baserunning, arm strength, ability to throw off balance -- you just keep going down the list of things he can do that on other teams, maybe one guy can do one or two of these things but not anybody can do all of the things he can do," Maddon said. "He's just different."
Baez hears the "M-V-P" chants, which began as soon as he headed to the plate during the Cubs' series at Chase Field against the D-backs. He rewarded the fans by hitting a home run in each of the first two games.
"At first, I used to get nervous," Baez said about the chants. "With this year that I've been having, and the goals that I was looking forward to -- getting the Gold Glove and 30 homers and 100 RBIs -- [the chanting] kind of slowed me down a little bit. Now, when they're yelling 'M-V-P,' it doesn't speed me up like it used to do.
"I help my team a lot, and that's what counts, really." | 2019-04-22T14:03:18 | https://www.mlb.com/news/javier-baez-an-mvp-candidate-thanks-to-savvy-c295379714 |
0.998314 | This year's Grammy Awards were closed by Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham., but the all-star gig was cut short on television when closing credits and sponsors were shown instead of the end of the performance. You can watch rehearsal video of the entire performance above, but in a new interview, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor lashes out at Grammy organizers, vowing never to return and calling it "an utter waste of time."
In a conversation with 3 News New Zealand, Reznor unloaded on show organizers: "What we weren't expecting was that level of insult. In fact we walked off stage and I thought, 'Hey, that actually went pretty well', and I look at my collaborator Rob Sheridan, who I run into, and he's like, 'Oh my god man, you won't believe what they just did,' and... 'What?' 'They cut this thing off in the middle and put a Delta commercial on.' 'What?' We had no idea."
Reznor continues, "So, lesson learned ... If we hadn't have done it, I'd be thinking, 'Well, what would have happened it we would have done it?' You know. So I don't regret that we did it, but would I ever -- in any situation -- ever consider possibly patronizing that event in any form? Absolutely not."
He also talked about the progress of the reissue of NIN's 1999 album 'The Fragile.' "We've done a lot of the work for that," Reznor reveals. "Really what it's come down to is with all the other stuff going on, 'The Fragile' thing in particular, I want to make sure I get it right."
"You know, we've mixed everything in surround, it sounds amazing, we have a great package ready to go," Reznor continues.." I just stumbled across 40-or-so demos that are from that era that didn't turn into songs, that range from sound effects to full-fledged pieces of music, and I kind of feel like - something should happen with that."
Nine Inch Nails will be touring the world in 2014. They travel to Japan later this month, and also have tours scheduled for Australia/New Zealand, Latin America and Europe. For all the dates, go here. | 2019-04-26T14:18:52 | https://rock967online.com/trent-reznor-vows-never-return-grammys/ |
0.999999 | Select the underlined word or phrase that needs to be changed to make the sentence correct. Some sentences contain no error at all.
The error in this sentence arises where we are told that Bianca and her sister disagree over their parents' divorce, but her sister is presented abstractly; the correct usage of "her sister" allows the individual mentioned to be presented in relation to Bianca. Without the "her," we cannot be certain what the relation is, although it is clearly indicated elsewhere in the sentence.
This sentence has an ambiguous pronoun. To whom does "she" refer? You could fix this either by referring to both women with "they," if it is indeed the case that both were honored at the awards ceremony after dinner, or by replacing "she" with the name of the woman being specified.
This sentence contains an ambiguous pronoun. We don't know whether "him" refers to Mr. Harris or Mr. Jarvins, so "him" is the error in the sentence. If we wanted to fix the error, we would have to replace "him" with the unique name of the person—Mr. Harris or Mr. Jarvins—being considered for the promotion.
This is an ambiguous pronoun. We are not sure to whom "her" refers. The sentence should use her name.
"They" is an ambiguous pronoun reference—it could refer to either "experts" or "children."
The error in this sentence is the use of the word "it" to refer to "several bags of clothing." In this case, the pronoun—"it"— is singular when it should be plural ("them").
Jeff gave up a lucrative private law practice to become an apprentice shoemaker, and his wife could not believe he did it. No error.
This sentence uses the pronoun “it” to describe an action: giving up a job and becoming an apprentice shoemaker. The pronoun “so” is used to refer to actions. The corrected sentence reads: "Jeff gave up a lucrative private law practice to become an apprentice shoemaker, and his wife could not believe he did so."
"It's" is an abbreviation for "it is." Here, "its" should be used in order to show possession. Therefore, the correct answer choice is "it's."
"Family" is singular. Therefore, the possessive pronoun that refers to it should be singular as well. Thus, "its" should be used instead of "their."
The underlined word, "it," refers to the "advantages of freelance work," which is plural. Therefore, "it," a singular pronoun, should be changed to the plural pronoun "they."
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science.
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering. | 2019-04-24T22:36:46 | https://www.varsitytutors.com/psat_writing-help/identifying-word-usage-errors/identifying-sentence-errors/identifying-usage-errors |
0.999954 | Here's the dilemma: I'm reading a book that I want to review. It is not a good book. It is poorly written, unimaginative and dull. At best it's a short story, because the basic idea is good. The editing is also questionable. I think that, given how hard many aspiring authors work to produce something good, and how much attention we give to following the advice from industry professionals and published writers, this book is insulting and really taking the piss. It should not have been published in its current form and is, in my opinion, about 50% of the way there. The only upside of this is that I didn't pay for the book, it was given to me.
reading!) something I like. And surely beauty is in the eye of the beholder and people's tastes are not all the same?
Yes, both of the latter are true, but in this case it's not about taste, it's about poor workmanship. I will quote two examples from this book to demonstrate my point, but I could easily quote or more.
murdered by a vampire, and in the next - and with no explanation whatsoever they're having a nice chat. Really!? Call me demanding but I want the writer to explain this dramatic turnaround. In fact the story can't proceed without being explained. I think this is should have been picked up in the editing process at the very least (where were you editors?). My main question here is, why doesn't the author bother to take the time to fill in the missing details of this sudden change of events? It should IMPOSSIBLE not to describe because you know your readers are going to ask themselves the same question. Then there's the 'For some astounding reason' sentence which the author assumes lets her off the hook of explaining what's going on. If the author can't be bothered to spend the time writing a few hundred words to explain what happened, then why should I bother reading on? Because you've already proved that shoddy workmanship is ok with you. It is not ok for paying customers.
This 'can't be bothered to explain' trick is used many times throughout the course of the book.
"Candles floated in the air of their own volition, just like in the Harry Potter movies,..."
This starts well enough but then 'just like in the Harry Potter movies'? How lazy can you be? First there's the assumption that the reader has seen any of the films, secondly why doesn't the writer exercise their imagination and supposed writing skills rather than using graphical shorthand? The book is riddled with this sort of thing, all of which should have been picked up by the editor.
Because I've been caught on the horns of this dilemma, I've asked other writers what they think about critiquing poor work, most prefer to ignore it and instead review books they do like. A few months ago I read another writer's blog about the same issue. Her attitude was that she didn't want to give a bad critique because she didn't want to create negative feelings within a close-knit industry and among people she may need at some point in her career. She is not alone in the POV, and I understand where she's coming from. It's hard enough to become a published/successful writer as it is without creating waves that may bounce back of distant shores later in life and slap you across the face.
On the other hand, we've a right to our opinion and to point out shoddy workmanship to others who might be tempted to spend their money on it, only to find out that it's crap. They should at least have the opportunity to know other people's opinion before they buy.
But we shouldn't live in fear of stating our opinion: that is not good for us as individuals or for our society. In fact, because of our moral obligation to be honest to ourselves, I'd say we're almost obligated to state our opinion.
Writing this blog has helped sorting my thinking out: I will be writing a critique (assuming I can reach the end before death overtakes me). And I will be as balanced as I can be, using examples to back up my comments, which is what I owe the author and publisher. It won't be a hatchet job. But I won't be holding back either, I owe that to everyone considering buying the book and all of the writers who sweat and toil to produce the best work they can.
If we don't take a stand against what we see as poor work, then we are allowing the lazy authors and quick-buck publishers to get away with literary murder. And while I know not all books are meant to be high art (and I love many things that could easily be called low-brow such as B-movies and pulp fiction for example), I don't accept that work that sinks to this level of mediocrity should be published, ever. To do this insults all writers and readers, and the memory of others, such as Mary Shelly and Bram Stoker, who were masters of this genre. While many of us may never achieve their level of excellence as writers, we should aspire to. If not, then there's no point in calling ourselves writers, we're just painting by numbers.
If that's what you aspire to, please don't bother. It's hard enough to get published as it is without having you cluttering up the slush piles. | 2019-04-23T22:48:44 | https://mickdavidsonpicturesword.weebly.com/captains-blog/category/critique |
0.997726 | How Common Is OHSS in IVF Patients?
In vitro fertilization (IVF) can help couples facing fertility challenges, such as endometriosis, ovulatory problems, and male factor issues, conceive.
As with any medical procedure, there are some minor risks associated with IVF. One risk in particular IVF patients need to be aware of is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). Dr. Janelle Dorsett explains how common OHSS is in IVF patients during consultations at her practice in Lubbock, TX.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, commonly called OHSS, is a condition in which the ovaries become inflamed, causing pain and fluid buildup within the abdominal cavity.
OHSS can be caused by hormone medications, such as the type of medications used for in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, which are used to stimulate the production of eggs within the ovaries. Too much of these hormones can overstimulate the ovaries, potentially causing OHSS.
Additionally, injectable hormone medications are more likely to cause OHSS than those taken orally. In rare cases, OHSS can occur in women not receiving fertility treatments.
How Often Does OHSS Occur in IVF Patients?
