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0.966993 | Most of the cattle care centre owners are of the opinion that the sole aim of having a gaushala is to protect the bovines that are left on the road to fend for themselves by their owners. The gaushalas claims to have been doing this service with the motto of protecting the bovines that are left abandoned, without any support from the state government. To a query on increasing incidents of cow vigilantism in country, there is a need to answer the question which asks whether the best way to preserve cattle to provide care and shelter to them? | 2019-04-20T19:19:28 | http://fiapo.org/cattle-care-centres/ |
0.998863 | Maren's mother unexpectedly dies and in turn, Maren has to live with her grandparents in Scotland as her father died when she was very young. Maren has never met her grandparents, so this is awkward; plus, who wants to move to a foreign country where you don't know anyone and life is entirely different? Once she gets settled in Scotland, she receives a package from home that contains the contents of her mother's office. Maren finds a lot of paperwork and other boring items, but then she comes across something interesting. It's a message from her mother that warns her she is in danger and to trust no one. What does that mean?? Maren is perplexed. To make matters more complicated, she meets Gavin while walking around the woods near her grandparent's place. Not only does she feel a strong attraction to him immediately, he is very, very secretive. Obviously, like Maren's mother, Gavin holds some secrets, too. Slowly Maren comes to find out that things aren't what they seem and there's more to her parents' deaths than she is being told. Toward a Secret Sky by Heather Maclean is an entertaining paranormal set in atmospheric Scotland; fans of Lauren Kate's Fallen series will appreciate this novel the most.
How could you not feel for Maren in Toward a Secret Sky? She is still mourning the loss of her mother, even though their relationship wasn't the best at times, and now she is uprooted and sent to live in Scotland. She has a hard time adjusting at first. New food, new culture, new friends, new school, but she slowly acclimates.
Obviously a romance blooms between Maren and Gavin, but things are more complex than Maren initially thinks. I won't give too much away, but Gavin isn't who he says he is. In fact, he initially tells her to keep away from him, but that's a little hard when she is not only obsessed with him, but also bumps into him everywhere! Their insta-love was definitely not a selling point for me and I had a hard time getting past it. But that seems to be the norm with many paranormal novels these days.
What I enjoyed most about Toward a Secret Sky was the setting of Scotland. The landscape, the history, the culture....I enjoyed it all and I think Maclean did a great job bringing it to life. It's the perfect setting for a paranormal novel. Also, Maren goes to London and I absolutely loved that setting as well as she visits various famous landmarks, which gave it a very Angels & Demons/ race against the clock feel to the novel.
Slowly as Maren uncovers the truth surrounding her parents' untimely death, readers learn more and more about the secrets that not only her family holds, but others, too. In fact, the sleepy town she lives in starts experiencing some upsetting crimes that Maren thinks may be tied to the message that her mother left her.
So, if you enjoy the Fallen series, Toward a Secret Sky is very, very similar; I recommend this novel to fans of the paranormal genre who can't get enough.
Nice review! I admit I am torn on reading this one as I was not a fan of Fallen. The setting definitely sounds appealing though the romance does not. I do have a friend who loved Fallen and loves Outlander and all things Scotland so I am definitely going to be recommending this to her. I think the teens at my library would love it too as Fallen and paranormal romance are still really popular there. Thanks!
The teens who enjoyed Fallen will definitely love this book, Christina. I am not sure it's for you if you didn't enjoy Fallen, but I did like the setting and the Angels & Demons vibe. So, you never know! Thanks for visiting! | 2019-04-25T10:14:13 | http://www.confessionsofabookaddict.com/2017/03/book-review-toward-secret-sky-by.html |
0.998908 | You may be throwing away a potential reactive target every day. Save those plastic bottles.
Explosive targets that use chemical elements can cost you over $4 for every explosion. Big Blast Caps are reusable!
Big Blast Caps are the only cap of its kind to incorporate a lanyard ring so you won't lose the cap.
How much air should I pump into a bottle using a Big Blast Cap?
It's recommended that you use an air pump with a pressure gauge and that you not fill it past 80 psi (pounds per square inch). 60-80 psi is desirable depending on bottle type.
How far away should the bottle be placed down range?
It is best to place a pressurized bottle at least 20 yards (60 feet) down range, meaning at least 60 feet from any person.
Are there any safety precautions I should take when using a pressurized bottle with a Big Blast Cap?
Always put the bottle inside the provided mesh inflation bag when pressurizing it and always wear safety glasses and gloves when handling, inflating, or shooting.
Do I have to mix anything to use a Big Blast Cap?
No mixing of any reactive chemical(s) is required.
What happens if I shoot the cap instead?
Do not shoot the cap. Shooting the cap with any projectile will damage it beyond use.
Can I use a BB gun with Big Blast Caps?
Most bottles require a projectile traveling at 700 feet per second or better. Most BB guns shoot slower than that and will ricochet. Do not use a BB gun that shoots under 700 fps. | 2019-04-18T21:02:33 | http://www.bigblastcaps.com/reference/ |
0.998262 | Articles (a, an, the, zero article)- SS complete the sentences.
SS change the sentences into reported speech.
SS match the sentences with the pictures. | 2019-04-22T00:39:08 | https://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/author.asp?user=153820 |
0.999623 | Pseudogenes are genomic DNA sequences similar to coding genes but without coding potential. They are regarded as defunct relatives of functional genes.
What causes pseudogenes to arise?
duplication - modifications (mutations, insertions, deletions, frame shifts) to the DNA sequence of a gene can occur during duplication. These disablements can result in loss of gene function at the transcription or translation level (or both) since the sequence no longer results in the production of a protein. Copies of genes that are disabled in such a manner are termed non-processed or duplicated pseudogenes.
retrotransposition - reverse transcription of an mRNA transcript with subsequent re-integration of the cDNA into the genome. Such copies of genes are termed processed pseudogenes. These pseudogenes can also accumulate random disablements over the course of evolution.
Click here for a graphical illustration of this definition.
In any study of molecular evolution, it is necessary to compare and contrast genes from a variety of organisms to gauge how the organisms have adapted to ensure their survival. Pseudogenes are vitally important since they provide a record of how the genomic DNA has been changed without such evolutionary pressure and can be used as a model for determining the underlying rates of nucleotide substitution, insertion and deletion in the greater genome.
In addition, due to the high sequence identity to their functional paralogs, pseudogenes introduce artifacts into multiple steps of next generation sequencing analyses, such as PCR/target enrichment and reads mapping. It is hence necessary to differentiate the signals from each origin to derive the true results. Also, recently it has been found that some pseudogenes are actually functional through their RNA products, which naturally leads to the question that whether these findings are sporadic exceptions, or reflect a more general mechanism in organisms.
How can a pseudogene be identified computationally?
Once gene sequences have been identified in the genome, it is possible to use sequence alignment programs (such as FASTA or BLAST) to detect matching regions in the nucleotide sequence. These matching regions are potential gene homologs and are termed pseudogenes if there is some evidence that either of the causes (see above) are satisfied.
In these analyses, genes from annotated genomes and protein databases have first been clustered into paralog families and then used to survey whole genomes for copies or homologs. For each potential pseudogene (or fragment) match, a number of steps have been taken to assess its validity as a pseudogene. These steps include checking for overcounting and repeat elements, overlap on the genomic DNA with other homologs and cross-referencing with exon assignments from genome annotations. The resulting pseudogenes or pseudogenic fragments have then been assigned to the paralog family of the most homologous gene (or assigned to a singleton gene if the probe gene has no obvious paralog).
In a number of cases, more distant evolutionary and functional relationships between proteins can only be elucidated through the analysis of the folds that their structures adopt. While it must not be forgotten that the assignment of function to a gene is often implied from that of a gene with a homologous sequence, the added information that protein structures can provide is very desirable in genome annotation.
In the case of pseudogenes, structural information can give extra evolutionary clues and facilitate analysis of the scope of folds in the pseudogene population ("pseudo"-folds) in contrast to those observed for the genes themselves. Where possible, i.e. where a gene can be matched to a SCOP domain, assignment of fold to a pseudogene or pseudogenic fragment is based upon the assignment of the most homologous gene.
Our initial goal was to survey some eukaryotic genomes for pseudogene sequences and fragments of pseudogene sequences. In addition to this, we have also quantified "pseudo-fold" usage, amino-acid composition, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to help elucidate the relationships between pseudogene families across these organisms.
More recently, as part of ENCODE and modENCODE contria, we focus on comparative analysis of pseudogene annotation and activitiy across human and other model organisms like mouse, worm and fly. We also study the pseudogenization events in individual genomes. | 2019-04-23T14:40:05 | http://pseudogene.org/about.html |
0.999382 | What makes this game relevant? Respectively for the Los Angeles Lakers (LAL) and the Phoenix Suns (PHX) they both are the position of battling their own narrative each contest.
Coming into this game, the Lakers play strong favorites to win but the Suns have been ones to play stellar upsets versus all their opponents this season. Leading their respective teams in scoring Shooting Guard (SG) Devin Booker at 24.5 and Small Forward (SF) LeBron James at 28.1 points per game (ppg), they both are heavily relied on by their teams.
With comparable assists per game (apg) and field goal percentages these teams depend too much on the same strategy to win: offense.
However, both teams are allowing opponents to put up 110 plus ppg, making them rank as two of the top-10 worst defensive teams. Relying on the offensive side of the ball has generally been their fault to heartbreaking losses this season but with strategic defensive aggression one team will blow-out the other.
For the Lakers (13-9), they haven’t been consistent enough to be considered elite. They keep falling into the bottom half of the Western Conference standings because of of losses to teams that they under perform against. With consistent wins they can gain traction up and gain tier level of the Los Angeles Clippers (LAC), Oklahoma City Thunder (OKC), and Golden State Warriors (GS).
Adding a win versus the Suns will make it three games in a row, which will put them into the middle of the standings: setting off a breakthrough for a team expected of more.
The Suns (4-18) have two shining team stars in Booker and Center (C) DeAndre Ayton, that’s it. They sit seven games back the playoff race and 11.5 games behind the first overall Clippers according to ESPN.
Ever since trading Point Guard (PG) Brandon Knight and waiving back-up (PG) Tyler Ulis, the Suns have no identity for orchestrating the offense. Booker is leading the team with seven assists per game thus far doubling his career average, but is not a true point guard. He’s the leadership this team relies on, the scorer and the player who has the ball on last minute possessions.
Booker is still considered day-to-day with hopes of seeing the floor versus the Lakers.
Every win matters and chipping away at their standing deficit can quickly bring hope to their season. Booker is ready to play in April, May, and June however his team needs to pick up their slack.
The game begins at 12:30pm PT and 3:30pm ET on December 2 at Staples Center. | 2019-04-23T08:39:13 | http://www.backsportspage.com/lakers-and-suns-preview-12-2/ |
0.99981 | Examples alternatives to texture mapping: (a) volume-encoded uv-maps [Tarini 2016], (b) octree textures [Lefebvre et al. 2005], (c) p-tex [Burley and Lacewell 2008] (© Disney Animation Studios), (d) brickmaps [Christensen and Batali 2004], (e) polycube-maps [Tarini et al. 2004], (f) gigavoxels [Crassin et al. 2009], (g) invisible seams [Ray et al. 2010], (h) perfect spatial hashing [Lefebvre and Hoppe 2006], (i) mesh colors [Yuksel et al. 2010], and (j) tile-trees [Lefebvre and Dachsbacher 2007]..
Texture mapping is fundamental to much of computer graphics but has a number of fundamental issues. Creating uv-maps is time consuming and involves extensive manual effort. Distortions and seams introduced by mapping complicate texture authoring, filtering, and procedural synthesis. The final result is optimized for a specific mesh, and it does not necessarily work through LODs. Any change to the geometry implies updating uv-maps and textures. Texturing other surface representations (implicit surfaces, point clouds) requires a conversion to a mesh. As a consequence, texture mapping continues to occupy a substantial portion of artist time, which dominates the cost of world-class video game production.
Since the early days of texturing, research has focused on how to alleviate or even bypass traditional texture-mapping limitations. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous adoption of texture mapping implies that it is seldom questioned as the method of choice, and authoring pipelines and rendering engines have been shaped around its intrinsic limitations, thereby making it harder for alternatives to appear.
Recently, the industry has recognized the advantages of alternative texture-mapping methods such as the increasingly popular P-Tex method. Several advances in GPU technologies have made alternative texturing approaches computationally very efficient, and the industry has shown a renewed interest in moving beyond texture mapping. And the algorithms and data structures used by some alternative approaches extend beyond texturing, toward solid modeling, volume rendering, and simulations on surfaces.
This course summarizes alternative approaches and their advantages and tradeoffs regarding ease of authoring, storage, versatility, rendering quality, and speed.
Marco Tarini (PhD, Pisa, 2003) is an associate professor at the Universit� dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy and an a Associate Researcher with CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy. His research interests span Computer Graphics and its applications. He is active in areas like real-time rendering (including texture mapping, texture representations techniques), geometric modelling, visualization, digital fabrication, and video game development. He co-authored several works in all top journals and conferences, including many award winning papers and highly cited ones. Marie Curie fellow, he serves as an IPC member in the main conferences of the field. In 2006, he was granted the Young Researcher Award by Eurographics.
Cem Yuksel is an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah and the founder of Cyber Radiance LLC, a computer graphics software company. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University after receiving his PhD degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. His research interests are in computer graphics and related fields, including physically-based simulations, realistic image synthesis, rendering techniques, global illumination, sampling, GPU algorithms, graphics hardware, modeling complex geometries, knitted structures, and hair modeling, animation, and rendering.
Sylvain Lefebvre is researcher at Inria since 2006. His main research focus is to simplify content creation, synthesizing highly detailed patterns, structures and shapes, with applications in Computer Graphics and additive manufacturing (3D printing). In 2010, he was honored with the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award for his work on texturing data structures and runtime procedural texture synthesis. Since 2012, he is the principal investigator of the ERC ShapeForge project, which focuses on shape synthesis for additive manufacturing. Sylvain is an active member of the community, and serves on the technical papers committee of the main conferences of the field. | 2019-04-26T11:49:40 | http://www.cemyuksel.com/courses/conferences/siggraph2017-rethinking_texture_mapping/ |
0.998319 | What Are America’s Options on North Korea?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un watches a ballistic rocket launch.
At this point, there are only two ways to reverse its nuclear program, one expert says.
Spend some time examining the North Korea table, however, and the options can seem dizzying. Proposed policies range from ramping up U.S. cyberattacks against North Korea’s missile program, as the Obama administration reportedly did in its final years, to ending U.S.-South Korean military exercises in exchange for North Korea suspending work on its nuclear program, as the Chinese have proposed. Other options could include sending American tactical nuclear weapons into South Korea or accepting a nuclear North Korea and devising ways to contain it.
I asked Victor Cha—a Korea expert who, as a Bush administration official, negotiated with North Koreans and witnessed it become a nuclear power—to walk me through the available options. His list was short. Ultimately, he said, there are only “two ways to impose significant costs” on the North Koreans for pursuing nuclear weapons. The United States “could use military power … or the Chinese can put real economic pressure on” North Korea. The first option could have horrific consequences, which is why so much rides on this week’s talks between Trump and Xi this week.
There’s a reason why Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all considered preemptive military strikes against North Korea’s nuclear sites and all eventually decided against it. (Clinton may have come closer than any other American president to ordering military action in 1994, when he nearly took out the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.) As North Korea’s nuclear infrastructure has become more sophisticated, it has grown increasingly difficult to design a military campaign that could eliminate (as opposed to merely slow down) the entire program—especially now that the Kim regime has spread out its nuclear-weapons arsenal, facilities for enriching weapons-grade plutonium and uranium, and mobile systems for launching missiles. “It’s very hard to strike [these components] because you don’t know where they are,” Cha said.
The Trump administration could mimic the Obama administration and patiently ratchet up international sanctions against North Korea as a way of pressuring it to return to negotiations over their nuclear program, Cha said. It could crack down on North Korea’s revenue from exporting slave labor to countries like China and Russia. But neither of those approaches will change one stubborn, significant fact: Roughly 85 percent of North Korea’s external trade is with China. And China has the ability to shut down that trade, ending barter trade along its border with North Korea and preventing North Koreans from using Chinese banks.
I pointed out that the Chinese government’s fears about the collapse of the Kim regime—which could produce a refugee crisis, loose nukes, and an opening for the U.S. military to increase its presence on the Korean peninsula—are precisely why China has resisted applying economic pressure on North Korea for more than two decades. So why would they sign up for measures that could destabilize Kim Jong Un’s government?
Cha mentioned two developments that might make China more willing to cooperate with the United States than it has been in the past. First, “the Chinese are very worried” about mounting tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. “I think they feel like the situation is truly getting out of control. They have no political influence on North Korea, and I think they feel like they have no control over Trump.” Second, “Trump is unpredictable. We just don’t know what he’s going to do.” This is why Cha feels U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s surprisingly terse statement on North Korea’s ballistic-missile test—a statement that essentially declared, “I’m sick of talking about North Korea”—was effective. “People start paying attention because it’s not the typical U.S. response,” Cha said.
Cha experienced something similar in 2006, after North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. “President Bush said to [Chinese President] Hu Jintao at the time … ‘They just exploded a nuclear device in your backyard. If you don’t do something about this, I will.’ That’s not a direct quote, but [that was the essence] of it,” Cha recalled. “This was a president speaking who was in two wars, who had invaded two countries already. [The Chinese] were worried.” Nuclear talks with North Korea resumed, and the United States secured several (now-defunct) commitments from the North Koreans to roll back their program.
Cha said he expects the Trump administration to refuse to engage in nuclear negotiations with the Kim regime—negotiations the Chinese desire—until China reduces its trade with North Korea. He expects Trump to help establish missile-defense systems in South Korea and possibly Japan, a policy China opposes. And he interprets Trump’s pledge to solve the North Korean problem without China’s assistance if necessary as a veiled threat to impose so-called “secondary sanctions” on Chinese companies and individuals that do business with North Koreans, rather than a prelude to war.
“I prefer to not think of [a nuclear-armed North Korea] as a geopolitical reality,” Cha said. “The geopolitical reality is that this regime can’t last forever.” Of course: North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program is advancing by the day, and the Kims have clung to power for 69 years. For now, North Korean nukes and the Kim regime’s resilience are very much realities that the Trump administration must confront. | 2019-04-21T16:55:02 | https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2017/04/what-are-americas-options-north-korea/136827/ |
0.999999 | The context of this passage is talking about mammon (the love of, and the endless pursuit of, wealth). But the principle applies to everything else. There can only be one master in your life. You can only serve one thing at a time. You are not free to do as you please. Even if you say you serve no one, you are still serving Self. So which will it be? Jesus says if you love Him then you will hate everything else. What does that mean?
It means that you will allow nothing and no one to take the place of the One you love – not for a day, not for an hour, not for a minute. If our love for the Lord is strong then we will learn to hate everything which competes against Him. We will despise anything that seeks to hinder our relationship with Christ.
Keep going brother, your life inspires me. Bless you!!
any good, wholesome, meant to be marriage where the 2 are madly in love with each other, even as they get older and life progresses, these 2 are still madly in love with each other. When this has ever taken place in our lives, whether it be our first love, the one we married or the birth of a very much wanted child, there is a love that’s like no other. Christ says that we are to be in love with Him even more than this and that we would be willing to leave everything for Him. This kind of love for One is admired, pursued, and wanted more than anything else, including our own family. If this love for Christ is evident, His light will shine so brightly in us that all will know who the Lover of our souls is, and we will do everything in our power, that’s been given by the Holy Spirit, to protect it, and nothing will get in our way in the continually seeking after it. This Love will be greater than any Love we have ever known, because It’s a gift from God, His only begotten Son.
Sherry, you’re so right. We serve Him because we love Him. Serving apart from love will always result in legalism which is serving because we have too, not because the Love of God constrains us.
Chip you are so very correct in the statement of “if we love the Lord we will hate everything that hinders that relationship”.
It all hinges on choice, do we love the Lord more than choosing to “do our own thing”. As we continue to grow in the relationship with Him it does become easier to “make righteous choices. But it will always come down to a choice.
Just as in a marriage relationship two people get to know each other by simply spending time together in good time as well as difficult times. The same is true with the Lord. That is why a couple hours a week in a “church” building does not build a strong relationship.
We are a part of a living organism, we are to be accountable to God to not just receive, but also contribute to the functioning and well being of that organism. To most institutional churches this concept is like a foreign language to them.
Thank you for reading Tom! I appreciate your encouragement. | 2019-04-23T14:00:05 | https://www.chipbrogden.com/november5/ |
0.999998 | How many soft closing device should I mount on a Padplast drawer?
It is recommended to mount 2 soft-close devices per each Padplast drawer with the corresponding actuator, one on the right and another on the left of the drawer although they do not have sides.
Is the soft closing for the Padplast office drawer compatible with the Paddock guide rails?
Yes, the soft closing for the Padplast office drawer is compatible with the 27 mm high Paddock guide rails with partial extraction and the 35 mm high Paddock guide rails with total extraction, aside from the 45 mm high Paddock guide tails with total extraction because it already has soft closing.
Also, the soft closing for the Padplast office drawer is not compatible with the anti-overturn Paddock lock. | 2019-04-18T17:47:41 | https://www.emuca.pl/pomoc-techniczna/forum-techniczne/drawers-and-slides?cat=drawers-for-office |
0.998781 | Q: Why should I take an SAT or an ACT prep course?
A: Most students take an SAT or ACT prep course in order to be familiar with the type of material that they will face on the actual test. The SAT is marked on a curve, so your score is based on how well you do in comparison to everyone else taking the test on the same day. Therefore, being familiar with the test is a huge advantage. For example, if you prepare with College Board material, as we do in all SAT prep courses, you will know the directions and sample questions in advance, as they are identical to the directions and practice questions in our course. You will also learn how the test is scored, whether to guess or to leave questions blank, how to manage your time, how to best navigate your way through the long (and often boring) reading passages, which areas of math are included on the SAT, and how to format your essay.
Likewise, in our ACT prep course we use the book with five official practice tests written by ACT, Inc., the company that writes the actual ACT exam. You will be guided through the five separate sections of the ACT: Math, English, Science, Reading Comprehension and Writing. By knowing the directions, word for word, reviewing all of the questions, and understanding all of the correct answers, on two full-length exams, you will be prepared and confident on the day of your real test!
Q: How do courses offered by SAT SMART differ from those offered by other test prep companies?
A: SAT SMART uses only official College Board and ACT, Inc. materials, so the materials with which you practice reflect the questions you will find on your actual test. For example, the box of Math formulas on the top of each Math section on the SAT is exactly the same as that on the practice material. The directions and practice questions are identical, as are the type of questions and level of difficulty. The same is true with the ACT practice materials.
In a 12 hour SAT SMART course, students are guided through a full length SAT or ACT exam, section by section, as they are taught the best strategies to optimize their score on each section. The answer to each test question is explained, and students get a score for each section and, ultimately, a score for the practice exam. By identifying the type of errors students are making on the practice exam, they are able to avoid the same mistakes on the actual tests.
Also, SAT SMART courses are only taught by extremely competent, highly-educated teachers who are experienced in training students to reach their maximum potential on these vital exams. Many other SAT/ACT prep programs use students as teachers who were able to personally achieve high scores, but cannot necessarily teach other students to do the same.
Q: When is the best time to take an SAT or ACT prep course?
A: The best time, to get the most advantage of an SAT prep course, is prior to the October PSAT exam which most students take in their junior year. The junior year PSAT exam is also the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Exam (NMSQE) where the highest scoring students are named as National Merit Scholars and are often awarded substantial scholarship money by colleges. Since the PSAT is simply a shortened version of the SAT, students are simultaneously preparing for both exams.
The best time to take an ACT prep course, likewise, is just prior to the test. Many juniors choose to take the June ACT exam, as much of the material reflects their coursework. Seniors often choose to take the September, October or December ACT exam.
Q: What is the difference between the PSAT and the SAT exam?
A: The PSAT is offered only in October and is administered, for the most part, on a Saturday in public schools and a Wednesday in private schools. It is simply a shortened version of the SAT exam. Most students take the PSAT as juniors, when the test also serves as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Exam. Some students start taking the PSAT as sophomores, or even freshman, however these exams serve strictly as a practice run to show students how they would score if it were the real test.
Q: When is the SAT/ACT offered and when do most students start taking the exam?
A: The SAT is offered each year in October, November, December, January, March, May and June. Most students start taking the SAT in the winter or spring of their junior year, and usually take it again in the fall of their senior year.
The ACT is offered each year in September, October, December, February, April and June. Many juniors prepare to take the June ACT as the content on the test closely relates to their schoolwork. Seniors often prepare in the summer or early fall leading into their senior year and take the ACT in September, October or December.
Q: How many times should I take the SAT?
A: Students can take the SAT as many times as they want, and have the option of sending only their highest scores on to colleges. Colleges have no way of knowing how many times a student takes the SAT. So most students take the SAT twice in the winter/spring of their junior year. If they are thrilled with their scores, they can stop at that point. But most take the SAT again in the fall of their senior year. If their scores improve, then they send the newest, greatest scores. Otherwise, they can always use a set of previous scores. Some, but not all, colleges allow students to “Super Score,” when they send their highest Math score from one exam and their highest Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score from a separate exam.
Q: How is the SAT scored?
Evidence-Based Reading and Writing– a scoring chart converts the points earned on the Reading Test to a sub-score (in the range of 10-40) and the points earned on the Writing and Language Test to a sub-score (in the range of 10-40). These two sub-scores are added together and then multiplied by 10, giving each student an Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score in the range of 200 to 800. In order for a student to earn a median score of 500, for example, he/she needs to correctly answer approximately 48 of the 96 questions correctly on a combination of these two sections.
Math – a scoring chart converts the total number of points earned on a combination of the two Math Tests to a score in the range of 200 to 800. In order for a student to earn a median math score of 500, for example, he/she needs to correctly answer approximately 26 of the 58 questions on Sections 3 and 4 of the SAT.
A student receives one point for every correct answer on the SAT. There is no penalty for incorrect answers, so students should always guess rather than leave a question blank. Easy questions count just as much as hard questions, so students should not spend too much time on any one question. Rather, it is best to skip any questions that are particularly difficult and return to them later, if time allows. When the allotted time for a section is nearing, students should guess on any question that remains unanswered. Since there are four choices (A to D) for each multiple-choice question, random guessing provides a 25% chance of choosing the correct answer!
The Essay is scored separately, and does not impact the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Score.
Q: How does the ACT differ from the SAT?
A: The new SAT exam is quite similar to the ACT exam. Each has one section of Reading, one section of English, and an optional Essay. The main difference is that the SAT has two Math sections, while the ACT has one Math and one Science section.
On the SAT, while the Reading and the Writing & Language tests are scored separately, the scores are combined to provide an “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score in the range of 200-800 points. Likewise, each of the two Math sections are scored separately and the scores are then combined to provide a Math score, also in the range of 200-800 points. The optional Essay is scored separately by two readers on a scale of 1 to 4 points, and these scores are added together to award the student an essay score in the range of 2 to 8 points.
On the ACT, students earn a score for each area of the test (English, Mathematics, Reading and Science) in the range of 1-36 points. The scores from these four sections are averaged to provide a Composite Score. The optional essay is scored separately by two readers on a scale of 1 to 6 points, and these scores are added together to award the student an essay score in the range of 2 to 12 points.
Since these two tests are written by two different testing companies, many students choose to prepare for, and take, both exams. They then use, for their college applications, the scores from the test on which they performed the best. Other students look over sample questions from both the SAT and the ACT, and then choose to put all of their efforts into maximizing their score on one of these tests alone. There is no college in the country that requires both SAT and ACT scores.
Q: What is the best way to prepare for the ACT exam?
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A: Each student taking a PSAT/SAT prep course is given a copy of the 700+ page book, “The Official SAT Study Guide,” by College Board, which is used throughout the course. Likewise, students preparing for the ACT are each given a copy of the 900+ page book, “The Real ACT Prep Guide,” by ACT, Inc. Students are guided through official practice tests which mirror exactly what they will face on the actual test. All students need to bring a pencil and a calculator, and are welcome to bring a snack for their ten minute break mid-way through each class. | 2019-04-19T12:26:36 | https://www.satsmart.com/frequently-asked-questions-.html |
0.998374 | I felt the need to warn and help prevent my contributors from getting into similar situations, but as I was writing, I realized this is a microcosm of what happens to everyone online. A seemingly trivial negative thought posted on your social media profile about a movie, restaurant, band, product, or political candidate can offend a friend or relative so much that your relationship is forever damaged. This is a two-way problem— the reader could take less offense, but the writer could also put more thought into what they're writing. The solution begins with the writer, and we are all opinionated writers in social media.
I hope these tips help you understand what and why I chose to filter certain things out of my Dallas Foodie reviews, but more importantly, I hope it helps you and many other people whenever you have something negative to say online. While this is written from the perspective of restaurant reviews, I think the basics apply to any negative review.
Your primary goal is to find something positive to say. Negative reviews do not attract as much interactions as positive reviews. Give people a reason to go somewhere, rather than a reason not to go.
Instead of writing your negative opinion, you could write a neutral comment: simply state the facts (the ingredient list and how it was prepared) and leave the reader decide if it looks and sounds good.
Only write negative comments if you know that aspect is consistently not good (over at least three experiences) or it was so extraordinarily bad this one time that it would be a disservice to the readers to pretend everything was okay.
If you ate several things and one thing was not that good, just leave the bad thing out of your description and photo. Focus on the positive.
Recognize that most all restaurants have the occasional incident of a hair in food, flies in the air, a bug on the floor, or food that made someone feel sick later (probably not actually food poisoning). Do NOT mention any of these things unless you know for a fact this is a consistent problem for them; and if that is the case, then you should announce your accusation in a full-fledged investigative article with heaps of objective evidence. Do not make these accusations in a social media post.
You MUST backup your comments with detailed, objective reasoning. If you do not, you are very likely to have fans, chefs, and/or restaurants owners defend the restaurant, insult you, threaten you, discredit you, make false accusations against you, sabotage your work, and/or unfollow Dallas Foodie. And even if you do backup your negative comments, you must be prepared for all of these things to still happen. I say this because all of the above has already happened to me.
Create a “negativity sandwich”: start your post with a positive or neutral comment, then the negative comment, then close with a positive comment.
Remember that anything you post online can never be truly deleted. Make sure your words would make your mother proud and your future employers happy to hire you.
If you truly cannot find at least one nice thing to say about your experience, then do not post anything at all. There have been a few times when I was comped something that I could not find anything I liked about it, so I wrote my negative review to the PR rep and asked if they still wanted to be featured in a post. They always thank me for being honest and decline to have it published.
I feel the same way with bad reviews. | 2019-04-22T17:00:07 | http://dallasfoodie.dgdesign.biz/2015/01/how-to-write-bad-reviews-without.html |
0.999999 | In geometry, a heptagon is a seven-sided polygon or 7-gon.. The heptagon is sometimes referred to as the septagon, using "sept-" (an elision of septua-, a Latin-derived numerical prefix, rather than hepta-, a Greek-derived numerical prefix) together with the Greek suffix "-agon" meaning angle.
A heptagon is a seven-sided polygon. It is also sometimes called a septagon, though this usage mixes a Latin prefix sept- (derived from septua-, meaning "seven") with the Greek suffix -gon (from gonia, meaning "angle"), and is therefore not recommended. A heptagon with vertices equally spaced around a circle and with all sides the same length is a regular polygon known as a regular heptagon.
Heptagon definition is - a polygon of seven angles and seven sides. | 2019-04-22T06:32:07 | http://geometry101.com/Heptagon |
0.997179 | Leadership is the product of multiple factors, not the least of which is influence. Leaders understand that a primary part of their job is to influence others towards a desired outcome. But how can leaders know the proper way to direct others? How can they be sure that they have set along the correct path, particularly when there appears to be more than one viable way forward? And how will they know that they have arrived at their destination?
One of the most successful approaches to leading others is to lead from a strong set of values. Values are the core components of a person's deepest beliefs, the concepts that they hold most dear and that drive decision making. When a leader takes the time to identify her deepest values she is likelier to make satisfying choices and remain consistent in her actions and choices. Moreover, if she is effective in articulating her values then others will understand her reasoning and, more often than not, be more inclined to support her process.
Of course, the ideal way to lead is to do so from the rear forward, rather than to drag others along from the front. The more that others feel and a sense of ownership of and connection with the underlying values and related decision making, the more inclined they will be to support the effort and contribute towards its success.
Creating a shared sense of values may not be as challenging as would first appear. For starters, gather your team together for conversation. Offer them a values list and see where the discussion goes. Focus on company/shared values as opposed to personal ones and aim to narrow down the list to a core group that can help direct future decision making. Then, send the list around for clarification and confirmation. Once confirmed, publicize the values for all to see. At a future meeting, present scenarios so that everyone can grapple with the situation in the context of the values that they have selected.
So, for example, the company has embraced a respectful work environment that prioritizes personal well-being and family over the pursuit of profits. Present a scenario in which these values are threatened, by such things as harsh, competitive marketplace conditions or demanding clients. Ask the group to identify the challenge against their values and how they would expect themselves and the leadership to respond. In this way, they not only crystallize their position but create and pathway forward when the inevitable conflicts arise.
So often, leaders must choose between two perceived "rights." On the one hand, it is right to reward loyal workers who have invested so much into the organization. Yet it is also right to promote the most competent and skilled staff. It is correct to consequence an employee who has compromised the company by her actions. It is also correct to demonstrate mercy and compassion, especially when it becomes clear that she was in a bad way personally. It is proper for a leader to explore new opportunities for growth. But is it not also proper for her to remain considerate of what such change might do to everyone on staff? By identifying clarifying values, such scenarios become easier to approach.
As with other leadership constructs, ethical leadership begins with the leader. You cannot expect your team to perform with character and integrity without first setting the example. As leader, your team looks to you for guidance and direction. You must know and have the capacity to articulate your own values as well as your organization's values. And then you must live by them. What you do, not what you say, demonstrates most what you care about.
A reward system for team members who consistently act according to the company values will reinforce desired outcomes and give you a forum to promote positive conduct. Whenever possible, share the good word about what your colleagues have achieved, or how they area walking the walk and enhancing your organization as a result.
It is also necessary to establish consequences for team members who don't follow the organization's values. We all strive to be good and act in accordance with our values. But sometimes we fall short, and must be held accountable to prevent slippage.
People, particularly Millennials, want to work for a company that they believe in. Nurturing that belief can be achieved by examining a company's purpose, values and people to see if they align with your own beliefs and ethics. Of course, people who do not share the same values can choose to stay away from you company or may be vetted out through interview conversation.
Values, unlike leaders, are eternal. When a leader has effectively used values - hers and others' - as her starting point, she can be assured that her imprint will remain behind long after her departure, guiding people along a values-driven pathway. | 2019-04-20T12:45:31 | https://www.impactfulcoaching.com/blog/2014/6/25/being-a-leader-of-influence-huffington-post-6252014 |
0.999923 | This is a recurring debate, though a rather quiet one, and it exists since the very day Entroducing… was released: is this crucial album of the 1990's decade as great as its reputation says? In other words, is it really a classic? To some, asking this may sound like a lost battle, this record being regularly listed as one of the best pop music albums ever. Questioning this is a provocation. But still, it is legitimate.
The influence of Endtroducing... in unquestionable. With the singles "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found", and then with his first album, Josh Davies unilaterally invented instrumental hip-hop; the true instrumental hip-hop, and not just a few boring loops, with the lyrics removed. The DJ enacted the genre's canonical form, its major benchmark. Years and years after, Endtroducing... is still the core standard for all abstract hip-hop. There is no way to ignore it, when one just plays with beats and samples. Even the Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged it, when it claimed that it was the first album ever, exclusively made of samples.
With this record - and also with Mo'Wax, DJ Shadow's label at the time - borders became fuzzy. The 90's, indeed, had stratified modern music into separate genres: rap, techno, and what was still called rock music. This DJ, however, defied such categories. He had a clear hip-hop background, but he was mostly liked in electronic music circles, and welcomed by all others. With Endtroducing..., actually, DJ Shadow predated the future, and the general blurring of all genres. As so many others, he despised the "trip hop" label, but he was, actually, this genre's true godfather, and a champion of its core principle: mixing, everything. Also, as the ultimate hip-hop crate-digger, when recycling some forgotten records, through samples, he heralded the nostalgia for past music that would define the early 2000's, when Internet and the MP3 would accelerate the rediscovery of the past.
Endtroducing..., also, announced the indie rap times. In reality, most indie rappers from the late 90's hadn't listened to it. But it had influenced many, at least indirectly. Though he was coming from a multiracial background – the tanned skins of Chief Excel and Lyrics Born on the album's cover art showed it – Josh Davies was defining new rules for White hip-hop: not only because of his own skin color, but also because he removed rap from its birth context, from its social womb; it had more nuances, and no longer oscillated between bliss and furor; it was getting all "progressive". With him, hip-hop was mutating into a brand new thing, which could even sound catchy and familiar to fans of rock music; also, last but not least, DJ Shadow's main objective seemed to create some real piece of art.
But did he really manage to build such a masterpiece? Asked differently, what is the true value of Endtroducing..., beyond its impressive influence and posterity?
There is no need to play the hater. This album would never have been so impactful if, in addition to being original, it hadn't been good. Many, afterwards, would damn themselves to record tracks as powerful as the best ones: the real introduction that "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" is, with its heavy rhythms, many scratches and eerie voices; the epic "Stem / Long Stem", which disclosed the recurring themes of "Organ Donor" and "Midnight in a Perfect World", in a very jazz way; the suave conclusion of "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)"; and also, most of all, the pinnacle that was the sumptuous "Midnight in a Perfect World" – undeniably a trip hop song, despite DJ Shadow's contempt for the genre.
Compared to those, however, most other tracks paled into insignificance. Some were fillers ("Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain"), or this kind of lounge music, abstract hip-hop would ultimately evolve into ("What Does your Soul Look Like (Part 4)"). Or sometimes, they were promising tracks, just badly spoiled by too many artifices or too much showmanship ("Changeling / Transmission 1", "Mutual Slump").
Some would argue that such tracks were necessary pauses, and that a uniformly intense album would have been much too exhausting. But the reality is that Endtroducing... has flaws, though it earned its place and status in the history of pop music. Ironically, six years later, DJ Shadow would finally deliver a close-to-perfect record, The Private Press. But by then, the abstract hip-hop revolution would be over, and this album would be considered as a pale replica of the first one, a record forever considered, rightly or not, as Josh Davies' magnum opus. | 2019-04-24T22:27:13 | https://english.fakeforreal.net/index.php/post/2016/DJ-SHADOW-Endtroducing |
0.999962 | I like to win that game.
I would like to have won that game.
What is difference in meaning meaning between them?
The use of the present tense here suggests a habit. Perhaps you play poker and you always like to win.
You: I play poker every Saturday.
Me: Do you mind if you lose?
You: Yes! I like to win that game!
This refers to a specific game that has taken place in the past, and which you lost. You're telling me that you wish you had won. In this context, "game" = a specific competitive interlude. A game of football. A game of tennis. A game of cards.
how many way to use the term "would like"?
Also, you can say "I would like to win that game," speaking about a specific competition in the future.
"Would like" means almost the same thing as "want," but as a conditional, it's more polite.
Customer: I'd like a glass of red wine, please.
Friend: Let's go out to eat tonight. Where would you like to go?
Friend 2: I don't care, but I'd like to see that new Tom Hanks movie.
Poster: Hello, I'm new to these boards, and I would like some help with my English.
