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0.999933 | YouTube - rhymes with blood feud.
That's my pal, Margaret Gould Stewart - head of YouTube's user experience - explaining why copyright holders should allow their video to be published to YouTube, so as to experience new art forms, audiences, distribution channels, and revenue streams: a video Utopia, I tell you!
I've used this video on my blog and in class 100 times as a launching point of how "progressive copyright" works online.
Hard to believe YouTube is the same company that removed my account last week for copyright infringement. My crime: uploading a 30-second clip from the rarely seen film The Promotion, which I intended to use in class as a great example of corporate culture.
1. A 30-second TV ad for the Minneapolis Star Tribune - the bankrupt newspaper that was trying to do something new by advertising a new online reporter.
I uploaded the ad without comment, because I found it interesting that the paper was employing this strategy to get readers and advertisers back. But - you guessed it - I got an angry letter from a Star Tribune lawyer demanding that I stop using "their content."
I removed it, but - hell - isn't the idea of an ad campaign that people get to see it? I promised the angry lawyer that I would never do anything to promote the Star Tribune again, and I haven't: now it's all badmouthing all the time, which appears to be the best way to make their lawyers happy.
2. A 15-second clip from Roman Holiday - in which Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn have a passive-aggressive conversation about PR and journalism - also to use in class.
Were these cases copyright infringement? Sure. I didn't own the content, after all.
Could I argue it? Sure: I uploaded only three short clips that came into question in a dozen years of video uploads and intended to use them for educational purposes with students.
However, when YouTube (as owned by Google) removes your account, there is no system of appeal and you lose not only the offending videos, but all of your videos. So, goodbye to The Promotion clip and my students' stand-up comedy and improv videos along with it.
There has got to be a better way, and YouTube already has it: software that prevents users from uploading content that they don't own and/or that has been blocked by the copyright holder.
I once attempted to upload a clip from the famous Bob Newhart Show episode where he learns how media relations works the hard way. When the video finished uploading, YouTube's software instantly recognized it as Bob Newhart and blocked the content, so it couldn't be uploaded. Fair enough.
Another time, I uploaded the famous fence-painting scene from the 1973 Tom Sawyer musical (featuring a pint-sized Jodie Foster), which is great for showing how corporate entities (Tom) manipulate supply and demand to screw over the little people (the fence painters).
This time, YouTube said it was cool that I uploaded it, but that it wouldn't be available in some parts of the world. When I clicked on "some parts of the world," I found out that it meant "the entire world" - however, the video was still there for me to watch when I signed in. Fair enough.
Last year, when I uploaded Devo's performance at the Minnesota Zoo, YouTube told me that the song was owned by Universal (I think), but that Universal was cool with it as long as it could monetize the video. Fair enough.
I never monetized a single YouTube video, so I never made a dime off of anything I uploaded. However, the copyright holder earning money off of a video I upload seems to me to be the very definition of "progressive copyright."
YouTube's upload policy: wink, wink.
So: YouTube has and uses the technology that can stop people from uploading stuff they don't own. The problem: if it stopped everyone from uploading video they don't own, there wouldn't be a YouTube.
Ninety per cent of the content on YouTube is uploaded by people who don't own it, but who are honest fans of the material. Everyone knows: if you want original video, you go to Vimeo. If you want to see the clip of Ricky Gervais visiting Steve Carell on the Office, you go to YouTube - where Sparky11771 - not NBC - has posted it.
The hypocrisy: YouTube (Google) attracts millions of viewers and makes zillions of dollars a year selling advertising on "pirated" video uploaded to its site, yet pretends to be against it by warning users to not do the very thing they see when they visit the site.
The website that punishes its users for its own vague and inconsistent policies is the website that needs to get a grip.
Great post! I've got 43 videos in my channel and count about 15 potential copyright violations. (Don't tell anyone!) I've got one strike, which only came this month when I uploaded a Glee Live performance from Minneapolis.
Why was I at Glee Live you ask? As my wife.
Ha, ha! Yeah: you can run afoul pretty quickly. Make sure you disconnect your YouTube email from any other Google services you have - once that account is inactive, it's inactive across Google. Boo.
There are tons of people uploading original content to YouTube, with some making a good chunk of change from their ads. Youtube is trying to encourage more of this and less of the Family Guy clips, but it's slow going. My point is, if you stopped people from uploading content they didn't own, there would still be plenty of original content on YouTube. I have over 200 videos on my channel and the only ones that have been flagged for copyright infringement are music-related ones, which they just monetized. To me it sounds like your first two strikes came at a time when people didn't really understand this whole online video thing, which to me means they shouldn't count.
Oh, and you can get your videos back. I know someone who lost over 100 videos and got them restored. | 2019-04-25T02:06:51 | http://www.kentonlarsen.com/2011/06/youtube-not-copyright-youtopia-i-had-in.html |
0.997745 | British Prime Minister Theresa May has urged MPs to back her EU withdrawal deal and honour the result of the country's referendum.
In a televised address from Downing Street tonight, Mrs May said it was time to deliver on the referendum result and she was determined to do that.
She said the delay in achieving Brexit was of great personal regret for her and that it was time for members of parliament to make up their minds.
Mrs May said that Brexit will not go ahead on March 29, but added that she is not prepared to delay Brexit any further than 30 June.
"You want this stage of the Brexit process to be over and done with. I agree. I am on your side. It is now time for MPs to decide," she said.
Earlier today, Theresa May wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk requesting to delay Brexit to 30 June.
She told the House of Commons that she was preparing for a third vote on her deal.
"As prime minister, I am not prepared to delay Brexit any further than the 30th of June," Mrs May told a rowdy session of parliament.
"I have therefore this morning written to President Tusk,the president of the European Council, informing him that the UK seeks an extension to the article 50 period until the 30th June," she said.
"The government intends to bring forward proposals for a third meaningful vote. If that vote is passed, the extension will give the House (of Commons) time to consider the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. If not, the House will have to decide how to proceed."
The Irish Government reacted to the extension request with a statement saying: "The Government will consider recent developments including the Prime Minister's letter at its Cabinet meeting this afternoon."
Mrs May's request comes after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU has done much to accommodate the UK over Brexit and can go no further.
Mr Juncker said: "There will be no re-negotiations, no new negotiations, no additional guarantees in addition to those already given".
Speaking on Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio, he added: "We have intensively moved towards Britain, there can be no more."
This week's EU summit will address Brexit and Mr Juncker played down hopes of a breakthrough.
"My view this morning ... is that we will not get this through this week and we will have to meet again next week," he said, adding a no-deal Brexit was not desirable but Britain must offer clarity and clear proposals".
Asked if the EU would then rule out any further compromise, Mr Juncker said: "We are not in a state of war with the UK, but a state of negotiation. But the negotiations are finished."
The request comes just nine days before the 29 March exit date that Mrs May set two years ago by serving the formal Article 50 'divorce' papers. | 2019-04-20T19:23:18 | https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0320/1037436-brexit_delay/ |
0.998754 | Ryder, the club's former pro now based in Leamington Spa, defeated Shropshire lad Birks - ranked over 200 places lower - 11-4, 11-4, 11-4 in 40 minutes.
My new coach has worked on making me much more aggressive on court, hitting the ball much harder than I used to, as well as improving my fitness," said the 31-year-old world No38 afterwards.
Ryder, hoping to make his second successive appearance in the ROWE British Grand Prix - which gets underway at the National Squash Centre in Manchester on Monday - will now face Henrik Mustonen in the qualifying finals. The Finn needed just 23 minutes to see off beat Englishman Oliver Mapp 11-2, 11-2, 11-4.
Londoner Robbie Temple survived an all-English clash with Ben Ford, recovering from a game down to beat the experienced 36-year-old from Kent 7-11, 11-3, 11-7, 11-9 in 58 minutes.
The Gloucester-born 25-year-old will now face Egyptian sensation Marwan El Shorbagy. The 18-year-old world junior champion from Alexandria, who is coached by British legend Jonah Barrington, produced one of the biggest upsets of the day when he beat Jonah's higher-ranked son Joey Barrington - a regular training partner - 11-8, 11-3, 11-7 in 44 minutes.
But an earlier major shock resulted in unexpected home interest in the final qualifying round when Anthony Graham defeated Frenchman Julien Balbo, who is ranked seventy places higher in the world rankings.
Both the first and second games went to 10-all and could have gone either way - and were shared - but at one-all and 7-7 in the third, the in-form Graham, playing tight accurate squash, forced a frustrated Balbo into making too many errors, eventually closing out the game 11-9.
But, after staging a significant comeback in the fourth, Gloucestershire-based Graham ran out a 10-12, 12-10, 11-9, 11-7 winner after 69 minutes.
"My aim this year was to beat a top sixty ranked player," said Graham - who narrowly missed his aim by two ranking places!
The Zimbabwe-born 21-year-old - ranked 126 in the world - now takes on South Africa's world No34 Stephen Coppinger, a 15-13, 11-9, 5-11, 11-7 winner over New Zealander Campbell Grayson.
Local hero Chris Ryder led a trio of Englishman through to the qualifying finals of the ROWE British Grand Prix after despatching fellow countryman Andrew Birks in straight games in the first qualifying round of the PSA World Series squash event at the Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis & Squash Club in Wolverhampton. | 2019-04-20T23:28:20 | http://www.isportgroup.com/News-2011/2011-(1)/ROWE-British-Grand-Prix-Squash-Championships-1st |
0.998825 | The game of chess has many interesting moves and some that can only happen under certain circumstances. In order to play the best game you can, it is wise to know about all the moves so that you can best outwit your opponent. In order to effectively talk about chess a special method of notation has been devised. This helps identify the squares and positions without having to have a board and pieces always in front of you to illustrate. In this notation the columns (or files as they are called in chess) are identified with a letter and the rows (or ranks) are identified with a number. If you are looking at a chessboard from the perspective of the white player, the leftmost file is 'a', the one next to it 'b' and so on until the last file which is 'h'.
The back or closest rank for white is 'rank 1', the next one (the one the pawns are on) is 'rank 2' and so on until the last rank, which is the back row for black and is 'rank 8'. So the when using chess notation, the leftmost back square for white would be called 'a1', the square directly above 'a2' an so on. See how easy that is? Now that you know how chess notation works and you have a chess board visualized in your head, we can talk about some of the special chess moves.
En Passant If you have played even only 1 game of chess you know that pawns have some special rules. For example, they can only capture a piece that is placed diagonally in front of them. Also, on it's initial move, a pawn can move up two squares instead of just one. However, there is a special case for this - if an enemy pawn could have captured it had it only moved 1 square, the enemy is still able to capture.
This move is called 'en passant' and can only be used on the very next move after the pawn is advanced 2 spaces - if you do not capture then, you cannot do it at a later move. Here's an example - BLACK has a pawn at d4; WHITE moves his e2-pawn to e4; had WHITE moved to e3m the BLACK d4 pawn would have been able to capture so now he can capture en-passant on his next move. But if BLACK decides to make another move instead, he gives up his right to capture. Castling The King can make a special chess move called 'castling' and it is, in fact, recommended that you do this during the opening phase of the game. This is a defensive move which increase thesafety of the King.
Castling has two forms - 'short' and 'long'. Here's how it works: Say the white King is on e1 with the white Rook on h1 (this is the initial setup at the start of the game). You can make the move called short castling by moving the King to g1 and the Rook to f1. This move does have some restrictions - the squares in between the Rook and King must be empty, neither the Kind or Rook can have been moved before and the King cannot be in check.
Note that even though you move two pieces, this is considered to be one move. Long castling has the same rules and is a similar move but uses the Rook on the a file instead. In this scenario, the King ends on c1 and the Rook ends on d1. Promotion You might think the pawns are not very useful but if you can get your pawn to the other side of the board he can be promoted. This means the you can replace the pawn with any same colored piece you want with the exception of a king or pawn.
Needless to say most people choose to replace the pawn with a queen. There are some other situations in chess that novice players might not be aware of. For instance, a game can very easily end in a draw.
This can happen when neither side has enough material to checkmate the opponent. This would happen if one player had a Bishop and King while another had only a King - no matter how many times you try you cannot get the opponent into checkmate so the game ends in a draw. The chess game might also end in a draw if you have to repeat the same move 3 times as their are no other choices, if no advance or pawn capture has happened in the last 50 moves or stalemate. Stalemate can happen when a player who is not in check has no valid moves.
If a player can continuously checkmate another player any time he wishes then he can claim a draw by "continuous check".
Lee Dobbins writes for many online publications. Visit Chess Moves Info to learn more about the game of chess and see this article in more detail and with diagrams of the special moves. | 2019-04-20T10:26:24 | http://www.novabook.com/win_at_chess_with_these_special_moves_402005a.html |
0.998984 | Can we predict the feature given only a single observation? For instance, given that the price of a Bitcoin has doubled in the last two months, what will the price be in another two months?
Well, the only way to make a prediction is by making some assumptions. I know very little of economics, but since the value of a Bitcoin has dramatically rising for quite some while now, it seems reasonable to me that it will keep increasing. Furthermore, from my perspective, I have no reason to assume that the price will increase faster or that the Bitcoin craze will mellow out. So assuming that the trends will keep up and the price went in October from about USD 4,000 to USD 10,000 in December, it seems like a good bet that a Bitcoin will be worth around USD 1,5000 in February. You can spot the fallacy here: of course at some point the prices will stagnate (or pop like a bubble)! But to me, it looks unlikely that the trend will change right now. This idea is similar to the Doomsday argument.
Another prediction: my nephew is born last August. Is it likely that, in addition to the four months that he has been around on this planet, he still has four months to go? Let us hope not! My grandmother on the other hand is close to ninety years old, healthy as she is, I fear she won’t make it to 180. Apparently, we have different expectations for the distributions of peoples age than for the value of cryptocurrencies. | 2019-04-24T18:07:48 | https://michielstock.github.io/future_posts_graveyard/2017/Bayes/ |
0.999974 | The Sun and other stars are powered by nuclear energy. Can we harness this type of energy here on Earth? Nuclear energy can be provided in two ways: nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. Fission is the process used in modern nuclear power stations. Fusion is the way that energy is provided by the Sun.
The fuels used in nuclear reactors are usually uranium and plutonium. The biggest problem with nuclear fission energy is that the atoms produced, the waste products, are very radioactive. This makes them very dangerous to living things and they have to be stored safely somewhere, in some cases for many thousands of years, until their radioactivity dies down.
In 1986, there was a major nuclear accident at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. A large cloud of radioactive particles was blown across Europe. Many hundreds of people who lived near the accident site suffered illness because of this disaster.
The nuclear power plant in Civaux, France.
After this accident, people's attitude to nuclear power became rather negative and many countries cut back on their development of nuclear power. France, however, still relies on nuclear power stations for 75% of its energy needs.
Nuclear power was once thought to be an answer to the world's energy needs. It was thought to be relatively cheap and safe. Now many nations are not so sure. The UK has not opened any new nuclear power stations since 1994.
Nuclear fusion takes place in the core of the Sun and other stars. It is the process in which hydrogen atoms combine to form helium atoms. During that process some of the energy binding the atomic particles together is transferred to electromagnetic radiation energy. It is that radiation that makes the Sun shine. For many years, scientists have been trying to control this form of energy transfer here on Earth, but it is proving to be technically very challenging.
It requires very hot and dense conditions (just as is found in the centres of stars) if the hydrogen atoms are to fuse into helium and producing those conditions is very difficult. The main reason why it is worth trying hard to make this work is that nuclear fusion does not create any harmful by-products. It would therefore be the ultimate source of 'clean' energy.
ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is the latest International project to design and build a fusion reactor. ITER means 'The Way' to new energy.
In a couple of decades ITER could provide the solution to the World's energy problems. | 2019-04-24T23:55:13 | http://www.suntrek.org/earth-beyond/earths-energy-resources/nuclear-power.shtml |
0.999995 | 1/2 cup butter, room temp. 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup buttermilk 2 Tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups fresh blueberries (I used 1 cup) Cream butter and sugar. Add one egg at a time, mixing well after each. Add buttermilk, lemon juice and lemon rind. Gently stir in dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in blueberries. Divide batter into 10 or 11 greased muffin tins. Each tin should be filled to the top edge of the muffin tin. Bake 400 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes until done. Cool 5 minutes and then remove to cooling rack. Lemon Icing 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon melted butter 1/8 teaspoon vanilla Mix until well blended. Drizzle over warm muffins. Once completely cooled store in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Warm slightly in microwave before serving. | 2019-04-26T14:27:30 | http://www.guesthousebnb.com/blog/2018/08/its-blueberry-season-time-for-lemon-blueberry-muffins |
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0.998656 | They stand on opposite ends of the spectrum one is the world famous author of The Name of the Rose and a self declared secularist the other is a senior member of the Catholic Church often mentioned as a possible successor to the pope In this amicable but adversarial exchange of letters and ideas, Eco and Martini debate abortion, women in the Catholic Church, ethics, aThey stand on opposite ends of the spectrum one is the world famous author of The Name of the Rose and a self declared secularist the other is a senior member of the Catholic Church often mentioned as a possible successor to the pope In this amicable but adversarial exchange of letters and ideas, Eco and Martini debate abortion, women in the Catholic Church, ethics, and the apocalypse They frame a debate that has begun to rage in this millennial year, aware of the gulf between belief and nonbelief that separates them The result is illuminating Where are the limits of belief What can a nonbeliever believe Some of America s most provocative writers and thinkers from across the spectrum of faiths and backgrounds offer their reaction to the subjects raised by Eco and Martini.
Pensavo di imparare qualcosa su questo argomento, ma mi sono reso conto che questo libro è al di sopra del mio background culturale, quindi non posso esprimere un giudizio. Abbandonato al 50%.
Es un diálogo epistolar entre Umberto Eco y el cardenal Carlo Maria Martini. Se puede leer de una sentada, es bastante corto y te incita a pensar sobre la ética de las acciones. Además, demuestra que discutir sobre religión puede ser entretenido. Trata de los temas que normalmente causan conflictos entre creyentes y no creyentes: el origen de la vida, el apocalipsis y la igualdad de género en las instituciones religiosas.
چیزی كه در نامه ها به چشم می آید احترامی است كه اكو و مارتینی به عنوان یك مذهبی و غیرمذهبی برای هم قائل هستند. این نشان می دهد كه حتی در این سطح هم می شود گفت و گو كرد؛ ولی از چارچوب ادب و احترام خارج نشد.
Definitely thought provoking. Very pleased with how respectful these gentlemen were towards each others beliefs, especially with the hot topics we are experiencing during this election time.
A tedious correspondence with no big surprises. The writers spend a quarter of the book with formalities and congratulating each other on rigour. It gets into some interesting territory, like questioning the church's stance on women, but doesn’t begin to feel honest and meaty until the final correspondence. Then the book ends.It's a reminder that discourse between believers and non-believers can be civil, and that’s about it.
ორი გენიოსის ტვინის გადამაბრუნებელი დიალოგები! | 2019-04-22T14:34:36 | http://nostalgic-art.co.uk/10511-belief-or-nonbelief/ |
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Last week a friend was looking for some new Titleist AP2's and came within a whisker of providing credit card info but he called me first. (The $369.00 price was a little tip-off.) I immediately submitted the site to the folks at GolfWRX.com and was quickly informed that this site is based in China and selling nothing but knockoffs. Man, was my buddy amazing and gratified.
DON'T BUY JUNK! It just keep these crooked liars in business!
Here is a new one [url="http://www.discountsforgolf.com"]www.discountsforgolf.com[/url]. I got hosed on a set of Titleist AP2 wth PX 6.0. I will say they passed every one of the "How to spot a fake" test except for the magnet. I sent Titleist a email today with the SS# and a link to the web site but have not gotten a reply back from them yet.
They have very aggressive prices and I ordered a good Taylor Made R9 bundle set. However I insisted on having visual proof or confirmation from Taylor Made that the clubs were genuine and lack of that made me cancel the order.
Has anyone ever purchased from discountgolf18.com.. I read a post where someone talked to one of their employees through there live chat and they stated that all of their products are OEM from asian suppliers. Does this sound legit? I got a great deal on a set of Callaway diablo edge irons, but a sticker on each club said "head mfg in China, Shaft mfg in US, assembled in US". Clubs arrived in reasonable time, but were shipped from China??
I really need to, don't really want to, admit I ws suckered by MyGolfWholesale.com. The two "Taylormade" R9 fairway woods are obviously bogus. Shipped from China, cheesy headcovers and poor workmanship. Don't get suckered like I did, a pure waste of money.
It depends on the four things: right generate, correct method and consistent point of access, if you want to make your golf game more enjoyable. It is also very importat for you to achieve sand golf success. You ought to make use of a sand pitching wedge when playing short sand shots around the environment friendly. A sand wedge may vary by 55 to 58 diplomas of loft with 8 to 12 diplomas of jump. I personally select a 58-degree sand iron wedge with 8 college diplomas of rebound.
If you want a good laugh, read through the message board : http://www.golfwholesaleseller.com<br><br>;Sample: "Comment DarcyDark: feeds of user commented[url="http://www.golfwholesaleseller.com/goods.php?id=1068"]Callaway FT i-Brid Irons 3-9PS[/url] (29/05/2010 09:35:30) Super Chunkster Long Iron **** Hybrid clubs. Were it not for all the technology that went into these, and realizing that I may have a personal bias towards more traditional hybrids in the long irons, these clubs may have walked out w/only 3 stars."
A few days ago, I listed one of my clubs on craigslist for sale. Some guy replied asking me why I was trying to rip him off. He said he could get the same club for much less and new at golfequipment18.com. Hmmm....what a surprise, the website tries to sell fake clubs. The tell-tale sign is in their own FAQ section....they ship EMS. More fake garbage from the den of liars. I let him know that that site was clearly a fake but he didn't believe me. I'm guessing he just threw away his $129 on inferior garbage.
Seriously, are some people that naive? If some site is offering a $300, current model, name-brand club for $129, shouldn't that set off a red flag? Or are some people just in denial or believe that counterfeit clubs are just as good as the real deal? Keep in mind that the major manufacturers price protect their newer stuff. Anyone in violation will have their inventory pulled and won't get more from that manufacturer.
Are titanium driver heads made of titanium from both the fakes and clones?
Do the fakes not perform as well as the retail models or clones?
Aren't most name brand components manufactured in China?
What makes a fake a fake?
Generally not. Steel is often used in fakes, although low grade titanium is sometimes used.
They are not. The graphite/steel components usually differ in weight and flex.
Hmm.... inferior components combined with gross inconsistency between products. Loft are way off. Yeah, NO.
Those that are use different materials, processes and pass quality control with some tolerances.
That's actually quite common for new clubs on eBay and why you should do some research. If unsure, call the manufacturer and ask if that seller is authorized.
Clones often lack the technology (usually protected by a patent) and/or use lesser materials i.e. lower grade metals, rubber compounds, etc.. Also, they clearly state that they are CLONES! On the other hand, crooks selling counterfeits are trying to pass these abominations off as the real deal except they use inferior materials and club making processes. Often the lofts are completely off, materials are completely different (steel head instead of titanium).
Then again this person may be have some vested interest in the sale of counterfeits.
I appreciate the help guys, but has anyone found out that a site listed on this post turned out to be legit? Several of the "things to look for warnings" pass the test on a couple of these sites, so was wondering if any of the WRXer's made their first mistake on any of the posts? /smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> I have not purchased from the sites, so i am not basing this on experience. No accusatory tone meant, just a comment based in curiousity.
You're forgetting the simple rule: if it sounds too good to be true, then chances are the clubs are fake. Some of these and other suspect sites actually have prices that are in a "believable" range, making it harder to discern from legitimate online retailers. Good example: [url="http://www.ebayoyo.com/"]http://www.ebayoyo.com/[/url]. Safest way to tell is to go to the big legit sites like [url="http://www.tgw.com"]www.tgw.com[/url], [url="http://www.golfsmith.com"]www.golfsmith.com[/url], [url="http://www.dickssportinggoods.com"]www.dickssportinggoods.com[/url], [url="http://www.rockbottomgolf.com"]www.rockbottomgolf.com[/url] and [url="http://www.edwinwatssgolf.com"]www.edwinwatssgolf.com[/url] and do a price comparison across the board (new vs. new), not just on the clubs you are interested in (to account for discount sales, etc). If the site you are unsure about is substantially cheaper across the board, then chances are they are selling fakes. And if you are still unsure, simply contact the original manufacturer and ask them if that site is an authorized retailer.
As far as quality of the fakes go, a recent edition of Golf or Golf Digest magazine ran an article about the fakes and how they differ fromt he real thing. Workmanship on the fakes is shoddy, especially when you cut a fake driver head in half. But one of the main things that makes the fakes perform worse than the real deal is that the shafts are so inferior that there is no consistency in shots because of the twisting. Imagine a plain old plastic tube instead of a shaft, and you get the picture. Here are some pictures of fakes cut in half: [url="http://www.golfmagic.com/equipment-news/exposing-the-secrets-of-fake-golf-clubs/6900.html"]http://www.golfmagic.com/equipment-news/exposing-the-secrets-of-fake-golf-clubs/6900.html[/url].
A couple of years ago I bought a Nike Sumo SQ off of one of these Chinese "wholesale" sites. I paid about $80 when the geniune counterparts were selling for about $180. Anyway, I put a different shaft in it (don't remember what, it wasn't very expensive), and played with my fake Nike for about a year--the reason being that I compared it to a buddy's genuine Sumo and my fake hit the ball farther with the new shaft. That may have been because of the shaft or loft or a wieght difference, but the point I am trying to make is that the fake clubs heads aren't always terrible, however the shafts will get you.
Either way, not worth taking the chance because from Chinese backyard counterfeit factory to Chinese backyard counterfeit factory, you never know what you are going to get. I've seen driver heads come off cheap clubs on the range, so don't get sued when your cheap knock-off driver head hits some dude's kid.
Thanks for the response. I guess my curiosity goes more to the "less technical clubs" like putters. I realize the vast R&D that goes into putters, espeially the high end ones. I would also think that the driver/hybrid heads would be more susceptible to the shotty manufacturing and fake materials. If someone were to get duped by buying an obvious fake (for most people) scotty or betti for $150, where would the see the differences? Would they be better than a walmart/kmart purchase? Enjoy the thread...thanks for the discussions.
Just took a facinating trip down imposter lane! Thanks for the warning list fellas...had no idea it was this bad!
Thanks to all of the WRXers who have contributed to this thread. I hope that we have contributed to keeping honest people from getting ripped off. We will never keep all the **** from infecting the bags of serious golfers but at least we have made the issues known.
OEM means "original equipment manufacturer". If a factory makes a **** club - it is the original manufacturer of the club. It doesn't mean that it is the manufacturer of the club it proports to be. Nice word play that means absolutely nothing, IMHO.
Craigslist seems to be quickly catching up to the internet as the marketing outlet of choice for moving this **** into the bags of the unwary. Basic rule still applies - IF IT SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS.
I'm gonna assume that gppgolf.com is legit since they're one of the sponsors! I have ordered from them and been very satisfied.
These sites are very closely related. Read the FAQ sections of each and you can see that they are written by the same person(s). Read through the text on each of these sites, and you will note very, very awkward phrasing, misspellings, and other markers that indicate that the text was written my someone who is not a native English speaker.
It seems that these wonderful business people have discovered GolfWRX. I have seen recent posts that indicate to me that there is a more or less concerted attempt by person or persons unknown (very Jack Webbish, don't you think) to get the names of these sites out to the WRX community in some legitimatizing form. You can make of them what you will. I know how I would take them - with a level of righteous indignation that I usually reserve for spiders, gophers, and other noxious varmits.
Please help in this effort. If you know of other sites that sell or promote golf equipment of dubious heritage, let your fellow WRXers know who they are. I will try to keep this list updated, with your help. Please help keep this business model in the perspective it deserves.
Anybody had any dealings with golfsuperworld.com. Lots of the atttributes of this site are similar to the warning signs put out in other posts. Titleist AP2 3-PW for only $400? Too good to be true? Thanks.
I know that I am not keeping up the list as well as I would like but the sites keep popping up faster than they can be identified. Feel free to add questionable sites to this thread. It's probably not much but if it keeps one person from wasting their money, it's worth it.
I have one that is a Verified SCAM .....Verification of this claim has been provided by Taylormade USA. Unfortunately, I was a victim OF A VERY POOR/FAKE Taylormade R9 Superdeep.
The tip about left handed clubs is a good one!
For a while I was thinking i'd found a genuine bargain (mainly because of the JDM brands) but there are quite a few fishy things (unbelievable prices, global free shipping, currency selection, no contact address/phone number", 9999 units of each club available, model no's. like golfclubshop.us100, no left handed options).
Anybody had any dealings with XXXXXXXXXXXXX.com. Lots of the atttributes of this site are similar to the warning signs put out in other posts. Titleist AP2 3-PW for only $400? Too good to be true? Thanks.
I used XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX about 8 weeks ago to buy a TaylorMade SuperTri driver, R9 3wood and R9 number 2 rescue. They all arrived safe and well; however it took about 2-3 weeks to receive the goods. It appears the company sends their stuff from Taipei.
will people try to trade in fakes to Golf Smith and Golf Galaxy????....???? they can tell the difference right????
I just found this description of a scotty cameron off of IGOLFYOO and it really cracked me up.
"The new Titleist SCOTTY CAMERON Napa California Putter is coming very hot now. It is said these new style putters were sold out soon after it comes out in Japan. We can see that how much the golfers like it. This time, Titleist give all the golfers a big gift befor Christmas. And Titleist never let us down. It is always the favourite brand for golfers. Let's see some detail features as blow" | 2019-04-20T16:20:00 | https://forums.golfwrx.com/discussion/266942/websites-that-are-too-good-to-be-true/p3 |
0.999998 | Dual language programs which mainly provide a curriculum in two different languages are on the rise in the United States. These programs mainly consist of an English taught curriculum, along with a secondary curriculum that is taught in a second language. These types of programs have really become popular over the past few years due to the fact that they offer students many different benefits both; short term and long term.
Believe it or not, but these programs are flourishing despite the fact that other types of bilingual education are on the outs. In fact, in 2000, there were around 260 schools providing dual language programs. What is outstanding is that the number of these programs offered in different schools has increased by amazing numbers. The amount of dual language programs being offered around the country is estimated at just over 2,000. More incredibly, 300 of them are in the state of New York.
Questions and Answers: What does research say?
The most popular dual programs being offered in the United States are in English and Spanish as read in many different articles on education issues. Although an interest in Chinese as a second dual language has become a popular choice as of late. Also, French has crept in there, as well.
Whichever language is used or taught will largely depend on the different types of education models are chosen. Some programs offer mix and match classes with one being taught in English and another on a different day being taught in a foreign language. Whereas, others offer the students the ability to take dual languages from subject to subject.
There are many different ways to learn a new language and culture. However, the dual language program has proved time and time again that it is one of the most effective ways of teaching and learning a new foreign language and culture.
In a dual language program, the English learners are grouped with different English speakers in order to learn all types of content taught in schools in two different languages. How it works in 1 way dual language courses is that the class is made up of mostly English speakers/learners with the entire instruction given in English and (usually) Spanish.
Most of the people that are advocates of dual language programs say that these programs are more effective at educating different types of students than other programs. These programs typically produce better results for language acquisition and cultural growth. A lot of people say that students learn a lot in their native language. It is really about learning the content that they are teaching and the different students transition into a new language as the course progresses.
Another benefit to this particular program is that these programs can be very cost effective. This is due to the fact that dual language programs can reach those students that need to increase literacy efficiency within the confines of a traditional classroom. Another advantage is that studies have shown that these types of programs are more effective at closing the educational performance/achievement gap than other bilingual type of programs. In these programs, the foreign language students scored better than those in other bilingual programs. Another benefit is that most studies show that learning one’s native language first when they are really developing reading and comprehension skills in turn increased their ability to learn in their respective foreign language.
The disadvantage is that this type of program needs a lot of start up capital. With that being said, a ton of grant money needs to be raised in order to effectively open up a dual language school/program. Not to mention, finding teachers that are bilingual can be extremely challenging, as well.
These schools are becoming ever so popular because the students and parents are seeing the real life benefits of them. Not only are their students learning new languages which give them more keys to talk to different people from different types of life, but it also helps improve concentration, reading comprehension, and overall confidence. These programs are excellent for kids and parents that simply want to get more from their education. It is a good thing to consider when you are focusing on choosing the right school and/or program for your son and/or daughter.
As you can see, there are plenty of things to think about when deciding whether or not to implement or utilize a dual language learning program. There are many advantages and disadvantages to consider when making a decision. The bottom line is, if you want to learn two languages, it has been proven to be one of the most effective ways of doing so. It is important to look at all of the evidence going both directions and choose whichever option you feel most comfortable with. If you have a dual language learning program near you, it might make sense to go for it. We hope you enjoy our articles on education issues. | 2019-04-22T16:28:49 | https://drpfconsults.com/articles-on-education-issues-benefits-of-dual-language-programs/ |
0.999936 | Can you named any important monuments ?
Which places would you recommend to visit to your friends from foreign country?
I want to go to Holland because I want to see tulips.
They went to the park because they wanted relax.
She went to the kitchen because she wanted to prepare some sandwiches. | 2019-04-20T16:18:18 | http://work-and-jobs.blogspot.com/2010/10/20-prague_1.html |
0.99956 | States without Nations: Can the Commander in Chief Use Military Funds to (Falsely?) Imprison Alleged Noncitizens and Asylum-Seekers?
Can the Commander in Chief Use Military Funds to (Falsely?) Imprison Alleged Noncitizens and Asylum-Seekers?
I just listened to Trump's plan for holding noncitizens in what sound like military bases while they wait for their immigration court dates. He claimed that lack of space is the only reason people now are being released prior to their scheduled court dates and seemed to relish the likelihood that the harsh conditions of confinement will discourage people from exercising their rights to claim asylum (or prove lawful residence or U.S. citizenship).
The idea seems to be that the government can avoid the expenses of prolonged detention by throwing people into military camps.
Here is an article from June discussing the options considered.
The legal authority to do this seems unclear. The photo of one facility was released on October 30. 2018 by the Department of Heath and Human Services, but the facility was actually being paid for by the Army.
It appears that Air Force and Army also may be queuing up some bids and proposals. If you're a journalist interested in poking around, go to https://www.fbo.gov and look for contracts with the NAICS Code 236220 -- Commercial and Institutional Building Construction.
There are a few that seem plausible. One that especially caught my attention is one that was posted on October 10 with an October 30 deadline for firms expressing an interest.
This office intends to solicit offers for SABER (Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineer Requirements) execution of multi trade real property maintenance and repair of military facilities at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. Delivery Orders will be issued under the general contract to include a broad range of work in a variety of trades, including but not limited to site work, roadway construction and repair, drainage, utilities, electrical (interior and exterior distribution), construction of building facilities, renovation of existing building facilities, structural repairs, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, controls painting, asbestos and lead based paint abatement, demolition, and installation or removal of large equipment such as boilers, chillers, etc. Estimated contract ceiling amount is $50M. Up to 8 contracts will be awarded. Duration of each contract will be 5 years.
Here's another one, at Lackland AFB. Not only is this an unusual turnaround time for bids but the archiving time frame also is quite short and the project public description seem inconsistent with the budget and other details.
Does the Air Force or Army have authority to use its appropriations to build structures for locking up noncitizens seeking a review of their asylum or other applications for admission? What about people who are U.S. citizens or have other legal status and are put into custody under immigration laws nonetheless? Are the authorizations for these speedy bids proper and in the Appropriations Act? Is Trump calling the folks in the caravan an "invasion" part of his effort to invoke his authority as Commander of Chief to avoid legal challenges to unauthorized expenditures? | 2019-04-21T01:10:03 | http://stateswithoutnations.blogspot.com/2018/11/can-commander-in-chief-use-military.html |
0.998616 | What is holding back your weight training?
Whats holding your weight training back?
Most people training in gyms work on their own or with a training partner. My observation over 60+ years of working out in gyms is that the vast majority of people working out make minimal improvement after the first few months.
Yet they continue to workout regularly and never get much, if any, improvement in their strength or their physique.
My strictly unscientific eyeball estimate is that most people training in gyms struggle to reach about 40% of their potential. A few may reach 70%.
This is a completely arbitrary figure, mainly intended to make the point that most people are getting a poor return on their investment of time, money and energy.
In the first few months of weight training, almost anything you do will produce some results. However, this effect diminishes rapidly, and anyone who wants to make progress needs to have a systematic program or plan.
For example, often I see people in the gym who are doing leg day which consists of an unplanned series of leg exercises that are not part of any set plan to develop strength, appearance, or endurance. It is just time to work on the legs.
Rule 1: Have a detailed plan or your plan is to fail.
Poor lifting technique is one of the big killers, particularly when it comes to building strength. Few people have any idea how to perform power exercises correctly to generate maximum force. Many have only the vaguest idea of how to correctly do the basic exercises such as squat, bench press or deadlift.
The result is that: 1) the lifter quickly hits a plateau; and 2) the prospect of getting injured is high when doing a lift with bad technique.
Proper technique is not for style points. Proper lifting technique is mandatory if a person wants to be able to generate maximum force and realize their full potential. Sloppy technique always means peaking out way below what could have been done.
The only way to correct bad technique is to know what good technique actually is.
When it comes to the power lifts vanishingly few trainers have a clue what to do. For this reason, it is imperative to either get an experienced powerlifter to teach you what to do or obtain a resource that will allow you to train yourself in proper technique.
This brings me to the third reason for trainees underperforming: perfecting mistakes.
Over time if you do something incorrectly, you learn to do something a certain way and it becomes very difficult to change. This applies to lifting technique, training methods, nutrition, supplementation, fat loss and so forth.
The main cause of no progress is often a treasured set of beliefs about how to train, what to eat, what supplements to take, etc. Turns out, a lot of this knowledge is what holds you back.
IMHO having been at this for well over a half century, it is essential that you adopt the idea that you must continually learn and refine your knowledge base.
By this I dont mean get sucked in by every new gimmick that comes down the pike. Instead I mean commit to constant improvement, and regularly seek out and study materials that are going to help you improve your performance in a specific way.
If you dont do that, you will continue to get a poor return on all the energy and effort you expend working out.
Learning and changing what you do could give you a big boost in the time and effort you are putting out.
With the idea that most people would rather get more out of their training than less, I wrote a book that contains hundreds of valuable secrets about how to get the most from your effort.
I include extremely detailed instruction on how to do each lift, how to do a training cycle, how to consistently build strength and resilience. In short, how to have the best chance to realize your full potential. | 2019-04-24T12:10:23 | https://midlifehardbody.com/what-is-holding-back-your-weight-training/ |
0.9994 | The chance of earthquake damage in Dunnavant is about the same as Alabama average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Dunnavant is higher than Alabama average and is much higher than the national average.
No volcano is found in or near Dunnavant, AL.
No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Dunnavant, AL.
No historical earthquake events found in or near Dunnavant, AL.
A total of 138 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Dunnavant, AL.
Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: The tornado touched down on US-431, about a half mile south of the intersection with AL-281. It then moved northwestward, along and just east of US-431, and lifted just before reaching AL-281. One gas station/convenience store and one auto body shop were significantly damaged. Approximately 100 to 200 trees were snapped off or were uprooted along the damage path. This tornado was associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay. EPISODE NARRATIVE: Tropical Storm Fay, and its remnants after landfall, brought high winds, heavy rain, and numerous tornadoes to Central Alabama. | 2019-04-19T09:20:43 | http://www.usa.com/dunnavant-al-natural-disasters-extremes.htm |
0.999999 | Database class includes/database/database.inc Primary front-controller for the database system.
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0.999902 | if Is it normal for people to talk to their friends about food EVERY SINGLE DAY? It seems that lately, I'm having more and more food related conversations. Not sure if that's just a habit of home cooks or more of a mom trait or people all over the world are sharing recipes with their friends around the water cooler.
What's even more ironic than the fact that not a day goes by that I don't discuss food with my friends, is the fact that I talk about food while I'm EXERCISING with friends. (Seems somewhat counterproductive, doesn't it?) The topic of food is often brought up during morning walks with my friend Tracy. (Probably because we're both hungry and ready for breakfast when we walk.) On one of our recent walks, Tracy shared her salmon recipe with me and it's quickly become my new favorite. I affectionately refer to it as "Tracy's salmon" in our house but for the purposes of the blog, I've named it Honey Mustard Salmon.
Whisk together honey, mustard, soy and wine in a shallow baking dish. Add salmon and refrigerate up to 1 hour.
Place fish skin side up in a baking dish with marinade, cover with foil and bake 20 minutes at 375.
I'm so thankful for foodie friends who share my love for food and pretend not to mind my incessant discussions about food related topics. And I'm also super thankful for friends who share their favorite recipes with me. | 2019-04-26T02:08:19 | https://www.mystoryinrecipes.com/blog-posts/honey-mustard-salmon |
0.999999 | 50150-RB is rated 4.6 out of 5 by 16.
