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0.999997 | Is The Problem The Immobilizer?
1. Ignition lights bright, everything working but engine will not turn over.
2. Engine turns over as normal but does not start.
2. Turn Ignition on and off 5-6 times.
3. Turn Ignition on for 5 minutes, turn off and retry.
4. Disconnect Battery for 5 minutes.
5. Disconnect Battery for 5 minutes while disconnected join positive (+) and negative (-) leads together, this will disperse any small electrical charge stored in electronics.
6. Disconnect Battery for 5 minutes and reconnect with ignition key in switch on position.
1. Check batteries in remote.
2. Press button on remote with batteries removed.
3. Disconnect Battery on car for 5 minutes.
4. Hold button down for a few seconds.
5. Hold both buttons down for a few seconds.
6. If in high area of radio interference (ports, supermarket car parks etc.) move car to new location. | 2019-04-19T14:16:13 | https://www.askthemechanic.co.uk/immobilizer/index |
0.999965 | Before COUPLED, I was working at Conservation International’s Moore Center for Science as a researcher and project manager. My work involved research, technical assistance, and capacity building to advance the understanding and governing of Protected Area Downgrading Downsizing and Degazettement (PADDD) and conservation beyond protected areas. Through those projects, I had the opportunity to explore the history and local context of conservation interventions and policies in the Amazon and other tropical countries. I also interned at WWF-US on land use scenario development for ecosystem services modeling, right after I earned my Master of Environmental Management from Duke University in 2015.
The past three years on international conservation and area-based approaches naturally prepared me and led me to the COUPLED project “Understanding Conservation Coupling.” I am intrigued by the spatial/social context as well as the bargaining process leading to the adoption and abandonment of conservation interventions, and how international funding and discussions influence such decisions. Specifically, I find it exciting to (re)connect conservation research with land system science and sustainability science to explore how to balance human resource use and the protection of nature. My project will combine place-based approach with network analysis to link the flows of information and funding with conserved lands and outcomes.
My research will provide information for better decisions on effective and just conservation in dynamic landscapes with multiple stakeholders, in a telecoupled world.
Land use is the number one driver of the global extinction crisis. Understanding how land use affects biodiversity, what the trade-offs between land use and conservation are, and which conservation measures effectively mitigate biodiversity loss is therefore important. Conservation initiatives and funding often come to regions in need of conservation from external places, both within countries and beyond, e.g., via large-scale international conservation organizations or payment for ecosystem services schemes. This forges conservation telecouplings.
Map conservation lands (including public and private reserves, indigenous areas, ecosystem services areas) and associated conservation actors for the South American cattle/soybean deforestation frontiers (Amazonia, Gran Chaco, Cerrado).
Quantify how changes in the networks of capital and information that link actors in Europe and elsewhere to these conservation landscapes relate to changes in the extent and status of conservation lands.
Compile indicators on deforestation, protected area effectiveness, and land prices to evaluate how this affects competition between conservation and other land uses in Europe and South America’s arc of deforestation.
In doing so, the research project will create a basic understanding of telecouplings activated through conservation, develop tools to link place-based and network-based analyses, and gain insights on how conservation organizations and policy makers can avoid unwanted outcomes and spill-over effects. | 2019-04-25T18:45:58 | http://coupled-itn.eu/research-projects/esr-01/ |
0.998516 | If sleep apnea makes asthma worse, does treatment with CPAP make asthma better?
The answer is yes. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, or simply sleep apnea, is a disease process caused by repeated episodes of the closing of the upper airway during sleep, resulting in the reduction of airflow and oxygen to the lungs. This can lead to low oxygen levels in the bloodstream, gasping episodes, and frequent nighttime awakenings.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, or simply sleep apnea, is a disease process caused by repeated episodes of the closing of the upper airway during sleep, resulting in the reduction of airflow and oxygen to the lungs. This can lead to low oxygen levels in the bloodstream, gasping episodes and frequent nighttime awakenings.
Most people with obstructive sleep apnea snore loudly, stop breathing during sleep and have episodes of gasping, choking, gagging, and coughing.
Often, the person isn’t aware that he is waking up dozens of times during the night as a result of trouble breathing, but these episodes lead to restless sleep and therefore daytime fatigue, regardless of how many hours the person tries to sleep.
Studies suggest that people with asthma may be at increased risk for sleep apnea and that sleep apnea can worsen asthma. Sleep apnea worsens asthma in a number of ways, such as increasing acid reflux, contributing to weight gain and obesity, causing decreased airflow in the airways of the lungs, and may cause increased inflammation throughout the body (including the lungs).
Sleep apnea can cause and/or worsen acid reflux, probably by decreasing the ability of the sphincter muscles in the esophagus to keep acid in the stomach. Acid reflux during sleep is well-known to cause and worsen night-time asthma symptoms. And, sleep apnea may cause an increase in the amount of inflammatory chemicals in the bloodstream, which could worsen the inflammation in the lungs caused by asthma. These inflammatory chemicals also contribute to weight gain and obesity, which further worsens asthma.
CPAP is the gold standard treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. It is a machine that provides a constant flow of pressurized air that works to maintain an open airway via a fitted mask. CPAP has been used to treat sleep apnea since 1981. It is also effective in eliminating snoring. Although there are many different manufacturers of CPAP equipment, each unit consists of the same basic components.
The CPAP machine has a small motor, and takes in room air and generates the air pressure (or pneumatic splint) that is the mainstay of treating sleep apnea. Newer units are small, often smaller than a loaf of bread, and relatively quiet.
CPAP seems to reverse many of the harmful effects of sleep apnea. Acid reflux is improved with the use of CPAP through the increase in the ability of sphincter muscles in the esophagus to keep acid in the stomach. Inflammatory chemicals caused by sleep apnea decrease, causing less inflammation within the body and the lungs.
Airflow within the airways is increased with the use of CPAP, leading to better oxygenation of the lungs and decreased contraction of the smooth muscles around the airways. All of these effects lead to an improvement in asthma control in people with asthma and sleep apnea.
Can Sleep Apnea Affect Your Asthma? | 2019-04-23T00:28:59 | https://www.verywellhealth.com/cpap-for-asthmacpap-for-sleep-apnea-helps-asthma-82816 |
0.999995 | If someone mentioned a single, dramatic episode that has inspired music ranging from heavy metal, to Australian didgeridoo music, to a groundbreaking opera, what would you guess it would be? At least one answer would be the Dance of the Seven Veils, the legendary incident that highlights this week's opera -- Salome, by Richard Strauss.
The tale has its roots in the bible, in the events surrounding the execution of John the Baptist. In the biblical version of the story, John has been imprisoned after denouncing the marriage of King Herod to Herodias, the wife of his dead brother. Herodias wanted John executed, but Herod refused. Then Salome, the daughter of Herodias by her first marriage, danced for Herod at his birthday celebration. He was so enthralled that he offered to give her anything she wanted. At her mother's urging, she asked for the head of John the Baptist. In the opera, as we'll hear, Salome needs no advice from mom -- or anyone else -- before making her fatal demand.
Strauss completed Salome in 1905, and its premiere took place in Dresden in December of that same year. Strauss based the libretto on the German translation of a notoriously provocative play by Oscar Wilde -- and it wasn't long before the opera had a similar reputation.
It was officially forbidden by censors in both Berlin and London. It was performed once at the Metropolitan in New York -- but J. Pierpoint Morgan's daughter found it offensive, so her father pressured the company and the opera was quickly withdrawn.
In Vienna, Gustav Mahler called Salome "one of the greatest masterpieces of our time," and wanted to perform it at the Court Opera, where he was the director. But court officials refused, saying the piece "belongs to the realm of sexual pathology." Even at the first production in Dresden, the lead soprano declared herself a "respectable woman," and refused to perform the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Yet all that controversy simply drew more attention to the opera. It was a hit at the premiere, and within two years had been performed in 50 different cities. The Kaiser of Germany once said, "I like this fellow Strauss, but Salome will do him a lot of damage." Strauss retorted that the "damage" had paid for his new house.
On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents Salome from one of the many cities where it was initially banned. It comes to us from the Royal Albert Hall and the 2014 Proms Concerts, in London. Soprano Nina Stemme sings the title role, in a performance led by conductor Donald Runnicles. | 2019-04-18T17:07:12 | http://summerstages.net/people/artists/item/3053-sensuous-shocking-and-sensational-richard-strausss-salome |
0.999999 | For a list of actions or items, you must maintain parallel structure. To do this, use similar grammatical units. If the first item is a noun, then the following items must also be nouns; if the first item is a verb, then make the other items verbs as well (including different types of a verb).
For example: Yesterday, I ran, went swimming, and bought groceries.
Ran and bought groceries are both past tense; however, swimming is a gerund (even coupled with ‘went’).
To fix it, change the gerund into a past tense verb.
Yesterday, I ran, swam, and bought groceries.
Here’s another example: At the grocery store, I bought milk, bread, eggs, and then I threw chocolate bars in at the cash wrap.
The “I threw chocolate bars in at the cash wrap” is a verb clause while milk, bread, and eggs are nouns. To fix it, I have to either make them all the same or use a semi-colon to make the second phrase its own sentence.
At the grocery store, I bought milk, bread, eggs, and chocolate. OR: At the grocery store, I bought milk, bread, and eggs; then, at the cash wrap I threw in chocolate bars. | 2019-04-25T10:22:49 | http://epifanialyl.com/grammar-sunday-parallel-structure/ |
0.999968 | Both previous Epigrams and Roycroft Dictionary Definitions of the Day are available.
What is Roycroft? It was a handicraft community founded in East Aurora, NY about 1895 by Elbert Hubbard. Hubbard had been a very successful soap salesman for J. D. Larkin and Co. in Buffalo, but wasn't satisfied with his life. So in 1892, he sold his interests in the company and briefly enrolled at Harvard. Disenchanted, he quickly dropped out and set off on a walking tour of England. He briefly met William Morris and became enamored of Morris' Arts-and-Crafts Kelmscott Press.
Upon his return to America, he tried to find a publisher for a series of biographical sketches he had written called "Little Journeys." When he was unsuccessful in his attempts to have someone else publish the works, he decided to print them himself. Thus the Roycroft Press was born. Hubbard proved to be such a prolific and popular writer that fame and fortune soon followed. The print shop expanded and then visitors began coming to East Aurora to see this extraordinary man. Initially, visitors were housed in the printworker's living quarters, but this arrangement soon proved inadequate. A hotel was built to house the ever increasing number of visitors. The inn had to be furnished so Hubbard had local craftsmen make a simple, straight lined style of furniture. The furniture became popular with visitors who wished to buy pieces for their homes. A furniture manufacturing industry was then born. In addition, Roycroft craftspeople were skilled metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders.
The community flourished and was at its peak in 1910 with over 500 workers. By 1915, Hubbard and the Roycrofters (as the workers were known) had achieved great success. Not only had Elbert written the inspirational pamphlet, A Message to Garcia, with an estimated printing of 40 million copies, but he was also publishing monthly magazines, The Fra and The Philistine. This was all in addition to an almost constant nationwide lecture series and the monthly publication of additions to the original Little Journeys series that started it all.
It all changed when Elbert and his wife, Alice, were among the fatalities onboard the Lusitania. The Hubbards had been traveling to England to begin an lecture tour when they died. The Community's leadership then fell to Elbert's son, Bert. Though Bert took the Roycrofters to wider sales distribution, changing American tastes led to slowly declining sales figures. Finally, in 1938 the Roycrofters closed shop.
Today, items that were produced by the Roycrofters are highly sought after by collectors. In addition to the collectabilty of the items, examples of Roycroft bookbinding, metalsmithing, and furniture-making are sought simply because of their inherent beauty and craftsmanship.
At the request of an Immortal, when links listed below are updated, a date will be listed so Gentle Readers will be aware when the change was made. This policy will also carry over to the pages themselves, with the exception of the Roster of Philistia, as it is updated every day.
Here at TWOTR, the audience is requested to participate, to the end that there is a sweet flow of soul and a free, frank expression concerning the best of life. In response to all the Divine Heirs who have requested the text of "A Message to Garcia" and "Get Out or Get In Line" be made available, the Fra has complied that the truth might be echoed again and again.
The Fra said "East Aurora is not a locality - East Aurora is a condition of mind." Understandable, but the East Aurora Post Office might argue the point and now there is a videocam of Downtown East Aurory so you can see for yourself in Wheaton what all the Hub-Bub is about. Still, for those seeking more formal directions to this "condition of mind," TWOTR is pleased to have interactive maps available that can point you in the proper direction of Mecca.
A Jewel in the Roycroft Crown is the Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum in East Aurora. It's a must-do and see for any Roycrofter, or Arts & Crafts enthusiast for that matter. And tell 'em the Fra sent you.
Roycroft during its heyday was truly a national phenomenon, not solely limited to metro-East Aurora. So whenever the Fra-in-Charge travels across the U.S. on business or pleasure, he always keeps an eye peeled for All Things Roycroftie. He believes it would prove interesting to all Members of the Elect to have a list of Roycroft "Points of Interest". It might be a monument, a hotel or Lord knows what. Think of it as a national Roycroft tourist guide.
Make your own Missionary Move by sending someone you care for a Roycroft e-mail postcard. You can choose from an ever growing list of genuine Roycroftie color postcards. Loyal Roycroft workers are standing by to transmit them as a matter of second class, free of charge. First class e-mail delivery is automatic and gratis for Members of the Elect.
Special to the Cognoscenti, a Roycroft bibliography has been added. It's split into two sections in chronological tabular format, with pre-1915 and post-1915 listings. The lists are not complete but still, be forewarned, the pre-1915 list is pretty big.
Save yourself tears, fears, doubts, gooseflesh and heartburn. If you have questions about anything Roycroftie, we have most of the answers.
If you would like to Rest, Read and Recreate in a Beautiful, Comfortable, and Unique Environment, here are some postcards of the Campus and surroundings. Enjoy the Scenery!
There are Brethren outside of the Society of Philistines, so a page of Arts & Crafts related websites has been set up for your browsing pleasure. If you know of some that aren't listed here, please drop the Fra a note.
So here then are thoughts and thoughts that are the ripe grain of well winnowed experience. But thoughts being in the air are the possession of whoever can seize them, so some of the thoughts herein writ have been expressed before - but not so well. And if the Gentle Reader is minded to smile as he reads he has a perfect right so to do, or to sneeze if he so feels called upon. Send smiles or sneezes to the Fra-in-Charge. Subscribers not fully understanding his jokes will be supplied laughing-gas at club-rates.
This page is updated every little while and published daily. Head, heart, and hand were used in its crafting. | 2019-04-20T22:13:38 | http://roycrofter.com/ |
0.998577 | We have a 2 year old male labrador who is extremely affectionate and well loved in our home. However, although he started out as an 'outside' dog, we can't resist him coming into the house and spending time with us (we all work during the day) until we go to bed when he he is let out to spend the night in his kennel. With winter coming, it will become difficult for us and him to put him outside at night, will he suffer any emotional set backs. The reason we don't want him sleeping in the house we are concerned he may mess at night, although (apart from once when he urinated in the house) he has never messed. Please advise. Can he be trained to sleep on a mat in the kitchen so that he's not wondering around the house during the night and possibly making a nuisance of himself while we sleep?
I think it's better for dogs to sleep inside as it makes them feel safe, part of their "pack" and therefore more likely to protect their owners and home. At 2 years old he should be able to make it through the night without messing. Perhaps give him his last meal a bit earlier in the evening and take him out just before you go to bed. You can train him to sleep wherever you want him to sleep, but you will have to prevent him from getting to couches and carpets by barricading him at first. Baby gates or cardboard boxes are useful to close off areas without closing doors. If he is going to sleep in a kennel during winter you will have to make sure he's warm and dry. A few layers of wads of newspaper, carpeting, old blankets or cushions will be ok, but his kennel can also be insulated with cardboard or even heated with an infra-red lamp or panel heater. Make sure the wires are not near where can chew them.
Just let him be an inside dog ... much easier and safer for him . outside he risks poisoning , and being stolen !!
You shouldn't have a problem. Perhaps you could leave him a chew toy or two in the kitchen to console himself with. If he's used to being outside, the kitchen will be a step up for him. Your problem will come next summer when you try to put him in the kennel again. If his messing is a big concern, perhaps you could get all the people to agree that when they get up to use the bathroom they'll let the dog out for a quick run and let him back in when he's done. | 2019-04-21T20:11:33 | https://www.health24.com/Experts/Question/labrador39s-emotions-20041110 |
0.99853 | You had to get up early to watch Michelle Wie in the second round of the LPGA Championship yesterday at Bulle Rock. She teed off before 8 a.m.
The thousands of fans who came out were richly rewarded. Wie blasted long drives into the high blue sky, sank some birdie putts and finished with a 68 that could easily have been four strokes better.
"She left a few shots out there, for sure. This isn't a terribly hard course for her. I could easily see her shooting a 63 or 64 in one of the weekend rounds," said her instructor, David Leadbetter, the renowned swing coach who has mostly tutored men's champions such as Nick Faldo and Ernie Els.
Her round put her in position to compete for the championship - she finished second in this tournament a year ago - and also illustrated why many of the questions she seems to generate are irrelevant.
Is she overhyped? If you were among those who stood behind her yesterday and watched her draw back a driver and belt a tee shot, you would know to file away that question and never ask it again.
Is she, at 16, good enough to play on the women's tour? Obviously.
But given that she just ended her sophomore year in high school, shouldn't she be concentrating on playing amateur majors as preparation for joining the women's pro tour after high school, instead of charting this unique, headline-grabbing course of men's tournaments and women's pro majors?
No. Even though it upsets traditionalists, she is the rare athlete who warrants her own set of rules.
She isn't thinking about a future on the women's tour. The heck with that. She is so original she is probably thinking about playing - and winning - the Masters. She is so gifted she reduces even old-school golfers like Leadbetter to wild spins of the imagination.
Asked if Wie would eventually need to settle down and grind it out on the LPGA Tour to give her game depth and consistency, Leadbetter basically said people needed to start thinking outside the box.
"I don't see any reason why she couldn't do that [grind it out] on the PGA [men's] Tour one day," he said. "As far as she hits it already, and she's going to hit it 15 to 20 yards farther as she develops, who's to say she couldn't compete on an equal basis?"
Such comments are what fuel the indignity Wie routinely faces, especially from those in the women's game who want her to pay her dues like everyone else and eventually focus on helping their sport. But while she might, in fact, need to play the women's tour regularly one day to add maturity to her game, she's not about to commit to that now, when so many other accomplishments seem possible.
"She's very much a pioneer, a person who seems to be comfortable breaking down barriers," Leadbetter said. "It's hard to say where this is all going, because nothing like it has ever been attempted before. But I know this much: every time she plays with men [as in earlier this week, when she attempted to qualify for the U.S. Open], her game improves a notch or two."
Wie, who is 5-under par through 36 holes, readily agreed yesterday that she is on a roll in the wake of her Open experience, even though she didn't qualify.
"I feel like I'm playing really well, and if I can just get things going, I can shoot really low out here," she said.
Her retooled, Leadbetter-style swing is a marvel - watch how, like Els, she keeps the club away from her body as she draws it back and comes through, allowing her to maximize her natural power.
The one thing she needed to do better yesterday - every day, for that matter - is putt more accurately. She made some, but also slid a handful of medium-length attempts past the hole. They were there for the taking. She also pushed a couple of approach-shot irons off the green.
But hey, we're quibbling. She was stunningly consistent for the most part. Her drives split the middle of most fairways. Her irons were solid. Her putts were around the hole. She was as methodical as she was long, and as always, poised well beyond her years.
"Our plan is just to keep working on improving, seeing how far we can take this vast talent and vast potential, and whatever happens as a result, well, that's what happens," Leadbetter said. "She is already hitting shots no one else can hit. So, we're going to keep at it like this for at least another year, and then see where we stand. And in the meantime, it's sure fun to watch." | 2019-04-24T20:24:13 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-06-10-0606100219-story.html |
0.999999 | Will AI Replace the Humans in the Contact Center?
Will AI Replace the Humans in the Contact Center? The short answer is yes. | 2019-04-21T01:01:39 | https://www.bcstrategies.com/search?f%5B0%5D=field_keywords%3A31233&f%5B1%5D=search_api_combined_2%3A61&qt-ucs_vendors_megamenu=2 |
0.995296 | Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? Which hospital has the best outcome for a given procedure? When is it a good idea to buy a product's extended warranty?
These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, as do a surprising number of other mysteries, including: Is the "hot hand" among sports players real? How can you tell if Shakespeare is the probable author of a newly discovered poem? What is a guilt-free way to get someone to admit to cheating? And, how does a tax assessor calculate the market value of a house?
Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear is your introduction to a vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. In 24 half-hour lectures, you will explore the principles and methods that underlie the study of statistics. You have probably heard such terms as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and you may have a rough idea of what they mean. This course sharpens your understanding of these and scores of other statistical concepts and shows how, properly used, they can extract meaning from data.
These challenging yet accessible lectures assume no background in mathematics beyond basic algebra. While most introductory college statistics courses stress technical problem solving and plugging data into formulae, this course focuses on the logical foundations and underlying strategies of statistical reasoning, illustrated with plenty of examples. Professor Michael Starbird walks you through the most important equations, but his emphasis is on the role of statistics in daily life, giving you a broad overview of how statistical tools are employed in risk assessment, college admissions, drug testing, fraud investigation, and a host of other applications.
When is a Lottery not a Lottery? When it is not truly random. The 1969 Vietnam War draft lottery assigned young draft-age men a ranking for induction based on their birthdays, which were placed in capsules and drawn from a container, supposedly at random. But by computing the statistical correlation for the order-of-draw, it's clear that a nonrandom variable was at play. The most likely explanation is that the capsules with the dates were not thoroughly mixed.
The Birthday Challenge: What is the probability that out of 50 random people, two of them share the same birthday? The chances are much higher than most people think.
The Chicken Soup Method: How can 1,000 randomly chosen people serve as a predictor for the behavior of hundreds of millions of voters? This is the essence of a political poll, and its effectiveness should be no more surprising than the fact that that a single taste of chicken soup is enough to predict the overall saltiness of the batch, whether the batch is in a cup or a giant vat.
Beware of Fallacious Reasoning: At the O. J. Simpson murder trial, Simpson's lawyer Johnnie Cochran countered evidence that Simpson had beat his wife with a statistic that only 1 in 1,000 wife beaters go on to kill their wives. Therefore, Cochran argued, there was only a 1 in 1,000 chance that Simpson went on to commit the murder. Professor Starbird discusses the fallacies in this argument, including the fact that a wife was actually murdered in this case, so the relevant question should be: What is the probability that she had previously been beaten?
Who Really Won the 1860 Presidential Election? Establishing the will of the people in an election can be tricky, especially when three or more candidates are involved. Professor Starbird shows how the results of the four-way presidential race of 1860 can be interpreted as giving victory to each of three candidates, depending on the voting scheme employed. Abraham Lincoln won according to the rules in place, but given other equally valid rules, the victor—and history—would have been very different.
Statistical information is truly everywhere. You can't look at a newspaper without seeing statistics on virtually every page. You can't talk about the weather forecast without invoking statistics. Statistics obviously arises in business and social science but even enters the arts in analyzing manuscripts. And you'd better not go to a casino without understanding statistics. "It's really harder to find somewhere where statistics isn't important than to find the places where it is," says Professor Starbird.
Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear is rated 4.0 out of 5 by 59.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Larry D from Useful Course This was a good review course on statistics and how to measure the parameters that describe the key performance of the data. The course gave examples of how using statistics may or may not lead to valid conclusions.
Rated 2 out of 5 by savid94 from Too Broad in Scope I bought this thinking it was written from a tutorial and pedagogical point of view and disappointed in the broad overarching presentation.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Math Practitioner from Conceptual Overview of Statistics Professor Starbird has a passion for math and his aim is to provide an overview of statistics concepts to non-mathematicians. The first half of the course provides an overview of fundamental statistical concepts, i.e., distributions, confidence intervals, the Bell Curve, Regression, probability, samples, hypothesis testing, etc. The second half of the course uses many classic problems and applications from various fields to illustrate statistical concepts, e.g., sports, elections, medicine. In my experience, if you’ve taken a statistics course, then this course can add some conceptual understanding to the formula-based instruction you likely received. However, if you haven’t taken a statistics course, you will gain a conceptual overview of statistics, and perhaps even be able to do some basic descriptive statistics, but will likely not be able to apply these methods (especially inferential statistics) without further study.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Glanafosha from A brief description of statistics This is a basic introduction to statistics. Although it is a math course, it is very light on math. This is a descriptive course, not a mathematical study. The viewer does not have to do any calculations. As an introduction, it is adequate. If you finish the course, you will have a good basic understanding of the field. You will not be a working statistician. Professor Starbird seems like a kindly teacher. He tries to explain his subject in understandable ways. Unfortunately, his presentation is hesitant, stumbling, and very dry. I felt like jumping in to help him while he struggled for the right word. He sometimes borders on stuttering. Perhaps as a consequence, he goes through the material very slowly. I was frustrated by the wasted time in these lectures. I feel badly writing this, but his speaking style may prove irritating to some listeners. In spite of his deliberate approach, the professor does not explain all of his terms. For example, in the second lecture he mentions an heuristic and an outlier, describing them very quickly (unusual for him) and then saying “but that’s just a heuristic.” Does that mean it is unimportant? I looked it up after the lecture. Despite its limitations, this is a fairly good course. I understand statistics much better than I did before watching. Still, this is not one of the greatest courses I have taken, and its current rating (4 out of 5 stars, 76% would recommend) sort of reflects this. Statistically speaking, the ratings on The Great Courses website are skewed towards higher scores, and 4 out of 5 stars is actually a low score. Perhaps the marketing department has influenced the scoring methodology. I just used my new statistical skills to analyze the ratings, so I have to give Professor Starbird credit for that!
Rated 4 out of 5 by mathman21 from Interesting course I learned a lot about statistics through this course. Really enjoyed the lectures on using statistics in real life situations.
Rated 4 out of 5 by LiveLongandProsper from My review of "Meaning From Data: Statistics Made Clear" by Michael Starbird: Professor Starbird does a good job of not only covering the concepts of statistics, but also relating them to real-world applications, such as medicine, education, health, polls, and so on. When the viewers see how the field is used in other disciplines, it becomes more relatable and meaningful.
Rated 5 out of 5 by HansSachs7 from Mathematics 0ver a 24 Hour Day Professor Starbird converts mathematics into a discipline that can be directly applied to our everyday lives. He uses statistics as one more dimension to our our external rational filters that increases our appreciation of world in which we live and how we might use statistics to increase our understanding of common events we previously did not question and usually took for granted. | 2019-04-24T09:51:42 | https://www.thegreatcourses.co.uk/courses/meaning-from-data-statistics-made-clear.html |
0.999173 | This pages summarizes the status of the Jenkins ecosystem to run on Java 11.
Given Jenkins has 1500+ plugins, this page is not meant to describe or link the status of every single component or plugins. Hence if you know the status of some component or plugin, feel free to add more information in the necessary places below.
Ideally, if there is an associated JIRA issue, just add the java11-compatibility label on the issue, and it will then automatically show up below.
If not, just add the information in the dedicated part.
Please note that this page is dedicated to the user-facing issues which impact the behavior. It is recommended to not set the labels for gradual code improvements and for minor issues like IllegalReflectiveAccess warnings in the system logs.
Warning: this is a work-in-progress, please reach out to the team if you want any confirmation.
TL;DR: if you want to draw attention, making sure the java11 && scrub labels are set. | 2019-04-26T12:00:02 | https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Known+Java+11+Compatibility+issues |
0.999862 | What can I say about this film? I was completely and unexpectedly bowled over. This was such a poignant and moving film that I cannot recommend it enough.
Frank took in baby Mary when his sister, a math genius, committed suicide. He vowed that he would give Mary a ‘normal’ life, away from all the pressures that a child prodigy has to endure.
The film opens with Mary having to attend primary school, as Frank has exhausted any home schooling he can do. Mary, understandably, stands out as a tad more intelligent than the rest of the class.
Frank turns down a scholarship to a ‘gifted’ school for Mary, citing his promise to his sister as the reason. Somehow (and this is never explained) his mother gets wind of Mary’s talent and swoops in to try and take her away and give her the life a ‘gifted’ child should have…..in her opinion.
What Frank’s mother, Evelyn, fails to note, is that her daughter committed suicide due to the pressures put upon her by her gift and also, in my opinion, by an overbearing mother.
The film charts the battle between Frank and Evelyn over Mary and it highlights the damage that can be done by a pushy parent, who is only focused on the child’s talent and not on the child itself. This is a theme that is prevalent in society today and it can be so destructive.
There is a way to give a gifted child a ‘normal’ life as well as encouraging and developing that gift and we see this in the conclusion to the film.
The filmmakers pushed all the right buttons for me and had me rooting for Frank and hoping his way won in the end. Whether it did, you’ll have to see for yourself! | 2019-04-25T20:42:10 | https://www.marieannecope.com/film-reviews/film-review-gifted/ |
0.999999 | Lean times - and everyone is looking for ways to cut costs - so how about squeezing three hearty family meals out of one standard chicken?
This isn't a recipe, so much as a mildly philosophical ramble on the subject of culinary efficiency and frugality.
I'm using just one standard chicken, weighing in at a little under a kilo and a half.
Full price, this would have cost £4 - already fairly cheap - but if you've got a little freezer space, there are ways to bring the cost down - as in this case, there was a multibuy offer - 3 for £10, reducing the price to £3.33 per bird.
But I did even better than that - I went shopping just before closing time and found a stack of chickens reduced down to £2.65 each, so I snapped up ten of them and stored them in my chest freezer.
I'm going to make a big Sunday roast, and I'm going to plan to create leftovers for two more meals as I go.
Planning to make leftovers sounds like it could be wasteful, but in fact, it's another way to save, because cooking (say) twice the normal amount of carrots uses considerably less than twice the amount of fuel (there's also another small saving in that the pan only needs washing once).
Sunday lunch will be: Roast chicken with roast vegetables (potatoes, parsnips, carrots, sweet potato and butternut squash), additional boiled/steamed vegetables - more carrots, swede(rutabaga), sweetcorn, peas and broccoli, and gravy, lots of gravy.
So the first thrifty tip: when preparing the vegetables, the trimmings from many of them go into a big saucepan, which will later be used to make stock from the chicken bones.
So in here went the skins and tops/tails of carrots, parsnips, onions, swede, plus some bits of tough broccoli stalk. Not in here: peelings from potatoes, sweet potatoes and squash, as these tend to soak up flavour in a stockpot, rather than contribute to it.
The carrots, potatoes, parsnips and sweet potatoes all need parboiling before they go in the roasting pan, but rather than boiling them separately and draining, I cook them one after another in the same water, lifting them out with a slotted spoon when they're starting to soften on the outside.
There are two reasons for this: by using the same hot water over again, I save energy compared to heating it from cold, but also, I'm not going to throw away the cooking broth - by the time it's had four lots of vegetables parboiled in it, it's loaded with flavour, so I set it aside for use in making the gravy, later.
The chicken sits on a bed of chopped onions in the middle of the roasting pan, surrounded by the vegetables and the whole lot is seasoned and drizzled with a little oil, then placed in the oven to cook. As an afterthought, I threw in a bell pepper (whole, seeds and all) that was lurking in the fridge.
(This isn't directions for a recipe, but it took about an hour and a half at 170C - a bigger bird will take longer).
Halfway through cooking, I turned the chicken over so it could cook evenly (and so the breast meat would stay moist), then I turned it back for the last ten minutes so the skin on top could brown up.
A meat thermometer pushed into the thickest sections of the breast and thigh confirmed that it was done (and the juices running clear).
There was still half an hour to go until lunch, so I removed the chicken to a large plate and covered it with foil to rest - it stays surprisingly hot for at least half an hour, and allowing the meat to rest like this ensures that it will be moist and juicy.
I also spread out the onions in the roasting pan and put this back in the oven to brown a little.
The roasted bell pepper here could have been served as a side vegetable, but I decided just to add it all to the stockpot for flavour.
I set aside the cooked onions and spooned most of the fat out of the roasting pan - this is a combination of fats from the chicken and the oil I originally added to the vegetables at the start - it's too good to waste, so this will be saved for use in meal two or three.
I poured half of the vegetable broth (from parboiling) into the pan to loosen all of the caramelised brown bits.
I mixed the other half of the parboiling broth with the onions and blended them to a smooth pulp with a hand blender, then brought this back together with the other half (complete with the dissolved browned bits from the roasting pan) and added some seasoning and a little sprinkle of gravy thickening to make about a litre and a half of gravy - more than I expected to need at the table.
The boiled/steamed vegetables were done - again, there's flavour in the cooking liquor, so again, it's not going to waste - I drained the vegetables into the stockpot.
At the dinner table, I served all of the vegetables in dishes, but with the chicken, I carved and served a generous portion for each diner, then took the remainder out of the way to the kitchen and covered it up.
This removes the temptation to pick at the chicken until it's all gone (and you feel you've eaten too much). If anyone wants seconds, there's plenty of additional vegetables and gravy.
Obviously, this really only works for something like a family meal where everyone is on board with the notion of being frugal - guests might just consider it mean and miserly.
In one of the serving dishes (saving on washing up) I placed a selection of the leftover vegetables, cut into rough chunks. To this, I added about two thirds of the leftover chicken meat, picked from the bones.
The remaining gravy was just enough to cover all this. I wrapped the whole dish several times in cling film and labelled it - the objective here was to make three meals - not necessarily three consecutive ones - so this dish will go into the freezer and at some later date (so no photo of the end result just yet), I'll just thaw it out, top with pastry to make a delicious family-sized chicken and veg pie - meal two.
I picked the last of the chicken meat from the bones and set this aside (for meal 3). The bones, skin and other parts of the chicken carcass went in the stockpot.
It needed topping up with additional liquid before putting on to boil - and here's another thrifty tip for extra flavour - the plate on which the chicken was carved, the gravy jug and pan and the ovenproof dish from serving the roasted vegetables - so I added a little clean water in each of these, then swished it around and into the stockpot - topping it up just enough to cover the contents.
I brought the stockpot to the boil, then turned down the heat and simmered for an hour and a half.
Every now and again, I crushed the contents down with a potato masher to break everything up and release more flavour.
If I'd been concerned about producing a clear stock, I wouldn't have pressed it like this, and probably would have strained it through cheesecloth or muslin, but I'm planning to use it for soup or risotto, so a crystal-clear finish is not required.
I made about two pints of rich stock - I poured this into two plastic containers and left them to cool.
This will stay fresh in the fridge for up to a week, or may be frozen for use another time.
Chicken stock is a really versatile ingredient - if you've only ever used stock made from cubes or powder before, I would urge you to try (if nothing else) just this - make some stock from your next chicken carcass - you won't believe how good it is as a base for soup, risotto or paella.
Meal three consists of a hearty soup based on this stock and the leftover vegetables and last bits of chicken.
To start the soup, I gave it a flavour boost by frying some more onions in some of the reserved fat spooned out of the roasting pan.
As soon as the onions started to take on colour, I added some stock, along with the leftover potatoes, butternut squash and swede, then blended this until smooth.
I cut the leftover carrot and chicken into small pieces and added this, along with the leftover peas and sweetcorn to the smooth soup.
The result - served with buttered multi-seeded bread and (as an extra little treat, not really part of the plan) a small wedge of creamy gorgonzola cheese - is a satisfying and delicious meal - ideal for a midweek dinner after work, as it only took about twenty minutes to put together.
There was easily enough soup in the pot for generous servings to a family of four.
And here it is. The pie. A week or so later, we had chicken and sweet potato pie.
Mmmm! Pie! - I just made some rough-puff pastry and topped the premade (thawed) pie filling and baked it for half an hour to cook the crust. Delicious.
And it goes on - there's always some leftover pastry - and with two hungry teenagers in the house, I can't let it go to waste, so I made a batch of jam tarts - really easy - just roll out, cut circles, bake them blind (empty) for four minutes, then add a teaspoon of jam and bake again for another four minutes, and they're done.
The only part in all of this that entails additional energy/cost is the prolonged simmering of the stockpot - however, once it's arrived at the boil, the hob can be turned right down to the minimum extent for the simmer.
So, what's all this obsession with extracting additional flavour from stuff? Well - put simply, flavour costs - it either costs money (sauces, seasonings, bought-in stocks), or it costs a little effort and a little forethought (but you get to keep the money in your wallet).
My compromise is to half-peel them - leaving strips of skin for flavour and texture, and peeled strips to allow the steam to escape, so that they crisp up nicely in the oven.
(On reflection, I realise I might also have thrown the potato peelings into the roasting pan and let them brown up into crispy shreds for use as a garnish).
Sitting the chicken on a bed of onions - this prevents the chicken just burning onto the bottom of the pan - and the onions ideally caramelise to provide plenty of flavour for making the gravy.
At the time of writing, the total cost for all of the ingredients for these three meals came in at well under £10. That's really something of a budgetary triumph.
I should of course make it clear that I'm not claiming I invented any of these ideas - there's almost nothing on this page that is a new idea, or that isn't already widely practiced by cooks the world over - what makes it interesting is how it all fits together into a plan.
If you have freezer space, you can just throw all the bones from the chicken into a bag or other container and store them to make stock later - and keep adding more bones (for example those from a box of takeaway fried chicken, or a few bones from a rack of BBQ pork ribs and so on).
If you have a slow cooker (crockpot), you can use it to make the stock - I managed to fit the bones from three whole chickens into mine, plus six pints of water, onions, garlic, bay leaves and rosemary.
It takes all day this way, but it can just be left unattended to simmer while you do something else.
