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0.998533 | People of the Great White Lie?
John Paul Myburgh's film People of the Great Sandface (1986) has apparently been well received in Britain and Europe and hailed by respected, well-informed and critical South African media commentators as a breakthrough in South African ethnographic film. Yet People of the Great Sandface raises troubling questions, not only about how we portray the human dimension of southern Africa, but about the very nature of the academic enterprise known as visual anthropology. This film reaches new heights in the art of mystification; indeed, it might more accurately be titled People of the Great White Lie. Ultimately, Myburgh is concerned not with history but with perpetuating myth. And is a dangerous, even a killer myth: the myth of the wild Bushman.
Myburgh claims to have contacted and lived with the last group of "wild" or autonomous Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert, implying that he visually recorded their last days as independent foragers before they threw in the towel and settled at a government-provided waterhole. Since they do not live "traditionally" anymore, we have no way of verifying Myburgh's account and must take his footage as irreplaceable documentation of their supposed last days of hunting (thus enhancing the value of the footage).
Several filmmakers and anthropologists who have worked with Kalahari peoples have publicly expressed strong skepticism about the authenticity of this film, and it is skepticism well founded. The water-pump settlement which is the Bushmen's final destination, for example, features prominently in John Marshall's 1975 National Geographic classic, Bushmen of the Kalahari. Indeed, just prior to that film's release it was pointed out that Myburgh had rounded up a number of former foragers and gone back into the wilds to film their "traditional lifestyle" (Tomaselli et at. 1986).
People of the Great Sandface can be discussed on two fronts: What it says (and how it is said) and what it does not say. If this film had been made 30, or even 15, years ago, it would have been hailed a a masterpiece. So overwhelming has the political dimension been in southern Africa, however, that only a foolishly naïve or a conservative positivist filmmaker would not at least make some passing reference to the wider sociopolitical climate.
Moreover, even in the well-worked field of Bushman/San studies there has been a shift in paradigm from studying Bushmen as if they were the isolated last remnants of the Stone Age - people who might somehow inform us as to how our paleolithic ancestors lived - to treating them as an integral part of a larger social system. In the emergent paradigm, most powerfully and eloquently argued in Wilmsen's Lan Filled with Flies (1989), they emerge as an impoverished rural underclass.
Myburgh refers to his /Gwi objects (not subjects) not as "San" but as "Bushmen." San derives from the Name sab ("robber"); the term Bushman derives from the Dutch word meaning "bandit" or "outlaw." The term San serves to perpetuate the mystification process. (Many Namibian schoolchildren, for example, believe that while the San have always been found in the Kalahari, Bushmen have long since died out.) More importantly, however, the term Bushman was a lumpencategory used by the colonial authorities for anyone who resisted colonial rule. They did not get this label imposed upon them by living in the splendidly harsh, isolated, "survivalist" world of the central Kalahari.
Perhaps it is time to make Bushmen (and banditry) respectable again. Unfortunately, this film achieves the opposite: it panders to the dangerous myth of the "wild Bushman," offering an exceedingly narrow pair of ideological blinkers with which to survey the Kalahari. What the film does not say is in this case more important than what it says.
Of all the people living in southern Africa, those labeled Bushmen have been the most victimized, brutalized, and oppressed in the region's bloody history. It is a brutal tale of organized anti-Bushmen commandos and debates during the German colonial era in the Windhoek Landestag as to whether Bushmen should be declared vermin. Yet all Myburgh says in his film is that "Time and history have taken a toll on their numbers."
The war against Bushmen is still going on, now in more subtle forms. The main goal is still to dispossess Bushmen of their lands. In the region where Myburgh based his film, this dispossession took the following form. At the end of the nineteenth century, Cecil John Rhodes, British imperialist par excellence (and founder of the Rhodes scholarship), wanting a buffer against any German expansion eastward from Namibia, sent up an expedition that led to the creation of the so-called Ghanzi Block, an area settled by white South African farmers. Among the many - mostly Bushman - people dispossessed by this act were the /Gwi. The aboriginal owners found themselves to be squatters on their own land. (One of the academicians who provided a rationale for this land theft was Siegfried Pasarge, who was later to achieve renown as a Bushman "expert."
Many Ghanzi Block farmers flouted one of the unspoken laws of the Kalahari - namely, that one person never refuses another water. Indeed, most of them chased Bushman squatters off their land. These Bushmen were driven into the largely waterless central area where the film was made. In the late 1950s, as Botswana was being readied for independence by the British, Raymond Silberbauer was appointed "Bushman survey officer." Silberbauer was concerned about the dispossession of Bushman land, but because of the pervasive obnoxiousness of Apartheid could not very well recommend a reserve for Bushmen based on ethnicity. Instead, he managed to pilot through the creation of the 52,347-km² Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 1961. In this large, seasonally waterless tract, Bushmen would be allowed to remain and practice their "traditional" lifestyle.
As European tourism developed in Botswana, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve became a popular spot. Part of its attraction was precisely its Bushmen (or Basarwa, as they are officially known in Botswana) (Hitchcock & Brandenburgh 1990). Naturally, some of these tourists grew upset when these Bushmen did not measure up to their expectations, which were fed largely by pulp movies such as The Gods Must Be Crazy and Laurens van der Post's musings. Moreover, the Bushmen they saw engaged in such disgustingly irritating behavior as "begging" (simply an extension of foraging). These European tourists, being highly conservation-conscious and being of the bourgeoisie, carried weight back in Europe. Their clout had an impact in the Kalahari because the Botswana government, ever eager to "develop" - especially if it could lessen its dependency on South Africa - was anxious to export beef to the European Common Market. Thus pressed by the needs to open areas for cattle production and placate the European conservationist lobby (which felt that Bushmen were killing too much game), the Botswana government announced in December 1986 that "the reserve would lose its integrity if people were allowed to stay there."
While this war was raging Myburgh was filming his "isolated" band, ostensibly blissfully ignorant of the tense political climate. To proclaim as he does at the conclusion of his film that "You see, no one is to blame" is to display a dishonesty of ethnocidal magnitude.
In the film itself, the subjects are not allowed to talk. Instead the filmmaker paternalistically describes the action, rather like the BBC's Barbara Woodhouse explaining how and why our pets behave the way they do. It is a narration filled with naïve romantic psychologisms that classify the Bushmen as a contemporary throwback to some imagined primeval man ("His only reality is to be a hunter"; they have "instinctive rhythm"). It is claimed that the consciousness gap between Bushmen and others cannot be bridged. Compared to other documentaries and ethnographies, Myburgh's /Gwi seem to have an obsession with killing which can be read as a sign of manliness (both for the objects and for the filmmaker) - the theme of survival pervades the narrative. The political implications of this claptrap are deadly and need to be located firmly in the sociopolitical milieu in which Myburgh is operating.
The truth of the matter, as John Marshall so eloquently pointed out at the showing of People of the Great Sandface during the 1900 Northeastern Anthropological Association meeting, is that there have not been any "wild Bushmen" for a very long time. Moreover, many of the "kills" were setups.
So why was this film so well received? Myburgh's claim to have spent several years with the Bushmen (Tomaselli 1989) and the moving vignette of Myburgh on South African state television's Uit en Tuis dressed up like a Bushman while ostensibly revealing how he did field work (Tomaselli et al. 1986) must have convinced some of the authenticity and authority of his project. The film is vastly superior to the South African government-sponsored pseudo-scientific documentaries. And yes, it does boast superb cinematography and indeed many of the sequences are stunningly poetic.
But can a filmmaker make liberal use of "poetic license" and then claim to have produced a documentary? And why did so many South Africans believe this film to be the definitive study of the last "wild" Bushmen? It is not as if South African academics are naïve; on the contrary, academic boycott notwithstanding, they are remarkably au fait with cultural studies and other developments in communications.
The wave that took People of the Great Sandface to its modest triumph was the same one on which The Gods Must Be Crazy rode to box office success (in South Africa and elsewhere), caused by a long and old groundswell. To understand this one needs to consider the role of the Bushman as cultural icon within South African society and the way aspects of fascism have permeated the unassuming nooks and crannies of South African intellectual life.
"Wild Bushmen" are a crucial piece of the white South African self-image. Discovering the "last wild Bushmen" has become something of a South African tradition. Myburgh's project has a long intellectual pedigree.
It is not fortuitous that the largest curio-store chain in South Africa is called "The Bushman Curio Shop" or that one of the hit attractions at any settler historical celebration in South Africa is a bevy of loinclothed "wild Bushmen," courtesy of an enterprising white Namibian impresario. Nor is it coincidental that the South African Defence Force (SADF) used Bushmen extensively in its counterinsurgency operations, and that at one time the Bushmen held the dubious distinction of being the most militarized ethnic group in the world. One of the major reasons for recruiting them was the belief that Bushmen were "natural" hunters and trackers, and thus would be effective counterinsurgency operatives.
These superhuman qualities of Bushmen were grounded not in humanity but in animality. Their inability to keep cattle was attributed to their lack of self-restraint. Because they are "extremely emotional," women cannot do without the men and this determines the length of patrol (Pretoria News 2/26/81). Time magazine (3/21/81) assured us that they are often distracted from a guerrilla track by honey and that the sighting of a hyena would provoke uncontrollable laughter.
The issue of Bushman rights is still very much alive. Five days before Namibia's independence, South Africa relocated some 4,000 military Bushmen, who apparently chose not to be demobilized, to a base in South Africa. The source of their military efficiency is not their "inherent tracking ability" or any such "natural" quality, but arises rather, as Enloe has suggested, from their pariah status in the wider society (Enloe 1980).
The white bourgeoisie's love affair with "wild Bushmen" is long and complex. As the urbanizing whites grow more alienated from their society, they mythologize Bushmen as the antithesis to society's problems. But also, as Maughan-Brown has recently suggested, the myth provides whites with moral absolution from accusations of racism (Maughan-Brown 1983).
The crass use of names and icons to sustain the SADF's symbolic dominance is a phenomenon worthy of further analysis. The original base used to train Bushman trackers was called Alpha ("the first"). Omega ("the last") base was later built to house Angolan Bushman refugees who were mercenaries in the Pied Crow battalion in which emblem, needless to say, the "white head of the crow symbolized the white leadership element."
Details on the Bushman situation are to be found in a monograph (Gordon 1984). Some newspaper reports also hint at this and anthropologists agree. Some of the most knowledgeable experts believe that all Bushmen born after 1960 have lost the ability to track and most of their veldcraft (wilderness survival) skills.
1981 Ethnic Soldiers: State Security in a Divided Society. Penguin: Harmondsworth.
1984 The San in Transition, Vol. II: What Future for the Ju/Wasi of Nyae-Nyae? Occasional Paper 13. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival.
1990 Tourism, Conservation, and Culture in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana. Cultural Survival Quarterly 14(2):20-24.
1983 The Noble Savage in Anglo-Saxon Colonial Ideology, 1950-1980. English in Africa 10(2):55-77.
1987 SADF's Bushmen: Desert Nomads on SWAPO's Track. Soldier of Fortune (January):32-37.
1984 SADF's Bushman Battalion: Primitive Trackers Fight 20th Century War. Soldier of Fortune (March):71-75.
1989 Interview with Paul Myburgh. CVA Newsletter.
1986 Myth, Race and Power: South Africans Imaged on Film and TV. Bellville: Anthropos. | 2019-04-18T23:02:04 | https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/people-great-white-lie |
0.999625 | The year of liquidation is the calendar year in which a company ceases to exist as an active functioning entity. It does not refer to any other change in a company's status, such as a merger or renaming, when the company continues to exist in another form.
The calendar year when a company ceases to exist. | 2019-04-25T06:38:17 | https://www.emporis.de/building/standard/698/year-of-liquidation |
0.934478 | The Boston Red Sox shocked the baseball world at the annual Winter Meetings, where they came back from the dead to acquire Chris Sale from the Chicago White Sox (still feels untrue), at the expense of Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech. This deal, however, leaves the Red Sox in a bit of a fix. They now have 7 starting pitchers (8 if you include Henry Owens) on their roster, and 4 of those being lefties (5 w/ Owens). This predicament has the Red Sox weighing out a few options on who to put in the bullpen, and who to find a trade partner for.
These 2 pitchers? RHP and 10-year veteran, Clay Buchholz, and LHP and newly acquired All-Star, Drew Pomeranz.
The wiser financial situation would be sending Drew Pomeranz to the bullpen and finding a trade partner for Clay Buchholz. The Red Sox currently have a payroll of $204 million (luxury tax is $195M), and Clay Buchholz' salary for this upcoming season is $13.5 million. With the new CBA, teams are far more weary of going over that threshold of $195 million, so trading Clay Buchholz would be smarter for the Red Sox, especially if they want to add a piece at the Trade Deadline next summer. However, Clay was one of the most effective pitchers in baseball last season in the second half. In fact, he and Rick Porcello really held down the pitching staff and helped the Sox make the playoffs last year. Clay also pitched his way into the playoff rotation, sending Pomeranz to the bullpen, and had the best start of the 3 in the series for Boston.
However, that strong second half run for Clay has made him, by all accounts, a top 3 target via trade, now that Chris Sale is off the market. Making it so the Sox could trade Clay and get some pretty good prospect in return, or trade him for cash straight up.
As for the case to move Pomeranz? He's coming off an All-Star season with San Diego, before coming to Boston and struggling. He was 8-7 with a 2.47 ERA in San Diego, and was 3-5 with a 4.59 ERA in Boston. In fact, his performance was so poor, that he was banished to the bullpen. Making Sox Nation feel like trading 18-year-old pitching prospect, Anderson Espinoza, was too much of a return.
So by trading Pomz, the Sox could at least restart with another prospect, and go from there. Also, with the Sox having 4 lefties already, trading Pomeranz and keeping Clay Buchholz will provide a source of balance in the Red Sox rotation. | 2019-04-20T05:14:23 | https://www.biasedbostonsports.com/our-columns/odd-man-out-the-sox-have-a-choice-to-make |
0.99998 | Given that I tested thirteen coolers total, and all of them with at least two different data sets, there's a lot of ground to cover. I don't want to produce too many oversized tables, so I'll break down all of the test results into two categories: closed loop coolers, and air coolers. I'm also breaking down performance by load temperature, idle noise, and load noise.
There's a lot of data to digest here. First, it looks like the very best air cooling has to offer is only really hugging the bottom of what closed loop cooling can do, but that's a bit deceptive. The breaking point is actually when you go beyond a 120mm radiator, and even then it's not certain: Noctua's new NH-U14S, at its fastest, is a better performer than Corsair's H100i at its quietest setting.
What's missing from the above chart is the noise the closed loop coolers have to generate in order to beat the air coolers; the only exceptionally loud air cooler is the underperforming SilverStone HE-01, as you'll see below.
As you can see, the average idle noise on the air coolers is way, way lower than the closed loop units. That suggests that liquid cooling isn't in and of itself a plainly superior solution outside of Swiftech's H220 and the 280mm NZXT Kraken X60. It gets better, though.
Almost all of the air coolers are relatively silent under load, while the closed loop coolers produce a tremendous amount of racket if they're not configured for silent running.
If you're like our own Dr. Ian Cutress and interested only with getting as much cooling performance as you can out of your cooler, then the NZXT Kraken X60 continues to be the best option. However, note that the Swiftech H220 was able to produce thermals just one or two degrees warmer while running 10dB quieter. This is why some stores are having trouble keeping the H220 in stock: it's the best 240mm unit by a longshot, and it's even competitive with the beefier 280mm Kraken X60.
Also note that the two new Noctua coolers are meeting or beating their old standard, the NH-D14, and they're doing it while being quieter. The NH-D14 looks frankly overengineered compared to the NH-U12S.
Finally, Cooler Master's Hyper 212 Evo continues to be a tremendous value, offering reasonably competitive thermals and noise for an air cooler at a fraction of the cost.
really nice review with air cooler verse the water coolers . One comment though, looking at the air temps of PWM and 100% . They seem so close I would think you should get better results on 100% fan . Maybe the case still doesn't have good airflow for air coolers ?
"You could do a nice xy diagram with noise and delta temp on the axes."
I put one together for a prior cooler review; it wasn't nearly as useful as a I hoped. With very few exceptions everything bunched up in a fairly narrow diagonal line. | 2019-04-20T09:17:22 | https://www.anandtech.com/show/6916/cooler-master-seidon-240m-and-12-more-coolers-the-retest-and-megaroundup/6 |
0.999922 | The ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that upheld the OH law that allows voters to be purged from the rolls if they haven't cast ballots in six years angered Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. If the statute explicitly articulates that states should purge voters who are caught up in a "notify, wait, and purge" regime, why would the statute also include the words "except that no registrant may be removed exclusively by reason of a failure to vote" in the very same sentence that calls for such purges unless these words were meant to limit the scope of the purges? There have been no reported cases of OH voters who've moved elsewhere and attempted to vote twice.
The Trump administration defended the OH policy, a reversal from the Obama years, when the Justice Department challenged it in court.
OH sends notices to registered voters who have not voted in a two-year period.
Alito wrote the majority opinion and even he didn't sound that thrilled with the OH law. Apparently I'm getting better at this Supreme Court prediction stuff! By a 5-4 vote, the Court upheld Ohio's policy of removing ineligible and outdated voters from it rolls. "The only question before us is whether it violates federal law", wrote Samuel Alito, referring to the 1993 Voter Registration Act. If there was a clearly, solidly established presumption in favor of the right to vote and a difficult set of obstacles for would-be vote suppressors to overcome, decisions like this would be hard to write.
In his own statement, Husted said he hoped the ruling would give other states a path toward purging duplicate or obsolete registrations. An appellate court sided with the purged voters, but now the Supreme Court has overturned that ruling.
In a related development, the State Board of Elections announced Monday afternoon they had reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and conservative legal group Judicial Watch, regarding Kentucky's maintenance of voter rolls. Those who don't respond and then don't vote in the next four years are kicked off the rolls.
Husted concerns a process OH uses to identify voters who may have changed addresses, and to purge them from the voter rolls. But civil rights groups decried the decision, saying the Supreme Court should make it easier for people to vote rather than allowing states to put up roadblocks.
The case was Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute.
Justice Stephen Breyer issued a dissenting opinion, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan - the other members on the court's liberal wing - joined.
OH voters who do not return the card and fail to vote in any election for four more years are presumed to have moved and are removed from the rolls, Alito wrote.
Harmon was dropped for failing to cast a ballot in the 2012 presidential election.
The Trump administration supported Ohio's voter purge. Failing to vote is not allowed as the trigger for notices, he argued. | 2019-04-22T22:45:03 | http://sassyqarla.com/2018/06/13/u-s-supreme-court-allows-oh-and-other-state-voter-purges/ |
0.999998 | Task of translating natural language queries into regular expressions without using domain specific knowledge.
Proposes a methodology for collecting a large corpus of regular expressions to natural language pairs.
Reports performance gain of 19.6% over state-of-the-art models.
Dropout with the probability of 0.25.
Generate step: Use handcrafted grammar to translate regular expressions to natural language.
Paraphrase step: Crowdsourcing the task of translating the rigid descriptions into more natural expressions.
Evaluation Metric: Functional equality check (called DFA-Equal) as same regular expression could be written in many ways. | 2019-04-26T15:43:10 | https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/c964acafdfbe44bebd66fba48c739c8c |
0.998252 | The Kangaroo, wearing a patterned shawl and propped up with the ouzo drink in its lifeless arms, was discovered in Melbourne's northeast by a passer-by.
Sydney: A kangaroo dressed in leopard-print has been found shot dead on an Australian roadside tied to a chair and holding a bottle of booze, sparking outrage over the killing Wednesday.
The animal, wearing a patterned shawl and propped up with the ouzo drink in its lifeless arms, was discovered in Melbourne's northeast by a passer-by.
"The kangaroo had been shot at least three times, prior to it being arranged in the chair," said Victoria state Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning senior investigator Mike Sverns.
"This is appalling and immoral behaviour," Mr Sverns added.
"It would have taken some time to stage the kangaroo in that position on the side of the road and we are certain that someone would have seen something, given the public area and traffic flow of this main road."
In appealing for information, he warned that killing protected native wildlife was a serious offence with fines of up to Aus$36,500 (US$28,000) or 24 months' imprisonment.
Investigators suspect the animal was killed at a different location and moved to the roadside, where a passer-by made the gruesome discovery. | 2019-04-23T23:05:13 | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/kangaroo-dressed-in-leopard-print-shot-was-tied-to-chair-booze-in-arms-1717764 |
0.997616 | Since 1968, Jane Elliott, an internationally known teacher, has been teaching people about racism, but her lessons don't go down easily. Her methods are confrontational, brutal, and difficult to take.
In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Elliott came up with the controversial and shocking Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes exercise. This now-famous exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely on the colors of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority.
"On the day after Martin Luther King was killed, one of my students came into the room and said, 'They shot a king last night, Mrs. Elliott. Why'd they shoot that king?' I knew that night that it was time to deal with this in a concrete way, not just talking about it, because we had talked about racism since the first day of school.
But the shooting of Martin Luther King, who had been one of our heroes of the month in February, couldn't just be talked about and explained away," Elliott said in an interview for a Frontline documentary called A Class Divided. Elliot was also the subject of an earlier documentary called The Eye of the Storm.
"The next day, I introduced an eye color exercise in my classroom and split the class according to eye color. And I immediately created a microcosm of society in a third-grade classroom."
First, Elliott got the students to agree to the exercise and judge people by the color of their eyes. She then said that, since she was blue-eyed, the blue-eyed people would be on top over the brown-eyed people, especially since the blue-eyed people were better and smarter than the brow-eyed people.
The rules for the day were set up as follows: the blue-eyed kids got an extra five minutes of recess while the brown-eyed children had to stay in; the brown-eyed students also weren't allowed to use the water fountains and had to use paper cups. The brown-eyed people weren't allowed to play with the blue-eyed people because they weren't as good. The brown-eyed people had to wear collars so their eye color could be identified from a distance.
At recess, two of her students got into a fight over being called "brown-eyed" because it meant that they were stupid.
"I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes," Elliott said.
The next day, Elliott turned the tables and the brown-eyed children were the ones on top, saying that she had lied the day before. Once again, chaos ensued. Of course, this kind of lesson would never fly with parents today and is probably why Elliott travels the world teaching adults about racism.
"Eye color and skin color are caused by the same chemical: melanin. There's no logic in judging people by the amount of a chemical in their skin. Pigmentation should have nothing to do with how you treat another person but unfortunately, it does," Elliott said to Oprah.
This is the anti-racism experiment that transformed an Oprah Winfrey Show audience. You may not agree with Elliott's methods, but they are very effective in teaching people about what racism feels like.
In this video, British people are the subjects of Elliott's racism exercise.
When Elliott teaches, it's a lesson you're not likely to ever forget. | 2019-04-22T10:02:21 | https://www.yourtango.com/2016285404/if-you-think-arent-racist-watch-jane-elliotts-test |
0.999989 | London housing: is creating "mixed communities" such a great idea?
The evidence supporting a wide consensus about helping the poor through housing and regeneration policy is not particularly strong.
Everyone wants "mixed communities." The breadth and depth of the consensus in London (and elsewhere) is amazing. Labour councils want them, Conservative councils want them. Shelter supports them. Boris Johnson has pledged to "work to deliver them," and his new London Plan and revised housing strategy both refer to promoting them. The desirability of using planning and housing policy to bring about "mixed and balanced" neighbourhoods is rarely disputed. But why, exactly, does everybody think they're such a good idea? And are they right?
The core conviction is that living in a "mixed community" is better for poor and disadvantaged people than living in a poor and disadvantaged one, and that tailoring policy accordingly interrupts patterns of social segregation. This belief informs the prioritising of ex-service personnel and people who have jobs for social housing allocation, the logic being that doing so dilutes prevailing cultures of dependency and antisocial conduct. It also provides a moral rationale for regeneration schemes that entail rebuilding social housing-dominated estates to introduce other tenure types that better-off people can afford or just knocking them down and starting again. The same thinking underpins the view that new housing developments should have a diversity of market and "affordable" homes within them.
There is substantial evidence that areas with more mixed social composition tend to be more popular, more satisfying to live in, and have better services than poorer areas. This provides a rationale for continued intervention in low income neighbourhoods on the grounds of social justice.
To date the evidence is limited that neighbourhood has a large effect on individual outcomes, over and above individual and household factors. Nor is there robust evidence that neighbourhood mix per se or changes to mix (over and above other neighbourhood characteristics) is influential.
There is limited evidence that the new resources that may come with higher income residents (e.g. shops) either materialise or are beneficial to people on low incomes.
There is a strong argument in favour of greater social equality but unless there is evidence that the characteristics of the neighbourhoods in which people live make their life chances worse, independently of what makes them poor in the first place, the case for forcing neighbourhood mixing is at best a distraction or, at worst, plain wrong.
Cheshire points to findings that low income people can benefit from living in low cost areas because the shops are cheaper, the amenities may be better tailored to their requirements and the local job market, notably its informal mechanisms, can work better for them.
If there had to be a crude choice between traditional urban and neighbourhood renewal and mixed communities policies to address the top quarter most deprived local authorities...or even the most deprived 10% or 5% of wards, the evidence suggests the former offer more limited but better-evidenced benefits at lower costs, and are also more achievable during a recession.
It seems there might be better ways to spend money helping poor neighbourhoods in London and other cities than moving people who are less poor into them or moving poor people closer to more affluent ones.
This doesn't destroy the case for doing so in the right way to some degree, or for ensuring that new housing developments contain homes that the least wealthy can afford. Neither does it justify arguments that the poor have no "right" to live in expensive parts of London.
But it does challenge that comfortable consensus about "mixed communities" being the best possible answer to urban social injustice and division. Those who justify knocking down estates where lots of poor people live by saying it will do them good should take note. | 2019-04-22T16:51:48 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/davehillblog/2012/nov/27/london-housing-mixed-communities-consensus |
0.999811 | Edible Cinema: can food really enhance a film?
First things first: I hate food in cinemas. Whether it's the crunch of popcorn, the slurping of drinks or the malodorous whiff of cheesy nachos – I find it all infuriatingly distracting, and what’s more, unnecessary. I accept that anyone who is about to, say, climb Everest requires a decent supply of fuel – why you need a super-sized coke, a box of popcorn and two family bags of Maltesers to sit on your behind for two hours is something I’ve never quite grasped.
So it was with some trepidation that I went along to an screening hosted by Edible Cinema, an initiative which seeks to use the smells, textures and tastes of food to “enhance” the cinema-going experience. The idea is that every guest is given a tray containing bite-sized bits and pieces in numbered boxes. At specific moments in the film, an usher will reveal a number corresponding to a certain box, indicating what should be opened when.
The film I went to see was a special Hallowe'en screening: the 1981 comedy/horror classic An American Werewolf in London, shown in partnership with Bombay Sapphire at the plush Electric Cinema in Notting Hill. When the first numbers were lit up, I was rather sceptical – having to scrabble around for the right box felt distracting, and in the dark, it wasn’t always obvious which box was which (One drink didn’t have a number, so had to be established as number six by a panicked process of elimination). Many of the links between screen and snack also felt tenuous – a tiny vial of gin and chilli-infused blue curacao, to be drunk as our werewolf hero David's transformation began, didn’t really add much to the scene, while working out how to drink it without spilling liquid everywhere deprived me of several valuable seconds of screentime.
Other moments were more successful. Eating food you can’t really see is always unnerving, and the event was at its best when it tapped into this to unsettle the audience. When the camera focused on the tramps David would soon devour, for example, we were invited to pull out a “tramp’s finger” made from cola-smoked quail, complete with charcoal nail. Not only did it elicit delighted groans and shrieks from the viewers, it was also perfectly timed to sharpen anticipation for the gruesome acts our werewolf hero was about to commit.
At other points, the food worked to trigger a straight laugh (jiggling marshmallow breasts, anyone?), or to set a scene. My favourite was the liquid-filled syringe, used to match the scene when David wakes up in hospital. Containing Bombay Sapphire, nettle cordial and vodka, it tasted so sharply medicinal it immediately evoked the atmosphere of a hospital – a really clever use of flavours. Similarly effective was the moment when David was shown eating his hospital breakfast. We were instructed to open a suitably vile box containing dried bacon shreds, a gummy egg sweet and a mushy jelly baked bean that made me recoil to touch - you can see why the poor man didn’t have much of an appetite.
By the end of the evening, I was surrounded by as many tiny crumpled boxes as poor David was gun-toting police officers, and lots of laughing faces. I can’t quite shake the feeling that Edible Cinema is a little gimmicky, but it is also undeniably fun. It turns a night at the cinema into a crowd-drawing special event – certainly, I didn’t see any empty seats on Sunday night. In a world of instantly-streamable films at home and rampant piracy, where the future of the cinema is looking more and more uncertain, this is something to be thankful for. Even if you do have to put up with the sound of rows of people masticating. | 2019-04-18T12:43:32 | https://health.peonyrose.org/post_2480.html |
0.999545 | Referee reports in Nature Precedings ?
I was having a look at some of the bioinformatics manuscripts available in Precedings and I come upon this paper on "The Reproducibility of Lists of Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Studies". After the figures there is a letter to the editor with the response to the questions from the referees.
I could not find the paper published in a peer-reviewed journal and I wonder if this was intentional of maybe part of an (opt-in and maybe buggy) automatic procedure from Nature to have submitted papers appear in Precedings. If I was an editor of a bioinformatics/genomics journal I could now consider if this paper with these referee reports would be interesting to the journal and send an email to authors suggesting that if by some chance their paper gets reject my journal would be willing to publish it.
Deepak was recently saying that it would be good to have access to this type of information. Why was a paper rejected from some journal and published in another? Most manuscripts go through several editorial and referee evaluations before getting published. Biology Direct and now PLoS ONE (too some extent) capture this information. I have found that many times it is useful to read the referee comments in Biology Direct because it provides with several independent criticism that makes it easier to home in on good and bad parts of the work.
I am sure that this has come up before in the context of ArXive but wouldn't it be more efficient to have journal editors somehow fish out from a common pool what is more interesting and hight impact to their community instead of the current submission ladder that i assume a lot of people go through ? We would submit to a preprint server and tag the paper according to perceived audience (i.e cell biology, bioinformatics, etc). Editors would flag their interest for the paper and the authors would select one of the journals. You can imagine some of the dynamics that this could create with some journals only looking at manuscripts that have already been flagged by some other journals, etc.
The referee reports would be attached the paper and the editor would make a decision. If rejected the paper would be up again for editorial selection but with the previous information attached. Other journals could just decide to publish with those referee comments.
I think this is not far from what already happens within publishing houses. Referee reports can be passed around to other journals of the same publisher. This would make it more general. Although there are clear advantages to authors (fewer rounds of refereeing and quicker publishing), it would be hard to convince most publishers to such a scheme. For those publishing mostly journals with low rejection rates it would be beneficial since most likely the papers have been already refereed, but for those with high rejection rates it could feel like they would be giving away their work for free. Since it is really the work of the referees maybe it should be up to the referees to decide if the reports can be made public or not, period. | 2019-04-26T04:35:31 | http://www.evocellnet.com/2007/07/referee-reports-in-nature-precedings-i.html |
0.999983 | Most stable version of Unity / Daydream SDK? Hello! I am going to be starting a Daydream project soon, and I was wondering if there is a version of Unity that works best with the Daydream, or should I just go with the latest?
Cannot turn off VR Supported in settings This seems rather odd, but for some reason I'm not able to disable VR support in the player settings tab.
When I click on the checkbox, the setting remains checked. Is there anything else I need to do before hand?
How do create a multiplayer VR scene with Oculus? I want to develop an environment where up to 4 different players using their VR headsets can connect into one scene simultaneously, ideally 4 players.
I did some research and found two packages on the Unity store called 'multiplayer VR kit paintball' and instantVR edge that unfortunately only support the HTC vive with its SteamVR plugin. However I don't have a HTC Vive, only a Oculus Rift.
How do create a multiplayer VR scene with Oculus?
I'm using VRTK (with Unity) for a personal project on the HTC Vive. I'm currently working on adding guns in my game.
I have a rifle object in my game which is made out of several parts (children): grip, scope, magazine, etc.
Oculus Without Sensors Oculus Rift Question: How can i start my application without the sensors plugged in?
we cant find your sensor, please connect your sensor"
VR speech recognition error “…is not supported on this machine.” Hi!
VR speech recognition error "...is not supported on this machine."
Does this mean we can use the source code with other cameras?
open source eye tracking... but really though?
Anybody successful at getting ARCore 1.5 to build for iOS on Unity Cloud build? We are trying to integrate ARCore 1.5 and ARKit 1.5 into our project. We can successfully create cloud builds on Android, but iOS fails. I think the issue is that ARCore's build script generates a Unity-iPhone.xcworkspace file that is supposed to be used to build the project in XCode, but I don't know of a way to tell cloud build to use the workspace instead of the Unity-iPhone.xcodeproj.
Anybody successful at getting ARCore 1.3 to build for iOS on Unity Cloud build? We are trying to integrate ARCore 1.3 and ARKit 1.5 into our project. We can successfully create cloud builds on Android, but iOS fails. The issue is that ARCore's build script generates a Unity-iPhone.xcworkspace file that is supposed to be used to build the project in XCode, but I don't know of a way to tell cloud build to use the workspace instead of the Unity-iPhone.xcodeproj.
Anybody successful at getting ARCore 1.3 to build for iOS on Unity Cloud build? | 2019-04-20T04:14:11 | http://www.pointcloudmap.com/forums/?lcp_page0=122 |
0.998612 | FeatureSocial engineering attacks: Is security focused on the wrong problem?
An early proponent of Microsoft SRP, Aaron Turner says application whitelisting has finally taken hold in consumer app stores.
Why haven't organizations moved away from a "let everything in" model and embraced application whitelisting and execution control? Marcus Ranum talks with mobile security veteran Aaron Turner about the evolution of software restriction policies, from the early initiatives when he worked as a security strategist at Microsoft to the Apple model that is proving effective today.
An entrepreneur, who has launched several security technology companies, Turner is founder and CEO of IntegriCell, an enterprise mobile risk management consultancy. He was formerly head of RFinity, a mobile security startup spun out of the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory.
Marcus Ranum: I'd like to talk about a topic you and I have been over, off and on, for the last decade or so. Back in 2007, I wrote a piece in which I said I thought application whitelisting was the only effective answer to software security, and I've debated the issue with Bruce Schneier a couple of times. Now we are seeing that malware appears to remain unstoppable, but nobody's willing to switch to a whitelisting model; and, collectively, the world's runtime remains out of control. Why is this happening?
Aaron Turner: At Microsoft, I had the opportunity to interact with some very smart people who helped design the process for signing the Windows device driver and its implementation. They used PKI (public key infrastructure), and I think its 15-plus years of relative success is a pretty good track record as that approach has been implemented since the days of Windows NT and 9x (Windows 95, 98 and Me).
When we were first working on the security requirements for Windows 2000, we wanted to extend that approach to allow enterprises to restrict code execution. So another group of really smart people implemented the first versions of software restriction policies (SRP), which would allow enterprises to restrict what code runs based upon settings like code signing, execution source location and checksum verification.
If they can create virtualized application run-time environments that can essentially off-load whitelisting to a virtualized system, there is real potential for success in that model.
As one of the few security evangelists within Microsoft, I had very high hopes for SRP. When Windows 2000 released and I worked with many security-conscious organizations to test SRP, it became very apparent that the complexities of running thousands of different applications in the standard enterprise environment introduced so many operational variables that SRP just wasn't something that was realistic to deploy.
The main problem with SRP wasn't that you could restrict which executables could run—it was figuring out which executables you actually wanted to run. The enterprises I worked with had a hard enough time managing which version of Windows they were using, let alone which versions of applications they had installed. And each time an application would get patched, it would impact the SRP process. Most enterprises did not have code-signing capabilities, so they would ask the software providers to sign their code, which resulted in lots of questions from software developers because they didn't know how to do that. Then there was the whole software-update process for applications deployed by enterprises ... Lots of headaches and just not enough focus on solving those problems resulted in very few organizations ever using SRP to its full potential.
A startup called Bit9 worked to make restricted code execution easier for enterprises by providing a set of value-added services on top of Microsoft's SRP. It worked with a host of software developers to document what ‘good' software looked like—creating checksums for known-good executables—and then published a service. Bit9 ended up with a black eye when the service was used as the delivery mechanism for advanced-persistent-threat-associated malware, so it may not be the best example here, but it did serve as a significant market-maker for the expanded use of code-execution-restriction technologies.
Ranum: Application whitelisting seems so obvious, but why isn't anyone doing it?
Turner: Let's fast forward nearly 15 years since the early days of Windows 2000 SRP work to today. The introduction of the latest mobile-platform operating systems has resulted in probably the largest-scale deployments of restricted code execution. The biggest leap forward in this space resulted from Apple's iOS. By restricting what code could run on iPhones, iPods and iPads; Apple created an ecosystem of systems, which had code signing at its very core.
Many users thought this approach was too restrictive, which resulted in the jailbreak community's efforts to deprecate the code-signing requirements. Apple has responded to the jailbreakers' efforts with incremental improvements over the last five years, to the point where the vast majority of iOS devices only run signed code. Android and Windows RT have followed iOS's lead, but they don't have the same sort of signed code lock-in that Apple does.
Apple believes in this approach so much that it has decided to implement it on its OS X systems. Beginning with version 10.8 (Mountain Lion), code signing is turned on by default—and is kind of hard to turn off—requiring that all software be downloaded through the OS X App Store.
The bottom line is technology that was originally deployed in the Windows 2000 era for enterprises never really took hold in the enterprise world. It took a consumer technology company like Apple to drive the largest deployment of SRP, and it doesn't look like that will change anytime soon. I think that's good news for the average end user, but it still begs the question: Why aren't enterprises moving in this direction as well? The answer to that is they just don't have the software discipline to do so.
Ranum: When I talk with executives about this, they often reply that application whitelisting is off their radar screen because managing their runtime environment is going to be too onerous and complicated. It just won't work. That's usually my cue to ask them, ‘Do you own an iPhone?' Then I point out that choosing apps from a pre-approved app store is whitelisting. If it's so onerous and complicated, how come the App Store model has been so successful? Obviously, there are questions about corrupting the App Store's contents, but that's a different level entirely. It seems like a good starting point to me, right?
Turner: Exactly right. It just comes down to discipline, but it is completely limited by what technology businesses have deployed in the real world. If enterprises had greenfield deployments, with completely consistent technology-platform configurations, this would not be an issue. Unfortunately, large enterprises have such a mix of legacy systems that there is no way for them to implement whitelisting on a universal basis.
Thinking creatively, I think this is where virtual application technologies like Invincea and Bromium can excel. If they can create virtualized application run-time environments that can essentially off-load whitelisting to a virtualized system, there is real potential for success in that model. It seems kind of ironic that we've had to wait 15 years for virtualization to hit its stride to the point where it can help us with whitelisting. It still won't be a perfect solution, but it's definitely a step forward.
Ranum: How does the development of nation-state-sponsored malware play into the whitelist conversation?
Turner: Unfortunately, we've already seen nation-state actors target a whitelisting technology company—Bit9—to accomplish their objectives. The recent disclosure of the National Security Agency's DROPOUT JEEP program, which granted NSA root access to all iOS platforms, is another example of how whitelisting just doesn't do much to protect anyone from a dedicated nation-state cyberattack program. I think that whitelisting is a great security control to prevent significant amounts of malware from executing on certain computing platforms. But, as with anything, whitelisting capabilities as they are available in the market today are susceptible to well-organized and well-funded attacks. So, it's not a silver bullet, but it is definitely a useful tool that is the next logical step above and beyond signature-based anti-virus software.
Ranum: You say that enterprises just don't have the software discipline to move toward controlling their runtime environment, and I agree with you. But what I don't understand is why they think that managing a runtime environment is somehow harder than having to constantly clean malware out of an unmanaged runtime environment? I know this would mean someone has to actually decide who could run what, but why are constant malware cleanups and incident responses considered cheaper?
Turner: If enterprises had the discipline to track the actual amount of time, effort and resources that they spent on cleanups and incidents, then I think you'd have a point. Unfortunately, even the most mature organizations have drawn the line at actually tracking those costs at a micro level. So, if we had perfect knowledge of just how bad the malware problem was—the actual level of infection and compromise—then I think there would be better motivation to move toward whitelisting.
Ranum: In principle, an entire enterprise's runtime could be managed from a single console (app store), where they decided what software providers were trusted and, if necessary, specific applications at group levels. I'm guessing that a lot of enterprises could get by with ‘permit from Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, +Apache OpenOffice, +Google Chrome, +Mozilla Firefox. ‘Whenever I get into this topic, I think about my software mix; and really, it's pretty small.