In order to perform IVF treatment, the ovaries must be stimulated to encourage the release of more than one egg using fertility medications, which are most commonly administered through shots. Because injectable fertility medications are most likely to cause ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, there is a possibility of developing this condition during IVF treatment.
Fortunately, only some women will develop OHSS during IVF and most who do will only have mild OHSS symptoms. Mild OHSS usually resolves on its own within about a week but may last slightly longer if pregnancy occurs.
Mild symptoms can include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal bloating, and a sudden weight increase of about 6 pounds. If mild symptoms of OHSS occur, it's important to let your doctor know so that you can be monitored for worsening symptoms.
In rare cases, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome may become severe. Severe OHSS is so rare that, according to the Mayo Clinic, it only occurs in 1 to 2 percent of women undergoing IVF treatment.
Severe OHSS can be life-threatening, potentially causing shortness of breath, blood clots, kidney failure, or a rapid weight gain of over 30 pounds in about a week.
If OHSS becomes severe, medical attention should be sought immediately so that the condition can be treated before symptoms become life-threatening.
While some women may develop ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome during IVF treatment, not all women will develop this condition. Those who do often only have mild symptoms, which will resolve on their own within about a week.
In even rarer cases, women undergoing IVF will experience severe OHSS. Severe OHSS requires medical attention and should be treated as early as possible.
What Makes OHSS More Likely to Occur during IVF?
Not all women who undergo IVF will develop ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, but there are some factors that can increase the likelihood of OHSS occurring.
For answers to your questions about ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and IVF, or to find out if fertility treatment is right for you, we invite you to call (806) 788-1212 to schedule a consultation with Dr. Dorsett. | 2019-04-22T12:00:47 | http://www.lubbockinfertility.com/blog/2019/01/22/how-common-is-ohss-in-195957 |
0.999999 | tl;dr: I was Virtually Connecting from #OEB16 and I am trying to give two main reasons why this was an essentially important part of OEB – at least for me.
Especially at a conference like OEB, access is highly limited. This is not because the conference organizers would not appreciate more participants. I didn’t ask, but I am sure they would find a way to host more people and I am sure the many vendors would applaud any initiative that brings more potential customers onsite. The limitations arise around budgets. A regular ticket to OEB amounts to almost 1000 Euros, a speaker still has to pay 570 Euros. Both are offered the OEB Plus Package (“the opportunity to gain even more from your OEB attendance”) for more than 220 Euros and all participants are asked to book a room at the Hotel Intercontinental – the special OEB early booking rate would have been 197 Euros for a single room (I booked a room at a hotel 5 minutes walking distance from the OEB site for 50 Euros per night and I am still alive and well). OEB lasts from Thursday-Friday, additional pre-conference workshops on Wednesday ranged from free participation to more than 300 Euros. Add flights to Berlin and the overall costs can amount to 2000 Euros per participant. Now, I am employed at two universities in a country that values education, personal development, exchange and academia as a whole and I know many colleagues in German Higher Ed. Only a handful have made it to OEB, even though their institutions are funded and they would be able to take the train to Berlin. Imagine what kind of barriers this holds to people from other countries, especially when local currency has been de-valued or when average incomes are not as high as in Germany. I don’t think it’s a surprise that OEB has a high participation rate among Scandinavian countries where wages are a lot higher than in most other places. The mentioned rates are among the highest EdTech conference rates in Europe and they can easily compete with the cost level of most conferences in the US. So, additionally to other reasons not to join OEB in person (border restrictions, travel time, family issues, etc.), the costs really are an issue.
I am not naive enough to think that VC is going to solve that problem. But VC acts as an entry point to these kinds of events for anyone with an Internet connection and an interest. Most of the virtual participants had never been to OEB and to have the possibility to include their views on conference themes and trends is an enrichment of the overall conference experience. Also, and maybe even more importantly, VC is pushing boundaries. For our sessions, we had to claim a space at the conference, we had to ask for help with organizing sessions. VC made the invisible online lurkers of a conference like this a bit more visible to the organizers.
In pretty much every session at OEB, I missed the opportunity to ask questions and to challenge mislead beliefs about disruption of education, AI in education, the Blockchain, MOOCs or video-based learning. Most sessions went slightly longer than scheduled and they were not designed for me (or anyone else) to ask these questions. As you can probably tell when you go through the recorded sessions, this frustrates me a bit. But while going through them, you will notice that VC offered exactly that space. VC made it possible to engage with speakers and experts, both onsite and online. We took the chance and made sense of the nonsense, we enriched our impressions by adding interesting ideas from elsewhere and we had a chance to reflect on each others’ associations and ideas. OEB offered Yoga classes in the morning, but no such space. I am deeply convinced that my OEB experience would have been a very frustrating one, had I not had the chance to blow off some steam or exchange some ideas. All in all, VC provided some urgently needed grip on reality and I am not sure how and where other participants at OEB got that.
Being onsite buddy for the first time was a great experience and I can’t wait to join my next conference online. If you ever have the chance, please do take it and become onsite buddy – it will change your perspective on the conference and it will allow you to make new connections. A huge thank you to Maha Bali for inviting me to be part of VC, to Helen DeWaard, Maha Abdelmoneim, Nadine Aboulmagd and to all the guests and organizers of VC for joining me here in Berlin to what would have been a much lesser conference experience without you.
Thanks again for inviting me to be VC buddy, Maha. Can’t wait for the next conference now.
Thank you, Hoda – it was great to meet you there, looking forward to our next session together! | 2019-04-24T18:50:55 | http://blog.christianfriedrich.org/english/i-was-virtually-connecting-from-oeb16/ |
0.996814 | Hypothesis Re-stated: My hypothesis is about the sarcasm used in online and spoken language. In an online conversation less sarcasm will be used because its harder to convey than in a spoken conversation.
Analytical Paragraph: In a spoken conversation sarcasm is used easily and can be conveyed in many different ways. It is mostly conveyed by the tone of the speaker’s voice, usually with a repeated letter in a word the end of the word. For example, if someone said “Pablo is smart” I would respond with “Yeah, soooooooo smart”. Now this type of Sarcasm can be used in text and written language as well by typing the same letter over and over again and assisted with a laughing emoji at the end.
But, a more sophisticated use of sarcasm can only be used in spoken conversation and I would go further to say only with a close group of friends and family. This type of sarcasm is different from the type that I talked about,. This is when you say something that is sarcastic but have a straight face and don’t make any words sound longer. But, most likely you or another person using this type of sarcasm will have a characteristic at the end which will be a telling sign that they are being sarcastic. Most likely a stranger wouldn’t be able to pick it, but close friends and family would. This could be a simple scratch of the ear or a hand run through the hair, this will become apparent eventually to the people close to you. There is no way that this could be conveyed in a text message.
Great work, keep it up!! | 2019-04-21T12:54:41 | http://samteal.mtaspiring.edutronic.net/analytical-paragraph/?replytocom=2 |
0.999996 | The construct form used in this verse - , the days of Israel - does not translate well into English. A literal translation of the start of the verse might be: "and they approached, the days of Israel, to die ...", so a little license is used above in order to read more smoothly. Most versions even blur the use of the word 'days', changing it to 'time', so the NASB says, "When the time for Israel to die drew near"; the NIV "When the time drew near for Israel to die". The CJB goes as far as making Ya'akov the subject of the verb, rather that the time: "The time came when Isra'el was approaching death". The Hebrew is both standard phraseology and a reflection of Ya'akov's conversation with Pharaoh: "'How many are the days of the years of your life?' ... 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and hard have been the days of the years of my life and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my forefathers'" (B'resheet 37:8-9).
Rashi adds that the phrase is only used when someone "did not reach the days of his fathers." Abraham and Yitz'khak both lived longer than Ya'akov; Amram lived longer than Moshe and Jesse lived longer than David.
Nachmanides explains that the phrase means, "when the time for Israel's death approached, which was during the last year of his life, he called his son Yosef." In other words, this phrase does not mean "on the day that he died", but as the Ramban continues, "he felt exhaustion and undue weakness in himself, but was not sick. Rather he knew that he would not live much longer." The text itself confirms this idea when it continues, "Some time afterward, Yosef was told, 'Your father is ill.' So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim" (B'resheet 48:1, JPS), when Ya'akov is now about to die. Nachmanides points out that the same knowledge is evident in David's case: "When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, 'I am about to go the way of all the earth ...'" (1 Kings 2:1-2, ESV); David knew in his heart that his end was approaching although he still appeared to be in full control of his faculties.
Many people have reported that their elderly relatives are "ready to go" when they reach a certain stage at the end of their lives, just somehow knowing that death is only a little way away - be that hours, days or sometimes even months. This isn't at all the same thing as people who want to die, to end their suffering or pain from cancer or some other debilitating or wasting disease; these people may want to die, but don't have that sense of imminence or readiness. On the contrary, it seems to be a peace, an acceptance, perhaps even a surrendered-ness, that makes the moment of death just a mechanical irrelevance; the time-scale has ceased to be important and there is no sense of struggle either to delay or hasten the passing from this world into the next. The ability to "die well", with grace and dignity despite the physical circumstances is an important end-of-life grace. Whether this is the IDF major1 who died saying the Sh'ma as he saved the lives of his men by throwing himself on top of a grenade about to explode in their midst, someone who dies in a hospital surrounded by bleeping machines and medical equipment or an elderly person who dies quietly in their sleep, the principle is the same: recognising and accepting the true state of things and being at peace with what is inevitably going to happen.
