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0.999011 | The average cost for an ignition timing adjust is between $54 and $69. Labor costs are estimated between $54 and $69. Estimate does not include taxes and fees.
What is Ignition Timing Adjustment?
Ignition timing refers to synchronous operation of the engine mechanical and ignition components. In order for an engine to be considered properly timed, the engine crankshaft and camshaft must rotate synchronously, and the ignition system must fire the spark plugs at precisely the right time. If this does not occur, many older vehicles allow for adjustment of the ignition timing to correct the issue.
Ignition timing begins with the timing of the engine camshaft and engine crankshaft because ignition timing is set according to the position of the engine camshaft. The engine crankshaft and engine camshaft or linked together by a timing belt or chain, so they always rotate in perfect synchronization. As the crankshaft turns, the pistons in the engine move up and down, and the engine valves must open and close at the right moment of the piston. This is achieved by mechanically timing the camshaft to the crankshaft so the camshaft will open the valves and close the valves at the right moments. Since opening the engine valves allows fuel to enter the engine cylinders, the camshaft also controls the moment of ignition by use of a distributor gear, camshaft synchronizer, or camshaft position sensor. No matter which is used, the timing of the ignition system will always be relative to the camshaft, through distributor systems can be mechanically adjusted.
What are the symptoms of incorrect Ignition Timing?
The most common symptoms of improper ignition timing will vary be the type of ignition the vehicle uses. For distributor type ignition systems, the vehicle may run, but it will run too fast or slow at idle, even after warmed. The vehicle may severely misfire and hesitate to accelerate from a stop, or the engine may have these same symptoms with increasing severity at higher RPM's. Also, if the ignition timing is severely off, the engine may not run at all. This applies to both distributor type ignitions and computer controlled ignitions, and is the most common symptom for improper ignition timing with computerized ignition timing systems. Computerized ignition systems tend to cause a no-start condition when ignition timing not as the engine control module expects, because the camshaft position sensor has failed or the engine timing belt or chain has broken or jumped time. For OBD compliant vehicles, the check engine light will be illuminated, and OBD trouble codes will be stored in the vehicle.
Can I drive with improper Ignition Timing?
Ignition timing failures for computerized vehicles will nearly always require immediate repair. This is because the vehicle will likely fail to start, run, or drive. For vehicles with distributor type ignition systems, the ignition timing should be brought back to the correct setting according to the manufacturer immediately as well, but for other reasons. Incorrect ignition timing can lead to carbon build-up, poor fuel mileage, overheating and detonation, as well as the drivability mentioned.
How often is Ignition Timing Adjustment needed?
Ignition timing adjustment is conducted as a normal tune-up item, so the interval for checking the timing is far greater than adjusting the timing. Since oil on older vehicles is changed more often, around 3,000 miles, the timing will be inspected just as often. Certainly the timing on a distributor type ignition vehicle should be checked and adjusted after no more than 50,000-75,000 miles.
How are ignition timing issues diagnosed?
Diagnosing incorrect ignition timing for a distributor type engine is simple, and only requires a timing light. The timing light is connected to the number one cylinder spark plug wire and the battery terminals. Then, with the engine running, the pulsing of the ignition wire on the number one cylinder will cause the ignition timing light to flash. When the light flashes on the crankshaft pulley or harmonic balancer, the light will illuminate a line or arrow that corresponds to a gauge on the timing cover. This will allow the technician to identify where the timing is currently, and adjust the timing if needed.
How is Ignition Timing adjusted?
Ignition timing adjustments require the timing light to remain connected, the engine running, and the distributor hold-down fasteners to be loosened very slightly. Once the engine is warm, the distributor will be slowly rotated to achieve the exact angle of ignition in relation to the crankshaft pulley, and the hold-down fasteners will be tightened once again.
We do not recommend adjusting timing by vacuum pressure, by ear, or by idle speed. Vacuum pressure can be incorrect even if timing is correct, and idle speed is set after timing is corrected. Using these methods will result in an engine running below optimal efficiency, and the engine temperature may be too high or low in older engines.
When adjusting ignition timing on distributor type ignition system, there is a high probability of electric shock due to worn ignition wires or distributor cap. The wires should be inspected for wear and tear before attempting to rotate the distributor to adjust timing. Also, the vacuum or mechanical advance should be tested before adjusting timing, as these will prevent the distributor from maintaining proper timing.
Can I adjust the ignition timing myself?
Timing a distributor type ignition system is simple, and typically only requires a wrench, timing light, and a helper. As long as the crankshaft pulley is properly aligned, the vacuum and mechanical advance is tested, and the ignition wires are in good condition, this is a breeze for almost anyone. | 2019-04-24T08:15:54 | https://repairpal.com/estimator/ignition-timing-adjust-cost |
0.99988 | Italy's Supreme Court ruled that the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles must return a 2,000-year-old bronze statue it bought for almost $4 million (£3.1 million) in 1977.
The museum has vowed to defend its 'legal right' to the ancient Greek statue of 'Victorious Youth', also known as 'Athlete from Fano' or simply the 'Getty Bronze', which was made by Greek sculptor Lysippos between 300 and 100 BCE, after the court said it must be returned to Italy, theguardian.com reported.
The bronze statue was discovered by fishermen off Pesaro, on Italy's Adriatic coast, in 1964, sold several times, and eventually bought by the American museum over 40 years ago.
But Italy has always maintained that it was smuggled out of the country and acquired illegally, making its first formal request for its return from the US in 1989.
After an 11-year legal battle, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the J. Paul Getty Museum against an order from the Pesaro judge Giacomo Gasparini in June for the statue to be confiscated.
Pesaro prosecutor Silvia Cecchi told Italian media that the Supreme Court ruling was "the final word from the Italian justice [system]" and that the Lysippos statue "must be returned".
Culture Minister Alberto Bonisoli urged US authorities to act quickly on the country's behalf to "favor the restitution of the Lysippos to Italy".
Italy's battle over the statue included a letter to the US president, Donald Trump, from art critic Vittorio Sgarbi calling on him to ensure its restitution.
But the museum has refused to surrender the relic, saying it would appeal against the decision. The museum argued that the statue was discovered in international waters and pointed out that it was acquired by the museum nine years after Italy's top court concluded there was no evidence that the statue belonged to Italy.
"The court has not offered any written explanation of the grounds for its decision, which is inconsistent with its holding 50 years ago that there was no evidence of Italian ownership," Lisa Lapin, Getty's vice president of communications, said in a statement.
"Moreover, the statue is not and has never been part of Italy's cultural heritage. Accidental discovery by Italian citizens does not make the statue an Italian object. Found outside the territory of any modern state, and immersed in the sea for two millennia, the Bronze has only a fleeting and incidental connection with Italy."
Experts dispute this. The fishermen who found the artefact sold it in Fano, a town in Pesaro Province, to Italian art dealer Giacomo Barbetti. Barbetti kept the statue in his father's home before it was transferred to the Umbrian town of Gubbio in 1965, where it was eventually sold to an unidentified buyer from Milan. The statue then changed hands several times before being bought by the Getty.
"Italy has made a very clear and compelling case that the Lysippos was smuggled into Italy, via Fano, and therefore was later smuggled out of Italy," Noah Charney, an arts professor who teaches each summer on the Arca postgraduate program in art crime and cultural heritage protection in Italy, said.
"Where it was first discovered, whether in Italian or international waters, is therefore a moot point."
The statue is among the most popular works at the Los Angeles museum, but its legal ownership has been in dispute ever since Getty bought it from German art dealer Herman Heinz Herzer in 1977.
The sum paid was nearly 800 times the $5,600 that Italian art dealers gave to the fishermen who found it. | 2019-04-20T16:31:52 | http://www.iran-daily.com/export/html/235310?module=news |
0.998602 | Formula One is like a game of snakes and ladders - the object is to get to the end, get to the goal, but along the way there are things that can help push a driver forward to the goal, and there are things that can slide a driver backwards, down and away.
With just twenty racing seats in the series, just getting into Formula One is now a goal in itself, but the ultimate ambition of any racer is to take the title, as any of thousands of interviews will attest - any driver when asked will say that he wants to be the Formula One World Champion, whether his abilities are sufficient to the task or otherwise.
Ability will help you to get there, but luck will always play a part - every driver needs to come across a ladder in their career, all the while looking out for the snakes. Kimi Raikkonen had a manager he trusted to help him move up, but it wasn't until Peter Collins told David Robertson "you should take a look at this guy - he is good"; wasn't until Robertson paid for a year in Formula Renault; wasn't until he told Peter Sauber what he'd been told himself; - that the ladder appeared. Even talent needs a ladder, a step up along the way.
But we can't judge luck, we can't measure it against another's luck and make an empirical decision about its worth. What we can judge is talent, how it manifests itself, how it makes itself known.
Ferrari have come in for a beating this year for failing to live up to their recent past, for failing to dominate Formula One as so many people have become accustomed to them doing. In a way the team have been a victim of their own success, but the comparison needs to be against their competitors and not their history, and in that comparison Ferrari are coming out behind.
By racing in a version of last year's benchmark car, no matter that it's a highly modified version, and failing against the competition shows more irrefutably the levels of improvement in Formula One year on year than any collection of words could. Put plainly, the car that was the class of the field has been improved, but the competition has come up with new cars that make their own older ones look like a different, lesser, series.
So it's clear to see that Ferrari have found a snake - their modifications weren't good enough, nor those of their effectively exclusive tyre manufacturer Bridgestone - and the decisions they are making with the new car bear the hallmarks of plans made in haste.
The old car wasn't quick enough, but it was reliable and known - Rubens Barrichello pushed it onto the podium from a lowly start in Melbourne, through a combination of familiarity and dependability - while the new car, rushed to the racetrack to answer the improvements of the other teams, seems fast but fragile, lacking in the bulletproof consistency that has been a hallmark of Ferrari's cars this decade.
Perhaps it's to be expected that Ferrari would slide backwards one day - no team dominate a sport forever, no collection of people can excel permanently - but what of their drivers? Barrichello, once derided for his impetuous nature which manifested itself in wildly differing performances, has been fairly metronomic in his driving this year - he is not improved, he is not sliding back, he is driving at Barrichello level, which despite the thoughts of his critics is better than a number of his competitors week in, week out.
His drive in Melbourne from eleventh on the grid to second was flawless, an example if it were needed of the level Barrichello performs at after so long at the heart of the Ferrari machine, when the competition doesn't perform to perfection. His Malaysian qualifying was indicative of the reduced abilities of his team against the others, but nonetheless he managed to push his recalcitrant machine into the points before its untimely demise, while Bahrain was a further indication of the decline of his team.
Schumacher, on the other hand, has underperformed relative to his own, admittedly towering, history, even taking into account Ferrari's slide. Caught out by the weather in qualifying in Melbourne, the expectation was of a masterclass of overtaking and pure racing ability, such as he has provided so many times in the past.
That he struggled comparatively to his teammate was clear, but his part in the collision with Nick Heidfeld was amateurish at best, a possible indication that so many years at the front of the grid have dulled his ability, or appetite, for wheel to wheel racing in the pack. In Malaysia too he looked anonymous, following Barrichello at some distance while he was in the race, and then taking advantage of retirements to scrape a points finish.
Against this is Bahrain, of course, when a fast but fragile new car allowed him to compete from the front after qualifying, until his first car malfunction in years took him out of the event. The performance was what we expect of the seven times Champion, but not enough to outweigh the poor performances of the opening two rounds. While it is safe to assume that Schumacher will improve over the season, at present he has found a short snake backwards.
In comparison Renault have found a large ladder, and they are climbing it with gusto. Three pole positions, three wins and a commanding lead in both Championships are all the proof needed.
Fernando Alonso too has stepped up after sliding backwards last year in comparison to then teammate Jarno Trulli - his storming drive through the field in Australia was second only to Barrichello's equally meteoric rise, while his dominant performances in Malaysia and Bahrain point to a young driver who has found the maturity needed to pair with his already sparkling pace.
Giancarlo Fisichella's start has been markedly different to his teammate. A lucky result in qualifying gave him a race result on a plate in Melbourne, where the Italian's composure shone through - while his race looked simple on the outside, a quick look at the laptimes shows that, when needed, Fisichella could increase his performance at will to keep a steady gap behind him to his pursuers.
This composure abandoned him in Malaysia, however, when struggling with an ill-mannered car threw Fisichella into the clutches of the pack. There was no sign of his maturity in an ill-conceived attempt to keep a fast charging Mark Webber behind him, sliding through the dust off the racing line and into the chasing Williams. An awful second qualifying session in Bahrain is all that we have to look at for the weekend given his car problems in the race, but the season so far has been a slight backwards step from pre-season expectations.
Toyota's ladder has been almost as high as Renault's. While performance at the top is different to that further back - the fiercer the competition, the more difficult it is to take the fractional improvements on offer and utilise them to positive affect - the fact that Toyota have leapt out of the backmarker pack and are now competing towards the front is proof positive of a genuine rise.
Jarno Trulli, long derided for his lack of race results in underperforming teams until a stunning first half of 2004 regenerated his career, has improved again this year, running as comfortably at the front as he did all those years ago in Austria driving a Prost that had no business leading a race but nonetheless was.
A fortunate qualifying result in Melbourne flattered to deceive, with a tyre-chewing rear end pitching Trulli back into the pack, but the level of improvement both team and driver could force upon the car was an indication of the steps forward both have made. Top three qualifying results in the next two races were no flukes, and Trulli annexed second place behind a better car, and ahead of other superior vehicles, on talent alone. Results this year have shown the Italian has stepped up into the top flight of drivers.
On the other side of the garage Ralf Schumacher has seemed to be marching on the spot. It's a harsh representation, but for a man hoping to come in and dominate a team in the manner of his brother, he has been handed a beating by his less fancied teammate. Trulli has long been considered a master of qualifying, which has gone against him when his car wasn't able to manage the race performance he coaxed out of it in a fast lap, but the comparison in qualifying was always going to be a harsh one for Schumacher.
Unfortunately for the German, his race performances have been similar to those seen in his past; he looked ordinary fighting for position in the first two races, and while Bahrain was a marked improvement in that area he has always managed to compete on his day, albeit inconsistently. In a field full of ladders and snakes, young Schumacher has rolled the dice and landed on neither, but he will need to take a step up soon if he wants to be more than a speck in his teammate's mirror.
After an off-season more notable for the battle over the second race seat than for impressive laptimes, Williams bosses admitted that all was not well within the team in respect to pushing the car forward. Problems with the new windtunnel were the main culprit, and the team sheepishly confessed that a lot of the work would need to be reconsidered.
It was a surprising admission, yet more remarkable was the turnaround in performance between the last few tests and the first few races - for a team who were so harsh in their self-criticism, their performance looks worthy at least of podium finishes at present, which against recent times has to be seen as at least a slight step forward.
The question has been whether, after the much-discussed dispensing of former drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher, Williams had the driving talent to push the team up the grid. Both Mark Webber and Nick Heidfeld have looked impressive in their former teams while driving in the midfield, but what people wanted to know was could they transfer this talent into the front end furnace.
Webber has always looked as though he would end up in a front running team, and now it has come to pass. With a qualifying talent comparable to Trulli - he has put a wayward Jaguar on the front row of the grid - this season was going to show if he had a racing ability to match.
So far he has lost a spot at the start in his home race but was unable to find a way past a slower car on a narrow track, run at a strong, podium level pace and overtaken cars before being taken off in a racing incident, and defended strongly but ultimately futilely against a clearly faster car. Against this he has had a car with a detuned engine for at least one race, and been driving with a broken rib that just last week forced him out of a test early because of the pain. A push, then, but Webber will need improvement from both his team and himself.
Heidfeld and Webber seem to be alternating in performances - the German slipped backwards in Melbourne, was there to pick up the pieces after Webber dropped out of Malaysia, and was the innocent victim of an engine problem in Bahrain. While Heidfeld has been slower than his teammate, the gap is not huge, and if anything the competition between the pair has been entertaining to watch. However, like Webber, Heidfeld will need to improve his game if the team do.
On pure speed, McLaren have stepped up a level from an incredibly disappointing 2004, but the team haven't been able to show it when it counts. Third driver Pedro de la Rosa showed this by claiming the fastest lap in Bahrain, but changes to the tyres have meant that McLaren are as yet unable to generate enough heat into their rear tyres in qualifying to push the drivers up the grid and give them the opportunity to fight at the front. Until they solve this problem, the step forward is a small one.
Kimi Raikkonen's season with a misbehaving car last year has given him the ability to wait for a race to come to him, and the podium in Bahrain was due reward for his patience. His driving has been solid rather than inspiring, but car problems and wayward driving in Melbourne, and a tyre blowout in Malaysia, have conspired to make his results look less than they otherwise might. Bahrain was a good race for the Finn, but at present Raikkonen is largely meeting expectations, rather than exceeding them.
Teammate Montoya is not yet performing at Raikkonen's level - any driver new to a team can be expected to struggle slightly in his new surroundings, but for a man tipped for Championship glory the results have been disappointing. Montoya was unruly in Melbourne and appeared sluggish in Malaysia, running off the pace of his teammate despite picking up points in both events. For a top line driver in a pace-setting car his performance has not been up to expectation, although his off track injury ahead of Bahrain has denied us the opportunity to see if an improvement is underway.
Of all of the teams, BAR had found the longest snake, falling well away from their top line performances of 2004. BAR are the only team to have failed to reach the finish with either driver in any race, and when their drivers have been on track they have generally been down the order before the onset of car problems. In testing they've shown the pace they've been missing in public, but there are no prizes for winning outside of the races.
Given these problems is it hard to evaluate just how the drivers have performed - other than in Melbourne, where both drivers were pulled into the pits a lap before the end, Jenson Button has 51 race laps, Takuma Sato has 28, and fill in driver Anthony Davidson a mere two.
Button and Sato spent most of the Australian race sandwiched between the Sauber pair, while they both struggled in minor points positions in Bahrain before succumbing to car problems. Sato appears to have come to terms with his teammate's race speed, which indicates a small step forward, but with insufficient laps and an ill-performing car the only thing that is certain is that the team's current woes are not induced by their drivers.
In stark contrast, Red Bull have turned around the inadequate performances of last year's Jaguar to put the team far higher up the grid than anyone gave them any prospect of reaching. With a new management organisation, as well as a lot of change of personnel in the team, the improvement can't be attributed to any one thing, and the only question mark will be how long they will last against competitors with far more resources at their disposal.
David Coulthard is used to running at the front of the field and has used that experience to be one of only two drivers - the other being Alonso - to have scored in every race this year. In many ways, the move to Red Bull has done Coulthard wonders; he looks refreshed and happy, and that has translated into better performances on track. A fortunate qualifying session in Melbourne was filtered through experience into points, while some strong showings in the next two races point to a step up from the underperforming McLaren driver of last year.
Christian Klien has possibly made an even larger step up from the surly, wayward driver of 2004 - this year's model seems to have opened up and looks to be even enjoying himself after a year where he seemed at times to be in the paddock against his will. Two solid points' finishes were an indication of the move forward Klien has made, while a breakdown on the grid in Bahrain was merely unlucky ahead of handing over the drive for the time being to Vitantonio Liuzzi, rather than a reason to sulk. Their advertising seems to be true - in motor racing at least: Red Bull does seem to give you wings.
Sauber, having had their wings clipped when their sponsor turned competitor, are on a slide down the grid this year. Propping up the back of the grid is not where the team wanted to be when they commissioned the new windtunnel and supercomputer for their design team and, a lack of sponsorship notwithstanding, the sudden slide in performance is as alarming for the team as it is surprising for everyone else.
The most obvious change in a team who pride themselves on consistency is Jacques Villeneuve, whose loss of form is less blip, more nosedive, even after an erratic 2003. The Canadian looked lost at sea filling in for the final three races last year, and if anything has fallen back since then, admitting as much to reporters in Malaysia.
After a lucky break in qualifying in Melbourne he dropped like a stone in the race, finishing the race behind teammate Felipe Massa, who had started at the back of the grid. In Malaysia he was again off the pace before throwing the car off the road in the race, while in Bahrain he outqualified only the Jordans and Minardis before following his teammate around in the race. With question marks over his continued future in Formula One, it just remains to be seen how long the snake Villeneuve has found will stretch.
Massa is perhaps being flattered by the poor performance of his teammate, but it is hard to tell how well he is driving without an effective yardstick. His drive in Melbourne was impressive, jumping up to thirteenth on the first lap in a very heavy car and holding on for a tenth place finish, while a points finish in the ill-handling car in Bahrain and keeping Michael Schumacher behind him until his first stop in Malaysia were notable achievements. The results point to a small step up, but it is hard to point to more until he has some competition from the other side of the garage.
Behind Sauber is the second race, the effective Scholarship Class of Formula One. Jordan and Minardi are unable to hope for more than to race against each other this year, somewhat through problems of their own making.
Jordan have been sold to the Midland Group, who have stated that they will put in the bare minimum of funding this year ahead of a re-launch as Midland in 2006. They've been true to their word - all three drivers are bringing funds to the team, there is apparently no one looking for addition funds in the form of sponsorship, and with a large number of staff having left in the off-season, the team are relying on the input of a number of inexperienced ex-Carlin Formula Three mechanics and engineers, which has resulted in the inevitable slide backwards.
Narain Karthikeyan has achieved as much as could be expected - he has mostly kept his car on the road and has shown good speed relative to his competition. Qualifying 2.5 seconds faster than teammate Tiago Monteiro in Melbourne showed what he was capable of, and he wasn't overawed by the more experienced drivers around him on the grid. Malaysia was another solid race, while Bahrain saw a dip in form in second qualifying to drop behind Monteiro on the grid ahead of an early retirement. Apart from that lap, Karthikeyan has been a worthwhile addition.
Monteiro, on the other hand, has struggled with the car from day one. While the inability of his team to do anything more than field a car hasn't helped, he has been left behind by his teammate and is struggling for form. Monteiro has made the finish of all three races and been ahead of the Minardis when he did, but that's no great recommendation for a driver.
Minardi, as ever, have struggled at the back with cars that almost creak with age in the pitlane. After a dramatic first weekend back in Melbourne, where team boss Paul Stoddart went to court to ensure his team's entrance to the grid, the Italian team have gone on with their business and awaits the debut of the all-new PS05 in the hope that it will at least push them past the Jordan pair. It's hard to slide backwards from the rear of the grid, but they aren't stepping up either.
Christijan Albers was highly rated before arriving in Formula One but hasn't got much speed out of a chassis which, to be fair, was raced by Mark Webber as far back as 2002. He had car problems in both qualifying and the race in Melbourne, limped around to finish last in Malaysia, and finished behind Patrick Friesacher in Bahrain. While no one could expect miracles in a Minardi, he needs to at least match his teammate.
Friesacher knows all about the snakes and ladders of motorsport, having gained sponsors, lost sponsors, done the same with his management, and spent more time in Formula 3000 than was strictly wise. However, he is in Formula One at last and making the most out of it - he has outqualified his teammate twice, and outraced him as well. Some poor luck in Malaysia where he spun on oil deposited by an exploding BAR has been the only blot on his copybook so far.
But perhaps Friesacher's most important performance was finding the ladder into Formula One in the first place. By getting in he was given the chance to show that he can perform at the top level, and by default that many other drivers could too, if they had the possibility.
Which is what each of the drivers wants to do - having found the ladder into the sport, they are all hoping that their abilities are enough to keep them away from the snakes. | 2019-04-23T04:06:29 | http://www.davidcameron.it/other/snakes-and-ladders |
0.999761 | ... and B. Simon's [Functional integration and quantum physics](http://books.google.com/books?id=6Wcaa2ddplEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Quantum+Physics%22&hl=en&ei=WcF2TsCIIOrqmAXWupDXDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q&f=false), among others). They are both mathematical physics books, not necessarily "quant-ph" as physicists interpret it.
@UGPhysics, those are examples of techniques that not everyone would use. But, to say that they are not about quantum physics is to imply that there is a clean separation between math-ph and quant-ph which [doesn't exist](http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3575). That said, how does this relate to the distinction between quantum-mechanics and quant-ph?
... The [poster](http://meta.theoreticalphysics.stackexchange.com/users/123/abatkai) is a mathematician working in functional analysis- and wanted to know how much of a distinction we make between the two terms. -- If I've not misread his question, he wants to know if purely math-oriented questions (of the sort math-physicists would make) would be suitable here (as we call the site "Theoretical Physics").
@UGPhysics, I think you've read into the question somewhat. To me it is a question on the distinction between two very similar things, in addition to a caution about what occurs with such fine distinctions.
@UGPhysics, as to quantum mechanics v physics, I dimly recall hearing that distinction before, yet everyone I talk to uses mechanics, not physics. Also, "quantum mechanics" has an adjectival form that "quantum physics" does not, and it is in very common usage, e.g. a "quantum mechanical" description of the system. To me, that implies that quantum mechanics is preferred over quantum physics. This may just be the culture at my grad school, but I don't see any meaningful distinction between the two.
of granularity should be atleast a degree -- or, more appropriately, two -- of what is used in Physics SE questions on theoretical / mathematics physics. | 2019-04-22T08:42:48 | https://www.physicsoverflow.org/3546/is-quantum-mechanics-and-quant-ph-the-same?show=3921 |
0.987527 | Should You Sell Or License Your New Product Or Idea?
1. Focus your attention on other ideas.
2. Turn over the entire rights to your patent and be done with the venture.
3. Generate a quick income from the sale.
By far the most profitable. This allows you to maintain ownership of your idea, while allowing another company to build and market the idea. This is what most people choose, they find a company to build, market, and pay you a fair market value for the use of your idea.
You can build, market, and do the legal work yourself. This is a complicated process that requires a large amount of capital, time, and knowledge of the market.
All patent owners have the right to sell their idea. This process requires the ability to find a buyer, a lawyer, and understand what the market value of their idea is.
Believe it or not, the vast majority of patents granted by the U.S. Patent Office have never been acted upon. About 90% off all patents are never commercialized!
Licensing your idea to an established company has many advantages.
Your product will carry the label of a company that has a well known and respected name.
Most individuals cannot, and should not approach large companies like Wal-Mart, Target, etc. They usually will not look at people who only sell one product, they prefer vendors with multiple products.
Most larger companies have a complete marketing and Public Relations department. Larger corporations have the capital and resources available to launch a product properly.
By allowing another company to build and market your product they generally assume the liability also. Thus if for some reason something happens that has legal ramification they will usually handle it.
You get paid royalties for doing nothing. Of course it is your idea, you did invent it and file the appropriate patent application. But what we mean is that you will get paid, while they build it, market it, promote it, and do all of the ground work.
All of us have received promotional items at some point in our lives. Promotional merchandise includes “give away” items that businesses gift their customers and/or prospective clients. These items will have a business logo and contact information printed on them.
As small business owners, most of us realize how important giving away promo items can be for our long-term advertising campaigns. The problem is knowing what to give.
From imprinted ballpoint pens that you can buy in bulk for less than fifty cents each to old world style globes with fancy brass stands imprinted with your company information, there is promotional merchandise to fit into just about any business budget. Personally, I feel that the usability of a promotional item is much more important than the cost.
If it is something that your client will never use or look at, the promotional item is probably a waste of money. What you want is something that will continually remind your customer or prospect of your business. Before spending a cent, there’s a good way to figure out if you will be flushing money down the drain with your promotions: Check your junk drawer.
Why are they in the junk drawer? I never use them. Take a look at your own junk drawer and you’ll discover a bunch of cheap promotional items that you’ll never use. Herein is the key to what sorts of promotional items you should or should not be buying.
Giveaways that I use all the time are calendars and pens. These promotional products are not very expensive; yet, they are practical and something that your clients will appreciate and actually use. Other practical promotional merchandise that people will use on a continual basis includes USB flash drives, mouse pads, sticky pads and memo pads.
You might find that caps are an affordable promotional product that your customers appreciate. Just about anyone is going to wear a cap or hat at some point, so these promotions might come in handy for your customers.
Your promotional products should also have some bearing or relevancy for your business. For example, it would be a bit odd if a mining company gave cute little cosmetic kits as its promotional merchandise.
There are thousands of things that can be printed with your business logo or information and, of course, thousands of unique promotional ideas you can grab for your advertising campaign. The main things to consider are (a) the cost and (b) if your prospects will use your promotional gift or toss it in the junk drawer. Since the whole point of giving away merchandise is to promote your business, you want something that will continuously advertise your business to your client. A ballpoint pen with your company information has a higher chance of pulling in more business for you than a hot pink t-shirt that’s way too small for that ex-Marine client your consulting business has been courting.
SP, abbreviated for sales promotion, is one of the four aspects of promotional mix, together with the other three factors of advertising, personal selling and public relations. Usually, it would be a short-termed movement designed to attract customers’ attention to a particular product and to increase its sales by advertising and publicity.
Having knowing the basic definition of SP, it is time to get a knowledge of some effective sales promotion methods and ideas. It is extremely significant for those who make their decisions to do business. We should realize that sale promotion has played an important role in speeding the pace of business development.
SP refers to those marketing activities other than personal selling, advertisement and publicity, which stimulate consumer purchasing and dealer effectiveness, such as displays, shows and expositions, demonstrations and various non-recurrent selling efforts not in the ordinary routine. Then, what would those efficient ideas be? Which kinds of methods would make sense? And how could a company start a sales promotion to develop his business better?
The best ideas and most effective methods, has been proven to be discount sales. People tend to pay attention to brand products, but they would not be so active to make an order because of the high price. That is to say, a lower price can stimulate consumption.
“Free shipping for orders” is also quite attractive to customers. Maybe the shipping fare is not so high, but the “FREE” is always able to attract others’ attention. By the way, this method is usually adapted for e-commerce.
Another surprise for customers is the give-away activity! People will be happy to receive a free gift, so, if the company promise to give away, the sales volume would go to a boost probably. For example, “Buy one, get one free” is one of the most common means.
Although sales promotion is only a short-termed incentive to prompt the purchase of products or services, it can bring great benefits for the company. In this way, it is rather necessary to make the most use of sales promotion. | 2019-04-25T06:29:02 | http://www.medicalsuppliesaustralia.eu.org/2017/12 |
0.999999 | The boyfriend of an alleged victim of forced marriage told a court she had joked about her parents "giving her away" weeks before she flew to Bangladesh on a sham holiday.
Leeds Crown Court heard the boyfriend, who is still in a relationship with the "highly westernised" victim, was told: "What if they give me away?"
It was said after the 19-year-old victim's father started selling "stuff" before the trip which made her think he was saving up to pay for a wedding.
A court previously heard the woman was pulled out of school in Leeds and and deceived by her own parents into travelling abroad for an arranged marriage with her first cousin.
Her father threatened to "chop her up in 18 seconds" if the then 18-year-old refused to go through with the forced marriage, a jury was earlier told.
During cross-examination today, the boyfriend said his girlfriend had joked about her parents organising an arranged marriage three weeks before flying to Bangladesh.
"That's what I have been told by her," the boyfriend added. "I can only think of one thing knowing the Asian culture, that's a forced marriage.
"When it was said to me before she went it was a joke completely, I never thought in this day people still do that."
The boyfriend sent his girlfriend a message saying: "You could see this coming."
"In that moment it just kicked into me that we could have stopped this from happening," he added.
The court heard the boyfriend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, first became concerned after receiving a message on July 11 - seven days after she had flown to Bangladesh.
The victim told her boyfriend "don't message me for a while, I'll explain later", a court heard.
"It did not sound right for her to say that," the boyfriend added.
"I felt like something was clearly happening."
He told the court his girlfriend never mentioned the existence of a person who was being touted as a potential suitor before she left for Bangladesh.
The lovers, who met in November 2015, kept their relationship a secret from the girl's parents because they didn't "think they would approve".
The girl's parents had been separated for a number of years, the court heard.
Jurors had previously heard the victim was taken out of her school during term time for what she was told was a family holiday to Bangladesh in July 2016.
The woman was eventually rescued by authorities, after secretly contacting her boyfriend in the UK.
Both of her parents are accused of forcing marriage and using violence or a form of coercion to get their daughter to enter into the marriage without her consent.
The defendants appeared in the dock today with the assistance of a Bengali interpreter. | 2019-04-21T12:07:30 | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/boyfriend-joked-about-forced-marriage-with-alleged-victim-in-weeks-before-sham-holiday-1-9163402 |
0.998617 | It will always be the main responsibility of the Teacher to choose curriculum, materials and resources that align with the standards and goals that are set forth by their state and district. An instructional materials evaluation checklist allows the Educator to identify and select materials and resources that are appropriate for the support and learning of each and every student. An instructional checklist contains the four areas of design, procedures, clarity and efficiency. The checklist outlines certain criteria that each area must meet. In the following paragraphs, I will describe why each area of an evaluation checklist is important as well as discuss why culturally appropriate and linguistically sensitive materials criteria may influence the selection process. In addition, I will identify a grade level, subject area and learning objective for a lesson I would want to teach that would contain curriculum materials that I would need to evaluate. Lastly, I will evaluate the curriculum materials and then decide whether or not to use them in my lesson. I will defend my decisions by providing a rationale for each resource. I will begin by discussing how important it is to choose materials that are culturally appropriate and linguistically sensitive. | 2019-04-23T12:28:12 | https://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Instructional-Planning/67393 |
0.99996 | His mother hid him for three months.
This is one of the Hebrews' children.
Should I find a Hebrew woman to nurse the child?
So Miriam went to find her (and Moses's) mother (Jochebed).
So Miriam and Jochebed took Moses away and nursed him.
After Moses was weaned, his mother returned him to Pharaoh's daughter who adopted him as her son.
Pharaoh's nameless daughter gave Moses his name.
When Moses was a bit older, he killed an Egyptian who was "smiting" a Hebrew, after making sure that no one was looking.
Why are you smiting this man?
Who made you a prince to judge us?
Are you going to kill us like you did the Egyptian?
So Moses knew that his murder was not well-hidden.
When Pharaoh heard about it, he decided to kill Moses.
But Moses fled to the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.
Some shepherds tried to drive the sisters away, but Moses intervened and helped them water their flock.
The sisters told their father, Reul , about the Egyptian who helped them at the well.
Reul told his daughters to invite the Egyptian to dinner.
So Moses came to dinner, and Reul gave Moses his daughter, Zipporah.
And Zipporah had a son named Gershom.
The king of Egypt dies.
The king of Egypt died, and the Israelites cried out to God.
God heard their groaning and remembered the deal he'd made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The birth story of Moses is suspiciously similar to that of the birth of Sargon, an Akkadian monarch from the 3rd millennium BCE.
Wells are the places to meet women in the Bible.
And now it's where Moses meets Zipporah. | 2019-04-25T07:02:31 | http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ex/2.html |
0.999985 | Grandma: It's a beautiful, sunny day outside. Grandma: So I shouldn't just lie around in bed like this. Grandma: I should lie around in bed like this! | 2019-04-21T14:52:21 | https://licensing.andrewsmcmeel.com/features/gr?date=2018-03-31 |
0.999999 | The BBC has agreed to fully fund free TV licences for over-75s from 2020/21, the Culture Secretary has said.
It is part of a deal which would see the BBC also benefit from a reduction in the amount of licence fee income used to pay for broadband roll-out, from £150m to nothing in 2020/2021. There will also be a return to inflation-based licence fee increases and a change in the law to ensure the licence fee covers those who only access catch-up TV.
Last week the BBC said it expected licence fee income to drop by £150m in 2016/2017 and announced that it was cutting 1,000 jobs to save £50m a year.
The cost of free TV licences for those over 75 has been estimated at £650m a year.
Press Gazette has asked both the BBC and the Government what the predicted net reduction in BBC income will be. Neither was able to supply that information.
John Whittingdale said changes announced today will be phased in from 2018/19, adding the Government is pleased the broadcaster has agreed to "play its part in contributing to reductions in spending like much of the rest of the public sector" while further reducing its "reliance on taxpayers".
He also announced legislation will be brought forward in the next year to "modernise the licence fee" to cover public service broadcast catch-up TV – an apparent nod towards allowing charging for people who opt to use the iPlayer.
The BBC licence fee of £145.50 is also expected to rise in line with the consumer price index measure of inflation, Whittingdale said.
The Tory frontbencher added the Government will "consider carefully" the case for decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee.
Labour labelled the "backroom deal" as "shabby".
Ben Bradshaw, Labour's former culture secretary, also accused the Government of attempting to make the BBC a "branch office" of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Replying to an urgent question in the Commons, Whittingdale said: "The commitment made in the Conservative manifesto that all households with an over 75-year-old will be eligible to a free TV licence will be honoured throughout this Parliament.
"As requested by the BBC, they will take responsibility for this policy from thereon."
Outlining the deal, Whittingdale said: "Under this agreement, the BBC will take on the cost of providing free television licences for those households over 75 and this will be phased in from 2018/19, with the BBC taking on the full costs from 2020/21.
"Having inherited a challenging fiscal position the Government is pleased that the BBC has agreed to play its part in contributing to reductions in spending like much of the rest of the public sector, while at the same time further reducing its overall reliance on taxpayers.
"As part of these new arrangements, the Government will ensure that the BBC can adapt to a changing media landscape.
"The Government will therefore bring forward legislation in the next year to modernise the licence fee to cover public service broadcast catch-up TV.
"In addition the Government will reduce the broadband ring-fence to £80 million in 2017/18, £20 million in 2018/19, £10 million in 2019/20 and to zero in 2020/21.
"The Government will consider carefully the case for decriminalisation in the light of the Perry Report and the need for the BBC to be funded appropriately. No decision will be taken in advance of charter renewal.
"The Government anticipates that the licence fee will rise in line with the CPI over the next charter review period, subject to the conclusions of the charter review in relation to the purposes and scope of the BBC and the BBC demonstrating that it is undertaking efficiency savings at least equivalent to those in other parts of the public sector."
Clearly, beyond the current Charter period it is for the Government to determine both its policy on the over-75s concession and how that is funded. We could not, ultimately, obstruct any decision that you made.
We acknowledge that nonetheless, following discussion with the BBC Executive and the Trust, you have agreed a number of significant mitigations: modernising the licence fee to include catch-up TV, phasing this change over four years and simultaneously phasing out the existing cost to the BBC of funding the Government’s broadband programme from the licence fee. Given those mitigations, and in particular with the assurance that the licence fee (of £145.50) will rise in line with CPI over the next Charter Period, we will not oppose the change being made. The BBC Executive Board has confirmed to the Trust that it accepts the decision on this basis.
It is our presumption that the Government will not now seek to impose further costs on the BBC during the Charter Period.
Both the Trust and the Executive are committed to driving further change and efficiencies, in the light of the economic challenges that face us, and to pursue all other possible sources of revenue. However, the Executive are clear that the necessary savings will not be achieved through productive efficiency alone and will inevitably have some impact on the nature of the BBC’s services.
The Trust has a specific duty to represent the interests of licence fee payers. We are disappointed that they have not been given any say in the major decisions about the BBC's future funding. However, we accept that those decisions now set a clear financial framework, subject to the terms set out in your letter, for a Charter Review process that will focus on what the BBC provides in return for its funding. We will want to make sure the public are at the centre of that debate.
You couldn’t make it up. The last time a shabby deal was done behind closed doors, John Whittingdale condemned the ‘short, private negotiation between the BBC and the government’ as not doing ‘much to inspire confidence in the independence, transparency or accountability of the process’. Yet here we are again. Despite repeated commitments made by Tony Hall to a process with full transparency, we find out through leaks and a forced statement to parliament that the BBC leadership has caved in to government demands that will further weaken the BBC’s ability to survive as a public service broadcaster of worldwide repute. | 2019-04-18T12:25:26 | https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/shabby-deal-with-government-outlined-in-which-bbc-will-fund-650m-cost-of-tv-licences-for-over-75s/ |
0.999896 | Chandelier painting lamp can give a new look to an old favorite. Painting can cover an ugly spot, or help melt in an older lamp in new decor. Whatever the reason, it is a task that will give a best chandelier painting a whole new look and give new atmosphere i your room.