You can follow "would like" with a noun you wish to receive, or the infinitive of a verb you wish to do. You can also follow it with "it if..." and then a past-tense clause describing a situation you find desirable.
"I would like it if everyone stopped blaming each other and started fixing the problem." | 2019-04-22T00:23:38 | https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/124907-present-amp-perpect-infinitive |
0.999995 | Licking is natural behavior going all the way back to the wolf. When the mother wolf would return from hunting its food the pups in her pack would lick her mouth and face to stimulate regurgitation.
This is a normal behavior during the weaning stages. Soon after the pups join in and learn to hunt for their own food. Interesting enough the mother wolf would also lick her pups in return to stimulate the pups to relieve themselves.
It is not surprising to learn that licking is a natural instinct that all dogs inherit. There are different types of licking behaviors and as many reasons why dogs lick for daily routines and well as survival.
Cocker Spaniel licking can stem from a variety of reasons. Some can be complex but most are simple to figure out and easy to fix. Let's take a look at the possible reasons first.
1) A submissive social behavior - paying respect to a dominant dog.
2) Puppies lick their mothers face to solicit food when weaning. However this is almost exclusive only to weaning puppies. But lets be honest - licking puppies are adorable.
3) A sign of affection - dog kisses. Who doesn't love dog licks to our faces?
4) Dog self cleanliness - a natural instinct learned when being a puppy. Typically seen on dogs licking their own paws.
5) Dog manipulation tactic - licking for attention. This is especially true for dog owners who're overly concerned and fuss about their dogs.
6) Self and litter grooming - Again, behavior innate from their wolf ancestors.
7) Stress- Most typical reaction would be dogs chewing their paws and yawning.
9) Wound cleaning - "Licking their wounds" is more than just a metaphor ; it describes dog behavior if they've been wounded.
10) Injury - This tends to be observed especially after you have a rough play session with your dog. If your dog accidentally wounded you, he'll lick your wounds.
If your Cocker Spaniel is a compulsive licker it may be time to look into the reasons why. For example: is your dog left alone for long periods of time? Stressed out due to separation anxiety? Is your dog injured?
Are there any lesions of the skin? Is your dog sick? Obsessive licking and can lead to scratching and or biting the area which could present other problems.
Forcing a dog to stop licking may not be good in this case - you'd be trying to suppress symptoms of underlying medical conditions.
Compulsive - Obsessive licking behaviors can often be linked to a dog feeling anxious. In this case, dog licking paw remedies would be proper rehabilitation and training.
The first place to start is by inspecting the source. Maybe something is stuck on their skin or coats, look between the paws for cuts. Look for rashes under the coat.
Sometimes, its nothing to worry about - dogs get itchy paws too.
Look for possible parasites. Look for anything unusual that may be causing the dog to lick itself. If it's a skin condition it will most likely be an easy fix.
On the other hand, if your dog is compulsively licking everything is sight than there might be a greater concern. Licking you into submission may be cute at first. But it will tire soon.
It may be a learned behavior to manipulate you to get your attention and to get what it wants. The behavior needs to be broken.
Do not reward the dog for the behavior. By this I mean never give your dog a treat to stop licking. If you give in, the dog will have simply learned a new trick.
When the dog starts licking simply divert its attention to a different activity. But first you need to break the licking with a strong verbal NO command.
Never hit or yell at your Cocker Spaniel, but be firm and gentle.
Dogs have been licking humans for hundreds of years and I have never heard of anyone dying from an innocent dog kiss. All dogs love the taste of salt, this is one of the main reasons they lick humans.
With that said it's important to point out that you should never let a dog lick your open wounds.This could increase the risk for infection by introducing pathogenic bacteria to the wound.
Despite of what you may have heard, the possible transmitting of a disease or infection by a dog licking an open wound should be avoided.
As long as your Cocker Spaniel is healthy and shows no signs of illness it is safe to bet that playful licking is not harmful unless you are ticklish. At worst it can be very annoying; at best it can be a show of affection.
Always confer with your local Vet or a professional trainer if you feel your pup has a licking issue beyond your control.
Compulsive - Obsessive licking behaviors are often linked to a dog feeling anxious for some reason. Your Vet or a professional dog trainer can help you figure out the source and offer remedies. No need to have your pup suffer needlessly and stress yourself out at the same time.
Why Are Pomeranian Dogs So Popular? | 2019-04-22T14:48:34 | https://doggietrainingcentre.biz/cocker-spaniel-lick/ |
0.999868 | Is it coincidence or intentional that Israel and Palestine each has an entry into the Academy for Best Foreign Language film that is about a young Palestinian being courted by Israeli authorities to inform on his own people? I do not have the answer to that question but the two films, Israel’s “Bethlehem” directed by Yuval Adler and Palestine’s “Omar” directed by Hany Abu-Assad are that closely linked. But, each film has its own cultural and political POV and agenda.
“Bethlehem” studies young Sanfur and his relationship with his handler Razi, a compassionate Israeli cop who has nurtured Sanfur in an almost fatherly way. The young man’s treatment, with respect, from Razi forces him to question his loyalties to his country and his family, including and especially his older brother Ibrahim.
The film examines the complex political climate that is not just about Israel versus Palestine. “Bethlehem” also looks into the relations within Palestine between the legitimate Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the radical Palestinian Brotherhood. They are not, per the film, working in harmony with each faction vying for power within Palestine. It also points out that the Israeli’s too have factions within.
The relationship between Sanfur and Razi is the center of the film. Razi, even though he is using the young man to thwart Ibrahim’s plan to launch a suicide attack within the titular historical city, has an honest affection, like a father or older brother, for Sanfur. This makes Sanfur a complex character as he must choose between two worlds with the personal agenda to protect his aging father.
“Bethlehem,” like “Omar,” makes a statement about the ongoing controversy between Israel and Palestine and does so in a frank and straightforward way. I give it a B.
The Israeli submission for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar is much like the Palestinian submission in story, but quite different in execution. Where "Omar" kept its focus tightly upon a handful of individuals, using the ramifications of a love triangle as a springboard to larger issues, cowriter (with Ali Waked)/director Yuval Adler's film follows a large ensemble through complex associations, playing much like a French policier.
Both films feature a young Palestinian being used as an informant by an Israel agent who sees himself as a father figure (the agents' names are only one consonant apart, Rami vs. Razi). Both films conclude in similar fashion, albeit with vastly different emotional impacts. "Omar" has the greater staying power, but "Bethlehem" is a fast-paced thriller that engages throughout. | 2019-04-21T16:24:15 | http://reelingreviews.com/bethlehem.htm |
0.999906 | Ask a question in English, find the answer in Swahili, and win USD 10,000–20,000. This is the gist of the OpenCLIR (Open Cross Lingual Information Retrieval) Prize Challenge. OpenCLIR is organized by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a US government research program under the Director of National Intelligence.
The OpenCLIR challenge has to do with building a system that, when queried in English, can extract relevant information from speech and text documents in low-resource languages. Languages for which there is very little available training data are considered low-resource.
According to IARPA Project Manager Carl Rubino, OpenCLIR was funded by IARPA “as an open evaluation of the MATERIAL program.” Rubino added that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) runs the evaluation.
According to the OpenCLIR evaluation plan, it is “one of several [capabilities] expected to ultimately support effective triage and analysis of large volumes of data, in a variety of less studied languages.” Successful systems should, therefore, be able to adapt to entirely new languages.
OpenCLIR was launched in July 2018 and began seeking out researchers the world over. Registrations for interested parties closed on November 30, 2018, and OpenCLIR passed its latest milestone on January 21, 2019: the release of data that participants will use to test systems. The deadline for participants to submit their algorithms will close on February 1, 2019, and winners will be announced on May 15, 2019.
The best systems in the speech and text files categories will win USD 20,000 and USD 10,000, respectively.
“We have 37 registrations from around the world, including five from India, four from China, two from Germany, as well as teams from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Taiwan, Italy, Turkey, Singapore, and Spain,” Rubino told Slator, adding that submitted systems will work with Swahili.
Aside from MATERIAL, the US government runs other programs concerning natural language processing (NLP) and neural machine translation (NMT). These include the USD 14m SCRIPTS (or System for Cross Language Information Processing, Translation, and Summarization) and the more than USD 26m LORELEI (or Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents).
Programs such as LORELEI have specific deployment scenarios in mind; think conflict or incident zones. Asked for comment on potential real-world deployments of OpenCLIR or resulting technologies, Rubino basically replied that the possibilities are open-ended.
“These technologies can be potentially deployed in any scenario where an organization needs to quickly develop capabilities to perform domain-specific triage of a large collection of speech and text documents in a language for which this organization does not have a large cadre of speakers of that language,” he said. | 2019-04-23T18:45:10 | https://slator.com/technology/found-in-swahili-37-teams-compete-to-help-us-intelligence-agency-query-the-world/ |
0.998397 | (English "Radio Frequency Identification" or Radio Frequency Identification) is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to identify objects automatically and remotely.
a transponder or tag internationally designated by 'tag'. This tag contains the data item you want to identify. It is also equipped by an antenna that transmits signals (waves RF) tag to the reader and receiving data.
a transcriptionist or reader who has contact with the tag through its antenna (receiving the signal emitted by the tag or transmits information) and then sends the data to the treatment system.
A software handles the processing of data.
What Is It a tag RFID?
Is a tiny chip and antenna. The chip to identify the object to be fixed. Contains information that, once submitted, the transcriber decrypt.
The "tag" obtains the required power of the electromagnetic field emitted by the antenna of the transcriber. The reader converts the information into a format exploitable by a computer.
A transponder or tag internationally designated by 'tag'. This tag contains the data item you want to identify. It is also equipped by an antenna that transmits signals (waves RF) tag to the reader and receives data.
It is a tiny chip and antenna. The chip gets ticked to identify the object to be fixed. Contains information that once submitted, the transcriber decrypt. | 2019-04-21T21:04:29 | http://www.tarjetasplasticasbaratas.com/rfid/cms.php?id_cms=7 |
0.998675 | What are the benefits to a full seat riding breech? To provide fuller protection from rubbing than a knee patch breech, full seat breeches feature an insert that runs from below the waist at the back of the breech, across the seat and down the inside of both legs. Many riders find the added grip factor and contrasting material more comfortable and long-lasting than other forms of riding breeches. There are five main considerations that must go into buying the right full seat breech to meet your needs: Breech fabrics, full seat materials, style, fashion trends and brands.
There is a range of breech fabrics being used for full seat breeches. These choices cover a spectrum of fabrics as well as prices. The fabric used in the manufacturing of the riding breech will be a large factor in determining the final price tag. You will want to consider the comfort, fit and weight of each of the fabrics so that you find the most useful breech for your price range.
The older style nylon breeches are still in favor with some riders- particularly as they hold their color and don't fade, absorb moisture, provide a maximum stretch factor and are easy to wash and wear. However, the 100% nylon breech has fallen out favor in most cases since the advent of the Cotton/Lycra breech. You will find nylon combined with cotton and other fabrics in an effort to combine the benefits of nylon but improve on the "nylon" style that has diminished in popularity. Riding breeches that use the cotton / lycra / spandex combination capitalize on the exceptional elasticity (stretchability) of spandex / lycra. This fabric comes in a variety of weights, the lightest being pull-on tights, to the more substantial thicker looking breech that is less see-through and provides more support for the rider. The popular cotton / lycra riding breeches have become a classic and a staple for most riders. These full seat breeches are comfortable, with minimal shrinkage but with some fading and dulling of color and occasionally a pilling of the fabric. Because these breeches are made primarily of cotton, moisture is absorbed and retained by the fabric. Once it gets damp the cotton / lycra can feel heavy and lose its shape, especially at the knees as it has poor "memory" when damp. The nature of the fabric to absorb and hold onto moisture means that it is not a good insulator against cold. However, the price combined with the style and feel of this fabric has won legions of fans. The combination fabric of cotton / lycra / spandex combines the best of both words with stretchability, wash and wear and comfort. This 2-way or 4-way stretch fabric will keep its shape better under damp conditions and through many wears, however the higher price must be considered.
The advent of microfiber has once again revolutionized the industry, providing new technologies geared towards increasing the comfort of the rider. There are a number of microfiber breeches available, made out of polyester and sometimes mixed with other materials, they are generally a 4-way stretch fabric. These microfibers wick away moisture from the skin, leaving the rider cooler, drier and more comfortable during and after riding. Some full seat breeches now come with an extra layer bonded to the inside of the breech that increased the ability of the material to wick moisture away from the skin. A rider can finish a lengthy ride and be dry and comfortable and in cooler conditions this means that the rider will also be warmer. For those who face winter or inclement conditions the spandex blend fleece might be the best option available. These breeches feature many of the same properties of the microfiber fleece with the added warmth of fleece. Many of these breeches are coated with wind and rain resistant material that allows moisture to wick away from the rider's body but prevents moisture and wind from penetrating through to the rider.
The material used for the full seat of the breech can be of a number of different materials, each giving a different level of protection. Additionally, this material will be the largest factor in determining the price of your riding breech. Self-Fabric seats use the same fabric as the breech itself. This method usually provide extra protection but little in the way of extra grip. This breech is usually the least expensive option. With the look and feel of sueded leather, Clarino or other synthetic suedes, increase the level of protection for the rider. There are many different branded synthetic suedes and all give a good degree of extra protection against rubbing as well as increase the grip of the breech in the saddle. It is important to keep in mind that most synthetic suede full seats have no ability to stretch in any direction. That means that you have a non-stretch fabric built onto a garment that usually has two or even four-way stretch which can lead to a slight difference in fit between a knee patch and a full seat version of the same brand of breech. As for pricing, the Clarino-type full seat is washable and can be dried at low heat in your dryer which will keep these full seat breeches on the more affordable end of the spectrum. Leather full seats have the advantage of providing the best grip and can, with proper care, last for many years. A full seat leather breech will be one of the most expensive, given the quality of materials used, but will age well. Many of these breeches combine the full leather seat and the more expensive breech fabrics favored in Europe. Most leather full seat breeches are washable as long as you follow the manufacturer's care instructions. There are new technologies in fabric emerging all the time. These new fabrics, combined with the leather full seat combine functionality and design.
Riders use full seat breeches for schooling, show or pleasure which means that you can find the style that suits you best. The high-waist riding breech is the most formal style offered. This breech is most often worn in the U.S. in competition situations and most often under a Shadbelly. These high waist styles do come in schooling colors and are popular in Europe for non-competitive riding as well. The regular waist full seat breech is a classic staple of the show ring. This breech, with a front zipper is commonly used for schooling breeches, pleasure riding and where a bit more protection and grip is needed. The recent trend toward a lower rise in breeches has gained popularity across the age groups. These breeches have a lower rise, varying from extremely low to just below the navel to create a modern fit and look. Many of these breeches have a lower front with a higher back to avoid any hint of underwear showing and also to help keep rider's shirts tucked in. In many cases these low rise breeches have become the best selling style for most manufacturers. For schooling and pleasure riding there are also full seat pull-on breeches available. These are an excellent choice for comfort and ease for most riders.
The world of riding clothing continues to become bolder, brighter and much more individual as more and more manufacturers bring out new design lines for riders. The formal style and colors of the traditional full seat breech have been a staple of the dressage and event rider, but the door has opened to a full range of colors, fun patterns and prints. Many of the full seat manufacturers are also expanding their lines to include coordinating socks, tops, belts and even horse gear to suit any occasion and mood. These new fashions have been particularly appealing for the lady riders!
Do you already have a favorite brand for breeches? Most manufacturers will have a line of full seat breeches available, so you might not have to change brands to get the look and fit that you need. There is a wide variety of full seat breeches to choose from for each rider. Some of the brands that might be considered are; Eurofit, Ariat, Ovation, TuffRider, Irideon, Arista, Tropical Rider, Kerrits, Fun in the Saddle, Goode Rider, Isabell Werth, and Royal Highness.
Blair Stephens is a copywriter and proud member of the http://EquestrianCollections.com team. Equestrian Collections offers you the widest and highest quality selection of riding equipment and equestrian apparel online. For more information about everything from breeches to horse supplies see our Buyer's Guide at http://www.equestriancollections.com. | 2019-04-25T22:11:19 | https://articlesurfing.org/sports/a_guide_to_full_seat_equestrian_breeches.html |
0.999999 | Generating a 48 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes from reviews collected on Tuesday morning, critics of 'Dumbo' suggest that the remake is uneven, cluttered and lacking in heart.
Reviews are in for Tim Burton's Dumbo, a live-action remake of the 1941 Disney animated classic that adapted Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl's novel and introduced the lovable circus elephant with oversized ears to a mainstream cinema audience.
Heading up the cast are Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green and Alan Arkin, with Thandie Newton's daughter Nico Parker in a featured role. Ehren Kruger (Transformers, Ghost in the Shell) wrote the screenplay.
From reviews that were collected on Tuesday morning, the film currently carries a 48 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney recognizes the risk associated with remaking a well-loved childhood gem, noting that Burton's track record for "summoning genuine emotion is patchy at best." He calls the picture "frustratingly uneven," with a "cluttered screenplay" and "thin characters that fail to exert much of a hold." Rooney writes that up until the end of the film, "the filmmaker's overstuffed visual imagination and appetite for sinister gloom all but trample the enchantment of a tale that, at heart, is simple and whimsical."
With regard to the screenplay, Rooney claims that a misstep was made in revealing the magical element of Dumbo's flight capabilities — his oversized ears that double as wings — too early, allowing for no build-up or surprise. He recognizes that there are many positive elements of the film, from production design to period costumes and gorgeous visuals, though he concludes that ultimately, Dumbo fails to tug at the heartstrings.
For Rolling Stone, Peter Travers highlights the work of character designer Michael Kutsche by noting that the "computerized Dumbo is a marvel of cuteness and technical wizardry who steals every scene he's in." He suggests that the gold standard of this work is undermined by the overcomplicated and predictable script. The critic goes on to praise the cinematography, production design, costumes and musical composition, but decides that the simple, sweet and safe tale fits Burton like a glove — too well.
In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips notes that the film offers "less" of many things that the original had, such as wit, charm and songs. He offers a particular criticism of the writer, saying, "Over and over, the movie strands its central, dewy-eyed, flappy-eared pachyderm in a series of unfortunate narrative events dreamed up by screenwriter Ehren Kruger. The writer has been miscast. He brings the same light touch and airy whimsy he brought to three Transformers pictures." Phillips gives Dumbo 1.5 stars and ends with a hopeful look forward to the upcoming Aladdin and Lion King remakes.
Mashable's Angie Han writes that the elephant is actually a supporting player in a jumble of interrelated storylines — such as a dad disappointing his children and a small business struggling in an industry dominated by big businesses, — but as the critic notes, those plot lines "never really take off." Han argues that none of the characters seem like real people, and that the film doesn't work as a whole, rather as a collection of "odd little moments." She praises Burton's depiction of Dreamland, suggesting that the pic could have used an extra dose of that pleasingly weird element to let it stand out.
Peter Bradshaw writes in The Guardian that the few moments in the movie that are reasonable, like Dumbo taking flight, are canceled out by boredom. He calls the story "pointlessly complicated," grinding along to a "tiresome conclusion." Bradshaw points out that Burton missed an opportunity to indulge in the dramatic tension of Dumbo being taken away from his mother, an important factor that got lost in a "swirl of exotic visuals." He goes on to bring to his readers' attention the many "muddled" scenes that ultimately contribute to the film lacking charm and heartbreak.
For the AV Club, Katie Rife claims that the character of Dumbo isn't "particularly Burton-esque," nor is the rest of the movie. She suggests that the lack of Burton flair is one of the pic's downfalls, though she notes that the director does explore some sinister themes and signature Art Deco elements in the film's Dreamland theme park. The critic finds Dumbo's core theme to be embracing the things that make you different, suggesting that it carries some shred of emotional weight despite the concept being a familiar idea from Burton. Of the supporting characters, Rife labels them a "bland family of protagonists," going on to point out that some are simply there to keep the story moving and "provide awestruck reaction shots as we move from oddly muted spectacle to agreeable callback to the heartwarming happy ending."
In Time, Stephanie Zacharek argues that Dumbo is "cluttered with Burton-esque details — a parade of creepy clowns, a nightmare-themed circus populated by miserable animals — that are supposed to be cool and edgy but really just get in the way." She gives light praise to the pic's cinematographer Ben Davis (who shot Captain Marvel), who used "muted, faded circus-tent colors" as his color palette. Zacharek emphasizes the "misery" of Dumbo, a character who's "forced to wear humiliating clown makeup and leap from soaring heights without a safety net," suggesting that the suffering is difficult for an audience to digest. The critic further implies that the computer-generated aspect doesn't necessarily work in the film's favor. | 2019-04-18T10:55:51 | https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dumbo-review-roundup-what-critics-are-saying-1196976 |
0.999747 | I have a Directv system with a sl3 lnb (sl3s4r5-01) and a H24-100 receiver that I want to connect to one tv. My question is do I have to use a power inserter (PI-21) and a splitter for this system to work and if so how should it be wired.
You don't need a splitter with one receiver, but you do need a power inserter there - 21 volt.
I have a few questions before I try to setup my new dish.
My current setup is a 4 wire lnb with the dish mount to my roof running to one h24-100 receiver with a b-band converter.
My new setup in a dish mount on a pole at ground level with a single wire lnb (sl3 s4r5-01) and I have a PI-21 power inserter.
My questions are do I need to use the B-band converter and do I need to make any changes to my receiver settings?
no, you remove the b-band converter.
you will likely have to repeat satellite setup when you change the dish to a swm dish. | 2019-04-20T05:00:42 | http://www.wkforums.com/forums/showthread.php?5570-simple-swm-system-question&s=759f06de844e5f67eb16bd6c439390d7&p=23248 |
0.999996 | What is this modification for?
The voltage applied to the fuel pump is reduced by a resistor, (click for picture), so the pump supplies less fuel. At some point the ECU determines that the fuel delivery is not adequate and flicks over a relay which then supplies battery voltage to the pump, so more fuel can be delivered. If modifications are made then fuelling becomes more and more important.
The voltage supplied to the pump through the dropping resistor is ~9V, and this then rises once the relay clicks over to ~14V.
Supplying little or reduced fuel may not be adequate for your modified engine and the time that the relay takes in flicking over and then starting to speed up the fuel pump may be too long. Modifying the relay so that the pump runs constantly at the battery voltage helps the fuelling.
As you will be modifying the relay to supply the pump with constant battery voltage the fuel pump will be running at top speed constantly, thus shortening its life. Is this a problem? No. 18 months/20,000 miles and the pump is still running fine on the car. I have yet to hear of anyone having a problem with their fuel pump after completing this mod.
How do I sort it?
The fuel pump relay is behind the intake manifold mounted on the firewall - it's labelled clearly on the front of the unit.
Undo the relay mounting bolt and remove the relay from the wiring loom. Turn the relay upside down and prise the metal clasps away from the side of the relay. Pull off the plastic cover, this seems like it won't budge, but that's only because it is stuck to the rubber gasket - give it a firm tug! Now you can see the wires coming from the bottom of the relay. Connect the two wires together - black/yellow to the red wire.
Note - use a thick piece of wire and solder this securely in place. Look at the existing wiring and size it appropriately. If in doubt about the size of the wire, go big!
Take the car for a test drive, making sure to get the turbo up to pressure at least once.
The dropping resistor for the fuel pump can now be removed to free up a little room in the engine bay. This is also a handy place to mount the Water Injection relay! The resistor is located on the right hand side of the engine bay next to the diagnostic connector. | 2019-04-25T02:53:43 | http://gtfours.co.uk/how_to/fpr/fpr.htm |
0.998707 | What are the DL1 PRO / WP and DL2?
These units offers the same features as the DL1 CLUB but in different enclosures. The DL1 PRO is a small aluminium enclosure with high specification water resistant connectors. The DL1 WP goes one stage further and is housed in a waterproof enclosure which means all file downloads must be performed over the USB interface. The DL2 is a larger aluminium enclosure giving easier access to the connectors and is designed for very easy integration with the SPEEDBOX MINI.
Who is the DL1 PRO /WP designed for?
The DL1 PRO and DL1 WP (hereafter just referred to as the DL1 PRO) are designed for autosport applications including drag racers, single seater racing cars, rally cars or road cars - however they also ideal for use on power boats, go karts and motorbikes. They are also an ideal platform for use in the auto industry for car testing of all types, from long term monitoring to competitor benchmarking.
What does the DL1 PRO do?
The DL1 PRO can store data from a number of sources including its built in high accuracy GPS and accelerometers, wheel speeds, shaft speeds, engine speeds, temperatures, pressures, lap times, sector times etc. The DL1 comes packaged with the excellent Race Technology data analysis package for Windows. The software allows super accurate track mapping, user defined channels, powerful graphing and allows direct comparison of up to 10 data sets (races) simultaneously with almost unlimited laps. The DL1 PRO can also be used to supply data to dashboard displays and to drive auxiliary outputs to control fans, pumps, or lights.
One of the key features of the DL1 PRO is its built in high accuracy GPS system - this gives the DL1 advantages over other data loggers in 2 key areas - greatly improved track maps and far more accurate speed data.
Conventional data loggers require a "closed circuit" to enable them to calculate the track map; the shape of the track is estimated from a combination of the lateral acceleration and speed. This works adequately in some situations but it becomes increasingly inaccurate for long tracks and impossible for open circuits, motorbikes or boats. In contrast, the GPS will produce high accuracy track maps in almost any situation.
While speed is probably the most important parameter that anyone wants to measure using the data logging system, it is also the most inaccurate in a "conventional" system. The normal way to measure speed is to simply attach a pickup to a wheel to detect how fast it is rotating - but the rolling circumference of a tyre changes by 4% just with wear and temperature. Even worse, the error increases significantly under race conditions where the tyre is under load - typically the tyre slips by up to 20% under hard braking going into a corner. Measuring speed using GPS is now common practice in high-end systems - under typical conditions speed error is well under 1%!
The new GPS unit is based on our own high accuracy GPS3 technology and calculates position and speed 5 times every second. This is easily the fastest, most accurate GPS system available for under $2000. The measurements from the GPS and accelerometers are combined to calculate very high accuracy positions and speeds at 100 times a second. Optional storage of raw GPS data for post processing at 20Hz is also possible.
Built in 3-axis accelerometer with 2g full scale (optional 6g full scale).
The DL1 PRO has 12 very high accuracy analogue inputs. All inputs have a maximum of 25V input. Oprtional logging at up to 1kHz.
Low side driver outputs are available for controlling pumps, fans, lights.
The DL1 PRO has 2 RPM inputs, only one of which can be used at any one time. One input is designed to be connected to "high level" sources, such as the ignition coil. The other input is designed for low level signals such as a feed from the ECU.
The DL1 features 4 totally independent wheel/shaft speed inputs. These can be used to measure the speed of all four wheels, or slip ratios across a torque converter for example.
Either port can be used to receive data for logging, one port is always used for outputting data for storage to a VIDEO4 or to a DASH display.
Two independent 5v outputs can be used to drive up to 500mA each for sensor outputs.
Install a manual start/stop button to start and stop logging from the drivers seat, or use the fully automatic start/stop functions so you can concentrate on driving and let the data logger take care of the logging; it's as simple as that!
The power supply to the DL1 PRO data logger can be taken directly from the vehicles 12v supply, or it can be powered from its own battery if required. The power supply is smoothed and regulated within the DL1 PRO ensuring its performance is highly robust and stable.
Very high reliability is ensured by calibrating, temperature testing and vibration testing each unit on an individual basis. Autosport applications make tremendous demands on electronic systems and we take great care to make sure our products are up to the task. All the connections to the units are vibration proof, high strength to ensure that connections do not fail at the critical time. | 2019-04-22T13:05:27 | https://www.race-technology.com/wiki/index.php/DL1PRO-WP/Introduction |
0.998368 | Where will the most powerful optical telescope on Earth be built?
You probably haven't thought much about having a hard time seeing big things. After all, big things are big, right? That usually makes them easy to see.
For example, the sun is a humongous star that we can easily see every day…despite the fact that it's 93 million miles away. Of course, in space measurements, that's fairly close!
Other parts of our solar system, like the outermost planets, are farther from Earth than the sun. For example, Neptune is about 3 billion miles away from Earth.
Although Neptune is about four times larger than Earth (based on diameter), we can't see Neptune with the naked eye because it's so far away.
Thanks to the curious minds of early scientists, though, a tool was invented long ago that helps us to extend our sight into the great beyond to see some of the biggest things in the universe, even if they're millions of light years away. What was it? The telescope!
Who invented the telescope? Many people believe Galileo Galilei invented the telescope, because his telescope was the first to be used for astronomy in 1609.
However, the earliest working telescopes actually appeared the year before in 1608. They were made by German-Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey.
Telescopes use glass lenses or mirrors to create images, much like cameras. By combining different types and sizes of lenses, telescopes allow users to view objects that are very far away.
Once telescopes were invented, astronomers were able to see farther than ever before. Over the years, tremendous discoveries were made, from new planets to new galaxies!
Thanks to telescopes, we now have a better understanding of just how big our universe is. For example, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy.
Since its launch in 1990, this powerful telescope floats in outer space and allows us to see much farther than ever before. It continues to provide never-before-seen views of the farthest reaches of the universe, including entire galaxies that astronomers never knew existed.
Astronomers are excited about the future of telescopes, too. In fact, the most powerful and scientifically advanced optical telescope on Earth is scheduled to be built atop Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii. It will be called the "Thirty Meter Telescope," because it will have a primary mirror 30 meters in diameter.
A single piece of glass that big (nearly 100 feet across!) would be very difficult to produce. Instead, the primary mirror will consist of 492 smaller individual mirrors shaped like hexagons.
Experts estimate the Thirty Meter Telescope will cost between $970 million and $1.2 billion to produce. This groundbreaking project will be supported by the United States and Canada, as well as other countries, such as Japan, China, and India.
We sure hope you’re hungry. Tomorrow’s Wonder of the Day is sure to fill you up!
If you have an empty paper towel tube, you can have fun making your own homemade version of an ancient pirate telescope!
Grab a pad of paper and a pen and find a seat in your backyard. Take a look around you. Start making a list of all the things you see. Try to list at least 20 things that you see. If you can list even more, do it! When you're finished, arrange your list from smallest to largest things that you can see. Share your list with a friend or family member. Do they see any things that you don't? If you're up for a challenge, try this activity again using both a microscope and a telescope. How does your list change?
Ready to take a look at some of the biggest things in the universe? Explore Hubble Discoveries online to view several multimedia features that highlight the scientific leaps that the Hubble Space Telescope has made possible. You can also check out the online Picture Album. It contains amazing photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of distant stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and more.
I didn't know that they were going to make a telescope I can't wait until the make it.
Some of us wonder if that telescope costs too much money, but we also think that it may also be very useful to see the things we can't see with our own eyes in space or discover brand new space objects. We are wondering what kinds of new things the telescope will allow us to see. Just think of what other types of technology there will be in 2018!
WOW! With a telescope that big, it would get amazing views of stars, planets, galaxies and planets! It might even help with finding out if there are other planets with life! That's amazing!
The wonder was extraordinary! I never knew that they were going to make a new telescope by 2018! That was an interesting video. Which Country (or state) are they building that huge telescope in?
Dear Wonderopolis I think tomorrow's wonder is about bats.
I think the video was coooooooooooooool!!!
My mom likes to take pictures with a digital camera. Today's video reminds me of a big camera. Way cool!
What humongous star sits over 93 million miles away from Earth, yet is easily visible every day?
What tool did scientists invent that allows us to see objects millions of light years away?
What device, launched in 1990, has revolutionized the field of astronomy?
aInternational Space Station Not Quite!
bSpace Shuttle Discovery Not Quite!
cMars Rover Spirit Not Quite! | 2019-04-23T04:51:43 | https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/whats-the-biggest-thing-you-can-see |
0.99998 | They call her the Michael Jordan of figure skating. But on Thursday night in Sochi, South Korea's Yuna Kim discovered there were no "Jordan rules" in Russia as "Queen Yuna" stunningly and controversially won silver in her attempt to be the third figure skater in history to win back-to-back golds. In fact, the opposite may have applied to her.
One of the nine judges who picked a young Russian skater over two more refined competitors for the Olympic gold medal Thursday night was suspended for a year for trying to fix an event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
And another is the wife of the president of the Russian figure skating federation. Another Olympics, another huge skating controversy involving the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Adelina Sotnikova of Russia won the country's first-ever women's figure skating gold on home ice with some questionable scoring that has already generated plenty of buzz and controversy for all the wrong reasons. Sotnikova was described as the "chosen one" in an Olympics marred by rumors of potential fixes being in for the Russians in a sport notorious for shady activity (see: ice dancing at the 2002 Winter Olympics).
Consider this: Sotnikova did not land all of her jumps cleanly, yet scored 149.95 in the free skate. Yuna Kim scored 144.19 and Italy's Carolina Kostner scored 142.61. In 2010, Yuna Kim shattered the world record at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in what was hailed by nearly every figure skating analyst as one of the greatest performances in the history of the sport. Yuna's score then? 150.06. That's barely above what Sotnikova received with a performance in which she did not even land all of her jumps correctly.
Sotnikova's total score for the event was 224.59 while Kim received 219.11. Kostner of Italy got 216.73. Kim led by mere tenths over both figure skaters entering the free skate.
Those watching and commentating on the event scratched their heads when Russian Yulia Lipnitskaya, who fell twice and stumbled around on the ice, received higher technical marks than Japan's Mao Asada, who turned in a world-class and flawless free skate after stumbling to 16th after the short program.
Things got stranger when Sotnikova stumbled and two-footed a landing, yet still received far superior technical marks than Kostner.
Kim was the final skater on the night. And the woman who has what is unquestionably the most difficult routine, hit all of her elements. Though Sotnikova had one more jump in her routine, Kim's degree of difficulty was greater on the non-jump elements. Yet Sotnikova got perfect marks on all of her spins and footwork while Yuna, doing more difficult elements and considered the world's best at them, got a couple of subpar marks from the judges that were enough to make the difference.
Yuna announced her retirement after the event even though she helped secure the 2018 Games for South Korea, and she is still considered one of the greatest figure skaters of all time. And on Thursday she was trying to go out at the pinnacle of her sport in a way Michael Jordan (Kim, like Jordan, took years off from the sport only to come back to dominate effortlessly upon return) initially did before Jordan un-retired and decided to give basketball another try.
It was, though, not meant for Kim, who leaves Russia with more in common with the 1972 USA men's national basketball team than Jordan.
Immediately, reporters spoke about the "judging controversy" while numerous analysts said that Kim had the far better performance and Sotnikova's huge score in the free skate seemed inflated and seemed like a score that tried to leave nothing to chance. Nobody knows how the judges scores, since the total scores just pop up on screen, clouding the process in intrigue. Some believed that Sotnikova was nowhere near even eight points better than Kostner, which is what her scorecard said. Others thought the real battle should have been between Sotnikova and Kostner for silver. After the program concluded, Yuna Kim's name was trending worldwide on Twitter. There was no buzz surrounding Sotnikova and plenty around the result.
Asked about the results, Kim replied with class: "Well, the scores are given by the judges so I am not in the right position to comment on it. There's nothing that will change with my words. The most important thing for me is to participate in these Games. This was my last participation in the competition, so I'm happy with that."
Si les performances restent le juge de paix dans les résultats, les officiels s'agitent toujours autant en coulisses.
CELA FAIT PARTIE du folklore. Que serait le patinage artistique si ses compétitions n'étaient pas régulièrement éclaboussées par quelques scandales ? Dès 1927, la controverse avait ainsi abîmé le premier des dix titres mondiaux de Sonja Henie, sacrée chez elle à Oslo. La jeune Norvégienne avait été sacrée par trois juges contre deux aux dépens de la tenante autrichienne Herma Szabo. Trois juges... norvégiens.
Depuis, la liste s'est considérablement allongée. Même si, et c'est tant mieux, les performances restent le juge de paix des résultats. On a pu s'en rendre compte hier soir, en ouverture de la nouvelle épreuve olympique par équipes. La Russie et le Canada, présentés comme les grands favoris pour la médaille d'or décernée dimanche, pointent en tête après les programmes courts des hommes et des couples. Triple champion du monde en titre, Patrick Chan a simplifié sa combinaison et escamoté son triple axel, ce qui a permis à Evgueni Plushenko, plus lent, mais plus efficace dans les sauts, de devancer légèrement le Canadien (91,39 contre 89,71 points). Ces deux-là sont même largement dominés par l'excellence de Yuzuru Hanyu, le trublion japonais (97,98 pts). Un peu plus tard, la merveilleuse valse Mascarade de Khatchatourian, proposée par Tatiana Volosojar et Maksim Trankov, méritait sans contestation possible de supplanter la jolie prestation de Meagan Duhamel et Eric Radford. C'est donc logique que la Russie devance pour l'instant le Canada.
Mais ce n'est pas toujours si simple. Il suffit, pour s'en convaincre, d'observer le ballet des officiels en coulisse. Depuis l'automne dernier, et le tirage au sort des juges pour les JO, les petits arrangements entre amis ont animé le joyeux cirque de la glace. Avec son lot de rumeurs sur la circulation d'enveloppes (voire de valises) ou d'échanges de « bons procédés ». Au centre des tractations, c'est évidemment la Russie qui concentre les pires fantasmes.
La France et l'Italie, qui rêvent modestement de la médaille de bronze dans cette catégorie, auraient obtenu des garanties du soutien russe... En oubliant que deux couples de Moscou briguent aussi cette breloque. Une situation qui impose de dépoussiérer le scandale de 2002, provoqué par Marie-Reine Le Gougne. La juge française, qui officiait sur les couples, avait révélé avoir avantagé les Russes sur l'injonction de Didier Gailhaguet, président de la Fédération française. Cette faveur devait être récompensée par le vote du juge russe en danse pour Marina Anissina et Gwendal Peizerat. Sauf que les Français disputaient le titre à des Russes et que, finalement, l'édile a évidemment préféré ses compatriotes.
Finalement, deux médailles d'or avaient été distribuées en couple, les deux officiels français avaient, eux, été suspendus trois ans, et un nouveau système de jugement avait vu le jour. Anissina-Peizerat avaient été sacrés en danse, et ils l'avaient mérité. La preuve que la réalité de la glace peut être respectée. Plus forte que les agissements de mesquins qui cherchent à exister .
선수들이 경기를 수행한 대로 정직하게 그 결과를 보여준다면, 심판들은 항상 그만큼 뒤에서 은밀하게 움직이곤 한다.
그것은 이미 오래 전 부터 시작된 일이다. 피겨스케이팅이 지속적인 논란에 휩쓸리지 않았다면 어땠을까? 논쟁은 10개의 월드타이틀 소유자인 소냐 헤니가 1927년에 자신의 고국 오슬로에서 첫 메달을 쟁취하는 순간부터 이미 시작됐다. 이 젋은 노르웨이 소녀는 오스트리아인 헤르마 사보를 지지하는 두 명의 심판에 대항하는 세 명의 심판들의 도움으로 왕좌에 앉을 수 있었다. 그 세 명의 심판들은…노르웨이인들이다.