Two components seem to be critical in this process: being prepared to let go and having an assurance about what comes next. The first covers such items as making a fair and sensible will, visiting or being visited by close family and friends, settling any open grievances or disagreements, releasing obligations, forgiving and being forgiven, long perhaps rambling chats to simply reminisce and remember shared times, chuckling over past mistakes. These are all things that bring peace and wholeness; restoring balance and dignity to all the parties involved, enabling business to be finished off and properly closed so that things and people are released before the point of death rather than being torn apart by the death and left hanging in mid-air. The second is a matter of faith; not just being at peace with men, but being at peace with G-d and being ready to meet Him face to face. The fear of punishment, of having failed, of being unworthy or of having unfinished business here, all spoil this peace and bring tension and distress both to the person about to die and to all those around them. The lack of peace, the unreadiness, is apparent to all as the person struggles - often with themselves - to reach peace before the end overtakes them.
In the midst of a season of defeat and despair, the Psalmist wrote, "For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered" (Psalm 44:23, CJB). The writer feels the pain of exile or occupation: "You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us. You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples" (vv. 12-14, ESV) and feels wrongfully and unreasonably abandoned by G-d: "All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You, and we have not been false to Your covenant. Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from Your way; yet You have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death" (vv. 17-19, ESV). Yet, in the same way as the writer of Lamentations cries out to G-d from the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the Psalmist affirms his overall faith in G-d: "Awake! Why are you sleeping, O L-rd? Rouse Yourself! Do not reject us forever! Why do You hide Your face? Why do You forget our affliction and oppression? For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground. Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of Your steadfast love!" (vv. 23,26, ESV). That writer is not at peace, he is not "ready to go"; he is still kicking and screaming, still demanding a response from G-d.
Rav Sha'ul, on the other hand, quotes that verse from the psalm but resets it in the context of Messiah Yeshua: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, 'For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of G-d in Christ Jesus our L-rd" (Romans 8:35-39, ESV). Sha'ul is ready to go at any time; he is at peace with His G-d, knowing that nothing - even death itself - can separate him from his relationship with Yeshua. Later on Sha'ul wrote to the Philippians: "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose" (Philippians 1:22-23, NASB). Even though he is in a Roman prison, Sha'ul is so much at peace that living and dying are all the same to him - he just wants whatever will serve His L-rd the most: "But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose. But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake" (vv. 22-24, NASB).
When we reach that moment, may we know G-d's peace to accept His hand on our lives, for good or for good and be ready to go or stay at His command!
Application: Have you reached that point of readiness, knowing the nearness of death and the hand of G-d? Are you at peace with all men - including your family? If not, then don't waste time fighting, but be reconciled with both G-d and man to reach and know His peace today. | 2019-04-19T03:04:43 | http://messianictrust.org.uk/parashiyot/vayechi-8.php |
0.998391 | Your letter can be here, so do write something and share your thoughts with us!
The album 'The Story of Jazz' by Jackie Davis was originally issued by Capitol Records; it was then called "Jumpin" Jackie". My biased opinion of this record is based on many hours of listening to it, and from the fact that Jackie Davis was my organ teacher back in the 1960's!
Jackie had a style which surpasses everything that went before him, in rhythm, chordal harmonies, and dynamics. He makes the Hammond Organ lie down and beg him to play it! Listen to these tracks and learn what an incredible instrument the Hammond Organ was and is....especially in the hands of the Master himself. Two hands, string-bass pedal lines, and that amazing rhythmic block-chord style all add up to Master Jackie Davis jumpin' just for you..... jump on and swing!
This is a wonderful thing that you are doing ..... I meet and had lunch with Mr. Davis while he still lived in the Homested, Fl area around 1993/94. Something that you might like to know is he was very close friends with Jackie Gleason and did several walk ons in the Smokey and the Bandit movies. If you remember the guys driving the truck hauling a load of chickens and a cop car drives them off the road... That is Jackie Davis as the passenger and his Son driving the truck. Jackie did many walk on's in other movies as well. For the life of me I wish I could remember them because he told me of the names.
The connection with Jackie Gleason was the reason that Jackie Davis was able to do bit parts in a lot of movies and TV shows that were shot in Miami. He even did some parts in Miami Vice as well other movies and shows. One movie I do know he was in is The Specialist with James Woods. Jackie played the owner of a small fruit stand and James Wood's asks him some question and theres Jackie Davis turning around to answer him. Jackie had just done the part about 2 or 3 days before I meet him.
He also, was organist for the Howdie Doodie show's last run when it was in Miami.
Also, there is a funny story about him an Ethel Smith during one of the NAMM shows where Hammond was introducing a new model organ at a dealer presentation. Ethel Smith was into mediation and meta-physics. She got done playing and went into this whole thing about meta-physics. No one knew how to get her to stop nor did they want to get her riled up as she was known to go off on people. Jackie was COOOOOLLLLL he walked up and said something to the effect, " Hey Ethel. Can I play now?" She laughed and said something back to him and they show got back on track. From what I understand she really liked Jackie a lot and was probably the only one that could have pulled that off. As a side note she lived in the Miami area as well so they saw each other.
I hope you have great luck with you site... It looks great.
Like Wild Bill Davis and Bill Doggett, it so happens that Jackie Davis was another alumni of Louis Jordan's group who decided to mess around with the Hammond organ ... actually he did a lot more than mess around with it ... he MASTERED it.
Though Jackie Davis's pedal heavy sometimes Fats Waller inspired syncopated swing sound lacks the groovy bluesiness of Wild Bill Davis -- or even Jimmy Smith and those that followed him, it is still wonderful ... especially if you are a lover of the Hammond organ. - - Jackie Davis plays the organ to its fullest potential ... old school style (pedals, LH chords and RH melodies) ... to more modernistic fans, it might sound too much like "Roller Skating Rink" music, however, once all prejudices are dropped, the thrill of a pure musical listening experience emerges ... Sadly Jackie Davis passed a few years ago ... and even more sadly most of his (and Wild Bill's and Milt Buckner's) albums are out of print ... therefore, I consider the availability of 'The Story of Jazz' CD an extremely rare treat that is a must have for any truly bonified Hammond nut ! ! !
I sure remember Jackie Davis too. Back in the early 1960's I took organ lessons at the Lyon & Healy store in Downtown Chicago (Adams & Wabash) and my teacher was Cosmo Teri (a very accomplished Hammond organist). In one of the 4 teaching studios I remember seeing Jackie Davis at times (my teacher told me who he was). I believe he rented a teaching room at times to practice in since I don't believe he was a teacher there at any time. The other Hammond organ teacher there that I recall at that time was Paul Renard. Myself I had lessons from Cosmo Teri. I am so glad I had him as a teacher since he did publish some Hammond sheet music arrangements and was an accomplished Church organist who did a nice job of training me to play in Church as I did for 15 years total. But yes, I remember Jackie in those organ studios at Lyon & Healy!!
I'd like to personally thank you for keeping Jackie Davis alive on the internet. He was one of the nicest persons you could ever meet. I'm more familiar with Mr. Davis' work as "Smoke" in Caddy Shack, but am well aware of his work as a musician. Mr. Davis used to live down the street from me when I was growing up as youngster in Miami, FL.
I first realized who he was when my oldest brother told me that the guy who walks around the neighborhood with the golf club was in the movie Caddy Shack. Well, one day my friends and I went up to him and asked if he was in Caddy Shack and not only did he talk with us he showed us pictures. We were so happy that we knew a star.
After that day, whenever he had a small gig he would ask a few of us in the neighborhood to help transport his organ from his house to his show. We were more than happy because he paid well!! Five to ten dollars goes a long way for an 11 year old in 1985. After each time we helped him he would say to us, "You guys are my gang, my gang!" While helping with the move, he would give us a Coke and show us all his jazz records. We were impressed that his face was on the cover of a record.
When we weren't helping him move his organ, he would take a break from his long walks to show us how to swing a golf club. He would let about 5 of us hit a few golf balls into the woods. I always remember him telling my brother that he had a good swing.
Well, a few years went by and I lost touch with Mr. Davis. I know he went through some difficult times after Hurricane Andrew, as he stopped by my parents house shortly after the storm. I had not seen him for a while until probably around 1997 when he came into the restaurant I was working in. I sat down at the table with him and we reminisced about old times. I'm not sure he remembered my name, but when he saw me his first words were...."My gang, my gang!"
Thank you for visiting this website and great that you found this section. I started this page august 2007. Someday a close friend did ask me if I could find some of Jackie Davis’ music on CD, some tunes were still in his mind from many, many years back. He just couldn’t find so much on Jackie Davis, as an ‘experienced’ surfer I came up with lots of info on Jackie Davis. And after listening to Jackie’s music I was astonished; the happiness, the freshness and the musicality was overwhelming to me. The thing is that I don’t have a real Hammond background, I do have some modern Hammond music by for example Barbara Dennerlein and Joey DeFrancesco and had listen to Jimmy Smith and Rhoda Scott. But Jackie got REALLY my attention! I do have a piano background and I love classical piano and jazz, like Keith Jarrett. So I did search the internet and found many interesting details regarding Jackie Davis. Also I found 4 brand-new-never-played LP's only 2 km's away from my home, it came from a collection of a retired former record shop owner and it included the 1980 Heemstede release. Lucky me because my first 'Heemstede' has some clicks and noise. Giving my technical background and experience with websites I thought: Why isn’t there a site with a complete overview on Jackie? Info is spread and seems lost in time, and I believe this should not be happening. People should have access to (lost) interviews and for example an LP/CD overview without so much effort; the Jackie Davis site was born. My technical background can be found at www.wimdehaan.nl. | 2019-04-21T15:05:01 | http://www.wimdehaan.nl/jackie/printable/letters/index.html |
0.997836 | What's Wrong With Silicon Valley's No-Poach Rule?