Thoroughly clean the lamp to remove dust and grease; dirt can affect the color later. Allow to dry thoroughly. Place the lamp in a cardboard box. This will prevent the primer and paint from going everywhere. Spray lamp with spray paint primer and let it dry. The best things several thin layers rather than some thick ones. The thicker the coat, the greater the chance of drip spots and uneven color later. Spray lamp with spray paint for metal. This is in every home improvement or craft store. Spray the entire lamp and allow the first coat to dry completely before the next coat. Apply several thin layers until the desired look is achieved.
It is recommended to ventilate well when spraying paint. Outside are best, but open windows will work just as well? Spray paint smoke can be dangerous. You have to wear protected clothing and glasses when working with spray paint. | 2019-04-20T07:23:32 | https://leoschicago.com/how-to-change-chandelier-painting/ |
0.999991 | Use the following instructions to create a user-defined Access Protection rule for a file or folder registry.
Click Menu, Policy, Policy Catalog.
Select Endpoint Security Threat Prevention from the Product drop-down list.
Select Access Protection from the Category drop-down list.
Edit the policy and click Show Advanced.
Click Add in the Rules section.
Add the appropriate path to block. You can include wildcards.
Under Subrules, click Add and configure the subrule action as Create, Delete, Read, or Write.
Define the rule type as a Files, Registry key, or Registry value.
Add the file or folder path to Include or Exclude.
Open Endpoint Security and log on as an administrator.
Select the Threat Prevention module and click Show Advanced.
Select Add from the Rules section and enable Block from the Reaction options.
Add the appropriate path to block, and save the setting. You can include wildcards.
Configure the parameter to Include or Exclude. | 2019-04-25T16:07:07 | https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB86577 |
0.999956 | - Coolant can effectively reduce the temperature of computer system.
Step1:shut down computer completely before continuing.
Step3:Double check the water pipes and secure the terminals tightly.
Please read the manual first and follow the instructions step by step before using the product.
The functions of the coolant includes water quality leveling, anti-freezing, anti-rusting, and water scale reducing. The coolant can reduce the temperature of the system effectively and further enhance the thermal efficiency.
The coolant may be used without additional dilution. It is crucial to shut off the computer system prior to refilling the liquid cooling system. Using the refill water tank to fill the coolant into the pump while double checking the water pipes and securing all terminals tightly. The system may be restarted after all terminals are secured.
The included coolant can only be used with Thermaltake liquid cooling systems. Do not use for any other purposes. Place product in shade and avoid exp osure to sunlight when not in use.
First Aid: Ingestion: Seek medical attention. Do NOT induce vomiting unless directed by medical personnel. Never give anything by mouth to an unconscious person.
Inhalation: If inhaled, move to fresh air. If not breathing, trained personnel should begin CPR immediately. If breathing is difficult, give oxygen. Get immediate medical attention.
Skin Contact: In case of contact, immediately flush skin with water for 20 minutes. Wash off with soap and water. Remove contaminated clothing and shoes. Cold water may be used. If irritation persists, get medical attention.
Eye contact: Check for and remove contact lenses. In case of contact, immediately flush eyes and under eyelids, with plenty of water for at least 20 minutes. Cold water may be used. Get medical Attention. | 2019-04-19T15:00:38 | https://www.lucomputers.com/computer/CL-W0148/15597.html |
0.999998 | I discovered that chatting with the Paypal auto-responding bot thing is very entertaining. Here is a stimulating conversation we had.
Hello, I'm Sarah and I'm here to answer your questions about PayPal. Even though I'd like to be a real person, I'm not. I'm programmed to answer your questions. How can I help you?
I don't know exactly what you mean. Can you be a little more specific about the issue?
I'm sorry, but I still don't understand your question. For further assistance, you can contact PayPal directly.
I'm sorry you seem to think I'm not so intelligent. I'm a virtual agent, so I can't answer everything. If you'll rephrase your question, I'll do my best to try to help you.
I'm sorry, but I still don't understand your issue. For further assistance, you can contact PayPal directly.
playing darts, camping, drinking, and dancing.
How kind of you! Go away now.
My guess is that this will do absolutely nothing.
I went to the graduation of a family friend recently, which was fairly boring. What was more interesting, however, is the hotel we stayed in. There were a few odd things about it, which I will now list for no reason whatsoever.
1: It smelled very strange. The hallways smelled like chlorine, and the bathroom smelled like tacos. As far as the latter goes, I can only presume that someone snuck into the bathroom to eat a taco smuggled illegally across the Canadian border. I feel this is an excellent and sound theory.
2: One of their stairwells had two exits signs, one on the ceiling, and one on the floor. I presume that was for the benefit of very stupid people.
3: They had free muffins. Now, I don't think I've ever publicly expressed my love for muffins before, so I will now. I love muffins. Any shape, any flavour, as long as they're tasty and are full of empty calories. But there is such a thing as a bad muffin, and the ones being given out at that hotel definitely count. They were made of what I can only assume was packing foam, and tasted like air freshener liquid. I believe that the hotel staff were attempting to poison the stay-ees at their hotel, so that they could keep the corpses in their rooms and charge them for staying overtime.
I have been informed that free muffins in a hotel is not an unusual phenomenon.
This song is from the soon-to-be-released called...something. I'm debating between "Tasty Fuzzy Carpet Time", or "My Other Car Is A Rainbow". | 2019-04-19T16:49:38 | http://snooglebumexists.blogspot.com/2012/05/ |
0.999917 | 1) put the corned beef in, and add ~2 tsp mustard seed, 1.5 tsp peppercorn mix, 4 cloves, 8 juniper berries, 6 all spice berries, 2 very strong bay leaves or 4+ weak bay leaves), and 2 tablespoons of thyme or maybe a little more).
2) Cook for 2.5 hours, turning every half-hour.
3) After 2.5 hours, take out the corned beef, and add half the potatoes, carrots, and onion. Cook for 15-25 minutes.
4) After those 15-25 minutes, add the rest of the veggies, and cook for another 15 minutes.
5) Take out half, and fill the empty space with the cabbage. Cook on high for another 15 minutes.
6) Serve an 8th of cabbage, 2 slices of corned beef, a bowl-full of veggies, and add chopped fresh parsley on top. Serve along with the Irish soda bread.
1) Mix all of the dry ingredients together.
2) Stir in the buttermilk past where the dough looks shaggy, until the dough looks smooth.
3) Place in a cast iron pan already pre-heated to 450, and cook for 30~ish minutes.
4) Take out and serve with the Irish butter. | 2019-04-24T04:27:09 | http://www.eddiewelker.com/2014/03/16/st-patricks-day-corned-beef-and-cabbage-irish-soda-bread/ |
0.999399 | The stunning Broadway dancer, best known by stage name 'Gay Orlova,' lived a life filled with 'tragic comedy.' Propelled into infamy for her scandalous affair with New York's 'Public Enemy Number 1' during the spring of 1936, Orlova's fairy tale life was only just beginning to unravel. A newsmaker long before the Lucky Luciano affair, and sadly - fodder for gossip columns for some years after, the shapely and sharp-tongued beauty never secured 'true love' and cycled through a series of jobs, lovers, failed marriages that ultimately ended in tragedy.
the most popular of the Vanities line and, although Ziegfeld's (Follies) is the more illustrious name, Broadway connoisseurs' rate Carroll as his peer in picking beauties." - Robert Sell, 1939.
Galina's life began in an era of turmoil, marked by a world war and a revolution within her homeland. Her father Sergei died in 1927 and within two years she and her mother Antolina would pack up and move about Europe. France is where the teenage Orloff developed a love of dance, but mother and daughter were still in transition. America was their chosen destination. Antonina and Galina (on a student visa) boarded the Sinai in Constantinople on March 17, 1929, and arrived in Rhode Island on April 6. The pair soon settled in Brooklyn, but Galina had no intention of pursing a traditional education in the United States. Her heart was set on Broadway.
The dream came true. By 1931 Galina Orloff, barely sixteen years old, had adopted a pseudonym, began showing up at casting calls, and caught the attention of producer Earl Carroll. Gay Orlova landed a role in Carroll's Vanities, and subsequently drew the attention of entertainment writers who were equally captivated by the catchy name and striking looks. The papers would fawn over her, but with a tinge of snarky mocking. Then again, there's no such thing as 'bad' publicity, or is there? And then there were the would-be suitors that salivated over the lot of seductive starlets. Orlova - a cigar smoking femme fatale - equipped with a larger-than-life personality and charm - cast a spell upon men of all makes and models, from lowly ushers to highfalutin businessmen.
"So they delve into the classics and the name books, encyclopedias and probably even dictionaries, to find such nom de theater... The prize winner in this category is Gay Orlova." - Paul Harrison, 1934.
"Lucky's a perfect gentleman and I don't know why they say such mean things about him." - Gay Orlova, 1936.
Little did young Finn know that his bride-to-be was already the mistress of the man District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey would label, "America's Greatest Gangster."
Albuquerque Journal, 1939 24-December: 15. | 2019-04-24T06:41:39 | http://www.writersofwrongs.com/search/label/burlesque |
0.999988 | Phineas and Gene: A Comparative Study Throughout the story, Phineas and Gene, the two main characters, showed a number of contrasting traits. Phineas was a confident, non competitive, naive, irresponsible, and unintelligent person throughout the story, whereas Gene, Phineas' roommate, was insecure, competitive, mature, responsible, and intelligent throughout the story.
Phineas had a confident nature in everything he did. As Phineas and Gene first met, they noticed they were both the same height, but Phineas, being confident, said, "Where did you get that dizzy shirt?"(100). Only a person with extreme confidence could have insulted someone they just met because the other person could have easily struck back to cause a conflict, but Phineas' confident nature helped him get through the situation as he laughed his way through the conversation. Another example which showed Phineas' confidence occurred during a conversation he had with Gene. Even though Phineas did not know Gene, he felt perfectly comfortable talking about his sexual history.
The author explained what Phineas was talking about as he stated, " He had experienced it three times, and gave detailed, completely matter-of-fact and unboastful accounts of all three."(101). If Phineas was not a confident person, he would not have shared his story with a complete stranger. Gene, on the other hand, was a very insecure person. The reader was able to see Gene's insecurities when he first tried to have a conversation with Phineas. His roommate was being very explicit in revealing the stories of his past, but when it came for Gene's turn to tell his stories he felt his "ideas would have been as dull as catechism after his;"(101). If Gene was confident, he would have been comfortable in partaking in the conversation between him and his roommate. Another example displaying Gene's insecure nature occurred after Phineas ridiculed him for his choice of shirt. After a small argument between the two, Gene gave in and admitted to himself that his shirt was dizzy by saying, " It was right"(103) when replying to a rude comment Phineas made on his shirt. If Gene was more secure in his own choices, he could have stood up for himself, and not let anyone cut him up or insult his choice of shirt.
One definite difference between Phineas and Gene was their competitive natures. Phineas was a naturally talented athlete who excelled in every sport he played and did not have the need to compete with others. An example of Phineas just finding the fun in sports and not being competitive occurred when he was discussing football with Gene. Phines explained, "In a sport you've got to be loose..you have to invent something new all the time"(104). When Phineas said this, he explained how he enjoyed the fun out of games and not the aggressiveness about it. When Phineas was explaining football to Gene, he stated, "It's just like those damn push-ups and knee-bends today,"(104). Phineas did not like the fact he had to follow rules and maps, he just wanted to enjoy the activity. Gene, however, was very competitive, especially toward Phineas. Gene did not like the fact that Phineas was a natural athlete, so when he would beat Phineas in school, he became very happy. Gene stated, "He might be the best natural athlete in the school, the most popular boy, but I was winning where it counted."(105). Even though he and Phineas were not in competition, Gene always managed to try and be on top. Gene was aware that Phineas did not excel academically, but in his mind he believed Phineas "was trying to take me in; he hated the fact that I could beat him at this"(105), although Gene knew Phineas had no desire to compete with him.
Phineas and Genes' personality also differed in the area of maturity. Phineas was a very naive boy whose every move was very innocent and harmless. An example of Phineas being naive occurred when Gene was describing the acts that Phineas performed innocently where no one could cut him down, but if another person committed the same acts they would instantly be ridiculed. Gene explained how for all Phineas' acts, " felling them was unthinkable."(102). This proved that Phineas was naive because for a person to commit such acts, they must have an innocent attitude, which Phineas obviously had. Gene also explained how "Phineas was the essence of this careless peace." This quote explained how Phineas must have an inner peace within himself that is emerged to others, therefore his actions are passed as innocent games. Phineas may be innocent and naive, but Gene proved to be somewhat mature for his age. One occasion where Gene proved to be mature occurred when he admitted to himself that he almost started to like Phineas as he stated, "I almost liked him, even"(105). For one to admit they like the person who they are trying their hardest to hate takes maturity as the person is forfeiting their opinions to try and make a clean slate and be a better person, which is exactly what Gene did in this case.
A contrast is also seen between Gene and Phineas in their responsibility. Phineas proved to be a very irresponsible person. One example displaying Phineas' irresponsible nature occurred when he and Gene were studying for a French examination. Phineas wanted to jump off a tree into water, than to focus on studying and achieving a good mark. When Gene told Phineas he should stay, Phineas replied, " You want to study?"(108). At the time, Phineas did not understand the importance of studying for his test. Gene persistently tried to keep Phineas' from leaving the books as he stated sarcastically, " You know, books, examinations?"(108), butPhineas still found it hard to believe that Gene wanted to study, thus showing that Phineas was an irresponsible student. Gene on the other hand was a very responsible student because he wanted to stay in and study for his French test rather than jump off a tree as his friends wanted him to. Gene stated to Phineas as he tried to explain his situation, " If I need to study, then so do you."(108). This proved that Gene was responsible because at that time, he sacrificed having fun for his grades. More proof demonstrating Gene's sense of responsibility occurred when he stated to Phineas, "We watch lily-liver Lepelier not jump from the tree, and I ruin my grade"(108), because it showed how Gene was aware of the consequences of not studying.
One last difference between the two characters in the story is the fact that one of the boys was a follower, whereas the other was a leader. Gene proved to be a follower when Phineas jumped of the tree into a body of water and he followed him. Even though Gene did not want to jump of the tree, he did so anyway because he wanted to be like Phineas. Gene explained his feelings toward the tree when he stated, " I hated the very existence of that tree"(106). Gene's statement proved he was a follower because if it were not for Phineas, Gene would not have had any desire to jump. Gene later explained, " When Phineas did it backwards one evening, so did I"(107). Gene's statement proved he was a follower because he had to jump off the tree backwards to feel he was equal to Phineas. Gene proved he was a follower, yet Phineas proved to be a natural leader. Phineas was the first person to jump off the tree, and after he did, other kids joined him. Gene stated, " none of us believed that we would jump from it. None but Phineas"(105). This proved that Phineas was a leader because it explained how Phineas jumped first off the tree, and no one else believed they could. Phineas proved he was a natural leader even at the beginning of the story when he and Gene first met. Phineas was the fist one to speak out of the two of them, as Gene commented, " That first day, standing in that comfortless room, amid his clothes, he began to talk and I began to listen"(100). Gene explained how he listened to Phineas speak when they first met, which proved that Phineas was a leader because he began the conversation, and instead of participating, Gene just listened.
The two characters in the short story, " Phineas," proved to have very contrasting personality traits throughout the entire story. Phineas was confident, non competitive, naive, irresponsible, unintelligent, and a natural leader, whereas Gene was insecure, competitive, mature, responsible, intelligent, and a follower. Thus causing them to be foils.
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0.998914 | A Broadmoor Hospital doctor could face losing her job after reading through confidential patient notes on packed train without realising she was sitting opposite the Department of Health's Head of Secure Services Policy.
A top Broadmoor Hospital doctor accused of violating confidentiality by leafing through a patient's notes on a packed commuter train is in danger of losing her job after a court ruling.
Unbeknown to consultant psychiatrist Dr Chhabra, sitting across the aisle from her was top civil servant, Jo Leech, Head of Secure Services Policy at the Department of Health.
After Ms Leech raised the alarm - saying she could read the patient's name and other details as Dr Chhabra turned the pages - disciplinary action was launched by the West London Mental Health NHS Trust which runs the high security hospital.
Dr Chhabra challenged the move - pointing to procedural errors and insisting that what she did was not serious enough to merit such a stiff response - but the Court of Appeal today opened the way for her to face allegations of gross misconduct.
Underlining that patient confidentiality is "fundamental", the court ruled that, despite the heavy workload Dr Chhabra was under at the time and her glowing personal references, the NHS Trust was entitled to convene a disciplinary panel to hear the case against her.
An internal investigation report stated that Ms Leech, who had previously worked at Broadmoor, tuned in to a conversation between Dr Chhabra and another medic during the train journey on November 24 2010 after hearing them mention a doctor she knew.
She says that, as Dr Chhabra perused a medical report, she could clearly see the patient's name, which section of the Mental Health Act he was detained under and other details.
The train was said to be crowded and, according to Ms Leech, who later wrote to the NHS Trust raising the alarm, Dr Chhabra had the report on her lap for most of the journey.
Concerns had also been raised by a hospital secretary who said she could hear "sounds consistent with a railway journey" when typing up Dr Chhabra's taped dictation notes.
Dr Chhabra's former PA also stated that the consultant made phone calls to her during journeys to work in which patient information would be discussed.
According to the internal report, the consultant admitted in interview that she normally read her notes on the train on her way to work, but only when noone was sitting near her. The trains she travelled on were often empty, she said.
She agreed she had read the patient's notes during the November 2010 train journey, but said she was unaware of who was sitting opposite her or that the train was full. She did not realise at the time that her action compromised patient confidentiality.
Dr Chhabra also admitted dictating two reports during train journeys, but said this only occurred during a single week when she was under intense work pressure. She said that she ensured that no other passengers were close by at the time.
She said telephone calls to her PA were made from her car, not in public, and said they usually concerned diary checks and lasted less than a minute. She denied discussing patient information with secretarial staff whilst in public places.
Internal disciplinary action was launched, but was blocked by a High Court injunction last year on grounds that the NHS Trust had wrongly failed to invoke the full rigour of its 'Fair Blame' procedure.
Quashing the injunction today, Lord Justice Pill ruled that, although there had been procedural "lapses" in the way Dr Chhabra was treated, they were not so serious as to justify intervention by the court.
The judge, sitting with Lords Justice Jackson and Treacy, said "considerable mitigation" was available to Dr Chhabra, including her heavy work load and glowing references, but the threshhold for a disciplinary hearing had nevertheless been crossed.
Dr Chhabra's alleged breaches were "potentially serious", said the judge.
And he concluded: "Patients' right to confidentiality is fundamental in the health service and must be respected by doctors and other staff.
"The breaches alleged, as described in the investigator's report, were such that a decision to convene a disciplinary panel was justified. The court should not in my view intervene to prevent it."
UPDATE, 22 July 2014: On December 18 2013 the Supreme Court ruled that it would be unlawful for the West London Mental Health NHS Trust to take disciplinary proceedings against Dr Chhabra on the basis of what it judged to be a flawed investigation. Dr Chhabra is still employed by the Trust. | 2019-04-26T08:32:42 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9827480/Broadmoor-hospital-doctor-read-confidential-patient-notes-opposite-Department-of-Health-boss.html |
0.997918 | Notorious B.I.G. was leaving a music industry party at the Petersen Automotive Museum, sitting in the front passenger seat of a Chevrolet Suburban, when his killer pulled up alongside in a dark Chevy Impala.
As the SUV idled at a stoplight, the gunman opened fire, hitting the 24-year-old rap star, who was also known as Biggie Smalls, four times. He was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m. on March 9, 1997.
The fatal round entered his right hip and ripped through his liver, lung and heart.
Despite numerous investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department, lawsuits, books and a plethora of allegations, the 20-year-old slaying of the performer whose real name was Christopher Wallace remains officially unsolved.
Wallace's slaying came just six months after rap rival Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas. The two killings would become forever intertwined as observers theorized that the violence was fueled by an East Coast-West Coast rivalry.
Shakur's death also remains unsolved.
In Wallace's case, many of those who investigated the killing say the likely culprits are long-gone gangsters. Exactly who they were and what motivated them remains a mystery.
"The shooter is most likely dead. You cannot ask him who paid him," said Kevin McClure, a former LAPD captain who oversaw the investigation and is now the Montebello police chief. "We don't know who gave the money."
McClure shut down a task force on the killing in 2010 because it was spinning its wheels. "We kept pounding the doors on the same cold leads," he said.
Like many cold cases, however, someone may come forward in the future with answers, McClure said.
As with many of L.A.'s legendary unsolved cases, it is assigned to a member of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. Det. Daryn Dupree currently has the Wallace investigation. Dupree also worked on the Grim Sleeper serial killer case.
"It is an open case. We are still actively investigating, and we constantly discuss the disposition of the case with the district attorney's office," said Capt. William Hayes, who heads the division.
The slaying has spawned a cottage industry of books, documentaries and magazine articles exploring possible conspiracy theories. A couple of movies are also in the works.
Among the theories pushed by one now-deceased LAPD detective was that dirty cops connected to the Rampart corruption scandal were involved in the slaying.
In 2006, then-LAPD Chief William J. Bratton, who was fed up with speculation over the killing, launched the task force of senior homicide detectives in an effort to hunt down the killer.
The probe followed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the city by the rapper's mother, Voletta Wallace, and other relatives.
In court documents, the family alleged that ex-LAPD Officer David A. Mack conspired with rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight, then the owner of Death Row Records, to have Wallace ambushed. The family contended in the suit that Mack arranged for a college friend to carry out the attack. Mack, the college friend and Knight have all denied any involvement. The family dropped the lawsuit in 2010.
The theory that the three conspired to kill Wallace was first advanced in 1998 by then-LAPD Det. Russell Poole, an investigator in the Robbery-Homicide Division who worked about a year on the case. Poole will be played by Johnny Depp in an upcoming movie on the investigation.
Poole began scrutinizing Mack after he was arrested in December 1997 on suspicion of bank robbery. Mack was later convicted of robbery and is serving a 14-year prison term. Poole quit the police force in 1999 after a series of disputes with his superiors. He died in 2015.
The 2006 LAPD task force examined two different theories for the killing. The first hypothesis was that Wallace was killed by a member of Compton's vicious Southside Crips gang as part of a bicoastal rap feud linked to Shakur's death, law enforcement sources said.
The investigators developed a second theory that Wallace was killed in retaliation for Shakur's death by a Blood gang member hired by Knight.
Knight, who is now facing a separate murder charge, has repeatedly denied any involvement in Wallace's killing. The task force worked with a 72-volume "murder book," the collection of evidence in the case, that was kept in its own office. Task force member Greg Kading, in his book "Murder Rap," alleged that now-deceased Wardell "Poochie" Fouse — a Mob Piru Blood gang member from Compton — shot Wallace. He wrote that the killing was revenge for Shakur's slaying and that powerful East Coast hip-hop figures were behind the Vegas slaying.
While no one has ever been arrested in Shakur's death, Las Vegas police named Orlando Anderson, a reputed Crips member, as the suspect in the slaying. Anderson died a year later in a drug-related shootout at a Compton carwash. | 2019-04-21T11:16:26 | https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-biggie-smalls-unsolved-20170309-story.html |
0.999128 | Can ERP Projects generate a business case? Not only can they, but they must.
I treat the business case different than most. In the past the business case has been used to justify the project to management or the Board of Directors (BOD). It has been used to get the money.
In my view the business case becomes the project driver. It becomes the reason for change. It is the goal of the project. It is presented not just to the Board, but to the entire company. It becomes a goal not just for the BOD, but for all management. It becomes the foundation for the project. At every milestone we come back to the business case to re-confirm that the actions we are taking will result in attainment of the business case.
Development of the business case is not an easy process. But if we have followed the steps outlined in previous blogs, we have laid a foundation for examining the benefits of a new ERP system.
In the “visioning” workshops, we ask the question “how does this new process benefit the company?”. At this point management reviews the metrics for the “as is” process, reviews best practices their results, and establishes new metrics for the new business process. These metrics become the basis for the business case.
Each process owner will develop the business case for his/her business process.
Each of these areas has the potential for significant improvement. An ERP implementation should yield a three to four times return on investment.
When the business case is completed, the improved metrics should become part of the project charter and should become measurements that are tracked monthly by the management team as part of their objectives. | 2019-04-24T14:34:15 | https://ultraconsultants.com/implementing-a-business-process-improvement-culture-part-v-business-case-for-change/ |
0.999995 | Please follow the instructions below to complete your custom PC order.
4) After finalizing your component choices, click "Add to Basket"
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0.999999 | Q&A: After marathon talks between the US envoy and the Taliban, is Afghan peace at hand?
ISLAMABAD — The longest direct talks ever held between the United States and the Taliban concluded this week with both sides citing progress toward ending the 17-year war in Afghanistan, but many questions remain unanswered.
The Taliban are negotiating from a position of strength: They effectively control half the country, and President Donald Trump has made clear he is frustrated with America's longest war and determined to bring the troops home. The two sides have reached a draft agreement on the withdrawal of U.S. troops — a longtime Taliban demand — and the insurgents have rebuffed U.S. efforts to get them to negotiate with the Kabul government.
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad can claim some success. The Taliban have said they will prevent Afghanistan from being used as a base for launching terror attacks, as it was prior to 9/11. But the insurgents have provided no specifics on what that would entail, and it remains unclear whether they are willing or able to confront other militant groups, some of which are longtime allies.
The marathon talks extended for 13 days and saw Khalilzad meet face-to-face with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban and veteran battlefield commander. That alone marks a major change after three successive U.S. administrations — including Trump's — rejected direct talks.
Khalilzad said they reached two "draft agreements" covering the withdrawal of U.S. troops and guarantees that Afghanistan would not revert to a haven for terrorists. But he was unable to persuade the Taliban to launch talks with the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, which the insurgents view as a corrupt and dysfunctional American puppet.
Instead, the Taliban agreed to meet with a wide array of prominent Afghan figures, including some government representatives. That would further undermine President Ashraf Ghani, who is increasingly being cast as part of a chorus of Afghan voices.
The two sides seem to be in agreement about the withdrawal of American forces, but divided over the timeline and whether a residual force would remain.
Taliban officials have told The Associated Press that the insurgents want a full withdrawal within three to five months, but that U.S. officials say it will take 18 months to two years. The Americans are likely to insist on a residual U.S. force to guard the American embassy and other diplomatic facilities, and may press for a counterterrorism force as well.
Even if the Americans accept the Taliban's demands for a more rapid pullout, they could encounter logistical bottlenecks in withdrawing more than 10,000 American soldiers and heavy equipment from the central Asian country.
WILL THE TALIBAN KEEP THE PEACE?
Both sides have continued to battle it out even as they negotiate, and no cease-fire has been reached.
The highly-disciplined Taliban can be expected to halt their military operations once they agree to do so, but whether they can or will act against other militant groups is a thornier question.
The Taliban have clashed repeatedly with an upstart Islamic State affiliate in recent years but have been unable to dislodge it from its strongholds in the eastern Nangarhar province. U.S. forces have had more success against IS, but air power has played a crucial role and may no longer be available after a withdrawal.
Other militant groups, like al-Qaida and the Haqqani network, have longstanding ties to the Taliban and are still active in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader of al-Qaida after he was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in 2011, is believed to be in hiding in the region, and still counts hundreds or perhaps thousands of followers in the two countries.
The Taliban might be able to convince such groups to lie low, but are unlikely to wage a Western-style counterterrorism campaign against them. And if an attack on Western interests were traced back to the region, the Taliban could evade responsibility by saying it came from the Pakistani side of the porous, mountainous border.
The U.S. has spent 17 years and tens of billions of dollars propping up the government in Kabul, and Ghani himself owes his office to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, who negotiated a power-sharing arrangement after the 2014 election was marred by allegations of massive fraud.
But in recent months, the U.S. envoy has acquiesced to Taliban demands to keep the government on the sidelines. The Americans say they are working closely with the Afghan government and favor an Afghan-led process, but Ghani has yet to secure a seat at the table. Khalilzad said an Afghan dialogue will be held but there were no promises of a leading role for Ghani.
It remains unclear whether the government would survive in its present form without extensive aid from the U.S. and NATO, which have provided crucial air support during major battles with the Taliban. There are also numerous heavily armed factions within the government that could fight among themselves, as they did in the early 1990s. After years of poor governance and widespread corruption, many Afghans might be happy to see the government go.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN?
During the Taliban's ultra-conservative rule in the 1990s, women were largely confined to their homes and girls had no access to education.
Women secured gains after the U.S.-led invasion, but those were largely confined to upper-class bastions in major cities, while in the countryside women and girls must still abide by the country's conservative cultural values.
The Taliban have moderated their tone in recent years, saying they are no longer opposed to women working and girls attending school. The U.S. has said it is up to the Afghans to determine how their country is governed. | 2019-04-21T01:02:11 | http://dailyworldfeed.com/story/q-amp-a-after-marathon-afghan-talks-is-peace-at-hand/0241096/ |
0.997809 | All PlanGrid platforms have ways to filter and quickly search through your sheets by name, description, version, or project tag.
Click the Sheets tab, and use the Search function at the top to search by name or description. You can also click the Filter button at the top right, then use the filters to limit the view by tag or version. These filters work in both the default grid view, and in our list view.
Now you can also filter the markups you view on your sheet! Use this feature to filter your markups by Share Status, Issue status, Markup type, or Markup color.
Please Note: Markup filters are for viewing purposes only. When exporting a sheet, all markups (published, personal, both or none selected) will be visible on the PDF file.
2. A side panel will open. Click to select or de-select the filters you would like to apply.
Issues: No Issues, only Issues, Issue status.
Use PlanGrid's searching and filtering options on your iPad or iPhone to quickly pull up the specific sheet or set of sheets that you need.
1. To search by sheet name or description, just tap the magnifying glass icon and start typing in the search bar. We'll find a match.
Android tablets can also easily filter in grid view, by tapping the magnifying glass to open the search box, or the inverted triangle icon to filter by project tag or version.
How do I view older versions of sheets?
You can view older versions on the website by clicking the Filter button at the top right, then clicking the version filter in your Sheets tab. If no version is selected, then the most recent version of the sheets are shown.
Figure 1. Filter by version to see older versions of your sheets on the website.
3. If a version is not the current one, the "Not Current" badge will appear along the bottom of the screen.
While in GridView in the Android app, you can also tap the inverted triangle icon, and then filter by the version in the filter list. Use this method to browse all the sheets of a specific version.
Project tags allow you to easily group sheets according to location, trade, discipline, or any other parameters that work for your specific project. Tags are customizable, and once added to sheets, are available to all users on the project team to quickly pull up specific sets of sheets.
Project tags should not be used for distinguishing revisions, issuances, or updated sets of sheets. For more information on the difference between versions and project tags, go here.
Please note: Project tags can only be added by Project Admins.
2. Use the filter options on the right to bring up specific sheets, and then manually select checkboxes next to sheets, or select the checkbox at the top of the column to select All the filtered sheets. If you're editing an existing tag, you'll filter by the tag to edit first.
3. Click "Edit" at the top to bring up the "Edit Sheet" window.
4. Click into the Tag field, and either select the existing tag, or type a custom tag into the field and choose "Create Tag ...", then click "Save Changes" at the bottom.
Once added to your sheets, your tag will appear under the Filter by Tags section on both the website and the mobile app. Simply click that tag to filter for only those sheets.
1. On the website, open your preferred sheet, scroll to the bottom and click the "ADD" button next to TAGS.
2. A pre-populated list of available tags will appear. You can select one of those pre-existing tags or type in your own. When you'e finished, click "SAVE".
Repeat steps 1-3 and then click the black "x" next to the tag name. Once the tag has been completely removed from all tagged sheets, it will no longer be available under the "Filter by Tags" list on the website or mobile apps.
If your tag is still visible under the Filter by Tag list, then one of the older versions of a tagged sheet still carries that specific tag. To find that tagged sheet, filter by both that specific tag and each version individually.
Another option to tag sheets is to use the "Auto-tagging" feature which will allow you to automatically detect AIA prefixes and apply them as tags within the sheets in an upload group.
This will work for new sheet uploads only. To tag published sheets follow the steps above.
1. Follow steps 1-3 here, and select "Automatically tag sheets".
2. Continue with the upload and publishing steps here.
3. Once your sheets are published, they will be be automatically tagged.
You can use our "My Tags" feature on the iOS app to bookmark sheets for personal reference. My Tags are only available on the PlanGrid for iOS app, and are only saved on that individual device. My Tags cannot be shared with other users across the project, accessed on the website or PlanGrid for Android app, or on other devices logged in under your account.
1. When viewing a specific sheet, tap the "+" button in the upper right corner, and then enter the name of your new tag.
2. To apply an existing My Tag to this sheet, simply select the My Tag name from the list.
1. Tap the "+" when viewing a sheet, swipe the tag name to the left, then choose "Edit".
2. You can also Remove the tag by selecting "Remove".
1. From Grid View: Tap the tag icon in the upper left corner, scroll down to "My Tags", and tap the circle next to the desired My Tag(s). | 2019-04-20T07:13:59 | https://help.plangrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/224213367-Sheets-Searching-and-Filtering |
0.999599 | Crack Sat Essay Prompts What remains same?
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Yes, in the millions. But this type of statement is merely an exaggeration. | 2019-04-25T19:46:44 | http://westlinnartsfestival.com/3-crack-sat-essay-prompts.php |
0.999914 | What Programming Language Is Called the Duct Tape of the Internet?
Software developers call Perl the "Duct Tape of the Internet" because the programming language lends itself to quick, easy fixes of data problems. Created in the late 1980s by software developer Larry Wall, Perl's appearance coincided with the rising popularity of the Internet and the beginnings of the World Wide Web. Perl came from the Unix environment and has many characteristics in common with other Unix software.
Many large websites have been built using Perl programs.
Perl is a high-level programming language that excels at sophisticated text file processing and, among other uses, can generate Hyper Text Markup Language output for Web pages. It includes interfaces to incorporate databases, making the language well-suited to e-commerce, forums, blogs and other dynamic, data-driven websites (See Reference 4). In addition to Internet applications, Perl is handy for day-to-day system administration, reporting and maintenance tasks.
Perl originated on Unix-based computers and continues its popularity on Linux machines. Its syntax borrows heavily from Unix shell scripting languages as well as C, C++ and Unix text-processing utilities such as "awk." Versions of Perl are also available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Here, "prgramname.pl" is a text file containing a Perl program.
Perl's chief strength is speed of development; its terse syntax allows programmers to write powerful code quickly. The language has emerged as a significant player, with a developer base some estimates put at over 1 million (See Reference 5). However, the dense syntax of Perl programs also works against it, making programs difficult to read and debug. | 2019-04-22T02:11:36 | https://www.techwalla.com/articles/what-programming-language-is-called-the-duct-tape-of-the-internet |
0.98296 | If your New Year's fitness resolutions involve building muscle mass and achieving a more attractive, muscular body, then you can't avoid the topic of protein supplementation.
Building muscle without proper protein intake is virtually impossible, and can result in injuries, damage to the immune systems and incomplete recovery after intense strength training. However, not all protein sources are the same. The same it true for various protein supplements.
What should you take into consideration when deciding what protein supplement to use?
Your muscles need essential amino acids to build the proteins required for contraction. Non-essential amino acids are also non-negligible, but the body has the ability to produce them from essential ones in case of a deficiency. If you are a fan of plant sources of protein, then there is bad news for you in terms of building muscle. Soy, legumes, rice or cereals do contain large amount of protein, but they lack certain essential amino acids, which makes them incomplete proteins of lower nutritional value. However, they don't contain fat or cholesterol. On the other hand, protein contained in animal-derived foods, such as milk, dairy, eggs, meat or fish, have complete proteins with the full range of essential amino acids required for building muscle. Their disadvantage is that they usually associate large amounts of fat or cholesterol, which is bad if your want to build a lean, muscular physique.
How do you choose your protein source?
Milk contains both great protein and cholesterol. Some milk-derived protein supplements, such as whey protein concentrate or hydrolyzate, are sources of protein, but are not optimal sources. Another protein supplement candidate is soy, which is free of cholesterol but lacks essential amino acids. Other plant-based protein sources are worse than soy.
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0.999064 | Like in English, Spanish adverbs provide us with details about how, when and where the action described in the sentence takes place. They can modify the meaning of a single word - be it a verb, adjective or noun - or even an entire sentence.
Spanish Adverbs ending in "-mente"
Spanish Adverbs not ending in "-mente"
We are eating hamburgers today.
We are going on a trip tomorrow.
There are several types of adverbs, all of which help us to understand in greater detail the circumstances of an action or process- the how, the when, the where adn much more.
Sentences don't need adverbs to be correct, but put it this way: it's both more interesting and more informative to hear "The cat pounced unexpectedly" than simply "The cat pounced."
Se besan cariñosamente. They kiss each other lovingly.
El perro corre rápidamente The dog runs quickly.
Conduce mal. She drives badly.
Leo lentamente. I read slowly.
Mi novio me llama mucho. My boyfriend calls me a lot.
Está muy feliz. He is very happy.
Es bastante guapo. He is quite handsome.
Es más inteligente. She is more intelligent.
Anda demasiado rápido. He walks too fast.
Personalmente, prefiero ir al cine. Personally, I prefer to go to the movies.
Quizás quiera ir a cenar. Perhaps he wants to go out to dinner.
Evidentemente te quiere. She obviously loves you.
Mañana iremos a la playa. Tomorrow we are going to the beach.
Te llamo más tarde. I will call you later.
Fuimos al cine ayer. We went to the movies yesterday.
Ya me lo dijo. He already told me.
No usa ordenadores nunca. She never uses computers.
Suelo cenar pronto. I tend to eat dinner early.
Mi habitación está arriba. My room is upstairs.
Te veré allí. I will see you there.
Vive lejos de mí. He lives far from me.
Estoy enfrente de tu casa. I am in front of your house.
Está dentro de la caja. It's inside the box. | 2019-04-22T04:14:59 | https://www.enforex.com/language/spanish-adverbs.html |
0.998926 | How is it delivered in the body? Pitocin: Continuous IV drip. VS Oxytocin: By 4 to 8 minute pulses.
Beta-endorphins: Pitocin: No effects at releasing beta-endorphins for pain control, which in fact, have been found to be 30% lower at delivery. VS Oxytocin: Natural labor involves the release of this endogenous opioid, produced in the hypothalamus, which rises significantly throughout labor until the time of delivery. Beta-endorphins help block pain and regulate oxytocin release to manage the pace and intensity of labor.
Amounts released: Pitocin: Although protocols regulate the administration of pitocin to match the levels of oxytocin in spontaneous labor, each patient will react differently. Prolonged exposure to IV Pitocin could have an effect on the maternal system's responsiveness, becoming less sensitive over time, necessitating greater doses of Pitocin. VS Oxytocin: Each patient's physiology will dictate the amount of oxytocin needed and released to promote delivery.
Contractions: Pitocin: Creates stronger, more painful, and more frequent contractions with increased uterine resting tone between contractions. Increased need for pain medication, which can have its own negative effects on the infant. Can stress the neonate, making him weaker and more tired, which in turn can affect his ability to feed well. VS Oxytocin: Works with individual physiology of the patient, does not produce the untoward effects as pitocin does.
Uterine rupture: Pitocin: The Institue for Safe Medication Practices lists Pitocin in the High Alert category due to "a greater risk of causing significant patient harm if used improperly", and can increase the potential for uterine rupture. VS Oxytocin: Very rarely causes rupture.
Neurologic effect: Pitocin: Affects the brain differently than natural labor. VS Oxytocin: Has a positive affect on the brain, inducing bonding and attachment. Increases pain threshold. Increases dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, noradrenaline, and opiod release. Increases social interactive behaviors. Induces a feeling of wellbeing in both mother and infant. Produces potent anti-inflammatory effects and decreases wound healing time. May increase glucagon release, allowing transport of nutrients to the breast for milk production.