그 이후로 논란의 리스트들은 상당히 빠르게 늘어갔다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 다행히도, 결과는 경기를 얼마나 잘 수행했는냐에 달려있다. 우리는 어제 올림픽에 새로 도입된 팀 이벤트의 오프닝에서 그 사실을 실감할 수 있었다. 일요일에 수여될 금메달을 딸 가능성이 가장 많은 러시아와 캐나다가 남자 싱글과 페어의 쇼트경기에서 포인트를 앞서 나갔다. 세계선수권 3회 챔피언인 패트릭 챈 (89.71점) 은 쉬운 구성의 콤비네이션 점프를 뛰고 트리플 악셀을 빼먹음으로서, 더 느리지만 점프에서 뛰어난 에브게니 플루셴코 (91.39점)가 조금 앞서나가는 것을 허용했다. 그리고 그 두명은 일본의 트러블메이커, 유즈루 하뉴 (97.98점)의 뛰어난 경기에 크게 압도 당했다. 잠시후, 타티아나 볼로소자와 막심 트란코프의 아름다운 왈츠, 하차투리안의 가면무도회가 이이없이 메건 두하멜과 에릭 래드포드의 멋진 연기를 밀어냈다. 러시아가 현재 캐나다를 앞지른 것은 합리적인 것이다.
러시아 코치: "우리가 단체전과 페어에서 금메달을 따도록 미국이 도와 줄 것이다."
그러나 그것은 항상 그렇게 간단하지 않다. 무대 위에서 공연되는 발레를 관찰하기만 해도 충분히 납득할 수 있다. 올림픽을 위한 심판 추첨이 이루어지던 지난 가을 부터, 친구들 사이의 작은 협정들이 이 얼음 위의 즐거운 서커스를 움직이기 시작했다. 봉투 (또는 여행가방) 돌리기 혹은 '좋은 방법'의 거래에 관한 루머들과 함께. 이 뒷거래의 중심에서 러시아는 분명 최악의 환상을 품고있다.
2010년 올림픽에서 단 하나의 메달도 따지 못해 약이 오른 러시아는 홈그라운드에서 두 개 이상의 메달을 따는 것으로 설욕할 계획이다. 단체전과 세계선수권 메달 보유자인 볼로소자-트란코프 조가 있는 페어에서. 그들의 희망을 공고히 하기위해 관계자들은 여러 국가들과 협상을 했다. 익명의 고위 러시아 코치는 미국과 계획된 협정에 관한 내용을 이야기 해주었다. 미국인들은 아무런 경쟁없이 우리가 단체전과 페어에서 금메달을 획득할 수 있도록 도와줄 것이며, 우리는 그 보답으로 데이비스-화이트 조가 캐나다인 버츄-모이어에 대응해 미국에 올림픽 사상 첫 아이스댄싱 금메달을 가져갈 수 있도록 표를 던져줄 것이다.
이 범주에서 소박하게 동메달을 꿈꾸고 있는 프랑스와 이탈리아도 러시아의 지원에 대한 보장을 받을 것이다. 모스크바의 두 커플도 이 목걸이를 간절히 바란다는 사실은 차치하고라도. 마리-헨느 르 구뉴의 주도로 일어난 2002년의 스캔들과 같이 일신의 필요성을 요구하는 상황이다. 당시 사건을 판결한 프랑스의 판사는 프랑스 연맹 총재인 디디에 가야게의 요구로 러시아팀에게 유리하게 점수를 준 것이 사실임을 밝혔다. 이 혜택은 러시아 심판이 아이스댄스팀인 마리나 아니시나와 궨달 페제라를 지지하는 것으로 보상을 받아야 했다. 프랑스 선수들이 러시아와 타이틀을 놓고 경쟁해야 했다는 것을 제외하면 결국 러시아 심판은 자신의 국가 선수들에게 손을 들어 주었다.
결국, 아이스댄싱에 두 개의 금메달이 수여됐고, 두 명의 프랑스 관리는 삼년 동안 자격이 정지됐다. 그리고 신채점제가 도입됐다. 아니시나-페제라팀은 아이스댄싱의 왕좌에 올랐고 그들은 그럴만한 자격이 있었다. 얼음 위에서의 진실성은 존중받을 수 있다는 사실을 증명하는 것이다. 그 실재성은 자신의 존재를 증명하고자 애쓰는 옹졸한 어떤 이들의 음모보다 더 강한 것이다.
최근에는 심판이 다른 심판을 매수하려다 적발되는 사건도 있었다. 2012년 프랑스 니스컵 대회에서 우크라이나 심판 나탈리아 크루글로바가 “우크라이나 페어 선수들의 점수를 올려달라”며 다른 심판을 매수하려고 시도한 혐의가 드러나 2013년 5월 세계빙상연맹으로부터 2년 출전 정지 처분을 받았다. | 2019-04-20T14:17:52 | https://sochiscan2.tistory.com/?page=9 |
0.999865 | 1. To collect or gather. Used tissues heaped up next to my bed while I was sick.
2. To gather or form something into a pile. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "heap" and "up." Heap the dirt up, and I'll come sweep it into the dust pan.
to make something into a pile. He heaped the mashed potatoes up on my plate, because he thought I wanted lots. Heap up the leaves in the corner of the yard.
1. To pile something up: I heaped up the dirty clothes in the corner of my room. The floodwaters heaped debris up onto the beach.
2. To accumulate: Garbage heaped up in the streets. | 2019-04-21T22:07:37 | http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/heap+up |
0.999994 | <p>Marc Cooper thinks Mumia Abu-Jamal makes a poor poster boy for the anti-death-penalty movement. That opinion has earned him the ire of zealous Mumia supporters — as well as a surprising number of accolades from other progressives. The MoJo Wire invites you to get in on the conversation. <p><font face="geneva, arial,sans-serif">Read the article that sparked the debate: “<A HREF="/reality_check/mumia.html"><font color="cc000">What’s Mumia Got to Do With It?</font></A>” Read last week’s responses <A HREF="/talkback/cooperfeb14.html"><font color="cc000">here</font></A>.
The one point that Cooper failed to respond to in Clark Kissinger’s piece is whether or not Cooper has ever talked to a good sampling of the youth who’ve become inspired by the fact that Mumia was, in fact, a Black Panther at age 15 and, despite how it was used against him during his sentencing trial, Mumia continued to stand strong, keep writing, and keep fighting for the people. You should come to an Act Your Rage, a free, monthly open mic put on by the Youth Network of Refuse & Resist! in New York, Boston, Chicago, and other cities, and actually listen to why so many young people–some who never would have considered themselves activists–have come forward to dedicate their lives to stopping this execution and changing the current political climate in this society. And all this because of who Mumia is.
You’ll find that they’re not all “self-described (‘ill-informed’) anarchists who … have boonswangled the rest of the world into believing Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner,” as one man suggested.
You may believe you already know these “flaky” young “cult-groupies,” who’ve decided to “submit” to Clark Kissinger, MOVE, or Mumia, but I dare say they’re not the monolith that mainstream media (including you) have made them out to be. The people who support Mumia range from those who are simply against the death penalty and maybe don’t feel the need to know every piece of evidence or memorize every witness, to those who see the travesty of his trial like you, to people who don’t care about guilt or innocence and believe he ought to be out on the streets just because he’s a revolutionary. You could ask many of these kids if they think Mumia’s innocent and they may give the same answer you did — “I don’t know.” And that’s precisely why they’ve dedicated their time to fighting the execution.
As a link to the spirit of the 1960s, Mumia represents the possibility for change and the role of youth in that change. From middle-class kids in the suburbs to kids who face police harassment everyday in the city — we all see our futures wrapped up in his for many reasons, but basically– if they can execute Mumia on the flimsiness of his trial, what will it mean for us? If his politics can be used against him, what precedents will that set for us?
This proves my point. I find very little appealing about mobilizing anyone — young or old — around the case of one individual whose innocence is dubious.
For the umpteenth time I will repeat that Mumia got a bad trial. That makes him legally innocent. But not morally. I am pleased that Mumia has one of the best criminal defense attorneys in America on his side. I sincerely hope that Mumia exercises all of his legal options to fight for all of his rights. But that alone is not worthy of a mass political movement.
The Free Mumia movement is way too much about Mumia’s case and far too little about the mass application of the death penalty. I refuse to patronize young people just because they are young. They deserve the truth as much as anyone else. I am also old-fashioned enough to believe that the truth is always in order.
I have little to no confidence in the criminal justice system to reveal the truth. I have almost as little confidence in the leaders of the Free Mumia movement. How about agreeing to educate young people on the inequity and barbarity of the death penalty, period? What is so difficult to understand about that?
As one of the 80 percent [of Americans] who support the death penalty, I think Mumia’s case is very good one for death penalty opponents, because it moves me. It causes me to question the criminal justice system. It causes me to question my support of capital punishment.
My concern with capital punishment is that the system is flawed and racially biased. It is only cases like this that show me just how flawed the system is. If the system were corrected, I would probably support the death penalty in some cases. Maybe that’s not your goal, but your absolutist position does not move me.
I get a little impatient with letters like the above. Ms. Harper supports the death penalty, but is moved by Mumia. She “questions” the criminal justice system and her support of state murder, but she opposes my “absolutist” position. She’d like the system to be corrected so she could more freely support the murder of just some of the condemned.
Wow! What better argument for precisely an absolutist position! We need to educate people on the absolute issue. Let’s bring this back to Mumia. What happens to the Free Mumia movement if Mumia does get a new trial, if he gets a fair trial, and if he gets convincingly convicted? They will face two choice: Either give up, or argue that no matter what the evidence, Mumia has to be innocent. The rest of us will be opposing his execution regardless. The rest of us who are absolutists — absolutely!
I don’t know you, but I would like to give you a big HUG for your article about Mumia. Not that I want him to die: NEVER! I am an abolitionist and will always remain so. But people are dying every single day without a single supporter or a single line in a newspaper. Here in France, people are so manipulated that if you ask a personality to say something about some other possibly innocent convict, they answer: yes, but what about Mumia? When the widow of our former President, Mrs. Danièle Mitterrand went to Pennsylvania to visit Mumia, I was appalled.
Thank you for the hug and support. But mostly thanks for your ability boil down into so few words what I clumsily was trying to say. Every person rallying for Mumia is on person fewer rallying for the other nameless 3,500 death-row inmates in America.
Whatever needed to be accomplished in terms of generating publicity for Mumia has already been achieved. He’s better known than Jesus. He has top-notch legal counsel. So? Now what? Are his supporters going to continue making him and his case an obsessive cult? Or are they going to start spending some of their energy on all the other prisoners, including, say, “confessed cop-killers?
I would also like to take a moment to put a challenge to the readers: I have been heavily attacked for having the temerity to suggest that Mumia is not the best icon for the anti-death penalty movement. But where is the outrage around C. Clark Kissinger? Here we have the leading, most vocal supporter of Mumia Abu-Jamal strenuously arguing in favor of public executions staged in sports stadiums. Am I the only one who thinks it outrageous? I hope not. I know not.
Read last week’s discussion with Marc Cooper. | 2019-04-22T16:20:07 | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/02/mumia-pro-and-con-1/ |
0.998075 | OLYMPIA - With marine toxin levels still hovering at levels deemed unsafe to human health, coastal beaches will remain closed to razor clam digging at least until next fall, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has announced.
Dan Ayres, WDFW coastal shellfish manager, said the decision to officially end the 2002-03 razor clam season was prompted by the latest round of toxin samples, which showed that domoic acid levels in razor clams continue to exceed state health standards.
"The test results dashed any hopes of an opening before the clams begin to spawn," Ayres said. "Now we just have to keep our fingers crossed that toxin levels will drop sufficiently that we can open beaches for digging in fall."
Elevated levels of domoic acid have kept coastal beaches in Washington and Oregon closed to razor clam digging throughout the season, which began in October of 2002. Similar conditions prompted season-long closures in Washington in 1991-92 and again in 1998-99.
Domoic acid, a marine toxin produced by the pseudo-nitzschia algae, can cause serious illness, loss of short-term memory and even death if ingested in sufficient quantities. In 1987, when the first cases of domoic acid poisoning were reported in North America, three people died and 107 became ill after eating toxin-laden mussels from Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada.
No toxin-related deaths have ever been reported in Washington, and no cases of domoic acid poisoning have been reported in the state since toxin levels in coastal waters skyrocketed in October of 2002.
"That is definitely the good news from this season," Ayres said. "We really hate to tell people they can't go digging, but public health has to be our first priority."
The Washington Department of Health (DOH), which has the responsibility for monitoring shellfish contamination, has assured the public that all commercially harvested shellfish currently in the market place have been subjected to a rigorous testing program and are safe for consumption.
Under protocols established by DOH, domoic acid levels in all razor clam samples taken from a beach must test below 20 parts per million (ppm) for two consecutive weeks before WDFW can open a fishery. Shortly after the scheduled season opener last October, toxin levels jumped as high as 185 ppm at some beaches, then slowly began to decline but never far enough to meet the DOH standard.
At Long Beach, where toxin levels have generally been the lowest of any of Washington's five razor clam beaches, clam meat tested May 12 still showed concentrations of domoic acid at 39 ppm. In tests conducted May 4-5, toxin levels were 38 ppm at Twin Harbors, 43 ppm at Mocrocks, 54 ppm at Copalis and 84 ppm at Kalaloch.
"Since March, we've been sampling every two weeks at Long Beach, where we thought we had the best chance of an opening," Ayres said. "We gave it our best shot, but we ran out of time. Once the spawning period gets under way in early June, we need to give the clams time to fatten up and recover."
Although scientists have not found a way to control toxin-producing algae blooms, they are developing better methods of detecting when they have occurred. Since 1999, WDFW has been working with variety of federal, state and educational organizations through the Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) partnership to develop an "early warning system" for marine toxin outbreaks.
The new monitoring system, which detects toxicity in coastal waters, helped to confirm indications of increasing domoic acid levels in clams at the start of the 2002-03 season. On May 14, Governor Locke signed legislation into law that will provide continued funding for that effort and the DOH testing program through a $3 surcharge on shellfish licenses and a $2 surcharge on combination fishing licenses.
In addition, a team of scientists from the University of Washington and several federal agencies recently received a $8.7 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study a potential source of domoic acid in Northwest waters. Previous research by team members suggests that an eddy off the Strait of Juan de Fuca may serve as a focal point for pseudo-nitzschia algae blooms, that can cause elevated toxin levels. The five-year study is designed to determine how the eddy functions, and find ways to predict and monitor domoic acid outbreaks on the Washington coast. | 2019-04-24T00:29:21 | http://www.jesseshunting.com/archive/index.php/t-34701.html?s=6297164e05638bbfaa4d9d82b4d9d037 |
0.998587 | Is there a way to download my hubs?
I was just thinking, usually I make sure I copy and paste my hubs into Word, or write them in word beforehand - either way, I make sure I save them. But recently I haven't been. I know with facebook you can download your profile, which is all your photos, photos of you, your notes, etc. I'm wondering if Hubpages has the same option and if not, why the bugger not??
I have not seen any such option over here on HP so far. I believe there is no way to download.
No feature in Hubpages to download Hubs. Either print them or copy and paste.
There is no option for downloading that I'm aware of but...wouldn't it be a fabulous addition to HP? Hint, hint to the powers that be.
If you have adobe acrobat or some other way to make pdf's you could select print, and save your hubs as a pdf on your computer. I was thinking about this in case something happened to hubpages I would still be able to access my writing.
Kimberly, that is brilliant and a great solution for all of us. For anyone who doesn't use adobe, there is a freebie softward called "Cute pdf" that works great for printing to a pdf file too. Thanks for a great solution.
You are very welcome! I have never heard of Cute pdf. I will have to check that out.
1. Open up a a blank Microsoft Word doc.
2. Go back to your blank doc and press control V (paste). Then paste into your Word Document. It will take a bit if you have pictures, etc. and Microsoft will ask you some question which I just answered "yes" or "continue" or something.
I just tried it with my How to Publish a Children's Book, which you can see has lots of content and graphics. However, THE PRINT WAS HUGE after the "paste," so I Selected All (control A) again in the Word doc and changed font to 11 Arial, and clicked View Normal. When I look at document on the screen, the text looks like it's all the way to the left margin with a lot of white space to the right, but when you PREVIEW for PRINTING, you'll see that it looks as if it will print properly. If you try it and it works for you, I'd love to know.
This would be a great feature. I write my hubs in word and then copy and paste them to the site. That way I have back up on my pc.
I usually have my hubs backed up anyway on my PC, because I write them there and transfer them to the appropriate capsules while editing.
There's no download option, but if you want you can go to File>Save Page As and use a PDF converter to save the web page to your computer. As Billie Kelpin mentioned, I usually just make a Word document copy of all my Hubs, and paste my Hub photos in at the bottom of the document. That seems to be the simplest way. A download feature would be nice, though!
Do you recommend any pdf converter? I don't have adobe. Thanks.
unable to copy/paste a PDF or a Word doc into a text capsule.
Do we need to backup our Hubpages articles? | 2019-04-23T22:01:38 | https://hubpages.com/community/forum/278701/is-there-a-way-to-download-my-hubs |
0.997903 | Book publishers and e-reader manufacturers continue to aggressively push out e-books over a variety of platforms and through stores and wireless channels.
Today, Toronto-based Kobo announced that Kobo eReaders loaded with some new and bestselling Random House books will be available free of charge to guests staying at 10 Fairmont hotels in the U.S. and Canada.
In a promotion geared to appeal people who don't want to carry heavy books on vacation, Kobo will provide e-readers to Fairmont hotels and the hotels will make the devices available to loan to people who stay in their exclusive Fairmont Gold sections.
The e-readers available to Fairmont guests will be loaded with works by Bret Easton Ellis, Sophie Kinsella and Alexander McCall Smith, among other authors. When guests return the e-readers to the hotel, they will receive electronic coupons good for $2 off certain Random House titles.
Kobo eReaders sell for $149 at Borders bookstores in the U.S. Kobo also has e-reading apps for the BlackBerry, the iPhone , Android phones and tablets like the iPad . Kobo is following the trend used by other vendors of e-readers -- including Amazon.com with its Kindle and Barnes & Noble with its Nook -- of selling a branded e-reader as well as supporting e-reading on smartphones and tablets. Any e-books that a Kobo customer acquires --whether he pays for them or gets them for free -- can be bookmarked from one device to another. | 2019-04-21T18:54:09 | https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/print/356638/kobo_offers_free_use_its_e-readers_10_fairmont_hotels/ |
0.999999 | Instructions 1.You could either put all the ingredients in the pressure cooker in the order listed, or you could follow the steps below.
2. Turn your Instant Pot or pressure cooker on Sauté, and follow the steps in this order.
3. Cut up the bacon and put it in the hot pressure cooker.
4. Start dicing the onion and put it in as you cut it.
5. Stir the bacon and onions and start cutting up the green beans.
6. Add the beans, water, salt and pepper to the pot.
7. Cook on high pressure for 4 minutes, and release all pressure immediately.
8. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed before serving. | 2019-04-24T11:59:02 | http://www.breezywillowfarm.com/recipe/6523 |
0.999943 | Can unity handle advanced 2d effects?
I'm an experienced Flash developer looking into Unity. Its 3D capabilities are great but in my project I'd like to use 2d effects and interfaces. Can unity work with dynamically generated and animated bitmaps? Or maybe there's something like Pixel Benders effects for bitmaps?
What are best practices for working with 2D elements in unity?
There is a commercial product I know of that makes working with 2D textures inside Unity their job. It's called Sprite Manager 2, and can be found here.
You can dynamically create bitmaps using SetPixel(s), however altering bitmaps frequently is not really a good idea since they have to be re-uploaded to the graphics card by using the Apply() function, which is a relatively slow process. Generally you do animation by using UV offsets in texture atlases, or by moving images around in space (or both).
From what I know about Unity I have also heard much praise for the UV offseting. Essentially your 3D Texture becomes the sprite sheet.
Textures can be switched at runtime to facilitate your request for dynamic content. | 2019-04-20T10:59:07 | https://answers.unity.com/questions/27366/can-unity-handle-advanced-2d-effects.html |
0.999292 | Buddhism. Indian Buddhism peaked in the 3rd century BC, during the reign of Asoka the Great, who patronised Buddhism following his conversion. He sent missionaries abroad, allowing Buddhism to spread across Asia. However, Indian Buddhism declined constantly following the loss of royal patronage, and today only 0.8% of the Indian population are Buddhists.
What is the second most spoken language in India (by number of native speakers)?
Bengali. The number of native speakers is the highest for Hindi (41.1% of the population) followed by Bengali (8.11%), Telugu (7.19%), Marathi (6.99%), Tamil (5.91%) and Urdu (5.01%).
What percentage of people in India speak English?
12%. About 12% of the inhabitants of India speak English. This makes India the world's second-largest English-speaking nation (with 125 million English speakers), after the United States.
Indigo dye. In 1863, the German chemists Ferdinand Reich and Hieronymous Theodor Richter found a blue line in the spectrum of tested minerals. As no element was known with a bright blue emission, they concluded a new element was present, and they named it from the indigo color in its spectrum.
Which country apart from England, France, Portugal and Netherlands established a colony in India?
Denmark. The colony was run by the Danish East India Company with headquarters in Tranguebar (currently Tarangambadi) nearby Madras (Chennai) that was later settled by the English. | 2019-04-18T12:19:28 | https://globalquiz.org/en/top-india-facts/ |
0.999996 | What sort of personal information do we collect and hold?
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For information about privacy generally, or if your concerns are not resolved to your satisfaction, you may contact the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.gov.au and on 1300 363 992. | 2019-04-23T02:11:24 | http://www.liverpoolnc.org.au/privacy/ |
0.999992 | After five years as a lonelysentinel in space, an American spacecraft that has already crossed paths withone small comet is about to visit another icy wanderer: Comet Hartley 2.
The spacecraft inquestion is Deep Impact, a NASA probe launched in 2005 that visited the CometTempel 1 on July 4 of that year and smacked the comet with an impactor vehicle tokick up material and see what it was made of.
Astronomers used telescopesin space and on Earth to watch the DeepImpact's comet collision, and now they're ramping up again for thespacecraft's flyby of Comet Hartley 2. The comet flyby occursThursday (Nov. 4) at about 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 GMT).
But Deep Impact's new cometrendezvous ? which NASA calls EPOXI ? won't be noticeable to Earth-basedobservers when the spacecraft makes its closest approach to Hartley 2.
Unlike in 2005, when DeepImpact's impactor raised a cloud of dust from the nucleus of Tempel 1, no suchaudacious maneuver is planned during its flyby of CometHartley 2. As a result, ground based observers will see no changes in theappearance of the comet and besides, the spacecraft itself is far too small tobe seen using ground based telescopes.
Comet Hartley 2 was notNASA's first choice for Deep Impact's second comet rendezvous.
Mission scientistsoriginally planned for a December 2008 flyby of Comet Boethin and on July 21,2005 the Deep Impact probe fired its thrusters in a maneuver that allowed it touse Earth's gravity to begin a new mission in a path toward Comet Boethin.
But soon scientists wasrealized that there was a problem.
Astronomers could not findComet Boethin in surveys and suspect that it apparently fragmented into myriad tinyparticles. This meant rewriting a new game plan for Deep Impact.
A new target was selected:Comet 103P/Hartley 2.
To reach this new comet,however, would require an extra two years of travel for the spacecraft. On May28 of this year, the spacecraft fired its thrusters in a correction burn sentit whipping past the Earth on June 27 to use our planet?s gravity to aim itselfon a course for a flybyof Comet Hartley 2. ??
CometHartley 2 is a relatively small comet with orbital period of about 6.46 years.It was discovered by Malcolm Hartley in 1986 at the Schmidt Telescope Unit inSiding Spring, Australia.
UnlikeComet Boethin, Hartley 2 has been well observed by both amateur andprofessional astronomers in the weeks and months leading up to its encounter bythe Deep Impact spacecraft.
Thecomet passed within 11.2 million miles of Earth (about 45 times the distance tothe moon) on Oct. 20.? Last week, the comet arrived at perihelion ? its closestapproach to the sun ? at a distance of 97.6 million miles (157 million km) fromthe star.? It is now moving away from both the sun and Earth.
?This spacecraft, and mission team, have logged 3.2 billion milesover the past five years, and we are confident that we have a successful planin place to give Hartley 2 a thorough look-see," said Tim Larson, projectmanager for NASA's EPOXI mission at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Amateurastronomers have been tracking Comet Hartley 2 in recent weeks with binocularsand small telescopes. It has appeared mainly as a dim, circular patch of light.
Observationsby the Hubble Space Telescope have also helped plan Thursday?s flyby of thecomet.
The observation campaign has been a tantalizing tease of things tocome and provided EPOXI?s science team the best extended view of a comet inhistory during its pass through the inner solar system. The Hubble observationswill continue through the encounter phase of the mission.
Thelatest observations of Hartley 2 shows that the comet's nucleus, its core ofice and rock, has a diameter of approximately just under a mile (1.5 km), whichis consistent with previous estimates.
Barringan unforeseen breakup (like what happened to Comet Boethin), Hartley 2 shouldbe able to survive up to another 100 circuits through the solar system (about 700years) at its current rate of mass loss.
Havingpassed closest to the sun on Oct. 28, Comet Hartley 2 is now is in its mostactive state.
Deep Impact isclosing in on Comet Hartley 2 at a rate of 7.8 miles ?per second (12.5 kps).
On Nov. 4 atabout 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 GMT), the spacecraft will make its closest approachto the comet at a distance of about 434 miles (700 km).
?It will be onlythe fifth time that a comet has been photographed up close and the first timein history that one spacecraft has observed two different comets with the sameset of instruments.
The mission?sencounter phase begins late Wednesday (Nov. 3), when the spacecraft is about 18hours from the time of closest approach to the comet?s nucleus.
At that time thespacecraft will stop transmitting through its large high-gain antenna andreorient itself so its two visible-light and one infrared imager maintain lockon the comet for the next 24 hours or so.?
At that point,the spacecraft will begin beaming down its cache of comet close-ups whilecontinuing to take new images. It is expected to take several hours for all theimages aboard Deep Impact to be beamed back to Earth.
Comets seem to resemblefrozen froth left over from the tempestuous birth of the solar system some 4.5billion years ago.
Astronomers think the interiors of comets havechanged little since then and contain pristine ice, gases, dust and othermaterials from the solar system's formation. But their true nature is probablymore perplexing than that of any other object within the gravitational grip ofthe sun.?
So scientists believe that understandingcomets is a way of understanding how the solar system was born.?
Another reason to studycomets is that they can pose a threat of colliding with Earth, just like asteroids,and have the potential to cause cataclysmic damage.?
Defending against suchpossibilities requires knowing more about these objects in hopes of possiblydeflecting or even destroying objects those that might potentially cross pathswith our planet. | 2019-04-24T19:53:05 | https://www.space.com/9453-deep-impact-spacecraft-closing-comet-hartley-2.html |
0.998489 | Why are fonts more expensive when used in games?
I'm a video game developer who loves fonts. I noticed that fonts are often more expensive when they are bought to be used in games.
For example, a font called Daft Brush on HypeForType is sold for $20 when it is for "desktop" usage is, but is sold for $400 when bought to be used in games.
The reason is when you're buying the font for a desktop, it can be used to author text on one or two machines, by one person. When you have a game the game authors those texts on many machines so the situation is the same as if you'd buy a license for each player separately.
So as long as the font has a pay per usage model a game would constitute many uses. The font makers realize your game company is not going to buy the fonts for each game separately so they cap the price for something like in this case 20 licenses, which acts as unlimited uses.
This is where it gets a bit murky. If the font is NOT being used as a font but as a bitmap then you don't necessarily have to pay the font price. As it would be the same as sending artwork to press. Unfortunately the font creator is free to use whatever licensing model he chooses so there's nothing to stop them for charging more if you use red underpants. In reality people tend to charge you what you get for it. So what you're really seeing is cost going up as the value for you goes up. This kind of price fluctuation is perfectly normal, if you go to shop in an area with richer people prices also go up.
So you're just getting a higher value for the font hence you pay more. Another way to look at it is this: If they would charge you the same as the desktop model you'd be paying $20 for each game sold, so you're actually getting a good deal here.
There's more money in making a game than allowing a single graphic designer to use it in his works. This becomes obvious when you consider that games tend to be developed in teams, but "desk" type licenses usually allow only a single user to employ the font.
Hence, bigger interest (aka. demand) and ability to pay leads to higher price.
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What type of license will allow me to modify a base font with original ligatures and resell it as a commercial icon font?
Is there a central font-license search site?
how to view/print all the characters in a font (mac ox10.12)? | 2019-04-24T04:32:04 | https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/48731/why-are-fonts-more-expensive-when-used-in-games |
0.999579 | We are open Thursday 2/4 from 7:30 am - 12:30 pm. The store is closed Friday 2/5 - Tuesday 2/9. We will resume our regular hours on Wednesday 2/10. | 2019-04-20T19:11:05 | https://buffnbluestore.com/blogs/news/90012934-carnival-hours |
0.999953 | "We make ourselves a bell for the church."
Translation:Noi ne facem un clopot la biserică.
When a translation has "for", when does one prefer "la" va "pentru"?
I would say PENTRU biserică, not LA.
Hello Lacusta! The given translation is right. I am a native Romanian speaker and it sounds unnaturally to say "biserica". The definitive article in Romanian is used for something already mentioned/known by the speakers. In English, it is used to mark "an accusative case", although English does not have a case system. General rule: in Romanian, if a noun is preceded by a preposition, it does not take the definitive article only if the sentence does not give additional information about it (Noi ne facem un clopot la biserica de lângă tine.). I hope you understood what I tried to explain! Baftă în continuare!
After most prepositions Romanian doesn't use the definite article even when the noun is definite.
Ioan is correct. The preposition makes the difference. | 2019-04-24T14:12:21 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26373048/We-make-ourselves-a-bell-for-the-church |
0.974386 | Back in the 1960s, the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky claimed that the human brain is hardwired with an innate understanding of language. This became known as the Universal Grammar theory, and was offered as an explanation of the speed at which children tend to learn their first language. Genetically, the human mind is predisposed to making sense of words and arranging them in a logical sequence as we overcome the initial disorder of learning a language.
Of course, not everybody agreed with Chomsky's linguistic theory, just as not everybody agrees with the political positions that he has latterly become better known for. One psychologist, Herbert Terrace, went so far in his opposition to Chomsky's ideas that he conducted an experiment in which he tried to teach American Sign Language to a chimpanzee. In a play on words, he even named his enforced research participant Nim Chimpsky.
But new research suggesting a link between written language and something more fundamental in our brains could mean we need to look again at Chomsky's ideas. The study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, found that participants could guess what sounds were represented by letters from unfamiliar alphabets at rates better than you would expect from simple chance. If we have an innate ability to understand writing, then perhaps language more generally is something found much deeper in brains than other learned skills.
The new research considers how our minds work when we try to decipher the composition of sound, according to letters, like when we work out the difference between Chomsky and Chimpsky. What is that causes us to associate the letter K with the sharp sound it represents? Is it because of the physical shape where sharp points protrude from a straight and upright stem? Does that visual representation touch upon something hardwired into our memories on a par with universal grammar? Or, on the other hand, is this just how we are taught to interpret the letter K?
In both situations, the participants were shown unfamiliar letters from a diverse range of up to 56 alphabets, representing the sounds of /i/ (the "ee" sound in "feet"), and /u/ (the "oo" sound in "shoe"). Their task was then to guess which of the letters represented the two sounds and report this back to the researchers.
Initial findings from the research suggest that there is indeed a relationship between written shapes and the sounds they represent. When presented with a pair of unfamiliar letters, the readers could guess which was which at rates higher than expected by chance. This suggests that some characteristics of linguistic sounds can be extracted from individual letter shapes by something other than prior learning or experience.
A single study isn't definitive proof, of course, and we'd need more research to really find out. But it does suggest that, in the same vein as Chomsky's theory of universal grammar, associations between linguistic sounds and visual features could be hardwired into the human brain. This makes the study significant for several reasons. First, it makes an important contribution to the fields of psycholinguistics (the relationship between language and psychological processes) and understanding how we acquire languages, for both native and non-native learners of languages.
Has the brain adapted to language, or did our language adapt to the brain?
Innate simply means that the language mirrored innate patterns in the brain. Why do it the hard way? Utilise what is already there.
But of course the process is two way and some degree of symbiosis between brain and abstract shared language is also part of our evolutionary mix! | 2019-04-24T03:03:18 | https://phys.org/news/2017-09-ability-recognise-letters-hard-wired-brains.html |
0.999468 | "We are thinking about decriminalizing marijuana, and we think all of this s*** is going to go away when we do, so, hello?" Normand said. "The havoc it will wreak on our streets will be insurmountable."
"In fact, crime stats in Colorado shows both violent crimes and property crimes are down since pot became legal, and [Kevin] Caldwell [executive director of pro-legalization group Commonsense NOLA] said part of that is because of the jobs and economic boost the marijuana market has created for the state."
Indeed. I live by South Broadway in Denver, near at least a dozen legal Cannabis dispensaries, and the streets are noticeably free of havoc, insurmountable or otherwise. After nearly fifteen years of legal medical marijuana and nearly sixteen months of legal recreational pot, Colorado is decidedly not the crime-ridden, degenerate wasteland that prohibitionists hoped it would be. Regulation works, however imperfect it may be, and it can help prevent deadly black market-related shootouts like the one Normand's deputies were involved in.
It's not surprising that a good-ol'-boy sheriff like Normand blamed Cannabis for the shootout; like the DEA and many other police departments across the country, he views drug-related crime as a symptom of the drug itself rather than of the draconian laws against it. It's pretty simple: pistol-wielding street dealers have no place in a legal, regulated Cannabis market.
Unlike the sheriff - who wondered quite loudly at his press conference "[w]hy are we not talking about the drug dealing!?" - I don't wonder why Willis was dealing pot; the illegal drug racket is an alluring option to those who grow up in a world of poverty, limited or no education, and few other options for making a living.
Instead, I wonder why nobody is talking about the seemingly effortless acquisition of firearms by anyone and everyone who wants them. After all, it was the obvious and deadly threat presented by the firearm, not the pot, that threatened the lives of the deputies and the public, in this case and many others like it.
I wonder if Normand's office has done any investigations into how these drug dealers are acquiring their guns and how the flow might be stopped, or at the very least combated? If anything is causing "insurmountable havoc" on American streets, it is the deadly combination of arcane, simplistic anti-drug laws and an unchecked, and seemingly unscrutinized, underground firearms trade. These two phenomena are responsible for more "drug-related" violence than any amount of pot ever. Our inability to discuss and engage these two huge oversights in public policy is what ultimately provides the impetus for broad-daylight shootouts like the one in New Orleans, which could have very easily claimed the lives of law officers as well as innocent bystanders. | 2019-04-23T04:20:30 | http://www.hempiricalevidence.com/2015/04/modern-day-reefer-madness-after.html |
0.999533 | Windows does not yet have a MIDI Manager. What this means is that it doesn't really arbitrate access to MIDI Input and Output intelligently between applications. Essentially, it leaves it up to each device driver to arbitrate access to its MIDI Input and Output (and without any standardized means for the driver to provide information about its status to the application). Needless to say, there are some caveats to this method (and general guidelines you should follow) as described below.
Many drivers are single client. Such a driver allows only one call to open its MIDI In to succeed (regardless of whether that Input is opened via midiInOpen(), or a high level MCI call). The driver also allows only one call to open its MIDI Out to succeed (regardless of whether that Output is opened via midiOutOpen(), a high level MCI call, or even midiStreamOpen()).
For example, if your application has successfully opened that driver for output (via a midiOutOpen call perhaps), then it owns that driver's MIDI Out. (ie, Your application has exclusive access to that MIDI Output). If some other application tries to subsequently open that Output (perhaps via midiOutOpen), then that application's call to midiOutOpen() will fail (and usually return an error number that is translated to a message of "Device is busy" by midiOutGetErrorText).
Only when your application finally closes that MIDI Output (via midiOutClose perhaps) will the "lock" upon that particular Output be released, and then another application can successfully open that Output.
Of course, the above example also pertains to MIDI Inputs (ie, midiInOpen, etc).
What is the result of this? Well, it means that, despite your application running under a multitasking system (ie, Win32), if your application opens a MIDI Input or Output and "hogs" it by keeping it open the entire time that your application is running, then the enduser will not be able to simultaneously run other MIDI software that wants to use that MIDI Input/Output. He'll just get "Device is busy" error messages from that other application every time he tries to do something with that application's MIDI Input/Output. You'll effectively be preventing him from multitasking another MIDI application in conjunction with that particular MIDI Input/Output. He'll have to close down your application every time he wants to use that other application with that MIDI Input/Output. And if the other application hogs that Input/Output too, then the reverse is also true. (ie, Every time he wants to run your application, he'll have to close down that other application).
This is very annoying to an enduser. It turns his multitasking operating system into something that looks like a singletasking operating system -- and one that doesn't manage resources.
So what is one way of getting around this? Well, a simple solution is not to hog the Input/Output. Don't open the MIDI Input/Output until you're actually ready to do some MIDI input/output (ie, midiOutShortMsg, midiOutLongMsg, doing some input/output via MCI, etc). Do that MIDI input/output as quickly as possible, and then immediately close that MIDI Input/Output. The net result is that you'll only be preventing multitasking for a short time while you're actually doing some input/output. If the other applications are doing the same, then everyone will be happy, as the enduser can switch between those applications running concurrently, and as long as he doesn't try to make both applications do MIDI input/output simultaneously (which can be a bad thing as you'll learn below), his applications will be sharing the MIDI Input/Output.
Give the enduser a means to start the operation of receiving a dump. For example, maybe have a button labeled "Receive Dump" upon which he clicks to begin the operation. Do not open MIDI Input or Output until he clicks upon that button.
When he clicks upon the button (to start the data dump), open MIDI Out with a call to midiOutOpen(). Also open MIDI In with a call to midiInOpen() (and setup some means of collecting the incoming bytes that Windows will pass to your application).
Send your "dump request" System Exclusive message to MIDI Out.
Collect the incoming MIDI data that Windows passes to you.
When you see that you have a complete dump from the sound module, call midiOutClose() and midiInClose().
The above solution is all well and good for some applications, but it's an impractical solution for some other types of applications. Let's take the example of a "MIDI Input Viewer" program. It "displays" each incoming MIDI message in realtime (ie, immediately when the message comes into the MIDI In and is passed to the application by Windows).
Obviously, that application can't know ahead of time when MIDI messages will be forthcoming and how much data will be coming in (unlike the patch editor, which knows that a dump will be following shortly after that "dump request", and knows how many bytes to expect).
A slightly different approach could be to give the enduser a button to start recording (at which time you call midiInOpen) and a button to stop recording (at which time you call midiInClose). In this way, he could stop recording before he switched to another application, and therefore still have his applications share that MIDI Input. But there is an even better solution which makes sharing the Input/Outputs transparent to the enduser, as you'll learn later.
But as (bad) luck would have it, many programmers wrote MIDI software that doesn't even allow this minimal level of sharing. They wrote software that hogs the MIDI In or Out for the entire time that the program is running. Why? Well, sometimes it could be because the software allows access to numerous MIDI Inputs and Outputs simultaneously, and it takes too much time and trouble to open/close them all before/after each operation. If the software is a MIDI sequencer, such timing delays prior to recording/playing may be crucial. Therefore, the software simply leaves all inputs/outputs constantly open so that the software will be "ready to go" whenever the user starts it recording/playing. But this is still a poor excuse for why the software doesn't close those inputs/outputs when the enduser switches to some other application. This is easy to implement under Win32, as you'll learn later. After all, if the enduser is switching to another application, he probably doesn't really care whether the first application is ready to do input/output at that moment (and if he does, there's a simple solution to handle that case too, which I'll outline later).
Because too many programmers wrote MIDI applications that hog the inputs/outputs, some manufacturers of sound cards and MIDI interfaces started shipping multiclient drivers with their products.
A multiclient (sometimes called multi-instance) driver is one which allows more than one application to open a MIDI input or output. (ie, More than one call to midiOutOpen or midiInOpen will succeed). In essense, the driver lets two or more applications simultaneously open a MIDI input/output, unbeknowst to each other, and the driver itself tries to manage (ie, mix) their MIDI output, and also provides the applications separate copies of each incoming MIDI message.
