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0.998635 | If the Thanksgiving break still has you in a gluttonous mood, head to the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck this weekend and indulge in one of the ultimate food films. Gabriel Axel’s Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast adapts a lovingly layered tale by Isak Dinesen, showing what happens when a mysterious French housekeeper brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers. Set in nineteenth-century Denmark, this cinematic feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne. Watch it in its complete edition on the Channel, with interviews, a 1995 documentary about Dinesen, a visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, and more.
Also up this week: a double dose of vampiric gems, a meditative look at mortality from multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, a conversation with Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, and a journey through the seedy world of 1980s New York.
The vampire as we know it is unimaginable without F. W. Murnau’s groundbreaking horror film, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that brought the creature to the screen with the wildly expressive powers of German expressionism. Jean Painlevé, France’s brilliant scientist of the surreal, spotted the kinship between this iconic monster and the Brazilian vampire bat. His short The Vampire, soundtracked by Duke Ellington, explores this nocturnal creature’s feeding rituals, making for an unusually spooky entry in the filmmaker’s series of imaginative wildlife portraits.
Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson meditates on death and other forms of absence in her first feature in thirty years. This haunting essay film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation, the modern surveillance state, and the artistic lives of dogs, with an elegy for the filmmaker’s beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle, at its heart. Narrated by Anderson with her characteristic wry wit, and featuring a plaintive, free-form score by the filmmaker, the tender and provocative Heart of a Dog continues Anderson’s four-and-a-half-decade career of imbuing the everyday with a sense of dreamlike wonder. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: a conversation between Anderson and coproducer Jake Perlin; footage of Anderson’s 2016 Concert for Dogs; deleted scenes; Lolabelle’s video Christmas card; and a trailer.
The director of Moonlight, the exquisite coming-of-age drama that took home this year’s best picture Oscar, recounts some of his own formative experiences as a cinephile in this month’s episode of our guest programmer series Adventures in Moviegoing. In conversation with Criterion’s Peter Becker, Jenkins talks about how he fell in love with the art of storytelling, his “rude awakening” at film school, and his experience programming at the Telluride Film Festival. To go alongside the interview, Jenkins has also curated a selection of personal favorites, an eclectic group of films that includes Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy (1993–94), Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénega (2001), and a number of titles by indie trailblazer John Cassavetes. Watch a clip from the episode here.
These idiosyncratic first features capture a hardscrabble New York at the dawn of the eighties, tagging along with protagonists who are struggling to find a foothold in the city that never sleeps. A drifter confronts his own state of estrangement, and a number of distinctive characters besides, in Jim Jarmusch’s characteristically droll Permanent Vacation (1980); a striver tries in vain to make a name for herself in the punk scene in Susan Seidelman’s blistering breakout Smithereens (1982). | 2019-04-21T08:11:52 | https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5135-this-week-on-the-criterion-channel |
0.999911 | Stephen O'Brien blasts UNSC for failing to end Syrian conflict.
Stephen O'Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has called the Security Council's failure to end the bombing in eastern Aleppo "our generation's shame" and said that he was "incandescent with rage" that no action is being taken to put an end to the six-year Syrian war.
In a monthly briefing to the 15-member council, O'Brien said, "I call upon all council members who have operational military assets in Syria to take concrete steps to halt the aerial bombardment of civilian areas." He particularly condemned the Syrian regime and Russia for launching air strikes on eastern Aleppo.
Elaborating on the situation, O'Brien said, "This council has been charged with the responsibility for ending this horror. The buck stops with you. There is no question today about whether you, members of this Council, know what is going on – you clearly and tragically do. The question today is what you will do?"
The humanitarian chief said that if the council does not take action, there will be no Syria or Syrian people to save, "that will be this council's legacy, our generation's shame".
He asked for the envoys at the council to imagine being trapped in eastern Aleppo and under constant bombardment by Moscow and Damascus.
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He continued, "These are people just like you and me – not sitting around a table in New York but forced into desperate, pitiless suffering, their future wiped out." He added that he was "incandescent with rage" over the council's apathy.
However, Vitaly Churkin, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations denounced O'Brien's detailed account of the casualties in eastern Aleppo and said that it was "unfair and dishonest". In what is being seen as one of the most blistering verbal attacks against a top UN official by a permanent Security Council member, he told O'Brien that he should leave his comments "for the novel you're going to write some day", the Guardian reported.
Churkin, branded his comments as arrogant and rebuked him for not talking about Russia halting air strikes in Aleppo. He said, "If we needed to be preached to we would go to a church".
The US, UK and French envoys defended the UN and blamed Russia and Syria for killing civilians in Aleppo.
Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the UN, hit back saying, "Given what's happening it would be useful if more people went to church." She added that Churkin's remarks were "an attack on the UN. What Russia really wants from the UN is credit. You don't get congratulations and get credit for not committing war crimes for a day or a week".
Beijing and Moscow have shielded the Syrian government from UNSC action that includes vetoing a resolution to refer it to the International Criminal Court, Reuters reported. | 2019-04-26T11:38:06 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/un-humanitarian-chief-says-if-security-council-takes-no-steps-there-will-be-no-syria-syrian-1588471 |
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0.998974 | I sincerely hope the author of this article in today's Boston Globe gets all his calls returned at the White House for a good long time. Because, boy, did he earn it. The piece lays out the "case" the Kay report is going to make about Iraqi WMD or, what the author calls, "the White House's best case so far that Hussein hid an outlawed weapons program."
The strategy behind the Kay report will apparently run something like this: Present a body of evidence that utterly discredits the administration's pre-war arguments about WMD. But dress it up with tons of documents and details. Say it confirms the administration's arguments. And then hope no one notices.
Investigators searching for Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction will report next month that Saddam Hussein's regime spread nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons plans and parts throughout the country to deceive the United Nations, according to senior Bush administration and intelligence officials.
Once freed of inspections and international sanctions, the weapons programs were intended to be pulled together quickly to manufacture substantial quantities of deadly gases and germs, the investigators will argue, although the development of a nuclear weapon would probably take many months, if not years.
That "many months, if not years" line is really one for the chronicles of egregious understatement. But look at the broader point. What they're talking about is stuff like the centrifuge parts Mahdi Obeidi had under his rose bush.
Basically, Saddam had shuttered his 'programs' but kept the knowledge base on ice in expectation of a future point when sanctions would be relaxed and he could start back into the WMD business. The author of the Globe piece says "inspections and international sanctions." But clearly the issue was sanctions since inspectors had been out of the country since 1998.
Officials said the investigators plan to paint a picture of an Iraqi government intent on expanding its ability to produce chemical and biological weapons and continuing its search for a nuclear bomb, while ensuring that the parts, if uncovered individually, would not be condemning or could be explained away as legitimate scientific and manufacturing endeavors.
A key aspect of the case, the sources said, will be so-called "dual use" equipment designed for making, for example, pesticides, but also useful for producing chemical weapons.
The argument here is that the thoroughly shuttered and static state of the Iraqi WMD 'programs' are a sign of how ingeniously covert they were.
The Iraqis' so-called "break-out" program -- which could rely on small, dispersed teams of specialists and hidden equipment and supplies to build weapons of mass destruction in the event of relaxed scrutiny -- also could explain why the Republican Guard did not use chemical weapons against American troops in the war, as US commanders feared. Kay is expected to unveil evidence to support assertions by US officials before the war that Iraqi troops had been ordered to launch gas attacks on invading troops.
Let's translate this: the Republican Guard's failure to use weapons of mass destruction might be explained by the fact that Saddam had shuttered his WMD programs until sanctions were lifted.
