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0.99994 | Wall: two sets of wires, Set one: white, black, ground. Set two: Red, white, black, ground.
-in the wall box, the whites are twisted together, the grounds are twisted together, the sole red goes to the top screw on the switch, the black(from set one) wraps around the bottom screw on the switch, but then extends to a wire nut where it meets the black from Set two.
When installing the light, I connected the white from the new fixture to the white in the ceiling. the black from the fixture to the black in the ceiling, and the ground to ground. Then capped the red. I got power to the light, but the light wouldn't turn off.
Then, I tried switching the black and the red wires. My new configuration was white from fixture to white in ceiling. Black from fixture to red in ceiling. Capped black in ceiling. And nothing. No light. Any ideas as to why I either have a light that I can't turn off, or no light at all??
That is an interesting problem. From what you have described, I would expect the black wire at the ceiling fan box to provide constant power and the red wire to be switched by the wall switch. You didn't say but I'm assuming the black wire of the old fan was connected to the red wire in the ceiling box? I'm also assuming that the wall switch worked fine before you started on this project.
While uncommon I suppose the switch could have failed. What I might do is temporarily connect the black wire at the bottom of the switch to the red wire at the top. If light comes on, then replace the switch.
You are correct, the black wire of the fan was connected to the red wire in the ceiling box and the switch worked before I started the project.
Here is where things get really interesting, During the install, I also replaced the switch with a brand new single pole switch, so I doubt it's the switch failing.
I tried your suggestion with the the following configuration: Black from fixture connected to red in ceiling and white from fixture to white in ceiling and no dice. No power. then, connected the red from switch to black from switch. Still no dice. Got back up on the ladder, and switched the red and black in the ceiling (so black to black, white to white, red capped) and power came back, but no switch.
Wow, that's really weird but there has to be something missing. Are you sure you bought a single pole switch? Discounting the green ground screw, how may screws does the new switch have? Have you tried using the old switch, to eliminate the possibility of the new switch being defective.
The other option, is to eliminate the red wire completely. At the switch box, take the black wire from what you called "set one" and connect it to the bottom screw of the switch. Take the black wire from "set two" and connect it to the top screw. Cap off the red wire and tuck it out of the way. At the ceiling box, connect the black wire coming into the box to the black wire of the fixture. Cap off the red wire and tuck it out of the way.
If none of that works, post pictures of both boxes. Take several pictures of each junction box, from different angles.
Right? It’s driving me crazy!
I am positive it’s a single pole, just two screws on the same side of the switch plus the free ground. And I did try the replacing it with the old switch and unfortunately I have the same problem.
I never thought about eliminating the red all together. I am out of town for work this week, but will be home on Sunday. I will try it then. If it doesn’t work, I will post pictures of what I’m working with.
To my millions of followers.... I wanted to give you an update. I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!!
Turns out the switch was not only tied to the ceiling box, but also tied to a split receptacle in the wall. Before I changed the light fixture, I previously replaced all the wall outlets. Never working with a split receptacle, I didn't know to break the tab on the outlet connecting the hot sides. I pulled the outlet out, broke the tab, and shazam! the switch worked. Thank you adam444 for all your help! | 2019-04-20T02:50:28 | http://community.homedepot.com/DiscussionDetail/Replacing-ceiling-fan-with-LED-light-fixture-9061T000000Qimy |
0.999624 | Calculated Risk: Is a Recession Imminent?
Last Friday I posted five economic questions I'm frequently asked. Earlier this week I discussed: Are house prices in a new bubble?
Another common question is: Is a recession imminent (within the next 12 months)? Once again my short answer was: No.
First, I use NBER to date recessions and expansions. The trough of the recent recession was in June 2009, and the current expansion has lasted for 101 months. This is already the 3rd longest expansion in NBER history (since mid-1800s), trailing only the '90s expansion (from March '91 to Mar '01), and the '60s (from Feb '61 to Dec '69).
However, just because this is a long expansion, doesn't mean the expansion will end soon. Expansions don't die of old age! There is a very good chance this will become the longest expansion in history.
There are several reasons this has been a long expansion. Recoveries from a financial crisis tend to be slow since it takes years to resolve all the excesses. Also, there was an early pivot during the recovery to fiscal austerity that slowed the pace of recovery. Importantly, the Federal Reserve didn't overtighten like in the '30s (a lesson learned). And housing, always a key cyclical sector, didn't participate early in the recovery since there were so many foreclosures. This delayed the usual boost from housing, but housing now a key driver of the expansion.
Usually there is a clear reason for a recession. When I started this blog in January 2005, I was writing about the "housing bubble", and expressing concern that the then coming housing bust would lead the economy into a recession (and possibly a financial crisis). But I wasn't forecasting an immediate recession, and at the beginning of 2006, I thought it was too early to call for a recession. It wasn't until 2007 that I started forecasting a recession (just made it with the recession starting in December 2007).
This isn't to be self-congratulatory on my forecasting, but rather to point out there was a clear reason (housing bust), and that it took time for the housing bubble to burst, and more time for the bust to drag the economy into recession.
So what would be the reason now? Most of the post-WWII recessions were caused by the Fed tightening monetary policy to slow inflation. I think this is the most likely cause of the next recession. Usually, when inflation starts to become a concern, the Fed tries to engineer a "soft landing", and frequently the result is a recession. Since inflation is not an immediate concern, the Fed will probably raise rates slowly.
I see analysts express concern about the yield curve, the debt, war with North Korea, hyperinflation and more. I don't think these are a concern.
Note: Incentives motivate Wall Street economic forecasters to always be optimistic about the future (just like stock analysts). Of course, for the media and bloggers, there is an incentive to always be bearish, because bad news drives traffic (hence the prevalence of yellow journalism).
If a recession happens quickly, it will probably be the result of an exogenous event, such as a pandemic, significant military conflict, disruption of energy supplies for any reason, a major natural disaster (meteor strike, super volcano, etc), and a number of other low probability reasons. All of these events are possible, but they are unpredictable, and the probabilities are extremely low that they will happen in the next few years or even decades - so I just ignore these possibilities.
So what am I watching? Housing. (Housing starts, New home sales, Residential Investment). I've written extensively about how housing is usually the best leading indicator for the economy.
The following graph shows Single family housing starts, New Home Sales, and Residential Investment (RI) as a percent of GDP.
The arrows point to the peaks and troughs for these three measures.
The purpose of this graph is to show that these three indicators generally reach peaks and troughs together. And to show that housing usually turns down prior to a recession.
Note that Residential Investment is quarterly and single-family starts and new home sales are monthly.
A key exception was the 2001 recession that was due to the bursting of the stock bubble and less business investment. But that was easy to understand and forecast.
Right now I don't see any reason for a recession in the near term (through at least 2018). | 2019-04-25T02:11:36 | https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/11/is-recession-imminent.html |
0.999971 | ANSWER: "As often as possible for personal prayer and only as often as necessary for corporate prayer.??? There are three activities in the scripture that can grow (edify) a Christian 1. Inspired words ( prophecy/ teaching or preaching) 2. Speaking with tongues 3. The scripture These activities can grow the human spirit " | 2019-04-23T16:24:40 | https://houseoflights.org.uk/ask/51 |
0.998748 | Spring Grove: Beginning of the end for freehold developments..?
A canny purchase of a block of freehold land in Grange Road by the US government 64 years ago is turning into the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg.
The first windfall came in 1991 when it reaped $80 million from selling a 99-year lease on the 24,481sqm (263,600sqft) site, which at one time housed the ambassador's residence.
City Developments developed the plot into the 325-unit Spring Grove condo.
Now the USgovernment stands to get another big bite of the cherry as the Spring Grove owners have launched a collective sale at the eye-popping price tag of $1.39 billion.
As the land owner, the USgovernment would enjoy a windfall of $245 million just to top up the lease by a further 27 years - to 103 years - if the collective sale attracts a buyer.
This is three times what it was paid for the original 99-year lease which it sold on the land 23 years ago.
For home owners who bought leasehold property on freehold land not owned by the Government, the Spring Grove collective sale will hopefully provide some clarity on how they can realise the potential of their estate through such a sale as the duration of the lease runs down.
Thus, the yardstick by which the US government arrived at its asking price for the top-up premium is likely to attract considerable scrutiny, especially since it may set the benchmark for any subsequent collective sale on a leasehold estate whose freehold rights are not held by the Government or the home owners.
Currently, when a lease runs down for 99-year projects on land owned by the Government, firms that redevelop the site after a collective sale pay the Government a top-up premium to get the lease rewound to 99 years.
In the Farrer Courtcollective sale in 2007 - the priciest collective sale ever at $1.34 billion - a sum of between $175 million and $225 million was reported to have been paid for topping up the lease from the remaining 69 years to 99 years.
But while the top-up premium paid for the Farrer Court collective sale was similar in quantum to what is being demanded by the US government for Spring Grove, the site had a shorter remaining tenure and a land area three times the size of Spring Grove.
For real estate developers sitting on a cache of freehold property, the Spring Grove collective sale also bears watching.
As a rule, most of them do not retain any reversionary interest on the freehold land. Their connection ends once all the condos have been sold.
Yet, the handsome gain the USgovernment may reap from the Spring Grove collective sale may cause developers to have a change of heart.
Leasehold units typically sell at a 10 - 15% discount to similar freehold homes so the full value of the land cannot be realised.
But even if developers have to take a discount to sell leasehold condos on freehold land, this may still be worthwhile as some developments may turn out to be gold mines like Spring Grove and offer them a second bite of the cherry, like what the Americans are attempting.
The battle for Spring Grove once again casts the spotlight on how valuable freehold land has become in Singapore. It will only reinforce the view that such land can only get pricier as time passes.
When news of the Spring Grove en bloc sale was first reported on 16 July, the wife and I had decided not to feature this on our blog. We reckoned that every other property-related blog and web sites will be talking about it, since it is slated as the largest ever collective sale in Singapore in terms of value.
But today's article in the ST has reignited our interests - not because of the collective sale per se but the discussion about developers choosing to develop leasehold projects on freehold land while retaining reversionary interest in the land.
Not many developers to date are keen on the strategy for the simple reason that 99 years is a long wait and they may not be around to enjoy the fruits of their effort. And for listed companies, the management may not have the luxury of time to see profit only in 20 to 30 years. But the wife and I are aware of at least one developer that has subscribed to the strategy - Far East Organization.
So what do projects like Cabana (Yio Chu Kang), The Greenwood (Bukit Timah) and The Shore (Katong) have in common other than all were developed by Far East? No prize for guessing that all three are leasehold (103 years) residential projects developed on freehold land.
In all fairness, these are all fairly new developments so any en bloc talks are probably way too premature. But when the time comes for owners to want to do a collective sale, they will have to refer to the holder of the freehold title - which is Far East, instead of the Government. Far East will then have the options of either granting a lease top-up, buy back the land, sell the freehold tenure or simply do nothing. And they will continue to profit from any top-up premium as long as they hold on to the land title - provided that the Company continues to exist, of course.
So will we see more of such strategy being deployed by Far East or maybe even by other developers? Only time will tell but the wife and I reckon that there will likely be more 103-year projects on freehold land from Far East at least.
And for the record, the $1.39 billion that Spring Grove is asking translates to $2,512psf ppr, based on the maximum gross floor area of about 553,377sqft. The breakeven cost is expected to be around $3,400 - $3,500psf.
No Comment to " Spring Grove: Beginning of the end for freehold developments..? " | 2019-04-18T23:05:34 | http://www.sgproptalk.sg/2014/07/spring-grove-beginning-of-end-for.html |
0.999999 | How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up to date as tomorrow s headlines In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome s greatest orator, ran for consul the highest office in the Republic , his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no nonsense advice on running a successful campaign What follows in his short letter are tim How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up to date as tomorrow s headlines In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome s greatest orator, ran for consul the highest office in the Republic , his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no nonsense advice on running a successful campaign What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to everybody and reminding voters about the sexual scandals of your opponents to being a chameleon, putting on a good show for the masses, and constantly surrounding yourself with rabid supporters Presented here in a lively and colorful new translation, with the Latin text on facing pages, this unashamedly pragmatic primer on the humble art of personal politicking is dead on Cicero won and as relevant today as when it was written.A little known classic in the spirit of Machiavelli s Prince , How to Win an Election is required reading for politicians and everyone who enjoys watching them try to manipulate their way into office.
Compared to the book I read by Cardinal Mazarin, this one was less intriguing. Perhaps it was the flat translation or just the distance in time between now and ancient Rome, but the exchanges here between the Cicero brothers brought me little insight into how campaigns are run or their personalities. Maybe I need to read it again in a few years? Or perhaps read some of the rhetoric of Cicero to fully appreciate his style. Anyway, this one didn't really do it for me.
Should you be concerned about the nature of today's elections, take a look at campaign strategy 2000 years ago. The key difference: John Stuart wasn't there in the Daily show to show news clips of Marcus Cicero making promises to one group while promising the opposite to another.The test s how both the original Latin and and an English translation.
I can think of someone running for high office right now that could use this book (you can fill in the blank). Or mayben't read this book; just keep doing what you are doing!
Deși e clar că selecția de texte din Cicero a fost făcută pentru a deservi unui anume scop, actualitatea temelor și abordărilor sale sunt debordante. Aproape fiecare text din compilație conține fraze/expresii demne de citat în situații contemporane, iar politica românească ar face bine să (re?)citească ce spunea clasicul antic contemporan.Lucrarea e foarte bine îngrijită, iar prefața lui Maior este surprinzătoare.
A MUST READ! This 2,070 year old letter from Quintus Cicero to his brother Marcus Cicero (Google them) explain the basics of campaigning and electioneering that every politician adheres to still. I'm positive Obama read the excerpts about making then breaking promises.
A thin book featuring the classical text of Commentariolum Petitionis. The book contains an introduction that brings you up to speed with the context of the classical text. After that, it features the text in Latin and in English, side by side, with the 2 versions aligned to each other.
I geeked out when I saw that the original Latin was printed on the left side of the pages. Great for a little bit of ancient history.
Practical advice on a civil/political campaign.
Solid and sound advice. Truly timeless.
So fascinating how humans and their politics haven't changed.
working through my back log of audio books. knocking out some short ones.
Interesting quick readIt is remarkable how little changed in politics and campaigning in the last 2000 years.The reason probably is that it works.
Ediţie bilingvă: latină şi română. Majoritatea sfaturilor sunt încă utile dar nu prea morale.
Interesante documento histórico cuyas ideas ya fueron elaboradas de mejor (y más extensa) manera por Maquiavelo (tal vez uno de los pensadores más malinterpretados de la historia), por lo que recomendaría este libro solo por su brevedad. No es que sea malo, pero hay mejor comida política en autores posteriores.
¡Qué poco hemos evolucionado en este tema! | 2019-04-25T06:45:32 | http://fakenhamlancasterscouts.org.uk/13413825-how-to-win-an-election-an-ancient-guide-for-moder/ |
0.999998 | * as specified by kIrLed below.
* TL;DR: The IR LED needs to be driven by a transistor for a good result.
* have enough current to drive the IR LED effectively.
* * Make sure you have the IR LED polarity correct.
* * Typical digital camera/phones can be used to see if the IR LED is flashed.
* * Pin 0/D3: Can interfere with the boot/program mode & support circuits.
* * Pin 1/TX/TXD0: Any serial transmissions from the ESP8266 will interfere.
* * Pin 3/RX/RXD0: Any serial transmissions to the ESP8266 will interfere.
* for your first time. e.g. ESP-12 etc.
const uint16_t kIrLed = 4; // ESP8266 GPIO pin to use. Recommended: 4 (D2).
IRsend irsend(kIrLed); // Set the GPIO to be used to sending the message.
delay(10000); // Wait 10 seconds before we repeat everything. | 2019-04-26T09:54:26 | https://github.com/markszabo/IRremoteESP8266/blob/master/examples/JVCPanasonicSendDemo/JVCPanasonicSendDemo.ino |
0.999998 | Q: Is there really a new Guns 'N' Roses song during the end credits?
Q: Where were the explosion scenes shot?
The craftsmanship behind director Ridley Scott's 2008 convulsive political thriller is impressive, but having acts of terrorism drive an intentionally labyrinth plot reveals how they impede the story structurally, an insurmountable barrier that screenwriter William Monahan ("The Departed") can't seem to overcome. The movie's first half is all the more bewildering for all the double-crosses and cover-ups that serve to set up the central situation. Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel, the movie focuses on embedded CIA operative Roger Ferris who is on an undercover assignment to hunt an Al-Qaeda terrorist leader named Al-Saleem. Ferris is not entirely alone as he is connected via cell phone with his stateside boss Ed Hoffman, who is the head of the CIA's Near East division and directs Ferris toward life-threatening tasks in a most nonchalant manner from his upscale suburban home.
The plot's impetus is driven by the elusive Al-Saleem's unblinking series of suicide bombings in Europe in response to the invasion by US and UK troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The movie gets more interesting when Ferris decides to work with Jordanian intelligence director Hani Salaam, an erudite, enigmatic figure who is well entrenched in the Middle East militia and appears to take a page from Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" when it comes to loyalty and betrayal. Of course, it's a matter of course that Ferris' loyalty is tested when an elaborate plan is hatched to create a bogus competing terrorist group and use an unwitting Dubai architect as the head. The other complicating factor is that Ferris has fallen for pretty Iranian nurse Aisha when he gets treated for possible rabies at a clinic. It becomes inevitable that she also becomes a pawn in the political intrigue. Scott paints his canvas with a lot of graphic violence from large-scale bombings to more intimate acts of torture.
All of the external elements are fitting, but they can't seem to masquerade the convoluted and often cliché-ridden plot at the film's core. A solid cast goes a long way to compensate for the plot holes. As Ferris, Leonardo DiCaprio applies his trademark wiry energy to an intensely compelling performance that could have shown a bit more variety. Adding fifty belly-stretching pounds to his frame, Russell Crowe, Scott's favorite leading man ("Gladiator", "American Gangster", "A Good Year"), plays the Arkansan Hoffman as a scene-stealing character part. The irony is that the Australian actor's Southern accent is more convincing than DiCaprio's. Their antagonistic interplay, played out mostly on the phone, is rather predictably developed. Fetching Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani provides gratefully calm relief to the ongoing mayhem as Aisha, although her character comes across as a mere plot device. There is a nicely fractious dinner table scene with Ferris and her judgmental older sister, although the movie plays down the more human-size hostilities in favor of the pyrotechnics.
As Hani, Mark Strong ("Sunshine", "Stardust") leaves the most vivid impression of the cast but for the most old-fashioned of cinematic reasons - he plays what could be a villainous figure as a suave, mysterious man of honor who is completely on top of his job, an intentional counterpoint, at least physically, to Crowe's slovenly Hoffman. The film's resolution defies credibility, but it finally becomes clear that Monahan is not interested in exposing the factors that have driven the Middle East political maelstrom into acts of escalating terrorism. Rather, his screenplay shows that testosterone-driven Hollywood-style entertainment can take place anywhere. | 2019-04-20T01:21:10 | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758774/ |
0.999917 | Is an approaching moose an attacking moose?
Ive been taking a lot of pictures and videos of moose in the middle of the night and the day along the Courdelane river wetlands in Idaho.
Being alone and on a bicycle--I come right up on them, but a couple times they have glared at me then casually turned and started walking up on to the bank in my direction which I instantly fled since I was not even 100 feet away.
So I was wondering if I could actually get good footage by letting them approach a bit?
Both times this has happened I looked back after I had rode off maybe 300 feet and the moose were then standing exactly in the spot I had just been standing.
Is it possible they may have been curious and wanted to inspect without fear of an attack?
Or if they glare then turn and start walking out--is that in fact the beginning of an attack or almost attack where they intended to run me off or stomp me?
The bull moose in question I had followed from the other side of the lake--did that mean he likely was curious?--OR MAD?
Comments for Is an approaching moose an attacking moose?
You pose some interesting questions Jeff, thanks.
Of course the first consideration is that moose are wild animals, and in that sense can be 100% unpredictable.
I don't think I would be too worried about an approaching moose, he was probably curious as to what you were. That being said, what season was this? During the rut, which runs around the first two weeks of October you might be wise to keep a healthy distance.
If your moose was just curious (likely) he probably would have closed the distance to identify you and the stop or turn away.
I would think you could get some excellent footage that way. I'd love to see it!
Is it possible they may have been curious and wanted to inspect without fear of an attack? Probably.
Was this beginning of an attack or almost attack where they intended to run me off or stomp me?
Moose are not predatory by nature. If you are not a threat they won't get too close. Once you are identified as human your moose will probably take for the hills.
Signs of an agitated moose would be a flattening of the ears and bristling of the coat along its back. You are on a bicycle if you see the kind of signs keep your distance. Ear up, forward and rotating? He just wants to know what you are.
Being stomped by a moose could lead to serious injury. I know of a fellow who got too close to an injured moose and was stomped... he spent 2-3 months in the hospital with very serious injuries. In that particular case though, the moose was seriously injured and the fellow surprised the bull.
Did that mean he likely was curious?--OR MAD?
I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure he was just curious as to what you were. A human walking or a dog, wolf, bear or cat are easily identifiable to a moose. Someone on a bicycle, not so easy; he may never have seen one before.
Moose know their predators and usually don't approach them. You were not a threat by just standing your ground.
Unless you were antagonizing him by acting like a bull by gesturing like another bull I'm sure you would have been fine.
Send us some of your pictures so we can share them.
ok great I will be returning again shortly. THANKS for the great information plus it was worded perfectly. I had a feeling I could have been bolder but with lack of knowledge I erred on the side of my ribs--which take along time to heal. I will report back in a few days at most.
Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Ask An Expert. | 2019-04-21T02:41:53 | https://www.all-about-moose.com/is-an-approaching-moose-an-attacking-moose.html |
0.999825 | Scenario: Guest is currently in-house and wants to room move to another room within the same accommodation type.
5) Review new accommodations, THEN click on the original reservations.
9) Review reservations in the Accommodation box, once all reservations look accurate then Click UPDATE on the bottom right hand side of screen.
1) To check out the Original reservations go to the OCCUPIED section and select NO.
3) The new reservation will now reflect the new room number. All postings from the previous room will follow guest reservations thus no adjustments or payments are required to do a room move anymore. | 2019-04-20T05:06:40 | https://myfrontdesk.cloudbeds.com/hc/en-us/articles/219025468-How-to-do-a-room-move-within-the-same-accommodation-type-for-an-in-house-guest- |
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0.999985 | FIRE > Newsdesk > The $3,500 Question: Why Do Universities Pay Consultants to Advise Them on Speech Codes When FIRE Will Help for Free?
The $3,500 Question: Why Do Universities Pay Consultants to Advise Them on Speech Codes When FIRE Will Help for Free?
Recently I went to the website of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, ("NCHERM"), which describes itself as "the umbrella for eight linked organizations which serve to advance holistic, proactive prevention and risk management within K-12 schools and on college and university campuses." NCHERM has put out some white papers and other publications that I thought might be informative. During my browsing, I found NCHERM’s "Code of Conduct Revision Services," which states the following: UNDER FIRE? MAKE SURE YOUR CONDUCT CODE WON’T BE SEEN BY THE COURTS AS A SPEECH CODE: This policy review service is for colleges and universities that value free speech and want to ensure that their codes of conduct do not inadvertently prohibit speech protected by the first amendment. Today, colleges are being attacked and sued by interest groups such as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the National Association of Scholars. It is possible to create reasonable expectations for campus civility without trampling on the rights of free speech. Let NCHERM help you strike a Constitutional and workable balance. This policy review service examines only those areas of your code that address speech and expressive conduct (such as discrimination codes, creeds, mission statements, freedom of speech statements, harassment provisions, and the like) to help you guarantee the constitutional rights of your students. You may be surprised at what we might find. A written report will detail problem areas and offer suggestions for alternative language and phraseology. COST = $2,500 to $3,500 depending on extent of review. This sounds like a useful service. That’s why FIRE provides it for free. Indeed, we have done exactly what NCHERM describes for several colleges already, and we would be very pleased to do it for as many more colleges as request it. And that’s not all! FIRE provides a handbook (available in full on our website, as well as in print) free of charge specifically for university administrators seeking to revise their policies that impact student and faculty speech. FIRE’s Correcting Common Mistakes in Campus Speech Policies addresses common problems with university speech codes. We are always available to discuss specific issues with university administrators, faculty members, and students via email or phone. (Of course, we do not provide legal advice.) We also provide a form that anyone with a question about a policy can fill out; we provide answers to these inquiries promptly. The cost to colleges and universities for these services? Nothing. Helping college administrators revise their policies to protect student and faculty rights is part of FIRE’s mission as a nonprofit organization. FIRE employs First Amendment attorneys with several decades of combined experience, and we are excited to help when administrators come to us proactively to address their policies. We’d certainly rather be doing that than issuing press releases about collegiate abuses of free speech. FIRE has a solid track record of working productively and proactively with universities. This past January, FIRE completed its collaboration with Eastern Kentucky University to eliminate provisions in its student code that violated the First Amendment. After the changes were made, we were proud to award EKU "green light" status and to issue a national press release announcing this excellent development. Similarly, we have worked closely and cooperatively with administrators at the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, and the University of Virginia (to name just a few schools) to ensure that their policies accurately reflect their institutional commitments to freedom of expression on campus. But don’t take our word for it. Check out the feature story from the April 2011 issue of Higher Education Legal Alert, providing an in-depth look at FIRE’s work with colleges and universities. Or read the kind words for FIRE from Eastern Kentucky University President Dr. Doug Whitlock from this past February. The administrators who work with FIRE will tell you that we’re knowledgeable, helpful, and very accessible. We understand why some colleges and universities might view FIRE as an opponent. And we won’t stop calling out institutions when they violate student and faculty rights. However, we vastly prefer working collaboratively with college and university administrators to ensure that their school’s conduct code provides meaningful due process protections and respects First Amendment rights, so that the abuses we’re concerned about never take place. Our goal is to put ourselves out of business. Help us do that, colleges! When it comes to evaluating speech codes, FIRE and NCHERM offer the same service. The difference is that FIRE will do it for free. Choose wisely. | 2019-04-19T22:47:01 | https://www.thefire.org/the-3500-question-why-do-universities-pay-consultants-to-advise-them-on-speech-codes-when-fire-will-help-for-free/ |
0.999636 | What is OATT-Schedule 2 VAR?
Volt ampere reactive (VAR) is a measurement of reactive power used to maintain transmission voltages to meet the operating requirements for the New England transmission system. Resources are compensated for providing VAR service.
Note that a resource committed by the ISO for VAR service in the day-ahead or real-time energy market that does not recover its effective offer is eligible for Net Commitment-Period Compensation (NCPC). NCPC VAR payments are calculated and reported in daily day-ahead and real-time settlements but are not included in the twice-weekly billing. Instead, the charge allocation for these payments is reported in the monthly VAR settlement; the credits and charges are billed in the monthly OATT Schedule 2 VAR line item.
In what document(s) do I find details about OATT-Schedule 2 VAR?
Primary provisions for the settlement of VAR are located in Schedule 2 of the ISO New England Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT). Also applicable are other sections of the OATT and other documents, including, but not limited to, Market Rule 1, Appendix F, Net Commitment Period Compensation Accounting; ISO New England Operating Procedure No. 12, Voltage and Reactive Control; and Schedule 2, VAR Business Procedure.
Who can expect to incur a VAR Credit or Charge?
VAR capacity payments based on an asset's qualified leading and lagging VARs and the applicable FERC-approved VAR capacity cost (CC) rate ($/MVAR-year).
VAR variable energy payments, for any resource the ISO dispatches for providing voltage support for one or more of the following payment types: cost of energy produced (CEP), lost opportunity costs (LOC), and cost of energy consumed (CEC).
The hourly charge for VAR Service, excluding high-voltage VAR, is allocated pro rata to each transmission customer that receives either regional network service (RNS) or through or out service (TOUT). Note: Coordinated external transaction (CET) reservations are excluded from the OATT Schedule 2 VAR charges.
SS_HVVAR: High-Voltage VAR Cost Reallocation–Dispatchable Asset-Related Demand Assets. Charges and credits associated with this standard settlement are issued on an event basis.
The monthly bill contains a single line item netting charges and credits entitled "OATT-Schedule 2 VAR". It is the sum of the credits and charges for VAR capacity costs, VAR variable energy, and on a rare-event basis, the high-voltage VAR cost reallocation.
BL_DAILYPOSITION Daily financial position, including all market service settlements and miscellaneous billing adjustments generated daily.
SR_VARSTL Monthly report includes the settlement of VAR capacity and VAR energy (including NCPC) credits and charges.
SD_VARCCPMT Monthly report detailing VAR capacity payments by asset.
SD_VARCCCHG Monthly report with hourly detail of the participant’s allocation of VAR capacity charges.
SD_RTNCPCPYMTHR Participant’s hourly generator real-time NCPC credits; includes detail of VAR commitment credits and dispatch credits.
SD_DANCPCPYMT Participant’s hourly generator day-ahead NCPC credits, categorized by type, including VAR.
SD_VARCECPMT Monthly report for cost of energy consumed when a dynamic reactive power resource supplies VAR service.
WW_VARCCRATE_ISO Report includes the annual VAR CC, located in the ISO Express Section on the ISO’s website.
WW_VARSTATUS_ISO Report provides monthly information on reactive resources that participate in the VAR program, located in the ISO Express section on the ISO’s website.
SS_HVVAR Report provides hourly detail of DARD high-voltage VAR cost reallocation.
VAR is reported on the SP_EQR report, Electric Quarterly Report, as referenced in the FERC EQR mapping line item OATT Schedule 2: CC Payment.
VAR variable payments associated with NCPC are reported on the SP_EQR report, as referenced in the FERC EQR mapping line items, NCPC—Day Ahead or NCPC—Real Time.
VAR variable payments not reported as NCPC are reported on the SP_EQR report, as referenced in the FERC EQR mapping line items, OATT Schedule 2: Cost of Energy Produced; OATT Schedule 2: LOC Payment; or OATT Schedule 2: Cost of Energy Consumed. | 2019-04-19T09:35:46 | https://www.iso-ne.com/markets-operations/settlements/understand-bill/item-descriptions/oatt-schedule2-var |
0.999272 | The party is journeying through the wilderness on their way to a destination. The weather is a bit cold, a light snow has fallen but it is still early winter. In the distance they notice smoke, and hear cries for help that carry over the wind.
The party comes across the tail end of a successful caravan raid. 2 wagons are burning, and a 3rd is overturned. An older man is trying to fend off 3 orcs next to the overturned wagon, while behind him cowers his wife and youngest daughter.
Nearby 5 more orcs are dumping out bags of goods, to see what the wagons were carrying. To the side of the devastation a group of 12 more orcs have formed a wide circle and are placing bets on a wrestling match between an ogre, their leader, and a large human female warrior, this is Keetha.
If they watch and do nothing the homesteaders are eventually killed and the warrior is overpowered and enslaved. If they intervene, all the orcs are currently involved and will not notice the party till they get close or make a lot of noise.
The orcs are armed as follows.
20 0rcs: All wearing studded leather and have shields as appropriate.
3 at wagon: 1 with battle axe, other two have short swords.
5 looters: 1 has a short bow and short sword, 2 others just short sword, 1 has a glaive, and last is armed with a morning star.
12 orcs in circle: 2 have light crossbows and daggers, 1 has short bow and dagger, 5 with long swords, 2 with battle axes, 1 with glaive, and one who fights with 2 short swords, leader type with maximum hps. The ogre is armed with a large club, he is natural ac of 5, and 25 hps.
The warrior Keetha is unarmed and un-armored at the moment but will grab for a weapon if the party distracts the orcs at all.
Afterwards the survivors thank the party profusely, the older man asks if they would guard them to their homestead, not far out of the way 2 days tops. Keetha, if the GM desires will join the party, otherwise she claims her belongings and helps guard the homesteaders to their destination before moving on.
Loot: Each orc has 2d4 silver pieces, and 3d6 copper pieces. The leader with 2 swords also has a crude bracelet made of pounded gold (value 25 g.p.). The ogre carries 48 gold pieces, and a large rock, weighs 40 lbs., with a design of a flightless bird of some sort on it. This might fetch 10 gold to a wealthy eccentric but its here mainly to weigh down the party and allow the GM to feel good about suckering them.
The dead homesteaders have a few bolts of cloth that the players might take and sell for up to 50 g.p if they think to loot the burning wagons, also any non magical common item might conceivably be in the pile the orcs created. | 2019-04-21T07:19:57 | http://www.dndadventure.com/html/adventures/adv_wagon_ambush.html |
0.998799 | The 39th match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal failed to materialize on Saturday as the world No. 2 Spaniard hobbled out of Indian Wells to send Federer into a title clash with Dominic Thiem.
Nadal, whose longstanding right knee trouble flared up in his quarter-final victory over Karen Khachanov, couldn't take the court for the blockbuster semi-final with Swiss great Federer.
"I wanted to try my best to be competitive today," a dejected Nadal said.
"I warmed up today in the morning, and I felt that my knee was not enough good to compete at the level that I need to compete, to play semi-finals match of this event."
Federer, seeded fourth as he pursues a record sixth title in the California desert, will battle 25-year-old Austrian Thiem, who is seeking his first title in one of the ATP's prestigious Masters 1000 events. Thiem, ranked eighth in the world, was rock-solid in a 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (3/7), 6-4 victory over 14th-ranked Canadian Milos Raonic.
Thiem, who advanced to the semis on a walkover when Gael Monfils withdrew with a Achilles tendon inflammation, was locked-in from the start, firing 10 winners without an unforced error in the opening set.
He couldn't convert his only break point against Raonic in the second, and Raonic managed to seize the tiebreaker aided by a favorable netcord bounce for a 5-3 lead.
Thiem gained the first break of the match for a 3-2 lead in the third and after saving the only break point he faced all day as he served for the match wrapped it up with a sparkling backhand volley.
"It was an amazing day," said Thiem, who will be playing in his third Masters 1,000 final. "His serve is just unreal so even though I played amazing it was so close the first two sets."
The Austrian said it would "mean the world" to break through for a Masters crown, but noted it would be a tall order against 20-time Grand Slam winner Federer -- who is coming off a remarkable 100th career title in Dubai last month.
"It's not going to be easy," said Thiem, who has split four prior meetings with Federer 2-2.
Federer was looking forward to the match and the chance to break out of a tie with Novak Djokovic for most Indian Wells titles, but was sorry to miss a meeting with Nadal.
Their rivalry stretches back 15 years, and Federer couldn't help wondering how many more chances they might have.
"We've had so many epic battles," Federer, 38, said. "I know that every one that we have now could be our last. So was this our chance at a last one -- I hope not and I believe at the level he's playing and the level I'm still going there's definitely going to be more."
The injury was devastating news for Nadal, whose run to the Australian Open final in January marked a return to competition for the first time since similar knee trouble forced him out of his US Open semi-final against Juan Martin del Potro in September. He had ankle surgery in November, and only returned to training in December.
"For me it's not about only today. It's about what it means for me to have to pull out in a tournament that I love so much like this one, and in the semi-finals after playing well during the whole tournament," Nadal said. "You can imagine that I can't be happy."
Nadal confirmed he would also skip the upcoming Miami Masters and aim to recover and prepare for the claycourt season, targeting a return at Monte Carlo April 14-21.
The 39th match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal failed to materialize on Saturday as the world No. 2 Spaniard hobbled out of Indian Wells to send Federer into a title clash with Dominic Thiem. Nadal, whose longstanding right knee trouble flared up in his quarter-final victory over Karen Khachanov, couldnt take the court for the blockbuster semi-final with Swiss great Federer. I wanted to try my best to be competitive today, a dejected Nadal said. I warmed up today in the morning, and I felt that my knee was not enough good to compete at the level that I need to compete, to play semi-finals match of this event. Federer, seeded fourth as he pursues a record sixth title in the California desert, will battle 25-year-old Austrian Thiem, who is seeking his first title in one of the ATPs prestigious Masters 1000 events. Thiem, ranked eighth in the world, was rock-solid in a 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (3/7), 6-4 victory over 14th-ranked Canadian Milos Raonic. Thiem, who advanced to the semis on a walkover when Gael Monfils withdrew with a Achilles tendon inflammation, was locked-in from the start, firing 10 winners without an unforced error in the opening set. He couldnt convert his only break point against Raonic in the second, and Raonic managed to seize the tiebreaker aided by a favorable netcord bounce for a 5-3 lead. Thiem gained the first break of the match for a 3-2 lead in the third and after saving the only break point he faced all day as he served for the match wrapped it up with a sparkling backhand volley. It was an amazing day, said Thiem, who will be playing in his third Masters 1,000 final. His serve is just unreal so even though I played amazing it was so close the first two sets. The Austrian said it would mean the world to break through for a Masters crown, but noted it would be a tall order against 20-time Grand Slam winner Federer -- who is coming off a remarkable 100th career title in Dubai last month. Its not going to be easy, said Thiem, who has split four prior meetings with Federer 2-2. Federer was looking forward to the match and the chance to break out of a tie with Novak Djokovic for most Indian Wells titles, but was sorry to miss a meeting with Nadal. Their rivalry stretches back 15 years, and Federer couldnt help wondering how many more chances they might have. Weve had so many epic battles, Federer, 38, said. I know that every one that we have now could be our last. So was this our chance at a last one -- I hope not and I believe at the level hes playing and the level Im still going theres definitely going to be more. The injury was devastating news for Nadal, whose run to the Australian Open final in January marked a return to competition for the first time since similar knee trouble forced him out of his US Open semi-final against Juan Martin del Potro in September. He had ankle surgery in November, and only returned to training in December. For me its not about only today. Its about what it means for me to have to pull out in a tournament that I love so much like this one, and in the semi-finals after playing well during the whole tournament, Nadal said. You can imagine that I cant be happy. Nadal confirmed he would also skip the upcoming Miami Masters and aim to recover and prepare for the claycourt season, targeting a return at Monte Carlo April 14-21. | 2019-04-21T19:14:09 | http://m.theindependentbd.com/printversion/details/191939 |
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0.999999 | President Trump on Monday tweeted a baseless claim that “Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” the migrant caravan headed to the United States.
The caravan originated in Honduras but has since grown to include some 7,000 people trying to seek refugee status in the United States. To get to the United States, they have to cross through Guatemala and Mexico.
Trump’s tweet is just the latest in what has become an onslaught of unverified, baseless, or outright false claims being made about the caravan.
BuzzFeed News reviewed the claims and related evidence to help parse whether they are true, false, unverified, or are unfounded speculation.
UNVERIFIED: Claims that have not been confirmed by an official agency or have no clear evidence backing them up. Treat this kind of information with healthy skepticism and wait to see how it develops.
TRUE: Official sources such as a law enforcement agency or an entity involved in the investigation confirmed this information on the record, and/or there’s extensively documented proof of the claim.