The antitrust lawsuit, involving 64,613 software engineers, accuses Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel of informal collusion not to hire away each others' employees. The engineers themselves maintain that this cost them earning power up to a total of some $3 billion. No one denies that such informal "no poaching" agreements were in place between these companies. At issue is what it cost.
But why do such agreements come into being in the first place? It's alleged that the idea came into practice when George Lucas sold what was to be Pixar to Steve Jobs. The two men agreed not to poach each others' workers in order to avoid wage inflation which they believed neither could afford.
At heart, what's revealed in these arrangements is striking: a belief that, once you've hired someone, you have bought the power to control their future when they work for you -- even after they've quit. In other words, you own them.
Of course, the employees still fondly imagine themselves to be free agents. After all, isn't freedom supposed to be the compensation for insecure employment? But according to these deals, power remains entirely on the side of the employer who can determine who to hire, how long they stay and who they can work for after they're gone. To call this wage theft understates the case. It could be seen as career theft. In an industry that celebrates innovation and originality, this is an ancient idea with a poor pedigree.
More enlightened employers might think about this differently. When I hire someone, I hope that they will do a good job for me and also that I will prove a good boss. I would like to think that, working for me, their skills, talent and ambition will grow. I might -- or might not -- be able to contain that ambition and, if not, I would expect the individual to want to leave. I don't want to hire drones; I want to hire expansive, energetic people with drive. I certainly don't want people to stay because they have no choices.
When they go elsewhere -- whether to work for someone else or to start their own business -- my company's network and (I hope) reputation is enhanced. If my employees have had a great experience working for me, more people get to know that -- and more will head my way. Moreover, I now have alumni whom I can tap for talent too.
In other words, any business leader is, and ought to expect to be, an impresario -- identifying, nurturing talent and building a rich, responsive network of gifted people around the world. Not only do employees spread the reputation of a great boss; they also build the knowledge network into which each boss can tap. It's reciprocal -- or ought to be.
That mindset, however, sees employees as equals and as assets, not as widgets or chips to be played in a game. And that, at heart, is what lies beneath the class action suit -- the question as to whether employees and employers are partners or master and slave. It seems a bizarre question to be debating in 2014.
As long as employers believe in their dominance, they will send talent out of their companies. Consider the founders of Twitter. They left Google before their options vested not because they were poached and not because setting up their own business was the only way to escape anti-poaching agreements; they left because they sought their freedom.
Margaret Heffernan's book on competition and collaboration, A Bigger Prizw , is out now. | 2019-04-24T06:20:18 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whats-wrong-with-silicon-valley_b_5189658 |
0.983869 | Tehran appeals to Syria's government and opposition to begin peace talks as it hosts conference on the conflict.
Iran has appealed to Syria's government and the rebels fighting it to open peace talks as it hosted a hastily arranged international conference on the conflict in its key Arab ally.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the foreign minister, told diplomats from Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela and other nations that Tehran was prepared to also host such a dialogue, state television reported on Thursday.
Iran opposes "any foreign interference and military intervention in resolving the Syrian crisis" and supports UN efforts to end the bloodshed, Salehi said.
There was no indication Iran was modifying its strong support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have been locked in an escalating war with rebels since an uprising against his rule started in March 2011.
The conference in Tehran came days after a senior aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Saeed Jalili, told Assad in Damascus that Tehran would not permit its alliance with his regime to be broken.
"Iran will never allow the resistance axis - of which Syria is an essential pillar - to break," said Jalili.
The conference brought together diplomatic representatives, mostly ambassadors, from 29 countries, including Iran. None from Western states or Turkey, which backs the Free Syrian Army, or Arab countries in the Gulf that Iran accuses of arming Syria's rebels.
Syria's government itself was not represented, nor was Syria's opposition.
The meeting took place in the diplomatic vacuum left by Kofi Annan's August 2 announcement that he was resigning as the UN-Arab League envoy on the crisis because of lack of UN Security Council support.
The United States and Russia, in particular, differ on how to tackle the Syrian conflict and have stalled any UN action. Moscow and Beijing have vetoed three resolutions within the Council to sanction Assad's regime.
A frustrated Annan said the "continuous finger-pointing and name-calling" in the Council undermined his mission.
Iran announced the conference on Monday and said it was inviting only governments with a "realistic position" on Syria, implying those that shared its stance, mirroring that of Russia.
A senior foreign ministry official had said the meeting would be at foreign ministers level, but only three foreign officials of that rank turned up. They came from Iraq, Pakistan and Zimbabwe. Ambassadors filled most of the table.
According to Salehi, those represented were: Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Benin, Belarus, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
Tehran was attempting to revive parts of Annan's plan, notably: implementing a ceasefire, sending humanitarian aid and laying the groundwork for national dialogue, he said.
Iran has already sent humanitarian aid, the foreign minister said, to make up for international sanctions on Damascus that were "not in the interests of the Syrian people but have added to their suffering". | 2019-04-20T00:53:34 | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/201289182347533763.html |
0.999897 | Andre Hernich, University of Liverpool. Part of the algebra, logic and algorithms seminar series.
In ontology-mediated querying we are given a database D (a finite set of facts), an ontology O (a finite set of sentences in some logic, typically first-order logic), and a query q (typically formulated in a 'light-weight' fragment of first-order logic), and the goal is to decide if q is entailed by D and O. Thus, ontology-mediated querying extends the traditional database querying setting by an ontology, which provides domain knowledge that will be taken into account in query evaluation. This problem has received a lot of attention recently in database theory as well as the knowledge representation and reasoning community. Most of the work in this area deals with identifying 'tractable' ontology languages - fragments of first-order logic or its extensions such that every ontology formulated in such a fragment admits tractable query answering. Oftentimes, however, applications require language features that are only available in more expressive and 'intractable' ontology languages, but that could still be added to an ontology in a way so that one can hope to avoid hardness. This motivates a more fine-grained study of query answering at the level of individual ontologies. Given an ontology, is it the case that query answering w.r.t. this ontology is tractable or is it intractable? This talk is about such a fine-grained complexity analysis for ontologies that can be expressed in the guarded fragment of first-order logic with counting, which captures a wide range of ontology languages that have been studied previously.
This is joint work with Carsten Lutz, Fabio Papacchini, and Frank Wolter, published at PODS 2017. | 2019-04-21T00:40:40 | https://physicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/110/dichotomies_in_ontology-mediated_querying_with_the_guarded_fragment |
0.999675 | What do I mean by car sharing? Many of us need to use a car from time to time. Whether it for weekends traveling, going on a date or for carrying heavy stuff from one place to another.
Because of that, we decided to own a private car and also have a bicycle or electric bicycle that we will use, hopefully, for most of our other trips.
As you probably know and feel in your pocket, owning a car is very expensive. Except for the initial purchase price, you have to pay for gas, insurance, maintenance and for (usually) expensive parking.
The insurance and maintenance are fixed prices. Meaning that whether you use your car or not, you pay them!
I have an alternative for you. There is a change that you've already hear about this service but you don't use it. I'm here to tell you about it.
So what will you do if you would sell you car?
First of all, you will have a lot of extra cash each month.
Second, you have your an electric bicycle (Or you are going to buy one). The only significant money spending here is the e-bike price and in comparsions with the price of a typical car, it is peanuts.
You will have to replace the battery every couple of hundreds or thousands cycles of charges (it depends on the battery type). The cost of charging the battery is very small.
You will begin to use your e-bike more and more, and most probably, you will find out that in a urban area, you arrive much faster then the cars .
Third, you will use the public transportation system for certain cases like days with a very heavy rain, very long travel distances and etc.
And if you have a high quality transport system in your city, you are probably using it a lot anyway.
Fourth, whenever you want a car. You can use the car sharing programs (also known as Car2Go) that are operated in many many countries and cities.
It is very simple idea. It let you rent a car for a few hours or a few days. You log on to the car sharing website, locate one of their cars that is placed nearby and you probably can also choose from a variety of brands.
Now, you determine the pickup time and the return time. The cost is usually per hour and/or per mile. That's all.
And for those of you who still going to use a car quite often, there are usually monthly subscription programs that will reduce the per hour/mile cost.
You can even take your e-bike with you in the car if you have a foldable one!
And if we are not owning a car, why own an e-bike?
First of all, because we don't have to pay any fixed prices, it make sense to own an e-bike.
But, I don't see a reason why a e-Bike2Go program wont be a success. There are already a lot of cities that have a bicycle renting programs which are highly popular so adding e-bike to them will surely be a success too and a great motivation to those who afraid of using regular bicycles. | 2019-04-20T22:51:26 | https://www.electric-bicycle-guide.com/car_sharing.html |
0.99861 | For some, that first spark is born within an office. For others like Amazon, Apple, Disney and Google, their businesses were ignited at home. As for Passage Productions, it sparked within a 2 bedroom apartment in San Diego, CA. It was during their work on a feature film together when Michael Romero and Gulliver Parascandolo recognized the synergy between them. Further fusing their cinematic sensibilities and unique storytelling approaches together, Passage Productions was born in 2003.
The mission was to create a video production company that stood out, a partnership to encapsulate collaboration, strategy, innovation and vision. An outlet for creative ideas that cut through the disruption of daily life. The momentum grew and it quickly became clear that bringing their client’s vision to life beyond expectations was the driving force for the company. Passage Productions now collaborates with brands from all over the world and the passion that ignited it all is fiercely alive today, fueled by an innovative team and that same spark of synergy that started it all.
Being honest and having integrity is at the heart of everything we do at Passage Productions. Many of our clients have been with us for over ten years, because they know we're committed to the success of their business and forming a working relationship built on trust and respect. We feel it is important for our business to represent what we feel is important in life.