That logic is pretty hard to dispute, isn't it?
I don't want to make light of this stuff too much. Weapons proliferation is a deadly serious issue. And we really do need a comprehensive report to tell us not just about the lead-up to this war, but everything we can glean about the history of the last dozen years of inspections and sanctions, not least of which how so many people -- certainly, myself included -- bought into many assumptions that simply weren't true.
For a couple months a question has been hanging -- often unspoken -- over the WMD search. There were a lot of Iraqi defectors circulating through DC who claimed some very specific and direct knowledge about post-1991 weapons production.
Now we've looked; and a lot of those stories turn out to be baseless.
Intelligence analysts whose stories don't prove out may be guilty of poor judgments or even incompetence; but alleged eyewitnesses whose stories don't pan out are, almost by definition, liars. Not all the cases are so clear-cut certainly. But there are a number of celebrity defectors who showed up in a lot of articles and on a lot of panels who have some explaining to do.
Bob Drogin has a must-read story in the LA Times out yesterday evening which seems to do a bit of the explaining for them: Drogin says that the intelligence analysts and inspectors working the WMD case have decided that quite a few of those defectors were either double-agents working for Saddam or else dupes who innocently passed on disinformation that Saddam's agents wanted them to spread in the West. Others, not surprisingly, were just in the hunt for money, asylum and greeen cards. The intelligence agencies are apparently applying a new round of scrutiny to all the defectors. And, though the article is a touch fuzzy on this detail, they're also giving another look at the person who handled a lot of those defectors -- Ahmed Chalabi.
Evidence collected over the last two months suggests that Saddam's regime abandoned large-scale weapons development and production programs in favor of a much smaller "just in time" operation that could churn out poison gases or germ agents if they were suddenly needed. The transition supposedly took place between 1996 and 2000.
Drogin's collection of comments from inspectors and intelligence analysts demonstrates another point: the folks actually doing the work on the ground in Iraq and the analysts back home are in fullscale reevaluation mode. Only the DC pundits and the White House press office are still pitching the "you'll be sorry when we find the WMD" line.
More to come on the CIA/State versus the Pentagon political appointees front, who got scammed and who didn't, and a murky event from the mid-1990s which may be in line for some fresh scrutiny.
Just a quick note on the TPM redesign. The redesigned site should be debuting in the near future. The front-end look won't be very much different from what you see now, with the exception of a wide text window, which has heretofore been a source of some complaint -- the same simple, unadorned look. The new site will have an RSS feed for all you tech geeks out there, a printer-friendly function for those who don't want to print out a particular post without having to waste paper on a whole week's worth of material. (There won't be a 'mail-to-a-friend' function or an email list, for reasons I'll explain later.) The real changes will be on the back-end, which will make TPM more smooth-functioning, easier to update, and hopefully make it possible to put more content online. Let me thank everyone who's continued to contribute to help keep the site up-and-running and to every reader who's helped keep the site traffic growing month to month. More soon on the new site.
Wow. This new Zogby poll has Howard Dean leading John Kerry by a margin of 38 percent to 17 percent in New Hampshire. Equally striking is the fact that none of the other candidates even show up significantly in the poll. Gephardt and Lieberman both show up with a pallid 6 percent; and the rest of downhill from there. I seldom draw too many judgments from a Zogby poll. I think he has moments of real statistical insight or intuition, but is often wide of the mark. But a 21 point margin can't be an illusion based on flawed modeling. Dean is clearly way out ahead of everyone else in New Hampshire.
Now it appears that Iran's rapid progress toward a nuclear weapons capacity came thanks to substantial assistance from Pakistan. Add that to the fact that we now know that North Korea's progress along the uranium-enrichment track (as opposed to plutonium) was similarly the product of key assistance from Pakistan. If we're looking for the unstable Islamist-leaning state which has nuclear weapons and is the chief proliferator of nuclear technology to other unstable rogue regimes, we've found it: Pakistan. The urgent question to be answered is whether such assistance is continuing. If it's ended, when did it end?
Following up on whether there's a rationale for a Wesley Clark campaign, here is another analysis of the question from the new issue of The Washignton Monthly. Amy Sullivan argues that there is a vacuum waiting to be filled and that the structural and timing problems for Clark aren't nearly as great as many think.
Does it matter whether or not you bait-and-switch a nation into a good cause?
For the purposes of my hypothetical, let's set aside for the moment whether or not it was a good thing to invade Iraq to topple a bad-acting regime and build a democratic state in its place. In fact, let's stipulate for the sake of argument that it was not only a good thing but a worthwhile expenditure of national resources.
In the lead-up to the war, I argued repeatedly that it was a mistake to gin up phony or exaggerated reasons for our invasion of Iraq, even if the effort itself was justifiable on other grounds. It was wrong not only because it's bad practice to bamboozle the public but because such deception has very practical consequences.
Now we're seeing some of them.
David Warren is a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and, among other things, a main proponent and perhaps originator of the 'flypaper' hypothesis.
In an article today he asks whether Americans will have the stomach and sticktoitiveness to stick it out in Iraq. And he comes to the conclusion that they probably won't. This is really a wretched argument, more wretched because it mirrors the communications strategy coming from the White House and many war-hawk circles in Washington.
To the extent that there is war-weariness -- and that's a complicated, fluid reality -- it's not so much because of casualties as the administration's own pervasive dishonesty in building the case for the war.
Before the war, I had many conversations with war-hawks who said something like this. "If this is a good war, it really doesn't matter if you hype up the arguments to get the country into it. It's a good thing. And a little rallying the country is okay, if the goal is a good one and a necessary one."
The thinking was that once you've got the country into Iraq you can rely on American gumption to stick it out till the job is done, even if you weren't completely honest about what that job really was going in.
But there's a problem with that kind of thinking. Once it becomes clear what sort of enterprise you've gotten the country into, it may turn out they really don't have the stomach for it. And then what do you do?
Or, actually, that's an unfair way to put it. Let's try this instead ... Once it becomes clear what the stakes really were and what the costs really are, you may find out that the country doesn't think it's a good bargain and doesn't support it.
The reasoning of many war-hawks on this point was extremely cynical. In essence, it went like this: Once we're in, we'll have the wolf by the ears and it really won't matter what people think. We'll have created a fait accompli. They'll have no choice.
Of course, there's another possibility. The public might start wanting to pull the troops out when the effort has barely even begun.
Today those same war-hawks are arguing that it's a moral failing for the public not to want to follow through on the enterprise that they bamboozled the public into.
The war still has a lot of public support. And the situation is far from irretrievable. War-hawks want to portray the situation as something akin to the late stages of Vietnam, with a defeatist press and establishment, a war-weary public, and a few brave souls who've read their Churchill and remember the lessons of Munich wanting to stick it out.
But that's not where we are. What you've got is a lot of people who are unhappy about the administration's dishonesty, an equal number who don't think the current plan is working, and a pretty broad consensus that we need to make some course corrections if we're going to be successful.
So let's make those course corrections and give ourselves a shot at an outcome which is good for us and the Iraqis.
One thing we shouldn't do is give those liars a chance to question people's moral fiber for not signing on to their latest fairy-tale, the never-ending-story about why we did all this in the first place. Let's write those folks out of the conversation entirely.
A few days ago there was a small stir over an article in the Washington Post describing Paul Bremer's efforts to start recruiting members of Saddam's intelligence services (particularly his foreign intelligence service, the Mukhabarat) to bolster US intelligence capacities in Iraq in order to stem the rising tide of terrorism.