I don't have the space or equipment to be able to compost cooked food leftovers - and if it's done improperly, it can attract rats, so the inedible remains of the chicken and other stock items went into my 'brown bin' - this is collected weekly and goes to a municipal food waste handling centre to be composted/digested to make biogas and soil conditioner.
I've started following a similar routine with my roast chickens - chicken and veg dinner one night, chicken pot pie another, and then stock/soup. It certainly makes me feel less wasteful! | 2019-04-26T03:42:16 | http://atomicshrimp.com/post/2012/04/29/Making-The-Most-Of-Chicken |
0.999987 | Fruit of the Loom t-shirt with high quality, full-color print in front and in the pack with an artwork by Travis Smith.
HALCYON WAY's sound cannot be neatly slotted into any sub-category of metal. It can be described as heavy, catchy, technical, progressive and above all, focused on strong songcraft. From Megadeth to Dream Theater, to Testament and Chimaira - HALCYON WAY draws influences & inspiration from many metal bands. With a magnitude of catchy hooks, vocal harmonies a la King’s X or Stryper, and heavy, technical, yet ultimately accessible instrumentation, "Bloody But Unbowed" is sure to please fans of many forms of metal. Be that modern, power, thrash and progressive metal - but also hard rock fans. Crammed full of huge anthemic choruses, shredding solos, and brutal riffs, this release checks off all the boxes.
"Bloody But Unbowed" was recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Lewis (Whitechapel, Trivium, Bad Wolves, Threat Signal) andis replete with artwork from Travis Smith (Opeth, Overkill, Death, Iced Earth). The album boasts a very special appearance of "The Nailhead Choir", with many guest names to be revealed soon.
The band commented: "“We are beyond excited to finally unleash this beast upon everyone. This is by far our heaviest album, but it also has the biggest choruses, and it’s just the right next step in our evolution as a band. It was a difficult album to write and put over the finish line, and we cannot wait to have everyone hear it. From the songs to the production to the art, we think all our fans are going to absolutely love it, and when people that haven’t heard Halcyon Way before get a taste, they’re going to be like ‘where has this band been my whole life?'".
HALCYON WAY is the ultimate example of blue-collar work ethic, self-reliant bootstrapping, and hard work & perseverance in spite of nearly insurmountable odds. This award winning band has released four studio albums worldwide through Nightmare Records/Sony RED, and most recently via Massacre Records, and has performed on 4 continents (and about 20 countries and counting), extensively touring with the likes of Saxon, Sabaton, Queensryche, Fates Warning, Fozzy, Skid Row, U.D.O. and Delain. Most recently, HALCYON WAY finished a month-long European tour with Angra & Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime, and is gearing up to hit the road again in support of their new album "Bloody But Unbowed". | 2019-04-22T14:58:20 | http://www.agoniarecords.com/index.php?pos=shop&lang=en§ion=article&action=article&id=ARts208 |
0.999998 | Question: whose 10-year bond yields have risen more in the past two days' trading: Italy or France?
The answer is France, which has travelled from 3.15% on Wednesday morning to 3.48% Thursday afternoon (as at 6pm). Italy has gone from 6.75% to 6.95%. Of course, that's not the main story of the week, since Italy ended last week at 6.3% and touched 7.5% during Wednesday's drama. Even so, the blow-out in France's spread over Germany – a record in the euro era of 168 basis points – illustrates how the crisis is spreading.
1. French banks are carrying more Italian debt than anybody else – about €300bn worth. That's on top of the writedowns they are currently taking on their large Greek exposures.
2. Within the worsening outlook for eurozone growth published by the European commission on Thursday, France came off badly. Don't expect growth of 2% next year: the new figure is just 0.6%.
3. A credit rating change now seems more likely, even if S&P has fixed its computer. In the tail-wags-dog world of ratings agencies, higher yields tend to make downgrades more likely.
4. There is the worry that any attempt at bailing out Italy would put intense pressure on France. The European financial stability facility is backed by guarantees from member states. Italy obviously couldn't give guarantees on loans to itself, so a greater burden would fall on others. Alternatively, any officially sanctioned "haircut" for holders of Italian debt would rebound on French banks.
Valérie Pécresse, the French budget minister, is entitled to argue that France is "not at all in the same situation" as Italy. The trouble is, in the eyes of some investors, betting against French bonds has suddenly become two bets for the price of one. It's a cheap way to bet against the eurozone finding a painless solution to the Italian muddle; and it's a way to gamble that the latest French austerity package, a mix of tax rises and spending cuts, won't be enough to hit the deficit targets and thus satisfy ratings agencies. | 2019-04-20T02:13:46 | https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2011/nov/10/which-eurozone-countrys-debt-has-been-more-volatile-france-italy |
0.999295 | What are Guardian™ polymer banknotes?
Guardian™ banknotes use a polymer substrate, which offers benefits from security to recycling that are not possible with paper.
The three major elements of Guardian™ polymer notes are: the base film called Clarity™C; the opacified print layers that enable offset and intaglio inks to adhere to the substrate; and printed and embedded security features.
How are Guardian™ notes made?
The polymer is created from a unique "bubble" process in a four storey-high chamber using gravity and air.
Why do central banks switch to polymer banknotes?
The benefits of switching to polymer banknotes are extremely compelling and include dramatically reducing counterfeits in circulation, saving many millions of dollars due to their greater durability, being more hygienic and environmentally-friendly, and helping central banks manage their banknote supply more efficiently.
How many countries use Guardian™?
Guardian™ is currently used in 24 countries including Australia since 1988, Mexico since 2002, Canada since 2010 and United Kingdom since 2016. See the complete list of countries that have issued Guardian™ here.
How are polymer notes different from paper?
Polymer notes utilise a three-dimensional transparent substrate, compared to the two-dimensional paper substrate, allowing endless possibilities in design and security features. Research worldwide consistently indicates that the public find Guardian™ notes visually engaging due to the clear window and the vibrant and intricate designs.
Guardian™ notes have a smoother feel than paper – printing works will often use intaglio (i.e. raised) print layers to give Guardian™ notes their tactility.
What benefits does polymer offer over paper?
At least ten times more secure - Across every market in which Guardian™ has replaced paper, the rates of counterfeiting are significantly lower often by at least 80 - 90 percent.
Can Guardian™ notes be recycled?
Yes, once they become worn or damaged, central banks are able to recycle the notes and can receive support from the Guardian™ Global Recycling Program.
Do new notes stick together?
When both polymer and paper notes are brand new, they can stick together at first – as the notes circulate, this stops happening. Before counting a stack of new notes, we recommend to separate them by fanning, tapping, shuffling or snapping them.
Can polymer notes be used in ATMs?
Yes, there are many countries around the world that use polymer banknotes in ATMs.
Commercial banks and cash handling organisations report that polymer is much cleaner and easier to work with than paper as paper notes shed fibres inside ATMs that build up and requires regular maintenance.
Can I clean them off if they get dirty?
Yes, Guardian™ notes are resistant to dirt and oil, and can be easily cleaned with a damp cloth.
Can I fold or crease my notes?
Whether paper or polymer, it is better to keep notes flat, not folded. To help notes last longer, avoid creasing or crumpling them. When a user comes across crumpled or creased notes, it is recommended they flatten them by applying pressure or by curling them with one's hand.
Do not staple the notes together, as this may cause them to tear.
What should I do if they get a tear?
While polymer notes are very durable and it is difficult to tear them, torn notes can be mended with tape and used again.
Do I need to check my own money?
While Guardian™ polymer substrate is amongst the most secure materials available today, every individual will always be responsible for protecting themselves from professional banknote counterfeiters and checking their money.
Is it easy to check the banknotes myself?
Guardian™ banknotes include innovative and easy to recognise security features that can be seen from both sides. The notes are specifically designed to be easy to authenticate, but extremely difficult to replicate.
What impact does Guardian™ have on counterfeiting once introduced?
Across every market in which Guardian™ has replaced paper, counterfeiting rates have dropped by at least 80-90 per cent when first introduced.
The technology behind Clarity™C film and Guardian™ polymer substrate presents many significant challenges to would-be counterfeiters.
What can be done to combat professional counterfeiting?
Professional counterfeiting operations remain a threat which requires the collective efforts of Guardian™, law enforcement, printers, suppliers and central banks.
What else can central banks do to help fight counterfeiting?
Central banks can continually research, develop and issue new banknotes with more advanced security features.
They can offer training to people who regularly use cash (including retailers and tellers) so they can identify and report counterfeit banknotes before they enter the cash supply. CCL Secure provides free e-learning modules for cash handlers, please contact CCL Secure Australia to find out more.
Supporting law enforcement agencies in their investigation and prosecution efforts, as well as ensuring banknotes in circulation are of good quality, can also help to fight counterfeiting. | 2019-04-22T06:25:12 | https://cclsecure.com/Guardian---Facts-and-Figures/ |
0.998639 | Wouldn't it be great if you could have an image of actor and music legend David Hasselhoff right in the centre of your page?
All you need do is first tell the browser that you want to insert a figure, which is an image (img) and then where it is located (src, short for "source"). Do you get the picture?
Notice how the img element is opened and closed using the same tag. Like the <br> tag, it is not tied to a piece of text.
GIF images are usually best for graphics and drawings, while JPEG images are usually better for photographs. This is for two reasons: first, GIF images only consist of 256 colours, while JPEG images comprise of millions of colours and second, the GIF format is better at compressing simple images, than the JPEG format which is optimized for more complex images. The better the compression, the smaller the size of the image file, the faster your page will load. As you probably know from your own experience, unnecessarily 'heavy' pages can be extremely annoying for the user.
Traditionally, the GIF and JPEG formats have been the two dominant image types, but lately, the PNG format has become more and more popular (primarily at the expense of the GIF format).The PNG format contains in many ways the best of both the JPEG and GIF format: millions of colours and effective compressing.
An SVG graphic takes things a step further — it lets you have many levels to your graphic, like a level for text in the graphic (which means it too is good for illustrations), or animation, or even interactivity.
To make your own images, you need an image editing program. An image editing program is one of the most essential tools you need to create beautiful websites.
There are so many good image editors out there that you basically have your pick. Picasa or Gimp both are free. Or if you need really professional pictures, consider investing in either Paint Shop Pro, Adobe PhotoShop or Adobe Lightroom.
Right-click on an image on any image on the Internet.
Choose "Save image as..." in the menu that appears.
Choose a location for the image on your computer, name it and click "Save".
Now you can insert the image into one of your own pages. Try it yourself.
Is that all I need to know about images?
There are a few more things you should know about images.
Are there any other attributes I should know about?
You always need to use the attribute src, which tells the browser where the image is located. Besides that, there are a number of other attributes which can be useful when inserting images.
It is still a good idea to use the width and height attributes because the browser will then be able to detect how much space the image will need in the final page layout before the image is fully downloaded. This allows your browser to set up the page nicely in a quicker way.
That's enough about David Hasselhoff and images for now.
Here is what happens in Example 1: the table starts with a <table>, followed by a <tr>, which indicates the beginning of a new row. Two cells are inserted in this row: <td>Cell 1</td> and<td>Cell 2</td>. The row is hereafter closed with a </tr> and a new row <tr> begins immediately after. The new row also contains two cells. The table is closed with </table>.
By setting colspan to "3", the cell in the first row spans three columns. If we instead had setcolspan to "2", the cell would only have spanned two columns and it would have been necessary to insert an additional cell in the first row so that the number of columns will fit in the two rows.
I recommend you to get acquainted with this article to know how to write a teacher resume to quickly get hired. | 2019-04-24T14:41:04 | https://www.programer.co.vu/2015/08/images-tables-html5-tutorial-6.html |
0.999588 | A witness who tried to cover up his involvement in an alleged stomping murder “went on the run” shortly after the incident, a jury has heard. Sean Darcy Watkins was questioned by defence lawyer Greg Richardson for the second time on Friday during the trial into Peter Fitzgerald’s death at Summerhill in December 2016. RELATED: Jury told Summerhill man drowned in own blood after drunken fight, accused murderer pleads not guilty Mr Watkins’ friend Anthony Colin Finnegan has been accused of murdering Mr Fitzgerald, and has pleaded not guilty. The jury previously heard Mr Watkins ended up at the scene of the alleged crime after Mr Fitzgerald had died following a drunken dispute with Mr Finnegan, which ended with him allegedly being stomped and kicked in the head and left to drown in his own blood on his laundry floor. Mr Watkins told the court after he went to Mr Fitzgerald’s house and found him dead on the floor, he washed blood off his hands and hid clothing to avoid being linked to the scene. RELATED: Summerhill murder trial witness washed blood off hands, hid clothing to 'cover up' being at scene Mr Watkins claimed to have gone to the house to check the alleged victim was OK, but the defence has suggested he was going there to steal money - which the witness denied. Continuing his cross-examination on Friday morning, Mr Richardson suggested it was Mr Watkins “and or” another witness, Cameron Tattersall, who caused Mr Fitzgerald’s death - rather than his client. RELATED: Lawyer questions whether witnesses moved body of alleged Summerhill stomping murder victim “I suggest to you when you arrived at the unit, Mr Fitzgerald was still alive,” Mr Richardson said. “No,” Mr Watkins replied. “You and or Mr Tattersall caused his death,” Mr Richardson continued. “No,” the witness said. A few months after the alleged murder, Mr Watkins went to Queensland, the court heard. “Did you go on the run for a short period,” Mr Richardson asked. “A short time later yeah,” Mr Watkins said. RELATED: Prospect man tells jury of night best mate was allegedly stomped to death, says accused killer 'just snapped' Taking the stand, Mr Watkins’ girlfriend detailed a phone call between the accused, Mr Watkins and Mr Tattersall on the night of the alleged murder. “[Mr Finnegan] said he’s f—ed up, that he’d hit Fitzy,” she recalled. “He was laughing.” In another call later in the night, she said Mr Watkins told her “Fitzy was dead”. He then told her to delete her call log and messages and not tell police she had seen him that night, the court heard. The trial before Justice Michael Brett continues, with the Crown case expected to close by Wednesday. While you're with us, did you know that you can now sign up to receive breaking news updates direct to your inbox. Sign up here.
Police at Kerry Court in December, 2016 after Peter Fitzgerald was found dead.
A witness who tried to cover up his involvement in an alleged stomping murder “went on the run” shortly after the incident, a jury has heard.
Sean Darcy Watkins was questioned by defence lawyer Greg Richardson for the second time on Friday during the trial into Peter Fitzgerald’s death at Summerhill in December 2016.
Mr Watkins’ friend Anthony Colin Finnegan has been accused of murdering Mr Fitzgerald, and has pleaded not guilty.
The jury previously heard Mr Watkins ended up at the scene of the alleged crime after Mr Fitzgerald had died following a drunken dispute with Mr Finnegan, which ended with him allegedly being stomped and kicked in the head and left to drown in his own blood on his laundry floor.
Mr Watkins told the court after he went to Mr Fitzgerald’s house and found him dead on the floor, he washed blood off his hands and hid clothing to avoid being linked to the scene.
Mr Watkins claimed to have gone to the house to check the alleged victim was OK, but the defence has suggested he was going there to steal money - which the witness denied.
Continuing his cross-examination on Friday morning, Mr Richardson suggested it was Mr Watkins “and or” another witness, Cameron Tattersall, who caused Mr Fitzgerald’s death - rather than his client.
“I suggest to you when you arrived at the unit, Mr Fitzgerald was still alive,” Mr Richardson said.
“You and or Mr Tattersall caused his death,” Mr Richardson continued.
A few months after the alleged murder, Mr Watkins went to Queensland, the court heard.
“Did you go on the run for a short period,” Mr Richardson asked.
“A short time later yeah,” Mr Watkins said.
Taking the stand, Mr Watkins’ girlfriend detailed a phone call between the accused, Mr Watkins and Mr Tattersall on the night of the alleged murder.
“[Mr Finnegan] said he’s f—ed up, that he’d hit Fitzy,” she recalled.
In another call later in the night, she said Mr Watkins told her “Fitzy was dead”.
He then told her to delete her call log and messages and not tell police she had seen him that night, the court heard.
The trial before Justice Michael Brett continues, with the Crown case expected to close by Wednesday.
This story Witness ‘went on the run’ after alleged stomping murder first appeared on The Examiner. | 2019-04-25T10:54:21 | https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5578181/witness-went-on-the-run-after-alleged-stomping-murder/?cs=7629 |
0.999995 | The indicator assesses the percentage of children who suffered from diarrhoea in the past two weeks (one of the leading causes of child death). Diarrhoea is defined as having 3 or more loose or liquid stools in one day.
Q1: In the past two weeks, did [name of the child] have diarrhoea?
Q2: During this time, did s/he pass 3 or more loose stools in the course of one day?
Calculate the indicator's value by dividing the number of children aged 8 - 23 / 59 months which in the past two weeks had 3 or more loose stools per day by the total number of surveyed children and multiply the result by 100.
1) WHO's definition of diarrhoea is "the passage of three or more loose or liquid stools per day". However, the vast majority of surveys do not enquire whether the child had three (or more) loose stools in one day - most commonly, they just ask: “Has (NAME) had diarrhoea in the last 2 weeks?” (i.e. it is left up to the respondent to decide whether the loose / liquid stool really was a diarrhoea or not). You have to decide whether your survey will assess and consider the frequency of loose stool (as suggested above) or whether it will follow the methodology commonly used by other surveys (such DHS or MICS). If you choose the latter option, ensure that the enumerators are very clear about (and can explain) what is understood as diarrhoea.
3) The stool of children aged up to 8 months is naturally loose and may not indicate diarrhoea. Therefore, include in your survey children aged 8 - 23 / 59 months only.
4) A standard recall period of two weeks is commonly used by most agencies. However, a number of pieces of research showed that such a long recall period leads to imprecise data that underestimates diarrhoea prevalence by up to 45% (for example, 1, 2) . If your data does not need to be comparable with other surveys (e.g. is used only for comparing your project's baseline and endline values), consider using a shorter recall period of 7 days (for maximum precision, you can also use a 3 day recall period though this will require increasing the sample size by approx. 70%). Always ensure that both baseline and endline surveys use the same recall period.
5) The prevalence of diarrhoea is often prone to seasonal differences. Do your best to collect baseline and endline data in the same period, otherwise it is very likely that they will not be comparable (i.e. saying little about the benefits of your project). | 2019-04-20T22:30:53 | https://www.indikit.net/indicator/2-wash/44-prevalence-of-diarrhoea-among-children |
0.997852 | VIVA is a free app that matches you with events, places and things to do.
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After spending ages looking, you might find a few events you like, but you have probably missed some events you would have loved.
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TL;DR: "this is awesome! How did you even know about this?" | 2019-04-23T04:40:52 | https://www.yeahviva.net/ |
0.99869 | First sentence summary with conclusion and points.
This is a very good wine at a reasonable price. Drink with a brilliant burger, ground prime with shaved truffles and onion straws.
Next year this bottle will be old enough to drive. Don't wait. It's drinking great now. | 2019-04-21T16:19:01 | http://palatepress.com/tag/grgich-hills/ |
0.999998 | Grampians National Park - locals!
The Grampians National Park is amazing and well worth the effort. It is a great spot to get a feel for the Australian bush and see Kangaroos in the wild.
Hubby and I have been a number of times, usually when we have visiting family. However this time we went with the kids and friends. Taking the kids camping has been on our bucket list for the past two years, so when a dear friend of mine extended and invitation for us to join her and her extended family we could not pass up on the opportunity.
As my friend and her family were already booked into the Grampians Big 4 - Parkgate, we booked an unpowered campsite for the three nights. The Big 4 Holiday Parks are perfect for families. There are always other children and families for your kids to be able to make new friends. The Big 4 are designed with kids in mind, complete with swimming pool, tennis courts, inbuilt trampoline. They provide extra activities during the busy holiday period such as movies, pancake breakfast etc.
The more I spend times with holidays and weekends away with other families, the more I am convinced this is the only way to go on holidays. The kids have friends to play with so are not needing the parents so much and leave you in peace to enjoy some much earned rest. The only trouble is finding friends who want to travel when you do.
Here are my top 8 reasons why I love the Grampians..
Have you been to the Grampians, what would you add the the above list?
The thing about the Grampians is its magic and link back to Indigenous Australia, this is the place of many of the Aboriginal Creation stories. The area has one of the most important collection of 'Indigenous rock art sites in south-eastern Australia' (Parkweb).
If you a are not the camping type, there are alternative accommodation options for the Grampians, however plan prior to arrival especially if you are travelling in the busy season.
As mentioned earlier, taking the kids camping has been on our bucket list for some time. The experience was great, however it showed that we are not experts in the field for sure. We have what we need to sleep however the preparation of food and kitchen equipment we failed miserably. Luckily we were able to use our friend's cabin for some meals and food storage.
The great thing about the Big 4 Caravan Park is that there was a communal kitchen, where I was able to make the all important coffee and serve the kids a simple breakfast. (Bring own tea towel, pots, pans and dishwashing liquid).
Gorgeous location on the edge of Halls Gap (main town), they offer Cabins, powered and non-powered camping sites. Book ahead and contact them for the latest prices.
The best way is to hire and/or self drive.
The Private Tour Guide - contact Simon Greenland - to organise a private trip.
Have you been to the Gampians, what was your highlight? | 2019-04-22T00:06:25 | http://www.travellingfrenchies.com/blog/-kangaroos-and-the-bush-grampians-national-park |
0.99518 | (a) Check the belt for wear, cracks or other signs of damage.
If any of the following defects is found, replace the V-ribbed belt.
The belt is worn out to the extent that the cords are exposed.
The belt has chunks missing from the ribs.
(b) Check that the belt fits properly in the ribbed grooves.
Check with your hand to confirm that the belt has not slipped out of the groove on the bottom of the pulley. If it has slipped out, replace the V-ribbed belt. Install a new V-ribbed belt correctly.
(a) Check that nothing gets caught in the tensioner by turning it clockwise and counterclockwise.
If a malfunction exists, replace the V-ribbed belt tensioner.
(a) Attach a wrench to the hexagonal portion of the belt tensioner as shown in the illustration, rotate the belt tensioner clockwise, and remove the V-ribbed belt.
(a) Set the V-ribbed belt onto each part as shown in the illustration except the water pump pulley.
(b) Loosen the V-ribbed belt by turning the belt tensioner clockwise.
(c) Set the V-ribbed belt onto the water pump pulley.
Make sure that the belt is attached to each pulley. In particular, make sure that the belt is securely fitted into the grooves of the crankshaft pulley. | 2019-04-21T06:05:49 | http://www.tovenza.com/drive_belt-1096.html |
0.999618 | What are the features of a well-written term paper?
Why Writing A Term Paper Is Not Hard At All?
When you write your paper, you will need to use in-text documentation. Each time you refer to a fact that you have found in a resource, you will need to include a properly formatted citation so your reader can reference back to the works cited page and find the source if they want to learn more. Without correct referencing, you could be accused of plagiarism, especially if you do not cite a source and your reader thinks you are claiming the information as your own. If you take good notes, you should be able to reference everything perfectly.
This final section is one of the most important. It does not require any unique thought, but students still struggle with it. In order to craft a perfect bibliography, it is helpful to use an online bibliography app. These will create the entry based on the information that you input. However, you should always double check what the app created for you.
An original topic or argument.
Too many students think they can write about a cliche topic and earn a good grade. Unfortunately, too many topics have been overdone and have left students without any unique ideas. Every now and again, there is an assignment you force yourself through in order to get it done on time no matter what. Don't burn yourself out and feel free to find help here now. There are only so many things students can say about legalizing marijuana or promoting stem-cell research. Creating an original topic means looking to the future to what people will be interested in learning about soon. This is challenging. Students also need to look at crafting arguments that they may not necessary agree with, but are interesting to discuss.
Students who take good notes will have plenty of information to include in their papers. This means that students need to deeply read their sources and analyze the texts they plan to use. It is important to use only resources that are from academic journals or professional organizations that are not just looking for clicks on the Internet. Good note-taking also involves organizing your notes so you know where the information came from and where you should put that information in your paper.
When you write, it is important to remember that someone needs to be able to read and understand your work. You should not try to impress your readers with big words; instead, use words that are readable and get to the point. By all means, you can use specific language if it is a necessity for your topic.
Each term paper project does need to have specific sections. Those sections will be determined by the style that you need to use. But, most will need an abstract, introduction, body, conclusion, and bibliography or works cited page. Some will need to have an appendix section and possibly even a table of contents. Most also need to have a properly formatted title page, too. A style guide will clearly explain the necessities. It is also helpful to have a sample paper to use as a template.
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No matter what a degree you are working on, you can find any kind of help. | 2019-04-26T04:12:59 | http://www.podcampbarcelona.org/ |
0.998475 | Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but how do our brains decide when and who we should copy? Researchers from The University of Nottingham have found that the key may lie in an unspoken invitation communicated through eye contact.
In a study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, a team of scientists from the University's School of Psychology show that eye contact seems to act as an invitation for mimicry, triggering mechanisms in the frontal region of the brain that control imitation.
The results could be the first clues to understanding why some people, such as children with autism, struggle to grasp when they are expected to copy the actions of others in social situations.
Dr Antonia Hamilton, who led the research, said: "Many studies have looked at copying and imitation in terms of 'mirror neurons', which are believed to be specialised parts of the human brain that implement imitation. However, we also know that imitation is carefully controlled — people don't imitate everything they see, and only copy what's important.
"Our previous research has shown that when somebody makes eye contact with you, you are more likely to copy them. So eye contact seems to act as a message that says "Copy me now". This recent study aimed to see what happens to that signal in the brain."
The team of psychologists, which also included doctoral student Yin Wang and Dr Richard Ramsey, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of volunteers while they watched videos of an actress who sometimes would make eye contact with them while opening or closing her hand. The participant was told they should open their own hand whenever they saw the actress move her hand so in some trials the participant was copying the actress and in other trials they were not.
Because previous behavioural measurement such as response time revealed that the participant unconsciously copied the actress faster when the actress provided eye contact, the scientists analysed the brain imaging data to find which brain areas controlled the decision to copy. The analysis used a new mathematical method called dynamic causal modelling to compute the information processing in the brain, which has never been applied to imitation before.
The data showed that mirror neuron brain regions do play a role in the copying task. More importantly though, it revealed that these regions are controlled by the medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with planning complex cognitive behaviours, expressing personality, decision-making and responding to social situations.
Dr Hamilton added: "Previous studies have shown that this medial prefrontal brain region is active in many social situations but responds less in people with autism, which explains why children on the autistic spectrum might not copy at the right time.
"Understanding the control of imitation has implications for many other areas of psychology too. For example, are teenagers whose prefrontal cortex is less developed more easily led to copy risky, dangerous or illegal behaviour such as imitating rioters? Could increasing the amount of eye contact between children and teachers lead to better learning by imitation? Would better control of imitation help children with autism to more effectively learn and interact? We plan further research to address these questions." | 2019-04-25T19:03:23 | https://sciencentechnologyupdates.com/interesting-facts/611-seeing-eye-to-eye-is-key-to-copying-say-scientists |
0.999928 | The other week, my two siblings sent me a robot arm toy for my birthday. I have a bad history of cutting, burning, and shocking my hands while working on my hobbies, so the idea was that I could use this robot hand instead of my own to save some skin. At first this seemed a little silly, but it got me thinking. Could I figure out a way to use this toy as a useful proxy of my own hand? The range would be limited, the carrying capacity would be small, and the joints wouldn't match my own arm, but there are still some instances where having a hand that doesn't spout blood when something goes wrong would be useful. One such instance is when dealing with the spinning propellers of a drone. In order to test the stability algorithm that keeps my drone in the air, I would really like to poke one side of the frame to see how it reacts. Putting your body anywhere near a large drone is a pretty bad idea (as I now know), so having a remotely controlled arm would be immensely useful.
So I've started a new project to modify this toy arm to mimic my real arm movement. I see this project happening in at least 3 parts. First, I need to modify the arm so it can be controlled by my own code. Next, I need find a way of using the position of my own arm as input for a controller. Finally, I need to come up with an algorithm that translates my own motions to ones the robot arm can handle.
Through all of this I will try to stick to cheap(ish) electronics parts, because if I subject this device to the situations I've put my own hands into, it won't have a long life anyways. | 2019-04-24T18:30:18 | http://www.gperco.com/2013/05/robot-arm-part-0.html |
0.999985 | Jeremy Corbyn has failed in his attempt to trigger a general election after MPs voted against Labour's motion of no confidence in the Government.
Theresa May calls on MPs to reject Labour's motion of no confidence.
Following six hours of debate, MPs backed Theresa May's beleaguered administration by 325 votes to 306.
The result is a much-needed boost for the Prime Minister, coming just 24 hours after the Commons inflicted a record-breaking 230-vote defeat on the Government's flagship Brexit blueprint.
Mrs May will now set up talks with senior politicians in a bid to find a way through the Commons impasse and get her deal through Parliament.
Kicking off the debate, Mr Corbyn had called on MPs to reject Mrs May's "zombie government" and give voters a fresh say on who should run the country.
He said: "The Prime Minister has consistently claimed that her deal, which has been decisively rejected, was good for Britain workers and business… she should have nothing to fear by going to the people."
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson said: "The country feels genuinely sorry for the Prime Minister, but she cannot confuse pity for political legitimacy, sympathy for political support."
In a barnstorming speech, Labour MP Wes Streeting said life for ordinary people had got worse since the Conservatives first came to power nine years ago.
He said: "Nine years on, it is now the experience of people who use and rely on our public services that things are demonstrably worse now than they were.
"Our school, less well-funded than they were when Labour left office, two-and-a-half million more people waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency departments, and the number of people waiting more than two months for cancer treatment doubled.
"And unbelievably under a Conservative government, a situation that people describe to me as a state of lawlessness because they have cut the Metropolitan Police to the bone with more than a billion pounds-worth of cuts in funding.
"It is no wonder that this afternoon they don't want to stand up and defend the record of this government. It is not the record that they are able to defend, and it is past time to acknowledge that the Government has lost control of Parliament, lost control of the ability to govern and have lost the confidence of the British people."
But Mrs May said a general election at the moment was the worst possible option facing the country.
She said: "Should the next step be a general election? I believe that is the worst thing we could do. It would deepen division when we need unity. It would bring chaos when we need certainty. And it would bring delay when we need to move forward.
"I believe this House should reject this motion. At this crucial moment in our nation's history, a general election is simply not in the national interest."
Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the DUP, who Mrs May relies on to prop up her government, said he was backing the Government despite their differences over Brexit.
"We believe it is in the national interest to support the Government at this time so the aims and objectives of the confidence and supply agreement we entered into can be achieved," he said.
"I don't think the people in this country would rejoice at the prospect tonight if a general election were to be called. I am not convinced a general election would significantly change the composition of the House.
"And of course it doesn't change, whatever the outcome, the choices that lie before us all."
And former Labour MP John Woodcock, a long-standing critic of Mr Corbyn who quit the party last year, said that with "a heavy heart" he could not support the confidence motion.
He said the Labour leader and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell were "unfit for high office". | 2019-04-22T22:45:25 | https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/conservative-party/theresa-may/news/101154/theresa-may-survives-mps-reject |
0.99942 | Mountain modern Living Room - Grace Home Design - Rustic - Living Room - Other - by FRAME design co.
- What is the source for the buck/deer art?
I think the deer painting is by Bradley Gordon.
The deer painting is indeed Richard Painter. Please contact Diehl Gallery on their website www.diehlgallery.com for more information on all of Richard Painter's artwork. Thanks!
- Where would one find a coffee table like this?
The Buck Artwork came from Diehl Gallery in Jackson Hole, WY. Contact Mariam at [email protected] for more information and artwork.
Thank you so much... I have learned about this artist through the Diehl Gallery, amazing work charred onto wood.
Love the art, love this room! Great job Grace Home Design.
- Love the room! What is the paint color on the walls?
We purchased this rug locally at a store called Davies Reid.
- Would love to know how to locate this chair.
This chair is from Kravet with a custom fabric on it from Brentano.
Love the picture. Where did you get it?
- You did a wonderful job on this mountain home. I think the the picture is the perfect touch of class with that lodge feel. Love to know where you got it. Thank you!
Thank you! The piece is from Diehl Gallery in Jackson Hole, 307.733.0905.
what is the source of the area rug?
- group of tables in front of sofa look to be wood & acrylic combo, were they upcycled ? also back of sofa, is this a throw or upholstered?
The tables are acrylic glass and wood combination at Bleu Nature and they are apart of the Kisimi Collection. The back of the sofa is upholstered in Bergamo/Grizzly fabric from John Brooks.
- Are the back cushions on the couch wrapped in fur or is this a throw? Can’t really tell from the pictures. Thanks!
5. Trade taxidermy for cruelty-free. This striking painting of a buck is for the new kind of cabin, where one "shoots only pictures."
I'll start with art as a great way to bring deer into your home, without getting all their little hoof prints on your carpet. This home reminds me of a winter resort lodge with its massive wood beams. Rustic or mountain-lodge-style homes just need to have some deer, in my opinion. | 2019-04-25T06:15:27 | https://www.houzz.com/photos/mountain-modern-living-room-grace-home-design-rustic-living-room-phvw-vp~334522 |
0.999996 | Gayatri Joshi or Gauhar Khan??
2000 was the second epochal year for Indian beauty queens after 1994. In 2000 all the Miss India winners happened won their respective international pageants - Lara Dutta (Miss Universe), Priyanka Chopra (Miss World) and Diya Mirza (Miss Asia Pacific). Lara Dutta won the title of Miss Universe in Cyprus, Priyanka Chopra clinched the Miss World title and Dia Mirza secured the title of Miss Asia Pacific.
The only other country to have won all three major titles in one year was Australia in 1972.
In the year 2000 Miss India won Miss World and was watched by an estimated global television audience of two billion. Priyanka Chopra, an 18 year old student and bookmakers' favourite, became the fourth Indian to win the title in 7 years and succeeded her compatriot Yukta Mookhe. In India, the event was watched by an estimated 300 million people.
A year after the title, Dia made her film debut with Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein opposite R Madhavan, and just three years later, both Lara and Prinyanka made their Bollywood debut in 2003 with the film Andaz, starring opposite Akshay Kumar. Since then, all three of them have won several accolades for their exemplary work in Hindi cinema. Priyanka, of course, has gone a notch higher to make her debut in singing, thus proving an all-rounder side to her charismatic personality.
The sensual Lara Dutta describes her winning the Miss Universe title as being "a culmination of a dream." Lara is now a successful actress in Bollywood. The beauty is married to tennis champ Mahesh Bhupathi. Lara Dutta of India is one of the few Miss Universes of recent history to win by unanimous vote at the Miss Universe 2000 contest.
Lara Dutta was born on April 16, 1978, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta and mother is Jennifer Dutta. The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from Frank Anthony Public School. Lara Dutta graduated in economics with a minor in communications from Bombay University at Bangalore. She was crowned Miss Universe in 2000 which led to her appointment as an unfpa Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.S he won the 2000 Miss India pageant, and went on to win the Miss Universe 2000 pageant.
Lara Dutta: Miss Universe 2000 did her sole film in Tamil ‘Arasatchi’ opposite Arjun in 2004.
Priyanka Chopra was born on 18th July 1982, in Jamshedpur, India, to Capt. Dr. Ashok Chopra and Dr. Madhu Chopra. Her father was a surgeon in the Indian Army Medical Corps. She has a younger brother, Sidharth. Miss India has done it yet again! Priyanka Chopra, 18, was crowned Miss World 2000 at a glittering ceremony at London's Millennium Dome on November 30.The event marked the crossing of more than one milestone in India's track record in international beauty pageants.
This Bareilly girl beat out 94 other lovely ladies to claim the Miss World 2000 title and $100,000 prize money at the Millennium dome, London. Priyanka Chopra is one of the top league actresses in Bollywood with hits like Don, Fashion, Dostana and Kaminey. The beauty has been honored with a national award too. Priyanka Chopra became Miss World in the year 2000. She made a place for herself in the glamour world and has acted in a number of films. Her latest film Krrish was a real hit in the box office. Priyanka has gained great popularity and a huge fan gathering.
Eighteen-year-old girl Priyanka Chopra was crowned Miss World at Johannesburg, South Africa in 2000. Priyanka Chopra made her film debut in the 2002 Tamil film ‘Thamizhan’ playing the love interest of the hero Vijay. In the mass action hero film she had precious little to do. But in Bollywood she is on the power list and today she is the highest paid Indian actress after Aishwarya Rai. Like Aishwarya, Priyanka is also beauty and talent in one. Tamil industry can rightfully lament for not having used her well.
Delicacy, poise, elegance and brains define Dia Mirza. This heavenly beauty from Hyderabad, won the prestigious Miss Asia-Pacific title and is an actress now.
The lawns of Poona Club were resplendent with a glitter that rivalled even the stars above. On centre stage were the winners of the Femina Miss India 2000 contest. In company of some achievers of before -- Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Diana Hayden and Yukta Mookhey.
Facing them was the panel of judges... Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Waheeda Rehman, Pritish Nandy, Mohammed Azharuddin, Anjoli Ela Menon, Zee Network chairman Subhash Chandra Goel, perfume queen Carolina Herrera, and Marcus Swarovski.
Lara Dutta, a 21-year-old model, bagged the Femina Miss India crown. She will represent the country at the Miss Universe contest. First runner-up Priyanka Chopra, crowned Femina Miss India World, will be the candidate for Miss World pageant. Hyderabad lass Diya Mirza, chirpy at sweet 17+1, was the second runner-up, the Femina Miss India Asia Pacific.
Preperations for the contest had begun much earlier. Pune was humming with activity almost a week before the event.