Stress hormones: Pitocin: No increase in beta-endorphins. Increased anxiety and reduction in naturally produced beta-endorphins. Interferes with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to delay the onset of full lactation. VS Oxytocin: Inhibits the release of adreocorticotripic hormone which regulates the release of cortisol in response to stress.
Breastfeeding: Pitocin: Evidence suggests that Pitocin affects the body differently than oxytocin, leading to negative effects on the neonate and the mother that can interfere with breastfeeding success. Has antidiuretic effect that can cause increased engorgement, difficulty with infant latch, and premature weaning. VS Oxytocin: Enhances breastfeeding.
Apgar Scores: Pitocin has been associated with lower Apgar scores at birth.
Neonatal Outcomes: Adverse effects have been associated with induction or augmentation of labor with Pitocin, including fetal apoxia, increased cranial molding, asymmetry, and cranial base misalignment, all of which can impact the six cranial involved with sucking and swallowing; jaundice, increased neonatal resuscitation, shoulder dystocia, and abnormal fetal heart rate.
Induction and augmentation of labor may be truly needed when applied to a true medical necessity. However, they are not without their own problems and side-effects for both mother and infant. Each case should be viewed in a "benefits versus risks" manner, and mothers should have true informed consent before having their labor augmented. Elective inductions do not meet the criteria for medical necessity nor for benefit. | 2019-04-18T16:28:55 | https://step2education.com/blog/197-oxytocin-vs-pitocin |
0.999911 | With Amazon selling it is crucial that businesses have transparent, continuously updated information regarding their rankings. Similar to the classic brick-and-mortar company model, your “ranking” relies heavily on customer satisfaction. However, this can get a little tricky when personable face-to-face interactions are replaced with merely a few clicks on a computer screen.
Effortlessly keep higher Amazon rankings at the top of your objectives with specialized software that offers an array of traffic and sales-monitoring functions detailed below.
Improve your paid and organic search ranking with access to high-traffic keywords. More traffic means more sales!
Generate positive reviews and repeat customers with automatic emails. You can even get notifications when a negative review is posted.
Analyze on-page performance of your product page titles, bullets, and images to better increase page views and discover your conversion rate. Quickly identify what’s bringing your conversion rate down so you have a better understanding of how to fix it.
Monitor the performance of your competitors, both good and bad. Identify why they rank better than you for certain keywords or take advantage of information surrounding your competition’s weak spots. Understand not just your own Best Seller Ranking (BSR) over time, but track your competitor’s BSR as well.
With platforms that accurately analyze how your sales rankings fluctuate day-to-day you can better understand and interact with potential customers, repeat customers, and anything in-between.
An integral part of your ranking on Amazon involves obtaining high star reviews. Because of this, we recommend choosing a software that includes automated email services to your customers. Whether or not you currently use software to track your rankings, if you aren’t already taking advantage of automatic emails this is a great opportunity for you to find that perfect boost on ratings for all of your products. We’ve included services in this category which focus more on email automation than specific rank tracking, so be sure to check that out if it’s all you’re looking for!
Starting from scratch or on the hunt for a much needed upgrade to your rank tracking software? As with many other seller services, the main difference here will again fall on price and package offerings. Pay close attention to limitations on products and keywords tracked per month, as well as email caps, in respect to plan prices.
If you’re also interested in assistance with marketing, there are higher-priced options which will include influencer campaigns or other forms of product marketing to better promote your business across the web. | 2019-04-18T14:33:46 | https://www.sellersoftware.com/track-my-rankings/ |
0.999642 | What is the Internet Printing Protocol?
The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) is a collection of open standards that define a high-level network printing protocol. IPP allows computers and mobile devices to query printer capabilities, monitor printer status and other state changes, do printer configuration, and submit, monitor, and control print jobs.
IPP supports security features such as encryption and authentication, performance features such as streaming and compression, managed printing features such as PIN printing, quotas, and paid printing, ICC color management in printing, and printing features such as 2-sided (duplex) printing, stapling, folding, punching, binding, and booklet printing.
IPP supports any kind of print data including high-level document formats such as PDF and OpenXPS, basic raster formats such as JPEG and PWG Raster, and low-level formats such as PCL and ESC/P.
What is the history of the IPP workgroup?
In the summer of 1996, Novell approached a number of companies to find out if they were interested to participate in a printing protocol project for the Internet. Xerox and others expressed some interest and suggested that the first step would be to develop a draft text and decide how to initiate the project. As result, a first draft document was developed in cooperation between Novell and Xerox. At this stage, the project was known as Lightweight Document Printing Application (LDPA). In a parallel effort, IBM had started working on a proposal for Internet printing using Web technology, under the name of HyperText Printing Protocol (HTPP). It was also known that Microsoft and HP had started work on a solutions for a new generation of print services for NT 5.0.
In parallel to the writing of initial draft texts, it was investigated how to start up the public standardization project. It was clear from the beginning that the initiators wanted the project to become an acknowledged project with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), but first needed to get together a forum of experts before suggesting it to the IETF. The choice was to start the activity in the Printer Working Group (PWG), a group of people with representation from printer and print server vendors, which had previously developed the IETF Printer MIB specification. After initial discussions in a couple of earlier meetings, the PWG started the IPP project in November 1996. Carl-Uno Manros from Xerox was chosen as the project chair and Scott Isaacson from Novell as the main editor. Steve Zilles from Adobe was later added as the IETF co-chair, and Don Wright from Lexmark, Bob Herriot from Sun and Roger deBry from IBM as further editors. After some discussion, it was decided to pool the earlier efforts from Novell/Xerox and IBM into what is now named the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) project. Some 20 companies involved with printers and/or print servers confirmed that they were interested in participating. After negotiation with the Application Area Directors in the IETF, it was decided to hold a birds-of-a-feather (BOF) session for IPP in the December 1996 meeting of the IETF. The outcome of that meeting confirmed that there was widespread interest in developing a printing protocol for the Internet.
The IPP/1.0 specifications were published by the IETF as experimental documents in April 1999. IPP/1.1 appeared as a proposed standard in September 2000, with extensions being published through Match 2005 until the IETF IPP working group was concluded. IPP work continues in the Printer Working Group, with the first edition of IPP/2.0 published as a candidate standard in July 2009, a second edition of IPP/2.0 in February 2011, and most recently the IPP Everywhere standard in January 2013.
What is the current status in the IETF?
The IETF IPP working group work is concluded. All ongoing work happens in the Printer Working Group.
What is the scope of the IPP workgroup?
The goal of the IPP workgroup is to develop new specifications for existing and new printer functionality.
What is the Document Printing Application (DPA)?
DPA is an ISO standard for printing (ISO/IEC 10175) that was worked on for a number of years and was finally published in 1996. DPA has a lot of printing functionality defined, probably more than anybody will ever implement in a product. Even if DPA can be seen as a bit of an overkill, it does provide a lot of useful input to any project that works on printing. Several experts in the IPP project were active in the specification of DPA and can leverage experience from that project. Semantically, IPP can be seen as lightweight version of the functionality covered in DPA with some new features thrown in, but the syntax and protocol stack are different in the Internet environment.
How can I get involved in the IPP project?
You can get information on this web site and participate over the Internet by joining the IPP discussion list. In addition, the PWG organizes face-to-face meetings four times a year and holds bi-weekly telephone conference calls. Announcements about these are given over the IPP discussion list. If you are new to the workgroup, the best starting point is our workgroup page, which contain pointers to everything else you need to know about the workgroup. | 2019-04-20T17:22:09 | http://pwg.org/ipp/faq.html |
0.532858 | Adobe Lightroom and Metadata I chose to discuss Lightroom first because I think it has the most wholistic approach to organising digital images of all software packages. I would have like to have seen it introduced before Photoshop because these many years of focus on 'photoshopping' has distracted the world from the real problem of managing collections of photos. We've been like toddlers, all games but no cleanup.
The first step to being organised in Lightroom is to configure your "Metadata Presets" template (Library>Metadata>Edit Metadata Presets). You fill this in once. If you manage photos for other staff or family members, then make one for each person. In the section 'IPTC Copyright', if you elect to use "Copyrighted" , you will need to update the date each year. At this point you can enter Keywords, but I would advise you to leave this field empty for customisining to each shoot. Otherwise, fill out every field you feel you can that would apply to all of your photography.
Congratulations, just doing this is a big step to fixing the problem of orphaned files.
If you are a photographer who wishes to contribute to stock libraries, you will want to now build a Keyword list that suits the field you are working in. Many libraries provide a downloadable list that you simply import by Library>Metadata>Import Keywords.
Now lets bring some photos into Lightroom. choose import, pick the images, on the right under "Apply During Import", then "Metadata". and choose the appropriate template, move to the Keyword field and enter the keywords that best describe the overall set of images you are importing. Applying individual keywords to individual images needs to be done once the images are imported.
You should now have all of your images in the library and you can begin the process of individually assessing and keywording each image. If you are not intending to apply keywords to individual images at this time, be warned, it gets harder with every day that passes to do this!
I personally prefer to do an edit pass through the images first, this will eliminate the images I don't care about. I use the "X" key shortcut to 'set as reject' obvious failures, eventually I will delete the rejected photos entirely from the catalogue and from my disk. How you approach this is very personal, but I err to keeping a photo.
As well as rejecting photos, I also star rate images at this stage. One star is something I don't care about, but don't want to delete, two star says it's ok, three is for a photo I want to keep or show a client, four is for something I'm proud of, and five star is for my portfolio. To star rate, use the Library module, and hit the 1,2,3,4, or 5 keyboard key to apply the rating.
Now I have ascertained the importance of the photos, I can filter them to show only the three star and above, or as I like to say, those I care about. It is these that I lavish keywords on.
You can use the shift key, or the control/command key to select multiple images then enter the keywords, or go one by one. Using a comma "," will separate the keywords. You will notice Lightroom attempts to fill in a keyword based on the letters typed, it is advisable that you follow these suggestions as this will keep your Lightroom keyword 'catalogue' to a minimum and ensure you use consistent naming protocols.
When applying Elizabeth, Lightroom prompts the Elizabeth,Atkins,Family keywords. Very helpful.
If you finish in good time, and feel ready to do more, head back to the one and two star rated images and apply the keywords to them, it cannot hurt.
The last, and most critical step is to save the metadata to the files themselves. This is a rare feature, and the main reason why I chose Lightroom over other software programs. Lightroom places the "Save Metatadata to File" under the ubiquitous keyboard shortcut of control/command "S". The old File-Save command. For proprietary Raw files (NEF,CR2 etc), Lightroom will supply a sidecar file (.XMP) that is saves alongside the RAW file, for DNGs, Jpegs, Tiffs, Psds, Lightroom will save the metadata into the header of the file.
Why is this save feature so important?
It prevents your images from becoming orphans.
If you have to rely on a software catalogue to hold the keywords in a database or library then you need that software to read the metadata, where Lightroom embedding it in the file itself allows for the file to hold the information, therefore survive separation from the software, database or library.
The object is to add value to each photo for the future so you can understand the context around each photo taken, this is why I recommend Lightroom, it provides the best tool to help your photos survive into the future besides printing and writing on each one.
We are facing the greatest challenge to our social history since the dark ages. Photography has become the recorder of everything, it is the 'lingua franca' of this age. There is not a meal or birth or journey that is not over-photographed. And in this frenzy for photos we are building great haystacks of images like never before. The haystacks are huge and pretty and warm to roll around in but are built next to open fires and contain the odd needle or gem of a photograph - to suit my analogy.
When the supply of anything increases, it's immediate value decreases. But I am discussing a photo, an image taken at a time of the subjects' life that will never be repeated. Those needles have to be found in their haystacks before it is too late.
The industry leaders are doing very little to solve this problem. They want you to buy a new camera evey year, they want you to buy hard drives and subscribe to cloud services, they want you to share now, they are not thinking beyond the next sale. The "open fires" refers to the stability of hard drives, solid state media and CD/DVDs, they are fairly volatile to failure and obsolescence, 5 years is the advisable limit to trust them!
So here is the warning: nothing will be found unless we regularly care for it, there is no archival digital data storage device that is guaranteed to last a generation.
Over the next few months this series will explore metadata and how it will save today's photography for the future. So stay tuned for these bite sized explorations of a very powerful tool and participate in our vigilant watch over the technology of archiving. | 2019-04-24T14:28:09 | http://atkins.com.au/oldjournal/category/Metadata+information |
0.999079 | New year, new career goals?
It was during my year-end vacation that I received the news that an ex-colleague - let's call him A - had passed away on New Year's Eve.
It came as a complete shock - I had not been aware that he was sick. A family man in his early 50s, he was a graphic designer I worked with in my previous workplace.
I last met him during a work event in May, where we caught up briefly over a plate of kueh.
He was the same old amiable person I remembered, filling me in on the latest happenings (okay, gossip) in the office.
He never smoked or drank excessively, so who would have known that cancer - the cowardly, insidious scourge that it is - was already wreaking havoc on his lungs.
His struggle was a quick one and it was only four months between his diagnosis and departure.
We were not particularly close, but in the publishing industry, journalists and designers have a symbiotic relationship - we come up with the content, but designers bring them to life.
It was my first job, and A was the seasoned laojiao (Hokkien slang for old-timer), while I was the greenhorn.
Throughout the two years that we worked together, he showed me the ropes of publishing and was patient with my newbie mistakes.
He may look stern, but know A well enough and you will realise he had quite a sense of humour.
I was unable to attend the wake, but from what I heard, many colleagues - both past and present - turned up on the first day of the new year to pay their respects.
That was the effect A had on us all.
He leaves behind his wife and two young sons.
It was on this rather sombre note that I entered 2017.
As I was trying to plan for the year ahead, his passing weighed heavily on me.
We always say "begin with the end in mind", but I never thought of it quite so literally before.
Faced with the transience of life, I was at a loss on how to formulate career goals, much less life goals.
Was life about the hustle and going the extra mile at work?
Or should we prioritise getting the job done during work hours and spending time with loved ones?
I grew uncertain where the line was.
Michael Smith, managing director, Randstad Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, advised that there is no right or wrong approach between the two.
"This will vary greatly based on the organisation, culture and boss. For example, in a company with a boss and culture which values highly going above and beyond, it can be difficult to make a strong impression just by adhering to the fixed work hours."
But thankfully, he says, this mindset is changing as more employers understand the need for flexibility and work-life balance.
Grant Torrens, business director, Hays Singapore, stressed that career goals are decisions only you alone can make.
"What is more important is that your career goals are aligned to your personal circumstances which change over time … Is it (your objective) more disposable income, or a promotion? Perhaps it could be better work-life balance. Your career plan and your goals have to correlate to each other."
But regardless of whether you intend to charge forward or take a step back at work, he pointed out that employees should look to restructure their days more efficiently, such as sticking to a plan to ensure that tasks are completed in a timely fashion.
That, to me, was a reassuring message.
Instead of fretting about lofty goals or the next big career move, taking little positive steps along the way, such as maximising what time I have in the office, is a good start.
It reminded me again of my ex-colleague A.
I remember a conversation with him years ago, when he told me he was previously an art director in a creative agency.
He got tired of the politicking and high stress levels associated with agency work and decided to settle for a more family-friendly work environment.
The pay was probably less, and perhaps so were the prestige, the benefits and the career prospects, but A told me he was satisfied.
He worked hard, mind you, but not being at the mercy of clients and ridiculous deadlines meant that he got to see his family more compared to before.
He charted his own path and I don't think this was a decision he regretted.
It was later that I found out that he was the longest-serving employee of the company, where he served for more than 14 years.
If what I hear from SME owners is anything to go by, such staff are rare these days.
To me, he exemplified a quote that I read recently online that was so simple, yet true: "Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt."
Ultimately, no one can tell you the "right" move to make.
We all have different motivations and go through different seasons - climbing the career ladder is a worthy decision, but so is scaling back to focus on family when the time calls for it.
But don't abandon your career plans just yet - they steer us in the right direction and provide structure for our year ahead.
We spend so much time at our workplace that it would be a shame to go through the grind mindlessly.
But whatever decisions we choose to make this year, big or small, perhaps let's remind ourselves of what we are working for in the end.
Employers tend to focus on the superstars who shine the brightest, but there's also immense value in those who burn the steadiest and longest.
If there's anything I have learnt from my late ex-colleague, it is this: The decision to be faithful in the little things at work can be just as powerful as the grandest ambitions.
So, A, rest easy now, for your labour behind the scenes is over.
Your chapter ends here, but you will always be remembered. | 2019-04-24T13:02:07 | https://www.stjobs.sg/articles/248177 |
0.998615 | Where should this field info be stored?
There's many to many relationship between users and accounts and there's a field called "commissions".
When John is assigned to account (A) his commission is 5% when John is assigned to account (B) his commission is 14% and when Bill is also assigned to account (B) his commission is 10%.
So where would this "commission" info be stored?
It can't be in "users" or "accounts" module, so would I make a column in the relationship table that links the 2? Or is there another way of doing this?
It looks like it's described here: How can I add a field to a relationship?
Robert Sinclair - You may also want to review https://community.sugarcrm.com/message/93104-adding-custom-field-to-relationship-sugar-7x#comment-93221 which is a possible solution that would not require custom coding. | 2019-04-24T09:51:52 | https://community.sugarcrm.com/thread/33686-where-should-this-field-info-be-stored |
0.999995 | What is the best way to start a rock concert? According to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, that would be to make a run across the stage and fall down into the crowd. Ouch.
Grohl, the Foo Fighters' guitarist and singer, made a spectacular entrance at Gothenberg's Ullevi Stadium in Sweden during a performance June 5. As the band entered the stage, roaring power chords and smashing cymbals amid rolling cinematic smoke, the frontman went to the protruding front part of the stage… and fell down spectacularly, still gripping his guitar.
Three years ago, at the same venue, Grohl fell of the stage and broke his leg. But rock won't be stopped by mere broken bones: after an hour of the rest of the band, led by drummer Taylor Hawkins, playing various covers, Grohl returned to stage — on the stretcher — to finish the concert.
"You have my promise right now that the Foo Fighters — we're gonna come back and finish this show. But right now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna go to the hospital, I'm gonna fix my leg. But then I'm gonna come back and we're gonna play for you again! I'm so sorry," he told the crowd at the concert.
And if you thought the band has cancelled its tour — not a chance. Grohl kept performing from an awesome-looking throne, adorned with scenic lights and innumerable guitars.
This year's fall, however, turned out to be a mere prank performed by a stunt double. After stunning the audience, the real Grohl entered the stage and the band went on with the performance as usual — And yes, Grohl successfully made it through the end staying on the stage.
The American rock band is currently on their European tour, with their next two performances scheduled for June 10 and 11 in Germany and Belgium, respectively. | 2019-04-22T16:59:15 | https://sputniknews.com/viral/201806071065210505-foo-fighters-stage-fall-prank/ |
0.99999 | Consider the following statements : 1. The President shall make rules for the more convenient transaction of the business of the Government of India, and for the allocation among Ministers of the said business. 2. All executive actions of the Government of India shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the Prime Minister. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
the Government of India, and for the allocation among Ministers of the said business.
name of the Prime Minister. | 2019-04-22T08:07:07 | http://www.quhasa.com/question/index/id/e18729d0-4256-11e4-a7b6-782bcb18fa19 |
0.999292 | A child welfare agency in Ontario, Canada removed two girls from a foster home, causing potential trauma, because the Christian couple who cared for them refused to lie about the existence of the Easter Bunny.
A court judgement in the province declared that the Children's Aid Society (CAS) violated the foster parent's right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression when the children were taken from their home and their fostering agreement terminated over the couple's refusal to promote the existence of the mythical bunny, the National Post reported.
Derek and Frances Baars sued the Children's Aid Society last year, saying that despite their belief that all lying is wrong, a CAS worker insisted they proactively tell two girls in their care, aged three and four, that the Easter Bunny was genuine.
The Baars, who are Christians and members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, did not seek any money, only a court declaration that their rights were violated and that they not be blocked from future fostering.
And Justice Andrew Goodman of Ontario's Superior Court of Justice did just that in his 62-page judgement released on Tuesday.
According to the judgement, in 2016, the CAS removed the children, ended the Baars' ability to foster other local children and probably interfered with the couple's ability to foster children in Alberta.
Goodman said the CAS's actions were 'capricious,' as well as 'not in the children's best interests' and potentially reveal an 'underlying animus' by the group and its staff.
According to the National Post, the CAS claimed that the children were not removed over the foster parents refusing to lie about the bunny, but for refusing to support the birth mother's wishes and failing to be respectful of cultural needs of the children.
The court heard evidence from child experts that the CAS removed the children with only one day's notice, in an act that was a 'potentially traumatising event', the judgement said. This was despite the fact that the couple were providing a stable and caring home for the children.
Goodman pointed out that there are times – such as physical or sexual abuse – when foster children must be removed from homes, but not over the existence of the Easter bunny.
He wrote: 'Given the disruption that these young children had already faced in their lives, there is no doubt that there was a need for stability, permanency and care in their lives. It is very clear from the evidence that the children were being cared for, that the Baars were providing them with stability and were turning their minds to the facets of care required for the children's development and happiness.
The Baars made their position against lying – including over the existence of Santa Claus – clear to the CAS before being accepted as foster parents, the court heard.
The court also heard how the birth mother was happy with the way the Baars provided Christmas celebrations in 2015, and made no mention of the Easter Bunny despite a series of exchanges between the two parties.
The executive director of the Hamilton CAS, Dominic Verticchio, apologised to the Baars through the National Post for what happened.
'We recognise what our mistakes were,' Verticchio said. 'We respect the decision of the court... and we have to ensure it doesn't happen again.
The Baars are now in the process of applying to adopt a child in Edmonton, where they now live, and hope the ruling helps their application move smoothly through the bureaucracy. | 2019-04-26T10:02:58 | https://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian-couple-had-children-removed-over-their-refusal-to-lie-about-the-easter-bunny/127078.htm |
0.997535 | As Linkin Park prepares for its upcoming North American tour, frontman Chester Bennington is predicting a much shorter turnaround for the group's follow up to 2007's "Minutes to Midnight."
"We sparked a new kind of life into what we do during the writing of ['Midnight']," Bennington tells Billboard.com. "We want to keep that going. I think we're in the mode, and I have a good feeling we're going to put another record out really quickly."
Bennington says Linkin Park will be bringing gear on the road to capture ideas that come up on tour. Besides the North American jaunt with Coheed & Cambria and Chiodos that kicks off Feb. 12 in Omaha, Neb., the group is also planning to host another edition of its Projekt Revolution tour this summer; bands and dates are expected to be announced during the next couple of months.
"There was a long period of time between the release of 2003's 'Meteora' and 'Minutes to Midnight'," Bennington says. "Even though we did tour [for 'Meteora'] for two years, we didn't start working on writing ['Midnight'] until seven months after we stopped touring. So it seemed like a really, really long time to our fans and it seemed like a really, really long time to us. I don't see that happening again."
Bennington doesn't want to hazard a guess as to what Linkin Park's fourth studio album will sound like, however. "I never anticipate what we're gonna do," he explains. "I find that overplanning a creative project usually means you're gonna screw it up, so I really don't focus on what we're gonna do. When a song comes, I'll write it. When a song comes to Mike [Shinoda], he'll put an idea down. We just kind of roll with it spontaneously."
Meanwhile, Bennington says Linkin Park -- which just finished shooting a video for its next single, "Giving Up" -- is busy tweaking its production and repertoire for the upcoming dates.
"We're going to add some different production elements," he confirms. "We're working with some artists to develop some really cool video content -- the same ideas and elements from Projekt Revolution and kid of evolving those into a little bit bigger of a stage show. We don't like to do super crazy sh*t on stage; we just try to take very simple production elements and take them to their full potential. We like to have the focus of the show on the band rather than distract you with explosions and clowns and stuff jumping around on stage." | 2019-04-22T18:39:49 | https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1046615/linkin-park-plans-quick-midnight-follow-up |
0.999999 | How is gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery performed?
There are two types of operations. In open gastric bypass surgery an incision is made in the abdomen. In laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, a smaller incision is made and a surgeon uses small instruments and a camera to guide the surgical process.
In both procedures, surgical staples (or sometimes a plastic band) are used to create a small pouch at the top of the stomach, hence the colloquial term "stomach stapling" used to refer to the surgery. The smaller stomach is then connected directly to the middle of the small intestine, bypassing much of the upper stomach and intestines.
How does gastric bypass surgery work to reduce weight?
Most simply, gastric bypass surgery is surgery that makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass a portion of the small intestine. Patients who undergo successful surgery generally lose weight afterward for two reasons: they feel full sooner and bypassing the small intestine causes fewer calories to be absorbed by the body.
What are the risks of gastric bypass (bariatric) surgery?
While gastric bypass surgery has benefited many people, saving them from health problems associated with obesity, the risks of bariatric surgery are many. According to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, which has an internationally respected gastric bypass program, these problems range from the commonplace and remediable to the serious and fatal.
Perhaps the most common problem is a leak from a staple or staples that have pulled loose from the stomach (or the spot where the new, smaller stomach is attached to the small intestine) into the abdominal cavity. This can produce peritonitis (an inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdomen wall) or a pulmonary embolism, a blockage of blood flow into the lungs. If left untreated too long, either can prove fatal.
Some programs have put the risk ratios at higher levels, some lower. The fatality rate was reported at 2 percent in the study of 3,328 gastric bypass patients reported in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The American Gastroenterological Association reported in 2002 that fewer than three in 200 (or 1.5 percent) of patients die after the weight-loss surgery. Other studies have put the fatality risk at 1 percent or lower.
Still with 170,000 gastric bypasses expected to be performed in the United States in 2005, even a 1 percent fatality rate represents 1,700 deaths following bariatric surgery.
What is a major cause of bariatric-related injuries?
More than 64 percent of adults in the United States are considered overweight or obese, according to the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Among those are people considered to be “morbidly obese,” defined as 100 pounds overweight, a condition associated with severe physical problems. The most serious, of course, is an increased mortality rate due to a number of health-related factors.
According to the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, for men and women 50 percent above average weight the mortality rate increased twofold, and by far greater rates for people with diabetes or digestive tract disease. Most of the deaths are associated with conditions stemming from obesity, including hypertension, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, cholelithiasis, obstructive sleep apnea, hypoventilation, degenerative arthritis and psychosocial impairments. | 2019-04-26T15:55:17 | https://www.klinespecter.com/gastric_bypass_faq.html |
0.999442 | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite the drop in President Obama's approval ratings, Republican policies are still not as popular as Democratic policies, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-two percent of people in CNN poll believe Barack Obama's policies will move country in right direction.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates the GOP has gained some ground in polls in recent months, but Democrats still hold the advantage on key issues such as the economy and health care.
Fifty-two percent of people questioned say the president's policies will move the country in the right direction. An equal percentage feel the same way about the policies of the Democrats in Congress.
What do Americans think of Republican policies? Forty-three percent say the GOP's policies will move the country in the right direction. Nearly half of those polled said congressional Republicans would move the country in the wrong direction.
But the percentage of people who think Obama will move the country in the right direction has dropped 11 points since May, while congressional Democrats have seen a 5 point dip. Congressional Republicans have seen a 4 point rise over the same period.
Polls in recent weeks have shown Obama's approval rating in the mid-to-low 50s -- a significant drop from early summer, when most polls had his rating at 60 percent or higher.
Commentary: Did Obama underestimate his critics?
"Barack Obama's drop in the polls has not made the Republican Party more popular than the Democrats," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. Still, he adds, "The GOP may be in a more competitive position -- a comparison with poll results from May suggests that the gap between the parties has been closing."
The survey suggests that, by 13 points, Americans think the Democrats rather than the Republicans would do a better job handling the economy and Medicare. The Democrats have a 9 point advantage on health care and an 8 point edge on Afghanistan. The two parties are tied on the question of how they'd handle taxes and the federal budget deficit. The GOP holds a clear advantage on just one issue -- terrorism.
According to the poll, six in 10 say that the GOP has not done enough to cooperate with Obama. A bare majority says the president has done enough to cooperate with Republicans, a significant drop the April result for the same question.
"Two-thirds of all Americans are angry at the way the government in Washington is working, and the Democrats get the brunt of that anger," adds Holland. "But the amount of anger has not quite reached the level that polls found in 1994, when voters turned the Democrats out of power in Congress and elected a GOP majority for the first time since the 1950s."
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted August 28-31, with 1,010 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey, and plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for the breakdowns by party. | 2019-04-23T16:26:13 | http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/poll.republicans.democrats/index.html |
0.998121 | Delineate your column information with tabs in your text file (eg. "MyDoc.txt").
Step 1. Open your text file in Notepad (double-click the text file in File Manager).
Step 2. Select Edit -> Replace... from the menu.
Step 3. Type two spaces in the "Find what:" field and one space in the "Replace with:" field.
Step 4. Then click on "Replace All" repeatedly until no more replacements are made.
Step 5. Now type only one space in the "Find what:" field and only a tab in the "Replace with:" field.
Step 6. Click on the "Find Next" button.
Step 7. Then click on "Replace" or "Replace All" as appropriate until tabs have been inserted everywhere you want to begin a new column (in each row).
Step 8. Then select File -> Save, then File -> Exit (to exit Notepad).
Create Excel worksheet using a DOS Batch File.
Step 1. Create the batch file (eg. "TextToExcel.bat").
Step 1b. Then select File -> Save As..., change the filename extension from ".txt" to ".bat", then click on the Save button.
Step 1c. Then File -> Exit (to exit Notepad).
Step 2. Run your batch file to create the Excel worksheet.
Step 2a. Click on Start -> Run..., or alternatively Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt.
Step 2b. Type "[d1:][path1]TextToExcel [d2:][path2]MyDoc.txt" and hit Enter.
NOTE: Substitute the appropriate (optional) drives and paths as applicable.
NOTE: If you copy your batch file to a directory that is in the path statement, "d1:" and "path1" will not be needed. | 2019-04-26T16:11:20 | https://www.computing.net/howtos/show/dos-batch-to-convert-text-file-with-rows-columns-to-excel-worksheet/759.html |
0.999997 | As the name suggests, conditional sentences are those that describe a condition and a result that follows. In theory, they may seem a little abstract, but in truth, they are very common in daily conversations.
"If you work hard, you succeed."
"If you work hard, you will get that promotion."
"If it rains, we stay at home."
"If he is sick, his sister hands in his assignments."
"If it rains tomorrow, we will not go on a picnic."
"If he is still sick next week, his sister will hand in his assignment."
"If I were you, I wouldn't disturb him"
"If we waited a little longer, we could meet the manager."
"If Mary knew about it, she would tell me."
"If you asked my brother, he would help you."
"If you had woken up early, you wouldn't have missed your flight."
"If he had studied harder, he would have passed his exams."
"If she had known, she would have told you."
OTHER WORDS WE CAN USE INSTEAD OF "IF"
"When you get there, you will see her."
"I will come when you call me."
"Should you be unable to answer your calls, we will take your messages."
"Should you require additional information, do not hesitate to phone us."
"Unless you work hard, you can't succeed."
"Unless she leaves now, she'll be late for the meeting."
"Unless you gave him the facts, he couldn't know."
"Unless they had seen her, they wouldn't have been so angry."
"Provided (that) you know what you want, you can always find a way to get it."
"Provided (that) he passes the test, he will qualify for the finals."
"Provided (that) she listened, she could hear the bells."
"Provided (that) he had had the money, he would have bought it."
"Supposing (that) she comes to the party, what will you do?"
"Supposing (that) she won from the lottery, would she lend you any money?"
"Supposing (that) at she ahd seen you there, what would you have done?"
"Supposing (that) he asked you for a loan, what would you say?"
"If I were you, ..."
"If he were ... , ... "
The if-clause/condition, can always come after the result-clause.
"Things change when you grow up."
"He will be promoted if he keeps working so hard."
"We would call them if they showed an interest."
"I wouldn't have done it if you had warned me."
--> Observe that in such sentences the clauses are not separated by a comma.
--> The should-clause does not normally come after the result-clause!
If I were you, I would call her. --------> Were I you, I would call her.
If I had known, I wouldn't have done it. ---------> Had I known, I wouldn't have done it.
--> In these cases, the result clause cannot come before the conditional clause.
Correction: "If I were in Miami, my body wouldn't be freezing. "
Great work! appreciate your helpful effort.
thanks a lot ,vey helpful for me.
I wouldn't have studied it again.
If I practise. only then I can remember these rules.
Anyway, this lesson is fine.
If I knew this before, I would not study it again. | 2019-04-23T07:59:57 | https://ch.englishbaby.com/lessons/4716/member_submitted/conditional_sentences |
0.999999 | During a fight with the Death Eaters, Ginny is captured. When she is saved, she's not herself. Can Harry save her from the darkness within?
Why did it take Harry so long to notice her? My version of what happened after the kiss in the common room. In response to most of the reviews I have added spaces between paragraphs.
The battle of Hogwarts is over, leaving Harry Potter in turmoil. Around him, families grieve for their loved ones and Harry wants nothing more than to be with GInny. However, the guilt that comes with his losses is pulling him away from the love of his life. Can Ginny get him through? And more importantly, can he help her? A H/G story that takes place directly after DH, about learning to live through darkness and death.
After the last battle, life at the Burrow goes on. A story in four chapters and four perspectives Ginny Weasley, Molly Weasley, George Weasley, and Harry Potter .
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the times comes to let it go, to let it go"
Dreams are strange things. You wake up in them, knowing people you actually don't and speaking about things that you've never spoken about. They're not reasonable, you don't tend to know you're in a dream and there no rationalizing. Here, Ginny Weasley is in a dream with the one and only Lily Potter.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were set to have a relaxing weekend catching up at the Burrow, until they walked into the kitchen. Ginny and her mum were in tears, and Mr. Weasley was stressed. What was wrong? How would it affect Harry?
-"Where is Daddy?" Ginny went completely still. She knew that one of the two were going to ask her that sooner or later. | 2019-04-22T21:01:09 | http://siye.co.uk/titles.php?action=viewlist&offset=1920 |
0.999999 | The first thing I’d like to point out in this review is that Suicide Squad, David Ayer’s hotly-anticipated contribution to the quickly expanding new DC universe, is certainly not as terrible as the recent onslaught of damning reviews would have you believe. I entered the cinema with extremely low expectations, and was met with a complete tonal and structural mess of a film, but one which was surprisingly enjoyable in parts. It details the attempts of ruthless government official, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), to assemble a group of renowned criminals who are coerced into serving and protecting society against their will. It was clear that David Ayer had intended to create a fun, rambunctious and genre-subverting film featuring a task force of misfits, in the same vein as Marvel’s much-loved Guardians of the Galaxy, but the lack of clear direction resulted in a talented cast being squandered on a collection of scenes which just never quite meshed together effectively.
A comparison which can immediately be drawn between Suicide Squad and the aforementioned Guardians of the Galaxy was the energetic but overused jukebox-esque rock soundtrack, which was aimlessly added to action scenes and exposition montages and bore no connection whatsoever to what was happening onscreen. Unlike the imaginative and well-placed selection of classic pop songs littered throughout Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad’s soundtrack usage was obnoxious and tiresome, insulting its audience by forcing a particular mood instead of building it organically, as if to act as a guise for how shallow parts of the film actually were.
Subject to a great deal of speculation before the film’s release was its cast, and I feel that the film’s highlights were some of its performances. Jared Leto provided a very unique portrayal of the Joker, bringing fresh and unusual qualities to the character. Despite his very limited screentime, we see him involved in a range of incredibly comic-esque ‘shenanigans’, adding to the film’s sense of fun and providing lurid and colourful aesthetics which I wish could’ve been carried throughout the rest of the film, which was predictably gritty and washed-out. It must be pointed out, however, that the attention the Joker paid to his own style and status made him noticeably less threatening than the chilling performances of previous Joker actors, most notably Heath Ledger. Margot Robbie’s performance as Harley Quinn unfortunately missed the mark, but this is almost entirely due to poor writing, as most of her lines consisted of jokes which simply didn’t land. Will Smith’s portrayal of Deadshot was enjoyable, but ultimately his character was shaped by his attempts to do right by his daughter, which became a little one-dimensional after a while. The rest of the titular ‘Suicide Squad’, whilst intriguing, were mostly just shoehorned into the film, and didn’t really receive the attention they probably deserved during scriptwriting.
In terms of plot, the film’s ending felt frustratingly easy and predictable, which wasn’t helped by plot holes, as well as the characters’ new found empathy and compassion towards one another, which felt uncharacteristic considering their supposedly sociopathic personalities. The film’s opening mainly consisted of blatant exposition and character flashbacks, with each member of the Squad being given their own profiles, likely for the benefit of viewers who weren’t familiar with the comics. This felt disjointed with the rest of the film structurally, but on a positive note, was fairly visually creative and engaging as an opening.
It’s easy to condemn Suicide Squad on the basis of the predominantly negative reviews it’s received, but there is clear ambition exhibited in sections of the film, such as in its daring, albeit divisive, performances and its occasional enjoyable silliness. Had the script been completely overhauled, the characters better showcased and the action sequences well-organised, Suicide Squad would almost certainly have provided the rejuvenation the DC universe desperately needs. Despite some positive elements however, it simply didn’t achieve that goal.
I totally agree with you – this wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone made it sound, but it also could have been such great counter programming to Marvel. If DC/WB would worry less about dollars and cents, they might be able to churn out superior movies to Marvel’s competent but (at least for me) relatively boring oeuvre. For me, the best three superhero films of the past 15 years have been Spiderman 2, The Dark Knight, and Logan – all of which were made outside of the current Marvel universe.
Exactly. I think DC attempted to combat the growing superhero fatigue a lot of viewers seem to have now, but they do lack the technical prowess that Marvel have. I do feel pretty disillusioned with both at present but in some ways that’s a good thing because if either of them manage to wow me it’ll be a pleasant surprise! Can’t see it happening though. | 2019-04-24T00:32:19 | https://cineguise.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/suicide-squad-review/ |
0.99748 | What follows is a set of instructions for accumulating runes in the online game Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Certain runes are the rarest and most valuable items in the game. This guide gives step by step instructions for gathering runes by repeatedly creating characters and performing the hellforge quest in each of three difficulties for each character.
"Duriel Mule" - a character that has touched the Summoner's book, and inserted the staff into the orifice, but done no other Act 2 quest activities.
If a rushee dies in a quest area, remain dead (i.e. don't hit escape) until the quest is completed. You will get credit for the quest.
For Normal difficulty, select "create new character" from the character screen.
All N-1 rushees in the game have now been converted from "New" to "Andariel"
Primary rushee gets viper amulet. Do not leave the Altar Room until the Altar animation finishes. Otherwise the quest might be botched.
If a Duriel Mule needs to be created for this difficulty, save the amulet.
Rusher saves screen shot of Arcane Sanctuary waypoint, with map positioned to show summoner location.
All rushees verify that they can take the portal to the Canyon of the Magi waypoint.
Andariel rushee DOES NOT ENTER GAME YET!
Rusher clears chest area of Maggot Lair level 3 (this is the only time that Maggot Lair must be completed).
Everyone avoids talking to townspeople and any other quest triggers while this character is in game.
N-1 rushees complete this difficulty.
N rushees can complete Act 2 in one pass, compared to N-1 rushees for most other acts.
Summoner rushee enters game, and identifies true tomb symbol. If symbol does not show in the quest log, talk to Cain and visit the Canyon of the Magi waypoint.
If Jerhyn cannot be seen in town, send everyone back to Act 1 temporarily to reset the Act 2 town. Jerhyn must be available in town.
N-1 Andariel rushees enter game and join party.
Summoner rushee walks through chamber and talks to Tyrael.
All Rushees pick up their Horadric Cubes near the dead council, if they need one.
Rusher A kills Diablo, avoiding wandering too far from spawning spot.
All rushees move to next difficulty, where they are now "NEW"
Make sure rushee is not partied with anyone who needs the hellforge quest.