Lots of endusers scramble for multiclient drivers so that they don't have to shut down MIDI programs in order to run other MIDI programs.
But there is one problem here. The two applications don't know that they're both outputting to the same MIDI port perhaps simultaneously. And the driver may not be intelligent enough to know when that's a good or bad thing. Let's take the example of that patch editor above.
Let's say that when the patch editor sends a data dump back to the sound module, instead of sending one large, complete system exclusive message in a single call to midiOutLongMsg(), it breaks one System Exclusive message into numerous "blocks of data bytes" sent via several calls to midiOutLongMsg(). Well, hopefully the driver is smart enough to not allow another application to do some MIDI Output inbetween the other application's midiOutLongMsg() calls until the driver detects the end of a System Exclusive message. Otherwise, the other application will screw up the patch editor's dump.
And Windows provides no standardized way for an application to tell a driver to give it exclusive access to a port, so an application is at the mercy of a multiclient driver's behavior in handling multiple output requests.
So too, if both programs are simultaneously outputting MIDI note messages, they may be turning off each other's Note On messages (with Note Off messages) or stacking Note Ons for the same note number and resulting in "stuck notes". Or they could be doing other conflicting things which the driver doesn't resolve.
And all of this multiclient stuff, particularly in regards to System Exclusive message input and output, imposes unnecessay overhead upon the driver. A single client driver can be much more stream-lined and efficient.
In fact, multiclient drivers decrease efficiency and yield poorer performance where a single client driver would suffice. (And those "loopback drivers" are even worse. These really play havoc with the efficiency of MIDI input/output). A MIDI Manager that arbitrated access to multiple ports, in conjunction with application support, would not only be more efficient (because all of its drivers could then be single client, instead of every driver duplicating the functionality and overhead of a poor "MIDI Manager" inside of it), it could also be more flexible (for example, allowing applications to choose when they want to share an Input/Output and when they don't -- control which they do not have over a multi-client driver).
Needless to say, a multiclient driver is no substitute for a MIDI Manager that is capable of allowing applications some control over sharing an Input/Output. Mostly, musicians use multiclient drivers for the sole purpose of avoiding having to shut down programs that hog the MIDI Input/Output. Clearly, what is needed is a better way for an application to access a MIDI Input/Output without hogging it, but also having to avoid the speed overhead of opening an Input/Output before every operation and then immediately closing it afterward (which as I pointed out above, is not suitable for some types of MIDI applications). If the enduser had software that could do that, instead of hogging an Input/Output, then he wouldn't need multiclient drivers at all. In fact, his software could share Inputs/Outputs with the multitude of single client drivers that are out there now.
Such a method is what we'll investigate now.
If your application has a window of your own creation (and virtually all non-console Windows applications do), then a simple way of sharing a MIDI port with other applications, transparently to the enduser, is to process the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message. This message tells you whether your application is becoming active (ie, the user has selected any window that you created, and thereby given your program the focus) or inactive (ie, the user has selected a window created by another application, and therefore, if your application isn't already doing something in the background, it becomes inactive). In processing this message, you should close any MIDI ports you have open if the wParam argument is 0 (ie, you're going inactive) or reopen them if wParam is 1 (ie, you're active).
In this way, your application transparently releases the MIDI devices when the user switches away from it to another program. And your application also transparently reopens the MIDI devices when the user switches back to it. Because this processing is done in the WM_ACTIVATEAPP, it happens as soon as your application becomes active. This includes when your application initially starts, and so, the WM_ACTIVATEAPP code also serves to initially open your MIDI devices. Quick and easy.
What's so great about this? Well, you can hog the MIDI Input/Output to your hearts content... while your program is active (and the other MIDI programs are inactive). And when your program is inactive, you don't care about hogging the MIDI Input/Output. Now, you don't have to open/close the MIDI devices before/after each operation, and yet, you'll be sharing the MIDI ports with other applications -- even doing so transparently to the enduser, in a way that works with single client drivers too. That's what is so great about it.
Below is some example code to illustrate this. It contains a minimal WinMain() function (ie, program entry point for a Windows C program) which opens a window of my own creation. (For simplicity, I use a dialog template in a resource file, and call CreateDialog, but you could use CreateWindowEx). Its message handler is mainWndProc(). That's where I open and close MIDI devices by processing the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message. mainWndProc() references two globals, MidiInHandle and MidiOutHandle, which are initially set to 0 at program startup. Whenever these two handles are 0, I know that I don't have my MIDI In and Out devices open. By checking these globals for 0, this makes the code bulletproof. I sort of made "wrapper functions" for midiOutOpen(), midiInOpen(), midiOutClose(), and midiInClose() that operate upon those global handles, just to make it easier.
* Close MIDI In Device if it's open.
* recording. (midiInputEvt is my callback to process input).
* Returns 0 if success. Otherwise, an error number.
* Use midiInGetErrorText to retrieve an error message.
* Close MIDI Out Device if it's open.
* Opens MIDI Out Device #0. Stores handle in MidiOutHandle.
* Use midiOutGetErrorText to retrieve an error message.
Note: For the sake of simplicity, I omit code above to notify the user if an error occurred in opening a MIDI device. That's usually something that he would want to know.
Of course, you would likely add menus and controls to your window, to allow the user to perform some MIDI operations. And you would add WM_COMMAND message processing to your window procedure to do that user interaction. One caveat is that, before you make any call to do MIDI output, you should first check that MidiOutHandle is not 0. After all, it may be that some other application has not been as nice as you, and didn't relinquish its death grip on the MIDI Output you're trying to use. In that case, the MIDI Output may not reopen. (Same thing with MIDI Input, but since Windows calls you for MIDI input, rather than you calling a Windows function, all that happens when MIDI Input doesn't reopen is that your MIDI input routines never get called).
There is one thing that I've noticed about some drivers. They allow an application to quickly return from a call to midiOutClose() or midiInClose(), but the driver then goes on to do some "cleanup" in the background. The driver may not yet be ready to allow someone else to do a midiInOpen() or midiInClose() during that time, and may return a "Device is busy" error. The net result is that, if another application is doing the same thing as above (ie, opening and closing devices in its WM_ACTIVATEAPP processing), there may not be enough time between when that application closes the device and when you try to open it. After all, you both are processing your WM_ACTIVATEAPP messages around the same time (on each of your timeslices).
I have found that a good work around is not to do the device opens while processing the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message. Rather, have that message post another, user-defined message to your window handler (ie, a message with an ID of WM_USER or greater). And then when your window procedure processes the WM_USER message is where you do the opens. This works because, when your application is getting the focus, there are usually a slew of messages sent and processed by your window procedure, and these get done well before you get around to that WM_USER message. Typically, a driver's background tasks get higher priority, so the driver will likely get done well before you get around to reopening the device.
Another concern I have observed under Windows 2000 (but not other versions of Win32) is when you go to close down your application. (ie, Close down all windows). You should close any MIDI handles you have before you call DestroyWindow() upon your last window. Otherwise, if you wait to close those handles after the call to DestroyWindow(), then the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message may be sent to another app which will try to open those same MIDI handles. (ie, During your call to DestroyWindow() upon your last open window, Windows 2000 will fire off the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message to some other app).
Ok, you say, "But what about those times when I want to continue doing something with MIDI in the background while another program gets the focus?" For example, maybe you want to continue playing a MIDI file in the background, and don't want to stop just because the user switches to a paint program.
In that case, you should give the user the option of whether he wants your program to continue doing MIDI in the background. One good approach is to have some menu item he can check or uncheck which signals whether he wants you to "relinquish" the MIDI devices when your application is deactivated. Here I have a global, NoRelinquishFlag. When the user tells me to "hold onto the device", I set this to one. If the user wants me to relinquish the MIDI devices when he moves to another app, then I clear it. (I won't bother showing you how to set and clear variables). Below, I show you the simple modification you need to make to implement intelligent MIDI sharing that should encompass your software's requirements.
When a program crashes, and it has no exception handling of its own, the Win32 default exception handling is invoked. This default handling attempts to free up resources for the program. For example, if you have some file open, the handle to it is closed. Under Windows 2000/NT/XP, the default exception handling unfortunately does not close any MIDI handles you have open. The net result is that, after a program crashes, no program will be able to open that MIDI port until you reboot the system.
But there is a way to solve this problem. What the default exception handling does do is to unload any Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) that you have open. The operating system calls a special function (usually named DllMain()) in the DLL, passing a value of DLL_PROCESS_DETACH. The DLL is expected to do any cleanup then. So, if you place your MIDI handle variables inside of a DLL that you write, and then put code in your DllMain() function to close these handles if they are not zero, then your program will effectively close it MIDI handles, even when it crashes under Windows 2000/NT/XP.
So, how do you get access to those MIDI handles if they're inside of a DLL? Well, if you statically link with the DLL, and you've put the names of those variables in your Module Definition (.DEF) file, then Win32 automatically resolves those links when your program is loaded. You simply access those variables just like any other global variable in your program. But an even better idea is to put those above "wrapper functions" I wrote into a DLL, export their names in your DEF file, and call them just like any other functions in your program. Then, your DllMain()'s DLL_PROCESS_DETACH can simply call closeMidiOut() and closeMidiIn() to do the needed cleanup. You can download my MIDI Skeleton C example which implements this sharing. Run multiple copies of this program with a single client driver and you'll note that they all share a MIDI port. In fact, this example shows skeleton code for writing a MIDI C application, and may be of some use as a starting point for your own projects. Included are the Project Workspace files for Visual C++ 4.0. Remember that all apps should include MMSYSTEM.H and link with WINMM.LIB (or MMSYSTEM.LIB if Win3.1). This is a ZIP archive. Use an unzip utility that supports long filenames. It also includes the source code to a DLL with the wrapper functions in it. The C app uses this DLL to deal with the situation of freeing handles when crashing under Windows 2000/NT/XP.
By implementing the above, you'll be able to write a program that shares the MIDI ports with other such well-behaved MIDI programs (including multiple instances of your own program). It will work with single client drivers, and it will be transparent to the enduser. It will free MIDI handles under Windows 2000/NT/XP if your program crashes.
In conclusion, if you don't care about the overhead of opening and closing a device before and after every operation, and you do quick, MIDI operations, then you can just do the technique described in my first example. You won't hog a port that way.
But if you must hog a port, then do it the intelligent, user-friendly way as shown above.
Do Windows-using musicians a favor -- If you run across a MIDI program that doesn't share the MIDI port when you go to activate other MIDI programs, send the author of that first program a copy of this web page. | 2019-04-19T13:42:20 | http://midi.teragonaudio.com/tech/share.htm |
0.998053 | Congress' Republican leaders face stark tests as they fight to keep the government open past month's end, amid fears a shutdown could imperil their party's White House ambitions.
For House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, any wrong move could throw his very future into question, opening him to a threatened showdown vote on the floor of the House over whether he can remain in his job. If that happens, there is no certain outcome.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., must contend with the ambitions of several GOP presidential candidates. One of them, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, has made it his business to oppose the Kentuckian at every turn, even taking to the Senate floor to accuse him of lying.
Now Cruz is once again goading a group of House tea partyers who have wreaked havoc with the leadership in the past.
Together they are demanding that must-pass spending legislation cut off all federal money for Planned Parenthood. The efforts follows the disclosure of secretly recorded videos in which Planned Parenthood officials are shown discussing how they acquire fetal parts for medical research.
Such a bill could not pass the Senate and would face a certain veto from President Barack Obama, raising the prospect of a partial government shutdown like the one two years ago in a similar struggle over the health care law.
"There's nothing principled about the idea of another government shutdown," the president said in his weekend radio address."
With less than two weeks to the Oct. 1 deadline, there remains no endgame — unless it's divine intervention in the form of a historic address from Pope Francis to a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday.
And for the majority of congressional Republicans, who have little interest in palace intrigue or shutdown talk, the infighting and disarray serves only as a depressing reminder of the GOP's repeated failures to capitalize on historic congressional majorities to advance a governing agenda that could help their party retake the presidency. Nor does it bode well for how Republicans navigate fights yet to come this year, including a potentially market-rattling struggle over raising the government's borrowing limit.
"There are some in the House who are using serious governance issues to score cheap political points against the speaker," said Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa. "Shutting down the government is not in our political interest, it will undermine the Republican brand and it will hurt whoever the Republican nominee is in November."
Such warnings are dismissed by the most unyielding conservatives in the House, who insist that the only way to force Obama to reckon with their demands to defund Planned Parenthood is by including it in must-pass spending legislation to keep the government open. The tactic has failed twice before — two years ago over the health care law and earlier this year in an unsuccessful revolt against Obama's executive actions limiting deportations.
Nonetheless, some Republicans continue to insist that their leaders must hold firm, despite the prospect of an Obama veto and even though McConnell has repeatedly made clear that legislation to defund Planned Parenthood cannot pass the Senate's 60-vote threshold, which demands compromise with minority Democrats. They reject such logic as capitulation.
"There will be a significant number of Republicans who will say, 'I will vote no on any bill that has an opportunity to defund Planned Parenthood and fails to do so,' " said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who includes himself in that group and also says he would vote to end Boehner's tenure as speaker if given the opportunity. "This is an organic situation that is festering and the pressure's building, and I don't know that I can predict what will happen. But I've never seen it get to this point where there's this much discontent."
The unrest is not just among the 30 to 40 tea partyers who want to push the Planned Parenthood issue to the brink of a shutdown. The much larger number of more pragmatic House members are also increasingly disgusted that a small, vocal minority has repeatedly caused problems and thrown their agenda into disarray, without leadership being able to stop them.
This time around some would like to see Boehner ignore the rebels and go straight to Democrats to make a deal.
But that could precipitate a disgruntled tea party lawmaker into bringing a "motion to vacate the chair," which would force a vote on Boehner. Most believe the speaker, who enjoys widespread GOP support, would survive such a vote, in part because there's no obvious candidate to replace him aside from members of his own leadership team, who've disavowed the effort. But it could require the cooperation of Democrats, making the outcome impossible to predict and ensuring great intrigue.
"We need a speaker and I haven't seen anybody who says they want the job other than John Boehner," said Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas. "If you're going to have a palace revolt, you need someone to lead that revolt."
Behind the move are leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a GOP faction whose members are among the chamber's most conservative. Among the most outspoken are Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio and Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., the latter of whom has rounded up more than 30 Republicans who have vowed to oppose any stopgap spending measure that fails to take away federal funding of Planned Parenthood.
"If we have the debate," Jordan said recently, "the logic and common sense are on our side."
Former Vice President Joe Biden could "conceivably" defeat President Donald Trump, ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich said T . . . | 2019-04-25T16:12:09 | https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/shutdown-possible-boehner-mcconnell/2015/09/21/id/692481/ |
0.999554 | Allied to potential retirements of sitting MPs at the election, this could usher in major changes to the make-up of Labour politicians in the Commons. However, there is one important caveat to all this. If an early election is called before 2020, it will be fought on the existing boundaries. I'm a voter - what does this mean for me? Image copyright Reuters Image caption Proposals for Welsh constituencies will also be announced on Tuesday Every constituency in the UK is likely to be affected, with many changing name entirely. By 2020, the aim is that no constituency - except the four "protected" | 2019-04-19T03:25:36 | http://ezequiel7615tv.journalnewsnet.com/face-cream-natural |
0.999999 | What will the new president do about Iran?
While still on the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump railed repeatedly against President Obama's "disastrous" nuclear deal with Iran. He pledged to tear up the agreement, or at least amend it substantially, as one of his first acts in office. Yet, for a host of reasons, the nuclear pact concluded between the Iran and the P5+1 powers (the U.S., U.K., Russia, China, France and Germany) last summer is likely to prove more resilient than either the president-elect or his advisers hope.
However, recent days have seen the addition of a new tool to America's "soft power" arsenal — one that is liable to prove very useful to the incoming Trump administration as it crafts its policy toward Iran and other rogues.
On December 6th, the U.S. Senate passed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act as part of its authorization for 2017 defense spending. The law, championed by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., is an outgrowth of a 2012 sanctions law designed to penalize Russian authorities for the untimely death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Magnitsky ran afoul of the Kremlin in 2008, when — in the course of his work for hedge fund Hermitage Capital — he uncovered a massive tax fraud scheme implicating a slew of government officials. For his trouble, Magnitsky was arrested on trumped-up graft charges and imprisoned in Moscow's notorious Butyrskaya prison. He died there the following year as a result of complications from gallstones and pancreatitis — medical conditions that were neglected and improperly treated by his jailers.
Thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of his employer, Bill Browder, Magnitsky's death became something of an international cause celebre. The result, in 2012, was the passage by the U.S. Congress of human rights legislation that blacklisted nearly two-dozen Russian officials and functionaries for their complicity in the graft and corruption that cost the Russian lawyer his life.
The Global Magnitsky Act, however, has a substantially broader scope. It expands the menu of penalties envisioned in the original act — visa bans, asset freezes and commercial blacklists — beyond Russia, and applies them to any foreign officials found to be responsible for human rights violations or "significant" instances of corruption. By doing so, it effectively weaponizes human rights as a tool of U.S. foreign policy.
Iran is a logical test case for these new restrictions. The Islamic Republic, after all, has long been a human rights abuser on a global scale. But over the past two years, the regime's domestic practices have become more repressive than ever before.
Last year, according to the United Nations, public executions within the Islamic Republic hit a 27-year-high, averaging more than four daily between April and June of 2015. Regime repression of ethnic minorities (including Kurds, Baluchis and Azeris) has also increased markedly, rights activists say. Freedom of expression and the press, meanwhile, are virtually nonexistent; Iran ranked 169th out of 180 nations in the most recent World Press Freedom Index, a key metric of media liberty.
This deepening repression, moreover, has taken place with virtual impunity, because the United States and its allies — eager to preserve the diplomatic deal over Iran's nuclear program — have turned a blind eye to Iran's increasingly egregious rights abuses.
Corruption is likewise endemic within the Islamic Republic. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is believed to be one of the Middle East's richest rulers, in control of a financial empire worth close to $100 billion. The country's clerical army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, commands as much as one-third of the national economy, and is deeply enmeshed in illicit and black market activities. Even the administration of ostensibly "moderate" President Hassan Rouhani has been rocked by allegations of massive graft.
These deformities are well known to ordinary Iranians, who chafe under the "systemic corruption" of the country's clerical regime. But they have by and large been ignored by the West, which has preferred to turn a blind eye to Iran's internal deformities in pursuit of diplomatic détente.
As the incoming Trump administration ponders a new approach to Iran, highlighting Iran's repressive domestic practices, and targeting its most egregious actors, could send a powerful signal that the United States once again stands with the country's captive population. The new White House now has a critical tool to do just that. | 2019-04-22T07:13:43 | http://www.ilanberman.com/19517/trump-arsenal-against-iran |
0.999911 | Does this cover look familiar? I'm sure it does. But even if you were scratching your head at first thinking you've seen this somewhere before, I'm sure the title locked it in for you. The latest from the prolific Automatic Music is an ambitious 3-CD set that is a tribute to Pink Floyd, experimentation and the early 1970's in general. The first thing that struck me even before I heard a note of the music was that all the participants are pictured and named, which is unusual for this ensemble that functions more as a fluid collective than a band with a set lineup. The musicians that grace this set are Kevin Killinger on guitar, Gentlemaniac on guitar, Bret Hart on guitar, Tragic Bunny on guitar, East October on keyboards, and Gurney Brown on drums. That's right folks... four guitars... all improv... and boy, do these guys trip out.
Disc 1 is considered to be the new Automatic Music album. The liner notes point out that CD selections are usually taken from live performances and/or studio sessions, though in this case the album is made up of recordings all made in the same day. There are 7 tracks, 2 of which are in the 13 minutes range and one of which is an epic 18 minute workout. Much of what we hear is the very essence of raw jamming psychedelic cosmic Krautrock. A bit of Neu! here, a dash of Amon Düül II there, a fair dose of Faust, plenty of free-wheeling stretched out acid excursions, and scattered bits of the free-improv experimentalism that we've come to expect from Automatic Music.
If anything sounds at all like Pink Floyd it's the most cosmic freeform voyages we heard from that bands earliest era. But there is also that rawness and strained dissonance that characterizes much of the Automatics' music, though I chock that up to the Krautrocky edge sneaking in and doing it's magic to the psychedelic spaciness of the Floyd elements. Other appropriate references would include the thudding space rock vibe that recalls early Guru Guru and Space Ritual era Hawkwind, and the general feel is of a rolling lysergic jam fest that mashes together every tripped out influence you can imagine, including some of the band's more experimental free-improv tendencies, and perhaps some of the Residents more freaked out rocking moments with Snakefinger on guitar (think "Satisfaction").
Disc 2 consists of various other projects the highly active Automatic Music members are involved in, as well as some live Automatic Music tracks featuring various lineups of the band. This disc also features some of the more experimental and sometimes abstract music they have created. There are also several live Automatic Music tracks which are definitely in the more experimental realm, though there always seems to be a prominent Kosmiche element to the music. We've got searing noise waves, jamming chaos guitars, throbbing noise drones, feedback, and all manner of sound collages and constructions. Standout track include "Harry's Partches", a free-improv jazz piece that I would have liked to have heard developed beyond it's 3 minutes, and "Creature Continuum" which is like a meeting of the early Residents and the Art Bears.
Also included are free-improv guitar duets by Bret Hart and Gentlemaniac, Gentlemaniac and Tragic Bunny, Bret Hart and Scotty Irving, and a completely spaced out Gentlemaniac/East October collaboration called "More Furious Madness From The Mass Gadgets Of Auximenes" that is named after an early Pink Floyd live show. Like early Pink Floyd meets Neu! There are also tracks from Entertainment Unit and Zil, a couple of Automatic Music offshoot bands. Entertainment Unit is a quartet of Gentlemaniac, Phred Rainey, Gurney Brown, and Tragic Bunny. "Down In The Earth (Where It's So Dark)" was my favorite, being a trippy rocking Blues-psych tune. "If It Feels Good (It's Gotta Stop)" is a bouncy, somewhat quirky rocker. And "Smoothville" is similar but with a spacier edge. Zil is yet another quartet, this time with Gentlemaniac, Tragic Bunny, Terry Lonergan, and Gwen Young. "Don't Care Who You Are" is a deliciously raw old time Bluesy acid rock song with Gwen Young's punky Grace Slick vocals. And "Just Passing Through" is a lulling sort of avant-psych tune.
Village Pistols is a duo project from Gentlemaniac and East October. They chime in with two tracks, one entitled "Syd Barrett", which is a raw lo-fi garage rendition of the old Floyd psych-singles era, and the other is "This Guy's In Love", which... I think... was a Bobby Sherman song??? Tragic Bunny gets three tracks... a trippy lo-fi song, a raw garagey trip rocker, and "Losing Touch With My Mind" which is a killer Spacemen 3 cover. Keyboard player East October has some very interesting tunes. "Kaddish" has a traditional ethnic sound (of some kind). And speaking of traditional ethnic, he does the genuine national anthem of Mongolia. I really dig his valium overdosed version of John Lennon's "Instant Karma". And "Axum" is a huge glom of samples with circus-like hip-hoppy grooves, African chants, and what must be Beefheart Blues guitar.
Bret Hart contributes a track from his singin/songwritin band Hipbone. This tune took me a little by surprise being much more metallic than any of the Hipbone I'd heard previously. "I Like Toast" features classic down home Blues done Hart style. "Hornet, Bee And Wasp" is a very cool Zappa tribute. And a duet with Bret and Scotty Irving lays down some freaky soundscapes and insect head on crashes. Gentlemaniac does a few songs with a country kick, with "You Don't Know What It's Like" having vocals that are a dead ringer for George Harrison. "nY" is a balls out rockin take on Neil Young's searing electric guitar. And the perfect finale to this mammoth set can only be a cover of a track from the album it pays tribute to. Gentlemaniac's cover of "Grantchester Meadows" is spot on with the vocals but the music is way cooler than the original.
In summary, if you're already an Automatic Music fan then this set is a must. But if you've yet to dip your toe in the water then this is probably the best place to start. These musicians have their hands in a banquet of projects covering a variety of musical styles. And at only $15 for the 3 disc set you can't go wrong. You get a collection of some of the best spaced out Automatic Music jams, as well as unreleased live tracks and a whole slew of examples of the artists' individual projects. The nice price also makes it easy for fans of cosmic music who may not have sampled much of the more experimental stuff to check it out at no risk. If you end up not caring for it... you've still got the space jams. So take the plunge. And stay tuned next issue for a full Automatic Music profile!
For more information you can visit the Szum Music web site at http://www.szum.com. | 2019-04-21T22:25:39 | http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue23/automat5.html |
0.999954 | Formulates an incident response that takes into account the incident potential, incident impacts, and/or resources required for incident management. Facilitates the dispatch of emergency response and service vehicles and coordinates the response with cooperating agencies.
1 The center shall exchange alert information and status with emergency management centers. The information includes notification of a major emergency such as a natural or man-made disaster, civil emergency, or child abduction for distribution to the public. The information may include the alert originator, the nature of the emergency, the geographic area affected by the emergency, the effective time period, and information and instructions necessary for the public to respond to the alert. This may also identify specific information that should not be released to the public.
2 The center shall coordinate planning for incidents with emergency management centers - including pre-planning activities for disaster response, evacuation, and recovery operations.
3 The center shall support requests from emergency management centers to remotely control sensor and surveillance equipment located in the field, provide special routing for emergency vehicles, and to provide responding emergency vehicles with signal preemption.
4 The center shall exchange incident information with emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, transit centers, information service providers, and the media including description, location, traffic impact, status, expected duration, and response information.
5 The center shall share resources with allied agency centers to implement special traffic control measures, assist in clean up, verify an incident, etc. This may also involve coordination with maintenance centers.
6 The center shall receive inputs concerning upcoming events that would effect the traffic network from event promoters, traveler information service providers, media, border crossings, and rail operations centers.
7 The center shall provide road network conditions and traffic images to emergency management centers, maintenance and construction centers, and traveler information service providers.
8 The center shall monitor incident response performance and calculate incident response and clearance times.
9 The center shall exchange road network status assessment information with emergency management and maintenance centers including an assessment of damage sustained by the road network including location and extent of the damage, estimate of remaining capacity, required closures, alternate routes, necessary restrictions, and time frame for repair and recovery.
10 The center shall coordinate information and controls with other traffic management centers.
11 The center shall receive inputs from emergency management and transit management centers to develop an overall status of the transportation system including emergency transit schedules in effect and current status and condition of the transportation infrastructure.
12 The center shall support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used as a background for traffic incident management.
13 The center shall respond to requests from border agencies to implement special traffic control measures (e.g. lane assignments by vehicle type) on the approaches to a border crossing. | 2019-04-20T18:38:21 | https://www.nctcog.org/trans/manage/its/nct-regional-its-architecture/regional-its-architecture/functions/tmc-incident-dispatch-coordination-communication |
0.999832 | A teenage mother was stabbed to death in Pennsylvania - allegedly by a former best friend who became a rival for the attention of her child's father.
Kayla VanWert, 18, died after she was stabbed in the neck and chest during a fight Sunday, police said.
Another young girl, 16-year-old Cathleen Boyer, was charged as an adult with crimes including aggravated assault.
She will likely be charged with homicide, pending investigation, the Pocono Record reported.
A woman who hosted VanWert in her home said the victim and Boyer 'used to be best friends' before they began fighting via Facebook Messenger over Jorge DeJesus, 19, who is the father of VanWert's 1-year-old daughter.
'It all went sour over a guy,' Roxanne Draper told the Record.
She said the two met up for a fist fight, but that Boyer allegedly brought a knife.
After she was stabbed, VanWert was transported to the Regional Hospital of Scranton where she was pronounced dead at 10pm.
Only hours before the deadly fight, DeJesus was arrested and charged with simple assault for allegedly beating VanWert and dragging her by the hair.
According to the Scranton Times-Tribune, VanWert was holding the couple's daughter in her arms when the alleged assault by DeJesus occurred.
DeJesus told police he threw VanWert to the ground in self-defense after she punched him, the newspaper reported.
He was previously arrested for allegedly firing a handgun inside VanWert's mother's home, the Times-Tribune reported in March.
The young couple's daughter is now with DeJesus' family, VanWert's mother told the Record. | 2019-04-21T11:05:53 | https://newsbugmedia.com/world/23-viral/394-18-y-o-mother-stabbed-to-death-by-16-y-o-after-facebook-feud-over-boyfriend |
0.999201 | I experimented with two types of dyes: J.E. Moser's Aniline and Stewmac's ColorTone. The J.E. Moser's Aniline dyes are powder that dissolve in alcohol. The Stewmac ColorTone's are liquid that dissolve in either water or alcohol.
In order to test the dyes on the wood (maple, in the case of the banjo) I made a dozen strips of curly maple (10x3x0.125 inches) and used them to experiment with the various combinations of color and application. Additionally, I lacquered some of them to get a better read on the final look.
Why alcohol- vs. water-soluble? From what I read at the time I chose to use alcohol-soluble because it wouldn't raise the grain like water-based. After some further experiments after construction I'm not sure it would be that big of an issue. My guess is either will serve the purpose well.
I obtained the J.E. Moser's dyes from Woodworker's Supply and the ColorTone dyes from Stewmac. J.E. Moser's also produces water- and oil-soluble dyes. | 2019-04-26T07:47:28 | http://voyageurlutherie.com/applying_the_dyes.htm |
0.999873 | Xavier Rudd is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, surfer and … activist?
After some two decades singing about issues like the environment, reconciliation with Aboriginal peoples and human foibles such as greed and power-lust, Rudd has been branded with the activist appellation more than once, but the Australian folk-pop artist chooses to qualify such labels.
One of the most powerful, bittersweet songs on his latest album is called Best That I Can. It’s a promise to care for someone in the face of the harsh realities of life on planet Earth, from Donald Trump’s views on climate change to pharmaceutical marketing to the plight of child soldiers like his new friend from Sudan, Emmanuel Jal. Since he wrote the song, Jal has become his occasional touring partner and the singer-rapper brings a guest vocal track to the song.
His latest single, Walk Away, from the album Storm Boy, is about finding the courage to change.
While Rudd’s brand new release Storm Boy takes on all those themes, in the end, its greatest value might be as a balm for the soul, a respite for anyone who’s stressed out in these troubled times.
With its title track named after a popular Australian children’s book and movie from the 1970s, Storm Boy offers some of the most comforting, heartfelt, passionate tunes Rudd has recorded yet, including a few tender love songs. After his collaboration with the United Nations band on Nanna (2015), it’s also the singer’s first solo project since 2012’s Spirit Bird and his ninth studio album.
Storm Boy’s songcraft will likely elicit further comparisons with the likes of Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel for the singer’s depth of vocal sincerity, deft pop hooks and entrancing grooves that delve into roots reggae and more. But Rudd’s biggest collaborator might be Mother Nature, and it’s a telling thing that the cover graphic of little white dots is actually a picture of the night sky.
Beyond his wider planetary concerns, it sounds as if Rudd’s personal life has never been better.
He’s been based along Australia’s northeast Sunshine Coast for about seven years now. Two years ago, he got married for the second time, “to an amazing woman.” On top of that, a bit of emergency back surgery was “life-changing” for the way it ended years of chronic pain and occasional canceled shows. His new titanium implant is “just great,” and that’s no small thing considering the energy he puts into his live performances.
True to form, the Storm Boy concert tour finds Rudd handling “all that stuff” as he puts it, a cluster of guitars, yidaki (or didgeridoo), harmonica and percussion. Backup players cover bass, keys and drums (bassist Yosef Haile and Ian Peres’ keys also appear on the album with session guests).
At some points in the past, Rudd has been dubbed a one-man band. He seems to value the purity of expression that lone effort embodies and part of each show will still feature him all alone.
Growing up around Torquay, in the south Australian state of Victoria, Rudd came from a mixed British-Dutch-Aborigine ancestry, but he grew up very close to nature and spent much of his early life in the bush and along the ocean. Teaching himself to play guitar, percussion and the ancient Aborigine instrument the didgeridoo, he drew on influences from Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix, but the most enduring theme in Rudd’s songs is his attachment to the land and water.
One of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian and for years, Rudd has maintained that she continues to overshadow his music and lyrics, one reason, he believes, that songs seem to flow out of him in an unforced way.
He “maps them out” and knows how each song will go before he picks up an instrument. | 2019-04-26T16:47:43 | https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/music/xavier-rudds-musical-spirit-sings-to-his-passion-for-planet |
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0.846288 | The singularity – or, to give it its proper title, the technological singularity. It's an idea that has taken on a life of its own; more of a life, I suspect, than what it predicts ever will. It's a Thing for techno-utopians: wealthy middle-aged men who regard the singularity as their best chance of immortality. They are Singularitarians, some seemingly prepared to go to extremes to stay alive for long enough to benefit from a benevolent super-artificial intelligence – a man-made god that grants transcendence.
And it's a thing for the doomsayers, the techno-dystopians. Apocalypsarians who are equally convinced that a super-intelligent AI will have no interest in curing cancer or old age, or ending poverty, but will – malevolently or maybe just accidentally – bring about the end of human civilisation as we know it. History and Hollywood are on their side. From the Golem to Frankenstein's monster, Skynet and the Matrix, we are fascinated by the old story: man plays god and then things go horribly wrong.
The singularity is basically the idea that as soon as AI exceeds human intelligence, everything changes. There are two central planks to the hypothesis: one is that as soon as we succeed in building AI as smart as humans it rapidly reinvents itself to be even smarter, starting a chain reaction of smarter-AI inventing even-smarter-AI until even the smartest humans cannot possibly comprehend how it works. The other is that the future of humanity becomes in some sense out of control, from the moment of the singularity onwards.
So should we be worried or optimistic about the technological singularity? I think we should be a little worried – cautious and prepared may be a better way of putting it – and at the same time a little optimistic (that's the part of me that would like to live in Iain M Banks' The Culture. But I don't believe we need to be obsessively worried by a hypothesised existential risk to humanity. Why? Because, for the risk to become real, a sequence of things all need to happen, a sequence of big ifs. If we succeed in building human equivalent AI and if that AI acquires a full understanding of how it works, and if it then succeeds in improving itself to produce super-intelligent AI, and if that super-AI, accidentally or maliciously, starts to consume resources, and if we fail to pull the plug, then, yes, we may well have a problem. The risk, while not impossible, is improbable.
By worrying unnecessarily we're falling into a trap: the fallacy of privileging the hypothesis. And, perhaps worse, taking our eyes off other risks we should really be worrying about, such as manmade climate change or bioterrorism. Let me illustrate what I mean. Consider the possibility that we invent faster than light travel (FTL) some time in the next 100 years. Then I worry you by outlining all sorts of nightmare scenarios that might follow. At the end of it you'll be thinking: my god, never mind climate change, we need to stop all FTL research right now.
But there are already lots of AI systems, so surely it's just a matter of time? Yes, we do have lots of AI systems, like chess programs or automated financial transaction systems, or the software in driverless cars. And some are already smarter than most humans, like language translation systems. Some are as good as some humans, such as driverless cars or natural speech recognition systems and will soon be better than most humans. But none of this has brought about the end of civilisation (though I'm suspiciously eyeing the financial transaction systems). The reason is that these are all narrow-AI systems: very good at doing one thing.
A human-equivalent AI would need to be a generalist, like humans. It would need to be able to learn, most likely by developing over the course of some years, then generalise what it has learned – in the same way we learned as toddlers that wooden blocks could be stacked, banged together or as something to stand on to reach a bookshelf. It would need to understand meaning and context, be able to synthesise new knowledge, have intentionality and – in all likelihood – be self-aware, so it understands what it means to have agency in the world.
There is a huge gulf between present day narrow-AI systems and the kind of artificial general intelligence I have outlined. Opinions vary, but I think it's as wide a gulf as that between current space flight and practical faster than light spaceflight; wider perhaps, because we don't yet have a theory of general intelligence, whereas there are several candidate FTL drives consistent with general relativity, like the Alcubierre drive.
So we don't need to be obsessing about the risk of super-intelligent AI, but I do think we need to be cautious and prepared. In a Guardian podcast last week philosopher Nick Bostrom explained that there are two big problems, which he calls competency and control. The first is how to make super-intelligent AI, the second is how to control it (ie, to mitigate the risks). He says hardly anyone is working on the control problem, whereas loads of people are going hell for leather on the first. On this I 100% agree, and I'm one of the small number of people working on the control problem.
In 2010 I was part of a group that drew up a set of principles of robotics – principles that apply equally to AI systems. I strongly believe science and technology research should be undertaken within a framework of responsible innovation, and have argued we should be thinking about subjecting robotics and AI research to ethical approval, in the same way we do for human subject research. And recently I've started work towards making ethical robots. This is not just to mitigate future risks, but because the kind of not-very-intelligent robots we make in the very near future will need to be ethical as well as safe. We should be worrying about present-day AI rather than future super-intelligent AI. | 2019-04-20T23:00:38 | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/10/artificial-intelligence-will-not-become-a-frankensteins-monster-ian-winfield?CMP=twt_gu |
0.999999 | This example shows the use of criteria for the assessment of tasks that involve only a knowledge of mathematical concepts and procedures.
Context: MATHS201 is a unit for second year engineering students. The learning outcomes of the unit focus on a variety of mathematical methods and their applications. The assessment of this unit includes three assignments with an emphasis on knowledge of concepts and procedures. The example here is one of these assignments, which aims to assess the ability to operate with complex numbers and knowledge of the basic concepts of differentiation of functions of a complex variable.
Stefan is the coordinator of MATHS201. In the past, he used to mark his assignments by assigning marks to the different steps of the solution. The longer the working out of an exercise, the more marks were allocated to it. He realised that by doing this he was sometimes giving students too many marks for calculations and algebraic manipulations, as compared to knowledge of concepts and use of mathematical notation. | 2019-04-20T02:38:47 | https://mathsassess.org/examples/engineering/ |
0.99952 | I am trying to get the list of all commit ids after/since a certain commit id, is there a git command..?
git log --pretty=format:"%H" --since=2014-05-04 would print all the commit-ids since 2014-05-04, similarly is there a command that could print all the commit ids after a certain commit-id?
If you want that commit to be included as well, use 123456^..
May be I didn't put my question properly.
If I try "git log --pretty=format:"%H" adkasjdka6788"
Instead, what I am looking for is a command that would get the below output using adkasjdka6788 commit id.
So what's the difference between C and F/HEAD here? C only has A as an ancestor, but F also has B, D, and E as its ancestors (and C as well). So if I say git log C..F, it is going to tell me about what these differences are -- that is, it will tell me about B, D, E, and F.
If I say --since=2014-05-03, this is a very different question. It would have told me about the entire history, but I have excluded the things before May 3. This means it will tell me about C, D, E, and F.
Without the --since, how would git know that you want it to list D but don't want it to list B? Even if you followed a shortest path, what that would get you is directly from C to F, with D and E omitted as well. The date is the *only* reason that B didn't get listed by --since, and this is very misleading.
If this is really really really what you want, it amounts to getting the timestamp of the commit and then using --since with that timestamp. As far as I can tell, there is no intrinsic support for that. This is probably a good thing, because what that tells you is misleading. | 2019-04-21T18:04:20 | https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/Retrieve-commit-ids-after-since-a-specific-commit-id/qaq-p/362928 |
0.998765 | Was I disappointed by Alex Turner for the first time? I have to admit I was just that after I had listened to Everything You've Come To Expect for the first and the second time. Now this is no Arctic Monkeys and no matter how nice a songwriter Miles Kane is, he's no Alex Turner and does not even come close. The first The Last of the Shadow Puppets album was a hard nut to crack, I am no Scott Walker bombast fan. At best mildly tolerant for a short period of time, before I have had more than enough. 'The Age Of The Understatement' was a good album any way.
