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0.999983 | How do the world's most advanced economies compare when it comes to providing paid leave for new parents?
Which country provides the most paid leave? Which provides the least?
Danish parents receive 100% of their previous income for one year after the birth of their child.
In the Czech Republic, new mothers can take 28 weeks of leave at 70% pay, with an additional 3 years of leave available to either parent.
In that stressful period right after birth, Dutch parents receive seven full days of care with a "maternity assistant."
In the United States, there is no federal support for paid family leave for mothers and fathers. The U.S. is the only rich nation in the world with no federally-guaranteed paid leave.
In Italy, employers must provide leave to expecting mothers for two months before and three months after the birth of their child.
In Sweden, close to 90% of all fathers take paid paternity leave.
In Slovakia, expecting mothers are required to take six to eight weeks of paid leave before the birth of their child.
Parents receive a "baby bonus" upon the birth of their child to cover hospital costs.
New mothers in Germany are required to take at least eight weeks of paid maternity leave.
In Norway, 14 weeks of paid parental leave is reserved just for the father - and most of them use it.
In the United Kingdom, new parents receive about 90% of their previous salaries during 9+ months of paid family leave.
In 2013, paternal leave in Poland was more than doubled, giving new parents up to a year of paid time with their children.
In Slovenia, fathers receive about the same about of time off and pay as mothers do during maternity leave.
Swiss mothers and fathers earn about 80% of their previous incomes during 3+ months of paid family leave.
In Greece, expecting mothers can start their paid maternity leave up to eight weeks before the due date.
In Hungary, mothers can take maternity leave with some form of benefits for up to three years.
In France, new parents can take 44 weeks of leave, but they receive only about 58% of their previous income.
Mothers in Israel have been entitled to paid maternity leave since the 1950s.
In Portugal, new fathers are required to take 10 days of paid leave following the birth of their child.
Australia's family leave policy only provides about 44% of one's previous compensation during the nine months of leave.
In Spain, all new mothers must take at least six weeks of paid maternity leave following the birth of their child.
In Lithuania, fathers receive the same amount of time and pay as mothers for parental leave.
New Zealand extended their paid parental leave by four weeks in 2014.
Romanian parents earn nearly 80% of their income during their 16+ months of paid family leave.
In Ireland, mothers on maternity leave keep earning vacation pay at their jobs.
In Finland, mothers and fathers receive about 70% of their previous income for one year.
After the first 15 weeks of paid maternity leave, mothers can take eight months of part-time leave. The total rate is about 57% for the nearly 8 months of leave.
Every employed woman in Austria receives at least 16 weeks of maternity leave at full pay. The total rate for the 15 months of paid leave is about 85%.
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There’s nothing like the first day you bring your baby home. The coos, the cries, that sweet smell from the top of her head…and tick-tock goes the clock. From birth the clock starts ticking away the precious little time we allow parents and their babies to bond before returning to work.
How is it that in the wealthiest nation on earth we ask so many parents to make a trade-off: you can take time to recover from childbirth, bond with and nurture your new baby, but you’ll have to forfeit your pay? That’s a trade many can’t afford. 40% of new mothers return to work within three months of giving birth. Some because they have to; most because they want to.
All rich and middle income countries guarantee new mothers paid leave and 25 now provide paternity leave too – with one glaring exception: the United States.
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), passed in 1993, offers 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for newborn children or other sick family members. But there’s even a catch to that: workers must be employed by a company with 50 or more employees for a year, working an average of 24 hours per week or more.
As a result, more than 2 out of every 5 employees have no federal legal right to return to their job if they take unpaid leave—of any length—to care for a newborn. In other words, they can be fired (unless their state provides additional protections).
And every year, more than 2.5 million employees who are eligible for FMLA don’t take the leave because they can’t afford the loss of pay.
There are companies which understand the benefits and provide paid leave for their employees, but the number is small. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 13% of private sector workers were allowed some paid family leave in 2014--mostly higher-paid professionals, managers and executives.
But some states have begun to guarantee some paid parental or family leave including California, New Jersey and Rhode Island (four to six weeks at 40% to 55% of one’s wage, depending on the state). A growing movement is compelling some cities and even the federal government to offer their employees paid leave. Still, the U.S. is an outlier, lagging far behind comparable nations.
Paid leave is the rule, not the exception, in every other rich and middle income nation. Working mothers are guaranteed paid leave, commonly financed through a form social insurance (like social security). In many countries paid leave is interchangeable with fathers (or partners), and some countries reserve a portion of paid leave just for fathers. If they don’t take it, the family loses the time. That’s not only boosted the number of fathers taking leave, but studies show that mothers and fathers more equally shared child care and housework.
Ranking countries based on their family leave policies is a challenging business, given all the variations in their maternity, paternity and family leave programs. Some countries offer more weeks of paid leave but at a partial percentage, some offer fewer weeks of paid leave but provide 100% of one's previous income, some base the percentage on the median national income and some provide a flat rate.
For this comparison, we chose to rank countries based on the total number of weeks of paid leave offered during which they provided at least 50% of one's previous income. In a practical sense, this seems like the minimum amount of pay that a family would need to consider actually taking paid leave. Any less than 50% and it may not be possible for a family to afford taking the leave to care for their child rather than working and paying for childcare. Of the 30 economically-developed nations in this list, only three provide less than 50% compensation (Slovakia, 35%; Australia, 44%; USA, 0%). More than two-thirds of the nations provide more than 70% compensation during paid leave.
The goal of this interactive was to compare the United States to other large, economically-developed nations in the world. How does the United States's family leave policy compare to the programs found in economically similar countries?
The trick is to figure out which nations are economically similar. The OECD's list is different from UNICEF's list which is different from the ILO's list. For the purposes of this comparision, we chose to use the International Labour Organization's (ILO) list of "Developed Economies." The International Labour Organization has produced the most recent, comprehensive international comparison of family leave policies that included most nations in the world (the ILO's 2014 report, "Maternity and paternity at work"). In this report they categorize 37 "Developed Economies"--this is where we started our list. Of these 37 countries, a number of them are extremely small nations (e.g., Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, San Marino) which are not useful for this comparison. Removing these small nations reduced the list to 32 nations. In order to reduce the list to a manageable 30 countries, we also dropped the next two smallest countries, Latvia and Estonia, from the rankings.
The U.S. is the sole rich or middle-income nation not to guarantee paid maternity or family leave by law. Without paid leave, 40% of new mothers return to work by the time their babies are three months old—some because they want to, most because they have to. | 2019-04-25T04:45:55 | https://raisingofamerica.org/family-leave |
0.999999 | QuestionHow do we handle firing an individual in the HR/Accounting Department who has shared information with more than one employee regarding payroll rates, bonuses, etc.? She has also had personal relationships with at least two male employees. We intend to fire this individual, but I need to know legal process. Should we request that she sign a document promising to not share any personal information that she was privy to while in her position?
ResponseIf the employment relationship is at will, and it is consistent with employer policy and practice to terminate employment based on the behavior you describe, we are not aware of any law prohibiting the employer from seeking to discharge an employee on these grounds.
You indicate that the subject employee works in HR/Accounting and presumably has access to employee compensation data, and that she improperly shared this information with more than one employee who did not have a legitimate need to know it. It seems she has also had "personal relationships with at least two male employees" although it is not clear from the inquiry whether these relationships were in violation of any company policy and/or adversely affected the workplace. If not, we do not recommend making this behavior part of any disciplinary or discharge discussion.
That said, if the employee's actions in revealing confidential employee compensation data to others in the workplace who did not have a legitimate need to know it is grounds for dismissal, then we are not aware of any federal or state employment law which would prohibit the employer from proceeding. Indeed in an at-will employment setting, employers have discretion to determine what constitutes ground for discharge, and certainly exploiting one's access to confidential employee compensation data and divulging it to others in the organization who do not have a legitimate need to know it can be ground for disciplinary action, up to and including discharge. If termination of employment is consistent with policy and past practice (if any), as noted, the employer may proceed.
If, however, the employer determines to retain the subject employee in employment, it can do so, though should consider issuing lesser disciplinary action (perhaps a written or final warning) that makes clear to the employee the infraction, what is expected of her moving forward, and what the consequences will be if she fails to adhere to the policy in the future. In this scenario the employer can certainly include a policy statement reiterating its confidentiality policy and requiring the employee to sign a statement acknowledging her receipt, understanding and agreement to comply with the policy in the future (if the employment relationship is terminated, there is no need to have her sign any "document promising to not share any personal information that she was privy to while in her position" -- such statement would be moot if she is let go). The employer will also need to take measures to ensure that private employee data is protected and not subject to improper disclosure.
Ultimately, if the employment relationship is at will and it is not inconsistent with company policy and past practice to terminate employment based on the employee's failure to maintain confidentiality as to private compensation data to which she had access, we see no reason for the employer not to proceed with disciplinary action, including terminating employment -- indeed it may be difficult to trust the employee to maintain confidentiality moving forward. Employers are not required to retain at-will employees in whom they have lost trust, and particularly if the employee had been previously on notice that compensation data was confidential and not to be disclosed to anyone in the organization who did not have a legitimate need to know it.
In some cases, it makes sense for an employer to bring disciplinary matters to an employee's attention, and offer a chance to improve, before arriving at a discharge decision, but in other cases the infraction is so severe that immediate discharge is warranted. Here, as noted, the employee's failure to maintain confidentiality may have broken the employer's faith in the employee, and if the employer is not confident that she can be trusted not to divulge similar information in the future, as noted the employer is not obligated to retain her in employment if she is employed at will (and assuming any other employees who may have committed similar violations were not retained, either).
The best practice is to be candid with an employee who is being let go as to the employer's decision to terminate the employment relationship. In this regard, for example, if the employer is not eliminating the employee's position, that is not what the employee should be told is the reason for ending employment with her. Further, offering no reason or a vague one or, worse, a false reason for why the employer has decided to discharge an employee is also ill-advised. Indeed if the discharge decision is later challenged and the employer defends such a challenge with a reason for discharge that was never communicated to the employee at the time of separation, there can be significant impairment to the employer's credibility, and this can jeopardize the employer's chances for succeeding in its defense of the claim. Ultimately, the employer should have a legitimate, non-discriminatory, non-retaliatory justification for seeking to end the employment relationship, which should be consistent with policy and past practice (if any) and not in violation of any contract. When it does, there is no reason not to tell the employee candidly what it is.
Finally, we wish to mention that in some cases, compensation discussions among employees are protected under the federal National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which applies to both unionized and non-unionized employers alike. Indeed, among other things, the Act prevents an employer from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in exercising their statutory rights. It specifically protects the right of employees to discuss their wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with one another for their mutual aid or protection. Several years ago, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) expanded the potential arena for these violations in a case holding that even a broadly-stated generic corporate confidentiality policy (as opposed to a more narrow policy prohibiting only salary discussions, which as noted is not permitted) also violated the Act because it "could reasonably be construed" to prohibit employees from discussing their wages or other terms and conditions of their employment, which they are entitled by law to be able to do. This case was subsequently affirmed by the federal Circuit Court of Appeals that reviewed it a few years later.
Accordingly, any employer mandate or rule prohibiting or even discouraging employees from discussing THEIR OWN wages (or other terms and conditions of their employment) with co-workers -- and any policy or practice that seeks to take adverse action against employees who do so -- creates exposure to the employer for a violation of Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA, and is not advised.
Note though, that managerial and other employees who are aware of or come into possession of compensation data for their subordinates or other employees in the organization in the ordinary course of business -- as you describe occurred with the HR/Accounting Department employee in question -- do not have the right to disclose that data to others in the company who do not have a legitimate need to know what it is. For more information, please see https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers/interfering-employee-rights-section-7-8a1 (the full text of the Act, should you wish to review it, can be found at https://www.nlrb.gov/resources/national-labor-relations-act). | 2019-04-18T12:21:32 | https://www.cabinetmakers.org/news/hr-question-of-the-month-november-2017 |
0.999948 | Here's a summary of the I Ching hexagrams in response to the question "What do I need to know this week for my highest good?"
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 25 Innocence. Changing lines: 1, 2, 3 and 4.
30 Synergy changes to 14 Sovereignty. Changing line 2.
1 Creative Power changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines: 1 and 5.
50 Cosmic Order changes to 44 Temptation. Changing line 5.
15 Moderation changes to 2 Natural Response. Changing line 2.
46 Advancement changes to 31 Attraction. Changing lines: 2, 4 and 5.
30 Synergy changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing lines: 1, 3 4, and 5.
21 Reform changes to 25 Innocence. Changing line 5.
26 Potential Energy changes to 37 Family. Changing lines 2 and 5.
51 Shocking changes to 24 Repeating. Changing line 4.
55 Zenith changes to 32 Continuing. Changing lines 1 and 2.
32 Continuing changes to 62 Conscientiousness. Changing line 2.
42 Benefit changes to 18 Repair. Changing lines 1, 2, 3, and 5.
3 Difficult Beginnings change to 42 Benefit. Changing line 6.
18 Repair changes to 44 Temptation. Changing lines 4 and 5.
4 Inexperience changes to 57 Penetrating Influence. Changing line 3 and 5.
21 Reform changes to 33 Retreat. Changing lines 1, 3 and 5.
27 Nourishing changes to 42 Benefit. Changing line 5.
45 Assembling changes to 42 Benefit. Changing lines 1, 4 and 6.
32 Continuing changes to 46 Advancement. Changing line 4.
45 Assembling changes to 12 Stagnation. Changing line 6.
53 Developing changes to 18 Repair. Changing lines 2 and 5.
18 Repair changes to 4 Inexperience. Changing line: 3.
44 Temptation changes to 13 Community. Changing lines 1 and 2.
6 Conflict. There are no changing lines.
49 Changing changes to 51 Shocking. Changing lines 3 and 5.
29 Danger changes to 57 Penetrating Influence. Changing lines 3 and 6.
20 Contemplating changes to 12 Stagnation.Changing line: 4.
55 Zenith changes to 11 Prospering. Changing lines: 2 and 4.
21 Reform changes to 13 Community. Changing lines 3 and 5.
26 Potential Energy changes to 56 Traveling. Changing lines 1, 2 and 6.
4 Inexperience changes to 7 Collective Force. Changing line 6.
6 Conflict changes to 29 Danger. Changing lines 4 and 6.
54 Subordinate changes to 14 Sovereignty. Changing lines 3 and 6.
40 Liberation changes to 16 Harmonize. Changing line 2.
16 Harmonize changes to 47 Adversity. Changing lines 2 and 5.
4 Inexperience changes to 27 Nourishing. Changing lines 1 and 2.
64 Before the End changes to 38 Contradiction. Changing line 1.
23 Deterioration changes to 22 Grace. Changing lines 1 and 3.
62 Conscientiousness changes to 28 Critical Mass. Changing lines 2 and 5.
4 Inexperience changes to 19 Promotion. Changing lines 1 and 6.
58 Encouraging changes to 60 Limitations. Changing line 5.
30 Synergy changes to 22 Grace. Changing lines are 1, 3 and 4.
40 Liberation changes to 7 Collective Force. Changing line 4.
10 Conduct changes to 27 Nourishing. Changing lines are 2, 4 and 6.
63 After the End changes to 48 The Source. Changing line 2.
43 Resolution changes to 49 Changing. Changing line 2.
58 Encouraging changes to 45 Assembling. Changing lines are 1 and 2.
36 Censorship. There are no changing lines.
50 Cosmic Order changes to 21 Reform. Changing lines 1, 2 and 3.
3 Difficult Beginnings changes to 19 Promotion. Changing lines 2 and 5.
63 After the End. There are no changing lines.
4 Inexperience changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines are 3 and 4.
32 Continuing. There are no changing lines.
35 Progress. There are no changing lines.
55 Zenith. There are no changing lines.
26 Potential Energy changes to 27 Nourishing. Changing lines 2 and 3.
29 Danger changes to 40 Liberation. Changing lines 4 and 5.
38 Contradiction changes to 41 Decline. Changing line 4.
9 Restrained changes to 63 After the End. Changing lines 2 and 6.
26 Potential Energy changes to 22 Grace. Changing line 3.
10 Conduct changes to 1 Creative Power. Changing line 3.
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 6 Conflict. Changing lines 3 and 4.
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 18 Repair. Changing line 5.
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 61 Insight. Changing lines 1 and 3.
11 Prospering changes to 22 Grace. Changing lines 2 and 6.
60 Limitations changes to 25 Innocence. Changing lines 2, 4 and 6.
51 Shocking changes to 21 Reform. Changing line 6.
16 Harmonize changes to 31 Attraction. Changing lines 3 and 5.
34 Great Power. There are no changing lines.
3 Difficult Beginnings changes to 35 Progress. Changing lines 1, 4, 5 and 6.
43 Resolution changes to 60 Limitation. Changing lines 3 and 4.
22 Grace. There are no changing lines.
15 Moderation. There are no changing lines.
15 Moderation changes to 46 Advancement. Changing line 2.
52 Meditation changes to 26 Potential Energy. Changing lines 1 and 2.
36 Censorship changes to 30 Synergy. Changing lines 4 and 6.
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 48 The Source. Changing line 6.
58 Encouraging changes to 49 Changing. Changing lines 2, 3, and 4.
39 Obstacles. There are no changing lines.
30 Synergy changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 1 and 2.
55 Zenith changes to 24 Repeating. Changing lines 3 and 4.
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing lines 2 and 3.
16 Harmonize changes to 42 Benefit. Changing lines 1, 4, 5 and 6.
13 Community changes to 33 Retreat. Changing line 1.
12 Stagnation changes to 61 Insight. Changing lines 1, 2 and 4.
56 Traveling changes to 33 Retreat. Changing line 5.
36 Censorship changes to 49 Changing. Changing lines 4 and 5.
52 Meditation changes to 46 Advancement. Changing lines 2 and 6.
1 Creative Power. There are no changing lines.
57 Penetrating Influence. There are no changing lines.
36 Censorship changes to 55 Zenith. Changing line 4.
38 Contradiction changes to 12 Stagnation. Changing lines 1, 2 and 5.
3 Difficult Beginnings changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing lines 1 and 6.
10 Conduct changes to 59 Reuniting. Changing lines 1 and 4.
49 Changing changes to 13 Community. Changing line 6.
30 Synergy. There are no changing lines.
64 Before the End changes to 61 Insight. Changing lines 1, 4 and 5.
20 Contemplating changes to 12 Stagnation. Changing line 4.
61 Insight changes to 48 The Source. Changing lines 1, 3 and 6.
63 After The End change to 11 Prospering. Changing lines 2 and 5.
30 Synergy changes to 17 Adapting. Changing lines are 3, 5 and 6.
15 Moderation changes to 8 Unity. Changing lines are 3 and 5.
28 Critical Mass changes to 57 Penetrating Influence. Changing lines 4 and 6.
57 Penetrating Influence changes to 5 Calculated Waiting. Changing lines 1 and 6.
37 Family changes to 30 Synergy. Changing lines are 4 and 5.
58 Encouraging. There are no changing lines.
43 Resolution change to 39 Obstacles. Changing lines 1, 2, and 4.
46 Advancement changes to 40 Liberation. Changing lines 3 and 4.
28 Critical Mass changes to 32 Continuing. Changing line 5.
31 Attraction changes to 43 Resolution. Changing lines 1 and 2.
23 Deterioration. There are no changing lines.
45 Assembling changes to 47 Adversity. Changing line 2.
20 Contemplating changes to 27 Nourishment. Changing lines 1 and 5.
55 Zenith changes to 43 Resolution. Changing lines 2 and 5.
6 Conflict changes to 8 Unity. Changing lines: 2, 4 and 6.
42 Benefit changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing line 1.
64 Before the End changes to 56 Traveling. Changing line 1.
23 Deterioration changes to 59 Reuniting. Changing lines 2 and 5.
27 Nourishing. There are no changing lines.
27 Nourishing changes to 23 Deterioration. Changing line 1.
21 Reform changes to 30 Synergy. Changing line 3.
50 Cosmic Order. There are no changing lines.
25 Innocence changes to 39 Obstacles. Changing lines 1, 3, 4 and 6.
37 Family. There are no changing lines.
47 Adversity changes to 6 Conflict. Changing line 6.
62 Conscientiousness changes to 40 Liberation. Changing lines 2 and 3.
60 Limitations changes to 10 Conduct. Changing line 6.
60 Limitations changes to 61 Insight. Changing line 6.
2 Natural Response changes to 7 Collective Force. Changing line 2.
55 Zenith changes to 13 Community. Changing line 6.
20 Contemplating. There are no changing lines.
54 Subordinate changes to 58 Encouraging. Changing line 5.
21 Reform changes to 38 Contradiction. Changing line 2.
26 Potential Energy changing to 14 Sovereignty. Changing line 4.
59 Reuniting. There are no changing lines.
29 Danger changes to 8 Unity. Changing line 2.
44 Temptation changes to 64 Before the End. Changing lines 3 and 5.
25 Innocence changes to 26 Potential Energy. Changing lines 2, 3, 4, and 5.
53 Developing changes to 57 Penetrating Influence. Changing line 3.
56 Traveling. There are no changing lines.
50 Cosmic Order changes to 52 Meditation. Changing lines 2 and 4.
51 Shocking changes to 55 Zenith. Changing line 3.
55 Zenith changes to 54 Subordination. Changing lines 2 and 3.
59 Reuniting changes to 40 Liberation. Changing lines 4, 5, and 6.
50 Cosmic Order changes to 13 Community. Changing lines 1, 2, and 5.
39 Obstacles changes to 3 Difficult Beginnings. Changing lines 1 and 3.
46 Advancement changes to 31 Attraction. Changing lines 2, 4, and 5.
40 Liberation. There are no changing lines.
53 Developing changes to 8 Unity. Changing lines 3 and 6.
44 Temptation changes to 57 Penetrating Influence. Changing line 4.
56 Traveling changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing line 2.
18 Repair changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing lines 2, 3, and 5.
56 Traveling changes to 30 Synergy. Changing line 1.
44 Temptation changes to 46 Advancement. Changing lines 4, 5, and 6.
16 Harmonize. No changing lines.
63 After the End changes to 52 Meditation. Changing lines 1, 5, and 6.
20 Contemplating changes to 57 Penetrating Influence. Changing lines 2, 3, and 4.
52 Meditation changes to 15 Moderation. Changing line 3.
45 Assembling changes to 47 Adversity. Changing line 1.
17 Adapting changes to 47 Adversity. Changing lines 1 and 2.
38 Contradiction. No changing lines.
10 Conduct changes to 6 Conflict. Changing line 1.
13 Community changes to 21 Reform. Changing lines 3 and 5.
37 Family changes to 53 Developing. Changing line 1.
14 Sovereignty changes to 1 Creative Power. Changing line 5.
12 Stagnation changes to 6 Conflict. Changing line 2.
51 Shocking changes to 45 Assembling. Changing lines 1 and 5.
32 Continuing. No changing lines.
37 Family changes to 13 Community. Changing line 4.
46 Advancement changes to 11 Prospering. Changing lines 1 and 6.
64 Before the End changes to 35 Progress. Changing line 2.
36 Censorship changes to 34 Great Power. Changing lines are 2 and 4.
64 Before The End changes to 4 Inexperience. Changing line 4.
38 Contradiction changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 1 and 3.
53 Developing changes to 27 Nourishing. Changing lines 1, 3, and 5.
26 Potential Energy. No changing lines.
31 Attraction changes to 28 Critical Mass. Changing line 2.
58 Encouraging changes to 38 Contradiction. Changing lines 5 and 6.
49 Changing changes to 25 Innocence. Changing lines 3 and 6.
9 Restrained. No changing lines.
14 Sovereignty changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing line 1.
22 Grace. No changing lines.
30 Synergy changes to 36 Censorship. Changing lines 4 and 6.
15 Moderation changes to 31 Attraction. Changing lines 4 and 5.
43 Resolution changes to 47 Adversity. Changing lines 1 and 3.
31 Attraction changes to 33 Retreat. Changing line 6.
59 Reuniting changes to 4 Inexperience. Changing line 5.
29 Danger changes to 64 Before the End. Changing lines 4, 5, and 6.
61 Insight changes to 9 Restrained. Changing line 3.
8 Unity changes to 3 Difficult Beginnings. Changing line 1.
43 Resolution changes to 48 The Source. Changing lines 1 and 4.
64 Before the End. No changing lines.
12 Stagnation changes to 25 Innocence. Changing line 1.
26 Potential Energy changes to 5 Calculated Waiting. Changing lines 5 and 6.
48 The Source changes to 64 Before the End. Changing lines 3, 4, and 5.
10 Conduct. No changing lines.
44 Temptation changes to 10 Conduct. Changing lines 1 and 3.
58 Encouraging changes to 54 Subordinate. Changing line 5.
23 Deterioration changes to 53 Developing. Changing lines 3 and 5.
36 Censorship changes to 18 Repair. Changing lines 1, 2, and 6.
46 Advancement changes to 4 Inexperience. Changing line 3.
64 Before The End changes to 10 Conduct. Changing lines 1 and 5.
23 Deterioration changes to 10 Conduct. Changing lines 1, 2, 4, and 5.
28 Critical Mass changes to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 5 and 6.
33 Retreat changes to 55 Zenith. Changing lines 1, 5, and 6.
53 Developing changes to 26 Potential Energy. Changing lines 1, 2, and 5.
13 Community changes to 63 After the End. Changing line 5.
60 Limitations changes to 58 Encouraging. Changing line 4.
39 Obstacles changes to 36 Censorship. Changing lines 1 and 5.
34 Great Power. No changing lines.
10 Conduct changes to 38 Contradiction. Changing line 5.
36 Censorship changes to 6 Conflict. All six lines change to the opposite to get new hexagram.
5 Calculated Waiting changes to 3 Difficult Beginnings. Changing lines 2 and 3.
19 Promotion changes to 24 Repeating. Changing line 2.
13 Community changes to 12 Stagnation. Changing lines are 1 and 3.
26 Potential Energy changes to 18 Repair. Changing line 1.
44 Temptation changes to 28 Critical Mass. Changing line 6.
30 Synergy changes to 58 Encouraging. Changing lines 1 and 4.
18 Repair changes to 4 Inexperience. Changing line 3.
35 Progress changes to 7 Collective Force. Changing lines are 2, 3, 4, and 6.
35 Progress changes to 23 Deterioration. Changing line 4.
37 Family. No changing lines.
55 Zenith changes to 7 Collective Force. Changing lines 1, 2, 3, and 4.
54 Subordinate changes to 51 Shocking. Changing line 2.
17 Adapting changes to 51 Shocking. Changing line 5.
7 Collective Force changes to 40 Liberation. Changing line 4.
49 Changing changes to 24 Repeating. Changing lines 3, 4, and 5.
12 Stagnation changes to 53 Developing. Changing lines 3 and 4.
9 Restrained changes to 48 The Source. Changing lines 1 and 6.
4 Inexperience changes to 32 Continuing. Changing lines 3, 4, and 6.
33 Retreat changes to 13 Community. Changing lines 1 and 4.
28 Critical Mass changes to 44 Temptation. Changing line 6.
4 Inexperience changes to 23 Deterioration. Changing line 2.
38 Contradiction changes to 54 Subordinate. Changing line 6.
29 Danger changes to 63 After the End. Changing lines 1, 2, and 3.
44 Temptation changes to 43 Resolution. Changing lines 1 and 6.
57 Penetrating Influence. No changing lines.
20 Contemplating changes to 59 Reuniting. Changing line 2.
17 Adapting changes to 53 Developing. Changing lines 1, 3, 4, and 6.
46 Advancement. No changing lines.
49 Changing. No changing lines.
20 Contemplating changing to 48 The Source. Changing lines 2, 3, and 6.
18 Repair changes to 30 Synergy. Changing lines 1, 2, and 4.
28 Critical Mass changes to 62 Conscientiousness. Changing lines 2 and 5.
5 Calculated Waiting changes to 17 Adapting. Changing lines 2, 3, and 4.
45 Assembling. No changing lines.
64 Before the End changes to 44 Temptation. Changing lines 3 and 5.
8 Unity changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing line 6.
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64 Before the End changes to 18 Repair. Changing lines 3 and 4.
60 Limitations changes to 8 Unity. Changing lines 1 and 2.
36 Censorship. No changing lines.
33 Retreat changes to 49 Changing. Changing lines 1 and 6.
51 Shocking changes to 35 Progress. Changing lines 1 and 6.
5 Calculated Waiting changes to 60 Limitations. Changing line 3.
62 Conscientiousness changes to 5 Calculated Waiting. Changing lines 1, 2, 4, and 5.
63 After the End changes to 49 Changing. Changing line 4.
13 Community changes to 25 Innocence. Changing line 3.
36 Censorship changes to 41 Decline. Changing lines 2, 3, and 6.
62 Conscientiousness. No changing lines.
8 Unity changes to 29 Danger. Changing line 2.
9 Restrained changes to 29 Danger. Changing lines 1, 3 and 6.
45 Assembling changes to 32 Continuing. Changing lines 2, 3 and 5.
14 Sovereignty changes to 5 Calculated Waiting. Changing lines 4, 5, 6.
54 Subordinate changes to 19 Promotion. Changing line 4.
12 Stagnation changes to 20 Contemplating. Changing line 4.
18 Repair changes to 46 Advancement. Changing line 1.
14 Sovereignty changes to 48 The Source. Changing lines 1, 4, 5 and 6.
25 Innocence. No changing lines.
52 Meditation changes to 27 Nourishing. Changing line 1 and 3.
7 Collective Force changes to 44 Temptation. Changing lines 3 – 6.
18 Repair. No changing lines.
23 Deterioration. No changing lines.
34 Great Power changing to 61 Insight. Changing lines 3, 4 and 6.
58 Encouraging changing to 7 Collective Force. Changing lines 1, 4, 5.
13 Community changing to 36 Censorship. Changing lines 4, 5, and 6.
30 Synergy changing to 27 Nourishing. Changing lines 3 and 4.
51 Shocking changing to 2 Natural Response. Changing lines 1 and 4.
10 Conduct changing to 1 Creative Power. Changing line 3.
29 Danger changing to 4 Inexperience. Changing lines 5 and 6.
6 Conflict changing to 39 Obstacles. Changing lines 2, 3, 4 and 6.
4 Inexperience changing to 11 Prospering. Changing lines 1, 3 and 6.
33 Retreat changing to 45 Assembling. Changing lines 3 and 6.
2 Natural Response changing to 24 Repeating. Changing line 1.
6 Conflict changing to 12 Stagnation. Changing line 2.
13 Community changing to 49 Changing, Changing line 6.
45 Assembling changing to 62 Conscientiousness. Changing lines 3 and 5.
16 Harmonize changing to 25 Innocence. Changing lines 1, 5 and 6.
3 Difficult Beginnings changing to 53 Developing. Changing lines 1, 3 and 6.
20 Contemplating changing to 59 Reuniting. Changing line 2.
49 Changing changing to 31 Attraction. Changing line 1.
25 Innocence changing to 60 Limitation. Changing lines 2, 4, and 6.
19 Promotion changing to 7 Collective Force. Changing line 1.
The day after the Boston Marathon Bombings on 4/15/13 I did a reading and asked: Given the Boston bombings yesterday, what do we need to know? The answer is below. The suspects were caught two and three days later. This is a good example of how the I Ching can be used to provide guidance in times of chaos and confusion.
5 Calculated Waiting changing to 43 Resolution. Changing lines 4 and 5.
45 Assembling changing to 54 Subordinate. Changing lines 1, 2 and 5.
45 Assembling changing to 12 Stagnation. Changing line 6.
21 Reform changing to 51 Shocking. Changing line 6.
15 Moderation changing to 24 Repeating. Changing lines 1 and 3.
59 Reuniting changing to 9 Restrained. Changing lines 1 and 3.
46 Advancement changing to 36 Censorship. Changing lines 1 and 2.
31 Attraction changing to 62 Conscientiousness. Changing line 5.
6 Conflict. No changing lines.
24 Repeating changing to 27 Nourishing. Changing line 6.
55 Zenith changing to 36 Censorship. Changing line 4.
2 Natural Response changing to 54 Subordinate. Changing lines 1, 2 and 4.
20 Contemplating changing to 24 Repeating. Changing lines 1, 5 and 6.
23 Deterioration changing to 51 Shocking. Changing lines 1, 4 and 6.
57 Penetrating Influence changing to 46 Advancement. Changing lines 5 and 6.
8 Unity changes to 28 Critical Mass. Changing lines 2, 3 and 4.
52 Meditation changes to 18 Repair. Changing lines 2 and 6.
25 Innocence changing to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 1, 2, 3 and 5.
28 Critical Mass changing to 40 Liberation. Changing lines 3 and 5.
40 Liberation changing to 47 Adversity. Changing line 5.
25 Innocence changing to 25 Reform. Changing line 5.
59 Reuniting changing to 61 Insight. Changing line 1.
16 Harmonize changing to 31 Attraction. Changing lines 3 and 5.
4 Inexperience changing to 38 Contradiction. Changing lines 1 and 4.
46 Advancement changing to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 4 and 6.
9 Restrained changing to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 1, 4 and 5.
57 Penetrating Influence changing to 48 The Source. Changing line 6.
33 Retreat. No changing lines.
61 Insight changing to 9 Restrained. Changing line 3.
37 Family changing to 27 Nourishing. Changing lines 3 and 5.
7 Collective Force. No changing lines.
6 Conflict changing to 10 Conduct. Changing line 1.
37 Family changing to 49 Changing. Changing lines 4 and 6.
28 Critical Mass changing to 32 Continuing. Changing line 5.
51 Shocking changing to 32 Continuing. Changing line 2.
32 Continuing changing to 1 Creative Power. Changing lines 1, 5 and 6.
41 Decline changing to 6 Conflict. Changing lines 1, 4 and 5.
26 Potential Energy changing to 11 Prospering. Changing line 6.
16 Harmonize changing to 2 Natural Response. Changing line 4.
37 Family changing to 40 Liberation. Changing lines 3 and 6.
14 Sovereignty changing to 60 Limitations. Changing lines 3, 4, 5, and 6.
9 Restrained changing to 61 Insight. Changing line 3.
13 Community changing to 15 Moderation. Changing lines 1, 4, 5 and 6.
11 Prospering changing to 26 Potential Energy. Changing line 6.
32 Continuing changing to 34 Great Power. Changing line 1.
52 Meditation changing to 50 Cosmic Order. Changing lines 2 and 4.
31 Attraction changing to 13 Community. Changing lines 1 and 6.
20 Contemplation changing to 3 Difficult Beginnings. Changing lines 1 and 6.
5 Calculated Waiting. No changing lines.
40 Liberation changing to 38 Contradiction. Changing lines 1 and 6.
No reading for today. Traveling day!
17 Adapting changes to 62 Conscientiousness. Changing lines 1, 3 and 5.
56 Traveling changes to 53 Developing. Changing lines 4 and 5.
62 Conscientiousness changes to 15 Moderation. Changing line: 4.
51 Shocking changes to 42 Benefit. Changing lines 4, 5 and 6.
29 Danger. No Changing lines.
62 Conscientiousness changing to 31 Attraction. Changing line: 5.
8 Unity. No changing lines.
54 Subordinate changing to 17 Adapting. Changing lines: 2, 5.
42 Benefit. No changing lines.
14 Stagnation changing to 42 Benefit. Changing lines: 1, 4.
28 Critical Mass changing to 1 Creative Power. Changing lines: 1, 6.
25 Innocence changing to 6 Conflict. Changing lines: 1, 2.
4 Inexperience changing to 7 Collective Force. Changing line: 6.
49 Changing changing to 31 Attraction. Changing line: 1.
13 Community changing to 2 Natural Response. Changing line: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.
22 Grace changing to 52 Meditation. Changing line: 1.
8 Unity changing to 28 Critical Mass. Changing lines: 2, 3, 4.
17 Adapting changing to 61 Insight. Changing lines: 2, 4, 6.
31 Attraction changing to 3 Difficult Beginnings. Changing lines: 3, 4.
54 Subordinate changing to 24 Repeating. Changing lines: 2, 3, 4.
36 Censorship changing to 11 Prospering. Changing lines: 2, 3.
49 Changing changing to 43 Resolution. Changing line: 2.
35 Progress changing to 30 Synergy. Changing lines: 1, 3.
3 Difficult Beginnings changing to 43 Resolution. Changing lines: 2, 3, 4. | 2019-04-24T11:53:16 | http://fengshuiconnections.com/i-ching-summary/ |
0.999977 | A: To keep the refrigerator cold.
A couple had been married for 45 years and had raised a brood of 11 children and was blessed with 22 grandchildren.
NEW YORK – A public school teacher was arrested today at John F Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
“Al-gebra is a problem for us,” Ashcroft said. “They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns,’ but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
Update : ‘When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, “If God had wanted us to have better Weapons of Math Instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.” White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the president.
Can you answer all seven of the following question with the same word?
The word has seven letters….
If you eat it, you will eventually die.
Brace yourself for the answer….
If you eat NOTHING, you will die..
My grandparents were married for over half a century,and played their own special game from the time they had met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word “shmily” in a surprise place for the other to find. They took turns leaving “shmily” around the house, and as soon as one of them discovered it,It was their turn to hide it once more.
They dragged “shmily” with their fingers through the sugar and flour containers to await whoever was preparing the next meal. They smeared it in the dew on the windows overlooking the patio where my grandma always fed us warm, homemade pudding with blue food coloring. “Shmily” was written in the steam left on the mirror after a hot shower, where it would reappear bath after bath. At one point, my grandmother even unrolled an entire roll of toilet paper to leave”shmily” on the very last sheet.
There was no end to the places “shmily” would pop up. Little notes with “shmily” scribbled hurriedly were found on dashboards and car seats, or taped to steering wheels. The notes were stuffed inside shoes and left under pillows.
“Shmily” was written in the dust upon the mantel and traced in the ashes of the fireplace. This mysterious word was as much a part of my grandparents’ house as the furniture. It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate my grandparents’ game. Skepticism has kept me from believing in true love-one that is pure and enduring. However, I never doubted my grandparents’ relationship. They had love down pat. It was more than their flirtatious little games; it was away of life. Their relationship was based on a devotion and passionate affection which not everyone is lucky enough to experience.
Grandma and Grandpa held hands every chance they could. They stole kisses as they bumped into each other in their tiny kitchen. They finished each other’s sentences and shared the daily crossword puzzle and word jumble. My grandma whispered to me about how cute my grandpa was, how handsome and old he had grown to be. She claimed that she really knew “how to pick ’em.” Before every meal they bowed their heads and gave thanks, marveling at their blessings: a wonderful family, good fortune, and each other.
But there was a dark cloud in my grandparents’ life:my grandmother had breast cancer. The disease had first appeared ten years earlier. As always, Grandpa was with her every step of the way. He comforted her in their yellow room, painted that way so that she could always be surrounded by sunshine, even when she was too sick to go outside. Now the cancer was again attacking her body. With the help of a cane and my grandfather’s steady hand, they went to church every morning. But my grandmother grew steadily weaker until, finally, she could not leave the house anymore.For a while, Grandpa would go to church alone, praying to G~d to watch over his wife. Then one day, what we all dreaded finally happened. Grandma was gone.”Shmily.” It was scrawled in yellow on the pink ribbons of my grandmother’s funeral bouquet.
As the crowd thinned and the last mourners turned to leave, my aunts, uncles, cousins and other family members came forward and gathered around Grandma one last time. Grandpa stepped up to my grandmother’s casket and, taking a shaky breath, he began to sing to her. Through his tears and grief,the song came, a deep and throaty lullaby. Shaking with my own sorrow, I will never forget that moment. For I knew that, although I couldn’t begin to fathom the depth of their love, I had been privileged to witness its unmatched beauty. | 2019-04-19T09:01:24 | http://kingdompursuits.com/devotional-humor-and-inspiring-stories-for-april-19th-2017/ |
0.999867 | UPDATED: Rescue teams found the bodies of two British women who were swept away in stormy seas while night swimming in Lloret de Mar.
Rescue services confirmed the two bodies had been discovered at around midday near Blanes, a town along the coast near the resort of Lloret de Mar.
"A body was spotted by helicopter about two nautical miles southeast of Lloret de Mar and the boat of the specialist diving unit boat was sent to it just after noon on Thursday," a spokesman from the Salvamento Marítimo - maritime search and rescue service - told The Local.
"They found the other body close by and both were taken to the port at Blanes."
The women, aged 33 and 36, had been swept away in rough seas shortly after 4am in the Costa Brava resort. It was widely reported that they were from Birmingham.
A spokesman for the town hall in Lloret de Mar said the women had been warned not to go into the sea by a security guard at a beach bar.
"They were in a group of five and were told that it was dangerous to go into the sea. But two ignored him and went in the sea anyway," Ana Riera told The Local.
When one of the swimmers had got into difficulty, a friend on shore had gone to her rescue.
"It seems one of the original swimmers was able to get to shore, but the other was struggling so a friend went to her rescue and they both got swept out to sea," Riera said.
She added that the remaining three women in the group were receiving counselling from psychologists and that the town hall "send their condolences to the families of the two drowned women".
The rescue services were alerted at 4.15am on Thursday and searched all morning for the women.
"We sent out a rescue boat and scrambled two helicopters to the area to look for the two British women," a spokesman from the Salvamento Marítimo told The Local.
"It was very bad weather, the waves were big and the currents were powerful," he said.
"We don't know the circumstances of why they decided to go for a swim except that they were with a group of other women who raised the alarm when they failed to come out of the water."
"There are police boats and specialist divers out there looking for them," added the Salvamento Marítimo spokesman.
Authorities had earlier said that they had given up hope of finding them alive and were searching to retrieve their bodies.
"I'm afraid that there is no hope that they survived," the police chief in Lloret de Mar told The Local. "Three of them went into the water and only one managed to get out. She saw the other two swept away. We are now searching all the inlets along the coast to try to find them."
"The sea may look very beautiful and make a nice holiday photo, but you have to treat it with respect, as it can be very dangerous," he added.
"We can confirm the death of two British nationals who had been reported missing in Lloret de Mar on 1st October," said a spokesman from the British Embassy in Madrid. "We are providing support to the families and those who were travelling with the individuals at this difficult time."