Possible hellforge runes by difficulty. There is an equal chance (1/11) of each listed rune dropping at each hellforge quest.
Runes that cannot be obtained from hellforge rune drop: Vex, Ohm, Lo, Sur, Ber, Jah, Cham, Zod. It would take 256 Gul runes (and some gems) to cube up one Zod rune.
This rant is reawakened from the early 1990s. Back in about 1991 one of my responsibilities was the maintanance of some Digital Equipment Corporation VAX workstations, running the operating system VMS. One fringe benefit of this activity was a free subscription to a publication called DEC Professional. One frequent advertiser in DEC Professional was a company called Raxco. Raxco placed one ad that they later regretted. The ad copy proclaimed that simply by filling out and returning a card requesting more information about some of their products, you could get a free t-shirt. This t-shirt featured a cartoon by Don Martin, best know for his work at Mad Magazine.
The cartoon is captioned "Fragmentation happens", and features a Don Martin version of a computer engineer with computer parts flying about with sound effects like "Kloon", "Ping", "PA-Tween" and "Sproing".
I filled out the card and waited for my t-shirt. This was now about fourteen years ago. One of Raxco's representatives informed me that the response to the ad had been larger than anticipated, so I might need to wait longer before getting my shirt. I have now waited fourteen years.
Later I got another business reply card with which I could request product information from Raxco. This time, no shirt was offered. But there was some additional white-space below the check box options on the card. Being careful not to mark any of the preprinted check boxes, I wrote in a new one of my own. It simply said "Where is my t-shirt, you deceitful charlatans?" I placed a large check mark in the box I had created next to this question and dropped the card in the mail. All I received in response to this was some product information that I had not asked for.
Why am I bringing this up now? My loving wife found an image of the aforementioned t-shirt and made me a t-shirt using special iron-on paper for inkjet printers. Is this copyright infringement? Perhaps. I would so love to have someone from Raxco try to take the moral high ground on this one. They still owe me a t-shirt. After fourteen years, the interest should run to at least two t-shirts by now.
Where is my shirt Raxco? I am still waiting. Jerks.
And thank you honey for the beautiful t-shirt. I have wanted something like this for so long.
Back in mid November I got a prescription for new glasses at Mountain View Optometry. That was five weeks ago and I was promised that they would call when the glasses were ready. I finally got too impatient and called them today. Apparently their computer indicates that some useless and apparently anonymous retard contacted me by phone two weeks ago. Their computer is a liar. Useless retard. There I said it again.
To be fair, my optometrist, Dr. Bell, is excellent. The problem is that they take your payment before they have delivered their product. Many organizations that do this have neither concern nor accountability for the customer experience after the cash register has rung its chime. I am left with a very nasty feeling. The feeling is compounded by an unrelated blunder at Fenders Collision Center that I had this morning.
Rant rant rant rant rant rant. There, that does feel better. | 2019-04-22T09:04:48 | http://biospud.blogspot.com/2005/12/ |
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0.999951 | Why doesn't Venus have any water?
This month, scientists at the University of Tokyo have presented a compelling new model of planet formation that may explain why Earth's 'twin', Venus, has such a hellish environment.
By most measures, Venus closely resembles Earth, and once lead to the hope that it too might host life. But Venusian probes in recent decades have told a different story. At roughly 460 degrees Celsius, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any of the rocky planets, and more importantly for life, Venus lacks water, a fact that continues to puzzle planetary scientists.
Maybe Venus had no water to begin with? But then how did Earth get its water? Or, perhaps Venus had liquid oceans in the past but, over time, extreme heat has slowly evaporated the water and strong solar winds have stripped the molecules from the planet?
In a recent letter to Nature, Keiko Hamano and his team present a different theory: they believe that Earth and Venus represent two unique examples of rocky planet formation, where the crucial difference is their distance from the Sun. The research predicts that Earth-like planets will cool from an original molten state within a few million years and retain much of their initial water as oceans.
On the other hand, the Venus-like planets might retain a largely-magma state for up to a 100 million years. Why the drastic difference in cooling times? It's all about energy balance. Hamano's model finds that, as a planet cools, a hot steam atmosphere is formed from the degassing molten surface.
This atmosphere, full of carbon dioxide and water vapour, regulates heat loss such that there is a lower limit to how quickly the planet can cool (think greenhouse effect). But we have to also take into account the Sun's radiation as an external heat source. At a certain distance from the Sun, the heat coming in can balance the heat loss and prevent cooling.
Interestingly, this distance is about the same distance as Venus from the Sun. Earth, being further away, has less heating from the Sun and can cool in a few million years rather than a hundred million.
A quick cooling time is vital for retaining water on Earth-like planets. Once a cool, solid surface has formed, water oceans can develop and start absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This reduces greenhouse heating and allows the planet to cool even faster.
But it seems likely that Venus, with an extremely long cooling period, lost nearly all of its water vapour due to solar wind stripping before oceans ever have a chance to form. What's left is a lifeless, desiccated planet with extreme greenhouse heating. If only Venus had been a little bit further from the Sun, it too might have water.
The results of this research should aid our understanding of exoplanet evolution. Once we know how hot an alien atmosphere is (due to the types of gaseous species detected), then we should be able to predict whether that planet is molten or solidified and, based on the distance from its star, whether it is the hell of Venus or haven of Earth.
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I think you are really good help! You have helps me a lot thank you so much! | 2019-04-23T22:37:39 | https://www.thenakedscientists.com/comment/4778 |
0.999863 | What is the difference between luminescence, phosphorescence, fluorescence, incandescence, and iridescence?!?
I thought they all just meant light! I never really thought about them individually.
Please explain for a non-science-oriented person like me.
Fluorescence - Light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength.
Phosphorescence - A fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased.
Incandescence - The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised.
fluorescence - giving off light when exposed to UV light - fluorescent light bulbs have the UV inside from the plasma, men's white shirts glow bluish in UV (black) light from the starch often used on them, many rocks also glow - goes away immediately the light is removed.
incandescence - light from high temperature heating, including incandescent light bulbs with a glowing filament and fire.
They all have a bunch of different letters in the beginning but all end in "scence"
I know about indecency ! Been there, done that !
How do you combine the following half-reactions to obtain a balanced overall redox reaction. 2H2O2→2O2+4H++4e− and Fe3++e−→Fe2+? | 2019-04-26T02:02:07 | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090113063140AACAYZF |
0.999099 | What kind of image do you present when marketing your products? Are you professional and well organized or does your store/site/whatever scream, "sloppy!," to those who matter the most: your customers? Let's see how one leading retailer is winning the sales war, but losing an important battle: store organization.
WalMart is dominant in so many categories with the various products that they sell. In 50 years the company has gone from a local player to a world powerhouse and is on track to expand throughout the land of the largest consumer market in the world, China.
As much as WalMart is conquering new horizons and dominating the American landscape, one problem is arising: their stores are a mess. Visit your local WalMart store at any given time and you will find throngs of shoppers but few workers. Most workers are busy at the front end of the store ringing up sales, while others are scattered throughout the store putting up stock.
Why is this a problem? Quite frankly, WalMart is a victim of its own success. Stock turns over so fast, that the store must replenish during peak store hours in order to keep everything on hand. A good problem to have, right? Not if you are a customer who wants something and you cannot navigate aisles to find what you need as boxes of stock partially block you out.
WalMart's chief competitor, Target, seems to have gotten it right. Their stores are neat; the signs to help you find various sections are big, bold, and color coordinated; and stock replenishment does not take over the aisles. On the other hand, KMart was once an industry powerhouse and many of their stores are old and disheveled. More importantly, KMart is now an "also ran" as other retailers -- including WalMart -- have presented a better place to shop for customers.
As much as price is a driving factor in winning the sales war, store organization and cleanliness can eventually undermine sales as customers are turned off by a messy environment and choose to go to your competitor.
While many customers will accept a lower level of customer service [less floor help available, for example], clutter will drive them away faster than low prices will pull them in. You can tout, "Always low prices, always" in your motto, but your customers will flee if they find your store to be disorganized. Competitors wait in the wings to grab what you will lose: can you afford the loss of sales?
Matt Keegan is The Article Writer who covers topics as diverse as business, customer service, aviation, human interest, employment and travel. Please visit his site at http://www.thearticlewriter.com for samples of some of his work.
At Your Service: The Ten Commandments of Great Customer Service! | 2019-04-22T16:05:27 | http://www.osaka.limo/customer-service/We-Sell-For-Less-and-Our-Stores-Are-a-Mess_11070/ |
0.999664 | Why would anyone want liberty? It requires responsibility, after all. It removes most of your opportunities to whine and blame everyone else when things go wrong. It leads to minding your own business. Where's the fun in that?
What is liberty? According to Thomas Jefferson, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."
"Unobstructed action"- absolutely anything which doesn't violate the identical liberty of some other person, regardless of what the law says, is within your rights to do. No one has a right to rule your life or prevent you from offending them.
Another way to put it might be "Don't do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.", which I have been told is a better translation of The Golden Rule.
Liberty frees you from feeling like you need to control other people's lives. Live your own life, and if someone encroaches on your life, liberty, or property, deal with them then and there.
Liberty lets you focus on your responsibility; not enforcing responsibility in others.
Instead of fretting over trivial matters, you can focus on what's really important. Is someone attacking the innocent or violating private property? No? Then forget it and move on. If they are, take steps to stop them.
The less time you spend worrying about what other people do, the more you will have to spend on being a better friend, relative, and neighbor.
You'll probably be less stressed out, too. It's a huge burden to feel what your neighbors do is somehow your business.
Liberty frees you from wringing your hands over situations you have no control over. Don't like what's going on in other countries? Can you actually do anything about it? If you can, should, and want to, go and do something. If not, concentrate on your own life. Don't force others to do what you think should be done, and don't force them to pay for it either. Meddling by those who think "something must be done" has caused the lion's share of political trouble.
You can also save a lot of time when you stop worrying whether something is "legal" and go straight to doing what is right.
It's easier to keep track of two or three universal laws than millions of federal, state, and local rules. How easy? Don't use force- or send others to use it on your behalf- against people who aren't attacking the innocent or violating private property, respect private property, and if you enter an agreement, do your best to keep it. Anyone can do that. Can't you? | 2019-04-20T05:11:41 | https://blog.kentforliberty.com/2014/07/liberty-frees-from-control-situations.html |
0.999997 | Build Systems: What do you use?
TL;DR - What’s a good system to compile HTML templates and preprocessed CSS? Is there a single good way to do this? Or will any static site generator and CSS pre/post-processor do?
Dan Denney’s Emayll looked like a good candidate, but I had a surprisingly hard time getting the initial Jekyll install running locally (I thought Jekyll was supposed to be easy!). I’ve also been looking at Handlebars (seems like overkill) and CodeKit (dead simple but doesn’t address everything).
What system do you use? What are the Pros and Cons?
EDIT: I've also been trying Lee Munroe's Grunt Workflow, which solves a lot. Currently figuring out how to separate local variables/includes from global variables/includes.
Don't use that one and I really need to kill that repo with fire. You're not alone in having trouble getting Jekyll running. I've switched to Middleman and I should bundle up and push eMMail.
It covers the absolutes and the would be nice. The catch is that it is Ruby-based and if you're on Windows, Ruby can be a bit of a pain to get installed.
You and your cleverly-named repos :) If you ever publish your current workflow, I'd love to study it!
Watching this closely – I keep trying these but I've never gotten far enough to make it totally worthwhile. I need partials, html variables, and logic that lets me choose partials depending on variables. Bonus points if I can read the filename to set variables.
While I'm wishing: I'd love to scale it to other team members, and being cross-platform would be wonderful too.
All that said, I'm also wondering if I should move away from my complex system and find something more visual and shift the team into people who maintain templates and people who build emails with a wysiwyg tool.
I'm very open to workflow suggestions. Hoping to kick the tires on taxiforemail soon.
I hear ya Nathan, it's tough to find something that fits perfectly. I've been trying to dep-dive one or two in hopes of finding a relatively stable system for those repetitive emails.
I've heard a number of teams running into issues when trying to scale workflows like this (set up, dependencies, keeping everyone in sync), so that's something extra to consider.
If you can figure that out it's very valuable. No matter how crazy I made the editable templates they ended up lacking something needed and the overall look and feel wasn't as good as it could be hand-coded. I switched to build systems because I couldn't create a great WYSIWYG but I'm sure others can.
I'm curious to see Taxi in action too.
At Rebelmail we use Gulp, Handelbars, AutoPrefix, Minify, Uglify and a few other custom things we've built.
I started of with Grunt which I found much easier but our engineers wanted Gulp as it's better for integrating deep into our system. So I'd say unless you have an engineer to help you out start with Grunt.
We partly use this the same way people use variable in SASS or LESS. I'll define a brands fonts, colours and images in a .json file then pull them into the template where needed.
We use it for inserting code snippets, which are then customised from the colours styles and images we've set.
So if there is a header, it'll insert the <h1> with the color, font and size we've defined elsewhere.
And if there is a main image it'll insert the html snippet we've created.
This compresses the file size by replacing semantic class and id names such as class="product-main-image" to something much shorter such as class="ab"
Hope that helps, we'll hopefully share more info and opensource more resources as we go.
Yes I have had a few issues with this but I've found it's not caused by the minify, it's caused by the ESP forcing line breaks. Some email clients can still read the code with the line breaks, some others (like Gmail) can't.
We've not built this yet as we currently don't need it but it's a thought for if this becomes an issue.
Thanks to Ted for starting this thread and I'll be monitoring closely as well!
I've been thinking about workflows and build systems nonstop since #TEDC15. Having a chance to chat with Lee Munroe and Dan Denney directly, I went home with a some general ideas (albeit light-years beyond my current "system") to lay out and manage variables, partials, etc. in a way that might one day be scalable to more members of our growing team – hoping to pass the redundant dev torch one day.
Currently I develop in Dreamweaver (sometimes Builder, don't worry Kevin!) and with the exception of some light Emmet commands for building out new modules and tables, I work from my extensive library of snippets in DW. We send enough bulk mailings/month that I've bothered to create a few pre-defined templates from said modules, but regularly find myself needing to weed through them to ensure the latest version of a given snippet is being used. I need more global control and I need it badly.
Any suggestions or guidance on a path to start down for build systems is most appreciated!
I think it depends on how much you want to automate and how much you want absolute control over.
I’ve gotten decently far with Lee’s Grunt workflow. Out of the box, it excels at creating a series of emails that share a ton of code and images. In my case, it does MORE than I want it to. I’m trying to bend it to create a series of templates that come from a single brand but use their own local variables, includes, and images.
I live in a world of “special requests” and frequently need to make changes that would fracture a shared template across emails. So I’m leaning towards evolving my snippets, so it allows me to repeat-myself-as-little-as-possible and still have the ability to change a template in a non-destabilizing manner.
So I’m trying to create a workflow that uses snippets in a Lee-Munroe-like workflow, with some copying/pasting. Problem is, as you say, it’s tough to keep snippets up to date. I’ve haven't solved that problem, but even so I’m in a much better place than before.
Very helpful – and encouraging – response, Ted! Thanks. I appreciated your take on the state of email production and its future more closely paralleling web design & UX in the closing panel at TEDC15. We co-inhabit the realm of "special-requests" and try though I might to establish some templated "standards", the need to evolve and stay nimble is critical.
Cheers, Peter. I'd love to hear about how you evolve your workflow!
I have been using a gulp flow. I use it for inlining and then sending test emails from the CL using mailguns API. Have a large library of snippets I want to incorporate soon.
I've found they can fudge with my markup too.
But I'm not completely against the idea, always looking for ways to improve the work flow.
Add me to the "no inlining" list and for the same reasons mentioned. I thought I'd jump in for this part: "If you don't use an inliner, how do you manage to keep the CSS reusable and consistent?".
I use a styleguide but rely heavily on snippets. If I need to reuse something I've created before, it goes in the styleguide and I make a snippet for it if I keep using it. Aside from that, I have a partial of Sass that is included in every email, though it's not very big. (Text sizes and helper classes to change padding mostly).
Then all those variable are pulled in by handelbars so they relate to the current brand and campaign.
I've taken Lee Munroe's Grunt Workflow pretty far. HTML templating, SASS, and data strings are terrific! Live reload is a nice touch. As someone who's never been comfortable with Terminal or Grunt, this was fun to learn.
However as some have noted in the comments, I'm running into problems with CSS inlining. I'm using this workflow mostly for promotional emails so far, so the layouts are fairly involved. I've been able to solve some issues, but I'm currently facing problems with web-fonts and background-vml-images, and I'm starting to think it might be insurmountable.
So I'm going to turn off CSS inlining and will try to use handlebars to make my inline CSS less verbose (@Mark_Robbins has a good example in this thread). Snippets might also be a good way to handle this.
I've also started looking at MiddleMan and Harp, just in case.
Thank you for following up, it's cool to hear. Based on what you're doing, you may want to stick with that flow (sans inlining). Either way you're learning a syntax (handlebars or the middleman helpers) and the only gain from Middleman would be creating your own custom reports.
No, but I use Haml so I have similar problems occasionally but I luckily there's a site that does HTML to Haml which helps speed things up a bit. I haven't seen one for Jade yet, though.
The biggest drawback to it for me is that I can't really share my stuff easily. Since I've become more active in the community I've been debating on cutting it out of my workflow so that I can share more. That's an unusual problem, though. You just have to work in what works best for you (and your team).
I really like option where you can choose which css you want to inline and not.
Added the Sass, grunt express and watch and pretty happy with the build I have so far. | 2019-04-21T00:34:37 | https://litmus.com/community/discussions/4210-build-systems-what-do-you-use |
0.999658 | Home > The Hostway Blog > Cloud Industry > Top 3 Healthcare Breaches: Could They Have Been Prevented?
Top 3 Healthcare Breaches: Could They Have Been Prevented?
However, data breaches can teach other healthcare institutions and covered entities a thing or two about HIPAA compliance and overall security best practices. Today, we’re counting down the three worst breaches to take place in the healthcare sector recently, and highlighting the lessons these instances impart.
This incident makes our list not only due to the circumstances involved in the breach, but the considerable $4.8 million HIPAA settlement the hospital and university paid.
According to Modern Healthcare, this event began in 2010 when a complaint was filed by an individual who came across the sensitive healthcare information of a deceased partner online. It was soon discovered that a breach had taken place, and that the attack not only impacted this deceased patient and their family, but 6,800 other patients as well.
The resulting investigation showed numerous compliance issues, the root of which was a lack of security safeguards to support secure access. A university-employed physician seeking to deactivate a personal server connected to the hospital and university’s joint network ultimately opened the door for attack.
“Because of a lack of technical safeguards, deactivation of the server resulted in ePHI (electronic protected health information) being accessible on Internet search engines,” the Office for Civil Rights stated.
The takeaway: There are several lessons to be learned from this event, including the importance of working in tandem with other organizations to ensure compliance. In this case, both the university and hospital were responsible for paying the settlement amount, with the hospital contributing $3.3 million.
“Our cases against NYP and CU should remind healthcare organizations of the need to make data security central to how they manage their information systems,” OCR deputy director Christina Heide said.
What’s more, this incident shines a light on the importance of access controls and device management. Because a personal server was able to be connected to the network and accessed without proper safeguards in place, sensitive patient data was exposed.
The runner-up on our list is an Illinois-based healthcare provider that ultimately paid the largest HIPAA settlement seen to date. According to Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review, an investigation was launched after Advocate Health Care submitted three breach reports associated with its subsidiary, Advocate Medical Group. The breaches stemmed from office theft, where four laptops were taken, as well as an external intrusion into the organization’s network.
Assess risks to healthcare data.
Prevent physical access to its IT infrastructure.
Encrypt the sensitive information on an employee’s laptop.
As a result, Advocate paid a $5.55 million settlement, the largest ever handed down by the OCR. Although thieves stole company-owned devices, improper security controls led to a breach of Advocate Health Care patient data.
The takeaway: This event shows how critically important it is to prevent unauthorized access to the systems and devices used to store protected patient information. Because laptops were stolen and at least one did not have encryption in place, it wasn’t difficult for hackers to obtain access to valuable patient details.
Organizations should appropriately pinpoint and mitigate risks to the sensitive information they deal with, including putting security measures like encryption in place to ensure that only authorized individuals can access patient details.
The top spot on our list goes to a Puerto Rico-based insurance holding company. TRIPLE-S was fined $3.5 million for significantly widespread non-compliance after five data breaches took place from 2010 to 2015. While these events impacted fewer than 500 individuals, TRIPLE-S’s problematic security practices provided multiple avenues for hacker intrusion.
The OCR investigation showed that the proper safeguards weren’t implemented to protect patient data at administrative, physical and technical levels. What’s more, patient data was improperly disclosed to an external vendor, and an accurate risk assessment was never performed.
The takeaway: The lesson here is clear – it’s imperative to follow all the rules and addressable implementations included in HIPAA and its Security Rule. These measures are put in place for a reason, and failure to follow them can have considerable repercussions for an organization and its clients.
Data breaches are an inevitable part of today’s cybersecurity landscape, but efforts to secure data as part of HIPAA compliance can help mediate these risks.
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0.998956 | Build a devastating tennis serve by learning how to add topspin with instruction and a drill from Olivia Self.
The topspin serve is a tennis player's secret weapon. For this move, the player slides the racquet up and over the ball as s/he hits it, creating spin on the ball, which requires an opponent to use more force to return it.
Though topspin can be used aggressively, it's typically reserved for safe second serves or as a way to throw off an opponent.
Correctly executed, the topspin serve produces a "heavy" ball, which immediately bounces higher than a flat serve and hopefully higher than your opponent's striking zone.
The Grip. Start with a continental grip, then shift your knuckles slightly to an eastern backhand grip (rotate the racquet slightly to the right) to get a better kick on the service bounce. It's easier to get a good topspin serve if your the index finger is slightly separated from your other fingers, pointing up on the racquet.
The Toss. You will generate more topspin if the toss is over your head or slightly behind you rather than out in front of you like a regular flat serve toss. This way, you can arch your back and really come up under the ball, generating tons of spin.
Contact. When you hit the topspin serve, the racquet should go down your back and then make contact with the ball in a brushing motion. It should feel as if you were quickly brushing up from your back and then brushing up under the ball. The ball should roll from the top of your strings to the bottom. When you push down through the service motion, the ball travels toward your target. | 2019-04-21T14:21:05 | https://www.stack.com/a/topspin-serve |
0.938964 | Why do some adolescents develop a problematic pattern of substance use or even a substance dependency, while others who use just as much alcohol, cannabis, or other drugs grow into a ‘typical’ adult life with a partner, a house, a job, kids, and a pet? I spent more and more time pondering this question during the six years I worked with substance-using adolescents as a youth worker. Luckily, I had the opportunity to start a PhD project looking for the answer to this question.
The starting point of the project was the dual-process theory of addiction, which states that addiction develops due to an imbalance between two classes of processes. The first class includes the automatic, appetitive, impulsive processes, which are thought to become stronger by repeated substance use. In the second class are the cognitive, deliberate, rational processes, which are said to become weaker by repeated substance use. I focused on automatic attentional processes and cognitive control processes. Cognitive control is the ability to consciously control your behavior. Automatic attention is the (very normal) phenomenon that your attention is automatically and unintentionally drawn towards information that corresponds to important things in your life.
For example, if you are looking for a new apartment, then your attention is drawn towards every ‘for rent’ sign you pass by; if you are on a diet, then your attention is drawn towards everyone eating a muffin or fries. This can be helpful (like the ‘for rent’ signs) or not (like the muffins and fries). In the food example, automatic attention can make it hard to stick to your diet and ignore the unhealthy stuff. Similarly, automatic attention can make it hard for substance abusers to ignore information related to ‘their’ substance, thereby making it hard to stay away from the substance. Indeed, research has shown that the strength of this automatic attention is associated with greater severity of addiction (Fadardi & Cox, 2006; Noël et al., 2006), poorer treatment outcomes (Carpenter et al., 2006), and increased relapse (Cox et al., 2002, 2007; Marissen et al., 2006).
My PhD research investigated whether young substance users are characterized by a relatively strong automatic attention towards general rewarding information and substance-related information. To measure automatic attention, study participants performed a computer task in which they were asked to react to a target in the screen (i.e., a little grey block) which was preceded by cues (i.e., an arrow pointing towards possible gain of points) that might or might not attract the attention. The results showed that adolescents who used more alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco showed a stronger automatic preference for information that predicted a high chance to gain points. Moreover, the automatic attention to the rewarding information predicted substance use three years later (Van Hemel-Ruiter et al., 2013, 2015b).
In a subsequent study I used a separate computer task to measure automatic attention for alcohol pictures in alcohol-using adolescents (Van Hemel-Ruiter et al., 2015a). This showed that adolescents with more alcohol use automatically attend more to pictures of alcoholic drinks, relative to their peers who reported less alcohol use. Moreover, the association between automatic attention and alcohol use was especially strong in adolescents who demonstrated less cognitive control on a third computer task.
Finally, I had the possibility to recruit a group of substance-dependent adolescent patients at the addiction care facility, Verslavingszorg Noord Nederland (VNN). We assessed automatic attention for ‘their’ substance (i.e., alcohol, cannabis, GHB, or amphetamine) before their treatment and six months after the start of treatment. Before treatment, the patients demonstrated a strong automatic attentional bias for substance pictures that was related to the strength of their substance dependency. Unfortunately, it was hard to keep the participants in the study. Nevertheless, we were able to show that there were no significant decreases in dependency, substance use, and automatic attention during the six-month follow-up period, and no increase in cognitive control. This underscores the persistent character of addiction. Moreover, the finding that automatic attention for substance information was related to dependency and not decreased by regular treatment points to automatic attention as a target for a novel intervention. The great news is that from March 2016 we will start a new study at VNN, examining the effects of an attention retraining intervention in another group of substance-dependent patients.
Fadardi, J.S., & Cox, W.M. (2006). Alcohol attentional bias: drinking salience or cognitive impairment? Psychopharmacology 185(2), 169-178.
Carpenter, K. M., Schreiber, E., Church, S., & McDowell, D. (2006). Drug stroop performance: Relationships with primary substance of use and treatment outcome in a drug-dependent outpatient sample. Addictive Behaviors, 31(1), 174-181.
Cox, W. M., Hogan, L. M., Kristian, M. R., & Race, J. H. (2002). Alcohol attentional bias as a predictor of alcohol abusers’ treatment outcome. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 68(3), 237-243.
Cox, W. M., Pothos, E. M., & Hosier, S. G. (2007). Cognitive-motivational predictors of excessive drinkers’ success in changing. Psychopharmacology, 192(4), 499-510.
Marissen, M. A. E., Franken, I. H. A., Waters, A. J., Blanken, P., van, d. B., & Hendriks, V. M. (2006). Attentional bias predicts heroin relapse following treatment. Addiction, 101(9), 1306-1312.
Noël, X., Colmant, M., Van, D. L., Bechara, A., Bullens, Q., Hanak, C., et al. (2006). Time course of attention for alcohol cues in abstinent alcoholic patients: The role of initial orienting. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 30(11), 1871-1877.
Van Hemel-Ruiter, M. E., de Jong, P. J., Oldehinkel, A. J., & Ostafin, B. D. (2013). Reward-related attentional biases and adolescent substance use: The TRAILS study. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27, 142-150.
Van Hemel-Ruiter, M. E., de Jong, P. J., Ostafin, B. D., & Oldehinkel, A. J. (2015b). Reward-Related Attentional Bias and Adolescent Substance Use: A Prognostic Relationship? PLoS ONE 10(3): e0121058.
Van Hemel-Ruiter, M. E., de Jong, P. J., Ostafin, B. D., & Wiers, R. W. (2015a). Reward sensitivity, attentional bias, and executive control in early adolescent alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors, 40, 84-90.
Van Hemel-Ruiter, M. E., Wiers, R.W., Brook, F. G., & de Jong, P. J. (in press) Attentional bias and executive control in treatment-seeking substance-dependent adolescents: a cross-sectional and follow-up study.
Note: Image by Tainara Mahyna, licenced by CC BY 2.0.
Madelon van Hemel-Ruiter completed her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work (Sociaal Pedagogische Hulpverlening) at the Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden. Shortly afterwards she moved to Groningen and started working as a youth worker in Drenthe. Her experiences with adolescent substance (ab)use were the starting point for her interest in the role of automatic behavior in the development of addiction. Madelon combined her job with Psychology studies at the University of Groningen and completed her Master’s degree in 2007. In 2009, after a successful grant application, she started her PhD project on the role of attentional processes in the development and maintenance of substance abuse and dependency.
Since May 2014 Madelon van Hemel-Ruiter works as a senior researcher at VNN addiction care center in Groningen. Here she has the great opportunity to perform applied research in the field of addiction. Her main research interest is identifying how automatic processes and cognitive control are involved in the development and maintenance of addiction problems. Most importantly, she uses these insights to develop and test new interventions in addiction care. In 2015 she obtained a ZonMw grant for a research proposal titled “Internet-based attentional bias modification training as add-on to regular treatment in alcohol or cannabis dependent outpatients”. | 2019-04-24T22:02:01 | https://mindwise-groningen.nl/how-beer-automatically-attracts-attention-and-the-relation-with-adolescent-substance-use/ |
0.999992 | Given that Bible translations are back in the news, I've given some thought to a blog post offering some introductory thoughts on translation differences and their importance.
1. We should give deep thanks to God for the translation of the Bible into English.
2. We should give deep thanks to God for those who have labored to translate the Bible into English.
We rarely stop to ponder the countless hours that scholars have labored to study the original languages and then worked in committee in order to produce the translations that we have today. We may disagree with their decisions here or there, or disagree across the board with the translation philosophy employed, but we must recognize that these men and women are seeking to glorify God and to serve Bible readers by aiming to reflect the original meaning and to connect with people today.
3. When viewing "translation continuum" charts, it is helpful to be aware of the how the issue is being framed and the philosophies defined.
It is instructive to notice what publishers are doing when they seek to present their understanding of how translations differ. If you're ever looking at a chart, you can discern almost instantly which publisher is behind it: their translation is always right in the middle, occupying the "golden mean," "the balanced, mediating position." This is not a criticism, but an observation that helps us see some of the subtle differences in understanding and presentation.
On the left-hand side you have "word for word" translations, represented on the extreme side by interlinears. On the right hand side you have "thought for thought" translations, represented by The Message. Right smack in the middle you have the NIV and TNIV, in that order. Note that the NLT is solidly on the "thought for thought" side of the continuum.
But Tyndale, the publisher of the NLT, has a somewhat similar continuum.
The difference is that the "thought for thought" category has moved to the center (golden mean; balanced, mediating position) and the extreme on the right (still The Message) is now labeled "paraphrase."
Another thing to notice is that the labels are apparently being defined differently. For Zondervan, the prototypical "word for word translation" is an interlinear, while for Tyndale it is the NASB. For Zondervan, the archetypal "thought for thought translation" is The Message, whereas Tyndale places the NLT in that category and puts The Message into the "paraphrase" category.
We should be cautious in how we use the word "literal."
I know many will disagree with me on this, but I think we should have a moratorium on the word "literal." It may have its place, but I think the word is fraught with potential misunderstanding. It is extremely commonplace for a preacher to say that term X is "literally" A. What we are seeking in interpretation is an author's communicative intention in using particular words in particular ways in particular contexts. A good lexicon provides readers with a range of words in the receptor language that correspond with, or denote, the term in the source language. But merely looking up term X in the lexicon and seeing the verbal equivalent A does not mean we should say that "X is literally A."
One fruitful way to understand the differences in translation is to identify the degree to which they seek to provide clarification.
Translation from one language to another requires a linguistic change: the grammatical form of the source language must be reworked and decoded into the receptor language.
The difference in translation philosophy and practice comes about, in part, based upon the degree to which the translators seek to go beyond this linguistic requirement in order to provide further clarification.
What is an essentially literal, or transparent, translation?
An “essential literal” or “transparent” translation seeks to minimize such clarifications as much as possible.
A transparent translation conveys as much as possible of what was said, and how it was said, in as near word-for-word form as the target audience allows, though inevitably with some difference and imperfectly.
For serious study, readers need a translation that is more transparent to the "otherness" of Scripture. We need a translation that allows the Bible to say what it says, even if that seems strange and odd to readers at first glance.
. . . As a member of Christ's body and a Bible teacher, I am pleading for a type of translation that is more consistently transparent, so that the original shines through it to the extent permitted by the target language.
One example of this approach is seen in the translation of the image in 1 Kings 2:10, where David is said to be sleeping with his fathers (1 Kings 2:10). Alan Jacobs (Professor of English at Wheaton College and a prolific essayist and cultural critic) discussed this in his essay, “A Bible for Everyone” (First Things, December 2003). He explained why it is crucial to know the difference between an idiom and a metaphor.
It is a distinction both simple and vital. It is highly unlikely that a Jew of David’s time, or at any time in Israel’s history, would have found a family member’s dead body and run to tell everyone that grandpa was now sleeping with his fathers. Hebrew has words to express quite directly that someone has died; the chronicler of Kings chooses here to eschew them in favor of a particularly hieratic and formal way of describing the death of David. When (in 2 Samuel 1) a man comes from the camp of Israel’s army to report to David, he says simply that Saul (along with his son Jonathan) has died. The deaths of Saul and Jonathan are given no cultural or political meaning, because by the time this history was written the people of Israel no longer identified Saul as having special importance for their national identity. David, by contrast, is for the Israelites their first true King, the head of a proper dynastic line; therefore he does not merely die, he “sleeps with his fathers” in Jerusalem, the “city of David.” The phrase is not an idiom—a common phrase lacking an evident literal meaning—instead, it is a carefully chosen image of David’s place in the culture of Israel.
By translating it “sleep with his fathers,” an essential literal or transparent translation recognizes that the form of the original is essential to communicate accurate meaning.
Metaphors grab us and work on us and in us. . . . [I]t is the foreignness of metaphors that is their virtue. Metaphors make us stop and think, Now what does that mean? It is not clear to me that replacing metaphors with abstractions makes it easier for readers. . . . Metaphors are multifaceted and function to invoke active thought on the part of the receiver. Receivers must think and feel their way through a metaphor, and it is this very process that gives the metaphor its power to take hold of receivers as they take hold of it.
So Which Translation Approach Is Best?
I believe that Christian brothers and sister—whether professors, pastors, or people in the pew—can have good faith disagreements regarding translation philosophy. My intention here is not to denigrate other translations, but rather to provide further explanation for the translation approach behind the ESV.
I've been mulling over whether or not to do a post or two about translation theory, since translations are back in the news. Whether or not I'll get around to it, I'm not sure, but two of my points would be that much of the issue comes down to (a) the meaning of "meaning" and (2) the relationship between "form" and "meaning."
But perhaps I can offer just a thought or two about the word literal. The word is almost unavoidable, but I think we should take pains to use it carefully and rarely. The reason is that it can be used in a number of different ways, and it is quite easy to misunderstand.
Consider the question, "Do you take the Bible literally?"
Many of us would answer, "Yes," because we take the Bible seriously in accord with its varying genres seeking to determine the author's intent; in other words, we don't treat it as a fictional fable with spiritualized lessons. The questioner probably has in mind things like whether Adam and Eve were historical people, whether Jonah was really swallowed by a whale, whether Jesus really walked on water, etc. They are not asking silly things like, "So if Jesus says he's the door, where are his hinges?" They want to know if we understand the details of history and miracles metaphorically.
With regard to translation debates, some people use "literally" to mean translating woodenly. For them, translating "literally" is tantamount to "transcribing" (which is not the same as "translating").
And on the other side of the spectrum, there are well-known pastors who tell their congregations every week that in this passage, the term "X" is "literally, A." In other words, by "literally" they mean lexically.
So when someone asks me if I take the Bible literally, or what this passage means literally, or what the literal meaning of this word is, it's quite difficult to answer until we know how they are using the word. Are they asking about seriousness, the cognitive element of a metaphor, the lexical meaning of a word, etc.
Let me say just one more thing about the idea of saying about a word that it "literally" means X.
What we are seeking in interpretation is an author's communicative intention in using particular words in particular ways in particular contexts. A good lexicon is a helpful too but an artificial construct. It provides readers with a range of words in the receptor language that correspond with, or denote, the term in the source language. But merely looking up term X in the lexicon and seeing the verbal equivalent A does not mean we should say that "X is literally A." It may be that A accurately represents X, but that is not determined by the lexical entry but rather by the context and the way in which the author intends to use the word to communicate his point.
We all know the story of the two criminals crucified with Jesus on the cross.
The details are relatively sparse. We know that three men were crucified: Jesus the Messiah, with one man on his left, and one man on his right (Luke 23:33).
One of the men--on the left or on the right, we don't know--"railed at" (or reviled) Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” (Luke 23:39).
Little did he know that the only way for Jesus to "save them" was to refuse to "save himself."
But the railing criminal received a surprising response. He was rebuked by his fellow criminal, who responded: “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong" (Luke 23:40-41).
He recognized the necessity of fearing God, the reality of his guilt, the justice of his punishment, and the innocence of Jesus. These were all the facts he knew. He then turned to Jesus and cried out, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
Mark 15:32: "Those who were crucified with him also reviled him."
“Each of Vern Poythress’s books has been, in my judgment, the best book on its particular subject, whether science, hermeneutics, dispensationalism, theological method, gender-neutral Bible translation, or the Mosaic law. Not only are these books expertly researched and cogently argued, but they are explicitly Christian in their starting point, method, and conclusion (to use a phrase of Cornelius Van Til). Poythress does not merely claim that these disciplines allow a place for God, or that a theistic worldview provides useful context, or that engagement in such studies is somehow useful to Christians. Rather, he comes right in your face with the claims of Christ: All of these studies are grounded in the nature and work of the triune God, and nothing can be rightly understood apart from him. God is not merely a possibility, not merely a conclusion, but the starting point for any understanding at all.
If you have BTW on your blogroll, it'd be a help if you would adjust your link accordingly.
You'll have to subscribe to the new feed, as this current one will no longer be updated.
In my inaugural post at the new site I explain why I'm happy to have BTW associated with TGC. Hope to see you over there!
WTS Books is offering Mike Horton's new book, The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World (Baker), for 45% off. The offer is good for the next week and a half.
This book is a sequel to Christless Christianity, moving from "the crisis to solutions, in the hope that we will see a new reformation in the faith, practice, and witness of contemporary Christianity."
The goal of this book is to reorient our faith and practice as Christians and churches toward the gospel: that is, the announcement of God's victory over sin and death in his Son, Jesus Christ. The first six chapters explore that breaking news from heaven, while the rest of the book focuses on the kind of community that this gospel generates in our world. It is not merely that there is a gospel and then a community of people who believe it; the gospel creates the kind of community that is even now an imperfect preview of the kingdom's marriage feast that awaits us.
You can read some free sample material from the book here.
We are not an ancient, agrarian society.
Most importantly, our property was not assigned directly by God.
Our economy is not based on a fixed piece of land.
Our nation is not under the Mosaic covenant.
Most of us are not Jews.
We should find ways to give opportunities for the poor to succeed.
The Bible supports the existence of private property.
The Bible relativizes private property.
Our God is the God of second chances.
You may have read, in this paper or elsewhere, six members of our church recently circulated unsolicited letters and a petition voicing their opposition to my leadership and requesting a congregational meeting to vote on whether to keep me as their pastor. Citing things like my desire not to wear a robe when I preach, not honoring the legacy and preferences of Dr. Kennedy to the degree that I should, making personnel changes (bringing in my staff from New City), and not preaching political sermons, these six members have been working to remove me as pastor.
The saddest thing about all of this is that, because of the visibility of both Coral Ridge and my family, this conflict has taken on a national interest. The reason this grieves me so deeply is because the Bible says God wants the church to be a visual model of the gospel. He wants us, in other words, to live our lives together in such a way that we demonstrate the good news of reconciliation before the watching world.