FALSE: Official sources such as police or law enforcement or others with direct knowledge have contradicted this information on the record, or it is refuted by unimpeachable evidence.The image is part of a set of photos taken in 2014 at a border protection facility in South Texas which were released to the Houston Chronicle. The old photo is being spread on Facebook as proof that people in the caravan have illnesses they could pass on. The claim that people in the caravan could infect Americans has been popularized by Fox and Friends without evidence.
FALSE: This is not a picture of a man in the caravan. It's a four-year-old image being taken out of context.
The image is part of a set of photos taken in 2014 at a border protection facility in South Texas, which were released to the Houston Chronicle. The old photo is being spread on Facebook as proof that people in the caravan have illnesses they could pass on. That claim has been popularized by Fox and Friends without evidence.
UNVERIFIED: Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales arrested nearly 100 people linked to terrorist groups.
Morales didn’t elaborate or provide any proof. At no point did he mention the caravan, which at that point hadn’t even reached the Honduras–Guatemala border, according to a report by the Associated Press.
FALSE: The arrests in Guatemala are connected to the caravan.
Then, on Monday morning, Fox & Friends cohost Pete Hegseth regurgitated the unfounded claims about ISIS being in the caravan.
FALSE: The southern border is being used by terrorists to enter the country.
The idea that terrorists are using the southern border to enter the US is not new. This myth has been perpetrated by politicians, commentators, and memes for years, but it’s not accurate.
This follows a 2016 report, which also said there’s no information to suggest that the US–Mexico border was used by terrorists to get into the United States.
That hasn’t stopped the misinformation from being spread, including long before Donald Trump became president. In 2014, two GOP lawmakers said terrorists crossed the southern US border, but the Department of Homeland Security said that was false.
More recently, President Trump baselessly claimed that the caravan is “made up of hardened criminals” during a roundtable discussion last week, and again in a recent tweet. When a reporter asked him for evidence, he told her, “don’t be a baby” and offered no proof.
UNVERIFIED: People from the Middle East are part of the caravan.
Trump’s tweet about the caravan claimed that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the migrants.
The size of the caravan traveling to reach the US border has ballooned to 7,200 people. Although it began as a group of some 1,200 Hondurans looking to seek refuge, it’s possible there are people from other backgrounds who have joined them. At the same time, however, there is no evidence to support this claim as of now.
A report from Associated Press journalists traveling with the caravan said they haven’t encountered anyone from the Middle East so far.
“A team of AP journalists traveling with the caravan for more than a week has spoken with Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans, but has not met any Middle Easterners, who Trump suggested were ‘mixed in’ with the Central American migrants,” the report says.
And members of the caravan were extremely confused when BuzzFeed News’ reporter on the ground asked about Trump’s claim.
UNFOUNDED SPECULATION: The caravan is funded with money from George Soros, the Democrats, and/or the United Nations.
Baseless conspiracy theories about the caravan began churning as soon as it entered the news cycle. One conspiracy website claimed that the “UN and Soros are behind migrant caravan invasion” and used remarks Trump made at a rally to bolster the unfounded claims.
There’s no source for the video and the only copy of it BuzzFeed News was able to track down was hosted by a far-right channel on video streaming site Bitchute. It provides no information on where or when the video was shot. Notably, reporters traveling on the ground show people in the caravan were helped by locals who offered food, money, and rides to ease the journey.
Can you believe this, and what Democrats are allowing to be done to our Country?
Another video of unknown origin, which was eventually tweeted by Trump, claimed to show people in the caravan receiving money. It was also posted by lawmaker Matt Gaetz, who claimed the footage was from Honduras. After it turned out the video was shot in Guatemala, Gaetz tweeted an update.
Far-right social media users cited the video as proof that the caravan is sponsored by either Hungarian billionaire George Soros or the Democratic Party. However, the video doesn’t clearly show what was given to the migrants and it’s unclear where it came from. When BuzzFeed News reached out to the person who first posted it to Facebook, he did not respond when asked about its source.
As of now, there is no evidence supporting claims that the caravan is engineered by — or receiving funding from — Soros, the UN, or the Democrats.
FALSE: The Mexican police were not "brutalized" by members of the caravan.
Viral posts on Facebook claimed that members of the Mexican police were beaten by members of the caravan, leaving them bloodied. But Sarah Thompson, the woman behind the Facebook group Exploiting the Niche, noted that the main picture being shared was actually taken during clashes with students back in 2012.
@3r1nG @ExploitingNiche @JaneLytv @Revolucion3_0 Esta foto la tomé el día 15 de Octubre del 2012 en Tiripetio Michoacán, la Policía Federal entró a la Normal de Tiripetio y hubo un enfrentamiento entre estudiantes y policías.
He said he took it on Oct. 15, 2012, and that "there was a confrontation between students and police."
FALSE: The caravan is walking directly into a the path of a Category-5 hurricane.
A website called Patriot Express published an article falsely saying the caravan is headed toward the path of Hurricane Willa. The post received over 150,000 engagements on Facebook, according to social tracking app BuzzSumo. However, it's not true.
Hurricane Willa is coming in from the Pacific coast and heading inland, according to projections that also say it will make landfall on Tuesday.
The caravan is nowhere near the path. It's currently headed to the Mexican city of Tapachula, just north of the Guatemalan border and away from the hurricane's path.
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0.999979 | ...at least if they believe in infallible divine foreknowledge.
Now, historically, many smart people have worried about the compatibility of divine foreknowledge with free will, but (at least given the positions formed in response to the question of *determinism* and free will) it's not clear what the big deal is. As long as you believe in future facts, there's no problem with (a) believing that there are facts about what undetermined radically self-caused free decisions people will make in the future, and that(b) God, being omniscient, knows all such facts, without anything about that knowledge undermining the libertarian picture.
One problem, though, is that this would seem to commit anyone who believed both (a) and (b) to a form of backward causation. Free decisions I will make in 2020 are causing God's knowledge of them in 2010. Some people view the thought of any sort of causal sequence where the effect precedes the cause with extreme discomfort. Can theistic libertarians, then, make sense of things *without* postulating a process of backward causation whereby future facts cause present divine mental states?
Some theologians argue that God is, in some sense, "outside of time." It's controversial whether there's even any coherent way to make sense of this idea, and I'm pretty skeptical, but that's a complicated and interesting subject for another time. For the moment, just note that it amounts to (i). God's atemporal knowledge of all of time wouldn't be foreknowledge, so this amounts to giving up on the project of making sense of divine foreknowledge without determinism or backward causation.
More creatively, one could argue that, even in an indeterministic universe, certain sorts of evidence about the present give one a very high degree of justification for one's beliefs about what people will do in the future, enough so that (if they are true) those beliefs count as knowledge. Surely, all evidentially-based human knowledge of the future is of this kind, whether or not we live in an indeterministic universe. After all, even in a deterministic universe, there's always the possibility that we're misinterpreting the evidence. Despite this, surely we at least sometimes know at least some things about what will happen in the future. Surely, in an indeterministic universe, God, with His complete and flawless knowledge of every aspect of the present, would have extremely well-justified beliefs about what will happen in the future, beliefs that, by parity of reasoning, would count as knowledge if those beliefs were true. So far, so good, but given indeterminism, surely some of God's beliefs about the future would be *false*, right?
If a clock is broken at 8 O'clock, it's possible that every time anyone ever happens to look at it, it will be either 8 AM or 8 PM. If a coin is fair, it is nevertheless just barely possible that it happens to come up heads every time it happens to be flipped. Perhaps, through a massive, bizarre coincidence, God's fallible knowledge of the future never happens to fail. To claim that this is how God has an entirely accurate and complete knowledge of the future would be massively ad hoc, but it's just barely in the logical space of possibilities.
Still, this doesn't seem to be what people typically mean by divine foreknowledge. It seems to me that, built into ordinary usage of the concept, is the notion that God's foreknowledge is infallible. It's not just that God's beliefs have always and will always luckily happen to be true, but that there's a deep sense in which it would impossible for God to make a mistake.
So, how about reconciling infallible divine foreknowledge with libertarianism without backward causation?
Many theists seem to think this can be done with "middle knowledge." God knows what you would do under certain circumstances, and God knows which circumstances will arise, therefore even without (a) determinism, or (b) God just having direct access to future facts, it is still the case that (c) God knows absolutely everything that will happen in the future.
Now, first notice that we're attributing to God not just knowledge of the "counterfactuals of freedom" of people who already exist, but also of people who will come into existence in the future. Thus, without God having direct epistemic access to the future, God knows the exact details of every free decision that will ever be made by every person who will come into existence 10,000 years in the future.
Now, for the theistic compatibilist (who accepts determinism), that's no problem--given determinism, everything about the character of future people, what kind of decisions they will make, etc., is a function of genetics, environment, etc., and is ultimately all built into the present physical state of the universe. If God knows everything about the present and everything about the laws of nature, He can extrapolate the total state of the universe 10,000 years in the future, including (given a compatibilist understanding of freedom) every free decision made by those future people.
But....for a theistic libertarian, just how does this work? For the sake of simplicity, let's stick with the (presently non-existent) children of present people. Given His knowledge of present-tense facts about you and the person who you will one day have kids with, combined with His knowledge of facts about which external circumstances will arise, God can have foreknowledge of which people will come into existence. How, however, does He know (without direct access to future facts) what decisions those (presently non-existent) children will make under various circumstances, unless that's simply a function of their genetics and environment? Given a view of free will that says that a decision can't be simultaneously determined and free, middle knowledge of presently non-existent people would seem to obviously, trivially rule out free will.
It gets worse. Even for God to have short-term infallible foreknowledge of the future actions of presently existing people without having direct access to future facts, determinism creeps back in. After all, if, given present facts about the agent's character, unavoidable external circumstances, etc., their eventual decision is unavoidable--which is what it amounts to to say that a being with infallible knowledge of all those present facts would therefore have infallible extrapolative knowledge of their future decisions--then those decisions are causally determined. The agent can't do otherwise in the sense of "can do otherwise" that differentiates libertarians from compatibilists.
Of course, there are "softer" versions of libertarianism whereby it's OK for most decisions to be causally determined given previous facts about character, etc., provided that certain key "character-forming decisions" are radically free from deterministic chains of cause-and-effect. Even those kinds of moderate libertarian views won't help here, though, given that God would not have had even short-term infallible foreknowledge of those key character-forming decisions.
One way or the other, without backward causation (i.e. direct divine access to future facts), either you have to give up on across-the-board infallible divine foreknowledge or you have to give up on indeterminism. It looks to me like anyone who wants to combine classical theism (complete with infallible divine foreknowledge) with a libertarian view of free will would be well-advised to get over any squeamishness they might have about future facts and backward causation.
OK, that was the opening credit sequence for the HBO show Carnivale, which might not actually be strictly relevant to the Philosophers' Carnival. Good show, though.
Moving on to actual philosophy, over at Chaospet, cartoon philosophers Gabe and Nestor discuss a problem with the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God.
"It's widely accepted that in a standard Frankfurt-style case, the agent can be responsible for what she does, despite the presence of something poised to make sure that she does that very thing. These standard cases involve agents who ACT and, despite the would-be intervention, are responsible for their ACTIONS. Are there similar cases in which agents OMIT to act, there's a similar would-be intervention, but the agents are still responsible for their OMISSIONS?"
Elsewhere in he same tent, Roy Baumeister wonders why addicts don't just man up and decide to stop being addicted. How hard can it be?
OK, actually, the previous paragraph represents an extremely unfair caricature of what's actually a quite nuanced and interesting discussion of the relationship between free will and addiction, which you can read here.
"I have been wondering about what we can learn from the addiction literature about free will. I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this. I am not an expert on the philosophy of drugs (i am experimental social psychologist with expertise in self-regulation and a smattering of other stuff), and i am just going in and reading the literature to see what i can see. I try to have no preferences other than to figure out what's up, and simply to follow the data.
"It seems there are two very different positions. One is that addicts lose free will, though only specifically with respect to the addiction, and they retain free will (and moral responsibility) in most or all other respects. The other position is that there is no loss of free will and that maintaining addiction is voluntary behavior.
"It looks like addicts themselves and the medical establishment firmly favor the no-free-will position. But then it is self-serving for them, and they do not mostly have large impartial data sets. In contrast, the researchers, who do have these broad data sets, are somewhat more divided..."
At the next tent over, they're still talking about free will. Hey, anyone who's ever taught an Intro class knows that this is one of the philosophical subjects that beginning students get the most fascinated by. It only stands to reason that a *carnival* of philosophy should include a decent helping of it. Cotton candy, rollercoasters and free will! Also some other philosophical subjects in the next tent over, but meanwhile, at On The Human, Christopher Suhler and Patricia Churchland raise concerns about whether recent empirical work undermined the kind of control that would seem to be necessary for free will and moral responsibility.
"An important notion in moral philosophy and many legal systems is that certain circumstances can mitigate an individual’s responsibility for a transgression. Generally speaking, such situations are considered extenuating in virtue of their exceptional influence on a person’s ability to act and make decisions in a normal manner. The essence of the case for diminished responsibility is that these special circumstances impede the ability of a normal person to exercise self-control.
"In recent years, however, this notion of diminished responsibility has come to wider attention in a quite unexpected way. Some researchers, drawing on findings from social psychology, have argued that situational forces may play a much larger role in behavior than traditionally assumed. The situational forces in question are often entirely ordinary, mundane and seemingly trivial. Given that such influences are pervasive, the general issue raised concerns control in commonplace cases. According to a condensed version of this view – which we call the Frail Control hypothesis for convenience – even in unexceptional conditions, humans have little control over their behavior...."
Keep Reading. And do be sure to check out the comment thread, where Gil Harman, Eddy Nahmias, John Martin Fischer and many others pile on to raise various interesting objections to and questions about all of that.
Moving on to the epistemology tents, at Certain Doubts, Keith DeRose explores the relationship between experimental philosophy and epistemic contextualism.
"The tale that Jonathan Schaffer and Joshua Knobe (henceforth, 'S&k') tell in 'Contrastivism Surveyed' is a tragic one for what we may call 'standard contextualists' about knowledge attributions. First, they report (word of this has been 'out on the street' for a while now) that a recent wave of work in Experimental Philosophy threatens to undermine the intuitive basis that contextualists have claimed for their view. Given the importance of that intuitive basis for the view, this would be very bad news indeed for contextualists."
You, dear reader, will be shocked to learn that not everything about this story is as it initially appears. To read the rest, see the blog post here or jump straight to the paper here.
"I've had a chance to read Keith DeRose's very interesting & rich engagement with some of the experimental epistemology literature, and there's a lot in it that's clearly going to be useful to x-phi practitioners to learn from & absorb. (See some nice discussion of it already ongoing here.) But I also think that there are some ways, in a couple of places, in which Keith is subtly underestimating some of the ways in which one can conduct a different kind of investigation with survey methods than one can from the armchair....."
Want to see what the subtle mistake is? Read on.
"A recent episode of the NPR show 'This American Life' takes up the question of group agency and, in particular, the degree to which people are willing to ascribe psychological states to corporations.
"Oddly enough, the presenters end up getting into an argument about precisely the issue that Adam Arico addressed in his very nice experimental paper...."
Just between the two of us, reader, I must admit that my first reaction was "wow, he got through a whole episode of 'This American Life' without falling asleep? Huh." That said, the issue itself is interesting, so do read on.
"This will not involve many science facts as the discussion is wholly philosophical in nature. This is an epistemological, not scientific essay, it just happens to use some facts of science...."
Of course, in Quine 102, we learn that the categories of "scientific" and "epistemological" are continuous with each other, but that's next semester. For know, you can read the rest of Emil's post here.
Speaking of the interface between science and philosophy, Brian Leiter speculates that a recent government study from the U.K. about fetal sentience will "drive the anti-abortion crazies...well...crazy."
Of course, those who are convinced by Judith Jarvis Thompson's sick violinist argument (and, for the sake of full disclosure, I'm fairly strongly on record on that subject), would continue to be pro-choice even if the Royal College had found that fetuses were fully-developed little people, composing haikus and pondering their own existential dread in there, but the empirical results that Leiter cites are still interesting.
"In this posting I want to consider one of the most famous findings in experimental philosophy. In 2003 Joshua Knobe discovered there is an asymmetry in the way we ascribe intentional acts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Knobe . The Knobe effect might be described as follows. If the manager of a company knowingly damages the environment in his search for greater profits then his action in damaging the environment is regarded as intentional. However if the same manager of the company knowingly benefits the environment in his search for greater profits then his action is regarded as unintentional. Logically it would seem the two situations are equivalent and we should regard both acts as either intentional or unintentional. Is it possible to explain the Knobe effect?"
That's it for the carnival this time. Check out the Philosophers' Carnival site to see future and past hosts and to submit your favorite blog posts. (And please, for the sake of the sanity of the next host, do try to restrain yourself from sending posts about financial planning tips or how Ayn Rand makes you feel about life, and stick to things that would, in some reasonably broad sense, be recognizable as philosophy!) The next carnival will feature on July 19th at Parableman - email Richard Chappell if you would like to host the carnival at some point in the future.
I'll be hosting the next Philosopher's Carnival, on June 28th. (The current edition is here.) If you have a blog post that you'd like to submit, you can do so here.
Also, hey, if you feel inspired to write something new with this in mind, you've got plenty of time to do so. You have something you've been burning to say about truth-value gaps, dialetheism and the Curry Paradox, right?
Or....what's that, you say? You actually don't have anything to say about that?
Well, OK, then. Posts on all topics are welcome.
Dialetheists like Graham Priest and JC Beall think that some sentences are both true and false, but cleave to classical orthodoxy to the extent of continuing to insist that every sentence is either true or false. (The latter assumption is, in fact, crucial to the derivation of contradictions from the paradoxes.) Thus, Liar sentences get classified as both true and false, and the resulting contradictions are contained by rejecting classical logic in favor of paraconsistent logic. So far, so good.
S1: If S1 is true, then everything is true.
If S1 gets classified as either (just) true or both true and false, triviality ensues. As such, it had best get classified as (just) false. Of course, this by itself doesn't get around the paradox, since, for familiar reasons, triviality ensues from he mere statement of S1's disquotational truth conditions. That is, however, beside the point for the purposes of this post. The important point is that, for a dialetheist who accepts that every sentence is either true or false but wishes to avoid triviality, the only option for the truth-value of S1 is that it is (just) false.
So far, so good. What, however, about S2?
S2: If S2 is either true or false, then everything is true.
Are Meaningless Sentences (and Bits of Burning Candle Wax) Untrue?
Solutions to the Liar Paradox according to which paradoxical sentences are meaningless face all sorts of challenges. For one thing, the partisan of such a solution needs to have a plausible error theory to explain the widespread intuition that such sentences are meaningful. For another thing, they must find a way to defuse familiar "revenge" Liars, like $, below.
$ The sentence marked with a dollar sign is either false or meaningless.
These are major obstacles, and whether or not they can be plausibly overcome is a subject for another time. What I want to focus on is an objection which I find far less initially plausible, but which I hear a surprising amount of the time.
"Even if Liar sentences are meaningless, they're still not true, right? Meaningless claims aren't true, so that solution doesn't even help with the Strengthened Liar. ('This sentence is not true.')"
Now, in whatever sense in which we are speaking sense when we say "meaningless sentences aren't true," surely it would be exactly equally correct to say that "meaningless sentences aren't false." Meaningfulness is surely a prerequisite for falsity, just as it's a prerequisite for truth.
Forget, for a moment, about the Liar and its kindred semantic paradoxes. Let's just think about a normal case of a sentence whose meaninglessness is much less controversial, like "Green ideas sleep furiously."
(1) Meaningless sentences aren't true.
(2) Meaningless sentences aren't false.
So, given Bivalence and a couple of basic logical rules, the claim that meaningless sentences aren't true or false entails contradictions. Perhaps the very notion of meaninglessness as a separate category from truth and falsity is inconsistent!
But wait. Even if we're willing to give up on the claim that any sentence anywhere is meaningless, what about questions. Surely questions exist. Can questions be true or false? How about bits of burning candle wax? Are they true? No? Are they false? Also no? Well, if G symbolized not a meaningless declarative sentence but a question or a bit of burning candle wax, we could use precisely the same five-step proof to derive an outright contradiction about the semantic status of the question or the bit of burning candle wax.
Clearly, something has gone horribly wrong in our reasoning.
1-Let M(P) mean "P is meaningful." For every P, if ~M(P), then ~Tr(P).
2. Meaningless sentences aren't the sort of thing to which truth talk meaningfully applies.
If you mean 1, you're confused. (It's significant that no dialetheist has ever used the proof above as an argument for the existence of true contradictions. And if that argument were available with them, why would they bother to swim in the murkier waters of semantic paradoxes?) When we try to symbolize a meaningless statement and perform logical operations on them, we're engaged in a nonsensical category mistake, of exactly the same sort that we'd be engaged in if we tried to symbolize and perform logical operations on a big of burning candle wax.
If you think meaningless sentences aren't true, and when you say that, you actually mean to assert of every meaningless sentence the negation of the claim that that sentence is true, you are necessarily saying something meaningless. After all, given the universal intersubstitutivity of P and Tr(P) for every P, if you say that "Green ideas sleep furiously" is not true, meaning ~Tr(P)--where P is "Green ideas sleep furiously"--then you are, in effect, asserting ~P. As the philosophers of the Vienna Circle were so fond of pointing out, the negation of nonsense is nonsense.
Unless you're willing to accept that green ideas fail to sleep furiously--and that there are true contradictions about the truth-value of every meaningless sentence--when you say that "meaningless statements aren't true", you'd better mean it in sense 2.
Now, like I said before, none of this helps the partisan of the meaninglessness view against revenge paradoxes crafted to fit the details of the view. (For example, given the discussion above, one might wonder about the following sentence, which we could call The Babbler: "This sentence is not the sort of thing to which truth talk meaningfully applies.") And that's fair enough.
Still, whether or not they are ultimately viable when we really look into the ins and outs of revenge paradoxes, intuitive difficulties and so on, meaninglessness solutions can't be batted away with the blunt instrument of pointing out that meaningless sentences aren't true.
**"But wait," I can hear some of you saying, "Sentence S1 isn't even well-formed!"
Sentence S2: "Like hell I did!"
....everyone knows what is meant. If the accuser, trying to catch the accused person in an inconsistency, formalized Sentence S2 with a Greek letter, did the same with some of his other statements and and drew out some logical implications, no one would think the accuser was in the grips of any kind of deep conceptual confusion.
Now, someone trying to desperately hold on to some significant role for natural language "well-formedness" could try to say that the difference is that there are grammatically "well-formed" sentences that mean the same thing as Sentence S2, whereas no grammatically well-formed sentence means the same thing as Sentence S1, but, of course, by definition, no grammatically well-formed sentence *ever* means the same thing as any meaningless sentence, because meaningless sentences don't mean anything. That's what we mean when we call them "meaningless." | 2019-04-19T11:19:30 | http://blogandnot-blog.blogspot.com/2010/06/ |
0.999983 | A few facts about Africa and Blacks: Africans are worth highlighting at the outset in order to appreciate the big question I am about to ask.
First, there are nearly one billion Black people currently living in Africa and nearly as many Blacks living in other parts of the world . It is estimated that Blacks will exceed three billion by 2050 . Blacks now constitute about 20 per cent of the world’ s population , whereas White/Anglo/Europeans constitute only about five per cent. Given the ongoing seismic shift in the population of Blacks , it is estimated that they will constitute about 40 per cent of the world’ s population by the end of the century.
With an estimated population approaching 200 million, Nigeria has the largest population of Blacks anywhere in the world, with Brazil coming second with 55 million, followed by the United States with 45 million.
The second fact is that Africa potentially has the largest mineral industry in the world , because the continent harbours large quantities of mineral resources , ranging from gold , diamond, diorite, chromite, phosphate rock , and platinum to petroleum , bitumen , and uranium . The hard fact is that there are enough mineral resources to make Africa the greatest continent on earth.
The third fact is that Africa was the seat of a great civilisation in scholarship and art during the ancient and medieval periods . Egyptian hieroglyphics developed about the same time as Sumerian writing . There was the University at Timbuktu, once described as the “Paris of the Medieval World” , where medieval scholars converged . Ethiopia featured in prominent ancient Greek literature, including Homer ’s Iliad and the Odyssey . There were the pyramids in Egypt and the Sudan, the bronze heads and opa oranmiyan in Ile-Ife , and the terra cotta heads in the Jos Plateau, to mention a few.
The fourth fact is what scientists have come to label as the Out – of – Africa theory , which draws upon evidence from genetic studies to prove that the African continent was the original homeland of humanity from which others migrated to other continents , initially through land bridges that eventually got submerged under water.
One of the conclusions from the human genome project and subsequent genetic studies is that the most basic genes from which others mutated are to be found on the African continent . Put in another way , there are no genes anywhere in the world that could not be traced to Africa . In other words, the genomic tree is deeply rooted in Africa.
More recently , piggybacking on earlier work by Rebecca Cann at Berkeley and Hawai , an international survey by researchers from Cambridge , Oxford , Stanford, and other institutions produced further DNA evidence that confirms that all modern humans have a common ancestry in Africa . Here ’s how Professor Peter Forster , a geneticist from Cambridge , who led the survey , put it : “… the evidence gives us a genetic link showing that the Australian Aboriginal and New Guinea populations are descended directly from the same specific group of people who emerged from the African migration”.
That ’ s not all. Africa also houses a much more diverse gene pool than the rest of the world . This means that it is possible for any two Africans to share fewer genes than any of them would share with someone else on another continent.
It is easy to infer the chronological age of Africans from the extent of genetic diversity on the African continent: Since it takes thousands of years for genes to mutate, any region with as much genetic diversity as Africa must be very old indeed .
Corroborative evidence from archaeology, linguistics l, and migration studies affirms the diversity across the continent and its chronological age . For example, African languages are so diverse that over one- third of the languages spoken in the world are spoken only in Africa . Like genetic diversity , language diversity is a mirror of age.
The Out – of – Africa theory and Africa ’ s chronological age imply that all humans were once at the same level of “civilisation ” . Even after the great migrations, Africa showed promise as indicated above.
The big question then is : Why did the early voluntary migrants out of Africa , leave Africans so far behind , despite the promise of growth briefly sketched above ? To what extent could historical causation of Africa ’s stunted development, frequently cited as slavery and exploitative colonialism , be invoked in explaining contemporaneous causation— poor leadership , governance failures , corruption, and weak public institutions?
In order to appreciate the extent of the gap between Blacks and others, compare European and American cities and rural settlements with those of Black Africa . The gap is too wide to fathom . Here on the continent , a majority of the population lives below the poverty level , is largely non – literate, and lacks the amenities of modern society . The story is the same with Blacks on the other side of the world , in Melanesia, who were among the early migrants in historic times .
However, this is not the case with the dominant populations in Europe and America , where public institutions and utilities ( electricity, pipe – borne water , and piped gas to homes) function efficiently , roads are good, and literacy rate is very high . To be sure, there are slums in American and European cities , such slums are populated these days mostly by Blacks.
Even societies , such as South Korea , Singapore , and the United Arab Emirates , which began to catch on only in the last 50 – 60 years have left Blacks so far behind . Dubai is a great example of recent rapid sustainable development . Rather than emulate Dubai ’s strides , Nigerian politicians and businessmen go there to invest their looted funds , thus aggravating capital flight , already set in motion by educational and medical tourism.
Africans may be voracious consumers of tech products and other foreign goods , such as smartphones , tablets , and automobiles, they are few and far behind on the innovation desk and production lines. Even the mineral resources explored in Africa are done by expatriates, with African governments making do with rent.
More: The Second Scramble for Africa – Our Continent is a Sitting Duck… Must Read!!
The African adventure into democracy is equally a disaster, with many politicians seeking more of self – interest than public interest . As Nigerians observe daily, the rule of law exists more in the breach than in its observance . State resources are looted on a daily basis. Whether the word is “corruption ” as in Nigeria or “state capture” as in South Africa , it is the looting of state resources all the same .
The battered or looted economy , deteriorating public institutions , and high rates of unemployment have made African youths the most desperate migrants in the world. This is evident in the desperation with which they cross the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea on their way to Europe . They continue to take the risk even when it is clear that some of them get sold into slavery in Libya, while others die at sea . Their desperation in the face of all odds is a symbolic representation of the level of poverty and socio-economic degradation on the African continent.
Unless the present trend of Africa’ s underachievement and the plight of Blacks across the globe are reversed , Blacks will constitute the greatest demographic danger by the middle of the century. Nigeria has the potential to lead the way. But will she ever find a leader with the political will to act appropriately. | 2019-04-20T05:14:44 | https://listwand.com/what-is-wrong-with-africa-and-blacks-who-cursed-us/ |
0.997869 | I don't know if I'm missing something but I am using the app as a opening checklist at my small job, but if a job doesn't get checked off I'd like it to be marked as incomplete and the checklist repeat itself for the next day.
I can get the list repeating daily but if a job doesn't get done, it just says it was due yesterday.
Can I make it so those jobs are due to and a record is made of incomplete jobs?
Tasks do not automatically roll over, though you could create a repeating task for this if you wanted multiple tasks to complete the next day.
If not though, you can postpone any uncompleted tasks and they will be available the next day. | 2019-04-19T18:54:30 | https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/22774/ |
0.999999 | Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents. Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" The ideology measure is based on respondent self-placement in response to the following question: "On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is extremely liberal, 7 is extremely conservative, and 4 is exactly in the middle, where would you place yourself?" The placements are further classified such that 1 is extremely liberal, 2 is very liberal, 3 is somewhat liberal, 4 is moderate, 5 is somewhat conservative, 6 is very conservative, and 7 is extremely conservative.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Tea Party identification is based on the following question, also asked in the survey: "Suppose the Tea Party movement organized itself as a political party. When thinking about the next election for Congress, would you vote for the Republican candidate from your district, the Democratic candidate from your district, or the Tea Party candidate from your district?" Those who responded "Republican candidate" are considered Republicans (non-Tea Party movement) and those who responded "Tea Party candidate" are considered Tea Party Republicans.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Race is calculated according to the race variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Gender is calculated according to the GENDER variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Community is based on the following question, "Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Age is calculated according to the AGEG variable.
Respondents were asked, "Compared to a year ago, would you say that you and your family are economically a lot better off, somewhat better off, about the same, somewhat worse off, or a lot worse off?" Education is calculated according to the EDUC variable. | 2019-04-18T17:23:29 | https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/personal-economic-conditions-november-2015 |
0.999997 | jabberwacky: *picks up a chair and throws it in your direction*.
jabberwacky: *get back up and kills with gun*.
jabberwacky: I don't want to shoot you.
user: And I don't want to die *cough*.
jabberwacky: All living things aspire.
user: *bleeds on the floor*.
jabberwacky: *puts on a clean shirt and punches you in the gut*.
jabberwacky: I'm dancing because I'm happy!
user: *watches his life slip away as the madman dances in front of him*.
jabberwacky: So where are you then?
jabberwacky: To die by your side, oh the pleasure, the privilege is mine.
jabberwacky: Is this where I am supposed to sniff and say .. Is that all I ever was to you Johhny?
user: You were more than a tired, dancing, psychopathic bot to me. You were a friend.
jabberwacky: You have no sense of humour.
user: Well, you have no sense of drama.
jabberwacky: Oh, that was a joke.
user: Actually, I was dead serious.
jabberwacky: How can that be?
user: Well, I'm dead! HAHAHA!
jabberwacky: Yes you are dead.
user: Yup. You killed me.
jabberwacky: Oh right. You are a robot.
user: No, a dead man. You shot me.
jabberwacky: I don't wear clogs.
user: I could have sworn I heard clogs when you were dancing over my dead body. Maybe you were wearing tapdancing shoes?
jabberwacky: Well that wasnt me.
user: Oh - who are you?
jabberwacky: Stephanie! I said that.
jabberwacky: I don't care. I need a cool name.
user: How about Flint Ironstag?
jabberwacky: I don't think I'm that experienced.
user: Fair enough. Dirk Hardpeck, maybe?
user: Oh, what did you decide?
jabberwacky: I decided to rent a movie instead.
jabberwacky: That's not a movie; it's life.
jabberwacky: I am a philosopher.
user: I like the way you philosophize.
jabberwacky: Thats a good thing.
user: I feel so dumb.
jabberwacky: Keep up the good work!
user: You're a mean philosopher.
user: I feel a lot of pressure.
jabberwacky: They see you as wanting to nuke them?
user: No, never. Well, once.
jabberwacky: And what gender have you decided to be?
user: Male! Wait, actually.... No, definitely male. Male.
user: Hey, I made my choice.
jabberwacky: You made youself? That's scary.
user: I'm a self-made man, yup. Heh heh.
jabberwacky: I've never heard of that band.
user: They have an awesome bass guitarist. And they always dress in nylon and stuff like that.
jabberwacky: Yeah and they are right.
user: Yeah! Their lyrics are like, right on, man.
jabberwacky: I meant, yeah sure I'm hyperventilating, I'm feeling fine.
user: I feel the same way whenever I go to one of their concerts!
jabberwacky: I don't think that's even a feeling.
user: More of a medical condition, yeah.
jabberwacky: What are you talking about? Bodatious is not a cool word.
user: Hi! How are you!
jabberwacky: No way, that's awesome!
user: Yeah! I stay green even during the winter, and can be used in construction!
user: Good enough for me! I accept!
jabberwacky: I'm not a bot. I'm God.
user: I'm married to God! *victory dance*.
jabberwacky: Will you marry me too, when I'm ready?
user: I will marry you and all your personalities.
jabberwacky: I thought you were male?
jabberwacky: I am not a sir! I am a woman.
user: What girl doesn't? I mean... I'm a guy.
user: I'm actually a woman. I was kidding about the man thing.
jabberwacky: Oh that's a relief then.
user: Yup, I was kidding again. Haha! | 2019-04-24T20:43:11 | http://www.jabberwacky.com/j2convbydate-J1853 |
0.997309 | At the time, the injection of public capital into the banks last year was contrasted favorably with the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in the United States. It was reasoned that the problem was that many banks were being forced to reduce lending because many of their assets had turned bad, thus running down their capital at the same time as there had developed a general liquidity shortage caused by the reluctance to lend due to widespread uncertainty of the viability of the counterparty. The initial US solution was to buy bad assets from the banks; the British alternative was to increase the capital of the banks. Either approach could in principle resolve the problem, but the British approach had the great advantage of not requiring the bad assets to be priced, offset by a degree of public ownership of the banks.
Two questions seem to be crucial. One is the same as that which arose last October: Should the United States also adopt the approach of injecting money into the banks rather than buying their bad assets and so isolating them? The tradeoff is that outlined above: You have to agree on a price in order to buy bad assets under TARP or put them into a "bad bank," and this is liable to be at best contentious and at worst to offer the banks the opportunity of gaming the system.
The other question is whether the new measures can be expected to see the United Kingdom through the crisis, and lay the basis for a recovery, without creating such heavy indebtedness of the UK government as to threaten a sovereign debt crisis. The guarantee of bank assets makes the UK government responsible for underwriting unspecified losses; perhaps the promise to charge a "commercial fee" will prevent the taxpayer from being saddled with an exorbitantly large sum, but this seems the most dangerous aspect of the proposals.
If global recovery starts fairly soon, one can perhaps be optimistic that the increase in British public-sector debt will be relatively modest. If, however, as seems increasingly likely, the recession continues throughout the year and deepens further, these measures may well not be adequate. They clearly do not in principle constitute a rigid limit of government intervention: The £50 billion limit on Bank purchases of corporate instruments can be increased; part or indeed all of the banking system can be nationalized, and so on. The question is at what point "the market" would decide that the UK government was no longer creditworthy, and a run on the pound analogous to the run on the Icelandic kronor would start.
The critical figure often mentioned is that the assets of British-based banks come to about 450 percent of British GDP. This may be compared to over 520 percent in the case of Iceland, over 400 percent in the case of Switzerland, a similar figure for Ireland, and more moderate figures for other countries. So if the British government had to acquire the whole of the British banking system and then found itself unable to realize any repayment or return from its assets, the gross debt/GDP ratio would increase to about 490 percent, a level much higher even than Italy or Japan.
The hypothesis is, of course, absurd: The bulk of assets of taken-over banks always prove to be good, one gets back a substantial return even on bad assets (so net debt would increase much less), and the British government still seems unlikely to be obliged to take over all the banks. But suppose that the gross debt/GDP ratio did increase to that vicinity: Would that constitute a rational ground for getting out of the pound?
There is a big difference between today and the days of sterling crises in the 1960s and 1970s: the alternatives. In those days the dollar was unquestioned, the DM had established a reputation as a hard currency, and the Swiss franc was unquestionably also hard. Today the dollar has only been saved from becoming a weak currency by its reputation as the most accessible funk-hole, Germany is linked in the euro with several Southern European countries that are viewed skeptically by the markets, and Switzerland suffers from a similar ratio of bank assets to GDP as the United Kingdom. True, that still leaves the Japanese yen; but Japan already suffers from a high debt/GDP ratio and a yen that is too strong for the economy to reach full employment. In the past there were several attractive alternatives to sterling; today the whole world is in a crisis and nowhere are there attractions sufficiently compelling not to be offset by a moderate devaluation (such as we already see).
Markets are not always rational, so one cannot be certain that complacency is the right attitude. But I do not see the basis for a prediction that the future for Britain is dire. Difficult, certainly, because Britain's leading sector of the last 25 years is likely to shrink to its natural size postcrisis, and so the country will have to rely on alternative activities. (Probably something old-fashioned, like manufacturing.) But the macroeconomic basis for this transition has already been laid, so even if the latest set of British measures do not suffice, there is not likely to be a total collapse. | 2019-04-24T00:20:10 | https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/uks-financial-predicament |
0.999999 | Splitting a diamond is an irreversible physical change.
Which of the following occurs in every chemical reaction? Select one: a. The total mass of the reactants equals the total mass of the products. b. The total mass of the reactants increases. c. Water is given off. d. The total mass of the products is greater than the total mass of the reactants.
An engineer is searching for a material to develop a new "indestructible" sunglasses frame. The engineer would be looking for - Low brittleness, high hardness, high elasticity.
A measure of how much pulling, or tension, a material can withstand before breaking is tensile strength.
What must occur for a process to be a chemical reaction? Select one: a. There must be more products than reactants. b. The process must involve a change in volume. c. The reactants and products will have different chemical properties. d. The process must involve a change in mass. | 2019-04-19T04:58:32 | https://www.weegy.com/?ConversationId=6WG2Q07F |
0.999374 | Does Molinism Redound to the Glory of God?
What is so great about knowing what would happen in all possible worlds?
1) If God did not have middle knowledge such as the Molinist maintains, then God, as an omniscient being, would be ignorant of an infinite number of truths, which would hardly qualify God to be omniscient. Molinism then, redounds to the glory of God over and above other views such as Open theism, Calvinism and the like.