Much of coastal Spain was on alert for bad weather conditions with the Catalan coast, Balearic Islands and Levant battered by high winds.
The national weather office issued an alert on Thursday for the coast of Catalonia because of the risk posed by the rough waters, with waves of up to four metres (13 feet).
On Wednesday rescue services called off a search for a homeless man, also thought to be British, who was swept away when a river burst its banks during a storm in Malaga. | 2019-04-21T07:31:42 | https://www.thelocal.es/20151001/two-british-women-swept-away-in-stormy-seas-after-midnight-swim |
0.999966 | Characters: 5 The two main characters this story follows are Lucy and Owen. Owen and his father are short of money and at a loss for a place to be after the sudden accident that killed his mother two months before the start of the book and caused them to abandon their home in Pennsylvania. After meeting Lucy while his dad briefly held a job as a superintendent in her building, they set off to travel across the country during his senior year while his dad looked for work.
Lucy has lived in New York City her whole life sometimes with her parents, other times with her brother while her parents jetted off around the world. She is used to New York and going it alone when her parents uproot her, moving her across Europe for her father's job and her mother's happiness. They're both well rounded and interesting characters to follow over millions of miles.
Plot: 4 I found the plot and the continual movement of the story to be entertaining. I found myself reading more chapters than I intended in each sitting anxious to know what happened next. There were a few sections that the plot lagged a bit with filler content, but overall it was fun and engaging.
Writing: 5 This is the second Jennifer E. Smith book I've read (the first being her new book Windfall), and I have to say the tone and writing of this was entirely different. I found the writing to be my favorite part of the book. The third person voice that was used to follow Lucy and Owen painted a beautiful pictures in the readers mind. This book definitely focuses on crafting images beyond anything else, which I thought was a great angle to approach a book like this from. | 2019-04-25T00:18:39 | http://www.readingwritingandme.com/2017/11/weekly-reviews-and-recommendations.html |
0.998324 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a blistering attack on the Congress and the Gandhis, referring to alleged AgustaWestland middleman Christian Michel as he retaliated on Rahul Gandhi's Rafale allegations.
"Michel mama was lobbying for some other company. Congress leaders who are making noise now should explain to everyone – what is their relationship with Michel mama? Shouldn't they given an answer? Shouldn't the chowkidar ask them about it," the PM said at a rally in Maharashtra's Solapur, without taking names.
India Todayhad reported on a document which says that a strategy paper seized during the raids on Guido Haschke – another Agusta middleman – had revealed that Christian Michel and Haschke worked on a plan to promote Rafale's prime competitor Eurofighter before India finally signed a deal for 36 Rafale jets from France's Dassault.
The ruling BJP has alleged that Congress president Rahul Gandhi's allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal is linked to the Gandhi family's connection with Christian Michel, who is accused of bribery in the VVIP chopper deal signed when the Congress was in power.
The BJP also alleges that a previous deal for 126 Rafale fighters negotiated by the Congress-led UPA government fell through because of "Christian Michel's dealings".
"Do you support the chowkidaar," PM Modi asked the crowd in Solapur, referring to himself by the term Rahul Gandhi often uses while targeting him. "Was the deal stopped then because of Michel mama'ssaudebaazi (deals)," he said, apparently referring to the 126 jet plan that didn't materialise.
Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly accused PM Modi of going for an overpriced deal for France's Rafale fighters just to help businessman Anil Ambani, whose Reliance Defence bagged an offset contract with Rafale-maker Dassault. "Nothing is going to save the PM from Rafale. It is an open and shut case," said the Congress chief on Tuesday. | 2019-04-20T04:14:48 | http://www.pioneernews.in/was-deal-stopped-because-of-michel-mama-pm-narendra-modis-rafale-jab-at-congress |
0.999992 | Is it possible to have a roach or two without having *thunderclap* a roach problem?
On the 1st, I moved into a studio apartment in Atlanta in a small building of four units, on the second floor, in an old, cruddy but fine building. I've been spending a ton of time in the place since I've mostly just been setting up shop, so I've been able to keep a good general eye on things. No bug problems for the first days (except silverfish -- ugh); on the 9th, I noticed a huge (~1.5 inches and fat) black roach just chilling on the floor in my kitchen, but away from anything kitcheny (the room is really a kitchen + dining area). I chased it away, and over the next few days we had a sort of Tom and Jerry thing going on. I know this sounds anthropomorphic, but I really think it was just the one roach the whole time. It was always the exact same size and the places I found it always made sense with its most recent known whereabouts. I never saw it anywhere foody or watery-- always on some random piece of floor or scuttling around objects on the floor. I keep a very clean house, food-wise-- no filth here-- but since I am in the unpacking process, I have a lot of clothes and random crap on the floor.
Fast-forward to a few nights ago. I am reading in bed, and the little fellow scuttles ACROSS MY FREAKING BED. I chase him into the stairwell and bludgeon him to death with a detached Ikea table leg. (This I felt bad about-- I never even kill bugs-- but dude had the chutzpah to be on my BED!) Knowing that the one culprit was dead, I felt a sense of ease.
And yet! Tonight I found a smaller but still fairly hefty one-- about 3/4 of an inch and much more brown-- in my bathroom, but again, away from any water. Gah. So I am now opening up an investigation.
Basically what I am wondering is, can an apartment have the occasional cockroach without there being an infestation or problem? Even though roaches seriously squick me out, if seeing one once in a blue moon is just a Thing To Deal With That There Cannot Be Much Done About, I can live with that. But if they are, like, multiplying in my walls or something, I want to act fast. I've lived in an apartment before with tiny filth-swarming New York roaches that skitter across the kitchen when you turn off the lights, and thankfully these guys were nothing of the sort. Is the friendly giant cockroach that randomly wanders in from outside just a myth to placate squeamish renters?
You live in Atlanta. You do not have a roach problem; you have a location problem. Sorry, bro. All you can do is put some boric acid powder down around your apartment (especially around doors and windows) and cry. It's a part of life in the south.
That said, we had a mouse in our apartment last month. And there was only one mouse, as impossible as that may be to believe. But I think with roaches you may be SOL.
It's summer, its Atlanta, therefore your base level is going to be at least a few roaches.
I've lived in numerous places in the city where the numbers topped out at "a few" (like, a few sighted per whole summer) and never escalated to anything I'd call a problem. So I don't think there's any reason to worry TOO Much, though you may want to go ahead and take steps to prevent more from moving in.
Also, what about talking to your landlord/leasing office, to see if there's a known problem in your building or unit? Since you've already moved in, I'd imagine they're likely to be honest with you.
Agree with phunniemee. When I lived in North Florida, roaches ("Palmetto bugs" if you're being southern about it) were omnipresent. I didn't have an infestation--they'd just sometimes visit, it seemed. I saw them walk right in under the door.
They made good cat toys for my kitty.
My landlady told me before I moved in that there were "never any insect problems", but that they'd spray if I wanted. Management is pretty absent here though and I even have a clause in my lease that basically translates to "This apartment is old and cruddy; deal with it." I'm really disinclined to do anything toxic to my apartment unless necessary. Thanks for the (reassuring) answers so far, folks.
The New York roaches are German cockroaches; what you have described sounds like an American cockroach.
I don't have any experience with the latter, though it is my general understanding that they don't infest as densely as German ones can. I have a lot of (unwanted) experience with the smaller German cockroaches - and it is very possible to have a few without them hitting the critical mass to explode in population. You still want to hit them hard, of course, to try to keep from ever getting to that critical mass. But one is not the end of the world.
live off books, boxes, dishes inside a dishwasher, off the garbage inside your sealed garbage can.
I moved to the South from the Midwest having seen only a few, small German cockroaches my entire life. Now several years later, I can assure you that 1.5 inches is only the beginning... shudder.
I wouldn't worry too much about it if it's only a few here and there. They get in from outside even in the cleanest houses. If you see little ones, or you see them every day, that's when you worry.
We used to buy roach traps that they would eat the bait and then carry back to the 'nest' with them before they died; that seemed to result in us finding them dead more often than alive, at least.
My landlady told me before I moved in that there were "never any insect problems"
Very few southern homes have "insect problems." But everyone has roaches. As PhoB points out, they call them palmetto bugs down there--it's an image thing. Roaches are gross; palmetto bugs are a fact of life. It is extremely unlikely that you'll ever have a true infestation problem, so you have that on your side, but it is also extremely unlikely that you'll ever rid your place completely of roaches.
For what it's worth, boric acid isn't toxic. I mean, you shouldn't eat it, and it'll sting if it gets in your eyes, but it's not something I'd worry about laying around the house. It does a decent job of keeping roaches at bay, though, so it's definitely something to look into.
I only have experience with using diatomaceous earth against ants (works!) but would assume it's worth a shot against roaches too. It's nontoxic and fairly cheap.
I've often been able to get away with just using a thin boundary line of DE right outside a door, or in the doorway itself, if it's recessed. Keeps most of the mess out of the apartment.
Palmetto bugs (pictures) are not quite the same thing as cockroaches; palmetto bugs are bigger (bigger than American cockroaches, which in turn are bigger than German / New York cockroaches). And they like to fly, and make a rather terrifying buzzing sound as they zoom past your head on their way to your light fixture or wherever. You'll never forget it if you see one or two; they do appear solo or in small groups sometimes.
I used to live in Atlanta (college - lots of cheap housing; I used to always keep my breakfast cereal in the refrigerator, not just for the extra coldness). I saw all three kinds.
I learned to invest in "Great Stuff", which is basically yellow foam insulation in a can. You can use it to fill gaps: around the holes where the plumbing comes into the bathroom / kitchen, invisible crevices behind the corners of the carpet, etc. It helped a lot. Beware - that stuff is difficult to remove if it gets on your skin or textiles (you can use acetone before the foam completely cures).
Oh yeah - if you do have a cat or a precocious dog, be careful what you use to poison the roaches or palmetto bugs. They are compelling prey.
Just chiming in to say, YES! you will see roaches in your home in the south. No matter what you do, other than living in a bubble. They are grody, certainly, but not a cause for long term pest concern. As a long time New Yorker I can support the assertion above that when you see more than a few of those little pale brown guys...now is the time for your tears.
I think the "Palmetto Bug" of the south may be the equal to the "Water Bug" of the north. So big, so awful, but so summer. A cockroach to be sure, but it's too damn big to call it that, and way too pervasive...otherwise everyone would have cockroaches. And we certainly can't have that!
My home is cruddy, too. I live in the Napa Valley so I have Calisoga False Tarantulas (giant hairy beasts they are!), Rattlesnakes, Black Widows and two kinds of scorpions! I almost miss roaches. Almost.
I just moved in with family in Atlanta, and their house is newer and very clean, and I am occasionally seeing these big roaches. I don't know if they are american roaches or palmetto bugs, but there does indeed only seem to be a few. I've come to think of them as local fauna.
If it flies, it's probably a palmetto bug.
Keep a can of freeze spray handy, and you can freeze the crawlies solid. Makes it easy to toss 'em out, or explode them in mid-air by hitting with an old tennis or badminton racket.
Former ATLien here, roaches/palmetto bugs are part and parcel of southern living, especially if you live in an older building which may have a raw earth basement (2 of the 4 places I lived did). The bait traps work pretty well and keep the chemical residue contained in the trap and of course the dead bug body, just make sure to buy the ones with the extra large openings. Boric acid works well around windows and doors which don't seal particularly tight but it does need to be reapplied if it gets too humid/damp.
The ones you're seeing probably crawled in from the outside so you don't have a "roach problem" meaning they are most likely not living in your walls. Like everyone else said, they're a fact of life here in The South, especially if you live near any sort of water or fields.
I agree with amtho, get some "Great Stuff" and close off any cracks or crevices you see around the drains and pipes and windows. If you don't want to use that stuff on a rental unit, try duck tape (that's what I used). It it will cut down the little critter's access to your place tremendously.
I've discovered that they like to be inside my house. Either it's raining too much (the whole ferking summer), or it's too hot, or too cold, or they just feel like watching Dexter while I'm asleep. They creep me out, but they do make for good cat toys.
Not a fan of about.com but this article explains how vacuums are our friend in the fight against your occasional roach.
If you aren't finding them (new ones) every day, you don't have a problem.
I have also heard of mixing hot cocoa powder with quickcrete and leaving little beer caps of it in corners. They eat it, it blocks their g.i. tract and they die. Then they rot in your walls and turn into dust. That has (at some point) been tied to asthma.
I prefer to trick the suckers with the vacuum hose. My kill rate has gone up to 90+% since I learned that trick.
Windex helps slow them down tremendously. And it cleans the countertops, too!
Former Texan here. The yardstick we always used was if you see one of the big ones it's probably come in from outside. This is, as other have mentioned, a fact of life in the South, and one of the more compelling reasons I've spent the last 15 years in places north of the Mason Dixon line. It's when you see the little ones that look like normal roaches anywhere that you have a roach PROBLEM.
And as a warning, let me tell you to get in a habit of checking your shoes every time you put them on. It only takes one instance of blurrily awakening, putting on your fuzzy bunny slippers, and feeling something MOVING on your toes to give you the heebie jeebies for life.
nthing the boric acid. I grew up in Houston and that was the go-to stuff for handling the big "outdoor" roaches. Used around cats, dogs, children, hamsters - no problems.
Thanks for the help, y'all. You were totally right. I haven't seen a big roach since. I have had nightly sightings of what I thought must be nymphal roaches (hardly bigger than a mustard seed) in my bathroom, coming out from under the bathtub, but they never get any bigger, so I'm starting to wonder if that's even what they are. | 2019-04-23T03:19:43 | https://ask.metafilter.com/193514/roaching-the-subject |
0.999907 | In short: I am fed up with bad music and music apps and streaming platforms such as Spotify, Soundcloud or Youtube. That's why I search for objectively good music playlists on the Internet, download the songs from Youtube don't care about music supply for a couple of years. My main issue with existing music platforms: Any algorithm giving me suggestions based on my past music taste doesn't factor in that I might in fact have a bad music taste.
I am now programming for almost 10 years. I have almost finished my M. Sc. in computer science. I developed many projects in a wide range of programming languages in the past years, many projects which I abandoned early, too much blog post that were never completed. So much buggy code, too many bad choices.
To be honest, I don't think I ever created a piece of software that I was truly satisfied with. I have come to terms that I am an average programmer trying to make a living with it.
About three years ago, I caught myself listening to the same few songs again and again that I had saved on my smartphone. Even though I would consider myself savy in many areas of information technology, streaming platforms like Spotify or Soundcloud neaver managed to convince me.
Therefore, my usual approach was to download some songs from youtube that I already knew. I saved them to my phone and listened them until I couldn't hear them anymore. Once in a while, I found fresh artists on youtube and I added them to my small collection of music.
I tried the free version of spotify, but the advertisements were too annoying for me. Furthermore, I couldn't imagine spending 10$ a month for their service. Why bother paying for music when you can have it for free on youtube?
To be honest, not wanting to pay 10$ is a bad argument, since I pay for many other useless services much more money (such as my amazon prime account, which I almost never use).
Nevertheless, something inside me wants to remain independent and free. I don't want to become enslaved by spotify and provide them with my valuable user data. I don't want them to give money for such a mediocre business idea. So what is the alternative?
I heard there is also youtube music now. Basically a version of youtube that is focused on music videos. I briefly tried it out and it let me chose the artists and songs that I already was aware of.
That's not what I want. I want music that I don't know yet and that many people collectively like. Any algorithm giving me suggestions based on my past music taste doesn't factor in that I might in fact have a bad music taste.
I don't want to be dependent on an active internet connection. More often than not, I reach my monthly data limit on my smartphone and can't listen too good music anymore. Further reasons: flights or foreign countries with roaming fees.
I don't want to subsribe to a music service such as Spotify or Youtube Music. I dislike downloading apps and giving away user data.
Advertisements are from hell and completely neutralises any happiness that stems from listening to cool songs. Therefore, I must avoid free spotify or youtube music.
I like to own the actual MP3 files.
A script to search and download the titles from youtube needs to be programmed.
Have you tried browsing youtube for music? The algorithm is broken. It just doesn't work. It's not smarter than the user. And the user doesn't know what good music constitutes. That's why he is searching.
Because many people are much smarter and more experienced then me, let's aks them what they consider to be good music.
The more people commented, the better the playlist will be. For example this reddit thread from 2017 is pure gold. 7100 comments and people even made a playlist from the top comments. This saves some work.
Approach: Search past reddit threads of the form "What is your favourite song?"
A good idea is to search the internet for recent (in the past two years) threads where people name their favourite songs.
Then I search for threads were people should name songs that everyone knows but can't associate a name to it.
This personal gist of a github user named manios is much better in my opinion, because the list directly includes Youtube links. However, it is too opinionated.
Of course I needed to base my list on upvotes from reddit or trust random people from spotify. | 2019-04-18T22:57:22 | https://incolumitas.com/2019/01/02/programming-to-improve-your-life/ |
0.998514 | Driverless cars are on the road right now, and Argo AI is one of several key companies that are driving forward the advancement of this complex technology. Backed by a massive initial investment from Ford, Argo has its own driverless cars on real city streets in several states. Since Argo is an independent company, its unique brand of driverless car technology could show up in vehicles from Volkswagen and other car manufacturers.
Why is Argo AI Developing Driverless Cars, and Who Will Use Them?
Argo AI's stated mission is to lead what it calls a "thoughtful revolution" in driving. The problem, as Argo AI sees it, is that over one million people die in road accidents around the world each year, and a large percentage of those deaths are caused by human error.
The basic idea is that an artificial intelligence (AI) can't get tired, or inebriated, or suffer from a momentary lapse of judgement, so the careful implementation of AI systems into driverless cars could save lives.
Beyond safety, there are many other uses for this type for technology. Ford has adopted Argo AI's technology for use in their own vehicles, and they've already partnered with a number of other companies to explore how driverless cars could revolutionize fields like transportation and delivery.
In one partnership with Postmates, Argo AI-powered Ford vans were used to make deliveries without the need for a human driver. Ford also partnered with Walmart to offer home deliveries using Argo AI-powered vehicles, and some small businesses have also participated in similar pilot programs.
Competitors like Uber and Google-backed Waymo have shown how driverless cars can effectively take the place of human-operated taxis and buses. In a similar vein, these vehicles could also be used by elderly and disabled people who would otherwise not be able to operate their own vehicles.
Driverless cars aren't legal in every state. You might (or might not) find one driving in your neighborhood soon!
Argo AI is an independent self-driving technology company that was founded in 2016. Within six months of its founding, the company received a billion dollar investment from Ford, with the understanding that Ford would rely on Argo AI's technology to implement its own driverless cars.
Propelled by the massive investment from Ford, Argo AI was able to rapidly develop its self-driving car technology beyond the initial prototype phase, and actually had driverless cars on the road in several states less than a year after the company was founded.
Despite Ford's large investment in the company, it remains independent. That means that while Ford was the first to sign on to use their driverless car technology, Argo AI is free to license it to other companies like Volkswagen.
How Do Argo AI Driverless Cars Work?
Argo AI vehicles use sensors to map the external environment and an artificial intelligence program to interpret that map and determine appropriate actions. The artificial intelligence is able to tap into every system in the vehicle, including the throttle, brakes, steering, and everything else through electronic controls.
Basic routes are planned and implemented with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors, but the AI has the ability to make real-time corrections in reaction to changing conditions, like traffic suddenly stopping or a pedestrian stepping into the road.
The artificial intelligence that drives an Argo AI car is trained through machine learning to understand how to react to various sorts of stimulus. This initial work is carried out at closed testing facilities, so that the AI is already a pretty good driver before it ever gets out on public roads.
Argo AI is able to use data gathered from its entire fleet to further refine the artificial intelligence, and Ford has also partnered with competitors like Uber to share data from each company's real-world driverless car testing to better increase the safety of each individual system.
Initial Argo AI driverless cars have been built into existing Ford vehicles, like the Ford Focus and Ford Transit. That means they have traditional controls, including a steering wheel and pedals, in addition to AI controls.
Most of the basic technologies that underpin Argo AI's driverless cars have been around for a while. These technologies are collectively known as Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS) because they were originally implemented to make vehicles safer, easier, and more comfortable to drive.
Technologies like lane-keeping systems and adaptive cruise control were important forerunners to driverless cars. These systems use a variety of sensors to create the same picture of the external environment that Argo AI's driverless cars use to safely navigate from one place to another.
While these systems can use a variety of sensors, including radar, LIDAR, infrared, and others, Argo AI acquired Princeton Lightwave for this specific purpose. Princeton Lightwave's LIDAR technology functions as the AI's eyes, improving its ability to see and process the world around it in real time.
Having a picture of the external environment, and understanding how to react to the environment, is only one part of the puzzle. In order to actually control the vehicle, the AI uses a variety of systems like drive-by-wire technology to operate the electronic throttle controls, brakes, electronic steering, and everything else. | 2019-04-23T08:11:21 | https://www.lifewire.com/argo-ai-ford-backed-driverless-car-4588929 |
0.999898 | In response to the question, How fast are the oceans warming? Cheng et al. report this week the answer is 40 to 50 percent faster than the last estimate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
National Geographic says if all the heat the oceans have absorbed from 1955 onward were suddenly added to the atmosphere, air temperatures would rocket by more than 60 degrees per the above graphic that shows the current atmospheric temperature at about 1 degree above the 1955 baseline per the following.
To make the situation even starker, the following graphic from Cheng et al. shows if greenhouse emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century, the ocean to a depth of 2000 meters could warm by as much as 1 degree Celsius.
As Zeke Hausfather, one of co-authors of the “Science” paper says, the oceans are the best thermometer we have for the planet and 2018 was the ocean's hottest year and we'll feel it a long time.
The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report says “Adaptation and mitigation are complementary strategies for reducing and managing the risks of climate change. Substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades can reduce climate risks in the 21st century and beyond, increase prospects for effective adaptation, reduce the costs and challenges of mitigation in the longer term and contribute to climate-resilient pathways for sustainable development.” But if they have discounted ocean heat by as much as 50%, how can anyone take any of their pronouncements about climate policy seriously?
Or those of economists like Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen and the two dozen other economists on the on the Council of Economic Advisers who signed a statement today expressing their support for a new tax on greenhouse gas emissions that would combat climate change while giving back revenue to taxpaying Americans?
Isn’t basic math elemental to the study of economics?
The theory goes, we want to encourage, income, investment and innovation and shift taxes onto pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and waste but that isn’t an energy plan.
An energy plan would convert ocean heat to productive energy that can be consumed by the 9 billion expected to live on this planet by mid-century.
Today’s 60 degrees is going to come out of the ocean eventually and in the alternative could provide jobs, income, investment and taxes for 3,250 years.
According to NOAA it takes about 1000 years for water to be cycled through the oceans by the thermohaline circulation but the longer this heat is maintained within the oceans the less impact it will have on the atmosphere and the more environmental benefit it can provide.
Idaho Power says it will rely completely on hydroelectric, solar and wind energy by 2045. The locally owned and operated utility serves more than half a million customers. It's dubbed its 100 percent renewable energy drive, "Clean Today, Cleaner..
An interesting article was published in the Capitol Hill site "The Hill" that I thought would be an interesting start to a discussion among members of the Clean Power community. | 2019-04-22T00:35:58 | https://www.energycentral.com/c/ec/atmosphere-v-ocean-heat-content-%E2%80%93-tree-v-forest |
0.999367 | Can Liverpool go once step closer and win the Champions League this season?
Anfield is once again set to host a blockbuster European fixture as five-time European champions Liverpool welcome five-time champions Bayern Munich in the first leg of the round-of-16 fixture.
The Champions League is the only piece of cup silverware that Liverpool can win this season, as the Reds are already out of the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup. Jurgen Klopp and his men entered the knockout stage after finishing second in the Group C in a group that contained Napoli and PSG.
Last season's runners up have been unbeatable at Anfield all season and will be banking upon the Kop once again to help them edge closer to their sixth title.
After a very poor start to their season, Niko Kovac and his men look to be in the running on all three fronts, as the Bavarian giants are now just 3 points behind league leaders Borussia Dortmund and still in the mix for both the DFB Pokal and the Champions League.
The German giants are one of the five teams yet to be beaten in the Champions League this season as they topped Group E. The Bavarian will face a familiar foe in the shape of Jurgen Klopp, whose Borussia Dortmund team remain the last team to win the Bundesliga before Bayern Munich dominance.
Here's all you need to know ahead of the much-awaited game.
Liverpool will be facing Liverpool for the first time in 38 years, with Bayern Munich and Liverpool both winning 2 Champions League titles in this period.
Liverpool are on a 19-match unbeaten streak in Anfield in European competitions.
The Reds have faced German oppositions on 42 occasions, and emerged victorious 21 times.
Bayern Munich are unbeaten in their last 8 away matches, with 6 wins and 2 draws.
The Senegal international, Sadio Mane, has been on fire in the recent weeks, as he has netted in each of Liverpool's last four outings.
With Virgil Van Dijk and Joe Gomez out and Dejan Lovren facing a late fitness test, Robert Lewandowski, who also happens to be the leading goal-scorer this season in the UCL, will be looking to add to his tally of 8 goals. | 2019-04-23T23:58:44 | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/liverpool-v-bayern-munich-match-preview-when-and-where-to-watch-h2h-form-guide-and-key-players-champions-league-2018-19 |
0.999893 | Try using a plastic knife when slicing the brownies. It will create a cleaner cut.
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-inch square baking pan.
2. Chop the chocolate. Place the chocolate and butter in the bowl fitted with the kneading/crushing blade. Launch at speed 3 at 110°F for 10 minutes. If chocolate is not fully melted, scrape down the sides of the bowl and relaunch for another 2 minutes.
3. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add sugar, flour, baking powder, eggs, vanilla and pecans. Launch at speed 4 for 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and relaunch at speed 8 for 2 minutes.
4. Spread batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until edges look dry and center is almost set. Do not overbake. Cool before cutting. | 2019-04-20T09:15:55 | https://www.all-clad.com/Recipes/Pecan-Brownies/r/237529 |
0.999858 | Another thrilling week of Super Rugby wrapped up on Sunday morning.
There were some nail biters, some easy wins and a record streak adding another game to its tally.
How did the results fall in round eight?
Ihaia West has done his best impression of Beauden Barrett for the Hurricanes who have secured a last-gasp 38-37 Super Rugby win over the Sharks in Napier.
In a Friday night thriller, inside centre Ngani Laumape crossed to put the hosts in front, five minutes after the fulltime siren, before West slotted the winning conversion from a handy spot.
It capped a flattering win for the Hurricanes, who were outplayed for long periods but capitalised on a one-man advantage in the closing stages to clinch a fifth-successive victory.
By half-time, the Waratahs had 38 points, their second-highest tally in 16 years and the Sunwolves notched up their own solid tally, in a game that was far from the grind of Canberra a week ago.
A penalty try in the closing minutes has gifted the Chiefs a 21-19 win over the Blues and continued the most lop-sided rivalry in Super Rugby history.
Trailing for most of the second half in Hamilton on Saturday, the home side gradually took control up front and made the decisive play soon after the Blues were reduced to 14 men.
The Chiefs already had an edge at scrum time before lock Josh Goodhue was shown a yellow card.
It was amplified in a series of scrums on the Blues tryline before referee Paul Williams ran out of patience in the 74th minute and ran between the uprights.
The penalty try provided the only points in the second half and handed the Chiefs their fifth successive win.
More notably, it was the 14th successive game without a loss to the Blues - a streak that is longer than any rivalry in the competition's history.
The Brumbies have had their very own 'Hand of God' moment at GIO Stadium, as ACT claimed a much-needed 45-21 win over the Reds.
With the match delicately poised in the Brumbies' favour with 20 to play - leading 24-18 - Aidan Toua slipped an offload through a tackle which was knocked down by David Pocock.
The loose ball found the hands of Samu Kerevi, who ran 20 metres to score, untouched.
The passage looked a try to most watching, but referee Ben O'Keeffe had other ideas, blowing a knock on, while TMO George Ayoub, watched four replays of Pocock appearing to slap the ball to ground without intervening.
It was akin to Diego Maradona's handball turned goal at the 1986 World Cup and Queensland were forced to settle for a penalty when they could have reclaimed the lead.
From that point forward, it was all ACT, as they scored three late tries to surge clear.
Lions winger Madosh Tambwe scored four tries as his side recorded a 52-31 win over the Stormers in Saturday's Super Rugby clash at Ellis Park.
Lionel Mapoe, Kwagga Smith, Franco Mostert and Ruan Combrinck added four more tries as the Stormers suffered yet another away defeat.
Wilco Louw, Damian Willemse and substitute Paul de Wet, playing only his second Super Rugby game, scored for the Cape Town-based outfit in an entertaining contest that leaves the Lions comfortably top of the South African standings.
The Crusaders showed why they're regarded as the best travellers in Super Rugby with a 40-14 defeat of the Jaguares in Buenos Aires. | 2019-04-19T01:02:12 | https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/04/07/super-rugby-round-eight-wrap |
0.993656 | Readability: Very readable and easy to follow.
Hook: The chapter definitely left me wanting for more. A lot happened in the short time and I would like to know more.
Editing: There are a couple of run-on sentences, fragments and at least one occurrence of wrong word used.
Characters: We are introduced to three characters, Shah, the man with the black everything, The Angel that fell from the sky and crushed her car roof just to get her attention, and the main character Taryn Each was described well and there was good character development in Taryn and the Angel.
Understandable: It was easy to follow everything that was going on in the story.
Visuals: There were excellent visuals in the story. The leaves blew in the wind regardless of the fact that Taryn ignored them and put on her dark sunglasses. I also got a good idea of the visual actions going on in the scene.
Relatable: I can relate to the awkward birthdays and not trusting strangers. Thinking an Angel is hunky – not so much, but then again I am a guy. I related more to the Angel in this case because he is more like I would want to be: The hero of a red-head with freckles, even if she does not see me as the hero yet.
Fun: The story was definitely fun to read and follow.
Overall: Overall, this was a great read and I would suggest it to my friends. There were minor editing issues but those did not detract too much from the story.
Synopsis: A girl turns eighteen and is heading out to work. She gets accosted by two different mysterious people and has to choose which one is less scary to go with.
Favorite line: Had everyone taken a spastic pill and forgot to mention it to me?
Favorite character: The Angel. Definitely the Angel. | 2019-04-22T10:28:00 | http://alifeinafterworld.com/?p=67 |
0.998868 | Turkey, rice, and vegetables in a tasty sauce make this recipe one that your family will be excited to eat as leftovers.
1. In 10-inch skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until almost crisp. Add turkey, carrots, onion and celery; cook about 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until turkey is browned.
2. Spoon mixture into 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. | 2019-04-26T03:53:01 | http://www.recipe4living.com/recipes/crockpot_turkey_rice_casserole_2.htm |
0.998437 | A striking photo was taken as an Australian tree frog opened its mouth to show a small snake's head, its jaws also gaping in what was perhaps its last gasp.
As a hapless snake vanished down the throat of a frog, the last thing it saw was likely a camera's flash, as a photographer captured the image of its head peeping from the amphibian's gullet.
The striking photo was snapped at a moment when the frog was gaping its mouth wide. And unexpectedly peering up from the frog's throat was another head, belonging to a small snake, its jaws also stretching in what was perhaps its last gasp.
The poignancy of the doomed snake's final moments were underscored by science writer Jason Bittle, who shared the Reddit post on Twitter accompanied by all-too-relevant lyrics written by the Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam, in their popular 1991 song "Alive."
The swallowed snake likely didn't stay alive for long — though a frog's prey is usually gulped down alive and kicking, once the frog's mouth snaps shut, the end comes quickly, Jonathan Kolby, director of the Honduras Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center, told Live Science in an email. Even if the prey doesn't go down easily, the frog is usually none the worse for wear, he said.
"It's easy to imagine that swallowing a vigorously struggling animal would hurt the frog," Kolby explained. "But after being swallowed, most prey items likely suffocate and die within a minute or two while being squeezed and held in place by muscles in the frog's digestive tract."
And it's not at all uncommon for a snake to be on a frog's menu, Kolby added.
"Tree frogs often consume a wide variety of prey, including snakes and even rodents, all according to how large a frogs' mouth is," he said.
The frog was identified as an Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) in a tweet posted on Oct. 16 by Jodi Rowley, a curator of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Biology with the Australian Museum and the University of New South Wales. In another tweet, Rowley suggested that the frog's esophagus appeared smaller than might be expected for an animal with such a wide gape, but it was probably somewhat constricted because the snake was still in the process of being swallowed.
The snake appears to be a baby brownsnake, according to Paul Oliver, a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University. That makes this interaction somewhat unusual, as many snakes are diurnal — active during the day — and frogs are nocturnal, Oliver explained.
"It seems unlikely to have occurred naturally (but then give things enough time in nature — all sorts of unlikely things do happen)," Oliver told Live Science in an email.
One possibility? "Human agency may have played role in the snake meeting the frog, but subsequently the frog's instincts to eat anything small took over," said Oliver, who studies the systematics and evolution of frogs and lizards.
In fact, tree frogs are referred to by some as "labradors of the frog world" for their indiscriminate eating habits, as they are known for trying to eat "just about anything they can fit into their mouths," Kathleen Doody, a researcher with the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland in Australia, told Live Science in an email.
Regardless, from the frog's perspective, having your meal trying to writhe its way back up your throat is probably not a pleasant experience. But there are even more extreme examples of a meal turning disastrous for frogs, Kolby told Live Science.
Epomis beetle larvae, which look like tempting grubs to a hungry frog, are actually deadly carnivores that prey on their would-be predators, Kolby said. The larvae lure the frogs closer by waving their antenna, then strike with their powerful mandibles, latching onto the frog and consuming it alive, he said.
Did the snake in the photo somehow manage to wrest itself from the frog's maw and wriggle its way to freedom? We may never know how this particular incident ended. But for one moment in a life and death struggle frozen by a photographer's lens, the prey came out ahead. | 2019-04-26T00:15:56 | https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/snake-pops-its-head-out-of-frogs-mouth-as-it-is-eaten |
0.998523 | The question of this assignment is:- "Should leaders be really authentic all the time?" it should be written in clear way in the favor of authentic leaders and how they help to uplift the organisation. must have 4 references. two references should be from academic journal and 1 from website and 1 from newspaper. | 2019-04-24T13:53:43 | https://myassignmenthelp.com/answers/management-the-question-of-this-assignment-is-should-leaders-be-really-authentic-.html |
1 | 1. They're getting married later this year.
2. I'm not sure how the window got broken.
Are these sentence in passive or active voice?
The first example is the active voice. The second example is the passive voice. | 2019-04-22T14:01:38 | https://www.englishforums.com/English/ActiveVsPassive/bqzzr/post.htm |
0.998373 | It was 51 years ago today (June 14th, 1967) that the Monkees began recording their third and final Number One hit, "Daydream Believer." The song, which was tracked during the group's sessions for Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., was held off the album and released separately as a single. "Daydream Believer" was written by the late John Stewart, who had written several songs for the Kingston Trio, and at that time was performing with future superstar John Denver. Shortly after the song's release in November 1967, Stewart became the official musician of the Democratic National Committee, which involved traveling with Senator Robert Kennedy during his brief 1968 Presidential campaign. | 2019-04-24T08:58:48 | https://kool1039.com/flashback-the-monkees-begin-recording-daydream-believer/ |
1 | Next year, Zach visited his grandma.
Make sure the subject and the verb agree in the following sentence.
My friend every year in March and then again in July.
Next summer we visited them.
They regularly visit the park.
They visit regularly the park.
Felicia visited the tomb on her visit to Egypt.
Lucy Jake, and Roy visited the farm.
Lucy Jake and Roy, visited the farm.
Lucy, Jake, and Roy visited the farm.
lucy jake and, roy visited the farm.
Identify the sentence that uses capitalization correctly.
Kenia and cassandra visited room 101.
Eric Maria and Carlos came for a visit.
Which choice shows where the commas should go?
Eric Maria, and Carlos, came for a visit.
Eric, Maria, and Carlos came for a visit.
Eric Maria and Carlos, came for a visit.
Which word has the short i sound?
Which word is an ADVERB in the sentence below?
I will visit my friend tomorrow.
Write the correct verb to complete each sentence.
a. Charlie the other animals (visit, visits).
b. The puppets at Charlie (bark, barks).
c. The horses in the field (gallop, gallops).
grandparents are coming to visit.
Choose the sentence in each group that uses correct punctuation.
Celia said, "Everyone should visit this museum."
Celia said"Everyone should visit this museum."
Celia said, Everyone should visit this museum.
"Celia said" Everyone should visit this museum.
Disneyworld is a place to visit. | 2019-04-25T03:54:58 | https://www.helpteaching.com/search/visit |
0.999993 | Growth through exports: should governments intervene?
“A thriving export sector is, as the Commission on Growth and Development states, “a critical ingredient of high growth, especially in the early stages.” There is microeconomic evidence to support this claim: recent research suggests that increases in exports lead firms to produce higher-quality products, pay higher wages, and adopt more advanced technologies. There is also evidence that the sophistication of a country’s exports, where the sophistication of a product is measured by the average income of countries that produce the product, is positively correlated with countries’ future growth rates. It appears that growth is closely associated with moving up the quality ladder within industries, and exporting more technology-intensive and capital-intensive, higher-value-added products.
The question then is: Should governments intervene in markets to increase exports? The answer is not obvious. One has to weigh the costs against the benefits. In the perfect markets of economics textbooks, government interventions to promote particular activities move firms away from an already efficient resource allocation based on comparative advantage to a less efficient allocation, generating welfare losses. On the other hand, if there are what economists would call externalities between firms, for instance spillovers of technical knowledge between firms producing similar goods, then industrial policies can help to correct market failures, for instance under-investment in innovation by firms that cannot capture the full benefits of their investments.
Unfortunately, this last idea is easily stated in theory, but hard to implement in practice. It is difficult to know exactly which firms or products or sectors are likely to generate knowledge spillovers. Governments cannot simply imitate what other countries have done in the past, both because countries differ along many dimensions and because the fact that, say, several East Asian countries have succeeded in semiconductors makes it harder for latecomers to succeed in semiconductors too.
Given this uncertainty, what is a policy-maker to do? The view advocated by two economists at the World Bank, Daniel Lederman and William Maloney, which I share, is that policy-makers should focus first of all on ways to provide broad-based support for innovation. Governments should not try to figure out precisely which firms or products are likely to generate spillovers. Instead, they should seek to implement policies that reduce costs for a broad range of activities that are likely to lead to greater innovation and greater exports. What type of policies fall in this category? One is infrastructure investments: better roads, more reliable electricity supplies and better port facilities. Another type of broad-based policy is reducing import barriers for high-quality inputs, which in turn can promote production of higher-quality products by domestic firms. Both these strategies would benefit a wide set of firms, without requiring governments to identify beforehand the firms, products or sectors with the greatest potential.
It is also important to recognise that state effectiveness matters crucially for industrial policy. Governments have to be willing and able to “pull the plug” on policies that are not working. There is the danger that officials tasked with promoting an industry come to be unduly influenced by the firms under their regulatory supervision. Governments should strive for transparency and independence from vested economic interests. At the same time, policy needs to be made with the governments that we have, not that we would like to have. My own view is that modest industrial policies, of the sort suggested above, can be effective even when states are relatively weak. Indeed, they can help to develop states’ expertise and competence. We should not simply take the view that governments need to wait until all corruption has been removed before undertaking such policies. In that view, we may be waiting a very long time indeed.
The challenges in implementing effective industrial policy are great, and we need more research on precisely what works and what doesn’t. But at the same time, there is a strong conceptual case for certain types of industrial policies. It is also clear that many countries that have successfully developed have done so through extensive government intervention in markets. Africa should not give up on industrial policy just because mistakes have been made in the past.
Harrison, Ann and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, “Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy in Developing Countries,” in Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig, eds., Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 5, North-Holland, 2010, pp. 4039-4214.
Lederman, D. and Maloney, W. 2012. Does What You Export Matter? In Search of Empirical Guidance for Industrial Policies, Washington DC: The World Bank.
“Commission on Growth and Development. 2008. The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development. Washington, DC : World Bank.
on Argentinian Firms,” American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (1), 304-340.; Lileeva, A. and Trefler, D. 2010. “Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity … For Some Plants,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (3), 1051–1099.
Hausmann, Ricardo, Jason Hwang, and Dani Rodrik, “What You Export Matters,” Journal of Economic Growth, March 2007, 12 (1), 1-25. | 2019-04-20T06:56:41 | https://www.theigc.org/blog/growth-through-exports-should-governments-intervene/ |
0.99998 | How do I descale my Smarter Coffee machine?
Fill the water tank with coffee machine descaler and water to 12 cups, the ratio will depend on the descaler instruction.
Position the carafe in place, select filter 12 cups then start, when you start seeing water come through to the carafe stop the brew and let it sit for 30 minutes to an hour.
Finish the brew by selecting filter then 12 cups.
Then run 2 more cycles of filter 12 cups with just water to get all the limescale out and descaler out. | 2019-04-19T06:25:41 | https://support.smarter.am/hc/en-us/articles/115005133005-How-to-descale-Coffee-Machine- |
0.998026 | I've been doing some reading, and I've seen that you can easily setup a redundant raid setup in OS X. If I were to purchase an external hard drive that was equal or greater in capacity to my internal on the iMac, would this be a good option for me? What are the advantages or disadvantages involved with RAID at this level?
It seems like having a RAID array with one internal drive and one external drive might actually slow performance.
I'd expect any external drive to have higher latency and delay because of protocol conversions getting on and off a FireWire or USB bus.
RAID works best with exactly identical drives connected to identical hardware controllers.
I think you could get RAID setup the way you describe, but it might require high levels of maintenance.
If the goal is a backup strategy, I'm sure you're better off using the typical CarbonCopyCloner approach. If the goal is higher mounted disk capacity, I'd just connect an external drive in the typical way.
RAID is a great option for backup of a desktop computer of any kind. It's not really suited to a portable computer because it needs to be a perminent connection really.