"Setting up the stage, rehearsals, co-ordinating the celebrity judges, getting permissions, getting reservations... There was so much work that it was unbelievable!" said an organiser.
The activities peaked on the evening of January 14. Late night, the crowds at Hotel Holiday Inn went into a tizzy when they espied moviestars Juhi Chawla, Mohammmed Azharuddin and Shah Rukh Khan entering through the back door. For a moment it looked like it would tear through the security cover and make a dash for the stars.
The preliminary rounds began around 0830 hours Saturday at the hotel. These included the swimsuit round and the one-to-one with the judges.
In the evening, the programme commenced 15 minutes late. Malaika Arora and Rahul Khanna were the comperes. Must concede that they did an excellent job. But the one who stole hearts was veejay Cyrus Broacha, with his on-the-spot interviews. He added the much-needed zing to the otherwise staid and 'purfeect' lines of the rest. Also humour.
But Shah Rukh's longish query about whom the contestant would chose between him, Azhar and Swaroski drew an equally longish reply. The contestant replied, to thunderous applause, that she would go for the ex-captain of the Indian team so that he could do the country proud and she could go home to tell him that she was equally proud of him as was his country!
The entertainment rounds were noteworthy. There was Shaggy with his 'boombastic' numbers, foot-tapping songs from Noble Savages and memorable ones from the Deep Forest. Breathtaking acrobatics by the Safari Cats, come all the way from Africa, drew terrific applause.
The former achievers at international pageants were called on stage. Thus, besides Sen, Rai, Hayden and Mookhey, there were Namrata Shirodkar, Madhu Sapre, Manpreet Brar, Diya Chohan, Ruchi Malhotra, Shweta Jaishankar and Diya Abraham.
The maximum applause went to Sen who spoke with tears brimming. She won the hearts of many by asking the audience to applaud the parents of the contestants. And then by telling the parents of those who did not make it to the finals not to be disappointed because she felt they would be achievers in some other field, that just making it to the event was an achievement in itself.
"My father told me when I became Miss Universe that my family did not now consist of just my father and mother," she said. "I am happy to have a billion Indians as my family."
The crowd went berserk clapping.
"Lara is a terrific girl. Though she has no formal training she has been working from an early age. She has bagged quite a few prestigious assignments to date. She had supreme confidence even when she was a novice. She always had this I-know-what-I-want-to-be-and-I-will-achieve-it attitude without a trace of arrogance in it. She is supremely confident.
"Speak to the people whom she began her career with her and they will only reiterate this statement. Never once was the Should-I-or-should-I-not?' attitude ever visible with her.
"An instance I remember was when we were on a show. We missed the train. There was panic and chaos and confusion galore. Everyone was snapping at each other, but she was cool. Very composed and thinking because she had an exam to give the following day. Even under such circumstances she was composed..." she ended.
To a large extent, it is that composure that got her the Miss India crown. Hopefully, it will see her through the rest of her dreams.
The year 2000 was a special year for India in beauty pageant world. Lara Dutta gave us the Miss Universe crown and then followed by Dia Mirza at Miss Asia Pacific and Priyanka Chopra at Miss World. Having seen Miss World and Miss Universe, I thought Lara was more impressive in Miss Universe. Not that Priyanka Chopra was the lesser. Priyanka charmed us in Miss India and Miss World in her own way but for me Lara impress me the most.
She had said she applied for Miss India 1999 and her focus was on winning the Miss Universe title and nothing else. But she withdrew her application because if she ever was going to become Miss India, she was going to be Miss India of the millennium. So the following year she applied and she became the Millennium of Miss India. Such was her confidence that one wonders Can we have another Miss India like her again. The answer is a big NO.
At Femina Miss India, 2000, the night belongs to her. From the beginning to the end, it was all about Lara. She was so good on stage. During the opening round there were photographers taking a photo shoot of the contestants walking on the stage. Lara did it like a supermodel. From her catwalk to her poise to her expression she screamed Miss Universe all over her face. It was like watching an International Pageant. I love the way she turns and moves, stop to pose and walks away from the chasing photographers. Look at her expression at that moment, the attitude and the confidence of a queen who is so control of herself and so calm despite the look-alike chaos on stage, it was mind-blowing and impressive.
At the top 10 interview round she impressed everyone and got the loudest cheer. Miss India Universe was written all over her face. The rests were fighting for the 2nd and 3rd place. Even the host Malaika Arora Khan nodded in awe of her answers in between. Waheeda Rehman asked her, “Is it really difficult to be a beautiful person?” Lara replied, “As someone else down this line, one of my contestants said ‘beauty lies within you’ and I think that if you are a beautiful person from inside, if you have a belief in yourself, if you trust yourself and you have confidence and determination to fight the odds, the stamina to last forever, conviction from within, a dream to be victorious that makes you a beautiful person and it’s not that difficult.” The judges and the crowd cheered with a thunderous applause.
Oh my God ! Look at her, the way she said it so confidently and convincingly with a smile on her face. That was brilliant and Even Malaika the host couldn’t agree more. There was a tie, and she had to go through a same common question again. It must have been nerve wrecking for the top 5 girls but among them Lara was the most confident who was so calm and ease with herself. It was like she owned the stage. Of course, She did!
The way she spoke and delivered her answers, it was so theatrical and her endings to her answers were interesting. Her command over English and the way she pauses after each sentence and pronounce each word so clearly is really impressive. It is like she is reading out a literature. I haven’t seen any beauty queen who spoke like her apart from former Miss World Diana Hayden. Her husky voice is to die for.
She won Miss India Universe and was all set to conquer the Universe. The judges and many people who were associated with her during her training thought she was definitely going to win Miss Universe. There was no doubt about that. Many praised for her dedication, determination and focus during pre and post Femina Miss India training. Lara knew she was going to compete with the best of the best at Miss Universe. She worked hard and it paid off. But for me the irony is that I didn’t find any change in her. She was still the same beauty queen I saw at Miss India unlike other beauty queens who transformed. She was the the same Lara who was breathtaking, stunning, gorgeous, and witty and the list goes on. At the Miss Universe contest she was a Queen who was just waiting to conquer another territory which wasn’t familiar with her wits and charm. Then she became a favourite of the press and fans. The only thing left for her was to speak on Miss Universe stage and wins people who weren’t familiar with her. The final night came, I was all excited and praying hard she wins. The stage was spectacular and the opening number with the delegates in white dress dancing around with the glow balls. It looked like a tribute to the Goddess Aphrodisiac which was incidentally the birthplace of Aphrodite also known as the Lady of Cyprus i.e. in Cyprus. Lara definitely matched upto being an Aphrodite goddess – the goddess of beauty, love and desire.
The top 10 were announced. This time the top 10 interview was axed and instead there was an introductory opening walk with a background voice-over introduction about the delegates. Lara did so well in this segment. She walked like a supermodel and she owned the stage with her runway skills. The way she moved and stop to pose was truly beautiful in a dramatic way and eye-catching indeed. In the swimsuit round, she was amazing. I love her perfect toned body. I think she is the only Miss India after Madhu Sapre to have such a perfect swimsuit body and till now no Miss India can match up to her – be it her runway skills or her toned body. Miss India’s in the past always failed either in swimsuit or in Evening gown round. I am sure Lara knows all this and prepared herself to be the best she can be at Miss Universe.
In the swimsuit round the background song was fun, peppy and catchy. She matched up her ramp walked with the background score. Her walked was so vibrant and when she stopped to pose bringing her right leg behind her left leg she was vivacious. No wonder she topped the swimsuit round and won Oscar De la Renta Best in Swimsuit. In the evening gown round, she wore a red gown with a scarf around her wrist. Lara definitely have a stage presence and knows how to project herself on stage and how to walk in each different round. She chose to walk a bit slower but calmly so that she was in tune with the slow and romantic song ‘Careless Whisper.’ This is what I called true beauty queen who knows how and what to deliver at each round. She exudes warmth, elegant and grace. I love the way she works her gown while posing at the centre stage. It was splendid to see her placing her scarf lying out open and let it flow freely and smoothly away from the gown. That was extraordinary. Who can forget that she carried the red dress so elegantly it just shined on her and those shining coming out from her gown reflects her personality so well.
Then at the top 5, she showed why she should win and deserved the Miss Universe title. Sinbad asked why she wanted to do skydiving. Adventurous Lara explained that she clocked in so much time as a passenger on a plane since both her father and sister were pilots that she wanted to try skydiving. When asked about women politicians in comparison to men, Lara responded that the difference lies in the degree of sensitivity carried by the women and women in India are very strong and are very well-educated (those that are educated) and are standing shoulder to shoulder with men and making a mark in their own field. She also was asked to demonstrate a classical Indian dance called ‘Bharatanatyam’ but she explained that she couldn’t do it in the gown she was wearing since she needed to squat to dance and she explained the concept behind that particular style of dance and showed three hand gestures that are part of the dance. She had such poise and eloquence. After this round people who weren’t familiar with her got to see her wit and intelligence side of her besides her beauty and charm. She was definitely the one to beat. She got the loudest cheered like her Miss India days. There was no stopping for her. She was there to win and she wasn’t coming back without a crown.
The Final question, “Right now there’s a protest that had been staged in outside the stadium posing pageants as an affront to women. Convince them that they are wrong.” Lara impressed the judges with her answered, “Pageants like Miss Universe give us young women a platform to foray in the fields that we want to and forge ahead, be it entrepreneurship, be it the armed forces, be it politics.” And added, “It gives us a platform to voice our choices and opinions and it makes us strong and independent that we are today.” When she took the microphone from Sinbad, she pulled in the audience and exudes so much of warmth and confidence. She knows how to work on the audience.
So can we say Priyanka and Dia won partly because of her?
LONDON, Dec 1 (PTI) — A cool and confident Miss India, Priyanka Chopra, charmed the world with her smile to become the fourth Indian in seven years to win the prestigious Miss World crown and keep the title home for the second consecutive year.
It was a moving and emotional moment for the 18-year-old belle as she took the crown from compatriot Yukta Mookhey here last night, amidst wide applause and cheers that greeted the hot favourite, who outsmarted 94 other damsels from across the world for the title.
Priyanka’s achievement, which follows Lara Dutta’s Miss Universe title in May, was reminiscent of 1994, when Ashwairya Rai and Sushmita Sen became Miss World and Miss Universe setting the trend for Indian winners in world beauty pageants.
A small goof notwithstanding, when she named Mother Teresa as “the most successful living woman”, Priyanka’s command over English and retention of nerves made her richer by $ 1,00,000 in the 50th year of the pageant.
Answering a question from Jerry Springer, famous American TV personality, the host of the two and half hours show telecast live for two billion people in 150 countries, Priyanka said she considered Mother Teresa as the most successful woman for her compassion and love and serving the leprosy patients with a smile.
The first runner-up for Miss World 2000 was Giorgia Palmas, 18, of Italy and the second runner-up was 20-year-old Yuksel Ak of Turkey.
Priyanka, a senior college student from a family of defence personnel, said she aspired to be a clinical psychologist and “enjoyed” dancing, listening to music, and reading and was associated with anti-polio and AIDS awareness drives.
The two other contestants to make it to the finals were Margarita Kravtsova of Kazakhstan and 18-year-old Thumsen Grien from Uruguay.
“I write poetry although none of my work has been published except in school magazines,” Priyanka who was 6 to 1 favourite at Ladbrokes, well-known betting house, said.
The golden jubilee year of the beauty pageant was a special evening studded not only with who’s who from the music and fashion worlds, but with most of the previous Miss Worlds to mark its 50th anniversary.
India’s first Miss World, Reita Faria Powell graced the occasion along with the Miss World 1952, May Louise Flodin of Sweden and an array of earlier Miss Worlds. Though former Miss World from India Diana Hayden was present Aishwarya Rai was conspicuous by her absence.
The panel of judges included well-known figures from the world of glamour, including Indian designer Hemant Trivedi.
NEW DELHI: For the middle class girl from Bareilly, it was not her physical beauty but her “Indianness” which took Priyanka to the winner’s podium at Miss World 2000 contest in London.
“My morals and values, which I inherit because I am an Indian, are embedded deeply in me. Nobody else can boast of the same kind of upbringing. I think that is what is going to make all the difference,” said a confident Priyanka, who was a hot favourite for the coveted title.
The dusky beauty, born on July 18, 1982 to army doctor Ashok Chopra and his wife Madhu Chopra, had a varied upbringing, that gave her the confidence, the poise and the intelligence which has stood her in good stead.
Though the 18-year-old quit studies owing to her involvement in beauty pageants in India and abroad, Priyanka said aspiring youngsters should plan their careers instead of following the beauty contests blindly.
“They should know the background we come from. The youngsters should not leave their studies and follow the models blindly. Whosoever has done it (quit studies), is regretting (the decision),” the winner said, adding she plans to continue her studies.
As for her future plans, she said she would continue to work for thalassemic children, besides being associated with the Pulse Polio and AIDS awareness programmes.
AMBALA, Nov 1 — “We are feeling on top of the world,” say family members of the beauty queen, the new Miss World Priyanka Chopra.
Grandparents, uncle and cousins of Priyanka Chopra, who was crowned the new Miss World early this morning, are thrilled about her achievement.
Talking to The Tribune, Priyanka Chopra’s grandmother, Mrs Champa Chopra, said that she was extremely happy to learn about the news. “I cannot describe how happy I felt on learning that Mimi (Priyanka is affectionately called by that name by her family members) has become the Miss World,” she said.
The phone at Staff Road, Ambala cantonment, the residence of the Chopras, has not stopped ringing since she became Miss World.
Mrs Champa Chopra said she had wished Priyanka good luck before she left for the Miss World beauty pageant. “I spoke to her on the phone before she was leaving. I told her that from my side, she has already become the Miss World. I am so glad that she has achieved it,” she said.
Priyanka’s uncle, Mr Pawan Chopra, said they watched the Miss World beauty pageant throughout the night. “When Priyanka’s name was announced it was an out of this world feeling. It is a matter of great pride and joy for us,” he said.
Mr Pawan Chopra said they had been receiving congratulatory calls from all over the world. “Immediately, after Priyanka became Miss World, her father and my elder brother, Lieut-Col (retd) Ashok Chopra called us up from London to convey the good news. Priyanka’s mother, Mrs Madhu Chopra, is also there,” he said.
He said since childhood, Priyanka had been a confident girl who was active in all spheres of life. “She used to spend her vacations with us in Ambala and she used to love eating pickles prepared by my mother,” he said. “We are yet to speak to Priyanka after her historic achievement,” he added.
Mr Pawan Chopra said he had spoken to Priyanka during the rounds taking place at Maldives. “Priyanka was the youngest contestant and she was under pressure. I spoke to her and reassured her of our complete confidence in her,” he said.
Mrs Reena Chopra, wife of Mr Pawan Chopra, observed that Priyanka was a very level-headed girl. “Despite winning the crown, she was quiet normal during her visit to Ambala early this year,” she said.
Young cousins of Priyanka, Shivang, Sahaj and Parineeti, are overjoyed with the success of “Mimi didi”. Shivang, who is a student of Army School, said that he has told his school mates and teachers about Priyanka didi becoming Miss World. “My teacher said very good when I told her about didi becoming Miss World,” he said.
To a query, Priyanka Chopra had then said that despite winning the crown, nothing had changed in her life. “I am absolutely the same person but definitely the sense of responsibility had increased,” she had said with a disarming smile.
BAREILLY, Dec 1 (UNI) — Mrs Madhu Jyotsana Akhauri, maternal grandmother of Priyanka Chopra, finds it hard to believe the little girl who was playing on her lap the other day has become a beauty queen winning the Miss World title.
“I watched the mega event the whole night and felt on top of the world when Mimi was adjudged the Winner”, she said. Priyanka was crowned Miss World at a glittering function in London last night.
This small town in Rohelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh has woken up to the fact that it is the home town of a beauty queen. Everywhere, people are discussing the mega event.
“I cannot believe the girl who was playing in our lap till yesterday has achieved this feat”, Mrs Akhauri said. Priyanka’s parents, Dr Ashok Chopra and Dr Madhu Chopra, had accompanied their daughter to London.
She credits Priyanka’s success to her determination and self confidence but also lauds the role of her daughter Dr Madhu Chopra behind the success of Priyanka.
The proud “nani” said it was she who practically brought up Priyanka as both her parents were employed.
Born on July 18, 1982, Priyanka, after completing her class X from St Maria Goretti School here, was pursuing her further studies at the Army School. At that time, she wanted to become a criminal psychologist, the grandmother recalls fondly.
However, winning the “May Queen” contest at Bareilly Club last year changed all that. She decided to take the plunge into the field of glamour and went on to take part in the Femina Miss India contest and the rest is history.
The 18-year-old idolises sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar and is greatly influenced by both Indian classical and western music. Priyanka relishes Indian, Mexican and Spanish food and is specially attached to her 11-year-old brother Siddhartha, she said.
Meanwhile, Bareilly, widely known for its “surma” and “jhumka”, is jubilant today over the success of Priyanka and the recognition it has brought to the town.
A banner reading “mimi, we are proud of you” hangs at a hotel on the station road here. Almost every one watched the whole contest on TV last night and felt proud over Priyanka’s success, the fifth Indian to be crowned the Miss World.
Another city hotel has decided to set up a fan cub of Priyanka while some local businessmen are planning to give the world’s longest greeting card to Priyanka on her return to get the town listed in the Guiness Book of World Records.
Dia Mirza was hand-picked by destiny to win the crown of Miss Asia Pacific 2000. She was the first Indian contestant to win this title in 29 years, completing a hat-trick of international wins for India in that year. Miss India Asia Pacific 2000 was one of the many milestones that she’s achieved and it marked the beginning of a beautiful journey ahead.
After winning the Miss Asia Pacific 2000 title, Dia Mirza gave a perfect start to her Bollywood career with an award-winning debut in the film, ‘Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein.’ She appeared in over 40 movies like ‘Tehzeeb,’ ‘Dum,’ ‘Deewanapan,’ ‘Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge’ and many more.
Dia Mirza was born as Dia Handrich in Hyderabad to a German father and a Bengali mother. Miss Beautiful Smile and the Sony Viewers’ Choice Award are some titles bestowed upon her. She was also the second runner-up at Femina Miss India 2000.
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0.999984 | In the aftermath of the battle, Teams 7 and 10 return to Konoha. After examining Naruto, Tsunade officially classifies Naruto's new technique as a Forbidden Jutsu and warns Kakashi never to let him use it again. What is the terrible secret of the Rasen Shuriken that has left even Tsunade stunned by its power? Meanwhile, Orochimaru orders Kabuto to search for a woman who will help him reach his goal.
As Naruto recovers from his injury, Kakashi prepares to tell him the grim news about his new technique. Meanwhile, Sasuke secretly trains and has an encounter with a strange young girl.
Kakashi leads Kiba, Hinata, and Shino on a mission to infiltrate Orochimaru's lair. What horrors and traps await them?
Kabuto and Yūkimaru travel to a lake, where Kabuto attempts to draw out a mysterious creature. Guren branches off from her men to find Orochimaru, who has Sasuke fight an army of Sound Ninja as training. Sasuke defeats them all, but declares that he wants to kill Itachi more than them. Naruto continues his training by summoning Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, but still doesn't understand the concept of connecting to another person's heart. Kabuto and Yūkimaru arrive at the Hot Springs Village where Naruto and Jiraiya are.
Naruto runs into unexpected difficulties as he trains with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu. While Kakashi's group searches for Guren and her gang, Yukimaru seems to develop interest in Naruto.
Kabuto assigns Guren to look after Yukimaru. Guren isn't all too happy about the assignment, and things only become worse when Yukimaru falls ill on a rainy night. Elsewhere, Kiba discovers the mystery of where the dog whistle is coming from, and Tsunade sends assistance to Kakashi and Team 8.
While Naruto continues his training with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, Yamato, Sakura, and Sai prepare to leave and back-up Kakashi's group. As Guren and her gang prepares to intercept Kakashi's group, Yukimaru grows concerned for her safety and gives her a charm in hope of a safe return.
While Naruto continues practicing a combo attack with Gamatatsu, Kakashi, Kiba, Hinata, and Shino have a run-in with Guren's gang. Will Kakashi and Team 8 be able to defeat these strange foes?
In Konoha, Tsunade discovers they have an enemy using Crystal Style. While on his mission with Team Kakashi, Naruto meets Yūkimaru once again and talks to him. Guren puts a gigantic Crystal Prison over the forest trapping Team Kurenai inside. Guren then prepares six Crystal Clones and attacks Team Kurenai with them. Hinata defeats one clone but is locked up in a Crystal Prison by another. Team Kakashi reaches the borders of the giant prison and Naruto uses his new Jutsu with Gamatatsu to bust a way in.
Naruto successfully breaks down the crystal labyrinth with his new jutsu and he and the rest of Team Kakashi come to Kakashi, Kiba and Shino's aide, and rescue Hinata as well. Meanwhile, Kabuto, Guren, Yukimaru and Gozu head to the lake Kabuto and Yukimaru went to before. What could be in the lake that Orochimaru wants?
Yūkimaru summons the Three-Tailed and immobilizes it while Guren tries to capture it. It manages to break free and attack. Kakashi tells Naruto to investigate the lake, while they find Rinji and the others. Rinji and his men prepare an ambush, but Hinata, Sakura, and Sai arrive to avert it. Naruto summons Gamakichi and Gamatatsu and approach the Three-Tails, where they see Yūkimaru and learn of his allegiance to Guren. Trying to save Guren, Yūkimaru tries to suppress the Three-Tails once more, before managing to escape with her.
Guren is rendered unconscious and relives her past as Naruto is caught in an illusion about Sasuke. After Kakashi finds him, Teams Kakashi and Kurenai conclude the mist around them causes Genjutsu courtesy of the Three-Tails. After Guren wakes up, Yūkimaru suffers another fever and passes out. Tsunade hears of the Three-Tails and assmbles Shizune, Ino, Tenten and Lee to go and seal it before the Akatsuki do. Naruto and Sakura talk about the home that people should return to before Naruto heads off to find Yūkimaru.
Naruto runs into Guren while trying to find Yūkimaru. Yamato and Kakashi find Naruto and bring him back to the group. Kabuto tells Guren that Yūkimaru is only a tool to control the Three-Tails, which upsets Guren. Meanwhile, Shizune, Ino, Tenten and Lee meet up with the team and tell them that their new mission is to rescue Yūkimaru and capture the Three-Tails before Orochimaru's group can capture it.
Shizune, Ino, Lee and Tenten arrive and Kakashi, Shizune and Yamato discuss about a strategy to seal the Sanbi and rescue Yukimaru. Meanwhile, Kabuto and Rinji notice Guren's care for Yukimaru and become concerned.
The sealing unit prepares the sealing barrier and the other two teams go into battle with Guren and her henchmen. Kakashi, Naruto and Sai stall Guren and Gozu while Shino prepares to go against Guren's crystal style. Meanwhile, Lee goes against Guren's other henchmen and gets trapped in their smokescreen. Can Lee find a way to defeat them?
After Shino finishes preparing his insects, he goes against Guren's crystal style. Elsewhere, while Shizune, Sakura, Ino and Hinata are bringing the sealing barrier to the Sanbi, they are being watched by Tobi and Rinji.
Kabuto plans on breaking Leaf’s The Four-Corner Sealing Barrier from the inside by using Yukimaru’s power and have the Three-Tailed Beast go on a rampage.
Yūkimaru falters and the Three-Tails injures Guren. Rinji tells Yūkimaru to suppress the beast to save her, but he is unable to do so. Guren leaves her position and protects Yūkimaru with a Crystal Style shield. Naruto goes out to find Yūkimaru, but ends up fighting the Three-Tails with Guren. Despite their efforts to defeat it, the beast overpowers the two of them, and then it proceeds to swallow them. Meanwhile, Kakashi, Shino and Sai find Yūkimaru unconcious and flee with him, leaving Kabuto frustrated.
Guren tries to attack Naruto within the Three-Tails, but, in her weakened state, is unable to do so and passes out. Meanwhile, Kakashi tells Sakura and Ino to heal Yūkimaru while he, Shizune, Kiba, Sai, and Hinata search for Naruto. Naruto and Guren soon encounter a horde of mini Three-Tails that try to attack them, but they evade them and begin to argue about Yūkimaru. While Yūkimaru awakens, Naruto summons a bunch of Shadow Clones to look for a way out of the beast's stomach. Elsewhere, Kabuto gives Curse Marks to Rinji's men.
Yukimaru informs Kakashi and the others to Naruto and Guren's whereabouts and they attempt to free them with Yukimaru's help. Kiba, Tenten and Lee once again battle Kihou, Kigiri and Nurari after gaining more power from Kabuto. Naruto and Guren continue to search for a way out, coming across human-sized Sanbi-like creatures and illusions. Will Naruto and Guren ever find a way out?
The Sealing Team prepared to start sealing the Three-Tails and tell Sai to take Yūkimaru somewhere safe, but he gets attacked by Kabuto's men. Kabuto meanwhile prepares his plans while Lee, Tenten, and Kiba are also attacked. Rinji finds his men and converts them back to his side, ordering them to attack the Sealing Team; they're stopped by Kakashi, Yamato and Shino. Rinji then makes Yūkimaru eat the pills to control the Three-Tails, which Naruto and Guren learn about.
Katsuyu arrives to help the sealing team with the sealing barrier. Naruto and Guren arrive to save Yukimaru from Rinji, but after Guren and Yukimaru have a brief discussion, Rinji reveals the truth about Guren to Yukimaru in hope that he'll make the Sanbi go wild. What will Yukimaru's reaction be when he discovers Guren killed his mother?
The sealing team continue their efforts to seal the Sanbi while Kakashi and the others face against a monster fused together by Kigiri, Nurari and Kihou. Kabuto reveals Orochimaru's plans involving the Sanbi and he and Naruto begin to fight. While protecting Yukimaru, Guren fights against the real Rinji, who has been resurrected by Kabuto. When Guren sacrifices her life to save Yukimaru, Yukimaru's powers go into full effect. Now, in order to protect Yukimaru, Naruto prepares to go against the rampaging Sanbi.
The battle for the Sanbi comes to an end as neither the Konoha ninja nor Orochimaru are successful at obtaining it. Tsunade classifies the mission of catching the Sanbi as a failure, for it is too dangerous to accomplish. As Naruto and the others prepare to return home, Yukimaru goes missing. Unbeknownst to everyone, Akatsuki lies in wait, and they have their own plans for the Sanbi. | 2019-04-20T22:30:06 | http://criaforum.com/series/111-naruto-shipp%C5%ABden/seasons/5 |
0.999186 | Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to a better choice between attending college at home and abroad. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to study in domestic colleges, but others consider it better to study abroad. I totally agree with the latter idea for the reasons presented below. To begin with, it harms the society in that the greater the competition is, the higher the recruitment requirements will become. Therefore, with experiences of studying abroad, graduates will become more competitive in job hunting. Furthermore, it is beneficial to the students themselves to study abroad. Without the choice to pursue overseas study, many great scholars today would never have achieved such great success. From my perspective, it is crucial that the government should encourage people to pursue overseas study. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of attending college abroad. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.
1. A) He would feel insulted.
2. B) They are of little value.
3. A) He seldom writes a book straight through.
4. D) Unlike a football match, there is no end to writing a book.
5. C) High college dropout rates among black athletes.
6. D) They make money for the college but often fail to earn a degree.
7. C) Slightly over 50%.
8. A) Coaches lack the incentive to graduate them.
10. D) About 183.8 million.
11. C) They are thriving once more.
12. B) Higher employment and wages.
13. D) They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
14. D) Routine operations have become complex.
16. B) It improves students' ability to think.
17. A) They encourage academic democracy.
18. A) His thirst for knowledge.
19. D) People tend to underestimate their mental powers.
20. B) They include more or less the same number of states.
21. C) Reviewing your lessons where the exam is to take place.
22. A) Discover when you can learn best.
23. C) He is a sociologist.
24. D) In developing countries.
25. B) Their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single through the center. You may not use any of the word in the bank more than once.
Let’s all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that those who can’t seem to keep their inner monologues (独白) in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain ___26___ better and show improved perception capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering.
According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to ___27___ mental pictures helps people function quicker.
In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty ___28___ and asked them to find just one of those, a banana. Half were ___29___ to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips ___30___ . Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who didn’t, the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that ___31___ the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someone’s pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.
Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you’ve ___32___ matured is not a great sign of ___33___The two professors hope to refute that idea, ___34___ that just as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking”.
Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and, whatever you do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocery list. At any ___35___ , there’s still such a thing as too much information.
[A] The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than they have in decades. | 2019-04-21T05:25:17 | http://www.jshongrui.com/waiyu/cet/223767.html |
0.999999 | Context. The light from distant supernovae (SNe) can be magnified through gravitational lensing when a foreground galaxy is located along the line of sight. This line-up allows for detailed studies of SNe at high redshift that otherwise would not be possible. Spectroscopic observations of lensed high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are of particular interest since they can be used to test for evolution of their intrinsic properties. The use of SNe Ia for probing the cosmic expansion history has proven to be an extremely powerful method for measuring cosmological parameters. However, if systematic redshift-dependent properties are found, their usefulness for future surveys could be challenged. Aims. We investigate whether the spectroscopic properties of the strongly lensed and very distant SN Ia PS1-10afx at z = 1.4, deviates from the well-studied populations of normal SNe Ia at nearby or intermediate distance. Methods. We created median spectra from nearby and intermediate-redshift spectroscopically normal SNe Ia from the literature at -5 and + 1 days from light-curve maximum. We then compared these median spectra to those of PS1-10afx. Results. We do not find signs of spectral evolution in PS1-10afx. The observed deviation between PS1-10afx and the median templates are within what is found for SNe at low and intermediate redshift. There is a noticeable broad feature centred at lambda similar to 3500 angstrom which is present only to a lesser extent in individual low-and intermediate-redshift SN Ia spectra. From a comparison with a recently developed explosion model, we find this feature to be dominated by iron peak elements, in particular, singly ionized cobalt and chromium. | 2019-04-23T15:00:03 | http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1143128 |
0.99918 | Why decide to participate in a clinical trial?
By agreeing to participate in a clinical trial, you decide to help with the development of medicine. You will have a unique opportunity to work beyond simply finding a cure for yourself, as you will be involved in curing other patients. You will allow new treatments to become available more quickly while playing an active part in turning knowledge into useful forms of treatment.
Clinical research often speeds up access to new medicines or new techniques, long before they are marketed. When all standard treatments have been exhausted, they provide a way of benefiting from additional help.
You can be given a new treatment, although nobody can guarantee the positive effects of that treatment. In a number of trials, however, you may receive a treatment that is already available, or a product that contains no "active" ingredients. | 2019-04-24T12:03:24 | https://www.saintluc.be/en/research/ctc-participate.php |
0.998003 | Mother's plea for daughter's right to die Jump to media player Juliet Flower's daughter Rose has a rare genetic condition that affects her quality of life.
'Animals are treated better than me' Jump to media player Omid - who suffers an incurable, but not terminal, condition - aims to take his case for the right to die to the High Court.
California passes right-to-die bill Jump to media player California is to be the fifth American state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives, legally.
Family 'devastated' at right-to-die ruling Jump to media player The European Court of Human rights has rejected a case brought by Paul Lamb and the widow of Tony Nicklinson, over right-to-die. Lauren Nicklinson spoke to the BBC about the case.
Right-to-die campaigner's battle Jump to media player Right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy, who won a landmark case to clarify the law on assisted suicide, has died, her family has confirmed.
US right-to-die advocate ends life Jump to media player Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill cancer patient whose viral YouTube video reignited the debate on assisted-suicide in the US, ended her life on Saturday.
'Pride' for right-to-die mother Jump to media player The daughter of a right-to-die campaigner who starved herself to death says she is proud of her mother's decision.
How do you decide whether it's right to go on treating a very sick child?
It's the question at the centre of the Charlie Gard case. His parents are not the first to fight for every option to be explored.
Less common is to hear a parent questioning whether their child should continue to receive life sustaining treatment.
Juliet Flower contacted the BBC via social media to tell her story. She believes it would be better for her daughter Rose to be allowed to die. | 2019-04-20T21:29:43 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-40582032/mother-s-plea-for-daughter-s-right-to-die |
0.999999 | Separation of a Mixture of Solids My Flow Chart First remove iron filings with magnet since this is the only substance in the mixture that it is magnetic and will be attracted to a magnet. Second remove the sand by adding the mixture to hot water, which the other two substances are soluble. Third remove the benzoic acid since this is less soluble in cold than salt by cooling the mixture in the heated water.
This will then leave the table salt behind in the water as the last substance. Observations Data Table 1: Experiment Data| Grams (g)| Percent of Mixture (%)| Initial Mixture| 6. 5| 100| Iron Filings| 1. 8| 27. 69| Sand| 1. 7| 26. 15| Table Salt| 1. 9| 29. 23| Benzoic Acid| 0. 8| 12. 31| Combined Total| 6. 2| 95. 38| Questions A. How did your proposed procedures or flow charts at the beginning of this experiment compare to the actual procedures of this lab exercise? My proposed flow chart was very close to that of the actual lab exercise. The only step that I did not include was letting the water evaporate to find isolate the table salt.
I suppose I was thinking that it would be estimated by process of elimination. However, I can now that this would not accurately show that true weight and is therefore not scientific. B. Discuss potential advantages or disadvantages of your proposed procedure compared to the one actually used. The disadvantage of my flow chart would be that although the end numbers would be closer to the original mass of the mixture, it would not accurately represent the correct percentages and would not account correctly show the rror that occurred during the process. C. How would you explain a sand recovery percentage that is higher than the original sand percentage? I would explain a sand recovery percentage that is higher than the original sand percentage from water that could still be let in the sand if it has not been given the proper time to fully dry. However, the a small amount of table salt and benzoic acid particle were also left behind in the small amount of water that needed to be dried out of the sand and could account for the higher percentage.
D. What were potential sources of error in this experiment? I think that the largest potential for error is in the transfer and handling of the substances. Small particles were left behind in the original weighing dish, graduated cylinder and cup that were not able to be transferred. Human error, like spilling small amount of the mixture in transfer, and mechanical error, like a miscalculated calibration of the scale, could also be sources of error. | 2019-04-21T08:56:10 | https://phdessay.com/separation-of-a-mixture-of-solids/ |
0.99452 | Does Healthy Eating require cooking on a regular basis?
Our very short answer to this question is "yes!" We deliberately put an exclamation mark here, because of trends that we have seen in recent research studies involving food preparation, meals at home, cooking skills, diet quality, and disease risks.
Let's start with the current realities of home cooking in the U.S. Studies show that fifty years ago, approximately 1.5 hours per day was spend on food preparation and cleanup in the home. Today, that number has been cut in half. Since women in the U.S. have traditionally played a more prominent role in home cooking than men, researchers have looked especially closely at changes in women's lives that might accompany this trend. What they have found in this context is a significant change in the number of women working at jobs away from home. During this same time period, approximately 45% more women have jobs away from home. This change in the everyday activities of women in the U.S. is believed to account at least part for drop in home cooked meals.
Other factors also appear to play an important role in the loss of home cooking. But for the moment, let's turn our attention to the consequences. Virtually all studies show that meals away from home are associated with unwanted changes in nourishment and health. In one study, each meal away from home was associated with a calorie increase of 130 calories. In that same study, each meal away from home was also associated with a measurable loss of diet quality as measured by a 2-point decrease in an assessment tool called the Healthy Eating Index Scale. Other studies have linked meals away from home to increased risk of obesity and higher BMI (body mass index). In short, there are unwanted consequences when we move away from home cooking on a regular basis.
Studies also tell us that what happens in the kitchen is important. When a meal at home involves nothing more than fast food take out, the benefits of home meals are lost. In other words, increased risk of obesity and higher BMI cannot be prevented simply by driving back home with fast food take-out. In order for these health benefits to be realized, actual preparation of meals in the kitchen is required. One of the study findings that we found most interesting was the presence of increased protein, vitamin C, iron, zinc and magnesium when home meals involved "cooking from scratch" with individual ingredients.
Study findings about home meals and cooked versus raw vegetables are also quite interesting. In one broad-based study in the State of Washington, researchers found that 86% of all participants agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that "almost all cooked vegetables taste good." Similarly, 92% of the participants agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "I like the taste of raw vegetables." Yet in sharp contrast, over half of all participants said that they rarely or never ate a cooked vegetable at lunch. And at dinner, while the balance between raw and cooked vegetables was more even, the total number of participants usually eating a vegetable "other than green salads" was still only 46%. These findings show a clear disconnect between the degree to which people enjoy both raw and cooked vegetables and the degree to which they actually eat them. And this disconnect is especially strong in the case of cooked vegetables.
Studies on home cooking show three basic reasons for the decline in this practice: (1) lack of cooking skills and knowledge about food preparation, (2) lack of confidence, and (3) lack of time. Studies also show the fascinating (and incorrect) belief that homemade meals are generally more expensive than frozen dinners or restaurant take-out. One study involving middle and higher income families showed the perceived cost of homemade meals to be approximately $10, which the actual cost was about $3.50. For frozen dinners, the perceived cost was about $7.50, and the actual cost about $6.50. And for restaurant take-out, the perceived cost was $8.50, and the actual cost about $6.25. So you can see that study participants greatly overestimated the cost of home cooked meals in comparison to both frozen dinners and restaurant take-out. You can also see that the actual cost of the homemade meals was the lowest in these three particular categories.