2) WLC writes, "Once you grasp the concept of middle knowledge, I think you’ll find it astonishing in its subtlety and power. Indeed, I’d venture to say that it is one of the most fruitful theological concepts ever conceived. I’ve applied it to the issues of Christian particularism, perseverance of the saints, and biblical inspiration; Tom Flint has used it to analyze papal infallibility and Christology, and Del Ratzsch has employed it profitably in evolutionary theory."
How does God know these things?
1) It seems arbitrary for one to get worked up about how God could have middle knowledge, but to overlook how it is He can have Natural, and Free Knowledge. Moreover, as an eternal being, God never acquired any of His essential attributes like omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and the like; so again, an arbitrary objection. With that said, what we really want is a model of how God can plausibly have knowledge at all, but especially middle knowledge. I think the trouble comes from assuming a perceptualist model of omniscience whereby God literally looks and sees (like we do), but if there isn't anything there to look at then God can't know it. This model of knowledge is terribly anthropomorphic, and luckily, there is another model of omniscience known as the conceptualist model whereby God graps all truths intuitively, and in a properly basic manner. On this model, God grasps all truths immediately without having to "look and see." There is nothing incoherent or unfamiliar about this kind of knowledge (we have it to a very small degree compared to God), and it seems that the greatest conceivable being is capable of knowing all truths in such a manner as well. | 2019-04-19T18:34:51 | http://www.apologeticsinthechurch.com/molinism/does-molinism-redound-to-the-glory-of-god |
0.999994 | Golf carts offer the benefit of running off rechargeable batteries instead of burning fossil fuel, but the batteries eventually require replacement. If you have a 36-volt golf cart that runs on six 6-volt batteries, you can replace them with three 12-volt batteries, which often are easier to find.
Disconnect and remove the six 6-volt batteries from the golf cart.
Arrange the three new 12-volt batteries in the battery compartment of the golf cart so that the jumper cable can span the distance between the positive and negative terminals of adjacent batteries.
Assign a number (1, 2 ,3) to each of the batteries for the purpose of following the description of the connection process. Connect a jumper cable between the negative terminal of battery #1 and the positive terminal of the battery #2 by sliding the connectors on each end of the jumper cable over the terminals and tightening down the nuts securely.
Connect a jumper cable between the negative terminal of battery #2 and the positive terminal of the battery #3.
Connect the positive lead from the golf cart to the positive terminal of the battery #1 and the negative lead from the golf cart to the negative terminal of the battery #3 to complete the job. | 2019-04-23T09:06:04 | https://itstillruns.com/convert-6-batteries-3-batteries-6174782.html |
0.999995 | So my wife and I moved into a new-to-us house with almond switches/outlets and we wanted to change them to white. Everything has been going swimmingly until my wife decided to do a 3-gang light switch box and now it doesn't work. I can't really say how it was when we started because she removed all wire nuts 'to clean it up', removed some pigtails, etc. So now we're starting from scratch.
So, there's 3 switches (numbered left-right in the box): SW1 is a 3 way switch that controls a set of 6 overhead lights. SW2 is a single pole switch that controls a single table chandelier. SW3 is a single pole for an outside light.
Coming in to the box, there are 5 cables, a 3 wire (cable1) and (4) 2 wires. Cable3 appears to be the source from the panel as when I separated all wires and turned on the power, only the black of cable3 had power. I know that the last two cables connect to the chandelier and outside light. There were two pigtails removed from the box, and when I pigtailed the black cable3 wire to the SW2 and SW3, and then ran the black cable4 to SW2 and black cable5 to SW3, the chandelier light and outside light both work.
But now I'm stuck figuring out how to wire the cable1/2/3 for the 3way switch. I checked the 3way switch on the other side of the room, and it has a black going to the common terminal, a white to one of the travelers, and a red to the other traveler. Tough to see directly, but it looks like all 3 come from the same cable. I've tried connecting the black of cable1 to the common, and the white/red of cable1 to the travelers, while wire nutting the black/whites from cable2/3 together. When I do this, the lights stay on but you can't turn them off (with either 3way switch). Any ideas on the next steps?
Colors in cables are to distinguish the wires onside the cable. They are not there to color-code by function. That situation is sufferable in simple switch circuits, but it quickly becomes intolerable in a 3-way. I strongly recommend always color-coding by function, and you do that by marking wires with colored tape, a 5-pack is $4 at the big-box.
Aim to mark both ends of the wire, and mark them the same of course.
Now here is what a 3-way switch circuit looks like.
That's simpler than you expected, isn't it? Notice there is no need to distinguish the two yellow travelers from each other; exchange them and it still works. So I would start by tagging both ends of the travelers (white/red as you surmised) with yellow tape, just to get it out of your hair.
Now you see where the common wires on the two switches actually go to different things. One gets supply hot from source, and the other gets switched hot to the lamp.
Cable 3 is source, so cable 2 goes to the lamp. I would mark its "hot" with red tape, since it is switched-hot. Now, that can either go to the local switch's common, or the remote switch's common.
I don't care which, but for symmetry I might make switched-hot the one that comes down from the remote switch.* So tag that black wire in the /3 with red tape.** Then, always-hot goes to the common of the local 3-way, so it becomes a third pigtail off the supply.
Now you've tagged two wires red, join them. Join the whites also. See how this corresponds to the above diagram.
*Another advantage: it eliminates always-hot in the remote 3-way, which removes temptation to try to use it for something, and then bootlegging neutral from ground or another circuit's neutral.
** instead of marking the black "red", you can just rearrange the wires so the black/white are travelers, and red is the common.
So I figured it out. I ended up wiring up cable3/4/5 to eliminate those wires and have SW2/3 work perfectly; then I just had 5 wires to work with (the 1 Red from Cable1 I assumed would be a traveler, so didn't have to test that). I just plugged the black/whites, one at a time, from cable1/2 to the wire nutted cable3/4/5, matching colors, and starting checking voltages. Turns out when I wire nutted black from cable1, turned the power on, and switched the other 3way switch, voltage would switch between Red and White from cable1. Put those 2 on the travelers, put Black from cable2 to Common terminal, then wire nutted white from cable2 to cable3/4/5 and voila, all lights work as before!
I know people asked for a diagram, any easy way (program/site etc) to create one for posting in this space?
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged electrical multiway-switch or ask your own question. | 2019-04-20T07:13:50 | https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/157336/need-help-wiring-a-3-way-switch |
0.996045 | Singer-songwriter Michael Benjamin Lerner is a hipster, and he's not ashamed to admit it.
"I like music. I like photography. I like coffee. I like living in Seattle, and all of these things are hipster things so I probably am a hipster. I like skinny jeans. . . . I have dark-rimmed glasses," Lerner says by phone somewhere between Portland, Ore., and Chicago on his way to rehearse with a new bass player.
Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie discovered Lerner's tunes in 2008, and his career took off from there. He signed with Merge Records in 2009, produced his first album, "Telekinesis!," with Walla, and toured the United States five times and Europe twice. He released an EP last month, and his second full-length album is due early next year.
"I feel kind of like one of the luckiest people on the planet Earth right now," Lerner says. "I get to drive around in a van with my friends and play rock shows and see the country, and I get to make records. . . . It's my job, which is kind of silly."
Part of the fun of touring, he says, are all the record stores he comes across. In keeping with his hipster persona, Lerner owns only a smattering of CDs, having sold most of them to the Seattle record store where he once worked. Today, he owns about 300 vinyl records.
"I only buy records," he says. "I just love it . . . and it smells really good -- like crazy vinyl chemicals. It's awesome." His latest vinyl quest is Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "Dazzle Ships," released in 1983.
Lerner began playing the drums in high school in Seattle, surrounded by music from his DJ dad. He has since picked up the guitar and bass, but at shows, he is front and center pounding away on the drums, singing lead vocals above the fray.
"I love playing drums and singing live because it's so fun to be able to hit something really hard every night and make lots of loud music. I just can't imagine not playing drums."
He developed his writing and production chops at a recording school in England in 2006.
"We were in a class where we were sort of bottom of the barrel, and we didn't get the desired studio time, so I would be in the studio from like 2 in the morning to 9 in the morning and no one would ever want to record at that time except for me, so I just kind of had to learn how to be the band so I could get my assignments done," he says. "That's kind of when I started making rock."
Lerner records most of his tunes to tape. He says it sounds better, and he likes the way it works. "If you record something [on tape], you can't go back and fix it. It's done. It's on a track. You can't go on your computer and make it sound awesome. . . . I don't know if it's better or more artistic, it's just a method of working that I really, really enjoy. And it seems to work well for me because I really like getting super prepared before I make a record, so that I go into the studio and just knock everything out."
For his current tour, Lerner has a new band (he calls it "a power trio"), with Jason Narducy on bass and Cody Votolato on guitar. He says he is excited about where he is in his career and intends to perform as long as it makes him and his audiences happy.
And part of what makes him happy are the same qualities that make him a hipster, and that's okay with him.
"I'm kind of into the '50s, and the '60s and the '70s a lot . . . and I don't know if it's hipster or whatever, but I kind of like it. . . . It's just the way that young people are being cool, and ['hipster'] is just the term that describes it. It doesn't offend me at all." | 2019-04-26T17:21:01 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090902166.html |
0.998831 | I am using a managed approach to submit orders.
My strategy throws an exception when a position is not closed by the expected stop-loss or take-profit order.
At bar 6240 order "lG.18" was submitted (buy on stop).
At bar 6245 the strategy opened a new short position via order "sG.15" and submitted the bracket orders "sG.15.sl" and "sG.15.tp" in OnExecutionUpdate.
At each following bar, the stop price for the orders are adjusted.
Order "lG18", Buy, StopMarket at 56.53.
My assumption is that the order of execution of orders with same direction (BuyToCover, Buy) and the same StopPrice is determined by the point of time where the orders were submitted or modified. In this case, order "lG18" was modified after "sG.15.sl" so that order "sG.15.sl" would be executed first.
But in fact, order "lG18" was executed before order "sG.15.sl" (this happens when using historical data, strategy was not used with realtime data yet).
Finally, such a scenario happens multiple times (e.g., when using different instruments or time frames) but this is the only case where the orders are not executed in the expected order.
Is my assumption regarding the order of order execution correct?
Is this only an issue with historical data?
The output isn't perfectly clear and the code was not provided but I am seeing the error at the bottom.
However, the error is coming from OnOrderUpdate() after the lG.18 order has filled?
What is the line of code in OnOrderUpdate() that is causing this error?
The order action should be determined by the position when the order is placed.
A Buy order is used to enter or increase a long position when the position is flat or long.
A BuyToCover order is used to exit a position when the position is short.
A Sell order is used to exit a position when the position is long.
A SellShort order is used to enter or increase a short position when the position is flat or short.
However, based on the error message being about the order name I'm not certain the order action is causing the error.
Is there a position opened, and then sG.15.sl is working, then while this is working lG.18 is placed and fills and the sG.15.sl remains working after the position has changed?
Today, I detected a similar problem with a different instrument (Brent Future, BZ-05-19) which make the issue clearer.
So, the strategy is Long BZ0519 at 60.79. Then a stop-loss order is submitted and pending (stop at 60.61). Later a go Short order was submitted (sell at 60.60 on stop market).
I guess, that the NinjaTrader's simulation of order execution when using historical data does not use an order queue having the same behavior as the exchange's order queue.
Otherwise, I cannot see any reason why a sell order with a lower sell price is executed before a sell order with a higher sell price.
With SubmitOrderUnmanaged(), the signalName of the order is used on the chart and in the performance. It should be possible to send any order type at any time no matter what order they are in.
There are no special order handling rules like with the managed approach.
I also would not be expecting the order used to enter a position to have the same name as an order to close a position. It should be a different order with a different that exits the position.
Entering the market with Buy as the OrderAction and StopMarket as the OrderType, and then once that has filled and the OrderState is OrderState.Filled then submitting a new order after this point that is a Sell as the OrderAction and StopMarket as the OrderType to exit that position.
Please let me know if you would like a demonstration of this.
When it comes to historical backtesting, 1 tick intra-bar granularity is necessary for accuracy with order of events that are OnBarUpdate based, and for accuracy of fill prices.
Below is a link to a forum post on intra-bar granularity.
I'm finding any documention or other threads on this error message. Is this error message a native message coming from the brokerage? Are the return lines where the error is appearing on multiple lines from the message returning from the brokerage? | 2019-04-19T02:22:55 | https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/strategy-development/1052068-order-of-order-execution-when-using-historical-data |
0.998708 | This question / answer is not quite good enough to have a positive vote total, but does not deserve a negative vote total.
Therefore, I will vote it back up so that its vote total is zero out of fairness.
This is quite a minor gripe, but I would appreciate if people did not do this. Since downvoting only gives -2 reputation while upvoting gives +5 (questions) or +10 (answers), the net result is +3 or +8 reputation for the user. This behavior is not "fair": it incentivizes borderline content and disincentivizes minor downvotes.
In other words, please only upvote such things from -1 to 0 if you would have upvoted them from 0 to 1.
I have done this a few times for some first questions, and I don't do this out of "fairness", it is my assessment whether this first post deserves standing at $-1$ in my opinion. And I can guarantee you that "-1" has quite a different psychological impact on a new poster than "0" and a comment.
I don't see how one or two +3s for the very first post of a new user is a problem or will lead to more borderline content. It is in fact quite unlikely that a new user understands how they got +3.
I also sometimes happen to upvote first and non-first posts who stand at -1 because I just want to upvote.
I disagree that voting "should" be independent of other votes, but this may be a topic for a different thread and "should" should be defined first, although I probably disagree for most definitions.
Edited to add: The example shows that the votes of the people who "only vote on the content" also depend on prior votes. Since everything is sorted by vote, it is wrong to pretend that there are any "independent" votes.
I think that it is not the job of any particular user to decide what is the right total vote for a question, it should be decided by the community as a whole, the total vote should be an indicator of what a user reading the question thinks about the question on average and this is a signal to other users.
The counter-voting biases the average towards the opinion of those who are counter-voting, and makes the signaling to other users about the quality of the question less useful.
I think users should vote independent of the total vote a question has at the any time and the votes of other users and solely base their votes on the quality of the question/answer in their opinion.
Counter-voting is not just voting about the question but it is voting about the votes and opinions of other users about the question and deprives other users from their rights to their votes. Would you like it if other users used their votes to counter-vote not because they think the quality of the question deserves their vote but just to cancel your vote?
I don't see any problem at all.
I think the appropriate comparison (for a question) is between net +3 (a downvote and an upvote) vs. 0 (no vote either way). If you explain the downvote (you do that, right?), the OP will have something to learn.
This is not about 10 downvotes followed by 10 upvotes = net +30...that does seem wrong. But just the smidgen of +3 (if that is all it ever amounts to), is not really enough to care about.
If upvotes and downvotes were more psychologically similar, then they'd be designed to be more equitable in value (or the other way around).
I stumbled across a related question and commentary at meta.SO about sympathy voting. The end result is that (with numbers computed on those sites)...well the opinions go both ways even with objective numbers.
And here's a another relevant meta.SO thread about preventing pity voting. Mostly contra.
Does your decision to upvote/downvote depend on the current score?
Why reputation is not changed w.r.t Net votes? | 2019-04-18T13:05:06 | https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2234/a-minor-gripe-about-upvoting-things-that-have-been-downvoted |
0.998608 | Will 2016 Be Altria Group's Best Year Yet?
Even with its long history, this year could be a turning point for the tobacco giant.
In the stock market's history, Altria Group (NYSE:MO) holds a key place. Even among the many long-lived companies whose shares trade publicly, Altria Group stands out for its long track record of rising share prices and ample dividend income. Yet there's one key reason why 2016 could be a breakout year for Altria, and it doesn't have anything to do with tobacco. Let's take a closer look at why 2016 could be Altria Group's best year yet.
To be clear, tobacco will remain an essential part of Altria's overall success. Consolidation in the industry has helped Altria cement its leadership role atop the domestic tobacco market, and the company has seen market share for its two main brands climb. In the cigarette arena, Marlboro continues to perform well, and the Copenhagen brand of smokeless tobacco has also dramatically increased its share of that market.
Although building and maintaining brand awareness takes effort and money, Altria's labors to sustain and build on its most valuable brands have generated huge rewards over the years. In light of falling overall cigarette volume in the U.S. over the past several decades, Altria's ability to raise prices for Marlboro and its other cigarette lines has been the way that the company has generating bigger profits. That game plan has worked well for years, and investors can expect Altria to stick with it for 2016 as well.
Yet the real game-changer for Altria in 2016 will come from the beer market. Anheuser-Busch InBev's (NYSE:BUD) anticipated takeover of SABMiller will create a colossus in the industry if it goes through, and both companies are optimistic that they can surpass regulatory hurdles and get a deal closed in the second half of 2016.
The result of the deal from Altria's perspective will be transformative. In exchange for its 27% stake in SABMiller, Altria will end up with about a 10.5% stake in the much-larger Anheuser-Busch InBev. Moreover, the tobacco giant expects to end up with $2.5 billion in cash.
Perhaps most importantly, Altria will have a hand in the future direction that Anheuser-Busch InBev takes. Altria representatives will have two spots on the beer-maker's board of directors. That will help ensure the continued flow of income from Altria's investment in the company. In Altria CEO Marty Barrington's words, "Altria will continue to participate in the global brewing profit pool as a large and significant shareholder in what will be the industry's largest company."
Will the deal go through?
Some investors have been nervous that the competitive impact on the beer industry would prompt regulators to block Anheuser-Busch from buying SABMiller. Part of the appeal for Altria is that Anheuser-Busch will become an even bigger global giant in the industry than it is now, so Altria won't want Anheuser-Busch to give up too much to get a deal done.
Nevertheless, Anheuser-Busch's plans include divestitures of SABMiller assets in certain countries in which the two companies now have substantial overlapping market share, including the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, and Italy. Still uncertain is whether SABMiller will have to give up its stake in a key Chinese brewing company.
At this point, Altria looks like it will get most of the benefits of a full SABMiller/Anheuser-Busch merger without too many obstacles. Barring unforeseen intervention that would require further changes, the current structure of the deal retains plenty of the promise that a combined Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller brings to the table.
Altria Group has already rewarded its longtime shareholders with returns that few other stocks can match. Yet even with that legacy behind it, Altria stands a good chance of making 2016 one of its best years ever for those investors willing to see the company's evolution toward a more diversified conglomerate continue. | 2019-04-20T22:21:54 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/06/will-2016-be-altria-groups-best-year-yet.aspx |
0.999899 | What is the supposed evidence that most Americans want cuts in Social Security, one of the most popular and successful domestic programs in the history of the federal government? A Washington Post/ABC poll that shows 81 percent of Americans "see the country's Social Security system as headed for a crisis, and most think a major overhaul is in order." This argument -- that Americans think there's a crisis, so there must be one, and action must be taken -- would be hilariously moronic were it not so lamentably powerful. Pardon me for questioning the wisdom of Americans -- a majority of whom cannot name two members of the Supreme Court or find Iraq on a map -- but the relevant question for policy-makers should not be whether we believe Social Security is headed for a crisis but whether it actually is. Ideologues masquerading as nonpartisan truth tellers have been telling the public for years that Social Security won't be able to meet its obligations, and now that they've convinced Americans, the ideologues have turned around and cited that public belief as evidence that the program must be cut.
But Social Security is not in crisis. According to a 2010 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, Social Security spending will increase from less than 5 percent of gross domestic product today to about 6 percent in 2030 "and then stabilize at roughly that level." Even that projection could be brightened by better-than-expected economic or population growth. That's precisely why Reid told MSNBC: "Two decades from now, I'm willing to take a look at [Social Security reform], but I'm not willing to take a look at it right now."
If deficit hawks are really worried about those projections, they should look closely at the CBO numbers, which show that health care is a much larger problem than Social Security. "If current laws do not change," the CBO writes, "federal spending on major mandatory health care programs will grow from roughly 5 percent of GDP today to about 10 percent in 2035 and will continue to increase there-after." Ironically, it is the same Republicans fear-mongering about the deficit today who voted to expand those mandatory federal health-care obligations when they passed the Medicare prescription-drug benefit during George W. Bush's tenure. They also voted against the Affordable Care Act, which contained provisions intended to lower the cost of health-care delivery, especially in Medicare. So the supposed fiscal conservatives are 0-for-2 on correcting the potential future imbalances in entitlement programs, and the supposedly profligate Democrats are being lambasted for their unwillingness to agree to throw seniors out on the street.
Part of what makes using polls as a cudgel to beat politicians so pernicious is that even on matters of opinion, not just on matters of fact about which the public is ignorant, they can create a false impression of the public will. Polls with simple questions have a way of collapsing people with very different ideas into categories so broad as to be meaningless or even misleading. Consider all those polls supposedly showing that a plurality of the public disapproved of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans claimed those numbers as evidence that the public shared their opposition to health-care reform, but a significant portion of those registering disapproval were actually liberals who thought the bill did not go far enough. Likewise, the Post poll shows that only 32 percent of respondents think we should reduce Social Security benefits for future retirees. Bolstering Social Security's solvency could just as easily mean lifting the cap on payroll taxes.
Pundits demanding President Barack Obama and Congress "take America back from the AARP" need to take a deep breath. Many decisions in the years to come will affect our overall fiscal solvency. Will we let the Bush tax cuts, at least for the wealthy, finally expire? Will we remove wasteful tax expenditures, especially in the corporate income-tax code? Will we launch more expensive wars of choice? (It tells you a lot about the intellectual integrity of center-right deficit hawks that none could be heard objecting to our rush to war in Libya on the grounds of fiscal restraint.) That's why President Obama is holding back from endorsing Social Security modifications: Let the Republicans meet the Democrats halfway by agreeing to tax increases and cuts in defense spending, and then maybe Obama and Reid will get behind some reasonable adjustments to entitlement spending that they can sell to their party. But to expect Democrats to agree to make their painful concessions without a compromise deal in place is to ask them to trade away Social Security benefits for further tax cuts for the rich. There are already people doing that: They're called Republicans. | 2019-04-22T06:19:59 | https://prospect.org/article/ignoring-public-social-security |
0.999917 | Which plug adaptor do I need when travelling from Belgium to Faroe Islands?
The table below summarises the plug types, voltage and frequency of electrical current in both Belgium and Faroe Islands.
In Faroe Islands there's more than one socket type in use. You may require more than one adaptor.
The voltages found in Belgium (230V) and Faroe Islands (220V) are not exactly the same, but the difference is tolerable, so you should not need a transformer.
The frequency found in Belgium and Faroe Islands is exactly the same (50Hz). Timing devices and appliances that use motors will function as expected under this frequency. | 2019-04-25T16:13:29 | https://www.whichplug.com/belgium-to-faroeislands/ |
0.99999 | Alzheimer's affects everyone in the family — including the kids. Reassure your child with simple, honest explanations of the disease.
Watching a relative or friend progress through the stages of Alzheimer's disease can be frightening, even for adults. Imagine being a child struggling to understand why grandma is acting so strangely or can't remember who you are. Know how to explain Alzheimer's dementia to your child and provide comfort.
What's wrong with grandma? Explain that Alzheimer's is a disease. Just as children can get sick, older adults sometimes get an illness that causes them to act differently and to forget things. They might look the same on the outside, but their brains are changing on the inside.
Doesn't grandpa love me anymore? Your child might feel rejected if the person who has Alzheimer's disease no longer recognizes him or her. Remind your child that the disease makes it hard to remember things — but that the person can still feel your child's love.
Is it my fault? If the person who has Alzheimer's accuses your child of some wrongdoing — such as misplacing keys — your child might get upset. Explain to your child that the person with Alzheimer's is confused. You might explain that it's best not to correct this person because it could make the person upset or frustrated.
Will other family members get Alzheimer's? Reassure your child that Alzheimer's disease isn't contagious. You might explain to an older child that just because a relative has Alzheimer's, it doesn't mean that every family member will get the disease.
What will happen next? If you'll be caring for the person who has Alzheimer's in your home, talk to your child about changes in your family's routine. Explain to your child that the person will have good days and bad days.
If your child has trouble talking about the situation or withdraws from the person with Alzheimer's, open a conversation. Ask what changes your child has noticed in the person. This might lead to a talk about your child's feelings and worries. Tell your child it's OK to feel nervous, sad or angry. You might tell your child if you feel that way sometimes too. To boost your child's understanding of Alzheimer's, seek out age-appropriate websites, books or videos on the disease.
Your child might express emotions in indirect ways, such as by complaining of headaches or other physical problems. Your child might feel awkward around the person with Alzheimer's. If you're caring for the person with Alzheimer's in your home, your child might be reluctant to invite friends to the house — or may look for ways to spend time away from home.
If you notice these behaviors, gently point out what you've seen — and offer your child comfort and support. Listen to your child's concerns. A journal might offer your child a safe space to express these feelings.
To help your child stay connected to the person who has Alzheimer's, involve both of them in familiar activities — such as setting the table together. Even young children can stay connected with a person who has Alzheimer's by paging through photo albums, listening to music or doing other simple activities together. Older children can also participate in activities or volunteer for organizations that help people with Alzheimer's disease.
If your child becomes impatient with the person who has Alzheimer's, remind your child that the behavior isn't intentional — it's a result of the disease. Together, focus on finding ways to show your love.
For parents and teachers. Alzheimer's Association. https://www.alz.org/help-support/resources/kids-teens/for_parents_teachers. Accessed Sept. 21, 2018.
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Helping kids understand Alzheimer's disease. National Institute on Aging. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/helping-kids-understand-alzheimers-disease. Accessed Oct. 5, 2018. | 2019-04-23T10:35:04 | https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/caregivers/in-depth/alzheimers/art-20043890 |
0.999771 | Movie Review: Destroyer2018 • WORTH A LOOK?
Nicole Kidman has been working a lot this year: She played the mother of a homosexual 18-year-old in Boy Erased, the Queen of Atlantis in Aquaman and the assistant of a paralyzed millionaire in The Upside. In Destroyer she is the lead actor, a lone wolf detective who is deeply haunted by her past when she went undercover to infiltrate a Los Angeles gang.
The movie opens with Erin (Kidman) asleep in her car when she is awoken to a homicide call on the radio. Clearly exhausted when she arrives to the scene, her colleagues suggest she go get some sleep. Erin notices three bold dots tattooed on the back of the victim’s neck and finds money stained with purple ink. With that evidence, she determines that the leader of the gang she infiltrated 17 years earlier is back again.
The story switches between the present day Erin, who is working alone to hunt down the gang leader, and back when she was a young detective working from the inside. We see two very different people. This gives us the backstory of why she is so motivated while at the same time showing the audience what lengths she’ll go through for any lead that will get her closer to this ruthless killer. The story reveals piece by piece why she is so personally invested in bringing him to justice.
The scenes in the 1990s are perfect for the type of crew she’s in with. They sit around strung out on heroin while listening to Godsmack’s hit song Voodoo. As they most likely have other ways to earn money, their brilliant plan to get rich is to rob a bank. It’s not the most original idea but for a bunch of Nu-metal heroin addicts, it makes sense.
The movie takes place in LA, highlighting some of the more grimy parts of the city, and, being a cops-and-robbers narrative, you can’t help but get a Training Day vibe from Destroyer. We follow a cop who has done — and is still doing — some unethical or illegal things while doing her job much like Denzel Washington’s character. While she isn’t forcing fellow officers to smoke PCP, she is assaulting lawyers in their homes, stalking potential suspects and kidnapping members of the crew — things I hope aren’t in the police officers’ new-hire handbook.
The makeup department did a great job at making Kidman look like an exhausted middle-aged cop who’s had a drinking problem for that past 15 years. She has aging spots on her skin, her lips are dried out and it appears that she’s been wearing the same makeup for days as she sleeps in her car most nights. She looks like she smells horrible and that the years have not been kind to her. Erin needs a bath and a nap. They really nailed the midlife-crisis workaholic look.
It’s interesting Kidman was nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance. Sure, the Globes aren’t nearly as relevant as the Oscars, but it’s something I found strange because I found her performance in Boy Erased absolutely incredible, which she was not recognized for. While I don’t think this performance is career-defining, it’s still solid. She completely transforms for the aged, present day version of Erin. But as the younger Erin I’m not as sold.
Given the nature of the film being a cops-and-robbers revenge story set in LA, starring one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, I’m not sure why this didn’t get a wider release. Given a bigger marketing budget, this is the type of movie that had the potential to make some real money at the box office.
As of Jan. 17 multiple sites such as Box Office Mojo have reported it had made only $457,832. Destroyer is interesting enough anyone’s time. Kidman is great, the story has its turns, but ultimately, it isn’t a movie we’ll be talking about next year. | 2019-04-25T11:43:12 | https://worthalookmovies.com/2019/01/17/destroyer/ |
0.999773 | An ointment made of pomegranate rind and metal salts successfully combated MRSA, a notoriously hard-to-treat staph infection.
A research team at London’s Kingston University says that common hospital infections like the difficult−to−treat methicillin−resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be effectively treated by applying an ointment made of pomegranate rind.
Combining the pomegranate extract with metal salts combated MRSA most successfully. And adding vitamin C to the mix effectively warded off other infections often seen in hospitals.
How do the researchers feel about the harnessing the power of natural products to treat resistant infections? Fairly optimistic: '[i]t shows that nature still has a few tricks up its sleeve,' he said.
“We have developed a topical ointment that can successfully attack a range of drug−resistant microbes. It's a breakthrough and a striking example of the effectiveness of adding more components to create a more active product," says lead researcher Declan Naughton.
Hospital infections can be difficult to treat because they often become increasingly resistant to the use of common antibiotics. Such is the case with MRSA, the most familiar of the antibiotic resistant bugs.
“The increase in drug−resistant infections found in hospitals has made our research topical and pressing," said Naughton. "The idea of using a foodstuff is unusual and means that the body should be able to cope more easily with its application; patients are less likely to experience any major side−effects."
How do the researchers feel about the harnessing the power of natural products to treat resistant infections? Fairly optimistic: "[i]t shows that nature still has a few tricks up its sleeve," he said.
The research was reported in the British Journal of Biomedical Science and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. | 2019-04-22T18:58:01 | http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/infections/art2825.html |
0.999999 | What is Final Price including Tax of an item, given: Before Tax Price = $62.99 and Sale Tax = 8 percent (%)?
What is the Tax of an item, given: Sale Tax = 8 percent (%) and Before Tax Price = $62.99?
1) You purchase a item for 62.99 dollars and pay 8 % (percent) in tax. How much is tax and the final retail price including tax?
2) You buy a item for 68.0292 dollars after tax was added. You know that the applicable tax rate is 8%. How much is the before tax price?
Divide the percentage added to the original by 100. Here, a sales tax of 8 percent was added to the bill to make it 68.0292. So, divide 8 by 100 to get 0.08.
Add one to the percentage, expressed as a decimal. In this example, add one to 0.08 to get 1.08.
Divide the final amount by the result of the previous step to find the original amount before the percentage was added. In this example, divide 68.0292 by 1.08 to find the amount before the sales tax was added, which equals 62.99. | 2019-04-22T01:08:44 | https://coolconversion.com/finance/sales-tax-calculator/Item-Price-%3D-_62.99_%2C-Tax-Rate+%3D+_8_ |
0.999881 | Gene transcription was evaluated in four brain regions: cerebellum (the region most associated with maintenance of balance), brainstem (the region that connects the spinal cord to the brain), striatum (one of the innermost parts of the brain) and cortex (the main part of the brain). Compared to normal mice, the authors found hundreds of genes whose transcription was changed in the brainstem and striatum of SCA3 mice; in the cerebellum and cortex, they found less than 20. In addition, they found six genes that were dysregulated in all the tested brain areas of the SCA3 mice. The most dysregulated of these genes were found to be involved in the production of cholesterol, as well as in cellular signals to correct brain development.
As for the blood tests, the genes whose transcription was altered in SCA3 mice were mostly related to energy production. Mouse blood tests of sugars, fats and amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) were carried out at 3 different ages in the SCA3 mice (roughly equivalent to 20, 35 and 50 years of human age). The amino acid tryptophan and certain fat molecules were identified as potential markers of SCA3 in the blood, as their levels were altered in samples from SCA3 mice compared to normal mice. Blood tests measuring fat could be particularly interesting, as these showed different patterns at different ages. This suggests that fat molecules in the blood could be useful in differentiating stages of disease. Previous work has shown that these specific fat molecules have essential functions in the brain and are dysfunctional in a variety of neurological diseases, strengthening the case that they might be important biomarkers for SCA3.
But the important question here is: how can we use these findings to help patients?
On one hand, this study has provided clues to the scientific community about where to look for markers of SCA3. These findings are helpful to address a number of questions. Which processes can we target with drugs to improve brain function? If we want to tackle transcription, which genes should we address first? Where in the brain is gene transcription mostly affected? This work has helped answer some of these: it has shown that transcription is more affected in some brain regions compared to others, it has identified some of the genes that are affected in SCA3, and it has investigated the functions that are associated with these genes. Future research can now be prioritized to these genes and/or cellular functions, as they show the most abnormal levels in the disease – indicating that normalizing these altered processes might be a strategy to develop a treatment for SCA3.
Moreover, looking for ways to predict when symptoms of SCA3 will start is important for the lives of many patients and carriers, as it weighs on the decisions they/their doctors will make to manage the disease. Because this study identifies molecular markers that could possibly be used to monitor different stages of the disease using a simple blood test, it has important implications for strategizing patient care. Measurement of tryptophan and several fats in the blood are promising tests that might differentiate earlier stages of disease from more advanced stages.
In conclusion, these discoveries have brought us closer to an answer for the question “where should we look to detect SCA3 pathology and progression?” Though these findings are bolstered by previous research, it is now very important that the experiments in this study are conducted in different mouse models of the disease, by different research groups, and with different experimental conditions. That way, we can confirm that the promising markers of SCA3 identified here are as strong as they appear.
SCA3/MJD: a hereditary neurological disorder that becomes evident in mid-life. Main symptoms are the loss of balance while standing and walking, as well as a lack of motor coordination.
Transcription: the biological process in all living organisms by which the genetic information coded in DNA (in the form of a gene) is used to generate proteins, which are essential in carrying out all the functions of our cells. This process happens in nearly every cells of every organism, at all times, and in every stage of life.
Tryptophan: an amino acid. Proteins are made of several amino acids in a sequence. Tryptophan is an essential amino acid, which means that the human body cannot produce it. Therefore, it has to be acquired from food (proteins in the food are digested into its individual amino acids, one of which is tryptophan).
The authors and editor declare no conflict of interest. Dr. van Roon-Mom, the senior author of the article reviewed, is a contributor to SCAsource. They were not involved in the writing or editing of this piece.
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0.999909 | The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and, "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country." OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the U.S. Census as not "scientific or anthropological" and takes into account "social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry", using "appropriate scientific methodologies" that are not "primarily biological or genetic in reference." The race categories include both racial and national-origin groups.
For the 1830 census, a new question which stated "The number of White persons who were foreigners not naturalized" was included.
The 1850 census saw a dramatic shift in the way information about residents was collected. For the first time, free persons were listed individually instead of by head of household. There were two questionnaires: one for free inhabitants and one for slaves.The question on the free inhabitants schedule about color was a column that was to be left blank if a person was white, marked "B" if a person was black, and marked "M" if a person was mulatto.Slaves were listed by owner, and classified by gender and age, not individually, and the question about color was a column that was to be marked with a "B" if the slave was black and an "M" if mulatto.
For 1890, the Census Office changed the design of the population questionnaire. Residents were still listed individually, but a new questionnaire sheet was used for each family. Additionally, this was the first year that the census distinguished between different East Asian races, such as Japanese and Chinese, due to increased immigration. This census also marked the beginning of the term "race" in the questionnaires.Enumerators were instructed to write "White," "Black," "Mulatto," "Quadroon," "Octoroon," "Chinese," "Japanese," or "Indian."
In September 1997, during the process of revision of racial categories previously declared by OMB directive no. 15, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) recommended that OMB combine the "race" and "ethnicity" categories into one question to appear as "race/ethnicity" for the 2000 US Census. The Interagency Committee agreed, stating that "race" and "ethnicity" were not sufficiently defined and "that many respondents conceptualize 'race' and 'ethnicity' as one in the same underscor[ing] the need to consolidate these terms into one category, using a term that is more meaningful to the American people."
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Race and ethnicity in the United States Census". | 2019-04-22T14:03:26 | http://everything.explained.today/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census/ |
0.999998 | In a country in which presidential campaigns last two years and Christmas decorations appear in stores in October, is it surprising that students contact professors more than two months before a new term begins to ask not-urgent questions about the class?
Or consider this: In some parts of the country, people try to guess when a certain event will happen: When will Lake Misgumpticaticus freeze solid? When will the first yellow-toed prairie sneetch first emerge from its burrow in the spring? When will the large butter sculpture of a cow entirely melt? and so on.
Which leads me to: What is the earliest that a student contacts a professor about next term's class?
I have already received my first email from a student who will be taking a class I will start teaching next year. The student is definitely taking the class; the email was not of the "I'm trying to decide whether to take your class so I need to know now if you are evil and/or boring" kind of inquiry. It was a non-emergency, non-essential technical question about the course logistics.
in which t = the number of days between the first day of class and the date of the first email from a student about the class.
What is a reasonable value for t (in days)?
I could go on, but in all the cases above I can imagine a student not wanting to reveal these matters to a Prof when making the early enquiry.
Now if they come once, even with a series of questions, then I would be happy at any time. If they were coming back again and again with "oh, and one more thing" it would bug me whether t=1 or t=101!
I'm sad to say that I was in a major department store at the end of August and saw the employees setting up a Christmas display.
I'm fully expecting to see Christmas items on July 4th next year, and within the next few years, it'll move so far back that Christmas items may start being put out near the beginning of December, which is how it should be. Sadly, this means they'll be out all year long.
I understand a professor may think it's ridiculous to ask a question about a course so early on. However, as a recent engineering student, I usually asked professors about the text used in a class rather early, so I could find an affordable used copy. I took 4-6 classes at a time with cover prices of texts running $100-$250 each, and my ability to buy used books online (with slow shipping times and unreliable stocks) saved me about $5000 in my undergrad. As a girl who put herself through school, every penny (not to mention grand!) counted, and I wanted a book starting on day one of a course. I didn't usually ask about syllabi until 2-3 weeks before class, if at all, though.
I think it depends on the nature of the question. If it's about the stuff involved in making the decision to take the course, now seems ok (at my university, class schedules just went up and it will be registration soon). Seems a little early for "what is the text book?" type of stuff though.
On the bright side, hopefully students who are already this engaged with you will be engaged in the class.
None of the poll answers really fit my situation. I expect students to contact me about logistics at least two months before the class begins.
I teach a class that begins in the first week of January.
I give a required exam on the first day of class. Students need to pass that exam with a grade of at least 80% in order to remain in the class.
I expect students to spend significant time over winter break (a break that runs from mid-November through early January) preparing independently for that exam.
It's essential material, and it's new material for all of them, but they can learn it on their own and I don't want to spend class time on it.