Turner: Well, most of the time, software engineers at enterprises are hired to move from one project to another at a pace in which none of the projects is actually finished or managed well over time. The treadmill of innovation at most large organizations prevents them from ‘ perfecting' software. Also, the millstone of legacy hardware and software is so large that most technology teams are running within an inherently conflicted environment.
I am probably in the minority in this view, but I'd see an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) as a massive greenfield event; getting rid of the millstone of legacy hardware and software could be one of the best things ever for the technology industry. Yes, there'd be plenty of chaos to go along with that, but it would alleviate a significant burden from technology teams when it comes to maintaining out-of-date systems.
Back to reality. We may be facing a very ironic situation in that smart devices and modern mobile operating systems may provide our best opportunity to move to a locked-down runtime environment. I was recently talking with some folks from App47, a mobile-enterprise app store provider, about their view of the world. They see the advent of iOS and Android ubiquity as a second chance to do software much better than before; hope springs eternal in the technology industry.
Ranum: Honestly, do you think it's just fear of conflict? It's so much easier to keep cleaning up the malware and losing the customer databases, and so forth, than to confront your co-worker down the hall and explain that the corporate computer is not there for them to just do random Internet stuff on.
Turner: I think it's the lack of consequences. Take T.J. Maxx, Target, Neiman Marcus or any of the other headline-grabbing data loss incidents. What has been the real-world, bottom-line impact of those situations? All of those folks are still in business.
I was talking with someone who had insight into the Lockheed Martin intrusion, and the loss of weapons system designs will have an effect on the military-industrial complex. That impact won't be measured in years but in decades. On that time scale, maintaining the highest levels of operational maturity in an organization's runtime environment just doesn't merit investment. We'll do what we do best ... procrastinate and let someone else solve the problem years from now.
Marcus J. Ranum, chief security officer of Tenable Security Inc., is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. He is the inventor of the first commercial bastion-host firewall. | 2019-04-26T14:41:24 | https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/opinion/Ranum-QA-with-Aaron-Turner-Whitelisting-is-on-enterprise-blacklist |
0.998365 | Concerning a concept, there are always certain properties that are indeterminate in relation to a possible instance of it. For example, the concept of a triangle does not specify the size of a triangle, yet any actual triangle needs a determinate size. Something possible is the concept of something whose undetermined properties are all able to be determined in a definite manner. If I assume some property of a concept which is required to be determined, and yet can never be determined (be exhibited in any way), then I think a concept that is impossible to apply to any experience of objects. Such concepts are problematic, for we do not know if they are possible or impossible in themselves, yet we know they are impossible in relation to experience, and so are nothing to us so far as we are concerned with knowledge.
Whenever a concept is employed in determining the existence of something, it means some one of the concepts indeterminate properties has been determined (immediately, or mediately) by an intuition. If we employ a concept and state nothing other than what is determinate in the concept itself (that a triangle has three sides), it is impossible to differentiate between the mere thought of the concept and the existence of the thing. If I determine parts of a concept in thought (arbitrarily), rather than through an intuition, then I am imagining an object.
Whatever in a concept is already determinate (analytically; able to be stated in the exposition of the concept), is necessary. My exposition of my concept of a triangle must contain 'three-sided' as a determinate characteristic, and so this property is necessary. However, this does not mean that any triangles necessarily exist, but that 'three-sided' is always contained in the thought of a triangle. Whenever I employ a concept to something as existing, I always goes beyond the mere concept, determining some quality which is indeterminate a priori, such as the size of a triangle. Any particular size of a triangle is not itself necessary for their being a triangle, but it is necessary that such determinations are made (through some intuition) in order to satisfy the triangle being considered existent, and so these contingent characters of a triangle (size) are yet necessary for the employment of 'existence' as a predicate.
The final remark on existence needs its own space for development, and is not meant to conflict with the determination that 'existence' is not a predicate. The whole purpose of such an exposition as this is to find such places where we can clarify such things for ourselves; people certainly do employ existence as a predicate, and we can suppose that they means something by it; perhaps we have the key here to finding out what such an employment means, and can tell us about the truth of such arguments that require the employment of existence as a predicate (such as, the ontological argument). | 2019-04-24T08:28:15 | https://www.nonkantradiction.com/2013/09/ |
0.997679 | Please read the instructions carefully before fill out the form.
All items marked with an asterisk (*) must be filled in. Incomplete applications will not be considered. | 2019-04-22T12:54:53 | http://www.cuca.ae/apply-now/ |
0.973593 | At one university where the marketing team was trying to get some student videos in motion, they found a willing student--but instead of his homegrown effort, decided to ask him to work with a professional crew to script and polish the video. This took more time, during which a student blog got wind of the project, writing a story about the "secret marketing video" being kept under wraps.
While this was not a nefarious plot--the video was released, pronto--it shows how using students to enhance the campus image can run into the buzz saw of social media, with extra friction caused by traditional command-and-control PR tactics. You may be viewing social media as just another marketing tool in which you get to massage the message that students convey, while students and reporters see it as a vehicle for disclosure and transparency. Or is it part of a wider effort to control diversity in student voices, a campus trend described in an op-ed in this morning's New York Times?
A student blogging with the help of a consultant is not blogging: When Uuniversity of Virginia rector Helen Dragas was attempting to do damage control after her firing of the university president backfired, she e-mailed the board’s lone student member, looking for help: 'Do you know of students on grounds who might be willing to assist with a communications effort by engaging constructively in the blogs as guided by a communications consultant?'" This article, part of a Washington Post series, gives no word of any payment to be offered to the proposed student bloggers, but does note that three different PR firms received more than $250,000 for their help with the damage control.
Student robot sources? Not so awesome: US News education reporter Menachem Wecker described how he uses Twitter (and other social media sites) to look for students who haven't been vetted, screened and prepped for interviews by the university's communicators. "I've interviewed far too many students, who, when asked what they’d change about their college or university if they were empowered to do so, answer with something along the lines of: 'I really think our president is right on in her pursuit of innovative solutions to higher education problems, but I just wish the students respected her more,' or 'Honestly, I think the university should stop being so awesome for a spell, so that the competition can catch up.' Needless to say, those kinds of atmospheric and scripted statements are basically useless to me," Wecker said. While he doesn't name names in this post, Wecker has used social media on a well-read journalism blog to give fellow reporters a heads-up about your practices, along with the rest of us eavesdroppers. Perhaps not the desired result, eh? A more honest and professional approach: Let the students speak their minds and be ready to answer the questions and criticisms that arise.
It's called the First Amendment, people. Isn't it? At Bryan College, a Christian liberal arts school in Tennessee, the editor of the student paper was told that his Biblical studies professor was leaving "to pursue other opportunities," but good reporting with public records showed the professor was arrested and facing charges of attempting to meet with a minor. Forbidden to publish the story in the student newspaper, student editor Alex Green published and distributed his story independently in print and electronically, citing his concern that Bryan College not repeat the mistakes of Penn State in keeping child sexual abuse charges quiet. Administrators advised him to seek removal of the coverage by a journalist following the issue, then said that "may have been a mistake." Professional journalists and others on Twitter, blogs and other social networks have been actively sharing the coverage, making this yet another failed effort to quash negative coverage.
Since the advent of social media, I've had an eye on whether it is truly changing communications--or whether you're using these new tools to grease the windows of the fishbowl you now find yourselves in, to keep the view nice and blurry for those looking in. What would it look like if you embraced not just the technology, but the transparency? What if social media were integrated fully into your approaches, so fully that you were comfortable with letting students speak their minds on those channels? In these cases, I'm guessing the students might have more positive things to say publicly. Share your thoughts in the comments.
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0.999307 | This was the normal TGI Fridays. They were able to accommodate the entire team. The service was great, however, the food was less than desirable.
They have good food and a very friendly staff. I think they could come down on the pricing a little though. We will probably eat here again, their steaks are delicious !
Went with family and friends tonight ordered their ribs which were fantastic. Our waitress Heidi was super sweet and very attentive she kept our drinks full and brought whatever we requested out quickly. Will definitely be coming back.
We were there on Friday around 6pm. Not many people so we were waited on and served quickly. Not unique dining for the area but there's a typical variety on the menu.
We enjoyed the short wait and quick service. No complaints but nothing outstanding to mention either.
Does this restaurant have the $10 appetizers?
Yes, this location is currently offering $10 endless appetizers. | 2019-04-20T00:18:11 | https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g55270-d1123207-Reviews-TGI_Fridays-Pigeon_Forge_Tennessee.html |
0.998708 | Is bpcable.exe safe or is this malware?
Be aware that many tasks will be similiar names to existing tasks or processes. You can always view the running tasks on your computer by pressing ctrl-alt-del to view the windows "task manager", and then view the "processes" tab. This will show you all tasks running or currently active on your PC. Although this shows you all running tasks, it does not show dll file thats are loaded, as they get loaded as part of other processes. Many spyware writers attempt to hide their files on your computer, for example, bpcable.exe may be intentionally misspelled to look like a similiar task, or spyware may be named very similiar to a Windows system task. The reason they do this is so you cannot easily recognize the name in your tasklist as I have mentioned above. Make sure always check the location of the file if you are concerned. You can always find the location of bpcable.exe on your computer by using your Windows search options, but I will also try to list the file location of every file described on this website, so you can verify the correct location. You can view the entire tasklist directory with the link below. | 2019-04-22T08:24:37 | http://www.justtext.com/processes-tasks/bpcable-exe.html |
0.997821 | The author cutting her partner's hair.
My partner and I decided to try cutting each other's hair to save money.
The process has had its share of challenges, but we're sticking with it.
There are certain expendable prices we pay in order to live and work in our modern world. Maybe it's paying $20 for a monthly manicure that gives you confidence in your workplace or forking out $4 or $5 for your daily caffeine boost.
But perhaps one of the most common, and in my opinion one of the most egregious, prices we are societally pressured to pay is the price of a haircut.
For those with short hair, you might visit the barber or salon every three to six weeks, costing you roughly $15 to $25 per cut. For those with longer hair the visits may be less frequent, more likely every eight to twelve weeks, but the prices are often jacked up to $40, $60 or even $80 per cut.
I'm not saying that an experienced hair stylist isn't worth these prices, but maybe paying for the shampoo, scalp massage and styling every time you need a trim is a little excessive.
To test this theory, my boyfriend and I decided to start cutting each other's hair - and have so far saved over $100 doing so.
When we first started talking about carrying out this experiment it was mostly as a joke. One night when complaining about needing to find time to get his overgrown locks cut my boyfriend off-handedly suggested how much easier it would be if I could do it.
While my gut reaction was to refuse out of fear of Van Gogh-ing his ear or giving him a bowl cut, I started to think, "Why not?" After all, my mom had given my dad haircuts when I was little and that had never ended in tragedy.
With a tablecloth secured around him using a clothes pin, a half-charged (guard-less) electric razor and our dull, multipurpose craft scissors, I set to work on my masterpiece.
I'm not going to lie, I probably went into this first haircut with a little too much hubris. I'd glanced at a few tutorials online but had the general attitude that I knew what a good haircut should look like, so I'd just make it happen … somehow.
There were some missteps, like when our dull scissors only pulled on his hair instead of cutting it or when his razor died halfway in, but after about forty-minutes of clipping and trimming he emerged with a haircut that wouldn't embarrass him in public.
You cut my hair how short?
After the relative success of my boyfriend's cut, we decided it would be worth him giving it a try too. Now equipped with a pair of real hair scissors, it was my turn to take a seat in our hallway and cross my fingers.
Some context for my hair: I've never received a haircut where the stylist didn't comment "Wow, you have a lot of hair." Not only is my hair thick, in terms of density, but each individual strand is as well. So, suffice it to say, my boyfriend had his work cut out for him.
With my hair just below my shoulders at the time I asked my boyfriend to trim about 1 to 1.5 inches off the length, but it became clear a few minutes in that that request wasn't exactly going to plan.
In an attempt to even out my cut, my boyfriend had accidentally cut more and more from the length of my hair. When I reached back to investigate the progress, I found at least an inch gap between where my hair ended and my shoulders began.
While my accidental bob did give me a small panic at first, the cut itself was actually pretty good, and I've really come to enjoy the effortlessness of my short hair - even if it means ponytails are more challenging.
I've since given my boyfriend another haircut (even better than the first, I might brag) and I fully intend to let him trim mine again too. I won't rule out paying for a professional haircut before an important meeting or event, but for month to month maintenance we, and our wallets, are more than happy to do the job ourselves. | 2019-04-20T07:08:51 | https://www.thisisinsider.com/how-to-save-money-cutting-partners-hair-2019-1 |
0.999999 | How pedal power could ease Parkinson's: Cycling can improve connections in brain regions linked to the disease Scientists say exercising on a bike is an 'effective, low-cost therapy' for the diseaseUS neuroscientist Jay Alberts started research after noticing positive impact it had on partner who suffers from diseaseScans revealed pedalling boosted connections between brain regions linked to movement | UPDATED: 08:39 GMT, 26 November 2012 Cycling could help ease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, scientists believe.
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She's my little hero: Black and white cat saves diabetic owner by alerting sleeping husband after she collapses By Daily Mail PUBLISHED: 16:15 GMT, 13 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:36 GMT, 13 July 2012 A cat called Charley could scoop a national award after saving the life of her diabetic owner.
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0.998327 | Can Warner and Smith make a successful return to the Australian team?
The Australian team looks to have steadied the ship and they could not have asked for a better time to make a comeback, with the ICC World Cup 2019 just a few months away.
Australia's victory over India in the recently concluded ODI series was their first bilateral ODI series win since 2017. This time around they didn't just win a series but came back from a 2-0 deficit against a formidable Indian side that many consider favourites for the World Cup.
The series win shows that this young Aussie squad is ready to put on a stellar performance at the biggest stage of them all. Moreover, the IPL will provide opportunities to many other Aussies to try and make it into the squad.
This Aaron Finch led team already has a good young core and any sort of addition will only make them stronger. The likes of D'Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake and others have a chance to showcase their talent in the IPL and cement their spot in the World Cup squad.
The IPL will also witness the return of two legendary batsmen, who, a year ago, ruled the cricketing world and were the reason for Australia's dominance. Steve Smith and David Warner have played in other T20 tournaments since their ban in 2018, but the IPL is a different beast altogether and this is the best possible time for them to get their flair and form back as they prepare for the World Cup.
However, it remains to be seen whom they can replace in Australia's playing XI. This will surely be a big headache for the selection committee. Warner and Smith can replace anyone in any squad, but with the World Cup representing their return to international cricket, it remains to be seen if they are truly ready to make their mark.
Replacing in-form players like Khawaja and co. with Smith and Warner can only be done if the selectors truly feel that the duo is ready and have regained their touch.
However, what works in their favour is the fact that they can observe the duo in the IPL and analyse their performances and fitness levels.
As we all know, players who can perform well in the IPL can perform on any stage. The IPL will serve as perfect preparation for the Australian team and hopefully, they have their duo back and firing on all cylinders. | 2019-04-23T16:20:53 | https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/ipl-2019-perfect-preparation-for-australia-ahead-of-world-cup?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sportskeeda |
0.999986 | A black/white laser printer is a quintessential piece of office equipment, for taking efficient and budget friendly yet quality printouts. Scroll below for the best of the best laser printer products.
Paper, pencils, staplers, xerox and fax machine.. what's missing from this list of essential office equipment? A laser printer, the unsung, whirring vrooming worker, who never gets a coffee break but just gets fed lots of paper and spits them out at an alarming rate. While color print outs are always appreciated, for quick and speedy printing in large quantities, nothing beats a monochrome laser printer. Such printers only print in black/white coloring, with grayscale support. These printer models are cheaper and smaller than their color print counterparts, at the same time, they are usually more durable and have greater printing speeds. It also helps that non-color, toner cartridges are also cheaper. Monochrome variants amongst the top laser printers, are becoming rarer and rarer but fear not, below is a roundup of the 11 best monochrome laser printers, available in the market.
Below are the best B/W laser printers, arranged in order of ascending price.
Those were some of the top monochrome models of laser printers, to help you choose the ideal laser printer for your printing needs. | 2019-04-20T12:15:40 | https://techspirited.com/best-monochrome-laser-printers |
0.99872 | Burnley defender Matt Lowton may have upset Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock once upon a time!
Matt Lowton may have rubbed Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock up the wrong way when weighing in on the ball boy behaviour row six years ago.
The defender, who was at Aston Villa at the time, revealed Warnock's dark arts in utilising ballboys as a tactical ploy to slow games down whenever necessary.
The 29-year-old was an apprentice at Sheffield United during Warnock's reign at Bramall Lane and took on the matchday role during the Blades' last stint in the Premier League in 2006/07.
Lowton had claimed that they were 'schooled in how to use a little gamesmanship to help the team', adding that it was part of their apprenticeship.
"If we were winning and the ball went out you could see him telling us to slow things down," said Lowton, ahead of the game against the Bluebirds.
"I think that happens all over. Obviously, as a kid, you don't want to get in to trouble, you just do as the manager says. If the first team was losing you could see him signing to speed things up too."
Warnock publicly refuted the claims, even though that particularly tactic is considered to be standard procedure in today's game.
But, recalling his time in South Yorkshire, Lowton revealed that he learnt so much more from one of the most seasoned coaches in the business.
Referring to the 70-year-old, who took on his first managerial role in 1980, Lowton said: "He's very good and he loves the game. You can stay in it as long as you can. He's very passionate so there's no reason why he shouldn't still be in the game.
"I was still a young lad, I trained a few times with him. He's like the gaffer really, he's straight-forward, hard-working, making sure everybody is on top of every little detail, wants the basics to be done well.
"We saw that down at their place because it was a scrap really. They work hard, they're honest lads and it's going to be a tough game.
"He was very helpful to me. I was there when Kevin Blackwell was his assistant, who then became my manager when I first broke in as well.
"He taught me a lot; football's not just about football. There's all the hard work at the side of it, you've got to make sure everything is done right every day." | 2019-04-24T07:48:31 | https://www.todmordennews.co.uk/sport/football/burnley-defender-matt-lowton-may-have-upset-cardiff-city-boss-neil-warnock-once-upon-a-time-1-9709944 |
0.999794 | There's absolutely nothing separating the Jets and the Heart in terms of past results.
History: There's absolutely nothing separating the Jets and the Heart in terms of past results. They've locked horns a total of five times since the red and whites were introduced to the A-League last season, and they've both taken away two wins apiece.
If it seems like they haven't played for a while, though, you're right - not since November last year have Melbourne Heart and Newcastle shared the same pitch. On that occasion, the pitch in question was AAMI Park and John van 't Schip's men eased to a comfortable 3-0 triumph, with goals to Fred, Mate Dugandzic and Aziz Behich all coming in the final half hour of the match.
Summary of form: The Jets have enjoyed something of a mini-resurgence over the past few weeks. Two weeks ago they were second-last on the ladder - now, after a draw against Adelaide and road wins against the Roar and Sydney FC, they're convinced they are truly top six material.
Gary van Egmond's new possession-based gameplan is starting to work. As the weeks roll on, the Jets look far more comfortable with the ball at their feet and are showing an increased ability to keep it amongst themselves.
Meanwhile, the Heart's downturn in form continues at speed. For a few crazy weeks earlier in the season, they were basking in the praise of fans and pundits alike, who had them down as genuine challengers to the Mariners and Brisbane.
The likelihood of a real title challenge from the Heart wanes by the week. They haven't won in 2012, instead going seven matches in a row without tasting success. Their last victory was a crushing 4-0 result in Sydney, but with their three best young players on Olyroos duty, that seems like a long, long time ago now. They were, however, moral victors in the Melbourne derby.
Newcastle are one of the few clubs who weren't completely raided by Olyroos coach Aurelio Vidmar. Their sole Australian under-23 representative is Ben Kantarovski, and with an empty medical room, he's the Jets' only certain absentee this weekend.
On the other hand, the Heart are plenty depleted. Matt Thompson (knee), Fred (groin), Nick Kalman (back) and Kliment Taseski (foot) are all under injury clouds.
To make matters more difficult for John van 't Schip, Aziz Behich, Jason Hoffman and Mate Dugandzic are sitll away on Olyroos duty. However, as the debut of Craig Goodwin last week showed, the Heart's youth policy is starting to manifest itself in greater squad depth.
Jeremy Brockie - The Kiwi is doing his chances of securing a new contract at the Jets absolutely no harm. With two goals against his former employers, the Sky Blues, on the weekend, Brockie lifted his scoring tally to eight for the season - the third-best in the league, only behind penalty box predators Shane Smeltz and Besart Berisha. He doesn't get the plaudits that other strikers get, but the 24-year-old is starting to develop a reputation as a true poacher - and that skill is invaluable in the A-League.
Craig Goodwin - Most debutants in the A-League are timid, nervous and usually a few touches off the pace. Not Craig Goodwin. Starting his professional career on one of the biggest stages in Australian football, the Melbourne derby, the 20-year-old did not miss a single beat at left-back. With pace, skill, courage and confidence, the young South Australian stole the show. The challenge will be doing it again - the sophomore slump is a killer, after all - but if he can, Aziz Behich might have a bit of trouble getting his old spot back.
The home stretch of the regular season is now upon us, and this game more than any others could shape the top six. Central Coast have sewn up top spot, barring any unforeseen and uncharacteristic two month-long meltdowns.
Below the Mariners, there are three teams bunched up with just three points separating them - Wellington, Brisbane and Perth. Each of those clubs have a favourable run home, so they are unlikely to move as well.
That leaves fifth and sixth spot wide open, and that just happens to be where the Jets and the Heart sit right now.
That makes Saturday's match crucial. The winner will bridge the gap between themselves and the top four and ensconce themselves amongst the play-off bound teams. The loser risks missing finals action altogether. It's huge. There's also nothing between Newcastle and the Heart at the minute. But because of their lack of injuries and home ground advantage, we'll go with the Jets here.
In: Haliti, Virgili, Jesic (all promoted). | 2019-04-24T10:12:48 | https://www.a-league.com.au/news/preview-newcastle-jets-v-melbourne-heart-2 |
0.999951 | Can I recover deleted files from my hard drive?
Question: I've heard of companies finding data that people thought they had deleted from their work computer. How do they do that? Might be good information in case I accidentally delete some important files from my home computer too!
Answer: Yes, there are several ways to retrieve data that has been deleted from a computer system, even if you've deleted them from the recycle bin or reformatted your hard drive.
I accidentally deleted a year's worth of family photos and financial documents on my wife's laptop, after using the factory restore CD that reinstalled Windows and removed her user folder where all the pictures were stored. Even after that mistake, I was still able to recover all of the files.
When you delete a file, Windows only marks the file as deleted, but doesn't actually remove it from your system.
Those files are only truly deleted (well, replaced actually) when other data is saved to the same location on your hard drive.
If you accidentally delete files from your system, they can usually be undeleted - even if you deleted them from your recycle bin - as long as you attempt to recover the files shortly after you delete them, and before Windows saves other data in those same file locations on your hard drive.
If you've accidentally deleted an important file or erased a folder containing files that you later realize you still need, chances are good that they're still on your system and can be recovered.
The key is to use a good undelete program like iRecover that can find files that have been deleted - even if you've emptied your Recycle Bin.
I've tried a few different programs that claim to be able to do this, but have discovered that some of them are only able to show you what's still in your Recycle Bin (not much help if you've emptied your Recycle Bin).
iRecover will also help you recover data that was lost because of file system corruption, formatting, virus damage, partition deletion, or even just plain user error.
Here's a link to download iRecover. It will tell you what it can recover for free, so you'll know if it's worth paying for the licensed version.
It's also a great idea to frequently backup your hard drive, so that you can still restore important files, even if they can't be recovered using a file recovery program.
I bought a Seagate FreeAgent 320 GB USB External Hard Drive .
This new drive plugs in via USB cable and doesn't require any installation or configuration. Windows automatically recognizes it when you plug in the USB cable, and it has plenty of space for backing up both of my home computers.
I also highly recommend that you backup your hard drive on at least a monthly basis, although weekly is even better.
If you're looking for a good backup program for your home computer, I recommend Genie Backup Manager which I use for my home systems. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to retrieve our family photos and financial documents... and my wife is finally willing to speak to me again.
However, I'm hoping to avoid this whole scenario in the future by making regular backups to this new backup drive (at least weekly).
while reinstalling the OS to my lap top i had the external HD USB plugged in and accidentally deleted the partition to the EHD as well as the partition for the lap top. i already replaced the system to the lap top. how can i get my saved items on the EHD? does it work the same? can i use my pc to do this too? please help...losing my mind!
Same issue here..if anyone knows the answer please let me know too!! im freaking out!
same here... idk what to do?.
same here... idk what to do?.. im actually freak out when accidentally delete the partition on my EHD while installing OS.. all my hardwork and stuff are all gone.. a try to use many applications but, it all fails.. help me please..
if i wanted to permanently delete something so that it can never be found again how can i do that if someone has this? do i have to delete the file then save something with the same name as it? Is that right? if not please tell me!
Some people still believe that when they delete a file, it is gone forever. In reality, even if you remove it from your Recycle Bin, the file may be easily recovered by some ill-inspired people who are secretly snooping on your computer activities.
The only way to be certain that your files have been deleted is to make sure that the entire file is overwritten by blank data.
There's a program called Aevita Wipe & Delete that does just that. It implements eight secure sanitizing methods including the US Department of Defense DoD 5220.22M, RLL, MFM, VSITR, Gutmann and GOST P50739-95.
By utilizing these methods, Aevita can erase any file or folder by overwriting it several times, thus rendering it completely unrecoverable even for the most sophisticated recovery software.
but wouldn't that person be able to see that you have Aevita Wipe & Delete? how could you hide the program so you cannot find it? burn it to a cd?
My niece reinstalled the OS on my Sony Destop PC about 8 months ago. I was devastated, lost so many pictures from my child's life. Recently someone told me that the data may still be there and be recoverable. Is that true? If so how can I recover the and still maintain what I ave on it now. I do have an external hard-drive. I am desperate to know if I can get my pictures back.
It's certainly possible, although after that many months there might only be a few pictures that can be recovered (since between now and then the chances of Windows saving other files over the files marked for deletion increases significantly).
The iRecover program mentioned above is really the best I've seen, and would be able to restore the files if they haven't been over-written.
Alternatively, if you take the computer to a data recovery specialist, ask if they'll only charge you if they actually find deleted photos - not sure if you'll find any who will do that, but it'd be worth asking.
Hi Ricky , I have just read about your recovery program for deleted files. Last night I had an accident and was deleting files from my ext hard drive (classic SE)whilst it was plugged into my work laptop. It was too big for the recycle bin and deleted permanently.
Will I have to recover the files through my laptop (as its due to go back today) or can I do the restore through my PC with the external hard drive? I guess what I'm asking is, are the files i deleted on my external hard drive still sitting on it hidden or will they have been transported to my laptop?
Good question. Since the files were deleted from your external hard drive, you'll need to run iRecover on the external drive. That's where the files will still reside.
They're only marked as deleted, but won't actually be deleted until other data is saved in the same location on that drive.
how do i run irecover on my external harddrive?
So I wanted to delete some documents from my hard drive and I wanted it to be gone forever. From what I have read, I would assume that the way to delete something a hard drive would be the same as an external hard drive... but when I deleted a document out of my external hard drive it went to my computer's recycling bin, so it made me question if it is the same procedure? Does the external hard drive have the same option to retrieve deleted files as a regular computer hard drive? If so, how do I come about retrieving those deleted files?
Go to the recycle bin and use cut and paste,that should work.
I lost lot of files including photos & videos on my External drive -size of data lost around 140 GB. I do not know how all the files deleted and one folder names windows with few system files has appeared.
I am not using for further use as I intend to retrieve the data including Videos. Pls advise.
My half terra with enclosure recently fell on the floor.
I tried using it again..my usb wont read it..I tried putting it directly on my cpu..it wont read the hard disk..tried using another enclosure, wont read either...is there anyway I could save my 300gig files, before I had it replaced?
Thanks a lot! Based on your article, with Irecover, I saved my photos deleted by mistake :).
I lost all my files too on my external hard drive but those aren't accidentally deleted files. It might have fell on the floor. The good thing is that I can still access it. While checking the properties, I noticed that the used space is still 74.2 GB. My question is: could I still recover it even if I didn't accidentally delete all of it?
Hope to hear from you very soon. Thanks!
I’m so glad to see your website.
Some thing has happen to my computer couple days ago. I have the blue screen and unable to do anything with it. I try to reboot and reinstall the Operation System but the system indicated that unable to locate the hard drive.
I took my desktop to the local computer to get it repair, and they said everything in the hard drives is empty. They will able install the OS with a new hard drive.
I have taken out the old hard drives and hope to be able to recovery all the family photos. In my case, the hard drives are shows as empty. Will I be able to use the iRecover to recover all my photos?
I just recently tried to format my usb stick into a patchstick. I accidently chose to format my external hard drive instead of the usb stick. When I noticed, I quickly unplugged the usb hard drive from the computer but was too late. Now all my important files and pictures from years and years ago are al gone. My external hard drive now shows PATCHSTICK and RECOVERY. Will this program recover the files I lost. I am doing the scan right now and it looks like it does see the old files I formatted over. I really don't know what I'm doing as you can tell. Hope you can help.
A couple of days ago I transferred all my information from one of my external harddrives to another external harddrive. After I had completed that, I did a really stupid thing and deleted everything from the original harddrive. Today, I wanted to view something that I thought was supposed to be on the new external, but was not. It was in my pictures folder, where I have a good number of folders. The last 6 folders were completely empty. I don't care about the other folders that were empty, but that one folder; every vacation I have ever gone on, the pictures were in that folder. Please, PLEASE, how do I recover these files? I have Windows XP.
First, unplug the original hard drive so that nothing else gets saved to it. As long as no other files are saved to it, then your pictures are still sitting there - they're just marked as deleted but they are not actually deleted (see the explanation for this in the article above).
Then download and install a copy of the iRecover program described above. Plug in the external drive and point iRecover to it to see what files it will be able to recover.
You should see all of the files sitting there waiting to be recovered, which the program does a very good job of doing.
Hi ricky, any free trial software to retrieve my lost files?
I lost my photos folder after I try to cut and paste to another folder. Could it be found?
I was trying to install a new video card in my pc and i saw some vids on how to do it. one vid i watched talked about changing something on my BIOS. I'm about to turn sixteen so i guess i'm not that well educated in how a computer works fully. I was going through the BIOS and accidentally clicked on something that said SATA:xxxxxxxxxxxxx with some kind of code of the harddrive. stupid me i ended up clicking it thinking it was the best thing to do. Then i saw this other vid that showed how to install a video card without getting near having to deal with my computer's BIOS. So once i rebooted my pc, it came to the state of my pc from 3-4 months ago. i know me hitting that SATA thing was not good. and now all of my lastest files are gone and im stuck regreting what i did. i have a vista 64-bit version and im wondering if theres anyway to get all of my files back. And sadly i didnt back up my files, i've never had. So now i feel like an idiot b/c fiddling with my SATA hard drive now has me at the bad end since i have lost all my files. i'm wondering if theres anyway to get it back, if not well i guess im just another half-witted teenager trying to do something i should've never did.
The files are most likely still there, and are just marked as deleted (but won't actually be deleted until other data is saved to the same location on the hard drive). This is true even if you format your hard drive.
The best thing to do is to stop using your computer until you can install and run iRecover, which will show you what files can be recovered. The more you continue to use your computer, the greater the chances of it saving files on top of the files that are marked as deleted (which makes them unrecoverable).
What if i had a virus on my computer and the only way to get rid of it was to restore my computer and handrive and everything!
Can i still get my pictures, music and work back??
Help - I moved some photos (all my babies pictures - the first 3 years of her life) over to Kodak Easy Share and made sure they were there and then deleted from my pictures file so they wouldn't be on there twice - now when I go into Koday Easy share they state there is an error and the pictures have been deleted - and when I deleted the file was too big to go into recycle bin. When I go into Kodak Easy Share I can see the images for a second but then when I try to open them I get the error. Can I recover these at all... I am computer challenged!!! And of course have never back-up my system!
My cousin deleted all my movies from my external HD. Is there any way I can recover those files from the HD. I am a mac user and saw that irecover is not compatible with Mac. Do you know of any Mac software I could use to recover the deleted files? I currently have MAC OS X version 10.4.11.
I was deleting a file in a folder on my memory stick and it deleted the whole contents of the folder, even the folder is still its empty can I get the other files in that folder back?
last year my husband wiped my computer clean bcuz it had a virus.we never used it since i got a new computer. Now when I say clean I mean he wiped it so clean that he became the owner on the computer and wiped my whole administrative user off the computer which contained extremely important photos. Now is there a way to retrieve photo files from a computer that has been completely wiped out clean like a brand new computer? It dont have anything at all reconizable on it to make me believe something from the old computer is still on it.
will this help to recover deleted emails????
My work computer got infected with a virus (mysearchcorp then security tool) I have to bring it to the IT dept to get fixed.
I was double jobbing for a while (not enough assigned work to keep me busy) and it was convenient to use the same computer. I deleted all the non work related files and removed them from the recycle bin. I also deleted my internet history which showed I had used facebook. (A work prohibited site)I thought happy days until i read your blog Ricky!
When the IT staff are fixing my computer will they find my other work files and photos of people i viewed on facebook? If so I’m fired. I know I deserve it but I just want to know the odds of them finding the files. 50% or 100%. Is it a standard check for IT departments?
They could find it if they looked, but most IT departments are way too understaffed to have time for that level of investigation.
They'll probably just reformat the hard drive and re-image the drive with a company standard set of programs and settings.
I wouldn't worry about it at all.
Hey ricky, thanks very much for all this advice... i understand it and it actually works. I am so grateful to you for not (as seems to be the main aim of many experts) trying to make me feel like an idiot. more power to you mate!
Is it possible to retrieve a program with reports if its been years and I cannot find on the computer but when I type in the search area I see one of the names the report is for and I see that it is multiple files. I am concerned that it was deleted by a prior employee and I need to get the reports back. HELP!!!
Very unlikely if it's been that long, unless that computer has been unused during that time.
So I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I have no video, and even when I plug in different monitors, they go immediately to sleep. So first, what's needed to repair the video issues? And, if I just buy another computer, is there anyway to pull my files off the "bad" computer when I can't see what's happening? I appreciate your input!
I deleted files from my recycle bin and a few months later they re-appeared. They were completely gone and suddenly one day just showed back up. It should have had time to rewrite as much as my computer is used by everyone saving...projects and things. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? I just don't understand how this happened.
I am able to recover all my data except the folders that were hidden.
Is their any way to recover the hidden folders in my hard drive ?
I recently got a new lap top and saved all my old pics etc on to a portable hard drive. This is the only place these docs were stored. However, today my nero back up thingy saved all my current documents from my new laptop onto it. Shortly after this another member of staff used my hard drive to save an item. Now.......the only things on the portable hard drive are the current backed up documents from my laptop and the document my colleague saved. I basically would love to know if my other documents are retrievable? There were literally thousands of photos that I had not printed plus all my Uni work since 1st year (6 years ago) Aggggggggggggggggh!!! I would ask the technician in my school where I work, only he doesn't speak English....nor Irish. Any advice is much appreciated! Thank you!
I had cut and pasted a folder from my external hard disk drive to my laptop and the hard disk of the laptop eventually crashed. Is there a way to recover the folder from the external hard drive?
I had formatted my hardrive 1 year ago, is it possible now to recover the pictures from that now.
I heard that it is possible to even recover data beyond 15 years is it true.
If there is any process by software or by any specialist, short or even large please tell me. I am very very desperate to get them. I am ready to pay any cost.
I should be highly obelized if mail me the reguarding info.
I can't do anything! Some how ALL my pictures in the RECYCLE BIN are ALL gone.. is there ANYTHING I can do to get them back?
I am not smart when it comes to computers in the least... but about two years when my girlfriend and i split she deleted all of the pics off of my computer and there was alot of family photos that i will never be able to replace. They are not in the recycling bin and i tried undelete plus but that only went back for a month. Is there any way to get pictures back after that long? any help well be greatley appreciated.
Please Help! My high school provided us with laptops which we were able to keep after we graduated. I just graduated and they asked us to hand in our laptops to be re-imaged. I just picked it up from school today but everything on my laptop was deleted such as important documents and A LOT of family pictures. Is there any way to retrieve that data even though my laptop was re-imaged? | 2019-04-20T01:00:42 | https://rickysays.com/comment/11504 |
0.998008 | A well-respected and established law firm with 2 offices in the Northampton area. The firm offer a full range of commercial and private client services. They are looking to recruit in to their Private Client team with the hire of a Senior Private Client Solicitor.
The firm have recently lost a Private Client Director/Partner due to retirement and this has left a senior vacancy in their Northampton office. This is an excellent opportunity for somebody looking to fast-track their career. The firm are not at all top-heavy and there is great scope for this role to develop into being one of the most influential lawyers in the firm. There are 4 people doing Private Client work in Northampton, they are a range of experience levels. You will have the opportunity to manage this department.
What will I need to be considered?
Significant experience in Private Client work fee earning as a solicitor or legal executive.
The ability to manage and mentor junior fee earners.
A keen interest in progressing towards a partnership/management position in the near future. | 2019-04-18T10:50:03 | https://appointments.thetimes.co.uk/job/729296/private-client-director-solicitor/ |
0.999999 | My Damon Key colleagues and fellow bloggers, Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com) and Mark Murakami (hawaiioceanlaw.com), quickly posted on their respective blogs Judge Sotomayor's decisions on maritime law (Mark's post here) and inverse condemnation (Robert's post here). So . . . , where is the insurance blog's input?
In an effort to keep pace (actually, to catch up), below is a summary of Judge Sotomayor's insurance coverage decisions I have located from her tenure on the Second Circuit. The list is comprised of cases authored by Judge Sotomayor and does not include decisions she merely joined, whether written by another judge or per curium rulings. The results of Judge Sotomayor's decisions are fairly balanced: five in favor of the insurer; three in favor of the insured; and one finding for both the insurer and insured. Although some have questioned whether Judge Sotomayor has the literary flair to contend with a Justice Scalia, the decisions summarized below are well-reasoned, narrowly crafted rulings.
Greenidge v. Allstate Ins. Co., 446 F.3d 356 (2nd Cir. 2006) - Judge Sotomayor's decision affirmed the district court's rejection of a claim for bad faith against Allstate. Because the injury was lead poisoning from a minor's exposure to lead paint for two years, two homeowner's policies were potentially implicated. Allstate offered policy limits of one policy to settle the minor's claim against the insured, but refused to consent to a declaratory judgment action to determine whether the injury triggered the second policy limit. Allstate contended the policies' anti-stacking provision barred recovery under the second policy. The Second Circuit affirmed, finding no bad faith. The insureds failed to show Allstate acted in gross disregard of the insured's interest when rejecting the settlement offer. The insureds could have commenced their own declaratory judgment action to determine the insurer's liability. Result: Decision in favor of Insured.
Palmieri v. Allstate Ins. Co., 445 F.3d 179 (2nd Cir. 2006) - The district court found the insured was entitled to the depreciation value of his dwelling under a flood policy, but was not entitled to the depreciation value of his personal property. The Second Circuit, in a decision by Judge Sotomayor, affirmed. Further, prejudgment interest could not be awarded against Allstate, who was acting as an agent of the federal government in administering the policy pursuant to the National Flood Insurance Act. Result: Mixed decision, granting relief to both Insured and Insurer.
Travelers Ins. Co. v. Carpenter, 411 F.3d 323 (2nd Cir. 2005) - After the claimant was injured in an auto accident while acting within the scope of her employment, Travelers paid workers' compensation benefits. The claimant also settled with Travelers under her underinsured motorist coverage. Travelers contended it was entitled to an offset against its workers' compensation liability. The district court dismissed Travelers' suit on abstention grounds. The Second Circuit, in Judge Sotomayor's decision, held under state law Travelers was not entitled to reimbursement until the claimant received more compensation than the amount of her total damages. Further, the district court erred in dismissing the action on abstention grounds instead of granting judgment in favor of the claimant. Result: Decision in favor of Insured.
Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh, 396 F.3d 136 (2nd Cir. 2005) - A health plan administrator sued decedent's administratrix for reimbursement following a settlement with third parties who allegedly caused the decedent's injures. The district court dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction because the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act, 5 U.S.C. 8902, did not affirmatively authorize the creation of federal common law in the decedent's case. The plan administrator's claims were breach of contract claims which arose under state and not federal law. The Second Circuit, in a decision by Judge Sotomayor, affirmed. Result: Decision in favor of Insured.