At WHFoods, we believe that there is no better way to overcome virtually all of these roadblocks than by stepping into the kitchen with both feet and trying your hand at a simple recipe. We have no doubt whatsoever that everyone has the skills to master nutrient-rich cooking and healthy eating! And not only the skills, but the time and the budget as well. Everyone is up to the task, because none of the skills are complicated and they can be learned with a minimum of practice. And it won't take more than a couple of meals to convince you that you can accomplish nutrient-rich cooking without sacrificing taste. We encourage you to hold off on any assumptions about home cooking being too time consuming or too expensive, as well as any doubts you might have about your own ability to cook delicious meals from scratch. And we encourage you to use our website (and our World's Healthiest Foods cookbook) to start bringing the benefits of regular home cooking into your own household.
Are grocery lists and organized food plans required for Health Eating?
Does Healthy Eating require three meals each day?
Are snacks a good thing or a bad thing for Healthy Eating?
Does it matter if dinner is the largest meal of the day?
How consistent does my diet have to be in order for me to stay healthy?
Is it possible to create a well-balanced diet without paying attention to portion sizes?
Is Healthy Eating possible on a tight budget?
Is it okay for me to "eat on the run?"
Just how common is "eating on the run?"
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Hartmann C, Dohle S, and Siegrist M. Importance of cooking skills for balanced food choices. Appetite, Volume 65, 1 June 2013, Pages 125-131.
Reicks M, Trofholz AC, Stang JS, et al. Impact of Cooking and Home Food Preparation Interventions Among Adults: Outcomes and Implications for Future Programs. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Volume 46, Issue 4, July—August 2014, Pages 259-276.
Robson SM, Crosby LF, and Stark LJ. Eating dinner away from home: Perspectives of middle-to high-income parents. Appetite, Volume 96, 1 January 2016, Pages 147-153.
Sarmugam R and Worsley A. Dietary Behaviours, Impulsivity and Food Involvement: Identification of Three Consumer Segments. Nutrients. 2015 Sep 18;7(9):8036-57. doi: 10.3390/nu7095379.
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van der Horst K, Ferrage A, and Rytz A. Involving children in meal preparation. Effects on food intake. Appetite, Volume 79, 1 August 2014, Pages 18-24. | 2019-04-22T15:05:37 | http://worldshealthiestfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=409 |
0.996271 | “Imagine the scene in Casablanca in which the French patrons sing 'La Marseillaise' in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of thousands, and you've only begun to imagine the force of The Singing Revolution,” wrote Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times in his review of James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's documentary about Estonia's struggle to end Soviet occupation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The curiously titled The Singing Revolution chronicles the history behind the little-known, nonviolent protests that began in the late 1980s in the small Baltic republic of Estonia, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union nearly half a century earlier.
With glasnost and perestroika, much had changed since Josef Stalin's iron-fisted days. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Estonians seized that opportunity to effect even more profound changes: their way to protest the Soviet occupation was by singing banned Estonian songs, a “singing revolution” that culminated – following other international events outside their control, including the fall of the Berlin Wall – in Estonia's independence in 1991.
Filmmakers James and Maureen Castle Tusty (right) have kindly agreed to answer (via e-mail) a few questions for Alt Film Guide. See below.
What made you decide to work on The Singing Revolution?
We taught filmmaking in Estonia in 1999 and 2001. We sought out that opportunity based on Jim's father being born in Estonia. During those two semesters, we heard remarkable stories about what happened during the Singing Revolution. We were amazed that we knew nothing of it. We checked, and nor had our friends [heard about it]. We decided the story had to be told, and that we were obligated to do so. If not us, who? And if not now, when?
Could you elaborate a bit on what The Singing Revolution is about? And why that title?
In 1991, after nearly fifty years of rule by a brutal Soviet occupation, the small Republic of Estonia confronted their occupiers by announcing their independence to the world. Their charge heralded the collapse of the Soviet Union and the freedom of now-suddenly-former Soviet republics. It was the culmination of a 4-year, step by uncertain step, revolt. At the core of this revolution was music. As many as 300,000 Estonians would gather in a field to sing illegal songs of protest. But they did this with a remarkable self-control, never giving in to anger despite some Soviet attempts to instigate trouble so that they would have the excuse needed to use extreme force. Many factors played a role in their non-violent success, but music is what unified the people and the various movements.
The title is based on the Estonian name for their revolution. Artist Heinz Valk coined the term “Singing Revolution” in 1988 after a week of all-night singing protests that lasted until 5 or 6AM. We toyed with many “clever” alternative titles; we toyed with many titles that may have communicated the theme more clearly … but we kept on coming back to the reality of “The Singing Revolution.” If that was a good enough name of the revolution for the Estonian participants, it was a good enough title for our movie.
I'd heard of the “Velvet Revolution” of Czechoslovakia, but never of Estonia's “Singing Revolution.” I believe I'm not alone. Why hasn't Estonia's story been told by the world media?
We get asked this a lot. Of course, we're not exactly sure, but have come up with three factors that may have played a role. First, Estonia is a very small country. It is rare that any news whatsoever from Estonia hits the international press. This story is no different. Second, the revolution was totally nonviolent. No blood was shed during this four-year revolution. That's amazing. That's also not newsworthy on a day-to-day basis. Had ten people been killed during a singing protest, the revolution would probably have made international news more often. Third, Estonians really dislike braggarts. We don't know of many cultures that embrace bragging, but the Estonians take it to a whole new level. They just don't brag. So it has not been their nature to talk up the amazing events that comprise the Singing Revolution.
This is a very complicated question, and one that we continue to talk about ourselves to this day. The Singing Revolution did not alone cause the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it played a very significant, if little known, role that we document in the film. The Singing Revolution was a unique 4-year confluence of world events, strategic political moves and an entire nation standing up for itself.
I understand that The Singing Revolution has been screened in Estonia. How was it received by the local media and Estonians in general?
We were worried that Estonians might justifiably say, “Who are you to tell us our history from 5,000 miles away, when you weren't even here during those times?” But instead, the overwhelming response has been to thank us for bringing some distance and perspective to the story. For Estonians, this is current events. For us, we explored the topic for four+ years with no preconceptions about what had happened. We therefore could put together the pieces of the puzzle from scratch. There is nothing simple about this revolution (one alternative title we considered was “The Complicated Revolution” …), and even our 97-minute film oversimplifies some aspects of the history. But who would have the patience for the full story in one night?
We remain committed to telling this story. We are focused on distribution, and are eager to personally present the film and discuss the history. People from all sides of the political spectrum are amazed at what happened, and we want to continue the exploration of the “whys” and “hows.” We think part of the appeal is that most people know nothing about Estonia or its history. While a disadvantage in one way, it is an advantage in that people can watch this story with no preconceptions whatsoever. If the film were about America, or France, or China, the entire audience would have presuppositions about everything they were watching. When watching a film about Estonia, the pallet is cleansed and people can just internalize what they are watching and go wherever their instincts take them. This is helpful for fresh thinking and discussion.
So we do have a few projects in the works, but for now The Singing Revolution remains our passionate focus.
ref .Iris I still find things strange, the time lines do not seem to add up.
The story is based on the life of Anna Kaleva, the part by Ewa Froling.
Various data-dases hold the details and a review but no release date.
I think there has to be some connection if only “The Human Chain”.
I keep coming to a dead-end at the moment.
I can but wonder “if “.
Hope you may be able help my search. | 2019-04-25T10:03:40 | https://www.altfg.com/film/the-singing-revolution/ |
0.999962 | Fluffy and delicious apple pie.
This recipe will be irresistible!
Ingredients: 1 cup warm water; 2 1/4 tsp. dry active yeast; 2 eggs; 1/3 cup white sugar; 1 1/4 tsp. salt; 1/3 cup canola oil; 1 drop of sesame oil; 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 large granny smith apple, thinly sliced; brown sugar; ground cinnamon.
2. Add the eggs, 1/3 cup of sugar, salt, canola oil, and sesame oil. Mix well.
3. Add the flour. When the dough is too dense to mix with a spoon, use your hands. Knead the dough for 10 mins. Place in a greased bowl and cover with a towel. Place in a warm area in your kitchen. Let rise for at least 1 hour or until double in size.
5. Preheat oven to 350F/175C. Roll out the dough into a rectangle until dough is a 1/4 inch thick.
Place a line of apple slices 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the rectangle. There should be enough space below the apples to fold the dough over them. Sprinkle 1 tbsp. of sugar and 1/3 tsp. cinnamon over the apples. Fold the dough over and repeat two more times.
3 irresistible apple dessert recipes! | 2019-04-24T16:35:12 | https://www.cookist.com/apple-challah-youll-fall-in-love-with-this-cake/ |
0.999999 | A teenage jihadist swapped loving messages with the man who helped him to go to Syria in which they called each other 'cutie', 'honey' and 'babe', a court heard.
In the months before making his journey to the war-torn country, Cardiff-born Aseel Muthana, then just 17, allegedly made 'declarations of love' to 21-year-old Forhad Rahman.
The pair had formed a 'profound emotional closeness' through WhatsApp messages, which they signed off with kisses, the jury at the Old Bailey was told.
Mr Rahman knew what his friend planned to do before he boarded a flight to Cyprus from Gatwick, in February 2014, following his older brother to Syria, the court heard.
Mr Rahman, from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, allegedly got a passport and paid for Aseel Muthana's plane and coach tickets.
He is on trial with two other men accused of preparing acts of terrorism by helping the teenager on his way to Syria.
The pair first met in December 2013 and went on to have regular chats on WhatsApp, prosecutor Christopher Hehir QC said.
He added: 'The chats reveal a profound emotional closeness between Forhad Rahman and Aseel Muthana.
'They referred to each other by affectionate names such as 'cutie, 'honey' and 'babe'. Messages were often signed off with kisses, and declarations of love passed between them.
'There may well have been a humorous element to this, but there can be no doubt that these young men rapidly became close friends.
Mr Hehir argued that the men's closeness is highly relevant in the question of how much Mr Rahman knew about what Aseel Muthana was planning.
He continued that the conversations make very clear that the teenager was determined to follow in his elder brothers footsteps by going to fight in Syria.
The prosecutor argued that while remaining 'luke warm' about going himsef, Mr Rahman encouraged his friend to go to Syria.
He allegedly encouraged him despite knowing that Aseel's parents were put through a lot of pain when his older brother, Nasser Muthana, left and were concerned that Aseel would follow.
The teenager has been alleged to be a senior member of a notorious gang, known as the Docks Riverside Grangetown crew, who carry knives and guns.
The gang of around 15 youths as young as 10, who ‘carry knives, knuckledusters and guns’ are also said to target the white rivals they call ‘pastey boys’.
The two young first met in person on December 26, during a group trip from Cardiff to a mosque in Parsons Green, west London, where Rahman worshipped while working in the capital for a minicab firm.
Aseel, now 18, followed his older brother who went to fight jihad before him and became a British poster boy for the Islamic State.
The trial heard how Nasser Muthana, 21, had left the UK in November 2013 and went on to appear with a group of men in an IS propaganda video entitled There is No Life Without Jihad.
Mr Hehir continued: 'By going to Syria he was in fact following in the footsteps of his older brother, Nasser Muthana.
Nasser travelled to Syria with four other young men from Cardiff, three months before Aseel left to join him.
The prosecutor continued that Nasser Muthana had achieved a degree of notoriety when he appeared with other young men, including a friend from Cardiff named Reyaad Khan, featured in the propaganda video.
In the video they can be seen encouraging other Muslims living in the west to join the Islamic State.
The second defendant, Muslim convert Kristen Brekke, 19, lived near Aseel in Cardiff and befriended him when they both worked in an ice cream shop together.
He allegedly bought kit for Aseel, including camouflage clothes and desert boots on eBay and helped him make computer searches for information while allowing him to store items at his house.
Rahman put him in touch with the third defendant Adeel Ulhaq, 21, from Nottingham, who gave him 'valuable advice' in online chats on how to get to the war-torn country, the prosecutor said.
Ulhaq is additionally charged with a separate terrorism funding offence, relating to a money transfer he made to an individual in Turkey.
All three deny the charges against them. | 2019-04-26T02:43:38 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3141516/Teenage-jihadi-man-helped-Syria-exchanged-WhatsApp-messages-calling-cutie-babe-court-hears.html |
0.998716 | Should Travis use "make distcheck"?
I just noticed that we had broken "make dist" on master, because one of the jenkins builders wasn't passing. I fixed it with 197d1992dba2fe.
Should our Travis builds be reconfigured to use "make distcheck" instead of "make all && make check"? It takes only a little bit longer, but it would help us be sure that we weren't running into any issues like the one above, or #25732.
Instead of passing things to "configure" directly in this case, we would need to use the DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS flag to set the configuration options that distcheck would use.
I have a patch here in a branch called travis_distcheck_029.
We should also make sure that the distributed bundles work with Rust, and I have a branch for that as travis_distcheck_031. However, we shouldn't merge that branch into 0.3.1: "make distcheck" doesn't work with Rust until 0.3.3! I have merged that branch forward as travis_distcheck_033.
I'm sorry, I noticed the Rust breakage with 0.3.1 and 0.3.2 because I build .debs for my Qubes sys-tor VM, but I never said anything because I don't (want to) understand enough^Wmore about Debian or its packaging system(s) and didn't really want to get into it. In retrospect, I probably should have filed a ticket.
Maybe we want to have conversations at some point about what Jenkins' function/purpose is (I thought it existed specifically to test packaging and more diverse architectures and platforms like arm and win32), and who maintains our Debian stuff (we seem to do a lot of bending over backwards specifically for Debian when there's also other good distros whom we completely ignore)? If so, maybe we should schedule these conversations for the Seattle 2018 network-team meeting?
Great! I'll plan to merge it once the team has had a chance to discuss the issue below. Let's either do it at monday meeting, or schedule a time then to do it later.
From my point of view, it's okay if we rely on Jenkins to test packaging and diverse architectures, but only if we are looking at it and fixing the issues. On the other hand, if we don't treat bugs found by Jenkins failures as "must fix", then I think we need to take more patches like this that add more configurations to Travis.
I'm fine with either route: either checking Jenkins more frequently, or expanding the scope of what we do with Travis. | 2019-04-24T08:50:19 | https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25814 |
0.999999 | The increment of three dimensional volume in cylindrical coordinates is dV = rdrdθdz. It is just a chunk of two dimensional area rdrdθ times the height dz which gives three dimensional volume. Here is an example.
Example 25.3.1 Find the volume of the three dimensional region between the graphs of z = 4 − 2y2 and z = 4x2 + 2y2.
2 + y2 = 1. | 2019-04-19T00:22:22 | https://klkuttler.com/books/CalculusOneAndManyVariables/x1-28500025.3.1 |
0.999998 | Trump's story with Rep. Jerry Nadler from New York dates back to the 1980s when they fought over real estate in Manhattan while Nadler was in the New York State Assembly before leaving was elected to the congress. In his 2000 book "The America We Deserve" Trump Nadler called one of the most fearful hacks in contemporary politics.
"This guy wanted to build an iron train station on the same property I wanted to build a park on and create the best middle-income apartments in New York," Trump wrote in his book.
Nadler will now head the Judiciary Committee, which will hold him responsible for any democratic impeachment. His committee will also be responsible for dealing with a report by Special Representative Robert Mueller and any dispute with the publication.
to talk about impeachment, even if there is one A considerable proportion of Democrats' advocates – not to mention some legislators of the House – are already making progress.
This does not mean that Nadler did not avoid the word "me" at all. 19659005] Asked about CNN's "state of union" earlier this month, whether Trump had been convicted in Michael Cohen's crime of paying women for their silence during the election campaign, Nadler said, "It would be insulting offenses."
But he said impeachment is another matter.
"They do not necessarily impose an impeachment on the president because he has made an impeachment," Nadler said. "There are several things to look at."
Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is no stranger to the trump tongues with Twitter tongues. As a leading Democrat in the investigation into the House of Republicans in Russia in 2017 and 2018, Ship was a constant television presence that broke the latest revelations about Russia and Trump's team.
The president has used several nicknames on Twitter for the Californian Democrat – – Sleazy Adam Schiff, Liddle's # 39; Adam Schiff and most recently "Little Adam Schitt" – a token of his notoriety among Trump's Democratic critics.
Ship accused Republicans of failing to investigate ties between Trump's team and Russia He pledged to resume Russia's investigation of his committee in several areas.
Among them: Ship wants to investigate questions about Russian money laundering, find out who Donald Trump Jr. called when he called the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 and interviewed officials The committee has not spoken yet, like Michael Flynn.
Ship is a quiet lawmaker, but he has shown that he is ready to make headlines.
"There is a very real prospect that on the day that Donald Trump leaves office, the Department of Justice can accuse him of being the first president for quite some time to face the real prospect of imprisonment." Ship said on CBS earlier this month. "Face the nation."
In the new Congress, MEP Richard Neal of Massachusetts, a focused democrat who has the task to request Trump's tax return. While modern presidential candidates have publicized their return, Trump has defied the norm that the Democrats believe needs to be addressed.
Under the IRS rules, there are only three people on Capitol Hill who can petition the US Department of State for tax returns from the President: the Senate Finance Committee Chairman, the Joint Tax Committee Chief, and the House Ways and Central Committee Chair. Neal is the only Democrat.
While Neal has said he wants to make sure that applying for returns does not distract from the work of his committee on infrastructure, healthcare and oversight of the GOP's tax bill, a source close to the CNN said that Neal I hope that Trump will voluntarily give his tax returns, he submits the president's allies. Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told CNN that the president would be prepared to defend himself before a formal petition.
The source familiar with the process told CNN that Neal was ready to ask the Ministry of Finance for the New Year's earnings. When exactly he would do it will be discussed.
Trump's tax returns are not only of interest to Neal. Other committee committee chairs said the information within the returns could promote their own oversight.
"I think it contains a lot of information of interest to my committee, for example, we want to know exactly what … this President's sources of income were," the MEP said. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the expected chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Cummings continued, "He has made all sorts of allegations that he has no ties with Russia and told us that he has no relations with Russia, and we find that this is not right, so there were a lot of allegations But I think the tax returns in which he has to swear that the information is correct would tell us a lot. "
After nearly a decade in the minority, Cummings may have the most vastest authority to investigate the Trump administration of a Democrat on Capitol Hill. Cummings, despite his deep and focused voice, is cautious, but strategically, in relation to his committee's plans.
A slide for Republican chairpersons like Deputy Darrell Issa from California, former MP Jason Chaffetz from Utah, and MPs. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, Cummings has argued that he will be looking for answers rather than headlines – although he is unlikely to avoid them with his hammer.
Cummings has taken his committee a very clear path. Earlier this month, he again sent 51 letters he had sent in the minority and called on the government to comply by 11 January. The letters ranged from questions about the Cabinet Secretary's journey, to immigration, to security checks by the administration. However, Cummings has also warned that he does not want his committee to use only the weaknesses identified by Trump.
Rep. Maxine Waters of California campaigned for impeachment in 2017 and she was one of the most vocal and well-known Democrats to do so. Now she will head the Financial Services Committee, which will give her an opportunity to examine the finances of Trump and the Trump Organization.
This also makes them a target for the President, who pursued Waters during the 2018 campaign in tweets and at election campaign meetings as a way to ramp up his base. He also attacked Waters as an "IQ low-IQ person" who, she said, is a racist attack.
"Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an exceptionally low IQ person, has become the face of the Democratic Party along with Nancy Pelosi." Trump tweeted in June . "She just called on supporters, many of them, to do damage to the Make America Great Again Movement. Watch what you want for Max!"
Waters has itself made controversial statements, including its call for supporters in response to Trump's "Zero Tolerance" immigration policy, which led to family divisions at the border, publicly harassing members of the administration.
In the minority, Waters pressed for investigation against Deutsche Bank, a lender to Trump She is also involved in a Russian money laundering in 2017 and has urged the Ministry of Finance to spread financial relations between Russia and the Trump family.
Due to the jurisdiction of the Waters committee, it is likely that she collides with Trump's hitting him particularly: his finances. | 2019-04-23T10:34:34 | https://newsbeezer.com/5-chairpersons-who-want-to-make-life-more-difficult-for-trump/ |
0.999999 | We may want to take advantage of upgrade analytics through OMS for Windows 10 upgrades in our Enterprise but is there a way to do this without additional cost?
We already are a Software Assurance customer with Microsoft Enterprise licensing.
all the data that comes into OMS through the Windows Analytics solutions is not getting metered and billed by OMS. This means you can add the Windows Analytics solutions to any OMS workspace (either one you already have or a new one) and you will not get charged. It does not matter if you use a free tier, standard tier or premium tier workspace - Windows Analytics data is always free.
That's great news! Thanks for the information.
My only other question is what should my response be over our security teams concerns about turning on telemetry data that will go outside the organization. There's always someone in the security team that will likely object to this.
In order to learn about the telemetry leaving the systems for Upgrade Analytics I would start here.
The more complete answer is this: Depending on your scenario, there are slightly different sets of data leaving your machines.
2) If you are using Upgrade Readiness for Win 10 to 10 upgrades, your machines have to be at basic telemetry level (info here). You can get some extra data (mainly usage) and use other Windows Analytics solutions by going to Enhanced Telemetry, which is documented here.
2) Storage costs: For the default retention period of a given plan (e.g., 1 month for Standalone plan https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/log-analytics/ ), the "IsBillable=false" records such as Windows Analytics data do not incur storage costs, *but* if you customize you workspace to retain data beyond the plan default, then all records (including Windows Analytics) retained beyond the plan default should be charged at the normal extended storage retention rate (e.g. $0.10/GB/month as of today). Note that in some cases this extended retention billing may not be enforced today, but should be expected to be enforced in the future.
tl;dr : Windows Analytics data is never expected to incur OMS/Log Analytics costs, except in the uncommon case of customized data retention beyond plan defaults.
We like to start sending server data to OMS for log analytics. What's the cost consideration of using the same workspace we already use for workstations (Windows Analytics), or a dedicate one for server data?
Will workstation activities (ingestion and storage) still free of charge when the workspace is used by server data for non-Windows Analytics solutions?
The IsBillable==false logic described in the previous post all happens at the record level, so is independent of what other records exist in the workspace, and what charges those other records may generate. | 2019-04-25T10:25:40 | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-10/What-are-our-pricing-options-for-OMS-to-for-Windows-10-upgrade/m-p/107869/highlight/true |
0.998787 | The food services and accommodation industry accounted for 40 percent of Enforceable Undertakings the Fair Work Ombudsman entered with employers last financial year.
Cafes and restaurants will feature prominently, while take-away food businesses also emerged as a sub-sector with ongoing issues, accounting for 19 percent of Undertakings within the food services and accommodation industry.
Enforceable Undertakings were introduced by legislation in 2009 and the Fair Work Ombudsman has been using them to improve compliance to workplace laws, without the need for civil court proceedings.
"We use Enforceable Undertakings where we have formed a view that a breach of the law has occurred, but where the employer has acknowledged this, accepted responsibility and agreed to co-operate and fix the problem," Ms Natalie James, Fair Work Ombudsman, said.
Which industries and segment of business are susceptible?
Apart from the Food Services and Accommodation sector, other industries where Enforceable Undertakings were required included Administration and Support Services (14 percent) and Retail Trade and Manufacturing (both 7 percent).
Food services and accommodation continues to generate high numbers of dispute notifications, accounting for 16 percent last financial year.
Small businesses - those with 15 or fewer employees - made up 52 percent of Enforceable Undertakings across the two financial years.
Of the 85 Enforceable Undertakings entered into over the past two financial years, almost two-thirds (62 percent) came about after an employee lodged a dispute form on the Fair Work Ombudsman's website.
The high number of Enforceable Undertakings in the accommodation and food services sector are reflective of findings of the Fair Work Ombudsman’s three-year national hospitality campaign, which commenced in 2012 with a wave of audits of pubs, bars, taverns and accommodation houses. The second wave took in restaurants, cafes and catering business and the third wave looked at take away food outlets.
The three phases of the campaign resulted in 801 employers found to have short-changed 4540 of their employees in excess of $2.342 million.
The Fair Work Ombudsman's National Hospitality Campaign revealed only a 52 percent compliance rate with workplace laws.
What should a business do right now?
"I encourage all business to proactively seek information on workplace relations from us, from employer organisations and professionals advising in this space," Ms James said.
"We all have a part to play in compliance. There are many opportunities for us as employers, employees, government agencies and workplace advisers to draw on our mutual interests to see employers do the right thing, avoid a nasty back-payment bill, ensure a level playing field for all business and to build a culture of compliance."
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0.998499 | What's the difference between pre-approval and pre-qualification?
Pre-qualification is a lender's opinion of your ability to purchase a home, and is based on things like your income, employment history and available down payment.
Pre-approval is a lender's underwriting decision that you are qualified, subject to the conditions noted in your pre-approval, and is based upon the lender's review of your completed application, credit check, appraisal and home inspection.
When you write an offer for a home, a pre-approval letter contains stronger language to the seller and the listing agent than a pre-qualification. You, the buyer, have the increased negotiating leverage because the mortgage is already in place.
A pre-approval can often be a determining factor in winning the contract in a competitive bid situation.
What's the difference between Annual Percentage Rate and the interest rate?
The Annual Percentage Rate (APR) will be outlined on your Truth In Lending disclosure that you receive after your application. The APR is often higher than the quoted interest rate, or note rate.
The APR is different than your note rate, or the rate that you were quoted, because the APR includes, in addition to interest, some of the additional costs of obtaining your financing. This is a common practice in mortgage lending.
Simply stated, if there were no costs in obtaining financing, your note rate and the APR would be the same.
A point equals one percent of the loan. Points are usually paid at closing. If your loan amount is $100,000; then one point would equal $1,000 or one percent.
Discount Points are fees paid by the buyer to the lender to reduce the loan's interest rate. If you plan to keep the residence for five or more years, it may be worthwhile to pay discount points to reduce your monthly payment and achieve greater savings over the life of the mortgage.
The number of discount points required to buy down your interest rate will vary based on loan type. Consult your mortgage consultant for details on your specific transaction. Points may be tax deductible when buying a primary residence; consult your tax advisor for information on limitations to tax deductibility.
What is meant by the term "locking my interest rate"? And then, when and how do I lock my interest rate?
When a lender "locks" your interest rate, this means you are guaranteed a specific interest rate for a specific period of time. That period of time is called the lock period.
The lock guarantees your rate as long as your loan closes and funds prior to the expiration date of your lock. If your closing is delayed beyond your lock expiration date, you could be exposed to higher market rates. It is good advice to lock for a period longer than you need, or a period beyond your actual closing date. This will protect you in case unforeseen circumstances arise.
Typical lock periods are 15, 30, 45 and 60 days. In a stable rate environment, shorter lock periods provide you the potential for a better interest rate. However, the market can be volatile and rates move with market activity, up and down.
If you believe rates may go up slightly, you might benefit by waiting to lock because of the shorter lock commitment period. If you believe rates will go down, you would benefit by waiting to lock. If you believe rates will stay the same, you may also do better to wait. If you have a feeling that rates are going to go up significantly, by all means lock your rate.
Once you have a property under contract, you may be able to lock your rate by simply speaking with your mortgage consultant.
Your mortgage consultant will order the appraisal. Buyers are responsible for ordering the survey and ensuring the appraisal is complete in a timely fashion. Be sure to get a copy of the appraisal from the lender. Among other things, surveys can help determine whether there has been an encroachment to the property lines, building lines, or easements. If your home is new construction, the builder may order the survey just after completion, or just before closing. It is recommended that all buyers purchase a survey even though they are often not required in Georgia.
Once I sign my application, am I committed to borrow the money?
None of the mortgage documents you have received are contractual until you are actually at closing and sign your note.
All your mortgage consultant is doing with your application is approving you and putting you in a position to make an offer, purchase a home and close a mortgage loan. You are not obligated for the loan transaction until you sign your closing documents. Buyers should confirm this with their lender.
What key items help ensure a smooth closing?
There are several key items you need to have addressed to ensure a smooth closing.
Homeowners Insurance, or Hazard Insurance, is coverage that compensates for physical damage to the property by fire, wind or other natural causes. It is very important for you to obtain your Homeowners Insurance at the earliest possible date so that there are no delays in your closing or in obtaining the necessary closing funds.
You should send your Declaration Page of your Homeowners Insurance policy with proof of payment to your mortgage consultant at least 5 days prior to your closing date. The responsibility to order and produce a clear Termite Certification depends on the terms in your contract. Check with your mortgage consultant for details.
Where will I be closing? How much do I have to bring to closing, and can I bring a personal check?
Closing costs are the other charges the buyer must pay to obtain a loan. These usually included taxes, which are charged in most states, and title insurance. When applying for your mortgage, your mortgage consultant will provide you with a Good Faith Estimate of the closing costs as part of the application package you receive. Your mortgage consultant should contact you within 72 hours of your closing date, and will provide you with a preliminary Settlement Statement or a HUD-1 indicating the required cash to close. This ensures that you have ample time to arrange for wiring the necessary funds.
You will probably be required to wire your funds to the closing attorney prior to closing. Although variations from the HUD-1 aren’t anticipated, you should bring your personal checkbook to closing in case there are last minute adjustments. If you are due a refund at closing, the attorney will issue you a check.
Closing will typically take place at an attorney's office. The attorney usually represents the lender - not the buyer or seller. All borrowers associated with the mortgage loan transaction will be required to bring Picture Identification to closing such as a driver's license or passport. | 2019-04-18T14:22:35 | http://atlantacityhomes.com/buying3.php |
0.999999 | The word Anglo-Saxon derives from two words, meaning British-German.
The word Anglo-Saxon derives from the British term Saxon for invaders.
The word Anglo-Saxon derives from the German word Saxon for the British.
The word Anglo-Saxon derives from the Irish term Saxon for invaders.
Saint Nina was a Scottish missionary.
Saint Patrick was an Irish missionary who converted the people of Northern Ireland.
Saint Patrick may have been buried in Country Down in the fifth century.
Saint Columba established the Ionan monastery.
6 Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about Christianity?
Christianity disappeared from Britain after the invasions.
Christianity did not survive in the areas not invaded by the Anglo-Saxons.
Christianity survived only in the areas not invaded by the Anglo-Saxons, but moved to Iona in 565 AD.
Christianity survived only in the areas not invaded by the Anglo-Saxons, and important missionaries came from those areas.
7 In paragraph 4, why does the author mention the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', written by a monk, Venerable Bede?
Because it sheds light on the invasions of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain.
Because it sheds light on the history of Britain between the sixth and eight centuries.
Because it explains the work of the missionaries.
Because it describes the rise of the Canterbury church.
8 According to paragraph 5, what happened in Britain after 597 AD?
Britain was divided into several kingdoms, all dependent on one another.
Britain was divided into several kingdoms, all independent.
Britain was divided into several kingdoms and some remained independent.
Britain was united into one kingdom.
However, a disagreement over Christian calendar arose.
But a conflict emerged related to the date line of the Christian church.
But a conflict started over the Christmas calendar.
However, an agreement over the Christian calendar was impossible.
However, a dispute over the Christian calendar raged.
The Christian church in Britain faced many challenges between the sixth and eighth centuries, but disintegrated after this time.
The Christian church worldwide faced many challenges between the sixth and eighth centuries, but continued to thrive.
The Christian church in Britain had many achievements between the sixth and eighth centuries, but disintegrated after this time.
The Christian church in Britain faced many challenges between the sixth and eighth centuries, but continued to thrive.
Ionan followers became more isolated from the king whose allegiance was with the Roman church.
█ [A] However, a disagreement over the Christian calendar arose. █ [B] King Oswiu decided for the Roman calendar over the Ionan calendar. █ [C] From that point, Irish influence on the England church began to wane. █ [D] .
One important source of sixth to eighth century British history is the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', written by a monk, Venerable Bede.
A.The 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People' by Venerable Bede is the most important book in British history.
B.Bede’s work sheds important light on British history between the sixth and eighth centuries.
C.Augustine was sent by the pope to establish new churches in Britain.
D.Because of his conversion to Christianity, King Æthelberht agreed to give Augustine the land for the church.
E.Augustine established the Canterbury church which became the hub of English Christianity.
F.The Canterbury Church became the seat of the British Monarcy. | 2019-04-20T16:50:44 | https://www.bestmytest.com/toefl-reading/40 |
0.999999 | The more abstract a program is, the harder it is to see the details of what happens in each individual step of that program.
How long does this statement take to execute? How much memory does it consume? In some programming languages, these questions are trivial to answer; in others, the answer depends on the types of a and b. In C, for example, a statement such as this one never consumes any memory, because the memory was already allocated before the statement began execution. Moreover, the assignment statement's execution time is bounded by the sizes of a and b, perhaps augmented by the extra time needed to convert b to the type of a. Unless a and b have struct types, it is generally possible to put an absolute upper bound on the statement's execution time on any particular machine.
In C++, estimating this statement's execution time requires looking at the types of a and b. If either of them has class type, then the assignment might really be a function call, and of course that function might do anything at all. As a result, the only sensible answer to "How long will this statement take to execute?" is "It depends." For example, if a and b are strings, then the assignment's execution time must at least be proportional to the number of characters in b, because the program must copy all of those characters. In addition to copying the characters of b, the program must free the memory previously occupied by a, and must then allocate as much memory as is needed to hold the copy of b. As a result, when a and b are strings, both the time and space requirements of the assignment depend on the variables' previous values. In short, the string type's useful abstraction carries the disadvantage of making it harder to predict the performance of programs that use string variables.
Performance becomes even harder to estimate when programs have several layers of abstractions piled on each other. For example, I noted in passing that if a and b are strings, our assignment statement allocates enough memory to hold a copy of b. How much time does this allocation take? In an ideal world, it would be possible to put an upper bound on this time, but in practice, the execution time probably depends on how many blocks of memory had been allocated and then freed in the past. The typical memory allocator begins by looking at such blocks to determine whether one is available that can hold the required characters, and this search takes time. Moreover, on most computers, merely looking through memory may take additional time as well, because there is the possibility that some of that memory might not have been used in a while and might therefore have migrated into a paging file.
These two pieces of hidden overhead — the time required for memory allocation and the time it takes to read from the paging file — can be major contributors to the execution time of even a simple program. In addition, other sources of overhead stem from the hardware designer's optimizations. For example, most modern processors have an on-chip cache that speeds up references to random-access memory. This cache is important because it is common for the processor to be much faster than the memory. As a result, each individual operation in a program may become dramatically slower once the program consumes enough memory that it cannot all fit in the cache at once.
At the other end of the paging operation, the amount of time it takes to fetch data from the paging file may depend on how full the disk drive is that contains that file. The read/write heads that transfer data to and from the disk are designed to write magnetic regions with a particular physical size. Because the disk rotates at a constant speed, those magnetic regions flow to and from the disk at a rate that depends on where on the disk the data happen to be located. If the disk is mostly empty, the hardware will typically use only the outer edges of the disk. The fixed rotational speed translates into a greater linear speed, which, in turn, means that data will flow to and from the disk more quickly. As the disk fills up, the inner part of the disk must be used in order to accommodate the extra data, a requirement that means that the data must be transferred more slowly. Moreover, as the tracks get closer to the center of the disk, each track consumes less physical space, which means that there is room for less data on the track, which means that the disk arm must move more frequently to cover more tracks. As a result, the access time increases along with the transfer time. Disks really do slow down as they fill up.
In short, a simple assignment in a C program on a computer without virtual memory takes a bounded amount of time. Unless the variables being assigned have struct types, that bound depends only on the computer architecture. Adding struct types makes it possible for the time to depend on the size of the struct; but even so, the bound is knowable during compilation.
The data being assigned may have variable size, so that variable time may be needed to do the copy.
Memory allocation and deallocation may take an amount of time that depends on how much memory has already been allocated for other purposes.
If there is not enough physical memory, the statement may require data to be transferred to or from a paging disk.
The transfer time may depend on how full the disk is.
This potential overhead comes from the same source as the ability to use string variables. As a result, the overhead is hard to avoid. Instead, we must think about how to manage it. I’ll have more to say about this subject next week. | 2019-04-25T01:49:31 | http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/performance-bugs-can-be-hard-to-detect/240164327 |
0.999934 | Acquapia is a small country crossed by several rivers, all of them navigable. All rivers have their sources inside Acquapia, in the mountains, and all rivers end at sea – a river never ends at another river. During its course (not at its source) a river may split into two or more streams. There is a city wherever a river begins, splits or ends, and each city touches at most one river. The figure below shows a map of Acquapia, with two rivers and twenty cities. For clarity, only some cities are labeled. In the figure, E and F are cities that have river sources; B, C and D are cities where a river splits into different streams; and A is a city where a river ends.
Being so widespread, rivers are the main means of transportation in Acquapia. But since the country is at war with a neighboring country, it is not safe for ships to cross the sea, so ships can only navigate in rivers. That means that to go from city A to city D, a ship must travel upstream (against the river flow) from A to B and C, make a stream change at C and then travel downstream from C to D. Stream change, which is the operation of changing from navigating upstream to navigating downstream, is difficult and somewhat dangerous, since river streams are strong in Acquapia, and the turns are sharp. Notice that to navigate from B to E (or from E to B) no stream change is necessary. Also, due to the war, it is not possible to navigate, for example, from B to F.
“now that ships cannot cruise the sea, is it possible to navigate from city X to city Y ”?
“if it is possible to navigate from X to Y , does a ship need to make a stream change? If so, in which city, so that the distance travelled is the shortest possible?