This development raises any number of very valid concerns. But what strikes me about it is less the immediate issue of whether we should be using Saddam's ex-secret police to help control the country than another broader issue.
In the run-up to war, in the debate between neoconservatives and what's left of the foreign policy establishment, the neocons' primary argument was about the moral and strategic poverty of their opponents' policy of supporting corrupt authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.
Not only was that policy obnoxious to our values, they argued. But it was also bad news in strategic terms since corrupt, illegitimate regimes like Saudi Arabia and Egypt were simply breeding grounds for al Qaida recruits who attacked us on our own territory.
Now we're seeing the other side of the coin.
It's awfully difficult to build a new state and society around the democratic opposition, when the democratic opposition really doesn't exist. You can say it exists, but once you're in the country it's liable to become clear that the democratic opposition is really just a program at AEI. However that may be, it's very hard not to fall back on at least some of the baddies from the old era because they end up being the people who have a lot of the skills you need. This is one of the reasons, after all, why we ended up working with a lot of Nazis during the occupation of Germany, the broadly successful program of de-Nazification notwithstanding.
My point is not to justify hiring Mukhabarat agents today or ex-SS officers half a century ago. I'm only trying to note how difficult these enterprises are and that it's usually impossible to avoid making at least some deals with bad-actors from the old regime. The key is not making no deals but making them judiciously so that the structure of the old regime, as opposed to a few individuals, doesn't return.
The broader point, however, is that this should have been friggin' obvious from the start. In those earlier debates you can almost imagine (and frankly I've heard) grizzled CIA operators saying, "Wow, and all this time we were tossing Mossadeq, keeping Mubarak in power, and making nice with the Saudis, we could have just built western democracies instead. Why didn't we think of that?"
I don't want to give too much of a pass to the Agency types. We have seen a lot of boomerang effects (or 'blowback' as the term of art has it) from our coddling of dictators and foreign repression. But it's not like the neos were the first ones to come up with the idea of exporting democracy. The history of US foreign interventions in the last century is filled with stories in which the US first tried to build liberal institutions in this or that country, saw it was going to be either really tough or unsustainable, and then settled for dictators or autocrats who were thought could secure our interests for the time being.
That's not great. But it's even worse to blunder into a situation blinded by an arrogance you mistook for idealism and then end up falling back on the same old bad-guy-empowering tactics anyway.
Of course, a lot of these guys never believed their own mumbo-jumbo to start with. But that's another story for another post.
Operating in growing numbers, the Taliban and their allies have succeeded in destabilizing large parts of Afghanistan and creating conditions that could undermine the U.S. military and central government. Aid and reconstruction is suspended across swathes of territory in the center, south and southeast, giving Afghans the impression the international community has abandoned them now the Taliban has been formally ousted.
Speaks for itself. Read the whole piece.
This turned out to be the pivotal moment of the conferenceâeven the primal one. When Clinton took questions, a young man from a technology company who identified himself as chairman of Bush-Cheney 2004 in California said he was offended by Clintonâs partisanship. To which Clinton, without hesitation, and with some kind of predatory gleam in his eye, said, âGood!â From there, Clinton went on, with emotion and anger, at a level seemingly foreign to most everyone here, to rip to shreds the motives, values, and legitimacy of the Republicans.
It was all anyone could talk about the next day. People seemed genuinely taken aback (some people kept offering that since it was late at night, in a bar, it didnât quite count) that one of their own might have violated the accepted codes of lofty liberal behavior. There was a little current of fear at the sudden recognition that testosterone could fuel politics. It was a shock, apparently, that we might be this close to real feelings. That politics could actually be personal. | 2019-04-25T01:51:55 | https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/josh-m/3477.html |
0.996171 | What do you think would you say? What would your famous last words be?
We might not know as it might come in the least expected way or time (knock on wood, I hope it won't).
I was reading Looking for Alaska and the lead character has a fascination for historical people's famous last words. He's memorized most of them from the most profound to the most ridiculous.
It got me thinking. What would I say if my time comes given that it's not sudden?
What will my famous last words be?
(b) Thank you God for the gift of life. I'm offering it back to you.
(c) Lord, take me home. I'm ready.
(d) Jesus, I am Yours in life. I am Yours in death.
(a) I will wait for you in life after death.
(b) I'll love you beyond forever.
(c) Our love will never perish.
(d) I'm yours up to my last breath. Even after then.
Or maybe just ask forgiveness from the people I've hurt and assure those who have hurt me that I've forgiven them.
Or tell my loved ones that I really love them with a love as imperfect but as real as mine.
Would I be really able to say these? Would I be even able to say a proper goodbye.
I might just say, "Look out!" or curse for all I know.
I remember my friend who passed away last year. Our last conversation was me asking her about her Facebook post and her telling me "I'll tell you when we see each other next time you come home."
Well, that never happened as she succumbed to cancer before I could even book a ticket home.
In case I got you thinking (like that book got me writing this), here are some famous last words from historical/famous people I gathered.
-Jane Austen when asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.
-Roman Emperor Gaius Caligula, stabbed to death by his own guards.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, spoken to his daughter, Ottilie.
Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.
Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.
I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
-James K. Polk, US President talking to his wife.
-General John Sedgwick, killed in battle during US Civil War.
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great!
The show looks good, the show looks good!
Given the chance to bid a proper farewell, what would you say? Share your famous last words to me.
To my husband I would say, "I love you to the moon and back." Yep, that's it.
, I don't know what to say but I love this blog about this topic. Thank you.
No more sorrow, no more tears.
Lux, you have really presented a lot of quotes for just one post. I guess if we wrote down what we want to say for our last words, then they probably wouldn't be our last words....we will just have to wait until the time comes.
I cannot believe you had this post! I have one coming up with a similar topic. I think we all wonder about death. I hope to die gracefully and quickly. I also hope I have alreasy said what needs to be said.
I wouldn't know what my last words will be or whether there is a chance for last words. Only God alone knows.
"Lord I offer my life to you. Use it for your glory."
I've no idea what I'd say but I enjoyed this post and all those quotes, it really makes you think.
Wow! You come up with the best topics. I loved the movie Up. It actually brought tears to my eyes. I'm not sure what my last words would be, but this post certainly makes you think.
Wow! This is such a lovely post! Never read anything like this before. All such lovely quotes; I still need to read Looking For Alaska; but I really can't wait till I read it now!
My last words would be that I hope I was a good mother... That I created wonderful memories and respectful, happy, healthful people to follow me. After all, if I messed up parenting...would anything else even matter? : ) And then I would ask God to take me home.
I have read Looking for Alaska and I remembered contemplating things pretty similar to this as well. I would like to think my final words would be a prayer to God, asking his blessing and forgiveness and praying for my family and those I love. That's what I would like to think, but it's impossible to predict right? And some of those last words are beautiful. I always feel so 'special' to be able to read and know them, if that makes sense.
b. If I am a girl, I want an older brother.
Thought Provoking! Come to think of it, I don't know what I would say.
Great post, Lux. I never thought about it before. I suppose I'd want my last words to be my last confession. Then, I'd probably say, "Lord, please bring me home."
Hi Lux, You have a wonderful ability to write a post that gets us thinking. Every time I stop by I find myself leaning back in the chair and thinking it over. Well done!
What an incredibly thought provoking post, Lux! It really makes me want to write something up for each of my loved ones in case I don't get a chance to say it to them. I would definitely use my last words to tell my family how much I love them.
i'd like mine to be: be kind; be well.
Others are right -- your posts do make me lean back and think. I wish I could say my last words would be something wonderful and consoling to my family. Truth is sitting here thinking about it I am much more shallow and would to cry and throw a temper tantrum because I don't want to leave any of them. I want to stay here with them forever. I'm finally enjoying life and I don't want it to end.