Webster v. Mount Vernon Fire Ins Co., 368 F. 3d 209 (2nd Cir. 2004) - A student injured while attending a privately owned elementary school sued the insured owners. After obtaining a default judgment against them, the student sued Mount Vernon, seeking to force the insurer to indemnify the insureds under their commercial liability policy for the amount of damages awarded by the state court judgment. The district court held that because Mount Vernon had not properly disclaimed coverage as to the wife owner, Mount Vernon was liable for the amount of the judgment. The Second Circuit, through Judge Sotomayor, reversed. Mount Vernon could deny coverage to the owner wife because she had never complied with the notice provisions of the policy. Further, Mount Vernon had timely disclaimed coverage as to the husband owner. Result: Decision in favor of Insurer.
Marcella v. Capital Dist. Physicians' Health Plan, Inc., 293 F.3d 42 (2nd Cir. 2002) - The insured was an independent contractor with a real estate company which was a member of the chamber of commerce. The insured joined the chamber as a sole proprietor of her own business and purchased health insurance from defendant health plan. When defendant refused to pay for the insured's out-of-plan surgery, the insured sued in state court. Defendant removed to federal court, citing ERISA preemption as the basis for federal jurisdiction. The district agreed the insured's claim were preempted by ERISA and granted defendant summary judgment on all claims. The Second Circuit, in a decision by Judge Sotomayor, reversed. The chamber was not an "employer" under ERISA because membership in the chamber was open to sole proprietorships without employees and to individuals. Further, the insured's relationship with the real estate company did not bring her under ERISA. The insured, not the real estate company, paid the premiums. Result: Decision in favor of Insured.
Hugo Boss Fashions, Inc. v. Federal Ins. Co., 252 F.3d 608 (2nd Cir. 2001) - The district court awarded partial summary judgment to the insured, finding that Federal a duty to defend a trademark infringement suit, but denied any recovery for indemnification. The jury also found Federal breached its duty of good faith and fair dealing. The Second Circuit agreed there was no duty to indemnify because of the "intellectual property" exclusion. Nevertheless, the majority determined because it was not certain there was no duty to indemnify at the time the insured sought coverage, the insurer was obligated to defend until the uncertainty was resolved. The uncertainty, however, meant the duty of good faith and fair dealing had not been breached. Judge Sotomayor dissented in part, determining under New York law there was no requirement that the insurer defend if it was "uncertain" of how the court would eventually interpret the exclusion. Result: Judge Sotomayor's dissent in favor of Insurer.
Coregis Ins. Co. v. Am. Health Found., Inc., 241 F.3d 123 (2nd Cir. 2001) - The district court found Coregis had a duty to defend suits charging the insured nursing home failed to repay loans allegedly obtained through fraudulent misrepresentations about their financial health. The Second Circuit reversed in a decision by Judge Sotomayor. The policy excluded claims "arising out of, based upon or related to . . . insolvency." The financial failure of the insured was clearly related to the underlying suit for failure to repay loans. Result: Decision in favor of Insurer.
Maska U.S., Inc. v. Kansa General Ins. Co., 198 F.3d 74 (2nd Cir. 1999) - The district court ordered the insurers to indemnify and reimburse the insured for liability costs and related defense costs associated with environmental contamination at the insured's manufacturing facility. The district court found the policies' pollution exclusions were unenforceable because they contravened the state's public policy. The Second Circuit, in a decision authored by Judge Sotomayor, reversed, finding the absolute pollution exclusions did not violate any established state public policy. Result: Decision in favor of Insurer.
The insured's property was damaged during Hurricane Katrina by wind, wind driven rain, flooding, storm surge and water in Jupiter v. Automobile Club Inter-Insurance Exchange, No. 07-1689, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44083 May 26, 2009). Plaintiff recovered $225,500 from Allstate, its flood insurance carrier. The insured also held a homeowner's policy with Automobile Club, who paid a total of $106,079.47. The insured argued this was insufficient because its property was a total loss. Auto Club submitted the wind and rain damage was not substantial. Further, Auto Club contended water damage, a flood exclusion, power failure exclusions, and neglect exclusions precluded further liability under the policy.
Auto Club moved for summary judgment on the issues of bad faith and whether the insured had been fully compensated. On the bad faith issue, the insured contended a factual issue existed regarding Auto Club's failure to timely pay the claim despite evidence of damage being provided.
The Court granted Auto Club's motion on the bad faith issue. Louisiana law provided statutory penalties against insurers for failure to timely resolve claims or pay settlement awards. But the insured had to prove that the insurer knowingly committed actions which were completely unjustified, without reasonable or probable cause or excuse.
Here, Auto Club did not act arbitrarily, capriciously, or without probable cause in resolving the insured's claims. Although the insured asserted there was a factual dispute as to the timeliness of payments, there was no evidence that the payments were not timely made. Further, the contents list provided by the insured did not include receipts, and there remained a dispute as to the extent to which the insured's property was damaged by wind as opposed to flood. The parties dispute over the total coast of repairs caused by a covered peril did not warrant the imposition of statutory penalties for bad faith.
The court denied Auto Club's motion regarding whether the insured had been fully compensated, however, because a factual issue was presented. | 2019-04-22T10:22:07 | https://www.insurancelawhawaii.com/insurance_law_hawaii/2009/06/page/2/ |
0.999998 | Is dutch a country or a language?
Dutch is a language spoken in the Netherlands.
What is the Dutch language?
How many Dutch speaking countries are there?
You will also find Dutch speakers in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (known as the "ABC Islands"), Saba, St. Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (known as the "SSS Islands"), and Surinam, collectively known as the "Netherlands Antilles."
the netherlands and some of its former colonies like surinam, the dutch antillies and the flemish part of belgium.
How can you change the Dutch language into English?
By pasting Dutch text on websites like Babelfish(Yahoo) or google translate. Hit the translate button and its done. Be careful, translations generated with this sort machines are never a reliable one.
What is a language with a combination of dutch and Spanish?
How many words are there in the Dutch language?
In what South American country is Dutch the official language?
Suriname is the South American country in which Dutch is the official language. Specifically, Suriname is South America's smallest independent country. It used to be a colony of the European Kingdom of the Netherlands. During its colonial period, the country's name was Dutch Guiana.
Aruba Belgium Curaçao Netherlands Sint Maarten Suriname Luxembourg Dutch is also a former colonial language of Indonesia, and many older people there can speak it. Afrikaans, spoken in South Africa, is very similar to dutch, and many Afrikaans speakers can understand Dutch.
The Dutch live in which country?
The Kingdom of the Netherlands. Also reffered as Holland in many countries. Generally people just use the term Netherlands. The kingdom of the Netherlands is used when they include the islandgroup near south america.
Is Dutch a hard language to learn?
Are Portuguese and Dutch the same language?
What is the name of the country where Dutch is spoken?
What is the smallest country in South America and Dutch is the official language?
Suriname is a Dutch speaking country in South America. It is the smallest country on the continent. However, it is larger than French Guyana, which is a territory in South America that belongs to France.
Dutch speaking countries in the Caribbean?
There are only six Dutch speaking countries in the Caribbean. Thiscountries are Saint Martin, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Aruba, Curacao,and Bonaire.
Is there such language of Dutch?
Yes, Dutch is the language spoken in The Netherlands. In Dutch the language is called Nederlands.
What are the 12 countries that speak dutch?
What does fok mean in the Dutch language?
Fok in the Dutch language means Foresail Or breeding, when you are talking about a verb.
Why is Dutch the official language of Suriname?
What country is Dutch in?
The Netherlands is a country and the people living there are called "Nederlanders" (the Dutch translation) or Dutch. The Netherlands lies in Europe, next to Germany and Belgium and the North Sea.
Is Dutch and Flemish the same language?
This question is just about language. Flemish apparently is a dialect of Dutch. It is said that the two are written the same, but not spoken the same.
How many countries speaks Dutch language?
The Netherlands Belgium (spoken by about 60% of the population) Suriname Aruba Sint Maarten Curaçao (spoken by about 10% of the population) In addition, Afrikaans, which is a daughter language of Dutch, is spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
Which country do Dutch live?
In the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Most Dutch people live in The Netherlands, a country in mainland Europe.
Dutch language for ruled the middle colonies?
What countries is dutch spoken in?
Holland, some parts of Belgium, Suriname, Certain places in South Africa and Nambia, Netherlands Antilles, French Flanders, Germany's Lower Rhine. Also small groups of notable minorities that speak it in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US and Indonesia.
Is Dutch the official language in French Guiana?
No. French is the Official Language of French Guiana. However, Dutch is the official language of Guyana.
The longest-word in the Dutch-language?
What countries in Africa did the Dutch settle in?
The Dutch settled in what later became South Africa. There was no"country" as such when they arrived.
Where is the country of Dutch?
Does Suriname belong to the Dutch Language Union?
Yes , Suriname belongs to the Dutch Language Union. Suriname became an associate member in 2004. The Dutch Language Union [Nederlandse Taalunie is an international institution for standardizing the Dutch language. The NTU was founded by the Netherlands and Belgium on September 9, 1980.
How does language reflect a Dutch heritage?
What are the differences between the German and the Dutch language?
Basically they're two completely different languages with a similar origin, only that if you can speak one of them you will most likely be able to roughly understand written texts in the other (since spoken they sound completely different).
How old is the Dutch language?
Pronosticatie van den jare 1514 uten overlantschen ghetrocken in den nederlantschen. It's 497 years old.
Which language is closer to English. Dutch or German?
What is 'I miss you' in the Dutch language?
It's "Ik mis je" or when you have to be polite (for example becauseyou barely know someone or that person is an adult and isn't fromyour family) "Ik mis u".
Why do Dutch people speak another language?
No offence, but that's a weird question. Why do all countries have a different language? We speak Dutch because that's how it developed thousands through hundreds of years ago. And because we learned it from our parents. Just like you.
Is Dutch an English language?
What is a language much like Dutch?
The two languages closest to Dutch in sound would be Afrikaans and Flemish. English and German are the next closest.
Who find out the Dutch language?
Nobody found out the Dutch language. It evolved over thousands of years, just like most other languages.
What is Dutch language and how is it spoken?
Which country is known as the Dutch?
The country were Dutch people live is called The Netherlands or in the Dutch language 'Nederland'.
How many countries have dutch as the official language?
The Netherlands Belgium Suriname Aruba Netherlands Antilles Afrikaans is an official language of South-African language and it is closely related to Dutch. Many older people speak Dutch in Indonesia, but it has no recognized status there.
Is the dutch language older or younger then the english language?
What countries traded with the Dutch?
The Mother Trade (de Moedernegotie) is between the Dutch and Baltic states. Germany, USA, China, UK and Italy as well.
What countries speak Dutch and Dutch dialects?
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao (being part of the ABC-islands), the Netherlands, St. Maarten, Suriname, Indonesia little bit as well.
Where is the dutch language originated from?
Dutch is a Western Germanic language. Meaning it originated from The German language. Usually it originated in Germany or the Netherlands itself.
What is the Dutch word for language?
Is Dutch a name of a country? | 2019-04-21T00:13:21 | https://www.answers.com/Q/Is_dutch_a_country_or_a_language |
0.998775 | A Pareto improvement is where you make one party better off and no parties worse off.
Suppose Adam has a rare baseball card. He assigns no intrinsic value to baseball cards. Adam likes Beth, and somewhat values her happiness. Beth collects baseball cards, and would happily pay $100 for Adam's card.
If Adam just gives Beth his baseball card, is that a Pareto improvement? Naively, yes: he loses the card that he doesn't care about, and gains her happiness; she gains the card. Both are better off.
But I claim not, because if Adam has the card, he can sell it to Beth for $100. He would much prefer doing that over just giving her the card. But if Beth has the card, he can't do that. He assigns no intrinsic value to the card, but he can still value it as a trading chip.
Now suppose Adam has the baseball card but Beth also has a copy of that card. Then Beth has less desire for Adam's card, so this situation also isn't a Pareto improvement over the original. By giving something to Beth, we've made Adam's situation worse, even though Adam likes Beth and values her happiness.
And I think situations like this are common. The ability to give someone something they want, is a form of power; and power is instrumentally useful. And the less someone wants, the less able you are to give them something they want1.
The model here is that there are two parties, people who can access the platforms at Liverpool St and those who can't. If Platform 3 is brought back into use, the first group gains something and the second group loses nothing.
But I think that if Platform 3 is brought back into use, the second group loses some power. They lose the power to say "we'll let you bring back Platform 3 if you give us…". Maybe Platform 3 can be made accessible for $1 million. Then they can say "we'll let you bring it back if you make it accessible", but they can't do that if it's already back in use.
And they lose some power to say "if you ignore us, we'll make things difficult for you". Maybe it would take \$1 trillion to make Platform 3 accessible. If Platform 3 remains out of use, people are more likely to spend \$1 million to make their building projects accessible, because they've seen what happens if they don't. Conversely, if Platform 3 comes back, people are more likely to exaggerate future costs of accessibility. "If I say it costs \$1 million, I'll have to pay. If I say it costs \$10 million, maybe I won't."
I haven't researched the situation in question, and I expect that the actual power dynamics in play don't look quite like that. But I think the point stands.
This doesn't mean Pareto improvements don't exist. But I think a lot of things that look like them are not.
Update 2018-02-02: some good comments on reddit and LessWrong. Following those, I have two things in particular to add.
First, that I like /u/AntiTwister's summary: "If you have the power to prevent another party from gaining utility, then you lose utility by giving up that power even if you are allies. There is opportunity cost in abstaining from using your power as a bargaining chip to increase your own utility."
Second, that there is a related (weaker) concept called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency. I think that a lot of the things that look-like-but-aren't Pareto improvements, are still Kaldor-Hicks improvements - meaning that the utility lost by the losing parties is still less than the utility gained by the winners. In theory, that means that the winners could compensate the losers by giving them some money, to reach a Pareto improvement over the original state. But various political and practical issues can (and often do) get in the way of that. | 2019-04-19T22:15:39 | http://reasonableapproximation.net/2018/01/27/pareto-improvements-rare.html |
0.951907 | Senator SIEWERT (Western Australia-Australian Greens Whip) (14:48): My question is to the Minister for Human Services, Minister Carr. The minister is aware of the distress caused by the incorrect letter telling single parents that their pensioner concession cards had been cancelled. Is the minister aware of the concerns that some pay arrangements have not been transitioned, direct payments are being dishonoured, utility bills not paid, people are having to wait for Centrelink appointments and demands are growing from people seeking help from not-for-profit organisations because of financial hardship? Is the government monitoring the situation and what have they found? How many people have had to in effect default on their Centrelink arrangements, and what steps is your department taking to resolve these issues in a timely fashion?
Senator KIM CARR (Victoria-Minister for Human Services) (14:49): I thank Senator Siewert for her question. I indicate that she is correct that a letter containing incorrect information was sent to 74,000 people moving from parenting payments to the Newstart allowance. This was a result of human error compounded by a computer-generated letter system. This error in the letter occurred because the advice provided to these people was inserted into an existing template letter which contained the advice to destroy their concession cards. I have also indicated publicly that the department has apologised to those parents for whom this confusion occurred. I have also indicated that this information was completely in contrast to the information that was actually provided directly to the parents concerned in the interviews that were conducted prior to this letter being sent out and that there has been subsequently a further letter sent to all parents indicating the correct information. Parents were personally contacted to help in their move to the Newstart allowance and about 93 per cent of parents moving to the Newstart allowance by 1 January maintained their entitlements and their concessions.
Senator SIEWERT (Western Australia-Australian Greens Whip) (14:51): Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Perhaps when the minister is answering this question he can answer the actual question I asked last time, which is what they are doing about all those other issues that I raised. The minister has referred on numerous occasions to the government's supplements as a way of offsetting the cost for families who are transferred onto the lower payment of Newstart. Is the minister aware that families are being advised to use their Schoolkids Bonus to cover their immediate bills and housing costs, which in effect means they are not spending them on school?
Senator KIM CARR (Victoria-Minister for Human Services) (14:51): I am not aware that the department is providing that advice but what I can be clear about is that this is a bonus which the opposition wishes to remove. This is a bonus which will assist parents at this time of increasing costs, as we know, at the beginning of the school year. This is a payment which will assist parents of families with school-age children. It is why we make the payment-to assist parents meet the additional costs that come about at this time of the year.
Senator Siewert: Mr President, I rise on a point of order. I did not ask about what the school bonus was for. I asked the minister to answer my first question, but is he also aware that that advice is being provided to single parents?
The PRESIDENT: I believe the minister is answering the question at this stage. There is no point of order.
Senator SIEWERT (Western Australia-Australian Greens Whip) (14:53): Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In a previous answer to a question that I asked, the minister said that he was not aware that the department was referring people to not-for-profit organisations for help. In fact, that claim was reiterated again this morning at a rally outside parliament. I ask the minister: is this policy of transferring single parents onto Newstart and dropping them into poverty in fact a complete policy failure?
That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Human Services (Senator Kim Carr) to a question without notice asked by Senator Siewert today relating to single parent income assistance.
At the start I note that the minister did not answer the fundamental question that I was asking, which was: is the minister aware of the impacts that this policy change is having on single parents and their families? I would suggest by his lack of an answer that he is not aware of or is ignoring those impacts.
My office has been receiving a steady stream of visits, phone calls and emails from single parents-mainly single mothers, because as we know, over 85 per cent of the single parents who are affected by these changes are in fact single mothers-talking to us initially about the fact that they were told they were not going to get the pensioner concession card. If you read the letters, they were pretty devastating letters-and I can tell you that I had a lot of pretty devastated mothers ringing and talking to my office about the fact that they were not going to have the pensioner concession card. Some of them, as the Minister for Human Services said, had been told that it would continue but then they got a letter saying that it is in fact not going to continue.
Although the minister did tell the chamber what happened and about the mistake that was made, the issue still remains that those who have actually been taken off any form of income support do not have access to the pensioner concession card, when Centrelink's own website says that when people transition from payments they get to keep the pensioner concession card for a transition period. That is apparently not occurring. We are still chasing that up.
The other really significant issues are, for example, that the Centrepay arrangements did not get changed when people were moved onto Newstart. So there are defaults happening on payments-not to mention the fact that people of course do not have the same amount of money and cannot in fact pay those bills. Utility payments are not being made. People are being forced to wait a significant period of time while they get an appointment with Centrelink and, in the meantime, their payments have been cut or have been changed because of their moving onto Newstart and they do not know what is going on. There is a growing demand for not-for-profit organisations and emergency relief organisations, because single parents just do not know where to turn when they cannot afford to pay their bills or cannot afford to feed their families.
I asked the minister about whether families are being told to use their school bonus to pay their rent and their utility bills instead of in fact paying the bills that we all know that we get in January when the children go back to school. These children are not going to be able to go back to school with books, uniforms and those sorts of things, because their parent needs to use that money to pay for their most immediate food bills, rent bills and power bills. I have had people tell me that they are having to move out of their homes-their current house-because they cannot afford the rent anymore. Of course, the government says, 'The reason we're doing this is to encourage people into work.' We know that that group of single parents, out of all those receiving income support, is the cohort of people that are seeking work the most.
This morning there was a rally outside this place of single parents who are bringing their message and are currently meeting with members of parliament around this place. The message is there-they were bringing their messages to this place. There are rallies all around Australia today with single parents saying, 'Enough is enough.' At that rally I heard people's accounts of conscientiously looking for work. I had one mother who went for an interview: she was applying for an interview to assist at a hair salon, which involved cleaning mirrors, cleaning up, sweeping the floor and making tea and coffee. She was told that they had got someone with more experience. They knew she was a single parent. I have heard other accounts where people have tried over and over again to get work, but we all know that it is very hard to maintain, in particular, permanent or full-time work when you are also caring for your family.
This is our future generation we are talking about. We already have one in six children in Australia living in poverty. This move by the government has condemned another generation of children to be living in poverty, because you cannot survive on Newstart. It is not a life, to be bringing people up on Newstart, and this government should be ashamed that they have dropped 87,000 single parents and their families into poverty. | 2019-04-19T02:38:36 | https://rachel-siewert.greensmps.org.au/articles/question-without-notice-newstart-allowance |
0.99781 | What If The Accident Happens In Another State?
There are many jobs that require the workers to travel across the country. Whether it is as a salesman or a construction worker, injuries that happen in far away states may seem like they will be more complicated, but this is not usually the case. In most instances, the worker will be covered under the workers' compensation law of the state where their employer is located.
However, this distance can make it a little more difficult to obtain the copies of the required medical records if you require emergency treatment. In these instances, you will need to notify your employer of the situation as soon as possible so that they can start the process of requesting these documents.
Do The Benefits Continue Being Paid If The Worker Dies?
Some workplace injuries can result in permanent disabilities, and these cases will require the worker to be paid compensation for the remainder of their lives. Unfortunately the worker's family, these benefits will usually be stopped if they die. Yet, it should be noted that there may be times when these benefits may continue following the passing of the worker.
This will require the family to prove that the worker's death was directly related to the injury that they suffered while on the job. Sadly, this can be an extremely complicated task for a variety reasons. As a result, you should always seek the counsel of an experienced workers compensation attorney. These professionals will be able to provide you with the guidance that you need to successfully navigate this process.
Filing for worker's compensation benefits can be a stressful process because most people seldom understand this process. A lack of knowledge and experience with this process can further add to the stress of filing for these benefits. By knowing how injuries that happen in different states are handled and what happens when the worker dies, you will be much better prepared to go through this process. | 2019-04-22T20:15:19 | http://cuidadosenfermagem.com/2015/06/04/two-concerns-about-workers-compensation-cases-addressed/ |
0.999999 | Recently, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe expressed "deep repentance" for Japan's actions in World War Two. It was the latest in a long series (20, just counting from the year 2000) of formal apologies the country has offered, and it was expressed - both appropriately and inappropriately - at a joint session of the United States Congress. Appropriately, because America was Imperial Japan's main foe, and as a civilised country it is qualified to receive apologies from another civilised country. Inappropriately, because the United States has more to apologise to Japan for than Japan has to apologise to America for.
First of all, it should be pointed out that Japan owes no apologies whatsoever to any European nation for its actions in WWII. Nazi Germany was but a distant ally of Imperial Japan; the country played no role in the European war theatre. The fact that Japan had friendly relations with Hitler's Germany is beyond the point - fascism at the time was a hugely popular new politics, and there were pro-German fascist political parties everywhere from Ireland to India, including one which came to power in Spain, and one which didn't in Britain. Nearly all of these parties were pro-Nazi Germany. That in itself is not a crime, regardless of the crimes committed by the Third Reich.
The fall of Nazi Germany didn't mean the fall of Imperial Japan, although both were allied against the same enemies. The Pacific War, more accurately called the Asia-Pacific War raged on after Germany's defeat..
There are two versions of the Pacific War, a war fought mostly by Imperial Japan and the United States: the first, and by far the best-known, is the semi-fictional version told by the victors. Due the America's massive worldwide media influence, this is the one most people are more familiar with. It has been re-told through countless Hollywood productions, and it invariably portrays the Japanese as mindless militaristic aggressors, hell-bent on conquering all of Asia and the Pacific. Prior to Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers in 2006, no American-made feature film had succeeded in portraying the Japanese as normal human beings, and to this day no successful US-made film or book has focused on the true facts of America's participation in WWII.
These are the facts of US involvement in WWII: Looking first at the Western Front, the Battle of Britain, in the Autumn of 1940, can be viewed as the first turning point in the Second World War in Europe; Germany was prevented from gaining air superiority over the UK, which was required to launch an amphibious and airborne invasion. At the same time, Britain, supported by Canada (which declared war against Germany several days after Britain), stepped up its operations in the Atlantic against German submarine fleets, and most of the work involved in clearing the sea-lanes of the German threat, which would pave the way for the later Invasion of Normandy, was carried out by the British and Canadian navies.
Looking at the Eastern Front, a week before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's consequent decision to enter the war, the Battle of Moscow can be regarded as the second turning point in the war against Germany. It had pushed German troops back by over 320 kilometres, with huge causalities - nearly 900,000 Germans dead, injured, captured or missing in action. Germany's rapid retreat westwards was already underway. At the same time, huge swathes of territory had been won back from Axis troops in North Africa. By the time of American president, Franklin Roosevelt's declaration of war on Japan, Germany's defeat was already a certainty; the only questions remaining pertained to the circumstances of this defeat: would it be total or negotiated, and how much territory would Germany be allowed to keep?
America felt it had - relatively - little to lose by joining the war. It's focus would not be the European theatre in any case, but the Asia-Pacific theatre. On the other hand, it had much to lose by not joining Britain, Canada, and the free forces of the various occupied European nations. It would not be entitled to reap the spoils of war, nor to "win the peace which will follow the war", as Roosevelt put it.
The United States has never had to fight a war for its survival in the same way as many European nations have, and thus it has never - even now, in the 21st century - had to enter a military conflict where it didn't believe the odds were overwhelmingly stacked in its favor. America certainly didn't believe fighting against Japan would be anything remotely like fighting against Germany.
Most Americans at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor felt the Japanese to be an inferior people, and few felt any qualms at seeing second- and third-generation Japanese-Americans rounded up and put in what Roosevelt himself called "concentration camps", even as the same thing was happening to Jews in Europe. In fact, the American military top brass didn't even believe the attack on Pearl Harbor could have been devised by the Japanese; they felt the raid had to have been planned by the German military on Japan's behalf. The United States didn't realize how difficult the fighting against Japan in the Pacific would be. (Britain did, as the country had been largely responsible for teaching the Japanese how to build aircraft carriers and fly planes off them, as such technical skills and knowledge were transferred to Japan under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.) By 1941, Japan's navy was the world's most powerful, and among the aerial weaponry Japan boasted was the Mitsubishi Zero fighter, which would prove superior to any fighter the US had in its arsenal.
Immediately after the raid on Pearl Harbor, America retaliated in a similar fashion to Japan's strategic masterstroke at Pearl Harbor. In what was called the Dolitttle Raid, 16 US Army Air Force bombers attacked military installations in the Japaese home islands. It was one of the few bombing raids deliberately targeting military installations that was in large part successful. Thereafter, as American frustration with lack of progress and unwillingness to risk lives set in, US air raids turned to 'bomb anything' mode, which would later becomes the modus operandi for bombing other Asian nations.
Of course, by the time the Pacific War was entering its final stages, America was only too familiar with the kind of foe it was up against. Even in 1945, Japan was not an enemy which could be taken on on equal terms. To hasten Japanese demoralization, America stepped up bombing raids on civilian population centres in the home islands, one raid of which (Operation Meetinghouse) on the 9th to 10th of March, 1945, was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history.
Almost 90% of the bombs dropped on the home islands of Japan were delivered by the B-29 Superfortress strategic bomber, flying at a safe altitude of anything up to 9,000 metres. These bombers were later estimated by The Tokyo Fire Department to have killed 97,000 people, and left 125,000 wounded.
Although indiscriminate bombings of urban areas are not normally – even today - called 'massacres' or 'act of terrorism', that's what they are to the victims. Never was there any controversy over Washington's lack of apologies for the firebombings of Japanese cities; quite the contrary. This style of warfare - aerial mass murder of civilian populations - would come to empitomise the US approach to fighting against resolute enemies like the Japanese; a kind of attempted genocide, born of frustration at not making the land advances the country felt it had to, and unwillingness to risk American lives. Later, in South-east Asia, this frustration drove America to 'carpet-bomb' civilian areas of Vietnam, as well as (neutral) Cambodia and Laos, killing, wounding or making homeless an estimated 6 million people over a 4-year period.
The firebombing of Japanese cities was rounded off with Washington's orders to drop atom bombs on two major Japanese population centres, with full knowledge of the expected results. And also the full knowledge that the Japanese civilian victims would not know what had happened. These particularly massacres would result in tens of thousands of civilians dying painfully slow deaths over the subsequent weeks, months and years.
How can the United States be among the countries receiving these oft-repeated apologies from Japan? Japan had paid the price for its strategic attack on Hawaii dozens of times over by the time the Pacific War ended.
That was the part of the Pacific War which led to Japan's defeat. But Japan's principal victims of aggression were further east on the Asian mainland..
Japan does still owe apologies to its Asian neighbours, particularly China, principally for the Nanjing Massacre and its infamous germ warfare laboratories, of which the largest was Unit 731, in Manchuria. It is estimated that 1,000 staff were employed in these facilities in total, carrying out experiments on hundreds of thousands of human victims, mostly (around 70%) Chinese, but also including men, women and children from Korea, and the occupied states of south-east Asia. 'Experiments' ranged from infecting prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox and the like to weapons testing on live victims to study the effectiveness of grenades and flame throwers from various distances. Interestingly, the United States, usually so vociferous on the subject of bringing (non-American) war criminals to justice, gave immunity to these Japanese researchers in exchange for their data on human experimentation.
Apart from the Nanjing Massacre, there were also numerous massacres which took place in China and other east Asian countries during WWII. But the victims of these massacres ranged from dozens to several hundreds, more on the same scale, or smaller, that the My Lai and other massacres committed by US troops in Vietnam. Interestingly, the United States, usually so vociferous on the subject of bringing (non-American) war criminals, didn't find it appropriate to follow up investigation of many of the smaller massacres it committed in Vietnam. Even in the case of May Lai, in which over 500 civilians were killed, while 26 men initially were charged, only one, a Lieutenant Calley was convicted, and made to serve the awful punishment of three and a half years under house arrest.
Again, Japan owes no apologies to America. And while it can be argued that it hasn't apologised enough to Asian countries, no apology should be given to China, or in China.
It would be a travesty for what has now long been a free and fair, modern state, with the rule of law and all the other trappings of democracy to apologise to a thuggish regime like the one in power in Beijing, a regime little better now than that of Imperial Japan 70 years ago. While China was once a victim of Japanese aggression, the 21st century scenario could not be more different. Now it is China which throws its weight around in the region, intimidating its neighbours and claiming their territories.
Since the establishment of the Peoples' Republic of China in 1950, China has stolen territories from India, Russia, and Korea, and in 1980 it fought desperately in a failed attempt to steal land from Vietnam. The country has swamped Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang (East Turkestan), and the ethnic minority lands of its south-west with Han Chinese migrants in an attempt to obliterate their distinct identities, and it has invaded and annexed Tibet and is currently in the process of doing the same thing there. Its extravagant maritime territorial claims include territories belonging to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, and it has apparently already succeeded in stealing islands belonging to Vietnam and the Philippines. Its claims to territory in the South China Sea reach to within 100 km of the Indonesian coast and they have soured relations with the ASEAN bloc, but not to the point where the country sees any need to change course, and at the time of writing, China is pushing its policy of brinkmanship with military flight incursions over South Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese airspaces. It poses a constant military threat to Taiwan, which it claims as a PRC province, and has done so for well over half a century. It has also openly reneged on promises made to Britain in the Sino-British Joint Resolution of 1984 to allow democratic politics in Hongkong, and not only imprisons and tortures anyone who openly expresses dissent within the PRC, and persecutes their families, but also outlaws any religious or spiritual movement not under its direct control. It has a shoot to kill policy to counter the flow of Tibetans attempting escape over the Himalayas to India, and regularly uses live fire to quell public demonstrations, the most infamous of which was the internationally televised 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, which to this day it denies even happened.
And some people think Japan should apologise to a regime like this? They cannot be serious.
There are some who believe that Japan should express its apologies to Taiwan for the atrocities committed by Japanese troops against Chinese civilians, as Taiwan is the inheritor of the Nationalist Chinese government in power in China during WWII. But this is also a bad idea. While the Nationalists did flee to Taiwan after the war, the island had long been a part the Japanese empire by that time. Many Taiwanese fought bravely during WWII. But most were fighting FOR Japan; almost 200,000 in total.
South Korea, though also a part of Imperial Japan during the war (but not for as long as Taiwan), is more insistent on receiving Japanese apologies than Taiwan. But, here we have the same problem: any apology made by Japan should be an apology to the Korean people. If any government in Asia is less qualified to receive apologies from Japan than China, it is the barbaric regime in power in Pyongyang. How could Japan apologise to a regime that, even today, values human life so little that it is willing to keep much of 'its' population on the brink of starvation in order to stay in power?
While many of the states of the ASEAN bloc have made huge strides towards becoming free and fair, democratic countries (and Myanmar is at least heading in the right direction), the resistance to political and social reform in China and North Korea has ensured that no more meaningful apologies for Japan's actions during WWII can be given to all of Imperial Japan's Asian victims. Looking at the way things are going, it seems likely that by the time these regimes finally collapse, WWII will have faded from living memory, and relevance. | 2019-04-21T17:06:04 | http://alixlee.com/MOS/Articles/article_04_JA_NW.htm |
0.998549 | World War II in Europe Timeline Jump to: 1939 - 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945 1918 November 11 - World War I ends with German defeat. 1919 April 28 - League of Nations founded. June 28 - Signing of the Treaty of Versailles. 1921 July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party. 1923 November 8/9 - Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch. 1925 July 18 - Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published. 1926 September 8 - Germany admitted to League of Nations. 1929 October 29 - Stock Market on Wall Street crashes. 1930 September 14 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany. 1932 November 8 - Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States. 1933 January 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. February 27 - The German Reichstag burns. March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
Battles of the Second World War Battles Operations Elkton III Plan Operation Aerial, the evacuation from north western France, 15-25 June 2008 Operation Appease - the battle of Talasea, 6-11 March 1944 Operation Blissful - The Choiseul Raid, 27 October-4 November 1943 Operation Cartwheel - the Reduction of Rabaul (30 June 1943- January 1944) Operation Chariot, the St. Nazaire Raid, Part One Operation Chariot, the St. Second World War, 1939–45 On 3 September 1939 Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station in Australia. Almost a million Australians, both men and women, served in the Second World War. They fought in campaigns against Germany and Italy in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa, as well as against Japan in south-east Asia and other parts of the Pacific.
The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few At 4.30pm on 14 August 1940, 87 Squadron scrambled to their Hurricanes, quickly got airborne and started speeding towards Weymouth on the Dorset coast. “One hundred and twenty plus approaching Warmwell from the south,” came the calm voice of the ground controller in the pilots’ ears. “Good luck, chaps.” Pilot Officer Roland ‘Bee’ Beamont swallowed hard and began desperately to scan the sky. They were over Lyme Regis and flying at around 12,000ft when Beamont saw them, still out to sea – what looked to him like a gigantic swarm of bees all revolving around each other in a fantastical spiral from around 8,000 to 14,000ft. As the Hurricanes drew closer, Beamont could see there were about 50 Stuka dive-bombers and two-engine Messerschmitt 110s above, and single-engine Me109s above them.
The Australian Home Front during World War 2 - Overview The Home Front - World War 2 An overview by Robert Lewis Initial Reactions When war broke out in September 1939 the Australian Government was much better prepared for it than in 1914. Stalingrad: the crushing of the Reich From its foundation in the mid‑16th century, the old fortress town at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga rivers has had three identities. Originally called Tsaritsyn and today labelled Volgograd, it was known for a mere 36 years (1925–61) by the name with which it will be eternally associated – Stalingrad. The very name quickly became shorthand for the Nazi defeat in the east, and even at the time was considered a turning point of the Second World War, by all sides – Soviet and German included. At the 70th anniversary of Stalingrad, the achievement of the Soviet people remains just as awe-inspiring. | 2019-04-19T11:13:56 | http://www.pearltrees.com/u/20777000-history-summary-outline-events |
0.99846 | If you want to have some fun, Google "Obama Plays Robin Hood" or even "Obama Hood." Seems that there are a lot of people of the opinion that President Obama's new budget and economic plans are like stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
On the other hand, there are those who think that Robin Hood was a real hero. I wonder what rich Hollywood types like Kevin Costner think?
LONDON - An academic says he's found evidence that Britain's legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn't as popular as folklore suggests.
But Luxford, an art history lecturer at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, says a 23-word inscription in the margins of a history book, written in Latin by a medieval monk around 1460, casts the outlaw as a persistent thief.
"Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies," the note read when translated into English, Luxford said.
Luxford, an expert in medieval manuscripts, said the find "contains a uniquely negative assessment of the outlaw, and provides rare evidence for monastic attitudes towards him."
He said it was not entirely surprising that monks, as part of England's clerical establishment, harbored negative feelings about the bandit.
Luxford said Robin Hood stories from the Middle Ages paint him as an ally of "good knights and yeomen — salt-of-the-earth type people. But they are not so positive about his relationship with the clergy."
Luxford said the note — uncovered in the margin of the "Polychronicon," a popular history book that dates from the late 1340s — is the earliest known reference to the outlaw from an English source. He said it supports arguments that the historical Robin Hood lived in the 13th century, even though most popular modern versions of the story set him in the late-12th century reign of King Richard I.
Folklore has most commonly placed Hood in Sherwood Forest — where he is reputed to hidden from his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The forest once spanned 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares) across Nottinghamshire, but has shrunk in modern time to about 450 acres (180 hectares).
"This is another piece of evidence from the Middle Ages showing he was from Sherwood," Luxford said. "It strengthens that connection."
Luxford said he planned to publish more details of the find in the Journal of Medieval History.
Ah nicely spotted Bowster.. Your article seems to be longer and better written than the version i saw over here, so i didn't get my head round doing a blog of it.
As you can imagine, I've long rolled my eyes at what Hollywood and English TV have portrayed about Robin The Hood....but we shouldn't be surprised as Monks in such times weren't entirely the poor devout religious folk we think of Monks being, but well off members of very rich, land owning Abbeys, and much sort after for being the only people who could read and write, as English as we know it wasn't written down.
Monks therefore got robbed a fair bit too, going to work for people like administrative Sherriffs....and this particular Monk probably had a nice chip on his shoulder about it.
But us Historians can be such dam squibs,....and i realise the legend is merely a feel good tale of Right verses Wrong handed down to inspire the next generation of Children....complete with Tights wearing hero.
The Governments would do well to read these histories... As the Bankers having lost all our monies are expected to simply be bailed out by us hard working peasants... and in the words of Peter Finch in the film Network... " we're Angry, and we're not going to take it anymore..."
I read this article in the paper this morning about the pissed Monk. My response was much the same as Sir Dayvd's.
I do appreciate the small book, thank you; however, I was an English History Minor in college, specifically from 1066 to the end of the Tudor period, so I know more about those blokes than the more current Hanover's and Windsor's.
That being said, Edward I, ie, Long Shanks, was hardly a saint either! He was probably more cruel than the Sheriff as depicted in the Robin Hood legend...but he was a great King!
And yes, a pissed off monk from that period was probably the George W. Bush of his day. Not quite smart enough to run his father's estate, but handy enough to make sure the Church, and thus his family, turned a profit!
So, I see it as biased journalism of the day. Not unlike the biased journalism we still have to muddle through to find the truth.
They've been trying to pin the rob from the rich to pay for the poor on the Democrats for years...nothing new hear...other than now we have a black face to go along with it. The face of the very thing they fear! I say but a hat on his head and I'll gladly join the Merry Band as we lop off a few heads of the self-pious righteous right like Rush the Sheriff of Nothinhead!
Yeah they were all pretty cruel by todays standards... shhesh can you imagine some of the congressional and parlimentry inquiries that would go on today for some of the things that went on back then..... you know.... starting wars for no real reason and stuff..... ahhhh see what i did there??
Thinking of Long Shanks...always makes me think of that other Arch Hollywood history distorter...Mel Gibson.. how he has got away with peddling his brand of history re-write i do not know... Braveheart was some mega crap on that regard... topped off by the conceit that Wallace inpregnated the Royal line of England... you've got to laugh..
You are correct Sir D. Good jab! I would take Long Shanks approach to dealing with the execs of AIG right now!
Can you imagine what he would have done with those assholes if he lent them money?! That would make for some A+ CSPAN viewing!
As for Mel and Wallace...the righteous warrior always gets the girl in the movies!
Neither side were Saints and both sides were certainly Sinners! | 2019-04-25T06:19:31 | http://knightscsa.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-you-want-to-have-some-fun-google.html |
0.999705 | Is your office making costly medical disposal mistakes? Medical waste is generated by all medical and healthcare facilities such as hospitals, clinics, dental offices, veterinary clinics, laboratories . Federal, state, and even local laws order them to create an operational medical waste management protocol in order to ensure the safety of its workers and the environment.
There exist several common mistakes that many facilities make when they dispose medical waste like bio-hazardous waste, animal waste, radioactive waste and unused pharmaceuticals. Try to be convinced your office isn’t making costly inefficient mistakes.
The most common mistake isconsidered the needlessly disposal n of solid waste as regulated medical waste. Based on federal law, solid waste is only to be disposed of as RMW if the solid waste had come into contact with contaminated materials.
it is a pity, there are many generators who have adopted a laissez-faire approach towards the disposal of both solid waste and regulated medical waste. Besides being dangerous mismanagement, it also proves costly to the healthcare facility, as the disposal of regulated medical waste costs more than solid waste.