Our work is our passion and with true passion comes dedication. Our passion for the newest media trends and technology means that Passage Productions will always come to the table with ideas that will give you the edge you need and a team that can accomplish anything.
Our unique culture of imagination, creativity and collaboration is at the core of everything we do at Passage Productions. We are made up of realists and dreamers and our team has collaborated together for over a decade, truly making us more than the sum of our parts. Whether it’s in our studio or in the field, we all come together with one common goal: “To create something amazing”.
Her foresight and ability to communicate are two talents that just come naturally to Christine. Over the past decade she has refined her project management and producing skills to an art. As our senior producer, she has successfully lead many successful projects and produced videos for some major brands such as HP, Sony, Pepsi, Jack-in-the-Box, and FOX sports.
Gulliver received his first film festival accolades when he was 13 years old. Since then, he has taken his obsession for film making into every aspect of his life. His excitement and passion is contagious, and his love for new media experiences drives him to push his collaborators in new and exciting directions.
Bringing forth a dynamic combination of creativity and production expertise, Michael is a strong force in the industry. His extensive background in film production, combined with his true entrepreneurial spirit, helped him to launch Passage Productions with Gulliver Parascandolo in 2003. And through today, it’s these multiple facets that come together to create powerful strategies and innovative methods of storytelling. | 2019-04-19T17:01:39 | http://passageproductions.com/about/ |
0.998627 | I'm drinking red wine with ice cubes in it!? What does this mean? It's been a long day. I'm feeling a little trapped. The workers are here all day, for this entire week. In and out of the house. I feel a need to be here and keep an eye on things. Make sure all the little jobs are getting finished up. The situation won't change this week so I might as well go into my 'acceptance' mode. I'm fine in the morning. Busying myself with organizational tasks and keeping the cement dust at bay. By the time the sun hits and the air heats up - I'm ready to get out and about. Just a little restless .... a time of transition.
a. a passing from one key to another; modulation.
b. a brief modulation; a modulation used in passing.
c. a sudden, unprepared modulation.
3. Theatre. a passage from one scene to another by sound effects, music, etc., as in a television program, theatrical production, or the like.
Which definition applies the best? Perhaps 2c. Unprepared modulation? Although, I have pondered this time in Mexico, when I am getting settled, making myself a new life. So perhaps I am prepared, as much as anyone can ever be prepared. What about the Theatre? Things can be a little theatrical with me. After all, I am a Leo! For some years however, I have been practicing balance. Keeping my emotions out of it. Using them to their best advantage. Stepping back and being the observer.
I am determining it is more of a passage ... a rite of passage. A transition or change in my concept of life in general. Am I transitioning, in the best possible way, not only into a different culture, country, and home, but also into my crone years? More inner strength, more balance, and might I even utter the words, more wisdom? With wisdom comes more questions. I realize I don't know anything anymore. Wanting to know more. Needing and digging for that deep understanding. A deep knowing of who I am, authentically. More honesty with myself. More putting the importance in life on what is really important to me. More emphasis on relationships, and the quality of life I need to feel content and fulfilled. More focus on creativity. More focus, period! I remember one of my spiritual teachers drumming into my head "Donna, you are what you focus on!" and "Don't put your attention there, it's not important." ... I do ramble on! These are the ramblings of a woman in transition. Don't leave me alone tooooo long!
What can I show you today. The old hacienda doors are now gracing my house. I need to purchase some old funky hardware for them. If only they could speak - I'm sure I would spend some fascinating hours listening to their story. They are beautiful. I adore them. I consider them a piece of art. They are highly carved. About 200 years old. I did not touch the surface except to seal it. They had to be 'cut to fit' ... unfortunately they lost a little of their grandure. I think they are spectacular!
There is a shadow on my courtyard wall which is really cool. It's a shadow of my tree, my little chimney and an electrical poll which sticks out of my roof. Allow me to share. | 2019-04-25T11:52:28 | http://www.dorothydonnaparker.com/2010/06/ramblings-of-woman-in-transition.html |
0.999999 | DNA replication is catalyzed by DNA polymerase. All cells express several different DNA polymerases that variously participate in the several aspects of DNA replication and in the repair of damaged DNA. DNA polymerases catalyze the reaction (DNA)n residues + dNTP → (DNA)n+1 residues + PPi, where dNTP is the deoxynucleoside triphosphate whose base is complementary to a base on the strand being copied, the so-called template strand. In addition, DNA polymerases cannot initiate replication by linking together two dNTPs, but rather, can only link the incoming nucleotide to a terminal 3'-OH group on an existing polynucleotide strand, the so-called primer strand, thereby forming a 3' → 5' phosphodiester bond between successive deoxynucleotides.
If DNA polymerase can only add nucleotides to a pre-existing primer strand, how can the primer be synthesized? The answer is that the initial primer is a short RNA strand that is complementary to the a portion of the template strand and which is synthesized by an RNA polymerase known as primase. This enzyme catalyzes a reaction similar to that catalyzed by DNA polymerase but uses NTPs rather than dNTPs. However primase, as can all RNA polymerases, does not require a primer to initiate polynucleotide synthesis; it can do so by linking together two NTPs in a 3' → 5' linkage.
2. A 3' → 5' exonuclease, that hydrolyzes off mispaired nucleotides at the 3' end of the growing polynucleotide [(DNA)n residues + H2O → (DNA)n-1 residues + dNMP] and hence provides Pol I with the ability to proofread and edit its mistakes.
3. A 5' → 3' exonuclease, whose central role is to remove the RNA primers (although it also participates in DNA repair processes), which the polymerase function then replaces with DNA.
These active sites occupy different regions of Pol I. In fact, mild treatment of Pol I by proteases such as trypsin and subtilisin, cleaves Pol I into two catalytically active fragments. The N-terminal fragment (residues 1-323) contains the 5' → 3' exonuclease function, whereas the larger, C-terminal fragment (residues 324-928), which is known as the Klenow fragment, contains both the polymerase and the 3' → 5' exonuclease functions.
Thomas Steitz determined the X-ray structure of Klenow fragment in complex with a 13-nucleotide (nt) primer strand and a 10-nt template strand (the primer strand is the strand that is synthesized by the polymerase as the complement of the template strand; the entire DNA is often referred to as primer−template DNA). Klenow fragment is shown in ribbon form colored in rainbow order from its N-terminus (blue) to its C-terminus (red). The DNA is drawn in stick form and colored according to atom type with template C cyan, primer C magenta, N blue, O red, and P orange and with an orange rod connecting successive P atoms in each strand. The 3' → 5' exonuclease active site at the N-terminal end of the protein is marked by a Zn2+ ion (gray sphere). 'The arrangement of the polymerase's three domains is reminiscent of a right hand grasping a rod (the DNA) and hence, from N- to C-terminus, they are named “palm“, "fingers", and "thumb". The polymerase's active site is located in the palm domain near the cleft between the fingers and thumb domains. All DNA polymerases of known structure have a similar spatial arrangements of fingers, thumb, and palm domains, even though, in many cases, they have no recognizable sequence similarity with Pol I and the structure of their fingers, thumb, and palm domains bear no resemblance to those of Pol I.
The X-ray structure is that of an editing complex, that is, the 3' end of the primer strand, the end that is elongated by the polymerase, occupies the 3'→5' exonuclease active site. This is more clearly seen in a in which the the rods connecting successive P atoms have been removed for clarity. Note that the base pair closest to the polymerase active site, a G·C, has opened up to enable the 3' end of the primer strand to reach the exonuclease active site. Click here to .
As mentioned above, Pol I's primary and essential function is to excise the RNA primers from newly synthesized Okazaki fragments with its 5' → 3' exonuclease function and replace them with DNA using its polymerase function. This yields a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) with a single strand nick between successive Okazaki fragments, a nick that is eventually sealed through the action of DNA ligase.
Thermus aquaticus (Taq, PDB entry 1taq) is 51% identical in sequence with E. coli Pol I, although it lacks a 3' → 5' exonuclease function due to the absence of critical residues. The X-ray structure of the complete Taq Pol I, was also determined by Steitz. Here its C-terminal Klenow fragment portion is initially viewed as is that in the foregoing structure of Klenow·DNA and colored light green, whereas the N-terminal 5' → 3' exonuclease portion is colored in rainbow order from its N-terminus (blue) to its C-terminus (red). Note that there is only tenuous contact between the Klenow fragment and the 5' → 3' exonuclease. Hence, it is unclear how they coordinate their activities to yield a dsDNA molecule with a single nick.
Pol I replicates DNA with high fidelity. How does it do so? Gabriel Waksman answered this question by crystallizing the C-terminal domain of Taq polymerase (Klentaq1) with an 11-bp DNA that had a GGAAA-5' overhang at the 5' end of its template strand. The crystals were then soaked in solution containing 2',3'-dideoxy-CTP (ddCTP), which lacks a 3'-OH group, and hence terminates replication after its incorporation at the 3' end of the primer strand. The X-ray structure of these crystals revealed that a ddC residue had been covalently linked to the 3' end of the primer strand, where it formed a Watson–Crick base pair with the 3' G on the template overhang, thus demonstrating the Klentaq1 is enzymatically active in the crystal. In addition, a ddCTP molecule occupied the enzyme's active site, where it formed a Watson–Crick base pair with the template's next G.
Here, Klentaq1's N-terminal, palm, fingers and thumb domains are yellow, magenta, green, and blue, respectively. The DNA is drawn in stick form colored according to atom type (template C cyan, primer C green, N blue, O red, and P orange).