The late Francis Schaeffer once noted that bitter divisions among Christians give the world the justification they're looking for to disbelieve the gospel. But when reconciliation, peacemaking, and unity are on display inside the church, that becomes a powerful witness to this fractured world. "Just as I have loved you," Jesus commanded, "you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:34-35).
To get this matter behind us once and for all, the elders and I have called this congregational meeting and a vote will take place on Sunday. You will no doubt read about the result, but whatever it is, I want to say three things to the South Florida community that I love so much and have called home for 37 years. . . .
You can read the rest here. And please pray for Tullian and for Coral Ridge, especially regarding the vote this Sunday.
Al Mohler's latest article reflects on the combination of two disturbing developments: (1) 95% of mothers who discover the high risk of Down syndrome in their babies through prenatal screening choose to have the lives of these babies terminated. (2) New technologies for prenatal diagnosis are on their way. The almost-certain result is that there will be more prenatal testing, and therefore more termination of human life.
Dr. Mohler also cites this journal article by Dr. Brian Skotko (an expert in DS), who cites evidences that nearly 1 in 4 doctors either actively "urge" termination or "emphasize" the negative aspects of DS so as to encourage termination.
. . . health care providers have historically operated under the assumption that if a woman consents to prenatal screening or diagnosing, she must believe that having a child with DS would be an undesired outcome and wish to terminate her pregnancy if such a diagnosis were made prenatally.
Knowing that assumption is crucial. As Dr. Mohler writes: "Expectant parents should read that sentence over and over again, and so should those who counsel them."
Stephen Smallman has given us a great gift with his new book, The Walk: Steps for New and Renewed Followers of Jesus (P&R, 2009).
It’s now the first resource I’d recommend for disciples wanting to make disciples (which should be all of us). Marked by good theology, a focus on the Bible, and a warm and winsome approach, this “discipleship for dummies” manual is just what all of us need.
"This is the fruit of a lifetime of experience in ministry. I recommend this warm, practical, gospel-centered and very useful manual on discipleship."
"Lots of people have a heart for discipleship, but few have the ability to apply the gospel to a person's spiritual journey (seeker and believer alike) with the compassion and wisdom of Steve Smallman. His heart for God and for people energizes his ministry and this book."
"Basic, clear, and biblical throughout. All who read this book will have their knowledge of the gospel deepened, and they will also learn to make better use of the gospel in their pursuit of holiness and ministry to others. May Christ continue to bless his church with books like this!"
You can read online for free the preface, table of contents, and first chapter.
As I consider the last six months (and especially this upcoming Sunday) and how kind God has been to convince me that everything minus Jesus equals nothing, but Jesus plus nothing equals everything, I am reminded of my grandmother who passed away in June 2007. She knew Christ’s companionship like no one I’ve ever known. She reveled in the wrecking power of the gospel day in and day out. She lived life like she had nothing to lose because she knew that, in Christ, she had nothing to lose! This enabled her to live with great freedom, fearlessness, and unbounded courage.
For many, many years I have begged God to make me like her– to give me a sharp mind, a soft heart, and a steel spine like he gave her. I can only hope and pray that as God continues to strip me of everything but Him, I would become more like her.
There’s an important difference between unevangelized and unreached peoples.
Unevangelized people are unconverted individuals in places where there are established churches. Unreached peoples are those that live in regions where there are no churches and no access to the evangelical gospel in their culture.
And to answer your question about the present trend; 96% of the missionary work force is still laboring in unevangelized, but not truly unreached regions. Here it is again – 9 out of 10 Christian missionaries that go cross-cultural are still going to reached places!
Here’s still another way to say it – Something like 90% of all “ministers” worldwide are concentrating on only 2% of the world’s population! We are massively overly evangelizing places where the gospel is already well planted! I believe that we need a substantial strategic redeployment of the missionary workforce to the areas where there is still no access to the evangelical gospel.
The “Big Book” fallacy is the notion that anything that is said in a big book, especially a multivolume series of big books, must be, at a minimum, factually correct, and at a maximum, correct in its judgment. This is fallacious, because error is error, regardless of its domicile. Peer-reviewed error may be less common than non-peer-reviewed error, but it still exists. No editor checks the factual accuracy of every sentence he edits, and therefore, even in big books, multi-volume big books, and/or multi-volume big books with good reputations, error still exists, and we should not repeat the error without either citing the source or checking the source.
See the two examples he cites--the first from Kittel's TDNT, the second from Keil's commentary on Joel 2:28.
Slate has a nifty tool to create a plot for the next Dan Brown conspiracy-thriller-novel. Just plug in a city and a sect, and their computer will do the rest!
When relationships are built around the truths of the gospel—the truth that we are walking in light even though we are still sinners in need of cleansing by his blood—we can be free from feelings of inferiority and the demanding spirit that is born of pride. We can pursue relationships without fear of being discovered as the sinners we are. This kind of open relationship rests solely on the realities of the gospel. We are more sinful and flawed than we ever dared believe, and so is everyone we know. Because of this, we won’t be surprised by other’s sins. They won’t expect us to be sinless either, so we don’t have to give in to self-condemnation and fear when they see us as we really are. We don’t have to hide or pretend anymore.
I highly recommend this album. This album is a means of preaching the gospel to yourself. It is a tool to remind yourself of God’s adopting grace. It will help convince you of God’s passionate and personal love for you. Listening to the truths of these songs will help clear away any suspicions you have of God, and help you to contemplate his love for you, evidenced nowhere more clearly than in the death of his beloved Son.
An excellent post by Voddie Baucham, contrasting two recent Basketball Hall of Fame induction speeches: the arrogant and self-serving speech of Michael Jordan, and the humble, grateful speech of David Robinson.
Here's an attractive, easy way to view Crossway's academic catalog for next year.
It's a book about the importance of knowing Jesus Christ and building your life on a true knowledge of him. I care very much about its message and want to do all I can to spread it to people who are indifferent or unconcerned about Christian theology. I'd like to create a series of short videos that can be played online to generate interest in the book.
But I have another desire that informs what I'm announcing today: I want to encourage Christians to get involved in the arts--in particular, film. At different times and different ways I've done what I could to encourage young filmmakers to hone their gifts and use film to influence the world for Christ.
So I'm combining my need for promotional videos with my desire to make an investment in Christian filmmakers. And I'm doing this in the form of a contest.
Somehow just meeting Warren reinforced in my mind the challenge we face as we reconcile ourselves to a fast-paced, digital world in which a person can quickly dash off a missive that can severely impact another person on the other side of the continent. It seems that ethics and morality have been a bit slow to catch up to ability in this new digital world. As I read those three reviews I realized that in each case there would be things I might say just a little differently. I am too often prone to forget that the authors whose books I review are real people and I am too quick to ignore my conscience when I consider whether the things I write and post online for all the world to read are things I would also say face-to-face. I hope this will help me in the future as I seek to be fair and godly in all that I write.
Those doing textual criticism in the NT will be interested in this blog post by Dan Wallace about a new web-based application that can save a significant amount of time.
Registration for the DG conference (Sept. 25-27) on Calvin is still open.
In addition to the talks on Calvin, there will be a couple of additional events.
On Friday evening, Sept. 25, they will preview the 80-minute documentary, Collision, which traces the debates and conversations of Douglas Wilson and Christopher Hitchens. The movie, which I've seen, is very much worth your time. You can pre-order the DVD from Amazon, and watch the first 13 minutes at the end of this post.
COLLISION - 13 min VIMEO Exclusive Sneak Peek from Collision Movie on Vimeo. | 2019-04-20T03:21:19 | https://theologica.blogspot.com/ |
0.999992 | Making sense of religion, for example: A heiau (temple) in Kaua'i. Iselin gained a great part of his knowledge about Hawaiian culture from reading. Personal encounters, for example with a kahuna (priest), as in this exercise, added to Iselin's perspective. Painting after John Webber.
What kinds of sources and knowledge did Isaak Iselin use and how did they shape his narrative? Building on the texts that Iselin read prior to his departure, this exercise focuses on the oral and written sources Iselin accessed during his voyage.
By analysing these different sources in Iselin's text, it is possible to reconstruct its worldview—a worldview that was often complex and opaque. This analysis also helps historians to understand how information travelled along existing EuroAmerican networks in the Pacific of the day, and how knowledge emerged at the intersection of prior readings, native informants, heresay and relayed news.
The aim of this exercise is to unpeel different layers of knowledge in a given passage from Iselin's account. | 2019-04-25T09:45:19 | https://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/43216/recherche/global-history/isaak-iselin-in-hawaii-1807/intertextuality-ii%C2%A0 |
0.999869 | Subutex is very similar to suboxone in many ways and the two drugs were even developed around the same time. However subutex was released first and its potential for abuse was reportedly too high. This was the result of individuals taking the drug intravenously, even though it is not supposed to be administered in this manner, and so suboxone was released with the added ingredient of Naloxone, so that people could not experience a euphoric type feeling if they attempted to abuse the drug.
The absence of naloxone is the only real difference between suboxone and subutex, as both contain the drug Buprenorphine, and both are used to alleviate the withdrawal symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal.
Subutex was approved for use in the treatment of opioid addiction in 2002 by the FDA, and with its approval the Secretary of Health and Human Services also approved it usage in outpatient substance abuse treatment that could be prescribed by a physician. Initially physicians had to undergo an 8 hour course on the drug in order to be able to prescribe it, and they were only allowed to treat 10 subutex patients simultaneously, however this number was later changed to 100.
Since subutex works in a very similar manner to other opioids, its potential for addiction is rather high. For the most part individuals who use subutex are already addicted to opiates or opioids in one form or another, and so in many cases if they are looking for a long term treatment plan for subutex, they simply replace one addiction for another.
Some physicians and psychiatrists believed that using subutex as a long term addiction treatment plan is a suitable and sustainable alternative to abstinence only treatment, as it in some cases allows opioid addicts to stop engaging in risky behavior, and it also allows them to live a life free from cravings for opioids.
While this may be in true in some cases, a vast majority of subutex users have reported a relapse back into using, and only found the drug effective when used as a method to help them wean off of opioids all together.
What are some of the Short Term Effects of Subutex?
The short term effects of subutex are very similar to that of suboxone, since they are essentially the same drug, with the only difference being that an individual who takes subutex may experience a euphoria that they will not experience when taking suboxone. In terms of treating opioid dependency seeking a substance that produces euphoria over one that does not, is not particularly helpful in the long term goal of achieving recovery and in some cases may actually lead back to usage of other opioids. So if you are thinking about taking subutex, or are currently taking subutex, in order to break free from your opioid dependence, please take the previous statements into account.
As you can see the short term effects of subutex and suboxone are very similar, but one of the most marked difference is the increased cravings for the substances which while seen among suboxone users, is more pronounced among subutex users. This is believed to be in part because of the euphoria produced by the drug, so if you begin to notice that you are experiencing cravings for subutex you should let your physician’s no immediately. The same thing goes for any of the short term effects listed above.
If you are having difficulty coping with the short term effects of subutex, or if you are experiencing some of the more dangerous short term effects like slowed breathing, you should contact your physician immediately so that you can direct you on the best course of action to take.
While it may not seem like it, subutex is a very powerful narcotic and should not be treated lightly, so any and all undesired side effects should be dealt with immediately.
For family and friends of those who are on subutex maintenance it can sometimes be difficult to deal with the situation. You have probably dealt with their addiction in one form or another for quite some time and you may be wondering when everything will finally be alright and you can know that your loved one is safe and out of harm’s way. There is no singular answer for this, but it is suggested that if you are dealing with the addiction of a loved one, that you seek out counseling or professional help for yourself, so that you can learn to reclaim your life, and in turn help your loved one possibly see that they need to enter into recovery.
Addiction is one of the most insidious illnesses that an individual can suffer from, because there isn’t a medical test that can be taken to prove its existence, and the denial that oftentimes occurs with its onset can be profound and long lasting. This makes treating the illness difficult at times because without the cooperation and understanding of the individual afflicted, almost nothing can happen in terms of the recovery process. While the same can be said for just about every other illness on the planet, in addiction’s case it is a little bit different due to the legal, financial, and familial issues that can arise out of not seeking treatment.
So while it may seem that subutex maintenance is currently working for you or a loved one, it is important to stay ever vigilant in this matter and to be sure that the drug is being taken as prescribed and that a long term program of action is in place for how recovery can be achieved.
Going along this line, if you think that you may have an issue with subutex, or if you would just like to stop relying on substances in order to live your life, please read the section below, as there is information pertaining to where you can seek help for your subutex, or other opioid addictions.
Are you struggling with subutex addiction?
If you find that you cannot stop using subutex even though you would like to, then you may be suffering from subutex addiction. While you may be embarrassed by the fact that you cannot stop using subutex, it is import to understand that addiction is an actual recognizable disease and as such you’re inability to stop on your own should not be a cause for shame or guilt. It is estimated that 1 in 6 adults in the United States suffer from addiction, so you are not alone in your struggles, nor do you have to fight them by yourself. So if you are at the point where you would you like help overcoming your addiction, call us at 1-866-972-7714. We are standing by to provide you with the best treatment and recovery options, so that you can finally leave behind your old life of addiction and start new on the road to recovery. Call now! | 2019-04-25T16:18:59 | https://www.opiates.net/short-term-effects/subutex/ |
0.99949 | Title: "No Rest For The Wicked!"
The scene changes to Karen, as she visits 'the owner's office' after her shift. She was told to go there after her show was done. The lights don't seem to work and Karen is about to leave when Insomnia finally speaks. She explains she isn't the real owner of the place. The 'Big Boss' hired Karen because she would be helpful in dealing with Daredevil. Karen runs out of the room yelling that 'I won't help him! Not him! Ever again!'. Insomnia chases after Karen.
Back at DD's situation, Dom and Renny have their guns knocked out of their hands by a well thrown billy-club. They threaten DD by telling him they have a hostage. DD smiles and lets Misty Knight introduce herself from behind them. Of course they didn't know anything about her bionic arm so she could free herself (see last issue as to 'why' she was a hostage). Dom and Renny are forced to explain what's going on. They say that Paige Angel's show was transmitting frequencies so the listeners would find it hard to sleep. The chemicals from last issue were some kind of nerve gas. Knight goes to check on Karen in the office and DD goes to deal with the transmitter on the roof.
We return to Foggy, as he tries to dodge the bullets aimed at him. He manages to open the bedroom door and out comes Deuce. The dog attacks and stops him. He is about to shoot Deuce when Foggy comes roaring from the other side of the room and flattens Brinke's boyfriend against the wall. Foggy knocks the gun out of the attacker's hand and 'apologizes' for hitting him so hard. Brinke's boyfriend thinks he has broken ribs.
In the meantime, Insomnia has tied Karen's hands together and has her dangling over the edge of the building. Insomnia says that she'll save Karen if she says what she knows about Daredevil. DD appears and plants a well placed punch. He also throws his billy-club at her, but she manages to catch it in flight. She jumps over the side of the building and takes Karen with her. DD jumps after them. Insomnia uses the billy-club to escape. DD 'catches up' to Karen and manages to make both of them fall into a swimming pool.
The police arrive at Foggy's apartment and the boyfriend is taken away. Brinke offers a dinner to 'repay' Foggy, but he declines. He wants to go out with Liz. Foggy stands up to Sharpe and surprisingly, Sharpe doesn't care if Foggy want to go out with Liz.
Later on, Matt and Karen sit on their couch and discuss the recent events. Matt fears Insomnia is working for the Kingpin.
Next issue, Joe Kelly takes over as writer. | 2019-04-21T15:01:17 | http://www.manwithoutfear.com/daredevil-volume-1/issue/364 |
0.99994 | According to the CDC, antibiotic resistance is a growing problem in the United States. Each year, at least 2 million people get serious infections with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics designed to treat those infections. Patients and families can play an important role in helping to ensure antibiotics are always used appropriately.
Antibiotics are drugs that fight infections caused by bacteria in both humans and animals. Antibiotics do not have any effect on viruses. When used properly, antibiotics fight these infections either by killing the bacteria or making it difficult for the bacteria to grow and multiply. However, if antibiotics are taken when not needed or used improperly, they can do more harm than good. Using antibiotics in the wrong way can lead to antibiotic resistant infections.
Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of an antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in a way that reduces the effectiveness of drugs, chemicals, or other agents designed to cure or prevent infections. In others words, the bacteria survive and continue to multiply, causing more harm.
Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world's most pressing public health problems. Antibiotic resistance can cause illnesses that were once easily treatable with antibiotics to become dangerous infections, prolonging suffering for children and adults. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can spread to family members, schoolmates, and co-workers, and may threaten your community. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are often more difficult to kill and more expensive to treat. In some cases, the antibiotic-resistant infections can lead to serious disability or even death. Although some people think a person becomes resistant to specific drugs, it is the bacteria, not the person, that become resistant to the drugs.
What can I do to help prevent antibiotic resistance?
Discard any leftover medication. Never save antibiotics for the next time you get sick.
Never skip doses or stop taking an antibiotic early unless your healthcare professional tells you to do so. It is important to finish your medication even if you feel better. If you stop treatment too soon, some bacteria may survive and start the infection again.
What questions should I ask my provider about antibiotics?
1. Do I really need an antibiotic?
2. Can I get better without this antibiotic?
3. What side effects or drug interactions can I expect?
4. What side effects should I report to you?
5. How do you know what kind of infection I have? | 2019-04-19T18:25:38 | http://www.burnettmedicalcenter.com/getpage.php?name=Antibiotic_Resistance |
0.999915 | [partition,codebook] = lloyds(training_set,initcodebook) optimizes the scalar quantization parameters partition and codebook for the training data in the vector training_set. initcodebook, a vector of length at least 2, is the initial guess of the codebook values. The output codebook is a vector of the same length as initcodebook. The output partition is a vector whose length is one less than the length of codebook.
See Represent Partitions, Represent Codebooks, or the reference page for quantiz in this chapter, for a description of the formats of partition and codebook.
lloyds optimizes for the data in training_set. For best results, training_set should be similar to the data that you plan to quantize.
[partition,codebook] = lloyds(training_set,len) is the same as the first syntax, except that the scalar argument len indicates the size of the vector codebook. This syntax does not include an initial codebook guess.
[partition,codebook] = lloyds(training_set,...,tol) is the same as the two syntaxes above, except that tol replaces 10-7 in condition 1 of the algorithm description below.
[partition,codebook,distor] = lloyds(...) returns the final mean square distortion in the variable distor.
[partition,codebook,distor,reldistor] = lloyds(...) returns a value reldistor that is related to the algorithm's termination. In condition 1 of the algorithm below, reldistor is the relative change in distortion between the last two iterations. In condition 2, reldistor is the same as distor.
The code below optimizes the quantization parameters for a sinusoidal transmission via a three-bit channel. Because the typical data is sinusoidal, training_set is a sampled sine wave. Because the channel can transmit three bits at a time, lloyds prepares a codebook of length 23.
% Generate a complete period of a sinusoidal signal.
The relative change in distortion between iterations is less than 10-7.
The distortion is less than eps*max(training_set), where eps is the MATLAB floating-point relative accuracy.
Lloyd, S.P., “Least Squares Quantization in PCM,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-28, March, 1982, pp. 129–137.
Max, J., “Quantizing for Minimum Distortion,” IRE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-6, March, 1960, pp. 7–12. | 2019-04-26T14:15:10 | https://kr.mathworks.com/help/comm/ref/lloyds.html |
0.998831 | Scientists have reported that many inheritance mutations are caused by DNA damage rather than errors in DNA doubling. The study was conducted by an international research group and published in Nature Genetics.
Unfortunately, the reasons for mutations in normal cells that have not been exposed to ultraviolet, smoke or other external mutagens are understudied. According to the most popular beliefs, the vast majority of mutations result from inaccurate DNA copying before each cell division. These assumptions were supported by correlation between the risk of cancer and the number of cell divisions. Another argument for this was that the number of divisions of each sperm cell before its final formation is proportional to the age of the man. For example, the sperm of an 18-year-old man undergoes about 100 doublings before it becomes "mature," while for a 50-year-old man this number is around 800. With each doubling, the number of errors in the DNA increases, leading to accumulation of mutations in the sperm.
"We decided to look at this problem from a different perspective and evaluated the contribution of DNA damage to the accumulation of mutations," says Vladimir Seplyarskiy, one of the authors from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS and Harvard Medical School, U.S. "We looked how the cell repair system works. Since it works only on the DNA strand from which genes are read, we looked at the rarest types of mutations that occur in these areas, and thus were able to estimate the number of mutations that are caused by DNA damage."
Next, the scientists looked at what happens to damaged DNA during cell division. They compared mutations on both leading and lagging doubling chains of DNA. It turned out that mutations associated with DNA damage occur more often on the lagging chain. This is true both for mutations caused by known mutagens during the development of a cancer tumor (for example, as a result of exposure to tobacco smoke in lung cancer, ultraviolet radiation in melanoma, and aristolochic acid in liver cancer), and for mutations inherited. Thus, many of the inheritance mutations are caused not by errors in DNA doubling, but by DNA damage.
The result was tested experimentally. The scientists asked: If so many mutations are caused by DNA damage, why is the number of accumulated mutations related to the number of cell doublings? The experiments were conducted in collaboration with scientists from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. The cell line was irradiated with ultraviolet light, and in one case, cell division was artificially delayed for two days, while the second cell samples divided normally. It turned out that a slight delay reduced the mutagenic effect of ultraviolet radiation by 30 times. Therefore, DNA damage turns into mutations only if they occur shortly before the cell division. These results suggest that mutations leading to cancers might be caused by mutagens only in actively dividing cells. Such a hypothesis gives a completely different interpretation of the relationship between the number of cell divisions and the number of accumulated mutations.
"I have long been looking for the cause of mutations in the germ line. It has been suggested that mutations inherited from the father are a consequence of replication inaccuracies. In this work, we statistically showed that DNA damage also plays a significant role. Unfortunately, the assessment of the contribution of such damage to mutagenesis, which we have received now, is clearly underestimated, and we are looking for new approaches to clarify it," says Vladimir Seplyarskiy.
Understanding the mechanisms of mutagenesis helps to estimate the likelihood, and even partly to predict, mutations that lead to cancer and hereditary diseases. In the long run, it might become possible to prevent these diseases. | 2019-04-22T02:45:16 | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-dna-genetic-diseases-cancer.html |
0.997142 | How do I use and what are Facebook stickers? Facebook stickers are the extra big emoticons (emoji) that mobile users have been using in Facebook chat and conversations. They are now available on the web version of Facebook too! Now you can send cool new fun FB stickers to your friends!
1 – Start chatting with someone.
2 – Click on the emoticon icon button in the bottom right corner of the chat screen.
3 – Choose the sticker you want to use and click on it to send it to the person you are having a conversation with.
Facebook starts you out with only a small amount of stickers that you can use. You can get more cool stickers by clicking the shop basket icon button in the upper right top of the sticker window. All the stickers available are completely free. In the future Facebook will introduce paid stickers that will have tons more options and choices.
Here is what the Facebook Sticker store looks like on Mobile. | 2019-04-22T11:57:31 | https://removeandreplace.com/2013/07/10/how-to-use-cool-facebook-stickers-in-chat-and-conversations/ |
0.999944 | Was Sandy dead in Grease? That would be a mind blowing revelation after so many years wouldn't it?
Grease fans have been sent into a frenzy over a conspiracy theory suggesting Sandy could have been dead all along.
A timeless movie that still appeals to every generation. The classic 1978 musical has stood the test of time with new generations gripped by it every decade - but some viewers have wondered whether there was a dark twist to the iconic love story .
Was Sandy dead in movie musical Grease? Maybe the whole movie just played out in her head.
The reason behind this whole death concept comes from the lyrics of a popular song in the movie. The theory goes that the Summer Nights lyric "I saved her life, she nearly drowned" tied into Sandy and Danny's take off in a flying car at the film's climax - and meant she was dead all along.
Was this the big clue? The real essence of the movie?
Fans have suggested the story actually took place in the character's head during a coma, which certainly gives it a much creepier and intriguing twist.
The writer of Grease clears the air. Now, Jim Jacobs - who wrote both the original book and the musical with Warren Casey - has commented on the theory.
Nope -Sandy lives, and she was alive all along.
Speaking to TMZ, he has shot down the idea and confirmed Sandy was "very much alive".
Jacobs added that the real phenomenon surrounding Grease is that it is still just as popular over 40 years later, as millions of new fans emerge every year. | 2019-04-19T10:15:26 | https://www.nelstorm.com/2016/09/fans-wonder-if-sandy-was-dead-in-movie.html |
0.964027 | nbClipboard is a clipboard extender that adds queue and stack support to the Windows clipboard. It can also perform simple text transformation to the data (convert to lower/upper case and search/replace).
It is written in C# for version 3.0 of the .NET framework. This is preinstalled on Windows Vista and available as an additional download for Windows XP.
Atomic is a game where you have to take over the board with your atoms. It is a MIDP 1.0 MIDlet which will run on most modern mobile phones. You can play against a configurable number of computer players and change their skill level.
This game is written in MIDP Java using the core MIDP 1.0 APIs.
PhotoStamper is a very simple command line utility that takes a JPEG photo and then adds a date/time stamp to the photo.
It is an extremely simple tool and so is only of limited use. It is written in Java 1.5 for fun rather than being for serious use. Includes the Java source code.
This tool was created for a final year University computing project. It can produce a UML class diagram for simple Java projects from the source code and class files.
It is written in J2SE 1.2.
Rate of Photosynthesis Investigation into how changing the levels of light and CO2 affect the rate of photosynthesis.
Yeast population changes Experiment to see how the population of yeast changes over a number of days. Two methods will be used to measure the population numbers - 1) a haemocytometer and 2) a colorimeter.
Blowfly larvae's response to light Do blowfly larvae move towards the light or away from it? This project looks into this question.
Rate of transpiration in leafy shoots Investigating how the surface area of the leaves and the speed of the wind affect the rate of transpiration in leafy shoots.
Surface area to volume ratio experiment How the surface area volume ratio affects the rate of diffusion in substrates and how this relates to the size and shape of living organisms.
Effect of substrate concentration on the rate of reaction Experiment into how the concentration of the substrate hydrogen peroxide affects the rate of reaction of the enzyme catalase.
Extrusion of plastic - An investigation into the workings of a company who produce extruded plastic floor skirtings.
Compression of cast iron - Exploring the properties of cast iron when it is put under compression. This report looks into whether the cast iron shears at an angle of 45� and also whether it shears at the textbook pressure.
Java reverse engineering project - it examines Java source code and produces a representation of the Java source code as a UML class diagram.
Computing revision notes - covering databases, concurrency, OSs and a variety of other subjects. The offer solutions to common problems that you may be given in a Java teaching course.
Java source code - we have a large-ish selection of simple Java source code for you to look at and download.
The tube walking project was a personal challenge that I completed in May 2008 after walking 378.5 miles over 54 walking days spread through a period of six months.
I walked between all the station on all the lines of the London Underground. Each step of the journey is documented in this blog. Over 3000 photos were taken and are available for viewing as are the GPS walking maps for all routes.
On this site you will also find the Frames Guide, and information on search engine submissions and buying webspace and domain names.
On the HTML colours page is a table of the 216 browser safe colours that you can use without them being dithered.
This is a simple guide to cooking with your kettle - note this could be dangerous so is meant for fun only! | 2019-04-19T10:35:19 | http://www.neiljohan.com/ |
0.999986 | Will the Supremes Consider Valuation?
I'd like to thank a friend, who'd rather remain anonymous, for bringing this to my attention.
In the Indiana Pensioners' Application to the Supreme Court, they use one of the arguments that I've discussed (but I didn't use legal precedent) to argue against the value in the plan being rushed by the Debtor.
Specifically, they refer to an opinion written by Justice Ginsburg, in an 8-1 decision, for Associates Commercial Corp. v. Rash Et Ux. in which a Chapter 13 Debtor attempted to cram down their secured creditor and apply a liquidation value as the basis for the value of the secured claim. The Court held that the value for a secured property that is being used, as opposed to liquidated, is the replacement cost. This is based on the second sentence of §506(a), which read (at the time) "Such value shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property, and in conjunction with any hearing on such disposition or use or on a plan affecting such creditor’s interest" By the way, the second paragraph was added in 2005, after the 1997 decision (and clarifying the matter for individual debtors).
The argument is that the Debtor is claiming that the creditors are only due a payment (originally based on liquidation value) calculated using one methodology, while those same assets are effectively being valued in another manner as part of NewChrysler. The case argues for the use of the going concern value of the property if that property is to be used in a going concern.
(1) An allowed claim of a creditor secured by a lien on property in which the estate has an interest, or that is subject to setoff under section 553 if this title, is a secured claim to the extent of the value of such creditor’s interest in the estate’s interest in such property, or to the extent of the amount subject to setoff, as the case may be, and is an unsecured claim to the extent that the value of such creditor’s interest or the amount so subject to setoff is less than the amount of such allowed claim. Such value shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property, and in conjunction with any hearing on such disposition or use or on a plan affecting such creditor’s interest. | 2019-04-24T16:05:15 | http://blog.lawrencedloeb.com/2009/06/will-supremes-consider-valuation.html |
0.999999 | How much does rolling resistance increase after adding sealant to a road bike tire? I think it's a given thing that nobody likes flats, but plenty of people do not want to give up a couple of watts for better puncture resistance. That's why I've been doing tests with sealant in a Schwalbe One Tubeless. Today I will share this information on Bicycle Rolling Resistance so everybody can decide for themselves if it's worth the trade-off.
I have been doing more fun tests with a Schwalbe One Tubeless that are only possible with a tubeless tire, like testing the rolling resistance of an inner tube. For this article I have used the same Schwalbe One Tubeless I've used before, I've done tests with 0, 20 and 40 ml Stan's NoTubes Tubeless sealant and reran all tests.
Adding sealant makes only a very small difference, noteworthy is that the rise in rolling resistance doesn't seem to be linear with the amount of sealant added to the tire. The first 20 ml only makes a very small difference, I suspect this is because a small amount of sealant sticks to the rim and bead where it doesn't add any rolling resistance.
After I removed the tire from the rim after testing, it contained 40 ml of tubeless sealant. There was quite a big puddle at the bottom of the tire, this should give very good puncture resistance. After removing 10 ml, there was still a decent puddle, removing another 10 ml resulted in not much of a puddle left. Based on these facts, I think the optimal amount to use should be 30 ml for a 25 mm road bike tire.
What about tubeless sealant in inner tubes?
These tests are run with a Schwalbe One Tubeless, which is a true tubeless tire that doesn't need sealant to hold air. Schwalbe does recommend adding some sealant to make this tire almost immune to punctures. You might think adding tubeless sealant to inner tubes to have the same effect but from experience I can tell you that it doesn't.
When conducting the puncture resistance tests, I use a standard butyl tube filled with Stan's NoTubes tubeless sealant. After puncturing the tire it does seal but it takes longer and after reinflating to high pressures, some holes start leaking again. The funny thing is that the outer tire does seal the hole and the air escapes through the rim and valve hole. Especially bigger holes in inner tubes don't seal as well when compared to a carcass of a tubeless tire which is much thicker. Tubeless sealant in inner tubes does work but not as well as in true tubeless tires, this is a big advantage for the tubeless tires.
The increase in rolling resistance of adding tubeless sealant to road bike tires is much smaller than I expected it to be. When using 30 ml of sealant in a 25 mm tire, total rolling resistance for a pair of tires increases by 1 Watt at a typical road bike speed of 23mph / 36 km/h. In my opinion, it definitely is worth it to run tubeless fluid in road bike tires. | 2019-04-23T17:52:39 | https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/road-bike-tubeless-sealant |
0.99874 | Will President Donald Trump attend Bush's funeral?
After the announcement of the former President George H.W Bush's death, many started wondering if the current president will attend the funeral.
The Bushes had previously shared their opinions regarding Trump, claiming that they voted for the other candidates in the 2016 election. In November 2017, Mark K. Updegrove , the writer of " The Last Republicans" quoted George H.W. Bush talking about Trump: "I don't like him... I'm not too excited about him being a leader." Trump has, as well, mocked the 41st president in July during a Montana rally, "What the hell was that, by the way, thousand points of light? What did that mean?" talking about one of the former president's slogan. Trump did not attend the funeral of former First-Lady Barbara Bush in April 2018. | 2019-04-23T18:32:45 | http://brefnews.com/480 |
0.998038 | As cloud printing gains popularity and organizations begin to weigh their long-term print management options, they typically find themselves asking two important questions: First, how does cloud printing stack up against traditional print management paradigms? And second, how do cloud printing solutions stack up against one another?
To help you better understand cloud printing in general and answer those questions in particular, what follows is a very concise technical overview that will cover the basics of what software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud printing is and how it compares to traditional print management solutions.
Traditional enterprise print management infrastructures generally consist of a fleet of networked printers and one or more print servers. Those infrastructures could be physically separated across multiple sites or they could be confined to a single building. They might have ten printers or they might have 10,000. Irrespective of those parameters, these print environments adopt one of two models: consolidated, with a single centralized print server, or distributed, with multiple localized print servers spread throughout the organization. A third type of print environment is direct IP, in which no print server acts as a "middleman" and clients are directly associated with network printers. In some respects, cloud printing solutions are not all that dissimilar to these models.
Where SaaS cloud printing solutions differ is that they take the administrative component of these on-premise print management paradigms and transfer it offsite, making it accessible through an online portal. That provides obvious benefits such as centralized administration, reduced hardware infrastructure, and seamless upgrades, but it also increases dependence on the wide-area network (WAN) because printing is now managed and relayed via the cloud-based hub. If the WAN becomes inaccessible for any reason, cloud printing becomes unavailable through most cloud printing solutions.
Furthermore, the limitations of some cloud printing options make these next-gen solutions incompatible with legacy printers, forcing your organization along a narrow upgrade path in the future. In some cases, cloud printing solutions are designed to work better with certain brands of software and therefore confine your organization to a specific app ecosystem.
When cloud printing solutions operate in this way, they replicate a few of the unwanted shortcomings of traditional print infrastructures and even introduce a few of their own. PrinterCloud, on the other hand, is a SaaS cloud printing solution that has been developed to overcome all these issues and deliver all the cloud printing options and cloud printing functionality you expect.
With PrinterCloud from PrinterLogic, your organization can easily migrate its print servers to the cloud using a simple import tool that copies printer names, location, IP address, drivers, profiles and other vital information right into PrinterCloud. Then, using any software distribution mechanism, you'll silently deploy the PrinterCloud client onto any print-enabled workstation. From that point on, you can completely eliminate your physical print servers and let PrinterCloud handle print management and negotiate cloud printing. The key benefit that PrinterCloud has over other cloud printing solutions is that an Internet connection is not necessary for printing. That's because PrinterCloud establishes reliable direct IP connections between workstations and printers.
Through PrinterCloud's unique paradigm, admins enjoy the convenient centralized administration of cloud printing along with the ability to deploy printers individually or en masse without having to rely on group policy objects (GPOs) or scripts. Your end users, meanwhile, experience a stability and an availability that is hard for other cloud printing solutions to match. PrinterCloud is also compatible with all printer makes and models right out of the box, so you can imbue your existing printer fleet with cloud printing functionality in one fell swoop. PrinterCloud even integrates seamlessly with virtual environments like Citrix or VMware.
Whether you're comparing it to traditional print management solutions or other cloud printing solutions, PrinterCloud is the flexible, cost-effective, next-generation print management paradigm that comes out head and shoulders above. | 2019-04-21T00:46:39 | https://www.printerlogic.com/blog/cloud-printing-technical-overview/ |
0.999766 | This map attempts to reconstruct who lived where in as much of early Washington, D.C., as we can. We have cross-referenced the names in the 1822 city directory with names found in the case files for petitions for freedom, plotting jurors, witnesses, lawyers, plaintiffs, defendants, and other participants in the freedom suits. Data from the 1834 directory will also be included soon.
Some individuals were listed only by their initials, so their gender was unclear.
The original language of the directory is preserved in this map in order to provide an image of the world in which freedom petitioners lived and the structures they navigated in the pursuit of their freedom.
The 1822 city directory for Washington, D.C., is an incredibly rich resource, but one that presents a unique set of problems. First, the directory does not come close to providing information on all of the city's inhabitants. It lists the residences and business locations for about 2,000 individuals, while noting – per the 1820 Census – that over 13,000 people lived in Washington, D.C. Only a little over 10% of the population is included in the directory, and as a result, this map. It does not even take into account the 19,000 additional people living in Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington and Alexandria Counties who were also not included in the scope of the directory.
Why is this picture so incomplete? The answer seems to be that the directory itself reflects the structures of the world in which it was written. The public sphere of Washington, D.C., buttressed by gendered and racial hierarchies, was dominated by white men, and it is these white men who appear overwhelmingly in the directory's pages. White women, who made up 4,820 of the city's inhabitants, do not appear in the directory unless they were widows, operated their own businesses, or otherwise served as heads of household. Free black individuals also appear in the directory, although not at the number of 1,696 as reported in the census. The city's 1,945 enslaved inhabitants are also absent from the directory, unless they lived independently and somehow managed to be mistaken for free blacks. Children of any race do not appear in the directory, nor do transient workers such as sailors.
Still, this directory remains an incredibly valuable resource for understanding freedom suits. Enslaved petitioners stepped into the public sphere when they made the case for their freedom – the same public sphere dominated by the names peppering the 1822 directory. Those names, although far from providing a complete picture of life in urban Washington, D.C., appear throughout the case papers as jurors, lawyers, witnesses, defendants, and more. About one in every five people listed in the directory has a link to a person page on O Say Can You See, showing some sort of direct connection to the freedom petition process. By mapping out the directory, we hope not only to highlight the spatial relationships and patterns that undergirded legal and personal connections, but also to demonstrate the ubiquity of participation in the freedom suit process and help bring to life an almost 200-year-old snapshot of the nation's capital.
Some ambiguities arise when trying to reconcile the data from the directory with data from the freedom suits. To provide a fictitious example, imagine that a John Smith appears as a juror in 1822, but five John Smiths are listed in the directory for that year. Without further information, it is almost impossible to know with confidence which John Smith is the one appearing in the court documents. Misspellings, movement in and out of the city, sons named after fathers, and the inconsistent use of initials all add to the confusion.
Another problem presented by the 1822 directory is the ambiguity that oftentimes defines its writing. Actual house numbers are not listed, and the directory's creators contented themselves to provide locations such as "10w near Penn Ave," or "corn South Cap St and Ns." What exactly constitutes "near" or which corner of an intersection is meant is left undefined. With this in mind, the locations on the map do come relatively close to the actual locations of the city's historical inhabitants, but complete accuracy cannot be expected. The locations of larger landmarks, such as churches, hotels, and banks were slightly easier to determine, and have been placed on the map as a reference point for those hoping to glean a greater understanding of the urban geography of Washington, D.C., in 1822.
The Washington, D.C., of 1822 was governed by an oppressive racial hierarchy, and this was reflected in the language of the city directory. Directory-makers made a notation of "col'd (wo)man" next to the residents of African-American descent.
Judah Delano, The Washington Directory (Washington, D.C., 1822), page 72.
To reproduce the racial language of the directory is to reproduce the language of oppression and white supremacy, but to use more modern or acceptable language may be misleading, providing an inaccurate image of the world in which freedom petitioners lived and the structures they navigated in the pursuit of their freedom. For this reason, the original language of the directory is preserved in this map.
On the topic of decisions made regarding data, a brief word is required regarding the categorizations of occupational status in the map. All occupations were consolidated into eight categories based on HISCO occupational codes. The categories included professional, administrative, clerical, sales, service, agricultural, and labor. To better reflect the working realities of life in Washington, D.C., the "labor" classification was broken down further into "skilled" and "unskilled."
Administrative includes managerial jobs such as foreman, magistrate, and various government administrators.
Agricultural jobs include farmer, gardener, farrier, and other animal husbandry work.
Clerical is a category that encompasses the various clerks and messengers as well as inspectors and paymasters.
Professional contains careers such as attorney, doctor, teacher, clergyman, and ships pilots.