The training of medical staff in waste disposal practices is included in Medical Waste Management typically; however, the consistency of such training, for many medical and healthcare facilities, often peters out.
Fortunately, there exist a lot of agencies such as the EPA, OSHA, etc., that makes resources available for healthcare facilities to formulate a training program that will ensure the employees’ safety of, as well as decrease the chances of infection and/or contamination.
In addition to this, there are some reputable medical waste transporters/haulers which offer assistance in the form of training staff to stay within federal and state regulations.
In accordance with merriinc.com, there exist some healthcare facilities that are not transporting untreated and treated medical waste in a right way. Some common issues include; transporting regulated medical waste in improper containers and utilizing medical waste transports/haulers that do not have a permit to transport medical waste weighing over 50 pounds.
These breaches result in heavy penalties to both the transporter/hauler and the medical or healthcare facility.
Treating and disposing of medical waste with the help of usage of the method of incineration has been approved on federal, state, and local levels. However, according to Health Care Without Harm, incinerators contribute significantly to dioxin, mercury, lead and other pollutants that threaten the general populace. Is it possible that this method of treating medical waste is just as harmful as the waste itself?
In order to give a correct answer to this question, many companies have processed environmentally friendly technology to be made available to medical waste treatment facilities to ensure that medical waste is not only treated effectively, but that the residue generated does not have a harmful effect on the environment.
The generators must first of all review individual state and local laws regarding medical waste management practices. Medical and healthcare facilities can also keep abreast of regulations defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the US Department of Health (DOH), and/or the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding best medical waste disposal practices. As always, Glycon provides Glendale Medical Waste Disposal is here to answer any questions regarding your facilities compliance and medical waste disposal requirements. | 2019-04-19T18:13:54 | https://www.glyconllc.com/tag/medical-waste/ |
0.999106 | Police believe a father murdered his young son and daughter then hanged himself on Father's Day during a custody battle with his estranged wife.
Deputies from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department arrived at the Santa Rosa, California, home of Alvaro Camara, 40, on Monday morning to a horrifying scene as they responded to a welfare check.
'I sought help on numerous occasions and said many many many times my children were in danger in their fathers care and I didn't receive the urgent help I needed to save them' the statement concludes.
Deputies found Camara and his children dead inside the home. Camara hanged himself in a bedroom, the bodies of his daughter and son were nearby.
Camara's two children, six-year-old daughter Juliana and 18-month-old son, Julian, spent Father's Day with him.
Neighbors say he lived in the complex only a few months but the arguments between him and his wife were intense on several occasions.
Officers aren't saying how the children died at this time.
Residents had been getting to know the children, after Camara moved in a few months ago. 'A beautiful little girl and a sweet little boy,' said neighbor Julia Poncia.
'It's an absolute tragedy to see two young children lose their lives in a custody dispute,' Santa Rosa Police Lt. John Cregan.
Detectives were at the scene all day Monday, trying to determine a timeline, and a trigger for the sudden violence. Camara was supposed to hand the kids over to his estranged wife at his apartment Sunday evening at 7pm.
When no one answered her knock she called the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department. Deputies Sunday night found Camara's place dark and quiet as well, and figured he was extending his Father's Day visit with them.
They left, and returned Monday morning, with worried relatives. Climbing through a bathroom window, they were able to find the bodies.
Still, there appeared to be no warning of the violence.
Camara's estranged wife lives outside city limits, so she reported that her kids were unaccounted for to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department.
Deputies Sunday night found Camara's place dark and quiet as well, and figured he was extending his Father's Day visit with them.
They left, and returned Monday morning, with worried relatives. Climbing through a bathroom window, they were able to find the bodies. 'They took off a screen on the window and were trying to go in there,' described a neighbor who gave her name as Tanya.
She lives above the Camara unit, and thought the commotion at his door was odd, because she is convinced she heard him and his daughter speaking earlier in the day.
Another neighbor said Camara had seemed nervous over the weekend.
The couple had been together about eight years, and filed for divorce only a few months ago.
Police say it's too earlier to know if a more aggressive search for the children might have made a difference.
'We're stilll going to be exploring the timeline to determine when the children were last seen and when the tragedy occurred,' Cregan said. | 2019-04-22T08:02:04 | http://www.taritariboblog.com/2017/06/pics-father-kills-his-2-young-kids-on.html |
0.999998 | What is a hybrid loan?
When should I consider a hybrid loan?
One type of mortgage, known as a balloon loan, appears at first blush to be somewhat like a hybrid loan. The interest rate is fixed, for example, for five, seven, or ten years. However, and this is a big however, at the end of this time period, the entire loan balance becomes due. In other words, you must pay off the entire loan.
Borrowers are attracted to balloon loans for the same reason that they are attracted to hybrid or ARM loans -- because balloon loans start at a lower interest rate than do fixed-rate mortgages. Buyers are sometimes seduced into such loans during high-interest-rate periods or when they can't qualify for or afford the payments of a traditional mortgage.
Balloon loans can blow up in your face. You may become trapped without a mortgage if you are unable to refinance (obtain a new mortgage to replace the old loan) when the balloon loan comes due. You may have problems refinancing if, for example, you lose your job, your income drops, the value of your property declines and the appraisal comes in too low to qualify you for a new loan, or interest rates increase and you can't qualify for a new loan at those higher rates.
The one circumstance under which to consider a balloon loan is if you absolutely must have a particular property and the balloon loan is your one and only mortgage option. If that's the case, you should also be as certain as you can be that you'll be able to refinance when the balloon loan comes due. If you have family members who could step in to help with the refinancing, either by cosigning or by loaning you the money themselves, that's a big back-up plus. If you must take out a balloon loan, get as long a term as possible, ideally for no less than seven years (and preferably for ten years).
Hybrid loans or what lenders sometimes call intermediate ARMs start out like a fixed-rate loan (the initial rate may be fixed for three, five, seven, or even ten years) and then the loan converts into an ARM, usually adjusting every six to twelve months thereafter.
Loans called 7/23s (which are fixed for the first seven years and then have a one-time adjustment and remain at a fixed rate for the remaining length of the loan term) are also available.
If you want more stability in your monthly payments than comes with a regular adjustable, and you expect to keep your loan for no more than five to ten years, a hybrid (or intermediate ARM) loan may be the best loan for you.
The longer the initial interest rate stays locked in, the higher it will be, but the initial rate of a hybrid ARM is almost always lower than the interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. However, because the initial rate of hybrid loans is locked in for a longer period of time than the six-month or one-year term of regular ARMs, hybrid ARMs have higher initial interest rates than regular ARM loans.
During periods when little difference existed between short-term and long-term interest rates, the interest-rate savings with a hybrid or regular adjustable (versus a fixed-rate loan) were minimal (less than 1 percent). In fact, during certain times, the initial interest rate on a seven or ten-year hybrid was exactly the same as on a 30-year fixed-rate loan. During such periods, fixed-rate loans offer the best overall value.
To evaluate hybrids, weigh the likelihood that you'll move before the initial loan interest rate expires. For example, with a seven-year hybrid, if you're saving, say, 0.5 percent per year versus the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, but you're quite sure that you will move within seven years, the hybrid will probably save you money. On the other hand, if you think that there's a reasonable chance that you'll stay put for more than seven years, and you don't want to face the risk of rising payments after seven years, you should opt for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage instead. | 2019-04-22T11:06:18 | http://ask.raveis.com/OtherMortgageTypesFAQs |
0.998579 | order of product matrix AB =3 x 3.
Let A and B are matrices of order 3 x 2 and 2 x 4 respectively. Write the order of matrix (AB).
Write a square matrix of order 2, which is both symmetric and skew symmetric. | 2019-04-22T16:49:02 | https://www.sarthaks.com/202712/write-the-order-of-product-matrix-1-2-3-2-3-4 |
0.999796 | Which of the following is the legal term for a severe mental illness that was present at the time a crime was committed and impaired the defendant's capacity to understand the moral wrong of the act?
Insanity is the legal term for a severe mental illness, present at the time a crime was committed, that impaired the defendant's capacity to understand the moral wrong of an act. Insanity is not a medical diagnosis.
Idiocy is any severe mental deficiency present in early childhood. Dementia is a progressive loss of mental function characterized by memory impairment. A psychosis is a mental disorder in which there is a severe loss of contact with reality; it is a common feature of schizophrenia. A neurosis is an unconscious conflict that produces anxiety and leads to the use of defense mechanisms.
How does one define a psychological abnormality?
While this may seem like a very broad definition—perhaps classifying deviant behavior rather than a psychological abnormality—psychological abnormality is defined by this crucial element: the individual suffers due to a reocurring problem or disorder. That is, the individual suffers involuntarily at the hands of the disease and has little control of the symptomatic behavior of the illness. They often want to change their illness as opposed to continuing on how they are.
There are many existing theories on psychopathology and how to diagnose people for disorders. One of the main challenges is putting these theories into practice while many biases, stereotypes, and prejudices against different social sectors of society still persist. Which of the following is a practical example of this dilemma?
Common social biases include gender, race, economic class, ethnicity, and many more. Many are not even conscious that they carry these prejudices, and the best we can hope for improvement is to become aware of and change these biases as a society. Current statistics suggest that African-American males are more likely to be diagnostics as psychotic than Caucasian males in instances of subject abuse. This is an example of stereotype and prejudice intersecting professional diagnosis in an increadibly detrimental and socially dangerous manner; even though the individuals may display the same symptoms, they are given different diagnoses.
Which of the following is a real and practical concern of labelling a person with a certain disorder?
One of the major practical concerns with giving a person an official diagnosis is that it may become hard for a person to escape the label of that diagnosis. For instance, if a person is diagnosed as schizophrenic, observers may already have a preconceived notion of that person and behave differently towards them. If the diagnosed person sees they are treated as different, this may reinforce negative behaviors and perpetuate the stigma. Even if the person diagnosed as schizophrenic shows positive progress, observers may still have trouble thinking of them as a healthy, stable person.
Which of the following is not a symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Because narcissists are so focused on themselves and their own needs, they often neglect the needs of others, sometimes even exploiting these others for their own gain.
Recently, Joe has realized that he hasn't been enjoying his hobbies or spending time with his friends as much as he used to.
Anhedonia is defined as the loss of the ability to experience pleasure. Since Joe is no longer enjoying his hobbies (which are, by definition, activities he likes and enjoys), and spending time with his friends (who are, by definition, people he likes), it is reasonable to assume that he is experiencing some degree of anhedonia.
Which of the following is true about the DSM 5?
The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) 5 is the latest, not only, edition of this guidebook for psychologists. The DSM helps psychologists diagnose their patients and does not offer explanations for the origins of disorders. Homosexuality used to be listed as a disorder in earlier editions of the DSM but is not included in the DSM 5.
Which of the following is NOT an axis of the DSM used for diagnosis?
Even if you didn't know these exact axes, it is important to remember that "insanity" is not a clinical term ever used in the DSM or by therapists.
Although diagnosis is necessary for treatment, what is one possible negative consequence of labeling someone as having a particular disorder?
When someone is diagnosed as having a particular disorder, there is sometimes stigma (shame or disgrace) associated with this labeling, which is the opposite of the answer choice "social acceptance."
As for the other answer choices, comorbidity is the concurrence of multiple psychological disorders in one person. The placebo effect occurs when someone believes that they are being treated for something (when they are really not) and subsequently improves as a function of that belief. The diathesis-stress model explains the interaction of genetic and environmental factors in terms of disorders-- the diathesis is the predisposition to a disorder that is triggered by some sort of stress.
Which of the following does not act as a risk factor for developing a psychological disorder?
Race, gender, SES, and family history all play roles in the development (or non-development) of a disorder. For example, women are more likely to develop most psychological disorders, especially mood and anxiety disorders, but men are more likely to develop substance abuse disorders. Race can also impact vulnerability for certain disorders and low SES is associated with higher rates of many disorders, such as anxiety disorders. Family history is perhaps the most significant risk factor because genetics play a large role in whether someone is likely to develop a specific disorder.
If there is any connection between family size and psychopathology, it has not been researched or documented and is therefore has not been directly indicated as a strong risk factor. | 2019-04-20T10:54:19 | https://www.varsitytutors.com/ap_psychology-help/psychological-abnormalities/defining-abnormalities-and-disorders?page=18 |
0.999914 | "Europe & Me", a UK online lifestyle magazine for young Europeans, won first prize at the Charlemagne Youth Prize 2011 on 31 May in Aachen. The second prize went to "Balkans Beyond Borders", a short-film project (Greece) and the third to the "Escena Erasmus Project" (Spain), a cultural exchange programme for Erasmus students. The Charlemagne Youth Prize is awarded annually to projects that foster a shared sense of European identity and integration among young people.
The first prize was awarded by EP President Jerzy Buzek, the second by EP Socialists & Democrats Group leader Martin Schulz and the third by Mayor of Aachen Marcel Philip.
United Kingdom - "Europe & Me"
EP President Jerzy Buzek said: "The project we chose is extremely original. If you open its web site you will see this. You are faced with an ideal European "Man" or "Woman" divided into five different parts: the brain, the heart, the diaphragm, the baby and the legs - and each part represents a different idea of what being "European" means".
Europe & Me is an online lifestyle magazine created by young Europeans for young Europeans in 2007. Its motto is to "make Europe personal", because Europe is often identified only with politics and bureaucracy. Today, Europe & Me is a platform that allows people to take the initiative, develop themselves and find like-minded individuals.
"I think the main message of this project is that Europe is, can, and should be "cool". This word itself - "cool" - is becoming more and more popular in politics nowadays", added Mr Buzek.
In his speech on the runner-up, German MEP and leader of the European Parliament's Socialists and Democrats Group Martin Schulz said: "Balkans Beyond Borders seeks to overcome borders by making films and raising awareness that all the Balkan countries will gain through regional co-operation. Balkans Beyond Borders has its finger on the pulse of the times with this year's theme of shooting short films on the crisis."
Finally, the third prize went to the "Escena Erasmus Project" (Spain). Launched in 2009, this is a pioneering European project addressed mainly to Erasmus students, encouraging cultural and linguistic exchanges. It is intended to become a theatrical "net" which promotes exchanges among European university theatre companies. Presenting the third prize, Aachan's Mayor Marcel Philipp, said that "culture is what holds Europe together in its innermost self and culture is inextricably linked with education".
The three winning projects will receive funding of €5,000, €3,000, and €2,000 respectively. Their representatives will also be invited to visit the European Parliament in the coming months.
Representatives of the 27 projects were invited to the award ceremony on 31 May in Aachen.
The award ceremony was co-organised by the European Parliament and the International Charlemagne Prize Foundation and hosted by Aachen University.
Welcoming speeches were given by EP President Jerzy Buzek, International Charlemagne Prize Foundation Chairman Michael Jansen, and Rector of Aachen University Ernst Schmachtenberg. | 2019-04-21T08:13:49 | http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20110530IPR20497/europe-me-wins-european-charlemagne-youth-prize-2011 |
0.999998 | question_answer1) Mention any two features of the administration system of the Mauryan Empire.
question_answer2) 'By the eleventh century Sufism evolved into a well-developed movement.' Give any two examples.
question_answer3) Why was the colonial government keen on mapping of Indian cities from the early years? Give any two reasons.
question_answer4) How did architectural features of Mohenjodaro indicate planning? Support with suitable examples.
question_answer5) Who composed the original story of Mahabharata in oral form? Explain any four elements considered by the historians while analyzing the Mahabharata.
question_answer6) 'Buddha laid stress on right conduct and values.' In the light of the above message, explain his technique on life.
question_answer7) 'Domingo Paes has called the Mahanavami Dibba of Vijayanagara Empire as ?The House of Victory'.? Justify.
question_answer8) Describe the life led by the forest dwellers during the Mughal era in 16th -17th centuries.
question_answer9) Critically examine the policies adopted by the Britishers to control Paharias.
question_answer10) How did British dispossess Taluqdars of Awadh during 1857? Explain with examples.
(i) 'The colonial cines provided new opportunities for women during the 19th century.' Give two examples.
Explain the role of Panchayats in the Mughal rural Indian society during 16th-17th centuries.
Explain how Akbar maintained harmonious relations with different ethnic and religious communities.
'In the history of nationalism Gandhiji is often identified with the making of a nation.' Describe his role in the freedom struggle of India.
Describe the harrowing experiences of ordinary people during the period of partition of India.
(i) Who wrote the above Prashasti? State the importance of Prashasti.
(ii) Mention any three qualities of the ruler described in the excerpt.
(iii) How far are these values, shown by the rulers, relevant in the contemporary society? Explain.
This is an excerpt from the Adi Parvan (literally, the first section) of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, describing why conflicts arose amongst the Kauravas and Pandavas: The Kauravas were the ... sons of Dhritarashtra, and the Pandavas... were their cousins. Since Dhritarashtra was blind, his younger brother Pandu ascended the throne of Hastinapura, ... However, after the premature death of Pandu, Dhritarashtra became king, as the royal princes were still very young. As the princes grew up together, the citizens of Hastinapura began to express their preference for the Pandavas, for they were more capable and virtuous than the Kauravas. This made Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas, jealous. He approached his father and said; ?You yourself did not receive the throne, although, it fell to you because of your defect. If the Pandava receives the patrimony from Pandu, his son will surely inherit it in turn, and so will his son, and his. We ourselves with our sons shall be excluded from the royal succession and become of slight regard in the eyes of the world, lord of the earth!?
(i) Explain about the worries of Duryodhana. That he expressed to his father.
(ii) Mention the criteria for becoming king as suggested in the excerpt.
(iii) Why did the citizens of Hastinapur express their preference for the Pandavas?
The city of Delhi covers a wide area and has a large population ... The rampart round the city is without parallel. The breadth of its wall is eleven cubits; and inside it are houses for the night sentry and gatekeepers. Inside the ramparts, there are store-houses for storing edibles, magazines, ammunition, ballista's and siege machines. The grains that are stored (in these ramparts) can last for a long time, without rotting ... In the interior of the rampart, horseman as well as infantrymen move from one end of the city to another. The rampart is pierced through by windows which open on the side of the city, and it is through these windows that light enters inside.
The lower part of bricks. It has many towers close to one another. There are twenty eight gates in this city which are called darwaza, and of these, the Budaun darwaza is the greatest; inside the Mandwi darwaza there is a grain market; adjacent to the Gul darwaza there is an orchard ... It (the city of Delhi) has a fine cemetery in which graves have domes over them, and those that do not have a dome, have an arch, for sure. In the cemetery they sow flowers such as tuberose, jasmine, wild rose, etc.; and flowers blossom there in all seasons.
(i) Why has Ibn Battuta described Delhi as a vast city?
(ii) Mention the measures taken to protect Delhi from the invasion during 14th century.
(iii) Why was Ibn Battuta impressed with the architectural features of the city? Explain.
Krishnadeva Raya (ruled 1509-29), the most famous ruler of Vijayanagara, composed a work on statecraft in Telugu known as the Amuktamalyada. About traders he wrote: A king should improve the harbours of his country and so encourage its commerce that horses, elephants, precious gems, sandalwood, pearls and other articles are freely imported ... He should arrange that the foreign sailors who land in his country on account of storms, illness and exhaustion are looked after in a suitable manner. ... Make the merchants of distant foreign countries who import elephants and good horses be attached to yourself by providing them with daily audience, presents and allowing decent profits. Then those articles will never go to your enemies.
(i) Explain the responsibilities of king mentioned by Krishnadeva Raya.
(ii) In what ways had Krishnadeva Raya protected articles from going to his enemies?
(iii) Explain the measures taken by the king to improve the conditions of his country.
They (the ryots) first place spies on the boundaries of their villages to see if any Government officers come, and to give timely intimation of their arrival to the offenders. They then assemble in a body and go to the houses of their creditors, and demand from them a surrender of their bonds and other documents, and threaten them in case of refusal with assault and plunder. If any Government officer happens to approach the villages where the above is taking place, the spies give intimation to the offenders and the latter disperse in time.
(i) Describe how ryots took control over the moneylenders?
(ii) Explain the measures taken by the ryots to save themselves.
(iii) Explain why ryots resorted to robbing the moneylenders.
We say that it is our firm and solemn resolve to have an independent sovereign republic. India is bound to be sovereign, it is bound to be independent and it is bound to be a republic ... Now, some friends have raised the question: 'Why have you not put in the word 'democratic' here'? Well, I told them that it is conceivable, of course, that a republic may not be democratic but the whole of our past is witness to this fact that we stand for democratic institutions. Obviously we are aiming at democracy and nothing less than a democracy. What form of democracy, what shape it might take is another matter. The democracies of the present day, many of them in Europe and elsewhere, have played a great part in the world's progress. Yet it may be doubtful if those democracies may not have to change their, shape somewhat before long if they have to remain completely democratic.
We are not going just to copy, I hope, a certain democratic procedure or an institution of a so-called democratic country. We may improve upon it. In any event whatever system of government we may establish here must fit in with the temper of our people and be acceptable to them. We stand for democracy. It will be for this House to determine what shape to give to that democracy, the fullest democracy, I hope. The House will notice that in this Resolution, although we have not used the word "democratic" because we thought it.is obvious that the word "republic" contains that word and we did not want to use unnecessary words and redundant words, but we have done something much more than using the word. We have given the content of democracy in this Resolution and not only the content of democracy but the content, if, I may say so, of economic democracy in this Resolution. Others might take objection to this Resolution on the ground that we have not said that it should be a Socialist State. Well, I stand for Socialism and, I hope, India will stand for Socialism and that India will go towards the Constitution of a Socialist State and I do believe that the whole world will have to go that way.
(i) Explain why Nehru diet not mention, the word democratic in the resolution.
(ii) Mention the three basic features of the Constitution given in the above passage.
(iii) On what kind of socialism did Nehru give stress to?
(ii) On the same outline map of India three places related to the Indian National Movement have been marked as 1, 2 and 3. Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them. | 2019-04-20T20:37:16 | https://studyadda.com/solved-papers/12th-class/history/solved-paper-history-2014-delhi-set-i/749 |
0.997266 | Various indicators of corruption show that South Korea has been relatively successful in control of corruption, compared to other Asian countries. Since its independence, South Korea has been transitioning, if not completed a transition, from particularism of the limited access order to ethical universalism of the open access order. How did this happen? This paper first compare the political, economic and social bases of contemporary control of corruption in South Korea with those in the early period of post-independence, focusing on the norms of ethical universalism vs. particularism. Then, the process-tracing analysis finds four periods with different equilibria of norms of particularism and universalism. Each period is defined by major political events such as the establishment of two divided countries (1948), Student Democratic Revolution (1960) followed by the military coup led by Park Chung-hee a year later, democratic transition (1987), and the financial crisis and the first peaceful change of government (1997). This paper also identifies several critical reforms that have contributed to the change of governance norms. The dissolution of the landed aristocracy, relatively equal distribution of wealth and rapid expansion of education due to sweeping land reform (1948 and 1950) laid the structural foundations for the growth of ethical universalism. Gradual expansion of civil service examinations (1950s-1990s), democratization (1960 and 1987), good governance reforms (1988- ) and post-financial crisis economic reform (1998-9) promoted norms of ethical universalism. This paper also explores how these reforms were carried out, who were the main actors, what factors enabled and constrained them, and what impact they made on governance norms. | 2019-04-20T10:36:01 | http://anticorrp.eu/publications/process-tracing-report-on-south-korea/ |
0.999998 | due to the involvement of regional powers.
World powers have agreed to push for a cessation of hostilities in a weeks time.
Mr Assad expressed support for peace talks but said negotiations did not mean "we stop fighting terrorism".
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Mr Assad was "deluded" if he thought there was a military solution to the conflict.
More than 250,000 people have been killed and some 11 million displaced in almost five years of fighting in Syria.
Some Syrian cities have been cut off from humanitarian aid for more than a year because of fighting. About 13.5 million people are in need of aid, the UN says.
What does truce deal amount to?
Mr Assad was speaking in Damascus on Thursday, ahead of the deal on the cessation of hostilities that was agreed in Munich late on Thursday night.
He said government forces would try to retake all of Syria "without any hesitation", but that the involvement of regional powers meant that "the solution will take a long time and will incur a heavy price".
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, have almost encircled rebels in parts of the northern city of Aleppo and cut off their main supply route from the Turkish border.
Media captionLyse Doucet: "Moscow says its fighting terrorists; the West says its mainly bolstering the Syrian military in its fight against the rebels"
Mr Assad told AFP that if all rebel supply routes from Turkey, Jordan and Iraq were cut, the countrys "problem" could be solved in less than a year.
Mr Assad rejected recent accusations by the UN that his government was guilty of war crimes.
Earlier this month, UN human rights investigators said the Syrian government had carried out a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees.
In a report for the UN Human Rights Council, they accused the Syrian government of crimes against humanity. The report also said government and rebel forces had committed possible war crimes.
But Mr Assad called the accusations "politicised" and said the investigators had provided no evidence.
Tentative peace talks were held in Geneva earlier this month and have been "paused" until 25 February.
Mr Assad said he "fully believed in negotiations and in political action since the beginning of the crisis."
"However, if we negotiate, it does not mean that we stop fighting terrorism. The two tracks are inevitable in Syria," he said.
He also told AFP he believed there was a risk that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both back Syrian rebel forces, would intervene militarily in Syria.
Tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting around Aleppo, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis.
Many have headed to the Turkish border but have not been allowed to cross. Instead, Turkey says it will support the refugees on the Syrian side of the border.
Both Turkey and the European Union fear those displaced could add to the hundreds of thousands making the often perilous journey to Europe to seek asylum.
Mr Assad said European governments had caused the migration crisis "by giving cover to terrorists in the beginning and through sanctions imposed on Syria".
"I would like to ask every person who left Syria to come back," he said. "They would ask why should I come back? Has terrorism stopped?."
Meanwhile, a new UN task force set up to co-ordinate aid distributions is expected to convene in Geneva later on Friday.
Riad Hijab, co-ordinator of Syrias main opposition bloc, told the BBCs Newsnight programme that to announce a cessation of hostilities before making progress in the political process "is not realistic, objective or logical".
"It only satisfies the Russian demand to preserve gains by Russian and Iranian forces through their scorched-earth policy against rebels in territories under their control," he said.
Iran, Russia and Lebanons Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes. | 2019-04-20T02:45:56 | http://neonlabs.info/5697-assad_vows_to_retake_all_of_syria.html |
0.998619 | Could an analyst upgrade be a sign of better things to come for this metals company?
What: Shares of manufacturer AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE:AKS) jumped as much as 14.8% in early trading Wednesday after being upgraded by an analyst. Shares Settled to an 11% gain at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wall Street.
So what: The move was driven by analysts at Credit Suisse upgrading the stock all the way from underperform to outperform. They also doubled their price target from $3.50 to $7.00 per share.
The analysts think higher contracted steep prices in 2017 will help the company generate $510 million in free cash flow over the next two years. And a recent equity offering will help the company de-leverage the balance sheet, alleviating liquidity concerns.
Now what: If AK Steel can hit the free cash flow targets Credit Suisse has predicted, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think the stock has a high potential. But this is also a prediction based on the assumption that steel prices will rise, which investors have been hoping for all year. Until we see real progress on the income statement, I'd be wary of the metals business, because macro demand doesn't seem to be picking up, and with the market oversupplied, the long-term price trend isn't working in AK Steel's favor. | 2019-04-19T10:25:33 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/08/why-shares-of-ak-steel-holding-corporation-popped.aspx |
0.999099 | Q. Why would I need a root canal?
A. When the nerve of a tooth becomes irreversibly damaged -- due to decay, trauma, or a crack in the tooth -- you'll need root canal treatment.
Q. How can the dentist tell if I need a root canal?
A. Often nerve damage causes tooth pain, swelling and sensitivity to hot or cold. You may also notice that the tooth is becoming darker in color. Sometimes, it can only be diagnosed with an X-ray or other tests.
Q. What happens during a root canal?
A. During root canal treatment, the dentist cleans out the infected pulp tissue within the roots. After all the nerve has been removed, the canals are filled with a sealer.
A. Usually, root canal therapy takes one or two appointments for a front tooth (anterior), and two or three appointments for a back tooth (posterior). A tooth can have from one to four roots and all the roots must be treated.
Q. After the root canal is finished, will the tooth need more work?
A. The tooth is more brittle after a root canal and requires a permanent restoration. This could range from a simple tooth filling to a large build-up with posts and pins. If the tooth filling is large, the tooth may also need a dental crown to protect the tooth from breaking.
Q. Why not just take out the tooth?
A. It's usually healthier and less expensive to save the tooth with root canal treatment. Replacing an extracted tooth involves either expensive bridgework or a partial denture. If the tooth is extracted and not replaced, adjoining teeth can move into the empty space, creating even more problems.
Q. Will root canal treatment be painful?
A. Your tooth will be numb during the treatment. If your tooth was aching or sensitive prior to treatment, it may take a few days for the tooth to get back to feeling normal. You can take a mild painkiller during that time. If it's necessary, something stronger will be prescribed. If the tooth had been badly infected, you may need to take an antibiotic.
Q. How much will it a Root Canal cost?
A. The cost of root canal treatment usually depends on the number of canals which are infected and need treatment. There will be a separate charge for the restoration, which will vary from the cost of a simple filling to a crown. All expected treatment charges will be discussed with you before treatment. | 2019-04-18T15:42:39 | https://www.1strootcanal.com/local-dentist |
0.999837 | Let's get this out of the way now: Steve Nash has been absolutely terrible in a Lakers uniform. I don't care that Nash had a semi decent first season, in which he only played 50 games, or that he shot well during the first year here; he has still been nothing like the player the Lakers traded for. He hasn't been worth any of the draft picks the Lakers traded for him two years ago; he hasn't been worth the 9 million+ they use on him in cap space; he has barely been worth a roster spot, quite frankly. Injuries have made him more of a burden than anything else.
"One thing's certain: Nash wants to return next season. "I want to come back for sure," he said."
I used to be a big fan of Steve Nash and his wonderfully complete offensive skill set. The seamless and smooth pick and rolls that Nash used to run were a thing of beauty; he was one of the most complete offensive players at his position and will likely be in the Hall of Fame when the time comes. However, Nash is a major burden on this team's cap situation and he isn't worth a roster spot anymore. Not when you have Kendall Marshall, Marshon Brooks, Jodie Meeks, Jordan Farmar, and Kent Bazemore to play between the two guard positions. Not when all of those players are under 28 years old and ready to step in to the rotation and provide solid overall play. Nash's defense is worse than all of those players, and his offense is no longer good enough to break even when it comes to Win Shares. And this isn't even taking into account Kobe Bryant, who will probably not return this year, but it leaves even less room for Nash in an improving rotation.
Of course, the real reason I think allowing Nash to come back is a mistake is because of the cap space he takes up. There are only five players under contract for next season (Bryant, Marshall, Robert Sacre, Nick Young and Nash); the Lakers need to fill up the rest of that roster space, hopefully by retaining all of the younger players they have and filling the cracks with a few new players via Free Agency while potentially adding star level talent via a top five pick in the NBA draft and saving their cap space for the next free agency when Kevin Love will be available. Obviously, this could backfire, but the Lakers need to keep their options open, and getting rid of Nash helps them do just that.
Nash cannot be simply cut or waived. Should Nash retire, then the Lakers will still have to pay him the 9.7 million he is owed for next year, including the cap hit. Should Nash decide to stick around for another year, then the Lakers can get rid of him via the stretch provision, saving 3 million this year, and stretching out his cap hit over the next three years. For the sake of the future, just go away, Steve. | 2019-04-23T10:20:46 | http://hackashaq.blogspot.com/2014/03/steve-nash-wants-to-return-to-lakers.html |
0.998408 | Ivanka Trump Ivana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpIvanka Trump and Tim Cook visit Idaho School District in Kushner to receive the highest honor in Mexico G-20 gives Trump an opportunity to champion women's empowerment MORE in a new interview, he stated that there was "no equivalence" between his use of a private email account for government emails in 2017 and Hillary ClintonUsing a private mail server as a secretary of state.
"All my emails are stored and kept, there was no deletion, there is no attempt to hide, there is no equivalence with what my father spoke, "Trump told ABC News.
In 2017, Trump used his private account to send hundreds of emails about official business to government aides, cabinet members and his personal assistants, the Washington Post reported earlier this month.
Trump has faced more and more criticism about the news, given President Trump Donald John TrumpHyde-Smith prevails in the runoff in Mississippi after the public meeting between Trump, Cuomo and Tromo, at a meeting at the White House, to discuss an infrastructure project Ivanka Trump and Tim Cook visit the Idaho School District PLUSClinton attacks against his use as a private email as secretary of state. The President has repeatedly suggested that Clinton should be jailed for doing so.
Ivanka Trump, however, told ABC News that "there is no restriction on the use of a personal email".
"In fact, we are informed that if we receive an email on our personal account that may be related to the work of the government, you simply forward it to your government account so that it can be archived," he said. she added.
President Trump has defended his daughter and his counselor since the beginning of history, telling reporters last month that it was "false information" to draw parallels between his use of 39, a private email and that of Clinton.
"She was not doing anything to hide her emails," said the president. "There was no erasing like Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Supreme Court CounselConfort sent Trump's lawyers information about Mueller's investigation: according to a report, the Mueller documents show communications between Corsi and Stone on WikiLeaks email. made. There was no server in the basement like Hillary Clinton. You were talking about something else, you are talking about false news. " | 2019-04-21T22:58:24 | https://naaju.com/ivanka-trump-no-equivalence-with-the-private-use-of-email-by-hillary-clinton/ |
0.999999 | It's a smart business move. I don't know what kind of tv viewership ratings the London game is projected to receive (versus a regular season home game) but, just like u/Phantonshitter points out, it will most likely help a smaller market team gain more exposure over time - which this team badly needs.
I think an Orlando match was proposed at some point or another, and I thought that was a good move, too. Outside of the NE Region of Florida, there is not much news coverage or passionate fan base for the this team.
The biggest downside I can see is that the logistics of travelling internationally during the regular season is somewhat brutal. The time frame is 6-ish hours earlier, and I would imagine everyone involved (coach staff, players, assistants, trainers, etc..) suffer somewhat from the lengthy travel duration.
It's a smart business move. I don't know what kind of tv viewership ratings the London game is projected to receive (versus a regular season home game) but, just like u/Phantonshitter points out, it will most likely help a smaller market team gain more exposure over time - which this team badly needs. <p>I think an Orlando match was proposed at some point or another, and I thought that was a good move, too. Outside of the NE Region of Florida, there is not much news coverage or passionate fan base for the this team.<p> The biggest downside I can see is that the logistics of travelling internationally during the regular season is somewhat brutal. The time frame is 6-ish hours earlier, and I would imagine everyone involved (coach staff, players, assistants, trainers, etc..) suffer somewhat from the lengthy travel duration.
I agree with the exposure but when 9:30am comes on Sunday I'm not quite ready to drink beers and watch the Jags play. Don't get me wrong I do but its so early for football it almost doesn't seem right.
Also it takes away from a Jags home game every year. If they have 15 games over in London within the next 15 years you are losing that many home games in Jacksonville.
Also now they're using yahoo.com to stream the one this year and who knows how good the stream will load. I don't really care for it.
I agree with the exposure but when 9:30am comes on Sunday I'm not quite ready to drink beers and watch the Jags play. Don't get me wrong I do but its so early for football it almost doesn't seem right. Also it takes away from a Jags home game every year. If they have 15 games over in London within the next 15 years you are losing that many home games in Jacksonville. Also now they're using yahoo.com to stream the one this year and who knows how good the stream will load. I don't really care for it.
I personally like it, as a small market team it is going to give us a lot of exposure and hopefully help further the fanbase. | 2019-04-21T03:15:21 | https://voat.co/v/Jaguars/437203 |
0.999943 | In a marathon experiment, Maurice Allais released a Foucault pendulum every 14 minutes - for 30 days and nights -without missing a data point. He recorded the direction of rotation (in degrees) at his Paris laboratory. This energetic show of human endurance happened to overlap with the 1954 solar eclipse. During the eclipse, the pendulum took an unexpected turn, changing its angle of rotation by 13.5 degrees.
Maurice Allais (1911 - ) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1988. He stated, "All my researches in theoretical and applied physics which, at first sight, appear to be remote from my main activity as an economist, have, in reality, enriched me with valuable experience."
Both before and after the eclipse, the pendulum experienced normal rotation (Foucault effect of 0.19 degrees/minute). This 13.5-degree excursion in the angular plane persisted throughout the length of the eclipse, a total of 2.5 hours of observations. Allais got similar results when he later repeated the experiment during a solar eclipse in 1959.
It just occurred to me that if linear gravity does vary in relation to the rotational axis of a large object, then that fact would be very open to verify experimentally.
Our planet's orbit around the sun dips and rises monthly with respect to the plane perpendicular to the sun's rotational axis. The same is true of the moon. Any particular solar eclipse will represent a combination of those 2 variables. In such a case the pendulum anomalies would be quite different for each particular eclipse and with enough tests could eventually be mapped to a model using those 2 variables theoretically.
I agree with your assessment. Please consider this Mr. Riktare. The greatest pull of linear gravity should be in the plane of the equators of every rotating body. Less so above and below this equatorial plane and less so as it extends out and weakens by intervening space. Remember that the revelations do not fully endorse the inverse square law and considers it a rough approximation.
I wonder if this mapped model will have the appearance of the circles of Apollonius (the magnetic field of the Earth as a model). I suspect that the magnetic field is really not a field but actual particles traveling from one hemisphere to the other and bowing out as they jump from hemisphere to hemisphere due to this differential gravitational field. How would you explain this? I think that the revelation is telling.
It is not just a two body or a three body problem, it involves differential angles of axial rotation by each and every body involved.
What about the effect of Paradise gravity on the ultimatons?
(41:9.2) Atoms and electrons are subject to gravity. The ultimatons are not subject to local gravity, the interplay of material attraction, but they are fully obedient to absolute or Paradise gravity, to the trend, the swing, of the universal and eternal circle of the universe of universes. Ultimatonic energy does not obey the linear or direct gravity attraction of near-by or remote material masses, but it does ever swing true to the circuit of the great ellipse of the far-flung creation.
Isn't this also a factor?
Well, from memory, I believe we are told that free, uncharged particles such as ultimatons do not exhibit gravitational forces or electro-magnetic forces on other material particles. They may be engaged in a circular space drift around paradise but they don't contribute to physical effects themselves in the Master Universe. They seem to be rather, raw building blocks for the Master Universe's physical makeup. At least that is what I can gather from the UB narrative.
42:1.2 Matter—energy—for they are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality, as a universe phenomenon is inherent in the Universal Father. “In him all things consist.” Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy and to exhibit self-contained powers, but the lines of gravity involved in the energies concerned in all these physical phenomena are derived from, and are dependent on, Paradise, The ultimaton, the first measurable form of energy, has Paradise as its nucleus.
The Ultimaton must somehow, simultaneously, be subject to the absolute gravity control of Paradise as its nucleus, as well as Paradise at the nucleus of the Master Universe.
I agree with Mr. Riktare that linear gravity does not come into play until a particle becomes charged. In other words, until a particle has a stable axis of rotation and polarity. Polarity brings about an equator and linear gravity attraction. This equator is perpendicular to mass, the line that joins the poles of the spinning particle, and is the plane of greatest attractive pull.
Absolute Paradise gravity has a center (point) of gravity. Whereas, spinning, breathing particles have a line of gravity (linear). This line is the line joining the poles of a charged particle. That is why a plane can be perpendicular to mass. A plane can be perpendicular to a line but not a point.
In a sense, can't one say that "charge" is linear gravity? This would be a stunning revelation if it makes sense.
Charge in the classical sense is defined as a discontinuity of polarization. In other words, it is the place in space where the electro-magnetic orientation of a particle or group of particles breaks down. The freedom to orient or re-position themselves in a way that minimizes stress is taken away. Potential energy (and stress) therefore collects at that point, line or surface. Possibly the same is true for gravity also.
(The "tension" of gravity or other space force produces stress where tension is opposed).
The "unexplained huddling proclivity" of ultimatons may be important in the transition from free ultimatons to aggregations as a charged particle.
I understand what you are saying about charge but can you see charge and linear gravity as one and the same? Perhaps a charge field is in reality a gravitational field and actual particles are moving in this field. Take for example a bar magnet and the iron fillings. Perhaps the field that we see in the orientations of the fillings are particles moving from pole to pole in a gravitational field and physically aligning the iron fillings as they move and interact.