Atomic Write Failure: also known by various terms such as torn writes, torn pages, incomplete writes, interrupted writes, etc. This is a little understood and rarely mentioned failure mode for redundant storage systems. Database researcher Jim Gray wrote "Update in Place is a Poison Apple" during the early days of relational database commercialization. However, this warning largely went unheeded and fell by the wayside upon the advent of RAID, which many software engineers mistook as solving all data storage integrity and reliability problems. Many software programs update a storage object "in-place"; that is, they write a new version of the object on to the same disk addresses as the old version of the object. While the software may also log some delta information elsewhere, it expects the storage to present "atomic write semantics", meaning that the write of the data either occurred in its entirety or did not occur at all. However, very few storage systems provide support for atomic writes, and even fewer specify their rate of failure in providing this semantic. Note that during the act of writing an object, a RAID storage device will usually be writing all redundant copies of the object in parallel. Hence an error that occurs during the process of writing may leave the redundant copies in different states, and furthermore may leave the copies in neither the old nor the new state. The little known failure mode is that delta logging relies on the original data being either in the old or the new state so as to enable backing out the logical change, yet few storage systems provide an atomic write semantic.
So it wouldn't be a good idea to do it on my iMac with an external firewire drive? Is that the general consensus?
It would work, but I think you would find it to be slow and buggy because it wouldn't be an internal (preferably SATA) HDD and it wouldn't be the same model. I wouldn't bother personally, I would do as the Professor says and use something like CCC or Backup or the like.
Alright. Thank you much. I think I'll go with Carbon Copy Cloner, once I get another drive.
The other reason not to use redundent RAID for backup is that if you have a file become corrupt it will instantly mirror that to the backup therefor making both copies unusable. The same thing will happen if you accidentally delete the wrong file. It is better to have a little bit of a lag before it gets backed up. That way you can have some amount of time to recover a lost file before it gets overwritten. | 2019-04-22T00:26:51 | http://forum.maccast.com/topic/4416-raid-for-backup/?tab=comments |
0.997171 | English reading exercises: How to improve one’s English Language Skills?
a. Make sure you carefully select what you read. This is where we come in with this daily selection of articles. We provide you the best reading material that you can use on a daily basis.
What is the key idea of the passage?
What are the key subjects the author highlights?
What is the viewpoint of the author?
What kind of tone and approach does the author maintain?
When you keep these questions in mind while reading, your brain attunes itself to focus more closely on the text concerned and you do not lose your focus while reading. This is handy tool-tip you can keep in mind for reading.
Now that we have shared some tips on reading, let’s get started with the article selection for today.
Article Name: Why desi ghee is the intelligent choice?
This article talks about the benefits of ghee consumption. As the title rightly says, “Why ghee is the intelligent choice?”, the writer states reasons for proving the same. An interesting read for anyone who wishes to know the why!!
For the folks who worry about all the extra fat that such a consumption can lead to, the writer has some good news for you, he says “It is full of all the good important fatty acids, Omega3 and Omega 6 as well as significant amount of vitamins A, D, E, and K.” He also states reason as to why ghee is not included in the healthy fats – because it was thought to be bad for lactose intolerant people.
Ghee is added in most of the Indian cuisines for the taste factor and to help in digestion Ghee is given in various forms in many of our Indian cultures. The West is also opening up to its benefits says the writer. The write concludes by stating the essentialities of ghee. “Do yourself a favour and enjoy the desi flavour of ghee.” says the author.
1) He appears compulsively antediluvian.
2) He wasn’t bound by standard frameworks.
He goes on to say that Gandhi was aware of the monstrous consequences of capitalism. The “practical trusteeship formula” that he had finalised just before his assassination which had the potential of transforming the capitalist order of the society into an egalitarian one, was never brought to action. The writer closes the article by hoping that the Gandhian principles are brought back to action in the present times of growing inequality.
In this article, G. Sampath talks about a movie’s influence in uniting the Hindu community that’s deeply divided by castes. The writer says that in spite of Baahubali being a South Indian Film, where none of the actors seemed familiar to the North Indians, it connected well with the viewers in the cow belt.
The movie along with its exemplary storytelling was successful in fabricating an Indian superhero who is a Hindu kshatriya and whose religious and caste identity are defined by the kshatriya ethnic. The writer says that everything about the movie – the plot, cast, landscape, etc. reflect the Hindu ethos. Then he goes on telling how the movie is set and what’s it about. Beneath all this, says the writer the subtext of the movie glorifies the caste order and seeks to unite the Hindu community divided by caste constituting a significant cultural intervention.
English reading exercises: What should you keep in mind?
Regular reading is the key to improving your language skills.
You can jot down 5 to 10 new words from every article you read. You will always discover new words while reading and you should set yourself a daily limit of learning. Remember, you cannot learn an infinite number of words in one go.
You should run a quick Google search for the term ‘English reading exercises’ and ‘speed reading exercises’. You will discover some useful links that you can for reading practice.
There are some speed reading tools that help you identify your reading speed. You should take up these tests to identify your current reading speed and check the improvement over a period of time. | 2019-04-22T20:55:55 | https://wordpandit.com/english-reading-exercises/ |
0.998505 | The federal budget stalemate that stands to trigger a government shutdown shifted Thursday from a debate over spending cuts to a fight over the thorny policy issues of abortion and environmental regulation that have divided Democrats and Republicans for years.
Facing a deadline of midnight Friday, negotiators worked day and night in an effort to strike a compromise as the policy demands loomed as a major new obstacle.
For a third straight day, President Obama called House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to meetings at the White House. Afterward, Obama set a hard deadline for reaching an agreement, saying he wanted a deal from the congressional leadership overnight.
"I expect an answer in the morning," Obama said, emerging from a late session at the White House. "My hope is that I'll be able to announce to the American people, sometime relatively early in the day, that a shutdown has been averted."
Underscoring the stakes involved, Obama canceled plans to visit Indiana on Friday so he could remain in Washington and oversee the talks.
If the two sides near an agreement, another short-term measure could be instituted to allow the deal to be adopted.
Meanwhile, the government continued preparations to halt government operations. In Baghdad, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told troops that they may not receive their next paychecks because of the shutdown.
For weeks, Republicans have insisted on reductions in federal spending. Conservative House members also have pushed for Republican policy priorities only indirectly related to the spending debate.
"This debate used to be about saving money," Reid said earlier in the day. "That is no longer the case. The 'tea party' is trying to push through its extreme social agenda -- issues that have nothing to do with funding the government."
The two sides appeared to be near agreement on a package that would cut spending by $34.5 billion from domestic programs for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
The new package would cut slightly deeper than a previous proposal, in part because it would include $3 billion in reductions to the Defense Department that would appeal to Democrats as well as fiscally conservative Republicans. It represents about half of the $61 billion in cuts the GOP has sought.
But Boehner insisted that no new agreement on spending levels had been reached as he continued to pursue the largest package of cuts possible.
Polls show that most in Boehner's party are behind him. In a new Gallup poll, most respondents wanted the two sides to compromise, and a slight majority of Republicans wanted lawmakers to stick to their principles, even if it means shutting down the government.
Conservative activists have urged the GOP to hold out for more cuts, staging rallies and calling for a government shutdown.
"We're continuing to work toward an agreement," Boehner said after a midday meeting at the White House with Reid and Vice President Joe Biden. "But we are not there yet."
Yet the dispute over the size of the spending cuts receded as Republicans made a play to include their top policy priorities, which have been a strong undercurrent throughout the debate, in the budget package.
Boehner is fighting to retain provisions that were included in House-passed bill in February. Those provisions would restrict abortion services and limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate pollutants.
To many rank-and-file Republicans, those hot-button issues are just as important as spending cuts. But they are also nonstarters for many Senate Democrats, including Reid.
Five separate provisions related to family planning and abortion were being pursued by the Republicans, including one that would prevent federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a long-sought goal for many socially conservative lawmakers.
The GOP proposed a new abortion-related provision to give states greater control over federal family planning funds under the Title X program.
Longstanding federal law already prohibits federal funds from being used for abortion, except in rare cases. The proposed change would allow governors or local officials to steer funds away from Planned Parenthood or other healthcare providers that also offer abortion services.
The Title X program was launched during the Nixon administration to give women access to reproductive healthcare. House members want to eliminate $317 million in the program for the 2011 fiscal year.
Other family-planning-related provisions pursued by the GOP would halt foreign aid funding to health organizations that promote or provide abortion services, a measure known as the Mexico City rule, as well as to the U.N. Population Fund, which provides reproductive, AIDS prevention and women's health services.
Another provision would ban the District of Columbia from sending local tax revenue to groups that provide access to abortions.
Abortion rights activists protested Thursday outside the Capitol.
The House GOP is also pressing for several provisions related to the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases.
Attaching policy priorities to must-pass spending bills is a routine legislative strategy in Washington. But Democrats argued that not all of the Republican provisions would pass if separated from the spending bill.
In his brief address Thursday night, Obama reiterated the stakes for the country, saying a shutdown would "severely hamper" the economic recovery and inconvenience millions who rely on government services.
"For us to go backwards because Washington couldn't get its act together is unacceptable," he said. "That's why I'm expecting that as a consequence of the good work done by our staffs tonight that we can reach agreement tomorrow."
Many conservatives accuse Democrats of overstating the effects of a government shutdown.
The House adopted a temporary funding bill on a party-line vote Thursday, drawing a veto threat from Obama because the seven-day extension included excessive budget cuts. The measure was considered unlikely to pass the Senate.
The House measure would cut $12 billion from domestic accounts, while increasing Pentagon funding and ensuring that paychecks for the troops were not disrupted during a government shutdown.
Kathleen Hennessey and Peter Nicholas in the Washington bureau contributed to this report. | 2019-04-19T10:45:47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-apr-08-la-na-congress-spending-20110408-story.html |
0.998049 | Luke 17:14 When Jesus saw them, He said, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.
And having seen them, He said to them, "Having gone, show yourselves to the priests." And it came to pass in their going, they were cleansed.
When he saw them, he told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going, they were cleansed.
Jesus saw them and said to them, "Go and let the priests examine you." On the way they were made clean.
When He saw them, He told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And while they were going, they were healed.
When Jesus saw them, he told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they were made clean.
When he saw them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went along, they were cleansed.
And when he saw them, he said to them, “Go show yourselves to the priests”, and as they were going, they were purified.
When he saw them, he told them, "Show yourselves to the priests." As they went, they were made clean.
And when He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And it came about that as they were going, they were cleansed.
When he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed.
And when he saw them, he said to them, Go show yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.
And seeing [them] he said to them, Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass as they were going they were cleansed.
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go and shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were cleansed.
And when he saw them, he said to them, Go, show yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, that as they were going, they were cleansed.
Perceiving this, He said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the Priests." And while on their way to do this they were made clean.
"This is the law of the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.
"Do not tell anyone," Jesus instructed him. "But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."
(14) Go shew yourselves unto the priests.--On the meaning and object of this command, see Note on Matthew 8:4. Here, however, it may be noted, there was no accompanying touch as the outward means and pledge of healing, and the command was therefore, in a greater degree than it had been before, a trial and test of faith. It did not necessarily imply a journey to Jerusalem. Any priest in any town was qualified for the function of inspecting and deciding on the completeness of the cure. Suddenly, or by degrees, as they went, the taint of blood disappeared, and their flesh became as it had been in the days of health. | 2019-04-19T08:18:08 | https://biblehub.com/luke/17-14.htm |
0.999892 | Is There Dolphin in Canned Tuna?
Most canned tuna sold in the U.S. is labeled as dolphin-safe, with 98 percent of what you can find in your grocery store bearing that mark. What that label means is both complex and controversial. As laws and regulations change over time, so does the debate about tuna fishing, its impact on dolphins, and what it means for sustainability.
You don't have to worry that there is dolphin meat in canned tuna. In fact, the only protein in cans of tuna comes from various kinds of tuna; it has never included any dolphin. While some fishing practices result in killing dolphins when catching tuna, the dolphins are not harvested and so their meat is never canned.
The dolphin-safe label used in the U.S. shows a dolphin graphic and the words "Dolphin Safe" and "U.S. Department of Commerce." The dolphin-safe label signifies that the tuna was caught by fishing methods that should result in fewer dolphin deaths. Requiring dolphin-safe fishing practices for tuna sold in the U.S. has greatly reduced the impact on dolphins. The population of the dolphins associated with tuna fishing has stabilized, but they have not yet begun to rebound to their former numbers.
As the popularity of tuna increased, particularly canned tuna, commercial fishermen felt pressure to increase supplies. From experience, they learned that in eastern tropical Pacific waters, yellowfin tuna often ran with dolphins. Dolphins were easy to spot, so fishermen would target dolphins with their nets to catch schools of yellowfin swimming beneath. As a result, millions of dolphin have perished in tuna fishing nets since the 1950s.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 was modified several times in the 1980s in an attempt to curb the mortality rate of dolphins. The 1990 Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act resulted in the "dolphin-safe" labeling campaign. It received enthusiastic public approval, yet the requirements for such labeling still left loopholes for imported tuna.
The dolphin-safe label requires an observer on each fishing vessel to assure that no dolphins are viewed, chased, encircled, killed, or seriously injured during the tuna harvest. Mexico challenged the U.S. standards as discriminatory and was successful in getting the World Trade Organization to order the U.S. to make changes. The U.S. responded in 2016 by expanding even tougher rules for tuna caught worldwide. While previously Mexico was the only nation the U.S. required to have observers aboard, now tuna boat operators from Ecuador, Panama, and other nations also must be trained in dolphin-safe practices and may be required to have onboard observers.
The U.S. consumes about 50 percent of the canned tuna produced. Many international tuna companies comply with the policies set by the International Marine Mammal Project of the Earth Island Institute on which the U.S. Dolphin Safe label is based.
The three most popular commercial canners, Star-Kist, Chicken of the Sea, and BumbleBee, have all pledged to remain "dolphin-safe" regardless of any future potential changes in the law. Many large grocery chains and warehouse stores selling generic canned tuna are also requiring dolphin-safe practices. You can be reassured by looking for the dolphin-safe emblem on any canned tuna you purchase.
Advocacy groups continue to lobby for more studies and stricter laws to protect dolphins from net fishermen. The good news is that dolphin mortality has fallen to about 1000 deaths per year, down from over 100,000 per year in 1986 and the atrocious 500,000 in 1980.
Despite the reduction in deaths, the populations of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific purse-seine fishery have stabilized but have not rebounded. There are many theories as to why this may be, including that the fishing practices still place stress on dolphins or may cause such an impact on the ecosystem that dolphins are affected. When purse-seine nets are set around schools of tuna, dolphin calves may be separated from their mothers and they may be unable to locate each other when released.
Dolphins are not the only marine animals that are killed in tuna fishing. The practices deemed dolphin-safe include using fish aggregation devices such as tethered rafts or logs. However, these fishing practices can kill sharks, sea turtles, marlins, and other kinds of fish. The amount of by-catch in using these methods can affect an entire ecosystem.
What Fish Are in Canned Tuna?
Light tuna is usually skipjack tuna, but may also contain yellowfin, tongol, or big-eye tuna. Skipjack tuna is a smaller fish that doesn't associate with dolphins, but you can't be assured that there is no yellowfin tuna in the can. Light tuna has the strongest taste and is the least expensive.
White tuna is albacore tuna and often the cans will be labeled as albacore. It is larger than skipjack but smaller than yellowfin tuna. It has a milder flavor and is more expensive. It is considered to be more sustainable. | 2019-04-26T12:15:01 | https://www.thespruceeats.com/dolphin-in-canned-tuna-1807063 |
0.999601 | The equity market got smashed around today again, and commentators were busy trying to find the culprit: inflation, deficits, the Illuminati? As the article title indicates, I put finance academics as being the underlying cause of this problem. Once again, capital is being destroyed in size as a result of the side effects of their theories.
with alpha and beta being constants.
How this equation is used in practice is that we look at the monthly (or quarterly) returns of a portfolio and its benchmark, which is we will assume is an equity index for simplicity. We then run a fit over the time series of these returns, and estimate alpha and beta. The objective is for the portfolio to generate a positive alpha, and high beta is bad.
Following the logic of this equation led to the recent equity market carnage. In addition to some people losing savings that they probably could not afford to lose, financial firms will cease to exist, and their employees will need to find gainful employment elsewhere.
Why Did We Care About This Equation?
There is a simple story behind the equation. Everyone in finance academia agrees that short-term interest rate products underperform other asset classes over time, and it is hard to disagree with that sentiment. Therefore, the easy way to outperform the benchmark is to apply leverage to an equity portfolio. Even if you just hold stocks at the same weight as the index, you will outperform if the equity index outperforms your borrowing cost. Most people agree that this is not cricket, you are supposed to be doing something non-trivial to be be considered a good investment manager.
The equation above solves that problem; just applying leverage to the index equity portfolio will create a return pattern that results in no alpha, just a beta greater than 1. Hence, positive alpha good, beta greater than 1 bad.
Rather than doing something sensible -- barring leverage -- the financial industry embraced the equation. The question then arises: how do I generate alpha?
Being like an old timer and allocating capital to successful firms would not actually work. Successful firms tend to grow quickly, and are more volatile than the index. Firms that are being run into the ground by incompetent CEO's tend to stable enterprises (until they go bankrupt). The usual justification for the existence of the finance industry is that it allocates capital. However, allocating capital properly is actually a ticket to losing your job.
Instead, we need to reverse engineer the equation. Imagine that the time period is quarterly. What you want to do each quarter is to get exactly the index return, plus a positive constant.
How can we achieve that? It's actually quite easy (assuming it works!).
You put all of your portfolio capital into an equity index portfolio.
You sell a 3-month option that expires worthless.
The option premium (as a percentage of the portfolio) is your alpha.
Once everyone does this, the option premium price (implied volatility) collapses. (Or, the credit spread collapses.) So you sell more! It's going to expire worthless, right?
Needless to say, this works until it doesn't. Either that 3-month money starts defaulting on you (2007-2008), or the realised/implied volatility moves against you (2008, 2018).
This "picking up nickels in front of a steamroller" behaviour of the financial industry is baked into the whole alpha/beta cake, so it will keep happening until the adults in the room finally wise up.
Until the financial industry stops listening to finance academics, capital will continue to get destroyed.
It's much simpler than this. People just go loopy at the top of markets.
I am not saying it is a good idea, I am just explaining why people set up the system to limit the use of leverage as a "no brainer" trade.
There's no reason that we have to keep a perfectly constant leverage ratio. Just apply the leverage once, and let the position ride. If you rebalance towards your target leverage once every six months, transaction costs will not be a problem. Of course, you will get creamed if your equity goes to zero.
For example, if you have 50% leverage, you are wiped out in the event of a 50% fall in stocks. Realistically speaking, that would be too much leverage (even though 50% leverage would be laughably prudent in rates relative value trading).
But 10% leverage? If the index return is 7%, you're at about 7.7%, and that is way better than most equity investors would do - without really using your brain. That's the sort of thing that "beta" is designed to catch.
I suppose standard leveraged ETF funds rebalance every day and so suffer a lot of buy-high-sell-low volatility drag whilst investment trusts with gearing typically let the position ride for longer as you describe and so have the leverage ratio wander. In principle a six month rebalancing cycle could though give the worst of all possible worlds if the market was gyrating with that sort of rythm. The rebalance could buy stocks and sell stocks just before the market turned. I wonder though whether it is easier to profit from leverage when a large proportion of returns come from dividends rather than from share price.
I also think the volatility drag that comes from maintaining a constant leverage ratio is a bit distinct from what is normally meant by transaction costs. Imagine a situation where there were no brokerage fees and perfect liquidity such that if the stock price were steady, it would be possible to trade back and forth any number of times without it costing anything. Even without transaction costs a fund with a constant leverage ratio would still suffer volatility drag in a market where the price went up and down and so the fund had to buy high and sell low so as to maintain a constant leverage ratio.
I should have written “transaction costs and volatility drag”; cannot edit the comment now.
If you have 10-20% leverage, you would need to have a fairly contrived situation for the volatility drag to be significant, particularly if you use some common sense when rebalancing.
In any event, I am not suggesting the investment strategy, just why it’s being barred.
I don't see why your suggestion is that the "sensible" solution is to bar leverage. Leverage use is limited by the interest cost (so the alpha has to include a negative offset) and the risk of the need to deposit collateral at an time when it might be infeasible.
Financial stability reasons. Equity investors are already at the bottom of the capital structure; levering up makes instability worse. | 2019-04-25T05:45:43 | http://www.bondeconomics.com/2018/02/i-blame-finance-profs.html |
0.999943 | One of the biggest questions arising out of the Tasmanian Christmas carnivals is, what has happened to the scratch markers? While Ben Kersten has been a standout with his diehard efforts from the back marks over the first three days of the carnival - those who know the sport best are concerned at the lack of quality in the back end of the fields.
When Cyclingnews bumped into Australian cycling great Danny Clark at a Lanceston Caf� this morning, he described the situation as "disappointing", but also reserved praise for the young riders at the carnival, in particular Perth's Meyer brothers.
The lack of quality scratch markers has created nightmares for the race handicapper - and last night was perhaps the best example, with none of the scratchmarkers making the final of the Launceston Wheelrace. "We've had a talk to the race handicapper and he might look at putting a few more scratchies together in the heats at Devonport," Clark said.
Clark also admitted to being a touch embarrassed over what would best be described as a 'milli vanilli moment' at the Launceston track carnival. Celebrating twenty years, almost to the day, since he won the Launceston wheelrace, Danny bravely accepted an invitation to serenade the crowd with his singing.
Everything started fine, with the cycling legend breezing his way through an old Bee Gees classic - but things went a little amiss when the CD player jammed on his rendition of John Denver's Country Road. No-one in the crowd seemed to mind, especially the young riders, who were happy to receive a visit from cycling royalty.
One cycling writer was also heard to quip, "Cycling has enough enquries going on without an investigation into whether Danny Clark was miming."
It hasn't helped the situation for the scratch markers that Australian teams pursuit star Mark Jamieson has been largely out of action over the first three days of the Nationalgrid Tasmanian Christmas Carnivals. Put it down to a dose of the dreaded lurgy, with 'Jamo' well below his best due to a stomach bug.
"I'm psyched to be here. But I wish it was under better circumstances," Jamieson told Cyclingnews. "I'm looking to try and start tomorrow night at Devonport."
Racing on his training wheels in the final scratch race last night, Jamieson showed glimpses of form, and may lift to another level on his home track in Devonport, which traditionally attracts a huge crowd. "People don't believe you, there's bigger crowds at the Christmas carnivals than at a world titles," Jamieson said. "Devonport is something special for me all my family all my friends, my grandparents, they're there to watch Devonport."
Champion American Jame Carney has also been fighting off sickness at the Christmas carnivals. In his case - a bout of bronchitis has prevented the nine time competitor at the Tassie Carnivals from reaching his best. Still, Carney has been one of the entertainers at the event so far, last night picking up victories in a derby event, and a demonstration keiren.
"I'm finally getting a little bit healthier I got bronchitis pretty bad ten days ago. I'm the old guy out there, the old guys are usually the lazy ones," he joked.
When this Cyclingnews reporter last saw Kial Stewart, the nuggety ACT cyclist with tree stump legs was being wheeled out of the Adelaide Velodrome in an ambulance - his Commonwealth Games dream in tatters. Stewart sustained a compound fracture to his collarbone in a horrifying accident at last January's National Track Championships - and is on a slow and steady comeback trail.
"I've still got another operation in order to take the plate out. I've still got more rehab ahead of me, it was painful but these things happen," Stewart said.
While cycling is presently taking a back seat to study (Stewart is completing a research degree in oceanography), the 23 year-old ACT cyclist believes he still has time on his side to make it in the incredibly competitive world of Australian track sprinting. "The depth in men's sprinting in Autralia is unbelievable there's like nine riders that are sub 10.7, to be part of that is good," Stewart said. "Longevity is what I feel I can offer at the moment. You look at Sean Eadie, didn't make his first state team until 24, his first national team at 27 and still racing well until his mid 30's. I'm still young. | 2019-04-22T16:05:59 | http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/track/2006/dec06/SCAT06/?id=ngtcc |
0.99996 | Is my blood test report normal?
I am 29 years old and 29 weeks pregnant with my first child. There are some strange problems in my blood test report. My haemoglobin has gone down from 12.3 (taken when my pregnancy was confirmed)to 11g/dl; PCV has gone down from 37% to 32.1%; total leucocyte count is 12.66 x 10^3/ul; neutrophils is 72.6%; lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and basophils are within range; ESR is 68 mm/h; fasting blood sugar is 82 mg/dl; post prandial blood sugar is 94 mg/dl and serum uric acid is 2.5 mg/dl. I am very worried to see these imbalances. Is this an indicator of complications in the future? My father was diabetic and died from a heart attack; my uncle died from TB and mother is suffering from arthritis. Even I have stiffness in joints and back pain every morning when I get up. But my gynaecologist said these are symptoms of pregnancy, and result due to bad posture. Kindly advise.
Regarding the haemoglobin and PCV, these are still within normal range for pregnancy, but have fallen. One reason can be that the first test was done within the first 12 weeks and the second repeated later on. As pregnancy advances, the blood volume increases with the red blood cells not increasing as much as the plasma - so a fall is generally noted. However, your haemoglobin should not fall below 11 gm/dL, so take iron and folic acid supplements and get our haemoglobin and PCV checked again after one month. Also, get a reticulocyte count done now and again after 10 days of iron and folic acid to make sure it rises (indicating response to treatment). TLC and neutrophils are slightly high (cut-off differs in different labs): make sure you do not have urine infection - get a urine culture done. ESR is usually raised during pregnancy, but one has to make sure it is not due to some infection. Your blood sugars are normal; however, I would advise a 100 g oral GTT(glucose tolerance test) in your case, as your father had diabetes. If your mother has rheumatoid arthritis, better to get yourself checked by an orthopaedic consultant before assumng joint stiffness is due to pregnancy. | 2019-04-25T16:01:57 | http://www.drraxa.com/node/776913 |
0.999999 | Context #1: Faz and Tyler are eating at a restaurant.
Tyler: Faz, you are the most forgetful person I know.
Faz: No way! My memory is just fine.
Tyler: Oh, really? How long have we known each other?
Faz: Um… More than ten years!
Tyler: Okay, so what is my name?
Faz: It’s…ah… Give me a hint; I’m drawing a blank.
Context #2: Wilma has not been following Mr. Scott’s lecture in class.
Mr. Scott: Wilma, what’s the answer to question 7 (in the book).
Wilma: I’m not sure, Mr. Scott.
Mr. Scott: We just talked about this, Wilma. Why don’t you know? Were you doodling* in your notebook again?
Wilma: No, sir. My notebook is clean. All I have been doing is drawing blanks.
Meaning: to forget, to not know, or to not have information. A blank is a space without information. We use this idiom to tell our listener that our brain cannot create a picture or cannot give the correct information.
Thanks a bunch for sharing, guys ... Great idiom that we often hear when we chat with our US contacts ... Can we also say 'it slipped my mind' to convey the same meaning? | 2019-04-20T16:11:53 | http://idioms.languagesystems.edu/2017/03/to-draw-blank.html |
0.999895 | He said that by the end of the spring term he would have been studying English for three years.
He told me that by the end of the year. he would have been living there for thirty years. | 2019-04-24T18:18:08 | http://www.hjenglish.com/new/p144147/ |
0.99919 | A young man emptied a packet of flour on Francois Fillon.
Paris, France: With just 17 days left before the first round of France's presidential election, a protester blanketed scandal-plagued candidate Francois Fillon with flour, and the two frontrunners fell back slightly in the polls.
At a campaign event in the eastern city of Strasbourg, a young man wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Students for Fillon" emptied a packet of flour on the candidate, who has been charged with abuse of public funds in a fake jobs scandal.
"I'm the target of merciless persecution," Fillon said at the rally.
Once the odds-on favourite in the race, Fillon, 63, had to overcome intense pressure to step aside after revelations in January that he had hired his wife as a parliamentary aide with little work to show for her generous pay.
Other scandals have piled up, including a revelation that Fillon accepted gifts of luxury suits from a wealthy benefactor -- which he has since returned.
Earlier Thursday, Fillon said he knew who was behind the "fake jobs" revelations.
"I have the date, the days, the people who passed on the documents," he told France Inter radio, again accusing President Francois Hollande of being behind a conspiracy to defame him.
The co-editor of the Canard Enchaine newspaper, which broke the story, laughed off the accusations that documents had been handed to its reporters.
"As an editor I would love to find an envelope stuffed with revelations like these every morning!" Louis-Marie Horeau told AFP.
A new poll of voter intentions by the Elabe survey group showed independent centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen still out in front before the first round on April 23, but both lost some momentum.
Macron was at 23.5 percent, down two points over a week, and at the same level as Le Pen, who lost half a point.
Scandal-hit Republicans party candidate Fillon was projected at 19 percent, up a point, while hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon continued his late surge, gaining two points to 17 percent.
Melenchon meanwhile topped Elabe's latest popularity survey, with 51 percent of respondents saying they had a positive view of him.
Macron is second with a 44 percent standing, while Fillon scored 23 percent.
The sister of far-right leader Marine Le Pen was acid-tongued about Macron's performance during Tuesday night's debate.
Macron, a former economy minister and investment banker, is bidding to be the youngest president in modern French history at the age of 39.
"He looked like a little boy with his bucket and spade," Marie-Caroline Le Pen told the Parisien newspaper on Thursday. | 2019-04-25T14:33:34 | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-happened-today-in-frances-presidential-race-1678355 |
0.99874 | Each year, The Trek surveys long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail (AT) regarding the shelter systems they use, such as tents and hammocks. In this post we cover the types of shelters used, tent use with significant others and dogs, tarp sizes for hammocks and tarps alone, and the top brands and models of shelter systems. For the details, keep reading, or skip to the TL;DR at the end.
Three hundred and ten hikers participated in the survey, all of whom had walked a section or thru-hike of the AT in 2018. Three quarters (75.9 percent) were thru-hikers and the rest were section hikers. For more details on the hiker demographics, check out our post with general information from the survey.
Per usual, the majority of hikers used tents, while about a tenth of hikers used hammocks. All other forms of shelters were only rarely used.
Almost all (97 percent) of the people who hiked with a significant other predominantly used tents. (Keep in mind that more than one person from a couple might have completed the survey, which could skew the results a little.) Everyone (100 percent) who hiked with a dog used a tent. About 80 percent of people who hiked without a significant other OR a dog primarily used a tent. The other 20 percent used the other forms of shelters listed above.
While solo hikers often use two-person tents to have a little more room, the size of tent needed depends on how many people and dogs are using it. For this reason, I looked at tent size by hiking partners. Keep in mind that some people hiked with friends or family, and they were lumped with the solo hikers because it wasn’t clear whether they shared a tent. Furthermore, very few hikers brought a dog for the majority of the hike, so these numbers are based on limited data from only six hikers.
About half of solo tenters used a two-person tent, and less than half used a one-person tent, while it was rare for them to use a three-person tent. In contrast, hikers who went with a significant other most of the way used two-person tents about as much as solo hikers, but a little less than half used a three-person tent, while one-person tents were uncommon for these hikers. Although our data on hikers with dogs is limited, it does appear that two- and three-person tents are the way to go if you plan to hike with a dog the majority of the way.
For hikers using hammocks, the tarp they used as a rain fly was most often about 10 feet by 12 feet in size. About one third of hammock users preferred a tarp shaped for their hammock. In my experience, a rectangular tarp is more convenient on the AT, even with hammock use, because it can be attached to the front of a lean-to for protection from rain/snow or used on its own if there are no trees nearby. For hikers who used only a tarp, the most common dimensions were 6 by 8 feet or 8 by 10 feet. Because these tarps only need to cover the length of a hiker’s body, not the extended length of a hammock, they don’t have to be as long.
If you want to try something different or more lightweight, go with a hammock. All other shelter systems (including no shelter at all), are highly uncommon for long-distance hikes on the AT.
People hiking with a dog or a significant other would likely need a two- or three-person tent. People hiking solo are fine with a one- or two-person tent.
If you intend to use a hammock, make sure your tarp is long enough to cover the hammock. In general a 10 by 12 foot tarp is most popular for hammockers.
If you intend to use only a tarp, a tarp with dimensions of about 8 by 10 feet is probably sufficient.
Big Agnes and Z-Packs are by far the most popular brands for tents.
To my knowledge, TarpTent by Henry Shires continues to be one of the only company that makes hybrid models.
Hennessy continues to be the most popular hammock brand used by AT long distance hikers.
Many thanks to the hikers who participated in the survey! Congratulations to you all and to the dogs who hiked with you! I would never get this data or get these posts done if it weren’t for Zach Davis and Maggie Slepian—thanks to you both.
Check out our previous posts with general hiker information and footwear. Subsequent posts will cover sleeping bags and pads, backpacks, and stoves/food/water. To stay updated on the subsequent hiker survey posts, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and sign up for the newsletter here.
Interesting changes from last year.
A 10’x12′ tarp for a hammock is huge. You can great coverage with 11’x8.6′ and save the extra weight. I’d recommend getting one with doors for sure. Glad to see popular tarps on this years list they are a fairly popular choice for the PCT since the weather is a little nicer than the AT. Hennessy hammocks are constructed with sturdy material but they are heavy when compared to other hammocks like Dutchware or Warbonnet.
Um, either I’m confused, or your graph (or list) is wrong. Your list of “Top Tent Brands” doesn’t mention Tarp Tent in it at all, and yet Tarp Tent is tied for the 5th-most popular brand based on the pie chart directly above the list (tied with MSR and Six Moon Designs with 4%). MSR makes your list at #5 and Six Moon Designs makes your list at #6 (Six – very nice, by the way!). Odd. It’s probably just a simple mistake, but I noticed it immediately. ???
It’s interesting how this has changed over the years.
In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, the Sierra Designs Clip Flashlight seemed to be the most popular shelter among thru hikers, but the Big Agnes designs have supplanted it now.
A tarp for a hammock only needs to cover the persons body? Ummm, no. Those shorter tarps may have been hung in the diagonal. Trust me, a tarp that does not cover the entire hammock results in a wet sleeper.
Any chance of that data being collected next time?
I’m confused. What is the definition of “tent ” and “hybrid?” Zpacks Duplex is listed under tents, yet is a single wall. Tarp Tent Rainbow is under hybrid yet is single wall. The Notch is double wall yet is under hybrid. Could someone provide clarification? | 2019-04-20T00:57:47 | https://thetrek.co/appalachian-trail/top-tents-hammocks-tarps-appalachian-trail-2018-hiker-survey/?ref=sidebar |
0.999981 | Who wants a little jam with their Thanksgiving leftovers?
That's what's on the menu Friday and Saturday, Nov. 25 and 26, at the Aragon Entertainment Center in Chicago as the nation's preeminent prog rock jam band and Chicago's own, Umphrey's McGee, takes the stage.
The band's drummer, Palatine native Kris Myers, is excited about playing to a hometown crowd and getting to show off some of the band's newer songs from their latest release "Death By Stereo."
"Playing in Chicago is comforting because I have family and friends at the show," he said by phone recently. "It's like you get a sense of nostalgia playing here."
Myers is using some of the band's holiday down time to teach drumming, but took a break to talk about the band's songwriting process, how they decide on album names and to delve into the glorious comedic subgenre of drummer jokes.
Q. Are Chicago audiences good audiences?
A. I think Chicago audiences are perhaps the best audiences in the United States and maybe worldwide. It's a big city with a big city mentality and energy, but it's got that Midwest hospitality, and they're humble and hungry for music.
Q. You don't think they talk too much and are a little too social during sets?
A. Sometimes there's a little bit of that in any city, really. I'm kind of used to that within the scene and subculture of the so-called jam band. People not only go for the music, but to hang with friends. I don't expect to have full control over everyone in the audience, but I do the best to get their attention and keep it.
Q. As a hometowner, where do you think the best music venue in Chicago is?
A. I'm a little biased, but my favorite shows, with all things considered, would be at a club like Martyrs'. It's a real comfortable venue that sounds really great. Big, beautiful rooms are also awesome. The Aragon brings a certain nostalgia value to the experience, but if you ask any musician, acoustic-wise it's awful. You have to have a really great sound crew that knows what they're doing and we're lucky that we do. If it were big venues, the Chicago Theatre and the Auditorium Theatre are two of my favorites.
Q. How much are the two shows going to sound the same?
A. They're going to be different. That's the way it is. The band abides by a certain rule that we have a certain rotation to play in our set lists. That's what our fans expect. We may play the same song from one night to the next, but we may extend sections of a song that wasn't like it was the night before. It's not like a lot of pop acts where it's like listening to the album at the concert. You might as well just listen to the album in your car. Luckily, we have a fan base that wants the complete opposite of that.
Q. How did you guys come up with the album title "Death by Stereo?"
A. You go through a lot of ideas and sometimes things just come up randomly. We put a list together and talk about it and the general feel of the album. In this case, it's a line from the movie "The Lost Boys" when one of the vampires is killed by a radio by one of the kids, either Corey Haim or Corey Feldman. It was just clever to us. It was edgy and fun. It fit the vibe of the songs.
Q. What's the songwriting process like for you guys?
A. It can take a month or two of working on it before it gets to the point where it's ready to be the version that we record. We want to play it over and over again and play it on the road to break it in a little bit to see how the crowd reacts to it.
Q. So was the new song "Booth Love" always as groovy as it is on the album?
A. It sort of evolved into that. Originally it sounded like a sexier, slow disco or house R&B track. I added the kicks and snares into it and it started sounding like an old Prince track.
Q. On "Death by Stereo," it sounds like the song "Conduit" would be the most fun for you to play as a drummer, right?
A. All the songs are fun in different ways. "Conduit" is great because it reminds me of elements and influences that I grew up with all in one song. To me it really sounds like an Umphrey's McGee song.
Q. Do you like the label of "jam band?"
A. That particular label sounds like another classification on a certain level to write people off. That Americana sound and that live improvisation sound is very much part of the so-called jam band community and I'm proud to be part of it. There's an element of humanity in this music and we need more of that human element in music today.
Q. Where's the strangest place you've ever been recognized?
A. Maybe at an airport terminal, but what's better than that is I've randomly heard us being talked about as I walk down the street and I'll jump into the conversation. I'll joke around and say, "I think they're overrated." Then they usually realize I'm in the band.
Q. Who would win a "Devil Went Down to Georgia"-style drum battle between Neil Peart (of Rush) and Carl Palmer (of Emerson, Lake and Palmer)?
A. That is a tough one. They're both progressive, inventive drummers. I don't know that anyone would win. They would both explode before anyone would win anything. But I've got to go with Neil Peart, he's the best in my opinion.
Q. What's your favorite drummer joke?
A. Ha! Whatever that most basic one is. It goes something like: What's the difference between a pizza delivery man and a drummer? A pizza delivery guy can feed a family of four.
Q. How about: What do you do when a drummer knocks on your door? Pay him for the pizza.
A. Yeah, that's a good one too. Let's go with that one.
Q. Would you let your daughter date a drummer?
A. It depends on what kind of band it is. No, I'm kidding. Of course I would. Though I would be worried if it was some band like Guns N' Roses. | 2019-04-24T09:58:50 | https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111121/entlife/711219821/ |
0.999999 | How do I escape a String for HTML?
Web Tutorials :: Text :: 10. How do I escape a String for HTML?
Description: This Java example shows how to escape a String for HTML using StringEscapeUtils.
The escapeHtml() method of the StringEscapeUtils class in the Commons LangS library can be used to convert a String to its HTMLW entity representation. As an example, this would convert an ampersand (&) in a String to its HTML entity equivalent (&).
The HtmlEscapeTest class demonstrates this. It reads a String of text from the input.txt file (using FileUtils from Commons IOS) and substitutes HTML entities using the StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml() method. It outputs the resulting String to the console.
Here is the input.txt file that was used.
The output of HtmlEscapeTest is shown below.
& here is some Swedish: Tack. Varsågod. | 2019-04-21T22:15:55 | http://avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-escape-a-string-for-html.html |
0.999904 | International business schools in China: MBA programs in English, business schools in Beijing, international MBA Shanghai, management colleges China, online university masters degree courses, executive MBA (EMBA) programs for international students, Americans..
HKUST Business School, located in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China, is a leading business school offering a variety of undergraduate degree programs that provide the best preparation for tomorrow's business leaders. HKUST Business School's undergraduate programs offer a well-rounded training, achieved through a balance of academic and non-academic programs. Weaving through these is a strong element of internationalization.
Cheung Kong Graduate School Of Business (CKGSB) is China's first private, non-profit,and independent business school offering degree and non-degree management education programs at graduate level and above.
Headquartered in Beijing with campuses in Shanghai and Guangzhou, Cheung Kong offers MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs. Our mission is to generate world-class insights on management theory and practice and to develop leaders for a new era of global business in China and beyond. The school was founded in 2002 by Li Ka-shing, Asia's most successful entrepreneur.
The Cheung Kong MBA program is based in Beijing, while the Executive MBA course is offered in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
The CKGSB MBA program aims at building a solid foundation in developing future business leaders with a strong sense of social responsibility. Our MBA Program is recognized by students and corporate recruiters alike, as a world-class program in China.
HKUST (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Business School, located on the Clear Water Bay peninsula, Hong Kong, China, is an accredited Business School recognized as one of the youngest and most respected in Asia. The School offers full and part time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs along with two Executive MBA programs, one in partnership with the Kellogg School of Management.
At HKUST, we provide a meeting point for minds from East and West. Hong Kong’s position as one of the world’s leading financial centers and a springboard to Mainland China offers excellent opportunities for our students to forge further international ties.
Raffles Design Institute, Shanghai was founded by Donghua University and Raffles Design Institute, Singapore in 1994. Donghua University is one of the '211 Project' Universities that directly subordinates to the Chinese Ministry of Education.
As a renowned joint college, its outstanding education quality and creative environment is well-known in the Asia-Pacific area.At our Shanghai Campus, we offer a broad range of undergraduate programs in Design and Commerce. All programs follow a three-year curriculum of the highest standard.
A unique combination of theory and practice ensure all graduates possess the skills and knowledge required by employers.The language of instruction is English.
Raffles has grown to operate 34 colleges in 31 Cities across 12 countries in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Our flexible inter-school transfer scheme allows students to study at any of Raffles’s network of colleges, immerse themselves in different cultures and experiencing living overseas.