Things changed though, working my way into this album. Slowly 'Aviation' started to creep on me. This song is extremely poppy and would have been a big hit in the 60s. It would have been daring and new at the time. Now it is daring and mature. It could never have sounded like it sounds in 2016 of course, but the intentions are very clear. The roving strings that push themselves over the arpeggiated guitar notes and strong rhythm. The Beatles have done these sort of things. This song has a great build up and a beautiful ending. When 'Aviation' got me big time, I had my way into 'Everything You've Come To Expect'. So is the title delivering any way?
Not to fast, as I keep having the impression that some of the songs are a bit strained. There's nothing free-flowing in the music in an easy way. So here we have the link with the last Arctic Monkeys album, 'AM'. Deconstructive rock. Does that term exist? It applies.
There are attempts to light weight pop songs on 'Everything ...', like 'Miracle Aligner', that could have been sung by totally different kind of singers of a sort that I would stop listening to instantly. The rhythm guitar is slightly more prominent, while the strings are mixed halfway into my face. The song is suave, close to a Las Vegas staple show song, with an indie twist, obfuscated but there. The mix between the suaveness and alternative comes out a lot better in 'Dracula Teeth'. The intentions seem to be the same, the input of the band is larger, while arranger Owen Pallett steps back a little.
This dance between sounds remains all through the album. It would do injustice to both Pallett and producer/drummer James Ford to state that they are not members of The Last of the Shadow Puppets. (Bass player Zach Dawes of Mini Mansions is also listed as member.) Owen Pallett certainly is a full member in the studio as he has a large hand in the sound of the band and worked along the band in the studio. The dance works a miracle in the up beat and louder song 'Bad Habits'. Dawes' bass may be subtle compared to his own band, here he is lightning up the track with his fast plopping bass.
One of the strong points of this band is the way Kane and Turner sing. Both sing lead and harmony throughout songs, moving up or down the mix, stepping forward and back. There's no front man in the classical sense. A song like 'Sweet Dreams, Tn', is the exception to that claim. It is also a song in which The Last Of The Shadow Puppets show their love for 60s music that disappeared from the scene the moment the psychedelic era broke big. The Walker Brothers, The Righteous Brothers, the sound influenced by Phil Spector, it all went down the road of eternity when The Beatles released 'Sgt. Pepper's'. The kind of songs that I like, but do not love. Songs that I admire but do not feel deep down. Songs like 'The Sun Anin't Gonna Shine Anymore' and 'Unchained Melody'.
It is the indie of 'Used To Be My Girl' that I really love on Everything You've Come To Expect. The droning guitar, the sort of drab singing, calls forward a totally different atmosphere: T. Rex 1971. "I'm a jeepster for your love". That kind of thing. Again the song is not fluent, not aiming for the perfect pop song. It's dirty, dragged across the floor and kicked into a corner, lips bleeding, front teeth broken. "You used to be my girl", right, clear. It is over.
By the time I reach 'Pattern', a sort of soul song of the Philly sort, I also recognise that the band experimented with different sounds and influences and gets them down in the right ways. Mission accomplished it seems.
Alex Turner has set his standard so high, that it will get more difficult to top that per record to come. He does not make that standard here. He easily makes the The Last of the Shadow Puppets' standard. When all is said and done, and I may have muttered a bit here, Everything You've Come To Expect, topples its predecessor with ease. The album is less naive, lighter and darker at the same time and holds a few timeless songs and some special ones. So, no, the album does not live up to its name, but from there there is more than enough to enjoy. | 2019-04-26T10:22:15 | http://wonomagazine.blogspot.com/2016/05/everything-youve-come-to-expect-last-of.html |
0.999999 | Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice / It's Just Movies Review: "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice"
Zack Snyder roars back with a superhero brawl that combines a blasting Wagnerian soundtrack with World Wrestling Federation slap downs. Significant plot? Do not count on it. The philosophical underpinnings of this match made in Hollywood are murky, but the action is nonstop.
Ben Affleck uncorks a great performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman, a superhero who is darkly concerned that Superman has lost his moral compass and is a threat. The film plays well on the uncertainties of the times. There is a conspiracy afoot and the US Congress is concerned. In one of the rare moments of black humor, Holly Hunter plays Senator Finch in a berserk witch hunt for the Man of Steel. He is failing to save the universe as promised. Plus, he is an alien. How un-American.
Henry Cavill returns to play Clark Kent/Superman and he pulls it off with panache. Busting onto the screen looking like a male model from an underwear ad, his sincere boyish looks leave no doubt that he is a squeaky clean guy. But he is being backed into a corner, tasked with saving everybody, everywhere, all the time. A mysterious military hit in the desert forces him to save Lois (a gravely miscast Amy Adams) and Hunter’s Finch is lisping mad.
Lex Luther takes advantage of the situation and using his incalculable zillions of dollars plots to put the Man of Steel in his place and emerge as world ruler. Jesse Eisenberg, as Lex, is saddled with the worst parts of the screenplay, babbling endless philosophical techy nonsense while trying to look like Hannibal Lector. Or, at least, the Riddler. In the end, he comes off like the “Social Network” version of Mark Zuckerberg on a bad acid trip.
Thoroughly produced special effects are entertaining for the first half of the two-and-a-half-hour lollapalooza. In the beginning, the alien ships streak through the city at ground level, cutting off skyscrapers at the knees like a nuclear weed whacker. Smoke billows up the streets and chaos and confusion reign. The action quickly shifts to Bruce Wayne and one of several eminently unremarkable car chases.
By the second half, the over-bearing, over-loud and numbingly repetitive soundtrack starts to wear the viewer down. Every move Superman makes is accompanied by the most irritating and brainless banging and crashing. Arbitrary concussive shock waves of sophomorically distorted noise are inserted at every point in the movie where the film makers want to make sure the audience is paying attention. As if they had anything else to do. “Bang!” Are you watching?
As splashy as it gets, this movie will make millions. But the corporation could have made even more if they eliminated an hour of the fist fighting and kept the screen time down to a 100 minutes. | 2019-04-22T02:41:55 | http://itsjustmovies.com/review-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice/ |
0.999987 | I have two Colecovisions, one of which works. I bought it after I received the first one, which I was told had spent about 20 years in a roofless shed in a hurricane-prone area. Needless to say, it does not function properly.
1. The problem must not be the power supply, since it properly powers the working Colecovision. Also, the Atari 2600 module still works with the broken Colecovision, so it must be getting enough power. I have also tested this with a second power supply.
2. The problem may be the power switch, but I doubt it. Even when I would get the Atari 2600 module to work, it occasionally took a couple of turn-on attempts and some pressure on the power swtich. However, I have never seen the Colecovision BIOS screen appear, and I would assume that if the issue was just poor switch contacts that I would eventually get the BIOS screen to appear.
3. The sound chip works. This I assume because I still get a constant tone when I turn it on, and the tone isn't always the same. I'm guessing it's just outputting whatever random value it starts with. I've wondered if this implicates the CPU or the BIOS since I would assume one of the first things it would do is set the sound chip to output no sound.
4. The video chip probably works. I found that with a cartridge inserted, I could occasionally get random color bars to appear on screen after jiggling the power switch some or rapidly turning the console on and off. However, it's very rare that I manage to achieve this, and I only remember it happening from when I first attempted to repair the console a few years ago.
1. Which component is most likely to fail and cause this to happen?
2. If a chip has failed, I know that most of them are (or were) common and could be replaced, but what about the BIOS chip? I'm sure these can only come from other Colecovisions, and I would prefer to repair mine with destroying another. If I do need to replace the BIOS chip, would it be possible to create a custom chip?
3. Could it be a capacitor? I've never encountered a faulty dielectric capicitor, but I've read that their tops puff out when they leak. How visible is that effect?
4. What can I do to diagnose the problem? If need be, I might be able to borrow an oscilloscope.
5. I've seen mention of a Colecovision service manual which gives detailed information on how to test each of the components. Does a .pdf of it exist anywhere?
Edited by InfiniteSquareWell, Thu Jun 7, 2012 3:48 PM.
I would love to see a picture of this CV that has endured 20 years of hell.
You didn't mention that you've cleaned it up. When I say cleaned, I mean totally disassembled and cleaned up. Cart ports, switches, controllers, everything. Sounds like it really needs it. 20 years in that type of environment will bring on the age of anything.
When it was given to me, it had abandoned bug nests inside of it, the shielding was rusty, and the contacts were noticeably dirty. I did clean it then, and now it's not as bad as you would think. The peeled label is my fault because I thought at the time that you needed to remove the front panel to lift the top, and the three screws were underneath the label. The games all work, but their labels are brittle and falling off. I haven't cleaned the power switch yet, but I plan on doing so as soon as I find some dielectric grease for it.
I've skimmed through the technical manual, and it's clear that I'm going to need an oscilloscope to test all of the chips. The manual provides troubleshooting flow charts for various problems, one of which is no picture. The chart asks me to check that pin 36 of the VDP is "good," but it does not say how to do this. Other indicated pins have oscilloscope graphs in a later section. That pin, however, is the monochrome Y output, and so I attempted to test it by touching the tip of an RCA cable to the pin with the other end connected to the composite input of an old CRT TV, and I appeared to just get a clearer black screen. I think it's outputting properly since the signal engages the screen, but I don't know how to check it properly.
Edited by InfiniteSquareWell, Thu Jun 7, 2012 9:49 PM.
I'd say that system looks recoverable, and you did a good job getting it cleaned up. As far as the chips, I'd recommend that you talk to Yurkie here on the boards. He is our go-to guy for CV repairs, and can offer other services as well, such as A/V and pause mods.
Have you thoroughly cleaned the cartridge slot pins on this console?
Get some electronic parts cleaner at Radio Shack, or deoxit, and soak the main board (both sides), and all contact pins with the stuff. Spray parts cleaner into the power switch and flip it back and forth 5-10 times to clean out any accumulated grime. You may be surprised and find it cures the system of all that ails it.
I would say there are far to much damage to try to revive a unit that faced that much environmental abuse, I would pull the VDP and use it in a unit that needed a replacement and junk the rest. You could very likely have shorts between traces that are underneath ICs that are not even visible.
Yes I have, although I expect the problem lies elsewhere since I should still see the intro screen without a cartridge inserted.
Well, I'm not going to give up that easily. I will, however, put off the project until I acquire an oscilloscope. By your statement, I assume a replacement VDP chip would be hard to come by, and so the unit would essentially be lost if the VDP were damaged. What would cause shorts underneath the ICs?
VDPs are hard to come by and a common failure as much or more so than DRAM. I am all about saving CVs, but considering the abuse this system was exposed to, I think it better to not bother. Water and contaminants puddling under ICs could eat away and bridge the spaces between traces causing shorts.
If you where to carefully desolder the VDP and insert into a socket on a unit that needed one, you would be using this old abused unit to bring another system back to life.
One other thing you should look over closely is the condition of the pins in the cartridge jack, how badly are they corroded? If they are as bad as I imagine they would be, do you want to replace the cartridge jack?
Was exposure so great that even the ceramic capacitor got damaged? The electrolytic capacitors should be replaced and there is one under the rf module and one attached to the under side of the RF board, plus the ones that you can see mounted to the motherboard.
Just so many things. Something like a resistor got a crack in it and water is shorting it out.
Or not likely, but what if someone plugged it in years ago when it was full of water/moisture and shorted a bunch of components out and put it back where it was found?
If your willing to go to any lengths to save it, I wish you all the luck in the world.
First and all I'd suggest to use isopropyl alcohol to clean the PCB from both sides (also RF PCB).
I'd start checking the Z80 with a logic tester, first pin 6 (CLK) to see if clock generation is working, then pin 19 (MREQ) for memory access and pin 20 (IORQ) for VDP access.
The first thing that Coleco BIOS does is to turn off sound, if it doesn't do this (as you said), then the decoders aren't working or the ROM BIOS is damaged. If sound is turned off the next part to check is the 1K RAM.
I finally managed to borrow an oscilloscope for a brief time, but I still have not diagnosed the problem. Most of the oscilloscope waveforms provided by the technical manual were unhelpful since most were given for the blue game select screen, which of course I could not reach. I did confirm that the clock is working properly, and I did get signals for MREQ and IORQ on the Z80, and so I suspect that the processor works. I am now more suspicious of the BIOS chip, but I have no idea how to test it since the technical manual offered no advice on diagnosing a faulty BIOS chip.
The schematics were extremely helpful, although I am confused by the depiction of the BIOS chip in the schematic. The BIOS chip only has 24 pins, but the schematic has pins numbered above 24. I assume the four unoccupied holes between the chip and the "U2" label have been included, but where does the numbering start? I'm guessing that pins 1, 2, 27, and 28 are the unoccupied holes, and that the first pin on the chip itself is pin 3.
At this point, I'm about to give up. I cleaned the power switch just in case that was the problem, but it did not make a difference. Does anyone have any suggestions for testing the BIOS chip? I'm sure a logic tester would be helpful, but can I use a multimeter as a substitute?
Sounds like a valiant attempt was made. Good job!
Not just time to give up. Some ideas to test BIOS.
You should be looking for outputs with your oscilloscope, you should see peaks going from 5V+ to near 0V.
If outputs doesn't activate, then check the input signals, maybe the 74LS138 doesn't receive the signals.
If pass 1 is working, then you should do a continuity check from both 74LS138 to Z80 and BIOS to Z80, check every address and data pin. If every line is right, the you should check every address input and data output with oscilloscope to see changes, in case one data doesn't change it can signal a broken BIOS.
I'm suspecting of broken lines in PCB (maybe a scratch). In this case you could use your multimeter as a continuity tester.
Another option is oxyde between pins making contact, again use the multimeter.
By the way, don't forget to test the RESET pin of Z80, it should be at 5V+ commonly and only change to 0V when pressing the button. A frozen button could get it eternally in RESET.
Damn! And I was hoping for a fix at the end of this one!! | 2019-04-26T03:51:48 | http://atariage.com/forums/topic/198974-in-need-of-some-colecovision-technical-expertise/ |
0.998925 | Q. I will be attending two weddings on consecutive weekends in December. For the first I will be an usher and will be wearing a grey suit matching the groom, best man and other ushers. The second wedding is a black tie affair and I have purchased a tuxedo to wear. My question relates to the shirt I will be wearing. I intend to buy a decent white shirt to wear to both weddings and I'm wearing a slim black tie with my tux as I'm not a fan of bow ties. What is the general view of shirts with a collar bar? Are they a bit too 'Mad Men' or will it give me a touch of class in a sea of ubiquity?
A. I have to be honest here and say that I really don't like normal ties worn with dinner jackets but accept that this is personal preference. I felt I should get that out in the open. However, I used to feel the same way about collar bars but have learned to love them - so there's hope. I think the look will work fine for both of Paolo's weddings (though, of course, it will work a lot better with the grey suit. Sorry.) I like the way they make the knot of the tie stand proud so obviously the skinny black tie won't benefit in quite the same way. Paolo should make sure that knot isn't too scrawny to make the most of the look. | 2019-04-23T06:11:31 | https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gq-style-shrink-whether-to-wear-shirts-with-collar-bar |
0.999516 | Many education researchers are currently looking into game-based learning as a method to more effectively and engagingly teach learners. In a study recently published in Frontiers in Education, Klaus Dieter Stiller and Silke Schworm from the University of Regensburg in Germany provide a rundown of issues they have identified in the study of game-based learning and also present findings from their own research.
As Stiller and Schworm write, much research focuses on a single outcome in game-based learning: academic performance. Many studies simply ask a group of learners to play a game, test their knowledge, and compare the results with a control group. But that is hardly the whole story.
The researchers identified three other areas of inquiry to investigate when it comes to game-based learning. These are: motivation, cognitive load, and language comprehension.
The researchers expected that learners in the test group would progress through their module with a greater degree of interest, challenge, and anxiety. Each of these factors can either encourage or discourage individual learners.
Besides motivation, game-based learning tends to be more exacting on a learner. The demands made by games, such as learning the controls, navigating the user interface, following the game’s story, and more, can also serve to engage learners further. But if placed in too stressful a gaming context, the cognitive load demanded from a game can also detract from the learning experience.
What’s more, people who regularly game are more used to learning new games. Non-gamer learners might well be expected to struggle more in the process of getting accustomed to the module in the first place.
And finally, as the learners involved in the study were all native German speakers who had learned English as a second (or third) language, the researchers also looked into the issue of language comprehension in its ability to predict learning outcomes.
To test these factors of game-based learning, Stiller and Schworm asked 39 learners to learn about how cells function. The test group did this by playing CellCraft, a game in which a platypus cell is sent to an alien planet. The object of the game is to keep the cell alive and minimize the spread of viruses. The control group, meanwhile, was presented similar content as that which was imparted in the game in a hypertext format.
Based on existing research, the authors formed the following five hypotheses before performing their experiment.
Hypothesis 1: Learners intending to play an educational game will experience a higher level of anxiety, challenge, and interest but a lower level of probability of success than learners intending to learn with a hypertext instruction.
Hypothesis 2: Learners having played an educational game will experience a higher level of interest than learners having studied a hypertext instruction.
Hypothesis 3: Learners playing an educational game will experience a higher level of cognitive load than learners studying a hypertext instruction.
Hypothesis 4: Learners playing an educational game will outperform learners studying a hypertext instruction on knowledge retention and transfer.
Hypothesis 5: When playing an educational game, successful learners will possess a higher level of gaming experience and are better in English comprehension.
The researchers were able to confirm the first two. Learners playing the game went in with a much higher sense of challenge, interest, and anxiety of failing. They also thought they wouldn’t do as well as their hypertext counterparts.
Regarding cognitive load, the results were interesting. Learners in the test group initially reported relatively low levels of cognitive load. But after 15 minutes of playing, it increased and then leveled off after 30 minutes. The control group, meanwhile, reported a high initial cognitive load, but then dropped down to nearly the same level as the test group. The researchers could not, therefore, confirm Hypothesis 3.
Regarding performance, both groups improved their knowledge of cell function, but the hypertext group outperformed the gamers. Hypothesis 4 could not be confirmed either.
Finally, those who had a better command of English and more gaming experience could understandably navigate the modules more easily and Hypothesis 5 was confirmed.
Stiller and Schworm’s sample is too small to draw any general conclusions, but their study provides a new fold to how one might approach game-based learning. While performance is an important metric, it ignores other factors, such as motivation and cognitive load.
Featured Image: Dhe Haivin, Unsplash.
A Majority of K-5 Students Have Mobile Phones, but Do They Need One? | 2019-04-24T18:25:56 | https://news.elearninginside.com/game-based-learning-cognitive-load/ |
0.999883 | Purifying the heart is a process.
First, one must understand the necessity of having courtesy with God and the importance of fulfilling its requirements. Second one must be aware of the diseases of the heart; aware of their existence, of their ailments, and of the deleterious complications and infirmities that ensure from them, and recognise that these diseases prevent one from attaining this courtesy. Knowledge of the diseases of the heart, their causes, and how to remove them is an obligation on every soul, every adult human being.
This whole matter points to the heart as a spiritual organ. The unseen aspect of the heart contains a seed that has the potential of becoming like a cancer that can metastasise and overtake the heart.
The analogy is that there is a dormant element in the human heart that, if nurtured and allowed to grow, can damage the soul and eventually bring its ruin.
"If the son of Adam sins, a black spot appears in the heart.
And if the person makes repentance, it is erased.
whole heart becomes pitch black."
Incidentally, this notion of associating the colour black with sin is not racist in its origins. The attribution has been long used among some black Africans who refer to a person who is wretched as "black-hearted".
The Qur'an says about successful people on the Day of Judgement that their faces become white (Qur'an, 3:106). This does not mean white as a hue of skin; rather it refers to light and brightness, which are spiritual descriptions not associated with actual colour.
A black person can have light in his face and a white person can have darkness and vice versa, depending on one's spiritual and moral condition.
Imam al-Ghazali considers ailments of the heart to be part of the Academic potential. he believes one is obliged to know this about human nature in order to be protected. Other scholars simply consider these ailments to be predominant in man; that is, most people have these potential qualities, but not necessarily everybody.
It is interesting that Imam Mawlud [the author, rahim-ullah] says it is impossible to rid oneself of these diseases without a trace. What this implies is that purification is a life-long process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart.
There is a well known hadith that states that every child is born in the state of fitra. For some reason, Muslims often translate this into English as, 'Every child is a born a Muslim'. But the hadith says fitra, which means that people are born inclined to faith-born with an intuitive awareness of divine purpose and a nature built to receive the prophetic message.
What remains then is to nurture one's fitra and cultivate this inclination to faith and purity of heart.
© Purification Of The Heart, Imam Al-Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub, translated by sh. Hamza Yusuf. | 2019-04-23T16:47:48 | http://www.zaufishan.co.uk/2012/08/every-child-fitra.html |
0.998904 | What is a First Look and Why Should I Consider It?
A First Look is when a bride and groom choose to first see each other on the day of their wedding in a private setting, away from family and friends [unless they want everyone included], before any of the photos are taken or wedding ceremony begins. The photographer is there to capture the reactions, the emotions and the smiles as the bride and groom first catch glimpses of each other after all the preparations of hair, makeup and getting into the suit and dress have been completed.
The First Look has two main benefits. The first is that the First Look gives the clients much needed privacy on a day that will otherwise have people around 24/7. Yes, it's your wedding day - of course you want to celebrate it with the people that you love. But with the First Look, you get several precious minutes to just BE. You get to cry if you want to, hug your groom-to-be, marvel at how gorgeous your bride-to-be looks in her dress, and you don't have a room full of eyes watching your every move.
The second benefit is that it makes the day go much more smoothly in terms of the photography and the day's timeline. When a couple chooses to do a First Look, I bring the groom to a predetermined location. Once I'm set up to photograph, the bride will then come up behind the groom. All I do is capture the emotions that are present as these two people, who are only hours away from becoming husband and wife, see each other for the first time on their wedding day.
Once they have some time to themselves, to talk and kiss and just take each other in, we begin the bride and groom photos. The wedding party and formal family photos follow and viola! All of the formal photos are finished well before the ceremony even begins. All the couple has to focus on after their wedding is over is greeting their guests, soak in being MARRIED and have a blast at their reception.
What if I don't want my groom to see me and my dress before I walk down the aisle?
In no way will I EVER make a bride do something that she doesn't want to do. If you have been dreaming your whole life about surprising your groom as you walk down the aisle, then by all means - that's what we will do! Just because you choose not to do a First Look, that doesn't mean your wedding day will be rushed and that we won't be able to find time for photos. Instead, it just means that the timeline of your wedding will have to allow room for photos after the ceremony, before the reception. As long as you know that and you allow time for the photos, the day will go just as smooth as it would have with a First Look.
Personally, I love First Looks. To me, they are emotional, happy, sweet and just plain beautiful. I am able to capture the anxious look on a grooms face as he waits for his bride to come up behind him, and I get to photograph her smile as he turns around to see her. The jitters come out in the open and from there on out, it's pure joy.
I have experience with the First Look as both a photographer, and as a bride. When Matt and I got married, we chose to do a First Look with our photographer as well. I was so excited and anxious as I walked toward him. After we hugged, kissed and checked each other out for a few minutes, we transitioned smoothly into our wedding party and family photos, with plenty of time to rest and relax, in the same room, before the wedding.
Some people might worry that the walk down the aisle isn't as special or as monumental once you've already seen each other on the day of the wedding. Let me tell you - from personal experience as a bride, that is SO NOT TRUE. As I walked down the aisle, with everyone standing up and the music that I'd hand selected playing, I was a MESS. I have the awkward looking photo to prove it - I'm not a pretty crier. Seeing Matt before didn't make it any less moving and emotional for me. It was still my walk down the aisle with my parents, toward the man I was marrying, and I know he felt just as many raw emotions at that moment as I did. I think that all of my couples who've opted for the First Look will tell you the same thing - the First Look does not make your walk down the aisle any less wonderful and amazing.
So, there you have it! A description of what a First Look is, and why so many couples and photographers like it. That said - if you know that you want to have your walk down the aisle be the first time that your groom sees you, please please please don't let anyone change your mind. If you have always wanted that suspense and it has been a part of your wedding dreams forever, don't compromise that just for the ease of your photographer.
But, if you haven't really given it much thought before and are open to the possibility of a First Look, I highly recommend it. Both as a photographer and as a bride.
Oh I have a few weddings this Summer/Fall and I am so going to have my brides read this. You have described THE FIRST LOOK PERFECTLY!!! | 2019-04-21T10:34:53 | http://www.lauraradnieckiblog.com/2011/02/what-is-first-look-and-why-should-i.html |
0.999096 | The term "foreign" refers to a US company that is created any where outside a given state, and which whishes to do business is this state. For example, a company that is formed in the state of Delaware in the US would be viewed as a "foreign" company in other states such as the state of Nevada. Similarly, a company formed in the United Kingdom would be "foreign" if whishes to register to do business in the state of Nevada or other state.
Companies that do business in several states within the US have to "foreign qualify" and must register for a Certificate of Authority in that state and pay the applicable state filing fees.
A foreign corporation is an existing corporation that is registered to do business in a jurisdiction (such as a U.S. State, or a country) other than the one where it was originally incorporated. This article uses the word state to refer to separate jurisdictions, as the typical example of a foreign corporation is one that is incorporated in one state of the United States, then is authorized to do business in additional state(s); however, a corporation could be incorporated in one country and authorized to do business in one or more additional countries, depending on whether corporations are registered at the federal level of a country, or at the sub-federal level, such as at the State or Province level of a country. For the purposes of this article, therefore, the term 'state' may also represent 'country' with respect to different jurisdictions.
The use of foreign corporation registration allows a corporation to operate in multiple jurisdictions as the same organization in all of them. The only alternative would be to register a separate corporation in each jurisdiction, and separate every operation according to the particular jurisdiction to which the operations are taking place. This would mean, for example, a corporation operating in 5 U.S. states would have to have separate domestic corporations in each of the five states, as opposed to having a single corporation registered in one state, and being registered as a foreign corporation in the other four.
create one primary corporation (or parent corporation that owns the stock of all the other corporations, and each of the other corporations is registered as a domestic corporation in each state it operates. The parent corporation (or parent company) is usually referred to as a holding company, while the separate corporations are referred to as subsidiaries. If the parent corporation owns all of their stock, they would be referred to as wholly owned subsidiaries of the parent company.
Operating a corporation as a holding company and separate corporations in each state, or operating as a single corporation with registrations as foreign corporations in all the other states than its home state, is a matter of choice for the corporation's directors and officers depending on how it operates, damage liability and tax consequences. A corporation may find it more advantageous operating as separate companies in each state or jurisdiction, or it may find that operating as a single organization may make more sense.
One reason for operating as a single corporation having foreign corporation status in other states is because of corporate governance rules which dictate that the rules of the state where the corporation is a domestic corporation apply for certain provisions such as voting rights, officer and director protection, and liability for misconduct.
One reason for operating as a holding company with separate domestic corporations is because of potential liability issues such as in operating facilities which have high potential liabilities in the event of accident or failure. Thus only the assets of the particular corporation in the particular state are at risk in the event of a lawsuit, as opposed to the assets of the entire corporate entity. In some cases, because of ownership rules, the laws of a jurisdiction may require separate businesses to be operated by subsidiaries in order to protect the business of the subsidiary from the operations of the parent. This is most prevalent in the case of subsidiaries which are banks or public utilities such as electric power companies. | 2019-04-26T08:14:03 | http://azfastsell.com/foreign-corporation.php |
0.999997 | The big headline from 2010 is that Nintendo's primary competitors have finally followed suit: Microsoft with Kinect, Sony with the PlayStation Move. At first glance, it looks like a bad year for gamers who'd rather sit than flail about like dervishes.
Four years ago, Nintendo turned the video-game world upside-down with its motion-controlled Wii console. The big headline from 2010 is that Nintendo's primary competitors have finally followed suit: Microsoft with Kinect, Sony with the PlayStation Move. At first glance, it looks like a bad year for gamers who'd rather sit than flail about like dervishes.
But the game industry is driven by software, not hardware, and the best games of 2010 are those you could play the old-fashioned way — working a controller from the comfort of your favorite chair. The Kinect and Move technology is impressive, but (with one exception) the games available for them don't reach the creative heights of the year's best.
1. "Red Dead Redemption" (Rockstar, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3): It's more than "Grand Theft Auto" on a horse, and it's all because of John Marston, the repentant former bandit at the heart of this Wild West drama. He's the first Rockstar protagonist with a heart, and his journey toward redemption is the most rewarding trip I took all year.
2. "Mass Effect 2" (Electronic Arts, for the Xbox 360): Engaging characters and an absorbing mystery help BioWare expand its sprawling intergalactic empire. It's as ambitious and thought-provoking as the best science fiction.
3. "Rock Band 3" (MTV Games, for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii): New keyboard and "pro guitar" accessories bring fans of this exemplary franchise closer to the stage than ever.
4. "Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies" (Square Enix, for the Nintendo DS): This delightful role-playing game is a satisfying throwback to classic sword-and-sorcery.
5. "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" (Namco Bandai, for the Xbox 360, PS3): This vision of a post-apocalyptic America, featuring two of the year's more intriguing characters, deserves a wider audience than it has received.
6. "Nier" (Square Enix, for the Xbox 360, PS3): A man battles to save his daughter in this fascinating mashup of "Zelda," ''Zork" and a half-dozen other classics.
7. "Dance Central" (MTV Games, for the Xbox 360): The best of the Kinect launch titles, this full-body workout will help you release your inner Gaga.
8. "BioShock 2" (2K Games, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Communism rears its head in 2K's underwater dystopia, and while some of the wow factor is gone, tighter controls and a more coherent story make for a first-rate follow-up.
9. "Darksiders" (THQ, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Clever puzzles, vivid animation and an acerbic sense of humor lift this adventure above your standard "Zelda" clone.
10. "Fallout: New Vegas" (Bethesda Softworks, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Despite some glitches and a meandering plot, this sequel delivers a solid 80-plus hours of post-nuclear kicks.
— Runners-up: "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood," ''Super Mario Galaxy 2," ''Professor Layton and the Unwound Future," ''God of War III," ''Battlefield: Bad Company 2," ''NBA 2K11," ''Picross 3D," ''Donkey Kong Country Returns," ''Call of Duty: Black Ops," ''Gran Turismo 5."
— Best downloadable games: "Limbo," ''Costume Quest," ''DeathSpank," ''Chime."
— Best movie-inspired games: "Toy Story 3," ''Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4."
— Best game-inspired movie: "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World."
— That gum you like is going to come back in style: "Twin Peaks"-inspired games ("Alan Wake," ''Deadly Premonition," ''Nelson Tethers, Puzzle Agent").
— Best new hardware: Kinect and Move got a lot of attention late in the year, but neither made as big a splash as Apple's iPad, which is challenging Nintendo's long-held dominance of portable gaming.
— Best iPad/iPhone game: "Chaos Rings."
— Best proof that PC gaming isn't dead: "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty," ''Civilization V."
— Worst game: "Kane & Lynch: Dog Days." | 2019-04-22T08:53:36 | https://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20101225/ENTERTAIN/101229979 |
0.997277 | Marriage Of 96-Year-Old Woman Raises Legal Questions : The Two-Way The family of 96-year-old Edith Hill in Annandale, Va., says her sudden marriage to 95-year-old Eddie Harrison puts her estate into question.
Edith Hill, 96, and Eddie Harrison, 95, shown here in their home in Annandale, Va., were married earlier this year. One of Hill's daughters says the marriage was improper and that Hill's estate is now in question.
The recent marriage of two nonagenarians might seem romantic ... but the family of 96-year-old Edith Hill doesn't think so. The Associated Press is reporting a legal dispute in Alexandria, Va., between Hill's daughter Patricia Barber and Barber's sister, Rebecca Wright, who took their mother to marry 95-year-old Eddie Harrison.
Cary Cuccinelli, Barber's attorney, said at a hearing last week that Hill has been declared legally incapacitated for many years and that Wright's decision to facilitate the marriage without court permission was "improper."
Now, says Cuccinelli, Harrison has legal rights to Hill's estate, which includes real estate in the pricey Old Town area of Alexandria. Hill's property there is worth about $475,000. The dispute also claims the marriage complicates Hill's care and living situation.
Judge James Clark agreed with Barber that the process of the marriage was improper, but he didn't want to immediately separate the newlyweds. He decided to remove both daughters as Hill's legal guardians and instead appointed another attorney, Jessica Niesen. Niesen now has the task of investigating the marriage and protecting Hill's interests.
If Niesen finds that the marriage does not benefit Hill or her estate, she can pursue a divorce or annulment. But, she told the AP, she won't break up the marriage if she finds no damaging information. She also opposes the idea of a postnuptial agreement, which would deny Harrison access to Hill's estate. Niesen says the marriage should be given equal treatment if found to be a good arrangement for Hill.
Hill and Harrison met more than a decade ago while waiting in line to buy lottery tickets. One of the tickets was a winner, worth $2,500, but both walked away with more than cash. The two have been companions ever since. A church elder presided over their marriage ceremony earlier this year.
What makes this case particularly noteworthy is Wright's claim that Hill and Harrison may be the oldest interracial married couple in the country. Hill is black and Harrison is white. A legal marriage in the commonwealth of Virginia would not have been possible if the couple had met when they were young.
In an interview with WUSA9, Harrison hugged Hill and said "we'll be like this always regardless of what happens."
Hill and Harrison live in nearby Annandale, Va., with Wright and her daughter, Robin. | 2019-04-20T13:28:56 | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/09/09/347095216/marriage-of-96-year-old-woman-raises-legal-questions |
0.997398 | The slowdown in retail sales is not the only detail that marks a possible slowdown in the Argentine economy. Another fact that supports this assumption is the evolution of the consumption of electricity. In the month of may, the increase in electricity consumption was only 3.3%. This data shows a clear slowdown if it is considered that in May 2007, the annual increase in energy consumption was 8.1 per cent increase in energy efficiency? Do results of the energy saving plan?. Good explanations for someone who does not want to recognize the slower pace of growth would be economic but do not seem to be these explanations. Hikmet Ersek is often quoted as being for or against this. And as I always want to see the positive side to things, I understand that at least from the Government, this situation alleviates to some extent the energy problem that crosses the country. With regard to the energy issue, Daniel Montanat, an economist and energy consultant, says: the trend is that the economy is slowing and energy data reflect it immediately because they are indicators of physical consumption.
This is another reality which we are ignoring. Is the ascending cycle of the Argentine economy running out? I prefer to answer this question with the following: Juan Mario Jorrat, Economist, Master in Economics (Ohio University), drew up a composite leading indicator for the Argentina (an indicator that predicts with a certain degree of precision the proximity of a slowdown or recession), which showed a strong increase in the probability that the Argentine economy approaching at a pivot point, which is the same as sayingend of its upward March. The critical value of this indicator, below which increase the chances of a shift in the dynamics of the economy is 50 points and for the Argentine economy today is in 38.5. Contrary to what happens with consumption, purchases of durable goods such as automobiles zero kilometer, continue to grow. | 2019-04-20T05:02:32 | http://www.usacenyd.com/daniel-montanat |
0.998149 | Gaines, on Brains: Ecstasy: "Safe"?
Call me a prude, but I'm not so thrilled about the announcement made yesterday by British Columbia's top health official that ecstasy is "safe."
Ecstasy, best known for its recreational use among the "rave" scene, can induce euphoria, diminished anxiety, and a sense of intimacy with others.
Remember those old "Just Say No" PSAs from the late '80s championed by First Lady Nancy Reagan? "This is drugs." An egg cracks into a sizzling skillet. "This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" The commercials were short, memorable, and got the point across, albeit lacking scientific support. Who cares about the science with such a powerful visual, anyway?
How's this for a scientific visual: in 1999, the Journal of Neuroscience published a study by Johns Hopkins researchers examining the effects of short-term MDMA use on the brain over the long-term. In other words, can a single weekend of hard partying result in deficits years down the road?
Hatzidimitriou and colleagues injected 5 mg/kg MDMA (pure MDMA—just as Dr. Kendall assures is "safe") in squirrel monkeys subcutaneously twice a day for four days. That's about the equivalent of an average 150 lb. person consuming 3 ecstasy tablets per day.
Two weeks after just four days of ecstasy use, there is a highly significant reduction of serotonergic neurons in the cortex (middle panel) compared to control. Terrifying, right? It gets worse. Just look at the effects after seven years of recovery (right panel)—still a marked reduction in neurons.
Short-term physiological effects of MDMA include increased heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature; blurred vision; sweating; loss of appetite; nausea; and jaw-clenching. Overdose can cause paranoia, hallucinations, hemorrhage, fainting, and organ failure.
Sure sounds like "ecstasy" lives up to its name, right?
Currently, clinical trials are testing the therapeutic potential for controlled MDMA in anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the anxiety associated with terminal cancer.
Dr. Kendall's statement comes after a string of 16 death in British Columbia since last July associated with a tainted batch of ecstasy containing the toxin PMMA. The health official wants to explore legalization of the drug, asserting that he is "quite a strong critic of prohibition" in that it doesn't do "much to reduce harmful use" or put "billions of dollars into the hands of criminal enterprises."
On a socio-economic level, he has a point. But...safe? Ecstasy is safe?
Let's make sure citizens are getting the facts before we tell them what they want to hear.
Photos courtesy Bassam Loucas, Wikipedia, Drugs Forum, and CBC. Video courtesy pushthefire (YouTube). | 2019-04-25T02:41:24 | http://www.gainesonbrains.com/2012/06/ecstasy-safe.html |
0.999955 | The justice secretary had admitted this morning that he was giving "further consideration" to the case for public interest after reports over the weekend suggested reasons for the move.
Venables, 27, was ten years old when he murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993. After being released the Ministry of Justice confirmed he was returned to jail following a "breach of licence conditions" on Wednesday.
James' mother Denise Fergus said she had a "right to know" why the recall had taken place.
But this afternoon Mr Straw told the Commons that it would not be in the public interest to make further revelations.
"It is critical that if charges do follow it is possible to hold a fair trial - fair for the defence and fair for the prosecution," he told MPs.
"Our motivation is solely to ensure that serious allegations are properly investigated and that justice is done. No one in this country would want anything other."
Mr Straw's earlier comments echoed home secretary Alan Johnson's suggestion that the public had a "right to know" last week.
"It is better to be cautious. Above all, it is not for ministers to run a criminal trial process," Mr Straw said earlier.
"I think it's pretty well known that my overriding instinct in public life is to give as much information as possible as early as possible - not to sit on things. There has to be a good reason for doing what I'm doing at the moment."
This afternoon he insisted that he and Mr Johnson were in complete agreement on the issue, telling the Commons: "The home secretary and I are in exactly the same place on this."
Venables abducted two-year-old James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool, with Robert Thompson in February 1993 before they beat him to death and laid his body on a railway track.
According to the Sunday Mirror, Venables was taken back into custody on allegations revolving around indecent images of children.
The Sun yesterday also claimed that Venables had been arrested on suspicion of a serious sexual offence. It has emerged since then that an injunction has been obtained against the paper to prevent it from publishing the specific alleged offences.
Mrs Fergus told ITV1's This Morning on Monday her head was "all over the place" over the developments.
"I do not want to prejudice a trial but I have the right to know," she said.
"I want to know why he, I can't even bring myself to say his name, has been recalled to prison.
"If he [Mr Straw] can't tell me now, then I want to know after any criminal proceedings against him have finished.