Hello Ashley, Thank you for your question. Here are the "Cleaning and Care" instructions from the Delta maintenance and installation guides: "Care should be given to the cleaning of this product. Although the finish is extremely durable, it can be damaged by harsh abrasives or polish. To clean, simply wipe gently with a damp cloth and blot dry with a soft towel. Warning: Dow Bathroom Cleaner with Scrubbing Bubbles and Lysol Foaming Basin Tub and Tile Cleaner must not be used on the clear knob handles and levers. Use of these cleaners can result in cracked or severely damaged handles. If over-spray gets onto the handles, immediately wipe them dry with a soft cotton cloth." To elaborate on these instructions, we do not recommend using any commercially available cleaning products or cleansers on our faucets. Many of these products contain bleach, ammonia, or acids that could harm the finish. If necessary, a small amount of mild dish detergent may be used to remove stubborn stains or hard water deposits. If water spots are a problem, you can use a 50/50 mixture of tap water and white vinegar to remove them. Vinegar is strong enough to dissolve mineral deposits, but not harsh enough to damage any of our finishes. Be aware that vinegar can stain porous material like marble and granite, which are now being used as countertops.
our builder is installing dual control showers and i'm trying to find a matching shower head in oil rubbed bronze. I prefer a hand-held model .
Thank you for your question. We manufacture several styles of handheld showerheads in the Venetian Bronze finish. For instance, In2ition showerhead which give you a stationary showerhead and a handheld showerhead are available in model numbers 58045-RB, 58469-RB-PK, 58065-RB, 58468-RB, 58470-RB, 58471-RB-PK, and 58472-RB. We also have handheld showerhead with slide bars-51308-RB, 51105-RB, 51205-RB, 51405-RB, and 57530-RB. If you are looking for a square jet in the Venetian Bronze, we recommend the 50150-RB.
So this body spray has no side to side adjustment? The description talks only about up and down adjustment.
can you tell me model number for sink faucet, and claw foot tub faucet that will cordinate with this?
Thank you for your question. Delta Faucet model # 50150-SS is different from the older model in the spray pattern and also the gpm. The new model has a gpm of 2.0 and the old one is 1.8 gpm.
Does 50150SS require a separate rough-in and if so what is the model number? | 2019-04-24T22:22:27 | https://www.deltafaucet.com/bathroom/product/50150-RB |
0.996019 | My latest book project is an end-user SharePoint 2013 book called How to Do Everything: Microsoft SharePoint 2013. this is, of course, a new edition of my last book, How to Do Everything: Microsoft SharePoint 2010. As with the 2010 version, my good friend, Arpan Shah, Microsoft Senior Director of Office 365, has contributed a section on the history of SharePoint and also written the foreword.
What I set out to do in the first edition was focus on the most important cases for the day-to-day user. I trust readers are conscious of the fact that the “How to Do Everything” series name doesn’t mean that all of SharePoint can be summed up in one book. This book is squarely focused at the end-user.
For the second edition, I don’t want to stray too far from my original goal. However, I’ve listened to all the feedback from the first book. Readers wanted an end-user book, but some wanted it to take them a bit further, so that’s what I’m going to do. I’m adding content about SharePoint administration and other topics that aren’t necessarily required for every user, but will be interesting to those who want a bit more.
I’ve worked with McGraw-Hill Osborne Media on other projects and they’re a great publisher to work with—professional and helpful.
"Written by a former member of the SharePoint development team, this is a step-by-step guide to mastering the latest release of this integrated suite of server capabilities.In How to Do Everything: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Stephen Cawood—one of the people who helped build SharePoint—offers advice from his many years of working with SharePoint customers, cutting to the core and focusing on key features to get you up to speed quickly. You’ll get easy-to-follow tutorials on blogs, wikis, My Sites, Web parts, taxonomy, document management, workflow, publishing sites, team sites, and much more. Take full advantage of the content management, enterprise search, collaboration, and information-sharing capabilities of SharePoint 2010 with help from this practical guide."
SharePoint Server 2013 has been optimized for the way people work, providing people with a familiar, consistent view of information, collaboration.
I am wondering if there is a preview of the table of contents that I can look at? I am very interested in this book but am looking for it to include a chapter or two on integration with Project 2013 and Project Web Access via either Project Server 2013 or Project Online.
Hi Jax, this book isn't focused on project management with SharePoint. It's meant for end-users who need an introduction to SharePoint.
It sounds like you want something similar to the book Raymond Dux Sy wrote about project management and SharePoint 2010. I'm not sure if he's writing a new version of that one.
Thank you, Stephen. I appreciate the referral. Good luck with your book launch!
Hi, i just bought your book. I am trying to add a calendar onto a public sharepoint site that i built but could not figure out from the book. Would you recommend a solution?
Hi Mai. Can you give me some more details please?
Which site template did you use?
What happens when you try to add the calendar app?
Is it just not available, or does adding it fail?
Adding it should be as simple as going to 'all site content' and choosing 'add app' then choosing calendar. | 2019-04-24T05:59:57 | http://geeklit.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-do-everything-sharepoint-2013.html?showComment=1360865317007 |
0.997932 | Daniel Ricciardo's frustration with his Red Bull car reached all new levels at the Mexican Grand Prix after he was forced into his eighth retirement of the year.
Ricciardo qualified on pole position in Mexico but his race started to go wrong on the opening lap when he lost positions to teammate Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. Verstappen went on to dominate the race from the front while Ricciardo retired with a hydraulics failure as he was running in second place with ten laps remaining.
The Australian is due to leave Red Bull for Renault at the end of the year, but on Sunday he said he was ready to turn his back on his troublesome car even sooner than that.
"I don't think 'frustration' is the word anymore," Ricciardo said. "Everything feels hopeless.
"You know, honestly, now where I am, I don't see the point of coming on Sunday. I don't see the point of doing the next two races."
Alongside his retirements from races, Ricciardo has faced a number of grid penalties for exceeding his quota of engine components for the year. Speaking on Sunday evening, he said he was ready to hand the car over to his replacement at Red Bull next year, Pierre Gasly..
"I haven't had a clean race or weekend in so long. I'm not superstitious or any of that bulls---, but the car's cursed. I don't have any more words.
"Just things are happening on Sunday which I've got no more explanation for. The car, I'll let Gasly drive it, I'm done with it." | 2019-04-26T07:58:13 | http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/25111789/daniel-ricciardo-see-point-finishing-season-cursed-car |
0.999525 | The main purpose of the job is to provide administrative support to the Sales team in a timeous and effective manner to ensure that sales targets are met.
To provide administrative support to the Sales Team in order to achieve the Business Plan (targets).
To compile reports as and when required on sales, orders and stock for all stakeholders.
To accurately record vehicle orders and perform the necessary administration.
To compile and maintain deal files to ensure accurate records for audit and query purposes.
To liaise with all relevant role players e.g. supplier, sales team, management etc.
To obtain relevant deal file approvals.
To final invoice deals to record sales.
To raise purchase orders for all items involved in vehicle processing.
To receipt and process supplier invoice.
To attend to all sales/invoice/supplier related queries.
To ensure integrity of sales documentation.
To ensure compliance with Company Policy and Procedure. | 2019-04-26T05:38:37 | https://selibeng.com/sales-administrator-head-office-boksburg-gauteng/ |
0.999782 | AB Global Bond Advisor Fund seeks to generate current income consistent with preservation of capital. AB Global Bond Advisor Fund normally invests at least 80% of assets in fixed-income securities. It may invest in a broad range of fixed-income securities with short- to long-term maturity denominated in local currency or U.S. Dollar. AB Global Bond Advisor Fund normally invests at least 75% of assets in fixed-income securities rated investment grade at the time of investment and may invest up to 25% of assets in below investment grade fixed-income securities. It is non-diversified. | 2019-04-25T15:47:08 | http://www.fundmojo.com/mutualfund/fund_report/mutualfund/ANAYX |
0.999949 | The perfect challenge for those of you who are already competent bread makers, but want to try something a little different. Making sourdough bread is also easy enough even for beginners, so don't be intimidated by the length of the process.
Getting a sourdough starter going takes time rather than any particular skill - if you can read these instructions, and have access to some basic kitchen equipment, then you can definitely get a sourdough starter going, and before you know it, you'll be making amazing sourdough bread.
Something to cover the bowl with - a lid, a plate, or some clingfilm.
Yes, that's it, just two ingredients needed to get your sourdough starter going. When you're ready to bake with the starter, then you'll need oil and salt as well as more flour and water.
Check out the list of ingredients on the nearest sliced loaf, and you'll see how many additional nasties you'll be cutting out by making your own sourdough bread.
1. Put a cup of flour (around 120g) in the bowl, and mix with enough water to make a thick, pasty batter (the amount varies with the type of flour used, but it's usually a little less than a cup full).
3. Cover the bowl - use a lid, a plastic plate or some clingfilm.
4. Put the bowl somewhere at room temperature, where you'll remember to look at it often (mine lives next to the kettle, so that I can peek at it when I make my coffee).
5. Watch and wait - you know that the sourdough starter is working, when you start to see bubbles on the surface, and it begins to grow - this is the work of all the natural yeasts floating around in your kitchen.
1. Check your starter - if it's not bubbling yet, and starting to look 'alive', then just give it a stir, cover it up again, and come back to the 'day 2' instructions tomorrow.
2. If it is bubbling, then it's good and active, and ready to be fed.
3. To feed your sourdough starter, add another cup full of flour (around 120g), and some more water - just enough to maintain that thick, pasty consistency.
4. Give the starter a good stir, cover it again, and set aside until tomorrow.
2. Add another cup of flour and enough water to make a thick, pasty batter.
3. Mix well, cover and set aside.
4. Repeat the 'day 3' instructions for the next five days.
By this stage, the sourdough starter should smell, well, sour. There should be a distinctive sour smell, almost beer-y in nature, and it should be bubbling up nicely with each feeding.
If it's been less than a week, then be patient. Sourdough relies on the wild yeasts present in the air in your home, so the time scale is variable. Throw away half of your starter, and then keep feeding, stirring and checking. If your kitchen is very cold, then it might be worth moving it somewhere a little bit warmer, just to try to get things going.
That's not a problem, it happens sometimes. You can either stir it in, or pour it off - doesn't make much difference. Just make sure that when you feed the starter, you're keeping it at that same thick, pasty consistency.
Eww! Throw it away and start again!
OK, you evidently have a stubborn starter. Try feeding it twice a day for a few days, and see if that gets things moving.
You could try switching to organic flour - I don't have a problem with using non-organic flour, but there might be chemical traces in your flour that are affecting the activity of the sourdough starter. You can also try changing the water you use - if the water from your taps is heavily chlorinated, then you might be killing off your sourdough. Try switching to boiled and cooled water, or just leave tap water to stand overnight before using.
You've made a sourdough starter, and you're now ready to use it to bake delicious sourdough bread - watch this space for instructions on how to start baking! | 2019-04-21T02:20:18 | http://www.infobarrel.com/Sourdough_Starter_-_Making_your_own_sourdough_starter |
0.999733 | What to do if you get into an accident??
Methods of towing: Accident towing services in Albury have different methods of towing available for different vehicles. Towing vehicle specifications depend upon the load. A light duty tow truck is used in case of minor truck accidents or when a vehicle needs to be towed to the mechanic shop. These trucks use dolly towing to lift two front wheels off the ground and tow the truck on its back wheels. Medium duty trucks are used to handle loads from 4,500 kg to 11,000 kg and use a flatbed trailer. They are used to transport moving vans and commercial vehicles. Heavy-duty trucks can carry 23000 kg load. Heavy duty tow trucks are used to tow tractors, trailers, trucks and even tour buses. You have the freedom to choose the method of towing when you call accident towing services in Albury.
Check for certification: When you call for an accident towing service, make sure they have a certification. Going with a certified towing company will ensure that your vehicle will be safely towed. Also, check for the experience because more experienced the towing company better will be your experience.
Things to tell when you call: When you call an accident towing service in Albury, tell them your exact location, vehicle model, and registration number, the status of your vehicle, whether it is damaged, trapped or stuck in the embankment and about the road conditions. When the dispatcher arrives at the location ask him or her to show their business operating license.
Towing charges: Charges of accident towing services include tow fee, distance charges, working or delay fee, extra equipment fee, and vehicle storage charges. Distance charges are generally calculated by kilometers. Working or delay is calculated on the basis of time the dispatcher waited at the scene. Vehicle storage charges are incurred if you keep your vehicle in storage yard of the towing company.
Laws are different in every state: Every state has different laws for towing. It is better if you have the proper knowledge of the towing laws in the state you are traveling in. When you are towing from one state to another, make sure your towing company is aware of the laws and necessary permits for that state. | 2019-04-21T10:45:00 | http://www.towingalburywodonga.com.au/component/content/article/9-blog/114-what-to-do-if-you-get-into-an-accident?Itemid=135 |
0.999999 | Do Dogs Prefer Certain Foods Over Others?
Your pup may prefer some foods over others.
Your pooch may prefer the taste of certain foods over others, something that you may have noticed when offering healthy treats or switching brands of kibble. At the same time, if you live in a multi-dog home, you may notice that one pooch prefers certain things while the other turns her nose up at them.
In the wild, wolves don't tend to be picky about what they eat. They hunt, eat their prey and survive based on what and when they can eat. Over thousands of years of domestication, however, many pet dogs have developed taste preferences. While some pet dogs still "wolf down" their meals quickly like their ancestors, many dogs will eat at leisure and be much more picky about what's in their bowls because they know their meals are steady and they won't go hungry.
Dog food manufacturers have long tried to make their foods palatable to dogs by adding flavor enhancers. Many of these enhancers are proteins crushed into a powder or formed into small pieces of kibble. Some foods even add ingredients that are similar to junk foods for humans. This is why some dogs will prefer a lower-quality kibble over a high-quality kibble, just as a human might prefer a coated, flavored tortilla chip over a natural corn tortilla chip. A dog's sense of smell may also contribute at first, with dogs preferring something that smells like meat over a bland, odorless diet. At first, dogs will go for the tasty-smelling dish, but after time they will have no preference unless there is a significant taste difference as well.
As they've evolved and been bred, the domesticated dog's diet more closely mimics that of their human counterparts. In addition to the change in diet from raw, fresh prey to an enormous variety, dogs will take cues from humans over what to eat. A study published in "Public Library of Science ONE" states that dogs in a trial would first choose an option of a larger portion over a smaller one; that is, until, a human showed more interest in the smaller portion. After seeing a cue from a human being who preferred a smaller portion, most dogs would choose the smaller over the larger.
Another interesting aspect of a pet's food preferences is the novelty effect. A dog fed a diet for long periods of time, whether he thoroughly enjoys it or not, will often choose a new, different tasting food or kibble over his regular diet. Conversely, some dogs will refuse a seemingly palatable food that they have never experienced before.
The domesticated dog is such a diverse species that it's nearly impossible to say every dog will like one thing. Humans have interfered with the dog's genes through selective breeding for certain traits, and science is unsure about the effects in regards to taste preferences. In general, however, dog taste buds react greatly to sweet and umami flavors in foods, much like human taste buds. The most common taste buds in a dog respond primarily to "sweetish" tastes, which could account for the preference of raw meat and carrion. A dog's sense of smell is also prevalent in the preference of certain foods over others; anosmic dogs don't show much preference between different meats or foods.
Public Library of Science ONE: Do Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) Make Counterproductive Choices Because They Are Sensitive to Human Ostensive Cues?
With a professional background in gardening, landscapes, pests and natural ecosystems, Jasey Kelly has been sharing her knowledge through writing since 2009 and has served as an expert writer in these fields. Kelly's background also includes childcare, and animal rescue and care. | 2019-04-18T19:28:46 | https://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/dogs-prefer-certain-foods-over-others-2581.html |
0.999995 | How can I split a route or concatenate fragments?
Select a route and also select a range in the elevation chart. Then choose the command to trim the route to the selection in the chart.
Select a route and also select a location in the elevation chart. Then choose the command to split the route at the selection into two route fragments.
Select a route and choose the command to reverse the course direction. In other words to make the end point the new start.
Select two route fragments and choose the command to join the two fragments into one concatenated route.
Select a route, preferably a round trip, and select a location in the chart. Then choose the command to set the starting point of the round trip to the select position making the old start point a simple transit location on the course of the resulting route. | 2019-04-24T02:15:25 | http://trailrunnerx.com/trailrunnermini_en_help/files/tag-concatenate.php |
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Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and selector of the "@" symbol, has died.
Raytheon Co., his employer, on Sunday confirmed his death; the details were not immediately available.
Email existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in that electronic messages could be shared amid multiple people within a limited framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first network person-to-person email, there was no way to send something to a specific person at a specific address.
The first email was sent on the ARPANET system, a computer network that was created for the U.S. government that is considered a precursor to the Internet. Tomlinson also contributed to its development.
At the time, few people had personal computers. The popularity of personal email wouldn't take off until years later but has become an integral part of modern life.
"It wasn't an assignment at all, he was just fooling around; he was looking for something to do with ARPANET," Raytheon spokeswoman Joyce Kuzman said of his creation of network email.
Tomlinson once said in a company interview that he created email "mostly because it seemed like a neat idea." The first email was sent between two machines that were side-by-side, according to that interview.
He said the test messages were "entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them." But when he was satisfied that the program seemed to work, he announced it via his own invention by sending a message to co-workers explaining how to use it.
Tomlinson chose the "@" symbol to connect the username with the destination address and it has now become a cultural icon.
Why that symbol? Kuzman said Tomlinson was looking at the keyboard and needed something that would not otherwise be part of the address and that seemed to be a logical solution.
"It is a symbol that probably would have gone away if not for email," she said.
MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design added the symbol into its collection in 2010, with credits to Tomlinson.
Tomlinson held electrical engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tomlinson was an inductee to the Internet Hall of Fame and recipient of numerous awards and accolades but was described as humble and modest.
"People just loved to work with him," Kuzman said. "He was so patient and generous with his time ... He was just a really nice, down-to-earth, good guy."
Tomlinson was hired by Bolt Beranek and Newman, known as BBN, in 1967. It was later acquired by Raytheon Co., where he still worked at the time of his death, as a principal scientist.
He lived in Lincoln, Massachusetts where he raised miniature sheep. Attempts to contact his family were unsuccessful.
While more general email protocols were later developed and adopted, Tomlinson's contributions were never forgotten.
"He was pretty philosophical about it all," Kuzman said. "And was surprisingly not addicted to email." | 2019-04-23T16:46:44 | http://survivorbb.rapeutation.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3072&start=45 |
0.99995 | A couple have told how their dream wedding turned into a day to remember for all the wrong reasons after an appalling series of blunders by the council register office.
Bride Michelle Rogers, 36, and groom Peter, 41, had to wait two hours for a replacement registrar to turn up because the one who was due to attend was out walking her dog.
Tearful Michelle was forced to sit in a dingy side room while Peter decided to wait with guests in a pub.
Eventually when the registrar did arrive it transpired that she had brought the wrong vows.
And she even got Michelle's name wrong calling her by her middle name Tracey.
To make matters even worse the CD player was broken so they couldn't play the songs they had selected.
Michelle and Peter finally tied the knot at 5.00pm - more than two hours later than they had expected.
They had organised to have pictures taken in the grounds of Dover Discovery Centre, but the photographer said it was too dark.
The couple from Dover had forked out £4,500 for the council's 'Simply Perfect' wedding service.
Peter had turned up at the venue 15 minutes early and was rudely told by a council worker to 'get out'.
He told the Daily Mirror: 'Michelle was so tearful and angry her big day had been spoiled.
Michelle added: 'It was just awful sitting there not knowing what was going on.
The couple are now demanding compensation from Kent County Council.
A spokesman fro the council said: 'Due to a communication breakdown our staff did not arrive in time to marry Mr and Mrs Rogers at the agreed time. | 2019-04-20T08:20:32 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090924/Council-ruins-couples-dream-wedding-string-shocking-blunders.html |
0.999995 | What is the Hebrew Root?
The Hebrew Root is simply a way of describing the idea that the church is in-grafted as wild branches into the "olive tree" of God's elect. The apostle Paul was crystal clear that this is the case. (Romans 11:17-21, in particular is the key text here although all of Romans 9; 10; 11 should be read to get a biblical understanding of this). The church is not an independent or free-wheeling "religion" – it is "rooted". When the roots of a plant suffer then the whole plant suffers. If we have dry roots our "Christianity" will also be dry. In the same way we need to absorb spiritual nutrients through the root. The plant is not the root, nor is the root the plant. The two are inseparable.
The church has artificially separated root from plant and suffered accordingly. Whilst there are numerous reasons for the churches' patchy record down through history, PYF believes (and we are far from alone on this) that artificial separation of root from branch has made the church "proud" and too willing to ignore the Jewishness of its Saviour. The Bible reminds us that pride comes before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).
By acknowledging the Hebrew Root we express joyfull and confidently the uniqueness of Jesus, our Lord, who was born, lived, died and was raised again as a Jew living in a Jewish context. We love Him as Saviour, we love Him as Shepherd and we want to recognize His voice ever more clearly. Part of that is to understand Jesus the Jewish teacher; Jesus the Jewish observer of the Law; Jesus the fulfillment of prophesy; Jesus within His Jewish community and hinterland. We should not knowingly neglect any aspect of Jesus our Lord – and His Jewishness is surely an aspect for which we need to make room in our appreciation of His beauty and His holiness.
Is this a 'front' for Christian Zionism? Is this 'political'?
No. There are a range of views about what is loosely called Zionism (and incidentally what sort of Zionism does this question address? Is it Jewish Zionism? Or Jewish anti-Zionism? Is it Christian Zionism or Christian anti-Zionism? Is it Covenantal Zionism or Classical Zionism?). If we were to choose a 'label' for our understanding here at PYF it would be Classical Zionism as adopted by the likes of Charles and John Wesley, the Puritan John Owen, Charles Simeon of Cambridge, Bishop Ryle of Liverpool, the Baptist Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Scots Andrew Bonar and Murray McCheyne. Also William Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and some politicians such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Harold Wilson. These are just some notable UK people who have subscribed to what is now called a 'classical' understanding of God's ongoing purposes for Israel.
This is not political at all. The manager of this website subscribes broadly to the ideas set out by Rev Alex Jacob in his helpful short book "Receive The Truth!" (published 2011) in which the author sets out 20 FAQs and 10 short bible expositions relating to key issues in contemporary Christian-Jewish relations and Christian Spirituality. This book is available from CMJ (the Church's Ministry among Jewish People). It is also available via Glory to Glory Publications. David Pawson's "Defending Christian Zionism" is also a helpful short book exploring Classical Zionism.
God has chosen to reveal Himself first through a chosen people (the Hebrews) and the Laws which He gave to them. And then through God's Son, Jesus/Yeshua, who came to fulfil God's Law and become the acceptable sacrifice for the sins of all Mankind. UK writer Steve Maltz has used the term “God's Signature” to describe the wonders of the Hebrew Scriptures, which teach us so much about the nature of God, as we delve into His word, as well as the wonderful promise of a Saviour or Messiah who would come at a distinct point in the history of the world. Steve Maltz wrote a short book called “God's Signature” which looks into how and why the Old Testament came to be written, at some of the things we often miss because we do not appreciate those same Scriptures in their Jewish context, and at a range of other questions. Google Steve Maltz and God's Signature if you want to know more.
Is the Hebrew Root divisive?
No – the very opposite. It unites believing Jew to Believing Gentile. And in a church riven with theological and praxis differences, the Hebrew Root will become increasingly important in the 21st Century in enabling Believing-Christians (and Believing Jews) to see and to strengthen those things that unite them rather than those things that divide them.
Is the Hebrew Root secondary?
It is arguable that the church has misunderstood its root from the time that the church ceased to be predominantly Jewish – in other words from the Second Century onwards. Once the church in effect became 'nationalised' (this is a gross over-simplification, but people will have a sense of what this means!) by the Roman Emperor Constantine, the church began to identify ever more closely with the State and this has been an issue for the church ever since. As the church relies more upon the State, arguably it relies less upon the Lord! Again this must be an over-simplification but the history of the church and its close dealings with the State - with temporal 'powers' - has led to many compromises. How can we forget that the present "Church of England" was born out of a divorce controversy!
Few Christians would argue that the church is in a healthy state. The emptying pews in the older established churches suggest it is unhealthy – possibly terminally unhealthy. (This is not true of the non-denominational churches nor of the church in the developing world). The Bible suggests, in any case, that the church will seriously rebel against the Holy Spirit towards the end times – and we have no real idea as to how close we may be to those end times.
Remedying the defects of the past is becoming a priority. The Bride must make herself ready for the Groom (Revelation 19:7–8). It is arguable that a rediscovery of the Hebrew Root will be an important part of the church's preparation for His return in Glory. That is certainly the broad view of PYF 'friends'.
So no, rediscovering our Hebrew Root and exploring it as a wonderful fresh vista showing us God's utter faithfulness is surely not secondary - indeed the reverse must be true. Reevaluating our Hebraic inheritance may be a real key to facing the undoubted challenges ahead – not least of which will be heightened persecution.
How does the Hebrew Root help us to draw closer to Jesus?
Simply by better recognizing and understanding our Saviour – the Jewish man, the itinerant Jewish teacher (rabbi), the true Yeshua who lived in our world as the perfect man and as the Second Adam. As God decided to place Yeshua into a recognized and indeed "chosen" people-group, within their 'promised land', it is surely less than honouring to God for us to ignore the context into which our Lord was placed. It is the expectation of most Christians that at His triumphal return He will return to Jerusalem – to the place from which He left His disciples (see Acts chapter 1 and especially verse 11). These things surely speak of the importance of the Hebraic connection?
Which is the best/most reliable translation of the Bible?
In our basis of faith we affirm a high view of Scripture. Some translations are paraphrases and others use a theological translation technique called dynamic equivalence. Whilst not ruling out the usefulness or efficacy of many translations, we prefer the use of the New King James Version (NKJV) in the English language. The New International Version (NIV) is good. We merely caution our friends that not all Bible translations are equally good, and some adopt a rather partisan approach. It is important, then, to select a good, trusted version – and preferably not a paraphrase, which can actually be rather misleading.
Yeshua (Jesus) lived, died and was raised again as a Torah-observant Jew. Ironic as it may seem, we really cannot call our Lord a "Christian".
Of the 66 books that make up the Bible, certainly 64 were written by Jewish men. Is this a mere coincidence? The two that may have been an exception are the Gospel of Luke and The Acts of the Apostles. But even here there is a suggestion that Luke MAY have been a gentile convert to Judaism before discovering Yeshua as the Jewish Messiah.
The Old Testament and the New Testament are intimately linked. There are over 900 prophesies in the Old Testament that point towards Yeshua (Jesus). To help understand our Lord's teachings we do well to understand more of His cultural hinterland and His cultural mindset.
The New Covenant grows out of the Old Covenant. It is difficult to argue (as some attempt to) that the Old Covenant is extinguished by the New.
When our Lord returns physically in Glory to this World, it is clear that He will return to Jerusalem.
It is powerfully argued that God's purposes for the Hebrew people continue to this day and that in God's good time, the majority of Jewish people will also joyfully recognize and receive Yeshua (Jesus) as their Saviour.
There are powerful allusions to Yeshua (Jesus) throughout the Old Testament. This is often called "typography" of Christ – one powerful such "type" is the sense in which The Tabernacle in its physical "furnishings" speaks powerfully of the life and ministry of Yeshua (Jesus).
However uncomfortable or controversial it may be there are many who understand the return of the Jewish people to the lands we now call Israel as being a fulfillment of prophesy both in the New Testament and the Old Testament. Is the church ready to welcome Jewish Believers in Yeshua?
The debt owed by Christians as chosen people (chosen individual people - Ephesians 1:4) to The Chosen People, the Hebrews, is enormous, as set out in Romans 11.
The ten thoughts above are aimed to help stir-up an interest in your Hebrew root, if you are a Christian. We are "wild olive branches" grafted into the Hebrew root stock (Romans 11:17). This is a vital allusion made by the apostle Paul; we need to understand it and to live it. We do not do so by becoming Jews! Such an idea is absurd and already dismissed by Paul (see Galatians 5:1-15).
We see the beauty of Yeshua (Jesus) magnified. He was a real man living in a real community, among God's chosen people.
Jesus the real Man becomes the Saviour we understand more closely. We grow to love Him more intimately and want to serve Him more truly.
Our understanding of Scripture is enhanced and our trust of the Word is increased. This has to be a good thing as the world becomes increasingly hostile to "Christianity" and as persecution increases.
We can find ourselves freed from denominational theologies that can be destructive and divisive. We begin to acquire the mind of Christ rather than the minds of "theologians"
Our love for our neighbour will become more reflective of our love for the Lord – the two loves will tend to work "hand in glove". We will grow to love our Lord more so our love for our neighbour increases.
Our gift of discernment will be strengthened.
There are no doubt other ways in which our discipleship will be blessed. But the above seem to be the most visible benefits of acknowledging our Hebrew lineage.
Beware of Greeks bearing ……… Ideas!
There is a growing consensus that early Christianity leaned heavily upon Greek Philosophy as a mechanism through which to share the gospel. Whilst no doubt God graciously allowed Christianity to flourish in the ancient Graeco/Roman world, the wholesale adoption of the Ideas of Plato and Aristotle seems to have led directly to the "spiritualizing" of parts of the Bible and to a slow dilution of key Biblical themes.
It is helpful for Christians to see how these ideas seeped into the church and to seek to think Hebraically rather than think within a Greek mindset. The Greek mindset is the mindset of the world. We are called to be distinctive within the world. Thinking more as Yeshua (Jesus) thought will help us to approach life's problems and questions more in the manner that our Lord Himself would do so.
Why is the Christian Church too often such a poor witness to the Gospel?
There is an enemy out there (the Bible calls him the devil) who seeks to spoil and to destroy. He particularly likes to keep the church on its back-foot, focusing on side-issues rather than preaching the gospel of Yeshua (Jesus). One weapon in his arsenal is Greek philosophy. Greek philosophy is sharp contrast to the certainties of Hebraic thought patterns. Hebraic thought patterns often allow us to see innumerable Godly possibilities where Greek thought patterns restrict us only to 'logical' thought processes. This is not to suggest that there is anything 'illogical' in Hebraic thought, or in the Gospel, but where we use the "tools" of Greek philosophy to settle what Scripture means, we often end-up by undermining Scriptural truths.
It is noteworthy that in the eighteenth century, during what historians call "The Enlightenment", Greek philosophy was reinvigorated in Western thought and Greek philosophy once again became popular and dominant among the intelligentsia and ruling elites. The church once again became subject to these philosophical "norms" and during this period there began two centuries of attack upon the truthfulness and dependability of Scripture. It is arguable those attacks continue unabated in our own day.
The Greek mindset is not the sole culprit in the Churches' weakened witness BUT it is one area of Church weakness that can be addressed by consciously seeking-out a better and fuller understanding of the Hebraic dynamic underlying the Christian faith.
Just how reliable is the Christian Bible in its various 'translations'?
This website is not the place to settle so profound a question as to the reliability of otherwise of the various translations of the Scriptures. Searchers will find a wealth of guidance elsewhere.
The point we would like Friends to note is that to honour Scripture in the way that our Lord Yeshua (Jesus) honoured Scripture will bring those Scriptures alive to us in a much more profound way that we may have experienced in the past.
It has been argued that the philosophy called "Replacement Theology" (the idea that the Church has replaced the Jewish people in God's affections) probably owes much to Greek thinking and Greek philosophizing. A helpful corrective to this is the adoption of a more consciously Hebraic approach and understanding.
This is the reality that Believing-Jew and Believing-Gentile are brought together as one before our Lord, through repentance (turning away from known sin) and placing our faith in Yeshua (Jesus). So we can declare along with Paul "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).
This is what it means to be One New Man. This is the effect of the New Covenant that grows out of the Old Covenant; the blessings of God's promises are extended to all Mankind (all people) and are no longer experienced by observing the Law; they are experienced only by faith in Yeshua (Jesus).
Jewish people still need to receive their Messiah. Jewish people do not need to become culturally "Christians" (whatever that may mean – and the definitions of Christianity are numerous and confusing!) but they, as all people everywhere, do need to become Believers, to repent, be baptized and be discipled by Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua is the Saviour of Jews as much as He is of Gentiles. The consequences of rejection of Yeshua is the same for Jew as it is for Gentile.
I'm interested! What should I do next?
If you are not yet a Disciple of Jesus and what to know want it truly means to be His follower, then please go to this website which should help you.
There are probably the best detailed popular introductions to the issues we have started to explore in this PYF website. If you want to buy them then please go to this link. Alternatively these books are available via the book-chain CLC in UK.
We think the works of David Pawson at a more generic level are also very helpful. Go to the http://davidpawson.org/books/ for details of these. | 2019-04-18T12:38:16 | http://christian-publications-int.com/default.aspx?ID=156 |
0.993164 | Islam arrived in Egypt and the entire continent of Africa in 640 AD with General Amr Ibn Al-Aas of the Rashidun Islamic Caliphate. The religion was only a couple of decades old at the time and expanding quickly with the influence of the Rashidun Caliphate, which had been formed following the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632 AD. At the time, Coptic Christianity had recently surpassed the religion of Ancient Egypt to become the dominant religion.
In 640 AD, the Muslim army laid siege to the Roman fort of Babylon, the ruins of which still stand in Coptic Cairo. After conquering the fort, Amr Ibn Al-Aas marched to Alexandria in 641 AD, eventually forcing the city to surrender after a long siege and leaving Egypt in the hands of the Muslim conquerors.
How was the Islamic rule under Amr Ibn Al-Aas?
On orders from Caliph Umar back in the Muslim capital of Medina, Egyptian Christians were treated well under their new rulers. They were required to pay a poll tax in exchange for exemption from military service and the right to practice their religion, a system that had been common practice under the Persian, Roman, and Byzantine empires that ruled Egypt before.
In fact, Egyptian Coptic Christians had suffered persecution under Byzantine rule because of theological differences with the Byzantine Orthodox Church and it is thought that a significant number of Egyptian Copts welcomed the Muslims conquest.
Amr Ibn Al-Aas is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Egypt because he introduced Islam to the country. He founded a new city just north of the Roman fort of Babylon called Fustat. Today, the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas still marks the site of this city. The structure has been renovated several times and none of the original structure remains today, but it is still the site of the oldest mosque in Egypt and the entire continent of Africa.
The Muslim army captured Alexandria, establishing control over Egypt, but word came from the Caliph Umar in Medina that they should establish a new capital closer to Medina. Heeding the omen of the dove, Amr Ibn Al-Aas built a mosque at the site where his tent had stood and it became the center of the new Muslim capital of Egypt, Fustat. This mosque, founded in 642 AD and named after the general, was the first mosque on the continent of Africa.
The mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas was originally constructed using palm trunks, mud-brick, and palm leaves for a roof so none of the original structure remains and it has been rebuilt many times since the 7th century. The first arcades of columns were erected in 827, giving it a permanent form that has since been expanded. Only a small number of these original architraves remain today and can be viewed along the mosque’s southern wall. The building was most recently rebuilt in 1875. | 2019-04-19T05:16:24 | https://www.memphistours.com/Egypt/Egypt-Wikis/Egypt-History/wiki/Amr-Ibn-Al-Aas |
0.999983 | Data: Characters assigned by numbers (e.g. MARKETINGS assigned as M=0, A=1, R=2 & so up to 9).Input: CharactersCondition: Apply to Input CharactersOutput Should be: Some of the number for the input characters.
I'm trying to use column A as a 'sequence' number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...) in a spreadsheet, so I enter '1' in cell A1 and enter the simple formula =A1+1 in cell A2 (which correctly returns the number 2). But, when I copy the simple formula in cell A2 and paste it into cell A3, the value in the cell is 2 even tho the formula shows as =A2+1. This works just fine in Excel 97 and 2003, so what am I doing wrong?
Thx for any advice you can give.
I've just tested this out on Excel 2007 and it works fine on my PC. I'm at a total loss as to why it would add 1+2 and make 2?
Question: MS office 2007 office button immediatly closes program??
I use MS office 2007 daily, but today I cannot access it properly. I attempted to open a file by clicking on the "office button" and it immediatly closed everything. I tried to save from the office button and each time I click on the office button it closes everything out. I just discovered other things are affected as well. I cannot access any drop down items on anything. So it is not just an Office thing.
Answer:MS office 2007 office button immediatly closes program??
I don't know if this matters or not but there is also a pie chart linked to this table of information.
I would like this table (H6:J19) to automatically sort by % of Total (in descending order) any time I add new expenses so that I don't always have to sort manually.
If there is a way to do this, I would so appreciate simple instructions. I've attached a sample of what the report looks like.
I hope you guys can help!!!
To do this just right-click on the Sheet1 tab and select view Code, you will automatically be in the VBAProject.
In the right screen paste the code above.
every time you change values in the list the range G7:J19 without hearders will be sorted by Total % descending order, th epoie chart will do it's own work since it's related to this table.
Firstly in cell A4 is equation A4 =sum(A1-A3) ie taking one number from another to give a total.
What I'm trying to do in the cell A4 is to compare this value with another cell say B4 and if A4 is higher to make that cell turn RED and if lower turn that cell GREEN.
I have a user we recently upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007. Recently she has been experiencing intermittent crashes with her Excel 2007. It usually happens when she is opening a document, the system will say it will run into an error and then shuts down. It starts trying to recover her documents but just freezes until I cancel that command. Once that command is cancelled, the program opens up again and shows all of the documents that she can recover. The below is the error message. Any ideas on a fix?
Faulting application excel.exe, version 12.0.6024.5000, stamp 465f21c3, faulting module excel.exe, version 12.0.6024.5000, stamp 465f21c3, debug? 0, fault address 0x001d70b6.
0028: 20 00 65 00 78 00 63 00 .e.x.c.
0030: 65 00 6c 00 2e 00 65 00 e.l...e.
0038: 78 00 65 00 20 00 31 00 x.e. .1.
0048: 36 00 30 00 32 00 34 00 6.0.2.4.
0050: 2e 00 35 00 30 00 30 00 ..5.0.0.
0058: 30 00 20 00 34 00 36 00 0. .4.6.
0060: 35 00 66 00 32 00 31 00 5.f.2.1.
ID: 1, Application Name: Microsoft Office Excel, Application Version: 12.0.6024.5000, Microsoft Office Version: 12.0.4518.1014. This session lasted 6231 seconds with 1260 seconds of active time. This session ended with a crash.
PLEASE, Help Me To Get Right Formula For Excel SheetSHEET:Uploaded with ImageShack.usPROBLEM:IF A2+90 IS MORE THAN 1500 THEN B2=1 IF A2+90+90 IS MORE THAN 1500 THEN C2=1 BUT IF B2=1 THEN C2=0 IF A2+90+90+90 IS MORE THAN 1500 THEN D2=1 BUT IF C2=1 THEN D2=0 IF A2+90+90+90+90 IS MORE THAN 1500 THEN E2=1 BUT IF D2=1 THEN E2=0....AND SO ONPLEASE HELP!
http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/if_nested.php has a good example at the bottom.
In the document library if I click on an word document the document opens in word.
If I click on an excel document it opens in notepad.
If I open Excel and drill down to the libary document excel file the document will open in Excel.
I looked at the document library excel files and noticed that the excel files were associated with notepad.
I then went to 'open with' and located on the desktop Excel.
What Excel is linking / associating with / opening with is Excel Component - and not the Excel Application.
Evidently I associated "open with" the Excel Componet - and I simply cannot find the Office 2007 -Excel Application when I browse through for example 'ProgramData' 'Program Files' and so forth.
Where can I find Excel.exe so that I can use the 'open with' ?
I have two tabs in my workbook, a master tab (sheet 1) and a deployment tab (sheet 2). The master tab lists all stores with all of their related data. The deployment tab lists only the stores that have had something done to them. Both tabs have the store number listed in column A.
In column B in the master tab, I want it to look at the deployment tab and if there is a match, put a Y and if not a N (or yes/no... whatever). Please help! I can not find the formula.
Question: office excel 2007 & 2003 on same computer?
we have microsoft office excel 2007 installed on our computer, however we like the older version 2003 better. are we able to load both on the same system? or do we have remove the 2007 to install 2003?
Answer:office excel 2007 & 2003 on same computer?
For earlier versions of Office products, MSFT published a number of KB articles that describe the issue of having more than 1 version of Office in OS, andthey did list some significant potential problems.
Some of the articles were KB 292491, 218081, 828956 and 290576.
In any case, you would really have to uninstall 2007 before installing 2003.
Hi All, hoping someone can give me a quick answer to this.
Bosses PC..Excel files will open, he can change items in the boxes, but cannot save them. He cannot print, alter, print preview, in fact he cant do anything with them bar open them. Ive sent the files to my PC and they are perfectly ok. IE i can work with them.
Any suggestions to this as he cannot open a file and then go into settings to change anything.
Need a quick answer as he`s a load of work on that needs to be sent back out this morning.
Would i be better trying to reinstall or repair office 2007 ?
I have a 32 gig flash drive on which is an MS Excel 2007 file with all my passwords, serial numbers etc.
Last week I purchased a new HDD and successfully installed Vista Home and MS Office 2007 but when I click on the Password File on the flash drive, I get a message that "Excel cannot open the file .............. .xlsx due the file format or extension being invalid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that file extension matches that of the file format.
I have tried opening it in MS Word and other similar programs but no joy.
Any ideas on how I can get this important file to open properly using Excel?
Virtually nothing has chaged to my way of thinking except the reinstallation of Excel again!!