And gravity controls all of them.
toto, there are apparently some crucially important items in the paragraph you quoted that were not actually brought to bear. I "see" actually the contrary observation that charge and gravity are emphatically not the same thing. I was hoping the paragraph quoted explained that point. They cannot be the same thing even if a strong relationship between them exists. Gravity is the source of tension in space. Do you agree that the revelators make that clear?
Yes, Riktare, but please specify absolute gravity vs linear gravity. Motion is the result of absolute gravity and charge is the result of imbalanced motion that creates polarity. Polarity then creates linear gravity from its two foci, the poles. This creates a whole new field that causes a new tension between poles. This tension is relieved by the motions of particles or energy from pole to pole, north to south and visa versa. The Earth has a charge because there is an imbalance of motion across the equator. Particles of matter must move from the hemisphere of greater motion to the one of lesser motion. There is always an imbalance of mass between hemispherical halves. And this creates the charge potential.
We must always remember also that matter is in space but there is also space in matter. This too the revelators made clear. This is why Einstein's gravitational theory is invalid. Matter cannot warp the space within it or else all space would be squeezed out of matter and the Universe would only consist of absolute substance (Paradise).
Yes, Riktare, but please specify absolute gravity vs linear gravity.
I wish I could. The revelators give only a teasing amount of information about Paradise gravity and they don't indicate how it affects matter other than ultimatons. Even that is sketchy. If we're going to speculate my small mind requires some real evidence and a follow through and analysis of any potential working model.
Gravity is the source of tension in space.
This we can totally agree on. However, one cannot push with a rope. Charge, we are told, has repulsive forces in that like charges repel. Is this repellent force a field or is this force collisional?
If it is a field, then the charge field controls matter-energy. If it is a collisional force, then some field is causing particles to move and collide.
Charge in the classical sense is defined as a discontinuity of polarization.
I do not understand this definition. Polarization is a separation of a single focus into two foci. It is the making of an ellipse out of a circle. This creates a tension. I see no discontinuity in this. An equator is not a discontinuation, it is a reflection, where + turn to - and visa versa.
I can't either, based on the what the revelators have said, but perhaps teasing is an inappropriate expression. I prefer to think of it as a challenge to think beyond what we are told. After all, we are not to be given unearned knowledge. Please allow me to present a working model for your consideration and critique.
Ultimatons, the first measurable motion, have a center, and that center is Paradise. They are controlled by the absolute gravity of Paradise. As a spinning particle, when the ultimaton develops a charge due to an imbalance of motion across its equator, linear gravity appears as a field. This field is not spherical as is absolute gravity, but rather toroidal. The analogy is a circle verses an ellipse.
All orbits are elliptical. Where is the field that can account for an elliptical orbit? It cannot be spherical and be governed by the verse square law. The Sun sits at one foci of the ellipse and the other foci is conspicuously absent. The model of a spherical gravitational field (Newton) following the inverse square law would necessarily have the Earth flying off into space at aphelion and crashing into the Sun at perihelion.
In creating the tension of separating the focus into two, the missing force coming from the ghost foci is found at the other pole of a two body system, Earth and Sun. Only a toroidal gravitational field can account for elliptical orbits.
Evidence was provided long ago by Kepler. Every observation since has confirmed the elliptical orbits of the planets.
They cannot be the same thing even if a strong relationship between them exists.
Here you are referring to gravity and charge. You admit that there exist a strong relationship between them. Either they are one and the same or one controls the other. Either the relationship is one of unity or it is a perpendicular relationship. And all control is perpendicular. Time conditions space, not the other way around. Space and time is an orthogonally related. Einstein and Minkowski were correct about that. Their error was making time linear and space an absolute unbounded cubic, albeit one that can stretch. A line of time cannot be perpendicular to a cubic. They placed linear time in the imaginary plane and used hyperbolic math to sell their wares. They should have made space hyperbolic and realized that time must be circular because only circles can be orthogonal (perpendicular) to circular time. Now we see how that has impacted our space program. The chickens have come home to roost.
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(42:1.2) Matter—energy—for they are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality, as a universe phenomenon is inherent in the Universal Father. "In him all things consist." Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy and to exhibit self-contained powers, but the lines of gravity involved in the energies concerned in all these physical phenomena are derived from, and are dependent on, Paradise. The ultimaton, the first measurable form of energy, has Paradise as its nucleus.
Ultimatons, the first measurable motion, have a center, and that center is Paradise.
So this means the ultimaton moves around Paradise as its nucleus in "the trend of the circle, the swing of the great ellipse", not that Paradise is at the center of each ultimaton right?
Actually, the ultimaton is measurable because it spins. The ultimaton has a center and that center is Paradise. The Ultimaton also moves around Paradise in the Master Universe sense. These apparently separate centers are one and the same. There can only be one center.
Space is a system of associated points. These points are centers. But these centers are one and the same. "Associated points" can only be said to be associated (related) if they are one and the same. There can only be one point. A point without extension can only be associated with itself.
The theoretical "I AM" can only be associated with itself. The theoretical "I AM" can only extend itself in relationship. The central, singular "I AM" extends itself to the concentric circles of the Holy Trinity. This extension is also called radius and relates to all extensions in a right handed manner.
The discontinuity is where the polarization no longer applies. That must be the case otherwise electrons could not congregate together to build a composite charge like that on the terminal of a battery. Likewise the charged region of an electron cannot be polarized. In your bipolar visualization each foci would be a charge, not the equator.
Time conditions space, not the other way around.
Are you sure about that? I believe the revelators clearly state that is not the case: either case you mention.
Space and time is an orthogonally related. Einstein and Minkowski were correct about that.
So you are incorporating the metric of time into the metric of space as Einstein and Minkowski did? Again, the relevators clearly tell us that that is not reality. At least it is not their way of perceiving Physics. | 2019-04-18T11:13:12 | https://truthbook.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5350&view=previous |
0.998741 | How many squares on a chess board?
How many squares are there on a chess board? Depending upon your interpretation, this can be perceived as a trick question. The answer of 64 squares (8×8), is perfectly valid, but there is also an alternative answer if we count the squares of different sizes, not just the individual squares.
There's also a formula for quickly calculating the sum of squares. For a chess board, with n=8, we can see the sum is 204.
Interestingly, as n gets larger, this formula tends to n3/3. I'm sure there is some particularly cool consequence of this, but I can't think of one at the moment. If you think of one, drop me a note, and I'll update this page and give you credit!
"A consequence of the sum of n2 tending to n3/3. It turns out to be quite simple and fascinating! Consider each number n2 to correspond to n2 little cubes of size 1, put in such way to form a square. For each n=1,2,3,… let us put this squares on top of each other (no need to centre them, thanks to Fubini's theorem). If we repeat this process infinitely, we can actually 'see' a pyramid forming, whose volume is indeed n3/3 = the sum of the cubes volume!"
I found a picture of such a Ziggurat, on the internet, made from sugar cubes!
How about the number of rectangles on a chess board? Well, to make a rectangle you need to pick any two of the vertical lines, and any two of the horizontal lines. There are 9C2 pairs of horizontal lines you can pick (36 distinct pairs), and the same number of vertical pairs, so the answer is 36×36=1,296.
Take an 18×18 grid of squares, and remove two of them so that the resulting figure contains exactly 2002 squares of all different sizes made from the remaining squares.
There's an answer on the internet, but I could not agree with it, so I wrote a bit of code to generate all the answers.
If you want to give it a go yourself, here's an applet below. In this variant, you can also specify different grid sizes and the number of shaded blocks you are allowed to set.
Did you find a solution? If you want to see all 64 solutions (not de-duplicated by rotations or reflections), click below. | 2019-04-26T10:30:17 | http://datagenetics.com/blog/february12019/index.html |
0.998843 | SF: How did you first meet Colin?
GG: Colin had become acquainted with us and our skills whilst visiting car shows in Turin and Geneva in 1971-72. Our PR Director was involved in the racing world; we got in touch and he commissioned us to do a study of a new super-car.
SF: What was the appeal?
GG: It was the appeal of a make that was a Formula One winner. The Lotus brand was synonymous with dynamism and speed, for lightweight, high-performance cars. It was this that gave me the inspiration for the Esprit's penetrating, 'Sharp' shape.
SF: How do you set out designing a new car?
GG: Occasionally the brief we receive from the customer is extremely detailed, and I am given a great deal of general information about the car I have to build, about the chassis, the mechanicals, and market research to define the type of customer it targets, etc. Other times the input is more open-ended and I am free to propose newer less 'traditional' ideas. Today companies want us to build a model based on a 'platform' that can be adapted to the needs of a number of versions (deluxe, sports car, coupe, SUV, etc.).
The project has to be analysed in the tiniest detail, even taking into consideration the dictats of insurance companies, the demands of maintenance workshops, and the recycling of materials after the car's lifetime for ecological and environmental reasons. Today styling and engineering companies are expected to include so many specialists and skills, that in just 10 years our workforce has almost doubled in size.
SF: Were you given a free rein in the Esprit design?
GG: Even though we were free to make proposals from an 'architectonic' point of view, costs and the use of the fibre-glass technology, with which Colin was an expert (we tended to work with sheet metal) certainly restricted us a little in terms of the shape. The birth of the Esprit, in which we co-operated with Mike Kimberly, Lotus Technical Director at that time, we not without its painful moments.
Colin asked me for a 1:4 scale model to be built as soon as possible for aerodynamic tests. We did this quickly but the design itself obviously needed some fine-tuning. He was disappointed by the results in the wind tunnel (the CX coefficient which had been given by the test was 0.34) so he decided to put the project on hold.
In Colin's opinion, an attractive aesthetic also had to be functional. If the shape and the architectonic aspect of an object matched its aerodynamics and functionality performance, then it could be considered a beautiful object! Our scale model did not meet the aerodynamic requirements he was expecting and so he cancelled the project.
GG: I still wanted to build the full-sized model and finish it in time for our stand at the Turin Motor Show (in 1972). We built a plaster and resin model of the exterior with real doors, and a perfectly finished interior reflecting the general dimensions and mechanical elements we had agreed with Colin. Chapman was fascinated by the prototype and decided to develop it using fibre glass technology. It was put into production in October 1975. Five years later, in 1980, Chapman presented a Turbo version of the Esprit, which still maintained the bodywork and interior that I had designed.
The Esprit clearly had a 'graphical', rigorous, linear style, as if I had imagined it in two dimensions rather than as a 3-D sculpture. The Esprit was a new departure from previous designs I had been involved with: together with the Maserati Boomerang it introduced architecture to our roads and although it had a few imitators, it represents the shape that manufacturers of spirited sports cars still try to emulate.
SF: Did the Esprit change much from your initial concepts through to the first production model?
GG: The production model was improved from an aerodynamic point of view. The lines of the lids and doors on the car were modified and a moulding in the centre of the waistband fasica was introduced to hide the junction of the two 'walnut shells' body sections. All of the inside controls and switches were housed in a single semicircular instrument panel block (easily displaced for left-hand drive versions) which made it easier to activate all the controls without taking your hands off the wheel. On the turbo version, there were new front and rear bumper elements, with spoilers and air inlets in the sides. And the rear end was particularly attractive because it incorporated the light-clusters in a single strip whereas before they were almost haphazardly arranged on the tail end.
SF: How did you feel when the car was launched?
GG: I was of course very proud and satisfied. For example, the windshield inclination (18 degrees) was extreme for that period but only after the mass production of the Esprit was I able to demonstrate that all the glass manufacturers' fears were maybe inspired only by laziness.
SF: How long did you continue working on the Esprit?
GG: The body and the interior of the turbo version (presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1980) were still mine and that's all. It was not a very long project.
SF: What do the think of the current Lotus models? Do they maintain the 'spirit of Lotus'?
GG: Yes, I thing the Exige and the Elise maintain the spirit of the brand.
SF: How do you think the sports car industry has changed?
GG: The technological improvements in the automotive field and the big boost which has been given to mass production cars in their different typologies have somehow reduced the gab between series cars and sports cars as far a performance is concerned. Therefore, the state-of-the-art sports cars for sports men able to drive them are going into decline.
SF: What are you doing now?
GG: I'm working on a large number of projects, both in the automotive and industrial design fields. Right now I would like to do some designing in the field of aeronautics, a fighter aircraft would be my dream.
SF: Would you like to be involved with another Lotus design if they asked you?
GG: Of course I would; I have a very good memory of our past relationship.
SF: How would you like to be remembered?
GG: As a man who has spent 40 years in the automotive field and has made some small contribution to improving and developing the car. | 2019-04-26T15:57:43 | http://lotusespritturbo.com/Giorgetto_Giugiaro_Interview.htm |
0.99998 | Who could Wales face in 2018 World Cup qualification?
Footballing aristocracy will gather at the Konstantin Palace, St Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday as the groups for the preliminary round draw for the 2018 World Cup are decided.
It is the most-anticipated draw Welsh football fans have experienced. For the first time, Wales have a prime seat at the table - among the top seeds for the European section after a remarkable rise under manager Chris Coleman has put them 10th in the world.
Wales are, of course, in pole position to qualify for the Euro 2016 finals as leaders of qualifying Group B, with the next European matches in early September comprising Cyprus away then at home to Israel.
This form has given Wales elevated status at a draw in which Brazilian World Cup winners Ronaldo and legendary Italian winning captain Fabio Cannavaro are among the ''assistants.'' It's almost Dream Land - but not quite.
Wales will avoid the likes of world champions Germany and European champions Spain by virtue of being in pot one, however, they could potentially be drawn against former World Cup winners France and Italy because these countries are in pot two.
Even with the likes of Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey at his disposal, Coleman will be aware that plenty of lower-placed teams will see Wales as their favoured option to draw from pot one.
So, given that Russia go through automatically as hosts, who could Wales draw?
Aside from past winners Italy and France, Wales may want to avoid Slovakia and Austria - the highest-ranked second seeds.
Iceland, driven by Swansea City's Gylfi Sigurdsson and Cardiff City's Aron Gunnarsson are also potential opponents from pot two and currently top their Euro 2016 qualification group ahead of the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
So it may be better the devil you know and Wales would prefer to meet one of their current Euro 2016 rivals, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Northern Ireland and Scotland are among the third seeds. Logistically they would be ideal and the Tartan Army travel in numbers, but both are improving.
Serbia are currently bottom of their Euro 2016 qualification group, but humbled Wales 6-1 in the last World Cup campaign. However revenge might seem sweet for Coleman as the defeat was a low point of his reign.
Poland and Ukraine look like the teams to avoid.
Indeed, the third seed everyone will want is surely Greece. Away games there may be hostile, but their European rivals Faroe Isles seemed to manage and have already chalked up a double over the Greeks, who prop up Euro 2016 qualifying group F.
Drawing fourth seeds Norway would be poignant, as they were the opponents in the late Gary Speed's last game as Wales manager. Republic of Ireland would make travelling easy, Turkey are the team to miss.
A rematch with Israel would hold few fears for Coleman after Wales' stunning 3-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win in Haifa, in March.
Estonia or Slovenia would probably be ideal, since Wales' record against Montenegro includes two defeats to just one win.
Fellow Euro Group B competitors Cyprus are the highest seeds in pot five and a trip to Nicosia would probably go down well with Welsh fans.
Yet former Wales boss John Toshack and Coleman both know they can be awkward customers.
Lithuania would be a new experience for Wales, since they are one of the three European nations Wales have never played.
And you can guarantee if Wales are drawn against Macedonia , Coleman will take better care of his passport, since he lost it and arrived later than the squad to the capital Skopje for the defeat against them in September 2013.
Wales should be frightened of no-one in this pot, but Azerbaijan is the most testing logistically.
Lithuania appear ideal, if only to chalk up another venue for the growing band of intrepid Wales fans.
Andorra are the lowest seeds, ranked 202 in the world, but the mountain-top state provided trying opposition in Wales' opening Euro 2016 encounter.
Andorra led 1-0 at half time, before Bale scored twice to rescue Wales from an embarrassing result.
Kazakhstan are another side who Wales have never faced, the third of the trio are Gibraltar, who are not competing.
But Coleman probably would prefer to avoid a long trip to travel to either Malta, San Marino and Andorra.
And, Wales will be hoping that the pitch will be better after their complaints about the 3G surface at Andorra la Vella last time. | 2019-04-21T09:28:04 | https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/33635662 |
0.998778 | Beautiful food, wonderful for veggies!
Been here twice now, once just 4 of us and had a great meal and a good time so went back for my birthday this time 10 of us, they really looked after our group including decorating the table for my birthday and also bringing out a cake at the end of the evening. excellent service and despite the web site indicating it may be bit on the expensive side they do not charge silly prices for the drinks and despite the men having 5/6 beers and 3 bottles of wine for the ladies it was only a fraction over £32 per head.
Will be back because the menu is very good and I need to try more food.
Excellent food. I especially recommend the sirloin steak served in a hot dish - absolutely melts in the mouth and is dedicious - well worth the little bit extra cost I also adore the tempura vegetable and the chicken satay with sticky rice. Beautiful food well worth the cost!!!! Fast and polite service. | 2019-04-25T16:12:57 | http://www.ruamthaiburnham.co.uk/ruamthai_guest_book.html |
0.999181 | Recommended by Diego Klabjan, Professor at Northwestern Engineering, who said: “Perhaps the biggest news in Q1 was OpenAI and their GPT-2 model. The caveat is that as a non-profit organization they decided not to release the (trained) model due to concerns related to its possible use to create fake text”.
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That inspired Chet to work with the Accessibility team to build a tool that could reduce Dimitri’s effort spent preparing for conversations. We thought: What if we used cloud-based automatic speech recognition to display spoken words on a screen?
Extract: As AI and machine learning begin to perform ever more impressive feats in image recognition and language comprehension, we may ask: could it also transform the task of finding new drugs?
The problem is that human researchers can explore only a tiny slice of what is possible. It’s estimated that there are as many as 1060 potentially drug-like molecules—more than the number of atoms in the solar system. But traversing seemingly unlimited possibilities is what machine learning is good at. Trained on large databases of existing molecules and their properties, the programs can explore all possible related molecules.
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About: With the rapid advancements and applications of AI, conversations have increased around the intentions of this technology. There are concerns that AI could be used with malicious intent rather than for the benefit of human-kind. This paper explores areas where artificial intelligence can benefit society and tackle global challenges such as the environment, education, healthcare and sustainability. Topics including Global AI Inititiaves, the Challenges of AI, Benefits of AI for Social Good, the Future of AI for Good are covered, as well as case studies from Google, Intuitive AI and GoodAI. | 2019-04-26T08:38:09 | https://www.re-work.co/blog/the-top-10-ai-deep-learning-reads-2019-so-far |
0.99878 | CARRERA 24 - IS THIS NORMAL?
Hello dear Fairline owner, yesterday I bought a Fairline Carrera 24 with two engines Volvo AQ171. Already on the day after the handover, I realize that the ship is quite deep with the stern. In addition, it is slightly inclined to starboard. (SEE PHOTO).
Is this normal for the weight of two engines or is something wrong here?
I took a picture showing the waterline to the side.
I did not store heavy objects in the ship.
The ship has a water tank and a sewage tank.
I would be glad to get a quick estimate of Carrera 25 owners.
Looking at pictures of other Carrera 24's on the web, a lot of them seem to be quite low in the water. Yours perhaps very slightly more than others. I assume you have checked that there's no water in the bilges? Also, the sewage tank won't be original equipment so if that is full and is on the starboard side it could explain the list. Worth also checking that you don't have lots of heavy stuff (liferaft, outboards, etc) stored on the starboard side.
Thanks, in the meantime, I have also compared many pictures and notice that the low position of the ship is more common. Meanwhile, this has also confirmed the previous owner. He has also referred to the light banking as normal, since most installations are on the starboard side. There is also the waste water tank, even if it is currently empty. I'll get used to it and move the luggage and equipment to port.
Anyway, the Carrera24 is a nice boat and I'm looking forward to the summer. | 2019-04-19T00:56:12 | http://fairlineownersclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3938&sid=0ff586a7dd846ab4a0a4dac453686d05 |
0.999368 | I know Boxing is an old man's sport, but I'm really looking forward to the Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao fight.
Even though it's a huge mismatch.
Personally, I feel it's a no-win-situation for Oscar De La Hoya.
To be completely honest, as a boxing fan, I think it's kind of pathetic that De La Hoya is fighting the much smaller Manny Pacquiao.
To me it feels like a desperate attempt by him to gain the support of a Mexican audience he's never had. To most boxing insiders, it looks like he's fighting Pacquiao simply because he's famous for defeating Mexico's best fighters, Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez and Marco Antonio Barrera.
I like a good fight as much as anyone, but De La Hoya is FOUR inches taller than Pacquiao and has a SIX inch reach advantage over him. Not to mention that Pacquiao is going to move up TWO weight classes to fight De La Hoya.
Can you realistically script a more lopsided fight?
To me the physical mismatch is equivalent to the difference De La Hoya had against Bernard Hopkins in their fight.
I do believe that Pacquiao has a better shot than De La Hoya did though. He's faster and quicker than Oscar. Pacquiao has a good shot if he boxes with De La Hoya and tries to win by decision. I also think it was a good move by Pacquiao to take the fight. Besides the money, it gives him more visibility and international fame in the sport. It's a win-win situation for Manny.
Don't get me wrong, I still hope that Manny wins and I'd love to see him knock De La Hoya out.
But let's be realistic. Pacquiao is going in as big underdog. It would be a huge upset if he won.
Last week during the Ricky Hatton match, the HBO announcers said that even if Pacquiao loses the match to De La Hoya, he'll still be considered the pound for pound champ because of the big jump in weight class he's making.
But I'll still be watching on December 6, because I love Pacquiao and I'm hoping for the epic upset.
But if Oscar wins as expected, I hope he steps up and tries to fight someone his own size. Maybe someone like Antonio Margarito or Miguel Cotto.
Those two would dish out a beating on Oscar he won't soon forget.
I think the Golden Boy wouldn't be so Golden anymore. | 2019-04-24T10:09:52 | http://www.rayslucky13.com/2008/11/oscar-de-la-hoya-vs-manny-pacquiao.html |
0.998795 | Process contaminants are chemical substances that have not been intentionally added to food but are produced during food processing steps such as cooking, heating or purification of foods or ingredients. This Q&A will address process contaminants in edible vegetable oils and fats that are formed during the processing (also known as refining) required to make these oils and fats suitable for use in food manufacturing. These group of substances includes 2-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (2-MCPD), 3-monochloropropane,-1,2-diol (3-MCPD) and its related fat soluble forms (also known as 3-MCPD esters), and glycidyl esters (GE).
What is 3-MCPD and in what foods does it occur?
3-MCPD was first identified as a contaminant of soy sauce and acid-hydrolysed vegetable protein (a savoury food ingredient). Since then it has been detected at low levels in a number of foods and ingredients. Other common sources of exposure through the diet include vegetable fats and oils (in particular palm fats and palm oils), cookies, pastries and cakes, infant and follow up formulae, fried or baked potato products, and certain meat and fish products.
What are 3-MCPD esters and in what food do they occur?
3-MCPD esters are a fat soluble form of 3-MCPD. They are formed during the processing (refining) of edible oils and fats. This process is required to produce oils and fats that meet the standards of safety and quality that ensure they are suitable for use in food manufacturing.
3-MCPD esters were only recently discovered in foods and food ingredients. They highest levels of 3-MCPD esters have been found in palm oils and fats, but they are also present in most vegetable oils and fats, and all manufactured products containing them. They can also be found in a variety of foods including infant formula, follow-on formula, bread (crust), roasted nuts and dried milk.
Are there any health risks associated with 3-MCPD and its esters?
3-MCPD esters are considered to have the same toxicological profile as 3-MCPD. The TDI of 0.8 μg bw per day is therefore applicable to the combined intake of both 3-MCPD and its esters.
The Panel estimated the current exposure levels of European consumers over all age groups using data on the levels of 3-MCPD and its esters found in European food products. To determine whether there is a potential health concern, the exposure level of each age group was compared to the TDI (the recommended maximum limit for daily consumption over a lifetime). EFSA concluded that average exposure levels for infants, toddlers and children under the age of 10 are higher than the TDI. They concluded that current exposure levels to 3-MCPD and its esters may pose a potential health concern to these age groups.
Are any maximum limits set for 3-MCPD or 3 MCPD esters in food?
Maximum levels have been set in European food legislation (Commission Regulation (EC) 1881/2006) for 3-MCPD in hydrolysed vegetable protein and soy sauce. Currently, no limits have been set for 3-MCPD or its esters in any other ingredient or food.
What is known about 2-MCPD and its esters?
2-MCPD was identified as a contaminant of soy sauce and acid-hydrolysed vegetable protein. The biggest source of exposure for humans is in fats and oils (especially palm oils and fats) and products containing them. It has been detected in bread, bakery products, certain fish and meat products, fried or roasted meat, and infant and follow-on formulae.
Less is known about the toxic effects of 2-MCPD and 2-MCPD esters than about 3-MCPD and its esters, which to date have been studied in more depth. Currently there is not enough information available to allow EFSA to set a safe level for 2-MCPD intake through the diet. Additional studies are necessary to form conclusions on whether there is a potential health concern related to the presence of 2-MCPD in food.
What are glycidyl esters and in what foods do they occur?
Glycidyl esters are formed from a group of substances that is naturally present in all vegetable oils (diglycerides or monoglycerides) when they are heated to temperatures > 200ºC e.g. during the deodorisation stages of refining. They are consequently found in foods that contain refined oils and fats. This includes vegetable fats and oils (particularly palm oil), cookies, pastries and cakes, infant and follow on formula, margarine, fried or roasted meat and some chocolate (or similar) spreads.
Are there implications of glycidyl esters for human health?
After consumption through the diet, glycidyl esters are converted into free glycidol. Based on the available evidence from animal studies, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that glycidol is genotoxic (i.e. it can damage our genetic material, or DNA) and carcinogenic (i.e. it can cause cancer).
In 2016, EFSA’s CONTAM Panel concluded that at current exposure levels glycidyl esters are a potential health concern for all younger age groups (infant, toddler and children under the age of 10). The exposure of babies consuming only infant formula to glycidyl esters is of particular concern.
In each population age group, there are some people with higher than average exposure levels (i.e. those eating larger quantities of foods containing glycidyl esters that the average population). EFSA has concluded that glycidyl esters pose a potential health concern for consumers with high levels of exposure regardless of their age group.
Are there any limits for glycidyl esters in food?
To date, no maximum levels have been set by European authorities for glycidyl esters in foods. However, over the past five years there has been an important decrease in levels of glycidyl esters in palm oils and fats due to voluntary steps taken by producers of these products.
Why are the highest levels of contaminants found in palm oil?
The highest levels of 2- and 3-MCPD esters and glycidyl esters have been found in palm oil/fat. As explained above glycidyl esters are formed from diglycerides when heating vegetable oils to temperatures in excess of 200°C, for example during the deodorisation stages of refining. Palm oil is naturally rich in diglycerides which make up between 4 to 12% of its composition.
Following voluntary steps taken by food producers to lower consumer exposure, the levels of glycidyl esters in palm oil have been halved between 2010 and 2015.
EFSA’s assessments of consumer exposure and risks associated with process contaminants is a continuous process. As new research emerges and consumption patterns change the body of available evidence is re-assessed and measures are then taken by the European Commission or other stakeholders (for example industry) to ensure the safety of the population. The outcomes of EFSA’s risk assessment will be used by the European Commission to implement measures to reduce or eliminate the potential health concerns related to process contaminants. This will include for example setting up maximum limit values for the presence of these contaminants in concerned products.
Much research is also on-going to better understand the mechanisms of formation of 2 and 3-MCPD esters and glycidyl esters during processing of vegetable fats and oils. This type of information is important for the oil industry to continue to develop and implement the strategies needed to reduce the level of the esters in oils and fats intended for food manufacturing. While food producers, especially oils and fats manufacturers, will continue their efforts to reduce the presence of these substances, developing processes to achieve this takes time. A number of different techniques may need to be combined as the refining steps that introduce process contaminants remain necessary for removing undesirable impurities that can affect the quality and safety of vegetable oils and fats and lead to unpleasant tastes.
2. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 3-Monochloropropane-1,2 Diol Esters (3- MCPD).
3. German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) . Frequently Asked Questions about 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD).
5. International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). 3-MCPD Esters in Food Products. Summary Report of a Workshop held in February 2009, Brussels.
6. European Food Safety Authority (2016) Risks for human health related to the presence of 3- and 2-monochloropropanediol (MCPD), and their fatty acid esters, and glycidyl fatty acid esters in food. | 2019-04-24T19:58:36 | https://www.eufic.org/en/food-production/article/process-contaminants-in-vegetable-oils-and-foods-qa |
0.688909 | The Collections section is where you can create and manage collections and styles, update and print garment specifications (specs) for new styles as well as archive individual collections and styles.
1. Create a new collection - (Click on the '+ NEW COLLECTION' link, create a name for your new collection and click 'CREATE').
2. Within a collection, create a new style - (Click on the '+ NEW STYLE' link, create a name for your new style and click 'CREATE').
Once a collection has been created, it will appear at the top of the Collections section. Selecting a collection will take you within the collection panel and will give you the option to create a new style. Here you can sort and manage all styles within that collection.
At the top of the window is the name of the style you are in, the current status of the style (see Style Measurements panel or Development Summary tab for more information) and an 'ACTIONS' button, which you can select to either print, preview, duplicate or archive the current style. For more information see Collection Actions.
Below that, the main Style window is split into 8 different tabs.
The Design brief tab is the default tab because it is the natural starting point when creating specs for a new style. This is where are a designer can add all the basic information about the new style, that other members of the design room, such as the pattern maker or specification technician, can work from to develop the style.
The design brief includes the following panels; Basic Information, Fabric Details, Accessory Details, Style Image 1, Style Image 2 and Designer's Notes.
Date: Date the style was created.
Story: Name of style story.
Style Name: Name of garment style.
Style No.: User created number/reference for the style.
Season: Season or Collection the style belongs to.
Designer: Name of the designer responsible for the new style.
Pattern Maker: Name of pattern maker responsible for the new style.
Pattern No.: User created reference for the pattern associated with this style.
Sample Size: Automatically generated when a fit model is selected.
Fit Model: The fit model linked to this style. Select from one of the fit models in the drop down list (The fit model tab in the Label section must be completed).
The basic information tab is not exclusive to the design brief section. All the tabs in the Style Specs section begin with this panel and information can be added or updated in any tab, so if the user filling out the Design Brief doesn’t know the pattern number for example, that can be updated by another member of the design room, even in another tab and the updated information with be reflected in the Design Brief.
Type: Refers to the fabric component of the style (e.g Self, Contrast 1 etc). Choose from the selections in the drop down list or add a new fabric type.
Description: the description of the fabric for that component.
Width: the width in cm of the fabric.
Supplier: the supplier the fabric is to be sourced from.
Code: internal reference code for the fabric.
Colour: colour of the fabric.
You can add, update or delete any of the records in the Fabric Details panel by clicking on the 'EDIT' button. This will launch the panels edit mode. Once you are happy with the information you can click the 'SAVE' button or you can click the 'CANCEL' button to exit out of edit mode and return to the previously saved state.
Type: Refers to the type of Accessory used (drop-down selection).
Description: The description of the accessory used (text).
Size: The size in cm of the accessory (text).
Supplier: The supplier the accessory is to be sourced from (text).
Code: The internal reference code for the accessory (text).
Colour: The colour of the accessory (text).
You can add, update or delete any of the records in the Accessory Details panel by clicking on the 'EDIT' button. This will launch the panels edit mode. Once you are happy with the information you can click the 'SAVE' button or you can click the 'CANCEL' button to exit out of edit mode and return to the previously saved state.
This is where you can import a reference image in .jpg or .pdf image format.
Click where it says 'drop a file or click to select one' to access your device’s file system and navigate to your image. Once you have successfully chosen the image to import select 'OPEN', or simply drag and drop an image into the box. The selected image should display inside the panel.
The notes panel allows you to enter any notes or instructions about the style.
To add, update or delete any notes just click into the panel and edit as necessary. Clicking outside the panel will save the changes and pressing the 'ESC' key will cancel any changes and return the notes panel to the previously saved state.
The measurements tab is where all the styles key measurements and measurement tolerances are recorded. It’s also where Quadrant really starts to show off it’s more powerful features.
The Measurements tab is made up of four panels; Basic information, Style Measurements, Technical Drawing 1 and Technical Drawing 2. The information in all four panels is either completely or partly populated by work done in either the Design Brief Tab or the Label Section.
The Basic Information panel is populated by information entered in the Design Brief Tab but can be added to or updated in any of the Style Tabs, including the Measurements Tab.
If the Style Image 1 panel and the Style Image 2 panel were populated in the Design Brief, the images will display in the corresponding panels in the Measurements Tab.
Step 1. Pick a block.
From the drop-down field select one of the Garment Blocks that have been completed in the Label Rules tab of the Label Section. Note: You will be required to validate your selection by clicking 'SELECT' because your choice can’t be changed beyond this step.
Step 2. Select the Status.
From the drop-down field select the current status of the Style. The first default status is 'Draft 1', but as the style is developed through 'Toile', 'Prototype 1' etc to 'Finished Garment' the status can be updated and any adjustments to the styles measurements can be recorded throughout the styles development cycle. The measurement history of the style is recorded and automatically updated as the style moves through its development cycle in the Development Summary Tab.
If there is a status in your workflow that isn’t listed in the status list it can be added and positioned in the correct order by clicking on the 'CREATE NEW STATUS' button.
Type in the name of the new status and select the appropriate position that this status fits within the workflow process. As with Step 1, you will be asked to confirm that you wish to update the status ('CREATE & SELECT NEW STATUS') as this action should not be done by mistake. Upon setting the initial status to update the styles measurements you will be able to update the styles status by selecting the 'NEXT' link to the right of where the current status is displayed.
Upon completing Step 1 and 2 the Style Measurements panel will automatically populate with all the Description, Measurements and Measurement Tolerances values from the selected Block in the Garment Rules tab in the Label Section.
Editing measurement and tolerance values and adding additional measurements.
Clicking on the 'EDIT' button at the bottom of the Style Measurements panel will launch its edit mode and allow you to update any of the measurement and tolerance values of the default measurements linked to the Block you selected as the basis of your style. All the default measurements are Fit Key Measurements (fit-related measurements) and so crucial for generating Style Maps for the style, once it’s completed, however you can also add as many additional style specific measurements as you wish by clicking the 'ADD GARMENT MEASUREMENT' button, as required. Select the 'SAVE' button once you are happy with your changes.
Once you have completed the initial process of setting up a block and production status, you can then select specific measurements to be tested for Quality Assurance. The selected measurements will be visible to manufacturers as a reference during the QA process. You can then upload a technical drawing with reference letters on it that will correspond to the measurements that have been selected for QA checking.
The Construction tab is where all the key information pertaining to the style's construction is recorded. It allows the design room team to add and record more detail than is recorded in the Design Brief. This is also where information is organised by colourways. As you arrive to the Construction tab page, you will notice a pre-created colourway.
Each new colourway includes the following panels: all of which will be populated based off the information entered into the Design Brief.
Construction Notes - which are not linked to the colourways as this information generally stays the same.
The Fabric Details panel in the Construction tab is initially populated by the information recorded in the corresponding panel in the Design Brief Tab. However, there is an additional 'Meterage (Mtge)' field in the Fabric Details panel in the Construction tab often used by the pattern maker. Once the Fabric Details (Construction) panel is updated, the link to the Fabric Details (Design Brief) panel is severed and editing either panel will not effect the information in the other.
Type: The fabric component of the style (e.g Self, Contrast 1 etc). (drop-down selection).
Description: The description of the fabric for that component (text).
Width: The width in cm of the fabric (text).
Meterage: The quantity of fabric used in metres (text).
Supplier: The supplier the fabric is to be sourced from (text).
Code: The internal reference code for the fabric (text).
Colour: The colour of the fabric (text).
The Accessory Details panel in the Construction tab is initially populated by the information recorded in the corresponding panel in the Design Brief Tab. However, there is an additional 'Quantity' field in the Accessory Details panel in the construction tab often used by the pattern maker. Once the Accessory Details (Construction) panel is updated the link to the Accessory Details (Design Brief) panel is severed and editing either panel will not effect the information in the other.
Quantity: The quantity of accessories used (text).
Type: The type of specialty service or treatment used (drop-down selection).
Description: The description of the service or treatment (text).
Width: The width of the service of treatment (as required) (text).
Quantity: The amount of the specialty service of treatment used (text).
Supplier: The supplier of the service or treatment (text).
Code: The internal code for the service or treatment (text).
Colour: The colour of the service or treatment (text).
Area: The area on the garment where the stitching detail is used (text).
Colour: The colour of the thread used (text).
Width: The width of the seam in mm (drop down selection).
Position: The position, or placement, of the seam on the garment (text).
Type: The type of seam used (drop down selection).
Position: The position, or placement, of the hem on the garment (text).
Type: The type of hem used (drop down selection).
The construction notes panel is where any specific construction instructions or notes about the style can be recorded.
The Cutting List tab is where you can record and keep track of the samples and toile’s created in developing the style, as well as the styles label details.
The Cutting List tab includes the following panels; Basic Information, Cutting Orders, Label Details.
See Basic Information (Design Brief) panel.
The Cutting Orders panel allows you to record the details and keep track of both Toile Orders and Sample Orders.
Both types of orders include a Fabric Details Panel, Cutting Order Panel and Cutting Instructions Panel. However, The Fabric Details panel in a new Sample Order will pull in the information from the Fabric Details panel in the Construction tab, where as a new Toile Order will include a Fabric Details which is completely fresh.
A new Toile or Sample Order can be create by clicking either the '+ TOILE ORDER' or '+ SAMPLE ORDER' Buttons at the top of the panel. When a new cutting order is created is shows as a new tab in the Cutting Orders panel.
The fields in the Fabric details panel are explained in the Fabric Details (Construction) Panel.
The Cutting Order Panel allows you to specify what sizes in your styles size range that you want to be cut and in what colourway. You have the option to specify multiple sizes and multiple colourways to be cut for each new sample.
The size range is automatically generated by the size range settings linked to the block you have based your style on. For more details see Garment Rules Tab.
For each new cutting order you can add cutting notes and instructions in this panel.
The alterations tab is where you can record the details of any alterations to the style over its development including when those alterations were made and by who.
The Alterations tab includes the following panels; Basic Information and Alteration Summary.
For more information see Basic Information Panel.
The Grade panel is where your styles grade table is generated using the size range you have linked to the Block on which your style is based and the current measurement values in the Measurements Tab. As the Style Measurements are updated the style’s grade table will be automatically updated. The grade table will also automatically highlight your style’s sample size.
The Development Summary tab is where Quadrant automatically tracks and records the measurement alterations and updates throughout the styles development cycle.
The Development Summary panel automatically tracks and records the changes to your styles measurements and measurement tolerances through its development cycle.
When a new style is created and a block is selected to base the style on, the development summary will record that default information in a column called 'Block'. These measurements cannot be changed within the Style. The first editable set of measurements is 'Draft 1', which is generally the starting point for a new style’s individual measurements. Each time a new measurement is added to the Style Measurements panel in the Measurements tab a new row will be automatically added to the Development Summary table and each time you update the style’s Status a new column will also be automatically added to the Development Summary table.
The reference library tab is where you can import and display .jpg or .png images for use throughout Quadrant. Here you are able to add tags to images and search for images using these tags for easy navigation. When choosing images in other areas of Quadrant, selecting the 'LIBRARY' option will display a modal of all images within the reference library that you can choose from. | 2019-04-24T00:04:19 | https://www.styleatlas.co/quadrant-guide-collections |
0.998889 | Which one is the correct option, knowing that there is only one correct answer?
Methuselah, the spoiling of death, is the longest liver in the world; yet he died in the year that the flood was upon the earth.
These events are already some of the best hot rod and custom shows in the world; but this really gives you something unique to see at each event!
The defence between both are very subtle and in most cases would not make much of a difference to what is being communicated.
Yet in these case is used to denote 'in spite of' or 'even though' to denote strongly that the first part of the sentence could have had a strong influence on the second but did not and often was surprised by the fact that it did not.
Egs:: John was my closest friend, yet he did not show up for my wedding.
Egs:: the sky appears clear now but it might still rain.
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Is 'multiple-choice question' a misleading term? | 2019-04-18T11:24:20 | https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/484983/he-had-all-the-money-in-the-world-yet-but-he-was-sad |
0.998476 | DevOps methods disaggregate the neatly packaged n-tier, VM-bound application into distributed architectures. The cloud breaks the traditional perimeter structure, which is the foundation of existing security practices. Because applications are becoming increasingly distributed, APIs are a new resource that, too, need to be secured to protect the enterprise from unwarranted risks. As a result, new access control measures and compliance enforcement points are critical to overcoming this challenge.