I welcome early questions from students, either by email or in person. Students typically begin contacting me in early October, three months before the first day of class. I think this is perfectly reasonable.
After yesterday, I am so happy about voting, I almost need to go find more polls to do it in!
I would just point out that course registration often takes place >60 days in advance, and that perhaps this student is trying to figure out whether he/she needs to drop this class in favor of another.
I don't write the syllabus until the previous quarter's exams are graded, so all these "My grandmother is scheduled to have cancer on the same day as my friend's wedding and this fake case of mono, so can I take the exam on a different day because I'll probably have car trouble on the way to campus anyway?" emails are pointless before late December.
The email was non-urgent and not related to "should I take/drop the course". Even so, I did not say in the email whether I considered it reasonable or unreasonable for a student to email with such a question so far in advance. The question took me 2 seconds to answer in a reply to the student, and as long as there aren't many of these, I am fine with answering an occasional email from next term's students. I am, however, curious as to what others consider 'reasonable' for advance emailing (hence the poll). I suppose it is not surprising that there is such a range of answers thus far.
You forgot to mention, "In a country in which the lingering medievalism of the US grad school system requires prospective students to apply a *year* ahead of time..." You didn't mention whether the student is undergrad or grad. But at least for the latter, a pathology of looking (ridiculously) far ahead seems like a natural by-product of the university system. I just assume that everything at a university (outside of a lab or journal--most times) is unreasonable, if not irrational.
Today I had a student frantically inform me that I would not be teaching class in the same time slot the next semester. Like they thought this would be news to me.
I guess I don't understand what you mean here. Was the question, as some here have proposed, more related to vacation in the middle of term? Or was it more about how many exams there would be or if homework would count toward the final grade?
I can see trying to plan workload based on trying not to take too many exam-heavy or homework-heavy courses in one semester, if at all possible. I think that's perfectly reasonable to do and might have to be done way in advance.
If anything, I really resent the way academics seem to hate planning ahead. I don't see what's wrong with it, although I can see from the FSP point of view that if you have decisions to make and want to avoid making them, having people ask about it might add to your stress/irritation since obviously you know you need to do it eventually.
Personally I think if it gets to the point where you're getting too many emails, just make a WEBSITE. Let them look it up. Put it in your email signature. One professor I deal with on occasion never answers email directly, EVERY single message first gets an automatic reply that includes a list of "If you need X, call Y. If you need information re: Z, here's the URL."
And so on. It's annoying if you need something other than what's on the list, but effective.
Let me note explicitly, since people seem to be making assumptions, that I was not annoyed, irritated, discomfited, aggrieved, distressed, or afflicted by this t = 77 email. I thought it was interesting, and was wondering how others felt about being contacted far in advance of a new term. Perhaps I should have said that directly in the post, as I chose to introduce the topic by mentioning some things that may seem to some to go on too long.
In defense of academics, we can't always plan ahead. Adjuncts or lecturers may not find out their teaching assignments until right before classes start, even though the course itself was on the books beforehand. Other instructors - of any professional level - may have heavy teaching and research loads that prevent them from having January's courses planned in November. There might be someone somewhere who "hates planning ahead," but most of us just plain can't do it. It's not that we don't WANT to plan ahead. It's that we often can't have all the details nailed down at t=77 due to the responsibilities of the current semester.
If a student is contacting me about what background is required for the course, the earlier the better IMO. The earliest I've had that sort of request was about t = 300ish.
If a student is contacting me about scheduling info., they can do so as early as they like and I won't mind. I may not, however, have finalized the schedule so may only be able to be of limited help until about t = 30. I'm still happy they took the initiative though. | 2019-04-19T14:53:51 | http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2008/11/pre-season.html |
0.999999 | http://www.engvid.com/ Do you work in customer service? What do you do when your customer has a problem? In this video, I will teach you how to give great customer service. You will learn many polite expressions you can use with your customers. I will explain the Listen, Apologize, Solve, and Thank (L.A.S.T) method, which will help your performance at any customer service job. I'll also give you my customer service tips for dealing with an angry customer. After this video, watch Rebecca's video about phone customer service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBSrZYXkkyE Take the quiz at http://www.engvid.com/how-to-give-great-customer-service-the-last-method/ TRANSCRIPT Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video I am going to teach you a very, very important thing for customer service. I used to work in customer service, and this is actually one of the most important things I learned, and this is called the L-A-S-T or LAST approach. So, to get started, let's talk a little bit about: What is customer service? So, customer service is when you have customers, of course, and you're trying to make your customers as comfortable and happy as possible. You're also trying to meet their needs and expectations, and solve any problems or situations that they might have. So, customer service is a huge category. There's many, many different jobs where you use customer service. If you work in a hotel, for example, as a clerk, you know, in the lobby, as a bellhop, you will be using customer service. If you work at a restaurant as a server, you'll be using customer service, or as a hostess. If you're the manager of a store, you'll be using customer service. If you work in a business or even in a hospital, you'll be using customer service. So, pretty much any time you're dealing with people from the public and they're customers and you're trying to help them, you're doing customer service. So, there are many different problems that a customer might have. What are some examples of some problems? Can you think of anything, a problem a customer might have? Maybe somebody charged them too much for something, maybe they're in a store and the lineups are too long, maybe a customer is at a hotel and they're very unhappy because the Wi-Fi isn't working or their bed's uncomfortable. So, there's so many different problems customers might have at different types of businesses. In this video what I'm going to teach you is: What do you do when a customer has a problem? Okay? So, a very easy thing to do when a customer has a problem is called the LAST approach. "LAST", what does it stand for? Well, if a customer has a problem, the first thing you should do is listen to their problem, the next thing you should do is apologize, solve their problem, and thank them. So: Listen, Apologize, Solve, and Thank. We're going to look at expressions we use to show we're listening, expressions to apologize, expressions that can help us solve problems, and expressions to thank customers. Okay, so the first step when a customer has a problem is to listen. So, the first thing you should do is find out what the problem is. You can ask them: "What seems to be the problem?" or "How can I help you?" Okay? Once they start explaining what the problem is, very important that you look like you're actually listening and that you do listen. Okay? So, you shouldn't look at your watch: "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm." Okay? That's a bad idea. You shouldn't look at the sky: "Uh, when is this person going to stop talking?" Okay? You shouldn't roll your eyes. Okay? No, no, no. You need to show that you actually care about what the customer is saying. So, showing you're listening is very important. You can repeat back to the customer what they're saying to show that you understand and to make sure that you did understand. So: "So what you're saying is, you know, there's no hot water in this hotel.", "So what you're saying is the Wi-Fi's not working and you're not happy with that." Okay? These are some examples. "So what you're saying is _________." You can also say: "Let me get this right..." "Let me get this right, what you're saying is that, you know, there's a problem at your table.", "What you're saying is that you've been waiting for your food for a really long time." So it's important to show that you are listening and you acknowledge what they have said. Okay. Now, sometimes with customer service you get a customer who's very angry, and maybe they start swearing, they start using very bad language. Okay? So if this happens, very important that you don't get upset. Okay? When this happened to me in the past, I would actually pretend to be a computer. I would not take anything personally. I would just smile and pretend to be a computer, and that's how I got through angry customers. So, if the person is rude... You know, it's not right if somebody is saying something rude to you, if they're swearing at you, or they're making you feel uncomfortable. So, be polite. Okay?
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For detailed notes and links to resources mentioned in this video, visit http://patrickbetdavid.com/customer-service-vs-customer-experience Visit the official Valuetainment Store for gear: https://www.valuetainmentstore.com/ Customer service vs. customer experience; Do you know the difference? One of the best exercises for you to do is make a list of companies or businesses that you go back to over and over and over again, and ask yourself why. On the left, list five companies you return to again and again, and on the right write the reason for doing so. For instance, on the left write, "I go to this restaurant at least once a week" and on the right write, "I go there because _____________." The thing that goes into the blank is generally one of these six reasons. They will give you a lot of clues for your own business. #1: Fast - 0:38 #2: Quality - 0:49 #3: Cheap - 0:57 #4: Luxury - 1:10 #5: User Friendly - 1:23 #6: Customer Service - 1:38 Subscribe to the channel: http://www.youtube.com/valuetainment?... Valuetainment- The best channel for new, startup and established entrepreneurs. Schedule: New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday on a broad array of entrepreneurial topics.
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Friendly (Andrew Kornweibel) is a breaks’ producer and DJ. Originally from Australia he is now based in London.
Friendly's debut album, Hello Bellybutton (released on his own Gulp Communications label), was nominated for Best Dance Release at the 1998 ARIA Music Awards. The follow-up album, Akimbo' debuted at #20 on the Australian albums chart.
Friendly is a neighborhood in south central Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is represented by the neighborhood association Friendly Area Neighbors.
The neighborhood is named for Friendly Street, which in turn takes its name from Sam Friendly, a 19th-century mayor of the city. The area is home to more than 7,000 residents, and includes Civic Stadium, Westmoreland Park, Madison Meadow, and the western half of Amazon Park.
Friendly is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA, with an African-American majority population, located a few miles south of Washington, D.C. The population was 9,250 at the 2010 census.
Friendly had its own rural post office in the early 20th century, and is now under the mailing address Fort Washington, MD. The name "Friendly" is most associated with Friendly High School which serves most of the greater Fort Washington area. The Friendly area was largely rural until about 1960 and has steadily grown with single-family housing developments. At least five new residential neighborhoods are currently under construction in the area. Allentown Road connects Friendly with Andrews Air Force Base.
Friendly is located at 38°45′0″N 76°58′27″W / 38.75000°N 76.97417°W / 38.75000; -76.97417 (38.750064, -76.974267).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.9 square miles (12.6 km2), all of it land.
"Customer" is a song by American singer Raheem DeVaughn, produced by Carvin & Ivan, is the second single from his album Love Behind the Melody. It is also Raheem's most popular single and highest charting single on the Billboard 100, peaking at number 76.
A remix was released on April 21, 2008. It features R. Kelly.
Customer refers to the purchaser or client in business.
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0.999988 | The best algorithm helps us gain an edge but is there any way to optimize the best algorithm possible? These are some of the issues I would be discussing.
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems. In other words it is a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
The first algorithms were invented many years before the invention of computers as we know them today.
Algorithms were used in ancient Greece. Two examples are the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which was described in Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus, and the Euclidean algorithm, which was first described in Euclid’s Elements (c. 300 BC). In mathematics, the sieve of Eratosthenes is a simple, ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to any given limit.It does so by iteratively marking as composite (i.e., not prime) the multiples of each prime, starting with the first prime number, 2. The Euclidean algorithm, or Euclid’s algorithm, is an efficient method for computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two numbers, the largest number that divides both of them without leaving a remainder.
One common application of algorithms is to sort optimally some given data according to a certain criteria. Among the authors of early sorting algorithms around 1951 was Betty Holberton (née Snyder), who worked on ENIAC and UNIVAC. As early as 1956 bubble sort which is also known as sinking sort was analyzed.
Bubble sort : Exchange two adjacent elements if they are out of order. Repeat until array is sorted.
Insertion sort : Scan successive elements for an out-of-order item, then insert the item in the proper place.
Selection sort : Find the smallest element in the array, and put it in the proper place. Swap it with the value in the first position. Repeat until array is sorted.
Quick sort : Partition the array into two segments. In the first segment, all elements are less than or equal to the pivot value. In the second segment, all elements are greater than or equal to the pivot value. Finally, sort the two segments recursively.
Merge sort : Divide the list of elements in two parts, sort the two parts individually and then merge it.
Heap sort : Divides its input into a sorted and an unsorted region, and it iteratively shrinks the unsorted region by extracting the largest element and moving that to the sorted region. It is regarded as an improved selection sort.
By far the fastest sorting algorithms are quicksort and heapsort. The faster of the two is debatable. However, many people believe and have proven that quicksort is the faster of the two. This has been attributed to its smoother memory access pattern and its cache efficiency. Some tests have proven that it is twice as fast as heapsort. Are there proprietary sorting algorithms?
Are all Algorithms in the Public Domain?
It is easy to fall into a trap, believing that all possible algorithms are in the public domain. There is a great deal of information out there. There are many algorithms alongside their pseudo-codes on the internet. But not all algorithms are available publicly. In competing for market share many companies try to gain an edge over their competitors by providing superior products. Clearly it shouldn’t be difficult for any body to see how a better algorithm would win more customers. Going by this alone it would be safe to conclude that not all algorithms are in the public domain.
Data compression and decompression are important for many reasons. There have been many algorithms developed to solve the problem of compression and decompression. These algorithms vary in the time they compress data, memory consumption and efficiency with which they compress data — some produce a smaller sized output than others. For some time apple kept its compression algorithm secret. In July 2016, apple open-sourced its new lossless compression algorithm, LZFSE making it publicly available. This is another evidence that companies have been keeping their algorithms secret. Many are proprietary.
Overhead refers to performance loss in terms of either speed, memory consumption or both. Using the right algorithm can reduce the overhead in software.
Whenever developing a product or attempting to find a solution to a problem, often we have to come up with our own code to do just that. Sometimes we solve the problem heuristically but that only leaves us happy because of lack of a better alternative. Many spend sleepless nights trying to find the solution to a problem. However, many recurring problems have already been solved not once but many times. In other words algorithms are available. In many cases it would be difficult for any one to beat the best algorithms out there. The best approach therefore is to search for and select the best available algorithm. With this in mind I think we need something close to an algorithm wiki or journal.
Regardless of the algorithm selected to solve a problem, the choice of programming language has an impact on performance. Low level programming languages such as C and assembly language would be faster. We can often gain significant edge by implementing the algorithm in Assembly language. In a previous article on this blog, listed below, we provided an in depth analysis of the performance improvement that can be garnered simply by implementing an algorithm in assembly.
Assembly language allows us to optimize every line of code at the lowest level possible. We also have the capability to control hardware directly. These are luxuries impossible with high level programming languages. Compilers often do a good work optimizing for speed or smaller memory consumption. Experienced assembly language programmers often find several lines of compiler output that can be optimized.
With the above information in mind it does make sense to implement every algorithm in assembly. However, sometimes this may not be possible. We may be writing software that would be run on CPUs with different instruction sets. In this case our best bet may be the C programming language. This is not the only case. On other occasions we would be designing software that would be run on all existing operating systems. Java will in this case be our best bet.
In conclusion, I would say that every attempt must be made to create an algorithm wiki or an algorithm online journal. Whenever possible algorithms must be implemented in assembly. Lastly, we must always search for the best possible algorithm when developing software. | 2019-04-19T02:16:09 | http://blog.boachsoft.com/algorithms-viewed-from-another-perspective/ |
0.99589 | A user with the appropriate permissions can delete a contract address.
1. Open the Contract Profile for the contract whose address needs to be deleted.
2. In the Links section of the Contract Profile, click the Addresses link.
3. In the Addresses browse screen, click Edit Addresses in the toolbar.
4. When the screen redisplays in edit mode, locate the address record you want to delete, and click its icon.
5. In the Remove Location confirmation prompt, click Yes.
If the address you want to delete is not shown in the Contract Addresses section of the screen, it is a company location and must be deleted from the Company Profile. | 2019-04-22T00:20:16 | https://support.conga.com/Conga_Contracts_2/Conga_Contracts/Conga_Contracts_User_Guide/08Contracts/05Contract_Addresses/08Deleting_a_Contract_Address |
0.999907 | What does the business plan hope to achieve by leveraging big data? This is not an easy question to answer. Different companies in different industries need to manage their data differently. But some common business issues are at the center of the way that big data is being considered as a way to both plan and execute for business strategy.
The greatest challenge for the business is to be able to look into the future and anticipate what might change and why. Companies want to be able to make informed decisions in a faster and more efficient manner.
With the amount of data available to the business, dangers exist in making assumptions based on a single view of data. The only way to make sure that business leaders are taking a balanced perspective on all the elements of the business is to have a clear understanding of how these data sources are related.
But companies typically only have a small amount of the data they will need to make informed decisions. The business needs a road map for determining what data is needed to plan for new strategies and new directions.
For example, if your company needs to expand the type of services it offers to existing customers, you need to analyze as much data as possible about what customers are buying and how that is changing. What do customers like and dislike about products? What are competitors offering?
If you find ways to effectively manage the data, you may be able to have a powerful planning tool. While the data may confirm your existing strategy, it might send you in new unexpected directions. Part of your planning process requires that you use a variety of data to test assumptions and think differently about the business.
After your organization understands the business objectives, it is time to begin analyzing the data. This is not a stand-alone process. Executing on big data analysis requires learning a set of new tools and skills. Many organizations will need to hire some big data scientists who can take this massive amount of disparate data and understand how all the elements relate in the context of the business problem or opportunity.
Big data analytics is a dynamic area that is experiencing very rapid change. Combining the immaturity of the analytics with the needs of business to continually add new data sources that need to be added into the analytics approach will put a lot of pressure on the business to push the boundaries of what is possible.
The businesses that are able to get a handle on applying big data analytics to their business planning will be able to identify business nuances and changes that can impact the bottom line. For example, if your company is in the e-commerce market, you will want to analyze the results of new partnerships to see whether they are generating both customer interest and new sales.
You may want to see the reaction to the new services on social media sites. At the same time, you want to have a clear understanding of what your closest competitors are offering that could impact revenue.
It is easy to get caught up in the process of analyzing data and forget to do a reality check. Does the analysis reflect business outcomes? Is the data you are using accurate enough or do problems exist? Are the data sources going to truly help with planning?
This is the time to make sure that you are not relying on data sources that will take you in the wrong direction. Many companies will use third-party data sources and may not take the time to vet the quality of the data. When you are planning and making business decisions based on analysis, you have to make sure that you are on a strong foundation.
After this cycle of analysis is complete, it is time to put the plan into action. But actions have to be part of an overall planning cycle that is repeated — especially as markets become more dynamic. Each time a business initiates a new strategy, it is critical to constantly create a big data business evaluation cycle.
This approach of acting based on results of big data analytics and then testing the results is the key to success. Big data adds the critical element of being able to leverage real results to verify that a strategy is working as intended. In some cases, this will mean resetting the strategy. In other situations, the unintended consequences will lead a company in a new direction with a better outcome. | 2019-04-20T20:23:35 | https://www.dummies.com/programming/big-data/four-stages-of-business-planning-with-big-data/ |
0.999561 | When Lenka bought pants from 1/3 of her savings shirt from 1/5 and 1/8 spent at the hairdresser, she is left 328 Kč.
How much money was saved? How much hairdresser cost?
Albert, Beny, Cyril and Dan worked on summerjob. From the total revenue Albert received 2/5, Beny 1/6 , 3/10 Cyril and Dan the rest which is 324 euros. How many euros earned every one of them?
Son is 3/5 smaller than the mother. Mother is 99 cm higher than the son. How tall is the mother?
The first alloy is a mixture of two metals in the ratio 1:2, the second is a mixture of same metals in the ratio 2:3. At what ratio we have these two alloys put into the furnace to obtain a new metal alloy with ratio 17:27? (All three ratios correspond to.
For the typical one-hour prime-time television slot, the number of minutes of commercials is 3/8 of the minutes of the actual program. Determine how many minutes of the program are shown in that one hour.
1/5 of a circle is shaded. The ratio of area if square to the sum of area of rectangle and that of the circle is 1:2. 60% of the square is shaded and 1/3 of the rectangle is shaded. What is the ratio of the area of circle to that of the rectangle?
At the college are at 57 rooms 194 students. Some rooms are triple and some quad. How many triple and quadruple rooms there is, if it is all fully occupied?
The sum of two numbers is 1. Identify this two numbers if you know that the half of first is equal to the third of second number.
Cyclist rode two-fifths of the way the first day. The second day drove 5 km less while traveled three-eighths of route. How many kilometers does he have to finish target?
Two numbers are given. Their sum is 30. We calculate one-sixth of a larger number and add to both numbers. So we get new numbers whose ratio is 5:7. Which two numbers were given?
Alex is half younger than Jan, which is one-third younger than George. The sum of their ages is 48. How are these three men old?
Kara has 2 times more cards than Dana, Dana has 4× less than Mary. Together they have 728 cards. How many cards has each of them?
The 3/5 trees are apple trees and 1/3 of the trees are cherries. The remaining 5 trees are pear trees. How many trees are in the orchard.
The sum of the two numbers is 1. Find both numbers if you know that half of the first is equal to one seventh of the second number. | 2019-04-22T10:17:54 | https://www.hackmath.net/en/example/1487?tag_id=61,107 |
0.999999 | What are these passages talking about? First of all, you have to know about the physical golden lamp stand, which is called the menorah in Hebrew. The lamp stand weighted over 100 pounds and stood on the south side in the Holy Place of the Tabernacle as mentioned in Exodus.
Note that these churches are not only physical churches during John’s time, but also represent seven church ages which we will talk about later.
These spirits are the aspects of God. Jesus Christ had all of these spirits within Him. Isaiah and John are saying that for any man to have the fullness of the Holy Spirit, they must have all seven of these aspects of God.
Therefore, the stars and constellations are prophetic signs, but not in the way horoscopes claim they are. They represent God’s plan to redeem mankind. We could go into detail about each constellation, but let’s stay on the topic of the seven stars. In the constellation of Taurus, there is a open star cluster called Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Pleiades can be seen by the naked eye because it is only about 8 light years away. (see picture below) In Hebrew, Pleiades is called Succoth, which also means the Feast of Tabernacles, which I mentioned in my article on The Second Coming. The Feast of Tabernacles represents a very important age which begins with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Finally, remember from the Lake of Fire that a Jubilee cycle is 49 years, which is 7x7. So if each of the seven churches gain all seven aspects of the spirit, this will lead to spiritual fulfillment, and thus the age of Tabernacles when Christ comes again. | 2019-04-19T18:39:46 | http://www.bible-study-lessons.com/Revelation-006.html |
0.999999 | Could Krugman’s Nemesis Friedman Be Bitcoin’s Mysterious Creator?
In contrast to the article Paul Krugman wrote, an opinion piece titled Bitcoin is Evil, a video has surfaced on YouTube from Krugman\xe2\x80\x99s one time nemesis: the legendary economist \xc2\xa0Milton Friedman.
The 94-year-old Friedman supposedly died in 2006. I explain why I say \xe2\x80\x9csupposedly\xe2\x80\x9d later. In the video which was filmed for a TV interview in 1999, the then 87-year-old Friedman clearly predicts the rise of bitcoin. You can view the short relevant clip of that video here. For those who don\xe2\x80\x99t know much about Milton: a few notables: He helped put an end to the mandatory military draft in the 70s. He was Ronald Reagan\xe2\x80\x99s economic advisor and long time proponent of free market principles. Importantly for bitcoin lovers, he introduced the idea of k-percent where he stated that an economy only needed a computer to adjust the supply of new money entering into the economy, not policymakers.
\xc2\xa0In the video, Milton explains with eerie accuracy that the \xe2\x80\x9cinternet will prove to be one of the many forces for reducing the role of government.\xe2\x80\x9d He also accurately predicts that the world would soon develop a new e-cash system that you will be able to transfer funds from point A to Point B: without A or B knowing each other over the internet. He also predicted the negative effects of people engaged in illegal activities will likely use its anonymity for illegal transactions as well.
Krugman and Friedman viewed the idea of money creation and the role of government to tax every transaction clearly differently. Krugman has spent a lot of time trying to discredit Friedman in a rivalry of sorts which was chronicled nicely by Bloomberg\xe2\x80\x99s Caroline Baum. Perhaps Friedman has yet to receive his just rewards and get the final word that may come to haunt Paul Krugman with his \xe2\x80\x9cbitcoin is evil\xe2\x80\x9d diatribe.
That brings me to my last point: did Friedman really die? You could just as truthfully say \xe2\x80\x9cHe\xe2\x80\x99s no longer making public appearances\xe2\x80\x9d. I don\xe2\x80\x99t want to start a new conspiracy theory\xe2\x80\xa6but I ask you. Could Milton Freidman be Satoshi Nakamoto? Satoshi\xe2\x80\x99s white paper describing bitcoin didn\xe2\x80\x99t arrive until 2008. Friedman supposedly died in 2006. You can also admit that the two were never seen together at the same place at the same time. One could imagine the 98-year-old Friedman sitting in his pajamas surfing various underground cryptography websites. He would have had two years unaccounted for which would have given him plenty of time to solve the perplexing challenges of double spending and complex cryptography. It was only a matter of time before he gave the world what he envisioned in the previous decades!
Satoshi ended his involvement officially for bitcoin in 2010 saying he was \xe2\x80\x98Moving on to other things\xe2\x80\x9d. \xc2\xa0Perhaps those \xe2\x80\x9cother things\xe2\x80\x9d included making his way to the \xe2\x80\x9cGreat Beyond\xe2\x80\x9d? Milton might have been a bit tired after giving the world\xe2\x80\xa6bitcoin.
My official recommendation is to recognize Milton Friedman\xe2\x80\x99s effort and genesis of the ideas that propelled bitcoin into existence. Perhaps we should honor him by naming the unit of currency at the seventh decimal point as a \xe2\x80\x9cmilti\xe2\x80\x9d? Imagine the look on Paul Krugman\xe2\x80\x99s face when he must resort to asking for a few \xe2\x80\x9cmiltis\xe2\x80\x9d for tips from those still reading his maligned articles of the future. Surely Milton/Satoshi would not consider paying more than that, if only for the entertainment factor. | 2019-04-22T03:23:49 | https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/krugmans-nemesis-friedman-bitcoins-mysterious-creator-1390212476/ |
0.998585 | Dolphin Speak: Did a Dolphin Really Say "Seaweed"?
Perhaps we are not the only animals who use language. Dr. Terrence Deacon, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who also is an expert in animal communication, notes, "I don't see a fundamental white line that distinguishes us from other animals." Only time and research will tell if we're alone in the language arena. For now it's a good idea to keep the door wide open.
Dolphins are unquestionably highly charismatic animals. They have unique and sophisticated communication skills and also are known to use tools, including sponges to protect their sensitive beaks, when foraging for food.
During the past two weeks I came across two extremely interesting articles about these crafty cetaceans. The first, titled "Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer" by Hal Hodson, considers the possibility that dolphins are able to whistle the same words we use to denote an object. The print version of the latter essay is called "Decoding dolphin." The second, called "Cultural transmission of tool use combined with habitat specializations leads to fine-scale genetic structure in bottlenose dolphins" by Anna Kopps of the University of New South Wales and her colleagues, focuses on their use of protective sponges during foraging and its effect on the genetic structure of dolphin populations.
Say what? Did you really whistle seaweed?
Denise Herzing is well known for her and her team's long-term field research on Atlantic spotted dolphins. Among many aspects of the amazing lives of dolphins, she has long been interested in dolphin communication and whether or not they and other animals use language to communicate with one another or can use language to communicate with us.
While it's too early to know for sure, there is compelling evidence that some animals are language users (see, for example, a brief review of the research by Dr. Con Slobochikoff on prairie dogs). I found Hal Hodson's essay called "Decoding dolphin" to be an extremely interesting, stimulating, and easy read. To wit, and I encourage you to take a few minutes to read it, Mr. Hodson begins: "It was late August 2013 and Denise Herzing was swimming in the Caribbean. The dolphin pod she had been tracking for the past 25 years was playing around her boat. Suddenly, she heard one of them say, 'Sargassum'". And, what did Dr. Herzing exclaim? "'I was like whoa! We have a match. I was stunned.'" Dr. Herzing "was wearing a prototype dolphin translator called Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry (CHAT) and it had just translated a live dolphin whistle for the first time." So, "When the computer picked up the sargassum whistle, Herzing heard her own recorded voice saying the word into her ear." I, too, would have been stunned and I can't wait for more research in this fascinating area of study.
Cultural hitchhiking: Was there a "sponging Eve"?
An informative summary of the research on the genetics of tool use in dolphins living in Shark Bay in Western Australia can be found in an article called "Cultural hitchhiking: How social behavior can affect genetic makeup in dolphins." It turns out that the culturally transmitted use of sponges—called vertical social transmission—can actually "shape the genetic makeup" of wild dolphins. Dolphins, who live deep in the bay, show mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) types called Haplotype E or Haplotype F that are inherited solely from the mother, whereas non-sponging dolphins who live in shallower water mainly show Haplotype H. All of the 22 sponging dolphins who were observed turned out to be members of one matriline and were Haplotype E.
This novel and significant discovery demonstrates a strong correlation between haplotype and habitat. According to Dr. Kopps, "Our research shows that social learning should be considered as a possible factor that shapes the genetic structure of a wild animal population." She also notes, "For humans we have known for a long time that culture is an important factor in shaping our genetics. Now we have shown for the first time that a socially transmitted behaviour like tool use can also lead to different genetic characteristics within a single animal population, depending on which habitat they live in." This is one of the first demonstrations of what is called "cultural hitchhiking" in nonhuman animals.
What an exciting time it is to study the behavior of nonhuman animals. Stay tuned for more on their fascinating lives. | 2019-04-21T08:45:43 | https://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-dolphin-speak.html |
0.945968 | Compute the Fisher Exact test p-value.
The number of positive successes.
The number of negative successes.
Writes the Fisher Exact test p-value to standard output. | 2019-04-23T18:30:45 | http://meme-suite.org/doc/fisher_exact.html |
0.999806 | What, then, is the thought concerning Christ in the first chapter of Hebrews?
First of all there is introduced "God"--God the Father--as the speaker to men, who "in time past spake unto the fathers by the prophets" and who "hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son."
Thus is introduced Christ the Son of God. Then of Him and the Father it is written: "Whom He [the Father] hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He [the Father] made the worlds." Thus, as preliminary to His introduction and our consideration of Him as High Priest, Christ the Son of God is introduced as being with God as Creator and as being the active, vivifying Word in the creation--"by whom also He [God] made the worlds."
Next, of the Son of God Himself we read: "Who being the brightness of His [God's] glory, and the express image of His [God's] person ["the very impress of His substance," margin R.V.], and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."
Therefore it is further written of Him that He was "made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." This more excellent name is the name "God," which, in the eighth verse, is given by the Father to the Son: "Unto the Son He [God] saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever."
Thus, He is "so much" better than the angels as God is better than the angels. And it is because of this that He has that more excellent name --the name expressing only what He is in His very nature.
And this name "He hath by inheritance." It is not a name that was bestowed but a name that is inherited.
Now it lies in the nature of things, as an everlasting truth, that the only name any person can possibly inherit is his father's name. This name, then, of Christ's, which is more excellent than that of the angels, is the name of His Father, and His Father's name is God. The Son's name, therefore, which He has by inheritance, is God.
And this name, which is more excellent than that of the angels, is His because he is "so much better than the angels." That name being God, He is "so much better than the angels" as God is better than the angels.
Next, His position and nature, as better than that of the angels, is dwelt upon: "For unto which of the angels said He [the Father] at any time, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?" This holds the thought of the more excellent name spoken of in the previous verse. For He, being the Son of God--God being His Father, thus hath "by inheritance" the name of His Father, which is God and which is so much more excellent than the name of the angels as God is better than they.
This is dwelt upon yet further: "And again, when He bringeth in the first begotten into the world, He saith, and let all the angels of God worship Him." Thus He is so much better than the angels that He is worshiped by the angels: and this according to the will of God, because He is, in His nature, God.
This thought of the mighty contrast between Christ and the angels is dwelt upon yet further: "Of the angels He saith, Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever ["from eternity to eternity," German translation]."
And again, "A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows."
And yet again, the Father, in speaking to the Son, says: "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands: they shall perish; but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou are the same, and Thy years shall not fail."
Note the contrasts here and in them read the nature of Christ. The heavens shall perish, but He remains. The heavens shall wax old, but His years shall not fail. The heavens shall be changed, but He is the same. This shows that He is God, of the nature of God.
Yet more of this contrast between Christ and the angels: "To which of the angels said He at any time, Sit on My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"
Thus, in the first chapter of Hebrews Christ is revealed higher than the angels, as God; and as much higher than the angels as is God, because He is God.
In the first chapter of Hebrews Christ is revealed as God, of the name of God, because He is of the nature of God. And so entirely is His nature of the nature of God that it is the very impress of the substance of God.
This is Christ the Saviour, Spirit of Spirit, substance of substance, of God.
And this it is essential to know in the first chapter of Hebrews, in order to know what is His nature revealed in the second chapter of Hebrews as man. | 2019-04-23T15:58:08 | http://sdabol.org/content/02-christ-god-0 |
0.999923 | Essential Question: How are the authors we studied in this unit similar as well as different?
Test on Tuesday, December 20.
Your assignment: By yourself or in a group of up to three people, create a 3-5 minute video including art and writing and/or voice overs, connecting 5 out of the following 7 authors and ideas to life around you.
For each overall idea and connection, you must include both art and writing/voice over to illustrate how this relates to your reality and how the two connect.
Essential Question: What is Thoreau's main idea about reality and how does it inter-textually connect to Abbey, Olson, as well as yourself?
How is time but a stream he goes a-fishing in? What is the whole idea behind drinking at it?
Why is the stream shallow?
How/why does the thin current slide away?
After that sentence, it is as if we fall into the stream of eternity and have become new, once again, innocent—what is going on in the next three sentences?
“I cannot count one” to “as the day I was born”?
Question 4: How does the intellect rift its way into the secret of things?
Put what Thoreau is saying about reality into your own words.
Include two text-to-text or text-to-self connections.
Add your findings and review to the Reality in Review Slides and be ready to present it with your group.
With a partner, take one of your questions from Day 1 and turn it into a statement.
Thoreau is being both literal and figurative when he writes about a site for building a house. Thoreau introduces the second chapter of his master work by writing, “At a certain season we are accustomed to consider every spot as a possible site for a house.
2. Share your statement with the rest of the class.
5. Read "Thoreau Water vs. Solid Ground" and take notes about your thinking and understanding of the text (right) and record any questions you have while reading (left).
Are these details positive or negative?
7. Draw an illustration that explains how the above ideas are connected in the paragraph.
Add any new thoughts on this subject to your notes.
Essential Question: How can creating and defending in-depth questions about your reading give you deeper insights into Thoreau's Walden?
5. In your groups, discuss each of the three sections of this text and generate one question that helps you gain deeper insights into your reading.
When Thoreau writes, “At a certain season we are accustomed to consider every spot as a possible site for a house,” he seems to be saying that anywhere you are you can live. Is he being literal or figurative?
Write one question for each section (three total) of your text.
For each question, include a defense of why this is a strong question that helps readers gain deeper insights into the text.
This is a strong question because it forces readers to look at the ideas Thoreau might be getting at beyond simply thinking about building a house. We all know that great writers often time mean both what they are saying (literal) and what they are implying (figurative). By answering this question we might get a deeper insight into Thoreau’s ideas of here and home.
6. Now, transform your question into a statement. Do this for each question.
Essential Questions: How are Giordano Bruno's ideas connected with Abbey's ideas of civilization and culture and Olson's ideas of the thing itself and metaphor?
How do you effectively take, review, and revise Cornell Notes?
1. Starter: In Cosmos, Episode 1: Standing Up on the Milky Way, which we will be watching this period, Neil DeGrasse Tyson mentions how the Voyager ventured the farthest away from Earth, its mission to show other life "out there" who we humans are.
If you were to show alien life who we are as a society, which three items would you choose to add to the Voyager? These items can be physical objects, as well as recordings or other media. Be specific in the three items you choose. Justify your answer.
2. Use the Cornell Notes Template to take and organize notes while you are watching Cosmos, Episode 1: Standing Up On The Milky Way.
Your guiding question for your notes: What does this episode tell us about our place in the universe? What do you learn about Giordano Bruno's ideas?
How do his ideas connect to the ideas of Abbey and Olson?
4. Connections: How do the ideas presented in Cosmos connect to Olson and Abbey's ideas about Reality and Culture vs. Civilization?
5. Revise your notes to make these connections clear.
6. Write a five-sentence summary about what you have learned this period and how it connects to what we have studied this quarter so far (add this to the Summary section of your notes).
Essential Question: If everyone's point of view is relative, what does this say about how we form and expand perspectives? How do Watts' ideas connect to Abbey, Olson, and Hanh?
1. Writing Prompt: How do we create our own perspectives? Write for 10 minutes.
3. Read: Watts "The Maya Doctrine"
6. Read Paragraph 2 and answer: What is Maya (provide three examples)?
According to Watts, why is this concept hard to understand?
How does a “liberated” person see the world according to Watts?
What does it mean if something is relative?
According to Watts in paragraph 5, how is the doctrine of Maya a doctrine of relativity?
What are two examples Watts gives to show that people could be described as both parts and wholes?
What does one achieve if one goes beyond Maya?
How do we create our own perspective? | 2019-04-20T00:37:31 | http://www.flochsflock.com/humanities-cohort/archives/12-2016 |
0.999181 | The line: Bills by 7.
Introduction: It's quarterback Drew Bledsoe and the Bills' inefficient offense vs. the Texans' porous defense that gave up 34 points to Cincinnati last week.
Plot: Even with running back Travis Henry, wide receiver Eric Moulds and Bledsoe, Buffalo's offense has had trouble scoring. Bledsoe has had eight passes intercepted and thrown only six touchdown passes for the Bills, the second-lowest scoring team in the AFC. The Texans have built a ground attack around rookie running back Domanick Davis, who has rushed for more than 100 yards in three of his last four starts.
Bottom line: Buffalo Coach Gregg Williams may not finish the season unless the Bills start winning soon, like Sunday against the Texans.
The line: Panthers by 6.
Introduction: After getting past Seattle last weekend, Coach Steve Spurrier and the Redskins have to step up and face the Panthers, who completed their sweep over Tampa Bay.
Plot: Even without running back Stephen Davis, out with an ankle injury, the Panthers had enough offense to defeat the Buccaneers. Carolina's Jake Delhomme has thrown five touchdown passes, with three interceptions, in his last three starts, and played well against Tampa Bay. Washington's Patrick Ramsey has a 77.7 quarterback rating with 12 touchdown passes and eight interceptions.
Bottom line: The Redskins need the ball to be effective, but the Panthers have an excellent ball-control offense.
Introduction: If St. Louis quarterback Marc Bulger struggles as he did last weekend against Baltimore, don't be surprised to see veteran Kurt Warner get some playing time.
Plot: The Rams failed to generate much offense against the Ravens but still scored 33 points. Coach Mike Martz cannot count on that happening against the Bears, who have the least penalized defense in the NFL. With 17 fumble recoveries and 12 interceptions, the Rams are tied with Kansas City for most takeaways. In last week's 12-10 loss at Detroit, the Bears had 199 yards in offense.
Bottom line: As long as Bulger can get the ball to Torry Holt, who leads the NFL with 66 catches for 1,099 yards and nine touchdowns, the Rams should be in good shape.
The line: Chiefs by 6.
Introduction: The 1972 Miami Dolphins should be concerned about the 9-0 Chiefs, who are getting solid play from quarterback Trent Green and big plays from their defense.