The input contains several test cases. The first line of a test case contains four integers C, R, S and Q, separated by single spaces, representing respectively the number of cities (2 ≤ C ≤ 103), the number of rivers (1 ≤ R ≤ C/2), the number or river sections (1 ≤ S ≤ C − 1) and the number of queries that will be made (1 ≤ Q ≤ 2 × 105). Cities are numbered sequentially from 1 to C. The second line of a test case contains R distinct integers, separated by single spaces, indicating the cities that are river sources. Each of the next S lines describes a different river section and contains two integers X and Y , separated by a single space, indicating that there is a section of river that flows from city X to city Y (X ≠ Y ). Then comes Q lines, each describing a query. Each query is composed of two integers A and B, separated by a single space, representing two cities (A ≠ B). The end of input is indicated by C = R = S = Q = 0.
For each test case your program must output Q + 1 lines, where Q is the number of queries in the test case. The first line must be empty; each of the following Q lines must contain one integer, representing the answer to the corresponding query, in the same order as the input. If it is not possible to navigate between the two cities in the query, print ‘-1’. If it is possible to navigate between the two cities but no stream change is necessary, print ‘0’. Otherwise, print the integer that represents the city where the stream change must be made. | 2019-04-23T02:49:37 | https://www.acmicpc.net/problem/5730 |
0.999974 | How Did the 'Duck Dynasty' Couples Meet?
The big, lovable, duck-hunting, sweet tea-swilling family of "Duck Dynasty" is anchored by long-standing, rock-solid marriages. The Robertson couples -- from patriarch and matriarch Phil and Kay on down to their sons and daughters-in-law -- are definitely having and holding, for richer and for poorer (definitely richer, though), in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall live.
The high school sweethearts started dating when Kay was just 14 and got married in 1966 when she was 16. They were practically an old married couple when Phil attended Louisiana Tech on a football scholarship; he even started ahead of the now-legendary Terry Bradshaw and turned down an offer to play in the NFL to concentrate on duck hunting.
"He already had a family at that young of an age. I think that hunting, some of it was just providing for us. So I think that changed a bit of his attitude and allowed him to walk away a little bit easier, you know."
Phil and Kay's love story hasn't always been happy, though. In the '70s, Phil was "headed south" -- running a bar, drinking, getting into fights. In his autobiography, "The Duck Commander Family," son Willie recounts how Phil kicked out his family in a drunken rage, then begged Kay to come back.
"What kept me there? What made me stay with him? It was words my grandmother said: 'One man, one wife, for one life,'" she told Sports Spectrum.
Phil turned to religion to change his life, and Kay forgave him. They're still together more than 45 years later!
Women everywhere shed a tear last December when Uncle Si, the infinitely quotable war veteran, revealed he was actually married. His wife of 43 years, Christine, is not featured on the show.
The inadvertent heartthrob had seemingly been getting so much fan mail that he finally posted a picture of himself with Christine on his Facebook fan page, with the caption: "Everyone's been asking so here ya go...This is me and my wife Christine, we have been married 43 years...Loved her then, Love her still, always have, always will...and you can take that to the bank, JACK!!"
On the show, Si talked about his marriage for the first time just weeks ago. His grandnephew John Luke needed advice about breaking up with his girlfriend, and Si proudly declared he'd been married for over four decades.
Talk about young love! Willie and Korie met at summer camp when they were in fourth and third grade, respectively. "We were on a hike and I asked her to hold hands," he told AskMen. "We went to different schools -- I was in public and she was in private -- but we'd see each other in the Christian youth group during the year."
They married a year after high school, and Willie doesn't regret tying the knot at such a young age. "That way you don't have all the baggage. All our memories are together. Everything we have, we built together."
Perhaps their five kids -- three biological, two adopted -- will take his advice. The eldest two, John Luke and Sadie, are high schoolers who are dating.
Now married for more than 21 years, Willie credits his wife for the family business's success. "In the early days, it was her encouragement that got me to start thinking about how to expand the business," he said. "Had I not been married to her, I never would have done anything that I've done today."
This couple's meet-cute story sounds like it comes straight out of a movie: They met in high school on a fake date to make Jase's ex-girlfriend jealous! Now, they've been married over 20 years and have three kids -- Reed, Cole, and Mia.
Jase told Game & Fish magazine that the question the bearded Robertson men get asked most by viewers is how they managed to snag such beautiful wives. "You hear people say 'Oh these women married these guys for their money,' because we're successful now, but what they don't realize is that when they met us, we didn't have any money. We were all poor, and we've all been married for lots of years," Jase explained. "I always think that's comical. We really came from humble beginnings. It's just been the American dream lived out, we do what we love to do, and it just worked out. But you know our wives are with us because of our spiritual qualities, which flies in the face of what most people think."
On his Facebook page, Jase said, "I am HAPPILY married" while responding to various fan questions.
There's not much info out there about how Jep and Jessica met (though we'll hazard a guess and say high school). They have four kids: Lily, Merritt, Priscilla, and River.
"Duck Dynasty" airs Wednesdays at 10 PM on A&E. | 2019-04-24T17:55:35 | https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/news/duck-dynasty--couples--how-they-met-234103918.html |
0.999997 | Arsenal Returns To The Present-Day In New Arrow Photos We Got This CoveredThe latest batch of photos promoting Arrow show off Roy Harper's long-awaited return to scenes occuring in the present-day.
'Arrow' Star David Ramsey On Potentially Suiting Up As Green Lantern Heroic Hollywood'Arrow' actor, David Ramsey, goes in depth about the popular fan theories of John Diggle becoming the John Stewart version of Green Lantern on the show.
Arrow: What You Need to Know Before the Series Ends with Season 8 CBRThe end of The CW's Arrow has been confirmed, so here's what you need to know about the show before its finale.
The Magicians Shocker: Why This Key Character Is Leaving the Show | E! News E! OnlineSee how the departure stacks up against other big TV exits.
New Arrow Synopsis Reveals When Present-Day Arsenal Returns We Got This CoveredMark your calendars, because this is when Roy Harper will return to Arrow - and not just in the flash forward segments.
Colton Haynes To Return As Young Arsenal In Present 'Arrow' Storyline Heroic Hollywood'Arrow' is bring the present day version of Colton Haynes' Arsenal back to the 2019 storyline, only having been featured in the 2040 storyline this season.
Colton Haynes Likes Estranged Husband's IG Posts While Divorce Remains at Standstill The BlastTeen Wolf” star Colton Haynes is back to liking his estranged husband's social media posts, which is interesting, given the actor's divorce has yet to be finalized.
"Teen Wolf" Star Colton Haynes Marks Sober Milestone | The Fix TheFix.comThough 2018 was a hard year for Colton Haynes, he came out of it on a path of recovery.
Colton Haynes On Failed Marriage: People Grow Apart On Top MagazineIn a cover interview with UK LGBT glossy Attitude, out actor Colton Haynes talked about why his marriage to celebrity florist Jeff Leatham failed.
Colton Haynes Reveals He’s Sober After Struggle With Drug, Alcohol Addiction VarietyColton Haynes revealed he's six months sober following a drug and alcohol addiction, his mother's death and his divorce.
'Arrow' Set Photos Reveal Present-Day Return Of Colton Haynes' Arsenal Heroic HollywoodColton Haynes returns as present-day Arsenal in new photos from the set of The CW's Arrow, which will be ending after the upcoming eighth season.
UpToTASK: @RandyS0725 @DecodnLyfe %^ly pers%^ I think can fit that bill is Colt%^ Haynes.
Open Question: Colton Haynes is gay?
Open Question: Teen Wolf: JACKSON OR ISAAC?
Colton Haynes or Daniel Sharman?
He has cool hair and I want to know how I can get it. Also what's Stephen Amells hair cut?
Resolved Question: Colton Haynes haircut? | 2019-04-26T00:15:46 | http://headlinegrabber.org/C/Colton-Haynes/ |
0.999982 | article:- the Long Term Future of Hard Disks, Tape and Optical Storage?
Milpitas, CA - April 14, 2004 - Audavi Corporation expanded its HardTape product line with the availability of its new 20GB mini -HardTape cartridge. Mini-HardTape is a high capacity, high performance, portable, 1.8-inch hard drive that has been ruggedized to withstand 5,000G shock and features a flexible interface that can be used with FireWire, USB2.0 or PCMCIA. The rapid increase in multimedia content and the focus on convergence make all of these features a "must have" in selecting a portable storage solution.
"As demands for storage capacity and speed increase, HardTape is proving to be an ideal solution for replacing legacy removable solutions such as the floppy drive, tape and optical recording (CD/DVD/MO) for military, government, public safety, medical imaging, enterprise disaster recovery, and now consumer electronics applications. HardTape provides a flexible platform that set s a new standard for removable storage," according to Steven Kaczeus, President of Audavi.
MILPITAS, Calif. - April 14, 2004 - NeoScale Systems, Inc. greatly expanded its Pan-European presence today by teaming with European value-added distributor ACAL Storage Networking.
SAN DIEGO - April 14, 2004 - Overland Storage, Inc. today introduced REO 4000 high-performance disk-based backup and recovery appliance. The REO 4000 is specifically designed to optimize both backup and recovery, resulting in near-instantaneous restores and significantly shorter backup windows. The REO 4000 is a preconfigured, easy-to-install appliance incorporating high-capacity serial ATA disks, specialized software, both iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity, and RAID 5 capabilities. With data transfer rates of up to 300 GB per hour, REO significantly reduces the time it takes to backup and recover, and performs up to 300% faster than many other disk-based products. In addition, the REO 4000 is capable of operating as either disk or virtual tape ( LTO-2 emulation), enabling it to easily integrate into existing backup and recovery processes. The Overland REO 4000 is available now. MSRP for the iSCSI configuration is $13,500.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - April 14, 2004 - ActionFront Data Recovery Labs today announced SignalTrace technology. This technological breakthrough is designed to recover data from media that is so badly damaged it cannot be recovered by any current means. SignalTrace is being introduced on the exhibit floor of the 2004 NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies. A review of SignalTrace technology is being presented at the work-in-progress session of MSST04 by Charles H. Sobey, Chief Scientist of ChannelScience who assisted with the development.
In conjunction with the conference demonstration, ActionFront is releasing a technical white paper entitled "Recovering Unrecoverable Data - The Need for Drive-Independent Data Recovery." In the paper, commissioned by ActionFront, Mr. Sobey, an internationally respected authority of hard disk drive technology and data detection provides a rare insight into current data recovery methods, explains the reasons some media are unrecoverable, and identifies the need for a new class of drive-independent data recovery techniques. The paper then proceeds to describe ActionFront's SignalTrace technology in some detail.
The white paper also calls for an independent data recovery trade association to be formed to certify data recovery companies and to verify claims of extraordinary data recovery capabilities.
MINNEAPOLIS - April 13, 2004 - Datalink Corporation announced today that it has added virtual tape software from Diligent Technologies to its portfolio of data recovery solutions. Using Diligent's VTF Open software, Datalink will deploy open system disk products to emulate tape libraries, providing customers with a high performance solution that can be easily and seamlessly integrated it into their tape-based environment. VTF Open greatly improves the reliability and performance of customers' backup and recovery operations. Because the solution leverages existing backup applications, it eliminates the need to reengineer backup policies, practices, and procedures.
IDF, TAIPEI - April 13, 2004 - Helping to enable adoption of the advanced features of Serial ATA into the market, Intel Corporation today released the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) v1.0 final specification. AHCI is developed by a broad industry group chaired by Intel. The AHCI Contributor Group, more than 40 members strong, consists of hardware developers, software developers, hard drive manufacturers and OEMs. AHCI is intended to alleviate multiple controller implementations that traditionally fragment advanced capability development in traditional ATA storage environments. These features are expected to build on the momentum of the Serial ATA v.1.0 specification in those segments.
Sunnyvale, Calif. - April 13, 2004 - Network Appliance, Inc. announced that it has passed a critical industry milestone with the completion of its 100th iSCSI deployment in a production environment at Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. Cross Country Healthcare stores and constantly updates a current database of approximately 200,000 registered nurses and other healthcare professionals in order to provide medical professionals with temporary employment at hospitals and healthcare facilities across the nation. iSCSI provides Cross Country Healthcare significant savings over its old direct-attached storage environment, as well as the greatly improved availability, manageability, and performance that come with networked storage solutions. Supporting its iSCSI-enabled servers, Cross Country Healthcare utilizes a NetApp unified storage solution for its consolidation of Windows storage, SQL Server, and Exchange application data.
This 100th production deployment further reinforces NetApp leadership in the iSCSI market. According to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker for CY2003, Network Appliance had the highest penetration of the iSCSI disk storage system market, as measured by both market share in factory revenue and the number of terabytes shipped for calendar year 2003.
San Jose, California - April 12, 2004 - StorCard Inc. today announces the completion of Series C financing to complete development and preparation for volume production of the StorCard platform, an innovative new technology platform. New Enterprises Associates led the investment, with Rembrandt Venture Partners also participating for a total investment of US$8 million.
Megabyte found it difficult adapting to the newer thinner Serial SCSI connections.
First announced in November 2001, the first functioning silicon for this was demonstrated in January 2004 by LSI Logic.
Host Bus Adapters and chipsets supporting this new standard start shipping to storage system designers in April/May 2004 from various companies. But we're not expecting to see any real products which users can get their hands on until much later - towards the end of 2004.
Why is the new standard necessary?
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) provides a software compatible upgrade for directly attached SCSI storage which provides much higher performance than Ultra320 SCSI. So this is the least pain next step for SCSI users. Although, as with all new technology there is a learning curve.
The popularity of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) protocol products in the second half of 2003 proved that the base of server owners who are familiar with SCSI - will go a long way to adopt new connectivity options which leverage concepts they trust and are familiar with. Asimilar evolution took place with Ethernet, which started as a 3Mbps standard and still looks viable at 10Gbps. Computer users like stuff that is newer faster and cheaper, but we all know that "newer" also means "buggier" if we are the first users. Anything that reduces the amount of new code and risk along the way gets our vote.
20+ years ago, when SCSI started, it suited the clock speeds and cable transmission driving capabilities of the TTL compatible logic which was the standard at the time. SCSI was also easy to connect using standard low technology ribbon cable. Since then, most of the enhancements in the SCSI standard have focused on getting it to work faster, using higher clock speeds, a wider data bus, lower logic levels and differential signals.
Serial Attached SCSI is the first real attempt in SCSI history to lower cost and simplify the physical connection. The new high speed serial SCSI cables should be cheaper than the lower performance parallel SCSI ones which they replace. And you won't have to worry any more about those termination nightmares. It's simpler in a serial system to automatically monitor signal quality and dyamically adjust to the cable and connector transmission characteristics.
M-Systems is a leader and innovator of flash-based data storage products known as flash disks.
This brings total investment in StorCard to US$14 million to date. StorCard is developing products based on new technologies that combine the best features of flexible magnetic storage, intelligence and security technologies packaged in the ubiquitous credit card format the industry's first intelligent, portable media. StorCard's patent pending technology provides a convenient way to securely transport, share and manage large amounts of personal or business information, while protecting the data from theft and tampering.
"NEA is very excited about the market opportunities for StorCard," said Peter Morris, general partner, NEA. The platform has great potential to surpass many existing technologies and enable new applications within the government, healthcare, enterprise, and content distribution markets. This is unique and disruptive technology that anticipates the market trends and is a superior solution for many applications beyond other technologies available today."
DURHAM, N.H. - April 12, 2004 - The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory has completed the first full-scale multi-vendor interoperability test of the newly ratified IEEE standard for interconnecting systems at 10 Gigabit/sec over copper cable. The IEEE standard, IEEE Std 802.3ak (10GBASE-CX4), was approved in late February. The technology provides an affordable way for Ethernet routers, switches and server clusters located within 15 meters of each other to exchange data at 10 Gb/sec over copper twinaxial cables.
SILICON VALLEY, CALIF. - April 12, 2004 - For Certance, HP, and IBM - the three technology provider companies for the Linear Tape-Open Program - 2003 was another banner year, with more than 260,000 LTO Ultrium drives shipped in 2003, a 50% increase in unit shipped over 2002. Based on a March 24, 2004 Gartner Dataquest report: Tape Drive Market Shares, 2003, by Fara Yale, Research Vice President, approximately 123,500 Super DLT drives shipped in 2003. According to Gartner Dataquest, the LTO Ultrium format continued to gain share over SDLT during each quarter of 2003. For all of 2003, the report found that drives based on the LTO Ultrium format out-shipped Super DLT by more than 2:1, continuing the LTO drive share lead for the third consecutive year.
CAMARILLO, Calif. - April 12, 2004 - Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation today announced its first products aimed at the rapidly emerging Serial Attached SCSI Storage market. Analysts and industry insiders alike expect SAS to replace parallel SCSI within the next three years and become the most widely used protocol for enterprise server and large-scale storage applications. This extensive SAS expander offering NexSAS is targeted at both enterprise-class server and storage enclosure applications, and is the latest family in the Vitesse storage portfolio to address the needs of systems OEMs with standards-compliant, feature-rich, high-performance solutions.
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. - April 8, 2004 - Xtore Extreme Storage today announced its expansion to a larger facility to accommodate significant growth in U.S. business operations. The company has purchased a 14,000 square foot building to house corporate headquarters, including sales, marketing, manufacturing, engineering, service and support. The new building features a state-of-the-art storage networking laboratory for interoperability testing and emerging technology verification. Additionally, Xtore has hired new personnel representing all business areas.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 8, 2004 - Intransa Inc. today announced that storage industry pioneer Paul Talbut has joined the company's Advisory Council. Talbut is chief executive of Hardware Planning Services Limited, chairman of the SNIA Europe, and a founding member and four-year chairman of the FCIA Europe. He has more than 30 years of IT industry experience. | 2019-04-23T07:52:25 | http://www.storagesearch.com/news2004-apr2.html |
0.999999 | Will I have to have it again in later years?
I am very interested in getting a neck lift.
I am very interested in getting a neck lift. I am a 38 year old female and the "turkey gobbler" seems to be very hereditary in my family regardless of weight. I am not over weight (very lean, actually) but mine is already starting to make its appearance. When I have this procedure done, will I have to have it again in later years?
I love to perform the neck lift procedure because the results in the right patients are really remarkable. The neck lift procedure is just like all other facial surgical procedures in that over time you will likely need a touch up procedure to maintain the appearance of your neck that you have grow occustomed to seeing. The touch up necklift procedure that you will need will be much less aggressive than your original necklift procedure. You will not likely need a touch up necklift procedure for several years. | 2019-04-26T09:02:16 | https://www.renudc.com/blog/i-am-very-interested-in-getting-a-neck-lift |
0.996403 | President Donald Trump went on a Twitter rant against Elizabeth Warren Sunday night, mocking the MA senator for a video in which she announced her presidential intentions. Trump responded to the video on Sunday, commenting on how she thanked her husband when she said: "I'm glad you're here".
In a follow up tweet, Trump called the video a "beer catastrophe". The event succeeded her presidential bid announcement.
"Wounded Knee" refers to the 1890 massacre of Lakota Indians by US troops, while "Bighorn" refers to the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, often called "Custer's Last Stand".
Trump mocked the interaction, describing it as a "catastrophe", especially when Warren thanked her husband, Bruce, whom she introduced as her "sweetie".
Trump tweeted: "It's their house, he's supposed to be there!" Then, matter-of-factly from across the camera as he left the kitchen, he offered a quick farewell: "Enjoy your beer".
In October, Trump demanded Warren apologize for claiming Native American heritage as part of what he called a "fraud" against the public, mocking her recently released DNA test as "bogus".
The test, performed by Stanford University professor Carlos Bustamante, concluded that while the vast majority of Warren's ancestry is European, there is definitive evidence that she has Native American blood. While she used the results to counter allegations she lied about that ancestry to get ahead in academia, Trump and other Republicans highlighted how diluted that ancestry was revealed to be. Sunday, making his usual volley of jokes themed on her Native American heritage.
After announcing her 2020 exploratory committee, Warren has made visits to Iowa and New Hampshire with eyes on a possible run for president. | 2019-04-26T10:03:51 | http://graffiotech.com/2019/01/14/trump-torches-elizabeth-warren-over-video-of-her-drinking/ |
0.999999 | It's been a good run, these 14 Days of Fortnite We've had some of the greatest cosmetics that Epic Games has made yet, we've had some creative challenges, we've had an epic New Year's celebration, and we had a few moments A snowy Christmas day with a light snowfall over the entire map. Now, it's time to close things out.It's the last day of the 14 Days of Fortnite, with a pretty straightforward challenge that shouldn't be too hard to complete. ] The day 14 challenge asks you to search 14 chests, which is just about the most straightforward challenge you can do in the game. It 's particularly trying.
Just downloaded this thing on your new gaming platform, however, you' re looking for a glowing golden chest that randomly spawns in structures or by trees and rocks. The easiest way to find it is with a grand, shimmery sort of noise: you'll know it when you hear it, it sounds like treasure. Just follow that for your chest. If you're playing on mobile, you'll see a little golden indicator with a treasure chest icon in the direction of the chest. You may need to build up an attic or onto a ledge to get it.
Your reward for completing this challenge isn't bad: it's the " equalizer " glider, with flashing LEDs to match either DJ Yonder or DJ Bop: DJ Yonder was in the Season 6 battle pass, and DJ Bop is in the Item Shop right now. Pretty handily from the New Year's Eve theme.
Epic has launched its limited-time event in recent months. The 14 days of Fortnite were a treasure trove of free items for players new and old, and that came hot on the heels of the expansive & nbsp; Fortnitemare event, which flooded the map with AI-controlled zombies. It was well for the year to come: Fortnite was the biggest gaming story of 2018, but no sign that it's slowing down any time soon.
It's been a good run, these 14 Days of Fortnite. We've had what I might consider one of the greatest cosmetics that Epic Games has made yet, we've had some creative challenges, we " ve had an epic New Year's celebration, and we even had a snowy Christmas Day with a light snowfall over the entire map. Now, it's time to close things out.It is the last day of the 14 Days of Fortnite, with a pretty straightforward challenge that shouldn't be too hard to complete.
The day 14 challenge asks you to search 14 chests, which is just about the most straightforward challenge you can do in the game. ll get a couple in any given game if you aren't particularly trying.
If you just downloaded t his thing on your new gaming platform, however, you're looking for a golden chest that randomly spawns in structures or by trees and rocks. The easiest way to find it is with a grand, shimmery sort of noise: you'll know it when you hear it, it sounds like treasure. Just follow that for your chest. If you're playing on mobile, you'll see a little golden indicator with a treasure chest icon in the direction of the chest. You may need to build up an attic or onto a ledge to get it.
Your reward for completing this challenge isn't bad: it's the "equalizer" glider, with flashing LEDs to match either DJ Yonder or DJ Bop: DJ Yonder was in the Season 6 battle pass, and DJ Bop is in the Item Shop right now. Pretty handily from the New Year's Eve theme.
Epic has launched its limited-time event in recent months. The 14 days of Fortnite were a treasure trove of free items for players new and old, and that came hot on the heels of the expansive Fortnitemares event, which flooded the map with AI-controlled zombies. It was well for the year to come: Fortnite was arguably the biggest gaming story of 2018, but there is no sign that it's slowing down any time soon. | 2019-04-21T00:23:20 | https://techbeezer.com/how-to-find-14-chests-and-earn-the-reward/ |
0.999999 | Given an array of integers, find the first missing positive integer in linear time and constant space. In other words, find the lowest positive integer that does not exist in the array. The array can contain duplicates and negative numbers as well.
For example, the input [3, 4, -1, 1] should give 2. The input [1, 2, 0] should give 3.
You can modify the input array in-place.
For a given input, if we ensure that positive input value is in the correct index position (done using swap operation), then we can return first non-positive index as the missing value.
This problem was asked by Stripe.
Given an array of integers, find the first missing positive integer in linear time and constant space.
In other words, find the lowest positive integer that does not exist in the array.
The array can contain duplicates and negative numbers as well. | 2019-04-26T02:42:51 | https://blog.vcillusion.co.in/finding-first-missing-positive-integers-the-right-way/ |
0.998816 | Genomics research may transform personalized medicine. How can radiologists help?
Compiling samples of thousands of genomes from cancer patients may sound like a daunting task, but that's exactly what The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has been doing.
It's cataloging the DNA of tissue from thousands of patients, who suffer individually from 20 different types of cancer, ranging from glioblastoma multiforme to breast lobular carcinoma. Through this research, TCGA researchers are on a mission to answer one question with massive implications: What turns a normal cell into a cancer cell?
TCGA, which falls under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), is one of the major players in cancer genomics research. Its pilot program began in 2006 to characterize three heterogeneous tumors in the ovary, lung, and brain. In 2009, its mission expanded to encompass 20 different classes of cancer, each of which requires more than 500 tissue samples to prove significant findings.
Investigating cancer patterns deserves the attention of many organizations and diverse specialists in oncology, genetics, pathology, informatics, and even radiology. That's why this kind of research has spawned a new term: omics. It was named to encompass much more then genomics' traditional definition and scope. In that sense, omics incorporates the broad intersecting fields needed to study the human genome. If successful, this multidisciplinary, multi-institutional effort could revolutionize individualized cancer care and therapy by predicting what treatments and therapies may be successful. Yet, how can the radiology community help unlock the mysteries of cancer?
TCGA's original scope did not focus on medical imaging, but it didn't take long for researchers to realize the importance of radiology in cancer patterns. After all, radiologic images provide another way of looking at it, and learning from, the mutations that cause cancer. Neuroradiologists like Adam E. Flanders, M.D., professor of radiology and rehabilitation medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, are already marrying the imaging component to existing brain cancer genomics research data. "We're interested in why these malignant brain tumors can appear so radically different in MRI scans in different patients," he says, adding that glioblastomas are typically classified in a single general category by neuropathologists, even though we know the disease has many variations that directly reflect their variable genetic structure. "In much the same way that our genetic structure, or genotype, defines how we look, from the shape of our fingers to the color of our eyes, the genetics of cancer determines the appearance or behavior of a tumor like glioblastoma."
Flanders and a team of neuroradiologists with backgrounds in oncologic imaging were assembled from various institutions around the country, such as the National Institutes of Health, University of Virginia, Emory University, Henry Ford Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Stanford University, with the goal to actively study brain tumor images and create a controlled vocabulary for describing their phenotypic appearance on an MRI. Typically, a phenotype is viewed through the genetic lens, resulting in visible traits like blue or green eye color. But a "phenotype is also the way a disease expresses itself," explains C. Carl Jaffe, M.D., professor of radiology at Boston University School of Medicine and consultant to the NCI Cancer Imaging Program (CIP). A brain tumor phenotype is simply those features that a radiologist actually sees in the image — or in Flander's case, a brain MRI. To assess glioblastomas in brain scans more efficiently, for example, imagers need to use the same set terms to describe what they see. "We need a very controlled, semiquantitative method to describe the heterogeneous appearance of these tumors," says Flanders. For example, what actually defines necrosis? Necrosis requires a standard definition as does each way a radiologist might report tumor appearance.
This insight sparked a mission for Flanders and his colleagues: to come up with a comprehensive list that describes each element of how a brain tumor appears on an MRI. Then, Flanders and the coinvestigators could look at each case, apply the developed lexicon, and score each glioblastoma in a consistent manner. This strategy has already achieved a high level of agreement among neuroradiologists involved in assessing TCGA's Internet-accessible repository of brain tumor images, many of which are publicly accessible at http://cancerimagingarchive.net.
Flander's research is the first of its kind and an exemplary illustration of how radiologists can contribute to omics research. But how can his studies lead to more personalized cancer care? First and foremost, such improvements in care require collaboration between a number of specialties, including radiology and pathology. According to Joel H. Saltz, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of biomedical informatics and professor of pathology at Emory University in Atlanta, who is also involved with genomics research through TCGA and the CIP, "Understanding the heterogeneity of a tumor is very important. And pathologists can contribute [to the cause] because of their expertise in doing image analyses of individual cells in tumors," he explains. "But if you have a large enough region, you can look at the relationship between changes you might see in a diagnostic imaging study and relate it to the subclasses defined from the geneticists' point of view." In other words, radiology provides a broader view of a tumor, which Saltz compares to the view from a satellite. Studying the pathology or genetics of a tumor, however, is more lie the view from an airplane.
Flanders elaborates, "Imaging is complementary to genetics. [With both], we can get a much better handle on how patients might respond to a particular treatment or survive." Researchers hope one day to achieve enough evidence-based support to say, for example, "If a tumor looked this way in an MRI, the pathology looked this way, and these gene clusters were turned on, then a patient will do better with treatment A versus B," emphasizes Flanders.
Not only are radiologists, pathologists, and geneticists involved in these efforts; these researchers also rely on informatics and statistics experts to look for significant relationships between the tumors studied. Flanders and Saltz also work with the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® (caBIG®) — a virtual network of data, individuals, and organizations redefining how cross-disciplinary cancer research is conducted. "We need to create tools to bring all resources available in cancer research closer to patients," Flanders explains. "And we need to work with pathologists, informaticians, and biostaticians," he adds, because these specialists can tell us whether research findings make sense and if a scientifically robust conclusion is generated.
Genomics certainly is being brought into the public eye and has even been featured in the ever popular TED — Technology, Entertainment, and Design — conference series. In a lecture given as part of TED talks, Richard Resnick, CEO of software company GenomeQuest, gives two examples of patient diagnoses made through genetic profiling. The fact that these advances are already altering patient care and personalized medicine is a great indicator of what's to come. And, as Jaffe explains, "Imaging is a noninvasive way to characterize the human body." The fact that imaging is also often a part of patient workups allows for enormous contributions from the radiology community.
Realizing this potential, the ACR convened a meeting of leaders in October 2011 to discuss genomics research and the role of imaging experts in the omics field. The group determined several action items to strengthen radiology's role in collaborative research with the NCI's TCGA, CIP, and caBIG, including sharing current research, developing team coinvestigators, publishing early findings in medical literature, and encouraging researchers to contribute to, use, and cite images from CIP's archive. Most importantly, radiologists need to "keep their antennas up," when it comes to this field, says Jaffe. And as Resnick concludes, "I urge you all to wake up and to tune in and to influence the genomic revolution that's happening all around."
1. “Getting Personal,” Nature 2008;455(7216):1007. | 2019-04-18T20:50:09 | https://acrbulletin.org/topics/practice-management/1051-genomics-research-in-radiology |
0.998655 | Do I have strep or pharyngitis? I have checked for redness and white spots on my throat, but it seems like a subtle redness. How obvious is strep?
Obvious. The beefy red, enlarged tonsils with purulent exudates and swollen lymph nodes don't always occur. A strep throat test/ culture will allow you to know for sure.
Obvious. The beefy red, enlarged tonsils with purulent exudates and swollen lymph nodes don't always occur. A strep throat test/ culture will allow you to know for sure. Would you like to video or text chat with me?
Does viral pharyngitis cause the white spots on tonsils and red patches in the back of throat or is that only bac more Does viral pharyngitis cause the white spots on tonsils and red patches in the back of throat or is that only bacterial?
Diagnosed acute pharyngitis, 12 days since, fever gone, sore throat gone. Still red spots roof of mouth, white to more Diagnosed acute pharyngitis, 12 days since, fever gone, sore throat gone. Still red spots roof of mouth, white tongue remain. Should I be concerned?
Can i have infectious mononucleosis if my only symptom is sore throat(pharyngitis), i have white spots in my thro more Can i have infectious mononucleosis if my only symptom is sore throat(pharyngitis), i have white spots in my throat however they are not pus.
I went to the ER thurs where the doc told me I have strep pharyngitis he gave me penicillin it is now sat and the more I went to the ER thurs where the doc told me I have strep pharyngitis he gave me penicillin it is now sat and the white spots r worst is that normal?
I had pharyngitis two weeks ago and now im feeling congested and my throat hurts a lot with a little nausea strep more I had pharyngitis two weeks ago and now im feeling congested and my throat hurts a lot with a little nausea strep was ruled out by the doctor?
I want to know if Levaquin treats strep throat or bacterial pharyngitis since I'm allergic to penicillin and resi more I want to know if Levaquin treats strep throat or bacterial pharyngitis since I'm allergic to penicillin and resistant to biaxin (clarithromycin)?.
I saw a doctor yesterday and was diagnosed with pharyngitis. Still waiting for strep throat culture to come back. more I saw a doctor yesterday and was diagnosed with pharyngitis. Still waiting for strep throat culture to come back. Pain is worst. Can hardly swallow.?
Pharyngitis,for 2 weeks sore throat went away. Pain on both sides by tonsils keeps coming back, strep test negati more Pharyngitis,for 2 weeks sore throat went away. Pain on both sides by tonsils keeps coming back, strep test negative for bacteria. Help please ?
Is grapefruit seed extract effective in treating strep throat? | 2019-04-20T14:20:20 | https://www.healthtap.com/user_questions/1190840-do-i-have-strep-or-pharyngitis-i-have-checked-for-redness-and-white-spots-on-my-throat-but-it-seem |
0.999996 | © Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited It's a boy! Heather Lundberg Green's threw a gender reveal party for her son, Adrian Brown (pictured), to reveal to friends and family that her son was transitioning from female to male A proud mother-of-two has staged a gender reveal photoshoot for her 20-year-old transgender son to celebrate his transition from female to male.
Heather Lundberg Green, 39, revealed that her son, Adrian Brown, came out to his family as a transgender man in October 2018 when he was 19 years old.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Happy: Adrian, 20, used the gender reveal party to both celebrate his 20th birthday, and to celebrate coming out as a man Now, to celebrate Adrian's 20th birthday, the Kentucky native decided to stage a photoshoot in the style of a baby gender reveal in order to share proudly share her son's transition journey with friends and family.
The mother-of-two revealed that when her son initially told her that he wanted to transition from female to male, she wasn't sure how to properly react.
'Honestly when he told me he was transitioning I was determined to support him though his journey, but I had no idea how,' Heather wrote in a blog post for Love What Matters.
'I have always had many friends in the LGBTQ community and still I wasn’t sure what steps I should take as his mother, or even what an appropriate response was outside of "I love you,"' she added.
However, despite being initially confused about the best way that she could support her son, Heather came up with a creative idea.
The 39-year-old decided to throw a gender reveal party for her son's 20th birthday to celebrate his transition.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Proud: Heather, 39, revealed that when Adrian told her he wanted to transition in October, she had 'no idea' how to support him through his journey, despite wanting to be able to Heartwarming photographs taken at the party show Adrian, who Today says grew up with the name Hannah, surrounded by blue balloons.
In one shot, he's wrapped up in a blanket that read 'It's a boy.' In other, he smiles in a pool of blue confetti.
Adrian also took a few snaps of himself popping pink balloons, signaling an end to being female.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Process: However, after some time, the mother-of-two came up with the creative idea of throwing a gender reveal party and photoshoot to document the special journey © Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Process: However, after some time, the mother-of-two came up with the creative idea of throwing a gender reveal party and photoshoot to document the special journey According to Heather, the photoshoot was a fun way to share the good news with friends and family who weren't aware of Adrian's transition just yet.
Heather shared the photos from the party to her Facebook page with a caption that read: 'When your child comes out as trans, the best thing to do is create a photo shoot to celebrate the fact that he silently and bravely stepped out of the race that he never wanted to be in, found his own lane and proceeded to win.
'Happy 20th birthday Adrian! You are without a doubt the most fascinating human I know and I will always be your biggest fan!
'I love you, I honour who you are and I respect your courage to be unapologetically you!! Let's celebrate,' she added.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Creative: The photographs show Adrian in a number of classic gender-reveal scenarios, including surrounded by blue confetti, holding blue balloons, and lying beside a teddy bear Since Heather posted the photos online on January 29, they have gone viral. The post has garnered a whopping 33,000 likes, and a further 200 comments.
Dozens of Facebook users commented on the post, praising Heather for her support for her son.
Adrian first came out to his brother Lucas, 17, in September. Speaking to WAVE, Adrian said: 'The decision to come out was really scary.
After confiding in his brother, who supported him, Adrian decided to tell his mother.
'From a parent's perspective, there's almost a feeling of loss when a child comes out, even the parents that support it,' she told Today.
Writing about her son, Heather revealed that she always noticed something special about Adrian from a young age.
'Growing up, Adrian was always a little different from the other children. He wasn’t extremely feminine, nor was he masculine, he was just him,' she said.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Say cheese: Heather posed for the photoshoot with a fake baby bump and newborn baby clothing to get into the spirit of the gender-reveal photo shoot 'He has always seen the world through a different lens and interacted with it in his own unique way. Adrian was the type of child who exuded compassion and empathy for his peers, always seeking to friend the children who didn’t have friends.
'Whether he was sitting with the special needs children at lunch to be a friend, or helping a struggling reader or artist, he has always lifted the people around him up.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Viral: Heather shared the series of photographs in a post on Facebook which has gone viral, gathering 33,000 likes and more than 200 comments 'The difference I saw in him never struck me as being a difference in gender but a difference in heart,' she added.
When he was just 13 years old, Adrian revealed that he was pansexual, meaning that 'his love is not gender specific, but rather it is based on emotional connection'.
After the family began Adrian's transition and became more familiar and comfortable with the idea, Heather was eager to share the news with her friends and family.
Heather explained that she hoped that sharing photos from the gender reveal photoshoot would encourage others to understand that is is perfectly acceptable to surround a transition 'with joy and love instead of the typical ostracizing and dysphoria' that she says can often happen.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Positive: Sharing a message to other parents, Heather said: 'Trust your children, respect them, and accept that you don’t know everything there is to know, let them teach you' She understood, however, that sharing his transition on such a public level might have its consequences.
Heather also shared a message with other parents whose children might be transitioning.
'First of all, the heartbreaking part of this story is that it is 2019 and we are celebrating a mother’s unconditional love for her child. I am not sure how other parents raise their children, but I thought this was a given.
'Secondly, trust your children, respect them, and accept that you don’t know everything there is to know, let them teach you.