The University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business offers an 18-month executive leadership and development program in Beijing, China that is provided by some of the most highly-regarded American professors in Beijing. The Leadership EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) program is taught in English to students from around the world.
The program is fully-accredited by the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and Chinese Ministry of Education. Our classes are conveniently located on the UIBE campus in Beijing's Chaoyang district, close to the city's Embassy and Central Business District.
In addition to the Leadership EMBA, we provide our EMBA+ Chinese Program. This 18-month program offers the same courses as other University of Maryland EMBA programs, with an additional emphasis on developing fluency in Mandarin Chinese. In the EMBA+ program, instead of work, students focus full time on developing their Chinese language ability, and spend 4 days a month in the classroom environment working on their MBA.
18-month intensive Executive MBA program that includes Capstone course held at the University of Maryland Campus and in Washington D.C.
This 18-month program offers the same courses as other University of Maryland EMBA programs, with an additional emphasis on developing fluency in Mandarin Chinese.
The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), formerly known as the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (BIFT), was founded in 1951. The University offers thirteen master's and two doctoral degree programs in addition to twenty-two undergraduate major fields. The University is accredited by the Academic Degree Committee under the State Council. In 1988 the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York acknowledged UIBE's granting the degree of Master Business Administration in International Trade, which leads to the recognition of the above program by all American universities. At present, UIBE has over 20,000 students from China and 600 international students from more than 30 countries.
Undergraduate & postgraduate (graduate diploma, Masters and Ph.D.) courses including International Trade (Ph. D., Master), Finance (Master, Bachelor), MBA Business Administration, Business Administration (Bachelor), International Law (Bachelor), International Business & Economics (Bachelor).
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Antai College of Economics and Management International MBA is the only IMBA program in China to be triply accredited by AASCB, EQUIS, and the Association of MBAs. Antai is located in the heart of Shanghai, China's undisputed business capital, and is consistently ranked among the Top 5 MBA programs in China.
Classes are taught completely in English, with weekly Chinese classes provided free of charge. Professors come from top universities and corporations from around the world, providing an international perspective with a focus on China. About half of our IMBA students are from China, while the rest are from other countries around the world, enabling a truly global interactive classroom environment.
The IMBA program is a two year full-time program. Academic clubs and forums provide regular opportunities for students to expand their network, and learn about current business issues in China. Additionally, Antai's Career Development Center provides students with career guidance and opportunities for internships and full-time employment based on students' interests and backgrounds.
- Two-year International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) degree program taught entirely in English.
Hult is the world’s most international business school; students work alongside peers from over 140 nationalities who collectively speak 105 languages.
Through its unique Global Rotation program, students have the opportunity to study in Hult’s locations in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai, and New York, offering an unrivaled global perspective. The Financial Times and The Economist consistently rank Hult in the Top 100 Business Schools in the world.
South Korea; Thailand; China; Chengdu; Tunis, Tunisia; Bangalore, India; Mwanza, Tanzania; Delhi, India; Beijing; Milano, Italy; and more.
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0.999548 | President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, testifies during his is Senate Judiciary committee confirmation hearing on Sept. 6.
On Thursday California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary committee, released a vaguely worded statement indicating she referred information regarding Kavanaugh's nomination to federal authorities.
A report published Friday in the New Yorker revealed that the woman, who did not want to be named, said in a letter that Kavanaugh "attempted to force himself on her" at a party when they were teenagers. She described that Kavanaugh and another classmate, who were drinking, turned up music to cover up her protests and she freed herself and left the scene. All three were minors at the time. The woman declined to be interviewed by the New Yorker.
NPR has not independently confirmed the contents of the letter, which the woman reportedly sent to her representative, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., after Kavanaugh was nominated to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The letter was also shared with Feinstein in July.
A separate report in the New York Times said people who described the letter told the publication that the woman "considered the incident an assault."
The New Yorker story quotes a classmate of Kavanaugh's saying about the incident in the letter: "I have no recollection of that."
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a letter on Friday signed by 65 women who said they knew Kavanaugh in high school and defended his character. The letter noted that the signatories included women from "a broad range of political views."
"Through the more than 35 years we have known him, Brett has stood out for his friendship, character, and integrity. In particular, he has always treated women with decency and respect. That was true when he was in high school, and it has remained true to this day," the letter states.
Questions swirled on Thursday when Feinstein declined to explain what information she was provided about Kavanaugh that she decided to share with authorities. Sources told NPR that the California senator felt pressure to put something out publicly after a report indicated she had not briefed fellow members of the panel on a document. Democrats were concerned that if they failed to pass along any information about the allegation, they would be accused of a cover-up.
"Throughout his confirmation process, Judge Kavanaugh has had 65 meetings with senators—including with Senator Feinstein—sat through over 30 hours of testimony, addressed over 2,000 questions in a public setting and additional questions in a confidential session. Not until the eve of his confirmation has Sen. Feinstein or anyone raised the specter of new 'information' about him," Kupec said.
Before details of the allegation surfaced on Friday, Senate Republicans pointed out that an extensive background check was already completed by the White House and reviewed by the committee.
According to the New York Times, which reported on the letter about the alleged incident, the FBI sent the information to the White House on Thursday to add it to Kavanaugh's background check file, but has not opened an investigation on the matter.
Grassley's office says it will proceed with the planned judiciary committee vote on Kavanaugh's nomination next week. A spokesman for the chairman said Kavanaugh has completed six FBI background checks between 1993 and 2018, and that Feinstein, who obtained the letter in July, did not raise the issue during the hearings or attend a closed session on the nomination where the information could have been discussed. The aide also said Grassley only learned about the allegation from news sources this week and that the FBI sent the Senate the updated report on Thursday. | 2019-04-22T19:57:50 | https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/09/14/86110/kavanaugh-denies-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-d/ |
0.998769 | In this position you have responsibilities in research, training and support of R&D projects in medical and applicatory questions.
You generate scientific evidences supporting Hamilton Medical products by managing clinical studies during their full life-cycle from protocol design to final data analysis and scientific paper writing.
Additionally you provide advanced training to physicians, Hamilton Medical staff and dealers including the preparation and maintenance of training material and documents.
Beside your education as a medical doctor or respiratory therapist, you have proven clinical and research expertise (minimum 5 years) in intensive care and mechanical ventilation. Furthermore, you are familiar with Hamilton Medical ventilators.
This position allows you to continue your previous clinical occupation (max.50%) and to combine with this thrilling, challenging employment at Hamilton Medical. Your place of residence is within Europe.
If you are interested in this position, please apply directly online to the attention of Ms Bianca Casutt, HR Business Partner. Your application should include a letter of motivation, a complete CV, degrees, diplomas and reference letters. | 2019-04-26T00:19:18 | https://jobs.hamilton.ch/jobs/997039867-trainee-in-medical-engineering/no-jobs |
0.998711 | It's estimated 35,000 people have been displaced by an upsurge in fighting around the Syrian city of Aleppo. It's one of five areas where government forces have launched offensives since Russia began supporting their operations with airstrikes at the end of September.
In a speech at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth has described the emerging relationship between China and the UK as a global partnership. She said the state visit of China's president Xi Jinping, is a defining moment.
A year ago the beard of Tutankhamun in a museum in Cairo was accidently knocked off. It was then very hastily reattached amid much controversy. Well it's now confirmed that a team of experts is to remove the beard and reattach it more carefully. It could all take up to two months.
1. The invention of the motor car was a _______ for the future of people's mobility.
2. People in the village were _______ after weeks of rain caused a terrible flood.
3. It was a dangerous situation for everyone as the enemy army _______ on the city.
4. There was much ______ about plans to build a wind farm in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
1. The invention of the motor car was a defining moment for the future of people's mobility.
2. People in the village were displaced after weeks of rain caused a terrible flood.
3. It was a dangerous situation for everyone as the enemy army launched offensives on the city.
4. There was much controversy about plans to build a wind farm in an area of outstanding natural beauty. | 2019-04-24T00:19:58 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/lingohack/ep-151021 |
0.999981 | Lightpad Block M - XYZ Pad - Script to send aftertouch on Z Axis?
I wonder how straightforward it is to write a script to send after-touch on the Z axis of the XYZ pad app of the lightpad block M?
For users of keyboards that don't send after-touch like the Yamaha MODX or the Roland System 8, this would be invaluable.
I can convert controller data to after-touch in Cubase, but to do it directly from the Block would be great.
Is there an idiots guide to writing or installing scripts on the PC?
An idiots guide would be very much appreciated by this idiot here as well :). I didn't find one , so what I do is pretty much trial and error until (hopefully) success with the help of https://docs.juce.com/master/group__LittleFootFunctions.html to look up functions available to be called directly. That list is daunting and I don't get a lot of it as of now, but don't let ignorance stop you from playing around with the stuff! It's the more rewarding when you finally get your idea to work out. And you will, if you are persistent enough and can put up with the occasional brain meltdown here and there.
Getting z axis in the XYZ Pad script to send channel aftertouch is actually relatively straightforward, if you don't mind a quick and dirty solution.
You need to have BLOCKS Code installed. It will connect to your Block, try to compile the code you write and upload it to the connected Block if compiling was successful (I am not sure if that was default, but in the Compiler menu I have it set to Auto Compile and Auto Upload to do that automatically while I write).
Find and open the file XYZ Pad from the File menu (in Windows the stock scripts are in C:\Program Files (x86)\ROLI\ROLI Dashboard\Littlefoot). First step is to save it under a new name in the directory where Dashboard can see it (in Windows that is C:\Users\[Your User Name]\Documents\ROLI\LittleFoot.
Now you're ready to mess around. Don't worry, code that doesn't compile doesn't get loaded into the Block and if it compiled but does weird stuff, just try something different :).
Means, if your script calls sendChannelPressure(0, 40) the Block will dutyfully send a channel aftertouch message on MIDI channel 1 with a value of 40.
The easiest solution is to just tweak the part of the code that determines what is done when you touch the lightpad in a way that it will call sendChannelPressure each time the z-value changes. A bit neater it is to tell it to only send aftertouch if the "Z axis CC" selector is set to a certain value, so that you still can send plain CC, should you want it. This is what I'll explain further down, We'll tell it to send aftertouch when the selector is set to CC 0 (which is Bank Select, you probably never wanted to send with Z axis anyway).
You can also add aftertouch explicitly to the available choices in the selector but I leave that to you :).
that last line (I marked green) is the one that deals with Z (line 47). It basically says: "If the app is set to send Z axis, then call the function "outputCC" (with the arguments as defined within the brackets)." "outputCC" is another function defined in the script, where the actual sending of CC messages takes place. For our purpose we circumvent that function if the Z axis CC is set to zero and send aftertouch from right here - quick and dirty, did I mention?
We want it to say: "If it is set to send CC 0 for the Z axis, then send Channel pressure instead, otherwise call "outputCC " as usual". The variable that holds the setting of your CC selector is "zCC". It is defined at the top of the script in "metadata". Looks like a comment block, but actually is where you define Dashboard widgets.
There is room for improvement, of course. For example aftertouch will be sent as soon as you touch, and it will be hard to keep it at zero and not lose touch while moving on the other two axes. I guess solving this will afford another approach to mapping Z to values.
Hope this gets you started :) I highly recommend to everyone who is even in the slightest inclined to just dive into it. The waters may look weird, but it's all good and fun in the end. It is the scriptability where Lightpads shine the most (IMHO) and very rewarding to get something to work!
As a forum request: It would be very useful to have a "Show Comment" feature that would let us marvel at what our Post will look like and gives us a chance to clean it up and find oopsies like this before committing. A long post is very hard to troubleshoot in this small comment box and it's always a bit worrying to hit "Post Comment".
Also: a post may take days (my personal record is 4 full days - over a weekend) before actually appearing in a thread. So if a post contains a mistake or the discussion partner has questions then a back and forth of three posts (comment - question - answer) may easily take a full week until it is finally resolved and confirmation of the answer has yet to come across. It always feels a bit like talking to someone on the other end of the galaxy and makes communication on this forum a prettyy poor experience.
Ha! Just to prove my rambling totally wrong, my first post appeared within half an hour :) Thanks, guys, love you.
Thanks for the detailed reply Frank! I'll give this a try and dip my toes in the water!
Oh well, as uncomfortable as it feels to add yet another post, but dangit!
There are some more oopsies in my initial post I would have spotted and fixed if I could have reviewed it before committing.
Main one: The line to be changed is 45, not 47!
Then there is a missing closing bracket (luckily not in the code snippet) and probably some more typos.
I’d just like to say a big thanks to Frank for his really helpful and encouraging post above.
By following his clear instructions, I was able to create the modification to the XYZ pad script that I wanted in a short space of time. | 2019-04-23T00:10:35 | https://support.roli.com/support/discussions/topics/36000008288/page/last |
0.999992 | I am impressed by the way you have conducted your own original investigation of personal identity, rather than go to the books and repeat the usual things about the 'memory criterion' or 'body criterion' etc.
The way you have laid out the options, both for what you call 'internal identity' and 'external identity' - under the headings 'addition, subtraction division and multiplication' - makes it possible to approach the problem at a considerable degree of abstraction but at the same time very simply.
I would have liked to see more argument for your conclusion, which you state in the lines I have quoted above. It is really just a matter of spelling things out, pointing to the way the 'baseline' shifts in each case.
It is really remarkable, that things to do with what is 'inner', the mind, and things to do with what is 'outer', the body, come under the very same logical categories. How is that possible? Is it just a happy accident, or does it show something about the concept, not of 'inner' or 'outer' but of temporal existence as such?
Looking more closely at the categories, however, I detect possible signs of strain. I think you have tried too hard to relate the categories to examples in the actual world.
Addition and subtraction are easy enough. An entity which exists over time, be it mental or physical, can have bits added on to it or have bits taken away. It is not quite so clear from your examples that 'division' means the same thing in the mental and physical case. Here we need the help of a bit of science fiction.
Mental division, in terms of the problem you are investigating, ought to be something that happens to an entity which was previously undivided. In the mental case, this would happen if all your mental states divided into two packages, each gaining their own identity in the process. The criterion for such division can be stated as follows: A and B are in the same mental packet if and only if every mental item that is present to A is also present to B. If the packet now splits, with A in one packet and B in another, then the same condition can be stated with A and C in one packet and with B and D in another packet. This may or may not be the way some schizophrenic states actually arise: I suspect not.
In the physical case, we would be dealing with human fission, a human being splitting like an amoeba, rather than Siamese twins. Siamese twins do not pose the same challenge for personal identity, because it is generally the case that the twins, though physically connected, are best described as two individuals who share common parts. Where things would get tricky, is if the brain itself was one of the parts/organs that needed to be divided.
Mental multiplication, on the other hand, is something that could be happening right now, although we can never know. As I type these words, a new 'self' comes into existence, thinking exactly the same thoughts and feeling exactly the same feelings, then another then another, until there are thousands of selves each thinking *I* am the one who makes the decision to type the next word. This is actually a powerful argument against a purely inner definition of personal identity: namely, the fact that there is no criterion for *counting* inner 'selves'.
The external case of multiplication is the spectacular example of the person-duplicating machine.
Is that all? Actually, I think not. It could be argued that you have missed out one of the most difficult challenges for the definition of identity, namely, gradual replacement.
Take something neutral, such as the car I used to own. I can add to my Ford Capri, or take things away from it. If Martians point their ray guns at it, it can undergo fission or duplication. But there is also something common or garden which happens to things all the time - and people too. You replace one wheel, then another, and another. New clutch, new water pump, new differential, rewelding here and here and here. Each time we have the 'same' Capri with modifications. Yet it is conceivable that the outcome of this process could be a car which might have no physical bits belonging to the original car.
In your terms, gradual replacement is simply the result of successive subtractions and additions. However, these two operations can be combined in a way that poses a special challenge to the idea of identity.
Must justice result in war and violence? | 2019-04-26T02:08:13 | https://electronicphilosopher.blogspot.com/2011/04/criteria-for-identity-of-person-over.html |
0.998934 | 1. Dust the chicken livers in a little flour. Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry the chicken livers until just browned.
2. Add the onion and garlic to the pan and fry gently for 1-2 minutes.
3. Add in the red wine and balsamic vinegar, deglazing the pan by stirring it with a spatula. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Keep warm.
4. Toast the ciabatta under a grill until crisp.
5. Meanwhile, place the sugar and water in a saucepan. Heat through until the sugar has dissolved, then bring to the boil and cook briskly until the syrup caramelises, thickening and turning golden.
6. Toss the pears in the caramel for 2 minutes, then set aside.
7. To make the salad dressing, whisk together the lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, dark soy and olive oil.
8. Toss the shallots and rocket with the salad dressing and divide among 4 serving plates.
9. Drizzle the toasted ciabatta with olive oil and top each slice with a chicken liver and a little of the red wine mixture.
10. Place two pear quarters on top of each portion and serve at once with the ciabatta slices topped with the chicken liver mixture. | 2019-04-21T12:09:05 | https://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/recipe/chicken-liver-on-crostini-with-warmed-pear-salad/ |
0.999165 | Does just the term "tourist attraction". cause feelings of anxiety? While there certainly are some attractions that you are better off driving on by, there are plenty of good ones too. Our Albuquerque 10Best list can help you sort the worthwhile from the worthless, ensuring only good memories are created this trip.
Constructed in 1793, this adobe church looks much as it did when it was originally built, and while it has undergone several renovations over the decades, it still retains the Southwestern feel and style of its origins. The church's history is quite interesting �– for example, during the Civil War, after Albuquerque was recaptured from the Confederates, the Union army leased the rectory for several years. The adjacent museum displays furnishings and art from the church, and itself is worth a visit.
The smallest and most interesting branch of Albuquerque's library system is located in the former home of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ernie Pyle, who was killed by a Japanese sniper while overseas reporting on WWII. In addition to it's regular library collection, the branch also has a collection of Pyle memorabilia and writings.
Built in 1927, the KiMo is a beautiful Pueblo Deco style building originally built during the heyday of luxury theater construction as a movie palace and vaudeville stage (Vivian Vance �– I Love Lucy's Ethel �– got her start here). Used today as a performing arts venue, the theater has been fully restored to its original grandeur and is an Albuquerque landmark. Although the KiMo's exterior is gorgeous too, you must see inside to truly appreciate it. So check local listings and get yourself tickets to whatever's on �– you won't be disappointed!
Follow the twisty, scenic back roads between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and see where early explorers sought gold and found turquoise. Abandoned mining towns, hills dotted with piñon, vast mountain vistas and rugged rock formations can be seen along this 52-mile drive that parallels Interstate 25. Follow I-40 east from Albuquerque to Tijeras �– about 15 miles. Take exit 175 onto New Mexico 14 North, and you will pass through three mountain ranges. Well worth the drive.
For a fascinating look at desert plants and habitats, a trip to the Rio Grande Botanic Garden is in order. Features include the desert and Mediterranean pavilions, and a seasonal Butterfly Pavilion with hundreds of free-flying butterflies and a wealth of the nectar-producing plants they love. The hugely (literally!) popular Children's Fantasy Garden features a 42-foot pumpkin, oversize vegetables, giant potted plants, and plenty of things for kids to explore. Combined with a visit to the Aquarium and the Zoo, a trip to the Botanic Gardens is a fun, and educational, venture into the natural world that is perfect for families. But if you don't have kids to take, don't let that stop you �– a more relaxed pace is just as enjoyable! Be advised that in accordance with City of Albuquerque law, smoking is prohibited on Zoo, Aquarium and Botanic Garden property.
If you fly into Albuquerque during the daytime, you�'ll see the thick ribbon of green cutting through the heart of the city. This is the bosque, Spanish for woods. Following the Río Grande, this is the largest continuous cottonwood forest left in the United States. It stabilizes the river banks, provides habitat for many species, and gives Albuquerque a shaded playground where you can hike, bike and watch wildlife in the middle of New Mexico�'s largest city. One of the best places to get to know the bosque is at the Río Grande Nature Center. This state park has an interpretive museum explains the important aspects of the Río Grande, and outside you can observe turtles, water birds and other critters around ponds from behind blinds. Trailheads lead from the center to the river, and a paved bike path allows you to pedal almost to downtown. Gardens and events are planned throughout the year. This is a slam-dunk for the kids, and parents, too.
Over 1000 animals call the Rio Grande Zoo home, including cheetahs, siamangs, elephants, seals, gators, many primates, and koalas. The reptile and amphibian house and the Tropical America buildings house all manner of snakes, frogs, tarantulas, and birds. From April-September, the zoo offers an array of special programs for both kids and adults, including lectures, animal shows, craft workshops, storytelling, and a summer concert series. For a full day of fun, visit the zoo, aquarium, and botanic gardens, all located at the Albuquerque Biological Park. There are plenty of gift shops and food vendors throughout the park. Be advised that in accordance with City of Albuquerque law, smoking is prohibited on Zoo, Aquarium and Botanic Garden property.
This 20-minute excursion is the world's longest aerial tram ride, and also one of the most breathtaking rides you may ever experience. Once at the top, you may like to ski, mountain bike, or just enjoy the view. There are restaurants at both the top and the bottom of the tramway. For two weeks each spring and fall, the tramway is closed for maintenance �– call for exact dates.
The Albuquerque Biopark is collectively a zoo, aquarium and botanical gardens linked together by the Rio Line, a narrow-gauge railroad that travels between the facilities. The Albuquerque Zoo is award winning for its natural designs, and the aquarium features a 285,000-gallon ocean aquarium where sharks and sea turtles glide past viewers. | 2019-04-26T10:34:24 | https://www.10best.com/destinations/new-mexico/albuquerque/attractions/parks/ |
0.975789 | Brits are happier to work at banks like Metro Bank, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs than tech companies like Apple and Facebook, according to a survey from the recruitment website, Glassdoor.
The recruiting firm gathered anonymous feedback left on its website by current and former UK employees, and fed it through an algorithm to generate a ranking of the 50 best companies to work for, which operate in the UK.
The list blended data from eight categories of review: career opportunities, salary, cultures, senior management, work-life balance, whether employees would recommend the company to a friend, their six-month outlook for the business, and their overall rating of the company.
Of the largest five American tech companies, only Apple and Google made the UK top fifty. Amazon, Facebook and Netflix failed to make the cut. Google, which won employee favourite last year, fell this year to 13th place, while Apple came in 43rd. Apple’s staff reviews included employees who work in their retail outlets.
Anglian Water won the accolade of best UK employer for 2018. Second place went to Bain & Company, the US-headquartered management consultancy. Among other City employers, the mid-market UK insurer Hiscox came in 7th, and the mutual insurer Royal London won 10th place.
JPMorgan was rated the 30th best company to work for in the UK, whilst Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs came in 36th. Both were well ahead of Apple.
On Goldman, Glassdoor quoted the anonymous review of a senior network engineer in London: [A] “family atmosphere, lots of induction and help to guide you along the way, [and you] can switch career paths knowing you'll have the right backing”.
In the US, things were different, with Facebook held onto its first place spot from last year. One reason why employee experience of the social-media firm might be different between US and UK is that according to employee feedback publicly available on Glassdoor, the company’s London office does not pay as well as some its other locations globally.
Also in the US, Google took fifth, Apple took 84th, and no bank made it into the US top 100 companies.
Both current and former employees rated the companies for the year from October 2017. Intern reviews were excluded. The company algorithm also examined a company’s review trends over time, and fed this into the final figure.
Glassdoor also said its results were reviewed by an eligibility panel, which will exclude employers if it “suspects and/or determines official company representatives have attempted to influence reviews or have tampered with the process”.
Each company was given a public score with one decimal place. While Apple (43rd), Wagamama (41st) and the BBC (38th) all scored a 4.2, JPMorgan (30th) and Nando’s (19th) scored a 4.3. Glassdoor said in a statement that its calculations reach beyond the thousandth decimal place. | 2019-04-21T06:49:08 | https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/goldman-sachs-has-happier-staff-than-apple-recruiter-says-20181205?mod=topStories |
0.998512 | After these progresses, Cristea, together with Ionel Zamfirescu, a motorcycling champion, decided to modify a Ford V8 in order to attempt a top finish in the Monte Carlo Rally. Belief in ourselves despite setbacks.
Dumitriu, maior Ambrozie, D. Traducerile publicate ulterior pot fi supuse drepturilor de autor. Lucrul de capetenie e ca educatoarea sa nu moralizeze mult, caci aceasta de obicei il plictiseste pe copil si produce cel mult niste rezultate aparente, ci sa-l induplece prin exemplul sau si printr-o consecventa iubire de adevar si de dreptate, care impune mai mult, decat sute de predici moralizatoare.
As may crstea clear from the above, se best teacher I ever had was a math teacher.
That means before school, during lunch, and after eptre. Si cine ar putea sa le faca lor o zi mai senina cu un abtibild in piept?
They were willing to wait until a distraction calmed students down, or abandon a lesson entirely if it was clear material needed to be revisited. Mie nu mi s-a acordat acest drept. He entered the and Monte Carlo Ralliesfinishing 18th and 15th driving a modified Ford V8 in both rallies. Corneliu Zelea-Codreanu, Ion I.
They want students to learn and be able to apply what they learned, not just be able to pass tests. June 18, at 9: Imediat m-am apucat de prepararea celui de al doilea an: Pot foarte bine sa-i cert si sa-i impac. Make two calls a day to parents. Din discursul contra revizuirii art.
Un ger grozav oprise trenurile pe drum.
Poate necivilizat, vor zice unii. Vaida Voevod, pe atunci Ministru de Interne.
Ele nu vor mai putea fi scoase de nimeni. Key Elements of What makes a good teacher? Un sergent mi-a dat calul. Consultation with pupils in relation to own goals and personal aspirations.
Parlamentul care a acordat drepturi politice jidanilor.
Sambo Yakubu Godwin says: De acolo am vorbit. Atunci l-am cunoscut pe generalul dr. Am plecat mai departe. In just a short time, you can indeed make contact to at least one parent of each student.
Pe la orele 9 m-au chemat pe mine. True compassion for their students. This goes hand in hand with being professional. Parents can be your biggest ally. | 2019-04-22T03:59:31 | http://7am.life/digital-photo-software/arta-de-a-conduce-automobilul-de-petre-cristea.php |
0.999684 | Did Thorsten Heins elaborate the Z10's UK success?
Mobile retailers in the UK have contradicted Thorsten Heins' claims that supplies of the white BlackBerry Z10 handset have already sold out, saying they have plenty of the BB10 handset in stock.
The BlackBerry CEO came out all guns blazing earlier this week, saying the first BB10 handset had sold "beyond expectations" in the UK during the first few days of sale.
In an interview, Heins asserted: "White is sold out already. The black is hard to stock up again. It's very encouraging." Sounds great. There's only one problem. It hasn't and it isn't.
News outlets in the UK, perhaps a little surprised that BB10 was off to such a seemingly-unlikely whirlwind start, began calling around retailers to see if Heins' claim held water. Sadly, for Blackberry, it doesn't.
Mobile News called Phones 4U's customer service line and two stores in Manchester and Leeds. All of which informed the site that the handset was in stock.
Devices were ready for immediate collection, despite Heins boasting that the device was already unavailable, while another store claimed to have 'loads left'.
The Telegraph also contacted Phones 4U - the exclusive supplier of the white Z10 in the UK - outlets in London, who also had 'plenty' of handsets available to anyone who wanted one.
In further comments to the media made on Wednesday, Heins claimed that the Z10 had tripled the performance of any BlackBerry smartphone ever in the UK, during a first week on sale.
While that may or may not be true (and it's difficult to tell), sold out it is not.
BlackBerry is yet to officially comment on the reports, but this apparent spread of misinformation (or perhaps it's just a case of crossed wires?) by its supposedly pragmatic leader will come as an embarrassment. | 2019-04-22T11:15:28 | https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/blackberry-z10-sold-out-we-ve-got-loads-left-say-retailers-1129850 |
0.998327 | What if I want to run 7 days/week. Should I follow the same instruction of the specific week I'm in?
Or is there another plan?
Thanks for your question about my Beginners Running Program section.
My first running tip would be to take the beginner running programs as a guide mostly.
I have set them up with the idea that any person, no matter what fitness level should be able to start them and progress through them.
The approach is to gradually, very gradually increase the time spent on your feet and the time spent running.
If you want to make changes to them, you are free to do so and it is up to you.
In your specific example a way of approaching this could be the following: on the first three days of the week you cover that week's training. If you felt that the training was hard, you were struggling to get through it or you had to cut corners, then repeat that week's training again.
However, felt that the training was easy? Then you could pick up the next week's training load. And so on, evaluate every three days on what you should do: pick up the next week's training or repeat what you have just done.
In all of this you need to listen to your body. We all want to make progress as fast as possible, but if you do too much then you run the risks of getting injured.
Especially when you'd jump from 0 days exercise / week to 7 days / week!
Therefore I would suggest that you do not move to running 7 days / week immediately. Build this up slowly over time as well. It would have my preference if on the alternate days you would go on walks, or do some cycling, swimming, weights or other cross-training activity.
Also see my page about Increasing Mileage Safely. | 2019-04-26T04:00:10 | https://www.best-running-tips.com/beginner-running-program-for-more-than-three-days-per-week.html |
0.999914 | Let us start with the day of Pentecost. Take the early chapters of the Acts: how long did the state of things described in the fourth chapter continue? How long could it be said that the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and one soul and had all things common? In the very next chapter we find Ananias and Sapphira lying to the Holy Ghost: in the sixth chapter the Grecian Jews murmur against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily visitation: in the eighth chapter Simon wishes to purchase spiritual gifts with money: in the fifteenth chapter we read of the jealousy of the Jews towards the Gentiles, which almost proved fatal to the infant Church: in the nineteenth Paul meets with disciples who had not so much as heard 'whether there be any Holy Ghost': in the twentieth he warns the elders of the Church at Ephesus that after his departure 'grievous wolves shall enter in, yea, from among your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them': in the twenty-first it seems that Christian Jews joined with others who were zealous for the law, in the attempt to kill Paul. If we turn to the Epistles, we find in Rom. ii. and xiv. many of the faults condemned by St. James. The Corinthians within five years of their conversion are broken up by schisms: they are as much given to vainglory and jealousy and strife and censorious judgments as the churches to which St. James writes. They are more addicted to sins of the flesh: they indulge to excess even when they meet together for the Lord's supper; they go to law one with another in the courts of the heathen; their religious meetings are a scene of confusion and disorder from each man's eagerness to get a hearing; they are falling back into idolatry; they even dispute the authority of their spiritual father and deny his apostleship. So the Galatians within ten years of their conversion have departed from the Gospel which Paul preached, and have to be sternly warned against the works of the flesh. Even in his earliest Epistle written to the Thessalonians shortly after their conversion, he bids them to be at peace among themselves, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, quench not the Spirit, despise not prophesyings. The Epistle to the Seven Churches in theApocalypse, the first of St. John, the second of St. Peter, that of St.Jude and that to the Hebrews, give us an even less satisfactory picture of the Christian Church than the Epistle of St. James does. | 2019-04-19T15:20:55 | http://www.eyeoftheneedle.net/epistle-of-james.html |
0.992241 | One of the major aims of Smith's Wealth of Nations was to demonstrate the falsity of the rather extensive set of ideas now called mercantilism—about 25 percent of his book is devoted to an examination of mercantilist doctrine and practice. Some mercantilists argued that government regulation of foreign trade was necessary in order for a country to have a so-called favorable balance of trade—exports greater than imports—and, therefore, an increase in the quantity of bullion, as other countries paid in precious metals for the home country's excess of exports over imports. Interestingly, we still use the term "favorable balance of trade" to describe a situation in which a country gives others more goods than it gets in exchange, the difference being settled through payments of gold or IOUs. A favorable balance of trade, however, is favorable only if one incorrectly believes that the wealth of a nation depends upon its holdings of precious metals.
Smith, on the contrary, argued for unregulated foreign trade, reasoning that if England can produce a good, e.g., wool, at lower costs than France, and if France can produce another good, e.g., wine, at lower costs than England, then it is beneficial to both parties to exchange these goods, with each trading the good it produces at lower costs for the good it produces at higher costs. In the language of economics, this became known as the absolute advantage argument for foreign trade. This argument, moreover, is not limited to international trade. It applies to trade within a country as well.
Embedded in Smith's analysis of how markets develop dynamically over time, one finds another argument for free international trade. Although Smith never fully developed this argument, later economists were able to infer it from the Wealth of Nations. We have already seen that Smith held that a key determinant of the wealth of nations was the productivity of labor and that labor productivity depended primarily upon the division of labor. As labor becomes more divided and specialized, he pointed out, its productivity increases dramatically. Smith held that differences in individual abilities, and hence productivity, were largely the effects of the division of labor, not its cause. At birth, Smith asserted, we are all similarly talented; it is only after we begin to specialize in various activities that we become more proficient relative to others who do not so specialize. We learn by doing, becoming progressively able to produce our goods more cheaply as we get more efficient in our specialized tasks.
In the language of modern economics, there are increasing returns (decreasing costs) as labor becomes more and more specialized. Part of Smith's argument for the advantages of foreign trade was broadly based on this dynamic notion of increasing returns. He realized that if two individuals are equally talented at birth and their talents remain unchanged, it follows that there are no advantages to either of them if they specialize and trade their goods. (The nationality of the individuals makes no difference to these arguments—i.e., whether one person is English and the other French.) If, however, two individuals become more proficient by labor specialization, the costs of producing both their products decrease and both benefit by specializing and trading. Out of this insight of Smith's arose the recognition, pivotal for the development of free trade, that dynamically over time any nation might achieve absolute cost advantages in the production of certain goods through specialization and division of labor, and that all nations could gain from the resulting international trade.
Smith, who was very policy-oriented in his analysis of international trade, criticized, in particular, mercantilist policies that had restricted the quantity of trade, concluding that those policies erroneously assessed the wealth of a nation as consisting of the bullion the nation held, rather than correctly defining a nation's wealth as a flow of goods. The proper governmental policy toward international trade, Smith held, should be the same as that toward domestic trade—one of letting voluntary exchanges take place in free-unregulated markets. A policy of laissez faire, he believed, would lead to ever higher levels of well-being in all countries.
Modern economics, in assessing the dominant ideas of this period, has discovered another difference between the classicals and the mercantilists that significantly influenced their views concerning the relative importance of free markets versus government regulation. These differences, though never fully articulated in either Smithian or subsequent classical economics, are fundamental to classical views on the consequences of economic activity and remain fundamental even today. They have to do with the fact that if one holds that the total quantity of resources on our planet is fixed, then a process of exchange between two individuals or nations must require that one gain and the other lose. In the language of some modern economists, an economic exchange is a "zero-sum game," in which there is a winner and a loser. Thus, when Britain trades with France, if one gains by this exchange, the other must lose. An opposing perspective holds that economic exchanges are not zero-sum games, that both parties can benefit from the exchange. To rigorously prove that all countries can benefit from foreign trade, one must show that there are more goods in the world after the exchange than there were before. While this sort of book is not the place to demonstrate such a proof, some introductory economics texts do show how foreign trade benefits both parties and that the total amount of goods in the world is greater after the exchange.
This insight of Smith and other classical writers that, contrary to the beliefs of many mercantilists, all parties might gain from trading provided a tremendously powerful argument for voluntary exchanges, whether between individuals within a country or between different countries.
An aspect of foreign trade that did not interest Smith—no doubt partly because his forte was economic policy, not theory—but that bears on this discussion is the question of the price at which exchange occurs and, therefore, of what determines how the gains from trade are divided between the traders. We will address these issues when we examine David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. | 2019-04-24T18:46:19 | http://www.economictheories.org/2008/07/adam-smith-free-trade-international.html |
0.998555 | How static is Irish politics?
Election result after election result says very but referendum results hint at a large undercurrent of dissent, favourable to progressive parties but which somehow has not been fully exploited by progressive parties.
Despite an overwhelming campaign by the Yes side in Lisbon 2 with every type of trick, lie and inducement played by the Yes side 32.9 % of voter choose not to listen to their betters and still voted no.
Referendums have often hinted at a strange dislocation or dissatisfaction amongst the Irish electorate. Frequently despite a unified establishment call for one result a large cohort, often 30-35% would not bend the knee and do as it was told. Effectively saying to establishment parties that we do not trust you on matters of social policy, we do not trust your guarantees on Europe and further integration. Its difficult to know how much to read into these referendum results due to the single focus associated with referendums but sure might as well give it a go.
Repeatedly in referendum after referendum a block of 30-35% voters separate from the herd, but not in every referendum. This is not a contrarian vote but a reasoned choice.
The abortion referendum, the divorce referendum and every Euro referendum most especially all pointed to a large segment of voters who would not toe the line automatically - but were not necessarily a cohesive group. However it did point up that Irish politics is not as a monolithic as some might imagine - yet election after election seemed to prove otherwise. On social issues and distant issues such as europe the left had some traction but on the immediate issues of economic policy and governance we and other left seemed to suffer or at the least not fully exploit the possibilities inherent in such a large voter block.
Consider the Divorce referendum of 86 - Areas in Dublin with Workers Party representation had a higher Yes vote than elsewhere. 36% voted yes across the state.
Look at Dublin North East where Pat McCartan of the Workers Party won a seat in 1987 , 51% voted Yes to the Divorce Referendum, 15% more than the state average (36%). Right across every area of the constituency the Yes vote was higher than the national average. Yet this was not a Dublin/Urban phenomenon. Rural constituencies also had very significant voter blocks who voted Yes (and this in many constituencies were choice was limited to FF and FG with no other options available). Who knows how they would have voted otherwise.
Where did it pass Dublin North, Dublin NE, Dublin South, Dublin south east, Dublin south west,Dun laoighaire,The Workers' party held seats in half of those constituencies (DNE, DSW,DunLao) in 1989. In the other three Dublin North, Dublin NE and Dublin SE - Sinn Fein would soon be fighting for seats save Dublin North where the Socialist Party was particularly strong.
Looking at Lisbon 1 you see the same pattern. Where were the big No votres - Cavan Monaghan, Cork North Central, both Donegals, in several Dublin areas constituencies but many voted yes as well. Kerry North, Louth, Mayo, Meath West, Waterford/Wexford. All areas where Sinn Fein have either already established themselves solidly or were building well.
Lisbon 1 helped give a clear view of who these dissenting voters were. In the most affluent constituencies of Dublin, such as Dun Laoghaire, where even a modest home was running at 1 million 60% or more voted for the treaty. In working class areas of the city, it was the no vote which scored in excess of 60%. Brouard and Tiberj (2006) show that precisely the same division between rich and poor, or the skilled and unskilled, can be discerned in the French 2005 vote.
In Ireland the results were explained as follows - rich with a nice house meant well educated meant you were smart enough to vote yes while working class (urban or rural) meant you lacked the wit to realise Yes was the way to go so better give the poor cráturs another chance with Lisbon 2.
Without trying to extend this too far look at an area like Kildare where neither SF nor Workers Party made a breakthrough, instead there it is indeed monolithic politics. Looking at the 1981 election you see the names McCreevy, Stagg, Durkan, Power and Dukes. Those names continue with occasional swaps and some substitutions finally up until 2007. The same political menu on offer for 30 years. Kildare North voted strongly for Lisbon 1, while Kildare south just about rejected it with 51%. Kildare south was one of the few constituencies in the south without a SF candidate in the 2007 elections. One candidate in the 2009 locals did a solid job in building the vote in whats a difficult constituency for progressive parties. Yet even in such a difficult location political strength is being built.
There would appear to be at the least a rough rule of thumb whereby referendums can demonstrate the resonance a political party has with its local constituents and the prospects it has for building further electoral strength by indicating where voters are registering significant distrust of establishment parties on issues of sovereignty or social policy.
In the '86 Divorce referendum The Workers party helped deliver yes votes in several areas , the other Yes vote constituencies would all prove fertile for SF or Socialist parties. In Lisbon 1 strong no votes were achieved in areas with Sinn Fein TDs or with strong Sinn Fein presences.
Irish politics can appear monolithic with FF and FG swapping time and time again. But the results of many referendums in the south have shown the existence of a large voter block ready to defy the monolithic parties and follow the lead of parties with more progressive and radical agendas.
Even without the chaos of financial collapse it could be argued that there was sufficient room for political growth over the years for a progressive party to wean large sections of the electorate away from Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.
It could be argued that Irish politics was not as monolithic as we might have imagined. Yet despite the evidence from referendums that a large block of voters, in some areas quite a significant no. were willing to disregard received wisdom and choose their own course, somehow or other those votes didnt translate into electoral gains.
What stopped the centralisation of these dissenting voters around a progressive party? While the reasons for voting against the majority differs from referendum and within each referendum it does appear that there is quite a large block of voters out there who are willing to stand on the same side as parties like SF.
Today in 2010, after Lisbon 1, we still have clear evidence that a large group of voters are willing to dissent from the received wisdom. The addition of a financial crisis makes the opportunity to coalesce those votes all the more doable.
How should Sinn Fein best do this? The last party to do try to achieve this realignment was the Workers' Party but it was not able to complete that realignment due to a no. of reasons. It collapsed just as it may have been on the verge of staring that realignment. The Fianna Fail working class vote has dropped from its high of 45% in 1969 to a low of 32% in 1997. Yet it went back up to 47% of working class votes in 2002. The opportunity to wrest working class votes away from FF had passed... but not for long.
There is a large block of "dissafectniks" in this country, and sometimes they all lunge in the same direction. Hence the election of Mary Robinson in '90, the Spring Tide of '92 and all referendum results - well it's easy to choose sides when the only options are "yes" or "no".
Mostly they are scattered to the 4 winds or don't bother to vote.
between Zanu-FF/so-called Greens and the other crowd of Labour and FG.
On a positive note does the sheer volume of "dissafecniks" not imply that there is a real market for political change out there waiting to be energised?
That would be the thrust of the post.
Why have the disaffected not been coalesced into one voting block or at least a larger voting block than they currently seem to have.
My belief would be that SF is starting to pull that group together. And not all these people are refuseniks - it may be tempting to see them as a "Im agin it" voter block but I dont think that captures it.
I wonder if 1992 had a lot to do with it? It basically turned an entire generation of "refuseniks" off established party politics, and gave huge ammo to the "shure they're all the same" argument.