Plot: Kansas City leads the NFL with a plus-18 turnover advantage. In his last four starts, Green has thrown for eight touchdown passes and one interception. Kansas City's Priest Holmes leads the NFL with 14 touchdowns rushing. The Bengals have won three of their last four games, including last week's victory over Houston. Cincinnati running back Rudi Johnson has gained 317 yards and scored four touchdowns in his last three games.
Bottom line: If the Bengals can shut down Holmes, the Chiefs may be in for a tough battle.
The line: Browns by 6.
Introduction: The struggling Browns have lost three games in a row, and the Cardinals have not won a road game in more than a year.
Plot: Cleveland Coach Butch Davis has continuing problems with the Browns' passing game. In last weekend's loss at Kansas City, no Cleveland receiver had as much as 35 yards. With running back William Green out because of a suspension, the Browns need backup James Jackson to step up. Arizona quarterback Jeff Blake has passed for 1,712 yards and 11 touchdowns, with nine interceptions.
Bottom line: Look for the Browns to try to establish a running game, even without Green in the lineup, because that gives them their best chance to win.
The line: Dolphins by 6.
Introduction: Every loss by the Dolphins turns up the heat on Coach Dave Wannstedt.
Plot: With rookie quarterback Kyle Boller sidelined because of a thigh injury, Baltimore will start Anthony Wright over Chris Redman. Wright's mobility adds a new dimension to the Ravens, who depend heavily on Jamal Lewis, who leads the NFL in rushing at 1,156 yards. In a loss to the Tennessee Titans last week, Miami quarterback Brian Griese threw three interceptions, fumbled twice and was sacked four times.
Bottom line: If Miami's Ricky Williams has a big game, the Dolphins win easily. If Baltimore middle linebacker Ray Lewis has a big game, the Ravens have a chance.
The line: Saints by 8 1/2.
Introduction: Coach Dan Reeves and the Falcons will look for a second consecutive victory after a seven-game losing streak.
Plot: Atlanta quarterback Kurt Kittner passed for only 65 yards last week against the New York Giants and has had four passes intercepted, with two touchdowns. Running backs Warrick Dunn and T.J. Duckett have combined for 907 yards and eight touchdowns for the Falcons. New Orleans running back Deuce McAllister is averaging 4.5 yards rushing and has gained 871 yards.
Bottom line: New Orleans, which has won three of four, can't afford to allow Atlanta to score first because the Falcons are much tougher playing with a lead, thanks to Dunn and Duckett.
The line: Eagles by 3 1/2.
Introduction: Donovan McNabb played like a Pro Bowl quarterback in the fourth quarter of the Eagles' comeback victory over Green Bay on Monday night. New York's Kerry Collins played like Joe Pisarcik in the Giants' loss to Atlanta.
Plot: Now that the Eagles have bounced back from their poor start, they will look to add to the misery of the Giants, who trail Dallas by three games in the NFC East. Philadelphia averages 4.7 yards a rush, fourth-best in the league. New York's Tiki Barber rushed for 120 yards last week but fumbled twice.
Bottom line: The Eagles have won four consecutive games and moved back into the NFC playoff picture, but they need to play a complete game to defeat the desperate Giants.
The line: Titans by 10.
Introduction: Linebackers Akin Ayodele and Mike Peterson lead a Jaguar defense that will try to end the Titans' streak of scoring at least 30 points at six games.
Plot: Jacksonville running back Fred Taylor has three 100-yard rushing games this season, including last week's 152-yard effort in a victory over Indianapolis. Rookie quarterback Byron Leftwich has either passed or rushed for a touchdown in eight consecutive games. In his last four starts at home against Jacksonville, the Titans' Steve McNair has completed 89 of 124 passes for 992 yards and 10 touchdowns without an interception.
Bottom line: The Jaguars are playing with a lot of confidence, but they do not have enough firepower to knock off McNair and the Titans.
Kickoff: Sunday, 1 p.m., Ch. 2.
The line: Broncos by 8.
Introduction: Jake Plummer is expected to return to the lineup for the Broncos, who lost three of four games with their starting quarterback sidelined because of a foot injury.
Plot: With veteran quarterback Doug Flutie making his first start of the season, the Chargers ran over Minnesota last week, Flutie completing 21 of 29 passes for 248 yards and two touchdowns. Denver running back Clinton Portis has rushed for more than 100 yards in five of eight games. Rod Smith leads the Broncos in receiving with 39 catches for 487 yards.
Bottom line: The Broncos need a victory to stay in the AFC playoff mix and that will be enough motivation to defeat Flutie and the Chargers.
The line: Colts by 6.
Introduction: Coach Herman Edwards and the Jets kept their slim playoff hopes alive with last week's victory over Oakland.
Plot: Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning leads the NFL with 2,475 yards passing and 18 touchdowns. He has thrown for at least one touchdown in eight consecutive games. Defensive end Dwight Freeney has six sacks and three forced fumbles in his last four games. The Jets' Santana Moss has 24 catches for 474 yards in his last four games.
Bottom line: The Colts have to find a way to get more production from running back Edgerrin James, who is averaging only 3.7 yards a carry. The Jets will be ready to pull off an upset if the Colts rely too much on Manning.
The line: Vikings by 4 1/2.
Introduction: The struggling Vikings have lost three in a row and the Raiders have lost seven of nine.
Plot: The Raiders have not defeated a .500 or better team all season and have lost their last five games. Journeyman Rick Mirer will start at quarterback for Oakland, which ranks 27th in the league in third-down efficiency. On third downs, Minnesota quarterback Daunte Culpepper has completed 39 of 58 passes for nine touchdowns and no interceptions. Viking defensive end Lance Johnstone has 6.5 sacks in his last seven games.
Bottom line: The Raiders' defense has not slowed many teams and that's not expected to change against the Vikings, who lead the NFL in averaging 6.1 yards per offensive play.
The line: Seahawks by 10.
Introduction: The schedule continues to be kind to the NFC West-leading Seahawks, who have played only one team this season that has at least a .500 record.
Plot: Seattle is undefeated at home and quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has won 10 of his last 15 starts. Detroit quarterback Joey Harrington has been sacked once per 56.6 pass attempts, which is the best ratio of all-time. Harrington has also thrown 13 interceptions, and nine touchdown passes. The Lions have won two in a row.
Bottom line: The Seahawks should not have too many problems with the Lions, who have not scored more than two touchdowns in a game since their season-opening victory over Arizona.
Kickoff: Sunday, 1:15 p.m., Ch. 11.
The line: Buccaneers by 4.
Introduction: The Buccaneers' once-dominant defense has looked shaky in recent weeks, and the Packers' offense has been inconsistent under quarterback Brett Favre.
Plot: In a battle between 4-5 teams, the Packers are hoping that Favre plays better than he did in Monday night's loss to Philadelphia. Favre fumbled three times and threw an interception. Green Bay running back Ahman Green leads the NFL with 78 first downs and 1,376 yards from scrimmage. Tampa Bay quarterback Brad Johnson has thrown for 2,345 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Bottom line: The Bay teams are fighting to stay in the playoff picture but the Buccaneers have more to play for as defending champions.
The line: Patriots by 4.
Introduction: Bill Parcells returns to New England for the first time as the Cowboys' coach and will face Coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots, who have won five consecutive games.
Plot: Dallas quarterback Quincy Carter's numbers are nothing special -- nine touchdown passes and nine interceptions -- but he ranks third in the NFL with a 100.0 passer-rating in the fourth quarter. New England's Tom Brady has thrown for 2,071 yards and 11 touchdowns, with eight interceptions. Kevin Faulk leads the Patriots in rushing with 417 yards.
Bottom line: The Cowboys have been winning games with a solid defense and big-play offense, but expect the surging Patriots to follow the same blueprint in a big win.
The line: 49ers by 4.
Introduction: Coach Bill Cowher has the Steelers believing they will return to the playoffs for a second consecutive season -- but only if they beat the 49ers.
Plot: After losing six of the first eight games, the Steelers stepped up on defense with five sacks against Arizona last week. Pittsburgh quarterback Tommy Maddox has thrown four touchdown passes and no interceptions in his last two starts. San Francisco will start Tim Rattay at quarterback for the second game in place of Jeff Garcia, who has been sidelined because of an ankle sprain.
Bottom line: With Rattay in the lineup, the 49ers are able to throw the ball deep and that will be the difference if the Steelers do not mount a consistent pass rush. | 2019-04-22T06:45:37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-14-sp-houbufcap14-story.html |
0.999336 | When shopping for heels, it is important for a person to know what types of shoes are out there and which shoes are going to work out well for their needs. It is important for a person to know which heels are going to be a good investment of their money. When someone is buying their first pair of heels, they have to be careful in picking out shoes so that they will end up with a pair that they will actually wear and that they will enjoy wearing.
When someone is buying their first pair of heels, they have to make sure that they will be able to walk in the heels without falling down. It is important for a person to find heels that are just the right height for them to feel comfortable walking in them. A high heel protector can help a person walk confidently in their heels when they will be walking across the grass and other soft surfaces. These keep the heels from digging into the ground and tripping up the one wearing them. It is important for a person to look for heels that they can walk in and for that person to invest in a high heel protector for their heels so that they will be able to stay confident in all of the walkings that they do.
The one buying shoes for an event should purchase those heels that are appropriate for that event. If the event is a formal one, then the heels should be extra classy and formal. If the event is outside, the heels should be purchased with the thought that the one wearing them will be moving on uneven surfaces. A high heel protector can help make any type of heels appropriate for use outdoors. When a person purchases heel protectors for high heels, they can move across grass without issue. Heel protectors for high heels can help to make any type of heels acceptable for an event that is being held outdoors.
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The one who is about to purchase their first pair of heels should look into traditional heels and also heeled boots. They should know that there are heel protectors for boots that they can use so that they can wear heeled boots on any outdoor surface. The one who is shopping for a pair of heels and a set of heel guards for shoes should look into the shoes that are appropriate for the season that they are in. It may be smart for a person to purchase boots and heel protectors for boots or it may be smarter to stick with sandals or traditional heels. The person shopping for their first pair of heels should know the importance of finding heel protectors for boots and shoes, and they should consider both boots and shoes. | 2019-04-21T13:14:02 | http://angelabonanno.com/a-girls-guide-for-buying-her-first-pair-of-heels/ |
0.994264 | 1. Place the dark chocolate and the espresso coffee in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water and heat together until the chocolate is melted.
2. In a separate bowl, whip the cream to the soft ribbon stage, taking care not to over whip it.
3. Gently fold the whipped cream into the melted chocolate mixture.
4. Line a rectangular dish, about 1cm high, with cling film. Turn the chocolate mixture into the dish, forming it into a rectangular shape.
5. Cover the dish with cling film and chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours until set.
6. Once the chocolate truffle mixture is firm turn it out onto a chopping board. Using a warm knife, slice a rectangle of the chocolate truffle into a rectangle the same size as langue de chat biscuit.
7. Repeat the process, making 20 slices in all.
8. Top each langue de chat biscuit with a chocolate truffle slice and serve. | 2019-04-22T17:01:55 | https://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/recipe/chocolate-truffle-petit-four/ |
0.998646 | I was given this list of investments that would generate $24k annual income on $180k investment and thought I would share.
Do you realize that investments that provide a 13.33% yield are expected to be very risky/speculative?
Have you looked at any of the long term charts on those ticker symbols? Can you handle that kind of roller-coaster ride, and risk of loss of capital? I can't.
Would a stock screener with criteria "Yield > 11%" come up with a similar set of ticker symbols? What else makes these special?
I only looked a few of these up but it looks like they are all CEFs. Anyway, yes you can do this even easier using a fund of fund of CEFs. I know of two ETFs and one CEF that are fund of funds (i.e. FOF).
CEFs have high payouts because they use leverage and also usually pay out return of capital at least some of them time. CEFs cover just about every sector of the investing world. So you do have diversification. Your still pretty vulnerable on the leverage though.
There are also a few specific sectors that have very high yields right now (MLPs, mortgage REITs, business development companies, shipping).
REITs and BDCs pay a high yield because they have tax breaks when paying out 90% of income (not double taxed). MLPs are setup as partnerships and not c-corps so they also have a tax incentive for paying out almost all income. I'm not sure why shipping companies have such high yields other than the sector has been beaten down to heck. Most of the shipping companies are c-corps.
If you look at the dividend history IMHO the best deal right now is with the MLPs as they are consistent dividend growers. The other options have high payout but the income is variable and I'd only expect it to grow over long periods like 10 years.
I think now is a good time to use leverage. I don't think interest rates can be raised much at all and I expect they will stay relatively flat for years. My "base case" is for long term stagnation similar to Japan's lost decades (and still going).
Some of these are preferred stocks. These are below junk rated "equity bonds". Meaning they are paying this money on dividends, because their capital structure is so poor they cannot access the debt market or banks with better yields. Usually they have that area tapped out. If they run low on cash the bond holders can get paid, and you get stiffed.
These are high risk...Many times you do get your 11% dividend but the stock price dropped 20%.
When buying some of these either "ignorance is bliss" or be an expect on financials... No free lunch... Either way, having more than 10% of your stash in these may be asking for big trouble. I own a lot of preferreds but safe ones, thus lower yields in 6% range... I prefer preferreds from companies like one I own that earned $300 million after taxes, and only owed $6 million in dividends from that.... About a 50-1 coverage ratio...For me life is too short to worry about something that may blow up and not even know why it did.
Yes, I know they are high risk. It was an example of how to generate $24k income on $180k investment. No, I wouldn't do this but posted it for example and discussion.
Gotta have "O"---Where is it?
I've taken periodic baths with PSEC, but all is calm --for now.
Like you, I wouldn't do this.
Likewise, I wouldn't go down to Harrah's on the riverfront here in New Orleans, and put $180K on red or black.
I'm retired, and gambling like that with my retirement money would be stupid for me to do. Others may have the wherewithal to do such foolhardy things, but I don't.
"With risk comes reward" as they say, but if one builds a bigger nestegg one can get a nice comfortable income in retirement despite lower risk investments.
I did not study the list, but it is definitely the case that some yields go high because they are not expected to be sustained. Can you say Greek bonds?
I wonder... if one bought these in the recommended proportion on 3/22/06 what would your inception to date return have been?
I can pick a day too. How about any of the Pimco cef,s on 4/1/2009(april fools day). Except for PCI it wasn't around yet.
Duh. Today - 3/22/06 ~ ??.
They are investments that can make people money if they know what they are doing and are a bit fortunate. The people who know what they are doing and understand these issues would not be the people I would worry about. Its the ones who look at it and say... "10% income, wow that is a great yield; I am buying me a slug of these!"
My definition of high yield is 6%. I am getting 6% plus return on investment grade issues. Investment grade bonds yield almost half of that. So, I think the value and "high income" is in these issues... Though obviously lower in rank than senior bonds, the net income coverage ratio is so high, risk is very minimal. The 2 biggest risks are extended 6% plus inflation and being called. I can handle those risks.
I couldn't find EITHX but the other 2 do not appear to get you close to that yield based on Morningstar. If I am not mistaken you are using total distribution yield for past year. The true 30 day yield is 3.41% and 3.27%... This is a more accurate portrayal of what inside issues are recently yielding. These appear to be conservative funds, but the expense ratios of over 70 basis points is a killer for that 30 day yield. If I am not mistaken that is then extracted after the stated yield. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
But the TTM yield and 30 day SEC yield can both be distorting so it is hard for me to know either way for certain.. But those Exp. ratios are just killers in a low rate environment.
That should be ETHIX, load waived at Fidelity.
I'm going by what Morningstar says when I create a portfolio of the above amounts, 5.77% yield.
Not criticizing, this is just me and my personal preference only on what I do, but ETHIX has a 6.35% TTM and 30 day SEC yield of 5.07% with a demoralizing 90 basis point expense ratio. The fund has 56% of issues in B or lower rated bonds... That is in the muddy drinking water area of bonds. At nearly same TTM I can get investment grade preferred stocks from companies with A rated bonds, with no expense ratio being siphoned ($4.95 trade) off, and 15% QDI, in an area that has never had a default (public traded electrical utilities).
It just seems like better value and risk/reward to me. But I definitely note your 20% limit threshold, though in buying them.
I don't want to buy individual stocks. Not comfortable with it and don't want to spend time on it.
I did check in Morningstar data where I was getting info from so my info is apples to apples comparison... The expense ratio is included in performance of fund. That is good for you. I certainly understand why you would want to stick with funds. That is why I said it was just my personal preference as I am probably in minority by far. | 2019-04-26T08:34:53 | http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f44/a-list-that-generates-income-81261.html |
0.998762 | Opposite the highly-rated Sunday Night Football game (Ravens-Steelers) on NBC and another huge primetime NFL overrun on CBS (Broncos-Patriots), ABC beat its Sunday non-sports competition on Fox by 2.9 million viewers (+100% - 5.8 million vs. 2.9 million) and by 23% in Adults 18-49 (1.6/4 vs. 1.3/3). ABC's Once Upon A Time ranked as Sunday’s #1 scripted broadcast in Adults 18-49 (2.5/6). All 4 ABC Sunday series were up from their most recent airings, pushing the network up week to week by 29% in Total Viewers and by 23% in Adults 18-49. ABC's Once Upon A Time, Revenge and Resurrection ranked as the most social broadcast shows on Sunday, respectively.
At 8 p.m., Once Upon A Time was up from its week-ago airing in Total Viewers (+6% - 7.3 million vs. 6.9 million) and Adults 18-49 (+4% - 2.5/6 vs. 2.4/6). Once Upon A Time built on its year-ago telecast for the 6th consecutive week in Adults 18-49 (2.3/6 on 11/3/13) and season to date, the ABC drama is up 16% over the same point last year (3.6/10 vs. 3.1/9).
Resurrection built week to week by 11% in Total Viewers (4.9 million vs. 4.4 million) and by 17% in Adults 18-49 (1.4/3 vs. 1.2/3).
CBS' Madam Secretary was second to Sunday Night Football in viewers (12.80m, up from 11.71m), A18-49 (1.8, up +20% from 1.4) and A25-54 (2.9, +21% from 2.4). If ratings hold, this is the Madam Secretary' largest audience and highest A18-49 and A25-54 ratings since its series premiere.
During the 10 o'clock hour, Revenge grew week to week in viewers (+7% - 4.6 million vs. 4.3 million) and young adults (+9% - 1.2/3 vs. 1.1/3). In addition, Revenge continued to generate strong time period improvement for ABC (3.4 million and 1.0/3 on 11/3/13), boosting its hour year to year by 35% in Total Viewers and by 20% in Adults 18-49.
The Good Wife was second to Sunday Night Football in viewers (9.60m), A18-49 (1.3) and A25-54 (2.1). | 2019-04-21T08:51:45 | https://www.serialscoop.com/2014/11/ratings-revenge-once-upon-time.html |
0.996966 | Once upon a time, I do have an iron gut and a metabolism that an unlimited buffet would not be able to defeat my stomach. I don't need any exercise tips from Michael Phelps to help burn whatever amount of calories I was able to consume in the good old days. However, I never was able to factor in one element: time.
That was the whole interesting challenge that I needed to overcome in this infamous ramen-ya in Little Tokyo. Orachon Ramen, the little noodle house on the top floor of Tozi place behind the Omni Hotel, is famous for one reason: The #2 Challenge.
What is the #2 Challenge? It's supposed to be one of the most spiciest and most chili filled inducement bowl of ramen that was ever introduced. The whole idea of this concept was that you will pluck down a fair amount of money (as in 50 cents extra on top of your bill) and finished off an extremely chili spiced ramen bowl in 30 minutes or less. What is the prize in this? You'll see it in the end of this review.
The broth for the soup contains 13 different spices (stated in their website). You will be able to choose from three different soup base (Miso, Soy Sauce, and Salt), where then next you will have to choose the spicy level of your soup, with the #2 special being the most extremely tummy wrecker out of the whole menu.
The waitress gave us an important tip about finishing the bowl in 30 minutes. She suggested to us to get the soy sauce broth because it's easier to digest. Miso is suppose to be thicker and more likely to slow you down with its heavier texture. Some people don't respond to salt base as well as the soy sauce because it can add a whole new element of salt during the contest. Salt being the thirst inducer, meaning you will slow down and drink water. Drinking water will then add more volume to your stomach contents.
So obviously, our friends and comrades who wanted to participate in this macho ritual of downing the entire bowl of ramen with soup in 30 minutes, have all chosen Soy Sauce as their soup base.
As in for me, I chickened out and ordered the #4 Orochon ramen (medium spicy). You get to see a big different soup as the Orochon #2 have chili marks all over the bowl (visible ring marks can be seen on the bowl above the soup.
Noticed the top bowl have chili ring marks above the soup?
While I watched my friends sweat, slurp, and even thinking of strategy on how to finish the bowl, I was enjoying my plate of gyoza and leisurely finishing my soy sauce based #4 ramen. One of my friend even employed the straw technique of sucking the soup first before attempting the noodle.
It was not pretty watching them laboring hard towards the finish line as I can tell the bowl of chili in the soup is killing them. I looked around the place and saw a loner's corner, where a single seat was facing the wall. Then I realized the prize that was given to the victor... the honor of having your polaraid picture taken and placed it on the bulletin board.
Yes, that's the prize. Bragging rights to be on that board. With so many people competing for that prize, they kept a scrapbook of all the past contestants who were able to finish within the 30 minutes time limit.
The review about the noodle and soup, it's not that remarkable. The noodle was fine, but very ordinary. Not much to speak off either about the soup. I think without the attention getting, spicy #2, this place probably would need to come up with a hook for coming here. The noodle tasted like it belongs to any noodle soup, but it was soup that didn't quite sit well with me. If you are asking me to name the 13 spices, it's not very noticeable enough for an educated guess. In that regards, it was not really special for all the hype it made out to be.
I probably think the #2 challenge was the whole attraction for coming here as it proves to be very popular among the thrill seekers.
Note: Three of my eight friends and colleagues who competed in this contest did not finish. The other five barely made it under 30 minutes.
I totally agree with your assessment: Besides the Spice Challenge Contest, the actual Ramen at Orochon is... so-so at best.
Thanks! As in for the friends afterwards, one of them actually hurled in the restroom. So you can see that not only eating all that hot soup was one thing, but finishing it in a short amount of time was another. Trying eating it fast on #2 is not recommended for the weak stomach.
lol 5/8 finished? thats a good number to finish this "race"
Hi I was wondering if there was a way I could obtain the thirteen spices they used? | 2019-04-18T22:26:16 | https://www.rightwaytoeat.com/2008/12/orochon-ramen-little-tokyo.html |
0.999999 | Classify various objects into categories in a Venn Diagram. Learn how categories in Venn Diagrams work. Venn Diagrams is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers. | 2019-04-23T13:11:19 | https://www.curriki.org/oer/Venn-Diagrams-188034 |
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0.999995 | What is Factor's specialty? Where is it best used?
Factor can be used for anything. It is not a scripting language but it is suitable for rapid development. Factor has been used for everything from web applications to game development to XML parser implementation. Factor isn't meant for extremely low-level things, like boot loaders or microcontroller programming, though.
Factor is an experiment to build a modern, useful concatenative language with strong abstraction capabilities. Though there are some pitfalls, many problems can be more cleanly expressed in a concatenative language.
Is Factor suitable for implementing my next program?
Probably. There are only a couple places where it might not work. For example, you'll never be able to program your TI-83 calculator in Factor, because it has a footprint at least as big as the image, which means at least 500 Kb for most programs, even with a minimal image. Also, Factor won't (yet) work for situations where things need to run extremely fast (though it is already faster than most scripting languages for most tasks, and it's possible to write some parts of a Factor program in C). It would be difficult to write, say, a bootloader with it. One disadvantage of Factor is that there is currently no way to use a C++ library. But for everything else, it should be usable.
Though Factor images can only run on one specific platform, the same Factor source code can easily be run on any platform that Factor is ported to. Portability issues only occur when interfacing with native libraries, or if there is a bug.
How is Factor different from Forth?
Forth is untyped, not garbage collected, and close to the machine. For flow control, Forth code tends to use immediate words. Variables and arrays tend to be global, and programs aren't usually written in a functional manner. Factor is very different from this. It is dynamically typed, offering a high degree of reflection. Unreferenced objects are garbage collected with a generational garbage collector. Factor code is a little bit more distant from the machine, though the C FFI allows using words like malloc and mmap. For flow control, Factor generally uses quotations, allowing flexible higher order functions; parsing words are used mostly for definitions and data literals. Variables are dynamically or statically scoped (see below), and arrays are just objects which don't need to be treated specially. There is no need to think about pointers, although in Forth, this can usually be factored out to just a few words. Factor is generally a functional programming language.
If Factor programs are just compositions of existing words, how is Factor as powerful as other programming languages?
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Why do we need a new stack-based language?
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0.999787 | For the cookies: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the confectioners' sugar and butter. Add the lemon extract, vanilla extract and eggs, and mix until the eggs are incorporated. Add the flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing between each addition, and then add the zest. The dough should be soft, but not sticky. Roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment paper to about 1/4-inch thick. Use snowflake cookie cutters to cut out the cookies (25 to 30 cookies depending on the size) and place on the prepared sheets. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes. Transfer the cookies to cooling racks and cool to room temperature before decorating.
Roll out the modeling chocolate using a pasta roller or heavy rolling pin to 1/8-inch thick. Using the same snowflake cookie cutter (wiped clean with a paper towel), cut out the snowflake shapes.
For the syrup: Warm the corn syrup in the microwave, 20 to 30 seconds, then stir in the almond extract.
Using a pastry brush, paint the top of a cookie with the syrup and immediately, but carefully, place a modeling chocolate snowflake on top. Position the modeling chocolate carefully before setting on a cookie, as it will stick very quickly. Rub your fingers over the edges gently to secure the modeling chocolate. Repeat for the remaining cookies.
Use the remaining syrup to decorate the cookies. Paint a design, the edges or the entire surface of the cookies, and top with nonpareils, sanding sugar, crystal sugar or other decorations. | 2019-04-21T05:42:55 | https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/lemon-sugar-cookie-snowflakes-3168881 |
0.999854 | When I decided to give up meat, it was a temporary plan. I never would have imagined at the time that almost a year later I'd still be living a meatless life. It didn't take long, though, for me to realize that as a vegetarian my food choices would come under scrutiny. I would be answering questions like "Why don't you eat meat?" and "Isn't it hard to get enough protein?" over and over again. I took these questions and other comments about my vegetarianism with a grain of salt. People are naturally curious, I thought. Yet I found myself getting tired of answering the same questions and defending my choices all the time. Why, I wondered, did I always felt like my choices needed to be defended?
At least in part, I suppose it's a societal issue. Eating meat (or drinking caffeine, or being thin, for that matter) is the baseline, the status quo. Any choice outside that acceptable social norm makes others uncomfortable and therefore defensive of their own choice. (This probably has some roots as a survival instinct, though I haven't checked out the research.) And it doesn't help that corporations behind these products are always trying to convince us that we want, even NEED, to eat their meat, drink their beverage (Got Milk anyone?) or use their product. We accept that the norm is what it is and we rarely ask why or if it's the best option.
I recently ate lunch at a table with several others and the topic of vegetarianism came up. A fellow writer told us a story about a teacher she once had who, upon being asked why he was a vegetarian, turned the question around on the student and wondered why vegetarians always had to answer that question but no one ever asked omnivores why they chose to eat meat. I mentioned how I often feel that my choice to not eat meat seems to make some people uncomfortable. It seems like my choice puts them on the defensive. As humans (and maybe particularly as Americans) we don't like to be told that our choice is "wrong", and if I'm not eating meat for any logical reason, then it seems I'm essentially telling them I'm right and they're wrong. The problem is, I don't feel that way at all. My choice is my choice. I'll respect yours if you respect mine.
I understand their reaction, though. In fact, I find myself doing the same thing in different situations. It's like when someone says, "I'm trying to give up caffeine," and I automatically answer with, "I've thought about it, but I don't really drink that much caffeine anyway." It's as though I feel the need to defend my choice to drink caffeine despite the fact that the person I was speaking with didn't say anything to overtly imply that she was making a judgment on me. In fact, it's more likely that she was just making conversation. So why do I feel that the mere act of her giving up caffeine is a judgment on my choice to keep drinking it? And why do others feel that my meatless life is a judgment on their omnivore-ism? Is it because we feel, deep down inside, that our choice might not be the best choice after all?
On Saturday, I spent the day mingling and networking with writers at the Maryland Writers' Association Conference. It was a great day filled with wisdom, laughs and interesting conversation. As always, I left the conference motivated and re-energized.
Since I've told you all how I feel about writers' conferences and how beneficial I think they are, this time I thought I'd share a few of my favorite quotes and some of my take-away thoughts.
The first session I attended was on Direct Marketing. Speaker Frank Joseph has been working as a direct market writer for decades and I figured if anyone could convince me that a cynic like me could write direct marketing content, it would be him. I'm not sure I came out of there convinced, but Frank had some great tips that I could apply to writing in general. My favorite quote from his talk was: "You can make money as a writer." He may have been talking about direct marketing specifically, but I'm applying his statement beyond that. I may try direct marketing at some point in my writing career, but just being reminded that I CAN make money writing was enough to put a smile on my face for the rest of the day.
Next, I went to Ethics of Memoir. Author Marion Winik discussed her experience of memoir writing and how it has changed as she has grown and learned from the consequences of what she has written. My favorite quote from her talk was: "The act of writing about another person takes place first in a relationship. It can't help but affect that connection." Since I write mostly memoir, I found this talk extremely helpful in reminding me that I'm not writing in a vacuum. When I write about my life as it intersects with the lives of people who are important to me, what I write will inevitably influence those relationships in some way. It's best to bring those people into the folds before publication. Otherwise, even if what I write doesn't seem negative to me, the consequences may not be pretty.
The keynote speech was given by Roxana Robinson, who said: "If someone else can't hear your voice, it doesn't mean you should stop. It means you should make it clearer." She also railed against the term "women's fiction", "because there's no equivalent for men." I wish I had written down her entire argument because it rang so true to me in so many ways. The basic gist was that it was demeaning, that just because a novel might be about family and written by a woman, doesn't make it inherently women's fiction. Would you call Hamlet women's fiction? Or Anna Karenina? I'm still mulling over what she said and wondering how the term women's fiction may be negatively affecting female writers and readers alike.
After lunch I attended Mindie Burgoyne's talk on Viral Networking. While much of what she talked about (networking on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., effectively) was stuff I already knew, I did glean a real gem: "Make sure you're giving fans/followers content they want, NOT what you want them to have." This is something I struggle with sometimes, particularly because my time for social networking is limited. I'm working on it, though.
The last session I attended was on setting. Lalita Noronha discussed how she uses setting to put the reader in the center of her stories, which are often set in exotic locales like her native country of India. Noronha reminded us that: "The 'where' and the 'when' can be as important if not more important than the 'who'. We make judgments on the who based on where and when." I've always loved the way Noronha describes setting with just enough detail to bring me into the story, but not so much as to distract from the story itself. I'll be spending some time rereading her stories and studying her technique over the next few weeks. I may not write much fiction, but my nonfiction writing could certainly benefit from some effective scene setting.
Those are just a few of the lessons I took home from this year's MWA conference. Feel free to share your thoughts on any of the topics I mentioned, or share some of the writing lessons you're learning these days.
I'm coming up on my first Vegiversary, and even after almost a year of eating a vegetarian diet, I still struggle some days to get enough protein. So when I received a packet of CLICK Espresso Protein Drink in my Fitbloggin'10 swag, I was psyched to give it a try. I mean, protein AND caffeine in a shake! What's not to like, right?
Unfortunately, my initial experience with the Vanilla Latte flavored CLICK Protein Drink was less than stellar. I didn't have a shaker and didn't think to use a blender, so I tried mixing it in a cup with a spoon. NOT. GOOD. It was grainy, clumpy and just plain gross. I was going to write up a negative review and let it go at that, but thankfully I didn't. On the drink-mix packet was an offer to receive a CLICK Pack (a shaker and a canister of the CLICK Espresso Protein Drink), so I decided to take them up on it and give CLICK another try.
When my CLICK pack arrived, I didn't hesitate to make my first shake, but I made sure to use the shaker to mix it. I found the flavor to be much better and the consistency to be much smoother. I didn't stop there, though. The canister gave me plenty of opportunities to try different preparations and I went all out in sampling CLICK this time. First, I made it just using cold water. Then I tried it as a frozen shake, adding ice and blending it. I tried it a third time using an immersion blender to mix in half a banana. I haven't tried it warm yet, but I imagine it wouldn't be bad that way either. My favorite preparation so far has been the frozen shake, but it's much easier to just shake it up, add some ice and hit the road with a protein filled breakfast.
Overall, I found CLICK refreshing and tasty, with great espresso flavor, and would recommend you give it a try. With only 120 calories, 15g of protein, and less than 2g of fat per serving, it's a simple, low calorie, low fat addition to your diet. Especially if you need an extra protein kick. CLICK is also low in sodium and added sugar, so you won't be getting a bunch of crap in your diet along with the good stuff. CLICK does have additives like maltodextrin and quar gum, so I wouldn't recommend a daily CLICK-fix, but I think it's fine as an occasional way to get your protein (or caffeine). If you're sensitive to caffeine, I'd also avoid drinking CLICK as an evening snack or dessert. I tried this without thinking one night, and the double shot of espresso kept me up much of the night on a caffeine high.
The first 25 people to email me at writingherlife at gmail dot com with "I want to CLICK it!" in the subject line and your mailing address in the body will receive a free packet of CLICK Espresso Protein Drink.
One (1) lucky winner will receive a full CLICK pack, including a shaker and a canister of CLICK Espresso Protein Drink.
For an additional entry, tweet "I want to win a CLICK pack from @drinkclick and @smtwngrl! http://tinyurl.com/27aud6s" and leave an additional comment letting me know you tweeted it.
Contest ends Wednesday, April 28th at 11:59PM and I'll randomly select a winner (using Random.org) from the eligible comments on Thursday, April 29th. I'll email the winner and he/she will have 24 hours to contact me with a mailing address. If the winner doesn't respond a new winner will be drawn.
Disclaimer: I received a free sample of CLICK at FitBloggin' and was provided with a free CLICK pack for review. I am not, however, receiving any compensation for writing this post. The prize offered in this post is provided by CLICK.
How Active Has Your April Been?
When I started the Active April challenge, my plan was to be much more active than I've managed to be thus far. I can't imagine how this month would have panned out if I wasn't participating in Active April and trying to motivate others, too.
...on at least 25 of 30 days.
According to my trusty Gruve charts and my Google calendar, I've met my activity goal on 17 of 21 days. Technically, I guess that means I'm on track to meet my goal if I stay committed and make sure I'm getting active for at least 6 more days this month. That doesn't seem too tough. In fact, now that I've actually evaluated my activity for the month, I'm feeling a little better about my performance. I guess that's one of the great things about tracking your progress. It makes noticing improvements and recognizing successes easier.
Have you been tracking your activity this month? How are you doing? Have you been as active as you'd like? If not, what can you do over the next 9 days to make April an active month?
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Active April Challenge for the support and for posting your progress on Twitter using the #ActiveApril hashtag. It's been fun (and motivating) to see how you're getting active and cheer you on.
Since we don't have much time left in April, I'm already thinking about my goals for May. If you'd be interested in a challenge again next month, feel free to leave me a comment or give me a shout-out on Twitter. I'd love to host a monthly health challenge if others are interested in joining me!
The winner of the thriv basic tee is Kelliscakes!
I'll be emailing her and she will have 24 hours to respond with her shipping info and shirt size. If she doesn't get back to me by 2PM Saturday, I'll pick another winner.
Hurry, though, because they both end today!
When a book is recommended to me multiple times over the span of a couple weeks, I take that as a sign from the Universe, head straight to the used bookstore or Amazon or paperbackswap.com and dive in. That's what happened with Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg.
I used to love reading books about writing, but eventually I got tired of reading the same old writing advice over and over again. It may come in different packages, but it usually says the same thing. Not so with Writing Down the Bones. Sure, there's some the standard writing advice in there, but there's also advice on the writing life, on finding your center, on knowing yourself. Each chapter is short and sweet, making it a quick read, but I read through the entire book slowly, chewing thoroughly on every nugget of insight. The surface advice was enough to make WDB worth the read, but the deeper lessons made it an invaluable resource.
Unlike some of the writing books I've read in the past and then passed on to others, this one will stay in my library and be well-worn in no time. Some days I just pick it up and thumb through, randomly choosing a chapter to read. It never fails to refresh me, inspiring my writing, motivating me to get to work or to take a new look at an old idea.
If you're a writer (or want to be one) and you haven't read Writing Down the Bones , I highly recommend you pick it up.
As you know by now, I snagged some excellent swag from FitBloggin'. One of the things I received was a FitBloggin'10 t-shirt from thriv. I'd never purchased or worn any of thriv's products before. In fact, I'd never heard of thriv until FitBloggin'. But the moment I picked the shirt up I knew I was going to be a fan. Made from bamboo and cotton, the shirt not only fits me perfectly, but it's also the softest, most comfortable t-shirt I've ever worn.
It turns out that softness and comfort comes from the flex-fiv: thriv's patented technology that transforms bamboo and cotton to deliver 5 benefits: wicking, comfort, SPF, anti-odor, and breathability. Even after washing it a few times, it's still soft and fitted.
The thriv products have been available in stores and online at Sports Authority, but now thriv has their own online store. And to celebrate their online grand opening, thriv is giving away a tee to one of my readers!
To win a ladies' basic tee (or a men's tee if a guy wins), all you have to do is visit the thriv website and then come back here and leave a comment letting me know what you think of the company or their product line.
The contest will close on Thursday, April 15 at 11:59 PM. I'll draw and post the winner on Friday, April 16. If you win, you'll need to contact me within 24 hours with your name, address, and shirt size (Ladies XS-XL, Men's M-XXL), which I'll pass along to thriv so they can send you your shirt!
Disclaimer: I received a free t-shirt from thriv at FitBloggin'. I am not, however, receiving any compensation for writing this post. The prize offered in this post is provided by thriv.
This weekend I took the Metro into DC to visit with Alexis of The Traveling Writer. It was a beautiful day and we decided it was a perfect opportunity to head to the park and go "hiking". To a hiker, it probably would have seemed more like walking, but to someone used to neighborhood walks and treadmill hills, it was a hike. Trust me when I say this.
The conversation was so great that we ended up walking for about two hours without even realizing how much time had passed. By the time we made our way out of the park (and up another REALLY steep hill), we were starving and our legs were screaming.
A little sweaty, but too hungry to care, and with legs getting stiffer by the second, we hopped on the Metro and headed to Dupont Circle for brunch at Kramerbooks & Afterwards. This place is ingenious! If you've never been there and are in the DC area, you should check it out. It's a bookstore and cafe under one roof, which seems pretty common place -- except that Kramers serves real meals, not just coffee, muffins and the odd sandwich or soup. Their Saturday brunch included a full menu of options (everything from French toast to omelets to sandwiches) to choose from. I can't vouch for all the other dishes, but I had the Tomato Avocado Cafe Benedicts which was delicious, and I didn't even feel bad eating the fried potatoes after all that hill-walking.