Looking at the enablement process for microservices, two functions play critical roles: the developer and the security practitioner. Security and data privacy requirements introduce access control and encryption requirements for developers. Authorization for APIs needs to be implemented in a distributed manner, which can be challenging, and secrets management and key distribution for distributed applications also introduce overhead for the developer. Secondly, the security practitioner is focused on maintaining visibility, compliance and control all while embracing architectural transformation towards microservices.
1. Detection: The signal to noise ratio for detecting attacks is significantly improved with the ability to correlate data for anomalies across all three layers. These signals provide greater visibility into the potential kill chain to be executed by an attacker.
2. Protection: A much more robust security solution is achieved when exercising both zero trust and least privilege access control across the three layers. The probability of a complete attack execution is severely reduced by the enablement of access control at each layer.
1. Leverage vulnerability data from the container image scans. As the contextual identity of the container may change over time, so does the data over the life span of the container.
2. Understand that containers are most often part of a CI/CD pipeline that is autogenerated and carry a significant amount of metadata. This metadata can include the type of container (frontend or backend), the type of image it is running (Mongo, Redis) and/or it can include an identifying reference back to the original code commit that had triggered the creation of the specific container. This metadata can become a multi-attribute identity.
Overall, across all microservices the identity paves the way for scalable encryption. A popular encryption technique is mutual transport layer security (TLS) and part of this process is to authenticate and authorize both ends of a microservice. The identity that is assigned to a microservice becomes an integral part of the authorization process for a TLS session. In order to allow developers to focus on their business logic, it is critical to offload any Public Key infrastructure logic from the microservice.
As many microservice and cloud-native adoption projects begin as a small initiative with a specific scope, there is always a brownfield deployment where microservices will have dependencies on monoliths. These services use several orchestration capabilities such as Kubernetes, VMWare or EC2 Container Services and they can be hosted in either public or private clouds. Because of this, a microservice security solution must be capable of operating in all of these environments in a heterogeneous manner.
Overall, while container threat/vulnerability management and network security are vital components of comprehensive microservice security, they are only a portion of the larger picture aimed at operating securely in Zero Trust environments. In a microservice environment, best practices for security include processes and technologies that address all aspects of core protection and visibility use cases of a distributed application. In particular, APIs and identity are often overlooked and underserved areas of cloud-native applications in most security programs. It is important to address these uses cases in a manner that does not cause additional burden on either the development or security organization.
As organizations continue to rapidly adopt microservices, it drives the growing need for security teams to completely understand the full scope of security requirements to avoid the misguided thought that legacy security solutions will accurately protect them. A combination of maintaining proper hygiene, monitoring, logging and compliance is required for a comprehensive microservices security strategy and implementation. In consideration at all layers of the security stack, it is critical to follow the principles of Zero Trust least privilege access control in a microservices environment. | 2019-04-19T02:26:08 | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/06/11/securing-microservices/ |
0.999997 | I think I might have gum disease, what can I do?
Gum disease or gingivitis occurs when the delicate gums around your teeth become inflamed. Gum disease progresses painlessly on the whole so you may not notice it until it is at a more severe stage.
The first sign is that your gums may be slightly puffy, read or inflamed. At first this will be very mild and barely noticeable unless you look extremely closely (just as a dentist would during your regular dental health check).
As the gum disease progresses you may find that the gums bleed occasionally during cleaning with a toothbrush. You will also find that if you clean between your teeth with a brush or floss that the bleeding can be worse.
The problem is that people at this stage then tend to layoff cleaning their teeth quite so much as the gums bleed and become tender, however this can mean that the gum disease can progress further underneath the gum.
If the infection spreads below the gum line it can then turn into the more serious periodontitis which affects the bone and can ultimately lead to tooth extraction or loss.
Is it possible to catch gum disease?
No. Gum disease is not an infectious disease and is caused primarily by poor hygiene. However, if you have lower standards of oral hygiene without healthy gums your teeth may be more susceptible to any additional bacteria which are introduced into the oral environment.
because of gum disease is a buildup of plaque over the teeth, this is a sticky substance which if not removed daily can build up into hard tartar. This is where bacteria lurk, these bacteria are producing acid as they digest food and it is this acid which causes tooth decay.
Smoking. Smoking as a tendency to dry out your mouth, this drying out means there is less saliva to wash away food stuff and neutralise the acid attack.
Changes in hormones. Particularly in girls and women, hormone changes can lead to sensitivity in the gums making gingivitis more likely.
Your genetics. Unfortunately some people are more prone to developing gum disease than others.
Diabetes. There are direct links between people with diabetes and gum disease.
Your medications. Any medication which alters the flow of saliva can leave you more susceptible to developing gum disease. There are also some medications which promote abnormal growth of the gums, these can then be difficult to clean.
Yes, it is possible to reverse gum disease. Depending on how severe the disease is and how far it has progressed depends upon the best course of action. The very simplest thing you can do is to start a more thorough oral health care routine ensuring that you are brushing your teeth at least twice per day for 2 min with the fluoride toothpaste (This helps to strengthen your tooth enamel) and that they are cleaned once a day with an incidental brush or floss.
Do people with gum disease die early?
The recent any research to indicate that people with gum disease necessarily die early, however there is research which links gum disease to certain other conditions including heart attacks.
There has been research undertaken which is shown that people with heart conditions have the same bacteria present in their heart as is present with gum disease. More research is needed to establish if there is a causal link between gum disease and heart disease, however what is clear is that there is indeed a link between the two conditions.
Tooth removal. If your gum disease is not kept under control then it can turn into the more serious periodontitis which can then lead to floss.
Strokes. Studies have shown that up to 40% of the bacteria that cause the fatty deposits in People that have had a stroke come from their mouths which have inflamed gums.
Respiratory disease. Because dental plaque harbours a considerable amount of bacteria it is inevitable that some of these could be respiratory pathogens, therefore a complication of gum disease could potentially be pneumonia, emphysema and chronic obstructive lung disease.
Heart disease. Because the body is a complete system connected by its blood supply then any bacteria which gets into the blood in your mouth can make its way to your heart. These bacteria have been shown to lodge inside the walls of the blood vessels causing blood clots to form.
Gastric ulcers. The same bacteria that cause gastric ulcers are also responsible for gum disease, this means that if you have a particularly high bacteria count in your mouth then as you swallow your food these bacteria are transferred to your stomach.
Regular dental checks by your dentist and hygienist to ensure that you are cleaning your teeth adequately.
Being aware of the food and drinks you consume to keep sugar amounts lower.
Ensuring that you have a good daily oral health care regime.
Watch out for the early warning signs like bleeding gums and if it doesn’t clear up contact your dentist.
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0.999314 | The following article describes how to add, promote, and sell optional extras to your events in Arlo for example, textbooks relevant to the course or additional tickets for an awards night.
Arlo allows you to sell optional extras, which your registrants can choose from when registering for your events. You can apply a price to the items, add a description which will be displayed on your registration form, and set a maximum unit number available (in case of having limited stock).
Note: Optional extras are not supported on online activities.
Hint: If you create an event with optional extras, you can make a copy of it for future events.
You can also arrange the order of the options available on your registration form by price, or have them in alphabetical order (both either ascending or descending). To request changes to the way your options are displayed on your events contact Arlo Support.
A product as an add-on to an event registration, for example, textbooks relevant to the course.
Example: Optional extras on an Arlo registration form where more than one item can be purchased (input field), and only one item can be purchased (checkbox).
Choose the type of event you wish to create, and the events schedule type.
From the Options section, click Add option.
Enter the details of the option, e.g. Name, description, purchase settings, price and units available.
Note: If the maximum units are allocated, registrants will no longer be able to purchase the optional extra.
If you have additional items to add, click Add option and report the above step.
Complete the remaining steps in the event wizard.
Arlo allows you to sell tickets to an event either by allowing registrants to pay for tickets or a table of tickets. Use this option if you do not need to know who is attending the event.
Note: If you are selling tickets using optional extras you will have limited reporting capabilities on the events (as there are no registrants being added for each ticket purchased, but instead an item being sold). You won't be able to record and report on attendance, or grades for options like you would for standard registrations.
Choose the type public event of event you wish to create, and the events schedule type.
Add an option to your event for Additional Tickets.
Price your tickets, add the maximum units available, and ensure registrants can buy more than one.
Note: You should limit the number of tickets available to purchase as registration limits are not factored in when selling tickets using options.
Proceed to the Registrations tab.
From the Website registration form section, select a Custom registration form.
Edit the labels of the registrant details fields to make it clear that you only require the registration contact's details e.g."Email" to "Registrant Contact Email".
You can view and report on the number of optional extras sold with each event.
Find and select the event you wish to view and report optional extras for.
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0.999999 | The TP fans in the family (4 of 5) had a good laugh.
>The TP fans in the family (4 of 5) had a good laugh.
> The TP fans in the family (4 of 5) had a good laugh.
I wonder if anyone has told the librarian?
>> The TP fans in the family (4 of 5) had a good laugh.
> I wonder if anyone has told the librarian?
>> I wonder if anyone has told the librarian?
> translations of Pratchett books?
He says "oek" which is pronounced like the English "ook".
heard. It's more like "awk". Maybe "oak with a Scottish accent".
> heard. It's more like "awk". Maybe "oak with a Scottish accent".
> "me too / AOL".
>> heard. It's more like "awk". Maybe "oak with a Scottish accent".
distinct (ignore the minor difference in volume).
when imitating a foreign accent.
to keep my lips stationary.
already knows :) It's quite fitting really.
make), you'd probably be understood in Berlin.
> >> heard. It's more like "awk". Maybe "oak with a Scottish accent".
> > dialects may vary.
> distinct (ignore the minor difference in volume).
I'd go for the former.
second open-mid back. Close, but clearly distinct.
> latter, rather than the former.
Wrong; it's the close-mid back vowel, longish.
name is strictly short and the pure vowel.
>> distinct (ignore the minor difference in volume).
> second open-mid back. Close, but clearly distinct.
Wrong. They're both o. Turned c is *significantly* wider.
both sounds fall very definitely within the range of [o].
> >> distinct (ignore the minor difference in volume).
> > second open-mid back. Close, but clearly distinct.
> Wrong. They're both o. Turned c is *significantly* wider.
> both sounds fall very definitely within the range of [o].
while [turned c] is an equally rounded, equally back, open-mid vowel.
>> both sounds fall very definitely within the range of [o].
> while [turned c] is an equally rounded, equally back, open-mid vowel.
However, it's nowhere near open /enough/ to be turned c.
phonology you might do that, but not in phonetics.
> >> both sounds fall very definitely within the range of [o].
> > while [turned c] is an equally rounded, equally back, open-mid vowel.
> That is all correct.
> However, it's nowhere near open /enough/ to be turned c.
closer to your first vowel.
>> However, it's nowhere near open /enough/ to be turned c.
> I repeat: maybe to your ear, but not to mine.
The second formant, F2, is about 800 Hz for both.
than the first one is!
I don't know how to do the fundamental sound-creating operations.
> closer to your first vowel.
sample of one, but it's a one that I remember distinctly.
> I don't know how to do the fundamental sound-creating operations.
A problem that's all in your head is still a problem.
Brain damage is but one form of mind damage. | 2019-04-23T22:22:09 | http://www.fan-groups.com/thread/23594/A-T-Pratchett-moment.html |
0.998658 | Is Apple keeping you from the best Spotify experience possible?
Music streaming service Spotify claims Apple is intentionally making difficult to update its iPhone app and holding back new features.
The updated app reportedly avoids Apple's payment system altogether, which is permitted, but Apple doesn't allow the use of an alternative payment system within the app.
Spotify sent a letter to Apple's top lawyer this week, bashing the iPhone maker for its anti-competitive business model. The letter, sent by Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez to Apple's legal representative Bruce Sewell, blasted Apple for its App Store subscription limitations, according to Recode.
"[This] continues a troubling pattern of behavior by Apple to exclude and diminish the competitiveness of Spotify on iOS and as a rival to Apple Music, particularly when seen against the backdrop of Apple's previous anti-competitive conduct aimed at Spotify […] we cannot stand by as Apple uses the App Store approval process as a weapon to harm competitors," wrote Gutierrez.
Spotify dominates the music subscription service world with over 30 million paying subscribers. Apple Music, on the other hand, has half of that.
A Spotify spokesperson declined to comment but verified that Recode's story is accurate.
While Apple has the right to set rules for its App Store, it's easy to see these rules are making its own products worse. Spotify isn't the first company to fight back against the cut Apple takes of app purchases. Amazon removed the ability to purchase books within its Kindle and ComiXology apps, instead pointing users to make purchases in Safari. It's a Band-Aid on a real problem.
Like most app stores, including Google Play and Amazon, Apple takes a 30% cut from any in-app purchases, including subscriptions.
The main difference is that Google and Amazon allow alternative payment systems within apps. This means Android users can sign up for Spotify using PayPal or a credit card instead of using the Google Wallet system.
Similar services, like Google Play Movies & TV, are subjected to the same sub-par user experience on iOS because of Apple's anti-competitive rules.
You can browse and watch your purchased content, but you can't buy anything within the app itself. Instead, you'll have to do that in Safari.
It makes sense for Apple to prioritize its own apps and services over the competition, especially on its own platform.
But by restricting third-party developers and services, Apple is making its own product worse. Users who don't want to live exclusively within Apple's ecosystem are left with a limited user experience, and Spotify users won't likely jump to Apple Music because they can't purchase a subscription.
Instead of making its competitors worse, Apple should make Apple Music better. It's not that hard for a Spotify user to hop into Safari and sign up for the service. Personally, it's annoying, but it's not going to stop me from using the services that I want to use. | 2019-04-23T09:42:35 | https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/is-apple-keeping-you-from-the-best-spotify-experience-possible-1324216 |
0.999843 | So will there be another a partial government shutdown or not? There are signs congressional negotiators are moving towards a compromise on border funding, which would be really key here. The Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Republican Richard Shelby is sounding optimistic.
RICHARD SHELBY: The dialogue is good. The tone is good. We're talking about substance. I would say we've got a much better chance today than we had Monday to reach some kind of resolution to this.
GREENE: Now, to avoid a shutdown, the president would need to sign something by next Friday. Republican Congressman Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee is on the conference committee trying to craft a bill, and he joins us this morning. Welcome back to the program, Congressman.
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN: Good morning, sir. Thank you.
GREENE: So I hear you and other negotiators are packing up and heading up to Camp David tonight. Are you bringing the president something final for him to consider here?
FLEISCHMANN: Well, the Camp David trip is something, I think, a little bit different. I don't exactly know what the agenda's going to be. I've been invited to Camp David. But these are not exclusively members of the committee. There are some members on the committee who are going. But there are actually some other members from both parties who've been invited to a rather small, select group. I'm sure this topic will come up, but I think that is separate and aside from the committee negotiations.
GREENE: Are - would you be eager to bring whatever deal you're working on to the president while you're up at Camp David?
FLEISCHMANN: Absolutely. Absolutely. I have been optimistic from the inception that we would be able to get into this room, this room of negotiators. Whether you're a senator or a member of the House, a Republican or a Democrat, we are all members of the Appropriations Committee. And I have basically said we are all reasonable people. We're flexible people. We are problem-solving people. And I thought it was an unprecedented opportunity to stand up and do something strong for the American people to regain their strength in our great republic. And I think we are getting there.
GREENE: Sometimes, I mean, it feels like we're living in two different worlds. You have members of Congress who are saying they're, you know, hammering out some sort of negotiation, and then sometimes you have President Trump out there saying nothing is going to happen without a wall. That wall will be built, period, period, period. I mean, Richard Shelby met with President Trump yesterday, said he thinks the president will probably sign what you craft. What, like - if - are you as confident, and if so, why?
FLEISCHMANN: Well, Senator Shelby is a very gifted appropriator. He's head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and he's a friend, sister state of Alabama. I'm from Tennessee. But I think so. First of all, we have worked very hard day after day to try to craft an agreement that was palatable to all. When we enter a negotiation - I said this early in the first meeting - the final agreement won't look like I wanted exactly.
I wanted $5.7 billion. But when I went to the border, I actually saw a new wall being constructed. So the American people know new wall has actually been constructed and is being constructed. So it's going to turn on a number. And I think Senator Shelby and other members of the Senate and House are having very good discussions with the White House.
GREENE: Although, we should say a lot of polls suggested that many Americans blamed President Trump during the shutdown. But I want to ask you about the substance here because there are reports in the Washington Post that that this is really coming down to a negotiation over two things, that Democrats are willing to offer more money for some kind of barrier on the border in exchange for a reduction in the amount of detention beds at the border. Democrats prefer the Trump administration not have the ability to detain as many people at the border. Is that a fair way to frame exactly where the final talks are going?
FLEISCHMANN: That is part of the equation, yes. And let me say this. Unfortunately, the Democrats began their negotiations with a rather draconian reduction in the amount of ICE detention beds. And that is really detrimental. I've been at the border and what happens is there are - there's such a tremendous influx right now, we need these beds because to - we want to treat the people who are being detained in a very humanitarian way to make sure that things are safe for them. This is a crisis. It's a crisis in every aspect.
GREENE: Although Democrats would say things like ankle bracelets can be effective. I mean, it's a - they wouldn't agree with the characterization of catch and release necessarily.
FLEISCHMANN: Unfortunately, these ankle bracelets work while they're in the system. And I was just told - you mentioned Senator Shelby - there are a bunch of these ankle bracelets they found at the bottom of a lake in Alabama. They take these off. The hearings are set years later, and they don't show up. And I think most people know where things are.
FLEISCHMANN: Sure. Sure. Across the board. I knew this deal would not be crafted exactly the way I wanted. I wanted 5.7 for the wall. I am with the president on this. But I am also an appropriator. And the most important thing is we're going to face this issue in 2020 again and in the future. So I think a more reasonable approach, a flexible approach, both sides listening, not everybody getting exactly what they want but getting something that is working towards keeping the border safe, the American people safe in a very strong and humanitarian way.
GREENE: Republican Congressman Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee, thanks so much.
GREENE: I want to bring in my colleague, NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell, who's been covering this. Kelsey, this is sounding close, listening to people like Fleischman and Shelby. Is it?
KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE: Yeah, it does sound close. But you remember, these details, the little details that he's talking about, are often the thing that make a deal fall apart. They - the members that I've talked to on the Hill say that, yes, they are really honing in on this difference between detention beds and border fencing. But they also need to work out things like how much they're spending on drones and on sensors and really how much fencing they're - Democrats are willing to agree to.
So while it may be coming down to details right now, there is a lot to be done. And a lot of people I talked to say they expect this to set the foundation for border security spending for many years to come. So there's a ton of pressure for them to get this exactly right.
GREENE: And a ton of pressure - I mean, we should just say it - for both parties to be able to declare victory in front of their supporters.
SNELL: Yeah. That is a big part of any negotiation on Capitol Hill. But with this, where it's become so politically charged and such a big part of both parties' central campaign identities, they feel like they have to get something here.
GREENE: A lot at stake. We're facing that deadline next Friday for a possible - another possible partial government shutdown. NPR's Kelsey Snell. Thanks, Kelsey. | 2019-04-19T18:20:19 | https://www.wnpr.org/post/rep-chuck-fleischmann-border-funding |
0.999411 | This makes it possible to use regular networking cables to create a very long (>100m) HDMI connection , whereas a regular HDMI cable may not work at half that length, and is much more expensive.
Speaking of digital signals, you can also do ethernet over a USB port / cable.
Can HDMI video be sent directly through a 100Mb/s ethernet adapter (skipping the first adapter in the diagram)? Is there a driver for that?
2. Can I use my HDMI port as an ethernet jack?
3. Why are HDMI cables so crappy and expensive (lower production volume?)?
4. Why not use the same cable for everything (and, like USB, use new backwards-compatible specifications as needed)? Why do different digital specifications need different connectors (apart from serial/parallel)?
5. Imagine the mother of all digital cables. What would it look like? How many pins does it need to have?
It is unlikely that you'll be able to send HDMI over ethernet directly. The HDMI signal is encoded in hardware, and you need special stuff to decode it. HDMI includes digital signal protection to prevent anyone taking the hi-def video/audio signal and ripping off Hollywood by copying it to their hard disk. So, while it's not actually going to be impossible to take the HDMI signal and convert it to packetised ethernet, I suspect it's quite difficult to do.
You probably want to stick to DVI anyway - these can do a higher resolution than HDMI and are also a digital signal (albeit with no sound included). HDMI is intended to do up to 1080p, which is starting to look a little crap for PCs these days.
3. crappy and expensive? They are if you buy them from the high street. The last HDMI lead I bought cost about £1.50 from Amazon or somewhere similar. As the standard is digital, you don't need gold contacts or heavy duty cables to reduce analogue signal loss.
4. To an extent we've been headed this way for most peripherals with USB. It's not really suited to everything, though - and display output does have to be absolutely immediate.
It is unlikely that you'll be able to send HDMI over ethernet directly. The HDMI signal is encoded in hardware, and you need special stuff to decode it. HDMI includes digital signal protection to prevent anyone taking the hi-def video/audio signal and ripping off Hollywood by copying it to their hard disk.
Seriously, this makes sense. (I thought HDMI was basically a (n open) protocol.) I suspect this is why my open video drivers often don't support HDMI output. (With the exception of the opentegra drivers for a Tegra2 device.) This ends the dream of HDMI as a universal digital interface.
Actually, I think HDMI supports much higher resolutions than that... It's just that it is marketed as a home media interface, and therefore PC drivers don't concern themselves with higher resolutions than most TV's can display. Also, a lot of modern laptops (and even desktops) unfortunately doesn't support DVI. [Edit: HDMI 1.4 seems to support at least 4096×2160].
3. crappy and expensive? They are if you buy them from the high street. The last HDMI lead I bought cost about £1.50 from Amazon or somewhere similar.
A clear exaggeration from my side, I agree. I haven't bought a lot of them, and I realize now that there are cheap ones to be found.
[USB is] not really suited to everything, though - and display output does have to be absolutely immediate.
Thank you for your informed answer.
Last edited by salantrax; 10-16-2013 at 07:12 PM.
I haven't read the specs on what HDMI is capable of, I'm only aware that my FM2 mainboard does VGA and HDMI, and I also know the current limitations on resolution that computer HDMI ports impose. To run our higher res monitors at work we need to use DVI. I'd be really pleased if my own computer was capable of higher res - the 1080p 'standard' has held back display resolution improvements for years. | 2019-04-25T07:02:01 | http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/hardware-peripherals/198761-linux-driver-hdmi-over-ethernet-port.html |
0.999991 | Did Netscape jump the gun with new browser?
Long heckled for being late to market with its new browser, Netscape Communications is now the target of critics who say the company jumped the gun in releasing the browser this month.
Netscape fans breathed a sigh of relief two weeks ago with the official launch of Netscape's first major browser release in more than two years. The browser's 32-month gestation, marked by regularly revised due dates, gave what many saw as a critical advantage to rival Microsoft in establishing its dominance of the browser market.
But some supporters say problems with the release indicate that Netscape should have waited until its open-source group, Mozilla.org, released its own version 1.0 browser, which isn't due for another five months.
"Netscape 6 still plays like beta software," said Glenn Davis, a co-founder of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an independent Web publisher. "The results I've had using it seem to indicate that it's just not quite finished. I'd have much rather seen them wait until the Mozilla project had their 1.0 version complete instead of rushing it out the door.
"Sure, we needed something new from Netscape--after all, their 4.0 browsers have become Web antiques--but there are still far too many bugs evident."
In an official statement released Thursday, WaSP lauded the browser's standards support but acknowledged its technical problems, calling Netscape 6 "essentially a 1.0 software release."
Netscape 6 also came under fire in postings to newsgroups, including "netscape.public.general," and other public forums, where critics complained about issues ranging from the browser's speed and stability to its compatibility with various Web technologies and the size of its download.
Netscape defended the timing and quality of the release.
"Netscape 6 represents a quantum leap forward in convenience, customizability, Web standards support and user privacy protection," Michael La Guardia, director of product marketing at Netscape, wrote in an email interview. "We have answered a burning need for our users by putting it out in the marketplace."
The controversy over the release of Netscape 6 underscores the difficulty of Netscape's position. Because Netscape 6 was written from scratch, rather than molded from the proprietary 4.x code, the new product is, as critics point out, akin to a version 1.0 release.
On the other hand, Netscape faces the competitive pressures of a maturing browser market that Microsoft has by most accounts overtaken. That has led to sometimes shrill demands for speedy delivery, voiced by standards advocates and others who fear a one-browser Web.
Some of the finished browser's critics also lambasted Netscape for its delays, leading the company's defenders to see it as damned it if does and damned if it doesn't.
"Why are you taking forever to deliver a usable browser?" the WaSP asked in a July open letter to Netscape. "If you genuinely realized it would take two years to replace Netscape 4, we wish you would have told us. No market, let alone the Internet, can stand still that long."
The company said it is paying close attention to consumers' reactions, which it said have been mostly positive.
"Netscape is closely monitoring feedback to Netscape 6," said a company representative. "Thus far, the overwhelming response to the product from consumers and reviewers has been positive, and the downloads of the product have exceeded our expectations."
The release of Netscape 6 marked the culmination of Netscape's efforts to rebuild its browser based on the work of Mozilla, the open-source development group it established in 1998. In the open-source model, software's underlying source code is published, volunteers collaborate on its development, and the results are made available for free and licensed use.
Netscape--like any other licensee of the Mozilla source code--can choose to implement the code in its products at any time. Netscape chose to build Netscape 6 around a freeze frame of the work-in-progress shortly before Mozilla's 18th milestone release.
Mozilla doesn't plan to release its own version 1.0 of the browser until the second quarter of next year--a deadline critics argue would have given Netscape time to squash more bugs before releasing its branded version.
Netscape counters that Mozilla's work is now concentrated on the specific goal of turning the browser into something light and fast enough to be used in small computing devices such as handhelds and cell phones. That goal--recognized to be of particular interest to Netscape's parent company, America Online--is of little interest to consumers using the browser on the PC, Netscape argues.
"Netscape continues to be the biggest contributor to the development effort coordinated by Mozilla.org," La Guardia wrote. "However, Mozilla 1.0 represents changes and improvements to the code base that make the code very usable and embeddable by a developer audience--Mozilla.org's audience. While these changes are critical to the long-term success and growth of the code base, they were orthogonal to Netscape delivering the best Internet software suite to Netscape's audience."
Meanwhile, even the browser's critics acknowledge that Netscape and Mozilla have achieved one of their primary goals: to release a browser that adhered as closely as possible to standards laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
"The Web Standards Project congratulates Netscape for producing the most standards-compliant browser the Web has ever seen: one that leverages the power of open source while raising the bar on what 'support for Web standards' really means," WaSP said in its statement.
"We look forward to Netscape's taking the browser to the next level, with help from the Mozilla project," the WaSP concluded.
Because Mozilla 1.0 won't be out for another five months, some participants in the project wanted Mozilla to put out a version that corresponded as closely as possible to the Netscape commercial release. In response to this demand, the group will release Mozilla 0.6 this week or next.
Mozilla 0.6--which marks a permanent departure from Mozilla's "milestone x" nomenclature for its releases--will have a leg up on Netscape 6 with a few features, mainly of interest to specialists. These include bug fixes to help MathML operate properly and porting changes that will let the browser work with OS/2.
MathML is a language, based on XML, that lets browsers display complex mathematical equations. OS/2 is an operating system, initially co-developed by Microsoft and IBM in the 1980s but later abandoned by Microsoft, that is now popular among a small group of loyalists.
With Mozilla 1.0, the open-source group is aiming for a browser that will be significantly smaller and less demanding of memory, with the goal of making it useful for handheld computers and other devices, in addition to the PC.
Other features planned--but not promised--for Mozilla 1.0 include support for the scripting languages Perl and Python. Mozilla also expects to support bidirectional code for languages, such as Arabic, that read from right to left.
In December, Mozilla will release Mozilla 0.8, deliberately skipping Mozilla 0.7 to emphasize the discontinuity with Mozilla 0.6. That discontinuity stems from the fact that the two versions will derive from different tracks of the Mozilla development effort.
When Netscape prepared to release Netscape 6, Mozilla created a corresponding development "branch" parallel to the Mozilla "trunk." Mozilla 0.6 is the product of the branch. Mozilla 0.8 and subsequent versions will come from the trunk.
The branch will live on to support any minor-point 6.x releases Netscape puts out.
Branching from the trunk is necessary so that a company can do quality testing on a static version. But the practice adds some complexity to the development process. Significant changes to the branch need to be resubmitted to the trunk, and more computing resources are required to assemble and post nightly builds of the software.
Thus far, Netscape has been the only vendor granted its own branch off the Mozilla trunk. But others could follow.
"We'll see, as time goes on, if another significant vendor needs a branch and has a good rationale," said Mozilla spokesman Mitchell Baker, whose title is chief lizard wrangler in reference to Mozilla's reptilian mascot. "Sometimes the companies want to do their branching inside and have absolute control. But it's not a process aimed for Netscape alone."
Discuss: Did Netscape jump the gun with new browser? | 2019-04-21T01:09:54 | https://www.cnet.com/news/did-netscape-jump-the-gun-with-new-browser/ |
0.999975 | Summary: just a bit of fluff (sorry, couldn't help myself) and friendship. Kathryn and Chakotay spend a few peaceful minutes together before the return home.
Disclaimer: Paramount owns it all, even the clouds.
By sheer luck Voyager had stumbled onto a worm hole. In two days time they would be back in the Alpha quadrant. Everywhere that Chakotay walked on the ship he could sense the crew's anticipation. At first the excitement had been subdued, for fear of raising false hopes yet again. But once they were inside the wormhole, with firm sensor data from a probe that confirmed the location of its exit, the Captain had authorised a celebration. And Neelix, it seemed, had been secretly planning one all along anyway. The party was to be held tonight on the holodeck.
Chakotay had spent the past hour engaged in a less enthralling activity - making sure that his logs and records were up to date and ready for transmission to Starfleet headquarters. Although he wondered what his fate would be on their return - along with the other former Maquis on Voyager - he found his own anticipation overriding that knot of nervousness in his stomach.
Now he found himself touring the ship, seeking out other crew members - Maquis and Starfleet alike - and reassuring any doubts that they might have.
He slapped his communicator. "Chakotay here."
"Commander, I don't mean to bother you, but I've been trying to contact the Captain. I wanted to ask her something about the celebration tonight. And, well, to be honest, I can't find her."
Chakotay stopped walking. "What do you mean you can't find her?"
"She's not responding to her communicator. And the computer's not telling me anything either," Neelix said.
"Don't worry Neelix. It's probably a computer glitch. I'll look into it."
He started walking again. "Computer, locate Captain Janeway."
"Captain Janeway is not aboard Voyager."
"Uh-huh". Chakotay smiled to himself. The captain had told him at breakfast this morning that she wanted some time to herself on the holodeck and would prefer not to be contacted. He assumed she'd passed the message on to the computer as well.
Since he was nearly at the holodeck anyway, he decided to stop in and see whether she was finished with her time off yet.
"Computer, is the privacy lock engaged?"
Chakotay stepped through the doors and into bright sunlight. In front of him was a farmhouse - the Captain's childhood home in Indiana, he surmised. The house was still and quiet, apparently unoccupied. He strolled around the outside of the building, breathing in the fresh country air.
It took him a few minutes to find the captain, given that she wasn't moving. Actually she was lying down on her back in the middle of the grassy yard. As he moved closer, he saw her eyes were closed. He hesitated, unsure about disturbing her if she was asleep.
"This better be important Chakotay", she said, without opening her eyes.
He smiled. "Actually its not, I'm sorry. Neelix was looking for you and got worried when the computer said you weren't aboard. I just thought you should know in case you wanted to -"
"Turn my communicator back on?" she suggested.
She opened her eyes and squinted up at him. "What did Neelix think I was doing? Sneaking back to earth a little ahead of everyone else?"
Chakotay laughed. "Maybe. Do you mind if I join you for a minute?"
"If that means I don't have to get up just yet, go ahead."
He sat down on the grass beside her.
"Should I ask what you're doing? Apart from napping I mean."
"Only if you lie down", she said.
Kathryn smiled. "I guess it is."
He stretched his legs out and leaned backwards, with his elbows bent and hands cradled underneath his head, mimicking the position Kathryn was lying in.
They lay in silence on their backs, staring up at the holographic sky.
"Can I ask what you're doing now?"
He waited, then glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. She was trying not to smile. He sighed. "Alright, I'll play. What are you doing."
"I'm looking at cloud animals."
"Cloud animals. Up there, in the sky."
He looked where she was pointing. It was a beautiful summery day, and the blue sky was scattered with fluffy white clouds.
"Kathryn, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't see any animals."
"It's something that Phoebe and I used to do together when we were both quite young", she replied. "We'd come out here on days like today and lie here, watching the clouds. Looking for shapes."
"See, that one there." She pointed with one arm. "It's a rabbit. The ears are a little bit too long though. Maybe it's a hare."
He looked where she was pointing, and sure enough, could see a vaguely rabbit-like shape.
Chakotay grinned at the thought of a young Kathryn Janeway using her imagination, and her time, like this.
"I thought you spent all your childhood buried in science."
She smiled. "Not all of it. This is quite relaxing, actually."
"Is that why you came here? To relax?"
Kathryn sighed. "I thought if I looked at another report I would throw up."
They lay in comfortable silence for a few minutes more.
"So", Chakotay said eventually. "I should go and tell Neelix that you were being detained by giant cloud animals in the Indiana sky. That should reassure him."
She chuckled. "I'm sure. He might start to change his mind about wanting to see earth."
He looked over at her. "So how are you feeling about it?"
She shook her head. "A lot of reasons, both sensible and ridiculous. What the official position will be on the Maquis. What the Starfleet hierarchy will think about some of my decisions."
She met his gaze for few seconds then turned back to the sky. "Whether being home will be partly a disappointment. I know, that doesn't make much sense."
She sighed. "I don't mean seeing family, friends, all the places I've missed. I mean my idea of home."
"We've been working towards this for such a long time," Chakotay replied. "It's not surprising, and not at all ridiculous to think about that. Whether the reality will be different from what we remember, what we've imagined. What we've built holodeck programs about for the past six years," he added.
Kathryn turned to face him again. "That's exactly it. I thought I was crazy thinking about this. Well maybe not crazy," she amended, "a little ungrateful."
He shook his head. "Not at all Kathryn. It makes perfect sense. When we think about home as somewhere we're from, or somewhere we used to live, rather than where we are now, then it's not just a place we're thinking about. It's a time, and a situation too. It's the people who were around us, the routines we used to keep. In that sense, it's true what they say, you can never go home again. Those things won't be the same."
She smiled at his understanding. "You're right. In that sense Voyager has been 'home'."
They were silent for a few minutes more. Although he knew there were plenty of other tasks he should be doing, Chakotay was reluctant to break the comfortable mood. And he had to admit, there were worse ways of spending time than lying in the grass next to Kathryn Janeway.
"Have you decided what you'll do yet?" she asked eventually.
"No. And I've been thinking about it for the past few years. Whether I'll stay in Starfleet or not. If they want me, of course", he corrected himself.
"They will if I have anything to say about it."
He had to smile at her quiet determination.
"But it's always seemed like a decision that's so far away. Now that we're almost there, I'm not sure I'm ready to make it just yet. I thought I'd take a little time off first."
Kathryn nodded. "That's not a bad idea."
He turned his head towards her again and met her gaze.
"I'm going to miss not seeing you everyday."
She held his gaze, her eyes bright. "We'll always be good friends, I hope."
Chakotay opened his mouth to say something more, but was interrupted by a chirp from his communicator.
"Commander," an anxious Talaxian voice greeted him. "I was wondering if you've located the captain yet. I know you said it's probably just a computer problem, but B'Elanna said -"
"Don't worry Neelix. She's right here."
Kathryn made a face at him, but sat up. "What's the problem Neelix?"
"No problem captain. Well not a major problem anyway. I just had a few questions for you about the food for tonight."
"I'll come to the mess hall right now."
Chakotay held out his hand and helped Kathryn to her feet.
"If I do leave Starfleet, I'm not going to miss these timely interruptions", he said.
She laughed. As she smoothed down her top he reached over to brush a cluster of grass seeds from her hair.
"Thankyou", she said, holding his gaze again.
They stood for a moment, watching each other quietly, until Kathryn broke the silence.
"I suppose we should go."
As they walked towards the holodeck doors, hand in hand, Kathryn paused and glanced around before closing the program.
"Promise me one thing, Chakotay".
She smiled. "Come with me and visit this place."
"Only if you promise me interesting clouds to watch."
"It's a deal," she said, as the doors slid shut behind them. | 2019-04-21T00:43:10 | http://www.angelfire.com/trek/jinny/cloud_watching.html |
0.999999 | how do I get from manuscript to bound book?
1. Copy edit manuscript and prepare for typesetting (plus images/captions, if illustrated).
2. Design cover (or case and jacket, if hardback).
3. Typesetter sets text (reproduces illustrations) and supplies page proofs.
4. Proofreader checks page proofs and marks corrections.
5. Typesetter produces revised proofs for final check and approval for press.
6. Typesetter provides print-ready files to printer (plus images/captions, if appropriate).
8. Print pages (and illustrations).
9. Manufacture case (hardback only).
10. Bind printed text/illustrations in cover (or case and jacket, if hardback). | 2019-04-21T00:45:20 | http://sarahabel.co.uk/production.htm |
0.999861 | A trademark is any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods. In short, a trademark is a brand name.
Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office.
Incorporating helps separate an individual's identity from that of his or her business. Insurance may still be necessary, but incorporation contributes an added layer of protection.
What is the difference between a service mark and a trademark?
A service mark is used in connection with services, while a trademark is used in connection with tangible goods. The general terms "mark" or "trademark" may be used to describe both trademarks and service marks.
No. It is not required that you register your trademark or service mark in order to establish ownership rights. Registration of the trademark creates a legal presumption of the registrant's ownership of the mark and the registrant's exclusive right to use the mark in the state commerce in connection with the goods or services described in the application.
Do you need to be a corporation to obtain a trademark?
No. The trademark applicant is the person who owns the mark. Normally, this is the person who produces the goods or who renders the services associated with the mark and who controls the use of the mark. That person can be an individual sole proprietor, a general partnership, a limited partnership, joint venture, corporation, Limited Liability Company, unincorporated nonprofit association or other legal entity.
What is the duration of registration?
In Most States Trademark renewals are done every Ten (10) years.
Can a trademark or service mark be reserved before using it?
No. A mark must be in use prior to filing with the State.
A trade name (also know as an assumed name or "doing business as") is the name an owner uses to identify his or her business. A trademark is used to identify the goods and products that an individual or business offers to the public. | 2019-04-22T03:02:22 | http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Trade-Mark/218220 |
0.99895 | Have you made Avocado Salad Jelled?
1. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
2. Chill until consistency of unbeaten egg white.
3. Combine avocado and cream cheese; beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until blended.
4. Stir in pineapple and pecans. Combine avocado mixture with gelatin mixture; beat well.
5. Pour into a lightly oiled 8" square pan. Cover and chill until firm.
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Pineapple, MSG, Cheese, Avocado, Pecan allergies. | 2019-04-18T12:31:13 | http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/Avocado-Salad-Jelled |
0.999882 | Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average Down After North Korea's Latest Threat?
Subject: Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average Down After North Korea's Latest Threat?
7 + = 9 Required Please enter the correct value.
North Korea just won't go away. The rogue country threatened to test a new, powerful hydrogen bomb and launch it over the Pacific Ocean. The threat comes after several recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley about military action against the North Korean regime. Gold prices are showing modest gains on the news, up 0.2% to $1,297 this morning.
Markets are also turning their attention to events happening across Europe. UK Prime Minister Theresa May will give an important speech today about her nation's plans ahead of its split with the European Union. In addition, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will wrap up her campaign ahead of this weekend's election. Merkel is expected to win her fourth consecutive term as leader of Germany.
Things are already off to a rough start for Dara Khosrowshahi, the new CEO of Uber Technologies Inc. The New York Times reports that London will not renew the company's license to operate in Europe's largest single market. In a statement, the city said, "Uber's approach and conduct demonstrate a lack of corporate responsibility in relation to a number of issues which have potential public safety and security implications." Uber is the world's most valuable startup, and markets have been anticipating an Uber IPO for several years.