Oh Lux...I laughed long and hard over Oscar Wilde's last words. Priceless! (I take it he left!) I hope I would tell my children how much I love them, my husband too. Then I'd tell Jesus I was coming. I know he'd be ready because he called me home.
Let's see...last words? "Sorry for everyone I ever hurt. Peace!"
Great post, I love the quotes!!!!!
Some nice words to think, but I do not know if I would have time to do the verge of death!
These quotes are fascinating! I loved all of them and your post is wonderful.
It would be hard to leave that final impression of yourself em through words. This was great!
Beautiful read... But my last word.... I will just wait till I say I it..
Oscar Wilde, a hero up until the very end.
Wow! I didn't realize how many people had famous last words. I'm not sure what mine would be. I'll have to think on that for awhile. I want them to be loving, grace-filled, and God/Jesus centered. Blessed to be your neighbor at the Weekend Brew!
Very thought-provoking post, Lux! I really don't know what my last words would/will be, but I hope that they will be kind, loving and encouraging.
Hi, dear Lux! This is a thought provoking post. We see it all the time in literature, in movies and on television. Characters make eloquent speeches on their death beds with all their loved ones gathered 'round. It rarely happens that way. Death is usually not neat and tidy and convenient. It is the exact opposite. The passing of your friend was a good example of how death comes unexpectedly, derailing plans.
I would like to think that if I had the opportunity to utter last words to my loved ones, I would make a few jokes to put them at ease. I would also thank them for allowing me to be a part of their lives for so many years and all the sacrifices they made for my sake. I would also thank God for the opportunity to live a life here on earth and ask that I be given another chance at life in the hereafter.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, dear friend Lux!
What an interesting idea for a post. I loved visiting your blog today.
Probably, I will say..so this is it. I have to say goodbye, but promise me that you will be in heaven too one day with me.
I always LOVE your beautiful quotes!
This is a beautiful post Lux, like you Davinci's last words had me saying come on! That man achieved so much.
Wow, such a great post and topic. Something we will all have to face one day. I would just make sure my family knew how much I loved them and try to squeeze in as many hugs and kisses as possible. And ask them not be sad for too long. Because they made the happiest in life.
I don't know what I'd say, but I hope it's good.
An interesting post and definitely something to ponder about.
In my culture death is quite of a tabu. I have never thought of my last words, but now when you spotted it I am even more aware how big importance my words may have. Thank you for sharing!
Oh..you are making me so teary eyed. All I know is that I always tell my Mom I love her ..every time we say goodbye on the phone..and how I wished I was there. I always think of the opening scene in cold mountain where the young man laid dying and his last words were.."Sing me out of here."
I've already asked my siblings to post something should I die before them. It's my poem, "Keep Two Smiles" (one for you - the reader- and one for me). That's what I'd like to be my final message.
It was nice and interesting to read all the quotes.
The truth is I don't know what will my last words would be. Will I have a chance to utter something as I die? Bahala na lang ang Diyos tungkol doon.
What I'm thinking about is how I can transfer my online assets (my blog and social media accounts) to my heir. Someone should keep the blog going after my death.
I'm sorry that you weren't able to say goodbye to your dear friend. How sad to lose someone so young. These were all wonderful quotes. I try to tell my family how much I love them as often as possible, because life really is too short.
amazing selection of quotes! Lovely messages!!
I've never really thought about my own last words, but I have many times thought about the last words I shared with friends and family who've died. Thank you for this sweet post.
I have been thinking of last words lately. I don't know what mine would be, but I hope it would be in love and not uttered out of regret for relationships, etc.
Oooh. I am not sure. I guess it all depends on the person and situation.
What a thought provoking post. The things I want my friends and family to know I hope are my last words. I love you so much and I'll be waiting for you in heaven - eager to see your sweet faces again.
I recently lost a beloved cousin to cancer. She was a Christian who comforted us when things got bad by saying, "Pray, but don't grieve! I win either way! If God lets me live I get to enjoy more time with you but if He doesn't I am going Home and will wait for you there." I've thought about it and think that I would like to leave my loved ones with a similar sentiment.
I wish to speak my last words before I am old. hehe. Otherwise, i might forget everything and sadly have to leave this world one day.
Very interesting read, i like the last words from Oscar Wilde , even in death he was hilarious . Honestly i havent thought of what i would say.
Amazing post. I don't like to think about this too often but I mean you never know when your time is up, which is sad.
One of my friends who worked very hard to accumulate wealth said this just before he died ==== EVERY THING IS LOST.
Here are some quotes I collected after reading your thought provoking post.
Please, please give me some.-------- Michael Jackson asking Dr. Conrad Murray for drugs. Shortly after saying this, he died of an overdose.
I am not sure what my last words will be. This is perhaps I am not yet ready to die.
We all know death waits out there somewhere for us all, but we just don't expect it to be soon. Those last words were both beautiful and haunting. Perhaps it would be good to write some letters to our loved ones and express our love and devotion for them NOW just in case we don't have the opportunity to say some profound last words. Thank you for sharing this though provoking post with us here at Tell me a Story. Sorry your friend passed away before you could get there to be with her.
I love how you mad me pause to think about what I would say. The movie references were just precious and the quotes were fun to read. I would hope I would leave with love for my family on my lips and a smile for Jesus as I finally made it home. Great words and ideas to ponder.
I have no idea what I would say! This is such an interesting subject. I guess it would depend on if I were old and had lived a full life, or if I were still fairly young. And it would depend on who had gone before me. I mean, if I die before my husband, I imagine my last words would be for him alone.
I have no idea what I would say but I don't think it matters, someone will always be wittier or cleverer or more humorous than me.. It will be the state of my soul that matters.
saying good bye for the last time .... It's hard...i'll say that. You have a million or more thought running through your heart but your mind is screaming so loudly you can't think.
thanks for this - hopefully others will say I love you more often just because of reading this post.
What interesting thoughts, Lux. I hope I will be able to say things similar to the "faith" ones you mentioned. :) Thanks for reminding us of the important things in life and the ultimate goal. God bless!
i like the quote saying Nothing, but death. | 2019-04-23T18:25:14 | https://www.aboutlifeandlove.com/2015/04/what-would-you-say-famous-last-words.html |
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0.999559 | A box full of homeopathic medicines. But what do they all do? Does homeopathy even work?
Let me ask you a simple question. If I had some orange juice and I added more water to it. What would happen to the flavor? Of course, there is only one possible answer. The flavor would get weaker. That's what adding water does. Water is a solvent after all.
I don't think you would find a single person anywhere on Earth who would argue with this statement. But yet there are many people out there who will happily trust a homeopath and who will take homeopathic "medicine".
Homeopathy is perhaps the poster child for pseudoscience.
The basis of homeopathy is that if a person who is healthy takes a drug. The symptoms of the illness that the drug cures will be produced in that person. While a person who has an illness will be cured by that drug.
As these drugs cause undesired reactions they should be diluted down to safe levels. So that no adverse reaction is observed in the patient. This of course also reduced the efficiency of the medicine as well, rendering it useless. However, according to homeopathy if a diluted substance is agitated it actually becomes more potent and can cure the illness, with none of the side effects seen.
This is, of course, a ridiculous notion that a substance that is diluted can have the positive curative effects, but none of the negative side effects.
As silly as this idea is homeopathy actually takes it further. The more dilute a substance is the more potent it becomes.
Homeopathic remedies at a very high rate of dilution. According to homeopathy, the more dilute the preparation the more potent it is.