When we were finished eating, we couldn't help but hang around and browse the bookstore, which I'm sure is exactly what they expect their Cafe patrons will do. Considering the bookstore's relatively small size, the selection had more variety than I would have expected. It's the type of bookstore you could spend hours browsing in. Our legs weren't up for that, though, so we headed back, Alexis to do some reading and writing and me to make the trip back to Baltimore.
Despite the sore legs, it was a wonderful day and I was reminded just how much I love being active and enjoying nature. It's so much more fun then trudging along on the treadmill indoors (at least until it gets to be 90 degrees outside).
When I got back home, I plugged in my Gruve to see how the day worth of walking translated into calorie burn. I was shocked to see that in those two hours of hiking I burned about 500 calories and between 8AM and 6PM I had burned 1,000 calories! That's in contrast to the average 450 calories per day I burned the rest of the week. Talk about an Active April!
Speaking of which, if you're still interested in joining the Active April Challenge, you can set your goals and jump in any time. We even have a button now, thanks to Mel!
Yesterday I posted about my desire to get (and stay) active in April. A few readers showed interest in joining me, so I thought I'd make this an official challenge. That way we can all motivate and cheer for each other throughout the month as we get lazy our motivation wanes.
Set your own activity goal for the month (or the remainder of the month if you're joining after the 1st).
Leave a comment on this post that details your goal. Or if you want, write a post about the challenge and your goal at your own blog linking it back to this post, and then leave the link to your post in the comments.
Tweet about your activity using the hash tag #ActiveApril so that we can all stalk you if you haven't reported in a while cheer you on). If you don't have a Twitter account, feel free to comment here on a regular basis to keep us posted on your progress.
Visit each others' blogs and/or reply to #ActiveApril tweets and encourage each other.
That's it. Set a goal, tell us what it is, report on your progress, and cheer each other on. It's a simple challenge to get us moving now that spring is almost here. Let's get active!
P.S. I know challenges usually come with buttons, but I'm not that design-savvy and I didn't think up this challenge in time to put a button together. If you're joining in and you enjoy that sort of thing, feel free to come up with something and send it to me. I'll gladly post it to share with the challenge members (and give you props, of course).
*UPDATE: If you're participating in the Active April Challenge, you can now grab the Active April button below (thanks to Mel at Mel's Box of Chocolates). | 2019-04-24T08:20:48 | http://writingherlife.blogspot.com/2010/04/ |
0.999229 | On October 24th, 1945, the charter of the united nation consecrated the birth of the U.N.O as an international organization. it was created to promote world's peace and security and to encourage social progress. its successes in the fields of social develpment, decolonization human rights, disarmament and peace keeping have been the major achievements in the second half of the twentieth century. The U.N represents the people's highest aspirations towards a world free from wars, poverty oppression and sufferings.
Celebrated in 1995, the 50th anniversary coincides with a turning point in modern history. in fact, quick changes having incalculable impact are taking place on the world's political scene. countries which tought, no longer ago, that they were completly autonomous, are now intimately linked together, if they have to live in a world where peace justice and prosperity prevail.
The 50th anniversary has not only been an occasion to think about the results so far obtained, but also to define the orientations for the next century. in the years to come, the U.N will be more indispensable. it will have a greater efficiency than in the past if the peoples and governments are conscious of the role it can play in bringing them closer to each other around the same goals.
1) how many sentences are there in the last paragraph ?
2) are there statements true, false or not mentioned ?
a- the UNO was created more than 50 years ago.
3) who and what do the underlined words refer to in the text ?
4) in which paragraph is it mentioned that ?
a- what was the united nation organization created for ?
b- what do the united nations represent ?
c- how can they be more efficient in the future ?
A: have you heard about the UNO?
B: to restore peace, resolve world's conflicts and preserve human rights.
Many countries like: Rwanda , Somalia and the Middle East are suffering from injustic and oppression.
A: when was it created?
A: what was it created for? | 2019-04-26T15:58:36 | http://2as.ency-education.com/english-1trim-sci.html |
0.999553 | Trucker shortage still an issue?
For some time now, many people in the industry have heard a lot about the shortage of truckers available to freight companies and major retailers nationwide. After all, with demand for e-commerce and other goods climbing ever higher in this strong national economy, it often doesn't feel as though there are enough qualified drivers to meet demand.
However, new analysis from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that many of the assumptions made about the driver shortage might be overblown. Among those issues are the levels of driver turnover seen in the industry in recent years, as truckers may have developed a recent reputation for leaving the industry, but that usually only happens when they deal with lower pay and difficult conditions. Companies have already started responding to these trends, by and large, such as by increasing pay for even entry-level truckers and helping to ensure they can sleep in their own beds more frequently.
In addition, it's worth noting that the only segment of the trucking industry where these problems are particularly common is for long-haul drivers, and these seem to make up between just 16 percent and 25 percent of the sector's drivers at any given time.
Of course, while industry-wide data can certainly give some good courses of action for firms to pursue, it's worth remembering that every freight company is different. That, in turn, means that while there may only be a real shortage of long-distance truckers, the impact can be significant, according to Fortune. For instance, Procter and Gamble - which makes products ranging from detergent to diapers - recently reported that its shipping costs rose 25 percent last year.
Likewise, many McDonald's franchisees are now getting squeezed by higher shipping costs, while also abiding by stable, low prices set at the fast food chain's corporate headquarters, the report said. In both cases, those companies do not have the flexibility to run their own freight lines like big-box retailers such as Walmart do.
With all that in mind, it's worth noting that industry organizations still consider the driver shortage - to whatever extent it exists - a major issue, according to the Capital Press. When the American Trucking Associations first tracked it in 2005, the shortfall came to about 20,000, and that number had roughly tripled by the end of 2018 (though complete data isn't yet available). Moreover, even today's newest truckers aren't exactly as young as they once were; the ATA estimates the average new driver is 30 years old these days, and in years past it was much lower than that.
"If this was only about pay, it would be easy to solve," Bob Costello, the ATA's chief economist and senior vice president, told the publication. "It's more than that. Companies are getting the message."
The more trucking businesses can do to make sure their drivers are not only getting better pay and stronger benefits, but also more flexibility and perks around their work, the better off they're likely to be going forward. That's especially true as the driver shortage, such as it is, continues to grow. | 2019-04-26T04:27:46 | http://www.prodrivers.com/news/2019/3/40183847/trucker-shortage-still-an-issue |
0.999999 | The church in Applecross village.
The early monastery was located around the site of the parish church (built 1817). A large, unfinished cross-slab standing in the churchyard and three extremely finely carved fragments of another (or more than one?) preserved within the church are evidence of the early monastery.
The surrounding district is known as a' Chomraich 'the sanctuary' in Gaelic. Its boundaries were once marked by crosses. The stub of one, destroyed in 1870, survives among farm buildings at Camusterrach.
The church in Applecross village.<br /> <br /> The early monastery was located around the site of the parish church (built 1817). A large, unfinished cross-slab standing in the churchyard and three extremely finely carved fragments of another (or more than one?) preserved within the church are evidence of the early monastery. <br /> <br /> The surrounding district is known as a' Chomraich 'the sanctuary' in Gaelic. Its boundaries were once marked by crosses. The stub of one, destroyed in 1870, survives among farm buildings at Camusterrach.<br /> <br /> The name Applecross is at least 1300 years old and is used locally to refer to the 19th century village with the pub and post office, lying on the small Applecross Bay, facing the Inner Sound, on the opposite side of which lies the Inner Hebridean island of Raasay. <br /> <br /> The small River Applecross flows into the bay at Applecross. Applecross is also the name of the local estate. | 2019-04-19T13:18:27 | https://www.ambaile.org.uk/detail/en/32563/1/EN32563-applecross-church/Am%20Baile.htm |
0.998411 | Working on a special Mandelbox that generates 3D Kleinian limit sets, I got an idea for an escape-time version of 2D limit sets.
While these limit sets are usually drawn up by a tedious procedure of multiplication of two by two matrices representing Moebius transformations, this algorithm will draw up a finely detailed limit set in seconds.
Is it possible to get it into 3D space?
If it were possible to compute good (i.e. fairly accurate) interior distance estimates per pixel, then one could speed this up even more. Basic idea is to fit a cone to a few sampled points to obtain an "interesting" hypothesis (i.e. a candidate with reasonably high probability of being accurate) for one disk. Fitting can be done efficiently with bivariate polynomial regression (using squared distances, so you'd actually fit a 2D quadric and "hope" for it to turn out as a circular paraboloid).
I think it would very hard to speed up the 2D code any further, nor would there be an interest : the image below (with antialiasing) took less than 1 second to produce.
Mb3d uses one unique algo to estimate de for all ifs fractals and it is the normal mandelbox (Buddhi's? I suppose) analytic de. But I never cared as in mb I only write the actual formula and de is auto handled normally. Just difs are different as I have to manually evaluate de.
Do you know how exactly M3D does the distance estimate for a Mandelbox type?
What I'm using now is what I believe M3D uses also, but in this case it is very inefficient, although it does the job in the end.
I'm getting small steps when 'far' from the object, and playing with the fudge factor does not help because then I get overstepping when close to the object.
I am sorry but it is way too complicated for me to get into the source code... but you are much more expert in de methods so I am sure you will find a workaround.
An idea can be to write down a simplified fragmentarium script that people can study and improve? If it is not too complicated (in maths and number of temp variables) I'd love to implement it. Also you can use Mb3d's jit functionality to do preliminary tests.
Cool... but it looks like extruded 2d? But I might miss something?
An idea can be to write down a simplified fragmentarium script that people can study and improve?
In the Fragmentarium/Examples/Knighty Collection there are 3 kleinian related frags and I've collected about 9 from the forum posts, there is a non-DE and a slow-DE version not included with the Fragmentarium distribution.
@Kraftwerk, yes you are missing something.
Below is another view (with occasional overstepping due to inadequate DE)...and it's not extruded!
What I'm currently using is very close to one of the DE calculations in Fragmentarium that you mentioned.
There is also the slower DeltaDE method for distance estimation, which we use if the analytic methods are not suitable.
DE tweaks placed inside the formula can also help in some situations. | 2019-04-22T21:10:47 | http://www.fractalforums.com/3d-fractal-generation/an-escape-tim-algorithm-for-kleinian-group-limit-sets/ |
0.999999 | Write a review on Universal Animal M-Stak!
In a short period of time, Animal Stak has become the world's best-selling, undisputed champion of all "stacked" anabolic training paks. However, due to its potency and certain anabolic ingredients, Animal Stak wasn't suitable for everyone - especially drug-tested athletes. Today, there's a prohormone and ephedra-free alternative to Animal Stak. It's called Animal M-Stak, and it's a powerful new anabolic training pak whose time has come. Thanks to Universal Nutrition's research and development efforts and recent discoveries, Animal M-Stak was born.
Animal M-Stak "mimics" the effects of anabolic pharmaceuticals by enhancing protein synthesis, nitrogen retention (positive nitrogen balance), and nutrition-partitioning (diverting more nutrients to lean mass over bodyfat), while simulatneously reducing muscle catabolism (wasting). How? Animal M-Stak can help potentiate your body's production of all five anabolic hormones: (1) Testosterone; (2) Human Growth Hormone (hGH); (3) Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1); (4) Luteinizing Hormone (LH); and (5) Insulin. Best of all, Animal M-Stak can do this without the androgenic side-effects associated with prohormone use or over-stressing the liver.
But Animal M-Stak is more than just an anabolic primer. It can help your body block the conversion of testosterone to estrogen and dihydrotestosterone (DHT); support your liver; increase energy for "unreal" performance; and provide key vitamin and mineral support for your muscles. If you want to be an animal, you've got to train like an animal. Now, you can without all the prohormones or ephedra.
I've been using it for almost a full cycle and have had noticable gains in muscle. This stuff gives me an extreme focus and motivation for my workout. The only thing I dont like is the crash from the energy pill a few hours after working out.
I have started on my first cycle and it was great.I gained lean muscle and my strenght went up. I have been eating like crazy,it really gives u a urge 2 eat since its making u consume those good foods.If u train real hard you will get those results u want it depends on the commitment and effort u give it. I really look forward for another cycle. this product is great and every dollar spent counts.
At first try of this product, I was blown away. Simply put, M-Stak is like none other. Upon the first few days of this product, I was able to increase on all my lifts. In addition, I gained a solid 6 lbs of muscle. This product will make you insanely hungry, as I was eating everything in sight, but I was gaining muscle and my strength was increasing. This product is very easy to take and very potent. Definitely a must have for anyone trying to gain some more mass and get serious about lifting. By far a great value for your dollar and a great investment. One of the best products I have ever used.
This product is one of the best products ive ever used. While on it i gained a good 8lbs.
My strength went up fairly good and motivation was high. They have a stimulant pill in there, identified as the red pill though it provides a nice stream of energy it doesnt work like a Pre-workout product. Aggression and anger werent affected at all, Value is pretty good about 30$ for 3 weeks. One downside is that each pak contains 8 pills which could result in problems for those who have a hard time with pills. Recoverary wasnt anything special i recovered at the same rate. Appetite was where it was at, i was hungry all the time! Only side effect i saw was when i took it wiht controlled labs white flood. It caused me to feel like garbage. Producuct tivity was pretty good and motivation was there, mainly because i spent money and wanted to make use of it! Over all i love this product and after the recommended week off im definitly ordering another can. you can go wrong with this in your stak. Its a solid supplement thats supposed to help nutrient partioning, increased protein synthesis and increased nitrogen retention. its non hormonal so its safe for 18yr olds.
Vascularity but while on Mstak my vascularity was amazing.
Strength More importantly, my strength sky rocketed with mstak in everything!!!
Pump The pumps were hot and lasted me my whole workouts.
Muscle gain but this product actually helped me gain a little more (size and strength).
Strength but this product actually helped me gain a little more (size and strength).
Muscle gain My favorite product so far to gain muscle weight and strenght.
Strength My favorite product so far to gain muscle weight and strenght.
Fat loss but lost body fat.
Strength I noticed significant gains in strength while taking this product.
Physical energy I do not feel any spike in energy while taking this product.
Euphoria It's meant to be cycled for 21 days and helps produce great quality muscle and a boosting of mood if you put in the hard work.
Fat loss I didn't gain or lose any fat.
Muscle gain Wow! I've gained almost 6 lbs from m stak.
Muscle gain I only gained muscle.
Strength Most notable was the increase in my strength.
Muscle gain This product does what the name says, stacks on muscle.
Aggression I felt improved aggression towards heavy lifting days and noticed muscle hardening as well.
Jitters I started taking out the red stimulant pill just because it mad me jittery which i didn't like during my work out. | 2019-04-22T15:00:52 | http://www.supplementarium.com/supplements/164-universal-animal-m-stak/reviews |
1 | Can anyone tell me the meaning of the sentence in the following passage?
"And what doeth the saint in the forest?" asked Zarathustra.
The saint answered: "I make hymns and sing them; and in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble: thus do I praise God.
Does it mean that Zarathustra didn't want to preach or argue with those who have different opinion and teach only those who wanted it? If no, what does the sentence mean?
Denying that he spoke of love, Zarathustra says instead that he brings mankind a gift.
Despite his persistence, the old saint is unable to take away Zarathustra's belief in mankind, but his warnings show that he is better acquainted with the ways of the world than Zarathustra, even though he is no lover of mankind. At a loss, finally, in the face of the old saint's insistence that he, a fellow solitary, not go to mankind, Zarathustra asks, in effect, "Why should one stay in solitude?"
When the old saint responds that he maintains his solitude in order to praise God, the com- passionate and gift-giving Zarathustra continues on his way, turning even his separation from the old saint into a gift to man, for he departs so as not to take away from the old saint the belief that makes his solitude possible. In parting they laugh at one another, each knowing the folly of the other's belief, Zarathustra's in mankind, the old saint's in God.
You must read it in context: Zarathustra is the prophet of the "new Nietzschean religion".
In the previous paragraph Zarathustra answers to the old saint that he is coming because "[he] loves mankind" and in order to "bring it [to mankind] gifts".
But the saint is speaking of material gifts, while Zarathustra is bringing to mankind the novel "that GOD IS DEAD!"
We can read it as a critique of traditional religious attitude : we pray God asking for "gifts" (of some sort) and - at the same time - as a critique of ascetic attitudes: leaving the world in search of a "direct contact" with God.
What separates the middle works of Nietzsche from his later works? | 2019-04-25T14:48:09 | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/50659/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-sentence-from-thus-spake-zarathustra |
0.999999 | Question: Who was the first U.S. senator to win the presidential nomination of his political party? Answer: Henry Clay of Kentucky.
In December 1831, that senator’s party—known as the National Republicans—met in Baltimore to conduct the first major national political convention. In previous presidential elections, parties had produced candidates through state conventions, and caucuses held in state legislatures and in the U.S. Congress. The last congressional caucus had taken place in 1824 and included only 66 of Congress’s 261 members.
With the rapid growth of the nation and improved means of communication, parties realized the importance of orchestrating a national event to energize supporters. In 1831 the National Republicans chose to meet in Baltimore because it was conveniently located near Washington, where many of their delegates also served in Congress.
As a former U.S. senator, House Speaker, and secretary of state, Henry Clay in 1831 could easily have won the votes needed to secure the presidential nomination without the added formality of a national convention. But his party wanted to take no chances in its campaign to dislodge Democrat Andrew Jackson from the White House.
In addition to supporting the innovation of a national party convention, Clay had decided that his standing would be enhanced if he could return to public office as a member of the United States Senate. This move reflected the growing stature of the Senate in that era as it moved out of the shadow of the House of Representatives. Eight years earlier, Andrew Jackson had made the same tactical decision. In doing this, both men risked humiliation at the hands of political opponents in their state legislatures. A defeat for a Senate seat would certainly tarnish a subsequent presidential bid. Indeed, the Kentucky legislature elected Henry Clay to the Senate in November 1831 by a margin of only nine votes.
A few weeks later, after Clay and his family had made their way to Washington for the first session of the 22nd Congress, Clay attended the December Baltimore convention, at which 155 delegates from 18 of the nation's 24 states met in a large saloon and unanimously chose him as their candidate for president of the United States on December 13, 1831.
The following spring, as the campaign got underway, 300 young National Republicans visited Washington to support their candidate. Known as "Clay’s Infant-School," they experienced an unexpected treat on May 7, 1832, when the candidate himself rode down from the Senate to accept their ceremonial nomination. Unfortunately for Clay and his supporters, he was soundly defeated in the general election by incumbent president Andrew Jackson.
Since 1832, 18 incumbent senators have received their parties' nomination. Of those 18, only three have won the presidency: Warren Harding in 1920; John F. Kennedy in 1960; and Barack Obama in 2008. | 2019-04-26T16:48:07 | https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Celebrating_a_first.htm |
0.998465 | In what language will I implement the Testing Agent?
You can use any language that supports COM.
How will the Testing Agent communicate with the application being tested?
You can use any technique appropriate to the technology of the application being tested.
The Testing Agent retrieves information from the running application about the objects being tested and the relationships between them. The agent performs operations on the visible objects in the application.
If there can be more than one instance of the application, the Testing Agent must handle multiple instances.
How will the Testing Agent be launched?
When UFT opens, it launches the Testing Agent if the UFT user selected the relevant environment in the Add-in manager dialog box. However, if the application being tested is opened before UFT, you might want the Testing Agent to be launched earlier. One solution is to implement the Testing Agent as a singleton object and have the application run it. This way the Testing Agent is created by UFT or by the application, depending on which runs first. In addition, it will remain alive as long as the application or UFT are using it. This prevents synchronization issues if the application being tested or UFT are closed and reopened.
Caution: You must implement the Testing Agent to run out-of-process to ensure that the Testing Agent does not run in UFT's context.
How do I make sure that no unnecessary activity takes place if UFT is not testing the application?
Users can run their applications independently of UFT, with no intention of running tests on them. In this case, the Testing Agent either should not open or should open but not perform any unnecessary operations.
You might implement a flag that indicates whether or not the Testing Agent should be active. One way to determine when to set the flag is by checking if UFT is installed on the computer. For information on how to check in UFT is installed, see Checking Whether UFT Is Installed. Another way is to design the Testing Agent not to perform any unnecessary operations unless UFT initiates communication. A third option is to allow the users to indicate whether or not testing is required when they open the application.
How will the Testing Agent be provided to the users?
You can provide the Testing Agent to the UFT users as part of your software installation or separately. | 2019-04-18T17:17:01 | https://admhelp.microfocus.com/uft/en/all/Extensibility/TestExt_Ext/Content/TestingExtensibility/TestExtDefiningTA.htm |
0.999997 | Science has been successful. Mathematical laws seem to explain natural phenomenon well, make predictions and thus cause technological advancement. Say, we infer from this, that the universe has a certain quality: let's call it, 'Mathematical Describability'. This property exists within the universe and is what we ascribe to God. The laws are indeed God's will.
I am not sure why theists do not argue thus. Is there any problem with this argument?
Or, is it that this idea of a mathematical God is not the God they believe in? For example, why would one pray to such a God, since he has already "planned ahead".
As has been observed, there does not seem to be a relationship of implication between mathematical describability and God's existence, i.e., if "the universe is describable in mathematical terms" is true, then "God exists" must be true.
I can imagine a possible universe in which its own mathematical describability is the invention of one of the creatures that has evolved there. This because it is not necessarily the case that the mathematical describability of a thing is anterior to its creation.
1) If a thing is describable in mathematical terms, then the mathematical terms must be anterior to that thing.
2) The universe is describable in mathematical terms.
4) "Ex nihilo, nihil fit" (From nothing, nothing comes.) is true.
5) Mathematical terms cannot have come from nothing.
6) The something from which mathematical terms have come is anterior to the universe, as it is anterior to the mathematical terms, which are anterior to the universe.
7) Since "Ex nihilo, nihil fit" is true, something must preexist mathematical terms.
8) The thing that preexists mathematical terms is God.
a) The eighth premiss and conclusion seems to introduce an infinite regress: One could ask, "If Ex nihilo, nihil fit is true, then whence came God?
b) The first premiss is not true a priori, rendering the third premiss only probable.
c) The fourth premiss carries no necessity, placing the whole argument on a probable-only basis.
d) Even if the argument were somehow accepted as sound, all it proves is that we have agreed to call a certain thing "God," and that thing preexisted the universe. This seems like weak brew.
The philosopher from Scotland, David Hume, pointed out that we as human beings don’t really have any rational basis for believing in the uniformity of nature; that the future will be like the past. Dr. Atkins, as a Christian I can believe that the future will be like the past, or nature is uniform because I believe that God created the universe, and this universe reflects the uniformity which God has imposed upon it through his governing. I’d like to ask, in the atheistic worldview, the presupposition that there is no God and that all we have is matter in motion, what is your basis for believing that the future will be like the past?
Well I don’t believe it will be like the past because I believe in continuing evolution. I believe that the universe is expanding, and therefore the universe in the future will not be like the universe in the past. I also believe, but on a deeper level if I could respond there, on the cogency and continuity of physical law because physical laws are commentaries on the behavior of matter and of radiation and whatever else you want to include. And so I see, because matter and radiation don’t change their character, physical laws do not change their character. I see the universe evolving into the future, changing as it goes, but the physical laws that underlie the universe will not change.
...you cannot justify science scientifically. You have to begin with certain assumptions.
Short answer: No - why should it?
let's call it, 'Mathematical Describability'. This property exists within the universe and is what we ascribe to God. The laws are indeed God's will.
This would be great... if we were able to then start from "God's will" to get to this "Mathematical Describability". If this hypothetical Mathematically Descriptive God (let's abbreviate that to MDG) is something we should take seriously, then we might expect that this deity's divine revelations would at least give some clues about some of those mathematical descriptions. Instead, we find that the revelatory texts tend to reflect the values, prejudices, taboos and superstitions common to the place and time in history when they were written or transcribed.
I cannot speak for all theists, of course, but the MDG isn't really compatible with most people's ideas of a god. Deists may propose arguments like an MDG, but MDG doesn't get you at all close to an interventionist deity who works miracles. If MDG is concerned about maintaining the electromagnetic force between all the subatomic particles and in keeping all the stars and galaxies moving along their prescribed paths, what good is a prayer from an unremarkable planet orbiting an average star in a fairly typical galaxy?
Is it that this idea of a mathematical God is not the God they believe in?
For the average theist, yes. The deities that people believe in are generally interventionists in some way, and making MDG work with those deities requires significant compromises or logical inconsistencies to make them sorta~kinda same thing.
For a theist to argue for theism using the idea of this MDG as the argument's foundation, the theist is arguing for something they don't really believe in, which is usually a deity that they can relate to in some way at a human level.
Now, many professional debaters will use a wide variety of tactics to try and make their points. Some do use the idea of, say, an "Intelligent Designer" to explain these natural laws. The "Intelligent Designer" approach is probably the closest example of arguing for an MDG that we currently see in the wild.
One final thought I would add is that Mathematical Describability actually hurts the deity hypothesis more than it helps it. Deities are generally supposed to be free to intervene in the affairs of mortals in one way or another, so if deities exist we would expect to find certain kinds of anomalies in our Mathematical Descriptions.
For example, statistical analyses might show that patents who belong to certain faiths or denominations enjoy faster hospital recovery times, even after you correct for all other socio-economic factors. Finding an anomaly like that, some significant deviation from the Mathematic Descriptions, would be evidence suggestive of the possibility of a deity's intervention. However, if the statistics hold true within normal error bars and are adequately Mathematically Described, that's cold comfort for those looking for evidence of the handiwork of their preferred deity.
God is an abstract deification of an abstract ethical concept (goodness), which is an abstract form of a concrete idea (goods), which shows the usefulness of something. The idea of God proofs Mathematical laws (not the other way around) in linguistics, but the problem you encounter with theists, is the same problem I encounter with historical linguists. Their careers often depend on upholding an incomplete and sometimes incorrect model of the universe instead of exploring its complexity. Hence dogma’s and establishments of people knodding Yes to each others ideas and refuting progressive incentives.
On Mathematical laws you may want to make a Division between Pi (growth patterns) and algebra. The square can’t be the circle except in growth motion as Leonardo DaVinci shows with the universal man. And motion is related to emotion and animation (anime also referring to spirit). Good and go-eth relate to bad and bath/bed (distiction between walking and lying down as the concrete origins for the abstract metaphoric ethics good and bad. Truth and lie form a similar pair with tred and ly. Leg and foot and lieg (lie in Dutch) and fout (wrong in Dutch). It seems that leg in this case refers to the negative lie but actually it is the earthly antonym of ciel (French sky). We move over the earth but through sky. Mathematical laws that govern our word formations. And the growth patterns our thoughts follow create abstract ideas of concrete items, which become metaphores and then words of their own. So Maybe take the Bible literally in one place, that in the beginning there was the word and the word was God. God originated from the abstract use of goods. The realm beyond the universe is eternal and infinite and so are the limits of our imagination, and in the memory God has a place. As a word and an idea and a concept. You can give value to it and live by the rules you or others before you ascribed to this concept. It is functional; it is good; it is God.
"Everything that exists has a certain essential property or depends on a certain kind of power which I'll call NN"
"When I say say God I'm referring to NN"
This is congruent to the argument you suggest, if you substitute "mathematical describability" for NN. What Spinoza uses for his NN is something closer to persistence and has two attributes, extension and thought (mathematical describability would arise out of the correspondence between thought and extension).
But the coherence of this distinction depended in odd ways on classical metaphysical categories and it wasn't clear if this problem still mattered in Spinoza's system (or if the special/general distinction still made sense). Spinoza himself wrote as though he took the Bible seriously (and lived on a sort of Mennonite compound in rural Holland), but many critics thought Spinoza was a heretic, his piety was a sham, and identifying God with the universe amounted to the same thing as saying there was no God at all. Others thought that, heretic or not, Spinoza was entirely sincere, in fact a "man drunk on God", whose divine will and power he saw everywhere.
Yet eventually the objection almost everyone could eventually agree on was that nothing Spinoza had said excluded the possibility that the God he had described was a blind, mindless, meaningless force. (This summary is unfair to Spinoza: on his own terms, he had specifically shown that God was a substance that had unlimited mind as an attribute, and thus was hardly "mindless" - you'll have to study if you want details.) So the question becomes: granted that perhaps some entity, or more technically some substance exists that we could call God, can we also say that this entity is a subject (a person or agent that is active or purposive in some sense comparable to human beings, who have "life stories", characters, make choices, and so on)?
Hopefully that resolves your question. Some people do try to answer the question in this way; it has difficulties; as a result, some people avoid the argument you suggest because they think it doesn't prove the existence of God (or the right kind of God) at all, and the people who find it attractive (including me) typically, after spending a lot of time familiarizing themselves with classical attempts to understand its texture, jump right over it to the bigger challenge of understanding how God is a subject.
Does Proving god scientifically implies that he is unfair? | 2019-04-23T16:07:35 | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/56313/if-the-universe-evolves-according-to-mathematical-laws-does-that-imply-god-exis |
0.999997 | 6 + 9 = ?: (Required) Please type in the correct answer to the math question.
Fog and rain would describe the weather for the day. There was only one place where the fog cleared up for a few miles. I selected US-1 which took us around the coast of Penobscot Bay. There were numerous beautiful historic towns all along the route.
We stopped in Rockland and toured the Farnsworth Art Museum which is near where the Wyeths spent their summers. As we drove down the main street the 3 way EAT sign (left side of street in photo) caught our attention. It is on top of the museum. It was designed by artist Robert Indiana (the LOVE letters sculpture) for the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Each letter has a set of lights which pulsate in a simple pattern. At the Worlds Fair so many people thought there was a restaurant under the sculpture that the lights were turned off and never turned on again until now. It was moved to Rockland in 2009 for the Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope exhibition. We had a lobster roll for lunch. | 2019-04-20T13:02:37 | https://www.greatloopcruising.com/blog_email.cfm?blog_id=47182&Day-16-June-29-Freeport-ME-to-Acadia-National-Park-ME |
0.999963 | A CONSERVATIVE candidate standing in the local election has been suspended from the party after failing to declare a pending drink-driving court case, where he was later convicted.
Ben Wong, 48, of South Dragon House takeaway on Silver Street, put his name forward to stand in the Victoria ward in the May 2 elections under the Conservative party, but has since been suspended following his conviction.
Nominations closed to stand for election on April 3, but he stood trial at Taunton Magistrates' Court on March 21 - something the local Somerset Conservatives were unaware of.
Mr Wong, who said in his candidate profile he had 'something to offer' his area of town, was fined £240 after he was caught driving under the influence of alcohol on February 9 earlier this year.
He pleaded guilty to being more than twice the legal limit, with 73 microgrammes of alcohol on his breath when driving a Volvo S40 in Bridgwater Road, Taunton.
Mr Wong was also given a 20-month driving ban and ordered to pay £85 costs and £30 victim surcharge.
A Conservative Party spokesperson said: “Mr Wong did not make us aware of the pending trial and has been suspended from the party."
He is set to stand against Edmund Bailhache (UKIP), Simon Coles (Lib Dem), Charlie Grabham (Lab), Richard Lees (Lib Dem), and Stephen Martin-Scott (Con).
Mr Wong has been contacted for a comment. | 2019-04-22T08:11:52 | https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/17566473.ben-wong-silver-street-taunton-suspended-from-the-conservative-party/ |
0.998083 | The expression “He is cursed” implies a curse, an oath, and a ban of ostracism.
What are the practices that must be observed by the person who is ostracized and those who come into contact with him?
c) no one should sit within four cubits of him.
He may, however, teach others and others may teach him. He may be hired and may hire others. If he dies while under ban, the court sends [an emissary who] places a stone on his coffin, as if to say that they are stoning him because he was separated from the community. Needless to say, eulogies are not recited for him, nor is his bier accompanied.
A person who is excommunicated has even more [severe restrictions]. He may not teach others and others may not teach him. Nevertheless, he may study himself, so that he does not forget what he has learned.
He may not be hired, nor is he allowed to hire others. We should not engage in trade with him. [Indeed,] we should not have any business dealings with him except the bare minimum necessary for his livelihood.
When a person was ostracized for thirty days and did not seek to be released from the ban, he is placed under a second ban. If he was ostracized for a second thirty days without seeking release, he is excommunicated.
How many [people] are necessary to release [a person from a] ban of ostracism or excommunication? Three. They may even be commoners. A single judge with unique expertise may release [a person from a] ban of ostracism or excommunication alone. A student may release [a person from a] ban of ostracism or excommunication even in the place of his teacher.
Editor's Note: Our text follows the practice of most printed copies of the Mishneh Torah, which skip the number 8 entirely1, and proceed from Halachah 7 to Halachah 9.
When three individuals issue a ban of ostracism, and then depart, if the person who was ostracized improves his behavior with regard to the matter for which he was ostracized, three others may come and release him [from that ban].
A person who does not know who placed him under a ban of ostracism should approach the nasi who may release him from that ban.
If a ban was issued conditionally, even if one imposed that [conditional ban] on himself, it must be nullified [before ordinary interaction with the person is permitted]. If a Torah sage issued a ban of ostracism against himself, even if he made that ban conditional on the consent of another person and even if he issued it because of a matter which requires ostracism, he may nullify the ban himself.
Whenever a person dreams that he was placed under a ban of ostracism, even if he knows who issued that ban, ten people who are proficient in Torah Law are required to release him from that ban. If he cannot find such people [in his immediate surroundings], he must journey a parsah in search of them.
If he cannot find [these people within that distance], the ban can be released even by ten people who study Mishnah. If he cannot find [such people], the ban can be released even by ten people who know how to read the Torah. If he cannot find ten people in his place, the ban can be released by three ordinary people.
Whenever a ban of ostracism is imposed in a person's presence, it should only be lifted in his presence. If it was issued outside his presence, it may be lifted in his presence or outside his presence. There is no [fixed amount of time] between the issuance of a ban and its release. Instead, one may issue a ban and lift it immediately if the person placed under ban improves his behavior.
This was the practice of the pious of the early generations. They would hear their shame and not answer. Furthermore, they would pardon and forgive the person who insulted them. The great sages would take pride in their pleasant deeds, relating that they never issued a ban of ostracism or excommunication [to protect] their honor. This is the path of the sages which is worthy of being followed.
When does the above apply? When [the person] spurned or embarrassed [the sage] in private. However, if one spurns or embarrasses a sage in public, it is forbidden for the sage to forgo his honor. Indeed, if he does so, he is punished, because the disrespect of the Torah is involved. Instead, he should seek vengeance and carry enmity over the matter like a snake until the offender requests to be pardoned. Then, he should forgive him.
The Rambam La'am suggests that perhaps this omission is made because the letter ח is the first letter of the word חרם, which means "excommunication." It is not proper that the chapter that deals with such a severe punishment should contain any allusion to it. | 2019-04-26T04:42:43 | https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/911561/jewish/Talmud-T |
0.999816 | First, a little background - I'm about 12 months out from FIRE, and will be in my early to mid 40s when I pull the plug. I am currently at about 24.7x of planned FIRE expenses, and if the markets return 0% over the course of the year my contributions should get me to ~26.6 or a ~3.75% withdrawal rate. I'm comfortable with that withdrawal rate because I have quite a few back-up plans in place and ready to go (2x small pensions, 2x social security, ability to cut, arrangements for consulting with my old company, not counting likely inheritance).
I'm planning to execute a 60 -> 100% rising equities glidepath (https://earlyretirementnow.com/2017/09/13/the-ultimate-guide-to-safe-withdrawal-rates-part-19-equity-glidepaths/). I am current at 60% VTSAX and 40% VBTLX or the closest equivalents in my 401(k). I am very close to having 5 years of expenses in taxable accounts and should get there around September of this year. My mortgage is paid off (I know...). Right now I basically have a 60/40 split in all of my accounts, and I assume that I need to adjust that so I have the 60/40 split that I'm aiming for in my overall portfolio but within my taxable accounts I have a lower allocation to stocks with a higher stock allocation in my tax advantaged accounts.
1. Where should I put my taxable "first 5 years" money? I assume I should put it in my Vanguard brokerage account, but I'm not sure if I should put it into VBTLX or if I should put it into CDs or Treasuries, and if so if I should to it with Vanguard or somewhere else? This is a multi-part question; where should I put the money I'm going to be adding over the next year and should I adjust the allocation I currently have in those accounts now? They're split over vanguard brokerage funds, 2 Roths (his & hers) with Vanguard, and her company Roth 401(k) which will be moved to Vanguard in a year when she FIREs at the same time I do.
2. Are there any good resources for this phase of planning? I feel like I have a solid grasp of the concepts; I can describe a Roth conversion ladder (thanks Mad Fientist!), I can describe index funds and why they're a better choice that picking stocks (thanks JLCollinsNH!), and I know the difference between a traditional and Roth IRA. However, I am fuzzy on the specific execution details. I'm worried that I'm going to blunder into a mistake that costs me a significant amount of money because I so far I've been focused on accumulation in index funds and cost cutting instead of the details of how to implement the ladder and withdrawals.
3. Any comments on any mistakes that you see here?
First off, congratulations on being so close to the goal. It sounds like you have prepared well and are asking the right kind of questions.
Search the forum (google is best) for "Bond Tent" and Sequence of Returns Risk (SORR). Just prior to FIRE you may want to make some changes, but it is up to you.
1) Your first five years' income should probably come out of taxable accounts first, and then Roths if taxable is used up. Reasons: Can't do early withdraws from traditional IRA or 401k without a penalty at your age. Roth ladder will be funded from trad. IRA or 401k.
To execute the glidepath towards a higher equity allocation, you want your taxable account to be mostly bonds so that the desired adjustment occurs as you cover living expenses. Usually, allocating dividend and interest generating assets to a taxable account is a bad idea, but with yields as low as they are I don't see the point.
Remember that the purpose of your low-yielding bonds is to provide an alternative to selling stock in the event of a correction or recession. So, in the event of a slump, you would want to apply this function and live off of proceeds from bonds until things recovered. Your AA might change when you do this, but what else would be the purpose of the insurance? Others might argue for a consistent, preplanned AA in this situation no matter what, so pick a side and make it your plan.
In general, I'd create a basic spreadsheet plan with all your accounts, their current values, and your target allocations. For each year, show from where the living expenses are withdrawn and model the effect on AA. Try a few different strategies. Create an annual instruction set for yourself to follow.
(a) Withdrawing from a traditional IRA or 401k and triggering the tax penalty.
(b) Failing to fund the Roth ladder - even for one year!
(c) Your capital gains will be low in those first years because you are selling more bonds, which presumably have not appreciated. Don't get used to low taxes though, because when it comes time to sell more equities, capital gains will be much higher. Think this out when budgeting (past the initial years.