Crude oil prices were mixed in premarket hours, as members of OPEC prepare to meet in Vienna, Austria today. Members of the world's largest oil cartel will meet with several non-member nations to discuss whether they should extend their deal to cap excessive production through March 2018. While Iraq recently expressed support for an extension, some members may advocate that the body of voters take a wait-and-see approach to how oil prices behave over the next few months. The decision comes at a time that oil prices are back above $50 per barrel, an important psychological barrier. WTI crude oil price today were off 0.3% at $50.39, while Brent crude was up 0.2% at $56.54.
Shares of Finish Line Inc. (Nasdaq: FINL) were off 8.9% after the company fell short of adjusted profit expectations before the bell this morning. The miss comes just weeks after the firm released a profit and sales warning that reduced expectations for the fiscal second quarter.
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is generating headlines as it prepares to release two new smartphones. The company will release the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus. The primary upgrades to the phones include an advanced camera and wireless charging. However, both devices failed to generate much buzz last week after the firm unveiled the iPhone X, which will not go on sale until Nov. 3.
Shares of T-Mobile US Inc. (Nasdaq: TMUS) added another 1.3% in premarket hours on news it is nearing a deal to merge with Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S). The deal, which would likely happen by the end of next month, would allow Japanese investment giant Softbank (which controls Sprint) to own up to 50% of the new company. Sprint shares were up another 3.7% in premarket hours.
Look for additional earnings reports from CarMax Inc. (NYSE: KMX) and Eros International Plc. (NYSE: EROS).
San Francisco Fed Bank President John Williams Speaks at 6 a.m.
Kansas City Fed Bank President Esther George Speaks at 9:30 a.m.
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Robert Kaplan Speaks at 1:30 p.m. | 2019-04-22T13:22:10 | https://moneymorning.com/2017/09/22/is-the-dow-jones-industrial-average-down-after-north-koreas-latest-threat/ |
0.998774 | Choose the right category from the selection list, in this case 'Fuel consumption'.
From the selection list, choose the unit that corresponds to the value you want to convert, in this case 'Gallons per mile (US) [GPM]'.
Finally choose the unit you want the value to be converted to, in this case 'Gallons per 10000 miles (US) [GP10K]'.
With this calculator, it is possible to enter the value to be converted together with the original measurement unit; for example, '539 Gallons per mile (US)'. In so doing, either the full name of the unit or its abbreviation can be usedas an example, either 'Gallons per mile (US)' or 'GPM'. Then, the calculator determines the category of the measurement unit of measure that is to be converted, in this case 'Fuel consumption'. After that, it converts the entered value into all of the appropriate units known to it. In the resulting list, you will be sure also to find the conversion you originally sought. Alternatively, the value to be converted can be entered as follows: '49 Gallons per mile (US) to Gallons per 10000 miles (US)' or '31 GPM -> GP10K' or '84 GPM = GP10K'. For this alternative, the calculator also figures out immediately into which unit the original value is specifically to be converted. Regardless which of these possibilities one uses, it saves one the cumbersome search for the appropriate listing in long selection lists with myriad categories and countless supported units. All of that is taken over for us by the calculator and it gets the job done in a fraction of a second.
Furthermore, the calculator makes it possible to use mathematical expressions. As a result, not only can numbers be reckoned with one another, such as, for example, '(4 * 71) GPM'. But different units of measurement can also be coupled with one another directly in the conversion. That could, for example, look like this: '539 Gallons per mile (US) + 1617 Gallons per 10000 miles (US)' or '69mm x 16cm x 66dm = ? cm^3'. The units of measure combined in this way naturally have to fit together and make sense in the combination in question. | 2019-04-21T16:39:09 | https://www.convert-measurement-units.com/convert+Gallons+per+mile+US+to+Gallons+per+10000+miles+US.php |
0.999889 | Intellectual property (IP) enjoys specific legal protections. The University of Stuttgart has made protecting the rights of all parties to the research process a strategic goal.
Scientists at the University of Stuttgart year in year out produce groundbreaking research results. Their discoveries, especially inventions, patents, and trademarks, can often be put to a variety of commercial uses. The University prefers to license them rather than sell them outright. We stand ready support your commercialization efforts by collaboratively developing technologies that we license to you into market-ready products.
Research findings are intellectual property; fundamentally, they belong to those who produce them. The University of Stuttgart has set down in an IP strategy (german) how to manage this intellectual property.
The IP strategy is designed to safeguard the interest of all parties involved: researchers, the University itself and its cooperation partners. It makes knowledge and technology transfer possible without putting limits on academic freedom.
Goals of the IP StrategyIn principle, research findings will be disseminated in a timely manner, especially in relevant professional journals or by registration of IP rights, so that the discoveries achieved are widely disseminated.
Utilization of research results as the basis for further research and in teaching will be ensured.
Research results that can be commercialized are to be protected by patent or trademark filings, for example, before being publicized. Until then, they are to be kept under wraps by internal nondisclosure.
The economic value of research results is to be safeguarded by direct or indirect, self- or third-party commercialization at market rates.
TTI Technology Transfer Initiative GmbH supports the spinning off of University-spawned startups that develop goods and services based on discoveries made at the University.
Upgrades of existing cooperative arrangements between individual institutes and companies to long-term partnerships and alliances at the university level will be monitored continuously to reinforce existing research emphases and identify new research priorities.
Internal regulations apply for the realization of the IP Strategy. The regulations can be found in the additional elucidatons Realization of the IP Strategy (german).
Classifying research findings as intellectual property preserves the owner’s rights in intangible goods – for example, research outputs such as inventions, processes, copyrights (e.g. for computer programs), designs and the know-how related to them – whether or not they can be patented or trademarked. Fundamentally, the rights to intellectual property are vested in whoever produces it. If required legally or contractually, these rights may be conveyed to an employer or client on a case by case basis.
This is the preferred model, since it lets the University of Stuttgart retain ownership of the intellectual property. This makes it easier to accommodate the differing needs of individual cooperation partners.
This model may be used only in exceptional cases (e.g., with contract research) if justified by circumstances. To be kept in mind here is that it very much complicates continued research activities with third parties in a particular field.
These options are considered when entrepreneurs want to turn concepts spawned in the University of Stuttgart into products or services. | 2019-04-24T10:25:21 | https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/research/technology-transfer/ip-strategy/ |
0.999227 | When are repairs not carried out properly?
the work has damaged internal decorations or personal belongings.
If the repairs are your landlord's responsibility, your landlord is also responsible for the quality of the work carried out by a builder, and for any damage this may cause. This includes damage to your belongings as well as the landlord's own property.
If the council or the court ordered your landlord to do the work and the work is not up to standard, you can go back to the council or the court and ask them to force your landlord to do the work properly.
If your landlord has done the work without the council or the court's involvement, it might be difficult to force your landlord to carry out the repairs to the standard you want. In effect, you'll need to start the whole process again, reporting the problems to your landlord then giving them time to put things right before going on to take further action.
If the repairs have damaged any of your personal belongings or made the accommodation dangerous, you may be able to take your landlord to court for compensation or negligence.
When repair work is carried out, any damage to internal decorations should be 'made good'. This means repairing any damaged plaster or wall coverings, repainting if necessary and replacing any damaged items such as carpets. This applies even if the internal decoration is not your landlord's responsibility.
If the work is an improvement, your landlord doesn't have to 'make good' afterwards. However, as your landlord needs to get your permission before they can carry out any improvement work, you might want to make it a condition of your consent that any resulting damage to the internal decoration is put right.
If you can't use all the rooms in the home when it’s being repaired you may be entitled to claim a rent reduction.
If you are asked to move out, because of repairs, your landlord will have to refund you the cost of any alternative accommodation.
If you won't move out, your landlord may try to evict you.
You need to be given 24 hrs notice of access that is need by the landlord or workmen. | 2019-04-25T12:42:24 | https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/advice_topics/repairs_and_bad_conditions/repairs_in_private_rented_accommodation/what_if_the_repairs_are_not_done_properly |
0.998498 | What are the reasons that could keep humans from living longer than anyone does now?
Scientists are very interested in your question. They're studying what causes our cells to die. Their name for cell death is 'apoptosis.' You could search for that on www.google.com. A big question in science is whether we could live to be very old if we learned how to control the things that kill our cells. There's also some interesting research on why people and animals seem to sometimes live longer if they don't eat very much. There seems to be a vitamin that we use for digesting food that can also protect our cells from dying, but if all gets used up in digesting our food, there's not so much for keeping our cells alive. This research is very new, so it may turn out to be much more complicated than that, but it is quite exciting. | 2019-04-23T00:33:42 | http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3209 |
0.99999 | Forget about learning business lessons from Apple. It's time to take lessons from a smartphone company with a history of errors, blunders and bad decisions.
Everybody likes to hold Apple up as an example of how to succeed in business. After all, it's the most successful company currently in existence, with a market capitalization (in the second quarter of this year) more than twice as high as the world's second most-valuable company: Microsoft.
Good examples are instructive. But so are bad examples.
In this column, I'd like to explore what business lessons can be gleaned from a smartphone company with a history of errors, blunders and missteps. I'm talking about the Chinese company OnePlus.
From the beginning, OnePlus gained a reputation for making high-end or mid-range phones at budget-phone prices. Its initial OnePlus One phone was spec'd like a $500 phone, but priced at just under $300.
That's a great way to win attention, loyalty, affinity and customers. Sadly, the company consistently squandered that reputation with a series of bad decisions.
OnePlus was in the news last week because it had to apologize for mistakes with the launch of its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 2, which caused phone shipments to be delayed by weeks. In the same apology, the company also admitted that it "messed up the launch of the OnePlus One as well" and that the delays "caused huge reputational damage to our company."
The errors, apology and damage to reputation are just the latest chapter in a long string of OnePlus blunders. As a heuristic exercise, let's review the infamous but instructive history of this company, with an emphasis on what other companies can learn.
1. Don't mislead the public about your founding.
There's no delicate way to write this, so I'm just going to write it: OnePlus fabricated its creation myth.
The company was founded in December of 2013, launched by two executives who claim to have defected from the Chinese smartphone company OPPO. One defector was the former OPPO vice president, Pete Lau, and the other was the OPPO marketing chief, Carl Pei. When Lau announced the founding of OnePlus, he started with: "Today is my last day at OPPO."
Cool, right? A couple of young guys with American first names and Chinese last names rebel against the status quo in China by striking out on their own to create a new kind of company and a new kind of phone.
The problem is that OnePlus is a subsidiary of OPPO. OnePlus is OPPO. The creation myth is smoke and mirrors.
When the OnePlus Website went online, the domain was registered to OPPO Electronic. Documents published by a smartphone blog showed that all OnePlus stock is owned by OPPO. OnePlus management says that OPPO, the phone company, and OnePlus have the same investors, an investment group called ... OPPO! Again, smoke and mirrors.
Rather than being an innovative startup, OnePlus, it appears, is a marketing gimmick hatched by OPPO to sell OPPO smartphones. The fact remains: OPPO owns OnePlus. So who owns OPPO?
OPPO is a brand of the Chinese electronics giant BBK Electronics, which sells products mainly in Russia, but also in the United States. In America, BBK products are sold under the Memorex and Philco brands.
So, rather than being an innovative, rebellious startup, OnePlus is the result of a plan hatched by a brand that's owned by a Chinese electronics manufacturer.
2. Don't promise innovations that you can't deliver.
After Motorola launched the Moto X phone (Motorola was then owned by Google, which later sold it to China's Lenovo), alternative smartphone backplate materials became fashionable. The Moto X offered various wood-backed phone options.
One of OnePlus' bold innovations was to go far beyond plastic and glass—and even beyond Google's wood-backed phones—to offer denim, Kevlar, bamboo, silk and sandstone black so-called "StyleSwap" covers. These exotic materials were a huge part of OnePlus' initial differentiation and created excitement among its growing fan base.
Unfortunately company promised features it couldn't deliver. When OnePlus tried to produce phones with such backplates at scale, it learned why nobody else ever tried it: It doesn't work and doesn't scale. Backplates had problems: They didn't fit, didn't hold together and turned out to be a bad idea.
The fact that OnePlus didn't know such backplate materials weren't possible or practical made naive and irresponsible. And fans paid the price. | 2019-04-22T20:52:00 | http://www.baselinemag.com/mobility/how-to-learn-from-a-phone-companys-mistakes.html |
0.999998 | What are the dark colored regions of the moon?
The dark colored areas of the moon's surface are referred to as "maria", the Italian and Latin word for "seas". Long before the arid nature of the moon's surface was known, the early observers of the moon interpreted these areas as oceans on the moon, and referred to them accordingly.
And as for the light areas, they have always been (correctly) interpreted as mountain ranges, and named accordingly.
What color is the moon?
Answer red Answer All colors have the potential to be dark, as there are ways to remove brightness (by layering black on top, in some cases). Dark colors are colors that are closer to black than to white.
The moon, like the Earth, is illuminated on one side by the sun, while the other side is dark.
Why is there a dark side on the moon?
Other then Pink Floyd, says who? :P Fact: There is no dark side of the moon.
What are the dark spots on the moon called?
What is the moons color?
idk it looks gray in pictures i am in science right now learning stuff about moons well ta ta The moon is a canvas yellow and has a tint of grey.
Is it dark on the moon?
Just like here on earth, the moon is light when the sun is shining on the surface and dark when it is not. The moon has a day and night just like on earth, except that days on the moon are much longer than here on earth.
What are the colors of the moon?
What are the dark flat regions on the moon called?
The dark and relatively featureless lunar plains which can clearly be seen are called maria (Latin for "seas"). They were believed by ancient astronomers to be filled with water. They are now known to be vast solidified pools of ancient basaltic lava.
Is there color in the dark?
How dark is the dark side of the moon?
Half the moon is 'dark' at any one time. Every point on the moon isilluminated for roughly 50% of the time, as the first answer said.So there IS a dark side of the moon :). And it is very dark, sothat stars can be seen more clearly than anywhere on earth.
Dark-colored storms and eight moons?
Dark-colored storms and eight moons is quite possible referring tothe planet of Neptune. Neptune is deemed to now be the planet thatis farthest away from the sun because Pluto was downgraded to adwarf planet.
Dark colored fairly flat areas on the moon?
Called maria I searched this in and it wasn't there so I found it in my book for you and me!
What are dark colored relatively flat regions of the moon's surface formed when interior lava filled large basins?
What is the flat dark region on the moon?
Dark regions on the surface of the moon are generally?
Dark regions on the surface of the moon are generally basalt flows. Basalt is a dark rock. The flows have been caused by rock melting due to heat generated by meteor impacts.
Why is half of the moon always dark?
Half of the moon is always dark because there is no sunlight shining on that side. That is called the Dark Side of the Moon.
What are the dark spots on the moon caused by?
either the sun not showing on the moon, causing shadows/Shadows in holes where meteors hit and left craters where the sun does not hit.
Is the other side of the moon dark?
What causes the darkness of the new moon?
The reason a new moon looks dark is that when you view a new moon, you are looking at the side of the moon not lit by the sun.
Is there a permanent dark side of the moon?
No part of the Moon is permanently dark. The "dark side" refers to the side that is away from Earth, that can't be seen from Earth.
When does the moon shine in the dark?
The moon shines when the sun's rays are reflected off the surface and down to the Earth where it is percieved by anything with working eyes. If there is an eclipse of any kind the moon will not shine.
What are dark colored flat regions of the Moon's surface formed when interior lava filled large basins?
Do you have mrs swartzentruber for science? Cuz if u do I have the answer! Meet me in the small commons by where you put your lunch trays!
Is the moon always dark?
What is Transformers Dark of the Moon rated?
PG-13 for Intense Prolonged Sequences of Sci-Fi Action Violence, Mayhem and Destruction, and for Language, Some Sexuality and Innuendo.
What dark - colored rock covers large areas of the moon?
Actually, there isn't a large clump of dark colored rocks on the moon. The dark parts of the side of the moon that we see, are actually craters that are hundreds of thousands of years old, caused by meteorites crashing into the moon.
How does transformers dark of the moon end?
What is the transformers dark of the moon plot?
Who are the new Transformers in Dark of The Moon?
What is the plot of Transformers Dark of the Moon?
Why can you see the moon when its dark?
Light from the sun is reflected off the moon making it visible in the dark.
Why is the Moon dark all of the time?
The moon is not dark all the time. It is dark in a phase called a "new moon." But it only temporarily lasts.
What are the characters in Transformers Dark of the Moon?
What makes part of the moon dark?
You see, that part is the side of the moon that isn't facing the sun. Since it isn't facing the sun, no light touches it. Thus, it looks dark, considering the moonlight is really a reflection of sunlight that bounces of the moon.
Who died in Transformers Dark of the Moon?
Do the moon have dark side?
How do you get sideswipe in transformers dark of the moon?
You have to pay 80 Microsoft points for xbox. I don't know about ps3, I don't play it. On ps3 you have to buy it from the playstation store. hes an add on.
Does unicorn die in dark of the moon?
What are the killstreaks in transformers dark of the moon?
There is a 3 killstreak, where you can activate an orbital beacon. A 5 killstreak, where you jam the enemy's abilities. And a 7 killstreak, where everyone on your team (including yourself) gets an overshield.
How to study the dark region of universe?
The only way we can study distant parts of the universe is through photons emitted from those regions. By definition, if it is "dark" then we cannot study it. W can only study its interactions with light that we can see.
What color is the dark side of the moon?
There is no dark side, the moon is similar in colours all over its surface.
Is the dark side of the Moon cold?
When half of the moon is dark what is it called?
A quarter moon. What we call "full" moon is really only half of the moon shining, so if you take away half of a half, you get a quarter. When people say, "It's a quarter moon," there should only be half of a "full" moon showing.
Is a new moon and dark of the moon the same?
What are the large dark regions on the moon?
Is it dark now in the arctic Region?
Today is the autumnal equinox. It is the last day of sunlight at the north pole for 6 months.
What transformers are in dark of the moon?
Sideswipe, Ironhide, Ratchet, Optimus Prime, The Wreckers(Red Wrecker - Leadfoot, Blue Wrecker - Topspin, Green Wrecker - Roadbuster), Sentinal Prime, Megatron, Barracade, Shockwave(its pet the driller beast), Dino(pronounced Deno and aka Mirage), and many more.
What color is the moon-?
The color of the moon during the day is faint and white surroundedby the blue of the sky while at night it is bright yellow. | 2019-04-26T09:04:15 | https://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_dark_colored_regions_of_the_moon |
0.99999 | As a livestock farmer, you want to have an insight into the cost price. If you know that feed costs represent around 30% to 40% of the total cost, it is clear that you must keep an eye on this at all times. There are often a whole host of things that can be improved, even if you use precise amounts of feed. The key word is 'control'. If you know exactly how much feed you need and can offer exact amounts of rations each and every time, you can purchase feed in a controlled and targeted manner. But how do you ensure that you get control and, more importantly, keep it? A sound feed management programme is essential for this.
A feed management programme simply compares the rations determined and programmed in advance to the amount of feed actually delivered. With this data you, as a livestock farmer, can see exactly where the difference lies and thus where improvements can be made. You get insight into forage and feed concentrate costs compared to yield. Using these insights you can start to make strategic adjustments and feed your livestock more accurately. By doing so, you can save more than 4% on your daily feed costs.
If you know precisely how much of each component must be used in the feed to achieve a particular result, you can really make it work for you. The broader the feed management programme, the better you can control the feed process and the more grip you have on your costs. We offer a Basic feed management programme, which facilitates the programming of rations and creates two important reports. These reports show the dry matter uptake per cow, allowing you to see the loading precision at a glance so that you gain an overview of the scheduled rations and the quantity of feed actually loaded.
Extended feed management programmes offering a whole host of valuable information are also available. This includes the rations, dry matter uptake and load precision as well as the residual amount of feed and the stocks of forage and feed concentrate based on the rations used. Graphs instantly provide an overview of the feed costs and the average costs over a given period. Furthermore, some feed management programmes can be linked to other business management systems. In that case, the feed data can be linked, for example, to milk production and the feed efficiency can be determined easily. In short, it answers one of the most important questions: what is the return?
Using the knowledge you gain from your feed management system, you can have an impact on your company results. This gives you control of feed and production, which means you are in control of your farm's efficiency and how to make the best use of your feed. | 2019-04-22T04:21:15 | https://www.trioliet.us/us/feeding_articles/feed_efficiency/item/good_feed_management_can_lower_costs-1/ |
0.997867 | Adobe Systems said yesterday it will acquire Omniture Inc., a leading supplier of Web analytics technology. The deal, valued at $1.8 billion, raised eyebrows as the supplier of the Flash and PDF platforms paid a premium for a company with only $296 million in revenues last year.
The acquisition promises to extend Adobe, a leading provider of content development, workflow and creation tools, into a new area of Web measurement, performance and analytics. The deal would be Adobe's largest acquisition since it grabbed Macromedia for $3.4 billion back in 2005.
Adobe said Omniture promises to expand its market and growth options by bringing the company into consumer-facing markets such as advertising and digital media distribution. In short, Adobe sees extending the use of its development and content creation technologies and workflow with optimization and measurement tools.
"Adobe will have the opportunity to embed measurement technologies within each of their applications," said Forrester analyst John Lovett in an interview. "It does offer the ability to round out their services with the measurement and the potential optimization of that content. Verses a developer simply putting out information, they now would have an engrained feedback mechanism to see how the consumers of that content use it and where it goes. That's the real opportunity there."
Despite the high price tag, IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Omniture ranked as the fastest growing of any of the suppliers of Web analytics services. "The price they are paying seems high until you recognize that this puts Adobe in a leadership contending position of a hot area now which should bolster profits and revenues as specific synergetic offerings are put together," Hilwa said in an email.
"Adobe likely sees a world where the tools for developing, testing, performance measuring and managing Web content happening as a service through versions of Adobe's tools," he added. "In a way this is a play that puts Adobe more seriously in the cloud and SaaS [software-as-a-service] space if it is able to leverage the potential synergies."
RedMonk analyst Michael Cote said that making money on the Web is increasingly moving toward Web analytics and search engine optimization [SEO]. As such, Web developers will need to focus more on user behavior.
"Ultimately, if the Adobe tool chain -- including services used in production -- help developers make money, it'll be more appealing in the face of other contenders like Microsoft, the 'open Web' crew, Google, cloud-providers, and others," Cote said in an email.
Forrester's Lovett said Microsoft appears to sidelined its Web analytics for now, after closing the beta of its own offering codenamed project Gatineau, was discontinued. It was based on technology it acquired three years ago from DeepMetrix.
The deal, already approved by Adobe shareholders, is expected to close in the fourth quarter. | 2019-04-25T12:56:13 | https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2009/09/16/adobe-acquisition-of-omniture-adds-flash-to-web-analytics.aspx |
0.991772 | While the last decade or two has brought it more recognition, cremation services in Brookeville(MD) are still somewhat of an uncommon entity. However, it is fast becoming a more economical means of final disposition for deceased loved ones. Do you know how to go about planning for Brookeville(MD) cremation services when someone close to you dies? There is a certain sequence of events that must occur in order for this option to come into play.
Cremation Services in Brookeville(MD)- What to Do When Death Occurs?
When your loved one dies, medical authorities such as the attending physician or a medical examiner must verify the death as well as the cause. In the event death occurs after a long illness, the nursing home, hospital or personal physician in attendance calls the death. An unexpected or accidental death may require calling 911 which leads to a medical examiner handling the deceased. Before Brookeville(MD) cremation services commence, once one of the above scenarios is carried out, the funeral establishment of your choice handles the transportation of the body to the crematory. You must make a formal identification of your deceased loved one's body in the presence of the funeral director.
Once your loved one is transported to the funeral establishment of your choice and identified formally in the presence of the director, there are certain pieces of information you will need to bring with you in order to set the plans for cremation services in Brookeville(MD) in motion. You will need to provide your deceased loved one's full legal name, last address, marital status, date and place of birth, social security number, parent names, occupation and a list of next of kin. If the deceased was in the military at one time, their service dates and serial number are needed too. All of this information is required in order to complete the death certificate which the funeral establishment handles. Before Brookeville(MD) cremation services are started, this paperwork must be filled out with medical data and signed by the deceased's physician and then filed with the Division of Vital Records.
There are no state laws that implicitly require embalming. There are a few circumstances when it might be suggested though. For instance, if the deceased's body has to be shipped to or from another state, embalming may be required. If you choose to have a public viewing or wake before Brookeville(MD) cremation services, embalming might be mandated by the funeral establishment.
Embalming helps keep a deceased loved one's body from decomposing too quickly. While there is only a twelve hour waiting period after death before cremation services in Brookeville(MD) can happen, more time is often required in order to complete the planning and paperwork involved. Embalming essentially buys you the time needed to set things into motion. If you are choosing a direct cremation route with no public viewing before a memorial or funeral service, embalming is not needed, even if you wish to visit with the deceased before Brookeville(MD) cremation services commence.
When your deceased loved one is received by the crematory, they have an identification tag placed with them. This ensures that the cremated remains you receive afterward are indeed your deceased loved one. The tag is removed only when the deceased is placed into the cremation chamber. Because only one body at a time can undergo cremation services in Brookeville(MD) within the chamber, there is little to no chance of a mix-up. Once the cremated remains are removed from the chamber and cooled, the identification tag is placed with them for the remainder of the process.
Choosing an Urn - Is It Necessary for Brookeville(MD) Cremation Services?
If you are planning to scatter your loved one's ashes after cremation, you don't necessarily need an urn to house the remains. The crematory, as a default, places the ashes in a temporary container that is leak-proof. If a scattering ceremony does not happen right away after cremation services in Brookeville(MD), you can hold onto the filled temporary container.
However, if the cremated remains are to be buried in a memorial garden or cemetery plot, a decorative urn of some sort is required. There are many styles to choose from including simple wooden boxes to elaborate cloisonn� containers. An urn would also be necessary if you plan to hold onto the ashes after Brookeville(MD) cremation services and display them in an honored spot in your home or even store them in a columbarium.
There is no right or wrong choices in regards to funeral or memorial services. You could have a public viewing before cremation services in Brookeville(MD) along with a funeral service. Or, you could choose direct cremation and hold a memorial ceremony, displaying the urn of cremated remains, at a later date. You choose what is best for family and friends as well as your finances. Contact a funeral specialist to help you with Brookeville(MD) cremation services so that there is a smoother transition from death to memorialization. | 2019-04-20T20:30:00 | https://www.heritagecremationprovider.com/cremation-services-costs/maryland/brookeville |
0.999992 | What is the best way to keep a dog happy in Orlando apartments?
Many apartments in Orlando are dog friendly and will allow your beloved pet to live in your apartment alongside you. If you're the proud owner of a beloved pooch keeping him/her happy in an apartment can seem like a daunting task. With a few changes to your routine and living space you can keep your doggie happy as ever.
Several apartments in Orlando cater to not only their residents, but their resident's pets as well. Numerous Orlando apartments offer dog walks, perfect for keeping your pooch active and healthy. Many even have waste bags along the walks so cleaning up after your pooch is ridiculously easy. If you're lucky you might even find an apartment that offers a dog play area, with hurdles and slides for your dog to play on.
One of the best ways to keep your dog happy in Orlando apartments is to keep them active. Even a three or four bedroom apartment can seem cramped for an active dog. Try taking your dog to a dog park or somewhere they can roam free off-leash. Daily walks, games of fetch, and play time with other dogs can be vital to your dog's happiness. If you spend plenty of time keeping your dog active they're less likely to get bored and lonely throughout the day.
Keeping your dog happy even when you're not at home is essential. To achieve this try keeping a basket of toys out that are available to your pooch at all times. Fill it up with bones, ropes, treat dispensers, chew toys, and more to keep your pet preoccupied while you're out at work or school. With these toys to keep them busy while you're away your less likely to come home to chewed up shoes, or trash strewn throughout your home.
Creating open spaces in your home can greatly assist in keeping your dog happy. Keep furniture placed up against the walls, your TV mounted, and doorways free of clutter. The more room your dog has, the happier they'll be. Try keeping whatever rooms you can open while you're away so your dog has more room to pace and play throughout the day.
Orlando apartments can be a wonderful place to live with your pooch if you know how to take care of them properly. Effort to keep your dog happy is definitely required when living in Orlando apartments, but as a pet owner I'm sure you're willing to take a few extra measures to keep your dog happy and healthy. Making just a few changes can greatly increase your dog's happiness in Orlando apartments immensely. The most vital role in keeping your dog happy is just paying as much attention to them as you can and giving them all the love you can give. If you follow these few steps both you and your pet can be incredibly happy in your home. | 2019-04-23T06:47:08 | https://www.407apartments.com/help-finding-apartments/happy-dog |
0.999593 | What if the triangle turned in the other way?
Assault Bomber: fighter hull with bomber weapon, designed to charge at armored targets but unable to sustain any reprisal or interception.
Battle Station: bomber hull with MLRS weapon, designed to disperse squadrons of fighters.
Interceptor Frigate: frigate hull with better propulsion but weaker weaponry, designed to intercept polycrystal units.
The Asault Bomber crushes the Interceptor Frigate and the Missile Frigate (but the last also has a bonus against it).
The Battle Station disperses the Asault Bomber and the Standard Fighter (but the last also has a bonus against it).
The Interceptor Frigate intercepts the Battle Station and the Bomber (but the last also has a bonus against it).
Asault Bomber: Light, bonus against Heavy/Artillery, high impact, no armor.
Battle Station: Polycrystal, bonus against Light, high RoF, no armor.
Interceptor Frigate: Heavy, bonus against Polycrystal, high RoF, armored. | 2019-04-24T12:48:11 | https://forums.arcengames.com/ai-war-ii-ideas-for-maybe-later/(aiw2)-alternative-triangle-and-epsilon-eridani/ |
0.999879 | 1. Is how far your town from here?
2. How far your town from here is?
3. How far your town is from here?
4. How far is your town from here?
Q22 : Have you ever been to _ Sicily?
Q23 : We all know that the Earth ________ (to be) round.
Q24 : Bob ___________ (to listen) to music when the door bell rang.
Q25: I’m so happy! Lisa and Jake ______________ (to marry) soon!
Q26 : Why is Rachel so angry _____ it?
Q27 : Carla was sitting with two nice _______ (a woman).
Q28 : He eats _______ sweets every day.
Q29 : If you ________ (to call) me I _________ (to help) you.
Q30 : My colleague is a ________ man. He doesn’t forgive offenses and always pays back.
1. Darren was eating the roast chicken greedily because he was very hungry.
2. Darren was eating greedily the roast chicken because he was very hungry.
3. Darren greedily was eating the roast chicken because he was very hungry.
4. Darren was eating the roast chicken because he was very hungry greedily.
Q32 : I avoid ________ (to walk) alone in the forest.
Q33. It was reported on Monday about record rise __ foreign invesments in the country.
Q34 : My husband deals ___ car insurance.
Q35 : Transfer this Active voice sentence to the Passive one: I suppose that Jeremy has written this letter.
1. I am supposed that Jeremy has written this letter.
2. This letter must have written by Jeremy.
3. This letter must have been written by Jeremy.
4. I suppose that Jeremy has been written this letter. | 2019-04-20T00:12:37 | https://samanyagyanedu.in/english-grammar-quiz-07/ |
0.999999 | Following months of speculation over the plane's future, Airbus said it had taken the decision after Emirates scaled back an order for A380s - choosing instead to focus on smaller planes. The European aircraft major reached this decision after Dubai-based mega carrier Emirates, which is the largest operator of the A380, reduced its order book for this plane by 39 from 162 to 123 aircraft.
The company said it had "no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis to sustain production". - Airbus chief executive, Tom EndersWhat are the details?
The European aerospace giant confirmed on Thursday it would deliver the final aircraft, with its two decks of cabins and room for 544 passengers, in 2021. "Hence today's announcement is painful for us and the A380 communities worldwide".
The plane maker reported net profit of €3.1 billion over a year ago, up from €2.4b in 2017.
With Airbus increasingly reliant on a single customer for its flagship product, Emirates could make or break the programme by ordering or cancelling more A380s.
What happens next? The company will start talks with unions over the 3,500 jobs that could be at risk. The firm said an increase in production of its A320 model would offer "a significant number of internal mobility opportunities". Teams from across the region joined colleagues at other sites during crunch times, the quirky-looking Beluga freight planes would crisscross countries with parts, and the A380 was a popular backdrop at air shows for politicians celebrating Europe's achievements.
Production of the jumbo jet will end by 2021, after the A380's biggest customer, Emirates, and a handful of remaining buyers receive their last orders. With Emirates negotiating their orders, Qantas giving up theirs and just today Qatar moving on to another aircraft.
After that, any future business for the world's biggest passenger plan will be grounded, the company said. With passenger numbers rising every year and major new hubs opening in markets like Dubai, the A380 seemed the obvious choice to address the need for a large people carrier, while picking market share off Boeing. | 2019-04-26T04:39:06 | http://cobess.com/2019/02/14/airbus-to-scrap-a380-superjumbo-production.html |
0.999054 | Cary Fukunaga, the director behind the first season of HBO's True Detective and Netflix's Beasts of No Nation, was originally supposed to be at the helm for New Line and Warner Bros.' adaptation of Stephen King's IT. In 2015, he departed the project over creative differences and that was that. Andy Muschietti eventually was brought in and he shepherded the movie to great success. Now, Cary Fukunaga has opened up about leaving the project.
Creative differences quite often cause rifts between studios and directors, but the precise details regarding those differences are often a bit blurry. Cary Fukunaga now says that he left IT behind because there was tension between himself and the producers as they felt he couldn't be controlled. Here's what he had to say about it in a recent interview.
"I think it was fear on their part, that they couldn't control me. No, they thought they couldn't control me. I would have been a total collaborator. That was the kind of ridiculous part. It was just more a perception. I have never seen a note and been like, f*** you guys. No way. It's always been a conversation."
Under the direction of Cary Fukunaga, it would have been We're the Millers star Will Poulter as Pennywise, as opposed to Bill Skarsgard, who ultimately went on to play the part. The general consensus seems to be that worked out quite well. Fukunaga also wrote his own version of the script and, while he maintained a writing credit, much was changed during further development that took place in the wake of his departure. Gary Dauberman came in and did a major rewrite. Apparently, the studio liked what he did, as he was brought back to pen IT 2.
There was a sense that Cary Fukunaga was an auteur in the true sense of the word. That he was uncompromising in his vision and that such a director might make things tricky come time for cameras to begin rolling. Fukunaga also talked a bit about this, saying that the concept of him being uncompromising simply isn't true.
"I don't think I've ever been able to make something uncompromising. Like, someone commented on Beasts, 'Oh, how did it feel to make a movie that's uncompromising?' Like, uncompromising? I had to rewrite my entire third act 'cause we didn't have the money to finish the film. We compromise all over the place."
Ultimately, IT turned out to be a tremendous success. The movie grossed more than $700 million worldwide and was met with a whole lot of praise from critics and fans alike. The studio quickly got working on the follow-up, IT: Chapter 2, which will arrive in theaters next September. Andy Muschietti was brought back to direct the sequel as well. As for Fukunaga? He's got his Netflix series Maniac coming down the pipeline, which reunites Superbad stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. It seems as though things worked out well enough for everyone. This news comes to us from GQ. | 2019-04-22T12:16:20 | https://movieweb.com/it-movie-2017-director-cary-fukunaga-why-exit/ |
0.998338 | Winston: The Public Transportation Authority (PTA) cannot fulfill its mandate to operate without a budget deficit unless it eliminates service during late-night periods of low ridership. Since the fares collected during these periods are less than the cost of providing the service, these cuts would reduce the deficit and should be made. Transit law prohibits unauthorized fare increases, and fare-increase authorization would take two years.
Ping: Such service cuts might cost the PTA more in lost fares than they would save in costs, for the PTA would lose those riders who leave home during the day but must return late at night. Thus the PTA would lose two fares while realizing cost savings for only one leg of such trips.
IMO B seems the most logical because winston failed to look at how the full use of the transportation system, arrival and departure.
Winston: The Public Transportation Authority (PTA) has to eliminate service during late-night periods of low ridership. Fares collected during these periods are less than the cost of providing the service.
Ping:PTA would lose those riders who leave home during the day but must return late at night.
Ping goes against Winston's claim, doesn't give any support to it.
Wilson - Cut the night buses.
Ping - If we cut night bus, we lose day customer who return back. But wait, does he mean that, if there is no night bus, people will not be able to go to their destination (say,work/home whatever). Is there no other bus/transport service available. Like a train or something.
A - Redefines what? - Eliminated.
B - Keep this one.
C - premise that could have been used as part to support W's conclusion. No. P doesn't support W's conclusion at all. Eliminated.
D - Statistics - Nope. More persuasive than W's - No comparison is made. Eliminated.
E - Proposes a solution - No.
All except B are wrong. But how to justify answer choice B. Where is PING questioning Winstons proposal. What is meant by questioning in CR context? | 2019-04-25T14:53:15 | https://gmatclub.com/forum/winston-the-public-transportation-authority-pta-cannot-fulfill-its-150376.html |
0.999999 | 150 Years Bilateral Relations Switzerland – Japan. What is next?
On 6 February 1864 bilateral relations between Switzerland and Japan were established with the signing of the first trade and friendship agreement between the Swiss Confederation and the Taikun, i.e. the (fourteenth and last but one) Shogun, Tokugawa Iemochi (1846 – 1866). For the Japanese people of that era the date corresponded to the 29th day of the twelfth moon of the third Bunkyu year. For this reason Japan and Switzerland currently prepare the celebration of the first 150 years of bilateral relations in the year 2014.
What might have been the reasons which induced Switzerland, a country at the center of Europe, a land-locked country without a marine force or colonies, to establish economic and diplomatic relations with Japan, a country considered isolationist and which lies 9’674 km to the east of Bern?
Switzerland and Japan share various common features: a rugged, mountainous territory of which only a small part may be used for agriculture, few natural resources and a hardworking population. Although compared to Japan Switzerland is hardly exposed to earthquakes, both countries are used to hard, sometimes cruel forces of nature demanding respect.
At the end of the last civil war, the Sonderbund War, in the second half of the XIX century Switzerland adopted a new constitution (1848) and entered a new era, an era of industrial revolution and strong economic growth. The Swiss watch industry in particular was looking for new markets.
At the end of the Edo-period (1603 – 1868) Japan was in turmoil. The Shogunate was torn between an Imperial Court reluctant to an opening of the country and innovative forces which wanted to replace the Shogunate with an imperial government on one side, and increasing demands by foreign powers for an opening of the country on the other side. Following the arrival of Commodore Perry and his fleet in the Uraga-Bay in the year 1853 and the first treaty of friendship and trade with the USA in the year 1858 the Shogunate government signed similar treaties with the Netherlands, Russia, England and France.
Industrial circles in Switzerland were well informed about these developments and as early as in 1859 asked the Federal Government to send a mission to Japan. The mission of Rudolf Lindau (1829 – 1910), however, returned from Japan with just the promise that Japan would deal with Switzerland as a priority as soon as it was ready to negotiate further treaties.
At the end of 1862 the Federal Council nominated Aimé Humbert (1819 – 1900) as plenipotentiary minister and charged him with negotiating an agreement with Japan. Almost one year after his arrival in the year 1863 and thanks to the support by the Dutch minister, Dirk Graeff van Poslbroek, Aimé Humbert succeeded in concluding an agreement on 6 February 1864.
Initially the treaty resulted in numerous, fruitful economic activities by Switzerland which exported arms, watches and precision instruments to Japan and imported valuable silk threads to Switzerland. Trading companies such as Favre-Brandt, Sieber-Hegner, Liebermann-Wälchli successfully settled in Yokohama, later in Osaka-Kobe.
In 1868, when the Shogunate came to an end in order to make room for the new Imperial regime of the Meiji-Era (1868 – 1912), Japan experienced a period of civil war which ended with the transfer of the capital from Kyoto to Edo and its renaming into Tokyo.
Under the new imperial regime Japan launched fundamental reforms combined with a westernization of society. Although this period is often called the “Meiji-Restoration”, it in fact represented a “revolution” of Japanese society. The measures of the government in order to abolish the feudal system, implement the separation of Buddhism and Shinto etc. had an impact on Switzerland as well. The bell of the Honsen-ji Temple of Shinagawa illustrates this. The bell was removed and exported to Switzerland. In 1930 the city of Geneva having acquired the bell returned it to the Temple which resulted in close ties of friendship between Geneva and Shinagawa. These ties were formalized in 1991. This is one of the many privileged relations which bind our two countries today.
While Swiss products found their way to Japan as early as during the Edo-period thanks to the Dutch East India Company, Swiss producers such as Nestlé, Ciba (today Novartis) established themselves in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century only.