What might be interesting - is there any correlation between the refusenik vote in referenda and the turnout rate in GEs and locals?
If there's say 20% of the entire electorate out there who would vote if they had a decent option, and who largely turn out for referenda where there is a progressive option and a chance to make a difference, but don't bother voting in GEs, then that's a lot of votes.
I'm unsure if an existing party with baggage can energise them though.
The majority of people are thick and dont understand the connection between voting and what policies get implemented.
Individual anarchists believe that the will of an individual out-ranks the will of any organisation or group.
I have a hunch that this is the end days for the post civil war set up. It will take about 4-5 years and then we'll see a new political alignment. Once we change government and the electorate is dissatisfied with FG/Labour, but haven't forgiven FF then there is a space that has never existed before in our politics for a new force. I don't think SF have a prayer of filling the gap as they have their baggage too.
I disagree with OP that we can conflate the two referendum minorities. Lisbon was a more urban-rural split than wealth-poverty. The rural Shinners would hardly consider themselves on the side of the "progressives" and divorce and the old Workers' Party.
I 50% agree with this. I think it ignores the real popularity of Labour in the early 90s, but it is true that some people will oppose the majority in any referendum. However, I don't think it's the same people who oppose the majority in each case. Again, conservative Catholics would have been on the No side to both divorce and Lisbon.
I also agree that, if they exist, they are generally negative about the political system and don't bother to vote in general elections. Dealing in stereotypes, they are working-class, without third-level qualifications and not very interested in Irish politics. This creates a problem for a party like Sinn Féin, which would probably benefit most from their participation in elections.
But the point remains: "progressives" (definition?) were split in the Lisbon referendum, and I suspect the majority were on the Yes side. | 2019-04-22T04:04:56 | https://politics.ie/threads/how-static-is-irish-politics.140379/ |
0.999993 | PET scan depicting the effects of Alzheimer's disease on metabolism. The arrow indicates areas of low activity in the parietotemporal cortex - a region important for processing language and memory.
A PET (positron emission tomography) scan is a procedure used to observe the brain, the heart, and tumors. You will be given an injection of a low-level radioactive material and an organic chemical. This liquid will travel to the brain and heart. The scan shows the distribution of the radioactive material and what is happening in the organs.
As an alternative to this test, you could choose not to have treatment, recognizing the risks of your condition. You should ask your doctor about this choice.
Follow the doctor's instructions. The night before the procedure, eat a light meal such as soup and salad and don't eat or drink anything the morning of the procedure.
The PET technologist will inject a low-level radioactive material and an organic chemical into your vein. You will lie down on an examining table that slides into the PET machine. The technologist will then take pictures that help the doctor understand the health of the organs scanned.
The PET technologist will send the complete report to the doctor, who will interpret the results.
You should ask your doctor what other steps you should take and when you should come back for a checkup.
This procedure will help the doctor make a more accurate diagnosis.
You may have an allergic reaction to the chemical used in the scan.
You should ask your doctor how this risk applies to you. | 2019-04-20T11:08:31 | http://www.drsami.com/ptsite/PET.htm |
0.999999 | Imagine what would happen if a phage incorporates host DNA instead of phage DNA inside a fraction of the produced phage heads. The cell would still lyse, and these novel particles, termed transducing particles, could still recognize an appropriate bacteria, attach, and inject their DNA (sometimes called a transducing fragment). The result would be the transfer of DNA from one host to another, since no phage DNA would be found in transducing particles of this type. This DNA transfer mechanism has been enormously useful for E. coli, S. typhimurium and B. subtilis, but such phage have not been identified and developed for most bacteria.
How is this host DNA "mispackaged"? The most commonly used generalized transducing phages, P22 (infecting S. typhimurium) and P1 (infecting E. coli), package by "headfull packaging", so that they fill the head with a little more than one phage length of DNA. They typically recognize their own DNA as appropriate for packaging because of special sequences termed pac sites. Occasionally, the phage make an error and begin to package a host "concatamer", presumably because a site on the host DNA is reminiscent of the phage pac site. It is also conceivable that insertion sequences in the host might cause a transposition of the host DNA into the phage concatamer, thus allowing packaging of host DNA even when the packaging scheme started correctly on phage concatamers.
How often does this "mispackaging" occur? For both P22 and P1, about one phage virion in l,000 actually contains host DNA. It is possible to obtain mutants which make errors more frequently. An example of this is the mutant termed P22HT which has completely lost the ability to recognize its pac sites so that it packages DNA randomly. Since an infected cell contains about half host and half phage DNA, the P22HT variant causes the generation of a phage lysate in which half of the phage heads contain host DNA. In the normal case, to the extent that mispackaging is due to pseudo-pac sites in the host DNA, one would expect that not all regions of the host DNA would be transduced at equal frequency. Such seems to be the case with wild-type P22 and this differential transduction is eliminated in mutants like P22HT.
How is the transduced DNA stably inherited? As always, for the transferred DNA to become stably inherited, it must become associated with a replicon in the recipient cell. Since it is a linear molecule, this requires two homologous recombination events with the net result that a portion of the chromosome in the recipient is replaced by a portion of the incoming DNA. Thus, in contrast with specialized transduction, generalized transduction requires that the recipient possess both a functional rec system and DNA homologous to the transferred fragment. It has been observed in generalized transduction that there is an approximately l0% chance of the incoming chromosomal DNA being recombined into the recipient's chromosome. A recipient cell whose genotype and phenotype have been changed by a transduction event is called a transductant.
What are the frequencies at which phage can generate transductants? The two phage referred to above carry l-2% of the host DNA and normally package chromosomal DNA at a frequency of 10-3. Thus, about one in l05 phage particles carries a given region of the host DNA. Since a given gene injected into a recipient cell by a transducing particle has a l0% chance of being recombined into the chromosome then one might expect to get approximately one transductant for a given region per l06 phage particles. In the case of the P22HT derivative, since approximately half of the phage particles carry chromosomal DNA, one can achieve the extraordinary frequency of one transductant per l000 phage particles. There is also a remarkable phage in B. subtilis that carries l0% of the host chromosome, though apparently its frequency of mispackaging is sufficiently low that the number of transductants per phage particle is around one in l07. In general, the virtue of generalized transduction is not its efficiency, but its ease of use. For strain construction, it is also an advantage that only a portion of the chromosome is transferred, in contrast to Hfr's.
This page was last built with Frontier and Web Warrior on a Macintosh on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 1:02:15 PM. | 2019-04-25T08:54:00 | http://lecturer.ukdw.ac.id/dhira/BactGenetics/transduct2.html |
0.99999 | This is a great recipe as a meal or appetizer.
1. Marinate beef in a teriyaki glaze overnight.
2. Assemble kabobs alternating vegetables with beef until full.
3. Bake kabobs in a 350 ° oven for 20-25 minutes brushing the meat and vegetables every five minutes with marinade. | 2019-04-20T10:54:35 | https://www.wifr.com/content/recipes/244657.html |
0.997411 | How many Northern men had already fallen on the battlefield, do you suppose? I am sure I don't know; and you would have no idea of what the number meant, if I could give it to you. More men, than all the people you ever saw in all your lives, children. If you were to count every man and every woman, every boy and every girl in your city, all the people you ever saw on the cars, all the people you ever saw in the stores at Christmas time, or at the beach in the summer time—if you were to count them every one, even then you wouldn't have, I think, more than a handful compared with the thousands and thousands of Northern men who had gone to join the army.
And for two long years they had been fighting, with no success of much importance until the taking of Vicksburg and the driving back of Lee from Gettysburg.
Do you wonder, then, that at the beginning of this third year of the war, there were so few men left in the North and many of those so discouraged that Lincoln could no longer depend upon volunteers. Do not forget, children, that up to this time, all these brave men had joined the army of their own free will. They need not have gone had they not wanted to—nobody had made them go. They had gone bravely, because they thought it was right, and because they so loved their country that they were willing to give up friends, home, family—everything, and die, if need be for their Flag.
But now, in this third year of the war, the President was forced to "draft" these northern men—that is, he had to say to each town, you must send so many men.
This draft was made as mild as possible. No men over forty-five years of age were drafted, and no boys under eighteen. No son who had a widowed mother depending upon him, nor a father who had motherless children. You see, every attempt was made not to be unjust or cruel in this drafting.
There was in the North, at this time, a party who called themselves the peace party. They were tired of the war, had lost their courage by these two long years of defeat, and said the best thing that could be done was to declare peace, and let the Confederate States do as they pleased. This sounds all very well; but I am sure even you children can see that it was too late to talk that way then, and it was by far too early to say to the South, "You have beaten us; we give up the struggle."
These "peace-party" men, managed to stir up a good deal of anger among the low, ignorant classes in the city of New York, and a terrible riot followed. On the day the "drafting" began in that city these low people formed themselves into a mob—as they had done once before perhaps you remember—and, half drunk, armed with clubs and knives, they surged up and down the streets, killing policemen, stabbing and trampling upon black men and women and children, burning their bodies, or dragging them through the streets. Houses were entered, stores were robbed, and buildings burned.
For three whole days, this horrible riot went on—till, at last, a band of soldiers arrived. Then the mob, cowards, as such people are, slunk away to their dens and their grog-shops, and the riot, one of the most terrible and most disgraceful events of the war, was at an end. | 2019-04-22T04:01:49 | https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=pratt&book=ahs4&story=drafting |
0.999982 | Before thinking about photo copier sales, decide what you are preparing to do with this workplace addition. Will it be utilized each day or simply for bigger jobs? Do you need items in shade or white and just black? How usually are you mosting likely to be stapling or opening punching the papers appearing? Decide exactly how commonly you are mosting likely to use it and also what includes it requires to find outfitted with. Following this choice, you can narrow down the choices.
When checking into copier sales, among the best ways to conserve money is acquiring reconditioned things. These normally have a full warranty, a low matter, as well as have actually been examined for correct working by the supplier. While they are not new, they still function equally as well and also cost a fraction of the rate. Because of the warranty, there is no fear that it won'& #39; t last or problems will certainly cause it to break too soon.
Now that you know what you need, it is time to examine the choices. See what is available as well as begin to determine what price range you are interested in. Remember what it will be utilized for as well as what you require to achieve with it. Don'& #39; t rush into a choice. Because this kind of workplace vital will certainly be utilized for a long time, you will certainly intend to choose wisely.
When picking a company that specializes in copier sales, wear'& #39; t simply consider the merchandise. You likewise need to check into the treatments for solution, what sort of options are offered in the case of troubles, and exactly how you would have the ability to speak to someone in situation of a problem. Additionally, consider just how distribution is mosting likely to take place. Make sure all of your inquiries are responded to prior to you make the acquisition. Things will certainly run more efficiently with the ideal piece of equipment conserving you energy and time in assembling all of the paperwork your workplace needs. | 2019-04-21T10:56:20 | https://copiermn.com/mn-big-lake/laser-printer-lease.php |
0.999959 | In our site we used to display categories and products in different separate sections when display type was set to 'both' using woocommerce_product_subcategories() function.
I have recently updated woocommerce to the latest v3.4.3 and found out that the function woocommerce_product_subcategories() has been deprecated. Now they have introduced different functions to display categories, like woocommerce_output_product_categories(), woocommerce_maybe_show_product_subcategories().
But the problem I'm having is that, I could not stop showing categories in product loop. It keeps showing both categories and products in the same loop.
Can anyone show me a way, how I can display categories and products in a separate section?
To clarify my question, in my category settings, display type is set to both.
When I'm browsing category archive page, both category and products are showing in the loop.
What I want, is to separate categories from the loop and show it in a different section. In the loop, I want to display only products.
I have found the solution I was looking for. Using the following code will stop displaying categories in the product loop. | 2019-04-21T20:48:26 | https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/307786/separate-categories-from-wc-product-loop-when-display-type-is-set-to-both-on-the/307913 |
0.999999 | This article is in need of attention.
Please improve it in any way you see fit.
The USS Eagle takes its name from a noble bird of prey, an emblem of the old United States of America . This bird represented the strength and majesty of a people who admired strength and courage. From the early days of Earth many peoples have looked to the Eagle with a spiritual admiration.
The first USS Eagle, a schooner, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, in 1798, and commissioned in the Revenue Cutter Service under the command of Captain H. G. Campbell, USRCS. She was transferred to the Navy in July 1798 for service in the undeclared naval war (Quasi-War) with France, and placed on the permanent Navy List in April 1800.
From October 1798 Eagle patrolled off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia protecting American shipping from French privateers. Ordered to the West Indies, she arrived at Prince Rupert's Bay, Dominica, 14 March 1799, to hunt French ships, and to convoy merchant vessels on the Guadeloupe Station until late in June, when she sailed for Newcastle, Delaware. She returned to the Caribbean in August 1799 for similar duty until 10 September 1800 when she set sail for St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, with the sloop-of-war Maryland, escorting a convoy of 52 ships. After arrival at Newcastle on 28 September, Eagle was laid up for repairs. Eagle's third cruise to the West Indies extended from January to June 1801, when she returned to Baltimore.
During her career of protecting United States' rights on the high seas, she captured or assisted in the capture of 22 French vessels which had been preying on American ocean commerce. Eagle was sold 17 June 1801.
The second USS Eagle, a sloop, was a merchant ship purchased on Lake Champlain in 1812 and fitted for naval service. She cruised on the lake under the command of Sailing Master J. Loomis as a member of Commodore Thomas Macdonough's squadron blockading the British advance from Canada. Eagle was captured by the enemy 3 June 1813 near ile aux Noix on the Canadian side of the lake and taken into the Royal Navy as Finch.
During her services as a British ship she accompanied the expedition which burned the arsenal and storehouses at Plattsburg, New York. She was recaptured by the Americans during the great victory of the Battle of Lake Champlain 11 September 1814 and taken back into the U.S. Navy. After the war she was sold in July 1815 at Whitehall, New York.
The third USS Eagle, a brig, was launched 11 August 1814 as Surprise at Vergennes, Vermont, by Adam and Noah Brown. She was renamed Eagle 6 September and placed under the command of Lieutenant R. Henley.
Finished in bare time to participate in the decisive Battle of Lake Champlain on 11 September 1814, Eagle rendered gallant service. As the first vessel in the American line she was holed 39 times and had 13 men killed and 20 wounded. After the battle she was laid up for preservation at Whitehall, New York, but was sold in 1825.
The fourth USS Eagle served in the United States Navy from 1898 to 1919, and saw action in the Spanish-American War and World War I.
Eagle, a yacht, was built in 1890 as Almy by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware; purchased by the Navy 2 April 1898 and renamed Eagle; and commissioned 3 days later, Lieutenant W. H. H. Southerland in command.
Eagle sailed from New York 17 April 1898 for duty with the North Atlantic Squadron on blockade and dispatch duty in Cuban waters. On 29 June she shelled the Spanish battery at Rio Honda and on 12 July captured the Spanish merchantman Santo Domingo. Eagle returned to Norfolk 22 August 1898 to be fitted out for surveying duty, her principal employment through the remainder of her naval service. She compiled new charts and corrected existing ones for the waters surrounding Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.
Troubled conditions throughout the Caribbean often interrupted Eagle's surveying duty and she gave varied service in protecting American interests. She patrolled off Haiti in January and February 1908 and again in November and December and off Nicaragua in December 1909. In June 1912 she transported Marines to Santiago de Cuba and Siboney to protect American lives and property during a rebellion in Cuba, and continued to investigate conditions and serve as base ship for the Marines until 1914. She also had gunboat duty with a cruiser squadron during the Haiti operation of July 1915 to March 1916 and was commended by the Secretary of the Navy for her creditable performance of widely varied duty. She then remained off Haiti to conduct surveys.
With American entry into World War I, Eagle returned to Cuban waters. She was attached to American Patrol Detachment, Atlantic Fleet, and throughout 1917 and 1918 was continually on patrol off Cuba, Santo Domingo, and the southern coast of the United States. From Key West, where she arrived 3 April 1918, she patrolled the Florida Straits and after the end of the war operated on target practice, and tactical exercises and maneuvers. Between 7 January and 15 March 1919 she made a cruise to Cuban ports and along the Gulf coast before being detached from the American Patrol Detachment 28 April. Eagle left Key West the following day for Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was decommissioned there 23 May 1919 and sold 3 January 1920.
HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy sunk during World War II.
The Eagle was laid down at the Armstrong yards at Newcastle-on-Tyne on February 20, 1913. She was to be the battleship Almirante Cochrane for the Chilean Navy. Her construction was halted with the outbreak of World War I. In 1917 she was acquired for the Royal Navy, at a cost of ÿ£1.3 million, to be converted into the carrier HMS Eagle. She was the fourteenth ship to bear that name.
Her initial redesign was as a base for sea-plane operations. After trials with other ships the design was changed to a proper fleet carrier with a full flight deck and 'island'. She was launched on June 8, 1918 but the delays meant that the Eagle was unfinished at the end of hostilities. Construction was halted and not resumed until 1920 and she was only commissioned on February 26, 1924.
In September 1939 the Eagle was based at Singapore with an air-arm of eighteen Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers. Her first offensive action of the war was as part of the hunt for the Admiral Graf Spee. She began 1940 in the Indian Ocean, but after repairs to explosion damage in March she joined the major units Malaya, Ramillies, Royal Sovereign and Warspite in the eastern Mediterranean at Alexandria in May.
Swordfish bombers from Eagle attacked the harbour at Tobruk on July 5 and sank an Italian destroyer and two marchantmen, a similar attack two weeks later (July 20) sank another two destroyers. On July 9 she was part of an ineffectual clash with the Italian fleet at Calabria, sometimes called the Battle of Punto Stila.
On 22 August her aircraft attacked and sank an Italian submarine and a depot ship in the Gulf of Bomba. In September she met up with the carrier Illustrious as part of Operation Hats, and supported an attack on Maritza, Rhodes.
In mid-October she was part of the cover for a Malta convoy (MB-6). Her aircraft flew from Illustrious during the attack on Taranto (Operation Judgement, November 11), the damaged Eagle remained in Alexandria. On the 26th her aircraft attacked Tripoli.
In March 1941 she was assigned to Freetown. Her aircraft, flying from Port Sudan, attacked Italian ships at Massawa en route. She arrived at Freetown in early May, remaining there until October 1941.
She returned to Britain for a refit and rejoined the Mediterranean Fleet early in 1942. In February 1942 she carried aircraft for Malta, an operation repeated in May and twice in June. In June she also provided air cover for the convoy of Operation Harpoon (12th to 16th).
Her final action was in August 1942 as cover for the Malta-bound convoy of Operation Pedestal. On the early morning of August 11 she was hit by four torpedoes from U-73 of Helmut Rosenbaum and sank 70 nm south of Cape Salinas. The majority of the crew survived (927, only 160 lost) and were picked from the sea by her escorts.
USS Captor (PYc-40), briefly known as USS Eagle (AM-132) was a Q-ship of the United States Navy.
Harvard, a steel-hulled trawler, was built in 1938 by Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, handed over to General Sea Foods Corporation, Boston, and put into service with the name Wave assigned.
The fishing trawler served in that capacity until 1 January 1942, when she was acquired by the Navy as part of the Auxiliary Vessels Act. Reporting to the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire, the trawler began conversion to war service as a minesweeper on 8 January. With the work complete on 28 February, she was named Eagle, given the hull classification symbol AM-132, and placed in commission 5 March 1942, Lieutenant Commander Leroy E. Rogers, USNR, in command.
Along with Asterion (AK-100) and Atik (AK-101), Eagle was selected early to participate in a secret "Q-ship" program. The intention was to disguise the ship as a defenseless civilian vessel and, after luring an enemy submarine into close quarters on the surface, open fire with hidden guns and sink the unsuspecting U-boat. For this reason, Eagle remained at Portsmouth, where she underwent further conversion into a Q-ship and received weapons and sonar gear. During this second conversion, the minesweeper was renamed Captor and redesignated PYc-40 on 18 April. With alterations complete on 19 May, the vessel reported for duty with the 1st Naval District at Boston.
Unlike the other four ships eventually in the Q-ship program, Captor did not sail in convoys or along coastal shipping routes. Instead, she operated in the waters near Boston -- in Massachusetts Bay, north to Casco Bay, east to the Georges Bank, and south to Nantucket Sound and Rhode Island Sound. While at sea, the disguised Q-ship also helped cover the coastal convoy routes coming north from New York. As growing air and sea patrols had driven most U-boats away from the New England coast in May 1942, Captor had little chance to spot an enemy submarine and ended her wartime career without a single sighting.
With the decline in the U-boat threat to the east coast of the United States late in the war, Captor was decommissioned at Boston on 4 October 1944. Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 14 October 1944, the trawler was transferred to the War Shipping Administration and sold on 21 February 1945. The ultimate fate of the ship is unknown.
HMS Eagle was one of the two largest British aircraft carriers ever built.
Initially laid down in 1942 at Harland and Wolff's, Belfast yard as one of four ships of the Audacious-class were laid down during World War II as part of the British naval buildup during that conflict. However, two were cancelled at the end of hostilities, and the remaining two were suspended. Originally Audacious, she was finally launched as Eagle (the fifteenth Royal Navy ship to be so named) in March 1946 after the proposed ship of that name was cancelled.
A number of changes were incorporated into the design, although Eagle was launched too early to see an angled flight deck installed, and the ship was commissioned in October 1951. Her first wartime service came in 1956, when she took part in the Suez Crisis. The ship's aircraft of that period included Westland Wyverns, Douglas Skyraiders, Armstrong Whitworth Sea Hawks and de Havilland Sea Venoms.
In 1959 she was taken to Devonport Dockyard for an extensive refit and modernisation. She was re-commissioned in 1964 as a very new and different ship. In addition to major improvements to her accommodation, machinery and weaponry she also acquired an angled deck, enlarged island and as a result of all these plus more changes; an increased displacement (+50,000 tons). This made her the largest ship in the Royal Navy. By this time, the airwing had changed to Blackburn Buccaneer, Sea Vixen and Fairey Gannet aircraft. The Supermarine Scimitar also saw service on the ship during this period before being replaced by the Buccaneer.
However, by the mid-1960s, the British Government had decided that the days of the large Royal Navy aircraft carrier were limited. The fleet was swiftly run down, with Eagle being the penultimate to decommission. She left RN service in 1972, but was used as a parts hulk for Ark Royal until the latter decommissioned as well in 1978. Eagle was then swiftly scrapped.
The first Apollo landing site, in the southern Sea of Tranquility about 20 km (12 mi) southwest of the crater Sabine D, was selected in part because it had been characterized as relatively flat and smooth by the automated Ranger 8 and Surveyor 5 landers, as well as by Lunar Orbiter mapping spacecraft, and therefore unlikely to present major landing or Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) challenges. Armstrong bestowed the name 'Tranquillity Base' on the landing site immediately after touchdown.
On 20 July, 1969, while on the far side of the Moon, the lunar module, called "Eagle," separated from the Command Module, named "Columbia". Collins, now alone aboard Columbia, carefully inspected Eagle as it pirouetted before him. Soon after, Armstrong and Aldrin fired Eagle's engine and began their descent. They soon saw that they were "running long"; Eagle was 4 seconds further along its descent trajectory than planned, and would land miles west of the intended site. The LM navigation and guidance computer reported several "program alarms" as it guided the LM's descent. These alarms tore the crew's attention away from the scene outside as the descent proceeded. In NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, a young controller named Steve Bales was able to tell the flight director that it was safe to continue the descent in spite of the alarms. Once they were able to return their attention to the view outside, the astronauts saw that their computer was guiding them toward a landing site full of large rocks scattered around a large crater. Armstrong took manual control of the lunar module at that point, and guided it to a landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 20 with less than 30 seconds' worth of fuel left.
The program alarms were "executive overflows", indicating that the computer could not finish its work in the time allotted. The cause was later determined to be that the LM rendezvous radar was left on during the descent, causing the computer to spend unplanned time servicing the unused radar. Steve Bales received a Medal of Freedom for his "go" call under pressure.
At 2:56 UTC, six and a half hours after landing, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon surface and took his famous "one giant leap for mankind." Aldrin joined him, and the two spent two-and-a-half hours drilling core samples, photographing what they saw and collecting rocks.
They planned placement of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiment Package (EASEP) and the U.S. flag by studying their landing site through Eagle's twin triangular windows, which gave them a 60° field of view. Preparation required longer than the two hours scheduled. Armstrong had some initial difficulties squeezing through the hatch with his PLSS. According to veteran moonwalker John Young, a redesign of the LM to incorporate a smaller hatch was not followed by a redesign of the PLSS backpack, so some of the highest heart rates recorded from Apollo astronauts occurred during LM egress and ingress.
The Remote Control Unit controls on Armstrong's chest prevented him from seeing his feet. While climbing down the nine-rung ladder, Armstrong pulled a D-ring to deploy the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) folded against Eagle's side and activate the TV camera. The first images used a Slow-scan television system and were picked up at Goldstone in the USA but with better fidelity by Honeysuckle Creek in Australia. Minutes later the TV was switched to normal television, and the feed was switched to the more sensitive radio telescope station at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. Despite some technical and weather difficulties, ghostly black and white images of the first lunar EVA were received and were immediately broadcast to at least 600 million people on Earth.
After describing the surface ("very fine grained... almost like a powder"), Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. He reported that moving in the Moon's gravity, one-sixth of Earth's, was "perhaps even easier than the simulations."
In addition to fulfilling President John F. Kennedy's mandate to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s, Apollo 11 was an engineering test of the Apollo system; therefore, Armstrong snapped photos of the LM so engineers would be able to judge its post-landing condition. He then collected a contingency soil sample using a sample bag on a stick. He folded the bag and tucked it into a pocket on his right thigh. He removed the TV camera from the MESA, made a panoramic sweep, and mounted it on a tripod 12 m (40 ft) from the LM. The TV camera cable remained partly coiled and presented a tripping hazard throughout the EVA.
Aldrin joined him on the surface and tested methods for moving around, including two-footed kangaroo hops. The PLSS backpack created a tendency to tip backwards, but neither astronaut had serious problems maintaining balance. Loping became the preferred method of movement. The astronauts reported that they needed to plan their movements six or seven steps ahead. The fine soil was quite slippery. Aldrin remarked that moving from sunlight into Eagle's shadow produced no temperature change inside the suit, though the helmet was warmer in sunlight, so he felt cooler in shadow.
Together the astronauts planted the U.S. flag - the ground was too hard to permit them to insert the pole more than about 20 cm (8 in) - then took a phone call from President Richard Nixon.
The MESA failed to provide a stable work platform and was in shadow, slowing work somewhat. As they worked, the moonwalkers kicked up gray dust which soiled the outer part of their suits, the integrated thermal meteoroid garment.
They deployed the EASEP, which included a passive seismograph and a laser ranging retroreflector. Then Armstrong loped about 120 m (400 ft) from the LM to snap photos at the rim of East Crater while Aldrin collected two core tubes. He used the geological hammer to pound in the tubes - the only time the hammer was used on Apollo 11. The astronauts then collected rock samples using scoops and tongs on extension handles. Many of the surface activities took longer than expected, so they had to stop documented sample collection halfway through the allotted 34 min.
During this period Mission Control used a coded phrase to warn Armstrong that his metabolic rates were high and that he should slow down. He was moving rapidly from task to task as time ran out. Rates remained generally lower than expected for both astronauts throughout the walk, however, so Mission Control granted the astronauts a 15 minute extension.
Aldrin entered Eagle first. With some difficulty the astronauts lifted film and two sample boxes containing more than 22 kg (48 lb) of lunar surface material to the LM hatch using a flat cable pulley device called the Lunar Equipment Conveyor. Armstrong then jumped to the ladder's third rung and climbed into the LM.
After transferring to LM life support, the explorers lightened the ascent stage for return to lunar orbit by tossing out their PLSS backpacks, lunar overshoes, one Hasselblad camera, and other equipment. Then they lifted off in Eagle's ascent stage to rejoin CMP Michael Collins aboard Columbia in lunar orbit. Eagle was jettisoned and left in lunar orbit. Later NASA reports mentioned that Eagle's orbit had decayed resulting in it impacting in an "uncertain location" on the lunar surface.
Here Men From Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind.
The USS Eagle (NCC-956) was a Federation starship in service in the 23rd century. It was of the few to also undergo refit.
The Constitution class was introduced around 2240. At that time the Constitution class was the fastest and most powerful ship type of the fleet and the only one officially designated as a "Starship". 12 ships of this class were in service by the year 2267. Starting with the USS Enterprise in 2271, a number of Constitution-class ships have undergone a complete reconstruction that included new warp nacelles, modification of the engineering hull and "neck", enlargement of the saucer section and a new bridge module. The ships may have been decommissioned at the end of the 23rd century, one of them is displayed in the Starfleet Museum.
1) The Constitution-class starship was designed by Matt Jefferies. Its original look lacks the now familiar discernable thrusters and docking ports although we can take for granted the ship has them too. There were several slight modifications to the Enterprise filming miniature after the first pilot and again after the second pilot. Most notably, the model originally had a somewhat taller bridge dome. The nacelle end caps changed from a flat surface in "The Cage" over a hole pattern in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" to the most familiar "white ball" in the series version. These modifications may be taken as hints that the ship was refitted a couple of times even before 2270. 2) A new model of the Constitution was built by Greg Jein for DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations", and a CGI model for ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly". Both of them faithfully reconstruct the look of the old TOS Enterprise and Defiant, respectively, in the series version. In the latter episode we see that the double beam of the aft phaser array fires from either side of the dome above the hangar deck of the Defiant, and aft torpedoes are available too. Moreover, the port, starboard and aft thrusters of the ship are mentioned. 3) The Constitution refit was designed by Andrew Probert, based on a preliminary model with suggestions by Matt Jefferies. The Enterprise and Enterprise-A are the only reconstructed Constitution-class ships that were shown. Gene Roddenberry proposed that the latter was first designated as USS Yorktown and later recommissioned as Enterprise 1701-A, which is just an offhand mention and not really canonical. It is a reasonable assumption that most of the remaining ships were refurbished likewise in the 2270s. A schematic of the refitted version labeled as USS Constitution NCC-1700 is visible in TNG: "Datalore", so we can add at least this one to the list of refitted starships. 4) Although the actual number of Constitution starships is at least 17, Kirk's statement that there are 12 of them as of 2267 (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday") can be maintained taking into account that some of them (namely Constellation, Defiant, Excalibur, Intrepid) were lost, while more ships might have been commissioned in the 2260's. 5) The dedication plaque ("Starship Class") of the original Enterprise and a note in The Making of Star Trek suggest that "starship" was no generic term at that time, but was specifically used for ships akin to the Enterprise. The tradition to name a ship class for the prototype ship might have been established later, although this is now questionable considering that Star Trek Enterprise has begun using letter-style as well as "real" class names. 6) A sign in "Star Trek II" unmistakably says "Mark IV Simulator - Enterprise Class". The (sub-) class name "Enterprise class" makes sense, considering that the refit has hardly anything in common with the original Constitution, and is not really contradicted anywhere else. 7) The engineering hull at Wolf 359, which definitely stems from a Constitution refit, suggests that these ships may have been still in service or at least served as reserve ships in 2366. The issue is also discussed here. 8) Some of the names and registries never appeared on screen together. Many of the registries were listed on a wall chart on Starbase 11 in TOS: "Court-Martial", but without names. Names from the episodes and from The Making of Star Trek were correlated with the registries by Mike Okuda and Greg Jein already for the first Encyclopedia, but strictly speaking they are conjecture. In some case it is not even clear if the ships belong to the Constitution class at all. 9) Like the 3D model from ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly", the CGI used in TOS Remastered is an authentic reproduction of the original Enterprise miniature. It is noteworthy that the color of the phaser beams, which used to be sometimes blue and sometimes red in TOS, was redone to be consistently blue. The Constellation, which looked somewhat different in TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" due to its nature as a coarse polystyrene model, is a standard Constitution in the remastered episode, not a slightly different ship type as some fans used to conjecture. In TOS-R: "Court-Martial" we can see damage on the Enterprise's starboard hull beneath the hangar deck. This is where the ion pod is located (that Kirk allegedly ejected with Finney still inside). 10) Also in TOS-R: "Court-Martial", we can see the Intrepid for the first time, with the registry NCC-1631. Although it would not have been mandatory, this registry cannot be found on the wall chart in Stone's office that lists an "NCC-1831". But the latter could be any other ship, also taking into consideration that the bar shows 100% completion, whereas Stone verbally states that work on the Intrepid would be postponed in favor of the Enterprise.
The Eagle class is a parallel development to the Buenos Aires class and is also classified as a heavy cruiser. Saucer and warp drives of the two ship types are essentially identical, including the impulse-powered auxiliary craft ("boat"). Eagle-class ships are lighter and more versatile. Nevertheless, already in their basic configuration they feature recent sensor and weapons technology as well as extensive scientific laboratories. In addition to the standard equipment the ships can be supplemented with different sensor and weapon modules which are compatible with the Pacifica class. Most of the Eagle-class ships are currently equipped with a combined photon torpedo and long-range sensor pod. The original operation area was mainly well inside Federation space. During the Dominion War, almost all ships of the fast but moderately armed class were ordered to the Tholian and Talarian borders, where they successfully prevented incursions, largely without the support of other ships. Considering the recently necessary rearmament of Starfleet, it is expected that Akira-class starships will be the preferred design in the future, although Eagle-class starships fulfill all requirements. Contracts for the production twelve more ships of the class had been signed just prior to the Dominion War. It is possible that they will be built as modified Eagle variants.
This page was last modified on 16 March 2008, at 02:27. | 2019-04-18T16:38:42 | https://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Previous_ships_called_Eagle&action=edit |
0.999087 | The next area is, is it stress? Is my child not able to meet this demand, whether it be even jumping off the couch, listening to you in a crowded department store. Is it because they're overwhelmed with stress? Now stress can be lots of things. It can be the environment, sensory. You could walk into a shopping mall and a young child or any child that's temperamentally sensitive to this could be overwhelmed by the lights, or the noise, or the sense. And I speak from experience. That's why I say this. For me, somebody like me, it's too much. And as a child, I would become agitated or aggressive, and it was me unable to deal with this state of stress that my body was experiencing. So there's lots of different ways that we can handle things like sensory stress.
Or is it that my child is overwhelmed? They just had a really long day, or they're holding on to some anxiety, maybe worry about a project. I had a client who had...I tell a story where her daughter became immediately upset. She asked if she would go and get her science project and put it in the car so she didn't forget it, and her daughter became immediately aggressive. Well, what we could pinpoint that to was the stress and the worry that her daughter was actually feeling about having to present this project.
So instead of taking that behavior personally and saying, "How dare you talk to me like that?" She recognized, "I think that you're feeling really anxious about your presentation today. Is that true?" And then the young child was able to release it, get that off her chest, and then find a way to adapt her behavior to make it through the struggle. It's not about removing the conflict. It's about helping our kids be resilient.
So skills, stress. Is there extra stress? Sometimes it's temporary stress. "We're moving across the country," or "We're in a divorce situation and kids are feeling the stress of that." We have to recognize how that's going to affect their behavior.
And the third area that you can pinpoint it to is the state of the relationship. Have our interactions broken down the relationship because they've been harsh, critical, judgmental? If you've been really punitive with your child or in a state of using your anger to make them behave, essentially, then you might have some breakdown in the relationship. So if you want to go in to behavior and look at it differently, ask yourself is this a skill challenge, is this a stress challenge, or is this a state of the relationship challenge? Then your mind can go from, "I have to stop you," to, "I want to help you." | 2019-04-19T22:35:22 | http://www.breakthroughpsychologyprogram.com/archives/lori-petro-interview-archive9 |
0.999941 | Yes I support Friends of Tommy Waters.
I might support Friends of Tommy Waters, tell me more.
No I do not support Friends of Tommy Waters. | 2019-04-20T23:07:34 | https://www.tommy-waters.com/votepledge |
0.999579 | While trying to link my portfolio website to LinkedIn I was hoping to simply add a link to my LinkedIn summary section that would serve as the bridge to my portfolio on Squarespace. While I can add the link just fine it does not come up with a thumbnail image so it looks pretty goofy. After some looking around it seems like other people have struggled with similar issues, whether with content links or publishing on LinkedIn.
My solution: While i was trying to link my cover page with no luck, I did eventually notice that it would import the thumbnail image properly from a normal page. To get around this I created a normal page in the "unlinked" section of my squarespace pages. The page consisted of a single image that was a screen shot of my cover page and I made this image into a click-through to my cover page.
I had the same issue but found less of a work-around solution. Squarespace help suggested using LinkedIn's URL inspector tool to check what images and text would be pulled in from my Squarespace site. Here's the link: https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/ I found I was able to add a social media icon to my site which would appear on the link I was posting on LinkedIn, plus I could add a title and description which didn't appear on the site itself, but did appear on my LinkedIn posting. The social media icon image worked fine even though my homepage is a cover page. Just make sure you refresh your browser when checking how the link will appear as until you do it won't update properly. | 2019-04-23T18:11:47 | https://answers.squarespace.com/questions/163478/content-link-that-do-not-generate-thumbnails-on-li.html |
0.999471 | American western movie fans differ on the best John Wayne movies; however, most agree that Wayne is the ultimate western movie star.
John Wayne's movie career spanned almost fifty years. His first venture into the industry was as a prop man, and his first credited movie role was in the movie Words and Music in 1929. Born to Clyde Morrison and Mary Brown, Wayne's given name was actually Marion Morrison, and his nickname later became Duke. In 1939, Wayne reached star status with his role as Ringo Kid in the John Ford directed movie Stagecoach. It was his portrayal as Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 hit True Grit that earned him an Oscar, however. Wayne continued to make movies into his late 60s, and he died in 1979 at the age of 72.
How do movie fans choose the best John Wayne movies? With more than 140 movies under his belt, the list of Wayne's best performances might be overwhelming. However, many movie aficionados agree on his top movie roles, with the majority of those taking place in American western-themed films.
Many John Wayne fans begin their list of his best movies with the film that won him an Oscar in 1969--True Grit. Wayne is at his best in the role of Rooster Cogburn, a rough marshall who is hired by a 14 year old girl to track down her father's killer. In addition to Wayne, other recognizable actors include Robert Duvall and Glen Campbell. Six years later, in 1975, Wayne reprised his role in the movie Rooster Cogburn, which also starred Katherine Hepburn. More recently, many diehard John Wayne fans were dismayed to learn of a remake of this classic film, in which Jeff Bridges played Cogburn and Matt Damon played the role that Glen Campbell made famous.
While many people feel that True Grit is the number one John Wayne movie, others cast their votes for The Searchers. Film critics often point to the complex themes which are explored throughout this movie, including the topics of genocide, racism, and revenge. Wayne plays a Civil War veteran, Ethan Edwards, whose quest to find his niece (who has been abducted by Indians) spans over several years. This film is credited with influencing more modern films like Taxi Driver and even Star Wars and was referred to as the "greatest western of all time" by the American Film Institute in 2008.
While Wayne didn't earn an individual award for his role as Ringo Kid in this 1939 film, Stagecoach did receive four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and has been entered into the United States National Film Registry. Directed by John Ford, this role is commonly referred to as the one that made Wayne a star.
Not only did Wayne find success in the American western genre, but he also achieved star status for his role as Sergeant John Marion Stryker, a no-nonsense, determined Marine sergeant who readies his men for their most daunting battle in the Sands of Iwo Jima.
In addition to the above movies, the following films often make the list of best John Wayne films.
While American western fans typically agree that John Wayne is the ultimate western movie star, many debate Wayne's best roles. | 2019-04-25T06:24:10 | https://movies.lovetoknow.com/best-john-wayne-movies |
0.998045 | What are statutes of limitation, and what do they mean for people with potential court cases?
In general terms, a statute of limitation sets a time limit on how long you have to file a lawsuit. As with most aspects of the law, there are the rules, then there are the fine points and the there are the exceptions.
For example, suppose you are injured in a car accident. You were a passenger in your friend's car and you were hurt when your friend's car was involved in a collision with a New York City Transit Authority bus.
Now you have a claim, or "cause of action", to use the ancient and traditional phrase, in negligence. You were injured - through no fault of your own - because one or both of the drivers involved in the accident failed to exercise proper care while operating their respective vehicles.
Statutes of limitation can be found in the Article 2 of the New York State CPLR - Civil Practice Law and Rules. The basic rule in accident cases is that you have three years from the date of the accident to start a lawsuit. In our example, one of the defendants will be the Transit Authority, which is a part of New York City's government.
But in our example, you must also look in a completely different place: the General Municipal Law. Buried in that set of laws is a provision that shortens your time to sue the City from three years down to one year and ninety days.
Other exceptions to general statute-of-limitation rules extend the time, rather than shorten it. For example, let's say you are the victim of fraud. You might not discover the fraud for days, weeks or even months after it happens. Suppose someone forges your name on a deed to your house. You might not know until months later when you get an eviction notice from the new "owner".
What happens if you miss the deadline imposed by the statute of limitations? If you are late even by one day, you might be forever barred from relief on your claim.
I have a case going on now where my I am using the statute of limitation to my client's advantage. In 2007 my client, who I'll call Alice (not the client's real name) was sued by Beverly (not the plaintiff's real name). Beverly claimed that Alice took title to a house by fraud perpetrated against the former owner, who was Beverly's relative. We got the case dismissed because Alice was never properly served with a summons.
Beverly could have started a new lawsuit - this time taking care to ensure that her summons was properly served - any time up to six years after the statute of limitations started to run.
Giving Beverly the benefit of the doubt, let's say she wasted no time and filed her lawsuit in 2007 on the very day she discovered the alleged fraud. That day was August 14, 2007. So we'll give her six years from that date. That means she had to re-file her lawsuit by August 14, 2013.
For reasons we will never know, Beverly waited until July 9, 2014 to re-file her lawsuit. Unfortunately for Beverly - but very fortuitously for my client - Beverly was eleven months too late. So her case is going to get dismissed again, this time because she simply waited too long.
If Beverly had re-filed her case on Wednesday, August 14, 2013, she would have her day in court. On August 15th she would have been as out of luck as she is now, because the statute of limitations is strict, and judges have no authority or power to extend them by even a single day.