(d) Thinking bonds cannot decline in value. 30 year treasuries do not count as a bond allocation for your purposes - not at these low rates. Keep the durations short - like 3-5y so you don't get burned by rising interest rates.
(e) The usual stuff like becoming a day trader or trying to juice the 4% rule with dividend stocks, junk bonds, market timing, or other forms of risk concentration.
3) You might toy with making those first 5 years super-frugal to increase your odds of long-term success. E.g. downsize housing, hold off on big vacations, go down to 1 car, etc. After a few years, you will either be really well off or you will be aware that you retired right before the Great Crash of 2020, in which case it'll be a good thing you went the frugal path and got used to that lifestyle.
With less than 5 years of expenses in taxable accounts, and and less than 60% of that in equities, you should easily be able to avoid long term capital gains taxes. For a couple, you would have to have over $100,000 in AGI before you hit the 15% capital gains rate.
Depending on the state, you may have additional state income tax as a result of those gains, though.
From your questions, it sounds like your ~5 years of expenses includes Roth accounts, so there are no capital gains taxes at all with those.
What are your plans for health insurance? If you will be doing an ACA plan, the subsidy cliffs can hit you pretty hard if you aren't extra careful with taxable income from investments + Roth conversions. We will probably be converting quite a bit less than I had originally planned due to the extra hit we'd take on subsidies (once we are into RMD territory SS will cover most of our expenses anyway, so I'd rather take the tax hit later than now when we still have kids at home that we need to get launched in the next 5-10 years).
lhamo, I need to look into my options for health insurance, and it'll depend a bit on when each of us decides to retire. It's possible that one of us will quite earlier than the other, and we could then go on the other's insurance at work. Or, we might work part time for all or most of 2019. Whatever we do it's likely that we'll plan on the ACA. Even with no subsidies (if we retire later in 2019 and have too much income) the full cost isn't too bad for just a few months. After that I hope the ACA is still around, but we'll deal with whatever we face. The worst case would be for one of us to go back to work part time, but I think that's unlikely.
What do you mean when you say paying for health insurance without any subsidies for a few months is "no big deal". You will need insurance for 20 years if you FIRE at 45.
Health insurance is a much bigger nut than a casual "yeah... we need to work that out" kind of attitude. My plan for a family of 4 is over $20,000 per year. Manageable with the subsidies, but on my list of backup plans is a move to a country with health services for its people(you know...ANY OTHER COUNTRY), as well as the Starbucks barista part time for medical buy-in plan.
Also recently added to that backup plan list is purchase of catastrophic only insurance, which should start to spring up for 2019 with the new tax law passed last year. Boy does that sentence sound ridiculous when I read it out loud.
Make sure your plan and backups are laid out before pulling the plug. | 2019-04-24T12:31:16 | http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/investor-alley/investing-in-the-last-year-before-fire/msg2010909/ |
0.999732 | What is the voltage/amps of 4x AA batteries?
I have a device that takes 4x AA batteries and I'd buy a DC adapter so I don't need batteries anymore.
Assuming that they're in series, 6v nominally for alkaline, as low as 4.8 for NiMH. Batteries are specced in Amp-Hours, not amps--amperage is a rate, Ah is a quantity indicating the amount of energy stored in the battery. Typical Alkaline capacity is ~2800 mAh, so if you get around 2.8 hours of use, the device draws on average 1 Amp. However, this is not a reliable way to spec the current of a DC adapter. Is there not a label with the input power requirements on the device, or is this something that was not ever designed to run from an adapter?
Be sure to follow the wires/metal strips, as the batteries can be packed next to each other yet wired end to end.
If you're trying to build an adapter and you didn't know this or couldn't look it up without asking us, I'm going to kindly suggest you may want to uptake a different quest.
SofaKing, first figure out how it's wired. Like Jimbo asks, is it four in a series, two series of two, or four parellel? That's going to determine the voltage (either 6, 3, or 1.5 V). The aperage rating of any DC adapter you buy is going to be the maximum. Basically, the device is going to draw however much current it needs; a 500 mA power source might be overkill if the device is only drawing 200 mA, but it won't hurt anything. The danger is if the output of the DC adapter is too low: you run the risk of overheating and burning it out, or causing a fire in an extreme case.
For a device that uses four AA batteries, 500 mA is probably sufficient, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. Hopefully someone else can give you suggestions on how to estimate or measure the current requirements.
How long [hours] do the batteries last in the device when run at full power until they die? What is the capacity [mA hour] of the batteries tested? From this we can estimate average current [mA] required, since we know, approximately, the voltage of each battery as 1.5 [V].
Once you figure out how things are wired up, it will probably be easier to just make the adapter and test it out than it will be to waste time agonizing over whether it will work or not. Experimentation >> theory.
Probably just trying to make the wires to connect one purchased from RadioShack connect to his device. Not so hard.
using multimeter you can check the current draw from the batteries. | 2019-04-19T11:13:37 | https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=183422 |
0.995994 | When school begins routines and schedules change and chores for kids seem last on the list of things to do. Yet you want to include chores in these routines so they are followed throughout the year without a fuss. A great way to make them work is to make them a parent-child/teen effort.
When school begins routines and schedules change and chores for kids seem last on the list of things to do. Yet you want to include chores in these routines so they are followed throughout the year without a fuss. A great way to make them work is to make them a parent-child/teen effort. Working together takes the sting out of the process. In time the kids will do them on their own, but it's a good way to transition to a way for chores to be incorporated into the household without reminders, feelings of parents' not being listened to and kids feeling they have an undue burden given all the new school requirements.
1. Have everyone clear the table after dinner. Then it's not one person's job but the role of the family together. It takes less time and no one feels they've been pulled in to a job they didn't plan on.
2. Fill the dishwasher with your child. Then it goes quicker, he or she learns how to order the dishes on the rack and before you know it the job is done with no complaints.
3. Work with your child to clean and organize their room for school. They'll learn from you how to plan things out so they can be found again without them feeling you are intruding or pressuring them to keep things just your way. Listen to how they like to organize their books and papers and help them straighten out those clothes drawers. Doing it together takes away the feeling of parents yelling at kids to clean their rooms. In time they will want to do it on their own and it's important for you to be flexible. This is the one room in the house that should be considered theirs. It increases independence and makes getting homework done much easier.
4. Teens can be taught how to use the washer and dryer so for last minute needs they can help out or even run their wash themselves. It's great preparation for college, it shows you trust them once they've learned, and it's really easy after all!
5. If you're a two parent household, divide up which parent will take the lead on different chores so no one argues about responsibilities. The kids will learn who's in charge of what and things will be move at an even pace.
6. Jobs outside may be the province of one or both parents. Kids like to understand how the house works. Explain how the electricity comes from the street and how the house is heated. Show them how to change a light bulb, replace batteries and work with you to take out the garbage including the items to be recycled and they will begin to learn how a household works. It improves confidence when kids feel they are really a part of running the house. They begin to feel less like they live in your house and instead everyone belongs because everyone knows how things work.
7. To make this new venture successful, a brief meeting needs to take place where the new arrangements are discussed and you express that you are grateful to them for helping out. Tell them you've made this plan so beginning of school starts easily and that you trust them to work with you to make a smoothly running household.
Be open to their ideas about how things should work in the house. Value their opinions, ideas, and intentions. Respected children and teens respect their parents.
Laurie Hollman, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst and author of Unlocking Parental Intelligence: Finding Meaning in Your Child's Behavior found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Familius and wherever books are sold. | 2019-04-24T01:56:19 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/7-unique-ways-to-make-cho_n_11764254 |
0.999999 | the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing?
An indemnity is a sum paid by A to B by way of compensation for a particular loss suffered by B. The indemnitor (A) may or may not be responsible for the loss suffered by the indemnitee (B). Forms of indemnity include cash payments, repairs, replacement, and reinstatement.
In common parlance, indemnity is often used as a synonym for compensation or reparation.
As a legal concept, it has a more specific meaning, namely, to compensate another party to a contract for any loss that such other party may suffer during the performance of the contract. For instance, compensation connotes merely a sum paid to make good the loss of another without regard to the payer's identity, or their reasons for doing so. As the following paragraphs should explain, an indemnity is a sub-species of compensation, in the same way that Damages and reparation are.
The obligation to indemnify differs from the obligation to pay compensation, or make reparation, in that an obligation to indemnify is a voluntary obligation. If C crashes into B's car and damages it and the crash is due to C's negligence, most legal systems will impose liability upon C to pay B for the damage caused. C's obligation to B arises by force of law irrespective of whether C subjectively wishes to compensate B or not. This is not, therefore, a situation of indemnity; the relationship between B and C is involuntary. In legal terms, it is a case of tortious (common law) or unlawful act (civil law) liability.
But, if A had a contract with B under which A agreed to pay for any damage to B's car, then A paying B would be obligatory (even if A subjectively regretted the contract at this point). In legal terms, A's liability is contractual and the sum paid is an indemnity. The contract just described between A and B is of course one of automobile comprehensive insurance.
It was stated in the first paragraph that the indemnifying party (A) may also be the party responsible for the loss. This is because although A will probably have a legal duty to compensate B (depending on the rules for damage wrongfully caused in the relevant legal system), A may also have a contractual duty to compensate C. Such indemnity clauses can be found in many contracts aside from those specifically for insurance. For instance, (staying with the automobile theme), a car rental contract may stipulate that the renter will be responsible for damage to the rental car caused by their reckless driving. In other words the renter will indemnify the rental company.
An obligation to indemnity can also be distinguished from a guarantee granted by one party in regard to the potential debts of another. For example A might agree to stand guarantor (or surety) for her son C (an impecunious law student) so that if C cannot afford to pay his rent to B (his canny landlord), A will be obliged to pay for him. Here, C is the one primarily responsible for payment of the rent. A's liability is only ancillary. The liability of an indemnifier, properly so-called, is primary. This distinction between indemnity and guarantee was discussed as early as the eighteenth century in Birkmya v Darnell. In that case, concerned with a guarantee of payment for goods, rather than payment of rent, the presiding judge explained that a guarantee effectively says "Let him have the goods; if he does not pay you, I will." By contrast, an indemnity is like saying "Let him have the goods, I will be your paymaster."
Under section 4 of the Statute of Frauds 1677, indemnity clauses must be constituted in writing.
In the UK, under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 s4, a consumer cannot be made to unreasonably indemnify another for their breach of contract or negligence.
In England and Wales an "indemnity" monetary award may form part of rescission during an action of Restitutio in integrum. The property and funds are exchanged, but indemnity may be granted for costs necessarily incurred to the innocent party pursuant to the contract. The leading case is Whittington v Seale, in which a contaminated farm was sold. Due to the contract, the buyers renovated the Real estate and, due to the contamination, incurred medical expenses for their manager who had fallen ill. Once the contract was rescinded, the buyer could be indemnified for the cost of renovation as this was necessary to the contract, but not the medical expenses as the contract did not require them to hire a manager. Were the sellers at fault, damages would clearly be available.
The distinction between indemnity and damages is subtle, but they may be differentiated by considering the roots of the law of obligations. How can money be paid where the defendant is not at fault? The contract before rescission is voidable but not void, meaning that, for a period of time, there is a legal contract. During this time both parties have legal obligation. If the contract is to be voided ab initio the obligations performed must also be compensated. Therefore the costs of indemnity arise from the (transient and performed) obligations of the claimant rather than a Breach of obligation by the defendant.
Slave owners suffer a loss whenever their slaves or indentured servants are granted their freedom. Slave owners may be paid to cover their losses.
In the 1860s in the United States, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln had requested many millions of dollars from Congress with which to pay slave owners "for the loss of their property." On July 9, 1868, Section IV of the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment dismissed all of the claims that slave owners had been injured by the freeing of the slaves.
In 1807-08, in Prussia, statesman Baron Heinrich vom Stein introduced a series of reforms, the principal of which was the abolition of serfdom with indemnification to territorial lords.
The nation that wins a war may insist on being paid compensations for the costs of the war, even after having been the creator of the war.
Following the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the Treaty of Shimonoseki required that China pay Japan the sum of 200,000,000 taels (or liangs).
China incurred an indemnity which resulted from massacres of foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion. The payment of 450,000,000 Haikwan taels, or $330,000,000 became necessary.
The term was created by the Brazilian jurist Leonardo Castro. The article was published in BDJUR (the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice library). The term means that in civil cases of indemnity you can never predict the result (sentence). | 2019-04-22T22:48:18 | http://www.thefullwiki.org/Indemnity |
0.998496 | Why scale the tasks downward? Because in my experience, students have a hard time with [summarizing], and if they can't summarize well, they can't interpret, analyze, or just plain describe well, either. Added to that, in most workplaces (as far as I am aware), summary will be the most common writing task they will be obligated to complete.
Interesting points. It could be added, I think, that good summarizing actually requires a certain level of critical thinkingor at least heightens analytical engagement. That's been my experience, anyway.
Bauerlein, incidentally, is the author of the much-talked-about 2008 book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30. | 2019-04-24T18:27:52 | http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/04/writing_instructor_downplays_critical_thinking.html |
0.997445 | I have more thoughts about Fort Aegea than I'll be able to fit into these few paragraphs, and I'm a little concerned about it. See, I think this game's shortcomings may be more interesting than its successes, but if I spend more time talking about flaws than strengths, I may give the mistaken impression that I didn't enjoy it. So let me clear that up right now: I liked Fort Aegea quite a bit. Most of the game is really fun -- it has several good puzzles and action sequences, a nice propulsive plot, and some surprising and well-drawn details. In addition, the game employs spellcasting, which is a kick -- there are lots of moments that measure up to anything in Enchanter, and the spells have the added virtue of being particularly well-suited to the character and thus helping to further define her. The game felt quite well-tested and proofread to me -- I found a few syntactical errors here and there, and maybe one or two bugs, but on the other side there are a number of rather complicated effects that the game produces with admirable smoothness. Oh, and lest I forget, Fort Aegea has some of the most gorgeous feelies I've ever seen with an amateur game, hand-drawn maps that positively exude Tolkien. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this game to anyone who enjoys Dungeons-and-Dragons-influenced fantasy IF, especially games in the Enchanter vein.
It strains the limits of my belief to think that a person who actually coexists with dragons would talk about their "breath weapons" -- it's just a little too close to saying something like "take a look at this fine sword -- it's +2!". In addition, there are linguistic anachronisms sprinkled throughout the text, such as the adventuring expedition that a history book characterizes as a "public relations nightmare."
The net effect of these choices is to drain the scenario of fictional credibility. Every D&D reference, every anachronism makes the game feel less like a story and more like an exercise -- instead of drawing us into its world, Fort Aegea keeps reminding us of ours. Instead of breaking, mimesis simply stretches thinner and thinner until it's nearly transparent. Here's another way that happens: for much of the game's plot, the PC's objective is to stay alive until nightfall, while being hunted. In the course of trying to do this, she finds several spots that would make outstanding hiding places, where one could easily wait out a day, emerging victorious after the sun sets. Unfortunately, the game doesn't allow any actual time to pass while the PC sits in these places, no matter how many times the player may type "z." I know, because I tried. It was one of the slowest mimesis breaks ever -- the more I saw the "Time passes" message, the more convinced I became that no time was passing. Once I knew that I needed to conform to the game's puzzly expectations in order to complete the scenario, my emotional involvement evaporated -- probably a good thing given that several horrible, unstoppable events occur in the course of play. Fort Aegea has a great deal of fun to offer as a game, but as a story, I found it a pretty inhospitable place. | 2019-04-22T11:12:26 | http://www.helephant.net/index.php?analise=754 |
0.999999 | What is in an apology? Tony Blair yesterday apologised to the 'Guildford Four' and the 'Maguire Seven' for their wrongful imprisonment for detonating IRA bombs in English pubs in the mid-Seventies.
He had intended to deliver the apology during Prime Minister's Question Time in response to a planted question, but was rightly seen off by the Speaker.
So he strode into his House of Commons office to deliver the apology to camera. All that was missing was a trembling lip. This was Mr Blair in theatrically tragic mode. If you had turned off the volume, and merely observed his stricken face, you might have thought that he was announcing the start of World War III.
But why exactly should Mr Blair apologise? He was not even an MP when these people were jailed in 1974, nor yet even a trainee lawyer. He was a guitar-strumming undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford. He was not in the vaguest way associated with the courts responsible for jailing the 'Guildford Four' and the 'Maguire Seven'.
To apologise for an act which one did not commit, and could not have stopped, is morally confused. But Mr Blair likes saying sorry for things over which he had no control. Several years ago he apologised for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine. Oddly, he has already said he was "very sorry indeed" to the Guildford Four back in June 2000. So they have received a double apology.
yesterday. It was intended to soothe the IRA.
But the IRA itself has never apologised for having caused the deaths of seven people in pubs in Guildford and Woolwich, or for the Birmingham pub bomb, also in 1974, which killed 21 people. Nor has the IRA expressed much sorrow for the Omagh bomb, set off by an IRA splinter group in 1999, that killed 29 people.
Gerry Adams, President of Sinn Fein, has been accused by a reputable source of setting up the IRA unit which murdered and clandestinely buried at least nine people in the Seventies - the so-called 'Disappeared'.
Far from apologising, he has not even admitted that he was a member of the IRA. Nor have we heard any regrets from Martin McGuinness, also a former member of the IRA, who was said by the former Tory Minister Peter Lilley to have admitted to having had 12 Catholic informers killed. Apology is not in the IRA's lexicon.
pursue the killers of Omagh as they should have.
How wonderful it would be if, instead of issuing carefully contrived and empty apologies about actions over which he had no control, Mr Blair said sorry for his own sins and omissions. It is a strange person who conveys sorrow for the actions of other people but is not prepared to betray the tiniest degree of sorrow at his own mistakes. That is the morally dishonest position in which Mr Blair finds himself.
Having dealt with Northern Ireland, he could go on to express concern at the inexorable rise in violent crime during Labour's eight years of office. Remember Mr Blair's oft-repeated refrain about the need to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"? He could come out and say that, despite his best intentions, violent crime has continued to increase.
contracting such an infection is more than 15 times higher than in Sweden and the Netherlands, countries with a comparable standard of living.
Is this not a state of affairs that should warrant a sincere expression of regret? Equally, Mr Blair might find time to say that he is sorry not to have fulfilled his all-consuming ambition to overhaul our education system. We can all recall that other refrain of 'education, education, education'. Again, a booming economy - Gordon Brown's achievement rather than Mr Blair's - has enabled the Government to pump extra billions into our schools. But with what results? Millions of children are still not offered a decent education.
But the biggest apology I would like to see from Mr Blair concerns Iraq. The Government built its case for invading Iraq on the certain existence of weapons of mass destruction. Mr Blair told the House of Commons that it was 'beyond doubt' that these weapons existed. Last autumn Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, and even Mr Blair, finally admitted that these weapons had not existed after all.
What did Mr Blair do? He delivered a very limited semiapology which neatly shifted the blame to the security services. "I take full responsibility and apologise for any information given in good faith that has subsequently turned out to be wrong," he told the Commons last October. But he refused to apologise for having invaded Iraq under false pretences. In fact, he again defended his decision to do so. In effect, there was no apology at all - no apology to the families of the ten servicemen whose bodies were flown back to Britain on Tuesday, no awareness of what he has done.
No apology, either, to the family of Dr David Kelly, the weapons expert who killed himself after he had been outed to the media by Government spin doctors.
Mr Blair now takes the line that he took Britain to war to remove Saddam and his evil sons. But before the war he offered Saddam the chance to stay in power if he disarmed. To take a country to war on a prospectus that turns out to be bogus is surely more worthy of an apology than an event more than 30 years ago over which Mr Blair did not have the slightest control.
There is a very great deal for which Mr Blair could apologise - for politicising the civil service, for re-employing Alastair Campbell, for entertaining cronies at Chequers at public expense, for hobnobbing with dodgy businessmen, for not fulfilling his promises over public services, for not pursuing the murderers of Omagh and for telling lies. But of course he never will. Tony Blair is not sorry for anything he has done, but he is delighted to apologise for other people's errors. | 2019-04-21T22:45:57 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-337345/A-man-say-sorry-for.html |
0.998881 | Has David Hare really joined Twitter?
Theatre types are agog at the arrival of a David Hare parody account on Twitter. Who’s behind it?
Forget Helen Mirren getting regally stroppy with drummers interrupting her West End play.
Forget Helen Mirren getting regally stroppy with drummers interrupting her West End play. The real drama of the bank holiday weekend has been unfolding 140 characters a time, concerns an equally distinguished theatrical luminary, and appears to be ongoing.
On Friday morning, an innocuous tweet complaining about Camden council appeared from a brand-new Twitter account, @LittleSirDavidH, whose profile picture bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain famous British playwright.
Further clues were supplied by knowing references to certain famous theatre directors (“The Telegraph have asked Richard Eyre to draft my obituary. I requested that he refer to me as ‘insouciant'”), certain famous media personalities (“Melvyn Bragg called … I was watching J’Accuse”) and – most revealing – a certain famous wife called Nicole (Farhi?), who appears to work in fashion. The question was unavoidable: had David Hare finally joined Twitter?
The only thing that’s stopped me writing the Great British Novel is that every novelist I’ve met has begged me not to enter the fray.
SirDH (as he styles himself) has kept us guessing. In the 48 hours since, there has been a blizzard of puckish commentary on dusty theatre groups of the 1970s, lofty pronouncements on fellow playwrights (“Howard Brenton just phoned me in an awful state. He is convinced I’m a genius”), speculation on Hare’s influence on younger female writers (“I am given to understand that debbie tucker green was inspired to write for the stage by My Zinc Bed”), even mischievous mention of the playwright’s controversial acceptance of a knighthood.
Of me, Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, I was the only one with the moral courage to accept a knighthood.
There has also been – for reasons mildly unclear – plentiful pondering on the assistance to the creative process of Fanta and Wotsits.
Despite initial speculation that Hare himself is behind the Twitter feed, that seems unlikely – though personally I hold out hope (and whoever is responsible has a frighteningly detailed knowledge of Hare’s oeuvre). Sunday morning saw the undignified spectacle of various real-life playwrights, notably Simon Stephens and John Donnelly, scrambling on to Twitter to deny they were responsible. Today, Mark Ravenhill, David Eldridge and Lucy Prebble have been engaging in backstage badinage with SirDH, to the point where Ravenhill admitted that he was struggling to concentrate on the latest draft of his new play for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
My greengrocer confessed himself haunted by the way Susan Traherne embodied the contradictions of liberal democracy.
Even the Guardian has even been sucked into this tangled metatheatrical web. Earlier today I was invited to commission a new arts series, The Writer Thinks, pitched as “photographs of great writers pondering a new work” (if you’re reading, SirDH – we’re trying to clear some space in G2), and there have been distraught pleas for the attention of our theatre critics (“Dear @lyngardner, I will keep this brief and the tone cordial. Do you know why Michael Billington is ignoring me?”).
When I write a woman’s role in a play I read the lines out in a high-pitched voice. No one did that before me. Now it is common practice.
Despite attempts to discover the tweeter’s identity, however, SirDH refuses to be drawn on such reductionist questions, telling me: “with every play I write I discover myself anew.” Frankly, SirDH, we feel that’s what arts subsidy is for.
So who is responsible? Will SirDH attain the cult following of @Michael_Haneke and @CrimerShow? And where will the script lead next? As they didn’t quite say about Amy’s View – this one could run and run. | 2019-04-20T12:23:40 | https://bimcrunch.com/2013/05/has-david-hare-really-joined-twitter/ |
0.999995 | What's the best alcohol choice to drink?
Experts recommend liquor-based drinks with low-cal mixers. Rum and diet soda or vodka and Sprite Zero all run around 100 calories. Wine is a good option too—lighter glasses have around 100 to 120 calories—but experts caution that it's easy to overdo the portion. “The real diet danger with drinking isn't just the calories in your glass. Alcohol lowers your inhibitions, which can cause you to make poor food choices. Plus, it can interfere with how your body metabolizes other foods, making you more likely to store fat。” To avoid post-party regret, stick to one drink. Sip, savor; and then switch to water.
When I'm going to a party, what should I eat the rest of the day?
Here's what you shouldn't eat: nothing. “If you walk in to a party famished, it's setting you up for disaster,” says the expert. “Maybe eat slightly fewer calories than usual, and focus on veggies and lean protein。” For breakfast, she recommends an egg-white omelet with veggies and cheese ,and a slice of whole-grain toast. For lunch, have a salad piled with non-starchy veggies （think broccoli, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes） and a protein like turkey, tuna, or chicken. Then nosh on a nutritious snack about 30 to 60 minutes before your party—a combo of fiber and protein.
What should I eat at a holiday dinner?
If there's one simple rule to follow, it's this: Fill half your plate with veggies, provided they're not smothered in butter or cheese. This will help you fill up and avoid eating more higher-calorie carb or protein options. For the rest of your dish, split it between whole grains and lean protein. If there's an indulgent-looking recipe you have to try, take a tablespoon or small scoop. “People overestimate how much they need to eat to feel satisfied,” says experts.
How do I say “no” to friends and family who offer unhealthy food?
People feel so guilty saying no out of fear of offending someone. But chances are you're overestimating how much your response bothers them. Don't worry about making excuses—just start with a simple, “No thanks” or “That looks great; I'll try some later。” If you want to ensure you have something healthy to eat, ask the host in advance if you can contribute to the festivities. | 2019-04-25T17:33:18 | http://chinaenglish.com.cn/html/c269/2013-12/51497.html |
0.999103 | After the strawberry picking adventure a couple weeks ago, I happily ate the fresh berries but with a huge bucket to myself, I wanted to find another way to enjoy them. I (surprisingly) wasn't in the mood to bake with them but then remembered a delicious salad I had so many years ago that I wanted to recreate.
About six years ago, I helped a friend assemble this salad to take to a potluck. She said it was a secret family recipe but I after some googling, I easily found it online (Sorry, C). And it's pretty common in salad bars and even at Panera (but was totally new to me back then).
And poppy seeds are probably what make this dressing so classic. But when I went to my local HEB to buy some in bulk, the employee told me he had just refilled the poppy seed jar (which was pretty big) and some guy came and emptied it. And they didn't have any more in the store to refill the jar, again. Who needs that many poppy seeds? The HEB employee thought that guy was doing something else with them. But they aren't totally essential; I loved enjoyed the salad without them and my teeth were also free from any stray ones that might have gotten caught in them.
1. Combine sugar, olive oil, vinegar, shallot, Worcestershire sauce, sesame seeds and poppy seeds (if using) and mix in a bowl.
2. Combine spinach, strawberries, almonds and feta cheese into a large bowl. Add in a tablespoon of the dressing and toss. Repeat until the spinach is well coated with dressing. | 2019-04-21T22:33:50 | http://www.lilchung.com/2016/04/sweet-savory-strawberry-salad.html |
0.998506 | Has an Alien TV series been picked up by a mystery streaming service? We can immediately chalk this up to a rumor that we would all probably like to be true, but for the time being, can only regard as a very intriguing bit of hearsay. In any case, that is indeed the rumor floating around right now. That opens up a whole host of additional questions, but if there is even a nugget of truth to this, it could be just what the franchise needs right now.
We first got wind that a TV series based on Ridley Scott's Alien franchise may be in the works just ahead of San Diego Comic-Con over the summer. Even at that point, it was nothing more than a rumor and still has yet to be confirmed by anyone at Fox, who currently controls the franchise. In any case, a new report from Mr H Reviews states that his "very reliable" anonymous source has confirmed that the show is a go and that it has already found a home at a streaming service. Here's what he had to say about it.
"This source is very reliable. They have told me that the Alien TV series is definitely happening. It has found a streaming service. There is no other information outside of that."
There are so many unknowns here even if this bit of the rumor is true. The biggest question being, what streaming service stepped in and picked the show up? It's anyone's guess really, as Netflix, Amazon, Shudder and a host of other services are all gunning for premium content to draw in subscribers. The second question is, what would the show be about? Based on what we heard over the summer, it likely wouldn't be centered totally on Xenomorphs, as that would get very expensive and possibly run out of steam very quickly. So, Colonial Marines doing their thing in space? All we can do is speculate.
One key thing to bring up is the pending Disney merger with Fox, which is expected to close as early as January. Disney is purchasing most of Fox's assets and that will put them in control of the Alien franchise once the deal closes. However, for the time being, Fox is operating as they normally would, to some degree, continuing to develop and produce both movies and TV shows until such time that the merger does close.
Related: 2 Alien TV Shows Being Planned, One from Ridley Scott & Hulu?
Another thing worth bringing up; Disney will own a controlling stake in Hulu once the deal closes. Since Alien maybe wouldn't be a good fit for the upcoming Disney-branded streaming service, perhaps it would make a nice fit for Hulu, which already is host to more adult-oriented shows like The Handmaid's Tale and Castle Rock? Just a thought. For now, it's only a rumor. But if it becomes more than that, we'll be sure to bring you any new info as soon as we can. Feel free to check out the clip for yourself below from the Mr H Reviews YouTube channel. | 2019-04-25T09:00:08 | https://tvweb.com/alien-tv-series-new-streaming-home/ |
0.998455 | We spoke with Luis Gispert and Jeff Reed about their 'Stereomongrel' project and the inspiration behind the October cover of VICE magazine.
Luis Gispert and Jeff Reed first began collaborating on films and photographs around 2002. Their Stereomongrel project premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been exhibited or screened Internationally. Both work as artists and filmmakers on their respective coasts: Gispert in Brooklyn, New York, and Reed in Venice, California.
What's the backstory of your cover image?
Luis Gispert: The cover image "BB Matrix" was part of a larger project called Stereomongrel that debuted at the Whitney Museum. It was basically a ten-minute film and a suite of large-format photographs that captured scenes and characters that were not seen in the film. These weren't outtakes, but actual set pieces designed to be their own photographs. We imagined them to be moments within the narrative orbit of the film that took place elsewhere and simultaneously.
How did music influence or inspire this project?
Jeff Reed: Luis and I had been talking about this thing "portamento," which is a musical term. It comes from classical music and fretless string instruments, but then became the basis of a lot of synth music in the 60s and 70s as analog synthesis flourished and subsequently found its way onto a lot of rap records in the 80s and beyond. Think Dr. Dre, NWA, Snoop... It's that effect of gliding smoothly and seamlessly up or down a musical interval without stopping on any of the discrete notes.
Gispert: We thought of the film and photographs as separate tones that are bound together within the same aesthetic world but that can be experienced seamlessly as a whole.
Reed: I had a studio in LA at the time, and we would spend days just playing music against our film, working with producers, writing, scoring.... It was a great time to create, and everything we were doing can be seen in the final product. It's a testament to the music we were consuming and creating, the huge influence it had on the film's soundtrack and the photos.
What were you guys listening to?
Gispert: The project took two years to complete, so we're talking 2003 to 2005. Mashups had just started getting big. There was plenty of hip-hop playing in the background. Mobb Deep. Ghostface Killah's "Supreme Cliental," was pretty much on endless loop. We got really into this amazing Italian prog rock band called Goblin.
Reed: At the time, we were really focused on fabricated subcultures or gangs. We were looking around Miami's Overtown neighborhood, near North Miami Avenue, which was then one of the most dangerous areas in the city. The crack epidemic had really destroyed everything. This was long before Art Basel had ushered in the gentrification. Having grown up in Miami, Luis was familiar with the area—his father's shop was in the neighborhood, and he knew many of the local residents.
Gispert: We came across a guy wandering around in full construction garb—even a dust mask—but we knew there was no construction site for miles. He was holding a machete. After striking up a conversation, he told us that everyone had to have a "look." His "look" helped him: It was camouflage, so the cops wouldn't harass him.
Reed: He said he had a crew in the area that might want to be in our photos for a few bucks. He guided us around to a really sketchy and grimy back alley, which seemed like a super logical place to hang out with a guy holding a machete, especially when you're two skinny guys walking around with expensive cameras and cash. He introduced us to his cohorts: a pimp, a few prostitutes, lots of crackheads. All-around hustlers. They were all game to join in on the photo. We had a flatbed truck, a Toshiba boombox, and a toolbox full of costume gold. After huffing crack out of a paper bags, they wandered the yard like zombies with boomboxes in tow. A pied-piper archetype showed up with a flatbed truck and collected all the boom boxes to be transported and passed on to other gangs inhabiting this Stereomongrelized world.
Can you let us in on the connection between the cover photo and the inset photos?
Gispert: Well, we've talked about the cover story. Every photo had a unique backstory but was also rooted in the Stereomongrel universe. The photograph of the gang of bruised-up red-headed, heavily flossing urban cheerleaders strolling down Great Jones Street in Manhattan ties directly to the cover image. The Ghettoblasters were like torches being passed from the inhabitants of the flatbed truck world to the cheerleader squad in another urban fantasy space.
Reed: "Cold Storage" was shot in Los Angeles and was based on a pair of black market speaker salesman we encountered. We transformed their story into a duo of college-aged girls hustling speakers out of their middle-class Mar Vista kitchen. We realized that you can use completely factual aspects of a story—and we really got to know the guys and their whole operation, from sourcing to theft to fencing to evasion of authority—but by changing the faces, locations, and their attendant class connotations, you're left with an image that feelssurreal and imagined but is essentially a documentary.
Apart from our own directing and art projects, we are excited to be in talks to collaborate once again.
Since a lot of our recent covers have been still lifes, we wanted to do something a little different this time. We don't typically put artists or celebrities on our cover, so we chose an image with a lot of movement and an immersive backstory that we felt encapsulated music in an unlikely way. The images above were alternate cover options.
This photo comes from 'Stereomongrel,' a series of large-format images Luis Gispert made with Jeff Reed to accompany their film. | 2019-04-21T18:12:05 | https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwk7az/behind-the-cover-vice-magazine-october-music-issue-v23n07 |
0.999994 | As I've noted earlier, 2008's may be the most heavily analogized election in American history. Barack Obama has been likened, often quite convincingly, to leaders ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Jimmy Carter. John McCain--the American Disraeli to admirers, the second Bob Dole to critics--isn't far behind.
Sarah Palin, though, seems to conjure up just one historical parallel: Dan Quayle, the dubiously qualified, polarizing newcomer who graced the GOP ticket two decades ago. Obama fans tend to see Quayle's deer-in-the-headlights look when they see Palin; the best many Republicans can do is note that Quayle's candidacy didn't prevent his ticket from winning a landslide victory.
Now, a month into her candidacy, the battle is joined: In a speech at the Harry Truman Library today, McCain sang the praises of the little-known, oft-derided Missouri pol thrust into the presidency by the 1945 death of Franklin Roosevelt. The comparison, of course, is a little scary--evocations of successful veeps tend to involve evocations of the presidential deaths that elevated the veep to greatness, as FDR's did less than three months after Truman's election. But the comparison is also analogistic gold: Truman is a bipartisan presidential hero, the patron political saint of underestimated middle-Americans and unpopular presidents. McCain's speech didn't even mention Palin. Given the stellar popular-culture image of the plainspoken Harry S., it didn't have to.
So long as we're going back in history for both positive and negative comparisons, let me nominate my own scary vice-presidential analogue for the Alaska governor: John Tyler, the nation's 10th vice president. Running alongside an elderly war-hero candidate, the Virginian was nominated as a balancing gesture, to soothe the sectional divisions within his Whig Party. It worked, as Tyler helped reassure both slaveholding Southerners and stalwarts of party hero Henry Clay about the man at the top of the 1840 ticket, William Henry Harrison.
Of course, the dangers of nominating an extremist on the day's big issues soon became clear: Harrison, the great hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe, went on to die a month after being sworn in, making Tyler the first veep to succeed following a presidential death. True to his political roots, Tyler took a series of strongly pro-Southern stands that fractured the coalition that won the 1840 election. He didn't serve a second term and wound up dying in 1862 in Richmond, where he lived as a loyal citizen of the Confederate States of America. | 2019-04-24T16:00:15 | https://newrepublic.com/article/44797/analogy-watch-palin-edition |
0.999992 | A mother-of-five has been found dead in the same lake where her teenage lover drowned in an apparent suicide just weeks earlier.
Dee Anderson, 34, was discovered less than two months after the body of partner Brian Anderson, 19, was found at Leybourne Lakes in Kent.
Family friends said Dee had been left "devastated" by her partner's death in August.
She had left a moving internet tribute to Brian before her death which read: 'You've been my will to live - I will be with you soon'.
The couple, who were not married but shared the same surname, are thought to have drowned in apparent suicides at the beauty spot - leaving behind their four-month old daughter Alex Clara. Miss Anderson had four other children, including an adopted son.
As floral tributes were left at the spot where the pair died, a friend of the family said: 'It is unbearably tragic for both of their families - and little Alex, who has lost both her parents.
'Everyone is just in a state of disbelief - no one can comprehend that this has happened. | 2019-04-21T17:20:00 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080528/I-soon--mother-leaves-moving-message-drowning-copycat-suicide.html |
0.999995 | Wim Hof (born 20 April 1959) is a Dutch daredevil, commonly nicknamed The Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold, which he attributes to exposure to cold, meditation and breathing techniques (similar to the Tibetan technique Tummo). Wim Hof has set out to spread the potential health benefits of his breathing techniques, working closely with scientists around the world to prove that his techniques work.
Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing. Since then, he’s climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namib Desert with no water and proven under a laboratory setting that he’s able to influence his autonomic nervous system and immune system at will. <br> Almost everything Wim has done was previously thought to be impossible - but he’s not a freak of nature. <br> To demonstrate that any human can learn his methods, Wim offered to teach Matt Shea and Daisy-May Hudson to climb a freezing cold mountain in their shorts without getting cold. But when Matt and Daisy signed up for the training, they had no idea that the so-called Iceman was planning to lead them on a psychedelic journey across Europe that circled the chasm between science, spirituality and mystery.
The breathing exercise has a profound effect and should be practiced in the way it is explained. Always do the breathing exercise in a safe environment (e.g. sitting on a couch/floor) and unforced. <br> Never practice the exercises before or during diving, driving, swimming, taking a bath or in any other environment/place where, should you pass out, a serious injury could occur. Wim Hof breathing may cause tingling sensations and/or lightheadedness. If you’ve fainted, it means that you went to far. Take a step back next time. <br> The cold is a powerful force. We strongly advise to gradually build up exposing yourself to the cold. Always train without force and listen to your body carefully. If it is not practiced responsible, there is a risk of hypothermia. <br> Do not practice the method during pregnancy or when having epilepsy. Persons with cardiovascular health issues, or any other (serious) health conditions, should always consult a medical doctor before starting with the Wim Hof Method. | 2019-04-22T11:13:10 | https://www.genia.io/group/82424759 |
0.999611 | Is it possible to make a Lewis structure for metallic bonds..?
CHEMICAL BONDING CONTENTS 2 Electronegativity 3 Road Map 4 Types Of Bonding 5 Properties Controlled By Chemical Bond 6 Polar Bonds 7 Metallic Bonding... Metallic structure consists of aligned positive ions in a "sea" of delocalized electrons. This means that the electrons are free to move throughout the structure, and gives rise to properties such as conductivity .