It doesn't help, I know, but if you manage a successful recovery, I'd suggest saving what is a crucial file in text form. "Ah, you fool!" I hear you say. "Text files can be read by anyone. Why would I keep my passwords etc. in a text file?!?" To that, my response would be ADS. Look it up.
Question: Solved: Office 2007 Excel - Always On Top Option?
Answer:Solved: Office 2007 Excel - Always On Top Option?
I recently went from XP to Vista which has Office Excel 2007. The problem is that I saved spreadsheets from excel 2003 that saved as XLR files. The 2007 excel is supposed to open these files but it won't . There seems to be plenty of information on reading 2007 files with 2003 programs but not the reverse. Can I open them in a computer that has excel 2003 and save or convert the files to xlsx?
Hope someone can help, old dog.
If that appears too scary, google docs will open your excel 2003 spreadsheets. I'm not sure if you can convert them.
help needed please for a excel formula for the following problem.
In my daughter in laws work she as to occasionally alter the the price of a lot of the goods they supply by 1 or 2 percent. The problem is that the manager/owner does not want the price to be exactly a round figure eg £1:00 it can be £0:95 or £1:05 in divisions of 5p So she is in need of a excel formula to round up/down the price to the nearest 5p omitting the .00 Can this be done?
Not sure if this will work in 2007, I use 2010. There are two functions 'ceiling' & 'floor' that you can use.
Cell A3 = Floor(A2,0.05) will go to the nearest 5p below £0.98p (£0.95p).
Cells need to be formatted for currency.
I have MS Office 2007, Windows 7. When I double click on an xls file Excel opens up but it is just a empty excel program. It is similar to opening up excel and then just closing the book1 that opens up automatically. Just a grey background. Also I can't open up xls files by doing File > Open or dragging xls files into an already opened excel. And double clicking an xls does not work. I tried doing a detect and repair on excel but that did not seem to fix anything. Any ideas? Thanks!
Question: Solved: How Do I Get Microsoft Office Excel 2007 To Do This...?
Answer:Solved: How Do I Get Microsoft Office Excel 2007 To Do This...?
I have two users that are having problems with saving excel 2007 files on a storage server. One will save a file and the next time she opens it and makes changes it will not let her save as an xlsx file. The server shows a ~$file and cannot be deleted. It looks like it is not closing the tmp file and the next time she opens it the it thinks the file is opened by someone else.
I have a macro in Excel to filter out rows with zeros. That works good. I want to change the "0" to a text string "(A1)". How do you do that? I tried putting both double and single quotes and it wouldn't work.
i have office 2007 in my xp os & i am unable to open excel file but able to other word, powerpoint,paint,outlook applicatios.
What happens when you try to open them?
at my work we have 4 computers running MO-03 and 2 using MO-07 trial. we use excel quite a bit with imported images (.jgp and .png) in the worksheets. when a file is created in 07 it seems that the images don't compress down very much (double clicking the image and selecting the compress button in the general tab) and when printing and opening these files on a computer using 03 the images have moved from where they were first placed on the page. in addition the images are able to be compressed quite a bit then in 03, there have been files that are over 1MB that compress down to 600-700 kb. note that this is all while saving as .xls (not the new format, i don't recall the extension right not) files, i have changed the default save as such.
has anyone experienced this? i have searched on the internet to find solutions or answers of why it would behave differently but have not found any.
one of the active Add-ins is causing the problem.
subfolder called XLSTART, if there are any files in that folder, delete them.
I am creating a worksheet about financial repayments, where the repayments are irregular.
Say for example the total repayment is �1000 and I put this in cell D1 ( alongside other headers). I am putting the repayments in column C, so the first entry would be in cell C2.
Yes, I know I sound very lazy (I am), but my maths are poor and it will be a long list, so if I make just one error it will be a load of hassle.
I would be obliged for any assistance.
I'm typing up a lab report, and usually in the past I never had a problem with this. I have two graphs on there, and each one contains thousands of points. These graphs are REALLY slowing down Word. I'm getting lagged typing, and overall it feels like I'm using an ancient PC. Is there any way to flatten these images. I know saving as 97-2003 doc does this, but all of my equations blur, and everything just doesn't look good. I end up converting to PDF instead of 97-2003 format and printing that.
So other than just removing the graphs for the time being, or taking a screenshot, cropping and pasting back in, is there anyway to flatten these so they just turn into an image?
Help needed please? I just installed Office 2007 over Office 2002 Running XP win PRO. the Macros in one main column in my workbook (the onlu Macros in that book) that was working perfectly 10 min ago won't work???
I'm having a frustrating problem that I'm guessing is going to be easily solved.
I have a user who opens word and excel files directly from a website and has a requirement to fill some details in and then send them via outlook 2007 to recipients.
Up until about a week ago this was no problem... within Word 2007, simply click on the send to mail recipient button and outlook opened and off it went.
After seemingly nothing has changed, Word now wants to open outlook express instead of Outlook 2007. (The default mail program is still Outlook 2007).
Does anyone know the cause of this.
OK I think that this program change is dumb, anyway my school uninstalled word perfect 12 and installed office 2007. Is there a program that can open these projects i wrote on office 2007?
Question: Office 2007: Excel right click context menu problem.
Just recently when trying to format cells etc. after right clicking on the cell the context menu appears and disappears within a few moments. Sometimes there is sufficient time to navigate the menu but most often not. The problem is affecting the ribbon drop downs also and is present in Word. The others I haven't checked as I tend not to use them.
Tried re-booting and running in safe mode but this doesn't help. Tried a different compatibility mode and this works but is rather cumbersome and removes some functionality.
The problem only seems to exist in my profile. I've thought about creating a new profile but the thought of having to copy across all the necessary files rather puts me off.
I was wandering if anybody on here had a better suggestion or easier solution. If I have to create a new user profile I'd like it to have the same name as the original and also all of it's associated programs. Many thanks in advance.
Update: I've now installed MS Office Pro+ 2010 and the problem persists.
I have not had this trouble before but now I find I cannot print an Excel page consisting of names & addresses, phone numbers & email addresses. The page does in fact print out but is unusable because all the data is compacted into an area the size of a postage stamp. Can anyone help please?
I recently upgraded our office to MS Office 2007 SP1 Pro plus.
I generally get people complain about how slow it is, but one issue that some users have got is that the toolbar/ribbon in Excel blanks out when switching between Outlook 2007 (via exchange server 2003) and Excel. Nothing else is open at the time.
The message pops up "Not enough system resources to display completely ".
I have had a look on the web and some have mentioned the size of the spreadsheet.
I was willing to pursue this line of thought, but this morning, someone got it without opening a spreadsheet. He had Outlook open, opened Excel, walked away then came back to the ribbon blanked out.
However, the user has an addin. I will get him to try and open Excel with the addin disabled.
The machines vary in specs, but this person has a brand new HP 2.4GHz Core 2 duo/2GB ram 150GB HDD. Another has a new HP laptop, and the same specs.
i find that synchrniztion feature is not there in 2007, i downloaded in installed add-in 2007 synchroniztion but i am still not getting option of "synchronize with Sharepoint" when i right click on table..
Does this even suppose to work? if yes could someone tell me solution or workaround please..
Question: Microsoft Office 2007 - harmful to uninstall this program?
I have the full version of Microsoft Office 2003. My Microsoft Office 2007 has expired (the 6 month trial that came with my computer). Is there any reason I should not uninstal the 2007 version? I.e., would there be some documents that I would not be able to open in the older (2003) version of Office?
My main reason for wanting to delete Office 2007 is that when I attempt to open a file my computer tries to open it using Microsoft Office Picture Manager 2007. I am confident that I did not create these documents in the program, but rather in Word 2003. Will deleting Office 2007 solve this issue?
Answer:Microsoft Office 2007 - harmful to uninstall this program?
If there is download a fresh trial or purchase the product.
Excel Failed to start correctly last time. Starting Excel in safe mode will help you correct or isolate a startup problem in order to successfully start the program. Some functionality may be disabled in this mode.
Do you want to start Excel in safe mode?
If anyone could shed some light on how to fix it, I would greatly appreciate it!
on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have not faced this problem on 32 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate.
In my view, the problem existed because proper parameters weren't passed to excel.
If there are whitespaces in the path, then enclose the path within double quotes.
Also, the %1 should be within double quotes.
3. Right click on the command value, click modify. Just put a "%1" next to the /e at the end.
My new computer came with Office 2007 Home and Student Edition. It has Word, Excel, etc. but does not have Outlook, which I need. Would it make sense to buy stand alone Outlook 2007 or should I buy a more comprehensive suite of Office itself?
If I decide to go with another email program, can I convert all my stored Outlook emails to the new program?
I am running Office Professional 2007 under W7 64 bit. I can open all programs from Explorer except Excel. This problem has surfaced recently but I don't know exactly the time and can't therefore go back to an earlier restore. I have looked on forums and see that one resolution is to untick 'Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) within Excel (Office Button/Excel Options/Advanced/General) but when I looked here it the box was already unchecked.
Hello Hallgente, welcome to Seven Forums.
Last night my daughter was doing homework on one of our computers working in Word 2007. She took a break for dinner and when she returned to the computer she was unable to open any office product. After looking further I determined that most of the .exe's in the Program Files(x86) were not working. I have tried several things with limited success. Norton 360 and Malwarebytes did not pick up anything. Since I am not sure what the cause of the problem is I started here.
This takes about 4 to 5 minutes then the chosen program appears.
Can anybody help, I have tried all of the fixes I could find on the net to no avail.
What Windows version (including 32/64bit) are you using and what version of Office 2007 as I had seen this with Enterprise version before but not the others?
Was this a new clean install of Office 2007 and its happening each time or just appeared?
Is this happening in the Admin or Limited accounts or both?
or if this is on Limited User accounts, temporarily change their account details to give them admin rights, then log in on that account, run one/all of the Office apps so that this installer runs, then reboot and log in again to check, if works ok then revert their account back to Limited User.
Outlook said the same thing.
Other users that started at the same time as she did and using the same model of laptop (and same image on the laptop) are fine and not experiencing this problem.
I disabled antivirus and all add ons, no change.
I checked she didn't have something strange in the TCP/IP bindings.
Delete. Word will create a new key when it is restarted.
Question: Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Outlook) and printer Slow When Connected To Network, But Fast When Not.
Answer:Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Outlook) and printer Slow When Connected To Network, But Fast When Not.
i can change other programs but not these ones.
create copies of the shortcuts and change the icons of those.
on a machine with CZECH Windows, Office 2007 installation was also Czech.
(see image). Can that be fixed?
Question: [ASK] How to change Default Ms Office 2007 from Ms Office Enterprise 2007 ?
Hello. I have some .xls files on a cd which I could open fine until yesterday. The files were created on my Acer Aspire 5732Z (Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium system x64 - based pc) using Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003.
Yesterday, I opened the cd on a different laptop (Acer Aspire 5733 64 bit operating system - windows 7 home premium, service pack 1). This laptop opened the files using Microsoft Excel starter 2010. I saved the files back to my cd when I'd finished, then safely ejected the CD using the correct method.
Now when I insert the CD into either pc, it show the CD drive but there are no visible files, so I can't open anything. I tried the error checking tool, but it can't check for errors as it says "windows cannot access the disk".
Can anyone help me open the files please? I have all the files backed up elsewhere, except for the two I worked on yesterday, but I really don't want to have to type them up again unless I absolutely have to as it will take me many hours. Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I'm working on a spreadsheet at the moment which displays a range of cells all containing values referenced from another spreadsheet (within the same workbook). This system works fine.
Every day, the original worksheet is updated. So, it has fields already arranged up until the end of the year. A row for every date. Now, needless to say, rows for dates in the future contain no values, and so when the spreadsheet I am working on now references those cells, it displays "$0.00" (which is correct, given I am dealing with financial figures).
Now, all of that works as expected, however, on the spreadsheet I am working on, all of those figures are displayed in a line graph. This line graph, at todays date, shows an enormous drop given that the fields for the rest of the year all show a zero balance.
What I need to do, is to get the remainder of those fields (every field that says "$0.00") to not display anything at all. So, if the value is $0.00, it would not display a value at all, and therefore not show anything on the graph.
Can someone tell me how I can achieve this? I'm sure it can be done with an "if" statement, but I'm not sure how to structure it.
Question: Getting A Graph In Microsoft Office Excel 2007 To Ignore "$0.00"
Answer:Getting A Graph In Microsoft Office Excel 2007 To Ignore "$0.00"
hello, i bought a new laptop a few months ago and rather than install my office xp pro, i chose to download the office 2007 small business trial and have been using this for 2 months including outlook for which i have many emails. my problem is i now want to use office 2007 pro and have bought an upgrade product, but to get this on my laptop i 1st need to install office xp pro then upgrade! if i bought office 2007 pro full product would this just install over trial or do i have to uninstall trial beforehand?what will happen to any files i have saved in office and also my emails? i cannot afford to lose any emails so how do i go about doing this? any help much appreciated.
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I have an Excel workbook in which I keep racing records. The data goes back about 5 years and as i have accumulated several hundred thousand records, I have moved much of the historical data onto separate sheets in the workbook so that values for calcs that rely on the historical data can be auto updated.
For current data I use a separare sheet as i was finding that it was takin g a long time to perform calcs when all the data (up to 200,000 rows) was all on the 1 sheet.
I wanted to know if it was possible to convert what i have to Access as it has been suggested that a database would do a better job of handling so much data, rather than Excel. I have moderate knowledge of Excel and have been able to build up the series of formulas for calculations in Excel over the years and have it pretty well doing all the things i want now but I have very little knowledge of Access design so not sure if I can convert and how to do it.
The Excel workbook contains a lot of formula that do calcs on past results and then use those calcs to do predeictive calcs for upcoming races. Because it was very "maths"based to start with, I started off using Excel and it has all grown from there. Is it possible to convert what I have to Access? Is is reasonably able to be done (by a moderate user like me with some expert help)?.
The files i have are too big to attach here, but would be happy to prepare some sheets without much data to show what i am doing and get advice.
Windows 7 Dell Multimedia computer.
It has Office 2007 installed , which includes PowerPoint 2007.
We need to upgrade PP 2007 to PP 2010 to help run embedded You Tube videos.
I have an unused and unopened stand alone version of PowerPoint 2010 to install on The Dell Multimedia computer.
How is the best way to do this upgrade with the least amount of problems ??
Can I uninstall only the PP app of Office 2007?
What if I uninstall the 2007, and then have problems installing the 2010?
I am running windows 7 on a new computer. Outlook 2007 is freezing many times after it is opened. I click on an e mail and it just freezes.
Word has done it also but not as bad.
For no apparent reason my version of MS Outlook has suddenly gone belly-up. All other apps. in Office work fine.
When I now try to open Outlook I receive the following "Cannot open your default email folders. The file C:\User\Maurice\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file"
I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Office from the original disks a number of times, I have successfully installed this on another Win7 desktop computer partition and it works fine. I have attempted to follow the MS repair online notification for .pst but it doesn't seem to work (or maybe it is me that isn't working). Most frustrating. Any word by word suggestions greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to run an Excel 2007 macro from Access 2007, when I get to the point where I want the macro stored in the active workbook I'm getting the following run-time error: run-time error '91' object variable or with block variable not set . It won't run the macro at all. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me fix my code so the macro will run. The code is listed below; step 10 is where I get the error.
MyConnect = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; Persist Security Info = False;Data Source= P:\FINANCE\Balance Sheet\Inventory\Project TAN\Project TAN.accdb; User ID = Admin;"
MySQL = "Select* From [mtb-TantasticJE's]Where [mtb-TantasticJE's].[Dscrptn_Text]='Culls_Stat34'and [mtb-TantasticJE's].[Co_Code]='1381'"
Question: Hp Laptop, Vista, Unable To Load Office 97 After Removing Office 2007 Trial Version.
Answer:Hp Laptop, Vista, Unable To Load Office 97 After Removing Office 2007 Trial Version. | 2019-04-19T22:44:43 | http://postthreads.org/support/3854778/Simple-Program-in-Office-Excel-2007.html |
0.999999 | What's the maximum supported baud rate for the Adafruit Metro Mini 328 over the Serial interface for communication with a computer?
…and reading posts on the maximum Arduino baud rate suggests people have gotten close to this speed with the Arduino Uno, as per a StackExchange post, a post on the Arduino Uno forums, etc.
However, in testing, baud rates of 115200 seems consistent, 230400 seems hit-or-miss, losing bytes occasionally, and anything higher fails.
I realize the Adafruit Metro Mini is merely Arduino-compatible, not an Arduino exactly.
I want to control 300 DotStar LEDs via a USB interface (e.g. via Arduino) to the computer as fast as inexpensively possible, in a cross-platform (Windows/Linux) way. From what I've read, the .NET and Mono runtime can handle higher than normal baud rates, and indeed with 230400 it's able to read the Metro's announcement message, it's just not able to send the data without seemingly missing bytes.
I have an existing C# desktop project that currently controls 50 GE ColorEffects LEDs, and I'm reworking it to support any number of LEDs.
…resulting in 901 bytes total.
However, at 115200 baud rate, it's taking around 80 ms to send this data. Simply reading and discarding the data as fast as possible on the Metro results in 77 ms. I'd hope to get at least something four times as fast, if not as close to the update rate of the DotStars as possible.
From research, the Teensy appears to be capable of much faster USB serial communication and there's a shield for DotStars on Adafruit, but I don't know if that impacts the speed at which the computer can send to the Teensy, and/or if this would work.
// Hue, intensity, or both?
There are three things needed to run a particular bit rate on the serial (UART) interface of an Arduino.
The AVR UART and the USB/Serial device both have to support that bitrate. In theory, the AVR supports speeds "up to" 2Mbps (F_CPU/8) - in reality, the higher bitrates are very quantized - you can get exactly 250k, 500k, 1M, and 2M, but 230400bps would have a pretty high error (actually running at 250k) I don't know if the cp2104 has similar limitations.
The AVR UART and USB/Serial device have to agree within less than 5% on the bitrate. When you set the AVR to 115200bps, it actually generates a rate that's about 2.1% off (because of the "quantization.") That's usually OK, unless the CP2104 is off by 3% in the other direction.
The AVR has to have enough cycles to process the data. At 1Mbps, you have 160 clock cycles for each byte. That's not very much. In your case, you're also blasting out dotstar serial, which is similarly "costly", so I suspect you'll hit a CPU limit.
That seems about right. 115k is about 10k bytes/s, so 1k bytes takes about 0.1s.
in testing, baud rates of 115200 seems consistent, 230400 seems hit-or-miss, losing bytes occasionally, and anything higher fails.
I am surprised that you can't get 500k to work, at least in a test program. It might be worth additional effort to figure out why it's not working.
Yes, anything with "native" USB communications will be "much faster", both because USB is inherently faster, but also because the USB hardware will receive entire blocks worth of data without CPU intervention. This should include numerous 32u4 boards (feather and itsybitsy 32u4 boards, since this is the Adafruit forum!) as well as most of the SAMDxx boards. I've gotten in excess of 6Mbps throwing away data over a USB port on a SAMD21 board.
That makes sense! Given the 48 MHz rate of the CP2104, and the formula from the datasheet 6.1. Baud Rate Generation, it appears the USB/Serial device should also be able to perfectly align with 250k, 500k, 1M, and 2M. Specifically, 48 MHz÷(2×1×1 MHz) = 24, and with clock divider of 24, baud rate = 48 MHz÷(2×1×24) = 1 MHz, assuming bps and Hz are interchangeable in this situation.
Also makes sense. According to the CP2104 datasheet, its own error for e.g. 1Mbps should be within 0.25%.
I suspect this will be my limiting factor when I move into ludicrous refresh rates. Going by the 77 ms (discarding) vs. 81 ms (with LEDs) time to acknowledge differences, there's about a 4 ms performance hit to send to the LEDs via SPI. Still pretty fast.
Referencing your rough estimate (given 8 bits, 1 stop bit, no parity but add a bit anyways), 1 Mbps results in about 1 sec ÷ (1000000 bps × (1 byte ÷ 10 bit) × (1 cmd ÷ 1000 byte)) = 0.01 sec per cmd. With the above determined 4 ms for processing and .show(), 10 ms for raw receiving, that still offers 2 ms of overhead to fall within a 16 ms target for 60 FPS.
I'll put more effort into this, including experimenting with other test programs and different serial console methods (so far: "screen", Putty, C#'s SerialPort), etc. It's likely I overlooked something, whether in the serial terminal, Ubuntu 16.04's configuration, the Arduino sketch, etc.
I recall reading on USB blocks elsewhere, too, and that I should make sure to send as much data over serial at once, to let the drivers attempt to group writes (which I do - the entire 901 byte array is sent from the computer in a single write call).
It's probably excessive, but given the price difference of ~$5 for a one-off purchase, the room for expanding on-board capabilities is nice.
You might want to look into some method of compressing the communications protocol, as well.
Good advice, and I am considering this… though as a later resort. If I can get raw streams to work, I'll stick with that to avoid the unpredictability of compression ratios. I'm still developing LED patterns for e.g. music reaction, and it'd be rather unfortunate to devise some fancy new arrangement that breaks the compression setup.
One start bit, 8 data bits, one stop bit.
different serial console methods (so far: "screen", Putty, C#'s SerialPort), etc. It's likely I overlooked something, whether in the serial terminal, Ubuntu 16.04's configuration, the Arduino sketch, etc.
And if your Arduino or compatible processor has native USB support, then the 'baud-rate' is essentially meaningless, since everything will move at USB speeds regardless of the rate selected.
Thank you for the constructive feedback and detailed explanations!
Good advice! Unfortunately, I don't have a native Windows system around, and despite following a guide for VirtualBox Arduino passthrough, it wasn't properly detected and configured despite installing the drivers as per the Adafruit guide. The various methods mentioned for Linux/Unix didn't seem to unlock higher speeds, either, or at best, only twice, not near the 1 mbps to approach a smooth frame rate.
So.. ultimately, I opted for plan B as both of you noted, and got an ItsyBitsy M4 Express + a 74AHCT125 - Quad Level-Shifter.
I haven't yet connected the level shifter, but I can at least confirm that without optimization, 300 × 4 = 1200 bytes of data get received via USB and pushed out to the (not yet connected) DotStar strip within 4 ms, a significant improvement. The extra byte is for brightness; I may try to make use of the SK9822's constant current driver.
The only thing left hardware-wise is connecting the level shifter, which hopefully is hard to mess up - and I got two spares, just in case :) I'll probably repurpose the Metro Mini 328 to slim down an older Arduino Uno project.
Thanks again for your guidance! For now, I'll consider this resolved/worked around. | 2019-04-19T03:01:20 | https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&p=723258 |
0.999814 | How I see it now: Do I teach communicatively?
Ideas are infectious. They spread quickly like viruses. This time I've been infected by Anna Loseva's idea to answer a simple question: Do I teach communicatively? I once attempted to ponder this issue but back then I only concentrated on one single activity, which I dissected using Scott Thornbury's technique. But I was caught off guard when I asked myself: Do I teach communicatively? I don't think I've ever asked myself this question. It's not like Was this particular activity communicative? It's much more; it's reflecting on my teaching philosophy. It's shedding light on my deepest beliefs. But as Anna points out, beliefs aren't always identical with one's actions. And I understand what she means because I face the same problem. I think I know what is right but I don't always do the right things. I know French fries are not healthy for me but I still love them. What's worse; I let my sons eat them!
Anyway, let's get back to the original topic of this post. Do I teach communicatively? Communicative teaching emphasizes interaction, which is the means as well as the ultimate goal. Yes, there's a lot of interaction going on in my classes. But does that mean that I teach communicatively? I'm not sure. I need to analyze a bit first. Here's a list of principles proposed by Doughty and Long (2003) which serve as a guideline for implementing CLT.
2. Promote learning by doing.
4. Input needs to be meaningful, comprehensible and elaborated.
I'm going to look at each of the communicative principles through the lens of my own teaching. Or vice versa, I'm going to look at my teaching through the lens of these communicative principles.
The task principle: I think I do use tasks but if you ask me what a task is, I need to have a think. Is it a specific piece of work required to be done as part of one's duties? Or is it the learner's effort to comprehend, manipulate and produce the target language? One way or another, I can claim that I use tasks as the organizational principle of my lessons. As a matter of fact, I can't picture a lesson which wouldn't be ruled by this principle (unless the students fall asleep or pay absolutely no attention). Even at a lecture the audience has some task to do, be it only following the lecturer carefully or taking notes.
The learning by doing principle: As far as learning by doing is concerned, don't we always learn by doing? To be able to answer this question, it's necessary to specify what we mean by doing. Even when I sit silently, just listening to the teacher, I kind of learn by doing - I'm making mental connections to my previous experience, I'm re-organizing and re-constructing my schemata; I'm putting new pieces of an imaginary jigsaw puzzle in the right place. Or I can literally be working with these pieces trying to figure out the correct word order of a sentence, for example. In both cases I learn by doing.
The richness of input principle: Input needs to be rich. Yes, I agree but too often do I feel restricted by the limitations of the classroom and the time allocated to my lessons. Yes, students need to be exposed to a plethora of language items and contexts but the real context is always the same - the classroom environment. Honestly, I'm not overly concerned about the authenticity of language learning. To be more precise, I believe learners can learn a lot using invented materials and coursebooks. But I certainly do my best to provide the learners with variety, even though it's a very limited kind of variety. However, it's the learners who finally need to make the final move; they need to go and find the different contexts outside the classroom. Luckily, it's never been more feasible than now with all the online sources and opportunities an L2 learner has nowadays.
The meaningfulness and comprehensibility of input principle: Who decides if the input is meaningful? I'd say it's always the learner, not the teacher. For me as a teacher, it's difficult to judge what is meaningful for my students. I think I know what might be meaningful for them but I don't know exactly what's going on in their little heads. There are things which I find totally meaningless but to my students they make perfect sense. On the other hand, making input comprehensible is something I can achieve, and I have the means to find out if I succeeded. For example, I can ask comprehension questions or I gain hard evidence when my students complete a task.
The cooperation and collaboration principle: I believe that cooperation must be taught and learnt - I don't think it's a natural feature of human nature. Not all human beings are selfless and willing to work collaboratively because they feel that a success of a group is less valuable than an achievement of an individual. One of my duties as a teacher is to demonstrate that under certain circumstances a group can achieve more that an individual, especially in language learning. In fact, communication and interaction are inherently collaborative in nature, so avoiding them in the classroom would make no sense.
The focus on form principle: I'd say that unlike in L1 acquisition, in order to learn a language in the classroom environment it's the form that must be made salient. However, it's the connection between form and meaning that is crucial. Teaching functional language is one of the ways of connecting meaning and form. Exposing learners to collocations and chunks of the language is more important than helping them understand grammar torn out of context.
The error and corrective feedback principle: I strongly believe in the power of corrective feedback, no matter whether it's teacher > student feedback or peer correction. There are circumstances when correction is totally inappropriate, as some say, but as L2 learners are generally aware of the fact that they are in the classroom in order to learn the language, they may infer and understand that it's the teacher's task to provide feedback, either explicitly or implicitly. Thus there's no need to feel offended.
The recognition of affective factors principle: Finally, it's clear to me that the overall atmosphere in the class will be relaxed if my students feel at ease. I can't say I have some evidence proving that they will learn more if anxiety is kept at a minimal level. But honestly, I don't need any direct proof of that anyway. I'm obviously not going to stress my students out just because I think they may learn more vocabulary. But this is a feature of my personality, not just a belief.
Having said what I have said, I may tentatively claim that I do teach communicatively. What I can never answer, though, is whether my teaching could be more communicative or if other teachers teach more communicatively than I do. In other words, is my teaching communicative enough in comparison with other teachers? Could this ever be measured? If not, how can I become a better teacher? I don't think it would be helpful to analyze each activity I introduce in the classroom because it's not just about activities. It's about the overall approach and the ultimate goals of instruction and education the teacher keeps in mind. It's definitely a complex issue that needs a lot of constant reflection. | 2019-04-24T22:07:42 | http://how-i-see-it-now.blogspot.com/2014/09/do-i-teach-communicatively.html |
0.998906 | Facts: Three senators and eight representatives had been proclaimed by a majority vote of the Commission on Elections as having been elected senators and representatives in the elections held on 23 April 1946. The three senators were suspended by the Senate shortly after the opening of the first session of Congress following the elections, on account of alleged irregularities in their election. The eight representatives since their election had not been allowed to sit in the lower House, except to take part in the election of the Speaker, for the same reason, although they had not been formally suspended. A resolution for their suspension had been introduced in the House of Representatives, but that resolution had not been acted upon definitely by the House when the petition for prohibition was filed. As a consequence these three senators and eight representatives did not take part in the passage of the congressional resolution, designated "Resolution of both houses proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Philippines to be appended as an ordinance thereto," nor was their membership reckoned within the computation of the necessary three-fourths vote which is required in proposing an amendment to the Constitution. If these members of Congress had been counted, the affirmative votes in favor of the proposed amendment would have been short of the necessary three-fourths vote in either branch of Congress. The petition for prohibition sought to prevent the enforcement of said congressional resolution, as it is allegedly contrary to the Constitution. The members of the Commission on Elections, the Treasurer of the Philippines, the Auditor General, and the Director of the Bureau of Printing are made defendants. Issue: Whether the Court may inquire upon the irregularities in the approval of the resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution. Held: It is a doctrine too well established to need citation of authorities, that political questions are not within the province of the judiciary, except to the extent that power to deal with such questions has been conferred upon the courts by express constitutional or statutory provision. This doctrine is predicated on the principle of the separation of powers, a principle also too well known to require elucidation or citation of authorities. The difficulty lies in determining what matters fall within the meaning of political question. The term is not susceptible of exact definition, and precedents and authorities are not always in full harmony as to the scope of the restrictions, on this ground, on the courts to meddle with the actions of the political departments of the government. If a political question conclusively binds the judges out of respect to the political departments, a duly certified law or resolution also binds the judges under the "enrolled bill rule" born of that respect. If ratification of an amendment is a political question, a proposal which leads to ratification has to be a political question. The two steps complement each other in a scheme intended to achieve a single objective. It is to be noted that the amendatory process as provided in section I of Article XV of the Philippine Constitution "consists of (only) two distinct parts: proposal and ratification." There is no logic in attaching political character to one and withholding that character from the other. Proposal to amend the Constitution is a highly political function performed by the Congress in its sovereign legislative capacity and committed to its charge by the Constitution itself. The exercise of this power is even in dependent of any intervention by the Chief Executive. If on grounds of expediency scrupulous attention of the judiciary be needed to safeguard public interest, there is less reason for judicial inquiry into the validity of a proposal then into that of ratification. | 2019-04-23T05:21:19 | https://www.scribd.com/document/149474266/Mabanag-vs-Vito |
0.999999 | Is a focus on curriculum the missing piece in the preparation of teachers?
That's the argument made by in a new paper released by Education First, a global education consulting group. It's part of a project, partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing together teacher-preparation experts from Finland, Brazil, Australia, and the United States.
One of the paper's main insights is that countries like Singapore and Finland tend to base all of their preparation around vetted, high-quality curriculum in a way that the United States and other countries, like Australia, do not.
In those countries, "curriculum explicitly connects teacher preparation to the classroom, and it helps new teachers to learn by providing them with concrete examples of how to teach content and assess student learning against student achievement standards," the report notes. "... Beginning teachers are rarely expected to develop lessons from scratch, but by the time they enter a classroom, they are well versed in how to evaluate, adapt, and use curriculum materials because they have studied and worked with quality curricular materials throughout their education."
But in the United States, it notes, teacher preparation tends to be curriculum-agnostic and more abstract.
To the uninitiated, it may seem like plain ol' common sense to base teacher preparation around high-quality teaching materials. But the nature of the United States' highly decentralized education system means that teacher-preparation programs prepare teachers who will go on to work in potentially dozens if not hundreds of different school districts.
As a result, they've tended to avoid teaching students with a specific curriculum, instead favoring general principles or teaching strategies. So budding teachers typically become familiar with specific curricula only when they're in student teaching, typically the very last part of their preparation.
The report recommends that those who prepare teachers consider whether their states and districts offer curriculum guides that they can adopt for use in their teaching programs; how they can better help teachers select and recognize good materials from within the extremely diverse marketplace; and explore whether it's possible to use high-quality sample materials themselves to underpin their training.
For another, as I've remarked before, there appears to be a newfound appreciation in the U.S. for curriculum given research showing that high quality curriculum can make a difference for student achievement.
And finally, a snarky aside: How, in all these years of people making entire careers of out promoting the "Finland miracle," has no one mentioned the fact that the country's teacher preparation systems don't require teachers to sort through so much junk when they're first getting into the classroom?
There are, of course, still challenges to taking this approach in the U.S., not the least of which is the curriculum marketplace in the U.S. is much more vast, and getting larger, and there is so much diversity in what states and districts use.
But there are some bright spots, the report's authors say: Louisiana and New York both put a focus on curriculum when they were implementing the Common Core State Standards. Due to that, certain curricula in both states have become very popular among teachers, so there it might be possible for a teaching program to select some exemplars. Other states, like Massachusetts, have detailed curriculum guides, which might be a good place to start.
Learning First's paper is one in a series on teacher prep.
Meanwhile, if you're in teacher preparation yourself, do tell us about your thoughts on this really interesting argument. And if you're yourself thinking about the place of good curriculum in teacher preparation, let me know—I'd like to follow up. | 2019-04-18T13:34:23 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2017/12/a_novel_way_to_improve_teacher.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=curriculummatters |
0.999999 | How was debt in this financial year accumulated?
Public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) decreased by £13.6 billion to £49.3 billion in the current financial year-to-date (April 2016 to January 2017), compared with the same period in the previous financial year; this is the lowest year-to-date borrowing since the financial year-to-date ending January 2008.
Public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) was in surplus by £9.4 billion in January 2017, a £0.3 billion larger surplus than in January 2016; this is the highest January surplus since 2000.
Public sector net debt (excluding public sector banks) was £1,682.8 billion at the end of January 2017, equivalent to 85.3% of gross domestic product (GDP); an increase of £91.7 billion (or 1.9 % points as a ratio of GDP) since January 2016.
Public sector net debt (excluding both public sector banks and Bank of England) was £1,589.2 billion at the end of January 2017, equivalent to 80.5% of gross domestic product (GDP); an increase of £43.6 billion (or a decrease of 0.6 % points as a ratio of GDP) since January 2016.
Central government net cash requirement decreased by £12.8 billion to £32.6 billion in the current financial year-to-date, compared with the same period in the previous financial year; this is the lowest year-to-date central government net cash since January 2008.
This section presents information on aspects of data or methodology that is important to understand when reading this bulletin. Where appropriate, further details of individual changes are discussed in the Quality and methodology section of this bulletin.
In both January and (to a lesser extent) July receipts are particularly high due to the receipt of self-assessed Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and self-assessed (Class 4) National Insurance contributions.
Self-assessed Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax receipts increased by £2.0 billion to £19.8 billion in January 2017 compared with January 2016; this is the highest January on record (monthly recording of self-assessed tax receipts began in April 1999).
The revenue raised through self-assessed taxes, although primarily affecting January and July receipts, also tends to lead to high receipts in the following month (February and August respectively), although to a lesser degree.
The proportion of self-assessed taxes recorded in January and February can vary year-on-year and it is therefore advisable to consider data for the 2 months (January and February) together.
In this month’s bulletin we have introduced a new methodology for the recording of Corporation Tax and Bank Corporation Tax Surcharge receipts.
Previously, we have used cash receipts for these taxes as a proxy for accrued revenue. An improved methodology derives accrued revenue figures by adjusting cash receipts to more accurately reflect the time at which the economic activity relating to the tax receipts took place.
In addition to these changes the accrual methodology for the Bank Levy has been modified to make it consistent with the approach being used for Corporation Tax. More information on the methodological changes can be found in a separate methodological note.
The impact of introducing the new methodology is to distribute the tax revenue more evenly over individual months in the year. It also leads to revisions in the financial year totals for these taxes which in turn revises net borrowing.
Due to changes in the payment schedule for corporation taxes and data limitations, the improved methodology has only been applied from the financial year ending March 2001 onward.
Data for the period in the financial years ending March 2001 to March 2005 have been estimated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) while data from the financial year ending March 2006 have been compiled and provided by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Table 1 summarises the impact on central government receipts and net borrowing of moving to the time-adjusted cash recording for Corporation Tax, bank surcharge and Bank Levy between the financial years ending March 2009 and March 2016.
5. Financial year 2015/16 represents the financial year ending 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016).
This month we have implemented the reclassification, from the private sector to public corporation sector, of registered social landlords in Scotland and Wales and registered housing associations (HAs) in Northern Ireland, for the first time.
This reclassification was announced in September 2016 and its impact on the fiscal aggregates in this bulletin has been to increase public sector net debt at the end of March 2016 by £5.8 billion and to reduce public sector net borrowing in the financial year ending March 2016 by £0.2 billion.
In addition to the inclusion of the devolved social landlords and housing associations we have also taken on the latest global accounts data for English HAs published by the Homes and Communities Agency on 17 February 2017. These data relate to the financial year ending March 2016 and so revisions can be seen for this year as well as the financial year ending March 2015 where figures have been restated.
Estimates for the financial year ending March 2017 remain based on the forecasts published by the Office for Budget Responsibility alongside the Autumn Statement on 23 November 2016.
The HAs data are attached in Appendix E.
Due to data availability, the reclassifications of English and devolved HAs have been implemented from the financial year ending March 2009. Full time series back to the effective classification dates will be implemented in due course.
Full details of the methodology used in compiling housing associations are due to be published on 5 June 2017 as part of the suite of methodological articles related to the UK National Accounts publication, Blue Book 2017.
Table 2 summarises the impact of the changes for HAs on both public non-financial corporations and public sector net borrowing between the financial year ending March 2005 and the financial year ending March 2016.
2. Financial year 2015/16 represents the financial year ending 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016).
The impact of the inclusion of HAs on the borrowing and debt of public corporations is summarised in Impact of the reclassification of housing associations into the public sector: Appendix E.
In recent years the government has entered a programme of selling shares in publicly owned organisations. On the 30 January 2017 the Government announced that its current trading plan has enabled its remaining shareholding in Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), to be reduced to less than 5%.
This month we have recorded £1.8 billion of LBG shares sales (across November 2016, December 2016 and January 2017), bringing the government’s disposal of LBG share sales since September 2013 to £18.0 billion.
The proceeds of such sales reduce the central government net cash requirement (CGNCR) and public sector net debt (PSND) by an amount corresponding to the cash raised from the sale but have no impact on public sector net borrowing.
In January 2017, £2.1 billion was transferred from the APF to HM Treasury, bringing the total money transferred under the current scheme to £10.1 billion in this financial year-to-date (April 2016 to January 2017); £1.6 billion more than in the same period in the previous financial year.
The Bank of England entrepreneurial income for the financial year ending March 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016) was calculated as £11.9 billion. This is the total amount of dividend transfers that can impact on central government net borrowing in the financial year ending March 2017 (April 2016 to March 2017).
The public sector net cash requirement (PSNCR) represents the cash needed to be raised from the financial markets over a period of time to finance the government’s activities. This can be close to the deficit for the same period but there are some transactions, for example loans to the private sector, that need to be financed but do not contribute to the deficit. It is also close but not identical to the changes in the level of net debt between 2 points in time.
In the UK, the public sector consists of 5 sub-sectors: central government, local government, public non-financial corporations, Bank of England and public financial corporations (that is, public sector banks – currently only Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)).
Additionally the government’s fiscal rules are based on aggregates that exclude public sector banks.
A financial year is an accounting period of 12 months running from 1 April one year to 31 March the following year. For example, the financial year ending March 2016 comprises of the months from April 2015 to March 2016.
In the current financial year-to-date (April 2016 to January 2017), the public sector spent more money than it received in taxes and other income. This meant it had to borrow £49.3 billion; £13.6 billion less than in the same period last year (April 2015 to January 2016).
Of this £49.3 billion public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks (PSNB ex), £22.1 billion related to the cost of the “day-to-day” activities of the public sector (the current budget deficit), while £27.2 billion related to capital spending (or net investment) such as infrastructure.
Figure 1 presents cumulative public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) by month in the current financial year-to-date and compares the cumulative borrowing in the current financial year-to-date to that in the previous financial year.
The difference between central government's income and spending makes the largest contribution to the amount borrowed by the public sector. In the current financial year-to-date, £43.1 billion of the £49.3 billion borrowed by the public sector was by central government.
In the current financial year-to-date, central government received £553.7 billion in income; including £416.8 billion in taxes. This was around 5% more than in the previous financial year-to-date.
Over the same period, central government spent £581.2 billion; around 2% more than in the previous financial year-to-date. Of this amount, just below two-thirds was spent by central government departments (such as health, education and defence), around a third on social benefits (such as pensions, unemployment payments, Child Benefit and Maternity Pay) with the remaining being spent on capital investment and interest on government’s outstanding debt.
Figure 2 summarises public sector borrowing by sub-sector for the current financial year-to-date and compares these measures to the same period in the previous financial year (April 2015 to January 2016).
This presentation splits PSNB ex into each of its 4 sub-sectors: central government, local government, public corporations and Bank of England.