The statute of limitation is what we attorneys call an "affirmative defense". This means that a defendant has to make a point of it when answering the complaint. It does not apply automatically. You have to 'affirmatively" raise it as a defense. If a defendant does not raise the statute-of-limitation defense at the outset, the defense might be lost.
So, if you have a legal claim to make, don't wait! And if you are the one being sued, ask your attorney about using the statute of limitation as a defense. | 2019-04-26T14:15:23 | http://www.levynau.com/law-from-the-ground-up/archives/09-2014 |
0.999999 | Context. The current knowledge of the abundance pattern in δ Scuti stars is based on analysis of just a few field stars.
Aims. We aim to determine the general chemical properties of the atmospheres of δ Scuti stars based on a statistically relevant sample of stars and investigate whether the abundance pattern is close to solar, an assumption generally made for pulsation models.
Methods. We analysed high-resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of seven field δ Scuti stars. We derived the fundamental parameters and the photospheric abundances and than compared them to a similar sample of cluster δ Scuti stars.
Results. With the use of a t-test we demonstrate that there is no difference between the two samples, which allows us to merge them, resulting in a sample of fifteen δ Scuti stars. We do not find any substantial difference between the abundance pattern of our sample of δ Scuti stars and a sample of normal early A- and late F-type stars. One field star in our sample, HD 124953, is most likely a pulsating Am star. | 2019-04-23T02:42:38 | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2008/25/aa09541-08/aa09541-08.html |
0.998552 | Who Decides What is Acceptable Speech in the Global Public Sphere?
Is free speech a fundamental right and does it have appropriate limits? Pope Francis has provided the most memorable recent attempt at an answer. Yes, there is such a thing as a right to free speech but if you upset people you might have a punch travelling towards your face. But the Pope’s intervention is only one amongst many. In the wake of the recent terrorist outrages in Paris, and the massive responses to it globally, a debate has erupted about the nature of free speech and its appropriate boundaries. It is an intense and global debate, but, as often happens when human emotions are all aquiver, there has been more heat than light. In what follows, I will make an effort to untangle the issues before tackling the question I posed in the heading.
And in doing so, I am going to take two views of free speech. The first is what I call the internal view: free speech considered within the boundaries of specific countries and legal systems. The second is what I call the global view: free speech within the emerging global public sphere. I begin with the internal view.
Most states around the world, including most authoritarian regimes, tolerate Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) involved in noncontroversial, de-politicized humanitarian work because they provide social services that the state does not or because battling them would incur greater political expense than allowing them to work at the margins. However, it is also clear that organizations with a political mandate or those that raise difficult policy issues face intense pressure in many countries. In these states, authorities seek legal frameworks which could prevent CSOs from experssing their opinions, questioning official policies, or mobilising on the streets.
Internationally, CSO's are also speaking out against marginalization and unfair legal pratices. In the lead-up to the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly this week, CSOs are arguing that even though many organizations and activitsts are regularly invited to voice their concerns, they nonetheless stand little chance of influencing the real agenda because the inter-governmental system is almost entirely state-driven.
So, the prominent references to transparency and right to information in the recently released report of the High Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Experts on the post-2015 Development Agenda is not remarkable or surprising in itself. But both the language – the report calls for a “transparency revolution” and a “data revolution,” and the framing – the report proposes that good governance and transparency be included as core targets, suggest that there is an impetus for accelerated efforts in this area.
Any inclusion of transparency in the post-2015 MDGs will only be a logical complement to other global dynamics and the deepening of the information age. On the one hand, whistleblowers, wikileaks, and global media have harnessed the inexorably unshackling power of technology to bring issues of secrecy and transparency to the center of popular consciousness. On the other hand, and perhaps as a reaction to these forces, governments are launching various initiatives to demonstrate their commitment to the principle of transparency. | 2019-04-18T19:56:15 | https://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/freedom-expression |
0.998871 | Which is "above" species ... (whatever "above" means here).
But what is the real difference between them? At what point does a change from the difference between species and genus become the difference between genus and family, etc?
There is no weak and wavering rule (to say nothing about hard and fast) regarding these classifications, no relation of "genus" > m "non-arbitrary speciations"(1), "family" > n "geniations" etc.
(1) where "non-arbitrary speciations" means divergence into two or more daughter populations that are non-arbitrary because they don't interbreed, versus "arbitrary speciation" which is species classification in time lumps (and we don't know if they are really non-breeding due to lapsed time between populations).
All classifications above species are really arbitrary human impressions of how much difference they include, how many different species are involved and the time frames involved.
... and you would end up with a similar arrangement of species into genus and family and order etcetera, but one much less susceptible to the arbitrary ego of man.
"Why are there no new orders" is the basic question of this thread, and to answer that properly one needs to know how "order" is\was defined -- and the answer is that it was done rather arbitrarily for the convenience of humans studying the ancestry of life.
There are no new "orders" because we have not chosen to reorder or re-evaluate these divisions, NOT because evolution has stopped.
This is also part of why creationists don't understand "macro"evolution, but that's a horse of a different collar.
I am in no way in favor of evolution, however, strictly from a hypothetical point of view, if evolution is true then there would be virtually a near limitless abundance of genetic variability.
I think the problem with evolution is not that it will hit a wall, but that it never had the chance to climb over the wall to begin with... so to speak.
I believe there is a limit on the speed of beneficial evolution that hits a wall, which thus, would render evolution on a macro scale impossible. In other words, there is a cost substitution problem associated with the possible variables of allelic expression through genetic drift.
I wrote up a similar thread (Population Genetics) a few months back that perhaps you might appreciate.
I'm sort of curious what you mean by "variability." Like, what is it, and how would we measure it? Do you consider it a property of individuals or of species or populations? Is it different than diversity?
First your strawman only lists one way of changing the frequency of alleles, thus it is incomplete and does not constitute any kind of answer.
Please define "macro"evolution - so we can be sure we are (a) talking about evolution and (b) we are talking about the same thing.
Also define "micro"evolution just to be sure we are talking about something different.
It should be easy eh?.
Micro, as in variation and adaptation.
Macro, as in complete change fronm one creature into another.
Which neither addresses time frame nor degree of change involved. My answer to him is at Message 200, and you can feel free to respond there or to dodge the question.
What is the "macro"evolutionary change from Genus to Family? Family to Order? When does it occur? What is different about those levels of change and the one from Species to Genus?
What do the classifications of species into different "Genus" "Family" "Order" etcetera groupings really mean?
Broom believed that evolution is directed by spiritual forces. I don't see connection with Lamarck's thesis that organism can pass on characteristics it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring.
believe that the KT-extinction hit marine life harder than land life, but I'm not sure.
I bet that in examining the fossil record one would see an increase in new orders in all surviving classes at this time, including among fish, crabs, and whatever.
Those better adapted to a more purely aquatic life would not fare as well as the present pinnipeds, those better adapted to a more tererrestrial environment would not do any better either.
How do you know? Maybe they would.
And maybe not. Maybe just evolutionary potentiality of Pinnipedia became exhausted.
And my guess is the opposite one. There will be no adaptive radiation of mammals anymore (like there was no other saurians radiation after K/T). My guess is what we would find is what we already know just now. I guess we will see no changes (except thick and color of the fur of rats.) No way we would see any new species or even families.
Because you don't know what Lamarck's theory was.
This is a pretty good, but short, description of Lamarck's theory. Except that he felt that the two agencies could be explained through naturalistic means rather than "intelligent spiritual" ones. The acquisition of acquired characteristics was a common belief at the time, shared by Darwin as well, and was accepted as "folk wisdom" until modern genetics showed it to be wrong.
And might be there were no vacant niches in the oceans at all. Yet land mammals pushed back all species from their "local maximums" there.
So "there might be no vacant niches" becomes "land mammals did push back all species".
Anyway, as long as there might be vacant niches, then there would be no other species to be "pushed back" and natural selection has not been discredited as an explanation for the observed phenomenon.
Anyway I have never heard about adaptive radiation of water species during the period discussed.
So go read up on the evolution of post-KT marine life and report back to us on what you find.
Maybe. But as long as "maybe not" natural selection has not been discredited as the best explanation.
Maybe just evolutionary potentiality of Pinnipedia became exhausted.
Maybe. But as long as there is a "maybe not" natural selection has not been discredited as the best explanation.
And my guess is the opposite one.
Cool. So we can both write our own science fiction books without fear of plagiarizing each other.
So, is this thread about Broom's personal beliefs from 50-70 years ago, or is it about the evolution of mammals supposedly stopping and thus propping up one of Davison's supposed claims?
I'm sort of curious what you mean by "variability." Like, what is it, and how would we measure it?
Hmmmm? I don't know if you can really quantify variability in linear terms, because with every passing generation, there is always going to be some shuffling of extant genes, some mutations along the way, and so on. And since almost every organism is unique in some capacity, there is always some variability.
Do you consider it a property of individuals or of species or populations?
Well, it starts on the individual level, and we could have different expressions found in a peripheral population that finds itself isolated from the main populace. The question is whether enough favorable mutations x natural selection can support or account for the amount of diversity we currently see found on earth.
In a static population where the reproduction rate is slow (by slow, I mean they don't produce much progeny: i.e. humans) the ration of fixed genes would be 1:300 because of cost substitution. Organisms of "bad stock" or "low fitness" would prevail, even in spite of natural selection.
How then can we account for all of the diversity we find?
Then I don't see how talking about "more" or "less" of it makes any sense at all. As a hint, if your argument relies on your opponents showing you an increase in a quality you've just defined as unmeasurable, you're being pretty obviously disingenuous.
The question is whether enough favorable mutations x natural selection can support or account for the amount of diversity we currently see found on earth.
Well, wait. Are we talking about diversity or variability?
I know what diversity is. I don't know what variability is, and the questions I asked were designed to help me understand what it is. But you've largely side-stepped them, or admitted you don't know either, so I don't see what possible role "variability" could possibly play in this discussion.
Well, for one thing, individuals possess a lot more mutations than one single nucleotide substitution per generation. Where did you get such a ridiculously low mutation rate?
You do know that Ted Holden is not exactly a reliable source ? In fact a complete joke ?
And I beleive that I've already corrected you in earlier discussions on the point that many mutations are larger than a single nucleotide.
You mentioned Pakicetus (PAKistan CETacean - yet might be this animal from Artiodactyla Order could't swim at all) . How it happened that mammals Pakicetus and Ambulocetus overcame sharks and crocodiles that survived K/T Yucatan meteorite impact very well? Subsequnetly fully adapted sharks and crocodiles were not so apt to occupy "emptied niches" of shallow warm waters of shores?
"Niches never had anything to do with it anyway. The whole thing was planned form beginning to end just as Broom claimed."
Dinosaurs disappeared at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Based on fossil evidence, the crocodiles showed no change in diversity or distribution across this K/T boundary.
There was no response to this thread at least for 5 days. Why do you post your response just few minutes after my post? Is it common tactic of darwinists to stifle unpleasant facts and to stray the discussion away? Using weird thoughts that have nothing to do with the main topic that my previous post adressed?
When you post on a thread it bumps it to the top of the All Topics list, bringing it back to the attention of other members. Iceage posted almost 2 hours after you did and was not responding to you or the member you were replying to.
I really don't see your problem. A thread gets bumped back into view, a member sees it and responds to something they read there. That is how a discussion board works.
Iceage posted almost 2 hours after you did and was not responding to you or the member you were replying to.
I would say the thread was dormant 5 days. I edited my post at 01:08 today.
Member "iceage" responded 17 minutes later (01:25). Out off topic I would say. The topic is End of mammalian evolution. I strictly keep the line. I am waiting for neo-darwinistic response and no for spam. | 2019-04-21T00:23:36 | https://www.evcforum.net/dm.php?control=msg&m=385644 |
0.999999 | This technique is used by various DBPix samples. Visit the Support area for details of available samples.
In this example the image files will be stored in the same directory as the database mdb file.
The image files are named according to the database record's Id field (an autonumber), e.g. "1234.jpg"
The first task is to display the relevant image(s) in the form or report when the recordset data changes (ie when scrolling though records on a form or generating a report/preview).
This is achieved by handling the "Form_Current " event in Forms and the "Detail_Format " event in Reports. See the code below.
The second task is to save new or changed images to the correct location and with the right filename. In this example a "Load" button on the form is used to select images from the filesystem. If you use other means to load images (Camera, Clipboard etc) simply call "SaveImage" after loading a new image, like the code in "BtnLoad_Click".
DBPix can be configured to resample new images to constrain/normalize the dimensions, and you could also generate a thumbnail here.
We will also save the image dimensions in the recordset since this is useful if we are publishing the data/images on a web-server.
Form_Current is the ' Current' event handler for the form istelf. It is called when the form controls need to be updated, such as when the recordset is scrolled or refreshed.
BtnLoad_Click is called when a button on the form is clicked to load an image from disk.
SaveImage is a helper that saves the image to the relevant directory, for example after loading, pasting, TWAIN acquire etc.
GetImagePath is a helper which returns the path to load/save images in. The code given here returns the path of the database mdb file itself, though it could be used to generate a relative path.
' Loads the control with the image specified in the 'Filename' field.
' path of the database .mdb file.
' into the current record.
' Call our 'SaveImage' function to do the work.
' (Use it also for paste, twain operations etc).
' Id (autonumber) field to be updated so we can use it's value.
' Generate a filename using the 'Id' field, e.g. "29488.jpg".
ImageFilename = Me!Id & ".jpg"
Detail_Format is the 'Format' event handler for the 'Detail' section of the report. It is called when when the report section data is available and Access is about to format the section for printing or previewing.
Important Note:You may need to place an invisible edit control on the report section bound to the 'FileName' field in order to force that field in the recordset being updated.
' or we'll be left with the previous image.
' Get a full path by combining the image path and .
' the filename from the recordset.
' Try to load the image. If error clear the control. | 2019-04-21T10:04:47 | http://www.ammara.com/support/kb/showkb1434.html |
0.999999 | Uncapped 19-year-old Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold is in Gareth Southgate's 23-man England squad for this summer's World Cup in Russia.
Analysis: Has Southgate found answers to key questions?
Age: Based on players' age on the first matchday, England have named their third youngest squad for a World Cup (26 years 18 days) behind only the 1958 (25 years 81 days) and 2006 (25 years 286 days) editions.
Continuity: Only five of the players featured in the 2014 squad - Cahill, Jones, Henderson, Sterling and Welbeck. This compares with six in the squad of four years ago that had been picked for the previous tournament.
Alexander-Arnold's call-up is his first for the England senior team and follows the right-back's breakthrough season at Liverpool.
"He said to me: 'OK, good. You're in the squad!' It was a really proud moment."
Alexander-Arnold is one of four full-backs in the squad, alongside Manchester City's Kyle Walker and Tottenham pair Kieran Trippier and Danny Rose.
Manchester City's Fabian Delph and Manchester United's Ashley Young have played in a full-back position for the majority of this season at their clubs.
Hart, 31, has won 75 caps and was England's first-choice goalkeeper at the past three major tournaments but has had a poor season, conceding 39 goals in 19 Premier League games on loan at West Ham.
Burnley's Pope was chosen over him, joining recent starters Jack Butland and Jordan Pickford in the squad, while Clarets team-mate Tom Heaton is selected as the goalkeeper on the standby list, despite not playing since September because of injury.
Bertrand withdrew from the squad for the friendlies against the Netherlands and Italy in March with injury, but had featured in nine of England's previous 10 games.
"Both calls were really tough," Southgate said.
"They're both good guys and have contributed a lot throughout qualification, so it wasn't an enjoyable part of the job and I feel it's important to acknowledge their contribution in getting us to Russia.
"With Joe, we've got three other goalkeepers who have had very good seasons and the decision I was faced with was do I keep Joe in and have experience around the group or give the three guys who have basically had a better season a chance?
"Ryan is also very unfortunate in that it's probably one of the strongest positions we have. Ryan has had a decent season but I just felt the others were ahead of him."
One player returning to the squad is Chelsea centre-back Cahill.
He was left out of England's most recent squad for the friendlies against the Netherlands and Italy in March. Before that, the 32-year-old was an unused substitute in friendlies against Brazil and Germany, plus the final World Cup qualifier against Lithuania.
Cahill was preferred to fellow centre-back Chris Smalling, who played 45 times for Manchester United this season.
Wilshere and Newcastle's Jonjo Shelvey, who had been tipped for an inclusion after impressive form at the end of the season, have been overlooked in midfield.
Arsenal forward Danny Welbeck, who scored five Premier League goals this season, is included.
Jack Butland: Every call-up is an honour, but a World Cup call-up is something extra special! I've always dreamed of this moment and can't wait for the next couple of months.
Kyle Walker: Honoured to be able to represent England at the 2018 World Cup! Can't wait to get there and do the fans proud! Thank you for all your kind messages!
Dele Alli: It's an honour to be named in the England squad for the World Cup. It's a dream come true! Get me to Russia!!
Marcus Rashford: After years of you standing on the touchline in the cold and rain, mum, we're off to the World Cup!
Jamie Vardy: What an honour! No words to describe the feeling right now..... can't wait to get going! See you in Russia.
Trent Alexander-Arnold: Dreamt of going to a World Cup since I was a kid. Today that dream come true, an honour to represent the Three Lions this summer!
As ever with squad announcements, speculation was rife before the 23 names were released at 14:00 BST, with two Germany-based players in particular mentioned on social media.
Jamaica-born Bayer Leverkusen winger Leon Bailey sparked rumours by tweeting a picture of himself with the caption "humble lion" shortly before the announcement.
Reports suggest the 20-year-old, who has scored 12 goals in Germany this season, qualifies for England through his grandparents but there remain doubts about his eligibility.
Speculation also suggested Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho was going to be named on the standby list by Southgate.
Sancho only made his first-team debut in October and has played 12 times for Dortmund this season, having joined from Manchester City in August.
He has started the German club's past four matches, scoring once and providing three assists, and was part of the England team that won the 2017 Under-17 World Cup.
Has Southgate found answers to key questions?
Read more on England World Cup squad: Has Southgate found answers to key questions? | 2019-04-18T12:01:39 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44138600 |
0.998459 | The app says its compatible with Xbox One, but how do you connect?? Is that actually possible or should I just delete the app?
Yes. Make sure to install the Media Player app on XBox One.
Install the media player app in Xbox one.
I have the media player app and it just tells me "No devices found" | 2019-04-20T14:29:56 | http://airmusic.plutinosoft.com/discussions/questions/1298-stream-on-xbox-one |
0.99952 | Sheep and lamb sound effects and farm ambience.
Animal Sheep Adult 1: Single adult sheep baa, ewe bleat, deep voice.
Animal Sheep Adult 2: Single adult sheep baa, ewe bleat, deep voice.
Animal Sheep Adult 3: Single adult sheep baa, ewe bleat, deep voice.
Animal Sheep Lamb 2: Single young sheep baby, lamb bleat.
Animal Sheep Lamb and Adult 2: Adult sheep and sheep lamb, bleating together.
Animal Sheep Lamb and Adult 3: Adult sheep and sheep lamb, bleating together. | 2019-04-24T10:22:26 | https://www.mediamusicnow.co.uk/royalty-free-sound-effects/animals/sheep-sounds |
0.999913 | Detecting rallies and weekenders just become comfortable with electricity on hand whenever you need it.
ATOM is a lightweight, powerful, silent, fumeless smart solar generator. With the option of a solar panel it can utilise clean, green energy from the sun to recharge it's lithium battery. ATOM is easy to pack and light to carry, so your electronic equipment can always travel with you on every adventure. ATOM quickly recharges from a mains supply in approximately 4/6 hours or from the sun in approximately 8/11 hours using the 60w solar panel.
ULTIMATE PORTABILITY - Take power wherever you need it with ATOM. It's compact size, universal compatibility, high capacity internal fuel cell and eco-friendly solar recharge capability (if solar option is selected) means you can enjoy, charge and provide power to your products anywhere when away from mains power. ATOM weighs approximately 2kg for the 60,000mAh and 2.1kg for the 78,000mAh with dimensions of 240x165x65mm.
VERSATILE - ATOM can be adapted to many different outdoor uses or activities with the added option of two different size power cells. With the choice of different capacities ATOM can be used for short day trips or longer trips away. It is also ideal for home use (power cuts), camping, daily use, when on the move or in times of emergency.
INTELLIGENT - ATOM is equipped with an easy read User Information Display (UID). The digital display indicates current battery level and usage information including outlets selected and power consumption.
ERGONOMIC - ATOM was designed for maximum portability with a stylish comfortable handle allowing ATOM to be transported and used with ease. ATOM also has an integrated LED torch which is operated by a small button on the handle to illuminate your way.
UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY - ATOM contains 4 fast charge USB ports, 1 x AC outlet and 1 x 12v cigarette type outlet. ATOM is compatible with electronic devices including mobile devices, Laptops, photographic equipment, search and rescue equipment, lights, television, stereos, iPhone, iPad, printers, flat screen TV's, PS4, Xbox one, Wii U and drones to name a few. Please check that your devise is compatible with the 150 watt surge protector rating.
QUICK CHARGE, HIGH CAPACITY - ATOM has a quick charge high capacity design that quickly recharges and powers your electronic devices. ATOM's 60,000mAh capacity is built using 30 x 2,000mAh Panasonic battery cells and 78,000mAh using 30 x 2,600mAh Panasonic battery cells.
ADAPTABLE RECHARGING - Whether you're at home, work or out and about, there are plenty of easy ways to recharge your ATOM. Take your pick and recharge your way! There are three ways to charge your ATOM - via the sun using a Powapacs 40w/60w solar panel, via the wall charger (included) or via 1 12/24v car adaptor (not included). | 2019-04-20T00:16:35 | https://www.leisure-promotions.co.uk/powapac-atom-2501-p.asp |
0.998227 | The team that operates rovers on Mars is using a test rover in southern California to assess maneuvers the Mars rover Spirit might use to get out of soft, loose soil where its wheels have sunk hub-deep. A live videocast and chat from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will give viewers a chance to ask questions of rover team members working to get Spirit rolling again.
The live event will air on the "NASAJPL" channel available on Ustream Web TV at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasajpl on Thursday, July 23, beginning at 3 p.m. PDT (6 p.m. EDT and 2200 UTC).
Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, landed on Mars in January 2004 for what were planned as three-month missions to study sites on opposite sides of the planet. Both are still active and returning streams of scientific information. Spirit has not driven since May 6, 2009, when it had become partially embedded in the soil. To minimize the risk of worsening Spirit's predicament, operators decided to conduct a series of experiments with a test rover before driving Spirit again.
Viewers may submit questions over Ustream or via Twitter. Twitter users may send their questions to @NASAJPL using the hashtag #FreeSpirit. In addition, if you are unable to take part in the live chat, you may submit questions in advance to [email protected] and watch the archived video at a later time.
Information about Spirit and Opportunity is available at http://www.nasa.gov/rovers . Updates about testing of possible maneuvers for freeing Spirit are at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/freespirit .
JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. | 2019-04-21T02:07:40 | http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28784 |
0.999994 | Non-Washable External Output Models: Seal A, B, C, D, use non-wash cycle. Open 1 to allow raw materials into the chamber, adjust volume and pressure to allow optimal liquid output. When compressing, close 1, open 3, F to allow compressed air in for processing. After process completes, open drain valve to let out filtered air.
Washable External Output Models: Seal C, D, open 1 to allow raw materials into the chamber, adjust volume and pressure to allow optimal liquid output. When compressing, close 1, open 3, F to allow compressed air in for processing. After process completes, open drain valve to let out filtered liquid. When using wash cycle, close 1, turn off facets on washboard, open 2, 4, 5, A, B to allow water through for processing.
Non-Washable Internal Output Models: Seal A, B, no liquid output, open 1 to allow raw materials into the chamber, liquids flow out through 6, 7. When compressing, close 1, open 3, F allows compressed air for processing. After process completes, open drain valve to let out filtered liquids.
Washable Internal Output Models: Seal 4, 5, open 1 to allow raw materials into the chamber, open 6, 7, to allow liquids flow through. When compressing, close 1, open 3, F allows compressed air for processing. After process completes, open drain valve to let out filtered liquids. If cross wash cycle is needed, first open 2, 4, 7, then close 1, 5, 6, water input through A, C onto washboard, output through B, D. Then close 1, 4, 7, open 2, 5, 6, water input through B, D, output through A, C.
Press media type: water, oil, air, etc. | 2019-04-26T07:40:33 | https://hengdafilterpress.com/index.php/products/filter-press/rubber-membrane-filter-press/ |
0.99983 | The Spanish ambassador to the UK has been summoned by the Foreign Office after one of the country’s research vessels entered British territory off the coast of Gibraltar.
Foreign Office minister David Lidington said the actions of the research ship, which was accompanied by a Spanish Civil Guard vessel, were 'unlawful'.
‘According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the waters around Gibraltar are indisputably British territorial waters, under United Kingdom sovereignty, in which only the United Kingdom has the right to exercise jurisdiction,’ Mr Lidington told the Telegraph.
Earlier this year a Spanish warship had to be escorted off British territory by Gibraltar Squadron's patrol boat, HMS Sabre, after it entered the waters near Gibraltar.
The boat allegedly used a fake name and call sign, and refused to leave by its own accord at it claimed it was in Spanish waters, local media said.
The vessel approached as UK Special Forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea.
Tensions over the disputed territory have been rising since the construction of an artificial reef by the Gibraltar government last year which the Spanish said interfered with their fishermen.
Madrid responded by imposing tighter border controls, leading to long delays at the frontier, while the Gibraltar Chief Minister has warned that Spanish vessels entering British territory may come under fire as they are not identified as being from ‘a friendly nation'.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme in November last year, Fabian Picardo warned that Spanish boats ‘may find themselves shot at’ if they continue to disregard Gibraltar’s marine borders.
Warning that the Spanish ships could be seen as ‘terrorists’ he accused the country of ‘needling away at the United Kingdom and Gibraltar by taking such action’.
A Foreign Office spokesman said at the time: 'There was an incursion into British waters near Gibraltar by the Spanish Navy on 18 February, during a Royal Navy exercise. The exercise went ahead irrespective of this incursion.
'We are raising this at a high level with the Spanish government and will be issuing a formal protest.
The long-standing dispute between Britain and Spain has flared up over the past years. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has blocked the Spanish-Gibraltarian border and staged numerous incursions into Gibraltarian waters.
In November, a research vessel belonging to the Spanish state, the RV Ramon Margalef, undertook significant surveying activity in Gibraltar’s territorial waters.
The boat withdrew only after Spanish ambassador Federico Trillo was summoned by Matthew Rycroft, Acting Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office 20 hours later– the third time he has been summoned over Gibraltar since the current Spanish government took office in December 2011.
In the same month, a British diplomatic bag was opened and searched by Spanish Guardia Civil officers on the border with Gibraltar - an incident the Foreign Office described as a 'serious infringement' of international diplomatic protocols.
At the time Europe Minister David Lidington said Spain has increased the number of its incursions into British territorial waters from around five per month to around 40 per month. | 2019-04-25T17:14:54 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595309/Foreign-Office-summons-Spains-ambassador-unlawful-activities-two-countrys-ships-Gibraltar.html |
0.999999 | In what cases do we have to use the past tense or simple present (continuous) in the sentence following "as if"?
Is there anybody who can show me some examples?
In the sentence below, should the verb tense -- understood-- be always past tense? Or couldn't it be simple present or something else, such as "can understand" or "understands"?
My friend often speaks to his dog as if it understood him.
The 'past tense' you're refering to is the subjunctive mood. You mainly use it for facts that are not real eg. if I were you (I am not you!). If a fact is possible (at least in the speaker's opinion), the present indicative is often preferable.
He boasts as if he had won the superbowl.
She behaves as if she were born yesterday.
Gary looks as if he is up to something.
My friend often speaks to his dog as if it understands him (he probably do believe his dog understands). | 2019-04-23T04:08:21 | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/5594-as-if-vs-verb-tense |
0.998517 | Choosing the best bathroom vanities means your choosing the best fixtures. The best bathroom furniture brings out the elegance and beauty of your room thus making it astonishing.
The same is true with bathroom furniture. You need to choose the right fixtures to bring life and beauty in it.
Never purchase bathroom fixture because you saw it using by others. Be original and choose only the vanity that will satisfy your bathroom and personal needs.
Be innovative. Always remember it is better to innovate than to imitate. Create your own bathroom decoration according to your personality and taste using your imagination.
Do not try to do something that does not reflect your creativity.
Choose the two sides of the coin. Always consider the form and function. The vanity should naturally blend in to the bathroom and at the same time providing an advantage.
Build a plan of your bathroom depending on how you want it to be.
Build a plan of your bathroom depending on how you want it to be. Include all the fixtures that you will need and narrow it down be eliminating the ones that you think are inappropriate.
The best bathroom vanities are the perfect solution for your bathroom and personal needs. Consider these tips since it is your guide to make your bathroom elegant just like you.
Buy on purpose. Determine why you should buy the furniture and what benefits you can gain from using it. You should identify the reason behind the need for the product.
The vanity should naturally blend in to the bathroom and at the same time providing an advantage.
Never purchase bathroom fixture because you saw it using by others. Be original and choose only the vanity that will satisfy your bathroom and personal needs. Create your own bathroom decoration according to your personality and taste using your imagination. | 2019-04-26T08:06:59 | https://accenttapware.com.au/2018/07/tips-for-selecting-the-best-bathroom-vanities/ |
0.999997 | Are There Lessons For Parents?
1: Teenagers' Inexplicable Behavior 2: The Wiring of the Adolescent Brain 3: Mood Swings 4: "You Just Don't Understand" 5: From Zzzzz's to A's 6: Are There Lessons For Parents?
It's the mystery of mysteries -- especially to parents -- the unpredictable and sometimes incomprehensible moods and behaviors of the American teenager. Generations of adults have pondered its cause. Hormones? Rock music? Boredom? Drugs?
In "Inside the Teenage Brain," FRONTLINE chronicles how scientists are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding some new explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do. These discoveries could change the way we parent, teach, or perhaps even understand our teenagers. New neuroscience research has shown that a crucial part of the brain undergoes extensive changes during puberty -- precisely the time when the raging hormones often blamed for teen behavior begin to wreak havoc. It's long been known that the architecture of the brain is largely set in place during the first few years of life. But with the aid of new technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists are mapping changes in pre-teen and teenage brains and finding evidence that remarkable growth and change continue for decades.
"This is a process that we knew happened in the womb, maybe even in the first 18 months of life," explains neuroscientist Dr. Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health. "But it was only when we started following the same children by scanning their brains at two-year intervals that we detected a second wave of overproduction."
This second wave -- occurring roughly between ages 10 and 13 -- is quickly followed by a process in which the brain prunes and organizes its neural pathways. "In many ways, it's the most tumultuous time of brain development since coming out of the womb," says Giedd.
"Our leading hypothesis ... is the 'use it or lose it' principle," Jay Giedd tells FRONTLINE. "If a teen is doing music or sports or academics, those are the cells and connections that will be hardwired. If they're lying on the couch or playing video games or [watching] MTV, those are the cells and connections that are going to survive."
"The relationship between desired behaviors and brain structure is totally unknown," John Bruer tells FRONTLINE. He is president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation and author of The Myth of the First Three Years. "This simple, popular, newsweekly-magazine idea that adolescents are difficult because their frontal lobes aren't mature is one we should be very cautious of."
This FRONTLINE report also looks at research that is helping scientists understand another puzzling aspect of adolescent behavior -- sleep.
Mary Carskadon, director of the E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory at Brown University, has spent years mapping the brains of sleepy teens. She has calculated that most teens get about seven and a half hours of sleep each night, while they need more than nine. Some say these sleep debts can have a powerful effect on a teen's ability to learn and retain new material -- especially abstract concepts like physics, math, and calculus.
Despite all the new scientific research, "Inside the Teenage Brain" suggests that there is a consensus among experts that the most beneficial thing for teenagers is good relationships with their parents. Even Dr. Giedd wonders about the kinds of lessons parents can draw from his science. "The more technical and more advanced the science becomes, often the more it leads us back to some very basic tenets. ... With all the science and with all the advances, the best advice we can give is things that our grandmother could have told us generations ago: to spend loving, quality time with our children."
Ellen Galinsky, a social scientist and the president of the Families and Work Institute, has seen scientific fads come and go. But she says her research for a book about children shows there are enduring lessons for parents. Drawing on her interviews with more than a thousand children, she found that, to her surprise, teens were yearning for more time and more communication with their parents, even when they seemed to be pushing them away. She told FRONTLINE, "Even though the public perception is about building bigger and better brains, what the research shows is that it's the relationships, it's the connections, it's the people in children's lives who make the biggest difference." | 2019-04-19T22:36:48 | https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/inside-the-teenage-brain-642/6/ |
0.998473 | This dish is simple and delicious especially when serve over rice. You can substitute bean curd with tofu too.
1. Marinate the bean curd in chili sauce and soy sauce mixture for 2 hours.
2. Heat oil over a medium high heat; cook garlic until it turns pale brown.
2. Stir in ginger and red chilies for a minute.
3. Stir in bean curd, salt, soy sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
4. Add chili sauce, water, scallions, and basil. Cook for 3 minutes then reduce to simmer.for 10 minutes.
This looks great. I'm always looking for yummy tofu recipes! | 2019-04-21T22:43:56 | http://homestylevegetariancooking.blogspot.com/2011/01/sweet-spicy-bean-curd.html |
0.998906 | If you are installing a new circuit, you must install an EGC with the circuit conductors. The permission to extend an EGC to the water pipe is only for the replacment of old two wire receptacles with new 3 wire receptacles.
I guess my next question is if I can install a new ground bar on the existing breaker panel. Can I run my #6 from the water pipe or a ground rod and can I then only run a ground wire from the breaker panel to the new circuit or would I have to install a new sub panel.
The equipment grounding conductor must be connected to the grounded conductor at the service disconnect via the main bonding jumper. You must have a fault clearing path back to the grounded conductor. Just a connection to the water pipe or ground rod is not code compliant and would present a serious safety hazard.
Why do you need a new ground bar? Is there no ground bar now? The neutral buss in service equipment is also the ground buss. In panels that are not serving as service equipment the grounded current carrying conductors (neutrals) and the Equipment Grounding Conductors, or EGCs, must be kept separate and insulated from each other to avoid the current in the grounded conductor from taking stray paths that can cause a shock hazard or arcing. I take it from your previous postings that the panel is not the service equipment and that you have a separate disconnect feeding it. If I'M right read on if not supply the correct layout.
If you are going to run just one new circuit from a panel, that is not service equipment, that has only served raceway or metal jacket grounding paths in the past then you can just use a metal cable connector and a half inch bonding bushing to connect the Equipment Grounding Conductor to the grounded metal Cabinet of the panel. If you will be running multiple circuits with separate EGCs from that panel you should install a ground bar. | 2019-04-24T22:05:08 | https://www.electrical-contractor.net/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/80396/updating-an-ungrounded-circuit.html |
0.999759 | How does the dialog play out in your mind when you consider pursuing a goal? Winning that state championship or getting promoted to brown belt?
Maybe this is a goal you can live without. Do you really need to lose that last two pounds of fat? Gain that last five pounds of muscle? Shave off those extra few seconds off of your mile split? Maybe the answer is no.
But what if it’s something that you can’t live without? What if you were addicted to the idea of what your future self could be, or absolutely captivated by the potential of having achieved something so challenging and meaningful? Would you accept anything less than your best effort? Would you be okay with letting your discipline slide? Understandably, we’ll never live “perfectly”, but the answer is definitely no. Especially in something you can control.
There’s something magical that clicks in your mind the moment a “should-have” becomes a “must-have.” The moment you realize that if you want to achieve what you truly want, you can no longer live your current life or walk on the same path that you’ve always been walking on.
Here, you’ll see two different perspectives on the same principle: committing to a goal and getting after it. One is passionate and the other is calculated, but the underlying message is the same. Make your choice and relentlessly pursue.
“What I’m telling you is, you can’t count the cost. When you want something bad, you can’t count the cost, because if you count the cost and you see how much it cost, you might quit, so you gotta go in, knowing that I don’t count the cost. I’ll do as many push ups as it takes, as many situps as it takes, as many reps as it takes, I’ll study as long as it takes, I’ll pay whatever the price is. Why? Because if I start counting the cost, I might quit, I might give up, I might surrender. Don’t count the cost. You don’t count the cost on this one!
“Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In fact, it is essential and something that every single elite athlete has had to learn to deal with. If the pursuit of excellence was easy, everyone would do it. In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unncessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.
And accept that long term results require quality long-term focus. No emotion. No drama. No beating yourself up over small bumps in the road. Learn to enjoy and appreciate the process. This is especially important because you are going to spend far more time on the actual journey than with those all too brief moments of triumph at the end.
For another perspective, read Berton Braley’s poem, “The Will to Win“.
Take action, plan the next steps, make adjustments as necessary, and, every now and then, give your body and mind enough time to heal up to return to the action with more resolve, conviction, and strength than you had before. Maybe it really is that simple. It sure as hell isn’t easy though.
When was the last time you approached something with such conviction and determination that the cost or the consequences of pursuing something didn’t matter? | 2019-04-23T21:52:18 | https://chayoot.blog/2018/10/22/what-would-it-cost-you-why-and-when-does-it-matter/ |
0.9996 | Need a way to display a flat screen? These universal TV mounts are great for both homes and businesses. They can be used in professional settings to advertise and inform visitors without bulky consoles taking up floor space. These TV mounts, also known as LED TV brackets, are also ideal for demonstrating merchandise and cross-selling services in retail environments. In homes, mounts like these can be used in the living room or bedroom for TVs on walls. At airports and other public waiting areas, TV brackets keep visitors occupied with sports scores, financial tickers and news crawls.
How do LCD screens attach to these TV brackets?
These LED TV mounts are sold with universal VESA mounting hole specs. These standards were created by the Video Electronics Standards Association for standardizing mounting bracket attachments.
Television manuals provide these VESA specifications. This information is used to identify the flat screen holder that will work with a specified flat panel. Each model's page lists its VESA hole patterns in the "Specifications" area.
When installed on VESA-compatible mounts, LCDs remain securely attached, safe from falling off or unintentional movement.
These fixtures can be attached to any surface. They tilt, rotate, extend and retract from a ceiling or wall. They free up floor space for literature displays, product samples, sales staff and prospective customers. These monitor stands for a flatscreen include an array of adjustable settings. Some of these mounts come hold two, three, four and even six LED TVs at once. Many of these units hold them in either a portrait or landscape orientation to meet any need. What else do they come with? These universal TV brackets often include articulating arms for extra adjustability, like changing the distance from a television to the wall or ceiling.
Are these TV fixtures suitable for commercial areas?
Supervisors of public venues, such as airport terminals and train stations, use them for advertising to passersby in high traffic areas.
Waiting rooms, indoor malls and other busy areas make great use of these stands by entertaining patrons.
These units feature a strong construction and a durable design that will last for years in areas with heavy traffic. They will also keep displays still and secure from jostling.
Each frame is made of sturdy steel, aluminum, plastic for enduring any environment. Models for each placement style, countertop, ceiling and wall, feature different designs for different setups. Units for wall surfaces feature a low-profile design that measures 2" or less in depth. These are ideal for keeping floor space clear in tight rooms or hallways. Countertop posts for flat panels remain stable by clamping directly to horizontal surfaces. These come with an articulating arm or a simple standing design that holds displays in one place. Affordable counter posts are available with the option of a cable lock for added security in public environments. Ceiling poles feature a single- or double-sided frame and are made with varying lengths. All plasma hangers feature an adjustable height for accommodating different locations. They can also be made to showcase flat panels right next to windows, making them great for storefronts. | 2019-04-20T10:56:44 | https://www.tvstandsonly.com/C-29447/TV-Mounts-Monitor-Brackets-Walls-Counters-Ceilings |
0.999517 | In February 1942, in the midst of World War II, the Japanese fleet completely wrecked a combined Dutch-American-Australian-British fleet at the Battle of the Java Sea.
Only four Dutch warships were left in the Dutch East Indies and seeing that there's no way they'll be able to take down the Japanese fleet by themselves, they decided to try and escape to Australia.
There's just one hitch: the seas were full of Japanese warships and the skies were swarming with Japanese planes. The chances of sailing through 1,000 miles of hostile ocean to safety were not looking good. Sure enough, all but one of the ships were sunk within days.
The only survivor was the minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen. The ship had hardly any guns and was ponderously slow. The crew knew that making a run straight for Australia would mean getting spotted from the air and bombed into pieces.
So they got an idea: They would disguise their ship as an island. The crew went on to cut down trees and set them up on the deck to look like a jungle canopy. Vertical surfaces were painted to look like rock cliffs.
An island slowly moving toward Australia? Who would've thought this'll work?
To avoid detection, they could only move after dark. During daylight hours the ship anchored close to shore to look like just another island. Since there are 17,508 islands in Indonesia, they were gambling that the Japanese probably wouldn't notice that there were now 17,509, and one of them just happened to appear in a different place every day.
By patiently moving a little bit each night, the Abraham Crijnssen evaded a Japanese destroyer that sank some of the other ships trying to get away. No aircraft recognized that one of the islands below them was boat-shaped and had antennae and was changing places every night. After eight days, the ship reached Australia and fought with the Allies until the end of the war. | 2019-04-19T02:41:02 | https://historydaily.org/warship-disguised-as-an-island?utm_source=internal |
0.999903 | Artificial intelligence has close connections with philosophy because both share several concepts and these include intelligence, action, consciousness, epistemology, and even free will. Furthermore, the technology is concerned with the creation of artificial animals or artificial people (or, at least, artificial creatures) so the discipline is of considerable interest to philosophers. These factors contributed to the emergence of the philosophy of artificial intelligence. Some scholars argue that the AI community's dismissal of philosophy is detrimental.
Can a machine act intelligently? Can it solve any problem that a person would solve by thinking?
Are human intelligence and machine intelligence the same? Is the human brain essentially a computer?
Can a machine have a mind, mental states, and consciousness in the same way that a human being can? Can it feel how things are?
Questions like these reflect the divergent interests of AI researchers, linguists, cognitive scientists and philosophers respectively. The scientific answers to these questions depend on the definition of "intelligence" and "consciousness" and exactly which "machines" are under discussion.
Turing's "polite convention": If a machine behaves as intelligently as a human being, then it is as intelligent as a human being.