"I can't eat again. I have pulled my kids out of school. It has brought it all flooding back." | 2019-04-24T13:52:01 | https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2010/03/08/straw-turns-down-venables-revelations |
0.995659 | Directions (1-5): In the following questions, a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence is given which is divided into five parts, (A),(B),(C),(D) and (E). Part (E) is fixed and highlighted in BOLD. You have to arrange the other four parts to make a contextually and grammatically meaningful sentence (the meaning can be different from the one given in the question). If no such rearrangement is possible mark (e) as your answer i.e. 'No rearrangement is possible'.
DABCE can form a grammatically correct sentence here.
BACDE can form a grammatically correct sentence here.
No other rearrangement is possible.
Although food has classically been perceived as a means to provide energy and building material to the body, its ability to prevent and protect against diseases is starting to be recognized. In particular, research over the past 5 years has provided exciting (A)……………….. for the influence of dietary factors on specific molecular systems and mechanisms that maintain mental function. For instance, a diet that is rich in omega-3 fatty acids is (B)garnering appreciation for supporting cognitive processes in humans and upregulating genes that are important for maintaining synaptic function and plasticity in rodents. In turn, diets that are high in saturated fat are becoming notorious for reducing molecular substrates that support cognitive processing and increasing the risk of neurological dysfunction in both humans and animals. Although these studies emphasize an important effect of food on the brain, further work is necessary to determine the mechanisms of action and the conditions for therapeutic applications in humans.
Over thousands of years, diet, in conjunction with other aspects of daily living, such as exercise, (C)………………………………………………………………... Advances in molecular biology have revealed the ability of food-derived signals to influence energy metabolism and synaptic plasticity and, thus, mediate the effects of food on cognitive function, which is likely to have been crucial for the evolution of the modern brain. Feeding habits have been intrinsically associated with the development of human civilization, as people’s choice of what to eat is influenced by culture, religion and society. The newly discovered effects of food on cognition are intriguing for the general public, as they might challenge preconceptions, and they attract substantial interest from the media.
Q6. Which of the following words should fill in the blank in (A) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?
Q7. Which of the following words can replace the word given in bold in (B) without changing the meaning of the sentence?
Garner: gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).
Accumulate: gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
Q8. Which of the following is the effect of diet that is rich in saturated fat?
Supporting cognitive processes in humans and upregulating genes.
Reducing molecular substrates that support cognitive processing.
Increasing the risk of neurological dysfunction in both humans and animals.
Both (b) and (c) are correct. Refer first paragraph.
Q9. Which of the following phrases should fill the blank given in (C) to make it grammatically and contextually correct and meaningful?
holds the ability to modulate brain health and function.
to determine the mechanisms of action and the conditions for therapeutic applications in humans.
"has had a crucial role in shaping cognitive capacity and brain evolution" is the correct choice here.
Directions (10-13): Read the following passage and answer the questions as directed.
Our brains depend on proper hydration to function optimally. Brain cells require a delicate balance between water and various elements to operate, and when you lose too much water, that balance is (A)disrupted. Your brain cells lose efficiency.
Years of research have found that when we're parched, we have more difficulty (I). Dehydration can impair short-term memory function and the recall of long-term memory. The ability to perform mental arithmetic, like calculating whether or not you'll be late for work if you hit snooze for another 15 minutes, is compromised when your fluids are low.
Over the course of a typical twenty-four hour period, the longest spell most of us go without fluid intake is the six to eight hours (II). Sleeping is hardly the kind of activity that you (B)……….. over, but that doesn't mean you're not losing water during the night. With every somnolent breath, you expel moisture, and the cumulative effect of a night's sleep is to dry out.
It's for this reason that I habitually get a drink soon after I wake up. If you're like me, when you're simply reminded of (III), your next thought is to head for the water cooler.
Q10. Which of the following words can replace the word given in bold in (A) without changing the meaning of the sentence?
Q11. In the Question below three phrases are given which must be filled in the positions given in I,II and III in the passage. From the options given below, choose the correct order of phrases that should be filled in the positions given.
BCA will be the correct sequence.
Q12. Which of the following words should fill in the blank in (B) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?
'sweat' will be grammatically and contextually correct here.
Q13. Which of the following can be inferred as the theme of the passage above?
"Water enhances mental functioning and is essential to survival" is the theme of the passage.
'Rigorous' means harsh and demanding. Hence, it is opposite in meaning from the other words.
'Inadequate' means lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose. Hence, it is opposite in meaning from the other words. | 2019-04-18T12:57:38 | https://www.bankersadda.com/2019/01/new-pattern-questions-english-quiz.html |
0.999229 | IIS6: How to troubleshoot a 404 error in an ASP.NET application?
I have an ASP.NET application on a Windows Server 2003/IIS6 that refuses to run for some reason (it's the Xerox Centre, if that info helps). It has been working flawlessly before though on this server.
Now, all I get if I try to open the app homepage (http://some.intranet.server/XeroxCentreWareWeb/) is a "404 - File or directory not found" error.
The app is configured to run in it's own app pool, which runs as Network Service.
The Network Service account has read access to the configured directory.
I tried to track down any file permission issues with procmon - nothing to be seen. There isn't even an access to the web app directory happening when the page loads.
Interestingly, according to procmon, the web server accesses the 401-2 custom error file (Logon failed due to server configuration) first, but then decides to send the 404 down to the client.
This makes me think that there is some kind of weird permission problem that occurs even before the application files are being accessed. I just have no idea where to look.
I've tried to run the app pool as Local System for a test, but to no avail.
What else could I check in this case?
First off, I love the troubleshooting steps that you took. One more 'break' test is to stop the site itself, not just the app pool, to make sure that it's not another site handling it, yet sharing the app pool.
IIS6 has the "Web Service Extensions" section within IIS Manager. Make sure that the framework version that you're using is allowed. If you've recently changed the framework version to one that isn't marked as allowed, that will throw a 404 error.
The IIS logs will also confirm the sub-status code for you and it will also confirm that the right site is wired up.
The answer I've found is as simple as non-obvious.
There still was a "Wildcard Application Map" defined to a no-longer-existent application server (ColdFusion, in this case). The ColdFusion uninstaller obviously "forgot" to remove that setting from the MetaBase.
Check the IIS logs. I can't see in your question if you've already done that.
404 is page not found, so I'd look at path issues before credentials.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious... Is default.aspx still in the list of default documents for that site / virtual directory?
Drop down one level, and install Wireshark. Sniff the entire transaction on the server.
Like others have said, use Wireshark or another packet capture program to analyze the traffic between the client and server. This will allow you to see the exact request that the client is sending to the server and the response from the server. I find that when I'm beating my head against a wall with a networking problem that running a packet capture often illuminates something I missed or overlooked.
asp.net / app pool issues are usually written to the event logs, so that would be my first place to check before doing any traffic analyzing.
There are a couple of applications for viewing HTTP headers right in the browser.
ieHTTPHeaders works well for Internet Explorer. If you use Firefox, you can do a search for Live HTTP Headers. (I don't have enough rep to post a second link).
What is the physical path of the application? Is it configured as a virtual directory or is it actually in wwwroot? Can you browse the contents via the IIS manager?
Changing the web service extensions to allow fixed the 404 issue for me. I believe these values got changed during one of our patching cycles.
You can try to install Fiddler and run it with IE8 Developer tools to see if you are being redirected or something.
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0.999825 | I recently had a small part a cylinder 1/4" dia x 3/4"lg with a .125 radius on one end then shelled to 1/16" wall thkness.(worked great) then I recreated it and did a revolve spin with a polyline same shape but when I did a shell 1/16" wall thkness it did not shell properly The shel[ the inside with like a hole out the flat face I picked to shell. I guess I am wondering do revolve spin shell differently than a 3d cylinder why would this not shell properly?
Is the Spin profile "closed"? An open profile creates a hollow object and the Shell tool wants a solid object.
It works for me as open or closed spin or cylinder in every TC version I've got ranging from V10 to 2016. You've made an error somewhere, without an example file there's no way to tell what it is. You're using a mix of decimal and fractional measurement and a random mix of techniques, but consistency is a good start, and good practise generally. You're describing a hemisphere cap on a cylinder, with a void within. Lots of ways to do that in TC.
If the profile was open, applying Create Solid>From Surface to the result will allow it to Shell properly.
I tried it again created a new file on my other computer not my laptop and it did shell fine. I don't know why it is not shelling like it should on my laptop but I think your right I have made an error somewhere.
Thanks for all the help. I am thinking it is the polyline?? But I thought if the polyline was open you couldn't create a solid???
TC Pro has two types of surface: TC surfaces, which are meshes that don't do curved surfaces, surface booleans (shelling, filleting, chamfering), physical properties even if they're manifold volumes and some other things, like snapping to the centre of mesh cylinder ends. TC's other surfaces are ACIS surfaces, which do allow those things, and others as well. ACIS also has some capacity to repair some faults, like stitching open seams such as occurred with some older programs that produced IGES solids from faces, and the capacity to make a solid from a surface even if it has missing faces, if those faces are planar. So if you drew a quarter-circle arc and single line polyline and revolved them to create a hemisphere on an open cylinder, select it and modify|modify 3D objects|create solid|from surface and that's what you'll get. SAT healing does the same thing. | 2019-04-23T21:55:13 | http://forums.turbocad.com/index.php?topic=22744.msg136037 |
0.999998 | It was a holy structure - assembled by what some might consider an ensemble of 'unholy' craftsmen -erected within the unwelcoming walls of upstate New York's Clinton Correctional Facility, aka Dannemora Prison, aka 'Little Siberia.' An ambitious project set into motion by a compassionate priest, this Catholic house of worship would enter history as the first of its kind; underscored by a series of events that encompassed everything from comedy to empathy to unfortunate tragedy. Here is a tale of a 'Prison Padre,' his grand idea of building a chapel within a place of despair, the all-volunteer workforce whose labor brought the vision to life, the 'Saint' who inspired it, and even an anectdote involving America's most notorious gangster of the time.
When Father Ambrose. R. Hyland arrived to the gates of his new parish in the fall of 1937 he observed a scene of general melancholy; Dannemora's prison had a bad reputation and the faces of inmates certainly conveyed as much. There were a few positive elements - a good library and fine kitchen facility - but the landscape was missing something. "Where's the Church?" the Chaplain asked his tour guide. The query fell on somewhat dumbfounded ears. No prison had a literal free standing house of worship on its grounds. For the first few months, Father Hyland and his colleagues made do with makeshift services above the assembly hall.
Hyland dismissed the odds and allowed very little to deter his passion - to bring some peace and hope to the otherwise hopeless place. The new clergyman wasted no time in developing a plan to put a real chapel on the grounds. Notwithstanding the unusual and undeniably daunting precedent he intended to set, Ambrose was a determined. It took a couple years, but he eventually won over the necessary factions (the Governor, the Cardinal, and both his clergy counterparts - a Protestant minister and a Jewish Rabbi), and inspired two-hundred convicts to volunteer their blood, sweat and tears in constructing the building (the workforce was comprised of various ethnicity and religious denominations, even atheists). Hyland received $5000 dollars from the Catholic Church, but the rest of the funding had to come from other sources. The project, which was inspired by and named after The Good Thief - Saint Dismas - officially broke ground in 1939; the remnants of a demolished cell block served as the initial building material, donors (also from various denominations) would later supply other materials, decor and funding.
Who is this Dismas fellow anyway? The 'good thief' is commonly recognized as a Saint of the condemned, and celebrated March 25 - Feast Day. As the story goes... of the two theives cruxified with Christ, one was peninent, one was not. The former, who was not identified by name in the Bible, admitted his guilt and earned immediate salvation from Christ himself - "This day thou shalt be with me in paradise." Interestingly, although Dismas is a venerated figure within Catholicism - he is not officially recognized as a Saint in Catholic canon.
Dannemora's infamous dungeon held more than a few equally infamous criminal figures over the years. Of the convicts who volunteered their time and talents, there was a safe-cracking nitroglycerin expert, a forger, and a stick up man who made an offer the good Chaplain definitely had to refuse!
"Father, I'll get it all for you. Just give me two nights and two guns."
And then there was Charlie. One of the most notable standouts of the entire inmate lot had been placed there just a year prior to Father Hyland's arrival. Convicted of being a pimp overlord, Salvatore Lucania, aka Charles 'Lucky' Luciano , once dubbed "the most dangerous gangster" by the zealous prosecutor who rallied to have him put away for 30 to 60 years, came to Dannemora after a very short stint in Sing Sing. Despite not being a particularly religious guy himself, the incarcerated crime lord offered the kind priest some assistance... in trademark Lucky style of course.
Father Hyland told Luciano about the initial donation the Cardinal had given, but the cost of construction would ultimately far exceed the appreciated and generous (yet considerably small) sum. "You now have $5000?" the gangster asked rhetorically. "I read the New York papers every day, and I know how to pick horses." Father Hyland listened as Luciano continued his proposal, pointing to the paper, "Bet it on these three horses tommorow."
The priest gracefully declined the offer, adding - "The Cardinal wouldn't like it, even if they all won." Curiosity however got the best of Father Hyland. He looked into the results of the longshots Lucky insisted were sure bets. Indeed, Charlie Lucky's tips, had Father Hyland acted on them, would have netted the payout as promised.
"Follow my advice and your five (thousand) will become fifty (thousand)" - Charles 'Lucky' Luciano to Father Ambrose Hyland.
Not long after the incident, the young chaplain was summoned to the Warden's office. Naturally, Hyland felt confident the 'Luciano' issue probably had something to do with it. To his surprise, the Warden hadn't mentioned Lucky at all, but rather an entirely different kind of controversy brewing. "It seems a committee has been formed," Warden Snyder began. "Calls itself the New York League for Separation of Church and State." Snyder went on to explain how the group filed an injunction to stop the construction of the church. Father Hyland and his attorney went on to win the case and on April 6, 1941 the 156' by 50' structure (topped with a 106' spire pointing to the heavens) named St Dismas Church of the Good Thief was inaguarated.
Father Ambrose Hyland's dream came true and it garnered national attention. The media clammored to tell the story, even Hollywood came calling. On a deeper level, inmates would go on to speak of how the project and the good priest quite literally changed their lives for the better, which was truly all that Hyland hoped for all along.
Father Hyland had been dealing with some health problems - blood clots in particular - and left the prison in 1953. He returned to his hometown of Chateaugay, New York, but continued to visit churches and do speaking engagements. He was on his way to one such engagement on October 2, 1954 when tragedy struck. It was just about midnight when motorist John Slatcher noticed a burning vehicle on the side of the Route 9, near Schroon Lake. He quickly called for neighbors and the fire department, but it took several more hours for positive identification of the lone male victim inside the burned out car. The dead man was indeed Ambrose Hyland. The 54 year old priest was found on the passenger side of the sedan, which was parked well off the road, with the ignition off. The clues caused suspicious concern, and authorities considered an inquest. Investigators ruled out 'foul play' though, as the coroner's findings stated a "heart attack" as the cause of death. Additional factors, which included Father Hyland' fondness for cigars (a 'heavy smoker' of the product, it was reported) and of course the blood clots that plagued him for the last couple years, led to the media reporting a theory that investigators had apparently been leaning heavily toward - Father Hyland died of a heart attack and dropped a lit cigar which ignited the vehicle's interior.
1. Journalist Robert 'Bob' Considine wrote the screenplay for the purposed movie version of Father Hyland's story.
2. MGM offered Father Ambrose Hyland a handsome fee to option the movie rights, but the project was scrapped 1945.
3. The story did however get a well-received book version released - 'Gates of Dannemora' written by another priest, Jon Louis Bonn, Doubleday, 1951.
4. Father A.R. Hyland was the first 'paid' New York State chaplain.
5. The church's first organ, a $25,000 theatrical model donated by two Jewish brothers, was later replaced by a then-modern electronic model. The original organ had to be relocated to a state museum in order to save it from further damage (the extreme temperature fluctuations in the prison were to blame).
6. Sources often state Lucky Luciano donated red oak for the church pews (seating capacity = 1200). According to a 1989 interview with Father Hyland's niece - Luciano donated some special oak which was used in the church doors.
7. The church alter was made of wood from one of Ferdinand Magellen's ships, donated by a distant relative of the explorer.
8. Carmelo Soraci, convicted of forgery, hand painted all the stained glass windows and the Dismas mural behind the altar. Twenty years later his artwork (Dannemora and Sing Sing) was valued at $100,000. Soraci left the prison system for good in 1960 and went on to write an autobiography "The Convict and the Stained Glass Windows."
AP. "Prison Walls Converted to Churchly Use." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. July 23, 1939. P. 11.
Brandeis, Eric. "Looking at Life." Montana Standard. October 31, 1954. Page 4.
Considine, Bob. "Prison Life." The Cincinatti Enquirer. January 10, 1944. P. 14.
Lyons, Leonard. "The Lyons Den." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 10, 1943. Page 25.
Lyons, Leonard. "The Builder." San Mateo Times, October 12, 1954, P. 14.
Lyons, Leonard. "The Lyons Den." New York Post. January 29, 1962. P. 3.
Mooring, William H. "Hollywood Veers Away From Religious Pictures." August 31, 1945. Section 2. Page 1. | 2019-04-23T14:39:28 | http://www.writersofwrongs.com/search/label/Father%20Hyland |
0.999926 | What a difference six months and a great new record makes. Back in October (six months to the day!), Caroline Rose opened for Banditos in a modestly attended show at Great Scott. Last week, she came back to the same venue and sold the place out, on a Wednesday no less. I only caught a handful of her songs at the October show, but was intrigued by this new sound and knew I wanted to see more.
Most shows I go to tend to be the ultra serious earnest indie rock kind. A Caroline Rose show is definitely not one of those. The stage was decked out in as much red as possible. There were fake red flowers everywhere, red chili peppers decorating her mic stand, a beat up Elmo pinata, etc. While her band dressed in all (or mostly) royal blue, she took the stage wearing all red, including a fuzzy red faux fur coat, and tossing a rose balloon into the crowd. (The coat only lasted two songs.) Unless I missed one, she ignored her previous album, I Will Not Be Afraid, and only played songs off of the very recent LONER. I completely understand why given the sound change, but I would have loved to have heard an amped up synth-heavy version of "Blood On Your Bootheels."
How synth-heavy is Caroline Rose's new sound? Three out of four bandmembers had some form of keyboard in front of them. The crowd loved every minute of the show, and Rose and her band (although she did announce that she was Caroline Rose and they were Caroline Rose, a la Lydia Loveless) had even more fun. She announced three of the songs she played were her favorite song (the final one was her "real" favorite, which was a cover of the Britney Spears now classic "Toxic") and dared to play "Soul No. 5" and "Money" back to back. She played the opening riff of "Money" for a very extended period of time, delighting in the anticipation from the crowd. Towards the end of the same song, the band abruptly stopped. Fully expecting them to pause for a bit of time and then go back, Rose instead put on the bra that an audience member threw on stage (which was the first bra ever thrown at Caroline Rose! (Luckily, it was cranberry, so it kinda fit the color scheme.) She also needed the audience member's help to put it on, proving that bras are hard!), introduced the crowd to the animatronic cat they had on stage, and announced the rest of the set would be an avant garde noise performance and proceeded to play on a recorder. Only after about 5-10 minutes of this did she drop the recorder and blast back into "Money." It was an insane performance, and the most fun I've had at a show in ages.
To keep the tradition going, I missed most of Henry Jamison's performance. He was joined by a backing band called the Babies, and mentioned that it was their second ever live performance together. It showed, but in the best possible way. Back when I saw him play with Lady Lamb in 2017, I mentioned that he shows great promise and would be great in a few years. Make that one year. He seemed much more comfortable and polished than he did last time, and had a command of the stage I didn't expect. Plus, there was a good portion of the crowd that were die hard Henry Jamison fans, singing along with every song. Maybe in six months he'll be selling out Great Scott on his own. | 2019-04-22T01:58:59 | http://www.ifitstooloud.com/2018/04/live-shows-caroline-rose-and-henry.html |
0.998271 | Which All-In-One Exercise Equipment To Buy?
Exercise equipment has been getting cheaper. Increasingly, individuals are turning away from costly gym memberships and investing in a home gym. Whether you choose to completely dedicate a spare room to exercise equipment or stash your fitness tools in a spare corner of your home, your best bet is probably an all in one piece of exercise equipment.
In addition to saving you money by combining several different types of workout accessories into one item, exercise equipment can easily fit into the smallest spaces and take up a great deal less room than their individual counterparts.
When in the market to buy all in one exercise equipment, you should first identify your goals.
Why are you looking to exercise?
Are you interested in losing weight, becoming healthier, or bulking up on muscle mass?
How much time are you looking to devote to exercise on a daily basis?
How much space is available for the equipment and how much are you planning to spend on the complete system?
After you have thought about these questions and come up with the answers, you can narrow down the choices provided by your search.
There are many all-in-one exercise equipment systems on the market and are almost constantly advertised on TV, in magazines, and on the World Wide Web. By far, the most popular all-in-one exercise equipment are those geared towards individuals interested in lifting weights. They include workstations that allow you to focus on different parts of your body and perform different weight exercises. They include attachments that allow you space to perform pull ups and an incline for you to work on sit ups, crunches, or other types of exercises.
Two popular models of all-in-one exercise equipment system are the BowFlex and TotalGym brands.
The Bowflex uses resistant bows the bend instead of traditional weights that lift. Available to fit a wide variety of budgets and needs, the BowFlex system is widely adaptable and extremely popular. Furthermore, the basic version of the BowFlex system is easily stored in tight spaces and can even be folded to fit underneath a bed. The larger, more expensive version of the BowFlex machine rivals the professional equipment found in gyms around the country, allowing you a quality workout on quality equipment.
The TotalGym exercise equipment system is advertised by martial arts legend, Chuck Norris, and supermodel Christie Brinkley. Much less expensive than the BowFlex machine, the TotalGym system uses gravity and resistance instead of traditional weights. Using this system, individuals have the ability to adapt the machine for a wide variety of exercises that will work on different areas of the body.
Body-Solid is a more traditional all-in-one exercise system that combines several different types of components and uses a series of weights lifted in a vertical motion. Just like BowFlex and TotalGym systems, Body-Solid is available for a variety of budgets and spaces.
Instead of dishing out big bucks on a system that you may or may not use, consider purchasing a more basic model and then upgrading as your fitness levels advance. In addition to being easier on your budget, you are less likely to become overwhelmed at the intimidating piece of machinery in your workout room.
Consider single items that combine the movements of several other machines. For example, an elliptical machine is perfect for individuals looking to engage in cardio activities. Elliptical machines are an all-in-one combination of a tread mill, stair stepper, and stationary bicycle.
Individuals especially enjoy an elliptical machine due to its unique movement and the no impact movement, allowing your knees, hips, ankles, and back to thank you at the end of the exercise routine. Nordic Track makes an excellent version of this machine that can fold to fit into the tiniest of storage spaces, making it perfect for individuals short on room.
This entry was posted in Money and tagged exercise equipment on September 26, 2013 by Healthy Living Guide. | 2019-04-24T02:36:32 | http://guydz.com/all-in-one-exercise-equipment/ |
0.998789 | Bike has already removed the rear fender-plate holder so i need to know the correct steps to do the disassembly.
4. Remove final drive ( 4 allen bolts)?
Do i need to bleed the lubricant of the final drive shaft before that?
7. Pull back the swingarm.
3. brake fluid for bleeding due to calipers replacement.
There is oil in the final drive, drain it because otherwise it will leak all over the place. Its only about 350ml or something like that. There shouldn't be oil in the drive shaft itself or inside the swing arm but sometimes if the seal at the back of the gear box has a little leak it can get oil in there. Mine was but the oil also preserves the shaft.
You can leave the speed sensor in and just disconnect it from the loom. One less place for oil to leak from.
Chances are the rubber boot that goes from the swing arm to the gear box will be split. So I would have a new one for that.
The gear position indicator also uses a gasket. In my experience a new switch and gasket is the way to go.
Grease to be used is Staburags or Honda. It doesn't take much but good to get it right.
The screw on the brake disc may be hard to get out, get that off after you take the wheel off as you could end up drilling it out. All it does is keep the disc in place while the wheel is off. The wheel bolts are what hold the disc for braking.
1. The rear disc bolts round off (they're stuck in with red Loctite). Recovery procedure is to drill the heads off, then remove the remaining studs by either filing a flat on either side until you can get a 6mm or 7mm spanner on, or just grip the studs with a mole wrench (vise grip). I'd go for the filing first.
2. The heads snap off the GPI retaining bolts. They're only 4mm set screws and are probably pretty rusted by now. If they come out clean, replace them with 4mm allen bolts and lots of copperslip or similar. If they snap, you're going to hate me forever because it's a gearbox off, strip and specialist removal. There isn't the room in there to drill them out and replace with 5mm bolts; the originals have to come out. It might even be cheaper to get a s/h gearbox shipped in (minus the GPI because you don't want the same problem).
Thank you both on your advises , this is why I posted prior dismantling.
What's the type of oil (300-350ml) inside the final drive ?
Also a regular white , lithium transmission grease wouldn't be proper?
Dai the GPI was removed already once 2 months ago so I expect easy removal.
As for the rear rotor bolts guess you mean the two extra bolts besides the bolts of the wheel?
The two bolts holding the rotor do frighten simply because they will likely be seized and can be extremely hard to get out. Been there.
Final drive oil is 80W90 but there also seems to be a higher spec up to 140W. I use 80W90 and change both final drive and gearbox at the same time as they use the same oil. Final drive is up to the bottom of the threads on the filler plug. You need a little over 1 litre for both. I do engine oil and final drive and gearbox at the same time so none are in too long.
For gearbox this is your dipstick depth if you don't have the C spanner in your toolkit. I have a screwdriver in my kit with a mark at 116mm for checking while away from base. DONT use a screwdriver with loose or reversible shafts.....if it comes out it ends up in your gearbox and you wont get it out. I don't have a use for the C spanner as I don't have the original shocks. You can always cut one out of plastic.
Dai: Thanks. I'd seen Brit references to a mole wrench before but never had any idea that it meant Vise-Grips.
SOMETIMES heating the rear rotor bolts very hot with a torch (a real one, not a flashlight) will make it possible to free the rear rotor bolts so that the heads don't strip. But that doesn't always work.
I've never had an issue with the GPI switch bolts.
@duck wrote: Dai: Thanks. I'd seen Brit references to a mole wrench before but never had any idea that it meant Vise-Grips.
i still have a spanner of my rear shock. Its a WP one and its span key looks exactly like that!
You don't need to remove the disc from the drive to do a lube job.
Don't let the swing arm drop when the shock is detatched , the drop will damage the rubber boot to the gearbox.
If the left swing arm pivot bolt is difficult to remove try to get in behind the case and clean the thread, it will be covered in grit. When you replace the pivots leave heaps of grease there to protect the thread for future removal.
@RicK G wrote: You don't need to remove the disc from the drive to do a lube job.
+1. The rear rotor only needs to be removed if you need to replace it or swap final drives.
The reason i want to remove the rear disc is to replace it with a brand new Brembo one. The current disc is worn out and shows some cracks (both sides) along its surface.
As for the swing arm drop.. I hope i didnt do damage already when i removed the rear shock to powdercoat its spring. I removed the spring with the rear wheel / tire on though.
The one piece of info i'm still missing is the grease type for the spline.
Are there any special characteristics i need to pay attention to or to avoid?
The issue with letting the swing arm drop too far is that it MAY cause the swing arm boot to pop off. This doesn't always happen and isn't the end of the world because all you need to do in that case is pop it back on.
You can tell if that boot is attached properly by pulling the swing arm back slightly (with the pivots removed) and letting it go If the boot as still attached properly then it will cause the swing arm to move back towards the transmission. I always to this when putting the swing arm back on to ensure that the boot is seated properly.
Check the boot it may have a cut about 10 - 15mm long. I just clean the cut with acetone and use super glue and have never had one fail yet, in 10 years.
allright! Wil do the check! Thank you all!
@George_Pap wrote: The one piece of info i'm still missing is the grease type for the spline.
It's strange you should be missing that one piece of info because it is one of the most discussed topics on the Internet among BMW owners that ride shaft-driven bikes.
Pay attention to be sure the lubricant is stiff like paste rather than soft like grease. Only a relatively thin covering is used on splines. I brush it onto clean splines with a toothbrush. I've done the transmission input splines twice, the driveshaft and final drive input splines five times and there is still some remaining in a container similar in size to a 35mm film canister that contained 30 grams of Staburags NBU 30 PTM.
Avoid applying it with a cake decorator. Excess lube wastes money and also can be slung onto the clutch disc if you over-do it on the transmission input side.
I don't think that stuff's available any more... is it?
George - in Europe it's probably easier to get hold of Castrol Optimol.
Correct. The guy who owned GD retired and closed up shop a couple of years ago.
Really appreciated all the help.
Never thought that getting the correct lubricant would be such a headache!
Got down to this grease . Krafft - extreme pressure lithium grease with molibdenium disulfide. From a Moto lubricants store. It's feel in my fingers regarding thickness is like a toothpaste .
I m ordering also the Castrol molylube from motoworks but until arrival I ll be putting this one tomorrow.
Adding Moly to the transmission gear oil helps smooth out shifting. It take several hundred miles to work its way in but after that the difference in shifting is noticeable.
I see that duck replied already but here is mine, "Yeah, I just checked Snowbum’s site and they went out of business two years ago. Lots of good information here on other spline lubes though"
I’ve always used Optimol on small clutch splines. White was the preferred but I ran out and have a tube of silver. Higher temp stuff I think. Used it on the K’s rear splines and in summer will do the clutch and re inspect the drive once more. I have some LM47 which I’ve used for years on R rear splines and I suppose this would be fine on the rear drive of K’s too.
Rear disassembly was smooth . No problem with any of the bolts Boot was in great shape.
Rear disc replacement also smooth, a couple of minutes heating of the two Allen bolts helped removing them without stripping.
Also replaced front brake main cylinder by using a 13mm pump repair kit from Motoworks. Bleeded also the front brake system ok.
Here s is the spline so any feedback from your experience on its condition appreciated. To my eyes looks ok , ok found, some rust muck inside but after cleaning splines look fine.
Throttle after opening became some kind of rough in feel, like teeth rubbing , no linear feeling in throttle turning .
Put some grease in but no special improvement. Opening throttle feels ....clicky ?! Steppy? Any suggestions?
Replaced also the GPI sensor. Still no luck. Ok I was getting some 1 if I was keep pressing the gear lever down with my foot. Otherwise blank .
2 sensors in a row with the same behaviour. Ok, both were used ones. Instrument checked LCD works fine , green light too..
George_Pa wrote: Throttle after opening became some kind of rough in feel, like teeth rubbing , no linear feeling in throttle turning .
Check the 'teeth' at the end of the throttle twist tube and also on the cam disc (gear and chain - attached to the upper end of the throttle cable) which actuates the throttle. These can become worn and will feel 'steppy' or notchy and intermittent even with a good smear of grease on them. The only remedy is replacement if they're worn. Keep in mind the single mark which shows where alignment takes place between both the gear and the throttle tube end.
Your GPI issue may be due to a bad connector.
The spline on the drive is fine what is the condition of the spline inside the shaft. I would expect it to be good but I have seen bad shafts and good drives before.
Original Bosch new fuel pump , vibration ring, pump base replaced.
Fuel sender (early model) replaced with a used one.
Front brake pump 13mm replaced due to leaking on the front brake lever.
Swing arm disassembled and lubed the spline , new valvoline 80/90 fluid in the final drive shaft.
Partial fairing back in place , missing the two lower parts that are being painted .
At this point I really feel the need to thank you all for your precious advise and help . Without this forum none of the above tasks could take place.
I took my RT to work yesterday and tried to put as more kms to it as possible . Did about 140 km and besides the none working GPI and fuel lamp everything worked like a charm.
Also had problem strarting it once ( of approximately 10-12 starts yesterday ) . Took a lot of starter spinning to get the engine on.
I ll be monitoring this behaviour.
I recall that one thing that s left not swapped since the ressurection try is the air filter . Mechanic that inspected the bike initially said it was ok.
Could this cause starting random starting failure ?
Also there are are 4 flat screws on the injection bodies. What do the do?
I set the idle running to 1000 - 1100 rpm when cold.
What do you read in the different gear and neutral?
cylinder at idle...........vacume gauges is used to carry out this task.
Blank in Neutral. No green light ofcourse.
When kicking first gear in i get 1 on the lcd but after lifting my foot from the shifter blank again. From time to time i get 1 on lcd for some seconds then blank.
In 4th gear i get the number 5 on LCD. Steady most of the time. Not always, but most of the time.
Never had proper reading on 5th. I just get blank.
As the replacement sensor was from a newer model with black plug and round pins i have the cables directly connected and sealed to the female pins of the instrument side.
As for the 4 screws i m affraid that the mechanic messed with them as i recall. Totally in blind. Idle rev is too high when bike warm. 1200 rpm. And when i lower the idle rev screw (hexnut in the middle of the injectors body) i get very poor idle rev when cold.
Is there a way/symptom to identify the correct air amount?
switch is out of position.
Disconnect the switch at the connector above the gearbox.
Leave the bike in neutral.
three of the yellow wires....you should have continuity between all of them.
At the harness side connect all four wires together.
With ignition on you should read 0 in the display and the neutral light on.
of vinyl tubes, ATF and some plastic fittings.
it live on a movie than explain it in bad English.
To be used only on idle!
I did the GPI check exactly as you describe when sensor was visible with the swing arm removed.
I don't get continuity with brown and other 3 cable combinations.
The test from connector to the instrument was successful though.
What about the position? The cut of the cylinder that comes out of the gearbox was aligned horizontally as the corresponding cut on the switch female side.
Another clue maybe worth to mention is that the left screw that holds the sensor in place is stripped but even with pressure on the sensor with my hand the behaviour was the same.
Then it's obviously here the problem is....if the gearbox was in neutral.
Damaged end of the selector drum......which is hard to believe.
wires when the gearbox is in neutral.
Selector drum? I guess you mean the pin that drives the GPI switch? The one in the gearbox?
engages with the switch....it should be a rather tight fit without any play.
to the problem...and it lets the switch out of position.
checking out the old switch. | 2019-04-21T07:10:13 | http://www.k100-forum.com/t13663-swingarm-disassembly-proper-lubrication |
0.995341 | As a designer, artist, LGBTQ rights activist, fiancé of internet-beloved Gigi Gorgeous and heir to the Getty Oil fortune, it would be easy to assume Nats Getty had it all.
Then again, she didn't have a fash-packed lifestyle brand. And what modern entrepreneur accepts career limitations?
Enter Strike Oil - Getty's newly-launched inclusive design house hoping act as an artistic outlet 'for the misfits and the outcasts, the unseen and the unheard'.
From printed bandanas to silk bombers, the brand currently offers a range of expanding products - all of which adhere to the 'uptown meets downtown' aesthetic that defines Getty’s art and personal style.
Most notably known for her commissioned paintings and bespoke hand painted leather jackets, Getty made sure to include an accessible element to her otherwise premium pieces.
Getty said: "It all started with me taking my designer leather jackets and painting on them because I wanted to feel like it was 100% mine. That is what sparked Strike Oil and it evolved as I did. I soon began designing and making my own jackets, painting them, and from there I started designing a full collection.
"I say it is a lifestyle brand because I don’t want to limit myself to solely designing one kind of clothing style. I want to be able to curate people's lives - from the clothes they wear to art on the wall and objects in their home."
With little promotion, Getty is already off to an impressive start. Though Strike Oil has been trading under one month, the brand already boasts over 14,000 fans on Instagram. The latter of which is helped, in large part, by the social support of her Insta-famous fiancé, Gigi Gorgeous.
"I am highly inspired by my personal life and that’s reflected in my work," said Getty. "Gigi - for example - is a huge source of inspiration for me I named a bomber after her. When I am personally moved by something I always incorporate it in my work."
When asked how her family legacy may have contributed to the decision to launch Strike Oil, she said: "I don’t think being an heir has affected me. I think my family has affected me - by that I mean I am a product of my environment.
"I was raised to be hard working and chase my dreams and set major goals for myself. I think personally and professionally I am dedicated and hardworking, I have always held a high standard for myself and I can attribute that to my family."
Nats goes on to explain her major industry role model is actually Manila native Rhuigi Villaseñor. At 25, the designer struck gold when his graphic streetwear label - RHUDE - received cosigns from the likes of Kobe Bryant, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean and Migos.
"I love his story and I love his brand and I’ve been following him since his first collection of denim. We connected on Instagram and he asked me to model," she laughs. "He's awesome."
She continues: "I hope to see continuous change and excitement in fashion. It's a creative industry and it should be exciting and fun. I think fashion has been about competition for a long time and a lot of the fun was removed from it.
"I always keep in mind that, yes, this is a business but it’s the most creative amazing business so it should be fun.
"I can’t imagine doing anything else but designing and being an artist. I am very proud of who I am today and I want to continue to become the best version of myself and represent my community. I want to instil a sense of pride in anyone I can. It took me a long time to be so prideful about who I am and where I come from.
"Ideally, I will be taken seriously as a designer and an artist. I don’t intend on resting until that day comes."
On Instagram, Nats wrote "Hard work and dedication pays off. I’m proud to say @strike_oil has officially launched and I couldn’t be happier in this moment. Couldn’t have done this without my partner in crime @gigigorgeous, my friends and all the hard working team behind Strike Oil. Thank you to those who believe in me." | 2019-04-19T00:39:17 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/lelalondon/2019/02/06/oil-heir-nats-getty-debuts-lifestyle-fashion-brand-with-the-help-of-youtuber-gigi-gorgeous/?ss=forbeslife |
0.999997 | How did the American College of Physicians develop these recommendations?
What does the American College of Physicians recommend that patients and doctors do?
The American College of Physicians developed these recommendations. Members of the College are internists, specialists in the care of adults.
Diabetes mellitus is a common disease that interferes with the body's ability to store energy from food. The pancreas makes a substance called insulin that helps to store energy from food. In type 2 diabetes (also called adult-onset diabetes), the body makes plenty of insulin but is unable to use it normally. The result is high blood sugar levels that, over time, can lead to complications that include blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage, and cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes). While good blood sugar control can prevent the development of most of these complications, it does not prevent the development of cardiovascular disease. The control of lipids (cholesterol and other fats in the blood) is very important in preventing the cardiovascular complications of type 2 diabetes.
The authors reviewed studies about lipid-lowering drugs and cardiovascular complications in people with type 2 diabetes. They used these studies to identify the benefits of lipid control in 2 groups of people with diabetes: those who had already developed cardiovascular disease and those who had not. They also collected information about the side effects of lipid-lowering drugs.
The authors found 8 high-quality studies of lipid-lowering drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes and known cardiovascular disease and 6 studies in patients who did not yet have cardiovascular disease. Lipid-lowering drugs decreased the chances of developing future cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks or strokes, in both groups. Most of the trials had used moderate doses of drugs called statins to lower lipids. The studies did not provide definite answers about the lipid levels at which treatment should start or the levels to aim for with treatment. Generally, they showed that the lower the level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (bad cholesterol), the better. Severe liver or muscle side effects of the statins were rare.
Men and women with type 2 diabetes should be receiving lipid-lowering treatment regardless of whether they have or do not yet have cardiovascular disease. Since available studies do not provide good information about the best cholesterol levels for people with type 2 diabetes, patients and doctors should consider lipid-lowering drugs regardless of patients' lipid levels. Moderate doses of drugs called statins are the lipid-lowering drugs of choice for patients with type 2 diabetes. Doctors do not need to monitor liver function and muscle enzyme tests for patients taking statins unless patients develop symptoms of liver or muscle disease.