The general level of dilution used in homeopathy is 30C. However, dilutions above 12C are unlikely to contain a single molecule of the original "active" ingredient that was being diluted down.
This notion becomes even more ridiculous when you consider that some dilutions are as high as 200C. In order for a homeopathic treatment to contain even a single molecule of the original substance in it at such high dilutions. You would have to start with a sample with more molecules in it than are contained in the entire universe!
This has an implication that in order for homeopathy to work, that water must have a memory of what was once in it. If water does not have a memory then it cannot possibly have any effect at all.
If we suspend reality for one minute and we do accept that water has this "memory" then we also need to accept that all of the water on Earth has been recycled many times. It would have contained at some point some form of toxic substance, be it a heavy metal, urine, faeces etc. According to the very principles of homeopathy. So why does the water not have the memory of these things? Why does consuming any water at all not make us horrendously ill? After all, this water once contained many unpleasant things!
It is very clear that there is no scientific basis at all behind homeopathy. It just doesn't work. But many people who are tempted by homeopathy are just simply unaware of the supposed mechanism that homeopathy works by. Quite simply if homeopathy is to work then it is outside of the bounds of all known physics and chemistry. It goes without saying that all of the studies performed on homeopathy have shown that it has no effect at all other than a placebo effect.
When you are taking a homeopathic medicine all you are doing is taking a bit of water or a sugar pill. That's it.
The real risk of homeopathy is that patients who rely on it are likely to eschew conditional medicine. Or worse still these medicines will be given to children. This is where the real danger is with pseudoscience. Its adherents are utterly convinced by its efficacy regardless of what science tells us. Many people who listen to the advice given by homeopaths of other proponents of alternative medicine while considering the advice given by doctors and scientists to be false and untrustworthy.
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If you are skeptical at all about the video as part of it was sped up, you can watch the full version as well. | 2019-04-25T04:34:45 | https://www.makescienceeasy.com/why-homeopathy-is-nonsense/ |
0.999999 | "Do you need a shirt?"
Why is the word "koszula" in genitive (koszuli) in this sentence? I would write "koszulę", since it's singular (a shirt), ends on -a in nominative singular, and is the direct object of the sentence (which I have learned should be accusative). The only explanation I can think of is that the verb is the kind that can only be connected with genitive - could this be the case?. It's really bugging me, since I keep making this mistake.
You are correct. Some verbs, such as 'potrzebować' connect with the genitive.
But I suppose this is kind of on a need-to-know basis or something? Or is there some rule about which verbs connects with the genitive?
I'm afraid there is no such rule.
"potrzebujecie" (for plural 'you') was another starred answer, so this must have been what the algorithm wanted from you. But as it's about needing one shirt, it's less probable, so I made it just an acceptable option, not a starred one. "potrzebujesz" should be there next time. | 2019-04-25T12:29:36 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/12535772/Do-you-need-a-shirt |
0.960939 | Even if you are too young to remember the era of TV sign-offs, you have perhaps at least seen Poltergeist. While the national anthem and. Depending on your age, you may or may not remember that TV stations used to sign off the air overnight. The transmitter would be shut down. Do you remember back when television would go off at midnight? The is the famous RCA "Indian Head" television test pattern that many tv stations used in the As such, they would "sign-off" after the day's programming was over, and in its.
Are there any TV stations still left that sign off sometime after midnight and then sign back on at around 5 AM? These days, during the overnight. Remember Me? Here In Fargo WDAY (ABC) signs off at am and comes back on at 4 am and I believe In the 90's while all other Atlanta TV stations went 24/7, WGTV/ch 8 (PBS) would sign off early Monday at 1 AM. This site, founded in , is devoted to the memory of a bygone era in American broadcasting when all TV stations' programming ended at the conclusion of.
A sign-on is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of . Viewers may be warned to remember to turn off their television sets just prior to the transmitter being switched off; these announcements were. Remember when all stations used to go off the air at 1 or 2 AM? In NY, WCBS ran about 4 movies but even they signed off at about 5 AM or so. It was even in the early 80s, if I recall. As a young, young kid I seem to still recall certain stations signing off around midnight with the anthem. | 2019-04-25T07:52:43 | http://grandmasantiquerecipes.com/reality-check/remember-when-tv-stations-sign-offs.php |
0.999148 | NORTON, Mass. -- Tiger Woods needs to practice. Doesn't every golfer? It is the only way to improve, and it is especially vital to Woods, who spent so much time in recent years fighting back pain that there was no time to fight his swing, an inevitability in the game.
A new putter went in the bag this week, and so it stands to reason he needs to work with the new club. Last week, it was a different shaft in his driver, along with an adjustment in the loft. Those at the highest level of the game don't just make such changes, throw the club in the bag, and tee it up in a tournament.
And this presents the greatest of dilemmas for Woods as he competes in his 16th tournament this year, a number that is close to rivaling anything he has put up in the past 15 years.
How do you balance the need to prepare with the need to rest and recuperate?
"What I'm trying to figure out is how much to practice," Woods said after an opening-round 1-over-par 72 at the Dell Technologies Championship on Friday. "I want to work on certain things, but I shouldn't do it. And when I do work on things I've got to pick which part of the game to work on.
"I can't do it all like I used to do. I have to pick certain parts. And certain days to work on different things. And really pace myself through. This is a lot of golf here that I've played of late."
A good problem to have has become ... well, a problem. Is Woods playing too much for his own good at this point? How might it affect his performance in the Ryder Cup, which comes a week after the Tour Championship -- a tournament he is striving to make?
The last time Woods had two weeks off between tournaments was in early July, between a tie for fourth at the Quicken Loans National and his tie for sixth at The Open.
That performance, unexpectedly, got him into the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, a tournament he showed up for unprepared because of a planned vacation after The Open. The following week he made his rousing final-round push at the PGA Championship and finished second, vaulting up the FedEx Cup points list to 20th.
It meant Woods could skip a playoff event and still have a reasonable chance to make the Tour Championship. Instead, he played last week at the Northern Trust, had a poor week and finished tied for 40th, then wondered if he'd have been better off taking the week off.
"Some of the guys who skipped last week ... it might have been a smart move," said Woods, who despite playing fell from 20th to the 25th position. Rory McIlroy, who took the week off to work on his game, dropped from 21st to 27th.
This is Woods' fifth tournament in seven weeks. He has qualified for next week's BMW Championship, and even with a relatively poor round to open the Dell, he's in reasonably good position to qualify for the 30-player Tour Championship.
But if he is picked to play in the Ryder Cup -- held Sept. 28-30 in Paris -- that is eight tournaments in 11 weeks.
Woods last played 18 worldwide tournaments in a year in 2013, which is also the last time he played three straight. He's on pace to get to that number this year. If he does, it will be just the third time since 2005 he has played that often.
Inevitably, this type of discussion leads to the "it's only golf" refrain or the "I wish I could play golf all the time." That, of course, misses all that goes into playing at a competitive level.
The practice before and after.
Pretty much every player in the Dell field is dealing with some sort of aches and pains, the top players all putting in heavy schedules in the past two months. But only one of them is 42 years old and coming off a fourth back surgery.
"I keep saying this," McIlroy said. "Everyone needs to give him time because you're not going to be the same person or player after four back surgeries and after everything he's dealt with. I think what he's done is phenomenal."
And yet, to keep up the pace, Woods needs to continually tinker, or in some cases, put in the hard work by digging it out of the dirt.
Woods chuckled when recounting the old days, when he was at the top of his game and could seemingly practice forever. If a certain part of his game was off, he'd go work on it after a round. Driving, chipping, iron shots.