In the structure on the left, the crystal had been soaked in a solution of dideoxy-CTP (ddCTP), which the enzyme had added to the 3' end of the primer chain (shown in space-filling form with C green), where it forms a base pair with the a template G. This terminates further primer extension due to the absence of a 3'-OH group at the 3' end of the primer strand. Nevertheless, a ddCTP (shown in space-filling form with C yellow) binds to the enzyme active site at the 3' end of the primer in a base pair with a template G as if it were preparing to add to the 3' end of the primer. In the structure on the right, the ddCTP in the enzyme's active site had been depleted by soaking the crystal in a ddCTP-frree solution. Comparison of these two structures reveals that the structure on the left, the so-called closed conformation, differs from the that on the right, the so-called open conformation, by a hinge-like motion of the fingers domain away from the polymerase active site. The rest of the protein remains very nearly unchanged. This is more readily seen in the (left, in which, for technical reasons, the ddCTP in the closed conformation is not shown).
This, together with other experimental measurements, indicates that Klentaq1 rapidly samples the available dNTPs in its open conformation, but only when it binds the correct dNTP in a Watson–Crick pairing with the template base does it form the catalytically competent closed conformation. In addition, note how the template G that base pairs with the ddCTP in the closed conformation, moves away from the active site in the open conformation, in which it has no base pairing partner.
A closeup of the active site region in the (right) reveals that the side chain of the conserved Tyr 671 (colored with C pink) is stacked on top of the template G that forms a base pair with the bound ddCTP, where it apparently participates in verifying that a Watson–Crick base pair has formed. In the (left), Tyr 671, which is part of the fingers domain, has moved aside, presumably to permit the active site to form about the incoming dNTP (satisfy yourself that the Tyr 671 side chain is stacked on the template G in the open form but not in the closed form).
This page was last modified 12:49, 27 February 2013. | 2019-04-25T05:51:58 | http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/DNA_Polymerase_I |
0.998586 | Generated an analysis of the current SRHRJ context that described the field's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Described their grantmaking goals and strategies and, together with their colleagues, created a "map" of the funding by those in the room.
Identified their own focus topics of interest and self-organized discussions around them, identifying next steps and needed actions.
Provided individualized advice to one another, as a community of funders that share many of the same grantees, goals and strategies.
Celebrated the careers of two legendary SRHRJ grantmakers: Margaret Hempel and Wilma Montañez, longtime members of FRE.
In developing this meeting, FRE aimed for participants to obtain a better understanding of the SRHRJ-funding foundation ecosystem, deepen appreciation for one another and our network and identify concrete next steps they might pursue with one another to advance a common agenda.
The meeting report describes how the 2018 Spring Meeting accomplished those objectives and outlines the action points identified by meeting participants as necessary to make the most of philanthropic resources in this challenging time.
An interactive Prezi of the grantmaking priorities and strategies shared by meeting participants during the meeting is also available to FRE members.
The meeting report and Prezi are available exclusively to FRE members and require logging in to the members section of this site. If you are a member of our network and need help logging in, please email the office. | 2019-04-18T20:46:58 | https://wearefre.org/events/fre-spring-meeting |
0.999999 | If X, Y, A, B, C, D are points on a conic J, then J is the conic generated by the projectivity φ from X onto Y with φ(XA) = YA, φ(XB) = YB, φ(XC) = YC. We also have φ(XD) = YD.
Definition: The cross ratio of four points A, B, C, D on a conic J is the number (XA, XB; XC, XD), with X on J arbitrary.
Definition: A projectivity from a conic J onto itself is a bijection from J onto J that preserves cross ratio.
Fundamental Theorem: Given three points A, B, C on a conic J and three points A ', B ', C ' on J.
Then there exists exactly one projectivity φ: J → J with φ(A) = A ', φ(B) = B ', φ(C) = C '.
Choose D on J. Let ψ be the projectivity from the pencil of lines D onto D with ψ(DA) = DA ', ψ(DB) = DB ', ψ(DC) = DC '. Define φ as follows: for X on J, let φ(X) be the intersection point unequal to D of ψ(DX) and J. Check that this φ meets the requirements.
Suppose φ1 and φ2 both meet the requirements.
Then we have for X on J: (A, B; C, X) = (φ1(A), φ1(B); φ1(C), φ1(X)) = (A ', B ' ; C ', φ1(X)), and likewise: (A, B; C, X) = (A ', B ' ; C ', φ2(X)).
So (DA, DB; DC, DX) = (DA ', DB ' ; DC ', Dφ1(X)) = (DA ', DB ' ; DC ', Dφ2(X)).
So Dφ1(X)) = Dφ2(X)), and since φ1(X)) and φ2(X)) both lie on J, it follows that φ1(X) = φ2(X).
Note: If P is a point, then the mapping that, for X on J, maps X to the other intersection point of PX and J, is in general not a projectivity.
Theorem of Steiner: Let J be a conic and φ a projectivity from J onto J.
Then all the points Xφ(Y). Yφ(X), with X, Y on J, lie on one and the same line (the Pascal line of φ).
Proof: Choose three points A, B, C on J. We are going to prove that, for X and Y on J, Xφ(Y). Yφ(X) lies on the Pascal line of hexagon ABCφ(A)φ(B)φ(C).
Let ψ be the projectivity from the pencil of lines A onto the pencil of lines φ(A) with ψ(Aφ(B)) = φ(A)B, ψ(Aφ(C)) = φ(A)C, ψ(Aφ(A)) = φ(A)A.
Since Aφ(A) is invariant, this is a perspectivity whose axis is the line through Aφ(B)).φ(A)B and Aφ(C)).φ(A)C, this is the Pascal line of hexagon ABCφ(A)φ(B)φ(C).
Since (B, C; A, X) = (φ(B), φ(C); φ(A), φ(X)), we have (φ(A)B, φ(A)C; φ(A)A, φ(A)X)) = (Aφ(B), Aφ(C); Aφ(A), Aφ(X)).
So, since ψ preserves cross ratio, and because of O38, we find ψ(Aφ(X)) = φ(A)X.
This implies that Aφ(X). Xφ(A) lies on the Pascal line of hexagon ABCφ(A)φ(B)φ(C).
Likewise we deduce that Aφ(Y). Yφ(A) lies on that line.
Now if we apply the theorem of Pascal to hexagon AXYφ(A)φ(X)φ(Y), then we see that Xφ(Y). Yφ(X) also lies on the same line.
O102 Study the two texts in in the answers of this problem. Together, they form an application of the theory above.
O103 Given two triangles ABC and UWV. Construct triangle PQR whose sides go through U, V and W and whose vertices lie on the sides of triangle ABC. | 2019-04-18T22:28:56 | http://petericepudding.com/pm/pg27.htm |
0.998441 | A group of mountaineers led by zooplogist professor Koizumi (Nobuo Nakamura) gets caught up in a storm on a mountain, and one of the group, Takeno (Tadashi Akabe), goes missing in the process. The next day, when the rest of the group goes looking for him, they only find giant footprints ... of the Yeti (Sagara Sanshiro) perhaps?
Professor Koizumi feels obliged to lead a search party to rescue Takeno, not only because he feels obliged to rescue the boy, but also because he wants to find and examine a live Yeti (and can you blame him), and he is strongly supported by Takeno's brother Shinsuke (Kenji Kasahara), Takeno's sister Michiko (Momoko Kochi), and Michiko's lover Iijima (Akira Takarada). But not everybody is happy about the professor's Yeti hunt, especially animal trader Oba (Yoshio Kosugi), who wants to capture the Yeti to make a fortune exhibiting him around the globe - and he can't need competition one bit.
Eventually, Iijima runs into Oba and his men, they get into a fight, and Iijima is thrown of a cliff to his death ... and he would have died too if it wasn't for native girl Chika (Akemi Negishi), who saves him, carries him to her village, and nurses him back to health. However, Chika's village is a secret village actually worshipping the Yeti, and the village elder (Kokuten Kodo) is less than pleased about the newcomer from the outer world, and thus, when Chika's not looking he and his men tie Iijima up and hang him down a cliff, for the vultures to feed on. However, the Yeti arrives ahead of the vultures, and he ... saves Iijima's life.
Chika, not knowing that Iijima is already saved, looks for him everywhere and eventually runs into Oba and company, who pretend to be Iijima's friends just to have her lead them to the Yeti's lair. They manage to capture the Yeti, but then his son Takashi Ito interferes, everything leads to a big brawl in which Oba and his men are killed, tehre trucks are thrown over the cliffs - but Yeti junior dies as well. Daddy Yeti is so enraged that he lays waste to the secret native village and kills the village elder.
Inoshiro Honda's second monster movie might be as serious in approach as his first one, Godzilla from a year before, but it's by far not as successful in bringing its message across: While Godzilla was basically a film about pacifism cleverly disguised as a pulpy story about mass destruction, Beast Man Snow Man is much more obvious in delivering its message about a misunderstood creature - but also embarrassingly blunt and simplistic to the point of silliness. Sure, the film is still competently enough directed and features atmospheric enough scenes to be at least moderately entertaining, but it certainly is no masterpiece. | 2019-04-18T21:11:44 | http://searchmytrash.com/cgi-bin/creditsb.pl?beastmansnowman(1955) |
0.999999 | ARIST is under new management. After twenty-five years, Martha Williams has stepped down and Blaise Cronin has taken over. The new editor sets out his stall with his customary force: one of his aims is to allow, or rather, encourage, contributors to move away from the 'bibliographic review model' and to allow their own 'voice' to be heard in the chapters. I heartily approve of that aim - while the bibliographic review may serve the purpose of scanning the relevant literature and reporting on trends and discontinuities, it is much more interesting to read a personal view, even if one disagrees with that view. A further change intended is to expand the remit of ARIST into areas that are, perhaps, on the fringe of the field. Given how difficult it is to define 'the field', one can hardly quibble about this. In fact, expanding the coverage of ARIST in this way may help us to define what is and what is not, 'the field'. Having agreed, I nevertheless feel that the inclusion in this volume of chapters on. 'Collaboratories' and 'Intelligence, information technology, and information warfare' is, perhaps, stretching things to breaking point.. The chapter on 'Data mining' could also have appeared in any Annual Review of Computer Science and we are in danger of expanding 'the field' so far as to encompass practically anything that has anything whatsoever to do with 'information' or computers or, indeed, with the inclusion of 'Computer-mediated communication on the Internet', 'communication'.