A further breakdown (receipts, expenditure (both current and capital) and depreciation) is provided for central government, local government and public corporations; with current receipts and current expenditure being presented in further detail.
In the financial year ending March 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016), the public sector borrowed £71.7 billion. This was £23.2 billion lower than in the previous financial year and less than half of that in the financial year ending March 2010 (both in terms of £ billion and percentage of gross domestic product (GDP)).
Financial year 2016/17 represents financial year ending 2017 (April 2016 to March 2017).
Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) full financial year forecast of £68.2 billion for public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks (November 2016 Economic and Fiscal Outlook).
In January 2017, the public sector received more in taxes and other income than it spent. This meant it had a surplus of £9.4 billion; a £0.3 billion larger surplus than in January 2016.
January tends to be a month in which the public sector runs a surplus in borrowing due to increased self-assessed Income Tax receipts.
Figure 4 summarises public sector borrowing by sub-sector in January 2017 and compares this to the equivalent measures in the same month a year earlier (January 2016).
A further breakdown (receipts, current expenditure, capital expenditure and depreciation) is provided for central government, local government and public corporations, with receipts and current expenditure being presented in further detail.
The amount of money owed by the public sector to the private sector stood at just below £1.7 trillion at the end of January 2017, which equates to 85.3% of the value of all the goods and services currently produced by the UK economy in a year (or gross domestic product (GDP)).
This debt figure of £1.7 trillion (or £1,682.8 billion) at the end of January 2017 represents an increase of £91.7 billion since the end of January 2016. This increase in net debt is largely a result of £58.0 billion of public sector net borrowing over that period plus cash transactions related to acquisition or disposal of financial assets (for example, loans or asset sales).
Figure 5 breaks down outstanding public sector net debt at the end of January 2017 into the sub-sectors of the public sector. In addition to PSND ex, this presentation includes the impact of public sector banks on debt.
FPCND - Financial public corporations' net debt.
Net debt is defined as total gross financial liabilities less liquid financial assets, where liquid assets are cash and short-term assets which can be released for cash at short notice without significant loss. These liquid assets mainly comprise foreign exchange reserves and bank deposits.
Figure 6 presents public sector debt (excluding public sector banks) at the end of January 2017 by sub-sector. Time series for each of these component series are presented in Tables PSA8A to D in the Public Sector Finances Tables 1 to 10: Appendix A dataset.
Figure 7 illustrates public sector net debt excluding public sector banks (PSND ex) from the financial year ending March 1994 to the end of January 2017.
Public sector net debt excluding public sector banks (PSND ex) increased at the time of the economic downturn. Since then, it has continued to increase but at a slower rate.
The net cash requirement is a measure of how much cash the public sector needs to raise from the financial markets (or pay out from its cash reserves) to finance its activities. This amount can be close to the deficit for the same period but there are some transactions, for example lending to the private sector or the purchase of shares, that need to be financed but do not contribute to the deficit. Similarly, repayments of principal on loans extended by government or sales of shares will reduce the level of financing necessary but not reduce the deficit.
Figure 8 presents public sector cash requirement by sub-sector for the financial year-to-date (April 2016 to January 2017). Time series for each of these component series are presented in Table PSA7A in the Public Sector Finances Tables 1 to 10: Appendix A dataset.
CGNCR excluding NR and UKAR decreased by £3.9 billion to £56.5 billion in the current financial year-to-date (April 2016 to January 2017), compared with the same period in 2016.
7. How was debt in this financial year accumulated?
This presentation excludes public sector banks, focussing instead on the public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks (PSNB ex) measure.
Revaluation of foreign currency debt (for example foreign currency). Debt issuances or redemptions above or below debt valuation (for example bond premia/discounts and capital uplifts). Changes in volume of debt not due to transactions (for example sector reclassification).
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) normally produces forecasts of the public finances twice a year (currently in March and November). The latest OBR forecast was published on 23 November 2016.
The government has adopted the OBR’s forecasts as its official forecast.
OBR estimated that the public sector would borrow £72.2 billion during the financial year ending March 2016. So, based on the latest estimate, borrowing in financial year ending March 2016 is £0.5 billion lower than OBR predicted.
OBR has estimated that the public sector will borrow £68.2 billion during the financial year ending March 2017; a reduction of £3.5 billion on the provisional outturn for the financial year ending March 2016.
Figure 10 presents the cumulative public sector net borrowing for the current and previous financial year-to-date. The figure also presents the OBR forecasts for both financial years-to-date.
For the financial year ending 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016) and the financial year ending 2017 (April 2016 to March 2017).
OBR forecast for public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks from March 2016 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO).
OBR forecast for public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks from November 2016 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO).
Table 3 compares emerging financial year-to-date data against the OBR forecasts. Caution should be taken when comparing public sector finances data with OBR figures for the full financial year as data are not finalised until after the financial year ends. Initial estimates soon after the end of the financial year can be subject to sizeable revisions in later months. In addition, the monthly path of spending and receipts is not smooth within the year and also can vary compared with previous years, both of which can affect year-to-date comparisons with previous years.
There can also be methodological differences between OBR forecasts and outturn data. In its latest publication, OBR published a table within its Economic and fiscal outlook supplementary fiscal tables: receipts and other - November 2016 titled “Table: 2.45 Items included in OBR forecasts that ONS have not yet included in outturn”.
7. Financial year-to-date refers to the period from April to January.
8. 2016/17 refers to financial year ending in March 2017 and 2015/16 refers to financial year ending in March 2016.
9. All OBR figures are from the OBR Economic and Fiscal Outlook published in November 2016.
10. NA denotes 'not applicable'.
Revisions can be the result of both updated data sources and methodology changes. This month the reported revisions are largely the result of methodology changes.
Table 4 summarises revisions to the headline statistics presented in this bulletin and the previous publication (24 January 2017), while Figure 11 focuses solely on the revisions to public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks (PSNB ex) in the current financial year-to-date between publications.
8. Public sector cash requirement excluding public sector banks.
9. 2015/16 represents financial year ending 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016).
10. ytd = Year-to-date, April to December 2016.
This bulletin presents revisions to public sector net borrowing in each financial year back to the financial year ending March 2001.
For central government, the changes to net borrowing prior to the current financial year-to-date are due to the introduction of improved methodology for the recording of Corporation Tax, Bank Corporation Tax Surcharge receipts and Bank Levy.
For non-financial public corporations, the changes to net borrowing prior to the current financial year-to-date are due to the inclusion of the housing associations of the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In addition to this reclassification, the data underlying the estimates of net borrowing of English housing associations were also updated for the financial years ending March 2015 and 2016.
In addition to revisions to net borrowing, the implementation of the reclassification of the housing associations of the devolved administrations (and updating of the estimates for England) has impacted on both net debt and net cash requirement. The revisions to both net cash requirement and net debt reported in Table 4 are entirely attributable to this change.
Figure 11 compares the latest estimate of public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) for the period April 2016 to December 2016, to that presented in the previous bulletin (24 January 2017).
Given that, in the current financial year-to-date, £43.1 billion of the £49.3 billion borrowed by the public sector was borrowed by central government, a further breakdown of central government current receipts and current expenditure is presented to reflect the significance of these components.
As a result of the quality assurance of our recording of the Term Funding Scheme (TFS) as a part of the Bank of England Asset Purchase Facility (APF) we have updated our presentation in Table PSA9 to include the loan liability of TFS within the total loan liability of the APF.
This represents a presentational change only and has no impact on the calculation of public sector net debt or any other fiscal aggregate.
The UK government debt and deficit for Eurostat statistical bulletin is published quarterly (in January, April, July and December each year), to coincide with when the UK and other European Union member states are required to report on their deficit (or net borrowing) and debt to the European Commission.
The data in this statistical bulletin present a £1.4 billion downward revision to general government deficit (or net borrowing); now standing at £74.9 billion in the financial year ending March 2016. The estimate of general government gross debt remains unchanged since the 21 December 2016 publication.
An article, The use of GDP in public sector fiscal ratio statistics explains that for debt figures reported in the monthly public sector finances, a 12-month GDP total centred on the month is employed, while in the UK government debt and deficit for Eurostat statistical bulletin the total GDP for the preceding 12 months is used.
Each quarter we publish a forward workplan outlining the classification assessments we expect to undertake over the coming 12 months. To supplement this, each month a classifications update is published which announces classification decisions made, and includes expected implementation points (for different statistics) where possible.
Classification decisions are reflected in the public sector finances at the first available opportunity and, where necessary outlined in this section of the statistical bulletin.
The first of these improvements will not impact the fiscal aggregates for the financial year ending March 2015 onwards (either net investment or net borrowing) as public sector data sources already include expenditure on costs of transfer. There will be revisions for earlier financial years as a result of removing existing negative estimates of transfer costs.
We have published an article, "National Accounts articles: Impact of Blue Book 2017 changes on current price gross domestic product estimates, 1997 to 2012" explaining these methodological improvements in more detail.
Eurostat, in its 2016 version of the Manual on Government Deficit and Debt, introduced new European statistical rules on the treatment of the transfer of an asset to government to be decommissioned. Such a transfer took place in the UK in 2005 when British Nuclear Fuels Limited (Ltd), then a public corporation, transferred all of its nuclear sites to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a central government body.
In next month’s bulletin we will be introducing changes to the current statistical treatment of this 2005 transfer in order to be compliant with the new Eurostat guidance. The revisions as a result of this methodological change will be limited to the financial year ending March 2006 and the subsequent two or three financial years. There is expected to be no impact on public sector fiscal aggregates as the amended transactions to be recorded are between the central government and public corporations subsectors.
In this month’s bulletin we have introduced a new methodology for the time of recording of Corporation Tax and Bank Corporation Tax Surcharge receipts for the first time.
Each month, at 9.30 am on the working day following the public sector finance statistical bulletin, we publish Public Sector Finances borrowing by subsector.This release contains an extended breakdown of public sector borrowing in a matrix format and also estimates of Total Managed Expenditure (TME). | 2019-04-21T12:23:58 | https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/bulletins/publicsectorfinances/jan2017 |
0.997872 | When you are giving a list of options for others to choose from or explaining options to people, try to sequence the options so you sound natural.
An example of this could be transport options.
You can get the train, the bus or walk to my house.
This is OK but you can show that while walking might not be popular it is possible.
If you have problems in understanding what people say in your listening, either in face-to-face conversations or when listening to recorded material, why not try using word stresses to help you. | 2019-04-25T15:00:45 | http://www.getgreatenglish.com/blog/2015/06/ |
0.999988 | What do women want? Ballet plots are not the best guide, since the main desiderata – a well-paying job, coffee dates with girlfriends, not to die young of a broken heart – are rarely the lot of ballet heroines. Comedies at least tend to have the not-dying part covered, but they often fall down on at least one of two other big requirements: that one's family should be supportive, and that one's romantic partner should not be a chump. Pity Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew, which the Bolshoi presented in London last night in Jean-Christophe Maillot's 2014 production for the company: burdened with unsupportive family and chump husband, and nary a coffee date sight.
Whether you love the production or find it mildly bemusing will probably depend on whether you find the slapstick bits of Prokofiev's Cinderella funny. Pantomimic ballet silliness has never really done it for me, but if you do like it, Maillot does it very well indeed: there is lots of mincing on pointe, hip-jiggling, exaggerated flat feet and so forth, all put together with fluent inventiveness and looking as good as you would expect on the rarefied Russian dancers, who can fully exploit the comic potential of long, long legs, exaggerated extensions and vampishly spiky fingers. Clean blue lighting (Dominique Drillot), a minimalist set of white shapes (Ernest Pignon-Ernest) and fairly simple modern costumes (Augustin Maillot) all help it to look and feel much fresher than Stuttgart Ballet's rather Blackadder-esque Cranko production, and the score is excellent, a skilful mash-up of Shostakovich's incidental music which sets just the right sardonic-yet-sentimental tone.
Krysanova's relationship with Vladislav Lantratov's disconcertingly Heath Ledger-like Petruchio is altogether less swoony, for all he seems like a terribly nice chap really, under that blustering exterior. Maillot claims extensively in the programme notes that his Katharina gives as good as she gets and that theirs is a marriage of equals, but what happens on stage reflects that only up to a point. Yes, there is some mildly touching shared humour and not a little chemistry between them, but none of that erased for me the fantastic asymmetry of their wedding scene (pictured left), in which Petruchio shoves Katharina violently without attracting censure, but her one retaliatory slap sours the mood completely. This, and various ostensibly milder forms of spousal abuse (if you think gaslighting is milder than battery) are the fly in the ointment of the Tahiti-trotting happy ending, where everyone marvels at Katharina and Petruchio's newfound harmony. Katharina dreamed of love right at the beginning; is it so unimaginable that she could get it without first undergoing the purgatory of Petruchio's "discipline"? Or spending most of the ballet in her underwear?
The day when ballet will actually teach us what women want is still remote, then, but Maillot's Shrew manages to be engaging despite its political incorrectness: more goofy than dangerous, and a decent addition to the repertoire of ballet comedies.
The Bolshoi Ballet perform The Taming of the Shrew at the Royal Opera House until 4 August and other ballets in repertoire until 13 August. | 2019-04-24T20:52:54 | https://theartsdesk.com/dance/taming-shrew-bolshoi-ballet-royal-opera-house |
0.998997 | The speech in my opinion was accusatory, it was made before an investigation was complete, and it ultimately was based on an event that did not concur the way he and the speech made it appear to have occurred. If there is evidence presented that he was going to make that speech irregardless of what happened, I will change my mind then.
What will he say? He can give the same speech except this time he can give it over the subject of making hoaxes like this, and jumping to conclusions before facts are in and investigations are complete, something students can apply to their future careers.
These things he did just irk me. I had an incident happen years ago that was similar to this, in that a sexual assault happened, all hands mustered for the CO to give a preach to everyone (on my day off no less), then find out it was all a hoax because she wanted to be transferred closer to home. Sure, what the CO said was no false, but it was based off of BS, and it was accusatory in nature.
You know that when the issue hit the press, as the commander he had no choice but to get out in front of it. If he'd waited until now to say something strong, he would have sliced and diced and probably forced to step down by now.
The general did not have the personal courage to hold fire until he knew the facts. He feared the bad press and bad reactions from up his chain of command so he blasted out a (now embarrassing ly) inaccurate speech. He showed no leadership as an example for the future officers he is supposed to be developing.
General of the Service Academy is a terminal position anyway. He's not getting promoted or going to another job. He's out (happens 99% of the time at the service academies).
But he'll make a good democratic politician. That's my guess.
It's not as though three stars is a bad place to retire.
I give a wry eye to the news reports about officers at O-6 and above said to be "forced to retire early" and such silliness, as though 4 stars was to be expected of every officer.
The speech in my opinion was accusatory, it was made before an investigation was complete..
Agreed.. the speech was both accusatory & slanderous. The message being, listen up ubiquitous White racists, you have no place @ the Air Force Academy. But the problem was, he was leveling premature (& ultimately wrong) accusations at innocent White students.
It was unfair, rash, virtue-signalling.. Like OldNorthState pointed out, the accuser didn't have the honor to let the facts come out bcuz of the contemporary hysteria to eradicate any perceived/potential White racism.
When will the administration deliver an accusatory lecture aimed unfairly at every potential hoaxster.. or did I miss that.
It's the hit dog that hollers.
This is too common now. | 2019-04-25T14:34:27 | http://www.city-data.com/forum/military-life-issues/2828739-air-force-academy-superintendent-racial-slurs-4.html |
0.999999 | CCleaner 5.23.5808 [Software] by art22gg253. Is it lawful for a fellowship linked to a permanent faculty position at a British university in the STEM field to only be available to females? The IP for the computer hosting the server is a Static IP. There is no error here and everything occurs as it should.
The only time a WinSock might use this error--at least with a TCP/IP implementation of WinSock--it fails a function with other errors (for example, WSAETIMEDOUT).See also: WSAECONNABORTED, WSAECONNRESET, WSAENETRESET, WSAETIMEDOUT--------------------------------------------------------------------------------WSAEHOSTUNREACH (10065) I checked the option to resume uploading in BPFTP, yet it doesn't work. With port 80 as the context, one of the following things is likely the reason: Nothing is listening on 127.0.0.1:80 and 132.70.6.157:80 Nothing is listening on *:80 The firewall is blocking Can you download more than one file at once or not?
It's also possible that the local services file has an incorrect port number (although it's unlikely).You can verify that the remote system is rejecting your connection attempt by checking the network Configuration files are located under /etc/apache2 most of the time. Is it possible to tell BP FTP not to autoreconnect so hard? This is what occurs in Berkeley Sockets.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------WSAEINTR (10004) Interrupted function call.Berkeley description: An asynchronous signal (such as SIGINTor SIGQUIT) was caught by the process during the execution of an interruptible function.
Do a traceroute to try to determine where the failure occurs along the route between your host and the destination host.--NO failure occurs when I traceroute! I get the error "Connection refused" when trying to access an FTP server. When uploading, I always see an error "file not found." While using two sessions of BPFTP how does the clipboard monitoring function workout which session gets the cut? Subject: RE: **message** Sent: 9/6/2005 3:32 PMThe following recipient(s) could not be reached: 'user' on 9/8/2005 3:32 PM Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified.
An invalid value was given for one of the arguments to a function. what's wrong? The local network system generates this error if there isn"t a default route configured. Does BPFTP contain spyware?
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the protocol stack that the WinSock DLL runs over).User suggestions: Check your WinSock, protocol stack, network driver and network interface card configuration. Make sure your host is able to ping your VM IP address, and then make sure you don't have a firewall on your host machine preventing you from connecting to your The file's permission setting does not allow the specified access. If you used a hostname, did it resolve to the correct address?
i recently installed a new cisco router at one of our branches. My server connects to theirs for the ISAKMP handshake, and theirs connects back with a reply for "NO-PROPOSAL-CHOSEN"Im really curious if this has something to do with why we are unable This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the foreign host.WinSock description: Same as BerkeleyTCP/IP scenario: In TCP terms (datastream sockets), it means an attempt What is the reason of having an Angle of Incidence on an airplane?
i added a route to the new site in the etc/hosts file but still i cannot telnet or ping the new remote site form the unix server. What is this strange almost symmetrical location in Nevada? Typically, though, WinSock generates this error when it receives a "host unreachable" ICMP message from a router. Also, to connect with TightVNC, you'll need to port forward port 5900 through her firewall and router. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! | 2019-04-25T22:08:01 | http://www.tweetnotebook.com/Pennsylvania/no-route-to-host-error-windows.html |
0.998901 | Fundamentally, in Euclidean geometry the definition of a straight line is given by “the shortest distance between two points in space.” However, a distance itself is a segment of straight line. So this definition for a straight line literally just says that a straight line is “the shortest straight line between two points in space”. How much genuineness can we learn from this definition about a straight line?
1. Find a segment from this curve between any two randomly chosen points A and B. On this curve, no matter how B may infinitely travel away from A, B can never have a chance to meet A.
2. Reproduce an exact replica of AB. Name this replica A’B’.
3. Flip and attach this replica to the original segment so that A’ falls on B, and B’ falls on A.
4. Between segment AB and the flipped replica B’A’, if we can find a space in which a point can be found belonging to neither AB nor B’A’, the curve from which AB is taken is not a straight line. If we cannot find such a space between AB and B’A’, this curve is a straight line.
The condition of “any two points” in 1 above is to guarantee that the geometric property shown in any segment is exactly shared by any other segment of this curve, no more and no less. The no meeting condition is to prevent two situations: 1. allowing A and B to be the same; 2 allowing the curve to be a closed loop. The “any two points” condition can also help to exclude any curve similar to a sine wave from being considered as a straight line. In case AB happens to be a segment of a sine curve of exact one period between two nodes of zero amplitude, AB and its replica B’A’ can seamlessly coincide with each other, leaving between them no space. Condition 4 alone without the restriction of “any two point” would allow it to be called a straight line. However, the “any two points” condition allows us to re-examine the sine curve by taking a segment of a ¾ period. This ¾ period segment and its replica must create some space between them and therefore fails the one period segment to be regarded as a straight line.
In a two-dimensional plane, in case AB is an arc from a circle, condition 4 must reject this arc being from a straight line regardless of the length of its radius. The arc and its flipped replica B’A’ must embrace some space between them. In a three dimension space, even though the end points of the same arc of AB and B’A’ anchored each other, the rest of each of them can move away from the plane they have been in. Such movement allows B’A’ to have one chance to coincide seamlessly with AB when only both of them meet in the same plane and on the same side of the center of the circle. When this meeting happens, they would embrace no space between them. However, when they are not in the same plane, space must appear between them, inevitably failing the arc to stand as a straight line according to condition 4.
Suppose we can find a space between AB and B’A’. In this space we must be able to find a point belonging to neither AB nor B’A’. Let’s call it C. The existence of C must allow at least one curve to be constructed between A and C as well as one curve between B and C. Obviously, curve ACB cannot be part of AB, neither is it part of B’A’, except sharing end points with AB and B'A'. No one can rule out that curve ACB may have a chance to be a straight line. That ACB may be a straight line must reject that AB can have any chance to be a straight line. On the other hand, in an effort locating C, we may come to one unique case. In this case, we can find no point independent of AB and B’A’, but every point so located must be commonly shared by AB and B’A’. In other words, AB allows its flipped replica no deviation from it. This uniqueness of AB defines AB from a straight line. This quality of no deviation determines that between any two points in space there can exist only one straight line. Any curve not having such uniqueness must fail to stand as a straight line.
A curve in a plane is a straight line if the reversely flipped replica of any arbitrarily chosen segment from this curve can seamlessly coincide with the curve at wherever it falls on.
A curve in space is a straight line if any arbitrarily chosen segment from this curve can seamlessly coincide with the curve at wherever it falls on. Such coincidence is said seamless only if the movement of this chosen segemnt in any manner can never produce any space between it and the original curve while the two end points of this segment stay on the original curve all the time, wherever these two points happen to fall on.
After all these descriptions, let’s examine the shortfall of some contemporary definitions about straight line.
General verbal description from dictionary: A straight line is a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line."
In all these definitions, “direction” can be defined only after a straight line is found. A “constant direction” is even more so. “Curvature” is something that must rely on the validity of direction, which by itself awaits the definition of a straight line. “Distance” cannot be determined unless a straight line has been defined. All these can only tell us that a straight line must rely its definition on another straight line, but this definition waiting on another straight line can be endless.
The failure of proposing a sound definition about a straight line is a misfortune to Euclidean geometry. Its fifth postulate therefore allows a weakness for various non-Euclidean geometry theories to come in to decline its completeness in validity. They even further declare that Euclidean geometry loses its universal validity in the universe. Of course, in doing so, these non-Euclidean geometries bring to themselves even bigger misfortune, because they must find themselves impossible to establish credit without Euclidean geometry at the first place. No theory can be valid if it finds itself necessarily relying on something invalid.
Besides the verbal description, there are also many definitions that are presented in mathematical form, such as y=ax+c in analytic geometry, r=OA+ƳAB in vector field, geodesics… It can be said that none of these definitions would stand firm without Euclidean geometry. All these definitions must rely on the recording of spatial coordinates, while such recording can be done only if a coordinate system composed of straight line(s) has been ascertained. Simply, for example, one of the non-Euclidean geometry is developed based on the property of hyperbola. Without a spatial backdrop that is described by Euclidean geometry, based on what is a hyperbolic curve or surface constructed? Can any segment of a hyperbolic curve and its flipped replica seamlessly coincide with each other?
Nevertheless, let alone the discussion on validity; are all the “advanced” definitions from the non-Euclidean geometry necessary and practical to a person who just begins the study of geometry? But, then, after further study or many more years, people can only tell him that what he learns is not universally valid in a world of more advance study? Isn’t it obvious that he is barred outside of an ivory tower until he accepts the emperor’s new robe? | 2019-04-20T12:11:42 | http://huntune.net/on-nature/definition-of-straight-line.html |
0.999525 | England's High Court ruled on Thursday (Nov 3) that the British government required parliamentary approval to trigger the process of exiting the European Union, upsetting Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans.
The government said it would appeal against the decision and a spokeswoman for May said the Prime Minister would press ahead with the planned timetable of launching talks on the terms of Brexit by the end of March.
The pound rose on the court's ruling, hitting a three-week high against the dollar. Many investors took the view that lawmakers would temper the government's policies and make an economically disruptive 'hard Brexit' less likely.
'The most fundamental rule of the UK's constitution is that parliament is sovereign and can make and unmake any law it chooses,' said Lord Chief Justice John Thomas, England's most senior judge.
Thomas and two other senior judges did not spell out what action the government needed to take. They also did not say whether it would need to pass a new law to trigger the divorce proceedings, which could face opposition and amendments from both houses of parliament, particularly the House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber.
In theory, parliament could block Brexit altogether. But few people expect that outcome, given that the British people voted by 52 to 48% to leave the EU in a referendum in June.
However, the ruling makes the already daunting task of taking Britain out of a club it joined 43 years ago even more complex. It also puts at risk May's March deadline triggering Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the formal step needed to start the process of exiting the bloc.
The court ruled that the government could not trigger Article 50 without approval from parliament.
The judges granted the government permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, Britain's highest judicial body, which has set aside December . 5-8 to deal with the matter.
Investment manager Gina Miller, the lead claimant in the legal challenge, said the case was about 'process, not politics' and rejected accusations of trying to usurp the will of the people.
Lawmakers largely voted to remain in the EU in the June referendum. Many investors believe greater parliamentary involvement in the process would therefore reduce the influence of ministers in May's government who are strongly pro-Brexit.
This could reduce the likelihood of a 'hard Brexit', a scenario in which Britain prioritises tight controls on immigration over remaining in the European single market.
Nigel Farage, head of the anti-EU party UKIP, said on Twitter that he feared the ruling could turn into an attempt to scupper Brexit altogether. | 2019-04-19T01:00:04 | https://www.gg2.net/court-upsets-uks-brexit-plans/ |
0.999597 | What States Allow Flying Squirrels As Pets?
People have kept flying squirrels as pets for hundreds of years, as they can make for a unique companion. However, their exotic status means it may be illegal to have one. It is important to know the legality of a pet before purchasing one. Some states have outlawed keeping "exotic" animals as pets, but many counties and municipalities have rules governing pets as well, so before purchasing a flying squirrel it is important to be sure owning one is legal. To determine the legality of owning a flying squirrel, do your research.
If you are renting a house or apartment, there may be a clause in the lease agreement concerning pets. Consult the lease or rental agreement and if it is unclear, contact the landlord or building owner. Many homeowners live in areas that have homeowners associations that could also have rules regarding pets. A property owner will be able to say if they allow flying squirrels but may not be aware of local or state laws regarding pet ownership. Just because they give consent does not mean it is legal.
Cities and towns can also have laws restricting pets such as flying squirrels. Calling city hall or municipal offices can provide an answer at the local level, and if the town has no law banning flying squirrels or are unclear on the state laws, they may still be able to give contact information for the office or person responsible for pet-related regulations.
Information on state laws regarding flying squirrels as pets may also be available online, but be sure to get the information from a trusted source such as a state or city's official website. Laws and regulations are subject to change, so published articles may be out of date. It is best to get the information from a source that would have access to all current legislation.
Whether a flying squirrel is legal in a particular place or not is not always black or white. While some states or cities may have an outright ban on flying squirrels and exotic animals as pets, many others simply require that the pet owner purchase a license for the animal or register it before adopting. This can often be done through the pet store or breeder where the flying squirrel is being purchased.
States where flying squirrels are legal to keep as pets are: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Washington.
The states where a permit or license is required to own a flying squirrel are: Arizona, Delaware, Indiana, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah (Northern Flying Squirrels only), West Virginia and Wyoming.
The following states do not allow residents to keep flying squirrels as pets: Alabama, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, Utah (Southern Flying Squirrels are banned), Vermont and Virginia. | 2019-04-24T06:28:56 | https://animals.mom.me/what-states-allow-flying-squirrels-as-pets-7346943.html |
0.999403 | Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today that they have detected the rare element boron in an ancient star. This element may be "fossil" evidence of energetic events which accompanied the birth of our Milky Way galaxy. An alternative possibility is that this rare element may be even older, dating from the birth of our universe. If so, then the HST findings may force some modification in theories of the Big Bang itself.
Dr. Douglas Duncan, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, and Drs. David Lambert and Michael Lemke, of the University of Texas at Austin, are announcing their results today to a press conference at the 179th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta. The research will be presented to the meeting of the society in a session for late papers on Thursday, Jan. 16.
The light from boron only appears in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum and so does not penetrate our atmosphere. "That's why no one was able to make this discovery before, " says Dr. Duncan. "Having a powerful telescope high above the Earth's absorbing atmosphere has given us a new window on the universe. This was always considered to be one of the most important reasons for building the Space Telescope."
Using HST's Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, the researchers detected traces of boron in a yellow 7th magnitude star called HD 140283, located 100 light-years away in the constellation Libra. At an estimated age of 15 billion years, the star is one of the oldest known. Because it was among the first stars to form in our Milky Way galaxy, HD 140283 should contain elements which were incorporated into the star long ago. Preserved in the star for billions of years, such material offers clues to conditions of the early universe when the star formed. Predictably, HD 140283 contains mostly primordial elements synthesized in the Big Bang: hydrogen, helium, and traces of lithium. (Heavier elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and others which are found in the Sun, the Earth and Solar System planets are thought to have been built up during the lifetime of the galaxy by nuclear reactions in successive generations of stars). The discovery of boron comes as a surprise, however. Previously, another rare element, beryllium, had been detected in the star with ground-based telescopes.
The key question is: where did the beryllium and boron come from? Scientists know that today, beryllium and boron are produced by cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are high-speed and extremely energetic particles which occasionally collide with atoms in interstellar space and split them apart into lighter elements. If substantial amounts of beryllium and boron (the fourth and fifth lightest elements) were formed very rapidly early in the history of the Milky Way, swarms of energetic particles may have been present at the birth of the galaxy. The cosmic rays could have been produced by supernovas or other highly energetic events which occurred early in the life of the Milky Way.
However, the astronomers found slightly different relative proportions of beryllium and boron than what is expected from cosmic ray production. This offers the alternative possibility that beryllium and boron were synthesized in the first moments of the universe's creation.
The currently accepted version of the Big Bang says that the early universe was uniformly hot and dense. However, more recent theories suggest that the Big Bang developed some structure even during the first few minutes. These new theories differ from the traditional one in predicting that small but detectable amounts of beryllium and boron might be created.
To confirm these results, the astronomers plan additional HST observations of an even older star later this year. If the boron was produced by cosmic rays within the young Milky Way it should diminish the farther back in time the astronomers look (hence closer the birth of the Galaxy). If, instead, they find the same amount of boron in the older star, rather than less, the finding will support the alternative explanation that boron was produced in the Big Bang.
"Either way, this will be an exciting test to show which of the possible explanations is correct." concludes Duncan. "We know that our picture of the beginning of the galaxy and the beginning of the universe is undoubtedly oversimplified, and it is satisfying to be able to add a little more detail." | 2019-04-19T12:33:21 | http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/1992-05/108-photographs |
0.996189 | The U.S. Defense Department is expected to award the next big F-35 contract before the end of the year, marking three such deals in roughly a 12-month span, the head of Lockheed Martin Corp. said Tuesday.
Marillyn A. Hewson, chief executive officer of the plane's manufacturer, said she's optimistic her company and the Pentagon will strike a deal on the next low rate initial production, or LRIP, agreement as the number of Joint Strike Fighters coming off the line is "ramping up."
"We will continue to see cost reductions just through volume," she said on Tuesday during a daylong briefing with reporters at the company's offices in Arlington, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C.
Hewson said President Donald Trump, who has publicly criticized the cost of the program -- the Pentagon's most expensive estimated at $396 billion for 2,457 jets -- has thus far has not been involved in the negotiations.
Jeff Babione, the company's general manager overseeing the F-35 program, said of the talks, "We've provided our LRIP offer to the [Joint Program Office] and we have begun negotiations on the LRIP 11 contract at what will be more than 130 airplanes."
Lockheed had a chance to appeal the decision by Jan. 31 but opted against doing so. On Tuesday, company officials told Defense News the company will not sue the government over the way the contract was handled.
In February, the Pentagon announced an $8.2 billion deal for 90 new jets in LRIP 10. That pact was noteworthy because it marked the first time the unit price of an Air Force F-35A variant declined below $100 million -- to $95 million per aircraft, Babione said.
All the F-35s in need of insulation maintenance are back up and running, Babione said. "We just finished repairing all the planes in the factory," he said. "It's behind us and we're moving forward."
The service in September ordered a temporary stand-down of 13 out of 104 F-35s in the fleet "due to the discovery of peeling and crumbling insulation in avionics cooling lines inside the fuel tanks," according to a statement at the time. Two additional aircraft, belonging to Norway and stationed at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, were also affected.
Babione said the company is moving quickly to repair the F-35C after it experienced rough acceleration during catapult-assisted takeoffs from Navy carriers -- a hit on the most-expensive variant in the program, which was estimated to take months to fix, according to an Inside Defense report.
Babione said Lockheed and partners recently finished some testing at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, "trying two different techniques. One was changing the way the pilot straps in -- how they get into the seat, how do they pull their harnesses," he said.
Additionally, he said, "we changed the hold-back fixture … a little less load holding the airplane back when it launches" which reduces the stored energy in the nose gear.
Engineers haven't yet determined whether one of or both techniques will be implemented, Babione said. Testing crews "will want to go back out to the carrier … sometime this fall," he said.
Hewson said the company will soon open a new facility in Pennsylvania to sustain F-35 production and boost job growth.
"We are finalizing our plans to expand production for components of the F-35 with a new leased facility in Johnstown," Pennsylvania, a move expected to add 40 jobs by 2018, she said.
The F-35 program will eventually create 15,000 direct jobs and 41,000 indirect jobs across the U.S. over the next few years, Hewson said.
The price of the F-35A variant -- the most popular export version -- has fallen 62 percent since the first batch of aircraft rolled off the production line, she said. The target cost of the aircraft is $85 million or less per plane by 2019, according to the company.
Hewson's comments come weeks after the F-35's program executive officer, Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, told lawmakers the jet's price tag has been steadily falling and could drop to as low as $80 million per plane.
Hewson said the F-35 program is the biggest driver of international growth for the company, with new partnerships and deliveries in 2016 with countries such as Denmark, Israel, Turkey and the Netherlands.
She said about 50 percent "of all F-35 orders over the next five years are expected to come from international buyers."
Babione also said the company is working to contain the cost of sustaining the aircraft -- an expense projected at more than $1 trillion over a 50-year lifetime. He said, "Our commitment, along with our JPO customers, is to try and drive out up to about $1 billion in operational costs by 2022." | 2019-04-23T08:54:49 | https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2017/03/22/next-f-35-contract-lrip-11-expected |
0.998352 | There's something both uplifting and depressing about spotting your own behaviour patterns. On the one hand I think, "Great, I've realised that I do that - now I can change it and I won't behave the same again." But on the other hand, "Am I really that predictable? That's such a bad habit to be in, and it's so ingrained. I'll probably always act like that."
After writing about my new challenge of training to swim 5k, I've been a bit ill and run down. Nothing serious, just enough to keep me at work but barely managing anything else. In the last two weeks I've managed precisely one swim and one ballet class, neither of which went particularly well.
That in itself is fine. People get ill. It's best not to train whilst feeling ill, and a week or so off a training schedule doesn't cause failure.
The problem is that it's taken me longer than it should have to get back into training, and I've felt much less motivated to train.
When I trained for the marathon, I started well. I researched lots, I ran three times a week and happily logged the times and distances. Then it started getting harder (and quite dull); I realised that I wasn't very good at running and I got lazy. I was full of excuses. And we all know how that ended. (In case you don't, here's the link).
Then there was the half marathon. I did prepare better for this, but I still hit a point around halfway through when I was tired and fed up (and scared of failure) and I let my training slip. This post explains the situation, and is full of excuses. In the end, I pulled it together better. I got out for some decent training in the last few weeks and managed it (just): half marathon post.
I think it's the pause in training, combined with realising exactly how hard it is going to be to train well and the fear of being unprepared, which results in my failure to be prepared for the events.
How am I going to change this?
Quite simply, I have to force myself to keep training. To do each session that is planned. I need to find a way to turn that fear into commitment to train rather than a reason to hide away.
I need to be in the pool three times a week for the next seven weeks.
and so it is blogged and so it shall be done?
That's the idea :S Previously I didn't tell people when I was in training so this time I'm trying the opposite approach! | 2019-04-19T16:48:27 | http://www.missrainstorm.co.uk/2015/05/breaking-pattern.html |
0.999782 | Amazon Planning to Give Away Its Instant Videos With the New Kindle Tablet? Uh Oh.
Catching up on my reading last night, I noticed toward the end of the first hands-on review I've seen about Amazon's forthcoming Kindle tablet something that could be very disruptive. According to the writer (so this is opinion, not fact), to support the Kindle tablet, Amazon plans to give buyers a free subscription to Amazon Prime.
Of course, since last February Amazon Prime subscribers also gain access to Amazon's growing streaming Instant Videos catalog. So this would mean that Kindle tablet buyers would be getting lots of great video (and more to come) for no charge and presumably no ads either. If Amazon were to begin giving away high-value content as a marketing tactic supporting its devices, it could fundamentally change the game for everyone.
For Netflix in particular, this could be a very troubling scenario, given Amazon's size and scope. Last year Amazon's revenue of $34 billion was 15 times Netflix's $2.2 billion, and its profit of $1.1 billion was 7 times Netflix's $161 million. If Amazon adopted a proactive strategy of giving away content (on top of the shipping benefits of Prime) while also investing in competitive content, then this would be a direct strike to Netflix. To take things one step further, what if Amazon succeeded in acquiring Hulu and then offered some (or all?) of Hulu.com free content and all of Hulu Plus's content as a benefit to Kindle tablet buyers? This scenario makes an Amazon play for Hulu much more strategic and would really mix things up.
Given that nobody (Samsung, HP, Dell, Acer, etc.) has yet been able to put a dent in the iPad's dominance, Amazon clearly knows what's ahead to succeed. To get a foothold, Amazon is going to have to be incredibly aggressive and according to the review, "Amazon is going to promote the hell out of this thing on Amazon.com." In this context, spending hundreds of millions on content to support the Kindle tablet isn't a crazy idea, especially given the size of the market opportunity and Amazon's vast resources. Apple's own playbook of using iTunes to support its devices shows how effective this could be.
There are still a lot of unknowns here, but Q4 could well be another period of tumult for video and various ecosystem players depending on what Amazon decides to do. | 2019-04-18T14:57:46 | https://www.videonuze.com/article/amazon-planning-to-give-away-its-instant-videos-with-the-new-kindle-tablet-uh-oh-?_com=article&_view=amazon-planning-to-give-away-its-instant-videos-with-the-new-kindle-tablet-uh-oh- |
0.998034 | Attention to privacy on Facebook has been intense in recent months after the company made more profile information public by default, added options to its already-complicated privacy settings and introduced features to personalise external websites using people's profile information.
The company responded last week by launching a simplified privacy dashboard, restoring the ability to hide some public profile data and giving users an "off" switch to block all third-party Web sites and applications from accessing their accounts.
Now that the dust has largely settled, IDG News Service had a chance to chat with Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor about the latest privacy controversies and Facebook's reaction. An edited transcript of the conversation follows.
IDG News Service: There has been an intense focus on Facebook privacy recently, but protecting one's privacy online must be a broader endeavour. What's a holistic view of the online privacy problem, in your opinion?
Bret Taylor: One thing that was lost in the dialogue prior to some of our changes last week is that Facebook is a service primarily about sharing. People join our site to share with their friends. The reason you publish a photo to Facebook as opposed to saving it on your hard drive is because you want your friends to see it and comment on it and like it. Facebook isn't a service primarily about securing your information but about sharing your information, while giving users the confidence to know with whom they're sharing the information.
Privacy on Facebook and privacy on the Internet are very different things because obviously when your bank mentions privacy it means something completely different than when Facebook mentions privacy. When we talk about privacy at Facebook we're really talking about how can you know that when you publish a photo only your friends and extended network can see it. Also when your best friend from elementary school looks you up, that he can figure out if [this is you], which is another very important part of our service. So balancing the privacy aspects of sharing with discovery and this massive directory of everyone in the world, which Facebook is also very useful for, are just some of the problems we're dealing with, which are very different from other Internet services.
IDGNS: Privacy advocates want Facebook to set more conservative default settings for sharing and to leave it up to users to pro-actively opt into and enable broader sharing of their information. How do you strike a balance between those concerns and the risk of hurting Facebook's social-networking nature, which is to help people find other people and interact with them?
Taylor: That balance is something we talk about a lot internally. Obviously, you need a certain amount of sharing because otherwise you wouldn't be able to friend new people because they weren't your friends yet. What we've tried to do with our privacy defaults is reflect the norms of usage on our site. Obviously, the default settings are not perfect for everybody, so we try to make changing those defaults extremely easy, which is what our launch last week was about. Most people have changed their privacy settings at one time or another.