The Dartmouth proposal: "Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
Newell and Simon's physical symbol system hypothesis: "A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means of general intelligent action."
Searle's strong AI hypothesis: "The appropriately programmed computer with the right inputs and outputs would thereby have a mind in exactly the same sense human beings have minds."
Hobbes' mechanism: "For 'reason' ... is nothing but 'reckoning,' that is adding and subtracting, of the consequences of general names agreed upon for the 'marking' and 'signifying' of our thoughts..."
1 Can a machine display general intelligence?
2 Can a machine have a mind, consciousness, and mental states?
3 Is thinking a kind of computation?
4.1 Can a machine have emotions?
4.2 Can a machine be self-aware?
4.3 Can a machine be original or creative?
4.4 Can a machine be benevolent or hostile?
4.5 Can a machine have a soul?
Can a machine display general intelligence?
Is it possible to create a machine that can solve all the problems humans solve using their intelligence? This question defines the scope of what machines will be able to do in the future and guides the direction of AI research. It only concerns the behavior of machines and ignores the issues of interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers; to answer this question, it does not matter whether a machine is really thinking (as a person thinks) or is just acting like it is thinking.
Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.
Arguments against the basic premise must show that building a working AI system is impossible, because there is some practical limit to the abilities of computers or that there is some special quality of the human mind that is necessary for thinking and yet cannot be duplicated by a machine (or by the methods of current AI research). Arguments in favor of the basic premise must show that such a system is possible.
The first step to answering the question is to clearly define "intelligence".
The "standard interpretation" of the Turing test.
If a machine acts as intelligently as human being, then it is as intelligent as a human being.
One criticism of the Turing test is that it is explicitly anthropomorphic. If our ultimate goal is to create machines that are more intelligent than people, why should we insist that our machines must closely resemble people?[This quote needs a citation] Russell and Norvig write that "aeronautical engineering texts do not define the goal of their field as 'making machines that fly so exactly like pigeons that they can fool other pigeons'".
Recent A.I. research defines intelligence in terms of intelligent agents. An "agent" is something which perceives and acts in an environment. A "performance measure" defines what counts as success for the agent.
If an agent acts so as to maximize the expected value of a performance measure based on past experience and knowledge then it is intelligent.
Definitions like this one try to capture the essence of intelligence. They have the advantage that, unlike the Turing test, they do not also test for human traits that we[who?] may not want to consider intelligent, like the ability to be insulted or the temptation to lie[dubious – discuss]. They have the disadvantage that they fail to make the commonsense[when defined as?] differentiation between "things that think" and "things that do not". By this definition, even a thermostat has a rudimentary intelligence.
Hubert Dreyfus describes this argument as claiming that "if the nervous system obeys the laws of physics and chemistry, which we have every reason to suppose it does, then .... we ... ought to be able to reproduce the behavior of the nervous system with some physical device". This argument, first introduced as early as 1943 and vividly described by Hans Moravec in 1988, is now associated with futurist Ray Kurzweil, who estimates that computer power will be sufficient for a complete brain simulation by the year 2029. A non-real-time simulation of a thalamocortical model that has the size of the human brain (1011 neurons) was performed in 2005 and it took 50 days to simulate 1 second of brain dynamics on a cluster of 27 processors.
Few[quantify] disagree that a brain simulation is possible in theory,[according to whom?] even critics of AI such as Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle. However, Searle points out that, in principle, anything can be simulated by a computer; thus, bringing the definition to its breaking point leads to the conclusion that any process at all can technically be considered "computation". "What we wanted to know is what distinguishes the mind from thermostats and livers," he writes. Thus, merely mimicking the functioning of a brain would in itself be an admission of ignorance regarding intelligence and the nature of the mind.
A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means of general intelligent action.
The mind can be viewed as a device operating on bits of information according to formal rules.
A distinction is usually made[by whom?] between the kind of high level symbols that directly correspond with objects in the world, such as <dog> and <tail> and the more complex "symbols" that are present in a machine like a neural network. Early research into AI, called "good old fashioned artificial intelligence" (GOFAI) by John Haugeland, focused on these kind of high level symbols.
These arguments show that human thinking does not consist (solely) of high level symbol manipulation. They do not show that artificial intelligence is impossible, only that more than symbol processing is required.
In 1931, Kurt Gödel proved with an incompleteness theorem that it is always possible to construct a "Gödel statement" that a given consistent formal system of logic (such as a high-level symbol manipulation program) could not prove. Despite being a true statement, the constructed Gödel statement is unprovable in the given system. (The truth of the constructed Gödel statement is contingent on the consistency of the given system; applying the same process to a subtly inconsistent system will appear to succeed, but will actually yield a false "Gödel statement" instead.) More speculatively, Gödel conjectured that the human mind can correctly eventually determine the truth or falsity of any well-grounded mathematical statement (including any possible Gödel statement), and that therefore the human mind's power is not reducible to a mechanism. Philosopher John Lucas (since 1961) and Roger Penrose (since 1989) have championed this philosophical anti-mechanist argument. Gödelian anti-mechanist arguments tend to rely on the innocuous-seeming claim that a system of human mathematicians (or some idealization of human mathematicians) is both consistent (completely free of error) and believes fully in its own consistency (and can make all logical inferences that follow from its own consistency, including belief in its Gödel statement). This is provably impossible for a Turing machine[clarification needed] (and, by an informal extension, any known type of mechanical computer) to do; therefore, the Gödelian concludes that human reasoning is too powerful to be captured in a machine[dubious – discuss].
However, the modern consensus in the scientific and mathematical community is that actual human reasoning is inconsistent; that any consistent "idealized version" H of human reasoning would logically be forced to adopt a healthy but counter-intuitive open-minded skepticism about the consistency of H (otherwise H is provably inconsistent); and that Gödel's theorems do not lead to any valid argument that humans have mathematical reasoning capabilities beyond what a machine could ever duplicate. This consensus that Gödelian anti-mechanist arguments are doomed to failure is laid out strongly in Artificial Intelligence: "any attempt to utilize (Gödel's incompleteness results) to attack the computationalist thesis is bound to be illegitimate, since these results are quite consistent with the computationalist thesis."
More pragmatically, Russell and Norvig note that Gödel's argument only applies to what can theoretically be proved, given an infinite amount of memory and time. In practice, real machines (including humans) have finite resources and will have difficulty proving many theorems. It is not necessary to prove everything in order to be intelligent[when defined as?].
Lucas can't assert the truth of this statement.
This statement is true but cannot be asserted by Lucas. This shows that Lucas himself is subject to the same limits that he describes for machines, as are all people, and so Lucas's argument is pointless.
After concluding that human reasoning is non-computable, Penrose went on to controversially speculate that some kind of hypothetical non-computable processes involving the collapse of quantum mechanical states give humans a special advantage over existing computers. Existing quantum computers are only capable of reducing the complexity of Turing computable tasks and are still restricted to tasks within the scope of Turing machines.[clarification needed]. By Penrose and Lucas's arguments, existing quantum computers are not sufficient[clarification needed][why?], so Penrose seeks for some other process involving new physics, for instance quantum gravity which might manifest new physics at the scale of the Planck mass via spontaneous quantum collapse of the wave function. These states, he suggested, occur both within neurons and also spanning more than one neuron. However, other scientists point out that there is no plausible organic mechanism in the brain for harnessing any sort of quantum computation, and furthermore that the timescale of quantum decoherence seems too fast to influence neuron firing.
Hubert Dreyfus Hubert Dreyfus's views on artificial intelligence and expertise depended primarily on implicit skill rather than explicit symbolic manipulation, and argued that these skills would never be captured in formal rules.
Dreyfus's argument had been anticipated by Turing in his 1950 paper Computing machinery and intelligence, where he had classified this as the "argument from the informality of behavior." Turing argued in response that, just because we do not know the rules that govern a complex behavior, this does not mean that no such rules exist. He wrote: "we cannot so easily convince ourselves of the absence of complete laws of behaviour ... The only way we know of for finding such laws is scientific observation, and we certainly know of no circumstances under which we could say, 'We have searched enough. There are no such laws.'"
Russell and Norvig point out that, in the years since Dreyfus published his critique, progress has been made towards discovering the "rules" that govern unconscious reasoning. The situated movement in robotics research attempts to capture our unconscious skills at perception and attention. Computational intelligence paradigms, such as neural nets, evolutionary algorithms and so on are mostly directed at simulated unconscious reasoning and learning. Statistical approaches to AI can make predictions which approach the accuracy of human intuitive guesses. Research into commonsense knowledge has focused on reproducing the "background" or context of knowledge. In fact, AI research in general has moved away from high level symbol manipulation or "GOFAI", towards new models that are intended to capture more of our unconscious reasoning[according to whom?]. Historian and AI researcher Daniel Crevier wrote that "time has proven the accuracy and perceptiveness of some of Dreyfus's comments. Had he formulated them less aggressively, constructive actions they suggested might have been taken much earlier."
Can a machine have a mind, consciousness, and mental states?
A physical symbol system can have a mind and mental states.
A physical symbol system can act intelligently.
Searle introduced the terms to isolate strong AI from weak AI so he could focus on what he thought was the more interesting and debatable issue. He argued that even if we assume that we had a computer program that acted exactly like a human mind, there would still be a difficult philosophical question that needed to be answered.
Neither of Searle's two positions are of great concern to AI research, since they do not directly answer the question "can a machine display general intelligence?" (unless it can also be shown that consciousness is necessary for intelligence). Turing wrote "I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness… [b]ut I do not think these mysteries necessarily need to be solved before we can answer the question [of whether machines can think]." Russell and Norvig agree: "Most AI researchers take the weak AI hypothesis for granted, and don't care about the strong AI hypothesis."
Before we can answer this question, we must be clear what we mean by "minds", "mental states" and "consciousness".
The words "mind" and "consciousness" are used by different communities in different ways. Some new age thinkers, for example, use the word "consciousness" to describe something similar to Bergson's "élan vital": an invisible, energetic fluid that permeates life and especially the mind. Science fiction writers use the word to describe some essential property that makes us human: a machine or alien that is "conscious" will be presented as a fully human character, with intelligence, desires, will, insight, pride and so on. (Science fiction writers also use the words "sentience", "sapience," "self-awareness" or "ghost" - as in the Ghost in the Shell manga and anime series - to describe this essential human property). For others[who?], the words "mind" or "consciousness" are used as a kind of secular synonym for the soul.
For philosophers, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists, the words are used in a way that is both more precise and more mundane: they refer to the familiar, everyday experience of having a "thought in your head", like a perception, a dream, an intention or a plan, and to the way we know something, or mean something or understand something. "It's not hard to give a commonsense definition of consciousness" observes philosopher John Searle. What is mysterious and fascinating is not so much what it is but how it is: how does a lump of fatty tissue and electricity give rise to this (familiar) experience of perceiving, meaning or thinking?
Philosophers call this the hard problem of consciousness. It is the latest version of a classic problem in the philosophy of mind called the "mind-body problem." A related problem is the problem of meaning or understanding (which philosophers call "intentionality"): what is the connection between our thoughts and what we are thinking about (i.e. objects and situations out in the world)? A third issue is the problem of experience (or "phenomenology"): If two people see the same thing, do they have the same experience? Or are there things "inside their head" (called "qualia") that can be different from person to person?
Neurobiologists believe all these problems will be solved as we begin to identify the neural correlates of consciousness: the actual relationship between the machinery in our heads and its collective properties; such as the mind, experience and understanding. Some of the harshest critics of artificial intelligence agree that the brain is just a machine, and that consciousness and intelligence are the result of physical processes in the brain. The difficult philosophical question is this: can a computer program, running on a digital machine that shuffles the binary digits of zero and one, duplicate the ability of the neurons to create minds, with mental states (like understanding or perceiving), and ultimately, the experience of consciousness?
John Searle asks us to consider a thought experiment: suppose we have written a computer program that passes the Turing test and demonstrates "general intelligent action." Suppose, specifically that the program can converse in fluent Chinese. Write the program on 3x5 cards and give them to an ordinary person who does not speak Chinese. Lock the person into a room and have him follow the instructions on the cards. He will copy out Chinese characters and pass them in and out of the room through a slot. From the outside, it will appear that the Chinese room contains a fully intelligent person who speaks Chinese. The question is this: is there anyone (or anything) in the room that understands Chinese? That is, is there anything that has the mental state of understanding, or which has conscious awareness of what is being discussed in Chinese? The man is clearly not aware. The room cannot be aware. The cards certainly aren't aware. Searle concludes that the Chinese room, or any other physical symbol system, cannot have a mind.
Searle goes on to argue that actual mental states and consciousness require (yet to be described) "actual physical-chemical properties of actual human brains." He argues there are special "causal properties" of brains and neurons that gives rise to minds: in his words "brains cause minds."
Gottfried Leibniz made essentially the same argument as Searle in 1714, using the thought experiment of expanding the brain until it was the size of a mill. In 1974, Lawrence Davis imagined duplicating the brain using telephone lines and offices staffed by people, and in 1978 Ned Block envisioned the entire population of China involved in such a brain simulation. This thought experiment is called "the Chinese Nation" or "the Chinese Gym". Ned Block also proposed his Blockhead argument, which is a version of the Chinese room in which the program has been re-factored into a simple set of rules of the form "see this, do that", removing all mystery from the program.
Responses to the Chinese room emphasize several different points.
The systems reply and the virtual mind reply: This reply argues that the system, including the man, the program, the room, and the cards, is what understands Chinese. Searle claims that the man in the room is the only thing which could possibly "have a mind" or "understand", but others disagree, arguing that it is possible for there to be two minds in the same physical place, similar to the way a computer can simultaneously "be" two machines at once: one physical (like a Macintosh) and one "virtual" (like a word processor).
Speed, power and complexity replies: Several critics point out that the man in the room would probably take millions of years to respond to a simple question, and would require "filing cabinets" of astronomical proportions. This brings the clarity of Searle's intuition into doubt.
Robot reply: To truly understand, some believe the Chinese Room needs eyes and hands. Hans Moravec writes: 'If we could graft a robot to a reasoning program, we wouldn't need a person to provide the meaning anymore: it would come from the physical world."
Brain simulator reply: What if the program simulates the sequence of nerve firings at the synapses of an actual brain of an actual Chinese speaker? The man in the room would be simulating an actual brain. This is a variation on the "systems reply" that appears more plausible because "the system" now clearly operates like a human brain, which strengthens the intuition that there is something besides the man in the room that could understand Chinese.
Other minds reply and the epiphenomena reply: Several people have noted that Searle's argument is just a version of the problem of other minds, applied to machines. Since it is difficult to decide if people are "actually" thinking, we should not be surprised that it is difficult to answer the same question about machines.
A related question is whether "consciousness" (as Searle understands it) exists. Searle argues that the experience of consciousness can't be detected by examining the behavior of a machine, a human being or any other animal. Daniel Dennett points out that natural selection cannot preserve a feature of an animal that has no effect on the behavior of the animal, and thus consciousness (as Searle understands it) can't be produced by natural selection. Therefore either natural selection did not produce consciousness, or "strong AI" is correct in that consciousness can be detected by suitably designed Turing test.
Is thinking a kind of computation?
The computational theory of mind or "computationalism" claims that the relationship between mind and brain is similar (if not identical) to the relationship between a running program and a computer. The idea has philosophical roots in Hobbes (who claimed reasoning was "nothing more than reckoning"), Leibniz (who attempted to create a logical calculus of all human ideas), Hume (who thought perception could be reduced to "atomic impressions") and even Kant (who analyzed all experience as controlled by formal rules). The latest version is associated with philosophers Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor.
This is John Searle's "strong AI" discussed above, and it is the real target of the Chinese room argument (according to Harnad).
Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a sense of humor, tell right from wrong, make mistakes, fall in love, enjoy strawberries and cream, make someone fall in love with it, learn from experience, use words properly, be the subject of its own thought, have as much diversity of behaviour as a man, do something really new.
Turing argues that these objections are often based on naive assumptions about the versatility of machines or are "disguised forms of the argument from consciousness". Writing a program that exhibits one of these behaviors "will not make much of an impression." All of these arguments are tangential to the basic premise of AI, unless it can be shown that one of these traits is essential for general intelligence.
Can a machine have emotions?
If "emotions" are defined only in terms of their effect on behavior or on how they function inside an organism, then emotions can be viewed as a mechanism that an intelligent agent uses to maximize the utility of its actions. Given this definition of emotion, Hans Moravec believes that "robots in general will be quite emotional about being nice people". Fear is a source of urgency. Empathy is a necessary component of good human computer interaction. He says robots "will try to please you in an apparently selfless manner because it will get a thrill out of this positive reinforcement. You can interpret this as a kind of love." Daniel Crevier writes "Moravec's point is that emotions are just devices for channeling behavior in a direction beneficial to the survival of one's species."
However, emotions can also be defined in terms of their subjective quality, of what it feels like to have an emotion. The question of whether the machine actually feels an emotion, or whether it merely acts as if it is feeling an emotion is the philosophical question, "can a machine be conscious?" in another form.
Can a machine be self-aware?
"Self awareness", as noted above, is sometimes used by science fiction writers as a name for the essential human property that makes a character fully human. Turing strips away all other properties of human beings and reduces the question to "can a machine be the subject of its own thought?" Can it think about itself? Viewed in this way, a program can be written that can report on its own internal states, such as a debugger. Though arguably self-awareness often presumes a bit more capability; a machine that can ascribe meaning in some way to not only its own state but in general postulating questions without solid answers: the contextual nature of its existence now; how it compares to past states or plans for the future, the limits and value of its work product, how it perceives its performance to be valued-by or compared to others.
Can a machine be original or creative?
Turing reduces this to the question of whether a machine can "take us by surprise" and argues that this is obviously true, as any programmer can attest. He notes that, with enough storage capacity, a computer can behave in an astronomical number of different ways. It must be possible, even trivial, for a computer that can represent ideas to combine them in new ways. (Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician, as one example, combined ideas to discover new mathematical truths.) Kaplan and Haenlein suggest that machines can display scientific creativity, while it seems likely that humans will have the upper hand where artistic creativity is concerned.
In 2009, scientists at Aberystwyth University in Wales and the U.K's University of Cambridge designed a robot called Adam that they believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings. Also in 2009, researchers at Cornell developed Eureqa, a computer program that extrapolates formulas to fit the data inputted, such as finding the laws of motion from a pendulum's motion.
Can a machine be benevolent or hostile?
This question (like many others in the philosophy of artificial intelligence) can be presented in two forms. "Hostility" can be defined in terms function or behavior, in which case "hostile" becomes synonymous with "dangerous". Or it can be defined in terms of intent: can a machine "deliberately" set out to do harm? The latter is the question "can a machine have conscious states?" (such as intentions) in another form.
One issue is that machines may acquire the autonomy and intelligence required to be dangerous very quickly. Vernor Vinge has suggested that over just a few years, computers will suddenly become thousands or millions of times more intelligent than humans. He calls this "the Singularity." He suggests that it may be somewhat or possibly very dangerous for humans. This is discussed by a philosophy called Singularitarianism.
In 2009, academics and technical experts attended a conference to discuss the potential impact of robots and computers and the impact of the hypothetical possibility that they could become self-sufficient and able to make their own decisions. They discussed the possibility and the extent to which computers and robots might be able to acquire any level of autonomy, and to what degree they could use such abilities to possibly pose any threat or hazard. They noted that some machines have acquired various forms of semi-autonomy, including being able to find power sources on their own and being able to independently choose targets to attack with weapons. They also noted that some computer viruses can evade elimination and have achieved "cockroach intelligence." They noted that self-awareness as depicted in science-fiction is probably unlikely, but that there were other potential hazards and pitfalls.
Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomous functions. The US Navy has funded a report which indicates that as military robots become more complex, there should be greater attention to implications of their ability to make autonomous decisions.
The President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has commissioned a study to look at this issue. They point to programs like the Language Acquisition Device which can emulate human interaction.
Some have suggested a need to build "Friendly AI", meaning that the advances which are already occurring with AI should also include an effort to make AI intrinsically friendly and humane.
Can a machine have a soul?
In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.
Some scholars argue that the AI community's dismissal of philosophy is detrimental. In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, some philosophers argue that the role of philosophy in AI is underappreciated. Physicist David Deutsch argues that without an understanding of philosophy or its concepts, AI development would suffer from a lack of progress.
^ McCarthy, John. "The Philosophy of AI and the AI of Philosophy". jmc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
^ Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 947 define the philosophy of AI as consisting of the first two questions, and the additional question of the ethics of artificial intelligence. Fearn 2007, p. 55 writes "In the current literature, philosophy has two chief roles: to determine whether or not such machines would be conscious, and, second, to predict whether or not such machines are possible." The last question bears on the first two.
^ a b c d This version is from Searle (1999), and is also quoted in Dennett 1991, p. 435. Searle's original formulation was "The appropriately programmed computer really is a mind, in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states." (Searle 1980, p. 1). Strong AI is defined similarly by Russell & Norvig (2003, p. 947): "The assertion that machines could possibly act intelligently (or, perhaps better, act as if they were intelligent) is called the 'weak AI' hypothesis by philosophers, and the assertion that machines that do so are actually thinking (as opposed to simulating thinking) is called the 'strong AI' hypothesis."
^ See Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 3, where they make the distinction between acting rationally and being rational, and define AI as the study of the former.
^ Turing 1950 and see Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 948, where they call his paper "famous" and write "Turing examined a wide variety of possible objections to the possibility of intelligent machines, including virtually all of those that have been raised in the half century since his paper appeared."
^ Turing 1950 under "The Argument from Consciousness"
^ Russell and Norvig would prefer the word "rational" to "intelligent".
^ Russell & Norvig (2003, pp. 48–52) consider a thermostat a simple form of intelligent agent, known as a reflex agent. For an in-depth treatment of the role of the thermostat in philosophy see Chalmers (1996, pp. 293–301) "4. Is Experience Ubiquitous?" subsections What is it like to be a thermostat?, Whither panpsychism?, and Constraining the double-aspect principle.
^ Eugene Izhikevich (2005-10-27). "Eugene M. Izhikevich, Large-Scale Simulation of the Human Brain". Vesicle.nsi.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
^ Gödel, Kurt, 1951, Some basic theorems on the foundations of mathematics and their implications in Solomon Feferman, ed., 1995. Collected works / Kurt Gödel, Vol. III. Oxford University Press: 304-23. - In this lecture, Gödel uses the incompleteness theorem to arrive at the following disjunction: (a) the human mind is not a consistent finite machine, or (b) there exist Diophantine equations for which it cannot decide whether solutions exist. Gödel finds (b) implausible, and thus seems to have believed the human mind was not equivalent to a finite machine, i.e., its power exceeded that of any finite machine. He recognized that this was only a conjecture, since one could never disprove (b). Yet he considered the disjunctive conclusion to be a "certain fact".
^ Graham Oppy (20 January 2015). "Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 27 April 2016. These Gödelian anti-mechanist arguments are, however, problematic, and there is wide consensus that they fail.
^ Stuart J. Russell; Peter Norvig (2010). "26.1.2: Philosophical Foundations/Weak AI: Can Machines Act Intelligently?/The mathematical objection". Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-604259-4. ...even if we grant that computers have limitations on what they can prove, there is no evidence that humans are immune from those limitations.
^ Mark Colyvan. An introduction to the philosophy of mathematics. Cambridge University Press, 2012. From 2.2.2, 'Philosophical significance of Gödel's incompleteness results': "The accepted wisdom (with which I concur) is that the Lucas-Penrose arguments fail."
^ LaForte, G., Hayes, P. J., Ford, K. M. 1998. Why Gödel's theorem cannot refute computationalism. Artificial Intelligence, 104:265-286, 1998.
^ Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 950 They point out that real machines with finite memory can be modeled using propositional logic, which is formally decidable, and Gödel's argument does not apply to them at all.
^ Hofstadter 1979, pp. 476–477, Russell & Norvig 2003, p. 950, Turing 1950 under "The Argument from Mathematics" where he writes "although it is established that there are limitations to the powers of any particular machine, it has only been stated, without sort of proof, that no such limitations apply to the human intellect."
^ Litt, Abninder; Eliasmith, Chris; Kroon, Frederick W.; Weinstein, Steven; Thagard, Paul (6 May 2006). "Is the Brain a Quantum Computer?". Cognitive Science. 30 (3): 593–603. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog0000_59. PMID 21702826.
^ Turing 1950 under "(8) The Argument from the Informality of Behavior"
^ a b c Turing 1950 under "(4) The Argument from Consciousness". See also Russell & Norvig, pp. 952–3, where they identify Searle's argument with Turing's "Argument from Consciousness."
^ Cole 2004, 4.2 ascribes this position to Ned Block, Daniel Dennett, Tim Maudlin, David Chalmers, Steven Pinker, Patricia Churchland and others.
^ Searle 1980 under "5. The Other Minds Reply", Cole 2004, 4.4. Turing 1950 makes this reply under "(4) The Argument from Consciousness." Cole ascribes this position to Daniel Dennett and Hans Moravec.
^ a b c Turing 1950 under "(5) Arguments from Various Disabilities"
^ Turing 1950 under "(6) Lady Lovelace's Objection"
^ Turing 1950 under "(5) Argument from Various Disabilities"
^ Katz, Leslie (2009-04-02). "Robo-scientist makes gene discovery-on its own | Crave - CNET". News.cnet.com. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
^ a b Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man By JOHN MARKOFF, NY Times, July 26, 2009.
^ The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era, by Vernor Vinge, Department of Mathematical Sciences, San Diego State University, (c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge.
^ Call for debate on killer robots, By Jason Palmer, Science and technology reporter, BBC News, 8/3/09.
^ Science New Navy-funded Report Warns of War Robots Going "Terminator", by Jason Mick (Blog), dailytech.com, February 17, 2009.
^ Navy report warns of robot uprising, suggests a strong moral compass, by Joseph L. Flatley engadget.com, Feb 18th 2009.
^ AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures 2008-2009 Study, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Accessed 7/26/09.
^ Turing 1950 under "(1) The Theological Objection", although it should be noted that he also writes "I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support"
^ Deutsch, David (2012-10-03). "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence | David Deutsch". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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0.998752 | Anyone finding stability with the X1C6 and the Ultra Dock to not be perfect?
I'm finding sometimes the laptop won't wake from sleep properly, requiring me to hit the power button on the dock (to put back into sleep) and then to hit the power button again (to wake it up, which usually resolves the issue). Sometimes when it wakes from sleep, I lose my background (just a teal colour) and it goes to a black background (which I can revert back to teal right away in my desktop options). Also, every time I wake up, I find all my open apps are now only on Monitor 1 instead of where I left them (some on Monitor 1, some on Monitor 2) requiring me to spend a few seconds reorganizing. Finally, I find that each time I wake up, some (not all) of the icons in my taskbar next to the clock begin to get blurry, with each wake worse until I log out / log back in.
I do keep the laptop in clamshell mode when docked, with only my two external monitors in use and I have the laptop set up to not sleep when I close the laptop lid to ensure clamshell is as stable as possible.
All of my drivers are up to date, and I am on the Windows 10 April update that just came out (but the issues began before the update).
I never had issues like this on previous ThinkPad models with the previous Ultra Dock or OneLink Plus docks. | 2019-04-25T02:57:53 | https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1C6-and-Ultra-Dock-graphic-related-issues/td-p/4063810 |
0.998531 | This article explains best practices for system administration in a Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 / 2000 environment, including regular maintenance tasks.
SQL Server utilizes a structure called a backup device to manage backups. These are logical names that point to physical files on the local hard disk or a network share. The backup devices allowed by SQL Server are tape, disk, and pipe (Note: Backups can also be written to and restored from physical files directly, without creating backup devices).
"If a DBA maintains proper backups and can guarantee recovery of data up to the point required by the business process, they have done the job they were hired for. A solid backup plan is the first thing a DBA is required to do. If a DBA does absolutely nothing else in your company, he/she has earned their money by providing a solid backup plan and protecting your data. Every other activity is a simple bonus on top of this."
Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of managers, users and administrators than a server crashing and data becoming corrupted. A few short years ago, this would have been relatively important. But nowadays, it is absolutely vital and is one of the most serious things that can happen to a company. This is because, the data contained in the databases represents the competitive advantage of a company and its entire lifeblood. Losing key data can be catastrophic to a company.
1. How frequently does the data change in our system?
2. What is the downtime allowed for the production server in case of failure?
3. For determining the maintenance window, what is the time of the day, week and month when the database server is likely to have minimum activity - i.e. minimum updates?
4. How much is the enterprise willing to invest in data backup strategies? This is directly answered by addressing the question - how crucial is the data? Is it mission critical?
5. How much data loss is acceptable to the company?
6. How do we plan to recover the data in case of a failure?
Disk File Backups: Disk backups will store the data on a physical disk i.e. simply a hard drive or a disk array. Disk backups can be performed locally or over the network. They are the most common and easiest medium for storing backups. Once a database has been backed up to a disk file, it can in turn be backed up to tape as a part of the regular enterprise file system backup (on tape). Thus, in case of corrupt or lost data, the disk files will have to be restored from tape and then restore the database into SQL Server from the disk files.
Tape Backup: When you back up databases directly to a tape, the tape drive must be attached locally to the SQL Server. Backing up to remote tape devices is not supported. However, you can have multiple tape devices attached to a single SQL Server. These tapes can then be moved to another location for off-site storage.
Named Pipe backups: SQL Server provides the ability to backup data to a named pipe to allow users to take advantage of the backup and restore features of third-party software packages.
Creating or deleting database files.
If you attempt to start a backup operation when one of these operations is in progress, the backup operation aborts. If a backup operation is already in progress and one of these operations is attempted, the operation fails and the backup operation continues.
While online backups are supported, you can't do online restores. During a restore operation, the database must not be in use.
Your decision as to when and how often you back up your database depends on your particular business environment and the degree of importance of the application. There are also times when you may need to perform unscheduled backups.
The system databases need to be backed up just as user databases are backed up. This allows the system to be rebuilt in the event of system or database failure, for example, if a hard disk fails. Please note that it is always a good practice to create a separate maintenance plan for backing up the system databases and not mix it with the user databases. Within that too, backup the master separately from the other system databases. This is because only full backups of master database are allowed.
The system databases in SQL Server are: master, msdb, model, tempdb, distribution. It is important to have regular backups of these system databases, however, it is not necessary to back up the tempdb system database because it is rebuilt each time SQL Server is started. When SQL Server is shut down, any data in tempdb is deleted permanently. For this reason, do not store any application specific data in the tempdb database. Leave it exclusively for use by SQL Server.
Again, model database needs to be backed up only if it is customized. Similarly distribution database comes into picture only if the server is configured as a Replication Distributor.
Master: The master database contains system information and high-level information about all databases on an SQL Server. If the master database becomes damaged, SQL Server may fail to start and user databases may become unavailable. There are many operations which change the content of the master database - like creating and altering databases, adding and modifying logins, creating linked servers etc. But since one cannot keep backing up master after every such operation, schedule the master database to be backed up on a regular basis (for example: once every night, or once every week depending on the frequency of such changes to the database). This will backup the changes made to the user databases and SQL Server, which can then be recovered in case of a master database corruption.
Backup can not be performed on this database. This sub task is ignored.
Model: The model database is a template, used by Microsoft SQL Server when creating other databases, such as tempdb or user databases. When a new database is created, the entire contents of the model database are copied to the new database. Back up the model database if you modify it, to include the default configuration for all new user databases. If the master or msdb databases are rebuilt, the model database is also rebuilt and therefore changes are lost.
Msdb: The msdb database is used by SQL Server, SQL Server Enterprise Manager, and SQL Server Agent to store data, including scheduled job information, backup and restore history information, DTS packages.
Distribution: The distribution database is used by the replication components of SQL Server, to store data including transactions, snapshot jobs, synchronization status, and replication history information. A server configured to participate either as a remote distribution server or as a combined Publisher/Distributor has a distribution database.
Consult SQL Server Books Online regarding the backup/restore strategies of distribution database in different kinds of replication scenarios.
User databases should be backed up on a regular basis. Also, it needs to be performed after a new database or index is created and when certain non-logged operations are executed.
Backing up only the database: With this strategy, the entire database is backed up regularly. In case of failure, all the committed transactions that occurred after the most recent database backup, are lost. The primary advantage of using only complete database backups is simplicity. Backing up is a single operation, normally scheduled at regular intervals. And should a restore be necessary, it can be accomplished easily in one step.
The database is small. The amount of time required to backup a small database is reasonable.
The database has few data modifications.
You are willing to accept the loss of changed data if the database fails between backups and must be restored to its previous state.
Backing up the database and the transaction logs: With this strategy, the entire database is backed up less frequently; the transaction log is backed up frequently between database backups. In case of failure, you will be able to recover all backed-up transactions and possibly even committed (complete) transactions that occurred since the last transaction log backup. Only uncommitted (incomplete) transactions will be lost.
The database is considerably large or predicted to grow large in the near future.
There are substantial updates/data modifications taking place on the database.
In case of a disaster, the need is to recover the database to as recent a state as possible - thus not to lose any transactions taken place on it.
You cannot afford to lose changes since the most recent database backup.
Differential database backups: This strategy is used to augment either the database backup strategy or a database and transaction log backup strategy. Differential backups consist only of the portions of the database that have changed since the last database backup. The first stage in this strategy is always to take a complete database backup. Then you can schedule the transaction logs as usual. But the interesting part is that now onwards, instead of scheduling a complete database backup, we would now schedule a differential backup after the day's transaction log backups. The differential backup strategy combined with the transaction log backup strategy, reduces the number of transaction log backups that need to be restored while rebuilding/recreating a database.
The amount of time spent in recovering the database by applying all the transaction logs is not acceptable.
File or filegroup backups: File or filegroup backups are a specialized form of database backup in which only certain individual files or filegroups from a database are backed up. This is usually done when there is not enough time to perform a full database backup. To make use of file and filegroup backups, transaction log backups must be created as well.
The databases to be backed up are Very Large Databases (VLDB) which are partitioned among multiple files.
For example, if you have only one hour to perform a database backup that would normally take four hours, you could create the database using four data files, backup only one file each night, and still ensure data consistency. Transaction log backups could be performed at short intervals during the day.
The master database has been rebuilt using the Rebuild master command prompt utility.
The model, msdb, or distribution database has been damaged, for example, due to media failure.
If model has been modified, it is necessary to restore model from a backup when you rebuild master because the Rebuild Master utility deletes and re-creates model database.
If msdb contains scheduling or other data used by the system, it is necessary to restore msdb from a backup when you rebuild master because the utility deletes and re-creates msdb, which results in a loss of all scheduling information, alerts, DTS packages etc. If msdb is not restored, and is not accessible, SQL Server Agent cannot access or initiate any previously scheduled tasks. For example, if database backup operations are scheduled to run automatically using SQL Server Agent, a damaged msdb will prevent those backup operations from occurring.
The distribution database is not rebuilt automatically when the Rebuild Master utility is used to rebuild master; therefore it is not necessary to restore distribution after rebuilding master. If the distribution database is still intact, distribution can be re-created automatically by attaching the database to Microsoft SQL Server. Alternatively, a backup of distribution can be restored instead.
However, if distribution is not re-created by restoring a backup or attaching the database, the SQL Server replication utilities will not run, preventing data replication. If the distribution database is used for replication by many Publishers, this can affect many systems.
You cannot restore a database that is being accessed by users. Therefore, when restoring msdb or distribution databases, SQL Server Agent should be stopped. If SQL Server Agent is running, it may access msdb or distribution databases.
Disaster recovery is the process by which information systems are recovered in the event of a catastrophe: a natural disaster such as a fire, or technical disaster such as a two-disk failure in a RAID-5 array. Disaster recovery planning is the work devoted to preparing all the actions that will occur in response to a catastrophic event. Disaster recovery assessment is the simulation of a catastrophic event and/or the evaluation of the disaster recovery plan's capability to deliver the specified recovery needs.
1. Are you certain you can recover, in case of a catastrophe wiping out your 24/7 data center?
2. How long will it take you to recover and have your system available for normal functionality?
3. How much data loss can your organization tolerate?
4. How much are we ready to spend in order to achieve the required level of recovery?
Ideally, the disaster recovery plan should state how long the recovery should take, and the final database state the users can expect. It is typically important that management be kept clearly informed of these specifications. Disaster recovery assessment should be able to substantiate the specification.
A disaster recovery plan can be structured in many different ways and can contain many types of information (how and where to get the required hardware, the configuration of the servers, service pack information, who is to communicate what, who are the people to be contacted in the event of a disaster, how are they to be contacted, who owns the administration of the plan, and so on).
DRP for Backing up only the Database Strategy: If the backup strategy is to make complete backups of the databases, then recovery will be performed up to the point when the last full backup was taken.
To recover the database in case of a disaster, simply rebuild the server, restore the last complete backup taken, overwriting the corrupted version of the database.
DRP for Backing up the database and the transaction logs Strategy: Restoring a database that has been backed up using a database and transaction log strategy involves two steps. First rebuild the server, restore the most recent complete database backup. Then apply all of the transaction log backups that were created since the most recent complete database backup.
DRP for The Differential Backup Strategy: Recovery using this strategy requires that you restore the most recent complete database backup and the most recent differential backup. If transaction log backups are also made, only those created since the most latest differential backup need to be applied to fully recover the database.
DRP for The Filegroup Backup Strategy: Recovering using this strategy requires you to first rebuild the server, restore all file and filegroup backups, followed by the restoration of all the transaction log backups taken between the earliest file or filegroup backup and the end of the latest file or filegroup backup.
1. Automate all possible jobs and maintenance plans on the server for things like database backups, integrity checks, automatic shrinking, transaction log backups, etc. You could do this by creating Maintenance Plans in SQL Server, which would automatically generate and schedule the required jobs. (For more details on Maintenance Plans, refer to Appendix A).
2. Install SQL Mail on all your production servers and set it up to send you notifications on your email (or cell phone or pager - whatever is convenient).
3. Through SQL Mail, set up email notifications for all the jobs and maintenance plans on the production server - for every database. Also set up email notifications for you to be notified in case of a severity alert - like file growing large and thus reducing disk space, etc.
4. Always keep a script of the functional database schema in a secure location on the network. This comes in handy if you need to know the structure of the database in production or you need to recover a database, which does not have any backup left.
5. Set the MSSQL and SQL Server Agent services to Auto-start when the server starts.
1. Make a list of all the sa passwords for each server and save it in a secure place.
2. Make a list of all the passwords for each login created on the production boxes.
3. Save the SQL Servers and Windows' configuration information in a secure place. This information is needed to rebuild an NT & SQL Server box in case of a disaster.
4. Perform a test restore of a database backup. This is done in order to prepare for unforeseen situations.
5. Save information about any changes made to a server - hardware or software.
6. Maintain system logs in a secure fashion. Keep records of all service packs installed for both Microsoft Windows NT Server and Microsoft SQL Server. Keep records of network libraries used, the security mode, sa passwords and service accounts.
7. Assess the steps in recovering from a disaster ahead of time on another server, and amend the steps in your Disaster Recovery Document, as necessary to suit your environment.
8. Audit Database Access: You should periodically perform a review of who has access to your production databases and what type of rights they possess. Doing so can prevent unauthorized access to production data.
Check the connectivity of each server over the network. You could do this by pinging the SQL servers twice a day or by clicking the servers name in your Enterprise Manager and seeing if it is able to connect.
Check whether the services are running. For each server, go to its SQL Service Manager and check whether the SQL Server Agent and MSSQL Server services are running (showing a green light). If not, start those services. (You could also check these from the Control Panel or Enterprise Manager).
Check whether the scheduled tasks on the production servers are running normally. You could check this from the Enterprise Manager of each server or your email (if you have set up SQL Mail to notify you).
Check the hard disk space available on the SQL Servers. If system drives run low on space, they crash.
Check all the database and transaction log space on each server. If the database or transaction log space runs out, the transactions will fail.
Check NT event Logs for any error messages. SQL Server writes to the NT application log in case of application errors or SQL errors and also warns you before a problem becomes critical.
Check SQL Error Logs for any errors occurring within SQL Server. SQL Server warns you through these logs before the problem becomes critical.
Run disk defragmentation utilities: You should periodically run disk defragmentation utilities on your server's hard disks. A high degree of hard disk fragmentation can lead to decreased hard disk performance.
While backing up or restoring databases manually from Query Analyzer using BACKUP or RESTORE commands, use the WITH STATS option. This option serves as a progress bar and displays the percentage of work done continuously.
Spread your backups across multiple backup devices residing on different hard disk drives. This lets SQL Server take advantage of parallel IO, and improves the backup and restore performance.
SQL Server 2000 lets you specify passwords for your backups. Use this feature effectively to prevent unauthorized access to backup files.
Consider implementing a combination of transaction log and differential database backups to reduce the time it takes to recover from a failure. This approach reduces the amount of transaction log that must be applied while restoring a database.
The Database Maintenance Plan Wizard can be used to set up the core maintenance tasks that are necessary to ensure that the database performs well, is regularly backed up in case of system failure, and is checked for inconsistencies. The Database Maintenance Plan Wizard creates SQL Server jobs that perform these maintenance tasks automatically at scheduled intervals.
Reorganizing the data on the data and index pages.
Compressing data files by removing empty database pages.
Updating index statistics to ensure the query optimizer has up-to-date information regarding the distribution of data values in the tables.
Performing internal consistency checks of the data and data pages within the database to ensure that a system or software problem has not damaged data.
Backing up the database and transaction log files. Database and log backups can be retained for a specified period. This allows you to create a history of backups to be used in the event that you need to restore the database to a time earlier than the last database backup.
The results generated by the maintenance tasks can be written as a report to a text file, HTML file, or the sysdbmaintplan_history tables in the msdb database. The report can also be e-mailed to an operator.
It is always recommended to create a separate maintenance plan for the system databases and a separate one for the user databases. This is so that when the backup policies are reviewed depending on the usage of databases, the system databases are not affected due to the changes and their backups are performed uninterrupted.
Create an operator (with a valid MAPI account) in SQL Server, and make him/her receive all the reports sent by maintenance plans via email. This way he/she would know if a job fails or succeeds each time it is run.