'Third, we hear parents say, "I want to make the world a better place for my children", so go do it! This isn’t just a tagline for recycling, it should be a way of living. | 2019-04-25T12:00:18 | http://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/familyandrelationships/its-a-boy-mother-stages-a-gender-reveal-photoshoot-for-her-20-year-old-son-celebrating-his-transition-from-female-to-male/ar-BBTsW1L?li=AA2FZ8I |
0.999988 | Article: Is IT Outsourcing a Dying Concept?
I read this article in CIO; it points to the fact that customers of IT service providers like AIS are looking for higher-value services and not simply low-cost infrastructure.
Has the concept of IT outsourcing outlived its effectiveness? KPMG’s Cliff Justice says the process that the term was invented to describe has evolved considerably and finding value in IT service providers is taking on new meaning.
According to a recent survey by outsourcing analyst firm HfS Research, 63 percent of IT leaders would like to drop the term “outsourcing” to describe the IT services provided to them by third-parties and 68 percent of IT service providers want to do away with the designation.
Some of that can be attributed to the negative connotations associated with the word “outsourcing,” particularly on the heels of a presidential campaign that trotted out the practice as a job-destroying boogeyman.
But it could also be that the term has outlived its effectiveness. “Like many invented terms, the process it describes has evolved considerably from what it was initially,” says Cliff Justice, partner in KPMG’s Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory.
In his report earlier this year, “The Death of Outsourcing,” Justice argues that as the use of third-party IT service providers has evolved from a simple “lift-and-shift” back-office cost-cutting exercise to a complex ecosystem of smaller deals, higher expectations and more business-centric services. The way customers and providers think and talk about outsourcing must advance as well.
The low-hanging fruit has been picked. Organizations will find it difficult to rely on their low-cost, low-margin service providers to be in a position to step up with the kind of investment needed to give them additional competitive advantages.
CIO.com talked to Justice about the shift taking place in IT services, the inherent inertia on the part of both customers and providers to embrace new models, and the potential winners and losers in a world beyond outsourcing.
CIO.com: When did IT outsourcing really start to shift in terms of both structures and expectations and what have been the most significant changes?
Cliff Justice, KPMG: It really started to shift around 2006 to 2007. We are seeing a transition from outsourcing as a commodity that’s very price-focused to a service that’s much more value-oriented. Companies with the most mature arrangement–the ones I call “Extended Global Enterprises”–have shifted or are shifting to integrating the use of third-parties and managing that integration in a way that promotes their business goals. The result is more innovation, more new product ideas, and more new services.
CIO.com: Who’s driving this transformation–customers or service providers?
Justice: Mainly the customers. The value that service providers can offer extends to helping a company compete more effectively in the marketplace for customers–by helping with product development or entering new markets, both of which help to drive customer growth.
CIO.com: You describe this as the “death of outsourcing.” Why is outsourcing, in its present state, unsustainable?
Justice: Outsourcing became too reliant on labor arbitrage, which is a very short-sighted strategy. For example, wages in India have gone up from 10 to 14 percent yearly since 2009. Also, the offshore talent pool is smaller than it was five years ago, further limiting labor arbitrage as a strategy.
CIO.com: But isn’t cost-cutting still an important factor in sourcing decisions, given continued pressure on IT to do more with less?
Justice: Cutting costs is very much a driver. However, companies are demanding more value from third-party services, such as the ability of the provider to partner and move business goals forward. That’s a big change from the way it was five to 10 years ago.
CIO.com: What kinds of outcomes are customers seeking from IT service providers? More importantly, are the providers capable of delivering them today?
Justice: Clients are looking for increased agility, reduced fixed costs, availability of working capital, better insights into trends they’ll need to take advantage of, to name a few. Providers that are growing and excelling are aligning with their clients’ industries and specializing in order to help their clients compete better. In so doing, they’re becoming more valuable to their client organization.
CIO.com: Describe the new outsourcing customer.
Justice: The new customer is a blend of the CIO and the business. The CIO takes on more of the governance aspects of the provider relationship and manages the overall technology impacts across the enterprise that includes a blend of sourcing models to deliver increased value.
The business side continues to mature as a technology buyer, not only to provide business requirements but also to have a strong and educated opinion on the technology that they want to use to further the goals of the business.
CIO.com: What does that mean for the service providers? Who will be the winners and losers?
Change is constant, but always difficult and often mismanaged. Ensure you have aligned the business goals with the service delivery model.
Justice: Service providers will need to develop or enhance strategies and skills that position them as “business first” solution providers and not solely as technology or transaction companies. Those that can provide business- and industry-specific solutions that create innovation, reduce costs, reduce risk and provide competitive advantage for their clients across the entire back office will be the winners.
CIO.com: Will the vendor sales teams have to make adjustments?
Justice: They will need to become more focused on business outcome than on price alone. Key measures of success need to focus on the value-added capabilities of the organization to bring innovation and improve quality, flexibility and speed to market while integrating with all areas of the business and not just certain parts of it.
CIO.com: This next generation sourcing model has clear benefits, but change is difficult. How can customers and service providers overcome inertia?
Justice: Leadership needs to come from the top. Successful organizations set clear objectives in their sourcing strategies from their leadership. This is not a “once and done” model. It requires a consistent, well-thought-out and ongoing communication of this strategy and the change that the organization is going through.
The service providers that will be successful are those that partner with the organization to bring the change management and communication mindset that identifies them as part of the team and supporting the change.
CIO.com: You say that such changes may be hardest for those who have been most successful at outsourcing for cost savings in the past.
Justice: The low-hanging fruit has been picked and reinvestment may be needed to get to the next level of value creation. Pressure on cost reduction continues in organizations and companies that looked solely at labor arbitrage opportunities with little concern or strategy for innovation. These organizations will find it difficult to rely on their low-cost, low-margin service providers to be in a position to step up with the kind of investment needed to give them additional competitive advantages.
Those companies that adopt a holistic approach to sourcing will need to balance the needs of the business for innovation and quality with the need to maintain the low cost structure achieved through aggressive outsourcing and offshoring in past agreements.
CIO.com: What advice do you offer IT leaders to make this shift?
Justice: Take a long-term view of the road ahead. This will be a gradual shift as the organization adapts. Change is constant, but always difficult and often mismanaged. Ensure you have aligned the business goals with the service delivery model. Plan for change. Communicate often. And reinforce the alignment of IT leadership with the business leaders. | 2019-04-24T08:45:46 | https://www.americanis.net/2012/article-is-it-outsourcing-a-dying-concept/ |
0.999445 | 1) THE AMOUNT OF FOOD THAT IS "MEKABEL TUM'AH"
OPINIONS: Rebbi Yonasan (end of 24b) teaches that a Kli Cheres (an earthenware vessel) that is Tamei causes a food item that enters its airspace to become Tamei ("Metamei b'Aviro"), as derived from the verse, "Everything that is inside it shall become Tamei"(Vayikra 11:33) -- even something as small as mustard seeds.
It seems clear from the Gemara that mustard seeds are Mekabel Tum'ah even though each one is less than the size of a k'Beitzah. What is the minimum size necessary for a food item to become Tamei?
(a) RASHI in Pesachim (33b, DH b'k'Beitzah) quotes the Toras Kohanim which implies that even the smallest piece of food is Mekabel Tum'ah mid'Oraisa. (In order to cause something else to become Tamei, however, the food item must be at least the size of a k'Beitzah, as Rashi here (DH v'Afilu) says.) The Gemara here supports this opinion.
(b) TOSFOS in Pesachim (33b, DH l'Eimas) maintains that the Toras Kohanim is teaching only an Asmachta for a Halachah d'Rabanan. A piece of food smaller than a k'Beitzah is Mekabel Tum'ah only mid'Rabanan. Mid'Oraisa, the food must be at least a k'Beitzah in order to become Tamei. TOSFOS asserts that Rashi himself in Chulin (82a, DH v'Amar) retracted his opinion and agrees that a food item must be at least a k'Beitzah in order to become Tamei. Tosfos here (24b, DH ha'Torah) explains that when the Gemara says "even mustard seeds" become Tamei in the airspace of a Kli Cheres, it refers only to Tum'ah mid'Rabanan, and mid'Oraisa the Kli Cheres is Metamei everything in it, even eggs.
2) THE INCLUSION OF "KLI SHATEF"
OPINIONS: The Torah teaches that a Kli Cheres is unlike other types of vessels; it becomes Tamei when a Tamei object enters its airspace, but not when a Tamei object touches the outside of its wall. The same distinction applies with regard to how a Kli Cheres transmits Tum'ah. A Kli Cheres transmits Tum'ah to objects that enter its airspace, while other vessels transmit Tum'ah only through contact with an object.
The Gemara points out that the Torah mentions the word (or a variation of the word) "Toch" ("inside") four times, and it teaches what is derived from each occasion of the word "Toch." One of the laws derived from this word is that only the inside of a Kli Cheres becomes Tamei, and not the "inside of the inside, even a Kli Shetef." A "Kli Shetef" refers to a vessel made of wood, metal, or bone, which can become Tahor by being immersed into a Mikvah (in contrast to a Kli Cheres). It is called a "Kli Shetef," or "washable vessel," since it can be immersed in a Mikvah and made Tahor, unlike a Kli Cheres which can become Tahor only by being broken.
What does the Gemara mean when it says that the "inside of the inside" of a Kli Cheres does not become Tamei, and not even the "inside of the inside" of a Kli Shetef?
(a) RASHI (DH Tocho v'Lo Toch Tocho) explains that the "inside of the inside" refers to a case in which a Kli Cheres has another vessel inside of it, and the inner vessel's rim extends above the rim of the Kli Cheres. Rashi explains that when a Tamei object is in the airspace of the outer vessel (between the wall of the outer vessel and the wall of the inner vessel) but not in the airspace of the inner vessel, foods in the inner vessel do not become Tamei, because they are in the "inside of the inside" of the Kli Cheres.
Why does the Gemara add that this apples "even" when the inner vessel is a Kli Shetef? Rashi explains that when the inner vessel is also a Kli Cheres which becomes Tamei only from the inside (and not from the outside), it is obvious that the food inside of it does not become Tamei. Since the Tum'ah is presently outside of the vessel, it is logical that the wall of the inner vessel is considered a separation between the food inside of it and the Tum'ah outside of it. The Gemara is saying that even when the inner vessel is a Kli Shetef, which can become Tamei when a Tamei object touches the outside of its wall, its wall still serves as a separation between the food inside of it and the Tum'ah in the airspace outside its wall.
Rashi adds that the Gemara's question involves only the food inside the inner vessel. The inner vessel itself does not become Tamei in any situation, as the Gemara teaches in Pesachim (20a).
TOSFOS (DH v'Afilu Kli Shetef) challenges Rashi's interpretation. One of his questions is that once the Gemara in Pesachim (20a) teaches that ordinary vessels do not become Tamei by being in the airspace of a Kli Cheres, it is logical that even if the inner vessel is a Kli Shetef, the vessel's wall should serve as an effective separation between the food inside of it and the Tum'ah in the Kli Cheres. What does the Gemara mean when it says that this applies "even" to a Kli Shetef? If this is logical, why is a verse needed to teach it?
(b) Tosfos therefore explains that the Gemara is teaching the following law. There is a rule that "Lo Minah Lo Machriv Bah" -- an object of one type cannot "ruin" the effectiveness of an object of a different type. According to this rule, a Kli Shetef, which is made from a different material than a Kli Cheres, should not be able to obstruct the effectiveness of the Kli Cheres in making whatever is inside of its walls become Tamei, and the food inside the Kli Shetef (which is inside the Kli Cheres) should become Tamei as if the food was inside of the outer, Tamei vessel. The Gemara here derives from the verse of "Toch" that even a Kli Shetef is considered to have its own airspace.
This seems to be the intent of the Gemara in Zevachim (3b; see Insights to Zevachim 3:2). The Gemara there teaches that even though a Korban Chatas that is slaughtered with intent to be a different Korban is invalidated and cannot be offered at all, if it is slaughtered with intent to be eaten as Chulin, the wrong intent does not invalidate the Korban. The Gemara explains that this is because "Lo Minah Lo Machriv Bah" -- having intent to slaughter the animal as an entirely different entity, with a thought that does not relate to the status of a Korban, does not have any effect, and is considered as if it is slaughtered "Setama" and is valid. The Gemara then asks that the same principle should apply to the laws of a Kli Cheres. When there is a Kli Cheres that is Tahor situated inside of an outer Klei Cheres that is Tamei, and the food enters the inner Kli Cheres, the food does not become Tamei. This is because the inner Kli Cheres (the rim of which protrudes above the rim of the outer Kli Cheres) protects the food from the airspace of the outer Kli Cheres which is Tamei. The Beraisa teaches that even if the inner Kli is not a Kli Cheres, but a Kli Shetef, the food in the inner Kli still remains Tahor. The Gemara asks that the food in the inner Kli should not be Tahor according to the principle that "Lo Minah Lo Machriv Bah," since a Kli Shetef is an entirely different type of utensil, and therefore its presence in the Kli Cheres should be disregarded.
The Gemara there answers that a special verse of "Toch" teaches that the food inside the inner Kli, even in a Kli Shetef, remains Tahor. The Gemara there apparently understands that, logically, only a Kli Cheres should be able to interrupt the airspace of another Kli Cheres, even without the verse of "Toch." The verse of "Toch" is necessary only to include a Kli Shetef.
(c) The RAMBAN explains that the Gemara is not teaching that the inner vessel should serve as a separation because the vessel itself does not become Tamei. As Tosfos implies, if this would be logical, then there would be no need for a verse of "Toch." Rather, the inner Kli does not become Tamei only because the verse states that it is considered a separation. The reason why this cannot be derived through logic is that the entire concept of Tum'ah of the airspace of a Kli Cheres is a novel concept. Once the Torah teaches the concept of Tum'ah of the airspace of a Kli Cheres, one would have assumed that anything in its airspace becomes Tamei, even something inside of an inner vessel (that remains Tahor) inside of the Kli Cheres! The verse of "Toch" teaches that this is not true; the "inside of the inside of the vessel" does not become Tamei. Since the Torah excludes this area of the vessel from the Tum'ah of the airspace, this exception applies regardless of whether the inner vessel is made from Cheres or from another material.
OPINIONS: The Mishnah states that Klei Matchos, metal utensils, are Mekabel Tum'ah. The Torah lists six types of metal utensils -- utensils made from gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead -- that become Tamei and that can be made Tahor through immersion in a Mikvah (Bamidbar 31:22). The fact that the verse mentions six different types of metals and does not use a general term for all of them (such as "utensils made of metal") implies that only these metals become Tamei and require Tevilas Kelim, and one cannot derive through a Binyan Av that other metals become Tamei and require Tevilah.
Aluminum is a new metal that was discovered relatively recently. It was unknown at the time the Torah was given and during the time of the Gemara. Does the verse that list the six metals exclude other metals such as aluminum?
Similarly, the TIFERES YISRAEL (in his introduction to Seder Taharos, #44) quotes the VILNA GA'ON who asserts that only the six metals mentioned in the Torah are Mekabel Tum'ah.
(b) However, the TIFERES YISRAEL himself disagrees and maintains that any metal which has similar qualities to those mentioned in the Torah is considered metal with regard to Tum'ah and Taharah. Similarly, the ARUCH HA'SHULCHAN rules that all metals require Tevilah mid'Oraisa in order to become Tahor, and they require Tevilas Kelim when acquired from a Nochri.
RAV MOSHE FEINSTEIN zt'l (IGROS MOSHE YD 2:164) writes that it is logical to assume that since the Torah lists only six metals, only those six are Mekabel Tum'ah. However, even though mid'Oraisa only those six metals are Mekabel Tum'ah, the Gemara relates that the Rabanan instituted Tum'ah for glass, because it has qualities that are similar to metal. Therefore, it is logical to assume that all other forms of metals should at least be considered like glass and be Mekabel Tum'ah mid'Rabanan.
However, RAV MOSHE STERNBUCH shlit'a (TESHUVOS V'HANHAGOS 1:449) suggests that aluminum should not become Tamei even mid'Rabanan. (Accordingly, there should be no requirement, even mid'Rabanan, to immerse aluminum utensils purchased from a Nochri. See Insights to Avodah Zarah 75:1:b:2). The Rabanan decreed that only glass is like metal; there is no basis to assume that any other material is included in their enactment.
OPINIONS: The Mishnah and Beraisa teach that small bitter almonds are obligated in Ma'aser, while large bitter almonds are exempt. Large sweet almonds are exempt from Ma'aser, while small sweet almonds are obligated. RASHI (DH Ketanim, DH Mesukim, and DH Ketanim) explains that of the bitter almonds, only the small ones are obligated in Ma'aser, since they are harvested for eating before they grow large and bitter. Sweet almonds, in contrast, are harvested for eating when they are large and fully grown, and thus only large ones are obligated in Ma'aser.
Rebbi Yishmael b'Rebbi Yosi said in the name of his father, "Zeh v'Zeh Liftor" -- "this and this to exempt," while others quoted him as saying, "Zeh v'Zeh l'Chiyuv" -- "this and this to obligate." The Gemara quotes Rebbi Chanina who ruled like the first version of Rebbi Yishmael's statement.
To what do the words "Zeh v'Zeh" refer?
(a) RASHI (DH Zeh v'Zeh) explains that "Zeh v'Zeh Liftor" means that both types of small almonds, bitter and sweet, are exempt from Ma'aser. Similarly, "Zeh v'Zeh l'Chiyuv" means that both types of large almonds, bitter and sweet, are obligated in Ma'aser. Accordingly, when the Gemara asks, "What use do these large almonds have?" it refers to the large, bitter almonds. The Gemara answers that they may be sweetened through fire and eaten.
(b) TOSFOS (DH Zeh v'Zeh Liftor) points out several difficulties with Rashi's explanation. First, the Beraisa defines the categories as bitter almonds and sweet almonds, not small and large ones. Presumably, the statement of "Zeh v'Zeh" refers to the two categories mentioned in the earlier part of the Beraisa. Second, according to Rashi, when the Gemara asks what use do large almonds have, the Gemara should be more specific and ask "what use do large, bitter almonds have?"
Because of these questions, TOSFOS takes a different approach. He says that "Zeh v'Zeh Liftor" means that both large and small bitter almonds are exempt, while "Zeh v'Zeh l'Chiyuv" means that both large and small sweet almonds are obligated. Since there is only one type of large almond (sweet) that is obligated according to the opinion of "Zeh v'Zeh l'Chiyuv," the Gemara's question (what use do large almonds have) can refer only to the large, sweet almond. | 2019-04-19T02:45:08 | http://www.dafyomi.co.il/chulin/insites/ch-dt-025.htm |
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0.985735 | Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a time for family and feasting, to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan and its daytime fasting. Businesses closed across the Muslim world, as people dressed up and visited relatives, enjoying their first daytime meals in a lunar month. Mosques hold special prayers at sunrise, and children are often given gifts or a special allowance.
The holiday lasts one to three days, and is eagerly anticipated after the month of fasting. During Ramadan, the faithful refrain from eating, drinking, smoking or sexual activity from dawn to dusk, with even a small sip of water enough to invalidate the fast, which is one of the five pillars of Islam.
For the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, Eid al-Fitr is second only to Eid al-Adha, which comes around two months later.
Ordinarily a festive occasion, this year' Eid comes after a month of attacks by Islamic extremists that killed more than 350 people in several countries, including a suicide truck bomb in Iraq that claimed at least 175 lives and a suicide bombing outside the Prophet Muhammad's mosque in Saudi Arabia, one of Islam's holiest sites.
Wars are raging in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, as tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran exacerbate political conflicts throughout the Middle East. The two powers have cast their rivalry in corrosive sectarian terms, with Saudi Arabia positioning itself as the champion of Islam's more numerous Sunnis and Iran claiming to lead the faith's minority Shiites.
In the disputed Kashmir region on Wednesday, Muslim protesters hurled stones at Indian police, who fired tear gas and pellets to disperse them.
Here is a selection of Eid al-Fitr photos from around the world.
Text from the AP news story, AP PHOTOS: Muslims celebrate Eid, marking Ramadan's end. | 2019-04-23T18:01:15 | https://apimagesblog.com/blog/2016/07/06/muslims-celebrate-eid-marking-ramadans-end |
0.999994 | How's this for a change of pace? Instead of a pristine, high-end edition, I'd like to introduce you to a cheap bonded leather Bible with a glued binding, a fairly typical representative of the type with one or two exceptions. This is the original Compact ESV in British Tan bonded leather, superseded a few years ago by the newer, larger Deluxe Compact with sewn binding.
A thing of beauty? Not exactly. And yet, there is something to it, I have to say. While the materials and construction are unimpressive, this little Bible comes very close to my aesthetic ideal. The color of the cover is right -- a mid-brown tan -- and the warm gold ribbon is a perfect complement. The size is excellent, too: just 6" x 4" x 0.75", perfect for slipping into a jacket pocket. Back when I worshipped in a church with old fashioned pews, size really wasn't an issue, but now the chairs are stackable and there are move things to juggle in hand, so I really appreciate a pocket Bible.
One of the terms you'll hear collectors use often is "beater," the idea being that for everyday use instead of employing something valuable, you have a cheaper alternative at hand, one you don't mind messing up. If you're into watches, you might wear a Patek on special occasions and a Seiko every day. You get the idea. Personally, I don't subscribe to the theory. The point of quality in my mind isn't to remain intact ... it's to hold up better to use. So every Bible is a beater Bible to me, or it's not worth having.
Yes, this is probably the nicest smelling Bible I have. Say what you want about the aroma of leather, it's nothing compared to coffee beans. The back quarter of pages was inundated by the spill, giving them a crispy, brown complexion. But that doesn't stop me from using it from time to time. This is one of those editions I misplace, forget about, and then rediscover and start using again. Not long ago I found it tucked into the bottom of the pouch behind the driver's seat of my wife's station wagon. Last Sunday I read the call to worship from it.
For someone accustomed to quality, there's plenty not to like. The cover (above) has a mind of its own, and the edges have gotten a bit raggedy. The faux grain is kinda nice, though, and the fact that no pages have fallen out despite a lack of care is a testament to the power of glue. Maybe the fact that I've used this as more of a ready reference than a daily reader contributes to the longevity.
For my purposes, though, the compact size and the fact that the bonded leather cover is flexible enough make this is a perfectly usable edition. The complaint about the Compact ESV was that the type was too small, and for sustained use that's probably right. However, I think there's something to be said for a Bible small enough for convenient use in worship, ready when needed and easily tucked away at other times. Which must be why I'm holding onto this thing. Sure, I wish it had the updated ESV text, and I wish the cover was calfskin and there were a couple more ribbons. For what it is, though, and for what it cost, I'm not complaining. | 2019-04-19T02:16:01 | https://www.bibledesignblog.com/blog/2010/02/beater-bibles-101-compact-esv-in-british-tan-bonded-leather.html |
0.998977 | 2. In a greased 13"x9" baking pan, place the frozen bread dough, and press it in the bottom and up to the sides of the dish.
3. Allow the dough to rise for 10 to15 minutes.
4. Bake it in the oven for 10 minutes.
5. Remove the crust from oven, set aside and lower the oven temperature to 350 F.
6. In a skillet over medium heat, put the ground pork and cook it until browned. Drain the meat mixture.
7. Put the cooked meat over the baked crust and spread well.
8. Sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese over the meat.
10. In the same skillet which was used to cook the meat mixture, cook red and green pepper until slightly tender.
11. Pour in the well drained, diced tomatoes, oregano, garlic powder and salt.
12. Spoon and spread the pepper tomato mixture over mozzarella cheese.
13. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese on top.
14. Bake in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown on top.
15. Remove from the oven and let it cool for 10 minutes before slicing.
You can add mushrooms in it. | 2019-04-23T04:43:16 | https://ifood.tv/italian/473103-vitos-deep-dish-sausage-pizza |
0.999968 | The Weierstrass approximation theorem states that every continuous function defined on an interval [a,b] can be approximated as closely as desired by a polynomial function. Because polynomials are the simplest functions, and computers can directly evaluate polynomials, this theorem has both practical and theoretical relevance. Marshall H. Stone[?] considerably generalized the theorem and simplified the proof; his result is known as the Stone-Weierstrass theorem.
Suppose f is a continuous function defined on the interval [a,b] with real values. For every ε>0, there exists a polynomial function p with real coefficients such that for all x in [a,b], we have |f(x) - p(x)| < ε.
The set C[a,b] of continuous real-valued functions on [a,b], together with the supremum norm ||f|| = supx in [a,b] |f(x)|, is a Banach algebra, (i.e. an associative algebra and a Banach space such that ||fg|| ≤ ||f|| ||g|| for all f, g). The set of all polynomial functions forms a subalgebra of C[a,b], and the content of the Weierstrass approximation theorem is that this subalgebra is dense in C[a,b].
If X is a compact Hausdorff space with at least two points and A is a subalgebra of the Banach algebra C(X) which separates points and contains a non-zero constant function, then A is dense in C(X).
This generalizes Weierstrass' statement since the polynomials on [a,b] form a subalgebra of C[a,b] which separates points.
Note that the above theorem is also true if we replace the assumption that A separate points with the slightly weaker assumption that for every two different points x and y in X there exists a function p in A with p(x) not equal to p(y).
If f is a continuous real-valued function defined on the set [a,b] x [c,d] and ε>0, then there exists a polynomial function p in two variables such that |f(x,y) - p(x,y)| < ε for all x in [a,b] and y in [c,d].
If X is a compact Hausdorff space with at least two points and L is a lattice in C(X) which separates points, then A is dense in C(X).
Need to cover the case of complex valued functions. | 2019-04-24T22:13:26 | http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/st/Stone-Weierstrass_theorem |
0.99921 | Is your home located in an area that is surrounded by trees? If so, they could be causing damage to your home's asphalt shingles. Here is what you need to know about the potential damage that trees can cause.
If the tree branches hang low enough to scrape against the surface of your roof, they are most likely causing damage to the shingles. When the weather is windy, branches that scrape across the surface can potentially cause shingles to fall off. If the roof's shingles don't fall off, it can remove the protective granules on the surface, making the shingles more likely to become damaged. This will lead to leaks that allow water to get into your home.
Thankfully, fixing this problem is very straightforward. Simply trim back those large tree branches to prevent them from rubbing against your roofing material. Then inspect the shingles to ensure that no lasting damage has been caused.
Another problem with overhanging tree branches is that they can cause a large portion of your roof to be in the shade all day long. While you may think this is good for the roof since it will help bring down the temperature in the summer, it actually can cause algae and mold to grow on the surface. This happens in places where water is trapped on the surface of the roof, usually due to debris, and the moisture has the opportunity to form algae or moss.
While trimming back branches will fix the problem, it is not always an option. You may have a large tree on a neighbor's property that is causing the shade. Consider taking steps to clear debris off your roof, and then install a metal roof cap to prevent algae and moss growth. These roof caps release zinc across the surface of the roof when it rains, which will kill early algae and moss growth before it starts.
The debris that trees leave behind can get stuck in your gutters, which causes water to overflow instead of going into the downspout. This causes the soffits to become damaged as the water comes in contact with them. Gutter guards can do a great job at keeping debris out so that you are not constantly climbing up to your roof to inspect and clean the gutters.
If you do have roof damage that was caused by trees, reach out to a local roofing contractor to help fix it. | 2019-04-20T18:21:06 | http://poptudors.com/2018/06/22/damage-that-trees-can-cause-to-your-roof/ |
0.999985 | I'm a little confused about my tax situation for last year due to a mistake made by my employer—they withheld income tax for the state in which they are located; I work remotely from another state. What do?
For the last couple of years, I have lived full-time in state A and worked remotely for an employer whose presence is entirely in state B. Upon receiving my W2, I noticed that they withheld state tax for state B, not state A. Thus, I have paid income tax to state B, in which I do not live and performed no work at all in 2018, but not to state A, where I do live and performed all my work.
So what do I do? This seems like a double-taxing situation for which I should be able to claim a credit on my state A taxes, but intuitively it makes more sense that I would just get a refund from state B? TurboTax is predictably not very helpful on this point.
It seems like you should file in both states, probably getting a full refund from State B and probably paying State A -- but see above.
Chesty has it right but do be careful, as the answers vary by each state involved. Usually you file for a total refund on work-state's taxes and then pay your resident-state taxes, but some states have different arrangements.
As those above have explained, you can get the money back and pay it where it should have been paid. But you might want to talk to someone in your employer's accounting department to make sure it doesn't happen next year.
Yes, you'll need to file a "non-resident" return for State B and a "resident" return for State A. If this has been your situation for a "couple of years", you might want to make sure that your returns from 2017 and earlier were filed correctly as well. | 2019-04-20T19:32:00 | https://ask.metafilter.com/331138/Non-resident-income-tax-issues-how-exciting |
0.999861 | Meatballs are so good on pasta and even on it's own as an appetizer. I have a recipe here you can make that comes with a cheesy surprise and fresh spinach in the middle. The ingredients listed doesn't tell you what amounts to use, but you can estimate and depending how much meat/meatballs you want to make.
2) Mix all ingredients for Meat Mixture in a large bowl and set aside.
3) Sautee spinach and garlic until spinach is wilted. Transfer to a colander to drain and cool. Once cooled, squeeze out as much water as you can. Chop spinach and mix with mozzarella and parmesan.
4) Form meat mix into balls and place a small amount of filling inside.
5) While meatballs are cooking, heat tomato sauce, oregano, salt, pepper, and sugar in a small saucepan.
6) Serve with tomato sauce for dipping. | 2019-04-24T10:48:47 | https://jennieyuen.blogspot.com/2016/04/recipe-spinach-and-mozzarella-stuffed.html |
0.999997 | A MAN has sustained chest injuries after being gored by a deer in the Royal National Park.
The 57-year-old man told police he saw two large stags harassing his tame deer about 3.15pm on Friday, near his home on Bulgo Beach at Otford. The man tried to scare the stags away; however, one charged him and its antler pierced his chest and abdomen.
Paramedics treated the man at the scene but called in their helicopter to airlift him to St George Hospital. Police have been told the man sustained a collapsed lung and internal injuries as a consequence of the attack. He has undergone surgery and his condition is described as stable.
Headline: Otford man gored deer ? | 2019-04-18T20:55:39 | https://thebullitimes.com/2017/01/30/otford-man-gored-deer/ |
0.998688 | 1. Pre-heat your oven to 180degrees/ gas mark 4.
2. Finely chop your onion and garlic and fry on a low heat, in a small amount of oil until soft.
3. Whilst your onion and garlic are frying pour a small amount of plain flour into a bowl. Placing each piece of beef into the bowl, ensure they are all lightly covered in plain flour and add to the frying pan. Fry until brown all over.
3. Once the beef is fried, make up the required amount of gravy. I made a pint but you may want more depending on the size of your pie. Once made pour into the pan.
4. Once the gravy is added, pour in your mixed veg, crush in your beef stock cube and add the mustard until it too your required taste. Allow the veg to heat up for about 5 minutes before removing from the heat.
6. Apply a good amount of butter all over your pie dish, Roll out your pastry to the desired size and line the bottom of your tin ensuring you leave some pastry hanging over the side of the dish.
7. Place your filling into the dish. Roll out the pastry to the desired size and place over the top. push down around the end of the dish to ensure your pastry has sealed the edge of the dish. Using a knife cut off any extra dough hanging over the dough to make your pie look tidy.
8. using a fork, lightly poke some holes into the top of your and brush over with some milk or a beaten egg.
9. Place your pie into the oven to cook for approximately an hour. When golden brown all over it is ready. | 2019-04-24T17:50:04 | http://everydayyoungmum.blogspot.com/2016/11/beef-and-onion-pie-recipe.html |
0.999998 | Health authorities are being asked to pay for a paediatric neurosurgery ward that has been standing empty for six months and may now never open.
King's Healthcare trust spent 500,000 building, equipping and staffing the ward after a consortium of South Thames HAs decided to transfer paediatric neurosurgery from Atkinson Morley Hospital to King's College Hospital in April 1997.
The transfer was 'deferred' by Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA in February, four weeks before it was due to go ahead, when solicitors threatened legal action over an alleged lack of consultation about the plans.
A new review group was set up and has now concluded 'there will be no immediate move to a single centre', although 'such a development cannot be ruled out' because an 'external adviser' will be asked to review its work.
King's responded by saying it was 'very concerned' by the 'complete volte face' and 'remains a larger and better equipped unit'.
'We cannot understand the justification for leaving its new facilities unused at a major cost to the NHS,' said a spokesman.
Atkinson Morley Hospital is due to close. When it does, its services will transfer to St George's Hospital.
The original review found paediatric neurosurgery could transfer to St George's, but not until after the turn of the century.
Lesley Stuart, chief officer of Wandsworth community health council, said St George's Healthcare trust was now hoping to move its paediatric neurosurgery by Christmas, in advance of adult services.
'This is a victory for common sense,' she said. 'We wanted this review because there was no formal consultation. We got it because of local pressure.
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA told HSJ in February there was no need for statutory consultation because the changes to a regional service did not constitute a 'substantial change of service'.
No one at the HA was available to comment this week, although a spokeswoman stressed it did not 'act in isolation' from other South Thames HAs.
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham chief executive Martin Roberts, who chaired the new review group, said the cost of keeping both neurosurgery services open was 'relatively small'.
The review group has recommended that there should be at least one neurosurgical centre in South Thames on stand-by for emergencies at all times.
Its says that 'if individually King's and St George's cannot meet this requirement, a joint rota should be established'.
King's said it would be 'concerned' about plans to share neurosurgeons which 'would see patients and doctors shuttling across south west London'.
The review says a clinical audit of both centres should be set up, costs at both centres should be reviewed and they should co-operate on staffing and training. | 2019-04-24T11:57:08 | https://www.hsj.co.uk/home/hospital-slates-decision-to-delay-using-paediatric-ward-left-empty-after-revamp/34103.article |
0.999937 | William Bligh (9 September 1754–7 December 1817) was an English officer in the British Navy. He sailed with Captain James Cook on his third and final voyage in 1776. In 1787 Bligh was made captain of HMS Bounty and sailed to Tahiti to collect breadfruit trees. A Mutiny on the Bounty prevented finishing this task. In 1806 he was made Governor of New South Wales. After going back to England, Bligh was made a Rear-Admiral and later a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.
Bligh joined the navy at age 16 when he became an able seaman on HMS Hunter in 1770. In September 1771 he changed ships and served on HMS Crescent. At 21 (17 March 1776) he was made the master of Captain James Cook's ship, the Resolution, part of Cook's third and final voyage. Bligh got back to England in 1780. He left the Royal Navy and worked as a captain in the merchant navy from 1783 to 1787.
In 1787 Bligh became leader of a small expedition to be sent to Tahiti to get breadfruit trees. These would be planted in the West Indies as food for the slaves. The Bounty left Tahiti loaded with breadfruit trees on 4 April 1789. Three weeks later, a seaman named Fletcher Christian led a mutiny (take over) of the ship. Christian wanted to go back to Tahiti. This event is called the Mutiny on the Bounty. Bligh and 18 seamen were put into a small boat, with little food or water, four swords, a sextant, a pocket watch, but no map. They were able to get to Batavia (now Jakarta), a distance of 6701 km, in 47 days. Bligh finally got back to England in March, 1790. He wrote a book about the mutiny called A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship "Bounty".
In August 1791 Bligh set out again to get breadfruit trees. He was also told to find out more about Torres Strait, between Australia and New Guinea. He took two ships, the Providence and the Assistant, getting back to England in August 1793.
Bligh spent the next 10 years in the Royal Navy. In March 1805 he was given the job of Governor of New South Wales. He left England in February 1806 and arrived in Sydney in August. One of his jobs was to control the supply of alcohol into the young colony. In Sydney at this time, alcohol was used as a form of money, which caused a lot of unrest among the settlers. The army officers and several other people in New South Wales had a monopoly on bringing alcohol into the country. They were very angry with Bligh because he tried to control their alcohol business.
The officers started legal actions against Bligh who then had one of the settlers John Macarthur arrested for sedition (trying to start a rebellion against the government). One of the soldiers, Major George Johnston, let Macarthur out of jail, and on 26 January 1808, he led the army to Government House and put Bligh under arrest. The army then took over the government. This became known as the Rum Rebellion. After one year Bligh was released on the condition that he went back to England. He agreed, but then sailed to Hobart to try and get help from Colonel David Collins who was the Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania. Collins did not offer help and Bligh remained in Hobart for another year.
The British government sent out a new governor, Lachlan Macquarie. Bligh and Major Johnston went back to London, arriving on 25 October 1810. In the legal action all the charges against Bligh were found not to be true, and Johnston was found to be guilty. Johnson was sacked from the army, and in 1811 Bligh was made a Rear-Admiral, and later a Vice-Admiral. He retired to Kent. Bligh died on a visit to London on 7 December 1817.
↑ A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty . Access date 28/6/2008.
This page was last changed on 18 August 2018, at 02:37. | 2019-04-21T23:00:14 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bligh |
0.999999 | Which Radio 2 show was Martin on please?
Then I can log onto the BBC website and listen to it.
Just answered my own question!
And click on the "Listen Again To This Show" icon about a quarter of the way down the screen!
do we know roughly where within the 2 hour show it was featured ??
It was about 1.30. I was in a taxi at the time and caught about 30 seconds of it.
Doesn't he talk fast when he's on the radio!
Martin appears at 1 hour 11 mins on the hear it again link.
To be honest I spoke too quickly. I listened back - and while i normally speak quick - this was too quick at the beginning. Truth is when the 118118 chappy misquoted what i'd said last time, I lost my rag! However I think overall I had the better of it!