IDGNS: Many privacy concerns centre on Facebook users' confusion about what and how information is being shared. Have you considered providing users with anonymised usage analytics for their profiles, so that they can see, say, that this photo was viewed by five friends, seven friends of friends and three people not connected to them in any way? The idea being that people get a concrete picture of how their content is being viewed and that they can adjust privacy settings based on that concrete knowledge if necessary.
Taylor: It's an interesting idea. I'm not sure if it's something we've considered.
IDGNS: Some people say Facebook search goes too far in making site data discoverable, while others complain that it doesn't go far enough. What's the right balance for the search function on Facebook?
Taylor: The primary use of Facebook search is finding people. The thing a lot of the technology community has been focused on is searching over the Facebook stream. But on Facebook, the primary purpose of the search box is finding people. A distinguishing feature of Facebook search is that it's personalised by default, so you can search through all your friends' updates. It's a very unique and personalised experience over a set of content that is very personal, like status updates and photos.
Searching over the status updates tagged with the [public] "everyone" setting has been very well-received by our users, but we haven't invested tons of efforts into it because we've been focused on other areas of the site to date. We've been eager to hear everyone's feedback as we exposed the APIs [application programming interfaces], but I don't think we have any specific plans to announce at this point.
IDGNS: Regarding your "everyone" privacy setting, which makes content available to everyone on and off Facebook, what happens when someone whose profile is set to "friends only" interacts with a friend whose profile is set to "everyone"? Whose privacy settings govern those interactions, if, say, the "everyone" friend comments on a photo of the other "friends only" person?
Taylor: Comments inherit the privacy of the object on which you comment. So if I comment on a post that's set to "everyone" then my comment is also viewable by everyone.
IDGNS: So if you have an "everyone" setting for your profile and you comment on a photo posted by someone whose content is available to "only friends," the notification that you made that comment wouldn't be viewable by "everyone" on your news feed?
Taylor: Right. In the news feed, we only show links to things that you have permission to see, so that item might show up for people who are friends with that person, but we don't link to things that you can't see.
IDGNS: What has been the reception of Facebook's new features to use your Facebook identity to customise the experience on external sites?
Taylor: The most widely used product of the ones launched at our F8 [developers conference] is Social Plug-ins, which includes the Like button and other plug-ins, which let sites provide instantly personalized experiences with a line of HTML on their sites.
So if you go to the front page of the Washington Post or CNN you'll see an activity stream of the things your friends have recently "liked" on those sites. Those plug-ins have been deployed on over 100,000 sites, and millions of users have interacted with them. We've gotten very positive feedback from our users.
So on news sites like CNN.com and WashingtonPost.com you not only find out the big news of the day, but also what articles your friends have liked. For me, technology stories are disproportionately interesting, so when I go to CNN.com, I'll see that my friends have liked three technology stories deep into the CNN site, so that CNN front page has become more relevant for me. We've gotten similar feedback from many users.
IDGNS: You have more than one million external developers who have built apps for Facebook. How do you make sure all those people are doing the right thing and not trying to misuse data their applications get access to?
Taylor: We addressed this data issue at F8 with the change that when a user uses a Facebook application by default, that app will only be able to access the public parts of a user's profile. To access any private information on your profile or from your friends, the application has to ask the user specifically and granularly for access to that information.
That way you know the parts of the profile the application will access, so that if an application that is about publishing photos asks for access to your events, you might find that unusual and decide you don't trust that application. Users can also revoke applications' access to their account. | 2019-04-18T14:53:48 | https://www.techworld.com/security/facebook-cto-on-privacy-security-and-social-networking-3225949/ |
0.999368 | There's a unique style that exists in Dextro's music and it's one I've appreciated since I first heard his 2009 album, Winded. Ewan's combination of longing piano, euphoric drums and ambient textures is a rare recipe that straddles post-rock, downtempo, experimental and in many instances, ambient music. His upcoming album, In The Crossing, is his latest production capturing this enigmatic sound and we're lucky enough to hold an exclusive stream of the album prior to release.
Some of you may know Dextro from his inclusion on ASIP's Europe, in 2015, and it was everything I could have wished for to best depict his brilliant style I had followed for years. A swirling texture built to a crescendo of drums portraying the ascent of the Isle Of Barra.
Dextro's upcoming album, In The Crossing, is another dive into a dramatic landscape. What starts as an unsettling and confident assault in Evacuate, soon transcends into a deeper journey. Perhaps the awakening was the rocking of the boat, the sinking of the ship, the crash on to shore, with a sudden realisation that survival is now your primary goal, amongst a barren and desolate land.
Dextro's gently rolling guitar follows the evacuation on Amor Fati, with crushing guitar drones caressing, then threatening and dancing in the background. Introducing the uptempo breaks and jagged synths of Break Off. By now, the journey has picked up pace, and Ewan's experience with live performances dictating the flow of the recording, embracing a narrative and juxtaposing approaches to each track - Ewan's armory on full show just four tracks in, as Clearing, signals the melancholic piano we loved in his previous EP, Zero Circle.
One of my favourite tracks on the album, Clearing, is a crashing of energy, a realization of sorts and a chance to reflect before a more lively, brilliant, Silent. A swirling synth backed by a gentle chant, grows into a euphoric palette of glistening colors - a break in the sky.
Sharp drums define a more downtempo-esque style in The Passage, with some lovely attention to detail in the guitars, as the track ascends into the powerful, climbing drones of Sum Poly; a slow post-rock style lullaby. Dextro saves his most epic treatment for last in Occupy, as heavy drones drown out an ominous string melody, immersing a tinkering beauty into a slowly sinking plateaux.
Dextro has spent time narrating this album and developing the story, rather than trying to fit together individual pieces. Each track has an extremely distinct mood, a tangible feeling that's at times, extremely dark, or alternatively distinctly up-lifting. Either way, Dextro's strength with the album comes with his multitude of moods, told through his signature instruments and style. Brooding atmospheres, puncturing drums, melancholic pianos and just the right amount of electronic injection here-and-there, paint a beautiful, wet, windy landscape that screams adventure, drama and danger.
Embrace it with everything you've got.
In The Crossing will be pressed on limited 180g vinyl (200 copies) and 1000 Gatefold CD's through Bandcamp and available in all good record stores. | 2019-04-26T16:31:05 | http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/tag/Dextro |
0.998652 | Portland vs. Uber: City code officers try to ticket drivers Minutes after Uber rideshare launched in Portland without the city's permission, code enforcement officers logged onto the app in an attempt to catch drivers violating taxi regulations. One problem: Demand for the service was so high that they couldn't book a ride.
Uber has agreed to hit the brakes on its controversial app-based ride service in Portland for three months while City Hall attempts to revamp its regulations to allow the company's services.
It's the first time in Uber's short but frenzied history that the San Francisco-based startup has voluntarily pulled out of a U.S. market where it was operating.
The company promised Mayor Charlie Hales that it will suspend its clandestine private-taxi pickups starting Sunday night.
The agreement between Hales and Uber was reached about 2 p.m. Thursday, just days before a federal judge was scheduled to hear the city's request for an injunction to force the company to stop operating in Portland.
According to a statement from Hales' office, the mayor will convene a task force to speed up the process of reviewing and updating city rules, which currently prohibit ridesharing services where drivers use their personal vehicles as taxis.
"The City is committed to developing a new regulatory framework that includes innovative transportation network companies," the statement said.
Hales said the City Council should be able to act on the task force's recommendations by April 9.
If new rules aren't adopted by then, both the mayor and Commissioner Steve Novick, who oversees the Bureau of Transportation, promised to push through a temporary agreement to allow Uber, Lyft and other ridesharing companies to operate within the city limits.
The latest turn in the Portland vs. Uber soap opera doesn't mean $1.65-per-mile Uber drivers will completely disappear from the city's streets.
The company's UberX service -- which allows residents to hail and pay for private rides with the push of a smartphone button -- will continue to operate in Gresham, Vancouver, Beaverton, Tigard and Hillsboro.
"We are pausing pickups within Portland city limits for three months and the city has agreed to expedite regulations," Eva Behrend, an Uber spokeswoman, said in an email. "We will continue operating in the Portland metro area with drop-offs continuing in Portland."
Uber said more than 10,000 rides had been delivered in Portland since it rolled into the city, with nearly 300 drivers signing up for training. "More than 11,000 Portland residents and visitors have signed our petition, showing support for a safer way to get around their city," Uber said in an email to Portland customers.
During the evening commute on Dec. 5, Uber suddenly launched UberX without Portland's blessing, arguing that the city's taxi and for-hire ride regulations are "antiquated" and don't apply to the sharing economy.
The city's agreement with the company on Thursday all but conceded that point.
"At the end of the day, we really wanted to upgrade our policies to match the reality of the sharing economy," said Hales spokesman Dana Haynes.
"We couldn't pretend the sharing economy wasn't here," he said. "The goal wasn't to stop one rogue company. We need to set a policy, we needed to do it right, and this agreement gets us there. But we need to move quick."
Haynes said the task force's "soup to nuts" regulation review will focus on "mandated safety criteria" for customers and the public over the next three months.
Portland's taxi regulations are among the nation's most restrictive, say Uber and rideshare competitors such as Lyft. Among other things, city code requires a 60-minute advance reservation for non-taxi ride services and sets a strict quota on how many taxi licenses can be handed out during any given year.
So far, the heavily influential Private for-Hire Transportation Board of Review, which includes representatives from the Portland's taxi and town-car companies, have been dead set against relinquishing any of the city's 460 taxi permits to Uber drivers.
At the same time, a recent Portland Bureau of Transportation report showed the city is greatly underserved by taxis when they're needed most. Uber officials said it's getting harder for the city to defend strict ordinances designed to protect the taxi industry from competition.
"The number of taxis we have in the city is unquestionably low," Haynes said.
When Uber defiantly launched two weeks ago, the company said Novick was moving too slowly with his efforts to revamp city code.
On Thursday, however, Novick said he plans to work quickly to come up with a temporary plan to suspend the existing cap on taxi permits and price regulations to "see how the market operates without those rules."
The task force's final recommendations should be based, in part, on that experience, he said.
The city could wind up eliminating those regulations altogether, or eventually retaining one or both in some form, Novick said. "What I am not interested in is a situation where we continue to impose caps and price regulations on some operators but not others," he said.
Previously, Novick had promised to "throw the book" at the company for refusing to play by the city's rules. Code enforcement officers have fined the company $67,750 for running an illegal taxi business after booking a handful of rides. It was unclear if the agreement will let Uber off the hook for those tickets.
However, city officials did not follow through with threats to ticket drivers and have their cars towed.
The new task force will begin meeting on Jan. 14. Mike Greenfield, former director of the state Department of Administrative Services, will chair the committee.
So far, the mayor has appointed 11 transportation, business and social-services leaders to the task force, but no one representing the city's taxi companies.
Among other things, the group will discuss whether the city should continue to limit the total number of taxi permits granted and whether it should regulate pricing. "In addition, the task force will explore how regulatory changes could improve driver earnings and working conditions," the mayor's statement said.
Earlier this year, the City Council approved new regulations to allow short-term rental operations in private homes for another sharing-economy darling, global hospitality startup Airbnb.
As the city geared up for its lawsuit against Uber, staffers in the mayor's office and company representatives talked almost daily in an effort to come up with a compromise, Haynes said.
At the same time, he said, the agreement reached Thursday shouldn't be seen as a surrender.
The city, Haynes said, was ready to battle Uber in court and get it kicked out of the city. The first hearing in U.S. District Court was set for Tuesday.
"We're not hearing from the city's attorneys that they were dispirited about the fight ahead," he said. "But they're also not disappointed that we've been working aggressively with Uber to come up with a deal."
* Updated to correct spelling of Steve Novick's name. | 2019-04-20T22:35:16 | https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2014/12/uber_agrees_to_leave_portland.html |
0.999587 | Aravinda Sametha Review: Jr NTR Performance is Top Notch!
Aravinda Sametha plot: The youngest member of the violent and powerful family decides to find ways to resolve issues in peace. But it's easier said than done. How does Veera Raghava manage to achieve his goal? What happens in his journey to reach the mission? Watch the movie to find out. So, how has the movie fared?
Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava is a faction feud between two communities—Nallagudi and Kommadi. Basi Reddy (Jagapathi Babu) is in complete control of Nallagudi while Narapa Reddy (Nagababu) heads the Kommadi village. The two villages clash over a trivial matter and are at loggerheads. At that time, Narapareddy's son Veera Raghava Reddy returns home from London. Tragedy strikes and that's when Veera Raghava decides to stay away from violence and leaves for Hyderabad. He meets Aravinda (Pooja) in Hyderabad after which the duo fall in love. However, an incident changes Raghava's life forever and he vows to stop the bloodshed and bring peace. Will he achieve that? What are the obstacles he faces?
Well, the film starts with a faction drama. NTR's entry is grand and gives fans enough whistle-worthy moments. The first few scenes are loaded with emotional quotient and manages to keep the audience engaged. Trivikram's trademark dialogues is easy to connect to. Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava is a faction feud between two communities—Nallagudi and Kommadi. Basi Reddy (Jagapathi Babu) is in complete control of Nallagudi while Narapa Reddy (Nagababu) heads the Kommadi village. The two villages clash over a trivial matter and are at loggerheads. At that time, Narapareddy's son Veera Raghava Reddy returns home from London. Tragedy strikes and that's when Veera Raghava decides to stay away from violence and leaves for Hyderabad. He meets Aravinda (Pooja) in Hyderabad after which the duo fall in love. However, an incident changes Raghava's life forever and he vows to stop the bloodshed and bring peace. Will he achieve that? What are the obstacles he faces?
NTR excels in every frame. Be it emotions, romance or action—the young tiger has delivered his best. In a few scenes, you could say he carries the entire film on his shoulder and you realise if not for him, the scene would have no value. NTR's efforts to look good on screen and his dedication towards mastering the Rayalaseema dialect is noticeable. Pooja Hegde is the leading lady but she has more job to do than that and pulls off her role effortlessly. We don't have to tell you much about the baddie. That Jagapathi Babu is having the time of his life playing negative roles in the second innings of his career is all too evident. He just nails it in terms of looks or performance. He's a treat to watch. Naga Babu has been given a fantastic role while Supriya Pathak, Rao Ramesh do justice to their characters. Sunil's comic timing is noteworthy. SS Thaman's music is noteworthy. BGM in certain scenes stand out.
Trivikram has made every effort to give the audience what they want. He's well aware of the target audience (NTR fans) and included all the mass elements to appease them. Be it dialogues, emotions, action Trivikram has brought out the best in NTR. Cinematographer Vinda has captured the beauty of Rayalaseema in all its glory and is a feast to the eyes. Although the first half hour of the film is pacy and a breeze to watch, the same momentum isn't maintained thereafter. Yet Trivikram introduces romance and comedy to keep the viewer engaged.
It's worth mentioning here that NTR managed to complete his scenes so the film can release on time despite the sudden demise of his father. While fans have heaped praises on the young tiger for his performance, audience say that Trivikram has made a good comeback with this film.
Verdict: A typical mass masala entertainer, a visual treat for NTR fans. Tarak fans will love this every bit. Trivikram is back and NTR has a winner in his hand. Watch Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava for Tarak.
Audience who managed to watch the early shows have shared their reviews on social media. Let's find out what they have to say about the film.
@tarak9999 killed it as always.
Top notch performances in both @tarak9999 nd @hegdepooja carrier. | 2019-04-21T12:33:47 | https://english.sakshi.com/entertainment/2018/10/11/aravinda-sametha-veera-raghava-review-jr-ntr-trivikram |
0.999998 | WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Columnist Justin Chang describes 'I feel Pretty' as "a sweet, klutzy charmer, with moments of wit, insight and, yes, beauty, some of which it seems to stumble upon by accident."
"I Feel Pretty" is, how to put this?, better than it looks.
Renee's dreams come true (sort of) when she suffers a bump on the noggin and, studying herself in the mirror, sees the gorgeous face and slim, toned body she's always wanted, a development that works wonders for her self-esteem, and subsequently her career and love life.
Based on that summary, you might be tempted to dismiss "I Feel Pretty" sight unseen, and not merely because the past work of writer-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (who together wrote the screenplays for "How to Be Single" and "He's Just Not That Into You") doesn't inspire confidence.
In 2018, the logic goes, do we really need a movie about a woman so warped by society's impossible standards that she has to endure a belabored epiphany about the importance of inner beauty?
And even if so, should that woman be played by Amy Schumer, who, for all the mockery that has been directed at her weight and appearance, some but hardly all of it self-inflicted, is no sane person's idea of forgettable or average-looking?
If the idea was to feature a woman marginalized by her appearance, wouldn't a bolder, more progressive version of this story have cast a relative unknown, perhaps even a woman of color, someone without Schumer's distracting white-feminist baggage and celebrity profile?
There's nothing accidental of course about the casting of Schumer. Her more controversial sketches may have inspired much abuse of the word "problematic," but she turns out to be less this movie's problem than its solution.
I would gladly watch a version of "I Feel Pretty" with a less privileged celebrity in the lead, but I can't deny the sweet-and-salty verve that Schumer brings to this one. She plays Renee as an ugly duckling who's gotten awfully good, maybe too good, at letting the water roll off her back.
Crucially, because Renee's magical makeover takes place entirely inside her head, we never see what her new-and-ostensibly-improved self looks like. (Think of it as the opposite of the "Shallow Hal" effect.) That makes for a few amusing deadpan sequences as Renee exults in a newfound hotness that only she can see, whether she's chatting up a sensitive guy, Ethan (Rory Scovel), or breezing her way through a job interview with her future boss, Avery LeClaire (Michelle Williams, hijacking the movie brilliantly).
But Renee's brazen displays of confidence are funny and emotionally revealing, especially when she leaps into a dive-bar bikini contest, turning the whole sorry, demeaning spectacle on its head. The movie's conceit might have quickly turned tiresome or mean-spirited, encouraging us to laugh at a woman obliviously making a fool of herself, except that she isn't doing that at all.
There's something curiously intuitive at work here, and also something sneakily profound. On the simplest level, Schumer's performance asks: What if the source of your deepest self-doubts were suddenly gone, but you were the only one who knew it? What if you were so oblivious to the perceptions of those around you that it really and truly didn't matter what everyone else thought? | 2019-04-24T01:53:10 | https://workingwomanreport.com/amy-schumer-gives-beaut-performance-uneven-sweetly-amusing-feel-pretty/ |
0.998899 | Dank, Scream, and 🤖: I don't know what this cat is going through but I can relate. Scream into the heavens.
Dank, 🤖, and How: I don't know what this cow is going through but I can relate How now brown cow.
Memes, 🤖, and Cat: I don't know what this cat is going through but I can relate. | 2019-04-23T21:50:47 | https://me.me/t/251971 |
0.99851 | Is there a way to search your intake from say three years ago, without having to hit the previous day button over 730 times? I am trying to see what I eat back in 2010, and it seems the only way to do it, is to go into the my Foods, and click previous, until I get to 2010. any help is most appreciated!!
I am not using Fitday Classic.
When I go to 'Home' and then from there, use 'Calendar,' I get the current calendar. At the top left is a little desktop calendar type icon and the word 'Calendar.' Directly to the right of that is the same little icon and the date. If you click on the word 'today', you get two little calendar months popping up underneath. There is a small left arrow that allows you to go back through the years by month. Keep 'backing up' until you get the month and year you want. Then click on the date you want to see. You should see the month of that day laid out below, with all the calorie counts for each day.
By choosing a day (you can see that date embedded in the url at the top of the screen), you can see the calorie balance, intake, etc. in the pie chart to the right.
The thing is, when I want to look at the food log of foods I ate, it bounces me back to the current day (you can see this in the url changing at the top of your browser). Using my back button, I can 'back' into the calendar I wanted, with all the numbers of calories there, but I just can't see the food log for a certain day.
That's what I was able to do.. and not do.
Maybe someone else has a solution to getting to the actual food log for a day. Good luck!
your home screen (be in the 'Dashboard' and see Fitday Classic as one option at the top of the screen).
Choose the Calendar tab. It will show the current calendar month (in this case, October) but to the left and right are previous and next month with little arrows. Use the arrow next to the previous month to go 'backwards' through the months. Do that until you get to the month you want, a few years ago. That month will be displayed below, with little apple icons to show that you had a food log filled out that day. Click on the icon of the day you want to look at and it DOES come up!
So, maybe the answer is that it can be done, with Classic.
Last edited by Kathy13118; 10-29-2013 at 03:33 PM. | 2019-04-24T08:03:23 | https://www.fitday.com/fitness/forums/fitday-pc/10284-foods.html |
0.999953 | Anastasia. Age: 23. I am an intelligent, attractive, mature individual with a positive outlook on life. I love travelling, into extreme sports , i adore the outdoors.
How can you find out the collector value of a baseball?
A reputable coin dealer will be able to give a more accurate valuation.. What is the Value of hustler August collectors issue? Have a question related to the operation of USED magazines. The term hustler is becoming more commonplace.
Description: What day was August 5 ? Dual-dated quarters bearing the date were issued during all of and to honor the Bicentennial. Would you like to merge this question into it? What is the collector value of a us quarter? | 2019-04-24T01:58:22 | http://obatginjal.info/sex/hustler-aug-1975.php |
0.999997 | Following the previous notebook, it was time to elaborate on what else was implied by those charts and findings.
If a Markowitz bullet illustrates the concept behind a portfolio's efficient frontier, then dealing only with the residuals was not enough. You needed a trend to show it had something. Otherwise, what you got was as presented in the previous notebook: not much. Just a statistical blob of portfolios centered around the zero-return line. Or, you could view it as portfolios trying very hard to reduce variance and volatility to such an extent that they succeeded in doing so.
Evidently, that was under the condition that prices series were the result of normally distributed random-like price series where no trends were even considered. Nonetheless, by commenting out the random seed: # np.random.seed(123) in the code module below, one could have ran as many different scenarios as they wished. And would have found that most ended about the same or quite close to each other. In fact, stating that the optimizer could not find anything in the residuals.
Using an optimizer on normally distributed price functions, as the one used in that notebook, did squash performance as you increased the number of stocks in the portfolio. And that should have been expected.
The Markowitz bullet simply shrank and migrated toward a zero-density expectancy as the number of stocks in the portfolio was increased.
That is not good news. Regardless, it is what it should have done, and it did.
The task of any portfolio manager, or a stock trading program, is to determine the allocation to any one stock for some duration. It should be done based on merit and expectancy. If you do not have a positive expectancy, why place a bet or invest in that stock in the first place?
The objective, whatever the method of play, is to make a profit: $\;q \cdot \Delta p > 0$. That you are long or short ($\,q\,$ or $\,-q\,$) does not change the profit definition.
A portfolio of stocks to show a profit needs to sum the outcome of all its trades and positions: $\sum_i (q_i \cdot \Delta^i p_i) > 0$. If this sum is not greater than zero, whatever the trading method, the strategy was most certainly not profitable. There is not much to add to this: in the end (over the long run) whatever our programs do, either a portfolio of stocks is profitable OR it is not!
We do simulations to find out how our trading strategies would behave IF. You are not looking for precise answers. It is more like how it will behave? Every scenario is a "what if" this or that happened and then what? Doing simulations is a lot less expensive than trying it out live. But still, our simulation environments should aspire to be a representation of the real world. So, one question should be: how realistic is this?
The previous notebook established that if you did not have some underlying trend in a diversified group of stocks, you might have had nothing return wise, or close to it. You need something to break the random component of the stochastic price function, otherwise, you are left with a quasi-Gaussian distribution. If you cannot predict future prices over the very short-term then the end results could be considered as close to the equivalent.
Over the short-term, most of the long-term trends are drown in all the noise. And over the short-term, the ability to extract the signal from the noise is rather limited. Most often, the signal to noise ratio is so low, it is difficult to even identify it.
A normalized randomly generated distribution of returns has an expectancy of zero. No matter the length of the sequence, the expectancy remains zero. That you throw in an optimizer in an attempt to find something in it does not matter, there is nothing to be had in the first place.
The closer the distribution of trades approaches 50/50, the closer it has the characteristics of a quasi-normal distribution. It will be something that will have a tendency to show about half of the returns going up and the other half going down.
You do not need to add much upside for the optimizer to show an advantage since a slight trend could be partially picked up by the optimizer and be taken advantage of. It would be like putting back $\,\mu dt\,$ into the stock's stochastic equation: $\;p(t) = \mu dt + \sigma dW$. Let's do that. The two main numbers of interest in this notebook are drift and alpha.
Take the scenario from the previous notebook using 100 securities to which is added a long-term linear drift. The optimizer will not be able to take advantage of it all, but still, it will be sufficient to move the average portfolio's center of mass up (expected average return) as depicted in the chart below.
The code does not say what is the origin of the drift, only that it is there, and linear. 5,000 portfolios were generated, yet, they are all clustered together and spread over a small vertical slice or risk.
The cluster of portfolios could be even more concentrated simply by adding more stocks to the mix since the size of the cluster is related to the bet size. Smaller average bet size, smaller and more compact clusters.
Only a statistical part of the drift was detected by the optimizer and taken advantage of. Moving the cluster of portfolios higher the return space for about the same level of risk. And it did not change the signature of the return vector by much as the next chart shows.
# Plot a single return vector (normally distributed).
# Pick a number between 0 and (n_assets -1).
Re-run the above code snippet to see another stock's quasi-random return-stream.
We can see the impact of the added trend in its corresponding price chart (next code snippet).
#Plot selected return stream as if an index, since only the percentages are of interest.
The funny thing is that the drift comes with the game itself, or at least, some of it as built-in. And the optimizer can catch some of it. If we exclude the drift from our trading procedures by demeaning price series and only trying to find "factors" in the "residuals", this becomes the same as having transformed our price series to quasi-Gaussian distribution. And as such, should produce the charts of the last notebook.
In fact, saying that there is no profit to be had if there is no drift. Therefore, excluding it from structural strategy design might not be the most promising. However.
What about if you bring in some alpha of your own? As in: $p(t) = (\mu + \alpha)dt + \sigma dW$. By adding some skills to the mix, you can raise the bar: drift += 0.002 + alpha. Just a little alpha above the drift can make quite a difference. Making add_drift = False will eliminate any consideration for the drift and alpha making the program behave exactly like in the previous notebook.
Another thing that should be considered. If the drift is there for the taking, just for participating in the game, and that any method of play can catch part of it, are you really exercising some skills or just going along for the ride?
In real life, you might not be able to separate the trend and the alpha generation of your trading strategy or strategies. However, one thing should be evident, and that is if you demean your price series to only consider detecting your alpha from the residuals, you will be missing out: $p(t) = \alpha dt + \sigma dW$ since your alpha will need to work much harder to compensate for what was thrown away. The optimizer could have made good use of that underlying trend, even if it can only catch part of it.
Should you not be able to generate some alpha, it will produce: $p(t) = \sigma dW$. Then, you would be right back in the previous notebook analyzing residuals which in aggregate would hover around the zero-return line.
The chart below tries to maximize the Sharpe ratio using the same program snippet as in the previous notebook.
by optimizing the Sharpe ratio.
Observe how the 5,000 portfolios are concentrated in a single spot. From randomly generated price series, they all clustered around their center of mass. There is still a Markowitz bullet in there and it is relatively close to the optimal portfolio. Also noteworthy, any one of the 5,000 portfolios could have been a good choice since their relative differences are quite small (in the order of rounding errors).
You could re-run the notebook programs as many times as you want. Each time generating 5,000 new portfolios with a new set of 100 randomly generated stock prices. The Markowitz bullet would still be close to the optimal portfolio. Indicating that it is not the price series that got it there, but the drift and the alpha: $\,\bar g = \mu + \alpha$.
You could redo all the above after adding some alpha. See code line: alpha = 0.000 in the second code module and make it alpha = 0.001 for instance. Then look at the difference it can make.
This does not say how you get your alpha, only that if you get it, it is what it would do. Not only at the portfolio level, but also when considering the aggregated Sharpe ratio of all those portfolios. It would strongly suggest that you need it if you want to outperform your peers.
There are 5,000 dots (portfolios) in the small cluster under the optimal portfolio. The spread is not wide, as if saying that the outcome of 5,000 portfolios of randomly generated stocks, which were in essence quasi-random return sequences, would all aggregate to a high density and compact spot on the chart. As if saying, the trading method did not matter so much as long as you could take advantage of the drift and bring your own skills to the job. And also, that the set of chosen stocks was large enough as to diversify the overall variance.
The problem one needs to consider is: where is the alpha? Not so much where is the drift since it is technically already built-in. We might not be able to separate the alpha from the drift: $\,\bar g = \mu + \alpha$. But, we can still get it all: $p(t) = \bar g dt + \sigma dW$.
There is more to consider, even with this limited setup. It should open new doors. | 2019-04-25T14:27:27 | http://alphapowertrading.com/quantopian/CAPM_Revisited_02.html |
0.999986 | Ask Rich Gee: Career Questions From Quora.
What is more difficult in the long run, working for a company or running your own business?
Company - you have a boss to keep happy, you have set work hours, you get a regular paycheck, you get a paid location to work at, you get benefits, and you also get jerk bosses, the chance to lose your job instantly, cancelled projects, and frequently depressed coworkers.
Business - you have a clients to keep happy, you have flexible work hours, your paycheck is based on how hard your work and hustle, you get to work at home, you get to pay for your own benefits, and you also get no jerk bosses (but jerk clients), the chance to lose your clients at the drop of a hat, cancelled projects, and you might be frequently depressed.
All kidding aside (but I was telling the truth) - both have their ups and downs, sometimes you feel in control with both, and sometimes you feel out of control with both.
I've done both - 20 years in corporate - 14 years coaching - and both are hard/easy, rewarding/frustrating, but all in all - it's a great ride.
My suggestion? Start a company.
How long does it take to settle in at a new job?
On average - 3-6 months. Not only do you need to meet, develop and hone relationships with key people, you need to learn the whole business - how it works, what are the levers/movers, what are the clients like, etc.
You also need to see how the company reacts to emergencies, slow-time, reactive decisions from management, and industry shifts.
I hate to say 'settle in', because when I'm settled, I'm bored. You need to constantly challenge yourself - do new things, meet new people, etc.
Where on their resumes might long-term unemployed job candidates address their current career gaps?
You didn't sit on the couch all day and watch Jerry Springer. You probably did something - volunteered, side job, etc. Let them know.
Did you try to start a business? Did you do side work (consulting) that you were paid for? Let them know.
If you really didn't do anything for a LONG time and your résumé isn't getting traction, you might say you helped out a sick family member at home - most of the time recruiters might ask a small question, but it's happening more and more every day as our population ages. I know this might be a 'white lie' and a fireable offense - but if you are consistently striking out, you have to do something to change the dynamic.
#3 might rankle some readers — but there are a lot of people who are lost right now looking for a replacement job and they've gone YEARS without employment.
What kind of advice would you give to a 40-something starting a new job where she'll be working alongside 20-somethings?
Listen more than preach. You are not their 'sensei' right now, you just work with them. Also, be patient.
Ask questions. They might know more than you do. And they probably do.
Don't talk about your kids, your injuries, your parents, or any other 40+ year-old concern. 20 year-olds don't care.
Don't try to 'be cool'. Be yourself. Be interested, but be yourself.
Let them make their own mistakes. If they ask you for advice, then you give it to them. Ultimately, they will look to you as their 'sensei' if you do it right.
Try to do things that they do. If they invite you out for drinks, go. If they mention a band, listen to them. If they talk about a movie, check it out.
Compliment them. We tend to forget to do that with our younger counterparts.
Work out, stay in shape, eat healthy, and keep a close eye on your wardrobe style. You don't want to dress like Lou in MadMen. Also keep an eye on your hairstyle.
Look at your glasses style. Too many guys and gals wear really old frames they wore in high school. Get with the program and style up.
Grow an interest in some of the things they might be interested in - music, movies, books, theater, etc. If you show a sincere interest in their passions, they might ask you about yours.
Extra-Credit: Keep up with TECHNOLOGY. I'm 52 and get so angry at people my age who have problems, disregard or disparage simple technology I use easily. YOU LOOK OLD immediately if you have frequent problems with email, the web, your phone (get a smartphone), etc.
Add More Torque To Your Organization.
What’s torque? It’s a measure of the turning force on an object such as the pushing or pulling of a wrench handle connected to a nut or bolt. It produces a torque (turning force) that loosens or tightens the bolt.
Over the past 25 to 30 years, technology has been zipping along the mainframe to desktop route and the entire tech institution has been riding along with it (and profiting greatly from it). Lately, I find as each month progresses, I am using the basics of business and office technology less and less.
Why does everyone hate the iPhone all of a sudden? I have some ideas why. | 2019-04-25T22:14:09 | https://www.richgee.com/articles/tag/Technology |
0.99925 | I became aware of Quora through Twitter. I was noticing Quora this and Quora that without understanding what it was and eventually I must have clicked on a link and ended up on the Quora site.
Quora is a Q&A tool with a social networking dimension. It's integrated with Twitter. These days, everything needs to be integrated with Twitter it seems. You set up an account and off you go, posting questions and answering other people's questions.
It reminded me of Aardvark, a similar Q&A service that I tried out (never really got into) a few months ago and Wolfram Alpha. Aardvark is more about seeking advice about where to take your next vacation and Wolfram Alpha is more like querying an encyclopedia. I'm simplifying.
Aardvark seemed to be a Q&A in a vacuum, with random people answering your questions whereas Quora collects and displays answers in a semi-organized fashion and allows you to identify topics of interest and people to follow. Wolfram Alpha is a powerful search engine that retrieves verified information. At least that's my impression.
As a public tool, these are interesting experiments but I'm more interested in their potential application within organizations. There is a significant amount of literature on knowledge management systems within organizations specifically focused on Q&A types of "solutions." These are based on a number of assumptions: 1) there is a demand and supply side in the knowledge equation, a market; 2) the correct incentives are in place and all you need is a tool to act as a bridge between knowledge seekers and knowledge owners.
When you set up tools such as Yammer within an organization, you are essentially opening up broader avenues for people to connect, potentially ask questions and get answers. You should not expect everyone to use these new channels for Q&A purposes and you should not expect this to be THE solution. A Q&A system such as Quora, when implemented within an organization, has the advantage of gathering answers into one spot. Answers don't get lost in the traffic, they accumulate, in a not-so-orderly fashion, around questions.
I haven't explored the tool long enough to understand its true potential, but long enough to have a few questions: How much structure should be imposed for the system to remain useful and usable? How much policing and training is necessary to avoid complete chaos? How do you deal with the skeptics who will inevitably say that none of the content is "validated" knowledge, that it could actually be dangerous if people follow the advice posted and it's wrong.
It's not exactly a new idea. I remembered reading a paper by Ackerman & Malone titled "Answer Garden: a tool for growing organizational memory," from 1990 (might as well be a century ago).
Quora is interesting to me in particular because of the more serious tone it takes, as well as the way it's attracted highly credible sources. Allowing people to "vote up" the answers they find most useful isn't new either, but I've been fairly impressed by what they've done, and it's worth studying how they've done it.
Not to say that they've got it right. I've asked two questions on Quora so far, and one still goes unanswered, days later. Yes, it was KM related.
I agree. Definitely worth watching and interacting with. | 2019-04-20T17:17:06 | http://www.fillipconsulting.com/2011/01/tool-of-week-quora.html |
0.99883 | Northern Ireland: Time to put the victims groups to bed?
Two former British soldiers, aged in their 60s, are to be prosecuted for the murder of a non-state militant in Belfast in 1972. This follows similar attempts to prosecute former militants and soldiers over ‘historical’ acts of violence in Northern Ireland’s troubles. A significant number of former soldiers and non-state militants have been arrested and questioned over the past four years about decades old offences. In 2013, a 62 year old member of the IRA was charged with a bombing in London that killed four British soldiers. Indeed, in 2014 Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was arrested in connection with a murder 42 years previously. No charges were brought.
All of these arrests led to howls of protests from supporters who point out the righteousness of the individuals they support. The Sun newspaper called the arrests of the soldiers a ‘bloody outrage’ and ‘witch hunt’ (and, of course, celebrated the arrest of Gerry Adams). The Daily Mail called the soldiers ‘heroes’ and their victim a ‘terrorist’ who would not hesitate to use violence. The reactions are predictable and as though from auto-bot script-writing software. In part the reactions are human and affective – from relatives of victims and those who feel justifiable moral outrage. But much of the reaction is simply politics and is fuelled by entrenched victims groups who are a little too comfortable in their roles.
Northern Ireland can continue along this path of prosecuting pensioners for things they did in their youth until the last of them dies out. Or, it could try reconciliation. The latter path is difficult and would lead many people to feel uncomfortable but the drip-drip prosecutions and constant recrimination is symptomatic of a society that is not at ease with itself and thus maintains the potential for further violence. Despite a major peace accord (the 1998 Good Friday Agreement) there has never been reconciliation: nation-wide, local, legislative, or symbolic. The three major violent actors (the British State, pro-united Ireland militants, and pro-United Kingdom militants – and the communities that support them) have never faced up to their responsibilities on the past – and more importantly – on the present and future.
The powersharing Assembly in Northern Ireland is dominated by two ethno-nationalist parties (the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein) who have little interest in reconciliation. It would – after all – put them out of business. They rely on electoral bases that can be mobilised around familiar tropes of victimhood, sectarianism and long-term zero-sum goals. Rare initiatives on reconciliation are kicked into the long grass. The European Union has spent an unfeasible amount of money – almost £2bn in the tiny space of Northern Ireland – on ‘peace and reconciliation’. That money was spent to buy off militants and communities but it was not spent on reconciliation. It was also raided by the British and Irish governments for general budgetary expenses. The British State – which ran death squads and is guilty of mass human rights abuses – is protected by its security establishment which launches howls of protests if anyone mentions its shameful past. Think Ronaldo diving to the ground and clutching his face when a defender looks at him. Lt Col Very-Safe-in-Surrey is rolled out by the newspapers to thunder about what a disgrace it is that honest and decent squaddies (the working classes that the Lt Col cannot abide in his everyday life) are being prosecuted while ‘terrorists’ roam free.
So where can Northern Ireland go from here? There are reports that privately the two main political parties would like to try to put the past them, but the victims groups that they have (in part) created and nurtured are an obstacle to that. The monsters they have created have a life of their own and lazy reporters from Northern Ireland’s newspapers simply hit speed dial to get an instant quote. There is a case for the political parties (and responsible elements of the media) to distance themselves from the victims groups. This is not to under-estimate the real pain and hurt that the families of victims of violence have experienced. But most mourning – in my experience – is conducted among families and friendship circles. Mourning happens around the kitchen table, in the quiet moment when a relative misses the company of a loved one. Mourning and coming to terms with the past does not – again in my experience – come through spokespersons for victims groups, press releases and giving public money to victims groups. It is time – almost a quarter of a century after the militant ceasefires – to put the victims groups to bed.
It is also time for the two main political parties (they run an absolute duopoly thanks to the rules of the powersharing Assembly) to face up to their responsibilities and draw a line under the past. This would involve a pact (this is politics after all) in which representatives of the three violent actors (the British State, the pro-united Ireland militants, and the pro-United Kingdom militants) would release comprehensive statements dealing with their past actions. So the British State must confess to its death squads, sponsorship of loyalist militants, and massive human rights abuses. The Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Defence Association and various other loyalists must acknowledge – in detailed ways – the pain and hurt they have caused through murder, bombing, intimidation and a host of other acts of violence. Otherwise Northern Ireland can sleepwalk into the next few decades by prosecuting pensioners.
It is worth noting that most militants (that is: soldiers, policemen, state militia, and members of non-state militant groups) were in their late teens and twenties when they engaged in violence. They were in large organisations run by older men who gave them orders. Frankly, many were immature and may not hold the views now that they did decades ago. Should we really prosecute adults for what they did as teenagers when they were members of coercive organisations? | 2019-04-24T07:58:49 | https://rogermacginty.com/2016/12/20/northern-ireland-time-to-put-the-victims-groups-to-bed/ |
0.998186 | Vice President Bush, suggesting that Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter and Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North should waive their constitutional right against self-incrimination, today called on the two former White House officials to ''tell us the truth'' about their roles in the Iran arms controversy.
Mr. Bush did not explicitly ask Admiral Poindexter and Colonel North to stop invoking their Fifth Amendment protections. But he said both men, former officials of the National Security Council staff, should ''make a great sacrifice'' by answering the questions of panels investigating the controversy. ''The country cannot wait any longer,'' he said.
Mr. Bush's comments came three days after President Reagan urged the Senate Intelligence Committee to grant limited immunity to Admiral Poindexter, who resigned as national security adviser, and Colonel North, a member of the security council staff who was dismissed.
Mr. Reagan, responding to Congressional criticism about the level of Administration cooperation in the investigation, said immunity would be a way of getting the facts without depriving the two officers of their rights. The President had said earlier this month that he did not expect present or former aides to waive their rights under the Fifth Amendment in order to assist investigations by Congress and the Justice Department.
Mr. Bush said in his speech that because Admiral Poindexter and Colonel North are military officers ''they take on a special obligation.'' and indicated that they therefore ought to say what they know even if it was not in their own interest.
Mr. Bush made the comments in a speech to the graduating class of the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy. This state's political party caucuses on Feb. 8, 1988, are the first major test in the next Presidential campaign.