The first Japanese to come to Switzerland were most likely the members of the delegation led by Tokugawa Akitake (1853 – 1919) in the year 1867. Later they were students like Oyama Iwao, the future Marshall, who studied in Geneva from 1870 to 1874. This tradition continues today with a scholarship exchange program on the post-graduate level. The first official delegation of the new imperial regime, the well-known mission of Iwakura Tomomi (1825 – 1883) visited Switzerland in June 1870 on the occasion of a round-the-world-tour. During its stay it showed an interest in permanent neutrality and the Red Cross being established as well as in the Swiss militia system among others.
From the end of the 19th to the 20th century Japan developed on the international stage and even though the Second World War erupted, the relationship between Switzerland and Japan was never suspended. Switzerland’s neutrality allowed it to represent the interests of the Allied in the archipelago during the Second World War.
In August 1945, Dr. Marcel Junod (1904 – 1961) and the representatives of the ICRC visited Hiroshima soon after its bombardment and with their engagement signaled the beginning of a new era in the bilateral relationship.
Swiss investments and the introduction of new Swiss technologies promoted the reconstruction of Japan. With the step-by-step integration of the markets bilateral trade relations between the two countries developed between complementarity and hard competition, in particular in the watch sector.
The special situation of Switzerland at the heart of Europe and yet not member of the European Union encourages various Japanese companies to establish their European headquarters in Switzerland. Japan and Switzerland, both significantly dependent on exports, share the same values as to free trade and the same concerns regarding agriculture and sufficient food supply.
The new free trade agreement between the two countries which entered into force in 2009 testifies this community of interests. In addition, over the past decades scientific and technological exchange between the two countries intensified.
Early on the beauty of the alpine landscape of Switzerland has attracted Japanese tourists to the extent that safety instructions in mountain trains are often written in Japanese characters.
As the destruction of the wooden bridge in Lucerne by fire in 1993 has moved the Japanese to participate generously in its reconstruction, thus did the sad disaster of 11 March 2011 in the North East of Japan trigger a movement of solidarity in Switzerland which has further strengthened the ties between the two peoples.
A celebration such as the one on the occasion of the 150 years of bilateral relations is an opportunity to think about the past and to make a projection into the future. Which role could Switzerland and Japan play in order to contribute to the peace and prosperity of our planet based upon this reflection? | 2019-04-25T18:48:47 | https://www.ch.emb-japan.go.jp/anniversary2014/history_e.html |
0.999644 | Very pleased with my window blind purchase.
I love the top-down bottom-up blackout cell shades i purchased.
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We had looked around this area and could not find the blinds we needed.
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I ordered 13 shades for my new house and had absolutely no problems with any of them.<br>Thanks so much.
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I really wanted new cordless cellular shades for my living room.
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We've bought blinds from a couple other vendors in the past, but Blinds Chalet was the quickest, easiest to order.
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I love the new cellular shades!
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Everything was just as I ordered.
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0.999522 | Reddit’s Ban on Climate Change Skeptics: Curation or Censorship?
As far as moderators of the popular science subreddit are concerned, climate change skeptics can shove it.
On Monday, in a move that’s been met with outrage from many Reddit users (including some science buffs), PhD chemist and /r/science moderator Nathan Allen announced a de facto ban of any articles that are skeptical of climate change. “Why don’t all newspapers do the same?” he wrote.
In early October, the Los Angeles Times announced it would no longer publish letters "that say there's no sign humans have caused climate change" as it's not an opinion but "a factual inaccuracy."
Yet there is a vocal group that isn’t happy with the new rules, which will affect the subreddit’s 4 million active readers.
Just because people don't agree doesn't mean you should ban them. Boycott #Reddit Skepticism is healthy, especially in science.
Looks like Reddit has become a biased closed forum towing pseudo science propaganda https://t.co/jY7y4wVDLj Never use it.
Not all climate change critics think that humans have nothing to do with global warming. Some are famous authors and academics who have written nuanced essays about climate science methodology. Statisticians like Nate Silver, for instance, disagree with the implications that climate scientists draw from the available data; temperature readings from around the world, he says for example, vary too widely to be taken as good evidence.
It’s understandable that Reddit’s moderators want to ban trolls, but when the criteria is that only peer-reviewed journal links can be posted to /r/science, that can exclude articles by the likes of not only Silver, but also Tyler Cowen, the renowned economist, and Matt Ridley, a member of the U.K. House of Lords.
This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that Reddit mods have found themselves facing scrutiny over censorship. In late October, the moderators of /r/politics announced an extensive ban of certain news sites, including The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and Vice, which moderators deemed sensationalist or low-quality journalism.
of any articles that are skeptical of climate change. “Why don’t all newspapers do the same?” he wrote.
In early October, the Los Angeles Times announced it would no longer publish letters \"that say there's no sign humans have caused climate change\" as it's not an opinion but \"a factual inaccuracy.\" | 2019-04-23T16:39:55 | https://www.vocativ.com/culture/science/reddits-bans-climate-change-skeptics-curation-censorship/ |
0.999775 | I read that mountain ranges were most likely formed by continents crashing into each other. I am wondering if elements on the periodical table formed in a similar way, i.e. by crashing together at tremendous speeds long ago. Of the elements we know, do we know, or hypothesize, about how their original bonds were set?
Can humans make water by combining H and O? If not, why not? If yes, why are we so worried about water shortages? Couldn't, in theory, water be harvested from space? Are people working on that prospect?
I am just a mom, trying to answer some of my son's questions. He is in middle school. We live in Korea, so it is tough to find appropriate materials in English for his level.
There are a few reasons why we cannot make water by harvesting hydrogen and oxygen from space. First, you CAN make water by combining H and O, but the reaction is really slow at "normal" temperatures. You need some sort of catalyst (like lighting the H and O with a match) to get things going. Thus you could only get the water at the price of some energy. A second problem is that when the reaction does get sparked, it creates a HUGE blast. (Have you heard of the Hindenburg zeppelin that exploded in 1937 in New Jersey? These explosions can be very dangerous!) Assuming that we found a way to get around all of these issues, we would still have trouble bringing the hydrogen and oxygen to Earth from space. The amounts we would require would be very heavy and thus the fuel required for such missions would be quite costly. Not to mention the safety issues of transporting a flammable gas!
As for the other part of your question, not all the elements on the periodic table were formed the same way. Hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium (the three lightest elements) were formed during the Big Bang at the creation of the universe.
So where do all the other elements come from? There is a popular quote by astronomer Carl Sagan: "We are all made of star stuff." Any of the elements heavier than lithium were produced through nuclear reactions in the cores of stars. For instance, after our Sun is finished burning through all of the hydrogen in its core (something that won't happen for another 5 billion years or so), it will begin to burn helium to form carbon by way of something called the triple alpha process. The sun is a relatively low-mass star, so the burning process ends there, but in more massive stars, oxygen can then be formed by fusing carbon and helium. The more massive a star, the heavier elements it can create. Stars cannot form elements heavier than iron, however, because such reactions require energy rather than create it. The whole reason for undergoing nuclear fusion is to create energy to help the star support itself against gravitational collapse.
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0.999951 | A steam facial is beneficial for oily skin and to get rid of acne. Upon using it, the dead skin cells are destroyed.
Here is a natural, homemade steam facial, which is very easy to follow and do at the comfort of your home.
All you have to remember is not to overdo it as it can damage your skin. You can pamper your skin once a week with this treatment. If you have severe acne and pimples, you can try it twice a week.
Cinnamon is a good skin exfoliant. It works as an astringent, antiseptic, anti-viral and antifungal aid.
It cleanses deeply through exfoliation of the skin. Also, it stimulates your skin pores, so that the ingredients in the mixture can reach deeper into your skin, and thus, work effectively.
Green tea contains many skin benefits. Its main property is that it aids in getting clear, soft, clear and glowing skin.
Also, it reduces inflammation and sun damage. It contains large amount of polyphenols, which slows down the aging process, thereifre, helping you to maintain a healthy skin.
Turmeric powder contains large amount of natural sulphur, that acts as an antibiotic against skin infections. What can be much better to treat your pimples than a strong natural antibiotic?
1. Clean your face with a facial cleanser and water.
2. Take about 1/2 litres of water and boil it.
3. Add 1 teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 tablespoon green tea and 3-4 pieces of cinnamon in boiled water.
4. Mix all these ingredients well. After mixing, the colour of the water will turn yellow because of the turmeric. This means that all the ingredients have blended well.
5. Take a towel and cover your head, so the steam can not go out. Remember that the water should not be too hot or it can cause damage to your skin. Do this process for about 8-10 minutes.
There are plenty of natural herbs that can control and get rid of mild dandruff. These herbal remedies for dandruff are known to be safe and have often been found quite effective.
1. Soak the fenugreek seeds in water overnight.
2. Drain the leftover water, then mash the softened seeds into a paste.
3. Let the paste sit for 1 hour.
4. Rinse using a mild shampoo.
1. Apply curd into your scalp and hair.
2. Let it sit for about 1 hour.
3. Rinse using mild shampoo.
Citrus fruits, most especially lemon, may be effective against dandruff and other skin problems. This is because lemons are high in vitamin C, and helps in restoring the pH balance of the skin.
Drops of lemon can be added to your herbal shampoo, which leaves your hair shiny and silky.
A study reported that shampoos with just 5% tea tree oil significantly improve the severity of dandruff. Also, you can add a few drops of tea tree oil to your favorite shampoo, when you wash normally.
Tea tree oil can help reduce the effects of several unpleasant conditions.
Eucalyptus oil is probably one of the common and best known herbal remedies for dandruff. A few drops of the oil can be mixed with coconut oil, and then massaged into the scalp in order to treat dandruff and remove flakes.
It is recommended that the oil should be used at least 1-2 weeks to prevent further outbreaks.
Rosemary is a very popular and effective herb for fighting dandruff. It is used in many commercially available shampoos, tonics, and lotions for scalp care, and is even included in various hair growth products.
Banana face mask helps in keeping your skin soft and smooth. They are the great homemade beauty treatment for those with oily, dry or sensitive skin.
Bananas are great for your skin. The delicious fruit is loaded with minerals and vitamins, therefore, it’s no surprise that the banana face mask is popular for skin issues.
1. Mash the banana using a spoon.
3. Apply to your cleansed face.
4. Leave on for 25-30 minutes.
5. Rinse it off after giving a gentle massage for at least 2-3 minutes to your skin.
6. Do this at least 3-4 times a week for good result.
2. Mash the banana together with all the other ingredients.
3. Add water if the mixture is too thick.
4. Apply the mask on your face.
5. Leave the mask on for at least 10- 15 minutes.
6. Wash off using warm water.
7. After drying your face, make sure you moisturize to prevent your sebaceous glands from going into overdrive.
A set of sparkling white teeth can make you appear more attractive, younger and healthy.
There are manys products to choose from when it comes to whitening your teeth.
But, most whitening products use chemicals to bleach your teeth, which poses some concerns for many people.
If you want whiter teeth, but you also want to avoid the chemicals, here are options that are both safe and natural.
Apple cider vinegar has been used as natural cleaning product for centuries.
Acetic acid, which is the main active ingredient present in apple cider vinegar, effectively kills bacteria. The antibacterial property of vinegar, makes it very effective for cleaning your mouth and whitening your teeth.
The acetic acid present in vinegar has the potential to erode the enamel of your teeth. Therefore, you should not use apple cider vinegar daily. Also, you should limit the amount of time apple cider vinegar is in contact with your teeth.
1. Dilute apple cider vinegar using water.
2. Swish it around in your mouth for several minutes.
3. Rinse your mouth with plain water after.
Baking soda is one of the best ingredients that you can use to help get rid of yellow teeth. Also, it will help remove plaque and, make your teeth shine.
1. Mix a quarter teaspoon baking soda and a little toothpaste.
2. Brush your teeth with the mixture.
4. Use it at least once or twice a week.
1. Scrub your teeth gently for at least 2 minutes using diluted baking soda.
2. Do this 2 times for the first week, and then every 15 days. Remember that excess use of baking soda can remove the natural enamel of your teeth.
Coconut oil pulling can be use as a natural teeth whitener. People attest to their teeth becoming healthier and whiter by applying coconut oil to their teeth after brushing.
Coconut oil contains anti-microbial properties, therefore, it is good for cleaning and protecting your gums.
1. Put a spoonful of coconut oil into your mouth.
2. Swish it between your teeth for at least 5-20 minutes, or add a few drops to your toothbrush.
1. Apply coconut oil to a clean washcloth.
2. Rub it on your teeth.
1. Rub your teeth using the inside of an orange peel or banana peel. The peel is loaded in magnesium, potassium and manganese, which recharges the enamel.
2. Brush your teeth a few minutes later.
3. Use the fruit peel at least twice a week.
Apart from strawberry being a great fruit, it also helps in cleansing your teeth due to its rich Vitamin C content. Also, it reduces toothache by killing harmful germs.
1. Take a few strawberries, then grind them to make a paste.
2. Add one teaspoon of baking soda.
3. Use this mixture as a toothpaste, and brush with it for a few days.
5. Repeat this procedure for a few days for best results.
Instead of buying expensive acne treatments, you should learn how to get clear skin using these natural at-home remedies.
To get rid of stubborn blackheads, pimples, and whiteheads, you should start with thorough, but gentle cleansing of the skin. You can try the Homemade Honey Face Wash to cleanse your skin without causing irritation.
The homemade mask contains honey, apple cider vinegar, probiotics, coconut oil, and essential oils, such as tea tree oil. The honey soothes your skin, while the coconut oil helps in fighting fungus and bacteria. While, the tea tree oil helps in invigorating your skin.
2. Place in a bottle.
3. Store in cool place.
Dead skin and clogged pores both contribute to acne. It is very important to exfoliate properly to help remove buildup.
However, remember that commercially available scrubs contain chemicals that can further irritate your skin.
Oatmeal is known as one of the gentlest exfoliants. It is a great place to start for exfoliation, if you have sensitive skin.
Another benefit to oatmeal is that it absorbs oil, so you will be cleansing as you exfoliate.
1. Ground oatmeal using a food processor.
2. Add water or another base.
3. Apply to your face using your fingertips.
Acne responds well to melalecua, or commonly known as tea tree oil. It is used to treat wounds and acts as an antiseptic. Like honey, cultured milk products and coconut oil, it fights fungi and bacteria.
With its natural inflammation-fighting properties, 5% solution of tea tree oil is less harsh, as compared to 5% benzoyl peroxide solution, and can be as effective against acne, though it may clear less quickly.
1. Mix a few drops of tea tree oil and 20-40 drops of witch hazel.
2. Apply using a cotton swab.
3. Follow this remedy up to 2x a day; doing more could dry your skin and make your acne worse.
Acne-prone skin still needs to be moisturized.
What is the perfect product for acne if you have dry skin? Coconut oil is known as one of the most healthy and versatile oil. While it can be too heavy for some skin type, coconut oil is a great moisturizer.
1. Warm ¼ teaspoon of coconut oil into the palms of your hands.
2. Smooth over your cleaned neck and face.
3. Leave on for 5s minutes.
4. Gently wipe off excess oil with a dry cloth. The amount that has been absorbed is all your skin needs, but any excess may cause a breakout.
Studies have reported that consuming a low glycemic diet, which means a diet that does not include lots of processed grains, flour products and added sugar, can help prevent acne.
Glycemic index measures how quickly foods raise blood sugar level. Refined and processedfoods, such as those common in the Western diet, are high-glycemic, while whole plant foods are low on the glycemic scale.
Glycemic load, is a measure of glycemic index times carbohydrates minus fiber. Most of the time, processed and refined food will have a high glycemic index AND high glycemic load, while some vegetables will have a higher glycemic index, but very low glycemic load on your body.
When it comes to healthy hair, it is not just a matter of what you apply on your tresses that count, it’s also what you put in your body, too.
If you are trying to make your hair grow faster, then you’re in luck! Here are the 7 Best Foods for Faster Hair Growth.
Vitamin E helps in improving the blood circulation, while helping the follicles work more efficiently to promote hair growth. Also, it maintains the oil and PH levels balance, which if exceeded can clog the hair follicles, therefore stopping hair growth.
Avocado is good source of Vitamin E, is also loaded in the heart healthy monounsaturated fats.
You can blend it into a green smoothie or add it into your breakfast salad.
This ruby red root is filled with natural chemicals known as nitrates. After being broken down in your body, these chemicals may help in improving circulation, which may bring nutrients and oxygen to your hair follicles.
Vitamin C is needed by your body for iron absorption therefore; you need to incorporate citrus fruits into your diet. Nutritionists recommend that at least 1 lime daily is enough to get your daily dose of Vitamin C.
You could also choose oranges. Vitamin C is also needed for the production of collagen, which make capillaries that connect to the hair shafts, therefore, ensuring quick hair growth and regular supply of nutrients.
can help you feel full for a much longer period of time, therefore keeping you away from unhealthy snacks.
Salmon is rich in nutrients and vitamins that help promote the hair growth, starting with vitamin D, which can also help fight off seasonal depression.
Also, it contains protein, which can help you fight off cravings for unhealthy food items.
Sunflower seeds are filled with vitamin B5, also known as pantothenic acid, that helps with hair growth and blood flow to your scalp.
Just 1 ounce of sunflower seeds serves up at least 20% of your DV of the vitamin.
Sweet potatoes are a good source of beta-carotene. The body converts this compound into vitamin A, that is associated to good hair health.
A medium sweet potato, or about 114 grams contains enough beta-carotene to provide at least more than 4x your daily vitamin A requirement.
Research reported that vitamin A promotes the production of sebum, that helps in keeping hair healthy.
Also, vitamin A, could help in speeding up hair growth and encourage the growth of thicker hair, while also preventing other hair follicles from regressing.
Almost everyone is all about making your own DIY when it comes to beauty products. This is because this means you can control what you are putting on our skin.
Say goodbye to gross chemicals! And this time, you can make your very own lip scrubs.
These homemade lip scrub recipes will have your lips feeling soft, minus the chemicals or the designer price tag!
1. Combine all ingredients to fomr a paste.
2. Store up to 1 month in glass jar. Old eye cream jars work well.
3. Rub scrub paste on your lips and exfoliate gently.
4. Leave on for 1-2 minutes.
5. Rinse off using warm water.
6. Apply a lip balm afterwards to re-hydrate your lips.
Use at least 1-2 times weekly.
1. Combine coconut oil and honey.
2. Add the lukewarm water and brown sugar to this mixture.
3. Rub the mixture on your lips using a circular motion for at least 2-3 minutes.
1. Combine all ingredients until you form a paste.
2. To apply, dab a warm wash cloth over your lips for at least 3-5 minutes to soften.
3. Slather with the minty scrub paste.
4. Let sit for at least 5 minutes.
5. Wash off using warm wash cloth.
There are many moisturizers and lotions available on the market to fight dry skin. But, most of them are expensive.
Natural home remedies are not only cheap, but are also very effective in hydrating and nourishing dry skin back to its healthy state.
Coconut oil is effective for treating dry skin. It contains good amount of fatty acids which make up for any loss of moisture from the skin.
1. Apply liberally warm coconut oil all over your body, before going to sleep.
2. Rinse off in the morning.
1. Apply coconut oil on your dry skin after taking a shower. When your skin is warm and supple from your bath, coconut oil is more readily absorbed.
1. Do this daily to make your skin smooth and soft.
Honey is a great ingredient to get moisture back into your skin. It can be mix with a variety of other natural substances.
Tomato is used in this particular mask due to its lycopene content. Lycopene is a phytochemical which protects the skin from the sun’s UV rays, which makes your skin and causes damage in other ways.
1. Chop the tomato, and place in the blender.
2. Add the honey and blend thoroughly.
3. Apply on your face.
5. Rinse using cool water, and pat dry.
This mask should be applied about twice a week.
Yogurt is a perfect skin-hydrating agent. Also, its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties help soothe itchy and dry skin.
Its lactic acid content helps in getting rid of any bacteria or germs that may cause itchiness or dryness.
The mild exfoliating action of yogurt will remove dry skin and leave your skin refreshed. Do this once daily.
1. Apply fresh yogurt on your face, hands, and legs, while gently massaging it into your skin.
1. Mix 1/2 cup of yogurt and 3 tablespoons of mashed or blended papaya.
2. Stir in a few drops of lemon juice and honey.
3. Apply it on your skin.
5. Wash off with cold water.
2. How to Protect Your Skin from Pollution?
Not all of us have that luxury of getting a fresh manicure weekly done at the salon. But don’t worry!
We have your back to getting your nails looking great and that will last longer. Just follow these our 15 Ways to Make Your Nail Polish Last Longer!
Cutting your cuticles is a step that often goes overlooked, but it can make or break how long your manicure will last.
Therefore, making sure you have a clean nail bed to work on before applying the polish will go a long way.
Use a cotton swab to apply down your nails with white vinegar before applying the basecoat.
This will remove any product buildup or natural oils on your nail beds, which could make a barrier between the polish. Once your nails dry, apply basecoat.
A water bath before your manicure will cause your nails to expand. When they dry and shrink, your nail polish will crack. Skip this step.
Lightly buff your nails to smooth those bumps, so that the polish will lay flat.
Even just a small dents or dips in your nails can warp the polish, therefore, cause cracking. Give your nails a light buff to even them out.
Paint the first basecoat on the top half of your nail, then the second coat over your entire nail.
Doing this will help keep the polish on the tips of your nails from chipping.
Instead of shaking the nail polish up and down, roll it between your hands to remove and prevent air bubbles. This will warm-up the nail polish, so it will spread more easily.
If you paint air bubbles into your nails, they will chip faster.
Try using a rubberized base coat to make your nail polish last longer.
Apply multiple thin coats instead of just 1 thick coat. A thick coat of manicure will only dry in the top layer, therefore leaving your nail polish vulnerable to smudges.
Everyone’s has got their favorite nail polist, which consistently keeps your polish chip-free for at least 1 week.
But, if you only do 1 thing to make your manicure last, it has got to be using a good top coat.
If your nail polish is not completely dry before you apply the next layer, it may peel off. Therefore, wait at least 2 minutes between each coat.
It does not matter which direction, but make sure you are filing each nail either to the right or left, but not back and forth.
Alternating directions can weaken your nails, making it more prone to peeling and breakage.
If you are applying a top coat but you are not sealing the edge of your nail, that is exactly where you are going wrong.
The edge of the nail takes most of the brunt of the polish beating, thereofre, make sure you are protecting it with a good cover of clear polish.
Put some nail oil everyday to prevent your nails from splitting and drying out.
The less moisture your cuticles and nails have, the more likely they are to tear and break.
Choose water and soap, over hand sanitizer for washing hands because sanitizer is drying. The alcohol found in hand sanitizer can dry out your nail polish, therefore, making them dull and ready to chip.
If the tips of your nails have started to chipped, add a super-thin French tip. Now you are chipping no more, yet have that cool updated look.
If you get a chip in an area where it cannot be buffed away, cover it up with some nail art such as an ombre design or a stick-on rhinestone. | 2019-04-25T12:48:51 | https://interestdigest.com/category/beauty/page/2/ |
0.997286 | Originally published under the title "NY Times on Protecting the "Image" of Islam."
It begins with the executive director of Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) complaining that after terrorist incidents, the mosque is victimized by phone calls asking what connection it has to the perpetrator. This is a classic tactic of trying to change the subject from Muslims as perpetrators to Muslims as victims in the immediate aftermath of Islamist violence, which has appeared very frequently in the media.
The New York Times acts as an advertising firm trying to convince readers that there is no problem with Islam.
It mentions that Boston is one of three locations selected by the Obama Administration for a pilot program in countering Islamist radicalization and recruitment, given the anodyne name "Countering Violent Extremism." Why those three? In particular, why is Boston one of them? The article, about the Boston Muslim community, does not ask the question directly.
1) Webb admits having previously "espoused deeply conservative views after converting to Islam and changed only gradually." When did he espouse those views? Was he involved with ISBCC at the time?
2) After IS beheaded journalists, Webb's response was, "In America, no religious community has been beaten up or slapped around in the last 13 years like us." Again, changing the story from (Islamist) Muslims as perpetrators to (all) Muslims as victims.
When it comes to Islamism and its influence on Islam in the West, the New York Times reports all the apologetics "that's fit to print." As a newspaper, it shouldn't be in the business of propagandizing. But, if it has to promote a position, it could at least encourage Muslims to be more open and forceful in confronting and overcoming Islamists in their midst. Tell them to improve the service. | 2019-04-21T02:15:48 | https://www.meforum.org/5332/nyt-image-islam |
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904 ### A list of extracted documentation from code. ### A list of extracted documentation from code. | 2019-04-25T05:50:47 | http://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/inlinedocs/R/parsers.R?root=inlinedocs&r1=142&r2=197 |
0.999571 | explain the difference between heterolytic and homolytic bond breakage, and between heterogenic and homogenic bond formation.
state the two reaction types involved in symmetrical and unsymmetrical processes.
Upon first reading first four key terms, it is easy to be puzzled. The ending of the word tells you whether a bond is being formed (‑genic) or broken (‑lytic), while the root of the word describes the nature of that formation or decomposition. So hetero (meaning different) reactions involve asymmetrical bond making (or breaking) and homo (meaning same) involve symmetrical processes.
Because one pair of electrons constitutes a single bond, the unsymmetrical making or breaking of that bond in a hetero processes are described as polar reactions. Similarly, symmetrical homo processes of bond making and breaking are called radical reactions. Radicals (sometimes referred to as free radicals) are highly reactive neutral chemical species with one unpaired electron. In later sections we discuss radical and polar reactions in more detail.
The use of these symbols in bond-breaking and bond-making reactions is illustrated below. If a covalent single bond is broken so that one electron of the shared pair remains with each fragment, as in the first example, this bond-breaking is called homolysis. If the bond breaks with both electrons of the shared pair remaining with one fragment, as in the second and third examples, this is called heterolysis.
Chemists also use arrow symbols for other purposes, and it is essential to use them correctly.
The products of bond breaking, shown above, are not stable in the usual sense, and cannot be isolated for prolonged study. Such species are referred to as reactive intermediates, and are believed to be transient intermediates in many reactions. The general structures and names of four such intermediates are given below.
A pair of widely used terms, related to the Lewis acid-base notation, should also be introduced here.
Nucleophile: An atom, ion or molecule that has an electron pair that may be donated in bonding to an electrophile (or Lewis acid).
Using these definitions, it is clear that carbocations ( called carbonium ions in the older literature ) are electrophiles and carbanions are nucleophiles. Carbenes have only a valence shell sextet of electrons and are therefore electron deficient. In this sense they are electrophiles, but the non-bonding electron pair also gives carbenes nucleophilic character. As a rule, the electrophilic character dominates carbene reactivity. Carbon radicals have only seven valence electrons, and may be considered electron deficient; however, they do not in general bond to nucleophilic electron pairs, so their chemistry exhibits unique differences from that of conventional electrophiles. Radical intermediates are often called free radicals.
The importance of electrophile / nucleophile terminology comes from the fact that many organic reactions involve at some stage the bonding of a nucleophile to an electrophile, a process that generally leads to a stable intermediate or product. Reactions of this kind are sometimes called ionic reactions, since ionic reactants or products are often involved. Some common examples of ionic reactions and their mechanisms may be examined below.
The shapes ideally assumed by these intermediates becomes important when considering the stereochemistry of reactions in which they play a role. A simple tetravalent compound like methane, CH4, has a tetrahedral configuration. Carbocations have only three bonds to the charge bearing carbon, so it adopts a planar trigonal configuration. Carbanions are pyramidal in shape ( tetrahedral if the electron pair is viewed as a substituent ), but these species invert rapidly at room temperature, passing through a higher energy planar form in which the electron pair occupies a p-orbital. Radicals are intermediate in configuration, the energy difference between pyramidal and planar forms being very small. Since three points determine a plane, the shape of carbenes must be planar; however, the valence electron distribution varies. | 2019-04-20T02:56:25 | https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Athabasca_University/Chemistry_350%3A_Organic_Chemistry_I/Chapter_6%3A_An_Overview_of_Organic_Reactions/6.02_How_Organic_Reactions_Occur%3A_Mechanisms |
0.997954 | Scientists have found proof that Polynesians arrived by canoe in South America before Europeans.
SCIENTIFIC research has found that Polynesians visited South America long before the Spanish or Portuguese explorers, and the findings strongly support the view that Pacific islanders beat Columbus to North America by hundreds of years. Discoverers Day has taken on a new meaning.
A team of researchers led by New Zealand anthropologist Alice A. Storey used genetic analysis and radiocarbon dating to link chickens that lived in Chile between 1304 and 1424 to Polynesian islands, long before Europeans arrived on the continent after 1500. The chicken bones' DNA was identical to that of chicken bones from prehistoric sites on Tonga and American Samoa.
Other evidence of prehistoric contact between South America and Polynesia includes the presence of the sweet potato, native to South America, in both places. Polynesian sailors are presumed to have obtained them in South America and brought them home.
The findings support the contention of University of California linguist Kathryn A. Klar and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo archeologist Terry L. Jones that Polynesians set foot on Southern California even earlier. They have contended that the Chumash and nearby Gabrielino Indian tribes learned how to build sewn-plank boats from the Polynesians sometime between 400 and 800 A.D, after thousands of years of using less seaworthy boats.
In addition, Klar and Jones point out the similarity of the Chumash and Gabrielino words for the boat-building technique -- tomolo'o tiat tarayna-- and the combination of Hawaiian words for the method of making wooden planks and sewing them together -- kumulaa'ua tia talai na; many Hawaiian words beginning with "k" derived from words beginning with "t."
Klar and Jones said they also found a change in the style of fishhooks used by the Chumash to the two-piece bone fishhooks used by Polynesians. Klar asserts that recent radiocarbon evidence indicates that Hawaii was initially settled between 610 and 790 A.D., which "fits comfortably" within the emergence of the technological changes in the California tribes between 400 and 800 A.D.
Skeptics have questioned whether prehistoric Polynesians could have possibly sailed across the world's biggest ocean to North America. Klar responded that the notion that Polynesians lacked the technology or sailing ability for such a voyage "is almost laughable given the size of the target and the fact that the distance from Hawaii to the Marquesas is basically the same as Hawaii to California ... yet we know that the passage from the Marquesas to Hawaii was made repeatedly."
Following the new proof that Polynesians landed in Chile, Jones said to the Los Angeles Times, "Then why is it so difficult to imagine they couldn't have made it to Southern California from Hawaii?" | 2019-04-23T15:52:32 | http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/06/06/editorial/editorial01.html |
0.998728 | What Is A Hosted VoIP Service?
For those who have been using the old standard model of PBX VoIP, the idea of switching to a hosted VoIP service may sound intimidating. However, just because something is new and seems complicated does not mean that it is not actually beneficiary, since in reality hosted VoIP is one of the best small business phone service solutions out there on the market right now. In fact, although large businesses were the first to take advantage of cloud VoIP, the new IP PBX is easily the most beneficial to small businesses.
The way that hosted VoIP works is simple and is based on the use of the Internet instead of standard phone lines. Instead of phone calls being forwarded through a network that exists within a business of cords and wires, the cloud VoIP business telephone system operates via the Internet assigning your office a phone number that can be accessed from around the world.
In fact, anywhere that there is an Internet connection, you can direct phone calls all from the same number opening up a cost effective way to branch out without physically changing location or forcing others to move to your office area. Small business VoIP has proved to be very effective for small businesses that outsource work and tasks, because then when an issue arises that needs to be answered by a member of staff that does not work at the actual physical office location, it can simply be routed to them over the Internet.
The customer does not know that they are being redirected over the Internet, and will not experience any disruption during the call. This allows you to maintain the image of a large company without paying for the office space and makes outsourcing a natural task that will help keep other bills low.
Even better, since cloud VoIP is routed through the Internet via the use of a switchboard, you do not have to worry about extra costs for long distance calls or mobile calls if that is the case. Instead, the only thing that you need to do is allow someone to set up the software and extensions for you and the rest will instantly take care of itself because with hosted VoIP maintenance is not your responsibility. Thus, it is easy to see just why hosted business VoIP is quickly becoming the best type of business phone service out there on the market. | 2019-04-19T23:23:53 | https://voipstudio.com/blog/what-is-a-hosted-voip-service/ |
0.999979 | + 8 = 13 Required Please enter the correct value.
The Dyax stock price surged 33% to $36.68 Monday morning after Irish drug giant Shire Plc. (Nasdaq ADR: SHPG) agreed to buy the American biotech company for $6.5 billion.
Under terms of the deal, Dyax Corp.'s (Nasdaq: DYAX) shareholders will receive an upfront cash payment of $37.50 a share. That's a 35% premium to Dyax's closing price on Friday. It also values Dyax at $5.9 billion.
The Dyax stock price has now climbed 156% in 2015.
Dyax shareholders will also receive another cash payment of $4 a share, or some $646 million in total. That's if the company's leading in development treatment, DX-2930, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before the end of 2019.
DX-2930 is used to treat a rare genetic condition known as hereditary angioedema (HAE).
HAE is a potentially life-threatening disorder with symptoms of severe, painful, and recurring attacks of edema (swelling).
DX-2930 is a long-acting injectable treatment aimed at lowering the rate of HAE attacks. It recently completed early-stage clinical trials showing DX-2930 reduced attacks by more than 90% in patients who had suffered two or more flare-ups in the previous three months.
U.S. regulators have given the drug a number of priority designations. That means DX-2930 can enter phase 3 trials without the intermediate step of a phase 2 program.
Dyax already has one HAE drug on the market called Kalbitor. But sales in 2014 totaled only $68 million. Consensus analyst forecasts don't predict Kalbitor sales will exceed annual sales of $100 million, according to Thomson Reuters Cortellis.
DX-2930, meanwhile, is expected to generate annual sales in excess of $2 billion at its peak. The drug could be ready to launch in 2018, and it will have exclusivity until 2030, according to Shire.
DX-2930 will complement Shire's own existing HAE treatments, Firazyr and Cinryze. The two are among Shire's fast-growing products, with collective sales approaching $1 billion.
The deal has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies. Still, the transaction is subject to approval from Dyax shareholders and regulators. Given Shire's HAE presence, antitrust authorities will indeed give the deal a close look.
A first half of 2016 close is expected. | 2019-04-23T17:13:39 | https://moneymorning.com/2015/11/02/whats-next-for-the-dyax-stock-price-after-6-5-billon-shire-purchase-nasdaq-dyax/ |
0.996632 | Now in the second year of Koan (1279), it is twenty seven years since I first proclaimed the true teaching at Seicho-ji temple. It was noon on the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month in the fifth year of Kencho (1253), on the southern side of Jibutsu-do Hall in the Shobutsu-bo of the temple, located in Tojo Village. Tojo is now a district, but was then a part of Nagasa District in Awa Province. Here is located what was the second, but is now the country's most important shrine to the Sun Goddess, built by Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder of the Kamakura shogunate. The Buddha fulfilled the purpose of his advent in a little over forty years; T'ien-t'ai took about thirty years, and Dengyo, some twenty years. I have repeatedly spoken of the indescribable persecutions they suffered during those years. For me it took twenty-seven years, and the persecutions I faced during this period are well known to you all.
The Lotus Sutra reads, "Since hatred and jealousy abound even during the lifetime of the Buddha, how much worse will it be in the world after his passing?" Shakyamuni Buddha suffered innumerable persecutions: For ninety days he was forced to eat horse fodder; a huge boulder was dropped on him, and though it missed him, his foot was injured and bled; a group of eight priests led by Sunakshatra, outwardly acting as the Buddha's disciples but in spirit siding with Brahmans, watched every moment of the day and night for a chance to kill him; King Virudhaka killed great numbers of the Shakya clan; King Ajatashatru had many of Shakyamuni's disciples trampled to death by wild elephants and subjected the Buddha to a series of severe tribulations. Such were the persecutions that took place "in the Buddha's lifetime."
In the more than two thousand years "after his passing, "no one, not even Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, T'ien-t'ai or Dengyo, encountered any of the still greater persecutions predicted to occur. No one can say they were not votaries of the Lotus Sutra, but if they were, why did none shed even a drop of blood, as did the Buddha, nor suffer even greater trials? Could the sutra's predictions be false and the Buddha's teachings nothing but great lies?
However, in these twenty-seven years, Nichiren was exiled to the province of Izu on the twelfth day of the fifth month in the first year of Kocho (1261), was wounded on the forehead and had his left hand broken on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the first year of Bun'ei (1264). He was to be executed on the twelfth day of the ninth month of the eighth year of Bun'ei (1271), but was instead exiled to the province of Sado. In addition, many of his disciples were murdered or executed, banished or heavily fined. I do not know whether these trials equal or surpass those of the Buddha. Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, T'ien-t'ai and Dengyo came nowhere near me in what they endured. Had it not been for the advent of Nichiren in the Latter Day of the Law, the Buddha would have been a great liar and the testimony given by Taho and all the other Buddhas would have been false. In the twenty-two hundred and thirty years since the Buddha's death, Nichiren is the only person in the whole world to fulfill the Buddha's prophecy.
In the Latter Day of the Law of both Shakyamuni and the Buddhas before him, the rulers and people who despised the votaries of the Lotus Sutra seemed to be free from punishment at first, but eventually they were all doomed to fall. Among those who attacked Nichiren, there were at first no signs of punishment. During these twenty-seven years, the Buddhist gods who vowed to protect the votary of the Lotus Sutra--Bonten, Taishaku, the gods of the sun and moon, and the Four Heavenly Kings--did little to help Nichiren. But by now they have realized in terror that unless they fulfill the oath they swore before the Buddha, they will fall into the hell of incessant suffering. Consequently they are now earnestly carrying out their vow by punishing those who attacked the votary of the Lotus Sutra. The deaths of Ota Chikamasa, Nagasaki Tokitsuna and Daishin-bo, for example, who were all thrown from their horses, can be attributed to their treachery against the Lotus Sutra. There are four kinds of punishment: general and individual, conspicuous and inconspicuous. The massive epidemics, nationwide famines, insurrections and foreign invasion suffered by Japan are general punishment. Epidemics are also inconspicuous punishment. The tragic deaths of Ota and the others both conspicuous and individual.
Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion fears no other beast, nor do its cubs. Slanderers are like howling jackals, but Nichiren's followers are like roaring lions. Hojo Tokiyori and Hojo Tokimune, the past and present regents, pardoned me when they found I was innocent of the accusations against me. The regent will no longer take action on any charge without confirming its validity. You may rest assured that nothing, not even a person possessed by a powerful demon, can harm Nichiren, because Bonten, Taishaku, the gods of the sun and moon, the Four Heavenly Kings, Tensho Daijin and Hachiman are safeguarding him. Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month. Should you slacken even a bit, demons will take advantage.
We common mortals are so foolish that we do not fear the warnings in the sutras or treatises so long as they do not concern us directly. But you must be fully prepared for the havoc Hei no Saemon and Adachi Yasumori, in their outrage, will wreak upon us. People are now being sent to Tsukushi to fight the Mongols; consider yourself in the same position as those who are on their way or who are already at the battlefield. So far our believers have not experienced anything so terrible. The warriors in Tsukushi, however, now face a dreadful fate, and if they are killed in battle, they will be doomed to fall into hell. Even if we too should meet such severe trials, we will attain Buddhahood in the future. Our present tribulations are like moxa cautery, minor pain necessary to remove greater pain.
You need not frighten those peasant believers from Atsuhara, but you should encourage them in every way possible. Tell them to be prepared for the worst. Do not expect good times, but take the bad times for granted. If they complain of hunger, tell them about the hell of starvation. If they grumble that they are cold, tell them of the eight freezing hells. If they say they are frightened, explain to them that a pheasant sighted by a hawk, or a mouse stalked by a cat, is as desperate as they are. I have repeated the foregoing almost daily for the past twenty-seven years. Yet with Nagoe no Ama, Shofu-bo, Noto-bo, Sammi-bo and others, who are so cowardly, close-minded, greedy, and filled with doubt, it is like pouring water on lacquerware or slicing at thin air.
There was something very strange about Sammi-bo. However, I was afraid that any admonition would be taken by the ignorant as mere jealousy of his wisdom, and therefore, I refrained from speaking out. In time his wicked ambition led to treachery, and finally to his doom during the Atsuhara Persecution. If I had scolded him more strictly, he might have been saved. I did not mention this before because no one could understand it. Even now the ignorant will say that I am speaking ill of the deceased. Nevertheless, I mention this for the benefit of other believers. I am sure that those who persecuted the believers at Atsuhara were frightened by the fate of Sammi-bo.
Even if others are clad in armor and instigate, my disciples should never do the same. If there are some who prepare for fighting, please write to me immediately.
This letter should be kept by Shijo Kingo.
Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 239. | 2019-04-26T00:40:28 | http://www.ebonicy.org/amafrosho/persecutionsbefallingbuddha.htm |
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