"Then I would go work out when I got home," he said. "And maybe go for a light jog. And that's where it has really, really changed. I can't do those things anymore, not like that. Not that volume. And I just have to pace myself."
Which, right now, is proving to be difficult. | 2019-04-23T01:43:08 | http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/24538238 |
0.999891 | The winter season is usually the coldest season in the year. It is a season that comes after the autumn season and just before spring season.
This season comes with its own celebration as it collides with popular holidays like Christmas in some parts of the world.
There are also numerous places that people can visit during winter to participate in snow activities. The winter season however does not happen in all parts of the world as the tropical zone does not experience the season.
What happens in the winter season?
There are numerous changes that occur during winter. One of this is that some animals migrate.When winter season approaches, some animals move to warmer places and come back after the season comes to an end.
It is also in winter that some animals hibernate. This is due to lack of food sources. Animals hence go into this state to conserve the little amounts of foods.
Also in winter, some plants may die. This is due to the extremely low temperatures.
During the winter season, people tend to wear warm clothes. This includes heavy jackets, sweaters, scarves, heavy socks and boots. This is to protect them from the cold.
There are also some sporting activities that people take part in during winter. This includes ice skating, snowboarding, sledding, skiing, etc.
During winter, some people also decide to visit tropical countries to escape from the cold. This usually comes as a form of vacation to most families.
Northern hemisphere refers to the part of the world that is above the equator while the Southern hemisphere refers to the part of the world that is below the equator.
The people who live in the Northern hemisphere have colder winter seasons than those who live in the Southern hemisphere. The different in the temperatures in the two regions during this season is the differences in ocean masses and land masses.
When the Northern hemisphere is experiencing winter, the Southern hemisphere is usually in a position where it faces the sun directly and hence has warm temperatures. When it is winter in the Southern hemisphere, the Northern hemisphere is then tilted towards the sun and hence has higher temperatures. Therefore, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere, it is winter in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
The winter season happens in different months in the Northern and southern hemisphere. In the Northern hemisphere winter occurs around the 21st day of the month of December while in the Southern hemisphere, winter occurs in the 21st day of the month of June.
The winter solstice is the day that is believed to have the shortest duration of daytime and longest duration of night time. This is a day that happens twice in a year that is on the 21st of December in the Northern hemisphere (December Solstice) and on the 21st of June in the Southern hemisphere (June Solstice). The winter solstice happens when there is a pole of the earth that achieves a maximum tilt in a direction away from the sun.
The winter solstice has had numerous cultural significances in ancient inhabitants of the world. It marked a symbolic day that was used to mark various beliefs.
The winter season is the coldest season on earth that brings about changes in lifestyles like changes in dressing. However, there are numerous fun activities that you can take part in during the season to make it memorable. It is a season that is widely celebrated throughout the world. | 2019-04-24T09:16:12 | https://imp.center/i/essay-on-winter-season-for-students-11504/ |
0.999584 | Take a guess - how many people in the United States take at least one prescription drug every 30 days?
If your first thought was "a lot," you're right. According to data from the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two or more. Those figures are remarkably high and don't include over-the-counter (OTC) medications.
With so many people taking so many medications, the process by which health care providers elucidate their patients medication-taking behavior is critical. Effective medication reconciliation produces an accurate list of all medications a patient is taking, including drug name, dosage, frequency and route. If just one medication is missed or a single data point overlooked or captured incorrectly, the ramifications may be dire. Errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors and drug interactions can lead to adverse drug events that can cause great harm or even potentially kill patients.
Here are four ways to strengthen your medication reconciliation process and enhance patient safety in the process.
When assembling a list of a patient's current medications, you want to ask about any prescription and OTC medications. But that's not all. Make sure to also ask about vitamins; herbals; health supplements; nutraceuticals; respiratory therapy-related medications, such as inhalers; vaccines; and intravenous solutions.
Patients who take a number of medications may struggle to recall all of them. By using "probing questions," you can help patients better remember the medications they are taking.
Open-ended questions such as, "What do you take for your high blood pressure?"
Closed-ended questions such as, "Do you take medication for your back pain?"
Questions about routes of administration other than oral such as, "Do you put any medications in your eyes?" Since most people think about taking medications through their mouth by default, it can be easy to forget their use of ointments, patches, eye and ear drops, and inhalers.
Questions about specific conditions such as, "What do you take for your diabetes?"
Questions about when they take medications, specifically asking about medications they may not take daily (e.g., weekly, monthly, as needed) as it can be easy to forget about medications with less frequent dosing regimens.
Questions about recent changes to their medication regimen such as new or stopped drugs and altered frequency or dosing.
"What do you take for general pain relief, like a headache?"
"What do you take to treat a cold?"
"How do you treat allergies?"
"Do you take any medications to help you sleep?"
According to a national survey, more than one-third of the adult U.S. population has basic or below basic health literacy levels. Patients with limited health literacy may struggle to adhere to a medication regimen. They may also struggle to share an accurate medication history with providers.
It is imperative for providers to take their patients' health literacy into account when working to assemble an accurate medications list. One of the more effective ways to overcome some of the barriers associated with inadequate health literacy is to focus on improving communication. The use of probing questions such as those identified earlier can help. Use simple language and speak slowly. Relieve some of the burden on patients recalling what medications they take by encouraging them to bring their medications to you, if possible. Just don't assume that what they bring necessarily represents all of their medications.
There are many barriers to successful medication reconciliation, with some representing more significant challenges than others. Health literacy, as discussed, is one such barrier. Cognitive impairment has been identified as another, with experts recommending the use of a simple screening tests such as the Mini-Cog to identify impairment in older adults in a timely fashion.
A third barrier that receives frequent attention in research and journals is the transferring of cases to an external organization (i.e., outside of the system). One of the main reasons why external transfers present such a challenge is the dissemination of information and need for effective care coordination between the organizations. In all likelihood, these organizations are not sharing electronic patient data. In addition, external transfers require the review and reconciliation of three sources of patient medication information: 1) patient's list of home medications prior to visiting the initial organization; 2) medications administered by the initial organization during the patient's visit; and 3) medications ordered at the receiving organization.
If your organization transfers or receives patients from another organization, you must implement a process to address these reconciliation needs. Effective communication and handoffs between organizations, especially those not within the same system, is critical to ensuring all medications are accurately shared and documented. | 2019-04-24T20:36:29 | https://blog.cureatr.com/the-medication-reconciliation-process-and-its-impact-on-patient-safety |
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This patient underwent a breast augmentation with a one-sided lift. | 2019-04-21T17:06:30 | http://www.dryoun.com/gallery/breast-lift-case-17/ |
0.999999 | hackneye: ok but how is plenty?How many peninsula has both 3 characteristic : humid,real peninsula(border by sea in 3 sides) and produce zebu as Rameswaram?
You are pretending not to know about the most defining characterstic described in the text: That TiaoZhi was West of the YueZhi. How many places in India have all four characteristics? Zero places, because India is Southeast of the Yuezhi. Ergo Tiaozhi is not in India. Only Tianzhu was described to be Southeast of the Yuezhi. Tianzhu was also described to be hot and humid, like Tiaozhi. And unlike Tiaozhi, Tianzhu was described to have war elephants and Buddhists. Not to mention, Tianzhu was also described to be subjugated by the Yuezhi, which was true for Northeastern India. Whereas Tiaozhi was described to be subjugated by Anxi (Parthia), a state that is West of the Yuezhi. Ergo Tiaozhi is not in India, Tianzhu is in India.