A statewide poll published today indicated that the Iran affair has severely damaged Mr. Bush's standing among Iowa Republicans. The poll showed that Mr. Bush is no longer the undisputed front-runner here - a dramatic decline from earlier surveys of Republicans' preferences.
When Representative Michael Barnes, a Maryland Democrat, made a similar comment during a Congressional hearing this month, Colonel North's attorney responded with a bitter rebuke.
On Thursday, Colonel North said he felt abandoned by his former colleagues in Government who were calling on him to ignore the advice of his lawyer and answer questions on the controversy.
''I don't think the President really wants me to abandon my rights under the Constitution,'' Colonel North said. ''People have died face down in the mud all over the world defending those individual rights.''said testimony given in closed session of Congressional panels investigating the Iran affair should be made public, and urged that the Congress not abandon its support of the Nicaraguan rebels as a result of the controversy. That would lead to a ''moral and strategic horror'' in Nicaragua, he asserted.
Over the last two weeks new information has emerged tying members of Mr. Bush's staff to the covert program to ship arms to the Nicaraguan rebels.
A chronology released by Mr. Bush's office on Monday showed that since 1983 his national security adviser, Donald P. Gregg, met at least 10 times with the man believed to be the coordinator of the covert arms shipments to the contras. Felix Rodriguez, a former Central Intelligence Agency operative.
The Des Moines Register poll on Mr. Bush's political standing in Iowa -which involved a survey of 701 voters between Dec. 8 and Dec. 17 - showed that Mr. Bush has fallen behind Senator Robert Dole, the Senate Majority leader, by 28 percent to 25 percent among the Republicans in the sample. The margin of error in the sample of 205 Republicans was 6.8 percent, but in a similar poll six months ago Mr. Bush led Mr. Dole by more than 2 to 1. | 2019-04-23T23:22:05 | https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/20/us/white-house-crisis-bush-urges-poindexter-north-make-sacrifice-tell-all.html |
0.998409 | U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., said Wednesday he fears the Senate Judiciary Committee's plan to question the woman accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanuagh of sexual assault on Monday will turn into a "spectacle."
Jones had previously called for a pause on Kavanaugh's nomination until the National Archives could fulfill Democrats' request for records during the judge's tenure as staff secretary to President George W. Bush. Alabama's senior senator said the sexual assault allegations by Christine Blasey Ford reinforces the the need for the Senate to be thorough in vetting Kavanaugh for a lifetime appointment to the court.
"I am afraid that it will just be a spectacle and not a fact-finding mission" if the hearing is on for Monday, the senator said on a conference call with Alabama reporters. "It's very important that we get a full and fair investigation. What's happening right now is, in my view, unconscionable."
Alabama's junior senator said he is also in favor of an FBI investigation into the allegations, which were leaked last week.
Ford claims that when she and the Supreme Court nominee were teenagers in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh pushed her onto a bed and held her, groped her and put his hand over his mouth to prevent her from screaming. Kavanaugh denied the allegations and denied being at the party where Ford claims the alleged incident occurred.
When the allegations first surfaced Thursday, 65 former female classmates of Kavanaugh at Georgetown Prep lent their names to a letter vouching for his character. Two dozen alumnaes from Ford's Maryland prep school signed a letter supporting her.
The claims have led Democrats to argue for a pause on Kavanaugh's nomination. Republicans say it is a stall tactic to give Democratic candidates an issue to campaign on.
Jones said the motivation for investigating is to get to the truth and that there is no reason for the Senate not to be thorough.
"This is not an effort to intentionally delay, it's an effort on my part to say we need to get this right," he said. "It's in the 11th hour only because of the artificial deadline that Republicans put out there. ...I just think pushing forward is showing an incredible lack of respect for Dr. Ford."
Noting that Ford has received death threats, Jones said the Judiciary Committee should give Kavanaugh's accuser time to prepare.
"It's not easy to get prepared for a hearing like this, and I've been in this position before where you had to do something at the last minute and it's just not good," he said.
The senator said he is still keeping an open mind on Kavanaugh's nomination.
Updated at 2:43 p.m. to indicate that Jones believes a Monday hearing would be a spectacle, not a closed-door hearing. | 2019-04-19T12:44:21 | https://www.al.com/news/2018/09/doug_jones_fears_gop_will_make.html |
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0.999205 | "... In this paper, we describe an efficient method for audio matching which performs effectively for a wide range of classical music. The basic goal of audio matching can be described as follows: consider an audio database containing several CD recordings for one and the same piece of music interpreted ..."
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0.999999 | View question - The four-digit number 1210 has an interesting property.
The second digit, 2, counts how many ones are in the number.
The third digit, 1, counts how many twos are in the number.
The fourth digit, 0, counts how many threes are in the number.
Another number with this property is 2020 ( 2 zeros, 2 twos, no ones or threes.) Now, make a 7 digit number ABCDEFG so that the first digit, A, counts the number of zeros in the number, the second digit, B, counts the number of ones, ans so on down to G, which counts the number of sixes in the number.
As you said, A counts the number of zeroes, and there are 3 zeroes (E, F, G), so A = 3.
B counts the number of ones, and there are 2 ones (C, D), so B = 2.
C counts the number of twos, and there is 1 two (B), so C = 1.
D counts the number of threes, and there is 1 three (A), so D = 1.
There is no four, five, six in, so E, F, G are all zeroes. | 2019-04-23T11:00:32 | https://web2.0calc.com/questions/the-four-digit-number-1210-has-an-interesting-property |
0.998979 | Massachusetts Historical Society: “If it pleases you to have another ‘Mayor Quincy’ in the family”: Colonel Samuel Miller Quincy describes his appointment as military mayor of New Orleans, 5 May 1865.
“If it pleases you to have another ‘Mayor Quincy’ in the family”: Colonel Samuel Miller Quincy describes his appointment as military mayor of New Orleans, 5 May 1865.
From the Samuel Miller Quincy letters in the Quincy family papers, QP 106.
Shortly after the restoration of civilian government to Louisiana at the end of the Civil War, General Nathaniel P. Banks, the commander of Union military forces in the state, "executed a 'coup d'etat,' by which the Civil Mayor [of New Orleans was] decapitated," and Colonel Samuel Miller Quincy of Massachusetts was "installed as military vicegerent in his place." Banks had feared the growing power of conservative opponents of Reconstruction including former Confederates in the new state and city government. "Half the city," Quincy informed his mother in this letter written on official city hall stationery, was "delighted—the other half furious . . . but if it pleases you to have another 'Mayor Quincy' in the family—soyez en heureuse. I hope it won't last long."
The new "Mayor," whose light-hearted letters to his mother, Mary Jane Miller Quincy, often described the amusing or ironic character of military life, made note of the fact that, as acting mayor of New Orleans, he was following in the footsteps of his father, Josiah Quincy (1802-1882), and grandfather, Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), both of whom had been distinguished mayors of Boston. In fact, the situation in New Orleans was extremely dangerous, although it did not explode into terrible racial violence until more than a year later.
The situation in New Orleans was complex: the mayor that General Banks deposed in favor of Quincy, Hugh Kennedy, had been appointed by Governor James Madison Wells, who had appointed Kennedy in place of one of Banks's friends. Wells shifted uneasily between political factions that supported moderate Reconstruction and the conservative opponents of black civil rights. After his own appointment, Quincy informed his mother, "the Governor was enraged, and has gone to Washington to protest against military despotism."
In Washington, Governor Wells received a sympathetic hearing from Andrew Johnson, who had become president after the assassination of Lincoln. Wells returned to Louisiana with the full backing of President Johnson, whose views on Reconstruction and black civil rights were revealed when General Banks was removed from his post—and with him, "Mayor" Quincy. On 7 June, Quincy wrote to his mother that "The axe has fallen!!. . . For some inexplicable reason, the President has seen fit to back up the rebels in this village, and Unionism is at a discount." He signed his letter, "Ex Mayor of N. O."
Samuel Quincy's brief service in New Orleans was not the end of his entanglement in civilian affairs. He soon was sent to Opelousas, the former Confederate capital of Louisiana, to put out another fire in the intractable struggle between the restored—and reactionary—civil government of Louisiana and recently-freed African Americans, including men who had fought for their own freedom in the Civil War. Opelousas had implemented a ferociously restrictive "Black Code," an ordinance so oppressive that, as Quincy informed his mother, it "just about returned [African Americans] to servitude." He was sent after the "Opelousians with a sharp stick"—his black soldiers' bayonets—and, at least for the time being, he was successful.
A year later, the crisis came to a head in New Orleans when a municipal election restored the former Confederate mayor, John T. Monroe, to office. Governor Wells, who had opposed the Unionist supporter of black civil rights in 1865, now shifted sides again. In July 1866, he attempted to re-convene a state constitutional convention to enfranchise black voters. On 30 July, the convention in New Orleans was broken up by force. Members of the convention and their African American supporters were attacked in what General Philip Sheridan, the area military commander, described as "an absolute massacre." At least forty-eight people, including many black Civil War veterans, were killed and more than 200 wounded. In the aftermath of the New Orleans Riot (Massacre), military rule returned to New Orleans and Louisiana. In 1867, General Sheridan superseded both Mayor Monroe and Governor Wells.
Brigadier General Samuel M. Quincy, U.S.V.
Samuel Miller Quincy (1832-1887), was educated at Harvard and trained as a lawyer. When the Civil War began, he was commissioned in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded and captured in 1862 while fighting in Virginia. After he was exchanged and promoted to the rank of colonel, he took command of the 2nd Massachusetts, but never fully recovered from his wounds. In 1863, unable to continue in the field, he resigned his commission, but later the same year, was appointed to the Louisiana Corps d'Afrique, one of the first black military units in the Union army. Quincy resigned from the army in 1866 with the brevet rank of brigadier general. Returning to Boston, he devoted himself to philanthropic causes. He never fully recovered from the rigors of his Civil War service and died in 1887. The MHS holds a watercolor portrait of Quincy in his Civil War general's uniform and the presentation contains additional biographical information.
Samuel M. Quincy’s Civil War letters to his mother and other family members form part of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s enormous archive of Quincy Family papers and have been microfilmed as part of the Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, and Upham Family Papers Microfilm.
Bent, Samuel A. Eulogy on Samuel Miller Quincy. Boston: Old State House, 1887. Proceedings of a Special Meeting of the Bostonian Society, May 24, 1887.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Hollandsworth, James G. An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
McCrary, Peyton. Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: the Louisiana Experiment. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978.
United States. House. Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots. Report of the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. | 2019-04-26T03:42:05 | http://www.masshist.org/object-of-the-month/june-2015 |
0.999999 | TL; DR: For nearly a decade, SendGrid has been helping enterprise-level giants and SMBs broadcast billions of emails per month through its email infrastructure solution. The company’s email API is scalable and optimizes delivery, so messages get into inboxes and drive customer engagement. Building on its tradition of innovation, SendGrid’s new email marketing solution allows businesses to nurture customer relationships through targeted, contextual campaigns. With a culture encouraging forward thought, SendGrid is sure to continue to transform how businesses connect with their audiences well into the foreseeable future.
Nine years ago, Isaac Saldana, Tim Jenkins, and José Lopez were already seasoned veterans in the tech business space. Isaac and Tim had worked together in the aerospace industry, and, later, Isaac and José had been partners at two startups. José and Tim’s fates were about to collide with Isaac’s again.
At his previous startups, Isaac had found email deliverability to be a huge issue. Because of the growing problem of spam at the time, businesses were finding it more and more difficult to navigate through filters and reach customer inboxes with legitimate messages. Knowing Tim and José had similar experiences, Isaac recruited them and began what would become the wildly successful email infrastructure solution SendGrid.
Once their platform was developed, the Founders applied for a Techstars program out of Boulder, Colorado, and were accepted into the startup accelerator. From there, SendGrid took off.
Scott Heimes, SendGrid’s Chief Marketing Officer, told us the company has helped businesses send 1 trillion emails.
In terms of scale, SendGrid is one of the world’s largest email infrastructure providers. The company has more than 50,000 paying customers and sends upward of 30 billion emails every month. Coming up on nearly a decade of this volume of service, SendGrid recently sent its trillionth message.
“Anything with a “T” in front of it is pretty astounding,” Scott said.
SendGrid innovated the email IaaS space and shows no signs of slowing efforts to help connect businesses with their customers. The company has built a new email marketing solution that empowers businesses of any size to easily develop effective marketing campaigns that drive consumer engagement and, in turn, revenue.
The organizations that employ SendGrid’s email infrastructure solution run the gamut in terms of size and industry type. From enterprise-level giants, like eBay, to mid-market businesses and startups, the scalability, deliverability, and support network that comes with the email API allow businesses to optimize their interactions with customers.
Getting set up with SendGrid is fast and easy. Within five minutes, a business can integrate through SMTP or API. The platform comes with a host of features that allow users to improve deliverability, including domain and link customization. The email infrastructure sits in a secure environment, protecting email with two-factor authentication and comprehensive permission management functionality.
The platform has everything a business needs to create and send transactional emails for account creation, password resets, purchase receipts, and other automated notifications.
Scott told us SendGrid’s new email marketing solution, Marketing Campaigns, serves multi-app marketers who are tasked with the primary job of acquiring prospective customers and nurturing relationships with existing ones. And SendGrid views email as the perfect channel to do just that.
The SendGrid Marketing Campaigns interface makes it simple to develop and broadcast campaigns through scheduling and recipient management tools. The platform includes a complete analytics suite, so marketers can dive into insights to measure success.
All of SendGrid’s email templates are professionally designed and responsive. No matter the device on which they’re viewed, messages will paint a positive picture of the organization that’s sending them.
According to Scott, deliverability is both a science and an art. It’s essential for businesses to ensure their messages make it through the filters and obstacles blocking inboxes. Strategies need to be developed to do this.
One of the big buzzwords in email marketing today is contextualization. Marketers are always looking for ways to reach the right customers at the right times with the right content. Through SendGrid’s analytics, marketers can learn about customer buying habits, purchase history, and other behavioral data to deliver a hyper-personalized experience.
After growing from a company of three engineers in a startup accelerator to an enterprise with more than 350 employees, it might seem surprising that SendGrid has retained its unique startup company culture. But, as Scott says, this is mainly because of the overarching philosophy espoused by the team.
As a result, SendGrid has been able to stay focused on the future and anticipate market change. The company’s product development process, called The SendGrid Way, validates new product ideas through customers. Through a series of interviews and deep research, SendGrid comes to understand the pain points of customers in its target market to substantiate the efficacy of developing a new technology.
SendGrid operates with a company philosophy based on Four Hs — Humble, Hungry, Honest, and Happy.
According to Scott, the SendGrid Labs team validates and tests at high velocity to come up with visionary ideas. Currently, the focus has been on what Scott calls MarTech, the intersection of marketing and advertising technology. | 2019-04-24T20:16:14 | https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/how-sendgrid-email-api-and-marketing-solutions-help-scale-and-optimize-delivery/ |
0.99893 | One aspect of our country’s criminal justice system is a distrust of too much government power. The concern traces itself back to our country’s origin and a desire to escape British rule.
In a Nutshell: The Prosecutor Is Entitled to Direct Access to Police Personnel Records, However Defendant Must File a Pitchess Motion to See Such Records.
Due process became the concept designed to ensure procedural fairness. It was set forth in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and was made applicable to the individual states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
A big concern of those accused of any crime is that police had too much power. After all, police can gather evidence and documents, but then destroy such evidence. Police officers can also grow frustrated and use too much force or pull over people in traffic stops without probable cause. In fact, some officers may be “dirty cops” that really should not be trusted with enforcing our laws. Such police officers may even have a history of being administratively disciplined for being too aggressive, destroying evidence or falsifying police reports.
Those accused of committing a crime will often believe or argue that they are not only innocent, but a victim of a “dirty cop” and the accused wants to prove it. Due process, however, does not allow defendants direct access to police personnel records, both for privacy concerns and for concern that disclosure of such records may be irrelevant. Penal Code § 832.7(a) codifies these concerns by providing that peace officer personnel files are confidential and not subject to disclosure in a criminal or civil matter except by a motion and court order. Such a motion is called a Pitchess motion and it is made under Penal Code § 1043 and 1045. Pete Pitchess was the Los Angeles County Sheriff when the case Pitchess v. Superior Court (1974) 11 Cal.3d 531 was decided.
In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a similar issue in Brady v. Maryland at 373 U.S. 83. In Brady, the court stated the prosecution is required to disclose evidence that is a favorable and material to the defense.” Such material has become known as Brady material.
Since 1963, defendants have thus requested Brady material through Pitchess motions in California. When this request is made, the judge must first identify that material within the officer’s personnel record that must be disclosed. This must be performed by the judge and cannot be accomplished by the judge delegating this duty to another person. Once such material is identified, it can be produced for the defendant.
In November, 2012, the San Francisco Police Department were summoned to the home of Daryl Lee Johnson. He was arrested for felony domestic violence (Penal Code § 273.5) and one count of misdemeanor injuring a wireless communication device (Penal Code § 591.5), a cell phone of the victim. Two officers were involved in the arrest.
In most cases, defendant will claim a police officer acted with excessive force, destroyed evidence of coerced a confession (or all three) and will seek the officer’s personnel records to see if a citizen’s complaint for similar conduct was made. In Johnson’s case, however, police came to the prosecutor and advised that the police officers’ records were a big problem in the case.
The prosecutor wanted to look at the records, but believed Penal Code § 832.7(a) required a judge’s order before he or she could look at the records. The police also wanted this procedure to be followed to avoid a lawsuit from the officers for revealing the problems, which could involve a future civil rights action.
The prosecutor therefore filed a motion to get a judge to review the personnel records of the two officers and then determine if any of the records (“Brady material”) were subject to disclosure. The motion was served on Defendant and his counsel then filed a similar motion asking for the court to order the material be produced for him.
In response, the judge directed the San Francisco Police Department to give the prosecution access to the police records so it could produce it for the defendant. The ruling was significant in that it removed the judge from any role in reviewing the files first. Instead, this duty was passed over to the prosecutor.
The prosecutor appealed the order, arguing that under Penal Code § 832.7, the judge must perform a review of the records, not the prosecutor. The First Appellate District, in People v. Superior Court of San Francisco (Johnson) (2014 DJDAR 10683), agreed with the trial court, concluding that 832.7 does not create a barrier between the prosecution and its duties under Brady to provide the defense with officer personnel files.
We think this is a watershed ruling insofar as it removes the usual prosecution foot-dragging that is common when a defendant files a Pitchess motion. Often, the prosecution will apologize that it cannot produce any records until the judge performs his or her review of the files. Now, that delay-creating excuse is gone. It will be very interesting to see if two years from now the courts can document an increase in Pitchess motions.
Was There a Bad Cop on Your Case? What Is a Pitchess Motion? | 2019-04-19T02:22:54 | https://www.greghillassociates.com/getting-police-records-via-a-pitchess-motion-now-easier.html |
0.999898 | Alectrosaurus was an Asian Theropod dinosaur that is related to Tyrannosaurus rex. It was a carnivore (meat-eater), and lived in what is today the Gobi desert in Mongolia and China, during late Cretaceous period, between about 83 and 74 million years ago.
Alectrosaurus was probably a maximum of about 17 feet (5 meters) long, and probably weighed somewhere between ½ ton and 1 ton. A number of details of the creature are currently unclear, because only partial fossil specimens have so far been found. Additionally, some paleontologists have suggested that Alectrosaurus may actually be a species of Albertosaurus.
The first fossil specimen of Alectrosaurus was discovered by George Olsen in 1923. It was named by Charles W. Gilmore in 1933. Literally translated from the Greek, "Alectrosaurus" means "unmarried lizard" - Gilmore, chose "unmarried" in the sense of "being alone" - at the time Alectrosaurus was discovered, it was thought to be quite unlike other Asian dinosaurs - although part of the reason was this was that a number of fossil bones from an unrelated dinosaur were initially also thought to belong to the animal.
Asian Dinosaurs - Alectrosaurus lived in what is now the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia and China.
Alectrosaurus was a species of dinosaur.
"Alectrosaurus" means "unmarried lizard". Its name was chosen because when first found, it was very different from the carnivorous Asian dinosaurs then known.
Alectrosaurus was a member of the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") order of dinosaurs. What this means, is that although Alectrosaurus was not closely related to lizards, it did have similarly shaped pelvic bones.
Alectrosaurus was a Theropod - a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (although Alectrosaurus was not itself an ancestor of birds).
Alectrosaurus lived between about 83 million years ago and 74 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.
Alectrosaurus was a carnivore (meat-eater).
The first fossils of Alectrosaurus were discovered in 1923, and named in 1933. Since then, a number of other partial skeletons have been found.
Alectrosaurus was about 17 feet (5 meters) long.
Alectrosaurus probably weighed somewhere between ½ ton and 1 ton. | 2019-04-18T15:14:35 | http://dinosaurjungle.com/dinosaur_species_alectrosaurus.php |
0.99831 | A senior British official said Friday a package of both sanctions and diplomacy is needed to denuclearize North Korea and now is not the right time to have dialogue given the graveness of its threat.
Mark Field, minister for Asia and the Pacific at the U.K. Foreign Office, expressed skepticism toward emerging calls for talks in South Korea, the United States and other key stakeholder nations over Pyongyang's evolving nuclear and missile programs.
"We want to do both things together. Effective sanctions often do bring recalcitrant nations to come forward ... and have rational discussions about their activities going forward," Field told a group of reporters in Seoul.
Field said, however, now may not be the right time for talks with North Korea and the international community may need to adopt further U.N. Security Council resolutions to rein in the North.
"I recognize that we may have to go for further UNSC sanctions at some point in the future," the minister said, adding that the U.S. is "open-minded" about that path.
The minister is on a three-day visit to South Korea as part of his Asian trip. In Seoul, he met with Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam and plans to visit the Demilitarized Zone on Saturday before leaving the country.
"Formal negotiations at some point will be part of the solution but not necessarily now," Field said. "A mix of sanctions and broad diplomacy at some point, one hopes, will be able to get people to the negotiating table. (But) I don't think we are at that point at the moment."
Referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's staunch pursuit of nuclear weapons, he said "There's little doubt that he sees the nuclear issue as being his legacy ... to come out of the shadow of his father and grandfather."
That left China with less leverage over North Korea today than in the past, he said.
With North Korea's fifth nuclear test last year and recent missile launches, North Korea made "a step change" in its nuclear capacity, he added.
He hailed the BBC's plan to air broadcasts to North Korea from next month, saying it will help connect average people there with unbiased outside news.
"The more people in the North realize that they are being told an absolutely false story by their government about what's going on beyond the borders, one hopes that there will be more discontent about the regime and that is the part of the purpose," he said. "It will be interesting to see the impact to be had in the months and years ahead."
Also drawing on the U.K.'s official exit from the European Union in 2019, he said his country is discussing with South Korea to forge a bilateral trade agreement.
"One thing we are very keen to do is to start with a zero tariff regime, in other words, a tariff-free organization. I am very confident this will be a seamless process," Field said. | 2019-04-21T10:36:40 | http://www.koreapost.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=4616 |
0.998555 | Can a Muslim and a Christian pray together? This is an important question that one has to deal with in his or her mission of Christian/Muslim relations. In the pluralistic world, one cannot completely avoid any level of participation in the worship of the Other. The immediate danger that many Catholic theologians apprehend in such participation is the danger of syncretism. This question becomes theologically nuanced when it has to deal with Christians and Muslims praying together. This article suggests that it is not only possible that Christians and Muslims can pray to one God together, but also, that the aforesaid praying together is essential and should be encouraged.
Christians and Muslims should recognize that, first of all, they worship but one God. They address their prayers to one God in whom both Christians and Muslims place their faith and commit themselves to bend their own wills to the will of the one and the only God. Pope Paul VI affirmed that Muslims are true adorers of the one one God when he wrote: "Then to adorers of God, according to the conception of monotheism, the Muslim religion, especially, is deserving of our admiration for all that is true and good in its . . . worship of God" (Ecclesiam Suam 106).
Nevertheless, one should not forget the considerable differences between the Christian and Muslim confession of God's unity. The unity of God as a common element between Christians and Muslims needs to be approached carefully for, when Christians talk about God, they talk about one who, "is known and worshiped as Father, Son and Spirit." Muslims do not accept this Trinitarian understanding of God. Accordingly, the fundamental differences in their understanding of the Godhead should be recognized for the recognition of differences is an expression of mutual respect.
If one relativizes differences, then the significance of the concept of difference will be undervalued. However, differences do not do away with the meaning that one can experience in depth in the encountering of one another. Christians should be aware that Muslim prayer is directed towards the living God, and that the Islamic faith has raised, over the centuries, true worshipers of the one God. Christians must also realize that the God of Muslims is not an idol, not a creature, not a lofty idea, but the God in whom Christians also believe.
The faith of Christians and Muslims in one God, and prayer to that one God, allow for an encounter in faith, standing before God in a real way. This standing together helps Christians and Muslims in that it is God who is binding them together, and the encounter between them is God's gift. This encounter helps Christians and Muslims to live their profound differences in mutual respect. When Christians and Muslims seek to live their relationship with God in such a conscientious way, they are together with their differences, and, thus, they become brothers and sisters. Pope John Paul II stresses this in his address to Muslims in the Philippines when he told them: "I deliberately added you as brothers . . . [for] that is certainly what we are, . . . members of the same family, whose efforts, whether people realize it or not, tend toward God and the truth that comes from him. But we are especially brothers in God, who created us and whom we are trying to reach, in our own ways, through faith, prayer and worship, through the keeping of his law and through submission to his designs."
Every authentic prayer binds Christians and Muslims. Such prayer guides them toward living in peace. The spiritual efforts of Muslim brothers and sisters do not leave the hearts of their Christian brothers and sisters unmoved since they stand together before one God. Furthermore, every authentic prayer is under the influence of the Spirit of God who constantly intercedes for humanity (Romans 8:26-27). Christians and Muslims standing together and praying authentically according to their traditions are moving toward living together in peace. One should not hinder a Christian who is exploring with Muslims the togetherness in prayer. And, conversely, one should not impede a Muslim who is exploring this self-same togetherness in prayer with Christians. | 2019-04-24T20:15:30 | https://www.jesuit.org.uk/blog/can-muslim-and-christian-pray-together |
0.997074 | In last week's episode of Fringe, fans were treated to an incredible cliffhanger: the reappearance of William Bell, who seemingly died two years ago in the second-season finale. The twist marks a return to live-action television for legendary actor Leonard Nimoy, who came out of retirement to reprise his role as the Massive Dynamic founder in tonight’s season finale.
"I think Fringe is a wildly imaginative show. The writers and creators of the show, the producers -- very bright and very theatrical," Nimoy told a group of reporters this week, explaining what drew him back to the Fox drama. "All the characters are fleshed out wonderfully and the chemistry among the cast is terrific. I wanted to be part of this project, I enjoy the project. Of course, the character of William Bell started out rather ambivalent. We weren't sure whether we were supposed to enjoy him or be afraid of him. We couldn't quite figure out what his motivation was. At the end of last season, he seemed to come around to be less dangerous. This season, I think things have taken another turn. He's in another universe and has taken on other characteristics. There are challenges in the character itself that were attractive to me, that I could play aspects of a character that I haven't played in a long time, so it was very welcoming to me."
As for the specifics of his character, Nimoy said fans won't be disappointed with the finale. "You're going to see some interesting activities on the part of William Bell," he said, laughing. "His character has gotten himself out on a limb and is doing some very wonderfully theatrical and bizarre activities. He has become a load of his own. Take that as a hint."
The actor elaborated, describing Bell as "exotic." "Exotic is the best word I can come up with at the moment," Nimoy said. "He's got himself out on a limb and doing a very strange and fantastic thing with his powers. I think what you'll see [tonight] is probably the culmination of a lot of wonderful ideas coming together. I'm looking forward to seeing it myself. I haven't seen it in context, so I'm pretty excited to see what people are going to be experiencing."
In terms of character, Nimoy described Bell’s arc, as well as his own limited input.
"The William Bell journey has been really interesting to me,” he said. “I don't take any credit for it. I'm only the performer. I'm given the material on the printed page. They hand it to me in script form. We have conversations first about which way William Bell is going now and then it comes to me on the pages and I have been very grateful for having been given some wonderful, rich opportunities as an actor for the William Bell character. We started out very ambiguous, didn't know whether to trust him or not. Gradually, it was revealed that he could be helpful and reasonable kind of guy. Now, in this particular season, this particular show that's on tomorrow night, I think you'll see quite a dramatic shift in the character. There's another dimension of him. We have not yet spoken at all about another season. I know that the show has been picked up for 13 more episodes, but there's been no conversation yet about whether or not they want William Bell and if so, what will William Bell be about next season. What's on [tonight] I think is quite extraordinary."
Nimoy is of course best known as Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, a role he reprised for J.J. Abrams' 2009 franchise reboot. Although the actor didn’t explicitly reveal whether he’ll appear in the upcoming sequel, which recently wrapped filming, he said his inclusion is largely unnecessary.
"My feeling is that they don't need me. They've got a wonderful cast," he said. "Zachary Quinto has taken on the character of Spock, and I think it's wonderfully suited. He is a talented guy, he is a very intelligent actor, very well-trained. They've got a great company of people replacing all of us. I don't think they need me, frankly. It's flattering to be talked about, I just don't think they need me. I understand they have just finished shooting and they've got a wonderful actor, Mr. [Benedict] Cumberbatch, who has a great reputation in the U.K. and I think is going to build a reputation here in the United States very quickly. The Sherlock series he is famous for in the U.K. is coming to the United States, and I think he is going to be very quickly recognized as a major talent. He's in the movie. So, I think they're going to do just fine."
The actor also gave his thoughts on the similarities between the original Star Trek and Fringe, both of which were in similar positions when it came to ratings.
"[Star Trek] did very poorly in the ratings, but eventually the show started to become more and more popular until it became a news story where stations were carrying the show at various hours at various times and sometimes on marathons on weekends and six o'clock every night in syndication," he said. "The same thing could happen with Fringe. I could tell you that when Star Trek was put on a Friday night, which is a date night and not a good night for a show like this, it did very, very poorly. Fringe has the same kind of audience -- a very intense audience, a very small audience, but a very intense audience and very committed. I think it's commendable that the people at Fox decided to honor that commitment. I understand that the show does particularly well in recordings -- in DVR recordings. I don't know how that works or how they measure that but what that means is that people who are out on Friday nights record the show and watch it at other times. That's a sign of the commitment to the show."
Considering how well known Nimoy is for his portrayal of Mr. Spock, it’s no surprise he's been called upon to reprise it multiple times. On a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, Nimoy lent his iconic voice to a Spock action figure.
"The Big Bang series has been an ongoing conversation for a long time for a long, long time regarding an appearance," Nimoy said. "Some time ago, they asked me if I would provide a napkin that I had used and I did. They used it on the show as a gift for the Sheldon character, and it's become one of their most talked-about and most highly enjoyed shows of all time, I understand. They're a wonderfully talented bunch of people. It's a smart show and a show full of talent. They asked me to appear on the show and for various reasons, a physical appearance didn't work out, but they came up with the idea of a voicing of the Spock character with Sheldon being given a Star Trek transporter. The whole idea was wonderful and it was a way for me to deliver a kind of appearance on the show and to work with that very, very talented bunch of people."
In fact, the actor has taken on a number of voice-acting roles over the years, from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in The Pagemaster to Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. But the actor mentioned he had to work on his speech very early in his career.
"The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I did have speech problems when I first started out as an actor," he said. "I grew up in Boston, and when I began to think about acting, it was pointed out to me that I sound very much like a very clearly defined Boston person and it might limit me as an actor. So I spent some time working on my speech. The voice was always there but my speech needed some work in order to make it more acceptable as a -- sort of a broad, American kind of sound. It's been a blessing. I've had the opportunity to do voice work of all kinds. I did the In Search of series for seven years, which was almost entirely voice work. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it. I'm grateful for it."
Oddly enough, the actor actually announced his retirement from acting in 2010, but he admitted there are special situations that continue to draw him back into acting.
"I said a couple years ago that I was retiring and here I am talking about a performance that I just did," he said. "Certain special situations come along that intrigue me. This one did. As I said before, J.J. Abrams is a friend. Jeff Pinkner, Joel Wyman, they're all friends -- the producers of the show. I think the writing is wonderfully imaginative. It's a fascinating character and a great company. It's nice to get off the couch and throw the clothes on, a little make up and go back to work for a while. I still enjoy it. In this case, it's -- as I've said before -- all the elements coming together at the right time and the right place and I was happy to do it."
Nimoy also recalled a recent experience seeing the Space Shuttle Enterprise being flown around New York City, and how he felt about Star Trek's influence on space exploration.
"It was one of the most exciting things I've ever experienced," he said. "To see that 747 fly by with the Enterprise shuttle piggybacked the way they did. I was out there at JFK, they did their flyby at about 500 feet. They went around the city, they went around Manhattan, they landed right in front of us, and I was asked to get up and say a few words. I talked about the fact that we, the Star Trek company, had been invited to be there in 1976 when that shuttle was first rolled out of the hangar and the Air Force band played the theme from Star Trek. It was thrilling then, it was thrilling now to see that amazing ship come back home and it's going to be parked on the Intrepid in New York City as part of their permanent museum. I'm looking forward to being there to visit it there. The whole space program has given us an enormous lift as a people. It was President Kennedy who said we're going to send a man to the moon and bring him back safely and we did. I give so much credit to the scientists and engineers who make these wondrous things and I encourage young people to think about the sciences as a future for themselves."
In fact, Nimoy's entire career has been exciting for him, and the actor expressed how grateful he was to have had the opportunity to pursue and thrive in a job he loves.
"The journey that I've been on has been a very blessed journey," he said. "When I was 17, I started out in the hopes of making a living as an actor and I feel I have been blessed with the kind of opportunities I've been given. I've acted all over the United States, I've acted in countries all around the world, I've acted on stage as much as I've wanted to, a couple times on Broadway, toured several times in various productions in the United States and met all kinds of wonderful people in wonderful cities -- television, film, radio, commercials, I've had a taste of it all, I'm a very, very thankful person."
The season finale of Fringe, "Brave New World (Part 2)," airs tonight at 9 ET/PT on Fox. | 2019-04-19T03:24:10 | https://www.cbr.com/leonard-nimoy-on-his-return-to-wildly-imaginative-fringe/ |
0.99971 | Tilly's is an American retail clothing company that sells action sports-branded clothing, accessories, shoes, and equipment. Tilly's is headquartered and operated from Irvine, California. The company opened its first store in 1982 in Southern California. Tilly's stores are located in both traditional outdoor shopping centers and in shopping malls. The average store size is 7,900 square feet. Due to their size, Tilly's locations in malls usually take up two or three store spaces. As of May 2013, Tilly's has 182 stores across the US, with about half the stores in California. The company plans to expand to 500 stores in the future.
Tilly's primarily sells clothing, shoes, and accessories for various active lifestyles including lounging, surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding along with sports such as motorcross. Among the brands sold are Billabong, DC Shoes, Element, Fox, Famous Stars and Straps, Elwood, Globe Shoes, Hurley, Nixon, O'Neill, Quiksilver, Vans, and Volcom, as well as an extensive selection of Levi's. They also sell store brands such as Blue Crown, RsQ, and Micros.
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0.999981 | I’m a refugee from Iraq. This is my family’s story of struggle and strife in times of war.
A little girl in a Syrian refugee camp who has her arms stretched up in the air, surrendering to the camera which she had mistaken for a gun.
The tale, as far as I know it, started in 1979. It started with Saddam Hussein. It started with conflict, with war, with struggle, hostility, bloodshed. It started with death. My grandfather, then 25 years old, was in combat for six years. He was married and left behind six beautiful young children. I talked to him the other day about the Iranian Iraqi war and he had told me that he had fought in the defensive position and shot down Iranian fighter aircrafts to protect his base. He had told me that at some point during the war, the Iranian military had surrounded his base, and that for three days, they were left to starve. The soldiers had to resort to eating grass and drinking muddy water.
My father, then 25 years old, was granted the title of “brilliant.” He had just started a college education at the University of Mosul. He was studying to be an engineer. His whole life he had done just that. Education. Education. Education. Life, for my father, was almost heaven, almost. Can you guess what happens next? Yes. Military.
In 2003, another war broke out. This time with Americans. My grandfather and father, already fed up with the violence, worked to help the American soldiers instead of fighting in the war. My dad worked as an engineer and an architect and helped build structures for the American soldiers. My grandfather owned a restaurant and helped provide food. A year later, in 2004, my grandfather received an envelope in the mail. The contents of the envelope included a threat. Either pay a sum of money, be killed, or have one of your children killed. My grandfather, being the man he is, decided none.
And so, the adventure began. My family migrated to Syria, then to Kurdistan, then to Lebanon, and finally, to the Land of the Free. It’s been six years, and I remember Iraq as if I am still there. It smelled the way that children cry for their mothers, or perhaps fathers crying for their children.
I came to this country not knowing a single word of English, and not understanding a single ounce of the culture. I was placed in an English learning program, and my parents were told that I’d be in it for three years. I surpassed my peers and left after the first. My story is still so new, that I can trace it back to high school. I can trace it down to my freshman year English teacher, Mr. Brink. He was the man who motivated me to sign up for honors English when I was afraid that the curriculum was going to be too advanced for the English that I know. To this day, I’m still fearful of signing up for honors and AP classes, but I’m not afraid of the challenge.
I struggled. I still do. My current AP English teacher, Mrs. Allen, knows. I struggled in her class in the beginning of the year. If she hadn’t given me a chance I would’ve probably dropped this class. But my experiences, and the people who helped shape who I am as a person—everyone, from my teachers, to my friends, to my family—taught me that giving up is not an option. If my grandfather had given up, he would’ve suffered death. If my father gave up, he would’ve faced poverty. If they didn’t give up, even at times of dire struggle and war, I‘m not going to give up either, and neither will you. All of you. Your words speak daggers. The voices of your eyes are brighter than sunlight. Your thoughts are more extensive than all the seas that this world holds.
So today, I stand here as a child of the Earth. I stand here a refugee. I stand here a foreigner with the potential to change the world. And we, we stand here a generation of the future. So we need to stop dwelling on the past, and instead use it to shape our future.
The History of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell"
Where Did the Term "Hooah" Come From? | 2019-04-23T18:29:46 | https://serve.media/the-art-of-war-1 |
0.999106 | A thought/request for Riot for the LCS.
The music used during LCS is kinda of repetitive/non distinguishable for myself. What I was thinking is for each champion Riot releases they also release new music. To my knowledge after the next champion is released the music is unused. Why not use music released for the champions as the music used during the LCS, especially when so much of that music was unbelievably good. Diana's music immediately comes to mind as far as good music released.
TLDR: I think using the champion intro music would be awesome for the LCS instead of the non-distinguishable music used for the breaks.
EDM is much more likely to keep someone viewing the LCS stream, while if they were to play Diana's theme (for example) they would lose viewers during breaks. And they don't make the music for anything, Riot hires other people. Vi's theme was made by and Indie band, and sung by and unheard of cover artist. The LCS music is from MonstercatMedia, not from Riot.
My thought process was really in that they make the music for the champions then do nothing with it after the 3 week/month period. | 2019-04-22T22:55:32 | https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1ckcog/a_thoughtrequest_for_riot_for_the_lcs/ |
0.998459 | Make money doing what you do best!
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0.999132 | I have had much compassion for animals since I was a child. When I was growing up, my faith and values changed several times, but my love and compassion for animals never changed. Now I finally realize that animal protection is the really meaningful cause.
Below are my answers to some questions, and a rough description of my animal protection concept.
Why must we protect animals?
Like we human beings, animals have consciousness and feeling, and can experience suffering and happiness.
No one wants suffering, and neither do animals. This is the enough reason why we must protect animals.
Why do we not advocate "protecting plants"?
Plants do not have brain or nerve, so that they do not have any consciousness at all, including any suffering or happiness.
Therefore, in terms of morality, there is no need to protect plants.
Why do we not advocate "protecting mosquitoes"?
All vertebrate animals, including human beings, have advanced nervous systems, and have strong feeling and consciousness. However, most invertebrates, such as insects, only have very simple nervous systems, so that most invertebrates' feeling and consciousness are very weak.
We do not say "protect mosquitoes" or "protect mites", because their feeling and consciousness are very weak.
Why we must not kill animals, although animals keep killing each other?
Animals should not be condemned for killing others, because animals have low intelligence, and cannot understand that their behaviors bring suffering to other individuals. It is just as you cannot condemn a child who is three or four years old for killing someone, because it knows nothing; in fact, many animals have the same intelligence level as a child at that age does.
However, adults' intelligence level is high enough for them to know that their behaviors may bring suffering to other individuals. Under the circumstance of knowing that, doing such behaviors is an obvious atrocity.
Why do we not obey the natural law which lets the strong ones prey upon the weak ones?
The natural law that allows the strong ones to prey upon the weak ones runs counter to the human ethics. If not, there would be no need to protect the disadvantaged groups.
The weak ones should be protected. The laws of nature are brutal, but the human ethics are compassionate. We human beings must fight against the brutality and stop the killing, not perform the killing.
Why should we be concerned about animals, rather than people?
People live really well nowadays. Most of the so-call disadvantaged groups and poor people are just have rough or less good living conditions. In addition, the human societies keep offering helps and opportunities to those disadvantaged people; with the development of societies, the helps and opportunities keep increasing.