In the Integrity tab of the maintenance plan wizard, if you check the Attempt to repair any minor problems, remember - this would bring the database in single user mode. And if there are many users using it at that time, this operation would fail.
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0.999999 | Que savons-nous de cet homme et de cette femme?
(A) Ils viennent d'acheter une voiture.
(B) Ils aiment les voitures de luxe.
(C) Ils ont des opinions différentes.
The question asks what we know about the man and the woman. The man says that he likes the red car, while the woman prefers the black one. Since the two people have differing opinions, the correct answer is (C) Ils ont des opinions différentes. (A) Ils viennent d'acheter une voiture ("They just bought a car") and (B) Ils aiment des voitures de luxe ("They like luxury cars") are incorrect because the dialogue does not indicate that either one has just bought a car, and while the man likes the less economical, faster red car, the woman prefers the less expensive, more economical black one. | 2019-04-22T15:03:57 | https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat-subject-tests/subjects/languages/french-with-listening/sample-questions/5 |
0.999977 | What are some appropriate uses for Sitecore Data Providers?
In what cases would one create a data provider instead of importing content? What are examples of practical integration scenarios which would benefit from a Data Provider implementation?
It's a difficult one; a question I've considered many times over in the years I've been working with Sitecore.
This is especially the case for most e-commerce solutions I've worked. This is usually product data, product meta data, category trees and so on. It's very rare that one can source all of the required information (short descriptions, long descriptions, images, product attributes and so on) from the back-end systems. So what I've ended up doing; is doing multiple integration runs - enriching the product catalogue in each run. Then when complete - publish the enriched data.
This is especially true for ERP and PIM systems. They are designed with data integrity in mind, and only secondly have an eye on performance. If even that. Add to this; the nature of data in these systems is rarely a tree-like structure (rather; relational) - making it difficult to make them fit into the parent/child nature that a Sitecore Data Provider has to follow.
Lastly; if opening up a Data Provider to a back end system - it needs to be available all the time, or the Content Editor users find themselves out of work. And publishing an empty structure... doesn't really end so well.
I argued this in Working with multiple content databases in Sitecore 6.
Sitecore offers versioning, language versions, workflows, many types of fields - right out of the box. Writing a Data Provider, one often ends up stubbing most of this functionality out, thus detracting from the overall Sitecore experience. The data looks like it's a native part of the Sitecore content tree, but it's really not.
Well I honestly don't see where I would use one today. Unless writing a very specialized tool - like Kamsar's Unicorn or so. For live use on the website? We have so many other ways of abstracting data - Dependency Injection, Services, Web APIs and so on - I really don't see any added value in feeding this data in via a Data Provider, just so we can use Sitecore Query (brr) to query it. I think Data Providers made sense, when XSLT was still the de-facto standard for rendering Sitecore content.
I think those days are behind us.
The whole point of a data provider is; to bring in content and have it appear as native Sitecore content. The idea being; you then bring in your content from multiple sources, and then have it work just like had it been created natively in Sitecore. And yes; part of that was based on creating XSLT renderings, and they shouldn't need to know what content was native and what was not - and with XSLT renderings there simply is no easy option to render non-Sitecore data.
So how are these used?
Well presumably your data provider is one-way. You can implement a 2 way provider but I've never had a business case for it. Usually one integrates to a business system and we can't just let any editor simply edit content (by mistake - in Experience Editor this could easily happen) and have it written back to the origin system.
So we feed in data from the provider; and we probably feed it directly into "master" and "web" in many instances, as support for publishing of provided data is extra work. Plus - you data provide to have a real time view to the origin system and publishing would sort of ruin that idea. Now you have to decide how to deal with caches; external link to origin system breaking down (and taking your solution down in the fall)... meh the list just goes on.
Possible? Sure. But looking at it like this, it becomes obvious it just doesn't make much sense.
If there is a case for a Data Provider, it would only be a fully implemented 2-way provider. To save you having to write a web interface to update some data. Nothing else rings any kind of sense to me. Not today, not post XSLT. Not with models, Dependency Injection, Layered Architecture. We have so many better options available.
A good example is exposing information from a PIM (product information manager) as native Sitecore items in the Sitecore tree. With this, production information can be accessed via the same API's as you'd use for accessing content managed via Stiecore.
The biggest issue I've found is how hungry Sitecore is getting children - this can lead to slowww DPs. Also overuse of the IDTable can cause issues if items with loads of fields (because of the way Sitecore treats all fields as items) - be aware that the IDTable calls aren't cached.
I'd say it's a trade-off between how efficient you can make the DP and how often the data needs to be updated.
I think there are some good individual examples here of useful Data Provider usage, and some good arguments about when/why you should not use them, but I'd like to summarize the situations in which a Data Provider can work well, and provide some concrete examples.
The data is local to the Sitecore instance, with very fast query/API, and has a hierarchical structure that maps well to Sitecore.
There are significant advantages to the data being represented as Sitecore items. E.g. being able to browse items for linking or datasources.
You want to be able to edit the data within Sitecore OR the data you are exposing does not require "enrichment" within Sitecore.
Both uCommerce and Sitecore Commerce use data providers to expose products to the Sitecore content tree. Commerce systems tend to have their own data modeling capabilities, and using a data provider here allows the template model for the product items to be dynamic as well. Having products exposed as items provides huge advantages for linking to products, product URLs, etc. This also allows for product data to be edited in Sitecore as well. If you do allow for editing within Sitecore, you do need to be careful of any locking, caching, etc. that could be happening within the other editing interface.
Similar to commerce systems, PIMs tend to have their own robust data model, and there are big advantages to having those products represented as items. Most PIMs will have some sort of language version concept that can be mapped into Sitecore's data model as well. Typically with a true PIM however you will not want to implement data writes, and you will need to disconnect that data through publishing (i.e. a master db-only Data Provider). The PIM will need to have a fast API, or Content Editor and publishing performance will suffer. Many PIM integrations likely can be handled with an import instead, since publishing means the integration no longer provides "real time" data. But in cases where you have a very dynamic data model, a data provider could have advantages.
If you are storing media in a DAM of some sort, a Data Provider implementation could allow you to browse those assets in real time, and use them as if they were native Sitecore media, then publish as needed (and disconnect them from the DAM in the process).
This is perhaps more of an edge case. Though the Active Commerce module for Sitecore stores products as native Sitecore items, it stores product stock information in its own database, so that stock levels can be quickly queried and transactionally incremented/decremented. However it also uses a Data Provider to expose those product stock levels in the Content Editor, and allow them to be manually adjusted if need be.
It's also worth noting in this example that Data Providers do not need to own the "whole item" -- they can just provide particular fields. When it comes to performance, this can have advantages when it comes to exposing, editing, and/or publishing external data.
I have used them before to inject custom Security on an item level. In my particular case the security requirements couldn't be fulfilled by Sitecore security, so my data provider would perform the calculation instead and return items appropriately.
In the past, I have recommended a data provider while working with a healthcare client. They had a member database that contained HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) protected data that was not suitable for storing in Sitecore, however, was the source of truth for pieces of information that needed to be accessed within the confines of their Sitecore implementation.
For a little background, health insurance company that was building a member portal using Sitecore.
Recommendation was to use a data provider to access the information that we needed without having to do a bulky import process as well as make sure that we weren't bringing over data protected by HIPAA, while at the same time, having reliance that the data coming over was synced and always up-to-date, without having to build automatic task jobs, etc.
As a rule of thumb, I generally tell prospective clients, that Sitecore is a marketing platform, not a database for sensitive information.
End result was a great application of the data provider, and met the needs of the client.
I have used Data Providers for PIMs, employee/personell/staff/etc. directories, and also for large quantities of data points coming from a source that is managed in another system but referenced by Sitecore items.
You can easily tie the "items" that they "provide" into the built in Content Search.
Items coming in from a Data Provider are not real items, but they are made to look like items and can be referenced like items.
A given piece of content should only ever be editable in one location. If you have a Data Provider that is pulling in content from another system where said content is authored (CMS, PIM, CRM, etc.), do not add two-way authoring support.
A Data providers can be implemented with multi-lingual support (leveraging OOTB Sitecore multilingual support), but this means that your data store must support this, as well.
We have a situation were we will probably be moving data outside of Sitecore into a custom database and write a data provider on it. Might become a read-only data provider even.
We are facing a tree structure with products that has grown over a million items. The back-end systems with the original data cannot be used in a live environment for several reasons: some are not always available (down for an hour during night), some are external sources and do not allow lots of queries. We already have pricing and stock information outside of Sitecore as that is updated at least every hour.
The main reason we are considering to move away from the Sitecore databases in this case is the import (add and update) of items. Importing is done through files or through services that are send/called once a day. But sometimes the number of items we need to import is so big that processing the data and creating the items if needed takes so long that we get in trouble. Long meaning here that the job isn't done in a day. More and bigger servers might help, but not in the long run. Requirement is set to be able to import whole sections (few hundred thousand items) at once. Knowing that creating items in Sitecore is not the fastest thing to do (we do also require some side effect jobs such as custom indexes, insert/update statements to custom db, ...) made us really consider a data provider on top of something else (custom db in our case).
If you have data in a back-end system that has network access limitations, using a Data Provider allows Sitecore to publish the data as Items, sparing you the need to worry about VPNs or latency when accessing that data from a Content Delivery server.
It's not the only path you can take, and there are many caveats, but for front-end performance, it's occasionally useful.
They are appropriate when you need to integrate with external data sources and want to take advantage of Sitecore's item processing, tracking and manipulation.
One example would be a university: We have many different data sources that we need to work with, one of which is a Course Database. Each course gets it's own page and content associated with it.
The problem with this is that we lose the advantages of using sitecore's searching and indexing ability. We can not do site wide HTML rendering and search. There are also secondary tools that are lost out on, namely, Glass Mapper. By integrating the courses directly into Sitecore we can use glass mappers insertion pipeline and reduce the amount of code we need to write (and bugs) by eliminating controllers and rely purely on view renderings. Ultimately, reducing the complexity of our code.
One use case for data providers could when you're creating a module. For instance uCommerce (an e-commerce solution using commerce connect) uses Data providers to make product and catalog data available in Sitecore.
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0.999997 | Does it bother people outside the US that I use a period as a decimal mark? I will accommodate whoever speaks up.
More corner braces were purchased. All braces were the same size to avoid confusion and to standardize parts. The new braces were bought with the intention of mounting a circuit board however the braces were much larger than necessary since they will have a minimal load. Brace size: 1 1/2" x 5/8" (38mm x 16mm).
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The cross-members were marked 3" (75mm) from each end on both sides to act as centering lines for the corner braces. This was a mistake since the distance between braces will be used on the circuit board for mounting holes and an accurate distance is important. Instead, the holes should be 6.75" (171.45mm) apart and centered on the midpoint of the cross-member. The hole distance is more important than centering accurately. Corner braces were propped on a thin [3/8" (9.5mm)] piece of plywood so the circuit board would not rest on the back when mounted. The hole locations of the braces were traced and piloted. Each cross-member had four braces installed. The cross-members which had already been screwed into an enclosure were temporarily removed for the brace installation. | 2019-04-24T22:09:30 | https://www.24hourengineer.com/2015/01/2015-01-204-tu-colortouch-sound.html |
0.999976 | Can Obama bring change to America?
Most people have gotten caught up in the historical significance of having a black man win the office of the presidency, but put aside the history and the election hype for a moment. This is about the direction of our government. Now that the elation over electing a black man president seems to be subsiding, I hope people can look at this thing realistically.
I'm happy Barack Obama won the election. Personally, I feel there was no other reasonable choice. Forget about the fact that Obama is black. His candidacy offered the most practical alternative to the nation's present political course. And right now, we're headed to hell in a hand basket, and most Americans don't have a clue.
Obama ran a campaign that promised to consider how people in other parts of the world see things. He promises to talk to those other folks. I think that is where our government should go. Not everyone believes as we do, and when we fail to consider how other people think, it costs us dearly.
The Bush administration has only served the needs of corporate America and its military industrial complex — which happens to bring our children home from Afghanistan and Iraq maimed or in body bags — and the American public has allowed itself to be misled with buzzwords like terrorism and patriotism. Prejudice and stupidity are exploited with smoke and mirrors.
The war and the nation's recessive economy are residual effects of a government hell-bent on protecting special interests at the expense of American citizens. I'm amazed that so many people actually thought there was an option other than electing an Obama administration to countermand the continuation of the present course.
One McCain supporter told me he voted for his military veteran peer because Obama's campaign represented a dangerous shift toward socialism. I asked him what he thinks the billions in crop subsidies paid to farmers or the money the administration just appropriated to the banking industry should be called.
In my opinion, the Obama administration represents a departure from politics as usual, and not a dramatic change. How can there be wholesale change in our government when we've re-elected the same fools who have run the government the past decade or more back into office? Obama, however, will offer a different kind of leadership than those clowns in Congress.
State Sen. Robert Ford said because the political hierarchy that has existed in Washington, D.C. before Obama's election remains in place, it's unrealistic to expect wholesale change in our government. I don't often agree with Ford these days, but in this case I do.
Before the election former state Sen. Herbert Fielding told me he was optimistic about the potential of the Obama administration since the Democratic Party likely would remain in control of both Congress and the Senate. I found the thought to be a disappointment because the Democratic Party has been an approving partner to the current administration.
McCain easily won South Carolina, and South Carolinians sent a Republican majority back to the State House, indications that most voters in the Palmetto State remain stuck in the "conservative" mind-set that launched the Civil War.
So what should we expect from an Obama administration? State Rep. David Mack told me Obama's campaign has shined a light on the future of America and that light woke up a lot of people who want to see this nation fulfill its promise of freedom and equality.
While Obama's administration likely will be unable to substantially change how our government responds to the needs of its constituents, it will implement new approaches to how our government operates, and that in turn will begin the process of change. And to do that, the folks awakened by the light of Obama's election will have to stay awake for the next eight years. | 2019-04-24T08:21:42 | https://m.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/turn-the-light-on/Content?oid=1116673 |
0.999999 | This article is about the fictional character in Ulysses. For the poker entrepreneur and author, see Molly Bloom (author).
Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. Molly is having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan. Molly, whose given name is Marion, was born in Gibraltar on 8 September 1870, the daughter of Major Tweedy, an Irish military officer, and Lunita Laredo, a Gibraltarian of Spanish descent. Molly and Leopold were married on 8 October 1888. She is the mother of Milly Bloom, who, at the age of 15, has left home to study photography. She is also the mother of Rudy Bloom, who died at the age of 11 days. In Dublin, Molly is an opera singer of some renown.
The final chapter of Ulysses, often called "Molly Bloom's Soliloquy", is a long and unpunctuated stream of consciousness passage comprising her thoughts as she lies in bed next to Bloom.
Molly Bloom's soliloquy is the eighteenth and final "episode" of Ulysses, in which the thoughts of Molly Bloom are presented in contrast to those of the previous narrators, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Molly's physicality is often contrasted with the intellectualism of the male characters, Stephen Dedalus in particular.
Joyce's novel presented the action with numbered "episodes" rather than named chapters. Most critics since Stuart Gilbert, in his James Joyce's Ulysses, have named the episodes and they are often called chapters. The final chapter is referred to as "Penelope", after Molly's mythical counterpart.
Joyce noted in a 1921 letter to Frank Budgen that "[t]he last word (human, all too human) is left to Penelope." The episode both begins and ends with "yes", a word that Joyce described as "the female word" and that he said indicated "acquiescence, self-abandon, relaxation, the end of all resistance." This last, clear "yes" stands in sharp contrast to her unintelligible first spoken line in the fourth chapter of the novel.
Molly's soliloquy consists of eight enormous "sentences", The concluding period following the final words of her reverie is one of only two punctuation marks in the chapter, the periods at the end of the fourth and eighth "sentences". When written this episode contained the longest "sentence" in English literature, 4,391 words expressed by Molly Bloom (it was surpassed in 2001 by Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club).
Joyce modelled the character upon his wife, Nora Barnacle; indeed, the day upon which the novel is set — June 16, 1904, now called Bloomsday — is that of their first date. Nora Barnacle's letters also almost entirely lacked capitalization or punctuation; Anthony Burgess has said that "sometimes it is hard to distinguish between a chunk of one of Nora's letters and a chunk of Molly's final monologue". Some research also points to another possible model for Molly in Amalia Popper, one of Joyce's students to whom he taught English while living in Trieste. Amalia Popper was the daughter of a Jewish businessman named Leopoldo Popper, who had worked for a European freight forwarding company (Adolf Blum & Popper) founded in 1875 in its headquarters in Hamburg by Adolf Blum, after whom Leopold Bloom was named. In the (now published) manuscript Giacomo Joyce, are images and themes Joyce used in Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
J.M. Coetzee's novel Elizabeth Costello portrays the fictional writer Costello as the author of a fictional novel, The House on Eccles Street, which is written from Molly Bloom's point of view.
It was the inspiration for the Kate Bush song "The Sensual World". Bush had originally written the song to directly quote Ulysses, but Joyce's estate refused permission. Thus she wrote her own set of lyrics in a style that echoed Molly Bloom's soliloquy. Bush's 2011 album Director's Cut includes a newer version of the track ("Flower of the Mountain") with new vocals that use the original Joyce text.
Molly Bloom's soliloquy was used as the basis for a dance song by Amber, titled "Yes."
The soliloquy is featured in a Rodney Dangerfield movie, Back to School, wherein it is read aloud to a college English class by Dr. Diane Turner (played by Sally Kellerman).
There is a bronze sculpture of Molly Bloom which stands at the Alameda Gardens in Gibraltar. This running figure was commissioned from Jon Searle to celebrate the bicentenary of the Gibraltar Chronicle in 2001.
Part of the soliloquy is quoted by the character Molly Greaney in the Susan Turlish play Lafferty's Wake.
The character Ralph Spoilsport recites the end of the soliloquy, with erratic variations in gender pronouns, as the last lines of the Firesign Theatre's album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.
"Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes", inspired by the soliloquy, is the title of a track by Bristol-based jazz quartet Get the Blessing, appearing on their album Bugs in Amber.
In the final pages of his novel The Republic of Wine, Chinese author and winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan concludes the book with what could be seen as an homage to Ulysses's Molly Bloom soliloquy.
Stephen Colbert's parody of Donald Trump's announcement for his presidential candidacy, entitled "Announcing: an Announcement," recites part of the soliloquy in an otherwise random series of statements.
Tom Paxton's album "6" contains a song titled "Molly Bloom"
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Joyce, James (1992). Ulysses: The 1934 Text, as Corrected and Reset in 1961. New York: The Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-60011-6.
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^ Parody, Antal (2004). Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use it. Michael O'Mara. ISBN 1-84317-098-1.
^ "Special Events". Gibraltar Chronicle. 2001. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
^ Stephen Colbert (June 16, 2015). Announcing: an Announcement. Event occurs at 5:18.
"Molly Bloom's Website (Rock Band)". 2009-09-30.
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0.99819 | Teacher Joe likes to have fun in class, but he doesn't want to have fun if students don't learn at the same time. Unfortunately, most games used in language classrooms do not require students to use the target language very much. Think of the game "hangman". Students call out letters and try to guess one word. That's very little language! What is worse, most students wait passively for their more eager classmates to guess. Bingo, as it is normally played, is not any better. Students hear the letters B, I, N, G and O along with some numbers, but that is all. It's fun, but students don't learn.
1. Use Quiz Games - You can divide your class into two halves or take each row as one team, then ask dozens of questions (which you prepare in advance, of course). Students get extra points for answering with a full sentence. (Teacher Joe also includes 10 billion bonus points - NOT dollars! - when a student includes a nice comment about him in an answer!) Questions can be about any topic from the textbook, or questions using vocabulary and grammar you are using in class. With advanced students, Teacher Joe has them make questions on slips of paper, which he then uses in the game. Students often make mistakes when writing their question, but it's not a problem - just turn their mistakes into a "learning opportunity" and show students how to do it better!
2. Use Guessing Games - Teacher Joe sometimes brings an object to class (usually a delicious snack!) and students must ask yes or no questions to find out what it is. (The winner gets a taste of the snack.) Next, you can give students a word on a piece of paper and others must ask questions to him or her. Later, you can do this as pair practice and see who can guess their partner's word the fastest.
3. Play Games on the Blackboard - Divide the blackboard into 4 to 8 sections and have one student from each row write answers on the board. This makes for a very lively activity to end a class.
4. Make Card Games - Make cards with questions on them that students can ask to their partner. See who can get the most points - one point for a correct answer, plus a bonus point for a good sentence. Put a time limit on the game. Teacher Joe makes cardboard cards which he can re-use in future classes. (Be sure to tell students not to write on the cards nor bend them!) With students who understand advanced TPR, Teacher Joe tells them how to make their own cards. This gives them listening practice and saves time.
5. Have a Tournament - All students have the opportunity to participate in small groups first. The winner from each group, or the top two students, can compete in a quarter-final, a semi-final, and a final match. Make it like the World Cup. (Teacher Joe calls it the "TJ Cup"! You can make up your own name.) Although the final match only involves tw o students, all the others are interested because they've been watching the tournament from the beginning. You can also have other students act as judges, timers or referees. | 2019-04-26T09:37:43 | http://teacherjoe.us/TeachersGames.html |
0.998348 | Is it possible to add a free text Title section to each report item created? I would like to have a device description and location for each graph. Also, it would be nice to be able to select multiple reports that you can create a schedule for to have them emailed off to a distro group in one email. An example would be utilization report for site A grouped with site B sent in one email instead of two.
So shortly after posting this I discovered the Text item option, I think this will suffice nicely. I will would like to group reports into one if possible. | 2019-04-21T22:53:41 | https://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=57524&view=previous |
0.999744 | Will Josh Gordon’s suspension be the final nail in Patriots coffin?
The New England Patriots have lorded over the NFL for nearly 20 years. The end of that reign is now in sight more than ever before.
Everything is either setting up for the greatest tour de force in Patriots history. Or it’s finally their inevitable demise.
On Thursday morning, Josh Gordon announced he would be stepping away from football. The period of time has been undetermined, although reports say the NFL might help make that decision for him via suspension.
For Gordon, the hope is that he finds peace. For the Patriots, the question is how they move forward?
Should the Patriots climb back into contention, this might be their greatest achievement yet. New England is without a star on defense and has a deteriorating offense. The AFC is getting better around the Patriots, with the Chiefs, Chargers, and Texans all viable contenders with superior records.
Punctuating the tension is an utterly tumultuous year in Foxborough.
The Patriots have lost back-to-back games in December for the first time since the 2002 season. The first loss in Miami came after an odd kickoff return to end the game, but that play was made possible by a rare tactical mistake by coach Bill Belichick. In addition, quarterback Tom Brady made a tactical error of his own at the end of the first half that cost the Patriots a field goal.
The following game against Pittsburgh was uglier from the perspective of the New England offense. The Patriots scored only one touchdown and that came after a blown coverage by the Steelers. Throw in the fact that tight end Rob Gronkowski can barely run these days and the New England offense is in trouble.
This comes after Brady spent most of the offseason away from New England for the first time in forever. That’s because the rift between Brady, Belichick and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels grows. For much of his career, Belichick challenged Brady and the Hall of Fame quarterback responded with greatness. These days, a dismissive wave of the proverbial hand is what Brady is giving Belichick more often.
This is compounded by Belichick being agitated with owner Bob Kraft, who facilitated Jimmy Garoppolo being traded to the San Francisco 49ers against Belichick’s wishes. Brady wanted Garoppolo gone, and Kraft sided with his superstar. It didn’t go over well.
Then there was the near-exit of McDaniels, who accepted the Indianapolis job only to double back at the 11th hour. How invested is McDaniels, knowing he’s waiting out Belichick for his next promotion?
In short, the Patriots have been straining for more than 12 months to hold back the end. It’s not getting any easier.
With Gordon, the Patriots had a deep threat to stretch defenses. Without him, they are looking at a barren depth chart that includes Gronkowski, Chris Hogan, Cordarrelle Patterson and 32-year-old Julian Edelman. In its current state, that list of names isn’t scaring anybody.
At 41 years old, Brady can’t cover up the warts in the fashion he once did. New England is old and slow. Nothing is changing that. Gordon was the one target who wasn’t either of those things. Now he’s gone.
The only reasonable hope in New England is that Brady once more bends back the hands of time. In conjunction, Belichick and McDaniels must find a groove with Brady, forming a power trio that can navigate the increasingly rough waters of January.
As for Gordon, his life has slowly been becoming more chaotic in recent weeks. While in Miami, he was hounded by agent Drew Rosenhaus to re-sign as a client. On Wednesday night, Gordon and girlfriend Dylan Gonzalez got into a heated argument about his alleged infidelity and split up.
None of that is suggesting Gordon turned to substance abuse to cope. It’s simply stating that everything in his life wasn’t going smoothly, and the 27-year-old decided to step back before the spiral got out of control. Good on him. At the same time, Gordon was told before making that decision that he was facing a suspension.
Ultimately, only time will bring answers. Gordon hopefully has most of his life ahead of him. There’s reason to believe that with or without football, his days can be bright.
The Patriots, however, don’t have that same luxury. Most of its dynasty days are long gone. The sun is setting behind them.
Now it’s up to Brady, Belichick and McDaniels to furiously race for one more storybook ending. | 2019-04-18T22:37:13 | https://footballtodaynews.com/2018/12/20/will-josh-gordons-suspension-be-the-final-nail-in-patriots-coffin/ |
0.999457 | How will Apple follow up a 2012 lineup that included two new tablets, a new notebook and a new phone? Analysts Gene Munster and Douglas Clinton of Piper Jaffray took a stab at predicting what used to be unpredictable: Apple's product calendar. Their report includes a number of not-so-prominent product upgrades, which lead Piper's analysts to the conclusion that 2013 "will set the stage for bigger changes in the product lineup in 2014 and beyond." But even a slow year from Apple tends to turn some heads. Here are five possible Apple products to look for in 2013.
Apple users were outraged with the iOS 6 upgrade that eliminated YouTube and Google Maps apps. Apple's maps app was so bad, in fact, that CEO Tim Cook issued an apology to customers in September and even encouraged them to try competitor's apps until the problem could be resolved. Factor in the management shakeup that resulted in the firing of mobile software chief Scott Forstall, and the pressure is on Apple to come back strong with iOS 7. Look for Passbook, the mobile wallet feature of Apple's operating system, to play a more prominent role in the upgrade.
Munster and Clinton believe a new iPhone 5S will come out in September, although some reports have pegged a launch date as early as June. The iPhone 5 was a September release; so was the iPhone 4S in 2011. Regardless of the date, users can expect an updated camera (as usual) and better battery life. The 5S will look the same as the iPhone 5 -- same screen size, same width -- but the new stuff will all be inside. Apple sold over 5 million iPhone 5 devices in the phone's first weekend in September.
Not just the digital receiver box already available as Apple TV -- an actual Apple Television. The timing would make sense, right before the holiday season, but not all Apple followers are convinced a TV will actually hit the market in 2013. For starters, analysts have predicted an Apple Television would arrive for years with nothing to show for it. Plus, television margins are small, and Apple products are notorious for having some of the largest margins in the industry. Munster and Clinton predict an Apple TV will measure 42" to 55" and cost between $1500 and $2000. Similarly sized plasma and LCD TVs from Vizio, Samsung and Panasonic all clock in at under $1000, but Apple has never shied away from offering high quality at high cost. | 2019-04-19T18:42:45 | http://www.fandratt.com/2013/01/5-new-apple-products-coming-on-2013.html |
0.984103 | In French, do you call your spouse "tu" or vous?
You are the same age, have been married for 5+ years. Would you call them "tu" or "vous"?
Very often the use of 'vous' between spouses is considered a class-based tradition. usually the upper-classes.
Their children are also not allowed to address their parent with 'tu'. Only 'vous'.
Tu. How long you've been married and your relative ages don't matter. Vous is for strangers, clergypeople, and superiors.
I would consider you to have a strange marriage if you addressed your spouse as 'vous'. Your spouse and other family members would be 'tu'.
Most people wpuld use 'tu'.
There was a time, long ago, when spouses addressed each other as vous, possibly to set an example for their children, who also respectfully used the vous form with their parents and grandparents.
We had something similar in English, in which the parents affectionately called each other Mr. X and Mrs. X, especially in front of the children. I seem to recall that format from Dickens. I have also known Mexican children from rural areas who kept the older customs and formally addressed their parents as usted, kissing their hand when saying good night.
' Tu ' is familiar, we say it to people we know well and for for talk to a kid.
We use ' vous ' which is formal, for talk to people we don't know well or if they are many ( even when we know them well), since ' vous ' is also the plural for ' tu '.
- you want to show deference or distance from the other person.
So, in the case of a married couple, unless they are really stuck up or it was an arranged marriage, obviously, you "tutoie" your spouse. | 2019-04-24T00:25:57 | https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20190321012125AAZUxNf |
0.999005 | The content of this article provides interesting history, facts and information about life in Ancient Rome including the Ancient Geography of Italy.
Italy is the central one of the three great peninsulas which project from the south of Europe into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded on the north by the chain of the Alps, which form a natural barrier, and it is surrounded on other sides by the sea. Its shores are washed on the west by the "Mare Inferum," or the Lower Sea, and on the east by the Adriatic, called by the Romans the "Mare Superum," or the Upper Sea.
Italy is divided into two parts, the northern consisting of the great plain drained by the River Padus, or Po, and its tributaries, and the southern being a long tongue of land, with the Apennines as a back-bone running down its whole extent from north to south. The extreme length of the peninsula from the Alps to the Straits of Messina is 700 miles. The breadth of northern Italy is 350 miles, while that of the southern portion is on an average not more than 100 miles.
Until the time of the Empire, the Romans never included the plain of the Po in Italy. To this country they gave the general name of GALLIA CISALPINA, or Gaul on this (the Roman) side of the Alps, because of its being inhabited by Gauls. The western-most portion of the plain was peopled by Ligurian tribes, and was therefore called LIGURIA, while its eastern extremity formed the Roman province of VENETIA.
The name ITALIA was originally applied to a very small tract of country. It was at first confined to the southern portion of Calabria, and was gradually extended northward, till about the time of the Punic wars it indicated the whole peninsula south of the Rivers Rubicon and Macra, the former separating Cisalpine Gaul and Umbria, the latter Liguria and Etruria. Italy, so called, is a very mountainous country, being filled up more or less by the broad mass of the Apennines, the offshoots or lateral branches of which, in some parts, descend to the sea, but in others leave a considerable space of level or low country.
Etruria extended along the coast of the Lower Sea from the River Macra on the north to the Tiber on the south. Inland, the Tiber also formed its eastern boundary, dividing it first from Umbria, afterward from the Sabines, and, lastly, from Latium. Its inhabitants were called Etrusci, or Tusci, the latter form being still preserved in the name of Tuscany. Besides the Tiber it possesses only one other river of any importance, the Arnus, or Arno, upon which the city of Florence now stands. Of its lakes the most considerable is the Lacus Trasimenus, about thirty-six miles in circumference, celebrated for the great victory which Hannibal there gained over the Romans.
Umbria is situated to the east of Etruria, and extending from the valley of the Tiber to the shores of the Adriatic. It was separated on the north from Gallia Cisalpina by the Rubicon, and on the south by the AEsis from Picenum, and by the Nar from the Sabines.
Picenum extended along the Adriatic from the mouth of the aesis to that of the Matrinus and inland as far as the central ridge of the Apennines. It was bounded on the north by Umbria, on the south by the Vestini, and on the west by Umbria and the Sabini. Its inhabitants, the Picentes, were a Sabine race.
Campania extended along the coast from the Liris, which separated it from Latium, to the Silarus, which formed the boundary of Lucania. The greater part of it is an unbroken plain, celebrated in ancient as well as in modern times for its extraordinary beauty and fertility. The Bay of Naples—formerly called Sinus Cumanus and Puteolanus, from the neighboring cities of Cumae and Puteoli is one of the most lovely spots in the world; and the softness of its climate, as well as the beauty of its scenery, attracted the Roman nobles, who had numerous villas along its coasts.
Samnium was an inland district, bounded on the north by the Marsi and Peligni, on the east by the Frentani and Apulia, on the west by Latium and Campania, and on the south by Lucania. It is a mountainous country, being entirely filled with the masses of the Apennines. Its inhabitants, the Samnites, were of Sabine origin, as has been already mentioned, and they settled in the country at a comparatively late period. They were one of the most warlike races in Italy, and carried on a long and fierce struggle with the Romans.
Apulia extended along the coast of the Adriatic from the Frentani on the north to Calabria on the south, and was bounded on the west by the Apennines, which separated it from Samnium and Lucania. It consists almost entirely of a great plain, sloping down from the Apennines to the sea.
Calabria formed the heel of Italy, lying south of Apulia, and surrounded on every other side by the sea. It contains no mountains, and only hills of moderate elevation, the Apennines running to the southwest through Lucania and the Bruttii.
Lucania was bounded on the north by Campania and Samnium, on the east by Apulia, and on the south by the Bruttii. The Apennines run through the province in its whole extent. The Lucanians were a branch of the Samnite nation, which separated from the main body of that people, and pressed on still farther to the south.
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0.997047 | Dear Doctor: I'm a 45-year-old woman and, ever since my divorce, I've struggled with depression. I tried yoga and meditation, and they're fine. But when a friend gave me a gift certificate to a gym and I started weight lifting, I saw a real change. I'm less stressed and I feel more like myself again. Am I imagining things, or does weight lifting help you feel better emotionally? Why would that be?
Dear Reader: We're very sorry to hear that what is already a difficult life event has been made that much harder by having to deal with depression. The very nature of the condition can make it difficult to engage in new activities, and we're glad that you found something that works. In answer to your first question, no, you're not imagining things. The link between exercise and enhanced mood has been established for quite some time. And while previous research has tended to focus on the effects of aerobic activities like running, a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry earlier this year finds similar mental health benefits in resistance training.
The researchers looked at the outcomes of 1,877 participants in 33 different clinical trials. An analysis of the data from those studies showed that resistance exercise training -- that includes weight lifting -- significantly reduced symptoms of depression. What's really interesting is that the positive mental health effects of taking part in resistance training were observed regardless of the study participants' age, their overall health, their skill levels, whether or not they ultimately gained strength or muscle mass from the training, or how much weight lifting they did.
This dovetails with previous studies, which have associated resistance training with lower levels of anxiety. There have also been studies that found an improvement in cognitive function among people who added weight lifting to their regular routines. And while the new study didn't address this outcome specifically, in some previous research it appeared that women were more sensitive to the positive effects of resistance training than men. Another encouraging bit of data for novice weightlifters like yourself is that several studies found low- to moderate-intensity workouts yielded better results in terms of anxiety reduction than did high-intensity workouts.
As for why resistance training is effective for mood and anxiety disorders, theories vary. One school of thought points to endorphins, the same feel-good hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system that are associated with the "high" experienced by runners. Also of interest to researchers is an exercise-related increase in neurotrophic factors, a family of biomolecules that support the health of neurons in the brain. Weight lifting has also been shown to improve sleep in both quantity and quality. And then there are the benefits that arise from -- and we know this sounds boring -- routine and repetition.
Getting to the gym, becoming part of the flow of activity, counting the repetitions as you exercise each set of muscles, seeing and feeling the positive changes to the body -- all of these can add to a sense of independence and self-confidence. | 2019-04-18T17:24:56 | https://www.uexpress.com/ask-the-doctors/2018/8/11/weight-lifting-can-boost-mood-and |
0.999461 | A stop-loss order limits the risk of a trade. It is the best friend of a trader who wants to survive and realise his long-term potential profits. Most traders find comfort in having stop-losses to protect them. But often, they do not give much thought to how they set their stop-losses.
To truly realise the benefit of having stop-losses, you must adopt a logical mindset. Before we discuss how to set stop-losses, let’s take a look at how not to set stop-losses.
The two questions below summarise the wrong thought process for setting stop-losses.
1. How much do I want to lose?
Let’s say I want to limit my risk to $200.
2. What is the implied stop-loss price?
I am buying 100 shares of stock ABC at $50. To limit my risk to $200, I must place my stop-loss at $48.
Thus, I will place my stop-loss at the $48 price level.
What is wrong with this thought process?
It disregards market price action completely. We determined the stop-loss level purely based on our risk preference. To the market, that stop-loss point is arbitrary and meaningless.
A logical trader thinks through the following questions in sequence.
1. What is a logical stop-loss price?
A logical stop-loss point is not implied by our risk appetite. It is highlighted by market price action. Stop-loss levels based on price action allows us to limit our risk while giving breathing space for our trades to wiggle.
There are two primary methods for finding stop-loss points using price action.
Ideally, we want the market to stay away from our stop-loss point. Hence, for long trading setups, using support levels as stop-losses is logical. The same goes for using resistance levels to set stop-losses for short trading setups.
Candlestick patterns and bar patterns offer minor support/resistance. When trading with price patterns, place your stop-loss below (or above) them.
In the example above, we placed a stop-loss order below the long Hikkake pattern.
This long Hikkake pattern bounced off the moving average, and we went long.
The natural pattern stop was slightly below the low of the Hikkake pattern.
Swing pivots are also natural support and resistance suitable for placing stop-losses.
In the chart above, we marked the market swings with blue lines.
Here, we entered the market without a specific price pattern. Instead, our trade trigger was the market closing above the moving average (orange).
We placed our stop-loss slightly below the last swing low, which acted as market support.
The ideal stop-loss is one that offers enough space for a trade to wiggle. How much space (price range) is enough?
The answer depends on the market’s volatility. Hence, another logical method for setting stop-losses considers the volatility of market price action.
The classic example of a volatility stop-loss is the Chandelier Stop. It uses the Average True Range (ATR) as a measure of market volatility. Then, it places a stop-loss based on a multiple of the ATR.
In the example below, we used the 14-period ATR multiplied by three for our Chandelier Stop (in orange).
We bought after the market broke and closed above a minor bear trend line.
Based on the Chandelier Stop, we placed our initial stop-loss here.
The Chandelier Stop is often used as a trailing stop-loss. In this case, it performed well. We were able to trail the market upwards for a nice bullish run.
2. How much would I need to risk based on the logical stop-loss point?
For instance, a pattern stop implies a stop-loss level at $40. We intend to enter at $50 with 100 shares. We will need to risk $1,000.
3. Can I afford to risk that amount?
I have $2,000 in my trading account. That is all I can use for my trading activities. If I lose it, I can no longer trade.
If I lose $1,000 as implied by the pattern stop, I run the risk of suffering a 50% drawdown. I cannot afford to take the risk.
In this case, regardless of the trading setup’s quality, this trade is too expensive for me. I must pass the trade or scale down my position size to lower the trade risk to an acceptable level.
I have $50,000 in my trading account. $1,000 is only 2% of my risk capital. A loss of 2% will not ruin my ability to continue trading. I can well afford to take this risk.
Hence, I will take the trade.
The misguided trader starts with his personal risk preference and proceeds to place a stop-loss in the market. He has already decided that he wants to enter the market before evaluating his risk.
On the other hand, the logical trader considers the market risk before deciding if he wants to enter the market. He starts with an analysis of the market for potential stop-losses. Then, he considers his risk preference. Ultimately, he enters the market only if he is able to bear the risk.
Stop-losses limits risk and are critical to a trader’s survival. However, if you do not set your stop-losses logically by placing the market first, they are pointless.
Remember, market first. And do not trade when you cannot afford to lose. | 2019-04-24T18:06:40 | https://www.tradingsetupsreview.com/logical-traders-guide-setting-stop-losses/ |
0.998547 | The team came up with their innovative way of discerning fact from fiction online via a unique experiment — 20 volunteers were asked to memorize the details of a fake identity, and assume it as their own. The subjects then answered a set of yes-or-no questions via a computerized form, as did 20 truth-telling volunteers.
Questions included "is xxxx your name?" and "were you born in 19xx?" — each answer was recorded, as was how the subjects' mouse cursors moved, from the bottom of the screen to "yes" and "no" buttons in the top two corners.
To weed out the truly exemplary liars in their test group, in addition to 12 questions about their identity, subjects were also asked 12 unexpected questions based on the volunteers' new identities. If people rehearse lies, lying can be as easy as telling the truth — by definition, asking unexpected questions throws a wrench in the works.
These wildcard questions included zodiac signs — while a subject may have memorized a fake birthday, they may not have known the corresponding zodiac sign, or been able to calculate it quickly enough. The researchers trained computers to sort liars from truth tellers based on the number of incorrect answers given by subjects — while their machine-learning algorithms ranged in accuracy from 77.5 to 85 percent in rooting out liars, when the researchers included features of the mouse paths-such as deviation from a straight line-in their tests, computers were able to successfully pick out the liars 90 to 95 percent of the time.
The team also trained and tested the algorithms using only questions liars answered truthfully, such as whether they were Italian — fibbers were identified with 80 percent accuracy. Jumping back and forth between telling the truth and lying, the researchers observe, appears to have a broad effect on people's behavior — being compelled to tell lies changes the way those people tell the truth.
The researchers believe their technique could have real world applications — for instance by law enforcement, to check suspects' alibis in criminal investigations, verify identities online, or even identify terrorists from refugees at border checkpoints. Traditional methods of lie detection used by authorities include face-to-face interviews and polygraphs that measure heart rate and skin conductance — such tests can't be done remotely, or with large numbers of people.
As revealed by online demonstrations such as Click Click Click, browsers communicate vast amounts of data about their users' computer activities — Google's new "one click" verification system uses simple mouse movements can even distinguish humans from robots.
Evidently, much technology is already equipped with the capability to track mouse movements — implanting it with algorithms to judge whether someone is being truthful on the basis of those movements would be simple.
However, it's debatable whether this technique would be truly effective in weeding out professional identify fraudsters — such felonious individuals would undoubtedly spend more time researching their victims' backstories, making "surprise" questions harder to find. Nevertheless, catching or blocking the activities of less specialized criminals would still mildly reduce the threat of online identity theft — and "surprise" questions could be made to be so hyper-specific that only the real individual would know the answers.
While the best digital con artists may know an individual's star sign, they may not know the brand of their target's preferred deodorant. If nothing else, the findings inject an element of unpredictability into the game of online cat and mouse. | 2019-04-20T22:08:43 | https://sputniknews.com/science/201706121054553801-mouse-movements-liars-online/ |
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