This still leaves, of course, a majority of chapters that deal with topics that are pretty central to 'information science and technology'. Thus, we have Borgman and Furner on 'Scholarly communication and bibliometrics'; Davenport and Hall on 'Organizational knowledge and communities of practice' (nicely avoiding the dread 'knowledge management', although 'knowledge sharing' is accepted as a possibility); 'Discovering information in context' by Paul Solomon; 'Competitive intelligence' by Bergeron and Hiller; 'Theorizing information for information science' by Ian Cornelius; 'Intellectual capital' by Snyder and Pierce; 'Digital libraries' by Fox and Urs; and 'Health informatics' by Russell and Brittain. I have omitted 'Social informatics: perspectives, examples and trends', because even after reading it I find it impossible to tell whether the subject is sociology, organizational behaviour, information science, or what? The dominant characteristic of this manufactured topic appears to be that it lacks focus entirely and I imagine that its tenuous grasp on our collective consciousness will soon disappear because of that lack of focus.
Of course, the field of 'information science' has always been difficult to define and numerous people have tried to formulate definitions by various means, usually to no one's satisfaction, and the syllabuses of various university departments are of no greater help in fixing the boundaries. This may well be inevitable: as various areas of 'professional' practice become more and more general practice, available as skills for all, the field of 'information science' has become more and more diffuse. As the computer science field became interested in information retrieval, which it had virtually ignored until the appearance of the Web search engine, so the information systems field has become more and more interested in information management, realising that the failure of systems has been the result of failing to pay sufficient attention to the information handled through the technology. Identity, we might say, is in the eye of the beholder: perhaps the true situation is that we are all 'information system' practitioners today. Certainly, attempts to provide information science with the customary trappings of 'science' seem to have failed and, more and more, our attention is on the organizational application of information technology.
This leaves a wide area of what we might call 'the social science of information' and a number of chapters take this perspective on the field. Borgman and Furner's chapter on 'Scholarly communication and bibliometrics' is a case in point. This is an extensive account of recent research in this area - or at least in the area of bibliometrics, since other aspects of scholarly communication are not dealt with. The authors adopt a 'seven facet' classification scheme for bibliometric studies, which is very helpful in structuring the chapter, enabling one to grasp the essentials of specific aspects of bibliometrics very quickly. There is also, as usual in ARIST volumes, an extensive bibliography—the text extends to fifty-five pages and the bibliography a further fourteen.
Thus, the discovery of information view presented here characterizes information as being constructed through involvement in life's activities, problems, tasks, and social and technological structures, as opposed to being independent and context free.
This view is probably the current, general perspective—one would find few researchers who would disagree. Indeed the notion that some might consider information as 'independent and context free' strikes me as a little unlikely and something of a straw man. However, that point does not play any further part in the author's treatment of the subject and perhaps we can regard it as simply a rhetorical device. As might be expected, researchers who have contributed to the conference series, Information Seeking in Context, since 1996 figure significantly in Solomon's account. For anyone new to the field, this chapter would be an excellent starting point.
Of the remaining chapters, I found that on 'Intellectual capital' to be an interesting and well-balanced review of competing ideas on the subject, and the chapter on 'Digital libraries', the longest in the volument, to offer a very solid attempt to clear away the fuzziness that surrounds this subject. 'Health informatics' by Russell and Brittain is also an excellent piece of work, although the adoption of the term 'informatics' has something of a faddish ring to it and I'm not quite sure that 'e-health' is an appropriate term for something that includes the Internet, e-mail and 'aspects of telemedicine'.
Blaise Cronin has made a very solid start to his re-thinking the role and functions of the Annual Review and, although I have found things to quibble about, this volume is a very useful account of the state of the art in a number of signifcant areas of the field - however we might define it. | 2019-04-21T12:29:13 | http://www.informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs100.html |
0.999979 | The US has the largest trade deficit in goods with what 5 countries (through November 2015)?
OK, I am not long back from the National Retail Federation's "Big Show" at the Javits Center in chilly New York City this week.
Thousands of you have watched my video reviews of the first two days of the show. You can access them both here: NRF Day 1, NRF Day 2. It was a hectic couple of days.
As always at these types of events, I try to look for themes, and nothing really hit me while I was in Manhattan, but on the flight back, an idea took popped into my head - was this brick and mortar retail's last stand? Or maybe better said, its zenith?
"The supply chain software world is at a major inflection point - my friend Art Mesher, formerly CEO of Descartes and a CSCMP Distinguished Service Award winner - terms this trend 'clean slate'."
I obviously exaggerate a bit for effect, but bear with me. There is no question this was a hopping show, with some 34,000 attendees. That was an all-time record, and maybe a couple of thousand above the total in 2015. By 10 o'clock Monday morning - a national holiday, by the way - the show floor was already packed. Most exhibitors I spoke to during my two days there were very happy with their traffic.
But how much of that traffic was focused on ecommerce or "omnichannel" versus brick and mortar concerns? (And yes I get in an omnichannel world perhaps that is not in some ways an apt distinction). I obviously don't know that mix of attendee interests, but I will note that there were simply dozens of web commerce vendors - software providers that offer tools to manage ecommerce sites, an increasingly complex challenge, especially if you are trying to do so globally - and most of the ones I saw there seemed very busy.
These web commerce vendors are very hard to tell apart, and often do not do a great job of articulating their differentiation, if there is any. If you are in the market for such capabilities, good luck with your search. It may be a long one to find what is best for you.
But back to my point, it is interesting that a good number of these web commerce providers were promoting that their solutions would somehow drive customer traffic to the store. "Click and collect" is the most obvious strategy to achieve that aim; there may be others. But - again exaggerating a bit - if the ecommerce strategy is geared around somehow figuring out a way to get consumers from the web or mobile device into the store, you are probably looking at things the wrong way. And click and collect alone will not save brick and mortar.
I offer those thoughts in the context that since the start of the year Macy's - an on-line leader, by the way - said it is closing 40 US stores, and Walmart more recently said it is closing some 270 stores globally, more than 150 of those in the US. While the Walmart news coverage has been a bit overblown - this is more of a "mix" issue, as it continues to open other stores - nevertheless, the retail trend is undeniable: Mid-double digit percentage growth in US ecommerce sales quarter after quarter, versus low single digit growth in brick and mortar volumes.
This retail transformation continues on, ultimately with significant impacts on retailers and consumer goods manufacturers. I will note that Scott Galloway of NYU's Stern School of Business has opined that "Pure play etailers without physical stores are doomed in an omnichannel world without a brick and mortar presence." Perhaps that is true. But just how much presence, and what the role of those stores will be, are issues in flux.
The most interesting product I found was from a company called Profitect, which provides a prescriptive analytics solution for retailers. The term "prescriptive analytics" gets thrown around a lot, rarely with much in the way of detail other than that such capability is coming, but Profitect appears to have put some real meat on the prescriptive analytics bone.
It has defined a large number of events or scenarios that indicate something is amiss (you can also of course create your own scenarios). A very simple example: sales are occurring at a store for a SKU which the inventory system says is out of stock. The Profitect solution not only automatically identifies this anomaly, but then sends an alert to the appropriate person(s) as to what needs to be done in response. The company has a large library of such event-action combos (turns out most retailers would react to a given issue in the same way), but you can easily craft your own best practice. Very cool. There is no question that increasingly the computers will tell us all what to do, and here is an early example.
I also liked the new Retail.me planning solution suite from JDA, which was launched at NRF starting with an assortment planning module. As I noted in my Day 1 video, the supply chain and retail development world has simply all gone to the Cloud and mobile. JDA's Retail.me is simply an excellent of example of this revolution, running on Google Cloud, with an "app-like" interface instead of the spreadsheet orientation that has historically has characterized planning software, plus its full of analytics and more.
The supply chain software world is at a major inflection point - my friend Art Mesher, formerly CEO of Descartes and a CSCMP Distinguished Service Award winner - terms this trend "clean slate." Make your technology plans and decisions accordingly.
Keeping on an analytics theme, Teradata - most known for its giant retail databases - is increasingly focused on analytics as well, and was featuring a new set of them focused on the supply chain. I couldn't spend enough time to really understand this well, but this "visual BI" solution looks at the "health" of a company's forecast from a wide variety of dimensions, and interestingly then analyzes how well inventory was positioned based on that forecast. I have not seen anything exactly like this out of the box in the BI world.
Digimarc was back, with its unique technology that can embed a bar code invisibly in an image, whether that's in a magazine photo or the packaging on a can of soup. That approach enables very rapid POS scanning- no need to find a bar code. But at NRF the Digimarc news was a partnership with standards organization GS1. The main takeaway I gathered from the conversation - more soon - is that GS1 wants to be the central repository for all consumer product information, versus the "every company for itself" approach now used in scanning QR codes with a smart phone and seeing product data.
Instead, GS1's envisions that consumers will scan a product's packaging with the hidden Digimarc, and the info comes back in a standardized way from the GS1 repository. Interesting move for sure.