From the previous messages I thought it had been a virtual boxing match, I don't think it came across that way you got a lot of information in which people will probably recognise from other things they have heard about how they didn't advertise charges at all well, you sounded stronger & convinced of your arguement as the other one waddled along.
I cant get it to play!?!
Am I being thick or do I need some sort of software to listen to it?
Any chance of getting J-Lo's phone number? I understand she is a bit expensive to maintain but after a few months she gives you $10 million.
Not having seen this programme I hope it does not involve you telling Tom Cruise that he should switch his bank account to Cahoot and apply for a cashback credit card?
i don;t think it was really too fast - u did come across as though you knew what you were talking about & ran rings round the other bloke! i was just slightly concerned for ths state of your blood pressure!
Spend it like...Robbie is on at 9pm on Wednesday on sky one.
This Morning also runs promotions for their own features in a couple of the centre breaks in the programme itself.
TV listings mag has BBC1 programme 'Hey! Big Spender' showing at 9 o'clock on Wednesday 28th January. Martin, Alvin Hall and Sandra Scott offer advice.
Oh No! That clashes with ER! Sorry Martin, but I'll have to channel hop between the two. Both educational programmes, in their own way!
Thankfully Channel 4 decided not to try and compete with Martin and put ER on at 10 p.m. instead of the usual 9 p.m.
I know - they've put this whole series on at 10pm. Do you think that's so they weren't competing with Martin that one night?
Being on at 10pm I couldn't stay awake and missed most of it! Did the nurses the come back? Did Romano get sacked instead?
Oh yeah, back to Martin - very good show last night. You have so much energy! And a lovely voice, I have to say. From what people say I thought you'd sound like a bit of a geezer.
And I don't care what everyone else says - I like Alvin AND you!
I managed to catch you on telly last night just by accident but I did watch the whole programme including the BBCi Q&A bit afterwards.
Just worth remembering that BT charges in NI are different to that in Britian. BTNI customers calling the Republic of Ireland are charged at either local or national rate.
If a customer in a border area was to use an indirect provider as suggested, their calls to the ROI may be charged at a higher rate.
Would a customer in Newry calling Dundalk be charged cheaper than BTNI local rates (inc the discount schemes)??
Have been caught out in the past, english (telcos) forget that 00353 is not international when dialed from N. Ireland and we can end up paying more!
Just worth remembering ..... and no I don't work for BT ... just been caught out in the past!
I watched Martin on the Kelly show on UTV (just happened to flick channels) and have to say how impressed I am with his advice and the site. I am ashamed to say that before the Kelly Show I had never heard of or seen him. After his appearance I called up the site and saved a fortune of life assurance!!
I have also found the money saving emails a great read and I have already raved about Martin to friends and colleagues.
In conclusion, a big thank you and congratulations on such a brilliant site. A great big fat thumbs up!!! | 2019-04-24T22:11:58 | https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?s=9f1a37b9b99138f16d6c7d8d19dd1abf&t=68&page=2 |
0.999031 | Seed the aggregate onto the surfaceThe most commonly used method is to seed the decorative aggregate onto the slab surface immediately after the concrete has been placed, struck off, and bull floated. This involves sprinkling the aggregate by hand or shovel uniformly onto the surface and then embedding it with a bull float or darby until it's completely covered by a thin layer of cement paste.
Mix the aggregate into the concreteYou can also have the ready-mix producer put the decorative aggregate right into the concrete mix during batching, which eliminates the step of seeding it onto the surface after concrete placement. However, depending on the cost of the aggregate you choose, this method can be more expensive than seeding because it requires using greater quantities of decorative aggregate.
Put the aggregate into a thin toppingAnother alternative is to place a thin topping course of concrete containing the decorative aggregate over a base slab of conventional concrete. The topping can range in thickness from 1 to 2 inches, depending on the aggregate size. This method generally works best when smaller decorative aggregates are specified. | 2019-04-18T17:14:39 | https://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/exposedaggregate/adding_the_aggregate.html |
0.999697 | Can Faithless Electors Deny Trump the Presidency?
Subject: Can Faithless Electors Deny Trump the Presidency?
Theoretically, faithless electors can still take the presidency away from Donald Trump and send Hillary Clinton to the White House in 2017.
Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidency last Tuesday by surpassing 270 electoral votes, the threshold for victory. While some votes are still being counted, Trump is expected to end up with 306 electoral votes.
Faithless electors are the official voters in the Electoral College who vote against the wishes of their state. Even though Trump "won" 306 electoral votes, the Electoral College still has to meet and the votes still need to be cast by its actual members.
According to the Constitution, each state legislature decides who will serve as electors for their state.
In the country's early days, state legislatures chose their best representatives to choose the next president. Today, each state appoints its electors based on which candidate won the popular vote in their state (Nebraska and Maine are the only exceptions, and they appoint their electors based on which candidate won each congressional district in their state).
This is why the media declared Trump last week the winner even though the Electoral College hasn't met yet.
However, electors still have to cast their vote, and it is possible for electors to vote against their state's winner.
Usually, the voting of electors is a mere formality. The political parties in each state choose the electors they'd like to send. When one party's candidate wins the state, that party's electors are who the state sends to the Electoral College. Since parties choose electors loyal to their party, it's very unlikely the electors would vote for a different party's candidate.
Some states have even gone further to guard against the possibility of electors voting for a different candidate than expected. There are 24 states, plus the District of Colombia, with laws requiring electors to vote for the winner of their state's popular vote.
But the punishment is limited to small fines. For example, Oklahoma's is a $1,000 fine for an elector voting for a different candidate than the one who won the state. Further, according to the National Archives and Records Administration, "no Elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged."
Even with these safeguards in place, there have been 157 faithless electors throughout the country's history. In the last 17 presidential elections, there have been nine elections where faithless electors cast their vote for a different candidate, including the 2004 election.
Will Faithless Electors Vote Against Trump?
The Electoral College has become a last hope against a Trump presidency for many. A petition urging the Electoral College to vote for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump has gotten more than 2 million signatures.
However, the real threat to a Trump Electoral College victory comes from his own party, as these are the voters who could sway the outcome. Robert Alexander, a professor of political science at Ohio Northern University who studies the Electoral College, explained on CNN that Republican electors could be unhappy with him.
"Trump has angered many establishment Republicans throughout the campaign, and many of those same establishment Republicans will undoubtedly find their way to the Electoral College." In fact, the "Never Trump" movement originated among Republicans opposed to his nomination in the primaries.
Alexander says it's possible for these Republican electors to vote for a different candidate than Trump, including his running mate Mike Pence or House Speaker Paul Ryan.
In either case, while we have had faithless electors before, and we might have them in this election, the possibility of 36 electors switching their vote from Trump to Clinton, or at least 270 Republican electors agreeing on another candidate, is extremely unlikely. Such an event would create an unprecedented controversy. There have only been nine faithless electors in the last 68 years and there hasn't been more than one in a single election since 1912.
regarding Faithless Electors, i see no moral conflict for an elector to go with the popular vote over electoral based all or nothing votes. trump did not win the overall popular vote and this could be the turning point for fixing the electoral collage to better represent the popular vote. the founding fathers specifically tried to prevent an unqualified, demagog from spoofing the people into voting for him/her. trump fills that fear completely, trying to place a white supremest as the chief of staff should raise electors eyebrows as to what to expect if he is sworn in. | 2019-04-20T03:25:09 | https://moneymorning.com/2016/11/15/can-faithless-electors-deny-trump-the-presidency/ |
0.99955 | Defendants' motion to dismiss under the first-to-file rule was granted where the court found that an amended complaint in a different lawsuit naming plaintiff party to that lawsuit related back to the original complaint. "[T]he following threshold question must be answered: for the purposes of the first-to-file rule, does an amended complaint that names a new party relate back to the original filing date? . . . This Court has been unable to locate any Federal Circuit precedent directly answering the threshold question, nor has either of the parties provided such authority. . . . [I]t is the court which first has possession of the subject matter of the lawsuits that is the first-filed court."
In granting defendant's motion for summary judgment of noninfringement, the court rejected plaintiff's argument that "the Federal Circuit’s decision [upholding the ITC's findings of noninfringement] and factual findings are not binding and it can raise issues not previously presented to the ITC or Federal Circuit. I do not find [plaintiff's] arguments persuasive, particularly since the determinative issues presented to the ITC, the Federal Circuit, and this Court are essentially the same. In short, [plaintiff] is inviting this Court to revisit the same judicial landscape with its new counsel as its guide. . . . I find no 'powerful incentive' to deviate from the Federal Circuit’s prior decision. Here, the same parties argue whether two of the same [products] infringe the same claim in the same patent as they argued previously before both the ITC and the Federal Circuit."
Following a bench trial, the court found plaintiff's patent for the brain cancer drug Temodar® unenforceable due to prosecution laches and inequitable conduct. "[T]he 'ends' - commercialization of a very successful cancer drug - do not justify the 'means' employed by [plaintiff] in this case. Taken in the totality, this case involves eleven patent applications, ten abandonments, and no substantive prosecution for a decade. The court rejected plaintiff's argument that "the absence of 'intervening rights' precludes [defendant's] prosecution laches defense. . . . Nowhere in [Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, 422 F.3d 1378 (Fed. Cir. 2005)] did the Federal Circuit affirmatively impose a particular requirement that a competitor have invested in the technology claimed in order for prosecution laches to apply.
The magistrate judge recommended granting in part defendant's motion for issue, evidentiary, and monetary sanctions by (i) precluding plaintiff from claiming damages for four products (ii) precluding plaintiff from relying on financial data and other documents produced on and after the last day of discovery, and (iii) requiring plaintiff to pay defendant's costs and fees associated with the motion for sanctions and certain additional discovery. "'If there is a hell to which disputatious, uncivil, vituperative lawyers go, let it be one in which the damned are eternally locked in discovery disputes with other lawyers of equally repugnant attributes.' Counsel continue to fail themselves, fail this Court, and fail their clients by treating the discovery process as a forum for gamesmanship, spiteful rhetoric, and the proliferation of unnecessary paper."
The court granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment of invalidity for lack of written description as to claim elements directed to "macrocyclic lactone analogs" of rapamycin. "Besides the requirement that the compounds be 'structur[ally] similar' to rapamycin, the [asserted patents'] specification provides no further guidance regarding the claimed analogs. . . . The parties do not genuinely dispute that, at the time of the inventions, a small number of such analogs were known, but many more existed. . . . It follows that, if the complete universe of 'macrocyclic lactone analogs' of rapamycin were unknown to the inventors, it could not have been adequately described (or enabled) by a specification that does not even attempt to discuss the term."
In granting defendant's motion to stay pending reexamination, the court rejected plaintiff's argument that it would be prejudiced by a 2-3 year stay and a 3-4 year appeals process. "'[T]he prejudice claimed by Plaintiff applies equally to any case where reexamination is sought. It is for that reason that courts have found that 'delay inherent in the reexamination process does not constitute, by itself, undue prejudice.' Moreover, Plaintiff ignores that the reexamination process was enacted by Congress to provide certainty in the validity of patent rights and to provide a faster, less expensive remedy than litigation when the validity of a patent is at issue."
For purposes of determining a reasonable royalty, the court permitted certain evidence of Google's acquisitions of other companies. "Because Google relies upon acquisitions, instead of traditional licenses, to procure intellectual property, [plaintiff's damages expert] used these acquisitions in his analysis." Specifically, the court permitted evidence (i) "that Google valued [an additional 2 billion impressions per week for Google’s AdSense for Content] at $2 billion" (gleaned from Google's acquisition of Doubleclick), (ii) "that Google paid 23% of its net assets . . . to delay a competitor from participating in the AdSense for Content market" (gleaned from Google's acquisition of Applied Semantics), and (iii) that "in a hypothetical negotiation, Google might have paid [plaintiff] a running royalty or some other non-fixed amount" despite Google's argument that it has "a strong preference for lump-sum licenses" (gleaned from Google's acquisition of dMarc). The court excluded evidence of "the dollar amount Google paid to acquire any organization" and evidence concerning Google's acquitition of YouTube and AdMob. Unlike the dMarc acquisition, plaintiff failed to show that the YouTube and AdMob acquisitions refute Google's stated preference for lump sum licenses.
The court denied plaintiff's motion to exclude testimony from defendant's damages expert which "converts Google’s grant of equity (2% of its stock) into a running royalty." "Although [defendant's expert] admits that he had not seen anyone perform his exact calculation, [defendant] asserts that the calculation is based upon widely accepted finance theory. . . . Through cross-examination of [the expert], [plaintiff] may address the reliability of the expert’s calculations."
Although defendant arguably established that the case was exceptional, the court denied defendant's motion for attorneys' fees because defendant's motion was "[a]t best . . . rife with error and extremely sloppy; at worst . . . misleading and/or made in bad-faith." "To say the least, it takes considerable chutzpah for Defendant to argue that its fees should be paid because Plaintiff brought motions and continued litigation without a good faith basis when Defendant’s own motion raises various frivolous arguments that ignore binding Federal Circuit precedent or orders by this Court in this case on the exact issue."
Plaintiff was entitled to a permanent injunction even though it previously licensed the asserted patent to a third party to develop a video game based on plaintiff's patented board game. "The defendants insist that [plaintiff] has licensed its patent, which suggests that money damages are adequate. The Court disagrees. . . . Given that [plaintiff] and [the manufacturer defendant] are direct competitors and the retailer defendants stock only [the manufacturer defendant's product] and no others, the Court finds that [plaintiff] has shown irreparable injury for which no adequate remedy at law exists."
The court granted defendant's motion to stay pending reexamination even though the PTO had not yet granted reexamination. "95% of reexamination requests have been granted. The Court finds that were the patent-in-suit to be denied reexamination, staying this case [for approximately two months], at the latest, would have a minimal effect on the litigation schedule. Accordingly, the Court is not persuaded that the motion should be denied merely because PTO has not yet accepted [defendant's] application for reexamination. . . . If the PTO decides to decline reexamination of the . . . patent, the stay may be lifted and litigation will resume upon motion by either party."
Where defendant asserted counterclaims for declarations of noninfringement and invalidity, the court sua sponte ordered defendant "to either explain the need for the present counterclaim or to file an amended pleading to take its place." "[T]his Court has consistently been bemused over the years by the penchant of patent lawyers to advance counterclaims that do nothing more than mirror the allegations of patent infringement complaints. Here (as always in such cases) [defendant] is charged with patent infringement, something that necessarily depends on the existence of a valid patent. After all, both infringement and validity must be proved by [plaintiff] to justify its recovery under the Complaint. Hence it is difficult to understand just what (other than extra paper) is added to the case by a counterclaim that seeks declarations of non-infringement and invalidity of the patent in issue."
The court granted plaintiff's motion for a permanent injunction in light of eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., 547 U.S. 388, 391 (2006), even though defendant had ceased manufacturing the infringing product and argued that a redesigned product did not infringe. With respect to irreparable injury, "Plaintiff has demonstrated it lost market share, the right to control its patent license agreement, and its competitive advantage as a result of Defendants’ conduct. These losses are sufficient to demonstrate irreparable injury." With respect to adequacy of legal remedies "Plaintiff lost its status as the sole provider of soft shell pain pumps. . . . [and] [t]hat is an injury from which Plaintiff is unlikely to recover, and is one that is not amenable to a legal remedy." With respect to public interest, "Plaintiff identifies three public interests that would be served by an injunction: The interest in maintaining a strong patent system, the interest in fair and healthy competition, and the interest in discouraging future wrongdoing.' The Court agrees with Plaintiff that these interests would be served by an injunction in this case."
Defendant's motion to stay pending inter partes reexamination was denied based upon "the [trial setting in 10 months] and timing of the request for reexamination."
Zapmedia Services, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., 2-08-cv-00104 (TXED January 7, 2010, Order) (Everingham, M.J.).
Defendants' motion to stay pending ex parte reexamination was denied based on "the lack of a final rejection in the proceeding, the fact that the plaintiff and defendants are competitors, and the uncertain timeframe in which the reexamination will be completed."
Satellite Tracking of People, LLC et al v. Pro Tech Monitoring Inc et al., 2-08-cv-00116 (TXED January 7, 2010, Order) (Everingham, M.J.).
The court granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment of indirect infringement based on defendants' use of a label containing "instructions on how to use the product in a manner that encourages acts of infringement" even though "doctors prescribe the drug for a number of non-infringing uses" and defendants used the label only because it was required by the FDA. "Here, the accused infringers will be labeling the product in a manner which encourages direct infringement by others. . . . This objective evidence is critical in determining whether intent to cause infringement exists, and such evidence is sufficient to establish Defendants’ intent."
Defendant's motion to stay pending reexamination was denied even though the case was "in the early stages of litigation and discovery [had] not yet begun." "Plaintiff contends that a stay would delay the possibility of them obtaining an injunction to prevent ongoing infringement by the defendant and that the defendant is a thinly capitalized company without great resources. The parties are direct competitors and a denial of timely enforcement of either party’s patent rights would indeed unduly prejudice that party."
Defendant's motion for attorneys' fees under § 285 was granted. "[Plaintiff] has a history of filing nearly identical patent infringement complaints against a plethora of diverse defendants. . . . In each case, according to [defendant], the complaint has been followed with a demand for quick settlement at a price far lower than the cost of litigation, a demand to which most defendants apparently have agreed. . . . Firm in the belief that [plaintiff's] claim of infringement was baseless, and that the lawsuit was filed for the improper purpose of collecting a nuisance settlement, [defendant] alone chose to litigate rather than settle. In so doing, [defendant] has incurred significant expense for the four years of litigation, far beyond what it would have paid to settle. [Defendant's] refusal to agree to the settlement demand for what it legitimately believed was a bad faith claim of infringement further supports a finding that this case is 'exceptional' . . . It would be a gross injustice to [defendant] to require it to bear the expense of defending against the baseless lawsuit, one that was filed in bad faith for the sole purpose of inducing defendant to settle without questioning the patent itself or its validity. An award of attorney’s fees pursuant to § 285 is therefore appropriate."
Defendant's motion to stay pending inter partes reexamination was denied. "[T]he average pendency for an inter partes reexamination is 41.7 months. . . . [Defendant] is correct, of course, that some courts have granted stays pending reexamination despite the prospect of a drawn-out PTO proceeding. But the prejudice to the non-moving party must be measured not only by the delay attendant to a PTO examination, but also in terms of the length of an alternative proceeding in a district court. This judicial district holds the record for the fastest disposition of patent cases, resolving cases on average within half a year. Thus, the prejudice which would result from a stay in the present case is more significant than it would be if the parties were litigating in a district where judicial proceedings take longer to resolve."
Defendant's motion to compel a continued deposition of plaintiff's 30(b)(6) witness was granted where "in 74 minutes [of deposition], there are 92 objections. Either one party can’t ask questions or the other party makes far too many objections. Having reviewed as much of the deposition as needed, the Court finds the latter. . . . [Defendant] is limited to 8 full hours of questioning. Once [plaintiff's] objections total 100, the deposition time will be extended for 1 more hour. For every 50 objections thereafter, [defendant's] time will be extended 30 minutes. Of course, if [defendant] phrases its questions to draw meritorious objections just to increase its time, [plaintiff] may seek immediate relief with the undersigned where a finding of bad faith will result in immediate cessation of the deposition." | 2019-04-23T04:25:46 | http://docketreport.blogspot.com/2010/01/ |
0.999891 | Police: Singer found unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park compound in Minn.
Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misidentified the location of the southwest Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen.
Prince, a prodigy, a provocateur and a complete game-changer in popular music, died Thursday at his Paisley Park compound in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen. He was 57.
Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson confirmed Thursday afternoon that deputies and medics were dispatched to Paisley Park around 9:43 a.m. CT, where they found the singer unresponsive in an elevator. Their attempts to revive him failed and he was pronounced dead at 10:07 a.m. The department's statement added that it is still investigating the death with assistance from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.
"It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer Prince Rogers Nelson has died at his Paisley Park residence this morning at the age of 57," his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, wrote in a statement. She did not elaborate on the cause of his death.
A transcript of the 9-1-1 call from Prince's Paisley Park estate illustrates the tension after the body was found.
"We have someone who is unconscious," says an unidentified male. "We're at Prince's house."
"The person is dead here," the male says. "And the people are just distraught."
Colestock asks, "OK, do we know how the person died?"
"I don't know, I don't know," the unidentified male says.
Later, an ambulance dispatcher named Shirley is heard telling dispatcher Kayley McGarry that she can " ... cancel anybody going to Audubon," referring to Prince's street. "Confirmed DOA."
Prince had been briefly hospitalized last Friday after his plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Illinois' Quad City International Airport. Noel-Schure told USA TODAY that he had been struggling with the flu.
Prince, a 2004 Rock Hall of Fame inductee, won seven Grammy Awards. He also won a best-original-song Oscar for his 1984 film Purple Rain. His long list of hit songs includes 1999, Little Red Corvette,When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy and Kiss.
The 5-foot-2 Minneapolis native, born Prince Rogers Nelson, broke through in the late 1970s and never forgot where he came from. He continued to live and work there for the rest of his life. Former Governor Jesse Ventura called his death a "huge loss for Minnesota."
Prince also gave a leg-up to other musicians such as Sheila E. He also wrote for other performers, including Sinead O'Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U) Sheena Easton (Sugar Walls) and the Bangles (Manic Monday).
"Never one to conform, he redefined and forever changed our musical landscape. Prince was an original who influenced so many, and his legacy will live on forever," Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said in a statement.
MTV, which came of age alongside the singer, called Prince "a once-in-a-lifetime artist who transcended every medium and genre he touched and created music with a passion and individuality that inspired multiple generations."
His influence wasn't always intentional.
Prince is partially responsible for the parental advisory warnings on album covers. In the late 1980s, Tipper Gore, then the wife of politician Al Gore, reportedly co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center after she heard his explicit single Darling Nikki.
Prince famously changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol when contract renegotiations with his record label, Warner Bros., broke down in 1993. Even after his contract was over and he resumed using his name, he was still routinely referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" and "TAFKAP."
Prince remained outspoken until the end, recording Baltimore, a tribute to Freddie Gray, a young black man who died in police custody, in 2015.
He frequently "freaked out" fans when he knocked on doors as part of its proselytization practice. While it's not known if he managed to win any new converts, he probably got past the front door more often than most of his fellow evangelists.
The notoriously private singer was married twice. He wed backup singer Mayte Garcia in 1996. That year, they lost their only child, Boy Gregory, a week after his birth to a skull defect. Their marriage was annulled two years later. He was also married to Manuela Testolini from 2001-2006. That union did not produce any children.
Garcia, who claims to be the inspiration for his song The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, shed a little light on their time together. In a 2015 interview with The Daily Mirror, she summed up their marriage as "bizarre but wonderful." She also said that she has discouraged all of her partners since Prince from writing songs or poems for her.
"I'm like, 'Seriously, don't even go there. You can't compete!'" | 2019-04-18T19:29:41 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/04/21/reports-musician-prince-dies-at-57/83338062/ |
0.998622 | The third in a series of authorized bootlegs was recorded over a four night residency Davis had at the legendary Fillmore in June 1970. The four disc set features hardly any overlap and with his brilliant band of that era, Miles comes alive again.
The influence indie Britrock band that paved the way for Oasis, Belle & Sebastian, Glasvegas, Stone Roses and countless others, had their first four albums remastered and rereleased via Domino and never sounded better.
Thanks to the vinyl craze some of the classic rock albums fans have found while crate digging have now been cleaned up and remastered and instead of hearing the hiss, cracks, and skips, of the original LP's, the Led Zeppelin reissues have by far been the best. Jimmy Page oversaw the entire project which also gave fans remastered demos and live cuts on the CD versions.
The landmark Soundgarden record turned 20 this year and Superunknown, the grunge Gods biggest album never sounded better. Packed with B-sides, alternate mixes, demos and rehearsals, plus a Blueray featuring live performances, music videos, and documentaries.
Mobb Deep's 1994 breakthrough, The Infamous, wasn't the only landmark record that turned 20 this year but it was one of those records that still after all of these years sounds as fresh and as vibrant today as it did then. Also packed with this reissue are studio outtakes and demos that were never before heard until now.
The greatest hip-hop album of all time turned 20 and like Nas' Queensbridge neighbors, Mobb Deep, Illmatic's themes, discussions, and ideas sound as clear as day now as they did 20 years ago and prove why this album is not just classic but iconic. The CD reissue features remixes as well as Nas' infamous interview on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito show in 1993.
Back in the 90's MTV's Unplugged was one of the most important and impactful programs on TV. It featured artists turn another cheek and audiences live in the studios saw their favorite bands and singers as musicians. It wasn't that they were going acoustic, it was showing what they could do with less. So many artists like Eric Clapton, Nirvana, Jay Z, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Oasis, LL Cool J, Bruce Springsteen, and countless others crafted such memorable performances they go down in music history as some of the best ever put to record. Another one of those artists, R.E.M., did it more than once and did it with such grace that this compilation of their Unplugged moments makes audiences long for the series to return to it's importance and not just show what is hot in pop culture now.
Oasis - Definitely Maybe / (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
The biggest Britrock band of the 90's reissued their classic and best albums to celebrate their debut's 20th anniversary. Following the death of grunge, no band captured the attention of the world such as Oasis, they had the rock and roll attitude that every person that starts a band want but also had the songs to back it up. While these records are timeless, it is the additional material packed in that showcases how fantastic they were and how good these records were that even so many amazing B-sides were left off.
For the first time since it was released DIY in the late 70's, Joy Divisions debut EP was reprinted on wax from the original tapes and while fans have bootleged the original for decades, this 10" makes you remember that while Joy Division were known for ushering in post-punk, they were a punk band that had the chops to compete with everyone else in England's top flight. Repackaged without the original and controversial Hitler youth art, An Ideal For Living is the sound of an iconic band that many never expected to hear again.
The Afghan Whigs had a huge 2014, with a phenomenal new album, fantastic live show, and return to form, it was time to celebrate the record that brought them all of their acclaim 21 years ago, Gentlemen. Fueled by the singles "Gentleman," and "Debonair," The Whigs took grunge and mixed it with R&B, classic rock, and funk. The reissues features fantastic live cuts and demos and takes you back that had this record not come during the height of the grunge era, this band could have been in the stratosphere. | 2019-04-24T10:21:59 | http://www.officiallyayuppie.com/2014/12/2014-best-reissues.html |
0.999938 | Welcome to another Shopify review – in this article we compare WIX vs Shopify.
We work with clients of all sizes, including micro businesses, and we believe that it doesn’t matter your size or budget, it’s possible to have a fantastic, leading edge e-commerce platform and presence without compromising on service, scalability, security and world-class features.
Looking at the big picture (here comes the TL;DR, WIX is an attractive, simple all-around website builder with an additional eCommerce capability.
Shopify, on the other hand, is a specialist eCommerce platform. From an online trading perspective, there is no question that Shopify is a far better option. But to be fair — it’s like comparing apples and oranges!
Both platforms offer free trials so you can do your own due diligence, but you will quickly see this differences between WIX and Shopify, which we’re going to unpack in detail now.
Shopify offers solid 24/7 support and beats WIX hands down, with the Wix platform offering limited support.
Shopify wins this one by a country mile. WIX has an eCommerce add-on, and one online review we saw described it as “adding wings to a car, it just doesn’t work”. Shopify is the clear leader and has amazing store management features and excellent product functionality.
WIX is pitched as being really easy to use and build, which is true up to a point. However, if you want to go further and customise it, the design often breaks and it’s messy and complex. WIX is pretty easy to use, but it’s too rudimentary to really get into it at a business level and have it evolve as you do. Shopify is a total breeze to build and customise, and if you do want to get specialist developers in, there are plenty of great ones around, find a great one with this guide.
Shopify is great for developers who want to get in there and implement their own CSS and HTML code, and the Liquid programming language is a breeze for developers. WIX was designed for basic users with no design experience, meaning it’s very hard to customise, and we’ve found it easy to break.
The Shopify platform offers over 70 payment gateways, including the big ones like Stripe. WIX lags behind with less than 10% of that.
Shopify is leading just about everyone on the market with their themes, not only the quality, but the variety is amazing. WIX has plenty of themes too, but not as many and we don’t think they look at good. And eCommerce specific themes are lacking for WIX but it’s the Shopify bread and butter.
Apps are nifty pre-built bits of code that give you extra features and functionality without needing to build them from scratch. Shopify is, again, a winner with a massive app marketplace and a plethora of options. WIX has less than 20.
Shopify has a great Retail Plan and hardware to get you trading in stores, markets and events. You’re on your own with a WIX store.
Is Shopify or WIX better?
WIX has certainly carved out an audience and has a role to play in today’s online world. It’s fine if you need a very simple site that doesn’t transact, like an online portfolio, as it’s a good option and it’s easy to use for beginners.
However, our experience of WIX is that it is difficult to customise, has poor support and is not a viable choice for eCommerce businesses.
At The Hope Factory, we’re serious about e-commerce and driving sales and revenue for our clients. We believe that there are basic standards for web platforms to meet, and even on a service basis alone, WIX isn’t a contender. WIX vs Shopify… Shopify wins this bout, hands down. | 2019-04-23T03:59:45 | https://thehopefactory.com/blogs/articles/wix-vs-shopify |
0.998803 | For me, my mum is one of the most important people in my life, so I always want to get her something a little bit special come Christmas time. She can be quite hard to buy for as she doesn't really wear make-up or perfume, or use hair products, she doesn't use a handbag, and let's just say the football fan in my parents' house is not my Dad.. She isn't your typical woman, so I've tried to go for gifts which are thoughtful and feminine but would still suit my mama.
My Mum has her ears pierced and wears a pair of plain gold studs, at all times. I'd like to get her something a little bit prettier to wear for special occasions, especially since she's recently had her hair cut a bit shorter so her earrings are now on show more. One thing I inherited from my Mum is her sense of humour, and so Christmas socks are a must; I really like this super-cute set of four reindeer-themed socks from George at Asda. I unfortunately also inherited her perpetually cold feet, so I know these cosy boot-style slippers would be gratefully received, as would the gorgeous hand-knitted hot water bottle cover. I've already mentioned her sense of humour, and recently my Mum and I went to see John Bishop - he's a very funny and exceptionally nice man (we had a chat after his show) and if my Mum didn't already own his book, I'd be buying it for her. She's also a massive fan of Bruce Springsteen, who is releasing a new album in January - it's a bit late for Christmas, but I've pre-ordered it for her - shhh! Keeping track of my brother's activities is no easy task, even now he's moved away to Uni, so a diary is an essential item for my Mum, and this one is super pretty. I'd hate to be misconstrued as sexist, but it's a statement of fact that my Mum does the vast majority of the cooking, so this lovely spotty oven mitt would be a cheerful addition to her kitchen, whilst the metal wall sign is a frighteningly accurate representation of my mother's view on picky eaters... Finally, as an avid coffee drinker, I think a travel mug would be a perfect gift - my Mum has a battered plain steel one at the moment, so this pretty one would be a nice change.
What are you getting your Mum for Christmas this year? Are any of these suggestions helpful to you? If you're a Mum, would you like to receive these gifts?
I a probably going to get my mother a gift card to her favorite store because I never know what the buy for her lol great post!
Christmas socks are a must for us too, gotta love novelty designs! | 2019-04-21T08:18:40 | http://www.theindigohours.co.uk/2013/12/gift-guides-2-mama.html |
0.999992 | Written by Peter Davison on 16 June 2016 .
Swindon Crown CourtA drink-driver who went ten miles on the wrong side of a dual carriageway told police who stopped him 'I don't know what all the fuss is about'.
Oliver Wheeler, from Woodborough, decided to go for a spin after a drinking session at the end of his exams at the prestigious Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester.
But the 24-year-old – who will mark his 25th birthday on Monday behind bars – got on to the northbound carriageway of the A419 just after midnight and drove south, into the face of traffic, for a quarter of an hour.
And even when a police car managed to catch up on the correct side of the road he twice looked across, but made no attempt to stop.
Rob Welling, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court a concerned member of the public called the police a few minutes into Tuesday, May 10.
He said the caller told them he had seen the Ford Focus going the wrong way down the slip road in Cirencester heading south on the northbound carriageway.
"It is apparent from officers trying to attract his attention that he was completely oblivious to what he was doing," he said.
"It is clear that vehicle coming the opposite way had to take evasive action to avoid a head on collision.
"The first officer joined about two miles into his journey. He described travelling with lights and sirens on."
He said Wheeler looked across at the police car, which was on the other side of the central reservation, at least twice but neither acknowledged them or pulled over.
The car was doing between 55mph and 60mph in the fast lane causing other vehicles to move out of the way.
It was eventually stopped on the outskirts of Swindon when police on Wheeler's side of the road blocked the carriageway.
"They were coming in the correct direction and managed to stop the vehicle 5ft from their bumper. They were scared for their safety: they feared he would not stop.
"He was told to stop, the driver's door was opened. He tried to drive away but was blocked in by other members of the public."
He said the officers leaned into the vehicle ands pulled on the handbrake to stop him moving off.
"The police said 'Put your hands up and get out of the car'. He said the driver put his hands up, looked confused, and said 'I don't know what all the fuss is about'."
A roadside test showed he had 95mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, which had gone down to 73mg at the police station: the legal limit is 35mg.
Wheeler, of Wood Road, Woodborough, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and drink driving.
Rob Ross, defending, said his client could not explain why he was driving as he was so drunk he could not remember.
Having just completed his exams after three years at university, he said he went out drinking then got into his car, probably to go to Wanborough where his mother lives.
As a result of the conviction he said his client had missed out on what he believed was his 'dream job' because he had now lost his driving licence.
He said he was also seeking help for his drinking after losing his father to alcoholism a few years ago.
Jailing him for six months Judge Peter Blair QC said "There is no alternative in my view but to give you this custodial sentence for punishment, and as a deterrent to others.
"Let it be clear to other students at the Royal Agricultural University, and in this area, that notwithstanding your personal and impressive mitigation, behaviour like this can't receive anything other than a prison sentence."
He also banned him from the road for two years and until he has passed an extended retest. | 2019-04-25T16:35:24 | http://www.marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk/news/5703-six-months-jail-for-woodborough-man-who-drove-on-wrong-side-of-dual-carriageway |
0.999999 | A restaurant owner and one of his customers became embroiled in a public row over the number of chips on a plate.
Leanne Williams penned a biting one-star review on Facebook blasting The Clock Face Pub and Restaurant in St Helens, Merseyside, for allegedly charging £2.50 for seven chips.
But the director of the pub argues when the party pre-ordered their food for their party on October 15, they had requested a kid's meal - which is why the portion was the size it was.
Leanne became involved in an online argument with the restaurant owner, and she said it was like "something out of Fawlty Towers".
Taxi driver Leanne was shocked to receive a reply to her review from the restaurant's owner.
He sarcastically thanked her for the 'glowing review' but quizzed her about the size and number of fries that were served.
Restaurant boss Jamie Fildes said he was stunned to learn that the party, who he claimed left a £10 tip, weren't happy with the food they received, and said all comments made were meant as 'banter'.
However in the social media row, the restaurant responded to 28-year-old Leanne's grievances with 'I count eight chips, I think someone's had a sneaky one too, that makes nine'.
He then dared to comment on how much Leanne had chosen to eat by saying he was 'surprised she had room' for the chips after having steak and ale pie and roasties - prompting the customer to brand him 'childish'.
Leanne, from St Helens, said: "It was like something out of Fawlty Towers, I couldn't believe it.
"We'd gone out for a nice family meal to celebrate my girlfriend's grandma's birthday.
"We pre-booked and my partner's aunt had ordered the burger and chips.
"The meal was served on a small side plate with seven or eight chips on it - it looked like a doll-sized portion of food.
"It was £5.50 for the burger and £2.50 for seven chips, I couldn't believe it.
"Her aunt had just had a stroke and is still struggling to speak. She didn't feel confident speaking about so I waited until we finished our meal to write the review.
"When I saw the reply I just thought 'what a cheek'. I was a bit shocked by it and I thought it was disgusting."
Leanne claims the tirade has upset her girlfriend's family who have regularly visited the restaurant for the past three years and has said she will never return.
Leanne said: "We were going to go there as a party of 12 for Christmas Day but I've said if they decide to go I won't.
"I'd rather sit at home and eat cheese on toast than go back there and give them my money.
"How do you expect to run a business with an attitude like that?"
Director of The Clock Face Pub and Restaurant Jamie Fildes said that when the party pre-ordered their food they had requested a kid's meal of burger and chips - which is why the portion was the size it was.
Jamie also claims the Facebook comments were 'banter' and he expected them to be taken in the spirit they were made.
Jamie, 31, said: "It was a daft, flippant comment which was satirical and meant to be banter and wasn't meant to cause any offence.
"I hold my hands up, I should have been a bit more clued up, but I've learned a valuable lesson."
Jamie said the size of the meal, and number of chips, was down to an alleged mix-up on the order form.
Jamie said: "On the pre-order it said it was a kid's meal. Ideally they should have said something along the lines of 'you have messed up here and given us a child's portion', and it could have been sorted straight away.
"It's not a fair comment to make as our portions are big.
"If anything I'm over reasonable and will do anything to make anyone feel comfortable.
"Out of 265 meals served that day we didn't get one complaint.
"How can you come to a restaurant once a week for three years, leave a one-star review and then wait until she'd finished to put it all over social media?
"For a table to leave a £10 tip, this suggests to me that the food has been good.
"I never once said anything bad about them, I was trying to defend a review that was on my page, I was never nasty - I kept it professional." | 2019-04-18T10:32:13 | http://www.madnesshub.com/2017/10/the-restaurant-boss-with-chip-on-his.html |
0.999708 | Why not `raise' and `rescue'?