It's hot and humid, in the Middle East which have zebus, and is a peninsula that is surrounded be sea to the North, East, and South. It's on an artificial elevation as described by Pliny. So it fits all the categories that you use to falsely justify TiaoZhi being in India. But most importantly TiaoZhi was never conquered by Parthia (Anxi), a state described to be West of the Yuezhi, but Charax Spasinu was conquered by Parthia (Anxi).
Zebu was produced out of Indian continent and surrounding area only from 700 AD.
Sounds like your date is thousands of years off. Your link only shows the arrival of Zebu cattle breeds in Africa, which is only a subsection of the rest of the world.
I said that Chola would be a part of Anxi,so with descriptions of Hou Hanshu,we could place Hedu(capital of Anxi) in region of ancient Chedi kingdom(for example: Rewa district).
It's very suitable with road from Pamban to Rewa district: go up to north and toward the east.From Pamban to Rewa district around 1710 km in straight line(2400 - 2500 km in road for horse = 60 horse day).Moreover,one state of Anxi has name :"于罗".70 - 80% name has character 罗 in Chinese relate to India name or place.From 2th century BC to 3th century AD,there was a very powerful kingdom in India called Kalinga Chedi dynasty or Mahameghavahana .They captured many other kingdom from Punjab to ancient Chola.Rameswaram and surrounding areas was a part of ancient Chola,so it was seized by Kalinga Chedi.Yuezhi can locate in eastern Punjab or border of Xinjiang to Nepal.
Hedu from Chedi,not Hecatompylos.How a 5 syllable name(Hecatompylos) change to 2 syllable name(Hedu).Besides,Hecatompylos wasn't capital of Parthia.True capital of them is Ctesiphon.(But Watson pretended that he didn't know that).
Kexin from Chera(one of three Tamil kingdom) not Syria.
Again,About capital of Da Qin.If you see Kochi - capital of ancient Pandya,you will feel it is amazing.Great habour in a large river and near sea,really like in Hou Hanshu.
The main centre of the Da Yuezhi (Kushan) kingdom1 is the town of Lanshi (Bactra/Balkh).2 To the west it borders Anxi (Parthia), which is 49 days march away.
Anxi is West of the YueZhi. Everyplace you labeled as Anxi puts it Southeast of Yuezhi in India. But southeast of Yuezhi is not Anxi, it is Tianzhu.
TiaoZhi was conquered by Anxi, and this alternative location in India you mentioned do not fit the geography described in the passage: If you turn north [from Tiaozhi], and then towards the east, riding by horse for more than 60 days, you reach [the old capital of] Anxi (Parthia).5 Later on, (Anxi) conquered, and subjugated Tiaozhi (Characene and Susiana). They have, in fact, installed a Senior General there to supervise all the small towns.
Yuezhi can locate in eastern Punjab or border of Xinjiang to Nepal.
Even if you define Yuezhi as their easternmost borders, Anxi being placed west of the Yuezhi still places Anxi outside of India, especially Southern India and Sri Lanka. Just this by itself makes your narrative fall flat.
Anxi is Parthia, not in India as Le Hoang claims, because the Hou Han Shu passage states: The main centre of the Da Yuezhi (Kushan) kingdom1 is the town of Lanshi (Bactra/Balkh).2 To the west it borders Anxi (Parthia), which is 49 days march away.
Anxi is to the West of Yuezhi, not the Southeast which is where India's at.
TiaoZhi is not some Eastern Indian peninsula because it was described as thus: If you turn north [from Tiaozhi], and then towards the east, riding by horse for more than 60 days, you reach [the old capital of] Anxi (Parthia).5 Later on, (Anxi) conquered, and subjugated Tiaozhi (Characene and Susiana). They have, in fact, installed a Senior General there to supervise all the small towns.
TiaoZhi hence cannot be the Pandyan kingdom of India as Le Hoang claims, because Tiaozhi is in the westernmost border of Anxi (Parthia), which puts it well away from anywhere in India.
“The ocean is huge. Those making the round trip can do it in three months if the winds are favourable. However, if you encounter winds that delay you, it can take two years. That is why all the men who go by sea take stores for three years. The vast ocean urges men to think of their country, and get homesick, and some of them die.
When (Gan) Ying heard this, he gave up his plan.
Ergo the passage clearly describes it as thus: Traveling from China to the West you reach Yuezhi, traveling further West you reach Anxi, traveling further West you reach Tiaozhi, traveling further West you reach DaQin.
Anxi could not be anywhere in India because it's west of Yuezhi. DaQin could not be anywhere in India because it is even further West of the Yuezhi than even Anxi.
You are pretending don't know my question.Where is anothe peninsula which is hot,humid and produce zebu?
Shahr-i Sokhta and Tepe Tahya are near India.Your link said that zebu appeared at sites,not produce them(like in Hou Hanshu).Ancient Iran could import from ancient India where scientists claimed they producted them.Morever,both 2 places are so far Characen where never produced zebu.
Moreover,who really claimed Lanshi is Balkh or Bactria,execpt Watson.Because terrible logic,he had a wrong result.
What characteristic can define Lanshi with Balkh instead of other places.For example: Lukung(India).
You are accusing Pliny,where in Middle East he claimed that humid? while many parts of it is covered by desert and mountains?Besides,Pliny never called any site in Characen in paeninsula.You used a fake Roman map to claim Charax Spasinou is peninsula only.Peutinger map was collected by Konrad Peutinger who lived in 16th century many years after fall of Roman.Even"..The surviving map itself was created by a monk in Colmar in modern-day eastern France in 1265...".It is produce of Medieval author who rarely went to Middle East and very limited about information.On other hand,Roman author like Cassius Dio said that Charax Spasinu was an island,not peninsula and none of them claimed it was surrounded by sea in three sides.
Le Hoang, you know zebus self-produce by giving birth to other zebus, right? But by your logic, I don't see where in your source that specificlly said Rameswaram produces zebus, ergo it's also not Tiaozhi by your logic.
Plus, you 'pretend to not know my question': Tiaozhi/DaQin/Anxi are all described West of the Yuezhi in Central Asia. This has been thoroughly proven in post 41. Why do you insist all of them are in India when India is East of the Yuezhi? Because India have zebus? (As if there are no zebus West of the Yuezhi). Because India is hot and humid? (As if there are no zebus living in hot/humid environments West of India). Tianzhu was actually what the Han used to describe India, not only was it also described to be hot/humid, it was described to be subjugated by the Yuezhi, have war elephants, and have Buddhists, none of these characteristics was used to describe Tiaozhi/DaQin/Anxi. Yet you think Tiaozhi is in India but Tianzhu is not? What a weak, weak argument, not just because the argument you used to disqualify Charax as Tiaozhi would also disqualify Rameswaram as Tiaozhi, which means your own logic would disprove your case.
-You try to discredit the Peutinger map because Cassius Dio supposedly knows more than a "Medieval author who rarely went to the Middle East". You do know Cassius Dio never went to Charax Spasinu, so how is Cassius Dio a better source? On the other hand, Peutinger don't need to know about Charax Spasino because he was copying a copy of an antique Roman map.
-Pliny described Charax as the place where "two rivers meet", which naturally creates a place that is surrounded by water on all but one side. Pliny is a Roman too.
-Charax is at the Persian Gulf which is known for its hotness and humidity. It's not secret information, look it up.
And I'll end with this question for Le Hoang: Do you have a single academic article saying that DaQin/Anxi/Tiaozhi as recorded in the Hou Han Shu, is describing India?
river(Kahun) on the left with the width 2 miles( near 3 km).