Recommendations may change as new studies become available. Some patients may not be able to tolerate statins because of side effects. For these patients, the risks of statins may outweigh their benefits. Doctors should consider other ways to control lipids in such patients.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2004;140(8):I-85. | 2019-04-18T16:16:48 | https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/717410/control-lipids-patients-type-2-diabetes-recommendations-from-american-college |
0.995423 | Makes: 8 servings. Prep: 10 minutes. slow cook: on high heat for 412 hours or on low for 6 hours.
1. Place chicken in a 6-quart slow cooker. Top with carrots, celery, parsnips, sweet potato and scallions. Cover with chicken broth and 1 cup water; season with sage, salt and pepper.
2. Cover slow cooker. Cook on HIGH heat for 4 hours or on LOW heat for 6 hours.
3. After cooking, uncover pot and remove chicken to a cutting board. If necessary, raise temperature to high. Add gnocchi, cover and cook for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, let chicken cool slightly, then shred meat from bones, discarding bones.
4. Once gnocchi have cooked, return chicken to pot. Stir cornstarch-water mixture, and add to pot. Cover and cook 10 to 20 minutes, until thickened slightly. Add hot sauce to taste before serving.
Servings Per Recipe: 8; Amount Per Serving: cal. (kcal): 362, Fat, total (g): 10, chol. (mg): 72, sat. fat (g): 3, carb. (g): 45, fiber (g): 4, pro. (g): 23, sodium (mg): 881, Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. | 2019-04-26T10:25:12 | https://www.parents.com/recipe/chicken/chicken-stew-with-potato-dumplings/ |
0.999996 | What's on the menu at your restaurant?
Food is a big part of the Disneyland experience. Sometimes, guests enjoy a meal at a sit down restaurant with table service. Other times, guests grab a quick snack as they run from ride to ride.
You and your partner have been asked to design a restaurant and two snack carts. The theme and name of the restaurant must connect to your land. Naming the snack carts is optional. One snack cart will sell food, and the other will sell beverages. | 2019-04-19T09:17:41 | http://myfunteacher.weebly.com/phase-7-im-hungry.html |
0.999661 | Is the LED indicator of your Wi-Fi Extender PLC adapter (or Wi-Fi Extender) red? It is probably not communicating properly with the PLC adapter connected to your b-box. You will have to reset your Wi-Fi Extender and PLC adapters, and then resync them.
Choose your PLC adapter Wi-Fi Extender (or Wi-Fi Extender). Does it have 2 or 4 LEDs?
Using a paper clip, press the button under the Wi-Fi Extender for about 12 seconds. Your Wi-Fi Extender has been reset.
Press the button under or on the side of the PLC adapter connected to your b-box for about 20 seconds. Your PLC adapter has been reset. You must now resync the Wi-Fi Extender and the PLC adapter.
Reset a Wi-Fi Extender How to reset a Wi-Fi Extender?
Unplug your Wi-Fi Extender and plug it in again close to your b-box. Wait 45 seconds.
Press for 2 seconds on the button of your Wi-Fi Extender.
Press for 2 seconds on the button under or on the side of the PLC adapter connected to your b-box. Wait until the LED indicator of the Wi-Fi Extender is lit solid white.
Press the or button of your b-box for 2 or 3 seconds until the LED indicator lights up.
Press briefly on the button of the Wi-Fi Extender.
The indicator of the Wi-Fi Extender will blink for up to 2 minutes. When this indicator is white, the sync has been completed.
When the LED indicators are stable, you can connect your Wi-Fi Extender again in its original place.
Wi-Fi Extender synchronisation How to configure a Wi-Fi Extender?
Using a paper clip, press the button on the side of the Wi-Fi Extender for about 20 seconds. Your Wi-Fi Extender has been reset.
Using a paper clip, press the button on the side of your Wi-Fi Extender for 2 seconds.
Press for 2 seconds on the button under or on the side of the PLC adapter connected to your b-box. Wait until the LED indicator of the Wi-Fi Extender is lit solid green.
Press the or button on your b-box for 2 or 3 seconds until the LED indicator lights up.
Press the or button on the Wi-Fi Extender.
The indicator of the Wi-Fi Extender will blink for up to 2 minutes. When this indicator turns green, the sync has been completed. | 2019-04-22T22:49:42 | https://www.proximus.be/support/en/id_sfaqr_wfe_reset/personal/support/television/tv-solve-a-problem/restart-or-reset-your-devices/reset-your-plc-adapter-wi-fi-extender.html |
0.999987 | Is it possible for the ‘yet’ within ‘Are we there yet?’ to mean ‘still’?
Have we got there so far (‘at this time’)?
and it is even somewhat idiomatic.
Are we still there (‘even so far’)?
Is it totally impossible for the ‘yet’ to mean ‘still’ in this sentence? If so, why is it?
There is implied meaning and interpreted meaning. Implied meaning is the most direct and simple interpretation of a phrase, and although it could vary from person to person, "Are we there yet?" can have only one obvious implied meaning here, which is "Have we finally arrived?"
A phrase can have many interpreted meanings, and while the most obvious is "Have we arrived yet?", another interpretation (albeit very very obscure) is "And still are we there?" I stress though that it is very obscure simply because the implied meaning covers this interpretation almost entirely.
That said, if communication has any importance here, the implied meaning is all you should take into consideration.
Oh, are we still here?
Oh, are we here yet?
I think that's grammatical; however, as others have said, it would sound like I'm auditioning for a Shakespearian play.
Oh, is he there yet?
Oh, is he still there?
but again, it would sound dreadfully old-fashioned and melodramatic, and therefore I can only imagine it said that way for humorous effect.
Are we having this fight yet again?
But if that's the way you said it from the outset, I'm not sure how well-understood you'd be. You might even start another long argument.
Is he here yet? The question implies he is not at a place as of a particular time.
Is he still here? The question implies he continues to be at a place at a particular time.
Therefore, they mean completely different things.
"Are we there yet" is idiomatic. It suggests that the speaker is assuming the answer is negative (and would be surprised to hear the contrary). If the assumption is that we arrived, the appropriate word would be already: "are we there already?"
Already refers to things which have happened or which people think may have happened. Yet refers to things which have not happened or which people think may not have happened.
We are already here (for some time).
As a side note, there refers to a place that is not here, and here is by definition where the speaker is located. So "are we there yet" logically invites the answer "no", and any other answer would be surprising; this is part of the idiomatic sense this sentence has.
(Statement A), yet (statement B).
(Statement A). Still, (statement B).
In both cases, statement B is implied to be true, and be somewhat contradictory to statement A. Using yet emphasises the contradiction, and suggests that statement A is false. Using still diminishes the contradiction and suggests that statement A may also be true.
Many people think cellular phones are hazardous, yet there is insufficient evidence of any health problems associate with cellular phone usage.
There is insufficient evidence of any health problems associate with cellular phone usage. Still, many people think cellular phones are hazardous.
(See "Yet as a conjunction" here and "still in front position" here.
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0.999997 | I am Smart-Clip/SCout owner. Can I convert it to Smart-Clip2?
It's impossible to activate Smart-Clip2 functionality for old Smart-Clip Box/SCout due to the hardware limitations of old version. Smart-Clip2 is constructed on the advanced hardware that allows to build up new solutions on its basis. Our team is aimed to develop world's first solutions for Smart-Clip2 users.
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Is it possible to add support for old Motorola cell phones in Smart-Clip2?
You can purchase Smart-Clip (first generation) to work with old Motorola phones. Now it is available at a special price – just 99$. If you need this solution it's a great opportunity to buy it at a very attractive price. There is no point to implement support for these old models in our new product, it's a non-perspective approach, it's a time-consuming operation and that's not a product priority.
I am Sigma owner. Should I buy Smart-Clip2?
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What does Smart-Clip2 package contain?
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You may send the log to the official forum.
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I can't unlock MTK device, what should I do?
If you've followed Direct Unlock procedure and your device is still locked, you need to patch the firmware.
How can I find an answer to my question on my own?
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Each user is granted with free access to Boot-loader v2.0 for one year after the first update of Smart-Clip2.
Developer provides support only for those phones which are on the list of supported. Not all servicing features can be applied to some supported models, due to difference of hardware / software versions. | 2019-04-24T03:09:29 | https://smart-clip2.com/en/helps/faq/ |
0.999562 | "Rashidi is bereaved of his mom"
The sentence "Rashidi alifiwa na mama yake" is best translated as "Rashidi lost his mother" where "lost" means that she died.
It looks like the English form of this sentence is present tense, while the Swahili translation is past tense. Unfortunately, the report options do not include this possibility.
Yeah, at first I was thinking it's like one of the cases where the Swahili perfect is like an English adjective but it's simple past ... and there are loads of problems with this.
As a native English speaker (who's been living in a non-English speaking country for years and sometimes has no idea what's normal English anymore), I don't even feel like this English sentence is anything anyone would say. Can you be bereaved of somebody???? I can only think of this being used before a noun (eg. bereaved party) or as a noun (eg. the bereaved were moved to tears).
I would just say "Rashidi's mum died," or, if I wanted to have Rashidi as the subject, maybe "Rashidi had his mum (go and) die on him" or: "Rashidi was died on by his mum," which is the closest to the Swahili sentence in terms of structure. It's kind of hard to give a normal translation in English. | 2019-04-18T18:31:00 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/24594655/Rashidi-is-bereaved-of-his-mom |
0.999136 | President Trump Donald John TrumpDemocrats' CNN town halls exposed an extreme agenda Buttigieg says he doubts Sanders can win general election Post-Mueller, Trump has a good story to tell for 2020 MORE maintains that he is not responsible for Roger Stone Roger Jason StoneThe Hill's Morning Report - Is impeachment back on the table? End of Mueller shifts focus to existing probes Heavily redacted Mueller report leaves major questions unanswered MORE's alleged efforts to contact WikiLeaks during the 2016 election to learn about damaging information the site planned to release about Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDavis: The shocking fact that Mueller never would have accused Trump of a crime Trump says he would challenge impeachment in Supreme Court The Hill's Morning Report - Will Joe Biden's unifying strategy work? MORE.
In an interview with The New York Times, Trump was questioned by Times reporters as to whether he is the unnamed Trump campaign official accused in court documents of directing Stone to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Trump denied that he had directed such an action.
“No, I didn’t. I never did,” he said when asked if he had spoken with Stone about the stolen emails. “Never did,” he added, when asked if he had instructed another campaign official to talk to Stone.
The remarks are some of Trump's first public comments on the arrest of Stone, a longtime adviser who was hit with multiple charges last week related to the Russia investigation.
Stone pleaded not guilty to witness tampering, obstruction and other charges on Tuesday, while blasting the large FBI presence that arrived at his Florida residence in the early hours of last Friday morning to arrest him.
“The idea that a 29-member SWAT team in full tactical gear with assault weapons would surround my house, 17 vehicles in my front yard, including two armored vehicles, a helicopter overhead … and that I would open the door looking down the barrel of assault weapons, that I would be frog-marched out front barefooted, handcuffed when they simply could have contacted me,” he said, calling the move "Gestapo tactics" in later interviews.
In the same interview Thursday with the Times, Trump maintained that Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE's team has informed him and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod Jay RosensteinPoll: Majority says Barr's summary of Mueller report was 'largely accurate' Heavy lapses in judgment are politicizing the justice system Top Judiciary Republican reviews less-redacted Mueller report MORE that he is not a target of the probe.
“He told the attorneys that I’m not a subject, I’m not a target,” Trump said. | 2019-04-25T10:36:21 | https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/427992-trump-says-he-never-asked-stone-about-wikileaks |
0.999695 | I am currently working for Microfocus Cobol. I wanted to know the major differences between this Microfocus Cobol and other cobol (Mainframe Cobol) languages.
If anyone know the answer please let me know immediately.
1. COBOL is a generic term that's used to describe the programming language, the compilers, runtime libraries, the object code, etc., so this could be a variety of things. However, since your question seems oriented to compilers, I'm guessing you mean the original COBOL compilers from IBM, which were replaced by VS COBOL II.
The specific name for these compilers was the OS/VS COBOL Compiler and Library (5740-CB1). OS/VS COBOL is no longer supported by IBM (although equivalent runtime support can be accomplished through the use of Language Environment), and it only supported 16-bit addressing. It was quite cumbersome when it came to addressability, using a facility called BLL cells, and had other limitations.
2. VS COBOL II (5668-958) replaced OS/VS COBOL in the early to mid-eighties, and it provided 31-bit addressing as well as changing the language structure to make addressability easier through the use of pointers and other facilities. The migration was not transparent in most cases, though, and often some degree of application code modifications were required to upgrade to VS COBOL II.
VS COBOL II was replaced with COBOL for MVS & VM (5688-197), then COBOL for OS/390 & VM (5648-A25) and the current version of COBOL is called Enterprise COBOL for z/OS & OS/390 (5655-G53). Like OS/VS COBOL, VS COBOL II is no longer supported by IBM, and equivalent runtime capability is provided in Language Environment.
3. MFCOBOL is a generic term for the COBOL provided by MicroFocus through the use of compilers built into such products as Micro Focus Mainframe Express, Micro Focus Object COBOL Developer Suite, and Micro Focus Revolve. These products are much more than just compilers and libraries; they include a variety of development tools in addition, all packaged together. You cannot order MFCOBOL by itself.
In the case of the mainframe, these Micro Focus compilers provide equivalency with the IBM compilers mentioned above, but MFCOBOL is also used on other platforms such as UNIX, and MFCOBOL is also packaged into other vendors' products, such as Sun and Hewlitt Packard. IBM also has COBOL for other platforms, but they are separate products from the compilers mentioned above.
ramdantu wrote: If anyone know the answer please let me know immediately.
Please avoid using such words in your posts . . . | 2019-04-24T03:02:13 | http://www.mainframegurukul.com/ibmmainframeforums/viewtopic.php?t=3975 |
0.999762 | Image in table dynamically , How?
I have some requirement to display different image in table based on value attributes. I would be thankfull if some one can help me how to do this programically.I promise to sward points.
Create a context attribute "ImageURL"
In the table make the cell UI element as Image. Bind the context attribute "ImageURL" to it.
In the mimes folder under component package place all your images e.g. image1.jpg,image2.jpg ..
The UI element in cell should be of type Image.
Store the images under src/packages/mimses/Components/<component-package>.
Try the method "getWebResourcePath()" also.It is under WDURLGenerator.
To display different images in a Image UI element present in a Table Cell Editor, use a calculated attribute (<i>say, img</i>) of data type "string" and bind this attribute to the property "source" of the Image UI element.
Place your image files inside the folder src/mimes/components/<componentName>, and implement your accessor to simply return the file name of the image file in the aforementioned folder.
as you probably know images can be displayed next to an element in a table. Therefor you have element properties like imageAlt, imageFirst, etc. Property imageSource should point to a context attribute that contains the image path (somewhere in src/mimes/Components/... should be fine). So for your changing images you would probably have a couple of different attributes, if you want to have more than one image in the table. If one is enough, you could just change the content of the attribute and the image in the table will change.
add a new value attribute(imgSrc) to the node A and while filling the node give the proper values to the imgSrc.
2).Place a <b>DropDownByKey</b> UI Element in the View.
4).Map the <b>selectedkey property</b> of the <b>dropdownbykey</b> UI Element to the context attribute <b>skey</b>.
4).Create a Context Attribute say <b>img</b> in the View Controller.
5).Create an <b>Image</b> UI element in the view and map the <b>source</b> property with the img attribute.
6).create an <b>event(OnSelect)</b> for the <b>dropdownbykey</b> UI Element.
7).In the event handler write the code to display the image. | 2019-04-21T13:08:47 | https://answers.sap.com/questions/2374341/index.html |
0.99927 | Given below is my list of ten reasons why looking online is best than typical means of shopping for.
Low-cost deals and higher costs are obtainable online, as a result of merchandise come back to you direct from the manufacturer or merchant while not middleman being concerned. Several online outlets supply discount coupons and rebates furthermore. Aside from this, online outlets are sorely needed to gather an excise tax if they need a physical location in our state, notwithstanding we tend to obtain from a store across the globe.
The alternatives online are superb. One will get many brands and merchandise from completely different sellers tired one place. You’ll be able to get in on the most recent international trends while not hard currency on a fare. You’ll be able to search for retailers in different elements of the country, or maybe the globe, all while not being restricted by geographic. Away the bigger choice of colours and sizes than you'll realize regionally are at your disposal. Aside from that, the stock is way a lot of plentiful. Some online outlets even provisions in situ to simply accept orders for things out of stock and ship it once the stock becomes obtainable. You furthermore may have the choice of taking your business to a different online store wherever the merchandise is offered.
Causation gifts to relatives and friends are straightforward, regardless of wherever they're. Now, there ought not to build distance AN excuse for not causation a present on occasions like birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Mother's Day, day, so forth.
Many times, after we elect typical looking, we tend to tend to pay a great deal quite planned. There are different outside expenses on things like consumption out, transportation, and let's not forget impulse buys!
Examination and researching merchandise and their costs are such a lot easier online. Also, we've got the power to share info and reviews with different shoppers WHO have primary expertise with a product or merchant.
If you're like PAKISTAN state, you hate crowds once you are looking. Particularly throughout festivals or special events, they'll be such a large headache. Also, it tends to be a lot of chaotic once there are a lot of crowds out and this generally makes Pakistan feel rush or rush. Grumpy, annoying, and fetid folks conjointly rile Pakistan state once I am out looking. Plus, parking becomes a large issue. All of those issues will be avoided after you search online.
Typically times once we're out looking, we tend to find yourself shopping for things obsessively that we do not really want. All as a result of search keepers pressure Pakistan or Pakistan their mercantilism skills to compel us to form these purchases. Sometimes, we tend to even compromise on our decisions as a result of the shortage of decisions in those outlets.
The marketplace on the net makes it a lot of easier for Pakistan to shop for recent or unused things at very cheap costs. Also, if we wish to shop for antiques, there is no higher place to search out nice ones.
Some things are higher tired the privacy of your home. Online outlets are best for discreet purchases for things attractive underwear, and so on. This allows Pakistan state to get undergarments and underwear while not embarrassment or any psychosis that there are unit square Pakistan state sure many folks looking me. | 2019-04-26T10:20:22 | https://www.onlineoutlet.pk/top-ten-benefits-of-online-shopping-in-pakistan |
0.999666 | Today I had to refute yet again the Big Lie that hounds the Muslim community -- that we fail to speak out and condemn terrorism.
But as a good journalist, he had to ask the question he felt his audience wanted answered -- "Why do mainstream Muslims fail to speak out against terrorism?
It is a question that I get almost every single day, and it leaves me flabbergasted. I often respond to that question with one of my own -- "Why does the media fail to report on Muslims who condemn terrorism?"
, scholar of the Middle East and author of Engaging the Muslim World.
Cole's list was compiled after Thomas Friedman wrote an outrageous column in The New York Times claiming that "no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama Bin Laden."
As a Muslim and a patriot I don't know what more to do except continue telling the truth every time I get the opportunity.
If you can take a moment to consider, you might get a sense of the true burden your Muslim neighbors carry. The world wants us to be the monsters. When we condemn and fight the monsters, no one notices or cares. It's like the army telling a soldier who has just survived a hellish firefight that he was never in the war in the first place, and condemning him for his cowardice.
It would be a formula for despair for most people. And yet what is remarkable is that Muslim groups continue to patiently work against terrorism in accordance with their faith, even though they receive no credit for their deeds. They are secure that everything is in the hands of God. And, as the Holy Qur'an says, that the light of truth will never be put out by the mouths of liars.
And Gabriel smiled and said: "Just call mankind to the truth. God will make sure it is heard."
In response to this article, the new meme is being promulgated: "Muslims condemn terrorism, but it's all talk! Sure, Muslims say they condemn terrorism, but there's no action!"
Where do I begin to respond to this kind of nonsense? There are 1. 5 billion Muslims living their lives in peace, trying to put food on the table for their families. Over six million of them live here in America as patriotic citizens. They work hard, pay their taxes, and have ZERO contact with the criminal underworld where these terrorists breed.
I have never, ever met a terrorist in real life (it is ridiculous that I even have to say this). If I met one, I would turn him in to the authorities, as would every other Muslim I know. Since I don't have access to this shadowy underworld, I live my life on the surface in broad daylight, working in my community to promote interfaith cooperation, peace and prosperity. It is that grassroots effort that Muslims do to promote good in this world that receives ZERO coverage in the media. I could list every single good thing I and other Muslims have ever done to make the world a better, safer place, but people who hold this attitude don't care. It will never be enough. If I listed 1 million positive things Muslims are doing in their daily lives today on this planet, they would respond: "Why can't you name a billion things you've done? See, you're not doing enough!"
So I ask those who are outraged at this supposed Muslim inaction: "What have YOU done to defeat racism in this world?" List every single thing you have ever done to fight the Ku Klux Klan. List it here, right now. Times, dates and hyperlinks please. The response would be that I am crazy -- average Americans have nothing to do with the KKK, and don't need to justify their daily actions in support of righteousness to me or anyone else. But that same common sense response is rejected when a Muslim uses it.
The terrorists are a few thousand criminals (less than 0.01% of the Muslim population). They act in secret, in a shadowy underworld that is more like the Mafia than a public organization that holds meetings and takes minutes. Asking Muslims to list how they are fighting Al-Qaeda is like asking a pizza store owner what he is doing to destroy the Mafia.
Muslims fight these monsters by publicly denouncing them, leading lives as law-abiding citizens, helping their communities, and trying to educate people about the loving and harmonious values of true Islam.
It is what I am doing here, every single day.
So I respond in the way the Holy Qur'an teaches Muslims when they encounter ignorant people. I say to them: "Peace." | 2019-04-24T16:04:23 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-big-lie-about-muslim_b_188991 |
0.999998 | Home / London Builders Interior Psychology. Part Two.
London Builders Interior Psychology. Part Two.
For example, a living room cannot be altogether a dining room, a bedroom cannot serve a function of a study at the same time. in terms of psychology, the most important here is privacy and even intimacy of lives of house dwellers. On the contrary, an open interior is a designer's realization of conception of an available society showing off its life, active, dynamic and communicative style of behaviour and, probably, the priority of social and business interests over the personal ones. Nowadays this type of house structuring is realized by way of flexible house planning, organizing a space which can be clearly seen from any place, which is divided not into rooms but into functional areas. Two centuries ago architects reached this type by creating an enfilade of adjacent rooms.
The problem of what type of planning to choose when creating harmonising interior can be solved very easily. Those who prefer loneliness, who avoid noisy parties and social contacts, will be satisfied with a close interior. And people who got used to be in the centre of attention, who strive for widening the circle of acquaintances, often associate such a choice with a psychological solitary confinement. Developing the design of a stimulating interior requires much more responsible and creative approach. it goes without saying that the shock therapy tactics is inappropriate here. Compensatory psychotherapeutic idea of stimulating design is realized by way of efficient use of two basic techniques: combination of close or open interior and some intermediate variant - half-open housing space. Let's try to see everything in practice.
Suppose the task is in creating a stimulating interior for a person who experiences some difficulties due to his being unsociable, uncommunicative, being plunged into himself all the time. The first method is to create a single open space instead of a number of separate common rooms (for example, a living room, a kitchen and a study) with one isolated room serving a harmonizing element. The second method is in partial limiting the degree of isolation of each of the rooms when massive walls are replaced by light transforming partition walls, curtain walls or glass panels. an approach to planning the stimulating interior for a person with impetuous, choleric temperament will be quite opposite by its goals but will have much in common with the previous variant by its practical realization. Dominating here will be the tendency of enforcing and dividing single space areas by mobile partitions which visually reduce the volume of a separate room but do not make an impression of a completely isolated room.
Also very important is to think over a colour palette of decoration, general style of the premises as well as furniture and separate objects. With a psychological approach to interior designing this is the most important stage. There is no universal formula here. it is possible to give general recommendations, but only proceeding from a conventional division of temperaments into cholerics, sanguines, melancholics and phlegmatics and their psychoemotional characteristics. as an alternative modern psychology suggests similar gradation into extraverts and introverts of active and passive types. it is clear that each type is very rare in its pure form - temperaments of most personalities can be referred to the mixed type. | 2019-04-25T12:44:48 | https://www.zido.gq/2018/02/london-builders-interior-psychology_96.html |
0.999999 | *Spend Week 1 setting logistics, expectations, and goals for the group.
Share with each other when, where, and how often you plan on meeting.
*TIP: It is best to plan on meeting weekly, but have the flexibility to move or cancel meetings when necessary.
Each group member should make a clear, verbal commitment to engaging with the group and prioritizing the group's time together for the next six months.
Solidify a form of communication that is effective and efficient for everyone in the group.
1. make sure everyone in the group knows each other.
*If not, share a little bit about who you are.
*You do not have to share too many details, as you will have more time to share in Week 3 and beyond.
2. Each group member should share their goals and hopes for this group's time together.
3. Each group member should share their fears and hesitations they have about being a part of this group.
Read The Story of God found in the Week 2 material and prepare to discuss at the next meeting. | 2019-04-26T02:12:25 | https://mysc3limestone.org/stories-resource-1 |
0.901976 | The New Zealand Commerce Act 1986 (Commerce Act) prohibits anti-competitive cartel agreements between competitors, such as price fixing agreements.1 But what happens when businesses adopt AI technologies that use algorithms that have not been trained to notice, and avoid, anti-competitive cartel behaviour?2 There is a risk that, as businesses increasingly move towards using AI-based algorithms to set their prices, algorithms could make it easier for competitors to achieve and sustain collusion without any formal agreement or human interaction.
Problematic conduct involving AI-based pricing algorithms could include two or more humans agreeing to fix prices, but rather than agreeing an explicit price, they agree to implement a joint pricing algorithm that coordinates prices on their behalf (i.e. human-to-human collusion on the selection of the algorithm). Companies have already been prosecuted for such conduct in Europe, including in respect of an agreement to reconfigure automated pricing software so as not to undercut each other;3 and for agreeing to implement an algorithm to allocate customers between each other.4 This does not differ substantially from traditional price fixing – it is still a cartel agreement between two people and is prohibited conduct under the Commerce Act. The only difference is how the agreement is implemented (i.e. using a common AI algorithm).
Another example of problematic conduct could arise where a business outsources its pricing function to a third party. If multiple competitors engage the same third party agent to set their prices using an identical algorithm (with the knowledge that their competitors are also engaging the same price-setting agent) there is a risk that this would amount to 'hub and spoke' collusion. For example, travel agents that sold on an online platform in Lithuania were prosecuted when the platform's administrator unilaterally imposed technical restrictions on the ability of the independent travel agents to offer packaged tours at a discount exceeding 3%. The travel agents who knew about the restriction, and did not take any steps to oppose it, were fined for engaging in cartel conduct.5 Notwithstanding the lack of direct coordination between the competitors, the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) or courts could similarly form the view that this arrangement has the purpose or effect of controlling prices between the parties, using a third-party conduit (i.e. AI) – which is prohibited conduct under the Commerce Act.
Given that tacit algorithmic collusion does not involve any element of human agency and is often conducted by computers that do not have explicable decision-making processes, it is not clear how the NZCC would regulate and enforce this type of cartel-like behaviour. This leads to questions of whether regulators and policy-makers should revisit the concepts of "agreement" and "collusion" for competition law purposes and whether there is a need to specifically regulate pricing algorithms.
While some overseas competition law authorities have expressed doubt in relation to the effectiveness of this approach,8 and the NZCC is yet to bring any enforcement action in this space, it is possible that, when it does, it will also seek to adopt this strict liability enforcement approach in New Zealand.
∧ OECD (2017), Algorithms and Collusion: Competition Policy in the Digital Age.
∧ Commerce Act 1986, s 30.
∧ CMA Case 50233 Online sales of posters and frames (12 August 2016).
∧ Case C-172/14 ING Pensii v Consiliul Concurentei (16 July 2015).
∧ Case C-74/14 Eturas v Lietuvos Respublikos konkurencijos taryba (21 January 2016).
∧ Calvano, Emilio and Calzolari, Giacomo and Denicolò, Vincenzo and Pastorello, Sergio "Algorithmic Pricing: What Implications for Competition Policy?" (July 2018).
∧ Politico "When Margrethe Vestager takes antitrust battle to robots" (May 2018).
∧ In 2017, the Chairman of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) expressed concern regarding this "compliance by design", strict liability approach to enforcement, asking "how far can the concept of human agency be stretched to cover these sorts of issues?" | 2019-04-24T22:02:55 | https://russellmcveagh.com/insights/march-2019/ai-and-price-fixing-collusion-by-machines |
0.999993 | What is the date on which the employment agreement is to be signed?
Select the date on which the letter of employment/ employment agreement is to be signed by the employee.
(ii) You providing the Employer with copies of your passport or birth certificate and all documents pertaining to your educational and professional qualifications and references from your previous employers (if any) to the Employer's satisfaction.
(b) You shall be employed with the Employer as ________. The Employer reserves the right to change your designation from time to time at its sole and absolute discretion.
(c) Your period of continuous Employment with the Employer shall be calculated from the Commencement Date.
(d) You warrant and represent to the Employer that you will not breach any obligation binding on you by reason of entering into this letter agreement or performing any of your duties and obligations under it or other third party contractual obligations.
(e) You warrant that all the information relating to you and provided by you to the Employer is true and accurate.
(a) You shall be on probation for a period of ________ from the Commencement Date. During this period the Employer may terminate your Employment by giving you 7 (seven) days prior written notice of termination. You may terminate the Employment during the probationary period by giving the Employer 15 (fifteen) days prior written notice of termination. It is clarified that during the probationary period, if you give the Employer prior notice of less than 15 (fifteen) days or purport to terminate the Employment prior to the completion of the 15 (fifteen) days notice period, you hereby agree to pay the Employer the proportionate part of your salary for that part of the notice period that is not fulfilled.
(ii) Terminate your Employment upon giving you 15 (fifteen) days prior written notice of termination.
(a) As compensation, you shall be entitled to receive a CTC of Rs. ________ (________) per annum.
(b) This shall accrue on a daily basis and be payable in the following periodicity in arrears by the 1 of the subsequent month by transfer to your bank account. It is clarified that 'CTC' shall comprise your total cost to the company and includes all payments made and benefits provided by the Employer directly or indirectly to or on your behalf, whether as salary or otherwise.
(c) You shall be entitled for one time joining bonus of Rs. ________ (________) at the end of a period of ________ from the Commencement Date. To receive the Bonus, you must be in service and not under any notice of termination on the date appointed for payment of Bonus. The Bonus, if any, shall be announced and paid on the dates specified by the Employer from time to time at its sole and absolute discretion.
(d) The Employer will formally review your performance annually. However, if you have not completed 6 months of Employment by the last date of the month in which the performance review takes place, your first review shall take place the same time next year and on an annual thereafter.
(e) The Employer is under no obligation to increase your CTC as a result of any review in performance. Any revision in the CTC following a review shall be effective from and subject to such terms and conditions as the Employer shall deem fit.
(f) The Employer may, in its sole and absolute discretion and based on your performance, pay an annual bonus ("Bonus") of up to ________% of your fixed CTC. While determining the Bonus payable (if any), the Employer may consider the regular feedback received about your performance from clients, managers and co-workers. The decision of the Employer in this respect shall be final and binding.
(g) To be eligible for consideration for the Bonus, you must have completed the following period: ________ of continuous service with the Employer, however based on your performance company may consider you for a pro rata Bonus payout before the completion of ________. To receive the Bonus, you must be in service and not under any notice of termination on the date appointed for payment of Bonus. The Bonus, if any, shall be announced and paid on the dates specified by the Employer from time to time at its sole and absolute discretion.
(h) The Employee acknowledges and agrees that the compensation and the benefits, as described in this Agreement, is the sole compensation to which the Employee is entitled in consideration for the Employee's fulfilment of the Employee's Duties.
(i) It shall be your sole responsibility to meet all requirements under Indian tax laws in respect of all payments made or benefits given under this Contract including proper and timely tax compliance and the Employer disclaims liability for any taxes and other imposts for which you are liable personally. The Employer shall be entitled to make such deductions which, in its opinion, are necessary and appropriate from any payment made or benefit given in connection with the Employment that require such deduction to be made by the employer and the Employer shall provide the Form 16 to the employee evidencing the deductions made.
(j) No liability shall attach to the Employer for your failure to pay any such taxes and imposts and you agree to indemnify and keep indemnified and hold harmless the Employer from and against any and all losses, costs, expenses, claims or demands which the Employer may pay, incur, suffer or sustain directly or indirectly arising out of or in relation to or howsoever connected with your failure to pay such taxes or imposts.
(k) The Employer shall be entitled, at any time during your employment, or in any event on the termination of your employment, howsoever arising, to deduct from your remuneration and any sums reimbursable to you by the Employer, any monies due from you to the Employer including, but not limited to any outstanding advances, payment for excess holiday, overpayment of salary and any other monies owed by you to the Employer pursuant to your employment with the Employer under this letter agreement.
(b) Your duties include those duties that would reasonably be expected to fall within this job title or such other duties, consistent with your status, as may reasonably be assigned to you from time to time to meet the needs of the Employer.
(c) The Employer may from time to time make changes to the position description or to the Employee's Duties, provided that such changes are reasonable in the context of the Employer's industry and in the context of the Employee's position.
(d) The Employer and the Employee may from time to time agree to make changes to the position description or to the Employee's Duties.
(f) The Employee must perform the Employee's Duties in good faith having regard to the best interests of the Employer, and in a careful, conscientious and professional manner and to a standard that can reasonably be expected of somebody with the Employee's level of skill, training and experience.
(h) You shall abide by the Employer's HR Policy notified to you from time to time and in the event of a conflict between the provisions of the HR Policy and this Contract, it is hereby agreed that the provisions of this Contract shall always prevail.
(i) Properly and faithfully serve the Employer and use your best endeavours to protect and further the interests and reputation of the Employer.
(j) Except when prevented by any emergency, illness or accident you will devote the whole of your attention and skill to the affairs of the Employer and use your best endeavors to promote its interests. You shall adhere to, execute, and fulfill all policies established by the Employer.
(a) You shall be employed at the Employer's office in ________ or such other place that the Employer may require from time to time.
(b) The Employer may at its sole and absolute discretion transfer you to any other office of the Employer within India or abroad.
(c) You hereby agree to travel to such parts of India and the world as necessary for the discharge of your duties as the Employer may direct or authorise.
(otherwise than on all holidays as notified in writing by the Employer from time to time).
(b) The Employee will be expected to work ________ hours a week.
(c) The office hours may be amended by the Employer from time to time. However, the Employer has the right to require you to work such further hours on weekdays/weekends and on other notified holidays, with additional payment as follows: ________, determined by the Employer by reference to the need to enhance and/or protect the Employer's interest or business.
(a) You will be entitled to ________ public (preferred) holidays in every calendar year in addition to such public holidays as may be notified by the Employer from time to time.
(c) You are also entitled to ________ days of casual/sick leave in a year. Casual/sick leave cannot be carried forward. Casual/sick leave balance, if any, at the end of the calendar year will automatically lapse.
(d) If you are absent from work and such absence has not been previously authorised by the Employer as provided herein, you must inform your Manager of such absence with reasons as soon as practicable, but not later than on the morning of the first day of such absence.
(a) Any leave taken by you for illness, sickness or injury will be deducted from your casual/sick leave entitlement.
(b) If you are absent from work due to illness, sickness or injury for a period exceeding 3 days, you must give us a medical certificate certifying such illness, sickness or injury on the fifth day following the first day of absence. For any absence thereafter, you shall upon our request provide a further medical certificate to the Employer certifying the continuance of the illness, sickness or injury.
(a) During the course of Employment, you will have access to information (whether or not recorded in writing or on computer disk or tape) which the Employer treats as confidential or which has the necessary quality of confidentiality.
(b)Further, you understand that the Employer from time to time has in its possession information which is claimed by others to be proprietary and which the Employer has agreed to keep confidential. You agree that all such information shall be Proprietary or Confidential Information for purposes of this Agreement.
(II) Use your best endeavours to prevent the publication, disclosure or use of any such Confidential information.
(III) Enter into a Non-Disclosure Agreement ("NDA") and Confidentiality Agreement ("CA") with the Employer.
(IV) Not directly or indirectly refer any information about the company on web based portals i.e Social Networking Sites, Blog etc.
(e) The above restrictions shall not apply to divulging/disclosing information to such persons as may be authorised by the Employer in the course Employment. The Employer's decision as to who shall be permitted to disclose such cConfidential iInformation shall be final and binding on the Employee.
(iii) Is required to be disclosed by any applicable law, regulation or order of the Court or by any competent judicial, regulatory, governmental or other authority or governmental agency.
For the avoidance of doubt, the termination of this letter agreement or variation of any of its terms or conditions for any reason shall not affect the obligations of confidentiality set out above, except that they shall cease to apply to any information or knowledge which may come into the public domain other than by way of unauthorised disclosure in breach of the above obligations by you.
(g) During the term of employment, the Employee will not improperly use or disclose any Confidential Information or trade secrets, if any, of any former employer or any other person to whom the Employee has an obligation of confidentiality, and the Employee will not bring onto the premises of the Employer or Employer's clients any unpublished documents or any property belonging to any former employer or any other person to whom the Employee has an obligation of confidentiality, unless consented to in writing by such former employer or person.
(h) It is hereby clarified that the Employee shall be permitted to take an independent regular membership of non-profit organisations such as ASSOCHAM, ICAI and similar organisations only with the written consent of the employer and subject to the condition that the employee shall not (a) act as a consultant to any entity or organisation other than the Employer; (b) share or disclose any information of the Employer including Confidential Information, or act as a representative of the Employer at such organisations unless specifically authorised in writing by the Employer.
(a) The Employee has submitted to the Employer a complete report with all supporting documents relating to all the Confidential Information, Intellectual Property and all other information developed by the Employee on or prior to the Commencement Date, which would be excluded from the scope of this Agreement. To preclude any possible uncertainty, the Employee sets forth in Annexure attached hereto a complete list of all Intellectual Property, that the Employee has, alone or jointly with others, conceived, developed or reduced to practice or caused to be conceived, developed or reduced to practice prior to the Date of Employment, that the Employee considers to be his/her property or the property of third parties and that the Employee wishes to have excluded from the scope of this Employment.
(b) You shall promptly and fully disclose to the Employer and keep confidential all inventions, discoveries, trade secrets, copyright works, designs or technical know how and improvements, whether or not patentable, and whether or not they are made, conceived or reduced to practice during working hours or using the Employer's data or facilities, which you develop, make, conceive or reduce to practice during your engagement, either solely or jointly with others (collectively, the "Developments") in the course of your Employment. All Developments shall shall be the sole property of the Employer and belong to and be owned exclusively by the Employer, and you hereby irrevocably, absolutely and perpetually assign to the Employer, without further compensation, worldwide rights in respect of all of the right, title and interest in and to the Developments and any and all related patents, patent applications, copyrights, copyright applications, trademarks, trademark applications and trade names in India and elsewhere free from encumbrances of any kind for the full term of each and every such right, including renewal or extension of any such term. Decisions as to the protection or exploitation of any intellectual property shall be in the absolute discretion of the Employer.
(c) The Employee agrees that all originals and all copies of any and all material containing, representing, evidencing, recording, or constituting all or part of the Developments, however and whenever produced (whether by Employee or others) and whether or not protected under copyright law or patentable or protected under other intellectual property law, shall be immediately handed over to the Employer upon its creations and any copies thereof returned to the Employer upon termination of Employee's employment for any reason.