At some point every apprentice is tempted to look for a quick escape from a self-painted corner. The apprentice sees the trap of her own making at the bottom of many nested methods or loops. "I know!" she thinks. "I'll jump out with an exception!"
But therein lies danger: exceptions are meant to be quite literal. One should raise an exception under exceptional circumstances, and only then. The temptation to use exceptions to move about the code is one we all experience; don't worry. But that doesn't make it any less wrong. "Moving about the code" is known in fancy circles as "flow control." Your tools for flow control include if (and its friends, unless and else), Enumerable#each, for, method calls, and the like.
The reason not to use exceptions for flow control isn't simply one of semantics, either. Exceptions are designed to provide you, the programmer, with as much information as possible about what went wrong (since they imply a failure). To do this, Ruby's exception system figures out all the methods you called to get where you are -- and this is slow. Control flow code should be fast. Exceptions are slow. One more reason to do things correctly.
...and how do we do things correctly? In the Ruby world, throw and catch are an option. Of course, "doing things correctly" is always philosophical and subjective -- but we can pontificate a bit more after a few examples.
Notice that even though we found a gummy on the fourth tile, we still checked all the remaining tiles, totally nine attempts.
throw and catch can save us this extra work by "jumping out" of the two loops. This is the canonical example because it's easy to see that a simple break statement would only escape the inner loop.
We tell catch what symbol it should capture from the throw (in this case, :found. These need to match.
throw works much like return, in that no code after it is ever executed.
throw requires a catch to pair with it. Try removing the catch and see what happens!
There's one more feature of catch that we can exploit to make this code a little more concise. throw accepts both an identifying symbol and a return value; the matching catch will return this value. Notice that this allows us to declare candy directly.
As always, there's more than one way to pet a cat. But sometimes you'll pet the cat in a way he doesn't like and an arm covered in scratches is your reward. throw and catch are not common in Ruby code. More often than not, there's a solution which is not only simpler but easier to follow. One such solution, which mimics the behaviour we saw in the last example, is to use the return value of a function in place of the return value of a catch. The throw approach expresses more intent than exceptions, as discussed earlier. The approach of using a function expresses even more intent because we're forcing ourselves to give this operation a name.
Change the last example to return the found tile from a method called search, instead. search should receive the floor plan as a parameter.
Try replacing the 'catch' line with a method definition and the 'throw' line with a 'return'. | 2019-04-18T14:23:14 | https://rubymonk.com/learning/books/4-ruby-primer-ascent/chapters/41-exceptions/lessons/93-throw-and-catch |
0.999999 | I used an iPhone app that enabled me to quit smoking after more than 40 years. Two months after I had quit, I smoked a cigarette--and I was addicted again, as if I had never quit. I'm desperate to quit again, but the iPhone app no longer works! I've tried it 3 times--within hours, the urge to smoke is overwhelming.
How do I make the script regain its effectiveness? Is there something I can do so that I'm back to where it worked? I'm desperate. | 2019-04-24T04:49:01 | https://hypnosisonline.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1999 |
0.999999 | Converting Taiwanese chhùn to terameters value in the length units scale.
TOGGLE : from terameters into Taiwanese chhùn in the other way around.
Convert length measuring units between Taiwanese chhùn (寸 cùn) and terameters (Tm) but in the other reverse direction from terameters into Taiwanese chhùn.
This online length from 寸 cùn into Tm converter is a handy tool not just for certified or experienced professionals.
First unit: Taiwanese chhùn (寸 cùn) is used for measuring length.
0.000000000000030 Tm is converted to 1 of what?
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How to convert 2 Taiwanese chhùn (寸 cùn) into terameters (Tm)? Is there a calculation formula?
1. in practicing Taiwanese chhùn and terameters ( 寸 cùn vs. Tm ) values exchange.
How many terameters of length are in 1 Taiwanese chhùn? The answer is: The change of 1 寸 cùn ( Taiwanese chhùn ) unit of length measure equals = to 0.000000000000030 Tm ( terameter ) as the equivalent measure for the same length type.
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The length converter from 寸 cùn ( Taiwanese chhùn ) measure to Tm ( terameters ) equivalent. | 2019-04-22T02:45:11 | https://www.traditionaloven.com/tutorials/distance/convert-taiwan-chhun-unit-to-terametre-tm-unit.html |
0.998343 | A potential client who is either going through a divorce, child custody battle, or seeking restraining order should always ask the attorney questions to decide if the attorney is right for the client.
1) No Guarantees - NEVER hire a family law attorney who guarantees you he or she can win your case. No attorney is allowed to guarantee that they can win your case.
2) Experience - ask how experienced the attorney is in family law. Just because an attorney has been practicing for 20 years does not mean someone who has been practicing for 5 years cannot help you get a favorable result for your child custody or divorce, or restraining order case. Remember, even a beginner attorney can win a case against an experienced attorney as long as the beginner attorney has had enough experience in the matter and know what he or she is doing.
3) Focus on Family Law - find out if the attorney practices ONLY family law or if the attorney practices a wide variety of law. Knowing what law the attorney practices most should give you an idea about the experience level of the attorney, not to mention the attorney's familiarity with the local judges and court rules for those practice areas. If an attorney practices criminal law, civil law, and family law, there is a higher chance that the attorney knows less about family law compared to an attorney who only practices family law. So, choose carefully.
4) Face-to-Face Consultation - NEVER hire an attorney without meeting him or her face-to-face or talking with him directly. In other words, many attorneys have their paralegals do the initial interview, which is fine. However, after the initial interview, the paralegals also explain to the client the attorney-client agreement, the fee retainer agreement, and gives the client the choice of whether the client wants to retain the attorney's services. Never make the mistake of hiring the attorney by only speaking with the paralegal(s). ALWAYS speak to the attorney at least once before hiring him. You are going to pay the attorney a substantial amount of money; you should at least talk to the attorney "once" before giving him the money.
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0.999999 | Shofar; What the Jewish Laws?
What are the "laws" of sounding the shofar? This article discusses the more important laws.
The order of the blasts consists of three sets of three each, the length of a tekiah is equal to three teruahs and the length of the teruah is equal to three Shevarim. (Rosh Hashanah 4:9) If the reader of the congregation makes a mistake in the calling of the notes, the congregation is obviated from error because the reader fulfills the obligation on behalf of the many. (Rosh Hashanah 4:9) Because there was a difference of opinion regarding the order of the shevarim-terurah when it was sounded in the Temple the Rabbis decided to blend the two notes together. (Rosh Hashanah 34a) Tekiah and Teruah The tekiah sound was always well defined and agreed upon by all authorities - a long, straight (without a break or pause) blast. The teruah sound, however, was not well defined and the Rabbis were unsure of how, exactly, it was supposed to sound ( While the basic definition of a teruah is a "crying" sound, it was unclear if that resembled short "wailing" sounds or longer "groaning" sounds). The Talmud ( Rosh Hashanah 33b) describes three possibilities: Shavarim as Three Short Blasts There are Rishonim (725-1100) who hold that a teruah is three short beeps. Shavarim as Nine Staccato Blasts On the other hand, we may rely on that view to fulfill our obligation (Mishnah Berurah 590:12) very short, staccato blasts - what we commonly refer to as teruah; A combination of both of the above sounds - a shevarim- teruah compound. Shevarim as a Rabbinic Compromise To satisfy all of the above opinions, the Rabbis established that the three sets of tekiot be sounded in three different ways, alternating the teruah sound in each set. Three straight blasts - what we commonly refer to as shevarim.
As there are different views and/or stringencies pertaining to various aspects of tekiot Shofar, one who wishes to be extremely particular in this mitzvah may sound (or hear) additional blasts after the davening is over in order to satisfy all opinions. These include the following hiddurim: There are several ways of sounding the shevarim sound; while some sound short, straight blasts, others make a slight undulation (tu-u-tu). Some opinions maintain that l'chatchillah, each shever should be no longer than the length of two beeps (Orech Chaim 590:3). Some opinions hold that when the shevarim-teruah sound is sounded, there may not be any break at all between them (even if no breath is taken); the shever must lead directly into the teruah (Avnei Nezer 443; Chazon Ish Orech Chaim 136:1. This is difficult to perform properly. Some authorities insist that the tekiah sound be straight and clear from beginning to the end, with no fluctuation of pitch throughout the entire blast ( Harav Y.L. Diskin, based on the view of the Ramban and Ritva, see Moadim u'Zmanim 1:5. Chazon Ish, however, was not particular about this; Orchos Rabbeinu 2:183). Traveling To hear the Shofar, you are not allowed to travel more than 200 cubits; nor remove debris; nor climb a tree; nor ride on an animal; not to swim (Rosh Hashanah 12a) Practicing The Baal Tekiah is supposed to practice during the month of Elul, 30 days before Rosh Hashanah. The Shofar is sounded during the Shacharit service during this month. However, on the day before Rosh Hashanah, the Baal Tekiah does not sound the Shofar. Children are encouraged to learn how to sound the Shofar, even during Sabbath (Rosh Hashanah 4:8) Practicing does not fulfill the mitzvah. But making musical sounds does fulfill the mitzvah. (Rosh Hashanah 33b) On the other hand, is the Ball Tekiah make music, it is considered valid. (Rosh Hashanah 33b) When Is the Shofar Sounded?
The Shofar is sounded when Hallel (toward the end of the service) is recited because Roman soldiers had mistaken the Shofar sounds as a signal for a revolt when the sounds sounded in the Shacharit. (Rosh Hashanah 7) There are four specific places in the service when the Shofar is sounded: the Malkiyot, Zichronot and Shofarot sections of the shemonei esrei of the Musof Service and sometime during the reader's kaddish at the end of the service. The Sefer Halkkarim (Rav Josef Albo) posits the axioms of Judaism in to three categories: the existence of God; reward and punishment (accountability) and the divine origin of the Torah. The Sefer Halkkarim mentions that these axioms correspond to the Malkiyot, Zichronot and Shofarot in the Rosh Hashanah service. Rav Joseph Soloveichik indicates that we state and explain each truth one by one. We then prove it by quoting Biblical passages that have a definite order. The first three from Torah relating to the past; the middle three from the Writings relating to the present; finally, the last three from Prophets relating to the future. For the tenth verse in each section, we add a request asking God to bring about the ideal of the specific themes. The Shofar cry itself is actually considered a prayer. That is why it blends so well in the Shemonah Esrei (any other mitzvah would be considered an interruption). The sages discuss the shape of the Shofar as corresponding to the mood one would have in prayer. Gods mercy will accept our prayer (the Showers cry, as a prayer in anguish. Generally 30 blasts are sounded in each section after the Torah service. Then the remaining ten are sounded during the Readers Kaddish in the Musof Service, for a total of 100 blasts. (Rav Yehuda (Jeffrey) Silver, Rav Soloveichik Explains the Structure of the Special Rosh Hashanah Prayers, The Jewish Press, September 18, 1987) The Shofar is sounded after the Neilah service. Interestingly, the halachah is to sound the Shofar at the close of the Neilah service. However, many Rabbis face a practical problem. If the Shofar is sounded during Neilah, then everyone leaves the shul. Because the congregations have programmed in the Havdalah and Maariv services, many Rabbis sound the Shofar immediately after the Maariv service so that their congregants will stay for the whole event.
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0.999525 | What do Retaining Walls refers to?
Retaining walls are the structure that holds or retains soil behind it. There are many types of materials that can be used to create retaining walls like concrete blocks, poured concrete, treated timbers, rocks or boulders. Some are easy to use, others have a shorter life span, but all can retain soil.
Gravity Wall or Geogrid Reinforced Wall?
Several questions must be considered in order to build the proper type of retaining wall. As an example, is the soil sand, clay, or something in between? What is above the wall? is it a driveway or something heavier like a pool? Will the ground above or below the wall be level or sloped? What is the height of the wall? All of these factors will determine whether you will need a Gravity Retaining Wall or a Geogrid Reinforced Retaining Wall.
Gravity retaining walls are walls that depend on their own weight and setback to retain the soil and are typically shorter in height. retaining walls are ideal for this type of wall, because as they are stacked together they lock into place to form a setback. This setback helps the wall support the pressure from the soils behind it. | 2019-04-25T02:51:09 | http://bomets.com/?p=4040 |
0.998583 | Does exercise help to improve your sleep?
The answer is yes. Why yes? Because it helps you make a daily routine therefore setting your body-clock the way it should be. Also there are plenty of reasons why sweating is good for you. To summarize it all here are some reasons why you should sweat to sleep better.
When you sweat you release toxins from your body and you replenish the good vitamins and minerals with a proper diet and you will find that sleep will follow. There are foods that will help you sleep well too like water crests, pineapples, and some all natural mother of all apple ciders. The foods mentioned helps the body expel heavy metal toxins that are bad for the body and brain like fluoride and other heavy metals.
30 minutes of walking a day in the morning will help you start that exercise routine. Start light and eventually do more, like walk for a month then proceed to jogging then running. It is not a one day thing it is a time spent commitment to improve sleep naturally. Do not exercise 3-4 hours before sleep since adrenaline and other chemicals released by the body in exercise will last in your system for hours.
Over-exercising is also a no-no when you want to sleep since it gives your body more stress than helping it relax. Very heavy exercise routines are better left to the body builders who want plenty of muscles.
A routine of exercise is good when you have all sorts of nasty layers of fat and toxins piled up in your system. Exercising helps release your body’s accumulated stress and toxins therefore giving you better sleep. With a daily routine of exercise the body will set internal biological timers in the body that will help you sleep when you need to.
The pineal gland is located in the middle of the brain and it is the one responsible for sleep. Expelling toxins from the body will help this gland do better at doing its job properly. Lots of nasty toxins will prevent you from having that good night’s rest.
So do your workout at morning followed by a heavy meal, healthy lunch, and eat a light meal at night followed by rest. Doing this routine will also help you get a healthy body and mind. This will help set that biological clock and give you a deeper sleep for a longer period of time. | 2019-04-25T23:48:56 | https://abercrombiefitchsale.com/does-exercise-help-to-improve-your-sleep/ |
0.999948 | What different glass etching techniques are there?
All of the possible visual effects you can achieve by abrasive blasting on glass can be broken down into 3 major techniques: surface etching, carving and shading.
Surface etching: So named because you are only etching the surface of the glass. In addition, this type of etching is all done in one stage of blasting, which means that the designs produced are all 2 element designs. That is, all the designs are positive and negative, or black and white.
The etched portions of the design almost always look white, and the clear, unetched portions of the design look black or dark. All etched elements have to be separated by spaces of unetched glass, or the etched elements blend together as a single silhouette, with no detail inside the border.
Surface etching is the easiest technique to learn and the fastest way to produce a finished etching on glass. The etched designs aren't as sophisticated as those from carving or shading.
Carving: Called carving because you actually blast, or carve, deep into the glass, giving a three dimensional etching. There are several types of carving, including single stage, two stage, multi-stage, and freehand carving. Single stage carving is simply blasting a surface etching design deeply into the glass, separating elements with clear spaces, as in surface etching. With two stage or multi-stage carving, the resist is removed, not all at once, but a few elements at a time and in a definite sequence. This way, elements can be carved to different depths than the other elements they touch, yielding a 3-D bas relief carving. But not a regular bas relief, a reverse bas relief - since you are carving from one side of the glass and viewing the finished carving from the opposite (smooth) side! In other words, you are carving a hollow (or negative) shape in the glass that looks solid and positive from the smooth side.
Elements of a two stage or multi-stage carving design do not have to be separated from each other as they do in surface etching, because they are removed at different times and blasted to different depths. These different depths are what give the necessary visual separation between elements.
A combination of multi-stage shading and multi-stage carving is used in this piece. The shading is obvious because the elements are different shades of gray, especially where they touch.(Design and execution by Heather Mathews, Heather Glass; from Glass Etching: Techniques & Designs, used by permission of the publisher) Shading: Like surface etching, this technique just blasts the surface of the glass. But unlike surface etching, the elements in the design are blasted to different apparent shades of gray (hence the name Shading), rather than to the solid white color produced in surface etching. The principle of shading is that 100% clear glass usually appears dark while full surface etching appears 100% white. So you can create shades of gray by etching the surface to a density less than 100%, and you control the shade by controlling the density. Shading, like carving, can be done in one stage, two stage, multi-stage, and freehand techniques.
Elements of the shading design can all touch, as they can with a carving design, because the visual separations between elements are created by the stage blasting process. In shading, this gives different shades of gray where elements touch rather than different depths as in carving. Shaded etching looks very much like airbrushing, with flowing tones of light and dark indicating shape and contour.
Combinations of techniques: Any etching can be produced with just one technique, but also by a combination of two or all three techniques. For glass etchers who know all three techniques, this gives the ability to do the best and most sophisticated etchings possible. It is the ability to use each technique for its strengths and avoid its weaknesses. You can also get beautiful results by combining etching with other glassworking techniques, like stained glass, glass blowing, etc. | 2019-04-22T21:55:49 | http://etchmaster.com/information_site/is_techniques.htm |
0.998455 | 1. In medium saucepan, combine prunes with 1-1/2 cups water; bring to boiling. Reduce heat, simmer, covered for 10 minutes. 2. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease bottom of an 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2-5/8 inch loaf pan. 3. Sift flour with sugar, baking soda and salt. Set aside. 4. Drain prunes, reserving liquid. Pit prunes and chop. Add reserved liquid and measure. Add water if need to make 2 cups. 5. In large bowl of electric mixer, combine egg and shortening or oil. Beat well at medium speed. Add prune mixture; beat until well blended. 6. Add flour mixture; beat at low speed just until smooth. Turn into prepared pan. 7. Bake 50-60 minutes or until cake tests done. 8. Let cool in pan on wire rack 10 min. Remove from pan; cool completely on rack. Wrap in plastic film or foil; refrigerate overnight before slicing. | 2019-04-25T14:58:20 | https://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/3795825032/prune-bread/ |
0.998307 | It's far from the first Galaxy Note, released at the end of 2011 with its "big" 5.3-inch screen. A giant phone for the time! Since then, the size of our smartphones has continued to grow, no offense to some.
The Galaxy Note did not differ from the rule: in seven years, the cream of the Samsung Series washed a little over a diagonal screen at 6.4 inches to reach. The same slant as the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, which was issued in mid 2013 and has been titled many times at the time of its release.
We have nothing to say about the end of the phone, which is excellent with glass on the front and back of the phone, all surrounded by aluminum.
The OLED screen is very well defined and we will not show the trend that Samsung has ever used. time to give extremely saturated colors. There are several ways to customize the smartphone screen, as well as an expert to give a small toy.
But … it's still a very big phone! So big that we have to use both hands to have more comfort and prevent it from falling to the ground. Good news anyway: When it comes to water, Note 9 is quite resistant to immersion to less than one and a half feet deep. It will therefore perfectly resist the Belgian weather (unfortunately, summer is not forever, especially in Belgium …).
However, it helps to provide a fairly complete connection. The top of note 9 shows two nano SIM cards. Suitable if you need to use a mobile operator while you're on the move, but want to access your Belgian number.
The connection, the USB C port, will allow you to connect Note 9 to & # 39; a computer or any one. Only recharge the phone (if you have not yet paid for the charm of wireless charging). A news that looks all the headphones headphones and headphones: Samsung is in position and holding the jack along the USB-C.
The Galaxy Note 9, accompanied by his loyal companion: the S Pen – © Antoine Libotte – RTBF One of the features of the Galaxy Note series is the presence of a stylus, the "S Pen", housed in the bottom of the phone. This style allows more features this year, thanks to a Bluetooth connection, such as pausing and resuming a media, switch off the "Camera" app to selfie and turn it on away. or even use it as a & quot; remote & # 39; s remote control.
When it's insufficient, there are several options available to you: Create notes on the fly, draw, make a part of the screen so that it makes it an animated GIF, Translate text or browse through compatible applications.
Also note the possibility to replace the keyboard with the handwriting with this stylus. The recognition of the writing is very impressive: even when you do not really write to write certain letters, they are rebuilt frequently.
Many of these features are still gadget. If styling or touch-key replacement can appeal to people who prefer to write handwriting on a glass surface, use GIF, animated message, or color drawings may be more anecdotal.
We understand Samsung's approach very well. Using the stylus in all these situations is obvious, but some features are reversible in the background.
Another disadvantage, also about the connection between the S Pen and the Note 9: during our one-week and half-hour test twice asked for a reconnection with the style. It is hoped that & # 39; a software update will improve the reliability of this connection.
Photo-level: Note 9 ranks next to other devices featuring the latest market: device p 12 megapixel hot camera with double optics back for 2x optical zoom. The pictures are generally excellent, although it may blame that the electronic processing of the photo's exaggerates greatly.
Side video, Note 9 can film to ultra high definition up to 60 frames per second. Again, the display is very good, but the smartphone warns that some features in the highest settings are deactivated, especially with regard to outofocus or video stabilization.
Note 9 includes a feature of "Super slow motion". Moving at 960 frames per second to slow effects. This function is based on motion detection to slow motion to prevent the file from being created in fyn is too heavy. Unfortunately, the phone is detected badly when the action starts and generally it has to be repeated to reach the desired effect.
This way your smartphone To unlock, blue fast: just sleep out, just watch the phone to unlock it as if it were out of order. The effect is enhanced because you do not have to perform any additional action on the screen, as opposed to, for example, the iPhone X some feathers is that you move the finger from the bottom to the top of the screen.
Note that, like any phone that includes sense recognition, you need to look at the phone to unlock it. With this method, it is no longer possible to easily unlock the device located near you. You must take the object and place it face to face.
It is clear that there are always other possibilities for unlocking, such as the chart, PIN, password, or fingerprint sensor digital, in the back. This one is moving under the camera's goals and is also very fast and can unlock the phone without passing the "Lock screen" box.
The 4000mAh battery will allow you to keep the day without problems or receiving different networks. By comparison, the iPhone 8 Plus has a 2691mAh battery, the Galaxy Note 8 3300mAh and is similar to the Huawei P20 Pro and Mate 10 Pro. In addition, the fast-loading device that comes in the box quickly charges. Note 9 despite the imposing battery: & amp; a big hour on the sector will be & # 39 one day without worry.
Despite all of these good points we've taken Enjoy testing this Note 9, There are some elements that can be improved. We mainly think of the Bixby Voice button, which we often press accidentally when we want to lower the volume and enable a service that is not yet available in French.
We also think of these applications in duplicate on the phone (especially when it's recovered from another Android device): We end up with two browsers, two pocket calculators, two diaries … to end up with the same content to get.
Finally, despite these few problems, we will not lie: The Galaxy Note 9 is an excellent phone, probably one of the best smart Android phonemark.
Between 999 and 1249 €, it may seem expensive for a smartphone. This is clearly not within reach of all budgets, but it is aimed at collar users . It's for people who want to work and relax after a day of work, everyone who uses the full capabilities of the phone. For example, it can be seen in stylus or multitasking features.
Samsung's efforts to ease the software consultation and better adjust the color metrics of screens can only be. | 2019-04-23T10:48:08 | https://manchikoni.com/samsungs-galaxy-note-9-the-latest-flagship-has-been-tested/ |
0.99928 | a longwear, periwinkle powder blue. step 1: apply two coats of gel couture color. step 2: apply gel couture top coat. | 2019-04-22T04:33:56 | https://www.essie.com/nail-polish/longwear?selectedFamily=407FA11E6AF9469F9F8ECB418791C6D9&selectedProduct=0 |
0.999985 | Lewis Hamilton regained the championship lead in unexpected and dramatic fashion on Sunday, winning the German Grand Prix after Sebastian Vettel crashed while leading near the end.
HOCKENHEIM, Germany — Lewis Hamilton regained the championship lead in unexpected and dramatic fashion on Sunday, winning the German Grand Prix after Sebastian Vettel crashed while leading near the end.
Heavy rain played havoc late on at the Hockenheimring as Vettel misjudged a basic entry into a turn and slid over the gravel into the barriers with 15 laps to go.
The four-time Formula One champion started from pole position and seemed in control. He was livid with himself, kicking the gravel in frustration as he stepped out his car.
His mishap opened the door wide open for Hamilton.
The British driver was fourth at the time of the crash, having started from 14th on the grid because of a hydraulic problem in qualifying.
"You've always got to believe. I just wanted to stay collected, stay calm," said a delighted Hamilton, adding defiantly. "For those who don't know me, now you do."
Valtteri Bottas started and finished second on a great day for Mercedes, with Kimi Raikkonen taking third on a bad one for Ferrari.
Vettel's incident led to a safety car coming out for several laps.
Hamilton was told to come into the pits, but ignored his mechanic screaming "In, in, in in!" at him.
When the race resumed, with about 10 laps left, Bottas almost overtook Hamilton.
Shortly after, Bottas was firmly told on team radio to "hold position" and not challenge Hamilton, who secured his fourth win of the season and 66th overall.
"We had a bit of a battle after the safety car ... Taking positives as a team, perfect result for us," said Bottas, who added — seemingly half-heartedly — that he "understood" the team's call.
With a little more than 20 of the 67 laps to go, Raikkonen was leading Vettel — who was complaining of his tires overheating.
Ferrari's senior performance engineer, Jock Clear, told Raikkonen not to hold up Vettel.
Raikkonen replied "I'm sorry but can you be direct? What do you want?" and then, after another indirect suggestion to let Vettel through, Raikkonen said "So you want me to let him (past)? Please. Just tell me."
He eventually did, ending Raikkonen's hopes of a first win since the season-opening Australian GP in 2013.
Asked about the instructions moments after the race, a rueful Raikkonen said "it wasn't clear. I had the speed." | 2019-04-23T12:42:32 | https://www.si.com/racing/2018/07/22/german-gp-lewis-hamilton-sebastian-vettel |
0.999752 | 1.Sieve flour with baking powder.To the tutti fruity mix a tbsp of flour and coat it well and then add it to the flour mix..
2.To the yogurt add baking soda,mix and keep ,it will foam up.
3.Take sugar and oil in a bowl,mix well.Slowly add flour mix and yogurt alternatively and mix well.Lastly add essence.
4.Line the muffin pan and scoop out the batter in to it.Add some tutti fruity on top.
5.Bake it in a pre heated oven for 20-25 or till done at 180 deg C.
6.Cool on wire rack and serve.
1.You can even add some nuts also.
2.While mixing if its too hard to mix add some milk to get the dropping consistency. | 2019-04-24T22:11:08 | https://www.babiscooking.net/2015/12/eggless-tutti-fruity-muffins-multi.html |
0.999999 | Is the cottage is haunted by her grandfather?
I was invited to spend Thanksgiving at a cottage this past weekend. As my hostess was telling me about how the place and how it was built by her parents, she brought up the interesting fact that there was a ghost in the cottage. Many in-explainable things had happened at the cottage, and they had always joked that her father's spirit was having fun with visitors. For example, one time she had a friend visiting the cottage who had never got along with their father, because she didn't really like the cottage much. One day during her stay she decided to take a nap on the living room couch.
Someone called her and she woke up with a jolt, just as she sat up the light hanging over the couch (with a nasty pointy end) fell exactly where she had been lying - if she hadn't sat up just then she would have been badly hurt, possibly fatally. The same visitor had other little accidents at the cottage. What do you think was it really the ghost of my hostesses father? At other times my hostess has seen an old man sitting in the living room, she doesn't think it looks like her father so she has been wondering who this person is. Because the cottage was constructed on a vacant piece of land - how can there be any ghosts of earlier dwellers living there?
My view on hauntings has undergone a big change since I have become a student of Abraham and Esther Hicks. I used to be fascinated by talk of spirits and ghosts. Now, I believe that they are thought forms left behind and could belong to someone long gone just as well as to someone still living. It makes sense that only those who have the ability to tap into other energies.
My hostess was 19 when both her parents were killed in a car crash, along with the driver of the car, her grandfather. That was over 30 years ago. I have heard her speak of the accident before, and it is clear to me that she has not made peace with what happened. She looks back with anger that her life was ruined and mourns the loss of her parents. The blame rests on her grandfather.
As she was visiting with another woman who has the ability to read energies, this woman told her that the old man she saw was her grandfather, the one who needs forgiveness. As my hostess digested this piece of information, all the events of the past came back to her as if they had taken place yesterday. It made sense to her that her grandfather might be asking for forgiveness, but she could not find it in her heart. She still felt the enormity of her loss as a result of his action. I pointed out to her the many wonderful things that have happened in her life, and asked her why was it important now what happened so long ago. It transpired that she felt that there should have been some form of retribution. Her grandfather was 90 her parents were both in their 50s; she felt that it was wrong that their lives were taken away.
I tried to talk to her about how hanging on to this anger may be hurting her (as she is not quite well physically), but to no avail. I have no idea whether I was able to make a difference. But in the end, I had to let her be. Her journey is her own, and it is not my work to try and change her. She will find her own way. I send her much love and blessings and it is now time for me to see her as the powerful being I know she truly is. For now my work is done. | 2019-04-26T09:45:29 | https://www.zmahoon.com/blog/the-cottage-is-haunted-by-her-grandfather |
0.999992 | Nest Hello takes all of the familiarity of a doorbell and combines it with all the great technology of a s cam. It is the product that our customers have been asking us most about. In fact it is our number one most requested product. Let me show it to you. [BLANK_AUDIO] Nest Hello is small. But it is powerful, it's packed with technology it has all the things that you should expect camera, microphone, speaker, LEDs, a button. But the real game changer in this product, is that everything in this device was designed specifically to create a great experience at your front door. We have a huge number of our customers today that are using Nest cams pointed at their entryway. So we understand the challenges with having a camera in that location. All of this means, is that when someone comes to my door, they're going to get a clear picture, not a warped, fish eye view. But what happens if the person doesn't ring the bell? What if you get one of those same day deliveries, that shows up at 11:59 PM? And the delivery guy tosses the package on your doorstep, and it sits there overnight, and maybe if you're lucky it's still there in the morning. Well, we have taken this amazing camera, and we've added the intelligence. From this cam IQ. This is the first video doorbell that can do both person detection and facial recognition. It's great like, if you're in a meeting and that package you've been waiting for all week, you can, you obviously can get a notification that it's being delivered, but you can't be disturbed You can just kinda discreetly tap on your Quick Response and it'll tell the driver what to do. And for those times that you do have time to talk, Nest Hello comes with full duplex audio with HD Talk & Listen, and echo and noise cancellation. So you're always gonna have a crystal clear conversation. For those times when you might not have your phone and you miss something, Sightline allows you to go back into the app and scan through literally days worth of footage in just seconds. So you can easily find the clip that you're looking for. [BLANK_AUDIO] But this may be my favorite feature about Nest Hello. So when I work late, which is often, and my kids forget to turn on the porch light for me, which is always, Nest Hello lights up the doorstep to welcome me home. And that's just kind of awesome. Nest Hello, coming to a door near you in Q1 of 2018. | 2019-04-26T13:57:15 | https://www.cnet.com/videos/nest-unveils-smart-doorbell-with-hd-camera/ |
0.999838 | What are the days and times of the classes?
The class for ages 8 to 13 will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 to 6:00.
The class for ages 14 and over will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 to 7:30.
The first month is 65$. The cost will include a uniform. After the first month, the cost is $45 a month.
There are family rates, so feel free to ask.
who do compete do so because they want to. You don't need to attend tournaments or compete.
Is the Dojo affiliated with any martial arts organizations?
Does Karate training make children more violent?
Martial Arts: "Should I do it?"
Driving through Anytown, USA, one might see a Karate School and think something like "Should I do it?" or "Is it worth it?" The simple answer is: Yes. There are things that you need to look for in undertaking Martial Arts to keep yourself safe and to ensure that your Instructor is competent, but yes. Martial Arts is an extremely valuable tool in your arsenal of self defense weapons. The argument can easily be made that it is the most important Self-Defense decision that you can make.
There is always an excuse or even logical-sounding reason why you CAN'T do something. . .anything. And, as with any physical activity that you have to generally pay for, you are more than able to come up with 3,471 reasons why starting or continuing in Martial Arts is not important, or just downright not needed. So, we will skip that long list of reasons why you need not join a Martial Arts Club, and start on the list of reasons why you SHOULD!
What you need to know about Martial Arts is that there are thousands of different styles and thousands of schools out there. You need to find one that fits you. I hear this question a LOT: "How much is it?" This is a valid question. You need to find a school that fits your budget. But more importantly, you need to find a school that suits you and your needs. One of the biggest tell-tale signs of a school that is focused on money more than Martial Arts is the 10 or 11 year old Black Belt. I know that this will offend some Martial Artists out there, and it is not meant to. It is a simple fact. A Black Belt is something that is taken very seriously as a point of life achievement, and I personally do not think that young children should be given the chance to earn a Black Belt until they meet a certain age, perhaps 16 or so. Another thing to look at is the main Instructor's involvement and interaction with the Student and the School. Is he or she aloof and detached, or does the Instructor invite you to work out, engage you, and generally take interest in your betterment? After all, that is why you are there. Find out about Credentials, though not as important to me: Is the Instructor Certified to teach? There are some schools where the Instructor is not part of a larger Certifying body, and in that case, I tend to look at Instructor's ability. However, credentials are a very important aspect of an Instructor's resume, and ANY school that is not accredited is a school that you should take an extra strong look at. Lastly, does the school offer a trial period? A lot of schools offer a free class, a few classes, a week of classes, two weeks or even a month. Take advantage of that and USE IT before you commit. Make sure that the School will meet your Self-Defense needs!
As with any endeavor that targets your ability to defend yourself, it will take work. Hard work. And the harder you work, the more dedicated that you are, the more you will get out of it. Don't let yourself talk yourself out of it. Learning and studying Martial Arts is immensely valuable. The reason to go for it is YOU! | 2019-04-24T11:52:36 | https://shotokankaratedojo.webs.com/faq |
0.999994 | Can I Authorize Someone to Use My Debit Card?
There are two different ways to authorize a friend or relative to use your debit card. You can add the person to your account officially as an authorized user, or you can simply share your card and personal identification number informally, as many people do. From the bank's perspective, the first way is the right way and the second way is definitely the wrong way.
If you want a friend or family member to pick something up at the store for you or to have access to money for some reason, you can give her your debit card and PIN so she can use the card. However, this could potentially be a big mistake if the person you gave the card to abuses your trust.
If you report an unauthorized charge no more than 60 days after the bank sends you your statement, you aren't liable for any charges according to the Federal Trade Commission. If you lose your debit card but report the loss to your bank immediately you are also protected.
However, if you voluntarily share your PIN with another person, you don't have any legal protection and can be held liable for all charges. If the person you gave your PIN to chooses to spend or take out more money than you authorized, the bank does not have to give it back to you.
If you check your bank's debit card agreement, you will most likely find that it is a violation of the agreement to share your card or PIN with anyone. The bank may also reserve the right to cancel your account.
If you want to let a friend or relative use your debit card without violating your card agreement, you can add that person to your account as an authorized user. Depending on your bank, you may be able to add a new user through online banking or over the phone, although some banks may require you to come in and fill out a form.
In most cases, the only information you need is the birth date, name and Social Security number of the person you want to add. He'll receive his own debit card, but the bill will still come to you. If you add an authorized user to your account, you'll still be responsible for any charges just as if you had shared your PIN. Depending on your bank's rules, you may be able to reduce your risk by setting a limit to how much the person is authorized to spend or withdraw.
You can also remove him from your account at any time just by calling your bank, and you won't have to worry that the bank will close your account for violating your cardholder agreement.
Letting someone else use your account is risky either way, and you should only take this step with someone you really trust. | 2019-04-22T12:39:36 | https://www.sapling.com/7752014/can-someone-use-debit-card |
0.999996 | British Prime Minister David Cameron urges parliament to vote to approve British air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Prime Minister David Cameron urged parliament to vote on Wednesday (December 2) to approve British air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria after months of wrangling over whether enough opposition Labour lawmakers would back military action. "The question before the house today, is how we keep the British people safe from the threat posed by ISIL. Let me be clear from the outset, this is not about whether we want to fight terrorism, it is about it is about how best we do that," he said at the start of a 10-hour debate due to culminate in a vote at around 2100 GMT. He added: "The question is this - do we work with our allies to degrade and destroy this threat and do we go after these terrorists in their heartlands from where they are plotting to kill British people, or do we sit back and wait for them?" However, Cameron faced a possible stiffening of opposition in Labour ranks after media reports he urged his Conservative Party lawmakers at a private meeting late on Tuesday not to vote with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers". Many lawmakers demanded Cameron apologise for his remark. Cameron has said he believes British warplanes, which have been bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq for more than a year, should also be tackling the group in Syria rather than "sub-contract" national security to other countries. He said that any air strikes on IS in Syria would not increase the likelihood of militant attacks on Britain. "If there is an attack on the UK in the coming weeks or months, there will be those who try to say it has happened because of our air strikes, I do not believe that will be the case. Daesh have been trying to attack us for the last year, as we know from the seven different plots that our security services have foiled. The terrorist threat level to the UK was raised to severe last August in light of the threat from Daesh, meaning attack is highly likely," he said. The November 13 Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris gave momentum to Cameron's push for air strikes, but critics have questioned whether the action would significantly add to international efforts to defeat the group. Keen to avoid a repeat of a humiliating 2013 parliamentary defeat over plans to bomb the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Cameron had made it clear he would not bring a vote to parliament if he did not think he could win it. That appeared more likely after Corbyn, a veteran anti-war campaigner who says strikes would be ineffective and kill civilians, said on Monday he would allow his lawmakers to vote according to their conscience rather than directing them to follow his lead. | 2019-04-24T18:31:01 | https://www.reuters.com/video/2015/12/02/cameron-seeks-backing-to-bomb-islamic-st?videoId=366535243&videoChannel=1 |
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