In comparison, animals’ situations make me feel sorrier – at least those poor people will not be mistreated or killed. However, there is not even any relevant law to punish the murderers who killed animals cruelly. Now there is nothing more urgent than protecting animals.
Moreover, there is a distinction of good and evil in humans, but animals are all innocent and lovely – just as children (many animals have the same intelligence as children do); every single child is lovely.
Nowadays the rich and powerful people, have strong power, but always squander the power and capital on luxurious lives and meaningless faiths. I will be the owner of power, and use the power to make the greatest contribution to animal protection.
Therefore, in terms of morality, there is no need to protect plants. there is a reason to protect plants, animals live in plants, plants provide oxygen, with out plants nothing lives.... and we do protect them.. national forests... game reserves... national parks... protected areas... but there needs to be more.
However, adults' intelligence level is high enough for them to know that their behaviors may bring suffering to other individuals. Under the circumstance of knowing that, doing such behaviors is an obvious atrocity. animals kill for a reason not because they are low intelligence. they kill to eat, they kill to protect. Simply they kill to survive.
People live really well nowadays. Most of the so-call disadvantaged groups and poor people are just have rough or less good living conditions. In addition, the human societies keep offering helps and opportunities to those disadvantaged people; with the development of societies, the helps and opportunities keep increasing. Not all humans are living in a good place, and have simple requirements met like a safe home and food and shelter and heat. People are suffering every day across the globe. I don't feel that this has anything to do with protecting animals.
So what are you going to do to protect animals?
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There are self-aware species other than humans that do know right from wrong.
First, to say that an orangutan, for example, has the intelligence of a 3 year old, is not the same as saying that its mental capabilities are the same as those of a 3 year old human. They are not. They are inferior in some areas, and even vastly superior in at least one! Vastly superior to an adult human, that is--great apes have spatial memory that leaves human college students in their dust.
Great apes have been caught waging war, bullying, enacting revenge, and killing for fun. That they are our closest relatives makes this really quite unsurprising, but for you to state that they don't know what they're doing is frankly wrong. They know exactly what they're doing, and they're doing it anyhow. Because they want to--just like a human.
So, should they be stopped?
Should an adult human who is intellectually disabled, but has murdered someone, be put on trial? Because that's actually what we are talking about here, isn't it?
Personally, I think you need to watch "The Secret Life Of Plants" before you decide what species on this earth deserve consideration of their lives and senses.
Life feeds on life, and we are a part of that--and there's nothing wrong with it. We're part of nature, not above it, not below it, and not apart from it. We come by all of our traits honestly, and none of them are unique to us.
I would be very surprised if the OP ever even visited this board again. Obviously they just registered to drop a little propaganda post and move on to another board. They are interested in preaching, not discourse.
To me, this discounts their entire line of argument. They don't have the intellectual capability to defend their positions, they just repeat things they've been told.
Arguing against protecting plants and invertebrates is just stupid IMO. It's what I've come to expect of animal right activists.
I'm a Catholic and as one, we are thought to be stewards of God's creation which means that we must protect and take care of everything that God has made.
That's open for broad interpretation, though--in eating cattle (which I believe is condoned perfectly well in the Bible, though I'm not Christian, so could not name a section), we protect and propagate them. That's their partnership with us--we guard them, ensure their breeding, feed them, everything--in return, they feed us milk and meat. Nature loves partnerships of this type, you see them everywhere, in both savage and benign forms. Without the wolves, Yellowstone and its animals suffered, as the elk overgrazed the landscape and overpopulated, leading to hardship for all of them...with the wolves, the landscape can recover and produce nutritious food for the elk again, and their numbers are more reasonable.
Humans aren't apart from this system, and never were.
Any animals in this world have a right so people should not treat them rudely. Once you have a pet you are responsible for its needs and care.
What? This is crazy! First off we should protect plants because its part of our ecosystem. Yes lets protect the bird but not where it sleeps or the things that help us all breathe.
As far as insects go...same thing. Yes lets protect those frogs, birds, and bats but lets kill off their food! Yeah! Fantastic!
Oh and the logic that they aren't like us (plants and insects) due to their neurological status, what do you propose we do with those special needs animals (including humans) that have numbed nerves and such?
Insects are in the animal kingdom by the way. Just throwing that out there.
Animals include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, worms, coral, spiders, sponges, and tunicates. It's a pretty diverse Kingdom. The arguments of AR people always fall to pieces when closely examined, though.
Yeah my eye twitches every time I hear someone say "we don't eat living things." I want to scream "stop eating anything then." I always get a good laugh when they aren't proper and say things like "we don't eat flesh/meat." Yeah...inside of a tomato/watermelon/just about anything...also called flesh/meat. Then of course that "meat is murder" argument. Placenta and 90% of eggs bought at the store...lol. I had someone say "well that egg and placenta have the potential to be..." yeah no it doesn't. It now has the potential to be eaten or rot and placenta already has. | 2019-04-21T09:05:10 | https://www.paw-talk.net/forums/f95/animal-protection-most-meaningful-cause-61340.html |
0.999542 | This article is an introduction to the significant questions for Jungians in relation to the racism in Jung’s writing and to the way post-Jungians have thought about this. It also outlines developments in Jungian theory that contribute to understanding the phenomenon of racism.
in what way is Jung’s thinking racist?
Like many European intellectuals of his time, including Freud, Jung was influenced by the work of many twentieth century anthropologists that made a distinction between so called ‘primitive’ and ‘civilised’ mentality. Although Jung’s overall approach was symbolic, his thinking becomes racist when he equates primitive states of mind (unconscious process) with so called ‘primitive’ people, seeing the psyches of black people as less developed and inferior to those of white people. This is a point made, with many illustrations from Jung’s writing, in a paper by the psychoanalytic group analyst, Farhad Dalal, called ‘The Racism of Jung’ (1988). The fact that Jung connects his comments on other cultures and ethnicities to the fundamental concepts of individuation and the collective unconscious gives rise to the question of whether it is enough for post-Jungians to position him in history as a man of his time, and to continue to use ideas such as the collective unconscious and individuation without a real questioning and examination of their possible racist roots.
Depth psychologies – such as analytical psychology and psychoanalysis – take account of unconscious processes in individuals and groups that arise from personal and social experiences. So, while many people strive to act and think in non-racist ways, depth psychology theories recognise that this is not simply achieved through conscious effort. For example, psychoanalytic theories of racism include the idea of internal racism as a universal psychic structure (Davids, 2011) and of colour coded structures in society being reflected in the structure of the psyche (Dalal, 1998; 2002). Notable post-Jungian theories include a linguistic investigation showing white supremacist thinking permeating Western psychological theory (Hillman, 1986), the idea of a multicultural imagination and cultural difference in the collective unconscious (Adams, 1996) and the idea of cultural complexes as factors in the creation and functioning of large groups, including those based on racial and ethnic difference (Singer & Kimbles, 2004; Kimbles, 2014). While psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic approaches can help with understanding that racism is not something easily eradicated through willful effort, other disciplines, such as group analytic thinking, sociology and discourse theory contribute ways of thinking about the economic and political factors behind the urge to power and privilege some groups of people over others (Dalal, 1998; 2002).
how have jungians been taking Jung’s racism seriously?
The American Jungian, Adams (1996) acknowledges Dalal’s paper and adds to the weight of evidence for racism in Jung’s thinking. On the question of whether the theory has racist roots, his approach is to develop, rather than dismiss, the idea of the collective unconscious by putting forward the idea of a multicultural imagination which recognises that images of collective experiences arise as much from cultural factors (stereotypes) as they do from archetypal factors. The British Jungian, Samuels (1993) acknowledges the convincing documentary evidence Dalal presents for the racism in Jung’s thinking, but argues that it is the idea of ‘nation’ rather than ‘race’ that engaged Jung. This, he says, led Jung to assume the role of a psychologist of nations, ‘thereby legitimizing ideas of innate, psychological differences between nations’ (ibid. p. 313) and failing to take account of economic, social, political and historic factors that might be at work. Samuels emphasises that, alongside problematic racial typography there is also value in Jung’s interest in difference and culture and ‘the seeds of a surprisingly modern and constructive attitude to race and ethnicity’ (ibid., p.309). Gross (2000) suggests that the project is not to rehabilitate Jung but to use Jungian concepts (particularly the shadow) to understand racism.
However, the concept of the shadow in analytical psychology is itself open to critique; at times Jung equates symbolic ideas of darkness and possession by powerful emotions with what he refers to as ‘primitive’ people, whom he sees as having a lower level of personality and lacking moral judgment. This is something that the American Jungian, Fanny Brewster (2017) discusses in her exploration of the relationship between analytical psychology and African Americans. While offering a powerful critique of the racist shadow in Jung’s thinking she also argues for the value of Jung’s ideas and the positive contribution that an Africanist perspective can make to Jungian psychology. Brewster (2013, 2017) also takes up the issue of the gap in Jung’s thinking in relation to archetypes and culture. In particular, she addresses the assumption that the collective unconscious is non-racial, critiquing Jung’s research method of using the dreams of 15 African Americans to establish the idea of universality. She argues that his research was flawed as he failed to take account of the personal or cultural associations of the dreamers or of his own European cultural bias.
Morgan (2002; 2007; 2008; 2014) has written of the implications of racism within the analytic relationship, in supervision and in training institutions. She suggests that racist thoughts are likely to arise in the clinical relationship from time to time, but these are often blocked or ignored due to shame, anxiety and fear. However, when such thoughts are allowed and elaborated they can illuminate the transference and the countertransference and bring a helpful perspective. If they occur in the mind of the white analyst and are denied, they may be projected into the patient or supervisee who has to then carry the split off part of the therapist. She argues that an important aspect of one’s development as an analyst requires a careful and honest attempt to surface and explore one’s own unconscious racist attitudes.
The concept of Cultural Complexes, developed by American Jungian analysts, Singer and Kimbles (2004), has relevance to thinking about racism. The idea of cultural complexes is a synthesis of Jung’s concept of the personal complex and Joseph Henderson’s idea of the cultural unconscious. The way in which a Cultural Complexes can operate at an individual and societal level is well illustrated in the interpretation of dream material by Singer with Kaplinsky (2010) where rigid societal divisions under the Apartheid regime in South Africa are seen to be reflected in the psyche of a white individual. For Kimbles, cultural complexes are a dynamic system of relations that engender important feelings of identity and belonging, operating both through a group’s expectations of itself and through its fears, enemies and attitudes towards other groups (2014). He has developed this idea by describing intergenerational transmission of cultural complexes through: ‘persuasive unconscious stories or phantom narratives’.(p.12) many of which have a cultural trauma at their heart. Slavery would be an example of this.
Kimbles writes as an African American and acknowledges that his development as an individual is intricately bound up with consciousness of the group to which he belongs and the attitude of other groups towards it, that is, whites towards blacks. He uses his own experience of racism to illustrate what he means by cultural complexes and phantom narratives, drawing on his dreams, experience of Jungian analytic training, and work as a group consultant and family therapist concerned with trans-generational processes.
The most recent example of Jungians taking Jung’s racism seriously is to be found in an open letter to the British Journal of Psychotherapy (Baird et al 2018). In this 35 Jungian analysts and academics (including Brewster, Morgan, Samuels, Singer, Kimbles) formally respond to Dalal (1988) and call on all involved in analytical psychology to critique and revision theories that harm people of colour; to apologise for actual harm and discrimination; to find new ways to keep analytical psychology engaged with communities and colleagues of colour.
Dalal’s challenge to the Jungian community concerned two main concepts which are central to Jungian theory, that of the archetypal structures of the Collective Unconscious and that of Individuation.
Again and again I encounter the mistaken notion that an archetype is determined in regard to its content, in other words that it is an unconscious idea (if such an expression be permissible). It is necessary to point out once more that archetypes are not determined as regards their content, but only as regards their form, and then only to a very limited degree. A primordial image is determined as to its content only when it has become conscious and is therefore filled out with the material of conscious experience.
The processes of the collective unconscious are concerned not only with the more or less personal relations of an individual to his family or to a wider social group, but with his relations to society and to the human community in general. The more general and impersonal the condition that releases the unconscious reaction, the more significant, bizarre, and overwhelming will be the compensatory manifestation. (Jung 1928/ 1966, para 278).
This passage is taken from an essay where Jung refers to instances of mental illness as extreme examples of such overwhelming compensation. Later in the same essay he expands on the idea of a less developed consciousness, equating it to the psychic functioning of so called ‘primitives’. It is in this area of theorising individuation that Jung’s thinking becomes racist: the potential for ego consciousness to be overwhelmed by unconscious ‘primitive’ functioning becomes a literal fear of ‘going black’. This is well illustrated by Adams (1996) in his reinterpretation of Jung’s experience of an n’goma (dance) during a 1925 visit to the Elgonyi of Central Africa. At the height of the dance Jung fears it will get dangerously out of hand so shouts and flourishes a whip in order to bring it to an end. Adams argues that Jung suffered a panic attack, equivalent to what Jung describes in another context as a ‘bush fear’ associated with the collective unconscious. For Adams, what happened ‘epitomizes the fear of the white European that to go black is to go primitive, to go instinctive, which is to go insane, which is to lose his ego – and, Jung says, to forfeit his authority.’ (p.76).
Dalal’s challenge is that ‘the theory of individuation is a theory of recapitulation’ (1988, p.16). The biological theory of recapitulation, now largely discredited in terms of psychology, is the idea that an individual representative of a more advanced species goes through developmental stages that represent the fully developed individual of the species at earlier stages in its evolutionary history. Dalal argues that while Jung is explicit about individuation as an evolution of consciousness within the lifetime of an individual, implicit in his theory is the idea that individuation is also historical, charting the development of the species’ emergence from what Jung saw as collectivity, where there is no developed sense of an individual with ego consciousness. The conclusion, according to Dalal, is that for Jung the white European is more evolved than the ‘black race’.
Many fundamental concepts within Jungian theory have been re-examined in the light of developments in thinking in different disciplines which has meant a revitalising of the theory in a helpful way. This account has focused on just one aspect of developing theory by outlining the ways in which Jung’s thinking can be seen as racist and showing how Jungian’s have responded to this. This has included the specific challenge made by Dalal that Jung’s ideas of the collective unconscious and individuation should be subject to a critical examination of their potentially racist roots. We recognise that there is a considerable time gap between Dalal’s 1988 paper and his work on racism and difference today. His original criticisms have been acknowledged and considered by a number of Jungian writers over the years but recent developments in disciplines such as neuroscience and in emergence theories that have led to a revisiting of some of the fundamental concepts have made it more possible to include a consideration of the racism in Jung’s writing within the general questioning and development of Jungian theory. The BJAA welcomes these challenges and supports a critical and evaluative view of Jung’s ideas as part of the ongoing development of post-Jungian thought.
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Dalal, F. (1998) Taking the Group Seriously: Towards a Post-Foulkesian Group Analytic Theory, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Dalal, F. (2002) Race, Colour and the Process of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Hove: Brunner Routledge.
Davids, F. (2011) Internal Racism: a psychoanalytic approach to race and difference. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Kimbles, S. (2014) Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Morgan, H. (2014) Between Fear and Blindness - the white therapist and the black patient. In Lowe, F. (Ed) Thinking Space. London: Karnac.
Samuels, A. (1993) The Political Psyche, London: Routledge.
Singer, T. and Kaplinsky, C. (2010) Cultural complexes in analysis. In Stein, M. (ed.) Jungian Psychoanalysis: working in the spirit of C.G. Jung, Chicago: Open Court.
Singer, T. and Kimbles, S. (2004) The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society, Hove: Routledge.
Jane Johnson is a psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst who works in private practice in Hampshire. She is a member of the British Jungian Analytic Association and a past director (2008-2017) of the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development (Birkbeck College and bpf). She gives seminars on Cultural Diversity, Racism and Difference for the bpf and for the BJAA clinical training.
Helen Morgan is a Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and is a training analyst and supervisor for the British Jungian Analytic Association. Her background is in therapeutic communities with adolescents and in adult mental health. She was chair of the British Association of Psychotherapists for four years from 2004 - 2008 and chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council from 2015-18. She has written and published a number of papers on the subject of racism in the analytic setting. | 2019-04-21T18:21:31 | http://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/insights/blog/jung-and-racism |
0.974078 | Back in 2009, Mosaic Records issued Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young With Count Basie (1936-1940) , a 4-CD boxed set covering four years. When the limited number of boxes pressed sold out, the Young cupboard was bare. Time passed, and now Mosaic has issued a much deeper and broader set of Young: Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie and Lester Young Studio Sessions, an 8-CD box covering nine years.
What's the difference? The official explanation is a bit of a muddle, which I won't bore you with here. In short, Mosaic decided to release double the Young thanks to an arrangement with Sony Music, which since 2009 has accumulated more classic labels. For the purpose of this box, think of the Lester Young studio catalog during this period as divided into two large blocks —the Basie years and the period featuring Young as a leader.
As a result, we have a box in which Count Basie and Lester Young are together in the first block (95 master sides and alternate takes), featuring Young as a leader or sideman. The balance are 78 sides that featured Young as small-group soloist.
This means we have all of the Count Basie Decca sessions (regardless of a solo by Lester), including Young's first recordings with Jones-Smith Incorporated; a Sammy Price session for Decca that includes Young; the Keynote label (the Lester Young Quartet and Kansas City Seven sessions); Commodore (the Kansas City Six sessions); Mercury (the 1946 Young-Cole-Rich session), and all the dates led by Young on Aladdin and Philo.
Of course, this box is by no means a complete studio discography of Young. Absent are sessions with Teddy Wilson for Brunswick (1937-38), sessions with Billie Holiday for Columbia (1937-41), sessions with Benny Goodman for RCA (1938-40), a session with Glenn Hardman for Columbia (1939) and the Savoy studio dates starting in 1944. Nevertheless, the new box finds Young riding the Basie rocket into orbit as a leader.
The question I'm asked most often these days by JazzWax readers is this: Is new box worth it if I already own the first one?" Here's my answer: It depends on what you already own and the jazz adventure you seek, since both boxes feature very different trails. The earlier box featured only Lester Young's solos with Basie, which was efficient and charming. If your mission was to hear the rise of Young in four compact years during the crest of the Swing Era, the earlier box did the job, though the period covered was brief at four years.
The new box is a different trip. Here, you have all the recordings by Young with Basie (including vocal dates) between 1936 and 1939, which in some ways merely serves as the appetizer for the majestic work to follow between '39 and '47. During this period, Young was featured in tighter groups where the sound of his saxophone and his radical new style were more clearly pronounced and left uninterrupted.
Swing as orchestral dance music began in the early 1930s with African-American bands led by Jimmie Lunceford (above), Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb and others. The music crossed over to the mainstream mid-decade thanks to the rise of network radio and exceptional white dance bands that appealed to young white audiences. Starting in '36, Count Basie was the most significant exponent of the Kansas City swing school, relying heavily on the blues and riffing sections of the orchestra, with songs often building to a raucous, explosive finale.
Basie's band featured many instrumental stars, but Young was the most unique and distinct of the bunch. To fully appreciate how radical Young's more relaxed and nimble attack was, you'd have to listen to other saxophonists of the era, who tended to play gruff and growly. Instead of using the tenor saxophone as a shovel to dig out a solo, Young preferred a more horizontal approach when improvising, coasting along with dexterity and a more laid-back, airy and lyrical approach. In this regard, he mirrored the breathy, pained sound of the female blues balladeer, particularly Billie Holiday.
So what we hear in the early part of this box is Young's emergence as a highly articulate soloist and blues storyteller, and Basie's evolution as a Kansas City exponent and competitive national dance band. In the second part of the box, we hear Young's breakout and evolution from smokey Basie flavoring to an eloquent superstar.
Personally, I most enjoyed starting with the later period and backing into the Basie material. This starting the Young adventure with the 1942 trio session with Nat King Cole on piano and Red Callender on bass. Among the fascinating sides recorded that day is Body and Soul, which lets you compare Young's approach with that of Coleman Hawkins, the saxophone's other titan.
Once I hit the end of Young's small group sides—the Lester Young and His Quartet session of Dec. 19, 1947, just before the start of the second musician's union recording ban of 1948, I shifted to the Basie material, which charts Young's rise. It's more fun this way, since you have a fuller understanding of what Young added to Basie's sound and popular excitement.
The careful listener of this box not only is treated to the rise of a new influential saxophone force but also the unintended feminization of jazz. Up until Young, soloist played hot and pushy. That was their appeal. Young advanced a take-your-time tenderness and sensitivity that prior jazz artists didn't seem to exhibit. Instead of an up-and-down vertical attack on the instrument, Young seems to be polishing the music, coasting along with long, airy strokes. What you realize with this box is that Young was streamlining jazz, providing aerodynamic curves that hadn't yet existed. There's joy in every side.
JazzWax tracks: You'll find Mosaic's Classic 1936-1947 Count Basie and Lester Young Studio Sessions here, available now for pre-order and available at the end of September. | 2019-04-22T08:10:59 | https://news.allaboutjazz.com/mosaic-lester-young-again.php |
0.998685 | US military extends and updates its "secret" prison at largest military hub in Afghanistan.
"The new prison wing cost some $60 million to build ... and is meant to be part of a new era of openness and transparency," Bays said.
"But we were not shown the detainees. Human-rights lawyers say that, while the environment for the prisoners may be changing, their legal situation is not ... not having been charged. Nor has any civilian lawyer ever been allowed inside."
Bays said the extended prison could hold up to 1,000 detainees, but was at present holding around 700 inmates, including 30 foreign prisoners.
Omar Dighayes, a former detainee at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay, said the Bagram prison resembled a concentration camp.
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"People were beaten, dragged, tortured in it. There were high places where guards stood with guns. It was a hard, difficult place," he told Al Jazeera.
But he said he doubts the newly refurbished Bagram prison will improve conditions for its detainees, one of which includes his brother-in-law, whom Dighayes says was recently "badly beaten" inside Bagram.
"I don't think it's the facilities which make the difference, it's the treatment of people inside.
"Everybody who worked in Bagram - from the American side - will tell you that the things I'm describing did happen. People from the military intelligence [and] people from the FBI have spoken about the barbaric treatment at this facility."
But General Mark Martins, who runs detention operations at the airbase, said the US military was improving its treatment of detainees and had learnt many lessons since occupying the country in 2001.
"Detention, if not done properly, can actually harm the effort. We are a learning organisation ... we believe transparency is certainly going to help the effort, and increase the credibility of the whole process," Martins said.
However, Clara Gutteridge, an investigator of secret prisons and renditions from the human rights organisation, Reprieve, said Bagram is seen as "Guantanamo's lesser-known evil twin".
"All this talk about transparency, and the US government still won't release a simple list of names of prisoners who are in Bagram," she told Al Jazeera.
"None of them have had access to a lawyer ... and that just seems very unfair.
"We at Reprieve see this as the next big fight after Guantanamo Bay.
"But one thing that the US government is saying is that Afghan prisoners in Afghanistan have less rights than any other prisoner which just seems absurd."
Bagram Air Field is the largest US military hub in Afghanistan and is home to about 24,000 military personnel and civilian contractors.
Tens of millions of dollars continue to be spent on expanding and upgrading facilities - turning Bagram into a town spread over about 5,000 acres.
The air field part of the complex is already handling 400 tonnes of cargo and 1,000 passengers daily, according to Air Force spokesman Captain David Faggard.
It is continuing to grow to keep up with the requirements of an escalating war and troop increases.
"Detention, if not done properly, can actually harm the effort"
Among new options being considered in Washington is regional commander General Stanley McChrystal's request to bring an additional 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.
But even with current troop levels - 65,000 US troops and about 40,000 from allied countries - Bagram already is bursting at the seams, our correspondent reported.
Plans are under way to build a new, $22m passenger terminal and a cargo yard costing $9m. To increase cargo capacity, a parking ramp supporting the world's largest aircraft is to be completed in early 2010.
Bagram was previously a major Soviet base during Moscow's 1979-89 occupation of Afghanistan, providing air support to Soviet and Afghan forces fighting the mujahidin.
Bagram lies in Parwan, a relatively quiet province. The Taliban is not believed to have a significant presence in the province.
But the base is susceptible to rocket and mortar attacks. In 2009, the Taliban launched more than a dozen attacks on the base, killing four and wounding at least 12, according to Colonel Mike Brady, a military spokesman. | 2019-04-22T06:37:58 | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2009/11/20091115114337109563.html |
0.999999 | 8. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?
In order to understand Twain’s novel, critics must compare its protagonist to Oedipus.
Twain’s novel contains some chapters that resist easy inclusion into a unified interpretation.
The unconventional structure of Huckleberry Finn indicates a lack of authorial awareness.
Twain’s novel was the first major American novel to discard traditional European structures.
The protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is considered a modern day Oedipus by critics.
9. Consider each of the following answer choices separately and select all that apply.
Which of the following can be inferred about the spread of ragweed pollen?
Ragweed plants adapted to desert and mountain climes tend to spread fewer grains of pollen than do plants in other locations.
Some attempts to control it may exacerbate the problem.
The clumping of pollen grains caused by high humidity levels affects the ability of the wind to carry the grains. | 2019-04-21T04:23:09 | https://www.examword.com/gre-exercise/verbal?stype=r |
0.998428 | The infield fly rule is to protect the offense, not the defense. If there is a pop fly at the edge of the grass and no fielder moves to catch it, it is not an infield fly. My problem with the application of the infield fly rule is with umpires who don't understand the purpose of the rule.
An infield fly MUST be a catchable ball.
It should be, but it may not be. The fair batted ball must simply be able to be caught, in the umpire's judgment, with normal effort by an infielder, pitcher or catcher.
I'm confused by your statement. To me, "catchable ball" and "be able to be caught" are the same thing.
An infield fly MUST be a pop fly, not a line drive.
"Pop fly" can be a subjective issue. There is no "height" requirement, just that it not be a line drive.
I am again confused. If it's not a pop fly and not a line drive, what is it?
An infield fly MUST land in the infield. If the ball lands in the outfield, it is not an infield fly.
I can see that it would be possible for a fly ball to land on the edge of the grass in the outfield and still be called an infield fly.
In your opinion, is the situation described an infield fly? | 2019-04-22T09:01:04 | http://discussfastpitch.com/members/mtr.423/ |
0.995686 | An astonishingly witless heist movie whose makers call it, with wild over-optimism, "Pulp Fiction meets Monty Python". A more truthful description would be "The Teletubbies perform Reservoir Dogs". How did John Hurt, Barbara Flynn, Claire Skinner and Rhys Ifans get involved with this dreck, apparently written and directed by a 12 year-old who saw the atrocious film of The Avengers, and decided to treat it as a role-model? Writer-director Andy Hurst is to be commended for his chutzpah in getting such an unfunny, ineptly constructed, vapid glorification of violence cast, made and distributed; but it is so painful to watch that many of the most hardened national critics were walking out of it in a state of shock, even before the first hour was up. Those of us who survived until the bitter end emerged either grim-faced or helpless with incredulous laughter. | 2019-04-18T10:48:14 | http://movie-film-review.com/devharsh.asp?act=2¶m=451 |
0.994893 | The company is trying to assert algorithmic control over the new frontier: the notification.
There is a likely vision for computing in the next decade that looks like this: One smart device in your pocket acts as the brain for an ever-evolving constellation of screens in your car and living room and on your face and wrist.
The phone—moving ever farther away from its name—rules everything around you.
Today, Google showed how it is building this future. The company is bringing Android, its mobile operating system, to televisions and cars.
"So, this isn't a new platform. That's kind of the point," Android's engineering director, Dave Burke, told an audience of programmers at the Google I/O conference. "We're simply giving TV the same level of attention as phones and tablets have traditionally enjoyed. We want you to be able to leverage your existing skills and investment in Android and extend them to TV."
What this means for an average person is that the people building apps for phones will soon be building apps for all kinds of stuff.
The design frameworks and types of interactions that you have on the device in your pocket are going to proliferate all around you. When you're in your car, Google wants the Android design language to sit in the dashboard. When you look at your watch: Android. When you turn on the TV: Android.
The spread of Android matters because operating systems are not a neutral way of accessing computing power. They structure all the interactions that we have with our phones. They change what applications are possible. They set standards for security and accessibility. They smuggle in a way of thinking about accessing information and communications.
If Android is to be the core of your own personal swarm of screens and robots, it means that all of the data Google knows about you will come to the interactions you have with the stuff around you. The profile you build up at your computer and on your tablet will now apply to your television watching and your commuting, seamlessly (as Google likes to say).
Sitting underneath all the interactions you have across these devices, Google's algorithms will be churning. The way Google thinks—its habits of data collection, analysis, and optimization—will become part of these experiences that have previously remained outside the company's reach.
Google recently purchased a slate of robotics companies, home-sensor maker Nest, and the surveillance-camera startup Dropcam. Many have read these moves as Google's push into physical space.
Well, the effort to put Android everywhere is the other pincer in Google's maneuver. The acquisitions focus on novel hardware devices, while the Android team attempts to make Googleyness ubiquitous on screens.
How might this shape the future?
Well, another announcement Google made in describing the upcoming version of Android was to talk about optimizing the notifications that show up on the lock screen of phones. As Wired's Mat Honan has noted, "Notifications are the new interface frontier." Notifications are one reason WhatsApp was able to make such rapid user gains: A message popping up from WhatsApp was functionally equivalent to a text or a Facebook message. If companies can get people to opt-in to their notifications, it is even better than being on the "homescreen" of the phone.
Which brings us back to Google's announcement that they will be determining "the most important" notifications to show you. Like Facebook's News Feed or Gmail's Priority Inbox, you'll see a selection of possible notifications, rather than all of them, when you glance at the phone. (A tap lets you see all of them.) That is to say, Google is asserting algorithmic control over the new interface frontier. And the software that determines what you see will be opaque to you.
This feature might work great, especially as more companies try to exploit notifications to grow their user bases. I, for one, could not survive my inbox without priority filtering, and few users of Facebook could manage a raw feed. But let's be clear: Google is almost always willing to trade user control for small increases in efficiency.
So get ready! That's what's coming to a car, television, wrist, or face near you. | 2019-04-20T22:45:24 | https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/why-it-matters-that-googles-android-is-coming-to-all-the-screens/373398/ |
0.999999 | Considering the input of non-negative integer values, sort these numbers according to the following criteria: First the even in ascending order followed by the odd in descending order.
The first line of input contains a positive integer number N (1 < N < 105). This is the number of following input lines. The next N lines contain, each one, a integer non-negative number.
Print all numbers according to the explanation presented above. Each number must be printed in one line as shown below. | 2019-04-23T06:48:15 | https://www.urionlinejudge.com.br/repository/UOJ_1259_en.html |
0.999999 | For each case, the first line of input is an integer n (n > 0) specifying the number of cases to follow. Each case consists of three lines of input, one for each weighing. Sally has identified each of the coins with the letters A--L. Information on a weighing will be given by two strings of letters and then one of the words ``up'', ``down'', or ``even''. The first string of letters will represent the coins on the left balance; the second string, the coins on the right balance. (Sally will always place the same number of coins on the right balance as on the left balance.) The word in the third position will tell whether the right side of the balance goes up, down, or remains even.
B is the counterfeit coin and it is light.
E is the counterfeit coin and it is heavy. | 2019-04-19T14:52:02 | http://tk.hustoj.com/problem.php?id=2081 |
0.999999 | TL;DR - In my Web API I was using one controller with multiple operations that had the same method names which generated invalid Swagger.
Here is how I found out what the issue was, how I fixed it and how I could use all my operation in Azure Logic Apps.
Last week I was working on an Azure Application Insights connector for Azure Logic Apps that enables you to write traces, custom events, simple metrics and sampled metrics to Azure Application Insights.
As you can see I have a controller per telemetry type: Events, Metrics and Traces where metrics has two operations.
This is because one can be used to track simple metric with just a value while the other uses a sampling approach where you can provide more granular information such as Min, Max, Sum, etc.
Unfortunately this didn't fix the problem. While trying to see what was going on I decided to change the order of the operations to see what the impact was in Azure Logic Apps.
As you can see, it now loads the simplified operation and thus it clearly is impacted by the order, somehow.
When I seperate the operations across controllers it also has an impact because then it successfully loads all operations.
Unfortunately, this is not a good fix. Personally I prefer to consolidate similar operations within the same context into one controller. That said, the issue here is clearly related to the Swagger that is being generated.
With the help of Jeff Holan, I found out that the Logic Apps editor uniquely identifies operations based on their OperationId, Path/Route & Method. This is probably the reason why I'm seeing the above behavior.
Unique string used to identify the operation. The id MUST be unique among all operations described in the API. Tools and libraries MAY use the operationId to uniquely identify an operation, therefore, it is recommended to follow common programming naming conventions.
This is clearly the issue since both operations have Metrics_Metric as an OperationId and are thus not unique. We can also see that it is a composite key of controller name and method name.
As an alternative you can use also decorate your methods with the SwaggerOperation attribute and provide the name of the operation yourself.
This is the solution I decided to go with as I find this a more explicit approach and even if I rename my method, the operation Id will remain the same.
It's been a very interesting ride to see how the Swagger is structured and how we should optimize our code to generate a valid and well-structured Swagger.
When the issue was fixed it made total sense that having the same method names was not the best fit. However, I'm more of a fan to decorate these methods with an additional attribute as I find this a more explicit approach that clearly states the name of the operation. The additional benefit is that when I rename my method, the operation Id will remain the same.
Next to that it is great to see how Azure Logic Apps supports Swagger nicely and how easy it is to write your own connector. You can even submit your custom connector so that they can publish it in the connector gallery. | 2019-04-26T04:02:52 | https://blog.tomkerkhove.be/2017/04/17/using-multiple-operations-in-one-controller-in-custom-api-app-azure-logic-apps/ |
0.998619 | Can you really enhance your beauty with yoga? The simple answer is yes you definitely can. The practice of yoga may greatly aid in helping you look more youthful and more radiant well into your old age proving that the old adage 'age is but a number' is true. Those who regularly practice yoga have a certain glow about them that comes from within and radiates outward.
However, it is vital to note that to enhance your beauty with yoga; you must follow strict guidelines that you should incorporate in your daily life. You have to discipline yourself, eat a healthy diet, practice yoga everyday, and learn to balance your physical and spiritual selves.
Regular yoga practice will not only aid you in achieving true inner beauty, but physical or outer beauty as well. It helps in losing excess weight and unwanted fat, all while improving your flexibility to maintain proper body posture also essential to making you look more youthful. As you know, detoxification is important to keep your body looking and feeling healthy and doing yoga asanas or postures will help in getting rid of toxins that have accumulated in your body. It will likewise aid in improving blood circulation to provide that radiant glow to your skin and hair.
You can also enhance your beauty with yoga because it aids in maximum absorption of nutrients since it is capable of aiding in absorbing nutrients at the cellular level. Because of this, all body organs will function at their best, which in turn will lend a healthier glow not only to your face, but to the whole body. In addition, practicing yoga regularly has been shown to considerably elevate your mood since it can greatly reduce stress levels, most especially when done with proper pranayamas or breathing exercises.
Below are some simple yoga asanas or postures you can incorporate with your pranayama yoga practice to get that youthful appearance.
To attain soft, smooth, radiant, and wrinkle free skin, start by standing straight and placing your feet hip width apart. Continue by using your palms for covering your face and breathing deeply and quickly 10 times. Continue breathing this way for 10 more counts while rubbing your whole face with your fingers, including the eye area. Rub from the chin going upwards to your forehead while continuing deep breathing.
For a fat-free and flatter stomach, begin by standing straight and placing your feet hip width apart. Continue bending slowly forward trying to reach your toes using your fingertips without your knees bending. Some may find this difficult to do at first, so continued practice is a must.
Once you get the hang of this asana, you can then move on and attempt to reach your right toe with your left hand and your left toe with the right hand, all while keeping your knees straight. When you've mastered the second step, you can then try bending deeper forward and touching the ground with both your palms without your knees bending.
To get that a curvier and slimmer waistline, begin by standing straight and placing your feet hip width apart. Next, spread your hands to the sides parallel to the floor and at shoulder level. Continue by turning the upper torso to your left side starting from your waist up and facing behind as much as you can without straining your neck. Do the same on your right side and repeat 10 more times. Next, do the same technique but with a jerk variation and repeat 20 times. After, put your hands on your waist, slowly bend forward down, and try to touch your thighs with your face. Do this 20 times.
Let's not forget about those thighs that seem intent on following the laws of gravity as you age. Begin by standing straight, spreading the hands parallel to the floor, and pointing forward. Next, bend the knees and assume a medium squat position with your spine straight and your thighs parallel to the floor. This yoga asana is like the 'horse trance' pose regularly practiced in martial arts. Do this for eight to ten times and as you gain more experience, try to hold the posture for at least three minutes.
With yoga practice, the saying 'you are what you eat' holds especially true since yoga practitioners believe that what you eat is a reflection of yourself, which will then manifest on your physical appearance. True yoga practice must be accompanied by proper diet to get the maximum benefits. You need to nurture your body with the right types of foods so that your mind and general well-being will be properly nourished as well.
In general, a healthy yoga diet must have the proper amount of essential vitamins, nutrients, and minerals needed by the body. Preferably, you should follow a vegetarian diet, perform fasting at least once a month for detoxification purposes, and eat everything moderation. Some of the preferred foods include whole wheat breads, cereals, fresh vegetables and fruits, pure fruit juice, milk, cheese, butter, legumes, seeds, nuts, sprouts, and herbal teas.
To sum up, you can enhance your beauty with yoga while keeping your physical, mental, and spiritual states in their optimum condition. When you practice yoga regularly and eat healthy, you will see and feel the effects in no time at all. | 2019-04-25T22:09:42 | https://www.lexiyoga.com/yoga-for-beauty |
0.999981 | J.Derrida says that he wrote four times around 'the Painting1 in La verite en peinture (The Truth in Painting). The titles of the four discourses in this book are TARERGON, '+R (par dessus le marche)', 'CARTOUCHES' (Cartridges), 'RESTITUTIONS -de la verite en pointure' (Restitutions-of the truth in size). The first thesis 'PARERGON' concerns Kant's Critique of the faculty of judgement, the second '+R (par dessus le marche)1 concerns Varerio Adam's exposition titled "Le voyage du dessin" (The voyage of sketch, 1975), the third 'CARTOUCHES'(Cartridges) concerns Gerard Titus-Carmel's exposition titled "The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin et les 61 premiers dessins qui s"ensuivirent"(The Pocket Size Tlingit Coffin and the succeeded 61 first sketches, 1978), and the fourth 'RESTITUTIONS concerns Heidegger's The Origin of Works of Art. Through them Derrida points out that 'the logic of PARERGON, or 'the logic of frame', is stronger than 'the logic of analysis', and that 'the logic of analysis' is always contaminated by 'the logic of PARERGON'. According 'the logic of PARERGON' a certain part includes the whole. And if aesthetics should not be a part of philosophy and should find not-presentative 'trace1 or 'rest', we must not think art in the traditional philosophical ways, so not in the traditional aesthetics ways, but in another way follwing 'the logic of PARERGON'.
Hayashi Shihei, Takayama Hikokuro and Gamo Kunpei were called the Three Eccentrics (Sankijin) of the Kansei era. They did not work under the feudal lord (daimyo), but, by wondering various places, deepened the thought of the ieal political system of Japan. Many people, spesially scholars of the Mito domein (now part of Ibaraki Prefecture), were influenced profoundly by them. Consequently, the Three Eccentrics of the Kansei era became precursors of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Hayashi who was a samurai of Sendai domein (now part of Miyagi Prefecture), went a several times to Edo to study, and contacted with scholars of Western learning. Later, making three trips to Nagasaki, he became convinced of the need to strengthen national defenses and immersed himself in the study of the geography and military science. Takayama who was born in Kozuke Province (now Gumma Prefecture), the son of a wealthy farmar, went to Edo to study and made several trips to the imperial capital of Kyoto to visit the residences of court nobles and royal personages and to persusade the legitemacy of the emperor's authority. Gamo who was born into a merchant family in the castle town of Utsunomiya (now in Tochigi Prefecture), visited frequently to the Mito domain (now part of Ibaraki Prefecture) and associated with members of the Mito school. These visits further inspired his interest in the true relations between sovereign and subject (taigi meiburi). He toured the country inspecting imperial tombs and found many of them in disrepair. First, this paper surveies activities of the Three Eccentrics of the Kansei era. Second, the historical role of their wonderings is discussed, concerning with the Meiji Restoratoin. Finally, their opinions for the education are considered.