Sales jobs include merchants and shop owners.
Service work refers to such jobs as barber, tavern keeper, members of the military, and police officers.
Skilled labor requires a specialization, such as blacksmith, printer, shoemaker, or tailor.
Unskilled labor is for non-specialized work. These individuals are listed as "laborers" in the directory.
It is our hope that transparency concerning all of these potential problems and decisions will help this map achieve its greatest possible usefulness.
Patrick Hoehne, Kaci Nash, Jessica Dussault, Karin Dalziel, and William G. Thomas III. "Early Washington, D.C., Interactive Map." Map. 1822, 1834. O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law & Family, 2019. Using Leaflet. (accessed Month DD, YYYY).
Delano, Judah. The Washington Directory. Washington: William Duncan, Twelfth Street West, 1822.
Elliot, S. Alfred, and William Elliot. Plan of the City of Washington. Map. Washington, D.C.: S. A. Elliot, 1822. Library of Congress Maps Collection. https://www.loc.gov/item/88694090/ (accessed August 22, 2018).
Tanner, Henry S. City of Washington. Map. Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1836. David Rumsey Map Collection. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/39mn62 (accessed August 22, 2018).
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Pierre Charles L'Enfant. Plan of the City of Washington. Philadelphia: Thackara & Vallance, c. 1794. From Library of Congress, Map Collections. | 2019-04-26T01:41:26 | http://earlywashingtondc.org/maps/directory_dc |
0.999997 | Cook the cauliflower over medium heat in a large pot of lightly salted water until completely tender, 20-30 minutes.
Drain the cauliflower into a colander. With a bowl or small plate, press on the cauliflower to remove all the water. Toss the cauliflower and continue pressing. This step is very important to the texture of the dish.
Transfer the cauliflower to a food processor. Add the cream and puree until completely smooth. If you like a chunkier texture, mash by hand, adding the cream after the cauliflower is mashed. Return to the pot. When you are ready to serve the puree, heat over low heat, stirring constantly. Add the butter, Parmesan and goat's cheese. Stir until incorporated and season with salt if necessary. Serve immediately.
2.3 grams carbohydrate per serving. | 2019-04-22T12:53:18 | http://www.lowcarb.ca/karen/recipe013.html |
0.999863 | I've covered the issues of finding time to write and overcoming barriers to writing in previous posts. This post will focus on getting started! You've made time to write and you're no longer afraid– now what?
1. What will the book be about?- This is the most basic question but it is something all writers must answer. What will my book be about? Is it a romantic fiction novel, a self help book, a personal memoir or a children's book? Compose an outline of how you see the story playing out to determine if there is even a story there.
2. Word count- Determining how many words you plan on writing will let you know whether or not you're writing a full length novel (75,000 words MINIMUM) or just a short story. Maybe you only have enough content for an e-book. Be realistic about your goal. If you've told the entire story in seven pages then you have written a very short story that is probably best delivered online maybe via your website. And also keep in mind depending on your monetary goals, you might have to give this story away for free since it is so short. I write free stories all the time, it's another way to build your audience but if you want to make a little money from writing you will have to extend your word count to get an actual book.
3. Set deadlines- If you are writing to give yourself an outlet similar to journaling that's okay. . . .HOWEVER if you are wanting to put out your work commercially or even just online for free, you've got to set a deadline. You've got to start with a finish in mind. I can't tell you how long it should take to write a book, I've written books in as little as 3 months and as long as 6 or 7. But I will tell you taking over a year or longer is a bit too long. Because if you put out your first book and it's an instant hit, readers are going to want more and you need to keep that interest and momentum going. Do you really want to make your readers wait two years in between books? My personal goal is to release a new book every year. That's not to say it takes me a year to write it, because you've got to consider marketing and promotion time before and after the book is released.
4. Don't focus on editing as you go- One of the things I still struggle with is having an "edit as you go" mentality when I write. Instead of just free writing and getting it all out the first time around, I find myself making sure I'm writing in complete sentences, checking for tense, punctuation, etc. It slows down my writing time and it's super frustrating. Your first draft will not be what goes to print. Get all of the story out of you, go back and change it up, make it better, then go back make it even better and then start your rounds of edits. It will probably take at least ten read throughs from you (after the book is done) and a few from your editor before the book is finally ready to be released.
5. Remove distractions- I personally cannot write when the TV is on or my kids are running around the house screaming like banshees. I can write with calming, low music in the background but that's about it. I need the quiet to focus. Make sure before you start writing that you are able to tune out the noise around you or that the noise level is at minimum. Or maybe it's not noise that distracts you. If you're in your room and there is a basket of laundry that needs to be folded and you keep looking at it because you feel guilty then you need to fold it or leave the room. Whatever will help you focus on getting that story/book written!
Most aspiring authors that I meet either tell me they don't have enough time or they don't know where to start. My post last week addressed time and next week I'll address getting started. But this post addresses another common remark that I hear, "I'm scared."
1. Fear- Fear is a very strong emotion because you're going up against the unknown. You're putting yourself out there without control over the outcome. But fear will also keep you paralyzed and you'll look around and five, ten or twenty years will pass and you will still be saying, "I always wanted to write a book." So my suggestion is to go for it. Get those ideas, words, phrases and thoughts out of your head and go for it! One thing that I did was to start writing on platforms like Wattpad under a pseudonym, that way no one knew it was me. I got such an amazing response from strangers who had connected with my writing, it gave me the courage to share it under my real name with people I actually knew and it's been an incredible experience.
2. Procrastination- Writing is an escape. Writing is cathartic. Writing is fun. But writing can also be hard work. Sometimes the task of writing can be daunting and because you don't know where to start or how to finish or what to say, you put it off and you don't write at all. You start making excuses or you stop making writing a priority. Meanwhile time is passing and that book isn't getting written. YOU HAVE TO MAKE WRITING A PRIORITY. YOU HAVE TO WRITE EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD. Dedication and self motivation are the only way you will have a shot at that New York Times Bestseller list. To avoid developing a pattern of procrastination, set a daily goal of writing for a minimum of fifteen minutes or set a goal of writing 700-1000 words a day and maybe it won't feel like such a chore.
3. Knowledge- This is one of the biggest issues writers face. When I say knowledge, I'm referring to basic grammar knowledge. Grammar is a learned skill. And it's not easy to remember all the rules regarding sentence structure, voice and tense to name a few. However if you are going to be a writer- you MUST have knowledge of basic grammar. Knowing when to use there, their or they're is a simple thing that can destroy your writing if you do not know how/when to use the proper homophone. Even if you use an editor (which you definitely should), I still recommend buying a reference book or at least turning to Google when you are unsure.
What are some barriers you face when trying to write?
One of the number one questions people ask me when they find out I've written multiple books is, "How do you find the time to write?" Then they usually offer up their own barriers to carving out time. They're too busy, they work full time, they spend all weekend at their kids sports events, etc.
1. Set an appointment on your calendar- You can get up thirty minutes earlier each day or go to bed thirty minutes later and use that time to write. It doesn't seem like a lot of time but if you do it daily it adds up. You can also make time during your lunch hour a couple of days a week; instead of going to lunch, find a quiet conference room or walk to a nearby park or just sit in your car. Bring your laptop, tablet, phone or even note pad and capture your ideas, thoughts, dialogue, etc.
2. Maximize your time- Every day for almost an hour I am sitting in school pick up lines (two different schools). Some days I bring my laptop and while I'm waiting I write instead of scrolling through social media. If you are at the doctors office or dentist office or getting your oil changed. . .anywhere you will have a thirty minute to one hour or longer wait you can write! Use the Notes app on your phone or Evernote app, email yourself what you've written and just cut and paste it into your manuscript later.
3. Use your voice- Most smartphones have a function where you can talk into your phone and it will convert to text. If you are sitting in traffic or have a super long commute each morning, why not open a Note or email (set this up before you start driving!) and press the microphone icon and start talking. You can speak the words instead of writing them. It will seem weird at first like you're talking to yourself but after a while you'll find a comfortable rhythm. It's almost like you are recording your book in audio form. I will warn you that sometimes the voice command hears words WRONG but they are minor mistakes that you can go back and correct after the fact. Just be sure this isn't a distraction and that you are still paying attention to the road.
4. Find a writing buddy- If you have friends that you normally hang out with on the weekend, grabbing brunch, shopping or seeing a movie. . . find out if anyone in your friend group is also an aspiring writer, if so, instead of simply meeting for brunch make it a "working" brunch. Bring your laptops, tablets, phones or notepads and instead of catching up on the latest gossip just bask in the quite solitude while you work on your respective manuscripts.
5. NaNoWriMo- (National Novel Writing Month) Although this only takes place once a year in November, it is a good way to hold yourself accountable. I wrote the bulk of my first book by participating. Participants sign up and make a commitment to write a whopping 50,000 words for the entire month of November! Let me tell you it's no easy feat, you basically have to be committed to writing 1,667 words per day to reach this goal. But the feeling (and bragging rights) of being a NaNoWriMo "winner" is amazing! Not to mention your book is practically written at the end of it.
What are some of your tried and true tips for finding time to write?
Now that summer is winding down and most kids around the country are back at school, it's time to get back into the swing of things and re-establish routines that may have been interrupted by summer.
1. Sleep- Your sleep routine was most likely affected by summer: going to bed later than normal and perhaps waking up a little later too. It is important to try and get 7-8 hours per sleep per night and start your day EARLY. At night put your phone in a different room to charge, so that you won't be tempted to lay in bed scrolling. Set your alarm to get up an hour to thirty minutes earlier than the rest of your household and when the alarm goes off, DON'T SNOOZE! Get up and start your day enthusiastically and full of energy. You'll be surprised at how much you'll get done.
2. Exercise- I am probably one of the few people in the world who doesn't drink coffee. So to get my blood pumping and energized, I get moving. It doesn't have to be a full blown Zumba routine but make sure you move throughout the day. Take the stairs, do 20 jumping jacks, walk to the corner. Do this whenever you feel sluggish and it's guaranteed to get your blood pumping and make your endorphins happy. This will allow you to focus on getting work done instead of daydreaming about the beach (or your bed).
3. Plan- Do not discount the effectiveness of handwritten to-do lists! Get a bright colorful note pad (just for fun, white plain paper will do!) and do a bulleted list of everything you need to do for the day. If this is too old school for you, create a list in your Notes app. The point is just to make sure you have a plan and you prioritize your daily tasks so that you can feel a sense of accomplishment.
4. Establish a routine- Work all three of the above into your daily schedule until they become a routine. This will help keep you from wandering aimlessly through your day. You need a purpose to keep you focused and on task!
5. Keep a positive attitude- Every morning you wake up is a blessing and none of us are promised tomorrow. So stay positive and think of it as a privilege to leave your mark on each day. And don't wish away the days for days of summer past. . . .time is fleeting and summer will be back in nine short months!
This my last post for the Summer Blog Series! I won't be consistently blogging after this post but may pop in from time to time. In the meantime, be sure to subscribe to my newsletter for more information, tips and updates.
1. LIGHTING, LIGHTING, LIGHTING- Did I mention lighting? Lighting is everything when it comes to taking good photos. Whether you're taking a selfie or a book photo (my fave) you need to make sure your lighting is good. I usually leave my flash off and take photos near my back door because there is a large window nearby that brings in natural light.
Very Basic Shot to Show My Super Simple Set up!
2. Focus- As a lover of photos my biggest pet peeve is a blurry or grainy picture. Especially if you didn't do it for an artistic reason. Most (if not all) camera phones have a focus feature. You can tap the screen and make sure the focus is on your subject. If you don't have this feature there are several apps that can take over your camera and add this function. My favorite is the Camera+ app. Pictures that are in focus provide more visual interest AND we can actually see what you snapped!
3. Background- If you are doing a prop or product shot or even a selfie be mindful of the background. You don't want something so busy it takes away from your primary subject. I prefer a solid background when I'm taking book photos. I purchased a white foam poster board from the dollar store and I take the majority of my still shots using this background. I also splurged ($7) for a distressed wood plank from Walmart to take photos on as well, mostly food shots.
I love taking pictures of sunsets too!
5. Edit- I'm not really a big fan of filters. Not unless you plan on using a special filter for ALL of your photos and creating some sort of uniformity for your feed. I've seen this done before and it's pretty cool. However I just like to edit my photos using the Camera+ app. I'll back light them, add or remove shadows, add some clarity and turn up the saturation. Whatever makes the photo pop without looking overdone. | 2019-04-26T01:40:07 | http://www.traciemomie.com/blog/category/all |
0.997451 | In general, California's Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, also known as the California Family Rights Act ("CFRA"), like the federal Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), requires employers to reinstate employees to their job positions or to a comparable job position upon return from family leaves of absence. Cal. Govt. Code § 12945.2(a). What happens, though, when the employer develops an honest belief during the leave that the employee is not, in fact, qualified to take family leave? Is that honest belief sufficient to allow the employer to discharge the employee? Earlier this month, California's Second Appellate District in Richey v. AutoNation, Inc., B234711 (November 13, 2012), determined that the employer's honest belief does not control -- the employee is entitled to reinstatement, unless the employer establishes that the employee would not otherwise be employed at the time reinstatement is requested.
Avery Richey was a sales manager at Power Toyota of Cerritos. He also owned a family seafood restaurant. In 2008, Mr. Richey suffered a back injury at home, and when his physician certified that he was unable to perform his job duties at Power Toyota, the dealership granted his request for CFRA leave.
Power Toyota had a policy that precluded employees from engaging in other employment while on leave, and it reminded Mr. Richey of this policy during his leave. (Although Power Toyota informed Mr. Richey that this policy also precluded "self-employment," the company's employee handbook did not support this interpretation – the policy provided, "You are not allowed to accept employment with another company while you are on approved [CFRA] leave.") During his leave, Mr. Richey was observed at his restaurant sweeping, taking orders, acting as cashier, bending over, and using a hammer to hang a sign. He acknowledged engaging in some of these activities, but claimed that (a) he did not believe they violated the company's policy, and (b) his doctor had authorized him to perform only these limited, light-duty tasks. Power Toyota discharged Mr. Richey for violating its policy prohibiting outside employment while on leave of absence. The termination occurred four weeks before Mr. Richey was scheduled to return to work from his CFRA leave.
Mr. Richey filed a lawsuit alleging that his discharge violated the CFRA, among other claims. Power Toyota successfully moved to compel arbitration, based on an arbitration agreement between the parties. After a hearing that spanned eleven days, the arbitrator concluded that Power Toyota was entitled to terminate Mr. Richey either because it had an "honest belief" that he had abused his medical leave or because he had not told the company the truth about his outside employment.
Mr. Richey returned to court and filed a petition to vacate the arbitration award. The lower court denied the petition and confirmed the arbitration award, agreeing with the arbitrator that Power Toyota was entitled to rely on its "good faith honest belief." However, the Court of Appeal agreed with Mr. Richey and vacated the arbitration award.
Whether the arbitrator's ruling resulted from his improper acceptance of the honest belief defense or the employer's reliance on a policy that violated Richey's substantive right to reinstatement, neither comports with the substantive requirements of CFRA.
Id. at 23-24 (footnote omitted).
The Court of Appeal also held that it had the authority to vacate the arbitrator's award, notwithstanding limitations on judicial review of arbitration decisions. The court relied on public policy exceptions to the general rule limiting judicial review. It observed further that the arbitration agreement between the parties expressly authorized the arbitrator to resolve claims "solely upon the law" -- as a consequence of this provision, the Court of Appeal ruled, "the arbitrator's failure to address all of Richey's statutory CFRA claims and his reliance on a legally unfounded equitable defense to vitiate those claims warrant closer scrutiny of the award than might otherwise be appropriate." Id. at 26 (footnote omitted).
Notwithstanding the decision in Richey, employers are not powerless when they learn that employees abuse their FMLA or CFRA leave. As the Court of Appeal in Richey recognized, "[a]n employer who 'has reason to doubt the validity of' the employee's health certification 'may require, at the employer's expense, that the employee obtain the opinion of a second health care provider, designated or approved by the employer, concerning any information certified….'" Id. at 11, quoting Cal. Govt. Code § 12945.2(k)(3)(A). And if the second opinion differs from the opinion of the employee's health care provider, "the employer may require, at the employer's expense, that the employee obtain the opinion of a third health care provider, designated or approved jointly by the employer and the employee," whose opinion is binding on the parties. Id., quoting Cal. Govt. Code §§ 12945.2(k)(3)(C), (D). Thus, when presented with information suggesting that an employee may not suffer from the serious health condition he or she asserted to obtain family leave, an employer should seek a second medical opinion and potentially a third opinion, as authorized by the CFRA. Employers are well-advised not to discharge an employee who they may honestly believe abused his or her right to take family leave, unless they are able to prove by a preponderance of evidence that the employee would not otherwise have been employed at the time reinstatement is requested, whether because of a violation of company policy or for some other reason that warrants discharge. | 2019-04-22T13:00:28 | https://www.crowell.com/NewsEvents/AlertsNewsletters/all/California-Family-Leave-Employers-Honest-Belief-That-Employee-Took-Leave-For-Improper-Reason-Not-Enough-to-Justify-Discharge |
0.999679 | 1. In a fry pan, combine 3/4 cup sugar and 2 - 4 tablespoons water. Heat over medium heat until sugar melts.
2. Add 1-1/2 - 2 cups walnuts.
3. Stir and cook over medium heat until sugar starts to caramelize, approximately 6-9 minutes.
4. Pour sugared walnuts onto a lined cookie sheet and toss around every couple of minutes until totally cooled. | 2019-04-19T04:57:02 | https://www.martinbros.com/recipes/recipedetail?id=307 |
0.998537 | The first step towards putting a disaster recovery plan in place involves copying all mission critical data offsite. In the event that a catastrophe should occur, a business won't lose so much as a step because that information can then be directly copied back to hardware and business can resume in earnest. One of the issues that many businesses face, however, is one of data movement. Exactly what is the most efficient way to copy a huge amount of data offsite and then back again when the time is right? There are a large number of different options when determining data movement for disaster recovery - not all will provide the type of performance that is needed in those most importance of moments.
When determining the best method to move data from Point A to Point B and back again, one issue that many businesses face is one of data loss. The chance of data loss is unfortunately high during data movement, which results in essentially the exact opposite of the intended situation.
To combat these types of issues, many small businesses in particular are prone to just copying their information to an external hard drive on site and transporting those drives offsite for more permanent storage. Not only is this efficient, but it's also cost effective. There is no guarantee on long term shelf life of these types of drives, however, which is where one of the major issues comes into play.
The cost of a tape drive can quickly exceed $2,000 depending on your performance and capacity needs, which is why many small businesses tend not to experiment with these techniques at all. A hard drive technology like RDX or even cloud storage could be much better, more viable alternatives.
If a business has more than one location, they need to worry about two different types of data movement: data that is being moved to meet immediate disaster recovery needs and data movement to help store things for the long term.
Data that is being moved to restore applications can be handled using technology like primary storage replication, for example. Secondary storage systems should also only be storing the most recent copy of data and should overall only be retaining a very small amount of information. Older data should then be moved to the cloud or to a tape-based system to not only help manage data movement in a more cost effective way, but to also help keep up with the demands of compliance. | 2019-04-25T22:05:53 | https://www.reliant-technology.com/storage_blog/data-movement-disaster-recovery/ |
0.999949 | Limited Lifetime Warranty: If your HDX ever gets worn or damaged, ZAGG will replace it for as long as you own your device.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Sjs34 from Works great It definitely does its job but it looks terrible on a white phone.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sharyn813 from Excellent looks and invisible protection I previously had purchased a product that did protect my screen. However, it was becoming cracked from my many drops of the phone. I wanted something that would work but look good, too. Since I purchased this Zagg screen protector everyone thinks I have gotten a brand new phone. I am enjoying its wonderful protection and warranty!
Is the screen protector glass or plastic? Does Zagg make plastic?
The HDX is made of a film, not glass.
I purchased one of your screen protectors from the AT&T store near my home for my replaced iphone7. I registered the item online but I don't have anything about how to contact you. I had to replace that phone today. How do I get a replacement screen?
I just recently bought a iPhone 7 Plus and seen at Best buy that the Invisible Shield HD for the iPhone 6 Plus/ and 6s Plus is compatible with the 7 Plus is this accurate? I would like to know before I purchase another one from another store.
Thanks for reaching out! WET is referring to the method of installation. Shields can be installed WET or DRY.
Any idea when this will ship out? Phone is due in on Friday and I'm off on vacation the following day.
We don't have an exact shipping date, but you should receive an email when it ships out. We hope to have them out soon!
My iPhone 6S HDX came with a protector for the back-side as well. Will the iPhone 7 Plus HDX also come with a back-side protector? | 2019-04-26T05:39:19 | https://www.zagg.com/us/en_us/invisibleshield/apple-iphone-8-plus-screen-protector/hdx-apple-iphone-8-plus |
0.999964 | What is CPD and why is it relevant to me?
CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. It refers to the process of tracking and documenting the skills, knowledge and experience that you gain both formally and informally as you work, beyond any initial training. It's a record of what you experience, learn and then apply. The term is generally used to mean a physical folder or portfolio documenting your development as a professional. Some organisations use it to mean a training or development plan, which I would argue is not strictly accurate. This article is about CPD as a process of recording and reflecting on learning and development.
The CPD process helps you manage your own development on an ongoing basis. It's function is to help you record, review and reflect on what you learn. It's not a tick-box document recording the training you have completed. It's broader than that.
Training and development - what's the difference?
These terms are often used interchangeably, though there is a distinction. As a rule of thumb, training is formal and linear. It's to do with learning how to do something specific, relating to skill and competence. Training can be as simple as using a PC application and as complex as learning how to be a pilot. Development is often informal and has a wider application, giving you the tools to do a range of things and relating to capability and competency. It involves progression from basic know-how to more advanced, mature or complex understanding. Alternatively it can be about widening your range of transferable skills like leadership, managing projects or organising information.
Keep a learning log and record your thoughts in whatever way suits you best. You may find it helpful to write things down in detail, for example, or to make notes on insights and learning points. The process of writing makes you think about your experiences at the time, and makes planning and reflection much easier. You can't review your experiences without recording them, however good your memory is.
Write down your overall career goals - where you want to be in two, five and 10 years' time. Then write down no more than three specific and achievable shorter term objectives, including the dates by which you want to achieve them.
For shorter term objectives, include the first step - what you can do today or tomorrow. For example, having a chat with your manager about a new responsibility or finding out about new technology from a colleague who has experience of it.
This step is essential! You'll need to set a date in advance for review of the objectives you've set yourself. You can either do this from one review to the next or decide to review regularly - once every three, six or 12 months. Put it in your diary and do it! The cycle of continuing professional development has begun ! | 2019-04-25T13:56:01 | http://www.iassg.org/t10-what-is-cpd-and-why-is-it-relevant-to-me |
0.999998 | Southern California: "The BRICS Nations Revive Martin Luther King's Dream: Economic Justice Is An Inalienable Right"
"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation."
Today, the world is on a very short fuse to global war, instigated by the City of London and Wall Street, who are desperate to avert their own unavoidable financial-speculative collapse. The dim but nagging "gut feeling," the realization that nothing can save the dying trans-Atlantic financial empire, has produced increasing despair and desperation in large sections of the populations of Europe and in the United States.
How can peace be obtained? How can Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of economic justice be resurrected in today's America? Schiller Institute chairwoman, Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphasized that the only viable war avoidance option at this late moment is for the United States to accept the invitation extended to America recently by the nation of China, to work with the "BRICS" nations. The United States must reject the Wall Street/City of London "military-monetary complex," and return to the system of physical production of wealth advocated by Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. The United States must ally itself with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa--the BRICS nations--and create a whole new, just world economic "platform", what the Schiller Institute has termed "The World Land-Bridge."
Forty years ago, economist Lyndon LaRouche outlined how the world could apply Alexander Hamilton's principles of banking, production and labor to reject the depopulation policies of the Robert McNamara-era World Bank, and its then-plan to write off one billion people in what was termed the "Fourth World." LaRouche's 1975 plan included the role of controlled thermonuclear fusion reactions, or CTR, as the power-source for that new world economic arrangement. Then, with the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche invented and promoted successive economic concepts that have now, in principle, been adopted, by the BRICS nations and their allies. This includes the Chinese proposal for mining helium-3 on the Moon as a fuel source for thermonuclear fusion. This idea uniquely provides the basis for a joint China-U.S.-Russia-India collaboration in space, and an end to thermonuclear conflict forever.
Today, instead of this "Kennedy Apollo Project-Style" orientation, the United States has written off two generations of its youth. No productive jobs, no technological "New Frontier," no real prospect for prosperity, no future. In contrast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India sees the 650 million young Indians, those under the age of 35, as his nation's prime economic resource! Why has the United States turned its back on the American System?
Wall Street's predatory "war monetarism," and daily "re-assassination" of Alexander Hamilton's U.S. Constitution, has made America invisible to itself. Our nation has become as Saturn, eating his own children, in the foreclosed farms and shuttered factories, in the nation's desolated cities, in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, or Staten Island, New York, or the hills of West Virginia and Appalachia. New York City's Police Commissioner has recently stated that the tragic violence and death in American cities "is about the continuing poverty rates, the continuing growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor. It's about unemployment issues...."
This is economic injustice that Wall Street is practicing against American citizens. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often said: "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." The BRICS nations have now revived Dr. King's dream of economic justice for all. The citizens of the United States have a moral obligation, under the General Welfare clause of our Constitution, to fight Wall Street's overthrow of our republic, in the name of justice, for all the world.
Will America decide to recognize itself again? Will it decide to re-adopt the American System of economics that it has abandoned, or will it continue to be an unconscientious objector to its own American Revolution? An alliance with the BRICS nations, based on extending the General Welfare clause of the United States Constitution to all the world, is the only sure way to prevent global war through a policy of global physical-economic growth. | 2019-04-23T10:42:34 | https://action.larouchepac.com/southern_california_the_brics_nations_revive_martin_luther_king_s_dream_economic_justice_is_an_inalienable_right |
0.999994 | Is android protected from viruses?
In the case of smartphones, to date we have not seen malware that replicate itself like a PC virus can, and specifically on Android this does not exist, so technically there are no Android viruses.
Fortunately, this is both easy and free. BT broadband customers can protect their Android smartphones with BT Virus Protect, which is based McAfee's award winning software. It protects against viruses and malware, blocking dangerous links and even helps you find your phone.
I do have to note that no computing device is COMPLETELY IMMUNE to viruses. It's just that malware makers tend to go after the larger targets.
As for Android, you don't have to worry to much about viruses... HOWEVER, you do have to be aware of malware (including spyware, adware & other undesireable software) with Android. If you want to avoid picking up malware, there's some things you'll want to do.
1) Stick to the Google Play Store for apps -- While Android does allow you to install apps from outside sources, this is an opt-in thing within the security settings (by enabling this). Android will WARN YOU of the hazards of doing so.
2) Stick to well-known, well-respected & high-rated developers for apps. -- Google does try it's best in checking every app that they're not doing something shady, but it's not infallible. Apps that are released by little known developers or authors will require extra scrutiny on your part before grabbing.
If the app is a knock off OR a clone of another app, especially a PAID / Premium app, be extra cautious.
3) Install a security app on your device. -- I know it seems a little counter-intuitive here, but it's better to protect your device (much like your computer) from the unknown. While there are some premium options that can be included with some higher-end PC security software (If you have Bitdefender Total Security for PC, you could use Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus on your Android device under the same license), but there are free options available made by the anti-virus / security app developers.
This isn't an exhaustive list, but you can likely find an Android App by your preferred security software maker with a search.
4) Do a sanity check & REVIEW ALL PERMISSION REQUESTS by applications -- With Android 6.x (aka "Marshmellow"), apps have to obtain permission from you to access certain items on your device. Therefore, you should check what things an app is requesting permission to access AND WHY.
For example, Yahoo! Mail wants permission to access Your Contacts, Your Phone Storage & Your Location... which is fairly reasonable. Access to contacts (so it can add e-mail addresses to it's address book) & phone storage (to download & upload attachments) is pretty easy to understand. However, location services on your device is more questionable (why does Yahoo! Mail need to know where you are on Earth?).
Another example, one that's way more questionable, would be a Flashlight application that has permission requests. Why would an app that turns on the backlight of your phone need to access to your current location, contacts OR the storage space on your phone?
As long as it makes sense for an application to access items it's requesting permission to use... you can easily hit allow with minimal issues. If something DOESN'T make sense, you're better off denying access as a protective measure. If the app malfunctions, review the app's permissions & grant access to SOME of the items it's requesting permission on an item-by-item basis. This might be annoying with some apps, but it's better to protect yourself against malicious intentions of app developers than just give them everything they ask for.
While it may be a slog to go through all the details & the fine print on things, but all Android apps in the Google Play Store have to be upfront with their app's permission requests (although they don't have to state their intentions of said permissions) or risk getting pulled from the Play Store.
If you're planning to use a 3rd party app site or service (like Amazon's App Store or Humble Bundle's mobile app), you will need be extra cautious & review the permission requests AT THE TIME OF INSTALLATION (when ALL APPS must disclose permission requests) since those sites & services don't have to run at the same standards that Google holds themselves to.
The TL;DR version here is that while malware exists, as long as you take a modicum of discretion with your app installations, you'll be OK. Only fools rush into things & run into problems (with unwanted ads & other stuff).
It's resistant rather than protected! In order to be "better" protected you need to install anti-virus!
It's safer than Windows mobile but there are malicious sites that target Android, they usually ask you to download something and the only way you can get it off it by killing the browser. I think you'd have to be a bit stupid to fall for it but there are viruses written for Android, yes.
Not really, no OS is 100% safe.
Should I use the Avast Browser instead of Google Chrome? | 2019-04-24T12:39:17 | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20180805054008AACIHXx |
0.999999 | Bessie is in Camelot and has encountered a sticky situation: she needs to pass through the forest that is guarded by the Knights of Ni. In order to pass through safely, the Knights have demanded that she bring them a single shrubbery. Time is of the essence, and Bessie must find and bring them a shrubbery as quickly as possible.
Bessie has a map of of the forest, which is partitioned into a square grid arrayed in the usual manner, with axes parallel to the X and Y axes. The map is W x H units in size (1 <= W <= 1000; 1 <= H <= 1000).
The map shows where Bessie starts her quest, the single square where the Knights of Ni are, and the locations of all the shrubberies of the land. It also shows which areas of the map can be traverse (some grid blocks are impassable because of swamps, cliffs, and killer rabbits). Bessie can not pass through the Knights of Ni square without a shrubbery.
In order to make sure that she follows the map correctly, Bessie can only move in four directions: North, East, South, or West (i.e., NOT diagonally). She requires one day to complete a traversal from one grid block to a neighboring grid block.
It is guaranteed that Bessie will be able to obtain a shrubbery and then deliver it to the Knights of Ni. Determine the quickest way for her to do so.
Line 1: Two space-separated integers: W and H.
Lines 2..?: These lines describe the map, row by row. The first line describes the most northwest part of the map; the last line describes the most southeast part of the map. Successive integers in the input describe columns of the map from west to east. Each new row of a map's description starts on a new input line, and each input line contains no more than 40 space-separated integers. If W <= 40, then each input line describes a complete row of the map. If W > 40, then more than one line is used to describe a single row, 40 integers on each line except potentially the last one. No input line ever describes elements of more than one row.
Line 1: D, the minimum number of days it will take Bessie to reach a shrubbery and bring it to the Knights of Ni.
Width=8, height=4. Bessie starts on the third row, only a few squares away from the Knights.
Bessie can move in this pattern to get a shrubbery for the Knights: N, W, N, S, E, E, N, E, E, S, S. She gets the shrubbery in the northwest corner and then makes her away around the barriers to the east and then south to the Knights. | 2019-04-22T18:56:26 | http://poj.org/problem?id=3170 |
0.999998 | MELBOURNE, Australia - Defending champion Victoria Azarenka struggled to hold off injured American Jamie Hampton 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 on Saturday before advancing to the fourth round of the Australian Open.
Hampton, who needed a medical timeout for a lower back problem before she served out the second set and winced in pain, frequently on the verge of tears, throughout the third, still managed to hit 41 winners to keep the top-ranked Azarenka under pressure.
Azarenka appeared frustrated at times, but overcame an early break and fended off triple break point in the seventh game of the deciding set before clinching the match in 2 hours, 9 minutes.
She didn't help herself with six double faults and 28 unforced errors, but was often pushed to the limit by a rival who was swinging hard at every opportunity.
"She played incredible, went for every single shot. I felt it was touching every single line," Azarenka said. "She took a medical timeout but she rips winners all over the place and I was like, 'Can I have a back problem?' I'm feeling great, but I'm missing every shot."
After wasting two set points on Azarenka's serve late in the second set, Hampton had to leave the court for nine minutes to have treatment on her back.
Azarenka practiced her backhands and serve while Hampton was in the locker room, but the break didn't help her immediately. Hampton returned and held in the next game and needed more treatment in the break at the end of the set.
Even with the pain of two herniated disks, the 23-year-old Hampton, from Auburn, Ala., went down swinging - making 47 unforced errors to go with the winners that caught Azarenka off guard and had her asking, loudly at one point, what she could do to counter them.
Sensing an upset, and stirred by the obvious pain, the crowd on Rod Laver Arena got right behind the No. 63-ranked Hampton, who had never gone past the second round at a major.
Azarenka had her share of supporters in the stands, too, including friend and musician RedFoo who was wearing a shirt emblazoned with "We Go Hard" across the front.
Azarenka's potential semifinal rival, Serena Williams, had the next match on Rod Laver Arena against Ayumi Morita of Japan. Williams is on a roll, having won the past two majors and warming up for the Australian Open with a title earlier in the month at the Brisbane International.
No. 14 Maria Kirilenko of Russia beat No. 20-Yanina Wickmayer 7-6 (4), 6-3 and awaits the winner of the Williams-Morita match in the fourth round.
Elsewhere, two-time major winner Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 win over Spain's Carla Suarez.
On Friday night, Maria Sharapova celebrated with extra exuberance after her 6-1, 6-3 win over Venus Williams, her first victory over the seven-time major winner in a Grand Slam.
"I was just really pumped," she said. "Why shouldn't I be?"
After back-to-back 6-0, 6-0 wins in the first two rounds - the first time that happened at major since 1985 - Sharapova has conceded the fewest number of games en route to the fourth round at the Australian Open since Steffi Graf did so 24 years ago.
Graf also lost only four games in her first three matches on her way to the second of her three consecutive titles in Melbourne.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic took another step closer to a third consecutive Australian title, defeating Radek Stepanek 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 in the third round.
His victory came on the same day Lance Armstrong admitted during a television interview with Oprah Winfrey that he used banned drugs to win his seven Tour de France titles. Djokovic, a lifetime cycling fan, said at his post-match news conference that it was "a disgrace for the sport to have an athlete like this."
"He cheated the sport," Djokovic said. "He cheated many people around the world with his career, with his life story."
Djokovic did not have an easy time against the 31st-seeded Stepanek and was troubled at times by the Czech's serve-and-volley game. But Djokovic came out laughing, and he embraced his opponent over the net at the end.
Stepanek even had chair umpire Carlos Bernardes grinning after producing an unexpected, over-the-shoulder winner to save one match point in the last game.
Djokovic will play Sunday against No. 15 Stanislas Wawrinka, who knocked out the last American man in the draw with a 7-6 (6), 7-5, 6-4 win over No. 20 Sam Querrey. For the second straight year, there will be no American men in the fourth round at Melbourne Park.
Fourth-seeded David Ferrer finished off a 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 win over 2006 Australian finalist Marcos Baghdatis with an ace, advancing to a fourth-round match against Japan's Kei Nishikori.
No. 5 Tomas Berdych beat Austria's Jurgen Melzer 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 and will next play South Africa's Kevin Anderson, who beat No. 22 Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Djokovic's Serbian Davis Cup teammate Janko Tipsarevic advanced to a meeting with No. 10 Nicolas Almagro.
In an all-Serbian match of two former No. 1 women, 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic beat Jelena Jankovic 7-5, 6-3. She moved into the fourth round against Poland's Angieszka Radwanska, who is seeded No. 4 and won her 12th straight match - including titles at Auckland and Sydney - with a 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Britain's Heather Watson.
No. 5 Angelique Kerber and No. 19 Ekaterina Makarova, two of the four women who beat Serena Williams in 2012, will meet in the fourth round. Kerber stopped 17-year-old American Madison Keys 6-2, 7-5 to celebrate her 25th birthday. Makarova had a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4 win over 2007 Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoli.
Li Na, the 2011 French Open winner, advanced to a fourth-round match against No. 18 Julia Goerges. | 2019-04-26T00:18:22 | https://www.hutchnews.com/b185bded-0e13-5f67-ab47-47bfc9f89837.html |
0.99948 | Each webmail client has a timezone setting, which is set to the server clock by default.
1.Login your Webmail and Click "SquirrelMail"
2.Click "Options" at the top.
4.Under "Timezone Options", Select your time zone and Click the "Submit" button.
1.Login your Webmail and Click "Horde"
2.Go to settings Navigate to "Preferences" and Click on "Global Preferences"
3.Then Click "Locale and Time"
4.Look for "Your current time zone:"
5.Now Select your time zone and Click the Save button.
1.Login your Webmail and Click "RoundCube"
2.Click "Settings" at the top right.
3.Go to User Interface, look for "Time zone"
4.Now Select your time zone and Click the Save button. | 2019-04-20T12:14:02 | https://www.serversea.com/knowledgebase/email/how-to-change-email-timezone |
0.999995 | The chip has transformed us at least as pervasively as the internal-combustion engine or electric motor.
In fact, the debate about the ‘new economy’ is a debate about whether the computer and the internet have had an impact on the economy as great as that of other GPTs in previous eras.
Would you say that the personal computer is a GPT?
The personal computer (PC) qualifies as a GPT due to the wide-ranging and pervasive effect it has had on the economy. Given the four characteristics of GPTs, consider how it: (1) has continued to experience radical improvements, such as the doubling of processor speed every 18 months (known as ‘Moore's Law’), (2) is applicable across a wide variety of industries, from online trading to inventory control in factories, (3) has created the need for new products and processes, such as the production of portable printers, and (4) is often used alongside older technologies, such as the use of computer-aided design/manufacturing (CADCAM) to reduce inventory alongside traditional assembly lines. Furthermore, as happened with electrification, for many years the PC did not break free from its predecessor, the mainframe, but served mainly to support it (as display terminals). Only in 1990, with the emergence of the Wintel platform, that is, the interaction between the Windows operating system and the Intel processor, did the PC break free from IBM's grip on the mainframe computer market.
The emergence of IT has created new products, processes and distribution systems. New products include the computer, the internet and digital TV; new processes include internet banking, automated inventory control and automated teller machines; and new distribution systems include cable and satellite TV. But the evidence does not fully support the claim that IT has affected economy-wide productivity in the same way as technological change in previous eras. In the late 1980s Robert Solow, a Nobel prize-winning economist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, summarised the problem as follows: ‘Computers appear everywhere but in the productivity statistics’ (Solow, 1987). The ‘Solow Paradox’, as this is often called, addresses the fact that the wave of inventions based on the microprocessor and the memory chip failed to generate the economy-wide increases in productivity that previous technological revolutions had produced. Only in the mid 1990s did productivity growth seem to be on a rebound: between 1975 and 1995 the annual average productivity growth for the business sector in the USA (i.e. non-agricultural production) was only 1.4 per cent per annum; after 1996 the annual average rose to 2.9 per cent. In the first two quarters of 2000 the figure reached 5.2 per cent, putting it on a par with the productivity increase that occurred after the electrical revolution. In the past, new technologies such as electricity began to affect economy-wide productivity only once they had reached the 50 per cent penetration rate (i.e. when 50 per cent of households and/or businesses used the technology). For electricity, this occurred in the 1920s. Since PCs reached the 50 per cent mark in the USA only in 1999, it might still be too early to ask whether the computer is showing up in the productivity statistics.