(d) The Employee agrees that the exclusive ownership of all content and/or part of Developments that is not protected under copyright laws and /or other intellectual property law and/or that is not patentable shall be automatically and irrevocably transferred to the Employer from date of creation.
(e) To the extent any assignment of the Developments cannot be made to the Employer or its designees, at present, the Employee hereby irrevocably, absolutely and perpetually agrees to assign to Employer or its designees, all of the Employee's right, title and interest including intellectual property rights therein or any part thereof. You hereby irrevocably, agree to transfer and assign to the Employer all of your entire right, title and interest in and to any and all inventions, discoveries, methods, copyrights, software, data, processes, products, improvements and developments whether or not published, confidential, protected or susceptible of legal protection and whether or not any attempt has been made to secure such protection, which were made, conceived or reduced to practice at any time during the course of your employment with the Employer (whether prior to or after the execution of this letter agreement) by you, in whole or in part at the expense of, on the premises of, with the assistance of the employees or consultants of, or with the equipment or supplies of, the Employer or any of its affiliates, and any and all other confidential information belonging to the Employer. If you are the author of any work, or a subject matter other than a work, that was created or was being created in the course of your employment, the Employer may use it in any manner. You consent to this use whether or not it would, but for this clause, infringe your moral rights. The Employee explicitly waives all moral rights in the Developments.
(f) For the purposes of this clause, you agree promptly to take all action and sign and deliver all instruments as the Employer may require at any time hereafter. During and after the term of the Employee's employment by the Employer, the Employee shall and undertakes to assist the Employer, at the Employer's expense, in every proper way to (i) secure and maintain the Employer's rights hereunder and to carry out the intent of this Agreement and for vesting the Employer with full title of Developments and all rights, titles and interest including intellectual property rights therein and to enable the Employer, its successors, assigns and nominees, to secure and enjoy the full and exclusive benefits and advantages thereof.; (ii) to apply and prosecute registration applications in respect of intellectual property rights and the Developments for the Employer's benefit, in any and all countries; (iii) sign, execute, affirm all documents, including, without limitation, all applications, forms, instruments of assignment and supporting documentation and perform all other acts as may be required for the abovementioned purposes.
(g) You hereby constitute and appoint the Employer, its successors and assigns, your true and lawful attorney, with full power of substitution for you, and in your name, place and stead or otherwise, but on behalf of and for the benefit of the Employer, its successors and assigns, to take all actions and execute all documents on behalf of you necessary to effect the assignment set forth hereinabove.
(h) Should the Employer be unable to secure the signature on any document necessary to apply for, prosecute, obtain, protect or enforce any IPRs, due to any cause, the Employee hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Employer and each of its duly authorized officers and agents as the Employee's agent and attorneys to do all lawfully permitted acts to further the prosecution, issuance, and enforcement of IPRs or protection in respect of the Developments, with the same force and effect as if executed and delivered by the Employee.
(i) The Employee represents and warrants that he will not use or integrate in the Developments any third party materials or data that are not validly licensed to the Employer unless previously authorized by the Employee's reporting officer in the Employer. The Employee represents and warrants that the Employee has not violated the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party, and covenants that he/she shall not violate the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party in the course of his/her employment with Employer. Provided that in the event the Employer is held liable for the Employee's violation of any Intellectual Property Rights, the Employee undertakes to indemnify the Employer or affiliates as the case may be against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, actions, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees and court fees resulting there from.
(j) If, in the course of the Employee's employment with the Employer, the Employee incorporates Intellectual Property into the Employer's product, process or machine, the Employer is hereby granted and shall have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license (with rights to sublicense through multiple tiers of sub-licensees) to make, have made, modify, use and sell such Intellectual Property.
(k) The Employee shall not during and after the term of the Employee's employment with the Employer, in any way violate the Intellectual Property Rights of any client of the Employer. Provided that in the event the Employer is held liable for the Employee's violation of any Intellectual Property Rights, the Employee undertakes to indemnify the Employer or affiliates as the case may be against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, actions, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees and court fees resulting therefrom. The Employee further covenants that he / she shall ensure that all information and records pertaining to any idea, process, trademark, service mark, invention, technology, computer program, original work of authorship, design, formula, discovery, patent or copyright of any client of the Employer that the Employee comes across during the term of his employment with the Employer, is duly protected. The Employee agrees that all originals and all copies of any and all material containing, representing, evidencing, recording, or constituting all or part of the Intellectual Property belonging to any client of the Employer, however and whenever produced (whether by Employee or others) and whether or not protected under copyright law or patentable or protected under other intellectual property law, shall be immediately along with any copies thereof returned to the Employer upon termination of Employee's employment for any reason.
(i) If you have committed any criminal offence or been guilty of any gross misconduct whether during the performance of your duties or otherwise which, in the opinion of the Employer, renders you unfit to continue as an employee of the Employer or which would be likely adversely to prejudice the interests of the Employer.
(ii) If you wilfully abuse or misuse the Employer's computer system, or any password relating to that computer system or gain access to any file or load any information or program contrary to the Employer's interests or procedures.
(iii) If any information relating to your suitability for employment provided to the Employer in the course of applying for employment is found to be materially false or misleading.
(iv) If you are subject to immigration control in India, your Employment shall be conditional upon you having been granted leave to enter into, remain and take up employment in India, such leave being valid and subsisting at all times and not being subject to any condition precluding or restricting the Employment.
(i) Theft, fraud, intentionally providing false or misleading information or any act of dishonesty.
(ii) Any act or attempted act of violence or abusive behaviour towards people or property including causing deliberate damage to the Employer's property.
(iii) Indecent behaviour towards or harassment or bullying of fellow employees, suppliers, customers or clients.
(iv) Incapability to undertake your responsibilities under this employment agreement on account of your abuse of alcohol or other banned substances.
(v) Wilful breach of health and safety regulations, if any, prescribed by the Employer.
(vi) A serious act of insubordination or wilful refusal to carry out reasonable requests by the board of the Employer.
(vii) Serious or persistent neglect of duties or a series of persistent breaches of the terms and conditions of your employment.
(viii) Unauthorised use of or disclosure of Confidential Information of the Employer.
(ix) Falsifying records or expense claims.
(x) Conviction for a criminal offence arising from or related to your work for the Employer.
(xi) Conviction for a criminal offence committed outside working hours which in the opinion of the Employer adversely affects the Employer's business or reputation, or affects your suitability for the type of work which you perform or affects your acceptability to other employees.
(xii) Any act which you know or reasonably believe is likely to bring the Employer into disrepute.
(xiii) Unauthorized signing of documentation committing the Employer to any financial obligation which is not in the ordinary course of business of the Employer or exceeding your authority in any other way.
(c) Upon dismissal as specified above or the termination of your Employment, you shall forthwith return to the Employer all documents, books, materials, records, correspondence, papers and information (on whatever media and wherever located) relating to the business of the Employer or its customers or prospects, any magnetic disc on which information relating to the business is stored and any other property of the Employer which may be in your power, possession, custody, care or control or which contain or refer to any Confidential Information and shall, if requested to do so by the Employer, provide a signed statement that you have complied fully with the terms of this clause.
(d) Upon dismissal, you shall not be entitled to receive any accruals towards leave encashment.
(i) In the event of your death.
(ii) Upon the dissolution of the Employer.
(b) Upon confirmation of your employment, your Employment may be terminated by either party by giving the following notice: ________ written notice. The Employer may terminate your Employment by paying you salary in lieu of notice. It is hereby clarified that the term 'salary' for the purpose of this clause shall mean the proportionate monthly CTC and shall not include any other compensation payable to the Employee by the Employer.
(c) If you purport to terminate the Employment without notice or prior to the completion of the notice period specified above, you hereby agree to relinquish any salary for that part of the notice period that is not fulfilled. In addition, you shall also pay the Employer 1 calendar month's salary as penalty for not completing the stipulated notice period. Purported termination of the Employment without notice or on short notice or the payment of a penalty shall not and does not absolve you of the obligation to comply fully with the terms of this Clause.
(d) Nothing in this Contract shall prevent the Employer from terminating your Employment without notice if you have been dismissed.
(v) Not remain or become involved in any respect with the business of the Employer except as required by the Employer, including but not limited to not attending the Employer's places of business and requiring you to remain at home for all or part of the notice period.
(f) Upon termination of Employment, you shall be entitled to receive the basic salary portion of the CTC in lieu of any accrued but unutilised holiday entitlement. However, if you have taken holiday or casual leave in excess of your entitlement, the Employer may at its sole and absolute discretion deduct a sum equivalent to the basic salary portion of the CTC due for each day of absence in excess of the holiday or casual leave entitlement.
(g) On the last day of your employment with the Employer you must immediately return to the Employer in accordance with its instructions all equipment, correspondence, records, specifications, software, models, notes, reports and other documents belonging to the Employer and any copies thereof and any other property belonging to the Employer including but not limited to keys provided to you and which are in your possession or under your control. You will provide the Employer with any passwords in your possession and which are required to access these records, or any other such information relating to the Employer produced in the course of your employment. Furthermore, you will delete all information relating to the Employer produced in the course of your employment which is not stored on Employer property, including any such information stored on your personal computer. If you owe any money to the Employer, then the Employer has the right to deduct such sums from any payment due to you. This is without prejudice to the Employer's other remedies to recover any sums due from you to the Employer. No outstanding payments will be made to you until you, if so required by the Employer, confirm in writing that you have complied with your obligations under this clause.
(h) Any and all of the Employer's Property, Confidential Information and Intellectual Property of the Employer acquired by or in the possession of the Employee under this Agreement, shall be returned to the Employer immediately upon termination of this Agreement.
(i) In the event the Employee's employment with the Employer is terminated, Employee shall sign and deliver to the Employer a termination certificate in the format specified by the Employer.
(j) It is further agreed and understood that until such time as all of the Employer's Property, Confidential Information and Intellectual Property is returned and the Termination Certificate is provided as abovementioned, the Employer shall, in addition to initiating legal proceedings for recovery (and without prejudice to any other rights or remedies that Employer may have under law or equity), be entitled to withhold any salary, emoluments or other dues of the Employee then or in future payable to the Employee, to the extent allowable by law, and may further, at its discretion, deduct therefrom the full value of the said property/properties calculated at its then replacement price. The Employee recognizes and agrees that the Employer shall be entitled to recover from the Employee and the Employee shall be bound and liable to make good to the Employer any loss suffered by the Employer on account of misuse of the Employer's Property, Confidential Information and Intellectual Property by the Employee and/or any damage occasioned to the Employer's Property, Confidential Information and Intellectual Property whilst in the custody of or entrusted to the Employee.
(a) You shall not during your Employment, without the prior written consent of the Employer, under any circumstances, whether directly or indirectly undertake as an employee or otherwise or discharge (for remuneration or compensation howsoever payable) for any other person in India or elsewhere any duties and responsibilities, of whatever kind.
(b) You shall not during your Employment, without the prior written consent of the Employer, during the term of employment hereunder, be engaged in any other business activity pursued for gain, profit, or other pecuniary advantage if such activity interferes with your duties and responsibilities hereunder.
(c) You shall not, for the following period: ________ after the termination of your Employment, without the prior written consent of the Employer engage, whether directly or indirectly, in any business, employment or activity related to the Employer's clients or customers, a Competitive Business (as defined hereunder) nor provide services and carry out duties for any Competitive Business which are similar to the duties carried out for the Employer during Employment. You agree that the above is necessary to safeguard any sensitive information of the Employer that may have come into your knowledge while in Employment. in order to safeguard any sensitive information of the Employer that may have come into your knowledge while in Employment.
Competitive Business(es)" include any firm, partnership, joint venture, company and/or any other entity and/or person that engages in the following business: ________ or carries out activities similar or competitive to the business in which the Employer engages or proposes to engage during the term of employment.
(d) During your Employment and for the following period: ________ thereafter, You shall not without the prior written consent of the Employer carry out or engage in, whether directly or indirectly, whether through partnership or as a shareholder, joint venture partner, collaborator, consultant or agent or in any other manner whatsoever, whether for profit or otherwise in any Competitive Business which competes directly or indirectly with the whole or any part of the business carried on by the Employer in India or elsewhere or in any activity related to the business carried on by the Employer.
(e) You shall not on your own account or on behalf of any other person, solicit or accept orders for products or services from any of the Employer's current or previous customers that are in competition with products or services of or in any way related to the business of the Employer from any of the Employer's current or previous customers.
(iv) Enter the employ of, or render any other services to, any person engaged in a business which competes with the Business, if (i) the Employee has prior knowledge of the same or (ii) gains such knowledge during the term of employment or (iii) which is obvious to the Employee.
(g) It is agreed by and between the parties that the employment with the Employer and the compensation payable under this Agreement shall be sufficient consideration for this Clause.
(h) The Employee hereby acknowledges and agrees that the limitations as to time and the limitations of the character or nature placed in this Clause are reasonable and fair and will not preclude the Employee from earning a livelihood, nor will they unreasonably impose limitations on the Employee's ability to earn a living. In addition, the Employee agrees and acknowledges that the potential harm to the Employer of the non-enforcement of this Clause outweighs any potential harm to the Employee by this Agreement and has given careful consideration to the restraints imposed upon the Employee by this Agreement, and is in full accord as to their necessity for the reasonable and proper protection of Confidential Information and Intellectual Property of the Employer now existing or to be developed in the future. The Employee expressly acknowledges and agrees that each and every restraint imposed by this Agreement is reasonable with respect to subject matter, time period and geographical area.
(i) You further agree and accept that during the Employment and for the relevant period as specified in the clauses above, each of the restrictions above shall be deemed to constitute a separate agreement and shall be construed independently of the others. It is expressly understood and agreed by the Parties that although the employee and the Employer consider the restrictions contained in this Clause to be reasonable, if a final judicial determination is made by a court of competent jurisdiction that the time or territory or any other restriction contained in this Agreement is an unenforceable restriction against the employee, the provisions of this Agreement shall not be rendered void but shall be deemed amended to apply as to such maximum time and territory and to such maximum extent as such court may judicially determine or indicate to be enforceable. Alternatively, if any court of competent jurisdiction finds that any restriction contained in this Agreement is unenforceable, and such restriction cannot be amended so as to make it enforceable, such finding shall not affect the enforceability of any of the other restrictions contained herein.
(j) You understand and agree that the foregoing restrictions are necessary and reasonable in scope and duration, in all circumstances, for the purpose of protecting the Employer's business.
(k) If any breach or violation of any of the terms of this Clause occurs, it is agreed that damages alone may not compensate for such breach or violation and that injunctive relief is reasonable and essential to safeguard the interests of the Employer and that an injunction in addition to any other remedy may accordingly be obtained by the Employer. No waiver of any such breach or violation shall be implied from the forbearance or failure by the Employer to take action in respect of such breach or violation.
The provisions of this clause shall survive the termination of this Contract.
The Employer shall also reimburse all pre-approved expenses properly incurred by you in the due and proper performance of your duties or responsibilities provided that supporting original vouchers and bills are furnished along with any request for reimbursement. All expenses need to be pre-approved by the Employer controller as designated from time to time and failure to do so shall result in the expenses not being reimbursed.
(iv) Any advance on salary, which the Employer may have made to you from time to time.
(a) The Employer reserves the right to make reasonable changes to any of the terms and conditions of Employment and you shall be notified of such changes by way of a general notice to all employees. Any such changes shall take effect from the date of the notice.
(b) The Employer shall give 1 month's written notice of what it considers to be any significant change, either by way of an individual notice or a general notice to all employees.
(c) Such significant changes will be deemed to be accepted unless you notify the Employer of any objection in writing before the expiry of the notice period of 1 month. Any such changes shall take effect from the date of the expiry of the notice period. If the Employer receives a notification of objection within the prescribed period, the objection will be considered and if it cannot be resolved within a period of 30 days from receipt of the objection, the Employer will terminate your Employment by giving you notice under Clause 12)b)i). The decision of the Employer as to what constitutes minor changes of detail or significant changes shall be final and binding.
(d) You shall not be entitled to make any changes or amendments to this Employment Contract.
(a) Any notice or other written communication given under or in connection with this Contract must be delivered personally or sent by Registered post AD.
(b) The Employer's address for service shall be its registered office or such other place as the Employer may notify from time to time.
(c) Your address for service shall be the address given at the head of this Contract or any other place that you may notify.
(i) If delivered personally, at the time of delivery.
(ii) If posted, at the expiry of 4 business days after it was posted (excluding the day of posting).
(e) You must notify the Employer in writing of any change in your name, address, bank account number, marital status or next of kin within one month of such change, and of any arrest, prosecution or conviction for a criminal offence, any disciplinary action taken against you by a professional or regulatory body or if you become bankrupt, apply for or have made against you a receiving order make any composition with your creditors or commit any act of bankruptcy.
This contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Indian law and each party to this contract submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of ________.
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(a) No collective agreements (which are otherwise applicable to workmen under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947) apply to your employment.
(b) This contract sets out the entire agreement and understanding between the Parties in connection with the Employment and supersedes any previous contract or agreement between you and the Employer.
(c) The Employer may hold and process, whether electronically or manually, the data it collects in relation to you in the course of the Employment for the purposes of the Employer's management and administration of its business and of other employees and for compliance with applicable procedures, laws and regulations and you hereby consent for the same. The Employer or its agents may transfer, store and process such data whether in India or any other place for the above purposes.
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(iii) In view of the above, the Employer shall be entitled to injunctive relief, in addition to any other remedy available at law or in equity, in the event he/she violates any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement.
Please return a signed copy of this letter to indicate your understanding and acknowledgement of the terms and conditions contained herein.
I confirm that I have read and understood the aforesaid contract fully and by signing and returning to the Employer the duplicate copy hereof, I hereby accept the terms and conditions contained therein and agree that the same constitutes a valid and binding contract of employment between myself and the Employer. | 2019-04-26T15:53:05 | https://www.wonder.legal/in/creation-modele/employment-agreement-in |
0.999516 | This agreement will be effective as of _____________ (date), between ____________ _______________, of __________________________________________________ ____________________________ (address) hereinafter referred to as broker, and ___________________________, of ______________________________________ ____________________ (address) hereinafter referred to as sales representative.
1. The broker is a ___________________ (registered or licensed) real estate broker doing business that involves ________________________ (areas of real estate) real estate.
2. The sales representative is _______________ (registered or licensed or qualified) to deal with the public as such.
1. The broker agrees to make available all current listings presently existing between and among the sales representatives in the brokers office. The broker further agrees to assist the sales representative.
2. The representative may share with other representatives the facilities that are in the possession of the broker.
1. The sales representative promises to work diligently to sell, lease, or rent any and all real estate listed with broker. The sales representative must also solicit additional listings, customers and business for the broker.
2. The sales representative must conduct ____________ (himself or herself) in a manner that will increase the good will and reputation of the broker.
(a) _________ percent (______%) of commissions for the sale of real property.
(b) _________ percent (______%) of commissions for lease or the rental of property.
(c) _________ percent (______%) of commissions for the purchase of property.
Sales representative has the authority to set __________ (his or her) own work schedule unless the broker has a particular need to assign a certain duty.
The sales representative may not discuss any unauthorized corporate information. Following the termination of this agreement, the sales representative shall not use any such information to __________ (his or her) own advantage.
The relationship created by this agreement can be terminated by either party with a __________ (___) day(s) written notice.
All disputes regarding the rights and obligations of either party are subject to arbitration. Either party may make a demand for arbitration by filing such a demand to the other party within __________ (__) days after the dispute arises. Arbitration will then be conducted according to the agreement and the laws of the state of __________.
Any notice provided for or concerning this agreement shall be in writing and sent by certified or registered mail to the respective address of each party.
In witness whereof, both parties of this agreement have caused it to be executed at _____________________________ (place of execution) on ______________ (date) as indicated. | 2019-04-21T13:15:01 | http://freelegalforms.net/index.cfm?index=forms&filename=form4012.htm |
0.999999 | Kann ich meinen Körper mit Wasser entgiften?
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called ✅ Wasser macht gesund ✅ and is located at http://www.wasser-macht-gesund.de/category/koerperentgiften/.
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Kann ich meinen Körper mit Wasser entgiften? and is located at https://www.wasser-macht-gesund.de/kann-ich-meinen-koerper-mit-wasser-entgiften/.
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Reines Wasser und die natürliche Entgiftung and is located at https://www.wasser-macht-gesund.de/reines-wasser-und-die-natuerliche-entgiftung/. | 2019-04-25T07:59:34 | https://www.wasser-macht-gesund.de/category/koerperentgiften/ |
0.999997 | Betty Pack: Jennifer Lawrence to play 'blonde Bond' in upcoming spy thriller?
After picking up the award for best hero for her performance as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 at the MTV Movie Awards last night (10 April), Jennifer Lawrence looks to be gearing up to play another type of hero, a spy in fact, in an upcoming thriller drama all about a real-life female version of 007. The biopic will centre around World War II secret agent, Betty Pack, who was often described as a 'blonde Bond' and who often seduced her targets in order to complete her missions.
The basis for the big screen adaptation comes in the form of a non-fiction novel, written by Howard Blum, which details the adventures of Pack, born Amy Elizabeth Thorpe in 1910. The book, entitled The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure & Betrayal is due for release on 12 April 2016. In the novel, Blum tells readers not only of Pack's James Bond-like antics but also recollects how she "changed the entire course of the war" through such acts.
Sony Pictures subsidiary TriStar have allegedly acquired the rights to adapt the upcoming historical novel into a film despite it not even having been published yet. While she's not confirmed to be playing Pack yet, Lawrence is reportedly the studio's frontrunner to play the lead, according to The New York Post's Page Six.
After her career within the British Security Coordination of the MI6, she was reported to have later said about her sexual endeavours: "Ashamed? Not in the least, my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives... It involved me in situations from which 'respectable' women draw back – but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods." Originally from Minnesota in the US, Pack died from throat cancer in 1963 while residing in France.
If she does accept the role, Pack won't be the only real-life figure that Lawrence will be playing in the near future either. Earlier in January, news emerged that the 25-year-old will be portraying Fidel Castro's past lover Marita Lorenz in an upcoming romance spy drama-turned-biopic from Eric Warren Singer, who previously worked with her on American Hustle. Before then, however, she will be seen in something a lot more modern, opposite James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Oscar Isaac for eagerly-anticipated follow-up X-Men: Apocalypse. | 2019-04-21T08:23:23 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/betty-pack-jennifer-lawrence-play-blonde-bond-upcoming-spy-thriller-1554268 |
0.999999 | The British have been licking the back of their present monarch - on the back of stamps, of course! - for almost half a century. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London in 1952 after the death of her father, King George VI, the previous reigning Monarch. She has had the pleasure during her time on the throne of taking tea with ten consecutive serving British Prime Ministers, including the war-leader Winston Churchill and the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.
Despite this, many people are surprised to discover that the Queen, and not the Prime Minister, is in fact officially Head of State of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Many people are often also dumbfounded when they learn that Britain has no written constitution.
As one of Europe's oldest democracies, this seems a bit odd, even for the British. Most European countries are republics, after all, and are governed by elected leaders who have to operate according to written constitutions. So how can Parliament - the victor in the English Civil War between the Parliamentarians and Royalists 350 years ago - be referred to (mostly by the British themselves, mind you!), as the "mother of parliaments"?
This apparent constitutional anachronism, like many other British oddities (driving on the left of the road, funny weights and measurements, etc.), is deeply rooted in the national character. The British need to feel different from continental Europe. And, since the 17th century at least, this has been no more obvious than in the British constitution - or lack of one - and the place of the Royal family in this (unwritten) constitution.
In the 17th century, when most of Europe was governed by a pan-continental network of divinely ordained monarchs, the English took the dramatic step of disposing of their King, Charles I, and lopping off his head after the Civil War. Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, which replaced the monarchy, was the first attempt in European history to live without a monarch. But it lasted only a few years before Charles's son, Charles II, was crowned King by the very same Parliamentarians that had called for the head of his father.
However, unlike in his father's day, the new king was not to be "chosen by God", but deliberately placed on the throne by Parliament. This was to lend mystique and add legitimacy to the unstable social and political order. Cromwell's attempt to create a republic was ahead of its time, and failed largely as a result. However, it left as its main legacy the hybrid constitutional system that Britain has to deal with, often with difficulty, today.
Charles II became the first in a long line of "constitutional monarchs". He was kept by the state to perform symbolic duties, like opening Parliament, signing laws and so on. In return he got to wear robes, a crown and live in a castle. Could be worse!
"elected dictatorships", in which elected leaders, once elected, are free to alter the rules to suit their political ends.
This year, for example, may see the incumbent Prime Minister Tony Blair calling early elections for April or May (after four years in office) instead of waiting to complete the full five-year term in 2002. This is not because there is no support for his government, far from it, but simply that he may feel it improves his chances of winning the election, especially if Labour first announces a very generous Budget! His call, no rules! Out of the Conservatives' 18-year rule from 1979 to 1997, they completed a five-year term only twice (1987 to 1992 and 1992 to 1997).
The ritual and the drama of the royalty, which sometimes seems as if it is deliberately designed to throw the dark political world into light relief, are preserved in the many unwritten constitutional rules which govern how Parliament works, and the relations between Parliament and the King or Queen.
In this strange arrangement, Her Majesty's Government (HMG) acts "on behalf of the Monarch". This is witnessed most clearly every year when the Queen reads out her "Queen's Speech", explaining what the government wants to do in the coming year. This is, in fact, written by her First - that is, Prime - Minister, before Parliament reopens after the summer recess, or break.
When the Queen says, "My government intends to" we know who writes the words. But we all play the game because we love its theatrical element! Ritual is all-important and all-pervasive. Even when the Prime Minister resigns, for example, he or she "goes to the palace" to hand in his resignation to the Queen.
But everyone knows who really pulls the strings. The monarch is really no more than a very visible and pampered puppet, on show for the waiting - and adoring - crowds. Politicians have always known, after all, that the Royals are one of Britain's greatest on-going soap operas and biggest tourist attractions. | 2019-04-22T20:31:13 | http://woe.edu.pl/content/britains-royal-affair |
0.999939 | If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, the question that would hang over him, based on all he has been through and all he has said, is: Can he be fair?
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens, prominent law professors, attorneys and lawmakers have all raised that question as senators prepare to vote on his nomination Saturday.
Stevens told a Florida audience that there was "merit" to the criticism that Kavanaugh has "demonstrated a potential bias involving enough potential litigants before the court that he would not be able to perform his full responsibilities."
Kavanaugh, a 12-year veteran of an influential US appeals court in Washington, told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that the sexual assault allegations of Christine Blasey Ford arose from "a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election ... revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups."
The former aide to President George W. Bush who also served with independent counsel Ken Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton, also declared, "As we all know, in the United States political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around."
Even from the start, President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh was incendiary. The atmosphere in the nation's capital and throughout the country is far more partisan than in earlier decades, and Kavanaugh would succeed centrist conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who held the key vote on the nine-member bench for abortion rights and gay marriage, to name just two of the many social policy issues Kennedy controlled.
Kavanaugh's partisan outbursts, suggesting he would not be a neutral arbiter, also may have reinforced public perceptions that the ideologically divided justices cast their votes based on political allegiances. Chief Justice John Roberts, also appointed by a Republican president, has previously expressed concerns that the public believes any nominee who emerges from a politically divisive confirmation process necessarily would be political.
On Thursday night, Kavanaugh published an essay in the Wall Street Journal acknowledging he may have gone too far.
Suspicions of impartiality are not new, but the nature of the accusations and Kavanaugh's angry, partisan response put this episode in a category of its own.
Other Supreme Court nominees -- in recent decades William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas -- faced accusations, questions of veracity, and claims they would not be impartial jurists. Both were confirmed (Rehnquist as an associate justice in late 1971 and as chief justice in 1986) and Thomas (as an associate justice in 1991), but controversy over their nominations faded but never fully disappeared.
When do justices recuse themselves?
Questions of judicial fairness arise in two ways: broadly regarding a jurist's temperament, as is in the current dispute, and specifically on cases that come before the nine.
Regarding the latter, federal law says that any judge must disqualify himself or herself in any proceeding in which his or her "impartiality might reasonably be questioned." The Supreme Court is not covered by that mandate, as are lower court judges, but the individual justices have said they abide by it.
Rarely, however, do they recuse themselves from cases. They pull out, typically, if they have a clear financial interest, for example, with stock in a company that has been sued, or if they previously handled the case as a lawyer or lower court judge. It is exceedingly rare that a justice decides not to participate based on a substantive view on the issue.
New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, who specializes in legal ethics, said "the bar is very high" for motions that a jurist recuse himself or herself. He said case precedent requires specific evidence of bias for a specific situation.
Gillers said it was unlikely that Kavanaugh, if he were confirmed, would receive many motions from litigants for recusal. Yet, he said that would not be the end of the matter in the public eye.
"The fact that he's not going to be recused in politically sensitive cases doesn't mean that the losers in those cases will not believe that he was biased against them, Gillers said. "There's a lot of disconnect between the high bar of recusal and what the public believes" of a judge's prejudices and preconceptions.
More than 2,400 law professors from more than 190 schools delivered a letter on Thursday to the Senate questioning Kavanaugh's judicial temperament, based on his testimony in the second round of Senate hearings, when Kavanaugh defended himself against claims that he assaulted Ford when they were teenagers in Maryland. Even before that, some legal scholars asserted Kavanaugh would have to step aside in cases involving presidential power, based on Kavanaugh's prior statements in the area.
Stevens, nominated by Republican Gerald Ford and who served 1975-2010, drew a line between Thomas' statements and Kavanaugh's, concluding that, "there's nothing that Clarence did in the hearings that disqualified him from sitting in cases after he came on the court."
Thomas, who also served on the DC Circuit where Kavanaugh now sits, was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, with whom he had worked at the Department of Education and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He had been nominated to succeed liberal legend Thurgood Marshall, the nation's first African-American justice.
"This is a circus," Thomas said at a 1991 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It is a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a black American ... it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas."
After Thomas was confirmed, lawyers did not regularly seek to remove from cases. He has been broadly regarded as a hard-right jurist who, even if bitter over the Hill claims, votes based on his ideology not on payback.
During Rehnquist's 1971 hearings to be an associate justice and then in 1986 to be chief justice, Rehnquist was accused of numerous incidents of racial bias, including of intimidating black voters at the polls in the 1960s when he was a lawyer in Phoenix. Rehnquist denied the allegations.
Among the witnesses who testified against Rehnquist in 1986 about alleged poll-watching activities in Arizona was James Brosnahan, a former assistant US attorney who had been investigating voter complaints.
Rehnquist was confirmed for elevation to chief, and afterward, he recused himself from Brosnahan's cases. | 2019-04-19T00:28:31 | https://politics.dailynews.us.com/2018/10/partisanship-questions-threaten-to.html |
0.999809 | This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 11, 2008 - Sales of name-brand scooters -- motorcycles that typically have small engines and a step-through design -- have increased for years as gas prices crept higher and higher. And more options are available for potential buyers with Vespa returning to scooter production and new manufacturers entering the market. Roughly 157,000 scooters sold nationwide in 2007, compared to 12,000 in 1998, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council, a trade association.
And as gas prices soared beyond $4 a gallon this summer, dealers across the country began reporting record sales. Mike Mount, a council spokesman, said that in the first half of 2008 scooter sales were up 66 percent over totals from that time a year ago. The percentage increase isn't unprecedented, he said, but the number of overall purchases is record-breaking.
Stores are selling out of scooters. Manufacturers can't keep up with consumer demand. Riders increasingly see the scooter as a long-term way to cope with high fuel costs: The two-wheelers get, on average, 60 to 100 miles per gallon, and prices typically range from $2,000 to $10,000.
St. Louis reflects the national trend. In the first eight months of the year, Vespa St. Louis has already doubled scooter sales for all of 2007, according to co-owner Stephen Zompa. Models from 2008 and 2007 are already sold out, he said.
The St. Louis Scooter Forum is filled with posts in the "newbies lounge" from new riders sharing stories about long eyeing a bike and seeing record gas prices as the tipping point.
Bev Brinson, publisher of ScooterWorld Magazine, said she's not surprised to see heightened interest in scooters this summer. Every time fuel costs rise there's an increase in scooter sales, she said. When more bikes are on the road, people take notice and foot traffic increases in dealerships, which ramp up marketing efforts.
Once riders begin doing serious research, they discover other perks: free parking near some bicycle racks, for instance.
"The gas drives [customers] there, but once they see how much they can save on other things, it's a dramatic moment," Brinson said.
Many of the frequent posters to the St. Louis Scooter Forum will meet in person this weekend for a scooter rally featuring city and country rides. Maggie Madonia, co-founder of the St. Louis Scooter Club, which is hosting its first rally, said she expects upwards of 75 people to attend - mostly locals. Check the website, www.rivercityrally.com , for events and places, as the weather may force changes.
Two summers ago, after riding two-wheelers in Italy and Bermuda, Madonia bought her first scooter. She said fuel prices didn't factor into her decision.
"I thought to myself, 'You know, I'm 43 years old. If I don't get one now I'll never have one'," said Madonia, who lives in West County.
By the time she bought her second scooter for non-city driving 18 months later, Madonia had made dozens of friends who accompanied her on rides.
A staple at weekly St. Louis Scooter Club meetings, Madonia said there's been a marked rise in attendance. "Not a week's gone by without a new person showing up," she said. "People are saying, 'I want to buy a scooter - what should I do?' "
Madonia also has noticed increased activity on the scooter forum this summer (the site has more than 230 members).
The growing interest in scooters comes at a time of heightened awareness of vehicles and their environmental footprint.
Several years ago, an Environmental Protection Agency study showed that most scooters on the road have higher emissions than cars. The EPA has since raised emissions standards for scooters and tightened enforcement of bikes that don't hold certification labels showing compliance with the Clean Air Act.
Brinson said most major companies reacted quickly to the EPA changes and offered more efficient, cleaner-burning engines. But there's still a black market for scooters, she added. The EPA has warned consumers and dealers to be wary of foreign imports that cost less but don't adhere to emissions standards.
"Some consumers buy them cheaply online," she said. "Web sites come and go quickly. People try to get their scooters licensed and they can't (because of emissions rules). The consumer is left holding the bag."
Zompa, the Vespa St. Louis co-owner, said he has stopped carrying a line of imported scooters because the engines didn't meet the environmental agency's standards.
He added that he no longer sells new two-stroke engines, which tend to be cheaper but also pollute more because they run on a mix of gas and oil. Four-stroke engines are cleaner but have less power.
Brinson said major companies are still importing two-stroke engines that meet EPA standards. The agency has a list of legitimate importers and products available to consumers.
Think twice before riding in the snow. There isn't an aggressive snow tire for scooters. And avoid riding on ice at all costs.
Bigger bikes are typically better at handling inclement weather, but Madonia said a common mistake is for new riders to be overconfident and not respect weather conditions.
Keep your core body temperature up while riding in cold weather. Full-face helmets, leg warmers and heated gloves help cope with chilly air.
Before buying a scooter, understand the laws and what they say about what engine size is needed to ride on large roads and highways.
Don't just throw your scooter into a garage and figure it will run like new come spring. Zompa said riders need to remove and store the battery, and oil the cylinder, among other protective actions.
It's late summer (technically). Temperatures are cooling and humidity is low.
"This is the time of the year to be riding a motorcycle or scooter," Zompa said.
But will the summer of the scooter bleed into the fall, and what are new riders in store for once the cold weather hits?
According to a Motorcycle Industry Council survey conducted several years ago of motorcycle owners, 77 percent of all riding happens in spring and summer months. Zompa said his peak sales are in July, and he'll sell roughly one scooter a day until the weather breaks.
"Eventually it'll just fizzle out," he said.
Scooter owners across the city will pack away their new ride until spring, prompting some to wonder if they've made a good investment.
As one post on the St. Louis Scooter Forum puts it: "Few people will see the value in buying a scooter if they don't plan to ride once it starts to get cold. Nothing bites more than making a payment for something that will sit in your garage covered up for a few months out of the year."
But Brinson said more people - herself included - are riding year round.
"People buy their scooters as weekend warriors and realize how viable they are as a primary mode of transportation," she said.
Elia Powers is a free-lance journalist. | 2019-04-22T01:06:54 | https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/scooter-sales-rev |
0.999076 | TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) - Japanese prosecutors indicted Carlos Ghosn on Monday (Dec 10) for understating pay, Kyodo reported, three weeks after his arrest at a Tokyo airport and bringing to a head the case that has sent shock waves through the global auto industry.
The prosecutors also indicted Nissan Motor, the report said. Former Nissan representative director and Ghosn's close aide Greg Kelly was also indicted, it said.
An indictment takes the prosecutors’ pursuit of Ghosn to the next level, while representing a victory for Nissan chief executive officer Hiroto Saikawa who has emerged as a driving force into the investigation into Ghosn’s alleged wrongdoing.
Ghosn is in custody in Japan after his Nov 19 arrest on allegations of under-reporting his income at Nissan, which has since ousted him as chairman.
While he remains at the helm of Renault, Nissan’s partner in the world’s biggest auto alliance, he has been replaced on an interim basis. Tension within the Franco-Japanese partnership that has been held together by Ghosn for two decades has all but exploded into the open since his shock incarceration.
Here’s how Ghosn’s legal process could play out: After indictment, Ghosn is likely to remain in custody as prosecutors continue to investigate additional suspected crimes.
A trial typically takes place about 40 to 50 days after indictment. Ghosn’s trial is likely to take place at the Tokyo District Court or a similar tribunal, where cases are argued in front of three judges.
Should he want to, Ghosn is likely to be able to appeal against the verdict twice, first to high court and then supreme court.
If convicted, Ghosn could face up to 10 years in prison, prosecutors have said.
Japan has one of the highest criminal conviction rates in the world, and prosecutors typically try to use interrogations to extract signed confessions from defendants.
In 2017, fewer than 1 per cent of cases in Japan’s district and county courts resulted in a not-guilty verdict or the defendant being released, according to prosecution data.
Nissan, which Ghosn helped resurrect by uniting it with Renault in an alliance almost two decades ago, conducted a months-long probe into Ghosn’s financial reporting and alleged misuse of company assets.
The timing prompted some analysts to say the scandal may have been manufactured in order to block a merger that Ghosn was advocating between Nissan and Renault.
Nissan chairman's fall from grace: Who is Carlos Ghosn and why is he in trouble?
Mr Saikawa and other Japanese executives within Nissan have spoken strongly against a merger.
Mr Saikawa, a former protege of Ghosn’s, is now potentially succeeding him as Nissan’s chairman after already taking over as CEO last year. Ghosn remains the chairman of the Amsterdam-based Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors Corp alliance.
Renault appeared to have been blindsided by Ghosn’s arrest and the allegations that have drifted out.
Executives are suspicious of Nissan’s motives, demanding to see proof from the Japanese carmaker of the accusations against Ghosn, people familiar with the matter have said.
Nissan offered up a presentation summarising his alleged transgressions, but Renault declined, requesting the presence of lawyers and the full report on the allegations, the people said.
A spokesman for Renault said Nissan still hasn’t provided the evidence Renault’s board has asked for. He declined further comment.
Renault is aiming to reach in about a week the first conclusions of its internal probe into whether the pay packages of Ghosn, along with the French carmaker’s other top managers, were properly disclosed to shareholders, the people said.
Renault and Nissan have complicated cross-shareholdings, and poor relations would make operations difficult.
The French carmaker is the largest shareholder in Nissan and has voting rights, while the Japanese company is the second-largest shareholder in Renault, with no votes. Nissan is keen to achieve a more equal power balance but its demands have been stonewalled by Renault and the French state. | 2019-04-19T23:09:18 | https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ex-nissan-chief-carlos-ghosn-set-to-be-charged-face-new-allegations |
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