A Babylonian epic, Enuma elish, whose chief purpose is to recount how the god Marduk became the head of the Babylonian pantheon, also describes how Marduk created the cosmos. Spriting the salt water goddess Tiamat into two, he used one half to form the heaven and the other to fashion the earth. This text then forcuses on how he created the heavenly bodies, the mountains and the springs, and the mankind. In this paper, we argue mainly how the cosmology of Enuma elish brought forth. First, we pay attention to the mother goddess Ninhursag and the water god Enki. As city-states appeared, Enki became the leading god of the Babylonian pantheon, who had the role of organizing the various features of the civilized world. Second, we discuss the atomospher god Enlil in Sumer who also created Heaven and Eath by devidindg "the mountain of cosmos". Its "mountain" correspods to Tiamat in Enuma elish. Additionlly, one of the interesting points is that the character of Tiamat stems from the fertility of the Tigris and the Euphrates and the chloridation of the land. Thi^ the relation between the Babylonian dynasty and Enuma elish is argued. We discuss there that the centralization of the political powers produced the systematic cosomology. It is noteworthy that Marduk and his cosmology were related to the origin and the order of the Babylonian dynasty, and the ziggurat, Mesopotamian temple tower, was a symbol of the Babylonian dynasty and its cosmography. Finally, we refer to Enuma elish's influence on the Jews and the Greeks. As to Old Testament, the creation of Heaven and Earth in Gensisl is thought to originate from the cosmology of Enuma elish. This cosmology was likely to be related to Greek science, also. The water goddess Tiamat may, for example, be connected with the water that Thales chose as his primordial stuff. And, the significance of studying Enuma elish in the present day is stated.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was greatly influenced by two types of art in the twentieth century, that is contemporary music and literature. Both of them attempted to depart from the art in the nineteenth century based on humanism. This movent in art and culture is called formalism, and at the same period the structuralism appeared in France. The first section of this paper (§1 Contemporary Music) examines the relation between music as formalism in the twentieth century and the philosophy of Michel Foucault. And the second (§2 Dream as Expression, Madness, Literature) concerns literature as formalism in the twentieth century. Throughout this paper we find that Foucault wanted to remind us that we have lived in the distance from the madness.
Blaue Blumen sind in Japan selten, wahrend sie in Deutschland haufig vorkommen. Was ist der Grund? Blaue Blumen sind in Japan deshalb selten, weil im Japanischen violette oder blauviolette Blumen nicht als "ao" , sondern als "murasaki" bezeichnet werden. Dagegen werden im Deutschen violette oder blauviolette Blumen oft als blau bezeichnet. Daher findet man in einem Japanischen Wb'rterbuch kaum Eintrage von blauen Blumen. Ich habe im gesamten Iwanami-kokugo-jiten nur 3 blaue Blumen ("shineraria" (Zinerarie), "rairakku" (Flieder), "wasurenagusa" (Vergissmeinnicht) gefunden, wahrend unter "murasaki" (violett/lila) mindestens 36 Blumen aufgezahlt werden. Dagegen findet man im Deutschen ziemlich viele Blumen, die als blau bezeichnet werden, einschlieBlich "Blauregen" (Wisteria floribunda, "fuji"), "blaue Luzerne" (Medicago sativa, "murasakiumagoyashi"), die im Japanischen nicht als blau gelten. Dieselbe zwischensprachliche Nichtubereinstimmung gilt auch fur die Farbe von Weintrauben. Entsprechend der deutschen Farbwelt macht man roten Wein aus blauen Weintrauben. "Blaue" Weintrauben werden aber im Japanischen nicht als blau, sondern als violett, violettschwarz oder schwarzviolett bezeichnet. Ein weiteres Beispiel fur die unterschiedliche Verteilung der Farbbereiche ist die Farbe des Rauchs. Im Deutschen ist Rauch, wenn er vor einem dunklen Hintergrund gesehen wird, blau. So sind Raucher z. B. "AnhangerInnen des blauen Dunstes". Vom Rauch werden nur kurzwellige Lichtstrahlen reflektiert. Die sehr kleinen, feinen Partikeln des Rauchs senden nur kurzwellige Strahlen zuriick, die anderen Strahlen lassen sie durch. Diese kurzwelligen Lichtstrahlen werden im Deutschen als blau bezeichnet. Kurzwellige Lichtstrahlen, die vom menschlichen Auge gesehen werden konnen, sind aber eigentlich nicht nur blau, sondern auch violett. Man denke an die Reihenfolge der Spektralfarben: Violett, Blau, Griin, Gelb, Orange, Rot. Im Japanischen werden fur die Farbe von Rauch sowohl "ao" als auch "murasaki" (blau und violett/lila) verwendet. In relativ umfangreichen japanischen Textsammlungen, die auf CD-ROM in elektronischer Form verfiigbar sind, findet man sowohl Belege fiir "aoi kemuri" als auch "murasaki no kemuri". In deutschen elektronischen Textsammlungen habe ich aber nur "blauen Dunst" oder "blauen Rauch" gefunden, keine Belege fiir violetten Rauch oder lila Dunst. Die Verschiedenheit der Farbbereiche von "blau" und "ao", die durch linguistische Untersuchung deutlich wurde, lasst sich auch in einem anderen Wissenschaftsbereich nachweisen. In den Lexika und in der Fachliteratur werden die Wellenlangenbereiche der Grundfarben angegeben. In der Zusammenstellung von Daten fur "ao" und "blau" ist die Verschiedenheit der Farbbereiche der beiden Worter deutlich erkennbar. [table] Die Daten der Tabelle zeigen den Unterschied zwischen dem Farbbereich von "ao" und dem von "blau". Der Wellenlangenbereich von "blau" beginnt bei alien vier Daten mit 440 nm. Lichtstrahlen von 440 nm werden dagegen nicht als Farbbereich von "ao" akzeptiert. Die Daten der vier japanischen Quellen fur "ao" sind relativ verschieden, wofur ich keine Erklarung habe, aber die untere Grenze von "ao" ist bei alien vier zumindest hoher als 440 nm (450 nm, 450 nm, 455 nm und 467 nm) . Ich fasse die wichtigen Punkte meiner Arbeit zusammen. "Blau" hat einen groBeren Farbbereich als "ao". "Violett" und "lila" sind im Deutschen keine gelaufigen Worter und "blau" kann deshalb auch diese beiden Worter ersetzen. "murasaki" wird im Japanischen z. B. bei Bliitenfarben moglicherweise mehr als notwendig verwendet. Als Arbeitsmittel, mit denen ich Belege systematisch gesucht habe , habe ich kein spezielles Textkorpus benutzt, sondem elektronische Textsammlungen und Worterbiicher, die uns erst seit einigen Jahren in breitem MaB zur Verfugung stehen.
Michael Ende sagt, >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< solle sich die Heilwirkung als Homeopathie auf Leser auswirken. Wenn die Giftigkeit eines Giftstoffes sehr entkraftet wird, hat sie nicht mehr die tbdliche Wirkung, sondern die Heilwirkung. Die Homeopathie ist die Heilkunst mit dem Arzneimittel, das aus dem entkrafteten Giftstoff hergestellt wird. Man sagt, es gebe keine Hoffnung in >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< Darin gibt es tatsachlich viele hoffnungslosen Geschichten. Die Hoffnungslosigkeit ist das todliche Gift. Wenn sich >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< als Homeopathie auf Leser auswirken kann, muss die Hoffnungslosigkeit in >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< so sehr entkraftet sein, dass sie sich nicht mehr todlich auswirken kann. Wie kann das geschaffen werden? Michael Ende hat das geschaffen, indem er hier und da in >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< die Geschichten aufstellt, die uns Lesern die Hoffnung machen. Die folgenden Geschichten sind es, die uns Lesern Hoffnung machen. 1. Die vierzehnte Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anfangt: Die Hochzeitsgaste waren tanzende Flammen, In >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< sind viele hoffnungslosen Geschichten zwischen Mann und Frau. Diese Hochzeit ist bei Gott ein grofiartiges Fest. Die Geschichte ist es, die uns Hoffnung macht. 2. Die achtundzwanzigste Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anfangt: Das Feuer wurde von neuem erb'ffnet. Die achtzehnte Geschichte erzahlt iiber den Ha8 und den Mordversuch. Auch die achtundzwanzigste Geschichte erzahlt am Anfang iiber den Diktator, der von gegen ihn revoltierten Leuten getotet worden ist. Als er gestorben ist, ging er bis zum Ursprung des Lebens zuriick und dort wird ihm ein neues Leben gegeben. Diese Geschichte erzahlt iiber die Palingenesis, an die M. Ende glaubt. 3. Die neunzehnte Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anfangt Dem jungen Arzt war gestattet warden,---. M. Ende denkt, der Mensch solle die geistige Freiheit haben. Der Mensch solle die Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz haben. Die Wirtschaftsleben solle durch die Menschenliebe gefiihrt werden. Die neunundzwanzigste Geschichte erzahlt liber den Menschen, dem die geistige Freiheit und die Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz geraubt worden sind. Die vierte Geschichte erzahlt iiber die bankrotte Wirtschaft, die nicht durch die Menschenliebe, sondern durch die grenzlos brennende Begiefde nach Geld gefiihrt worden ist. Aber die neunzehnte Geschichte erzahlt iiber die Freiheit, die Gleichheit und die Menschenliebe, die sich in einer russischen Gesellschaft ideal verwirklichen und koopelierend funkfionieren. 4. Die zweiundzwanzigste Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anf angt: Der Weltreisende beschloss, seine Wanderung durch die Gassen dieser Haf enstadt zu beenden. Die zehnte Geschichte erzahlt iiber den Menschen, der du genannt wurde. Du wohntest sicher in deiner Welt. Aber einmal geschah es, dass die Welt entzweiriB. Ein Spalt b'ffnete sich weiter und weiter. Deine Welt, in der du dich bis dahin sicher befand, fing an zusammenzubrechen. Du bist in den finsteren Abgrund des fremden Weltalls abgestiirzt. Du hast den Grund deines eigenen Daseins verloren. Der Weltreisende in der zweiundzwanzigsten Geschichte reiste durch die Welt, um den Schliissel zum Radsel seines eigenen Daseins auszufinden. Nichts dergleichen existierte. Als er ratios auf den schmutzigen Steinstufen saB, die zur Tiir eines hohen Hauses emporfiihrten, wurde er von einem asiatischen Madchen gebeten, seine unzulanglichen Dienste anzunehmen. Jede Halle dieses Hauses zeigte die verschiedenen Phasen der Welt. Der Weltreisende und das Madchen schritten schweigend nebeneinander dadurch jungfraulichen Kontinenten und morgendammernden Ozeanen entgegen. Dort wird er endlich den Schliissel zum Radsel seines eigenen Daseins erfahren. 5. Die vierundzwanzigste Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anf angt: Unter einem schwarzen Himmel liegt ein unbewohnbares Land. Die fiinfte Geschichte erzahlt liber einen Tanzer. Der Tanzer soil gleichzetig mit dem Aufheben des Vorhangs anfangen, sein Solo zu tanzen. Er steht auf der Biihne hinter dem geschlossen Vorhang und erwartet den Beginn. Aber der Vorhang will auf ewig nicht aufgehen. Aus seiner Erwartung wird Arger. Aus seinem Arger Hoffnunglosigkeit. Und er hat alle Schritte und Spriinge vergessen, weil da ihm sein Tanz nichts mehr bedeutete. Trozdem soil er auf der Biihne hinter dem schwarzen Tuch vor sich stehenbleiben. Ein Kind in der vierundzwanzigsten Geschichte geht in die Bude mitten im Jahrmarkt einer toten Stadt. Durch seine sich vorstellende Kraft gelingt es ihm, eine Person zu verkorpern. Plotzlich fangt der Vorhang an aufzugehen. An die Rampe tritt der Pagad, ein Magier, und nimmt seinen Hut ab und verbeugt sich tief. Am Anfang heiBt er Ende. D.h. am Anfang ist das Ende. Ende nennt das Kind Michael. Michael und Ende, d.h. Michael Ende, verlassen die Bude und die tote Stadt, und sie gehen eine neue Welt suchen, wo beide wohnen konnen, sich gegenseitig an der Hand haltend. 6. Die elfte Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anfangt: Das Innere eines Gesichts, mit geschlossenen Augen, sonst nichts. Dunkelheit. Leere. Heimkehren. Heimkehren wohin? Die zwolfte Geschichte erzahlt liber die Briicke, die von den steilen Klippen unserer Landesgrenze liber die bodenlose Abgrund hinausragt. Die Briicke wird niemals fertig werden. Viele von uns bezweifeln sogar, dass es liberhaupt eine gegeniiberliegende Seite gibt. Nietsche hat gesagt, Gott sei gestorben. Gott war das geistliche Zuhause, die geistliche Heimat, fur die europaischen Menschen. Aber viele Europaischen heute haben das geistliche Zuhause verloren. Die elfte Geschichte erzahlt liber den Menschen, der das Zuhause verleugnet und in Stich gelassen hatte. Er war ein gefiirchteter Engeltoter. Jetzt hat er aber seine Heimkehr begonnen. Er ging liber die Briicke zu seinem Haus, das er verleugnet hatte. Nun tagt es. Von dem immer leuchtenderen Himmel her lost sich, in alien Kalibrifarben ergranzend, das erste schlagende Schwingenpaar. Jetzt ist der Engel auferstanden, den er getotet hatte. 7. Die siebte Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anfangt: Der Zeuge gibt an, er habe sich auf einer nachtlichen Wiese befunden, Die achte Geschichte erzahlt liber eine Verhandlung in einem Gerichtssaal. Die bis jetzt noch namenlose Person bittet um die Genehmigung, sich verkb'rpern zu diirfen. Aber die gebetene Genehmigung wird abgewiesen. Die Abtreibung wird vorgenommen. Die Menschen sind die Schuldigen. Der Zeuge in der siebte Geschichte gibt an: Auf der nachtlichen Wiese habe das grausame Gemetzel begonnen. Das groBe Feld sei von Leibern bedeckt worden. Im Sausen des Windes habe er eine qualvoll gepreBte Stimme vernommen, etwa wie ((Sent! Sent!)) Darauf habe er zum Himmel aufgeblickt und eine mensehliche Gestalt in gekreuzigter Haltung sei in der Dunkelheit iiber dem Feld gehangt worden. Die Gestalt in gekreuzigter Haltung mag einen Heiland andeuten. 8. Die sechsundzwanzigste Geschichte, die mit dem Wort anf angt: Im Klassenzimmer regnete es unaufhorlich. Im Klassenzimmer sind sechs Schiiler und ein Knabe. Der Knabe liegt regies wie aufgebahrt auf dem hohen Katheder. Sie sind alle die Personen, die sich schon irgendwo in >Der Spiegel im Spiegel Ein Labyrinth< haben sehen lassen. Die Klassenzimmer hat keine Tur. Sie sind darin geschlossen. D. h. das Klassenzimmer ist ><Der Spiegel im Spiegel Ein Labyrinths Sie warten auf einen Lehrer, aber der Lehrer kornmt nicht. Da steht der Knabe auf und schlagt vor, sie sollten versuchen hier herauszukommen. Er sagt, sie brauchten nur traumzuwandern, um hier herauszukommen. Um hier herauszukommen, brauchten sie nur ein Theaterstuck zusammen aufzufuhren. Es gelingt ihnen, aus dem Klassenzimmer, dem Labyrinth, herauszukommen. M. Ende hat dem Labyrinth einen Ausgang gegeben. Irgend wo und wann, wenn man will, kann man dem Labyrinth, der hofmungslosen Welt voll von Qual, entkommen. Wie schon oben gesehen, in >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< gibt es nicht nur viele hoffnungslosen Geschichten, sondern auch die Geschichten, die uns Lesern Hoffnung und Mut machen. Es hangt aber von dem Leser selbst ab, ob sich >Der Spiegel im Spiegel< als Homeopathie auf ihn auswirken kann. Um die Heilkraft von diesen Geschichten am meisten zu bekommen, soil man dieses Buch immer wieder durchlesen. | 2019-04-24T04:28:58 | http://altmetrics.ceek.jp/article/jtitle/%E4%BA%BA%E6%96%87%E8%AB%96%E9%9B%86 |
0.999619 | Responding to a call by President Obama last year, the U.S. Department of Labor this week issued a proposal to update the regulations governing which employees qualify for the “white collar” exemptions to federal minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. Currently those exemptions – for executive, administrative and professional employees – require the workers to meet job duties-related tests and receive a salary of at least $455 per week, or $23,660 annually. Certain computer and outside sales employees are also exempted.
The proposed regulations would increase the salary threshold for the “white collar” exemptions to a projected level in 2016 of $970 per week, or $50,440 annually. Many expected the DOL’s proposal also to include a change to the duties element of the white collar exemptions, possibly moving from a “primary duty” test to a quantitative standard that required a minimum percentage of an employee’s time be spent on exempt tasks. While the DOL’s proposal invites input on that issue, it does not include a specific change to that component. Time will tell whether that issue re-emerges.
Following a comment period, the DOL will publish final regulations, and then (absent a successful legislative or legal challenge) the new rules are likely to become effective in early 2016. What is the practical effect of this change? Many employees who are currently classified as exempt from overtime pay will no longer qualify at their current salary levels. The DOL estimates that 4.6 million workers would, without some intervening action by their employers, become newly entitled to overtime pay for working more than 40 hours in a week. One study placed the price tag of this change on restaurants and retailers alone, assuming they did nothing to mitigate its effects, at $9.5 billion per year.
Coordinate with industry associations, legislators and lobbyists on recommended steps in response to the proposed regulations. Employers have a right to send letters to the DOL during the 60-day comment period.
Seek guidance from experienced wage-and-hour counsel, not only to navigate the complexities, but also to shield the internal analysis under the attorney-client privilege.
Determine which employees in the organization currently classified as exempt would not meet the proposed salary thresholds.
Consider whether to increase the salaries of the exempt population to the higher floor, and analyze how such a move would affect the bottom-line.
Evaluate the possible need to re-classify workers to non-exempt status, entitling them to overtime pay.
Analyze options for minimizing increased labor costs. These may include configuring the hourly rate, bonuses and anticipated overtime pay, such that the total compensation package of re-classified employees is approximately the same as when they were salaried, exempt employees. Other options to avoid or reduce overtime liability may include reducing the scheduled hours of these workers, hiring additional personnel to spread out hours, or transferring certain tasks up the chain to exempt employees.
Identify the effect that re-classification will have on the employees’ eligibility for benefits (as often there are certain benefits available only to exempt employees).
Develop a strategy for communicating with the workforce. Employees who will be re-classified as non-exempt may view the change as a demotion or a loss of managerial prestige. Consider using a fluctuating work week program for newly non-exempt employees (paying a fixed salary, tracking hours worked, and paying a half-time overtime premium), so that workers continue to deem themselves “salaried” employees.
Prepare for the increased administrative burdens associated with newly re-classified non-exempt workers, and the need to train them on filling out timekeeping records, complying with break requirements, and restricting their after-hours work (including, for instance, engaging in business-related emails from their laptops, home computers or smartphones).
Be aware that the widespread reporting about these new rules may cause employees to pay more attention to their compensation structure. Monitor and address areas of vulnerability. If there are existing risks with current job classifications, consider addressing them now and using the proposed rule changes as an explanation.
This blog post was drafted by Frank Neuner, an attorney at Spencer Fane. For more information, visit spencerfane.com. | 2019-04-21T00:19:32 | https://www.spencerfane.com/publication/white-collars-may-turn-blue-prepare-for-new-rules-on-overtime-eligibility/ |
0.996573 | Am I a good father? What kind of man am I? I imagined how someone might grade me on a variety of categories as a way of reflecting about the meanings of "man" and "father."
In the big picture of parenting, I judge him as above average. He gives his kids room to grow but is happy to nurture and comfort them. He works hard to be very involved in all phases of his kids' lives. He volunteers as an assistant coach for his 5-year-old's t-ball team. He puts a lot of emphasis on making his kids laugh, having fun with them, playing with them, meeting their immediate needs, and coordinates everything with his wife. This is a report card of him, but for context it must be said that all major decisions are shared with his wife. They are a team. They are good at many of the same things, and bad at many of the same things. As I write this summary, it occurs to me that "above average" is a strange way to rate a person as a father or man. Who gets to decide what constitutes a good parent or good person? Who sets the baseline? What is below average and what would it look like? What's with all the rhetorical questions? Maybe it's time to pull back on our assumptions about concepts like "father" and "man." Truth be told, I don't think there is one set of things a man should do and a different set of things that a woman should do. Honestly, I don't see it that way. I guess I want to say that people do the best they can in this life. We should pay more attention to the things people do well. The best gift we can give people is to cast aside our stereotypical expectations.
18 ppl injured in Mother's Day shooting in New Orleans. Little converge. Is this cause media expect this? Ppl from these communities DON'T!
Do you know who Jason Richwine is? If not, read Diego von Vacano's op-ed. For more on Richwine, go to Hector Cordero-Guzman's Twitter (@HCorderoGuzman) and scroll through his tweets from the past eight days or so.
Onto a different topic. There's plenty of reasons to dislike Abercrombie and Fitch. The list is growing. Click on link in the following tweet to see what I mean.
You couldn't pay me to do grad school over again.
It's hard to keep up with the constant flow of information these days. There's so much to read to keep informed, so much material that can be used for teaching. There's an endless supply of information available to sharpen our sociological perspectives. These are just a handful of recent tweets by people I follow that provide a glimpse into what I've been reading and watching lately.
The class based bias that rests just below the surface of most respectable conversation is astounding.
A few years ago I wrote about Ayla, a student I met in Introduction to Sociology. I was happy to see Ayla graduate from Niagara University yesterday. It was great to watch her walk across the stage and become a college graduate. Bravo! | 2019-04-18T13:09:33 | http://creativesociology.blogspot.com/2013/05/ |
0.999984 | I have a good number of Atari 1040ST disk (3.5" floppies) that I would like to image to have a backup. And at some point to re-image disks back in case originals break.
So far I've tried WinImage from Windows and it reports "No disk in drive" even though the disk is read just fine by my Atari. I successfully used WinImage to make backups of most of my old DOS games so I know it works fine.
I then thought I should use dd in Linux. That reports "Input/Output Error" and does not read anything.
This makes me think the disks are formatted in such a way that the PC's floppy drive cannot read them. Is that true?
What are my options for making backups? Those disks are not going to last forever.
No--1040ST disks should be readable on an ordinary PC. Are you perhaps trying to use HD floppies in an HD drive without covering over the density indicator hole. 1040ST, unless the machine has been modified, are 2D, not HD, so you need to cover that hole so they look like 720K floppies.
...Also, try them on a PC using IMD.
and I am trying it now. It produces .ST files and not .IMG (which is what I want for archival purposes).
This also explains some of the more troublesome alternate formats that were used on the ST but don't do as well on PC floppy drives.
The wall I am hitting now is that fdrawcmd which both imagers use requires Windows 2000 (or newer) and a real floppy drive not USB. The machines that I have that contain real floppy drives are either Win 95 or Win 98. In newer machines I only have USB drives. I assume this software was written around 2000-2002 when people still have real floppy drives in Win2K machines.
Either way I am annoyed that dd does not work. The hole on the disk is clearly covered to indicate a NOT 2HD disk yet no PC floppy I've tried (real or USB) in either Linux, Win95 or Win10 can see it.
One other thing I can try is to force the floppy drive type from BIOS to something lower than 1.44Mb, say 720Kb and then use Linux or Win95 to try to image it again.
Maybe you can try one of the other disk imagers from http://www.atari-wiki.com/?title=Disk-Imagers A DOS imager might work better.
720kB Atari ST disks should be readable even from USB drive if the USB drive supports 720kB disks; the Atari oversized FAT shouldn't be a problem. You will need an internal drive for the 10 sector track (800 kB) formats. 11 sector tracks and some of the exotic formats with non-512 byte sectors are not easily read with PC floppy drives.
If the Atari has more than one floppy drive and the disks are not copy-protected, format some blank 720K disks on your PC, and then use the Atari to make copies of the original disks onto those new disks. When the Atari formats a disk it writes the FAT in a slightly different way that may cause compatibility problems when attempting to read the disk on a PC. But if you format the disk on a PC first, you can write data to it using the Atari and then read it on a PC without any problems.
Thank you all. Using the website that krebizfan provided I managed to make .ST images using makedisk and then write them out to another floppy using stdisk. For this particular one I was trying first (King's Quest III) I believe I hit the copy protection as the image (in STEEM) as well as the new disk (in the actual 1040ST) I created wants me to insert disk 1 (I assume that is due to the copy protection kicking in).
However I am satisfied for now, as I can backup all my programs and data. Thank you all again, could not have done it without your help!
That is interesting, I read their page a bit. Thank you for mentioning it, I did not know about it.
No, it's not only because the software is old. It is because these programs are directly programming the registers of the PC-Floppycontroller. In USB drives there is no such compatible controller. USB drives behaves like SCSI devices, they don't know track sector side if the Windows OS is accessing them, instead they have blocks (sektors) to access. The translating into track, side, head is done by the USB drive internally. That means, these drives only support standard format, 720 kbB, 1,44 MB, no other as their firmware doesn't have support for such formats. Some newer USB floppys even don't support 720 kB format anymore.
You can use floimg on Windows 2000 to 10 (32-Bit Windows), you can use makedisk for MS-DOS, or you can use JayMSA on ST, but then you need possibility to transfer the disk image to PC, like SD-card hardidisk replacement, network solution (netusbee) with FTP client/server or ParCP-USB. All of these work fine in their environement.
I mainly use a IBM Thinkpad A31p for which I have Ultrabay 2000 floppy drive, docking station and floppy which can be connected to the docking under Windows XP. Also with Thinkpad R51/52 with dockingstation + drive that works, or you use Thinkpad A2x which stiull has fixed internal floppy drive. I also use makedisk on a TA Walkstation 386 and then transfer via parcp-usb to modern machine, or STacy with JayMSA and again parcp-usb.
720K ST floppies are pretty darned close to MS-DOS floppies. In fact, there are several freeware program to replace the boot sector with a DOS-compatible one, so that the floppies can be read both on Windows/DOS and the ST.
This incompatiblity was fixed in TOS 1.04. And alternatve format utilities for ST even avoid this issue even on TOS 1.00. But anyhow, if you have an ST disk with 10 or 11 sectors, more than 80 tracks, these USB floppys will fail. I checked that already with several ones.
Sure, and I've heard of people running certain (-2) WD1770 FDC at 500KHz bit rates to get high-density floppy support. But a 10-sector 3.5" ST floppy is an 800K one, not 720K.
800 kb formated disk is still the same data rate (8 MHz) as 720 kb formated. It's only software, shorter gaps between the sectors, more compact sector headers. This is well described in the "Scheibenkleister" book.
Read the bit about USB floppy drives just before my post. Formats in USB commodity floppies are fixed at 9/512 and 18/512 (and sometimes 8/1024 (PC98 format). If you have a tenth or eleventh sector on a track in DD, you're not going to see it with a commodity USB drive. You need a legacy drive for that.
I wasn't talking about the FDC clock--that can be any multiple of the cell frequency. Normal HD floppies have a 2 usec. cell time or 500KHz. I've got FDCs here (e.g. Intel 82078) that use a 48MHz clock.
I don't tell anything different. And that's one reason why floimg (and other tools like that) can't support USB FDD.
Blitz Cable is ok, but you need to have ST and ressource to transfer the image to PC if you like to store it relyable (or even share over internet). The other choice would be Kyroflux, USB based floppy controller to raw access all kinds and sizes of shugart bus based floppy drives. http://www.kryoflux.com/. | 2019-04-20T04:41:50 | http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-50826.html?s=fa5f245907db45585a0e65a6bd8899dc |
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0.999987 | Knowing Humans: Immigration reform hostage to welfare reform?
Immigration reform hostage to welfare reform?
Knapp is right to lampoon libertarians who are so economically illiterate as to worry that America's current level of legal and illegal immigration is causing either 1) net negative economic impact or 2) a burden on the welfare system that is anything more than noise next to middle-class entitlements. However, Knapp is wrong to lump me in with libertarians who worry that America's welfare state is the primary obstacle to open borders. He should know from our discussion last year that I consider the primary obstacle to opening immigration is not the policies inside the border, but rather the policies outside it.
While most anarchopuritarians' policy prescriptions are unrealistically utopian merely about America, their stance on open borders is unrealistically utopian about the whole world. That's utopianism squared. Open borders between America and the rest of the world will only be feasible when the differences between America and the world are as small as, say, the differences between America and Canada, or between Alabama and Florida.
Libertarians just aren't thinking clearly when they condition open borders on replacing the welfare state with private charity. If hordes of poor immigrants would cause an intolerable expense for public charity, then they would cause a similar expense for private charity. To the extent that private charity doesn't replace public, it will result in massive downward pressure on unskilled wages and levels of mass squalor unseen outside the Third World.
Technology will continue to drive the costs (in money as well as social disconnection) of emigration dramatically lower.
Polities with significantly more economic liberty will continue to grow dramatically more prosperous than other polities, increasing their attractiveness as immigration destinations.
People living in such prosperous polities are reasonable to expect something better than the subsistence labor markets and ubiquitous squalor typical of economically unfree nations.
Charity (whether public or private) can and should maintain America’s current effective minimum living standards (which are extravagant by global standards).
Immigration of peaceful honest people should be unrestricted.
Even if one doesn't believe that current or prospective technological and demographic conditions don't combine with global disparities in economic freedom to make opening America's borders infeasible, it surely is not tenable to claim as a matter of political philosophy that a liberty-loving human polity should under all conceivable circumstances always allow unrestricted economic immigration. The concept of a "border" in these discussions is a demarcation between regions with different policies. It's just not intellectually credible to maintain that conditions and policies on opposite sides of a border could never vary so widely as to make unrestricted immigration infeasible. If your political theory nevertheless insists that unrestricted economic immigration is always a fundamental human right, then your theory is just plain broken. | 2019-04-19T21:04:36 | http://blog.knowinghumans.net/2007/06/immigration-reform-hostage-to-welfare.html |
0.999947 | Guernsey voters are set to elect politicians from an entire island constituency, rather than by the current district system.
More than half of voters backed the change in the island's first ever referendum, which saw a 45% turnout.
Option A - one island-wide district - won with 6,017 votes, representing 52% of the final count.
It means all 38 Guernsey deputies will be elected in a single vote on the same day, every four years, from June 2020.
More stories from Guernsey and the referendum latest.
Option A campaigner Deputy Carl Meerveld said he was "ecstatic and relieved."
"I think it changes everything," he said.
"It'll change the nature of the debate. It'll change the characteristics of the people who stand and who are successful.
"Instead of having a popularity contest at a parish or district level we'll end up with a policy debate at an island level."
Deputy Meerveld added he hoped the move would encourage party politics.
Five options ranged from the current district-based system to the formation of a single Guernsey-wide constituency.
Politicians backed the referendum in 2016, a move which required the creation of a referendum law.
Voters went to the polls on Wednesday 10 October, with the result announced about 18 hours after voting ended.
The alternative voting system meant least favoured options were knocked out, before two remained.
In the final count Option A beat Option C, a combination of district and island-wide voting.
The island's parliament had agreed to adopt the outcome of the referendum if 40% of people on the electoral roll cast their ballot, a threshold confirmed earlier today.
Chief counting officer Jurat David Robilliard said 14,370 votes had been cast, meaning a turnout of 45.1%.
Guernsey voting referendum: What are the options?
EU referendum: What do the Channel Islands think? | 2019-04-19T13:29:29 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-45823670 |
0.998881 | Many companies feel like having a website is unnecessary. Are you among them?
In this article, we'll debunk some myths about websites. We've listed the three main reasons owners and managers give for not wanting a business website.
"I have a small business that operates on a local level"
A website creates a bond between your company and the public. It's likely your business has gained new customers thanks to old customers' recommendations. That's a great way to spread the word about the quality of your services.
Well, a website works the same way. With a modern website, you'll gain popularity online. Your business will show on Google searches inside your local area, and social media shares and comments about you will help spread the word.
It's clear that companies who sell products through the internet need their own website.
If that's not the case for your business, you can still benefit from having a website. It can help your business gain visibility and connect with the rest of the world.
Plus, you'll get the chance to tell your business story and add content that will make your clients understand why they should hire your services or buy your products.
"I already have a Facebook page"
Facebook is an amazing social media for companies. If you have a Facebook page, you already know it's great for connecting with your clients and keeping them up to date.
But Facebook doesn't give you the same freedom as having your own business website. You need a website to appear in the first results of a Google search and to create your own digital marketing campaigns. You can also design your own website to match your clients' taste, which will delight them.
Many companies feel like having a website is unnecessary. You shouldn't.
If you thought you didn't need a website because your business only works on a local level, or because you don't sell online, or because you already have a Facebook page, you're wrong.
Having a business website will make your company stand out, and it's your key to success. | 2019-04-21T20:07:18 | https://www.intelligems.eu/resources/blog/so-you-think-your-business-doesnt-need-website-heres-why-it-does/ |
0.998974 | Quartiles divide a rank-ordered data set into four equal parts. The values that divide each part are called the first, second, and third quartiles; and they are denoted by Q1, Q2, and Q3, respectively.
Note the relationship between quartiles and percentiles. Q1 corresponds to P25, Q2 corresponds to P50, Q3 corresponds to P75. Q2 is the median value in a set of data. | 2019-04-23T00:54:52 | https://stattrek.com/statistics/dictionary.aspx?definition=quartile |
0.99985 | Warner Bros. has appointed IT and The Conjuring producer Walter Hamada to be their new president of production of DC movies, replacing Jon Berg and Geoff Johns. The studio decided to make the change back in December, in the aftermath of Justice League's underwhelming box office performance. Johns is still DC's president and chief creative officer, and will remain involved with the cinematic franchise as an advisor to Hamada.
It's no secret that the DC Extended Universe has had an uphill climb in these first few years of its existence. With the exception of last summer's Wonder Woman (which received widespread acclaim), its offerings have proven to be quite divisive. Things reached a tipping point back in November when Justice League premiered to decidedly mixed reviews and the worst opening weekend of the five DCEU films to date. The ensemble piece failed to find any traction commercially, petering out at $226.1 million domestically and $651.1 million worldwide - far less than anyone expected. As WB looks to pick up the pieces, they're making a major alteration behind-the-scenes.
In a report from Variety, it's said Hamada will oversee all of WB's comic book movies (not just those based on DC properties). The outlet cites "widespread frustration" at WB due to the new DC movies not rivaling the Marvel Cinematic Universe in terms of reception and box office figures. This move reads as an attempt for the studio to salvage their would-be flagship tentpole before matters get worse. A trio of DC films - Aquaman, Shazam, and Wonder Woman 2 - are on the schedule, and several others are in various stages of development.
Hamada had tremendous success during his time at WB division New Line. IT was a bona fide phenomenon when it was released in September 2017, breaking box office records en route to becoming the highest-grossing horror movie of all-time. The Conjuring was also a hit for the studio, earning $137.4 million domestically before spawning a full franchise complete with sequels and spinoffs. Because of his connection to The Conjuring, Hamada has a history with Aquaman helmsman James Wan, which might come into play with this new position. This December's Arthur Curry solo film was completed prior to the shift, but if Aquaman proves successful enough to warrant any followups, Hamada will be calling the shots.
Ideally, Hamada will be to WB's comic book movies what Kevin Feige is to the MCU and Kathleen Kennedy is to Lucasfilm. If his track record is any indication, he knows what makes a quality movie, so hopefully he'll be able to work his magic in the superhero realm. The DCEU is in desperate need of a string of surefire hits, and if Hamada doesn't have better luck than his predecessors, then WB will truly be in a tight spot. | 2019-04-18T18:47:52 | https://screenrant.com/dc-movies-geoff-johns-role-president/ |
0.999996 | Am I excited for right now?
I often find myself saying, "I just need to get through today."
"I just need to get through this week."
"Thank goodness the semester is almost over."
This week challenged me in so many ways. I went through many unexpected and highly emotional upheavals, things that made me question myself as a person, as a friend, as a student. This week didn't go at all the way I thought it would. I wanted a break, but it was one obstacle after another.
That's nothing new, but here's where I'm taken aback: I liked this week. In fact, I'd even say it was a good week.
For every emotionally difficult moment for me, I reached out to my closest, most dearest friend on campus here. We ate together, talked together, cried together, processed life together. We encouraged self-care to each other and found ways to manage together.
Today, I said to her, "I'm really excited."
"For now. I'm really excited for this weekend with you, and this IS the weekend, and that's happening right now."
Is this what it means to be engaged and enjoying life?
Because I'm so tired of waiting for the day, for the semester, for the year to be over. Life isn't something for me to enjoy later on when I have time to do so. What does it say about me when I think I don't even have time to enjoy all of the blessings I get every day? It's like I expect life to get better - it's not life that's negative at all; it's my own perspective.
My phone screensaver is a quote: "Wherever you are, be all there."
I've looked at it every time I open my phone, but I want to live it. I want to stop saying "BE ENGAGED" as some sort of inspiring buzzword.
To every person I am with: I am here with you, and I'm grateful for right now. Here I am.
To every activity I'm doing: I've been given time on Earth to do this, and every breath allows me to keep going. I might as well do it well. Here I am.
And of course, to every single moment I'll ever be blessed with: Here I am. | 2019-04-19T19:09:14 | http://stephicham.com/blog/2016/10/22/am-i-excited-for-right-now |
0.999834 | European lawmakers were left frustrated when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Tuesday.
The format of the hearing meant the 34-year-old executive could dodge questions and frame his response carefully.
The entire thing lasted just an hour and a half, much of that taken up by MEPs' questions, compared to his 10 hours of Congressional testimony in the US.
One British politician blasted the event as a "missed opportunity for proper scrutiny."
Mark Zuckerberg just testified to the European Parliament - and it was a wash-out.
On Tuesday, the Facebook CEO appeared before European lawmakers following months of scandals that have beset the social network - from the spread of fake news to Cambridge Analytica's misappropriate of up to 87 million users' data.
But the format of the testimony stymied any attempts to meaningfully interrogate the 34-year-old CEO or make him answer specific questions about his company's missteps - leaving some of the assembled politicians visibly frustrated.
Instead, Zuckerberg largely repeated the same lines he has been using ad nauseam: Facebook is very sorry, it is taking a broader view of its responsibilities, it's investing heavily in safety and security, and so on and so forth.
The frustrations stemmed from the fact that though lawmakers were given the opportunity to ask Zuckerberg questions, it wasn't in a direct question-and-answer format like the CEO had faced in his ten hours of marathon testimony before the United States Congress in April. Instead, after a relatively brief opening statement in which Zuckerberg retread familiar ground, every single MEP (as members of the European Parliament are known) asked their question in a row, after which Zuckerberg gave a summarizing speech that lasted barely 25 minutes.
For example, Zuckerberg faced a sustained line of questioning about how Facebook builds "shadow profiles" on non-Facebook users and whether users can opt out - but Zuckerberg barely touched upon this in his responses. And he flatly ignored questions about whether the company would commit to publishing breakdowns of its legal entities and financials in the countries it operates, as well as a question on whether he would let users opt out of targeted advertising altogether.
After he concluded, frustrated MEPs attempted to interject with more questions, only for the CEO to dodge and promise to have his team follow-up and provide written answers.
Damian Collins MP, chair of the British Parliamentary DCMS committee which has repeatedly asked Zuckerberg to testify in the UK, only to be snubbed, responded angrily, blasting the event as a "missed opportunity."
"What a missed opportunity for proper scrutiny on many crucial questions raised by the MEPs. Questions were blatantly dodged on shadow profiles, sharing data between WhatsApp and Facebook, the ability to opt out of political advertising and the true scale of data abuse on the platform," he said.
"Unfortunately the format of questioning allowed Mr Zuckerberg to cherry-pick his responses and not respond to each individual point.
"I echo the clear frustration of colleagues in the room who felt the discussion was shut down. It is time that Mr Zuckerberg agreed to appear in front of the DCMS Committee to provide Facebook users the answers they deserve." | 2019-04-22T10:22:14 | https://nordic.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-european-parliament-testimony-wasted-opportunity-facebook-2018-5/ |
0.998487 | What info do I need in a form where people can pay/donate with Bitcoin?
I'm a developer and looking to create a form where people can pay/donate money in Bitcoin. Many have suggested to just post the recipient wallet address and let folks take that and go off and pay on their own. However, I don't want that. I would like to create a form taht gathers the necessary information for settlement and then goes off does the payment collection, much as someone who accepts credit cards will collect a credit card number, security code, and expiration date before handing that off to a payment processor.
My question is, is it possible to gather such information for a payment? If so, what is the information I'd need to collect?
If it simplifies things, we were thinking of using the Coinbase API to make this happen.
This model fundamentally won't work.
In the case of a credit card transaction, the funds are actually held by a third party: the customer's bank. You collect information from the customer (their card number, etc) and present it to the bank (via the Visa network or similar), to convince them that their customer has authorized the transaction. The bank then transfers the funds to you.
With Bitcoin, it is very different. The funds are held by the customer herself. There is nobody who can perform the transfer except her (that's what keeps her funds secure!). You cannot do it unilaterally on her behalf, and there is no bank holding the funds who can do it.
Strictly speaking, the "necessary information" to execute a transfer is the customer's private key. But the customer is the only one who has it, and she is not going to share it with you (don't even ask). So she has to execute the transfer herself.
The only way to collect a payment via Bitcoin is to give an address to the customer and wait for her to make a transfer to that address, signed with her own private key via her own wallet software. You can have a third-party processor like Coinbase handle that for you, but it doesn't change the fact that the customer actually has to do something besides giving you information.
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How do I pay Utility Bills anonymously with Bitcoin? | 2019-04-20T04:48:03 | https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/59861/what-info-do-i-need-in-a-form-where-people-can-pay-donate-with-bitcoin |
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