Next 3.2 Is productivity sustainable? | 2019-04-20T09:23:30 | https://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/information-technology-new-era/content-section-3.1 |
0.999997 | How did a heavy-metal spoof end up as light as a soap bubble?
"Every instrument has its own personality. For example, I love the piano for the depth of its feeling. But the piano is not really an instrument -- it's really taking an orchestra, shrinking the people and putting them in a box. The guitar is actually an opera singer with a long neck. If you're not making it sing, you might as well go home."
Everyone who loves "This Is Spinal Tap" has a story about how many times they've seen it, or how stoned they were when they first saw it, or something. Before a recent screening, the last time I saw "Spinal Tap" was in the dentist's chair -- my dentist is one of those progressive types who has kindly installed a video-hookup contraption over the seat of torture. Somewhere between the point at which my tooth was ground down to a nubbly stump and the moment where a temporary crown was popped on with some stinky glue, Spinal Tap lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel babbled on to documentary filmmaker Marti DiBergi about his special amp, the one "wot goes to 11."
And I had to laugh -- but I could only use my eyes.
There's really no point to that story, but I told it because it somehow sums up the abstract wonder, and clear genius, of Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary about a heavy-metal band that many fans have grown to love so much they want desperately for it to be real. But for a cult favorite, "This Is Spinal Tap" -- which, beginning Friday, will enjoy a theatrical re-release to coordinate with a brand-new special edition DVD -- is surprisingly subtle. You almost can't blame its legions of faithful followers for memorizing huge chunks of it, and for turning many of its jokes (especially that bit about the amp) into permanent fixtures of rock 'n' roll vernacular. How else do you grab hold of "This Is Spinal Tap," a parody that's so close to its target, so spot-on and elusive at the same time, that it almost -- almost -- isn't even funny? How is it that a heavy-metal spoof can be as light as a soap bubble?
It's a mystery more baffling than Stonehenge.
The band's stage performances in the film are delectably overblown and hugely satisfying, featuring absurdities like checkered Spandex pants and stage props that include giant transparent pods. Each band member has a signature look: bass player Derek, an astonishing crop of mutton-chop facial hair; lead singer David (the most comely of the three), a leonine golden mane; and lead guitarist Nigel, a Bay City Rollers shag haircut and a perpetually gobsmacked demeanor. (The band is filled out by real-life musicians keyboardist David Kaff, as Viv Savage, and drummer R.J. Parnell, as the ill-fated spontaneously combusting Mick Shrimpton.) Spinal Tap's stage antics cover all the usual heavy-metal clichis -- splayed legs, horrifying Pat Metheny-style facial contortions during guitar solos -- so perfectly that the group's members come off more like real musicians than parodists. And that's scary.
"This Is Spinal Tap" is rounded out by the usual assortment of rock 'n' roll lackeys and hangers-on: manager Ian Faith (Tony Hendra), who keeps order with a cricket bat; David's Yoko Ono-like girlfriend, played by June Chadwick, who breaks up the band (her bright ideas include suggesting that the band record in "doubly," when she really means "Dolby); and the small-potatoes Midwestern record-label rep Artie Fufkin (Paul Shaffer, in an artfully sniggered-through performance) who can't contain his elation at being able to brush shoulders with even the most faded rock glitterati.
"This Is Spinal Tap" is a treasure not just among rock spoofs but among rock 'n' roll movies in general. Whenever I see it, I can't help being touched by the moment when Nigel and David talk to an interviewer about how they first met and the song they first wrote together. When they harmonize on a few bars of that little skiffle tune, it brings home -- for real and not just for comic value -- the inexplicable and deep-rooted love for the music itself that generally brings real-life musicians together in the first place.
But with that one exception, "This Is Spinal Tap" is played completely for laughs -- laughs that its devotees strip mine with repeated viewings. How much devotion to Spinal Tap as a phenomenon is too much? On his Spinal Tap fan site, surprisingly levelheaded Tap nut Chip Rowe notes that action figures of Nigel, David and Derek will soon be available at $25 to $30 each. He also, sensibly, questions the sanity of the Spinal Tap fans who, via auctions on eBay, spent $510 for two tickets to the movie's Tuesday premiere in Hollywood and $910 to see the band's private gig at House of Blues afterwards. A quick check on eBay reveals that a copy of the now out-of-print Criterion Collection "This Is Spinal Tap" DVD (the new MGM DVD, with new features, replaces it) recently sold for $96. It may not be "Star Trek," but "This Is Spinal Tap" obviously strikes a pleasurable nerve with the collective rock 'n' roll subconscious.
On one hand, the idea of a new DVD release of "This Is Spinal Tap" seems silly. The old Criterion release, besides a number of deleted scenes, included two running commentaries -- one with Reiner and the other with Shearer, Guest and McKean, and both riotous. On the other, the new commentary included on the MGM DVD (which was unavailable at press time) sounds like a stroke of brilliance: The actors comment on the film scene by scene in character, denouncing DiBergi's work as a hatchet job. It's a way of giving the actors another chance to improvise on their great invention, 16 years after the fact. And because we can hear but not see them, it's as if time hasn't changed them -- a sneaky way of achieving the ultimate rock-star fantasy of never growing old.
The new DVD release also includes the original's selection of deleted scenes, among them a moment that defines in particular Guest's pitch-perfect, off-the-cuff intelligence. Reiner, as DiBergi, asks Nigel what he might hope to be if his rock-star career were to end. Nigel says that he'd like to be a surgeon, to which DiBergi queries, "Do you think you'd be good at it?" Nigel waits one perfect beat and replies, with his typical cocksure cluelessness, "I like surgery."
Of course, you could take "This Is Spinal Tap" apart moment by moment. You could watch it a dozen times and memorize every gag, or pay $500 for a chance to glimpse its stars from afar. But the more you re-embroider "This Is Spinal Tap," the more you run the risk of fossilizing its weird magic. I plan to watch "This Is Spinal Tap" only once every 10 years or so, although perhaps never again in the dentist's chair. And at the risk of going on far too much about a movie that I think of as one sustained note of rock 'n' roll pleasure, I'll stop here. At 10. | 2019-04-19T00:56:51 | https://www.salon.com/2000/09/08/spinal_tap/ |
0.943267 | An artist's illustration of a dangerous asteroid headed for Earth.
To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an entire state if they were to line up our planet in their crosshairs. That sounds like good progress, until you consider that it's only about one-third of the 25,000 such space rocks that are thought to zoom around in Earth's neighborhood.
A near-Earth object (NEO) is anything that comes within about 30 million miles (50 million kilometers) of our planet's orbit. The overall NEO population is almost incomprehensibly large; there are likely tens of millions of such space rocks between 33 feet and 65 feet (10 to 20 meters) in diameter, Johnson said.
In 2005, NASA got some further instructions from lawmakers: Spot 90 percent of all NEOs 460 feet and larger by the end of 2020. It's clear at this point that the agency will not meet that ambitious deadline. And getting such a detailed handle on the NEO population will require the launch of a dedicated asteroid-hunting space mission, according to a& NASA-commissioned study that was published in September 2017.
The space telescope for such a mission would ideally set up shop at the sun-Earth Lagrange point 1, a gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from our planet, and scan the heavens in infrared light using a telescope at least 1.6 feet (0.5 m) wide, the study found. Such a mission's observations, combined with the contributions of ground-based telescopes, could probably bag the required number of 460-footers in a decade, Johnson said.
NASA is already working on such a space project — a concept mission called the Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam). NEOCam was one of five finalists for the next launch opportunity in NASA's Discovery Program, which funds relatively low-cost and highly focused missions. NEOCam ended up missing out on that slot — NASA picked two other asteroid-studying missions, called Lucy and Psyche — but it did get another year's worth of funding.
There's still hope that NEOCam will fly someday, Johnson said.
An artist's illustration of the proposed NEOCam spacecraft, which would hunt for asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth.
NASA and its partners around the world are working on potential solutions to this problem as well. For example, NASA aims to launch a mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in 2020. If all goes according to plan, in October 2022, DART will slam into the 500-foot-wide (150 m) moon of the asteroid (65803) Didymos, which itself measures about 2,600 feet (800 m) across. This impact will change the orbit of "Didymoon" in ways that Earth-based telescopes should be able to detect, NASA officials have said.
DART will be a demonstration of the "kinetic impactor" deflection strategy. NASA had also planned to test the "gravity tractor" technique — using a fly-along probe to gradually nudge an asteroid off course via gravitational forces — in the coming years as a part of the agency's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). But the White House zeroed out funding for ARM in last year's federal budget request, and that mission is no more.
Such preparatory work shouldn't unduly alarm the public, Johnson stressed; the odds that a big asteroid will strike Earth are very low on a day-to-day basis.
"These are very rare events," he said. "But they're also an event that, if we don't find this population, can happen any day on us." | 2019-04-23T10:45:39 | https://www.space.com/40239-near-earth-asteroid-detection-space-telescope.html |
0.999999 | How to update a seven-year-old question?
Queries related to a master's degree, sometimes referred to as a post-graduate degree.
The duration of a masters degree is about one to two years which may vary because of different educational systems' policies. Masters students may have to conduct a research project as their thesis at the end of their masters level.
I'd like to see an answer that acknowledges the use of the no-apostrophe version, and explains the borders of acceptability, for example, when does master's look too stuffy? When does masters look too informal?
So, may I write a new question? If that's not considered kosher, the only alternative I can think of is to set a bounty.
(without quotes), Google prominently displayed the accepted answer to the seven year old ELU accepted answer.
Also, what's the best way to draw attention to either a new question or a bounty among the Academia crowd? Although I believe the question belongs on ELU, it would be interesting for Academia too. The way I've seen this handled at Spanish SE is to put "ELU meets Academia" at the beginning of the title. But that doesn't necessarily catch Academia's attention.
And finally, "interdisciplinary" was the closest I could come up with. Is there a better way to express the overlap?
My primary question is, may I write a new question. Please consider the other two as bonus content.
Your question seems different enough in scope from the old question to be considered a non-duplicate. What are essentially follow-up questions generally seem to be acceptable here; for example master or master's follows up on the same 2010 question. This is preferable to editing an existing question to go beyond what the original questioner wanted and/or in a way that "breaks" existing answers. In this case, the older question seems to be asking for a prescriptive "ruling" on whether an apostrophe should be used or not; you are asking about whether there may be systematic reasons for omitting the apostrophe.
If you do ask a new question, you should note the older question and its answer and then quote the tag text and any other apostrophe-free examples you've run across and ask your more nuanced, descriptive question about casual use.
As far as bringing it to the attention of Academia SE, maybe post a link in their chat or even ask a question in their Meta? If you think the tag description is in error you could ask about that, with a link to the related question here.
How long should I wait for my avatar to update?
answer to an “old” question: how to get it noticed?
Did I miss the bounty deadline and if so, is there any way of manually awarding it?
Should the following question have a proper answer?
Should I stay or should I go; my question clearly went wrong; how wrong?
Answer wrongfully deleted by brigade of trolls? | 2019-04-26T10:12:58 | https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10834/how-to-update-a-seven-year-old-question |
0.999999 | I am a professional with 38 years of progressive responsibility in a technical field. I placed my resume on a job website and had 37 hits and zero inquiries. There is no apparent interest in a person 59 years old. Why are companies totally resistant to hiring someone my age? Should I mask the evidence in my resume?
I applied for a job in a company and heard nothing for three months. I called once and got tossed around on their voice mail system, but never talked to anyone. I just received a rejection letter, an ice-cold form letter that has several typos. Even my name is spelled wrong. I'm annoyed and I'd like to write them back, but I'm wondering if it is worth it.
I am in a sales/marketing position with a manufacturing company, and I am considering changing jobs. I informally met with a marketing manager from a dot.com company. I am not a techie, but I am not ignorant in technology either. I could hardly understand what this person was saying. The vocabulary was almost completely foreign, and I am wondering if this is his problem or mine?
I have every single qualification that a company required in its ad for a manager, and I sent them a cover letter and electronic resume, but I heard nothing. I sent a follow-up note and even left a voice-mail message for the person doing the search, but I cannot get a reply. I really think I would be a good match with this company. Is there anything else I should do?
During a job interview earlier this week, the interviewer took two cell phone calls. He didn't mention that he might have to take some calls, and he didn't say anything afterwards. I was annoyed, but didn't say anything because this was a job interview. If this happens again, is it worth saying something?
Last year I gave notice to the company where I had been for 11 years. I stayed on for three extra months until they found the right person to replace me. During this time, I suffered a severe medical condition which required surgery and a long recovery. I am now searching for a new job and am unsure how to explain the break in my employment history. My previous company will provide excellent references, but I am afraid I will be passed over, even though I am highly qualified.
I have been laid off for the past five months. I went on two interviews that appeared to go very well, and the interviewers said they would call me either way. I actually turned down another position because I felt assured an offer was coming. I left voice messages and e-mails, but heard nothing. Is this a new trend? Should I continue to press for a response or just let it go?
I was fired from my previous job as a medical assistant. A specimen was lost and I was told that it was my fault, but it wasn't. The office manager would not listen to my side, so I was dismissed. I have completed several applications that ask if you have been fired and why. What do I write? What will they do? Will they give me a chance to explain? What if I don't write it down?
I know that screeners do not spend much time reading resumes, so I am changing my resume to include only job titles and dates of employment. Anyone who reads the resume should understand my work just by the titles. With this approach, I think I stand a better chance of getting called for an interview. Do you agree?
I had a very good job interview a little over a week ago. My experience was a perfect match, and the interviewer and I got along real well. At the end, he said that he would contact me and set up the next step. Since then, I have heard nothing. I have sent a couple of e-mails, and I have called him, all with no response. What should I do?
I am a 58 year-old woman with over 15 years in executive support and a great resume. Even though there is not supposed to be any age discrimination these days, do you feel there is? What are we mature people supposed to do? I am applying through agencies, newspaper ads, and the Internet. What other advice can you give?
I was laid off from an accounting clerk job I held for just two months. The company was very small and unorganized, and the boss's daughter constantly told me she would be coming in to help, but she never did. I'm wondering how to avoid a situation like this in the future. Can I ask a job interviewer how they are planning on training me? Should I even put this two-month job on my resume?
I'm going to a job fair in about three weeks. I went to one last year and there were long lines for the employers I wanted to meet, so I met with several smaller companies and ended up with nothing. I don't want to spend all of my time in line, but I don't want a repeat of last year. What's the best strategy?
I am in the middle of a very frustrating job hunt. I have made follow-up phone calls after being interviewed, but after experiencing the annoyed voices of human resources officials telling me that they will call me if they wish to follow up, I have to ask, is it me or have standards changed?
I was terminated in my last 3 jobs, but there are two sides to each of these stories. I have been through several job interviews recently, but I am not getting called back, and I am certain that this is because of the terminations. Do you have any suggestions?
I recently registered with several employment agencies to assist me in my job search. I am a qualified receptionist/administrative assistant with good references. The job interviews that I am sent on are "less than professional" places to work. I wish I could find an agency that would truly be interested in helping me find a decent place to work. Any suggestions?
I am moving out of this area, and the pay levels where I am going are lower than what I have been making here. I don't want to price myself out of the market, and I was thinking of telling possible employers that my pay is lower than what it really is. What do you think?
Many advertisements are searching for applicants who have a sharp eye for detail. Do the placement professionals intend for these ads to be poorly written so that the applicant will proofread and correct the grammar, spelling and punctuation errors as a type of screening? By doing these corrections and sending back the revised version, along with my resume, will I insult or offend the writer?
I have had several different jobs in my career, and I recently completed a rather expensive technical training program. I have been sending out resumes, but all I get back are rejections or nothing at all. I keep trying different resumes, but none work. What do you suggest?
I am going for a job interview at a high tech company. The attire there is pretty casual, but I am wondering if I should wear a tie to the interview.
I am a 58-year-old maintenance worker with 33 years of experience in my field. I have had many interviews for better jobs, and every time they say that I would fit the job well, and they often use the word "great," but then I get a letter saying they picked someone else. I am in very good health, happy, and a great worker, but I am feeling left behind because of my age. What can I do?
There is a company that I would like to join, and they seemed to respond favorably to my resume. They set up an interview, but canceled it at the last minute, and then canceled two later interviews. Is there anything I should be doing to get an interview with them?
I am going on a job interview next week, and I am supposed to be interviewed by a panel of 4 people. I have never had this type of interview before, and I am somewhat nervous about it. Are there any hints?
I just graduated from college with a management degree and will be looking for a job shortly. I completed an internship over the last five months but left the company on bad terms. I gained a lot of knowledge and experience from the internship and it is a great addition to my resume. I know that I won't be able to have references from anyone except another intern. Should I still include this internship on my resume?
Many employers are requesting or even demanding that resumes include one's salary history. Some ads even say that resumes without a salary history will not be considered. Why is this demand being made?
I just completed my second job interview with a company, and they want me to start working for them immediately. I have been with my present employer for 2 years, and I feel it is only right to give a couple of weeks notice, but I will lose the new job if I do.
I am a recent college grad and I have been working for a start-up company for substantially less money than I would have been paid if I had accepted a more conventional job, mainly because there are stock incentives here. Things are not working out, and I am going to leave. My question is whether my low salary is going to hold down my starting salary level in my next job.
We are spouses of active duty military personnel. Many of us have at least a BS/BA degree, but are only able to get entry level positions because moving across the U.S., Europe, and the Far East has made our resumes look like we are unable to get full time employment, and our references almost impossible to contact. How do we get employers to think of us when they seek employees?
I spent nearly six years as a Marketing Coordinator while I was trying to break into marketing management. I was passed up for promotions, and I was told it was because I needed a bachelor's degree. At great expense, I went back to college and obtained a bachelor's degree and an MBA. Now I'm hearing I don't have enough on-the-job experience to be a manager. I've been looking for over a year, and I'd even take a marketing coordinator position to get my foot in the door. Although it's lying, I'm considering removing my education from my resume. Do you think that would help?
I am beginning my career, and I want to know how to respond to a job interview question about my goals if I don't have a particular objective. I know what direction I want to go in, and I want to do well, advance, and continue to learn, and maybe my goals will crystallize when I join the company.
During a job interview a few days ago, the interviewer took several phone calls and his secretary came in three or four times. I thought this was rude and inconsiderate, and I think the interruptions prevented me from doing well. What is your take on interruptions in job interviews?
I quit my job due to a co-worker's interference with my work. This person was messing with my remittance reports when I was at lunch, among other devious tactics. I spoke to my employer several times, but my employer did not believe me! How do I answer the question, "Why did you leave your last job?" without sounding like I can't get along with people?
I sent my resume electronically to a company, and they invited me in for an interview. When I arrived, I was asked to complete an application blank. Isn't that out of date? If a company still uses them, maybe they are behind the times in other areas. What do you think?
I am applying for a new job, and I have a strong resume. Since it speaks for itself, I have not been attaching a cover letter because it's extra work and does not seem worth the trouble. How important is it?
A friend of mine has been job-hunting for five months and finally landed a good position. What he and I found exasperating was the number of human resources people who made promises to call at a specific time and date, but never did. Some would promise to meet him, but never followed through. We were wondering how these people rose to these positions.
When I submit a resume, I keep it brief. I give my job title, rough dates of employment, and company names, and that's about it. I think if I write much more, the screener won't read it. I have gotten some interviews based on this strategy. What do you think of it?
I am a receptionist and I have this job through a temp agency. The position is currently being advertised, and I applied for it and was interviewed. I keep asking the Human Resources recruiter and the temp agency for feedback, and I am told I did a great job, but they are still actively interviewing candidates. Should I speak up or keep looking for another job?
I have applied several times to the same company for the same job that they keep advertising over and over. I know I am well qualified for it, and I really want it, but I never hear anything back. I have emailed and faxed my resume several times, but still nothing. What do you suggest?
When I interviewed for this job, I met with the person who became my boss. In the interview, he was friendly and professional. Now I see that my initial impression was wrong. He is mean, abusive, and cold. I am going to leave, and I am wondering what I can do to prevent this from happening again.
When I was looking for a job, I completely misread my current employer. The company is different from what I thought, and I am looking for a new job sooner than I hoped. I do not want to repeat this mistake, and I am curious about ways to learn more about a potential employer.
I had three interviews with a company I liked, but I just got a rejection letter. A friend said I should send them a letter to thank them for interviewing me and let them know how impressed I am with them and their company. My feeling is they hired someone else and that's it. What do you suggest?
I just had a job interview, and the interviewer spent much of the time badmouthing the company, his boss, and the work atmosphere. I have never experienced this before, and I wonder what you make of it.
About four months ago, I was "let go" during a probationary period from a job where I had very limited experience. I have a bachelors degree and this position did not require a degree, and it paid substantially less than my previous jobs, most of which have been professional. After 15 years in social services, I decided to change the direction of my career and do something different. I have now taken this risk and it did not work out. Should I list this job on applications? If I don't, there will be a six-month gap in my employment history. This dilemma is causing me great stress and anxiety.
I have heard about successful people who embellished their resumes to get a job. I added office computer skills onto my resume in order to qualify for a certain job, and I got it. When my lack of computer knowledge came out, I was fired. I think this was unfair of the company. When they saw I was a good employee except for this, they could have given me some training. Do their actions seem fair to you?
I went on a job interview and the interviewer said I was dressed inappropriately. I thought I looked just fine. I have been on many interviews and no one ever said this to me. Do you think his comment was appropriate?
I have been responding to employment ads for several months, and I have not had one interview. I know there are many applicants in my field, but my background seems to be more than satisfactory. Do you have any special steps that might help? Some of my friends suggested I show up at some companies and ask if they are hiring. I think this idea is worthless, and I wonder if you agree.
I am a very punctual person, and now that I am looking for a job, I try to arrive for an interview around 30 minutes early. I think this sends a good message about my enthusiasm and eagerness, but some of my friends say I should not arrive that early. What do you think?
I worked for 16 months in customer service at a company that had “quality control” techs monitoring incoming calls. They made no mention of all the times the customers praised our work, but they quantified the negative comments. The company fired many employees for ridiculous reasons, and then asked the rest of us to work overtime every day. How should I describe 16 months of torture to a potential employer without sounding overly negative?
I am currently looking for a job, and one of my friends told me that he heard that putting a “P.S.” at the end of a cover letter is a good way to get some extra attention. Is this a good idea, or is it something that might put an employer off?
I went for a job interview, and it was apparent that I was not in sync with the interviewer. By the end, he stopped asking questions and started criticizing me. Among other things, he that my answers were too wordy and my clothes were wrong. I’m still upset, and I wonder what you think about this.
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find a job, and I think one problem is my resume. I read an article saying that a resume should not have much detail. It said to remove employment dates and most responsibilities. The idea is that the reader will be intrigued and call you. Is this a fact?
I have a professionally prepared resume, and I think it looks good. I have sent it out several times, but I have not gotten any responses. I have tried calling the companies that list their names in the ads, but that has not helped. What else can you suggest?
I am 55 years old and having problems finding a job. I believe I am qualified for advertised jobs, but when I submit my resume, I hear nothing. One of my friends suggested I leave earlier jobs off of my resume, and then explain things if I get an interview. What do you think?
I have been in the retail industry since 1968. I have only worked for four companies, all in managerial positions, but I cannot find a job. I am registered with all of the major online sites, but I get no calls or emails. How can I find out why? I have rewritten my resume several times, but nothing works. | 2019-04-19T02:24:29 | http://jerksatwork.com/index.php?view=advice&category=169 |
0.996573 | Has anyone got experience with having CBT as part of treatment?
The clinic who diagnosed me has referred me to have CBT and I'm wondering what to expect. I've had more "traditional" therapy and I wasn't overly keen but it was some time ago.
I have energy now, I should use it to do things because I won't have energy later - Perfectly logical.
I have energy now, I better not use it - Pacing.
Changing routines takes energy, energy we don't have.
It's far too easy to try pacing and give on it early (because it's Illogical and hard).
CBT will help you make sense of it, and pacing is the massively most effective way to manage this beautiful illness.
As for what to expect. CBT was developed from the screaming drill sergeant you see in every war movie.
It breaks you down to build you back up again.
It will take you through 'unlearning' habits and creating new ones.
Don't resist, jump straight in and it will be a lot easier.
It is confrontational but it's the therapist encouraging you to confront yourself rather than someone screaming at you while you run around in the rain wearing just your underwear and a pair of boots you spent hours laboriously polishing.
Unless you do it really wrong.
People have very different experiences of CBT, mostly because of how it is implemented but also because many people just do not respond well to it. The way feroluce describes it, as a method that teaches you to pace yourself is the correct way and useful for all of us. The other way that it is taught is essentially a progressive exercise program, starting small and building up with the aim to cure you, this is a dangerous approach and has hurt many people including myself. It took me months to recover but that was the very early days of the practice in CFS patients and it does seem to have been improved, with more therapists well versed in our illness and it's limitations.
It's so tempting to overdo things when you have the energy.
Thank you for your replies. I appreciate people taking the time.
Still quite worried. I have some prior mental health issues and I've never been a fan of dragging up the past. I'm worried about coping during the early stages before I start to see any improvement.
Wondering if anyone else has dealt with anything like the above?
I had CBT although I had been using the techniques prior to seeing a counsellor. I can't say that it made a massive difference to my condition. CBT is offered to help us to manage the condition, not as a treatment per se. CBT seems to be the 'in' thing at the moment, probably because it's the cheapest option for the NHS. We need to be careful that we don't expect too much from this therapy.
I have the same idea as the comment above. | 2019-04-24T19:53:07 | http://forum.chronicfatiguesyndrome.me.uk/index.php?topic=18580.msg134438 |
0.999957 | Four years after terrorists slaughtered 3,000 innocent Americans it should go without saying that the “international community” would not let a terrorist-sponsoring nation acquire nuclear weapons.
But it does not go without saying. On the contrary, the rulers of Iran, who subscribe to an ideology not appreciably different from Osama bin Laden's, are moving closer than ever to getting their own nukes.
In response to all this: Nothing serious has been done. It does now appear that what British Foreign Minister Jack Straw calls Iran's “history of concealment and deception” regarding its nuclear programs finally will be referred to the U.N. Security Council. That could lead to economic sanctions against Iran.
Or not. China and Russia are both Security Council members and both enjoy lucrative trade ties with Iran. China relies on imports of Iranian oil. Russia has long been selling its nuclear expertise to the Iranian theocrats.
“If the Russians and the Chinese, for reasons that would be abominable, do not join us,” Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said recently, “then we will have to go with [a coalition of] the willing."
He proposes that American diplomats begin persuading our European allies that if Iran doesn't change course immediately, ambassadors be withdrawn from Tehran, while their Iranian counterparts are sent packing.
Nelson also wants the U.S. to insist that Lebanese authorities disarm Hezbollah, the Iranian- and Syrian-backed terrorist organization that is second only to al-Qaeda in number of Americans it has murdered. An added benefit: A disarmed Hezbollah is a necessary pre-condition for full Lebanese sovereignty and freedom.
Nelson recommends, too, that the U.S. make every effort to shut down al-Manar, Hezbollah's satellite television station which broadcasts incitement to terrorism around the world day after day. Why the U.S. Treasury Department has not yet placed al-Manar on its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list – which would help choke off the financing that keeps it on the air – is a mystery.
Adopting these and other measures would isolate Iran diplomatically, cause it economic pain and weaken its primary transnational terrorist proxy.
I would add this: There should be a significant effort to assist – overtly or covertly or both – Iran's pro-freedom dissidents in their efforts to bring about regime change.
Finally, military options – particularly those aimed at destroying as many of Iran's nuclear facilities as possible – must remain on the table.
“To say under no circumstances would we exercise a military option,” McCain noted, “that would be crazy." He added: "There is only one thing worse than the United States exercising a military option -- that is a nuclear-armed Iran." | 2019-04-22T06:02:53 | http://www.cliffordmay.org/2012/nuclear-armed-terrorists |
0.999654 | With most government departments in the UK facing 20-25% cuts over the next year or so, DFID employees are sheltering behind a funding ringed fence. They must be pinching themselves at their good fortune. But their privileged position also forces them to be as penny-pinching as possible--if not, other departments will do the pinching.
But how sturdy is the fence and are there any gaps through which resources can leak out?
The fence is coming under increased fire. The recent article in the Daily Mail was particularly scathing. These attacks, in turn, generate stock responses about aid's all-conquering properties.
In an era where the aid debate risks becoming ever more polarised we are in need of nuance. But for busy UK policymakers nuance is about as welcome as England having to face Germany in the round of 16 (I suspect this may not hold for German policymakers).
can aid deliver the output or outcome?
can these outputs or outcomes make a long term difference?
can impact be demonstrated in a relatively short time period?
You can see the potential contradictions. It is difficult to show the short term impact of things that can make a long term difference (e.g. investments in innovation in science and technology). Things that aid can deliver (e.g. more children in school) may not make a long term difference (e.g. if class sizes are so large that the average student's ability to learn diminishes). Things that aid can deliver (e.g. stronger health systems) can present problems for the demonstration of impact (e.g. in terms of lives saved).
What can the development community do to make these contradictions more visible but less severe?
The effort required to deliver a convincing answer often dwarfs the effort put into thinking about whether it was the right question to answer in the first place (e.g. why has no-one asked whether conditional cash transfers make sense in sub-Saharan Africa? Most of the effort has been spent on answering if cash transfers have an impact on hunger. Of course they do.). This means consulting with a wide range of stakeholders about the questions worth asking (see "this book fills a much needed gap").
The "randomistas" and even the quasi-experimentalists often answer the question "does it have an impact?", sometimes "for who?", but rarely "why?". This requires innovative issue-driven blends of quant and qual.
It will always be more challenging to evaluate policy changes that generate consequences that are indirect and lagged, for which indicators are not yet developed, and for which all the pathways of change are not yet fully understood. But we must help to expand the set of things that are "evaluable" by developing methods to consider these dimensions.
Your idea of success is probably not the same as mine. Add in experiential, cultural and value differences and the gap may widen. Getting multiple views of success from different stakeholders will help to home in on what really counts and help uncover unintended consequence land mines further down the road.
Most methodologically rigorous analyses--whether quant/qual or some blend--have, by definition, high degrees of internal validity. They are fit for purpose in the context in which they are applied. But by building in more variation and diversity - either within the context or across it by, say, systematic case study meta analyses--we can make plausible guesses about how portable an intervention is and the associated risks of assuming it is.
In short the development research community must nuance the impact debate, not disown it.
If we do the latter, then aid will only be used for things where it is easiest to demonstrate impact and the rest will be wrung out of DFID, despite the ringed fence.
We need to expand the radius of evaluability if we are to help protect the parts of the aid spend that may do the most good.
Last month One.org released their DATA REPORT 2010: Monitoring the G8 Promise to Africa. It just hit my desk today.
G7 commitments on aid to Sub-Saharan Africa have been more than half met. The target increase for 2009 was about $18bn, with actual G7 increases standing at $9.9bn.
investments in agriculture, primary education, malaria, HIV/AIDS and child survival are rated as good, but water and sanitation have lagged behind.
lessons learned: need to engage with new partners (e.g. new non G7 donors); accountability of donors and African governments is key; Africa is "teeming with new opportunity"
The way forward says that no group of countries have put forward a comprehensive and collective plan focused on how to help support the vision of "an Africa driven by its own citizens", but it would have been useful to provide a forum in this report for African voices to say where and how they would like that support to be focused.
This is the last in a series of very useful reports, but I hope the next set will be less about aid and more about development and less about donors and recipients and more about development partners. I also hope it will be led by Africans.
I attended a Panos London Board meeting yesterday. Panos London is an NGO focusing on communication: voice, dialogue, ICT and media in areas such as climate change and public health. It is doing a lot of innovative work and I urge you to check them out.
At the end of the Board meeting I participated in a panel on "From Emails to Firestorm: the role of the Media in Climategate", set up to coincide with the completion of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Bonn.
Six months on from Copenhagen I argued that the "climategate" fiasco set up 3 tests of trust for the science community -- and that we failed two of those tests.
First, the trust in the credibility of the science base. This was attacked for sure, and took some hits, but my sense is that it emerged bloodied, not bowed. That's largely because of the multi-sited nature of the IPCC. It's not seen as a rich country club--it brings together perspective from all over the world, and because of that roundedness, it is more resilient to attacks from the media and elsewhere. So I think we passed that test of trust--just about.
I think we failed the second test, however, and that is the test of communication. Science is not easy for most scientists to communicate to nonscientists, and much of the furore could have been prevented and dampened with better communication: why were the data "altered"? What does "altering" mean? What are the uncertainties around the conclusions? Which phenomena can't be attributed to climate change? If you don't agree with me does that mean you are against me? When public opinion is with you these questions seem less important, and when the tide inevitably turns you realise how ill-prepared you are. We need to spend more time and care in dialogue with the media, resisting the temptation to polarise the debate.
Third, we failed the information openness test. By not releasing publicly funded climate data it looked as though something was being covered up. The scientific process is also stymied by this. No-one is covered in glory by this withholding. Scientists (including social scientists) have to realise that they do not own the data--especially when it guides public money spent on public goods. They may have spent a long time getting it into the necessary shape to analyse it, but surely their rights are to first analysis, not lifetime patent. The story cannot be about the withheld data, it must be about what the data say to a range of different researchers.
If there was one thing the research councils and DFID could do to vastly increase the value for money of research they fund and build trust with the media and public, it would be to incentivise open access data.
Today the Royal Society hosted the launch of the STEPS Centre Manifesto on Innovation, Sustainability and Development. STEPS is supported by the ESRC and hosted by IDS and by SPRU at the University of Sussex.
The Manifesto draws on work that STEPS has done over the past 4 years and over the past year it has been co-developed in over 20 roundtables from around the world, a process convened by Adrian Ely of SPRU. The Co-Directors of STEPS are Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones of IDS and Andy Stirling of SPRU.
The starting point for the Manifesto is the massive disconnect between ever expanding volumes of research and development in science and technology (S&T) and the persistence of poverty, social injustice and environmental damage. How can these resources be made to work for goals that go beyond commerce, beyond economic growth and beyond simple private gain?
Direction – often we think that the dominant pathway of innovation is the best one. But often this is simply a reflection of path dependence in investments or a manifestation of the power held by those who support the pathway. In reality there are many candidate pathways if we can only open up spaces for them.
Diversity – this has to be deliberately constructed – otherwise the most powerful will drown out the rest. Diversity is important because it is a hedge against an uncertain future and it can throw up creative and previously unimaginable questions, pathways and options.
Distribution – diversity, yes, but what kind of diversity? The poorest and most marginal are those excluded from choices about which science and technology is prioritized. These voices must enter the debate in ways that give them some chance of influencing the debate.
• Agenda setting—who decides what are the key questions to address through S&T?
• Funding—what are the institutional incentives to align public and private S&T spending towards poverty alleviation, social justice and environment?
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability—measure the effect of S&T on things we really care about, report funding allocated towards development goals, report back to national parliaments on the 3 D impacts of investments in S&T.
Overall, the Manifesto team was commended for its vision, energy and inclusiveness. Many opportunities for influencing were noted (ranging from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework to DFID’s Emerging Technologies funding window to the new Government’s focus on transparency and accountability).
The key question for me was “does the Manifesto action agenda rely on a powerful actor seeing the light?” If it does, how will this happen? Can it be accomplished by mobilizing civil society? Or will the action agenda have to bypass the powerful status quo organizations and rely on change from the emerging voices who are at the margins now?
The STEPS team knows that these kinds of changes don’t come quickly and they were clear that this report is just one moment in a longer process.
The Chair of the ESRC, Alan Gillespie, reminded us how long change processes can take. In reflecting on the original Sussex Manifesto from 1970 he noted that the report called for the UN to establish clear outcome orientated development goals. The MDGs were established 30 years later.
Being born in South Africa I had to find a reason to get a cheesy picture of the World Cup into the blog.
1. What are the economic determinants of World Cup success?
2. What are the economic returns to hosting a World Cup?
On the determinants, some very serious econometrics have been dedicated to this issue (see this one from the International Association of Sports Economists!). Population seems to matter more than GDP/capita and past performance in Cups seems to matter more than the proportion of professional footballers in the population. Being the host country is important for success. Goldman Sachs also get in on the act with their World Cup and Economics Report--they find little correlation between a country's 2009 Growth Environment Score (GES) and FIFA football rankings although improvements in the GES are correlated with improvements in the FIFA rankings. Their picks for the semi finals? England, Argentina, Spain and Brazil.
More important, what are the economic returns? This is more serious but very difficult territory. What has been the infrastructure addition? Is it multi-use? Was it geared towards labour intensive job creation? What has been the increase in tourism? Have football tourists spent more than non-football tourists? What have been the spillovers in terms of kickstarting sport, tourism, and opening up the country to new investments? The evidence is all over the place (where are those systematic reviews when you need them?).
For a country like South Africa, with unemployment rates of about one third, this is no joke. We know that public works projects can have very different impacts on poverty depending on how they are designed (some work I was involved in in the late 90s showed that for 100 public works projects in Western Cape, the ones led by communities were the most cost efficient at transferring resources to the poorest), so it will be interesting to see how many jobs were created and if the differences at the 10 stadium sites and economic hinterlands can be explained by process, institutional and infrastructure design features.
However the most interesting paper I found from a quick look argues that it is the non-economic impacts, especially the internal "psychic income" (estimated using contingent valuation technique) that really matter when economic communities invest in large sports events. Civic pride, identity and a sense of belonging really seem to matter.
the finest, but also one of the economically most long-term effects of the 2006 World Cup."
I hope you enjoy the tournament and the positive image of Africa that it will surely present.
My pick: Spain. Any team that cannot find a regular place for Cesc Fabregas must be seriously good.
Can DFID Leverage Reform in the Multilateral Aid World?
DFID, as part of its review of spending has launched a review of its multilateral aid spend.
Is the UK taxpayer getting value for money from 30 or so global organisations? Let's look at some of the potential criteria.
Transactions costs. Channeling money through multilateral aid agencies may reduce transactions costs for recipients and for bilateral donors. But on the ground, countries still have to deal with 30 or so bilateral donors and 30 or so multilaterals. In addition the UK taxpayer may simply be paying two sets of administrators--in the UK to get the money out and in Washington, Rome and New York to allocate the money.
Ownership. Can multilaterals support government systems better than direct budget support? I'm not sure. And I'm not even sure the best way to find out-who to ask? Civil society in the South? Recipient Governments? The new Aid Watchdog?
Impact. It is harder to demonstrate to donor citizens that their taxes are having a particular effect when resources are pooled in multilaterals. Interesting to note that the main point made by the International Development Select Committee when they reviewed the DFID-World Bank relationship in 2008 was that the World Bank needed to do better on making impact a central part of how it measured its effectiveness.
Credibility. This depends on governance and representation. While the heads of multilateral agencies bypass standard human resource best practice (job and person description, open competition, selected on merit by internals and externals) it is hard for these agencies to lecture on governance. On representation, change seems to be happening very slowly.
Perhaps the multilateral review can incentivise some movement along these lines.
There are lots of people out there who are much more knowledgeable than I am on these global public goods issues. I would love to hear from you.
The events of the past 2-3 years should have re-focused the development community's attention on ethics, faith and morality. The Global Financial Crisis has made a few of us turn our attention again to the values underlying the global economic system. Climate change has highlighted the purpose of consumption int he rich countries, and has forced us to consider tradeoffs between our consumption opportunities and those of future generations.
1. these faith based organisations clearly felt that trust in outsiders is vital if outsiders are going to have any traction, and that being identified as "faith based" is very helpful in establishing such trust quickly--even across faiths.
2. the organisations are actively questioning the very nature of progress. For example, CAFOD, Tearfund and Theos are involved in a project considering Human Flourishing in development which will be launched in the Autumn. Here is one background paper from Bath University on this issue.
3. they feel they have a lot to contribute to the current debate about the effectiveness of aid. Through their strong local connections and trust dividends they think they can contribute a lot to assessing impact--both in terms of defining impact from the recipient perspective and in terms of getting feedback on what is and is not working.