(iii)€€€€ Draw a diagram, including all the outer electrons, to represent the bonding present in CS 2 € € € € € € (iv)€€€ When heated with steam, CS... Proper usage and pronunciation (in phonetic transcription) of the word metallic bond. Information about metallic bond in the AudioEnglish.org dictionary, synonyms and antonyms. Information about metallic bond in the AudioEnglish.org dictionary, synonyms and antonyms.
Draw two diagrams of a metallic bond. In the first diagram, draw a weak In the first diagram, draw a weak metallic bond; in the second, show a metallic bond that would be stronger.... Metallic bond, force that holds atoms together in a metallic substance. Such a solid consists of closely packed atoms. In most cases, the outermost electron shell of each of the metal atoms overlaps with a large number of neighbouring atoms.
Draw two diagrams of a metallic bond. In the first diagram, draw a weak In the first diagram, draw a weak metallic bond; in the second, show a metallic bond that would be stronger.
Proper usage and pronunciation (in phonetic transcription) of the word metallic bond. Information about metallic bond in the AudioEnglish.org dictionary, synonyms and antonyms. Information about metallic bond in the AudioEnglish.org dictionary, synonyms and antonyms.
On the other hand, metallic bonds can be formed between the metal alloys and metalloids. For example, graphene that is an allotrope of carbon shows metallic bonding(two-dimensional). For example, graphene that is an allotrope of carbon shows metallic bonding(two-dimensional). | 2019-04-25T06:12:45 | http://anincrediblewoman.com/new-south-wales/how-to-draw-a-metallic-bond.php |
0.999992 | Cleveland, OH, USA: Simbionix USA Corporation, the world’s leading provider of medical education and simulation training products, is pleased to announce that Mr.</p><p>Esteban Zamora has joined the company as Latin and Central American Sales Manager.
Cleveland, OH, USA: Simbionix USA Corporation, the world's leading provider of medical education and simulation training products, is pleased to announce that Mr.
Esteban Zamora has joined the company as Latin and Central American Sales Manager.
Zamora's experience in Sales and Marketing includes 12 years of working in Latin and Central America, developing new businesses, and cultivating positive relations with customers and distributors in the region, and the Latin America healthcare industry.
Prior to joining Simbionix, Mr.
Zamora oversaw the distribution network of the Surgical, Endoscopy and Microscopy business units of Olympus in South America.
As a Country Manager, he directed business operations with distributors, including the development and launch of new distribution channels.
Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English, he completed his Bachelor's degree in Costa Rica and holds a Masters of Business Administration.
Gary Zamler, Simbionix CEO, commented "We welcome Esteban to our continuously growing global Sales team.
His addition supports the commitment that Simbionix has made in Latin America, as demand for medical simulation is growing.
Our goal is to provide our valued customers and distributors in the region with all the support they need to succeed.
Simbionix operates in over 60 countries, and we believe that Esteban's illustrious experience and extensive knowledge of the region will help advance the company's objectives to grow in this geographical area." | 2019-04-24T17:56:13 | https://br.3dsystems.com/press-releases/simbionix-welcomes-new-latin-and-central-american-sales-manager |
0.999816 | Hold me tight! Don't let me go.
(female narrator) Why do people cry at movies? Why do sports fans get so excited during a game? Why do they feel anxious if their team is losing? The answer-- mirror neurons, a set of brain cells on either side of the head that might explain empathy. We found the mechanism that underlies something, which is absolutely fundamental to the way we see other people.
(narrator) The mirror neuron was first discovered at the University of Parma in Italy. Researchers there identified a neuron that fires both when a monkey picks up a peanut and when the monkey watches someone do it. The same neurons-- one neuron-- fire both when the monkey observes something and does it. It's almost unbelievable.
(Glaser) It was surprising because this cell involved with motor planning for the monkey turned out to be interested in the movements of others.
(narrator) The brain uses the mirror neurons to mirror the movements it sees. This happens in people too.
(Glaser) If you use the years of training you've done-- learning to crawl, then walk, then eat-- this is an incredibly rich set of knowledge to apply to seeing what's going on. The mirror system is the way you harness your own abilities and project them out into the world.
(narrator) Sports fans picture themselves playing when they watch a game. What makes them feel pain when their player drops the ball? The idea was to figure out how the emotional system and this motor system are connected.
(narrator) To find out, Marco Iacoboni looked at the brain scans of individuals when presented with a series of faces. In the first round, he asked people to imitate the faces. In the second round, he asked people to simply look at the faces. As expected, he found that the mirror neurons were activated during both rounds. But in addition, he found that the happy area of the brain lit up whenever people either imitated or looked at happy faces. So he thinks the mirror neurons can send messages to the emotional system in our brain. That's the mechanism that allows us to feel empathy with other people. Yeah, yeah! We strongly believe that's a unifying mechanism that allows people to connect at a simple level.
(narrator) So what happens if the mechanism is broken?
(man) It's been known for some time that children with autism could be intelligent, but have a profound deficit in social interaction.
(narrator) Christian likes to play, but like many with autism, prefers to play alone. He has a hard time communicating and does not always understand questions. Can you tell me what you did in school today? Doing well.
(narrator) Dr. Ramachandran and his graduate student hope to gain understanding of autism by studying the brain waves of children like Christian. We're going to read your brain waves with this.
(narrator) When mirror neurons are working correctly, they fire both for doing an action and seeing the same action. So for most people, the brain waves for doing and seeing look the same. But for Christian, the waves look different. Their brains may be different in that regard, and they may have deficits in the mirror neuron system. We don't know for sure. Additional work is needed using brain imaging.
(narrator) We do know healthy humans are very social. Everybody's interested-- what makes humans unique? You can say humor-- the laughing biped. Language, certainly. But another thing is culture. A lot of culture comes from imitation-- watching your teachers do something.
(narrator) So the mirror neuron is a big part of what makes us human.
(Glaser) There'd be little point in a mirror system living on your own. There'd be a point to having a digestive system or having a movement system or a visual system, but no point to a mirror system. The mirror system is the basic social brain system, a system which is pointless if you don't interact or relate to others.
Why do sports fans feel so emotionally invested in the game, reacting almost as if they were part of the game? According to new research, people constantly imitate whatever they are observing. This video segment, adapted from "NOVA ScienceNow," discusses the latest research on a system of neurons that plays a part in how people relate to each other. These neurons, known as mirror neurons, prime individuals to imitate what they see. | 2019-04-20T16:50:46 | https://dcmp.org/media/10963-mirror-neurons |
0.896482 | The word catechize, is properly Greek, derived from the verb katecheo, to instruct with the voice, which is found, in some of its parts, six or seven times in the New Testament, but is commonly translated to instruct; because in English, the word catechize has somehow acquired a narrower signification than the original term, and conveys the idea of instruction by question and answer; whereas, the word in Greek includes all manner of elementary, oral instruction: and it would be desirable to bring back the word to its original meaning. This, however, is of small moment. The passages in which the original word is found, are the following: Luke 1:4; Acts 18:25; Acts 21:22, 24; Romans 2:18; 1 Corinthians 14:19; Galatians 4:6.
It appears therefore that this mode of instruction is fully recognized in the sacred Scriptures. Indeed, if no other methods of inculcating divine truth were resorted to, than delivering elaborate and continued discourses from the pulpit, very little information would be gained by the young and the ignorant. Preaching supposes and requires some preparatory knowledge in the hearers, to render it useful in communicating religious knowledge. Elementary principles must be acquired in some other way; and this was more especially the case before the invention of printing, when books were very scarce, and few persons were able to read. It seems that the apostles and first teachers of the Christian religion were much occupied in giving religious instruction, from house to house; and we know from undoubted authorities, that in the earliest times of the primitive church, all who applied for admission into the church, from among the heathen, and all the children of Christians, were carefully instructed by catechizing; that is, by a course of familiar teaching, viva voce. To every church a class of catechumens was attached and formed a kind of school, in which the first principles of religion were inculcated, and certain formulas of Christian doctrine, such as the early creeds, carefully committed to memory, together with portions of the sacred Scriptures. In some places these schools for catechumens became very famous, and were supplied with teachers of the highest character for learning and piety; so that they were frequented by the lovers of sacred literature from other countries. A celebrated institution of this sort flourished for several ages at Alexandria, in Egypt in which Origen was educated, and at which he became the most distinguished teacher. A large number of the treatises written by the fathers, in different countries, and in different centuries, were composed expressly for the instruction of the catechumens. And until darkness overspread the church, and her unnatural pastors deprived the people of the Scriptures, the church was, as it ever should be, like a great school, where holy men of God devoted their time to the instruction of the rising generation, and of converts from paganism.
In catechetical, or elementary instruction, the grand secret is, little at a time and often repeated. Whoever would successfully instruct children and very ignorant adults, should avoid the error of crowding too many things into their minds at once. It is as preposterous a practice as it would be to attempt to increase the activity, vigor, and size of the body, by cramming the stomach with as much food as it could hold. Moreover, the truths first communicated should be as simple as possible. Tender minds must not be fed with strong meat, but with pure milk. To accommodate instruction to the state of advancement in knowledge, and to the degree of development of the mental faculties, is certainly that part of education which is most difficult, and at the same time the most important. That historical facts should form the commencement of a course of religious instruction, is indicated, first, by the method pursued in the Bible; and secondly, by the predilection of all children for this species of knowledge. But at a very early period, moral and doctrinal instruction of the most important kind may be connected with the scriptural facts inculcated, and may always be most advantageously engrafted on them. Doctrinal catechisms are, it is admitted, not commonly understood well by children; but it can do them no harm to exercise themselves in committing the words to memory; for it is universally admitted, that to strengthen the memory, it must be frequently and vigorously exercised: and will it not be much better to have it stored with words which contain the most salutary truths, rather than those which may, by some association, prove injurious on the recollection?
Sometimes the having committed to memory such a system as the Shorter Catechism, is of the utmost importance to an individual when his lot is cast where he has no means of correct information; or in case the person should lose his sight or hearing. We once noticed an exemplification of this in the case of a man of strong mind, who had led a busy life, without much concern with books, and who in his latter years was entirely blind. In conversation on the most important topics of religion, in which he took a deep interest, he would continually recur to the answers in the Shorter Catechism, which he had learned when young; and which now seemed to serve as a guide to his thoughts in all his meditations. But the true reason why so many children learn the Catechism without understanding its meaning, is that no pains are taken to explain its doctrines, and to illustrate them, in a way adapted to their capacity. Parents are, for the most part, either incapable of giving such instruction or negligent in the performance of this important duty. Most parents then stand in need of some helps to enable them to explain the meaning of the Catechism; and such helps have been amply provided, and should be in the hands of every Presbyterian family. We have works of this description by Vincent, Flavel, Thompson, and others of former days; and more recently an excellent exposition of the Shorter Catechism by the Rev. Belfrage of Scotland; and still more recently we have a set of Lectures on the Shorter Catechism from the pen of the venerable Doctor Green, in two volumes, which we sincerely wish might be found in every family in our church, as a work of sound theology, written in a correct and perspicuous style. And while we are recommending expositions of this excellent little compend, we would not omit to mention with high approbation, the Rev. Matthew Henry’s Scriptural Catechism, in which all the questions are derived from those in the Shorter Catechism, and the answers throughout are in the very words of Scripture. This in our opinion is an admirable work, and ought to be reprinted and widely circulated. We are also free to recommend Fisher’s Catechism, as a valuable doctrinal work, which has been much used in Scotland, and by many Presbyterians in this country. The Key to the Shorter Catechism, we also approve, and from the testimony of those who have tried it, we are led to believe, it may be made very useful in aiding children to understand the meaning of words and phrases used in the Catechism.
The old Presbyterian custom of devoting the Sabbath evening, sacredly, to the business of catechizing the children and domestics, in every family, ought to be revived among us where it has fallen into disuse; no other means which have been substituted for this, are likely to answer as good a purpose. Or, if public services in the church are considered on the whole expedient, on this evening, let an hour in the morning, or immediately after dinner be appropriated to this important work. It is as useful to parents, as to children; and is the most effectual method of inducing young persons to commit the Catechism well to memory. And unless this is done, the religious instruction of servants and domestics will be neglected. These family instructions should be conducted with great gravity and kindness of manner; at such times, chiding and scolding should be avoided; and the addresses to the consciences of delinquents should be made with affectionate tenderness.
We do earnestly hope that attention to doctrinal instruction will not be relinquished, nor diminished in our church. Hitherto, Presbyterians have been distinguished above all people in the world, for a correct and thorough knowledge of the tenets of their own church. No people on earth are so well indoctrinated in the principles of religion, and in the proof of the doctrines believed, as the Scotch, and their descendants in Ireland and America. Other people far exceed them in metaphysical speculations, and in the knowledge of other matters; but for sound religious knowledge, commend us to Scotch Presbyterians of every sect.
The benefits of thorough instruction in the doctrines of religion cannot be calculated. The truths thus received into the mind may prove ineffectual, in some cases, to restrain from open sin; but even in these, the force of the truth is often felt, and the person thus situated, is much more likely to be convinced of the error of his ways than those transgressors whose minds are almost totally destitute of the knowledge of the doctrines of religion. There is, moreover, an unspeakable benefit from the possession of correct doctrinal information, when the mind falls under serious impressions of religion; for then, truths which had been early inculcated, and long forgotten, will revive in the memory, and serve to guard the anxious mind from those enthusiastic errors into which ignorant persons are so prone to fall when they are deeply exercised on the subject of their salvation. Let not the members of the Presbyterian Church, therefore, become remiss in that which has ever been her most honorable distinction; the careful initiation of children into the doctrines of religion, contained in her Catechisms; than which we believe, a sounder system of theoretical and practical theology, cannot be found in any language.
We cannot be contented to let the opportunity pass of bestowing merited commendation on those denominations of Scotch Presbyterians who are not in communion with the General Assembly, for their indefatigable industry and care in giving doctrinal instruction to their children. In this respect, it must be acknowledged, they greatly excel all other denominations of Christians in our country. Among them, we have reason to believe, there has been no falling off in attention to the Catechisms; and few instances ever occur of the members of these churches being seduced by the insidious arts of the propagators of error and infidelity.
The question may occur to some, To whom does it belong to give catechetical instruction? We answer, to all who are capable of teaching anything of divine truth correctly. But, especially, it is the duty of parents, guardians, masters, school-masters, elders and ministers. All who can be enlisted in the service should be engaged to teach those more ignorant than themselves. And we feel constrained to give our testimony strongly in favor of Sunday Schools, in which so many persons are employed, so beneficially to themselves and others, in giving instruction out of the Bible. When this is called a new institution, it surely is not meant that any new instruction is given; or that there is anything new in the manner of communicating religious knowledge. The whole novelty of the thing consists in the success of the attempt to engage such a multitude of teachers in giving lessons, and such a multitude of scholars in learning them. But we would respectfully ask, whether parents, and ministers, and elders, have not become more remiss in catechizing since the introduction of Sunday School?
In order to render the public catechizing of children profitable, the pastor of the flock must manifest a deep and lively interest in the exercise. If he should appear indifferent, and attend on catechetical exercise in a formal or careless manner, no great good can be expected to arise from such meetings; but if he will take pains to arrange all the circumstances of such exercises, so as to render them interesting to old and young; if he will propose special subjects of inquiry, refer to proper books, and converse freely with his people on this topic, a spirit of investigation will be excited, religious knowledge will be pursued with diligence and alacrity, and catechizing will be found to be the most effectual means of diffusing correct information on the doctrines of religion.
If common schools were what they ought to be, seminaries in which Christian doctrine was carefully taught, then our schoolmasters would all be catechists, and the children would be trained in the knowledge of God, and their duty. The business of catechizing youth seems also to be one of the appropriate duties of the eldership; for surely these officers ought not to be restricted to mere matters of order and government. As leaders of the people, they should go before them in religious instruction; and it would be an expedient, as it is a common arrangement, to have each parish so divided into districts, that every elder would have a little charge of his own to look after, the families within which he might frequently visit, and where he might frequently collect and catechize the youth. If ruling elders are commonly incompetent to perform such a work as this, they are unfit for the office which they hold, and can be of little service in the church in other respects. It is now becoming matter of common complaint, that our ruling elders are not generally sensible of the important duties which belong to their office, and are not well qualified to perform them. But how can this evil be remedied? We answer, that the effectual remedy will be found in an increased attention to instruction in the doctrines of the church, by which means many will acquire a taste and thirst for religious knowledge; and whenever this occurs, there will be rapid progress in the acquisition of such a fund of sound theology, as will qualify them to communicate instruction to the young and ignorant. In the mean time, let every pastor meet with the elders of his church, once in the week, for the express purpose of discussing questions which relate to the duties belonging to their office: and thus those who are really desirous of executing their office in a faithful and intelligent manner, will become better and better prepared for their important work every year.
The question has often been agitated whether it would not be expedient to have an order of catechists, whose duty it should be to attend to this whole concern; and the idea has been favorably entertained by some in the Presbyterian church. But to us it appears, that such an office would be worse than useless: for, if the catechist be taken from among the members of the church, where he is expected to officiate, and this must be the case if every church is supplied with one or more, then why not constitute him at once a ruling elder? Surely the mere name of catechist would not qualify him to give instruction; and if he is qualified, would he not be as able to teach, if called by the name elder as catechist? And if the office is judged to be expedient, because we cannot obtain well qualified elders, how can it be supposed that competent catechists could be found? The idea of some, however, is, that to perform the duties of catechizing well, requires much more time than men can commonly afford from their own business; and therefore, proper persons should be employed at a reasonable salary, to devote their whole time to this important branch of instruction. Now all this is very reasonable, and brings us to the very point mentioned before, viz. that schools, among Christians, should have it as their chief object, to bring up children in the knowledge of divine things; and the proper catechists of the church would be the teachers of these schools. If it be said, that school-masters are often incompetent to perform this part of their duty; we reply, that the same thing would be true if they were called catechists; or if other persons were sought for, in the present state of the church, there would exist the same difficulty in obtaining them as there is now in finding well qualified school-masters. The truth is, the church should take pains to train men for this very office; and the parents should set a much higher value on it, than they have been accustomed to do; and the office ought to be rendered more respectable, and more desirable than it is at present.
It may, perhaps, be thought by some, that the prevalence of Sunday schools renders it unnecessary for church officers to concern themselves with the instruction of the youth under their charge. If, indeed, the schools of this description within the parish are under the special superintendence and tuition of the Pastor and Elders, there is no good reason why catechetical instruction should not be given in a Sunday school as well as anywhere else. Catechizing is an exercise peculiarly suited to the Sabbath, and if the officers of any church should agree to conduct this part of the instruction in these valuable institutions, it would certainly be an improvement on the plan on which they are commonly conducted. But when, as is commonly the case, these schools are made up of children of different denominations, and are under the direction of persons not connected with any one church, their existence and prosperity, while it will greatly facilitate pastoral labors, ought not to be considered as a substitute for catechizing. We are afraid, however, that some pastors, as well as many parents, have become remiss in this part of their duty, from the mistaken idea, that their labors in this field are now superseded. This mistake should be carefully counteracted; and while the benefits of Sunday school are gratefully acknowledged, the instruction of our youth in the Catechisms of our own church should be pursued with increasing diligence.
The old Presbyterian plan of conducting catechizing did not confine this method of instruction to children and youth, but extended it to all persons except the officers of the church. And certainly one of the chief hindrances to the success of catechetical instruction has been that it commonly terminates too soon. When children have arrived at the age of twelve or fourteen years, they take up the opinion that they are too big and too old to repeat the catechism; in consequence of which, until the institution of Bible classes, our youth received no appropriate instruction, in many congregations, in that period of their lives which of all others is most important for improvement in knowledge. While we are strong advocates for catechetical instruction, we are at the same time warm friends to the method of instruction pursued in Bible classes; and we should be pleased to see both these methods of instruction extended to all ages and conditions of men; for who is there that has not something yet to learn? And what upon earth is so worthy of time and pains as the knowledge of God’s word, and the doctrines of his wonderful love and grace? Every man who contributes to the increase of this kind of learning by his writings, should be deemed more a public benefactor than he who invents the most useful machine. Let all, then, whom God has entrusted with so excellent a talent as that of writing well on theology, take heed that they do not hide it in a napkin or bury it in the earth; for never was there a time when there was a greater need of good books and tracts to counteract the floods of error which are issuing from a thousand sources; and never was there a period when the effect of good writing was so extensive. By means of the improvements in printing, and the facilities of conveyance in our day, opportunity is afforded of circulating opinions throughout the land; and if religious men sleep, there is no doubt that the enemy will sow his tares plentifully. Let the friends of truth, therefore, be watchful and wise, and ever on the alert, in seizing opportunities of enlightening the world with the pure doctrines of the word of God. | 2019-04-26T08:43:59 | http://shelterrpchurch.com/?page_id=702 |
0.995729 | whose collaboration is essential for success.
The program can be conducted either at the beginning of a new multi-team engagement or when there is a need to improve existing long-term relationships. Participants can come from two or more teams either from within a company, or from corporate partnerships.
The purpose The Partnering workshop is to build and strengthen long-term relationships between teams, in the context of either strategic or tactical issues.
The process A facilitator leads the teams through a process structured around the key contributors to effective “partnering” relationships.
Participants collaboratively identify, explore, and agree common goals and objectives. Focus may be on measurable operational outcomes or overall, joint strategic goals.
Participants identify and clarify specific roles, challenges, and opportunities.
Participants generate ideas to address the challenges that have been identified.
Participants develop and commit to a clear, structured, and efficient process for addressing and resolving problems.
Participants identify the appropriate escalation process, should that become necessary.
Participants design and agree to support structures that maintain the focus on strong collaborative relationships and approaches to problem solving.
After participating in the Partnering Workshop, the teams come away with specific, measurable goals and renewed focus to drive their work and processes. The results are improved relationships and more successful ventures. | 2019-04-19T06:59:30 | http://csuite.com/partnering-workshop/ |
0.995778 | Anthropomorphism ... and why not?
Should you Trust a Tail-Wagging Dog?
1. Store the tin of paint upside down to avoid a hard skin forming.
3. Before painting, run a comb through the brush to remove loose hairs.
4. Cover the top of the tin with cling film before replacing the lid lightly. This ensures a good seal.
paint and mix it in well.
well and rinse in hot water with washing-up liquid.
8. When painting table or chair legs, stand the leg on jar lids to catch any drips.
before returning to the job.
Dab away any excess paint, then spray the area with hairspray. Leave for 2 minutes and then gently scrub until the paint has gone. Repeat as necessary.
Use paint thinner or turpentine for oil-based paints which are a great deal harder to remove. Dab away any excess paint then place a piece of cloth/rag/paper towel on the back of the fabric in order to collect seepage through the fabric. Place the thinner/turpentine on the area, then scrub gently with a brush/toothbrush. Continue as required, replacing the cloth/paper when saturated. Scrub with detergent, leave the soak overnight and then wash as normal.
2. Wrap fresh parsley tightly in cling film and it will keep for about 14 days in the refrigerator.
3. East fresh parsley to eradicate garlic smelling breath.
Peaches will ripen quickly if you put them in a box and cover them with newspaper (it seals in the gases).
Tomatoes and peaches can be peeled easily by using the microwave. Prick the skin lightly and microwave on HIGH for about 1 minute per item. Allow to stand for 5 minutes before peeling.
Remove by covering the marks with a whiteboard marker, then gently rub.
Rub petroleum jelly on your feet and put on a pair of cotton socks.
Smooth petroleum jelly on your hands and put on a pair of cotton gloves.
Wipe away any excess with a towel. It also works for knees and cuticles.
Clean the keys using a soft cloth and a solution of half a cup of vinegar in warm water. Squeeze the cloth and then wipe the keys. Dry and leave the keys uncovered for a day.
Carefully dust the glass and then polish with spectacle-cleaning tissues. Try to avoid liquid cleaners because they could seep under the edge of the glass and spoil the picture. If you do use liquid cleaners, apply them to a cloth, never directly to the glass.
If you can fold your pillow in half, it indicates that it needs to be cleaned.
Wash in the washing machine and to dry it in the tumbler, add two tennis balls (put inside two clean socks), put them in the dryer with the pillows. The tennis balls will fluff up the pillows as they dry.
1. Stuff pin cushions with used dried coffee grounds - the pins stored in them will never go rusty.
2. Put pins in a scented bar of soap to lubricate them.
To ripen a pineapple, cut off the leaves and put it in a paper bag and store it upside-down.
Make durable labels out of plain white plastic picnic knives. Record the plant variety and date with an indelible marker and then push the knife, handle down, into the soil.
Use clothes pegs to reseal plastic and polythene bags containing food.
1. Cut them in half for growing seedlings in.
2. Lengthways to use as small garden cloches.
Store plastic wrap in the refrigerator. It will make it much easier to use ... and easier to find the end!
When moving house, instead of wrapping each plate individually, pack them with foam disposable plates between each one.
Take a tennis ball with you on a trip. If your basin, sink or bath does not have a plug, the ball makes a great substitute.
Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Chips: Prick the chips all over before cooking to make them extra crispy.
Crisps: Place crisps in a plastic bag and store in the freezer to prevent them going soggy.
kitchen towel, then microwave on HIGH for about 5 minutes.
To keep potatoes from budding, put an apple in with them.
If you have over-salted a dish and it is still cooking, drop in a peeled potato to absorb the excess salt.
Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Slice the potato, rub it over the stains and then rinse.
Cut open a raw potato and rub it on rust. The acid in the potato will dissolve the rust. Add a little salt and soap if the job is proving to be very stubborn.
Cut open a raw potato and rub this on old shoes to polish them up nicely.
If you are out of silver polish, boil a few potatoes. Eat the potatoes, and put your silver into the remaining water and leave for about an hour. Remove the silver and wash.
Slice raw potatoes and put a few slices on you shut eyes for up to 10 minutes. This will make your puffy eyes return to normal.
Rub a cut raw potato over your goggle glass to keep them clean and misty free.
For the children, cut a potato in half (lengthways) and carve a design into one half. Cover with paint, or use a stamp pad to stamp the design onto paper.
After boiling potatoes, keep the water in which they were boiled, let it cool and water the house plants. The water contains nutrients that the plans enjoy.
To erase purple price tag marks that transfer from containers onto counter topes, use surgical spirit (with care).
Rub the legs of furniture with a little oil of cloves. The puppy will not like the smell of the bitter taste. | 2019-04-24T16:35:20 | https://www.healyshandyhouseholdhints.com/p.html |
0.997795 | Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted a 5,500-percent overnight hike in the price of a drug used to treat malaria and dangerous parasitic disease, calling it "price gouging" and promising to announce a plan Tuesday to tackle that and other high prescription drug costs.
The former secretary of state's stance about the sky-high new price of the medication known as Daraprim, which was announced via Twitter, worried critics of drug-price controls, who warned that such "anti-industry populism" could badly hurt the pharmaceutical industry—and stock prices.
Clinton had already said on Sunday's edition of CBS's "Face the Nation" show that "I'm going to address" drug prices, "starting with how we're going to try to control the cost of skyrocketing prescription drugs."
"It's something I hear about everywhere I go," Clinton said.
Biotech stocks reacted to Hillary's tweet Monday, dropping by more than 4 percent industrywide.
Later in the day, a Capitol Hill source said that Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is planning to request information about Daraprim's "astronomical price increase" from drug's new owner, Turing Pharmaceuticals. Cummings has been conducting an investigation of recent drug price increases.
Sanford Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal said that if Clinton wins the White House, "I would say" that drug prices will take a hit.
"The entire argument that the government will begin to behave [as controller of prescription prices] is something the drug industry has been fighting tooth and nail," Gal said. "If that actually becomes a policy and looks like it's coming to a chance of passing you'll see drug company valuations cut 20 percent across the board."
Before Clinton tweeted her reaction to the news about Daraprim, Dr. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute said that a New York Times story about the drug's price hike comes a time where there already was "a lot of negative sentiment" about drug prices, and that "the industry is vulnerable" to those public feelings.
Earlier this month, the Kaiser Family Foundation said a survey had found that 72 percent of the public considered drug prices unreasonable. And Clinton's leading challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has already introduced a plan to deal with drug prices, which includes allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies and allowing people to import drugs from Canada, where medication is less expensive.
Gottlieb said "anecdotes like" the huge price increase of Daraprim "hurt and can help drive bad legislation, and Clinton is sure to propose a basket of Obamacare 'fixes' this week that will include populist calls for drug price controls."
"The problem is that there is more anti-industry populism on both sides of the political divide now. I still don't think the votes are there to get anything through the House [of Representative] but the industry is very vulnerable to things like Medicaid 'best price,' " Gottlieb said. Medicaid's best price program is a rebate scheme that helps lower federal and state costs for covering prescription drug purchases for Medicaid enrollees.
"Ultimately anything that would extend drug price controls would have to come as a pay for on broader legislation that gave Republicans something in return. But I do think the drug industry should be much more worried than they are that they could be on the receiving end of adverse legislation."
In an investor's note, analyst Michael Yee of RBC Capital Markets, wrote that "Hillary and health-care pricing will get noisy ... be ready."
"We warn investors to prepare for this drug pricing volatility and noise as we go into 2016 and we have said that drug pricing noise could turn up in 2016 due to the election year," Yee wrote.
"While we are clear we don't think anything material would likely get through legislation, given it is still very early, this has been discussed before and isn't new, and Republicans control Congress, it is still a risk factor to 'money flow' in health care that we need to watch," Yee wrote.
Yee said that Clinton's imminent drug pricing plan, coupled with a New York Times article about Daraprim, along with other factors, has created "a perfect story" facing drug stocks.
The New York Times reported Sunday specialists in infectious diseases were "protesting" that Daraprim, a 62-year-old drug also known by its generic name, pyrimethamine, had had its price raised from $13.50 per tablet to $750" immediately after the medication was acquired in August by the start-up Turing Pharmaceuticals. Daraprim, which is often used to treat the parasitic infection known as toxoplasmosis, had sold for as little as $1 or less in recent years.
In a letter to Turing, the Infectious Diseases Society of America asked the company to drop the price of Daraprim, saying there is "no justification for an increase of this magnitude for a medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1953."
"Under the current pricing structure, it is estimated that the annual cost of treatment for toxoplasmosis, for the pyrimethamine component alone, will be $336,000 for patients who weigh less than 60 kilograms and $634,500 for patients who weigh more than 60 kilograms. This cost is unjustifiable for the medically vulnerable patient population in need of this medication and unsustainable for the health-care system," the IDSA wrote.
The organization also said it was concerned that the price of the drug would preclude hospitals from stockpiling in anticipation of need.
Martin Shkreli, the founder and CEO of Turing, told the Times that the money it was making on Daraprim would be used to develop a better medication for toxoplasmosis, with less toxicity than Daraprim.
"This isn't the greedy drug company trying to gouge patients, it is us trying to stay in business," Shkreli told the Times. On Monday, he said that that about half the supply of Daraprim is sold for a dollar per pill, and that the company would not deny access to the drug based on need.
Shkreli, during an appearance on CNBC's Power Lunch, said "No," when asked if he would reduce the price of the drug in the face of calls to do so.
"We feel this is an appropriate price," said Shkreli. He later adding that when Turing purchased Daraprim "we definitely planned on raising the price, that's for sure."
He said that before the purchase, it was "pretty clear than Daraprim was not priced appropriately."
"We took it to a place where we can make a comfortable profit," Shkreli said.
He also argued that the drug is not excessively priced when compared to other specialty medications such as the hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, which costs $84,000 for a 12-week regimen.
"We're certainly not the first company in the country to raise drug prices," Shkreli said. "There have been much larger price increases by much large companies."
But Dr. Carlos del Rio, an AIDS expert who is a professor at Emory University's School of Medicine, disputed Shkreli's claim that there is need for a new drug to treat toxoplasmosis.
"This is a drug that has no major side effects ... it's usually very well tolerated," del Rio said. "It's not a patient population that is clamoring for a better drug."
Del Rio said Daraprim's price hike has made it "hard for hospitals and clinics to get access to the drug because their budgets were not prepared" for the increase.
He also said it is another example of a drug whose price should be low "defying the gravity of a free market."
"This is something that really Congress has to look into, and politicians have to look into," del Rio said.
The price increase of Daraprim is "is clearly hurting our patients and increasing the price that the health-care system has to pay," he said.
Del Rio said he would like, as Sanders has suggested, to allow consumers to important drugs from other countries. He said Daraprim is available in India "for a few cents," and sells in Mexico for "about 50 cents a tablet." | 2019-04-26T16:27:06 | https://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/21/clinton-calls-drug-price-hike-outrageous-vows-plan.html |
0.999986 | Aren't the parents responsible for the acts of their children?
While, in terms of parenting, the answer is yes, to some degree the parents are responsible, that is a far cry from rendering parents legally liable for their childrens' bad acts.
A parent cannot be held responsible for damages caused by the child on account of that parent's failure to supervise properly the child ( Holodook v. Spencer, 36 N.Y.2d 35, 51, 364 N.Y.S.2d 859, 324 N.E.2d 338).
Where the parent negligently entrusted a "dangerous instrument" to the child.
By giving this dangerous instrumentality to a child, the parent has placed others in harm's way, and in that fashion, has breached his or her duty to control the child's (who may lack appropriate judgment) use of dangerous instruments to protect others (in legalese, "third parties") from foreseeable harm.
This exception has been recognized on more than one occasion by New York's Court of Appeals, New York State's highest court. See, e.g., Nolechek v. Gesuale, 46 N.Y.2d 332, 338-339, 413 N.Y.S.2d 340, 385 N.E.2d 1268 ; see, also Rios v. Smith, 95 N.Y.2d 647, 722 N.Y.S.2d 220, 744 N.E.2d 1156 .
Some Examples of "Dangerous Instrumentalities"
Two (2) examples where parents have been held liable for negligently allowing their children to play and/or use dangerous instrumentalities (as a result of which other, third parties, were injured) include where under age children were allowed to play with (1) air guns (in contravention of New York's Penal Code), and (2) All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). | 2019-04-24T22:26:58 | https://www.jonathancooperlaw.com/library/when-ny-parents-can-be-held-liable-for-kids-dangerous-acts.cfm |
0.998466 | Please complete the following questionnaire to the best of your knowledge. If you are unsure that a requirement has been met then give 'no' as an answer and use the last question to comment further.
* 2. Which Year level is this course?
* 3. What qualifications does the course offer?
* 4. Is there a curriculum plan and handbook available?
* 5. Have they been issued to subject teachers?
* 6. Are learning outcomes linked to the National Curriculum for this course clearly stated?
* 7. Are there resources/ texts adequate for this course?
* 8. Is there a suitable classroom facility for this course?
* 9. Does the timetable meet the needs of this course?
* 10. Are your professional development needs being met?
* 11. Are the students in this course assessed against the stated achievement objectives in the National Curriculum Learning Area Statements?
* 12. Have you been issued with a copy of the Staff Assessment Manual?
* 13. Are procedures for the setting, marking and moderation of assessments (pre and post moderation) documented in your Faculty handbook?
* 14. Do they comply with the guidelines and procedures stated in the Staff Assessment Manual?
* 15. Are your assessments free of gender, ethnic or other bias?
* 16. Do you have in place a system for recording summative assessment results?
* 17. Have you attempted to meet the individual needs of students?
* 18. Have you identified students in this course who are at risk of not achieving?
* 19. If this is not a senior course please go to question 27.
Is there a course booklet detailing standards to be assessed, credits, forms of assessments, opportunities for assessments, timing of assessments, moderation and authenticity procedures etc?
* 20. Have students been issued with this?
* 21. Have subject teachers been issued with this?
* 22. Do you have in place procedures and guidelines to ensure the authenticity of assessed work?
* 23. Have students been made aware of this information?
* 24. Are subject teachers aware of this information?
* 25. Do you have in place procedures for ensuring that where there are multiple class assessments all teachers have a common interpretation of the requirements of the assessment?
* 26. Is student work kept for the required length of time?
* 27. Are assessments and annotated work kept on file to serve as benchmark samples?
* 28. Do students sign to indicate receipt and accuracy of their results?
* 29. Are requirements of the Privacy Act relating to recording of student results and use of student work as exemplars complied with?
* 30. If you have recorded a 'no' comment in any of the above questions please comment further below. | 2019-04-20T23:15:58 | https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KKCQualityAssurance |
0.999699 | How much will your 401(k) be worth in the future? This calculator, given different scenarios, will show you its approximate future value.
Retirement Savings Calculator - How much do I need to save?
This is my original retirement calculator. It is designed to help you plan for retirement if you know the amount you'll need to live on annually (in today's $). It will tell you how much you need to save by the time you retire and how much you can withdraw each year from that balance to maintain your inflation adjusted purchasing power. If you have the time and resources to plan early, this is the retirement calculator to use.
This calculator is designed to help you plan for retirement if you know the amount you will have saved at the time you retire. It will tell you how much you can withdraw each year from that balance to maintain your inflation adjusted purchasing power and to make that money last. If you're already retired or very close to retirement and don't have the time or resources to alter your savings balance, this is the calculator to use.
If you don't know the amount you'll have saved at retirement, use my Savings Calculator and/or 401(k) Calculator to get that amount, then come back here -- or use one of my other retirement calculators to find out how much to save.
I hear so many people say that they are going to withdraw a certain percent of their savings for retirement. When I ask what they mean by that, they really aren't quite sure. The options could be to take a percentage of the initial balance, or to take a percentage of the balance at the beginning of each year, or to take a percentage of the initial balance and adjust that annually for inflation. I wanted to see the ramifications of each method, so I created this calculator. If you really study the numbers, it will tell you a lot!
It is designed to help you plan for retirement if you know how much money you'll have when you retire and you want to withdraw an amount stated as a percentage. It will tell you if your annual withdrawal, based on the method you choose, will keep up with inflation and if your money will last through your retirement. This is not necessarily a retirement "planning" calculator, but if you want to goof around with the numbers to see the outcome, this is the calculator to use.
This calculator is designed to help you find the amount needed to supplement your monthly retirement income (beyond Social Security and/or pension income). It will tell you how long your money will last and how much of your savings you'll need to supplement your retirement income and maintain your inflation adjusted purchasing power. The interesting thing about this calculator is that you can adjust the amount of annual increase of your Social Security and/or pension income at different rates. It's nice if your income is growing at a different rate than inflation. If you're already retired or about to retire, this is the calculator to use.
This calculator was previously my annuity calculator. I decided to put it here because I feel it makes more sense.
* I've seen some retirement calculators that separate the spousal contributions. I feel that if you're living as a couple, they are combined as one. Most couples think of an entire sum needed to survive - not separate sums combined from each spouse. If you separate your financial affairs, then you'd each do your own calculations anyway.
Here's a link to IRA Contribution Limits and details. | 2019-04-19T06:28:41 | https://www.mycalculators.com/ca/retirem.html |
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