Changing gears, lots of developments on the hardware side of things. Zebra was there - after having acquired a part of Motorola Solutions in 2014 - with its exciting new TC8000 wireless terminal. This device looks like nothing you have seen before, much different than either the traditional "brick" or gun designs that have been around for 30+ years, and instead is more wand-like, with the display on a stick in-line with the scanner, reducing motion and tilting. It is an exciting innovation, and Zebra says it will generate low double digit productivity gains for some companies.
Italian company Datalogic - the only real alternative in wireless data collection to the Zebra and Honeywell duopoly after all the acquisitions in the sector - had an interesting new set of terminals that also break the traditional mold. One is more like a mini-tablet, the other a gun version of the same device. They are small, brightly colored, and use a more modern operating system (green screen appears at last to be dead). These devices are worth taking a look at for retail or distribution applications.
Infosys recently acquired a very interesting solution called Pandaya that it says reduces the cost and time for SAP or Oracle ERP upgrades by more than 70%. Impact Power Technologies offers batteries for wireless terminals in the DC it says last much longer per charge and have a much longer lifespans, saving many companies tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
I covered a lot more - see the Day 1 and Day 2 videos. Will break out these solutions as individual clips in OnTarget next week.
Any reaction to our NRF 2016 review? Are we close to brick and mortar retail's last stand? Did you find any cool new solutions at the show? Let us know your thoughts at the Feedback button below.
Q: The US has the largest trade deficit in goods with what 5 countries (through November 2015)?
A: China ($337 billion), Germany ($67.5 billion); Japan ($62.1 billion); Mexico ($53.8 billion); and South Korea ($26.8 billion). | 2019-04-25T02:08:45 | http://www.scdigest.com/assets/news/16-01-21.htm |
0.997109 | Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door... Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is one of the most widely recognised poems in the English language.
When it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, in 1845, the poem made Poe an overnight sensation. Master paper engineer David Pelham amazes us once again with his pop-up design to interpret this haunting love story.
El autor es EDGAR ALLAN POE escribió un interesante libro titulado The raven: a pop up book. El libro de la publicó la editorial HACHETTE UK., y en este momento por el libro de The raven: a pop up book PDF ISBN (9781419721977) es necesario pagar 19.70 euros por copia. Sin embargo, en nuestro sitio, Le ofrecemos descargar el libro The raven: a pop up book EPUB y otros formatos totalmente gratis para leer en el ordenador u otros dispositivos electrónicos. Con nosotros usted puede encontrar otros libros del autor EDGAR ALLAN POE, que te pueden gustar, igual que el libro de The raven: a pop up book EPUB. Únete a nuestra comunidad y recibe gratis el libro de The raven: a pop up book EPUB y otros, no menos interesantes de la edición. | 2019-04-25T17:48:31 | http://thelittlemother.com/656931-edgar-allan-poe-en-lnnea.html |
0.999997 | Elon Musk is a man of many projects, who are expected to adopt some of his ambitious plans, these are just plans. But on Sunday, Musk tweeted a photo of a prototype of a "spaceship" designed by Musk to make space travel a possibility for many.
The image has been commented by many to look comically retro-futuristic, or for some it looks almost too simple and too cartoony.
The image he tweets is not a full size prototype, even though it's about that diameter. But Musk predicts that the starship will be much larger, eventually rising above Falcon Heavy.
In the tweets Pictures will be & # 39; Stainless Steel Starship & # 39; It is expected that most spacecraft materials will be made of durable materials.
Although much heavier than carbon fiber, the Falcon 9 consists of. Stainless steel provides a much more robust surface needed to withstand the rigors of a long-range space flight.
The material that Musk will choose is not earthbound stainless steel, but a mix of new alloys and a new design It over the previous stainless steel rocket designs. Musk says rocket design is "delightfully catchy."
The heavy metal will help the rocket to jerk, especially if on the launcher and not pressurized. The use of stainless steel marks the point on the design journey when Musk threw away the typical blueprint and started with a design he had described as "delightfully catchy".
At this time he also rebelled the Big Falcon project on a rocket to the spaceship. Musk has hinted earlier that he believes she will get along with three Raptor engines, adding that they have been "radically transformed."
"SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy Rocket represent a fully reusable transportation system that also meets all Earth orbit requirements The two-stage vehicle – consisting of the super heavy rocket (booster) and the spaceship (ship) – will eventually replace Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon. 19659015] In a variety of markets, SpaceX may redirect resources from Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon to Starship, which is fundamental to the affordability of the system. "
Other interesting design features include the fact that the Starship was not completed after its completion will be painted because it is too hot for it. It could get a shiny finish for maximum reflectivity, but for the time being, carbide contributes to the retro-futuristic vibes.
Musk believes the prototype will be ready for test flights as early as March next year, when it will bring the world up to date with the rest of its plans to make humanity interplanetary. | 2019-04-19T09:15:36 | https://newsbeezer.com/spacex-unveils-the-prototype-of-a-spaceship-that-was-able-to-fly-in-april/ |
0.997141 | A decorative apple made from pages of an old book.
I used the pages I had left from my other project "Reused book as a hiding place".
I got the idea for this when my mother wanted an apple tree for her birthday. I thought it was a bit to much to gift-wrap a whole tree, so I decided to make an apple out of paper. I browsed at little on the web, but could not find any good tutorials for the project, so therefore i made this up myself.
1. Start by drawing an apple on a piece of paper and cut it out.
3. Cut a rough outline of the apple on about 5 pages (depends on how "thick" you want your apple to be), and staple the corners. Make sure not to staple inside the outline of the apple.
Do this step two times.
4. Draw a line in the middle of the apple on the two bundles of paper.
5. Staple the bottom of the the middle of first apple-outline as seen on the picture, and the top of the middle on the second apple-outline.
6. Cut out the two apples.
7. Measure the apples and make a mark in the middle.
8. Now cut from the bottom to the mark in the apple with the staple in the top.
And in the top to the mark in the apple with the stable in the bottom.
9. Now fit the two apples together.
10. Draw with our filt-tip pen on the sides of the paper apple.
If you happen to draw on the "inside" of the apple you can just remove the page from the apple.
11. Take a book page and cut it to a fitting size. Then roll it in to a tube and glue it together.
13. Spread out the pages and you are done with your paper apple. | 2019-04-20T08:48:15 | https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-apple/ |
0.999841 | This is an explanatory supplement to the Wikipedia:Deletion policy.
This page in a nutshell: An editor who makes a suggestion to "merge or delete" an article is someone who believes that Wikipedia's policies and guidelines justify deleting that article, and also believes that merging the article would be an acceptable compromise. Wikipedia should encourage such flexibility to reduce the number of disputes.
At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, one of many possible suggestions to deal with inappropriate content is to delete or merge. This is not to be confused with a request to "Merge and delete".
Whereas many articles can be improved through ordinary editing, deleting an article is typically appropriate where the article cannot meet the general notability guideline, where the bulk of the article violates What Wikipedia is not, or where the article is a content fork that attempts to cover the same subject as an existing article.
An editor who is willing to delete or merge is expressing a good faith belief that Wikipedia policies and guidelines provide a sound basis for deleting the article, but that they would also support or consent to a merge if it would produce a consensus. The editor should still be specific and clear on what needs merging.
The root of consensus is "consent". Perhaps merging is not the ideal choice for every editor in every situation. But editors should be willing to consent to a merge if it will help produce a consensus.
Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia represent opposite viewpoints on how to deal with inappropriate content. In some instances, people are able to hold strong views and still work well with people who believe the opposite. But in other instances, people cling to these viewpoints and rarely acknowledge the validity of any other point of view. An editor who is unwilling to compromise on their strong views about deletion versus inclusion can leave other editors feeling angry, and sometimes provoke feelings of retaliation.
The purpose of dispute resolution is to help editors reach a consensus. When discussions end in "no consensus", the dispute goes unresolved, and both sides of the dispute feel as though the other side is in the wrong. When the number of unresolved disputes add up, there is a risk that Wikipedia turns into a battleground. While some unresolved disputes can eventually be reconciled by gaining additional information or feedback, in many instances a resolution requires editors who are willing to swallow their pride accept something less than their most preferred outcome.
Merging is a possible middle-ground solution to any deletion-inclusion battle. Many mergist Wikipedians believe in merging as a matter of principle, because merging the content is less polarizing than hard inclusion or hard deletion. Even for editors who might not prefer merging as their first choice, they should consider accepting a merge in a good faith effort to find common ground and reach consensus. Any merge !votes should be specific and clear on what information should be merged to aid the editor that completes the merge.
Merging and deleting an article is not permissible under Wikipedia's licensing requirements, because Wikipedia must maintain a clearly traceable chain of attribution any time content is merged from one article into another (typically in the form of a redirect).
A suggestion to either merge or delete is not in conflict with the need for attribution, or any other licensing requirements. If the consensus is ultimately to delete the article, no attribution needs to be maintained. If the consensus is ultimately to merge the article, then attribution is typically preserved under ordinary merging procedure. | 2019-04-20T18:11:13 | http://www.let.rug.nl/~gosse/termpedia2/termpedia.php?language=dutch_general&density=7&link_color=000000&termpedia_system=perl_db&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3ADelete_or_merge |
0.997573 | The Office Which episode is it?
I'm searching for an episode when right in the beggining (I think), Michael pretends, right in the middle of the office, behind stacks of some office supply, to go downstairs, to get something. Pam asks him to get coffee downstairs, something like. I would like to show this scene to a friend of mine. | 2019-04-20T05:08:49 | http://ar.fanpop.com/clubs/the-office/forum/post/223105/title/which-episode |
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