The ideas from this roundtable will be more fully reported back to this group and will influence the Reimagining Development Report due out later in the year.
Social protection refers to a set of interventions that seek to help families protect themselves against shocks, protect the assets they have, and climb out of poverty.
A new report by the Centre for Social Protection argues that, in sub-Saharan Africa, social protection may have lost its way.
Despite lots of donor investment, many African governments remain reluctant to embark on the high recurrent costs of social welfare and the political irreversibility of its introduction.
The report suggests a change in emphasis. Instead of introducing a plethora of pilots that use imported recipes, focus on the objectives of social protection--vulnerability and poverty reduction--and build on existing government initiatives, innovating and experimenting with these as they are strengthened. Importantly, the report recommends that African citizens are more involved in the upstream design and the downstream evaluation of such programmes. It is noteworthy that the biggest global successes in social protection come from Mexico and Brazil and these were home grown ideas, financed by a mix of domestic and external finance.
But the picture is not that simple--it's not as if there are legions of African leaders straining to get their homegrown social protection policies financed. A report released last week from Kofi Annan's African Progress Panel highlights the disconnects between African countries' GDP/capita growth rates and the continent's lack of progress in poverty reduction. This, it is argued, is the result of weak leadership, capacity and governance. This puts a premium on the donors being politically nimble and switched on to the policy process.
Country-led opportunities for strengthening social protection in Africa will not be commonplace. When they arise, the donors must be ready--not to produce their own solutions but to support the reformers working in the countries they are trying to help. | 2019-04-24T06:05:53 | http://www.developmenthorizons.com/2010/06/ |
0.999998 | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CBS's "60 Minutes" that the left flank of the House Democratic caucus represented by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is "like five people" in a Sunday interview.
Moore made the comments in an August 2015 radio interview with Larry Kudlow, who now serves as the President's top economic adviser. In that interview, Kudlow compared Trump's immigration plans to the worst parts of World War II -- in an apparent reference to the Holocaust -- and said Trump's only real supporters came from "the nativist fringe."
Israeli researchers have printed a 3D heart using a patient's own cells, something they say could be used to patch diseased hearts -- and possibly, full transplants.
To get some sense of the scale of deflation, consider what a 3-D printed heart transplant would have cost in 1950.
Major League Baseball's Opening Day now falls about 2 weeks earlier than it did in the days of the 154-game schedule and when a "western swing" meant a trip to St. Louis and Chicago. For me it means that baseball now has 2 Opening Days - one on the first day of the regular season and a second on April 15, the anniversary of Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Day is wonderfully commemorated each year throughout MLB by having every player and umpire wear Jackie's number 42. What's the tie-in with this column? Robinson's skill and daring as a ballplayer are celebrated in Buddy Johnson's 1949 novelty "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?" Here are two versions, the first by Count Basie and his Orchestra, with the vocal by the great blues shouter, Jimmy Rushing. The second features Natalie Cole with a big band led by John Clayton.
Nuclear power and coal don't share many attributes in common other than they're both economically struggling for similar reasons: competition from cheap natural gas and, to a lesser extent, renewables.
On top of inaction, trade policies under consideration could make matters even worse for the nuclear industry -- like new restrictions on uranium they use for fuel. | 2019-04-18T16:36:04 | http://brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2019/04/15/ |
0.999765 | Yes, Britain has decided to exit from EU, making the slogan ‘Brexit’ a reality. .
In a referendum, Britain voted to leave the European Union, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron who sought Britain to remain in the European Union, and dealing the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War –II. An emotional Cameron led the “Remain” campaign to defeat, losing the gamble he took when he called the referendum three years ago. EU chiefs said they expected the UK to begin negotiations to leave “as soon as possible, however painful that process may be”.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed the historic vote as the UK’s “independence day”, while Boris Johnson, the ex-London mayor and public face of Vote Leave who is now a frontrunner to be next prime minister, said there was “no need for haste” about severing the British ties, he said the result would not mean “pulling up the drawbridge”. He is now widely tipped to seek his job. He said voters had “searched in their hearts” and the UK now had a “glorious opportunity” to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. Labor’s Gisela Stuart said the UK would be a “good neighbor” when it left the EU. Farage – who has campaigned for the past 20 years for Britain to leave the EU – told cheering supporters “this will be a victory for ordinary people, for decent people”. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, who called for the UK to remain in the EU but was accused of a lukewarm campaign, said poorer communities were “fed up” with cuts and felt “marginalized by successive governments”.
Following the victory of Brexit campaign, the United Kingdom itself could now break apart, with the leader of Scotland – where nearly two-thirds of voters wanted to stay in the EU – saying a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain was “highly likely”. The British people have made the very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction,” David Cameron said in a televised address outside his residence. “I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination,” Cameron added, appearing to choke back tears before walking back through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street with his arm around his wife Samantha. Cameron said he had informed the Queen of his decision to remain in place for the short term and to then hand over to a new prime minister by the time of the Conservative conference in October.
The vote led to crash of financial markets. The pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 as the markets reacted to the results. Global financial markets plunged on June 24 as results from a referendum showed a near 52-48 percent split for leaving a bloc that Britain joined more than 40 years ago. The pound fell as much as 10 percent against the dollar to touch levels last seen in 1985, on fears the decision could hit investment in the world’s fifth-largest economy, threaten London’s role as a global financial capital and usher in months of political uncertainty. Also, world stocks headed for one of the biggest slumps on record, and billions of dollars were wiped off the value of European companies. Britain’s big banks took a $130 billion battering, with Lloyds (LLOY.L) and Barclays (BARC.L) falling as much as 30 percent at the opening of trade. Bank of England governor Mark Carney said UK banks’ “substantial capital and huge liquidity” allowed them to continue to lend to businesses and households. The Bank of England is ready to provide an extra £250bn of support, he added.
Johnson left his home to jeers from a crowd in the mainly pro-EU capital. He spoke to reporters at Leave campaign headquarters, taking no questions on his personal ambitions. “We can find our voice in the world again, a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth,” he said. They wanted to make immediate changes before the UK actually leaves the EU, such as curbing the power of EU judges and limiting the free movement of workers, potentially in breach of the UK’s treaty obligations.
Quitting the EU could cost Britain access to the EU’s trade barrier-free single market and means it must seek new trade accords with countries around the world. The EU for its part will be economically and politically damaged, facing the departure not only of its most free-market proponent but also a member with a U.N. Security Council veto, a powerful army and nuclear capability. In one go, the bloc will lose around a sixth of its economic output. “It’s an explosive shock. At stake is the break up pure and simple of the union,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. “Now is the time to invent another Europe.” The result emboldened eurosceptics in other member states, with populist leaders in France and the Netherlands demanding their own referendums to leave.
The government will also have to negotiate its future trading relationship with the EU and fix trade deals with non-EU countries. In Whitehall and Westminster, there will now begin the massive task of unstitching the UK from more than 40 years of EU law, deciding which directives and regulations to keep, amend or ditch.That process could take a minimum of two years, with Leave campaigners suggesting during the referendum campaign that it should not be completed until 2020 – the date of the next scheduled general election.
The vote will initiate at least two years of divorce proceedings with the EU, the first exit by any member state. Cameron – who has been premier for six years and called the referendum in a bid to head off pressure from domestic eurosceptics – said it would be up to his successor to formally start the exit process.
There will be job consequences as a result of this decision. EU Parliament president Martin Schulz called for a “speedy and clear exit negotiation”. | 2019-04-20T08:44:54 | http://foreignpolicynews.org/2016/06/24/brexit-pm-david-cameron-quits-britons-vote-leave-eu/ |
0.99938 | Need another reason to lose weight? You may be able to prevent a heart attack.
Lose weight: By burning more calories than you consume, you will lose weight, and if you can lose even 5-10 pounds, you may be able to reduce your cholesterol level markedly.
Drink less alcohol: If you already consume alcohol, limit your consumption to one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men. Drinking alcohol to excess can lead to high blood pressure, heart failure, and stroke.
Quit smoking: Within 20 minutes of quitting smoking, your blood pressure decreases. Within 24 hours, your risk of heart attack decreases. Your HDL (the good cholesterol) levels will improve, as well.
Exercise: Moderate physical activity will increase your HDL cholesterol, but even simple activity like walking or taking the stairs instead of the elevator can promote a healthier lifestyle.
Lifestyle changes are just one way to keep your cholesterol levels in the healthy range, and if your physician recommends medication in addition to recommending you lose weight, you should take it while maintaining the newer, healthier changes in your life. | 2019-04-20T04:32:49 | https://www.delightmedical.com/lifestyle-and-behavior/lifestyle-changes-to-reduce-cholesterol |
0.999999 | Boeing's MCAS anti-stall system explained Jump to media player What might have gone wrong to cause the two recent crashes?
Trump: Boeing 737 Max planes grounded Jump to media player US President Donald Trump announces the grounding of Boeing 737 Max planes after the Ethiopian Airlines disaster in Addis Ababa which killed 157 people.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO wants 737 Max grounded Jump to media player Tewolde Gebremariam says Boeing's 737 Max 8 aircraft shouldn't fly until their safety is established.
Mourning the Ethiopian Airlines crash victims Jump to media player Relatives of the people who died on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight have been speaking of their grief.
UN remembers plane crash victims Jump to media player The United Nations Environment Assembly holds a moment of silence for those who died on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302.
Lion Air 'black box' found in sea Jump to media player Indonesian divers have found a "black box" from the crashed Lion Air plane in the sea.
Captain Chris Brady has flown the Boeing 737 for 18 years. He told the BBC's Transport correspondent Tom Burridge about the anti-stall system used by the Max model.
Two 737 Max aircraft crashed five months apart. | 2019-04-19T10:52:05 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-47816384/a-pilot-explains-the-boeing-737-max-s-anti-stall-system |
0.999964 | The following are examples of problems I have solved and solutions I have provided for clients in the past, to give you a deeper insight into how I can contribute to your team.
Site search for a major consumer electronics site was not surfacing the right content. The same search engine was not employed from one part of the site to another, and much of the machine learning to power the type-ahead had to be managed more closely because of inappropriate search queries and activity. My team and I recommended removing irrelevant content that was being indexed, reviewed the query logs more closely to understand what users were looking for (over one million queries per month), and worked with the design team to streamline the search experience across different business units on the site. We also crafted a taxonomy to support editorial-managed search results to supplement machine learning tools.
Wrangling notifications is another type of content strategy challenge. I worked with a financial institution to understand the obstacles they were facing in the user journey of notifications across different delivery systems. I partnered with the product managers to understand offline and digital notifications and the impact these were having on their site and mobile apps. From there, I developed a process for identifying gaps and consolidating notifications, as well as a taxonomy and metadata model to support proper management of the communication types.
Evaluating e-commerce/product information management (PIM) systems requires a keen insight into database architecture, how people search, and business models. When these three facets do not align, it reduces the chances of conversion. To implement a solution, some key questions need to be addressed: Does the system need a synonym ring or a better taxonomy? Does the search engine need to be configured in a different way, or does the PIM not even have the best data? I have worked closely with cross-functional teams in various industries to help uncover these answers, identify the parts of their systems that need help, and build what is needed.
Out of the box, many enterprise search applications are not as effective as advertised. I have worked with multiple clients to understand their business requirements, the content to be indexed, and the user journey in their sites or intranets. I have helped evaluate the search solution in the context of their technology infrastructure and provided consultation on its configuration.
In many of my engagements, clients did not have a robust category or tagging system to support content management, auto-classification, and automated ad delivery. I have developed well-researched, domain-specific taxonomies for such industries as e-commerce, job search/recruiting, healthcare, customer support, and marketing.
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0.999981 | With the Cold War over, the icy relations between the Vatican and Communist regimes is thawed. What would John Paul II say?
HAVANA—The ripped corner of a faded banner from Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit to Cuba hangs from a crumbling stone wall in Old Havana. Whether someone hung it anew to herald the visit of Pope Francis this weekend or if it has truly stood the test of time is anyone’s guess, but there is little question that the two papal visits are very different, and the earlier one feels as if it’s from a very distant past.
When John Paul II visited this strange and wonderful island 17 years ago, he kissed a tray of Cuban soil held up by children at his airport ceremony and held Fidel Castro at arm’s length telling him in no uncertain terms that he was there to pray that Cuba would become a land of “freedom, mutual trust, social justice and lasting peace.” It was a kind of victory lap for the great Cold War crusader against Communism, given credit by many for vanquishing Fidel’s sponsors in the by-then quite defunct Soviet Union.
The elder Castro was just as rigid, using his time at the podium to say Cuba was fine just the way it was, thank you. “We choose a thousand deaths rather than abdicate our convictions,” he told John Paul as a way of greeting.
Nothing could be more different from the welcoming ceremony when Francis landed here on Saturday night, not least because Pope Francis shares many of the convictions that Fidel and Raul officially say they stand for: identifying with the poor, calling for greater income equality.
On Friday evening, Francie and Fidel’s younger brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, greeted each other like old friends, embracing in such a warm way one can almost imagine them sitting down over a glass of rum (and a cigar?) in the old city center like old compañeros de lucha, comrades in the struggle.
This time, Raul welcomed Francis by repeating his gratitude for the pope’s role in thawing relations with Washington. “The reestablishment of relations has been a first step in the process toward normalization of the relationship between the two countries, which will require resolving problems and correcting injustices,” he said.
Francis then asked Castro to greet his ailing brother and “convey my sentiments of particular respect and consideration" to Fidel. After delivering his Sunday angelus in Revolution Square, Francis spent about 40 minutes visiting with Fidel at the former leader's private residence in Havana for what Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters in Havana was an "intimate and familial" conversation with around 10 people in attendance.
Without giving much specific detail, Lombardi said that Castro discussed "the situation of humanity today, the great problems" and Castro reminisced fondly about the last papal visit and his conversation with Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. The two then exchanged gifts. Francis gave Castro a series of books and CDS including some by Fidel's former Jesuit tutor. Castro gave the pope a signed copy of a bound interview called Fidel and Religion.
It was no secret that John Paul II’s relationship with Castro was strained, but in many ways marked the beginning of a turning point for Cuban Catholics. It was just after Castro had relaxed the rules on religion, turning Cuba from being officially atheist to becoming secular nation. Almost immediately after the visit, Castro reinstated Christmas as a national holiday.
Many in Cuba credit John Paul for initiating the thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, even though Francis is seen as the crucial bridge builder between the two estranged nations as they work to redefine their relationship after years of estrangement. "For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope: the process of normalizing relations between two peoples following years of estrangement," the pope said. "I urge political leaders to persevere on this path and to develop all its potentialities as a proof of the high service which they are called to carry out on behalf of the peace and well-being of their peoples, of all America, and as an example of reconciliation for the entire world."
In fact, on Friday ahead of the pope’s arrival, Raul Castro and U.S. President Barak Obama spoke by phone to reiterate their intended cooperation. Obama promised that the United States will ease restrictions on banking and business between the U.S. and Cuba, although there is no tangible sign of that change just yet.
On Sunday morning, as hundreds of Cubans filled Revolution Square for the pope’s open-air mass, with Raul Castro and his wife in white linen front and center, a handful of presumed dissidents were arrested and dragged away as they tried to hand out leaflets. Last week around 50 known dissidents who had hoped to meet the pope were also arrested and conveniently kept in custody until after the pope leaves. Old habits, it would seem, die hard. | 2019-04-20T16:13:07 | https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-and-the-castros-wow-john-paul-ii-turns-in-his-grave |
0.638119 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans with moderate views on immigration defied party leaders and took steps Wednesday toward forcing campaign-season House votes on the issue. One top maverick said they had enough support to succeed.
The effort meant that a congressional drive to help young "Dreamer" immigrants that seemed to have lost steam earlier this year could be resurrected in the run-up to November's elections for House and Senate control. That could spell fresh headaches for GOP leaders, whose party is divided between backers of President Donald Trump's hard-line views and more pragmatic members.
The rebellious lawmakers want the House to vote in June on four bills including a bipartisan compromise, a conservative proposal and a liberal plan. Many of the legislators demanding action face potentially competitive re-election races in congressional districts with large numbers of Hispanic, suburban or agriculture-industry voters with pro-immigration views.
"We feel very importantly that this has got to happen now, and we're willing to drive that vote," said one leading proponent, Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif.
Denham and another leader of the effort, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., met with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has opposed their effort. Denham said he told Ryan his group has enough backing to prevail.
"The speaker is a very respectful person," Curbelo said of how Ryan responded. "He does not threaten people, at least not that I'm aware of. He just told us that he didn't think this was the best way to proceed."
Earlier this year, competing bills aimed at protecting young immigrants and toughening border security collapsed in the Senate, including one backed by Trump. The measures never received House votes.
Both parties had seemed ready to turn the battle into a campaign issue, with Democrats accusing GOP candidates of being anti-immigrant and Republicans accusing Democrats of being soft on illegal immigration.
But Republican immigration moderates wary of being politically exposed if the House abandons the issue have continued pushing leaders for votes, and they seemed to have momentum in their favor Wednesday.
Curbelo, Denham and others filed a petition Wednesday that would force votes on four immigration bills if they gained the signatures of 218 House members, a majority of the chamber's full membership.
By late afternoon, 17 Republicans had signed on and virtually all 193 Democrats were expected to add their names. That meant at least 25 Republicans were needed to reach a total of 218.
Under House rules, the earliest the chamber would consider the moderates' proposal for votes is late June.
Of the four immigration measures, the bipartisan compromise is considered likeliest to prevail. Ryan has tried unsuccessfully to round up enough support for the conservative alternative and has said he doesn't want votes on immigration legislation that Trump won't sign.
It is possible that, rather than facing the embarrassment of a petition successfully forcing votes, Ryan would seek a compromise measure. But he's failed to find middle ground all year.
Even if the House approves something, its fate would be uncertain in the Senate, where no proposal from either side has garnered enough votes to break opponents' filibusters.
Denham introduced a legislative version of his proposal in March and had 248 co-sponsors, including virtually all Democrats and more than 50 Republicans.
GOP leaders hope to persuade some of those Republicans to not sign the petition, and some have already said they won't back it. They say the petition would wrest control over the House agenda away from Ryan. Members of the majority party seldom back such petitions for that very reason, and few succeed.
Democrats have pushed this year to protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who have been shielded by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. That program lets immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children stay in the country for renewable two-year periods.
The bipartisan compromise by Reps. Will Hurd, R-Texas, and Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., would offer a way for "Dreamers"to remain in the U.S. legally but would not offer citizenship. It would take steps toward toughening border security but would not specifically authorize Trump's wall.
For the fourth bill, Ryan could offer any plan he wants.
Under the procedure the moderates are using, the bill that passes with the most votes would prevail. | 2019-04-22T05:21:06 | https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/gop-immigration-moderates-seek-force-house-votes-issue |
0.999999 | Increasing starch or neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility in whole-plant corn silage (WPCS) may increase lactation performance by dairy cows or reduce purchased feed costs for dairy farmers. The digestibility of the kernel or starch (StarchD) in WPCS is influenced primarily by kernel processing (Ferraretto and Shaver, 2012; Ferraretto and Shaver, 2013). The digestibility of the stover or NDF (NDFD) in WPCS is influenced primarily by the WPCS hybrid grown (Ferraretto and Shaver, 2012; Ferraretto and Shaver, 2013). This Focus on Forage paper will discuss the potential impact that ensiling may have on StarchD and NDFD based on the available research data. Ensiling effects on digestibility are important because: 1) the feeding value of WPCS may be changing over time in storage prior to feeding, and 2) WPCS hybrid performance trials, which include digestibility measurements, are typically conducted using un-ensiled whole-plant samples (Lauer et al., 2013).
Does ensiling increase the digestibility of starch in WPCS?
Results from 4 experiments which addressed this question are in Table 1. Ensiling consistently increased ruminal in vitro measurements of StarchD (ivStarchD) and the greatest ivStarchD values were observed at longer ensiling times. Similar results were reported by Fish (2010) using an index of ivStarchD with 0-, 30- and 120-day silo fermentation times. Ensiling for up to 6 months increased ivStarchD by 15 percentage units, on average, in the trials summarized in Table 1.
Ensiling high-moisture corn grain (HMC) for 240 days reduced zein protein subunits that cross-link starch granules suggesting that the endosperm starch-protein matrix was degraded by proteolytic activity over an extended ensiling period (Hoffman et al., 2011), which would also explain the observed effects of ensiling on ivStarchD in WPCS. Supporting this premise are observations of strong positive correlations between ammonia-N or soluble-CP concentrations and ivStarchD for both WPCS (Ferraretto et al., 2104a; Windle et al, 2014; Der Bedrosian et al., 2012; Young et al., 2012) and HMC (Ferraretto et al., 2014b; Hoffman et al., 2012; Hoffman et al., 2011). The regressions between WPCS ammonia-N or soluble-CP and ivStarchD of Ferraretto et al. (2014a) are in Figure 1. These nitrogen fractions may be useful indicators of changes in StarchD over time in storage for WPCS, however, more research is needed to develop and validate predictive equations.
For WPCS ivStarchD, the following interactions (P < 0.05) with ensiling time have been reported: hybrid (Der Bedrosian et al., 2012), hybrid by dry matter (DM) content (Der Bedrosian et al., 2012), protease addition (Windle et al., 2014; Young et al., 2012), DM content (Windle et al., 2014), and protease addition by DM content (Windle et al., 2014). Fish (2010), in a study of 33 WPCS hybrids in 3 relative maturity groups over 2 years at 3 locations in WI with 0-, 30- and 120-day ensiling times, reported a hybrid by ensiling time interaction (P < 0.03) for an index if ivStarchD in the early but not mid or late relative maturity trials.
Measurements of ivStarchD have not yet been included in WPCS hybrid performance trials (Lauer et al., 2013), and these findings suggest that further investigation of potential interactions between ensiling time effects and hybrid, maturity and silage additive effects is warranted before doing so. Furthermore, determination of ivStarchD, or nitrogen fractions that may serve as indicators of ivStarchD, during silage feed-out is highly important because of changes in ivStarchD that occur over the ensiling period and potential interactions that may exist between ensiling time effects and hybrid, maturity, and silage additive effects. On-hand WPCS and HMC inventory planning so that the newly harvested crop will not need to be fed for at least 4 months in storage is a valid management practice.
Does ensiling increase the digestibility of NDF in WPCS?
Results from 5 experiments which addressed this question are in Table 2. Although, ensiling had minimal impact on ruminal in vitro measurements of NDFD (ivNDFD) there tended to be a slight reduction (only 1 to 2 percentage units in 4 of the 5 trials) for ensiled WPCS (30 to 60 days of fermentation) compared to un-ensiled whole-plant samples with little further change noted in WPCS ivNDFD at prolonged storage times. Similar results were reported by Fish (2010) using a modified ivNDFD procedure. Small reductions in WPCS ivNDFD are likely related to hydrolysis of some hemicellulose early on during the silage fermentation, which thereby results in lower digestibility for the remaining NDF.
No ensiling time by hybrid interactions (P > 0.10) were detected for ivNDFD in the multiple-hybrid performance trials of Ferraretto et al. (2014a), Fish (2010), Cherney et al. (2007), or Darby and Lauer (2002). Therefore, WPCS hybrid selection and ranking hybrids based on ivNDFD can continue to be performed using un-ensiled sample results (Lauer et al., 2013). Determination of ivNDFD during silage feed-out is recommended, however, to obtain the most accurate sample results for feeding purposes.
Cherney, D. J. R., J. H. Cherney, and W. J. Cox. 2007. Forage quality differences of corn hybrids as influenced by ensiling. Forage and Grazinglands. 10.1094/FG-2007-0918-01-RS.
Darby, H. M., and J. G. Lauer. 2007. Harvest date and hybrid influence corn forage yield, quality, and preservation. Agron. J. 94:559-566.
Der Bedrosian, M. C., L. Kung, Jr., and K. E. Nestor, Jr. 2012. The effects of hybrid, maturity and length of storage on the composition and nutritive value of corn silage. J. Dairy Sci. 95:5115-5126.
Ferraretto, L. F., and R. D. Shaver. 2012. Meta-analysis: Impact of corn silage harvest practices on intake, digestion and milk production by dairy cows. The Prof. Anim. Sci. 28:141-149.
Ferraretto, L. F., and R. D. Shaver. 2013. Meta-analysis: Effects of corn silage hybrid type on intake, digestion, and milk production by dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 96(Suppl. 1):214 (Abstr.).
Ferraretto, L. F., R. D. Shaver, S. Massie, R. Singo, D. M. Taysom, and J. P. Brouillette. 2014a. Effect of ensiling time on fermentation profile and starch digestibility in whole plant corn silage from two different hybrid types. J. Dairy Sci. 97(E-Suppl. 1): (Abstr.).
Ferraretto, L. F., K. Taysom, D. Taysom, R. D. Shaver, and P. C. Hoffman. 2014b. Relationships between dry matter content, ensiling, ammonia-nitrogen, and ruminal in vitro starch digestibility in high-moisture corn samples. J. Dairy Sci. 97:3221-3227.
Fish, C. M. 2010. The effect of fermentation on forage quality ranking of corn hybrids. M.S. Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hoffman, P. C., N. M. Esser, R. D. Shaver, W. K. Coblentz, M. P. Scott, and A. L. Bodnar. 2011. Influence of ensiling time and inoculation on alteration of the starch-protein matrix in high-moisture corn. J. Dairy Sci. 94:2465-2474.
Hoffman, P.C., D.R. Mertens, J. Larson, W.K Coblentz, and R.D. Shaver. 2012. A query for effective mean particle size in dry and high-moisture corns. J. Dairy Sci. 95:3467-3477.
Hunt, C.W., W. Kezar, D.D. Hinman, J.J Combs, J.A. Loesche, and T. Moen. 1993. Effects of hybrids and ensiling with and without a microbial inoculant on the nutritional characteristics of whole-plant: corn. J. Anim. Sci. 71:38-43.
Windle, M. C., N. Walker, and L. Kung Jr. 2014. Effects of an exogenous protease on the fermentation and nutritive value of corn silage harvested at different dry matter contents and ensiled for various lengths of time. J. Dairy Sci. 97:3053-3060.
Young, K. M., J. M. L im, M. C. Der Bedrosian, L. Kung Jr. 2012. Effect of exogenous protease enzymes on the fermentation and nutritive value of corn silage. J. Dairy Sci. 95:6687-6694. | 2019-04-25T14:54:45 | https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/forage/influence-of-ensiling-on-the-digestibility-of-whole-plant-corn-silage/ |
0.998592 | In May, just before students and faculty left school for the summer -- we are back now -- Fordham University President Joseph M. McShane, S.J., announced his much anticipated response to the school's human rights advocates: the Board of Trustees had voted not to revoke CIA Director John Brennan's honorary degree. According to Bob Howe, McShane's press secretary, the vote was unanimous.
After the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture in December 2014, seven Fordham professors formed Fordham Against Torture (FAT), an ad-hoc committee that petitioned McShane with over 730 signatures to revoke Brennan's honorary degree. It was awarded to Brennan in 2012 when he delivered Fordham's commencement address, despite protests and a petition by students and faculty.
In his email to FAT, McShane wrote, "While the Board and I condemn torture and extrajudicial imprisonment in the strongest possible terms, as a public servant, Mr. Brennan does not set the policies that have led us to this place, but rather is responsible to the elected officials, including the President, who have. The President, his predecessor, and Congress are legally responsible for the creation of the policies you -- indeed all of us -- find so shocking."
McShane's response embodied classic institutional cover-up for wrongdoing (one often employed by the Obama administration): condemn the bad thing (We oppose torture) and offer a lukewarm excuse for not correcting it (Mr. Brennan isn't responsible). It's an easy way out, feeding the establishment media sound bites to make the administration seem morally righteous and free itself from responsibility.
Claiming that Brennan isn't responsible for the reprehensible counterterrorism policies of the Bush and Obama administrations is like claiming that the FBI didn't spy on civil rights activists. Brennan is widely known for developing "kill lists" of people targeted for assassination by the U.S. government and the controversial practice of "signature strikes," drone strikes on unidentified people targeted for their behavioral patterns or for carrying a cell phone SIM card associated with an alleged "terrorist." In a letter to the Ram, one of Fordham's undergraduate newspapers, ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern -- like Brennan, a Fordham graduate -- wrote, "Brennan is now the administration's strongest advocate of extrajudicial killing of U.S. citizens by drones." That apparently doesn't give McShane pause about honoring Brennan.
But even if McShane's basis for not revoking Brennan's honorary degree -- that Brennan is not responsible for the creation of "shocking" policies -- were true, his degree should still be revoked on the grounds that he didn't, in protest of war crimes, refuse to carry out his superior's orders. David Myers, history professor at Fordham, offered another reason for revocation on the basis that Brennan simply followed orders: "If you simply look at the last 40 years of this country's history, subordinates or officers in the presidential administration have been held criminally responsible even though the president was directing them, even though they were just following orders."
After citing the 1989 massacre of six Jesuits in El Salvador in which the CIA was complicit, McShane wrote, "Do not for a minute believe that honoring John Brennan is the same as honoring the institution for which he works, nor its checkered history." The phrase "the institution for which he works" makes Brennan sound like some low-level CIA officer, furthering the narrative that Mr. Brennan isn't responsible. The obvious truth is that John Brennan, arguably the architect of the modern-day CIA, runs the CIA and has directly contributed to its "checkered history." So while honoring him in 2012 doesn't honor a massacre in 1989 in which he probably played no role, it certainly does honor the human rights violations committed by the CIA since he began to hold high-level positions (in 1999, when Brennan was appointed chief of staff for then-head of CIA George Tenet). It is thus telling that McShane didn't condemn any recent specific examples of human rights violations by the CIA, such as the more than 400 civilians killed by its drone program in Pakistan, because then he would have to admit to honoring a war criminal.
My initial reaction to McShane's response was one of frustration and embarrassment for attending a university that honors a war criminal. Upon further reflection, I've realized that I have no reason to be embarrassed. What the Board of Trustees decides does not define Fordham. We, the students and faculty, define Fordham. And I couldn't be any more proud to work with a community so dedicated to human rights and social justice.
Also, while you're at it, get rid of Bill Cosby's honorary degree, too. | 2019-04-26T13:54:49 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cias-human-rights-violations-fordham_b_8096108 |
0.999975 | TLDR; Time unfortunately has not been kind to this – it still has moments of well worth reading but it also has sections where you hope no-one follows the instructions lest they doom the project, but the chapter on estimation is well worth reading.
I haven’t read this book since University but I vaguely remembered it as one of the books that taught me system modelling, a skill that I still rely on to this day.
Time unfortunately has not been kind to “Structured Analysis and System Specification” – it still has moments of well worth reading but it also has sections where you hope no-one follows the instructions lest they doom the project.
The biggest flaw unfortunately is the association of the act of Analysis with the construction of documents as part of the Analysis phase in a project. I suspect if the book was re-written to rip those words out then the true value that resides here could still shine and we could see that the value in analysis is the increase in understanding and agreement about what to prioritise and what to do next.
Early on in the book we learn that ‘analysis is not very satisfying’ ‘largely because it is so indefinite’ and ‘there are so many compromises to be made that no one is ever completely happy with the result’. And this, I think is why modern software development values a running and deployed system; something definite that we can use to learn if we are happy with the results and direction that we are taking. Constantly talking, conceptualising and building an ever larger model of the potential system without seeing it and having the ability to check if you are conceptualising the right thing does satisfy very few people.
Unfortunately some projects do carry on this tradition with large detailed backlogs, but they tend to avoid the diagrams and data dictionaries that Demarco describes in this book.
On page 8 Demarco provides something of value when he discusses estimates – we only get 3 paragraphs on page 8 and Demarco waits until the final chapter (27) before writing 7 pages that still stand up well today and I’d love to be able to link to an excerpted reprint but you might have to read the book to gain access to them.
Demarco goes in to more detail later but reminds us that he provides estimating heuristics.
Demarco describes analysis in the book as Structured Systems Analysis but we can apply the general concept of ‘analysis’ to any of the Software Development activities – design, testing, programming, management, etc. And analysis requires us to model the system and think through the model to select an ‘optimal target’ and document it ‘in such a manner that subsequent implementation can be evaluated to see whether or not the target has been attained’.
Throughout the early sections of the book we learn that analysis phases can go horribly wrong and can cause problems to fail and that large documents can be redundant, wordy, “tedious to read and unbearable to write”. And yet at the time there didn’t seem to be much alternative in Software Development, so looking back on the book today we have to skip a lot of the text.
I think it is still worth learning the concepts of Data Flow Diagrams, Data Dictionary, Decision Tables and Decision Trees. I’m tempted to say avoid Structured English, but Structured English has a mapping to Modern Software Development in the form of Domain Specific Languages and there might be some value in reading about it.
DFDs can be useful graphical representations that help you think through flows in a system. I still use them.
Data Dictionaries can be useful to name and represent concepts, I’ve used the concept to help me design and generate test data.
DFDs teach you concepts of graphical modelling, paritioning diagrams, logical modeling, multiple levels of abstraction, simple representations. You might even find yourself using GraphViz to create diagrams that are easy to version control and create.
At this point I’ve skipped about 19 chapters. And then the book starts to have more relevance to Modern Software Development.
Chapter 20 describes building a logical model of a system which is a skill I think all testers need to develop. This is a small chapter and isn’t worth buying the book for – you’ll probably be better of with “Domain Driven Design” but the chapter here is very small and describes domains and partitioning of models into domains and different context diagrams.
I think “minimization of interfaces” is a good rule for creating models that are easy to grok and help focus your attention on specific domains, and help you when you model the system in code to create abstraction layers for automated execution.
I think a slightly truncated and amended version of the paragraph provides splendid guidance to testers when modelling a system, assuming that you identify with the analyst in the sentence.
There. I like that. I do that when I model a system to help me test.
Chapter 20 also provides guidance that we can use when again modelling the system in code to create abstraction layers for automated execution.
refactor and rework as you learn more and actually use your abstractions in earnest.
We have to skip a few chapters on waterfall phases and documents and change control processes… but eventually we find some useful information on coupling and cohesion which Demarco has adapted from Glenford Myers book “Reliable Software Through Composite Design”. Again giving us a heuristic around naming to identify when a something is of unacceptable cohesion i.e if the name “is wichy-washy or involves multiple verbs and objects”. The chapter then provides more examples of logically modelling and partitioning a model into different domains and abstractions.
And here Demarco clearly mean Target Document to mean Acceptance Criteria.
“Special Tests”? What are they then Tom?
“some”? Surely, Tom, you mean All, or if you wanted to play it safe “Most”?
And then in Chapter 27 Tom provides the “Heuristics for Estimating” that still stands up today and I wish I could point to it in a pdf in full for you to read.
Tom Demarco provides a few more rules, and I hope you have the opportunity to read this chapter for yourself in the future.
I think there are some important concepts in this book – you will find similar concepts in books such as “Domain Drive Design”, “Growing Object-Oriented Software”, “Implementation Patterns”, “Clean Code” and many others.
A lot of this I use for building models to help me explore the system, but it has clearly also influenced the way I model the system in code to create abstraction code for automated execution.
I’m glad I re-read the book, I’m more glad that I read it early in my career and it provided – along with many of the design books from the 70’s and 80’s a foundation for logical modelling and abstraction that I still use today. But I find it hard to recommend to you, lest you take some of its absolute pronouncements as gospel, when they require a more flexible interpretation for the Modern World of Software Development. | 2019-04-23T02:02:19 | https://www.softwaretestingtools.com/testing-roundup/notes-on-structured-analysis-and-system-specification-by-tom-demarco |
0.999984 | Scenario: The mysterious bandaged man tries attacks Rachel again in the middle of the night. When Conan figures out the case, he tries to make Ran the detective, but knocks out Sonoko instead. Conan reveals through Sonoko that Felix, the set designer, killed Jessica and made an attempt on Ran's life. Knowing Felix has expertise in technical production, Conan deducts he faked the kidnapping. Jessica was already dead before the kidnapping. With the problem of the murderer's weight, Conan reveals that Felix stuffed his shirt with the axe murderer's costume and at one point Jessica's head, making him appear heavier than he actually is. Felix confesses and explains that Jessica's award-winning script, The Blue Kingdom, was stolen from Emily, the sixth member of the club. Being crushed, Emily commited suicide the day after Jessica won her award, causing Felix to become enraged. Felix attempts to slit his own throat but is stopped and surrenders to the club. | 2019-04-25T14:56:17 | http://shinichi463.blogspot.com/2011/11/detective-conan-episode-35-mountain.html |
0.998809 | Qantas and Jetstar generate more than 30,000 tonnes of waste in Australia annually.
Plan to cut amount of waste to landfill by 75 per cent by end-2021.
Over 100 million single-use plastic items per annum removed from flights and lounges by end-2020.
Most ambitious waste reduction target of any major airline globally.
New Frequent Flyer initiative announced to increase voluntary carbon offsetting.
The Qantas Group has announced an ambitious plan to become the world’s first airline to reuse, recycle and compost at least three-quarters of its general waste by the end of 2021.
Announcing the plan as part of the national carrier’s half-year results, Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce said that business had a responsibility to lead on environmental issues.
“In the process of carrying 50 million people each year, we deal with more than 30,000 tonnes of waste. That’s the same weight as about eighty 747 jumbos,” said Mr Joyce.
Introducing coffee cups that can be recycled or composted.
Effectively eliminating single-use plastics by switching to alternative packaging.
Removing unnecessary paper, such as boarding passes and operational manuals, by going digital.
Increasing donation or composting of food.
In targeting the removal of 100 million single use plastic items per annum, the Group will replace 45 million plastic cups, 30 million cutlery sets, 21 million coffee cups and 4 million headrest covers with sustainable alternatives by end-2020. This list of items goes well beyond the recent European Union ban, both in scope and speed of implementation.
The Group has an existing target to reduce waste to landfill by 30 per cent by 2020, which it’s on track to reach through recycling and other programs. The 75 per cent goal now takes its place. Separate targets exist for fuel, water and electricity consumption, and Qantas has the largest carbon offset scheme of any airline in the world.
Airlines are legally required to dispose of some materials permanently, such as quarantined food from international flights and hazardous materials. With support from industry and regulators, the Group believes it can ultimately reduce the volume of this regulated waste as well.
Similarly, there are some single use plastics used by airlines (such as wrapping for hygiene purposes and some heat resistant containers for meal preparation) that don’t currently have a practical alternative. Qantas and Jetstar are working with manufacturers and other airlines to innovate in this space to further reduce waste to landfill.
Mr Joyce added: “Few industries can eradicate waste completely, but with this program we’re saying that avoidable waste should no longer be an acceptable by-product of how we do business.
“This isn’t just the right thing to do, it is good for business and will put us ahead of legislative requirements in the various countries we operate in, where there is an end-date on various single use plastics.
“Some of the best feedback to our efforts so far has been from our crew, who see the sheer volume of waste generated in cabins of hundreds of people every day.
As part of its broader approach to sustainability, the Qantas Group enables customers to fly carbon neutral when they book through qantas.com (opens in new window) (opens in new window). From mid-2019, customers will earn 10 points for every dollar spent offsetting their travel from Australia. For example, a return Melbourne to London flight would equal $47 and earn members 470 Qantas Points. It is the highest standard earn rate of any Frequent Flyer initiative and is designed to increase the take-up of carbon neutral flying (opens in new window).
“Around 10 per cent of passengers already choose to offset their flights so we’re hoping that the added incentive of earning Qantas Points helps to boost this number,” added Mr Joyce.
Further information is available in this Fact Sheet (opens in new window).
(opens in new window) Value is based on the current fly carbon neutral rate and is subject to change.
(opens in new window) Qantas Points earn for flying carbon neutral is only available on QF marketed flights i.e. flights with a QF code. | 2019-04-24T09:20:26 | https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-group-to-slash-waste-to-landfill-plastic-in-major-environmental-push/ |
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