...Arabia itself is a true peninsula,it juts out and is between two sea : Persia(Persian gulf) and Red Sea.
It's very close with modern definition and he claimed that one peninsula had to have 2 sides face to sea(between 2 sea).Again,which part of Charax justed out,which part of it is between 2 sea?
Cassius Dio never went to Middle East?Really?He was absent for at Rome so long to wrote about events in this city and had to use other documents.Anyway,we can't deny that he is a real Roman while no one could claim that Peutinger had true Roman texts or pseudo-Roman which appeared in later like in Carolingian dynasty.
Many researchers like Emily Abu claimed that it is a Carolingian map,not Roman map.
Zebu is a so strong argument to deny,so you find any way to flee it.This animal is main cattle of Indian countries.Another proofs are monks(who shaved their hair) and tiger.Hou Hanshu said that there are so many tiger and lion on roads of Da Qin.Where can we see that in Roman?Or you say that India is one of Roman subjects.
Le Hoang, again I ask you do you have a single academic article saying that DaQin/Anxi/Tiaozhi as recorded in the Hou Han Shu, is describing India?
Le Hoang. Post 41 shows that Anxi (Parthia) was described to be west of Yuezhi (Central Asia), and Tiaozhi was described to be West of Anxi. You say TiaoZhi is in India, Le Hoang thinks India is West of Central Asia?
“Tiaozhi appears to me to correspond to the Arab kingdom of Characene which was founded between 130 and 127 BCE in Mesene, at the mouths of the Tigris. Mesene is called Dest Misau in a fragment of Ibn Qutaybah [828-829], and Amru, quoted by [Joseph] Assemani [1687-1768], simply calls Desht the country of Desht Misan; this name of “Desht”, is the Persian word desht which signifies “plain”. Perhaps it is this word which is hidden in the Chinese transcription of Tiaozhi 條支. The Characenes were subject to the Parthians during the reign of Trajan (98-117 CE), for we see this emperor waging war against the Parthians and the Arabs at the same time. The Chinese historian tells us in fact several lines later on that Tiaozhi (Desht Misan) was subject to Parthia.” Translated and adapted from Chavannes (1907), p. 176, n. 3.
We are inclined to follow the view of Chavannes and Shiratori in particular that T’iao-chih must be Characene (or Mesene), with capital Charax, in the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates. This requires the concomitant identification of the Western Sea (sometimes the Great Sea) which it overlooks as the Persian Gulf leading to the Indian Ocean.” Leslie and Gardiner (1996), p. 260.
All your arguments are incredibly weak, especially your zebu theory as you demand evidence of production (not just existence) of zebus in Charax, but fail to show evidence of zebu production for your own case. Tiaozhi also produced rhinos and ostriches, but you don't use those animals because Rameswaram don't have them, ergo it don't fit your narrative that Tiaozhi was Rameswaram. Your argument is based on ignoring the evidence that you can't counter, using flimsy reasoning with a foundation so ethereal that it makes quicksand look like concrete in comparison, and treating your personal theories as fact in order to prove your other questionable theories.
Here is argument of hackneye.Who can explain logic of them for me?
- Rameswaram has zebu like Tiaozhi but Charax don't have ->Charax must be Tiaozhi.
- Rameswaram is hot and humid lik Tiaozhi but Charax is dry ->Charax must be Tiaozhi.
So Charax must be Tiaozhi because it hasn't any characteristics of Tiaozhi.
However,I need thank her because she helped me found out undeniable proofs of Tiaozhi.
About Inian rhinoceros,it certainly appeared in areas near Pamban of Rameswaram peninsula in past because fossils of rhinoceros were discovered both in South India and Sri Lanka.
Fossils of R. unicornis appear in the Middle Pleistocene. In the Pleistocene, the genus Rhinoceros ranged throughout South and Southeast Asia, with specimens located on Sri Lanka. Into the Holocene, some rhinoceros lived as far west as Gujarat and Pakistan until as recently as 3,200 years ago.
Translation: It produces lion,rhinoceros,zebu,peacock(孔雀) and giant peacock(大雀).Watson thought that giant peacock was ostrich,so he repaired original meaning.Lion,rhinoceros,peacock and zebu were popular animals in ancient South India,include Rameswaram peninsula.
I said none of those things, Le Hoang, and you know it.
For example, where did I say Charax was dry, I said it was hot and humid. Quote just where I said it was dry.
For example, where did I say Charax didn't have zebus? I said it had zebus. Quote just where I said it didn't have zebus.
I also gave quotes from multiple academic authors that they believe that Tigris beside the Tiaozhi was a transliteration of Tiaozhi itself, and later Chinese accounts equated Seleucia on the Tigris as the ancient territory of Tiaozhi. The Tigris is nowhere near India.
Now it's possible that the ancient diplomats were mistaken about a country's wildlife, or that a city next to the sea was enclosed by a river rather than the sea. What's NOT possible, is if they say that the country was FAR WEST of the Yuezhi (Central Asia) when it was in fact Far East of the Yuezhi, ESPECIALLY if the diplomat has been there. Le Hoang focuses on the little parts that diplomats might have gotten wrong, ignore the little parts which don't agree with him, and most importantly ignore the massive hole in his argument in which his theory is off, in which his theory puts Tiaozhi East of the Yuezhi when it was specifically said that Tiaozhi was very far West of the Yuezhi.
On the other hand, you say Rameswaram of India is Tiaozhi because Tiaozhi was described to produce rhinos, and there's some extinct species of rhino in South India but was extinct 1000 years before the passage was written. As usual that's an incredibly weak argument. Tiaozhi having rhinos that didn't exist for a 1000 years when the passage was written, is not the same as Tiaozhi producing rhinos. If they were producing that species of rhinos then it wouldn't be extinct at that time.
Tianzhu is India, Tiaozhi/DaQin/Anxi is not.
Tianzhu was described as hot and humid, like Tiaozhi but not DaQin/Anxi.
Tianzhu was described to be Buddhist, Tiaozhi/DaQin/Anxi wasn't.
Tianzhu was describe to have war elephants, Tiaozhi/DaQin/Anxi was not. Tiaozhi was described to have rhinos and ostriches which don't exist in Rameswaram as you claim.
Tianzhu was described to be SouthEast of the YueZhi (Central Asia), Tiaozhi/DaQin/Anxi was described to be West of YueZhi (Central Asia). Rameswaram of India is East of Central Asia, ergo TiaoZhi is not India.
Tianzhu was described to be subjugated by the Yuezhi, which Northeastern India was at the time.
Le Hoang. Post 41 shows that Anxi (Parthia) was described to be west of Yuezhi (Central Asia), and Tiaozhi was described to be West of Anxi. You say TiaoZhi is Rameswaram in India. Le Hoang thinks India is West of Central Asia?
It's clear that Da Qin had many winds and rains.So it certainly was humid.
I believed that rhinoceros fossils in South India and Sri Lanka came from 3200 BP(1200 BC).However,no scientist could give exact time for rhinoceros at there in the past.Normally,one species could exist more than 2000 years without overhunting of human.So 1200BC to 800AD could be suitable for rhinoceros in South India.Besides,you posted zebu in Iran which lived only from 6th millenium to 4 th millenium BC.It's mean this species was extincted in Iran even 4000 years before the text.
So according to Le Hoang: DaQin has "unexpected calamities " such as "frequent Wind and rain", so that's the same as Daqin's climate typically being "Hot and humid"? Again, that's just another weak argument.
So let me get this straight, you think Tianzhu isn't India despite it being described as "hot and humid" (amongst many other things, ie Buddhism). Yet you think DaQin is India because you interpret "unexpected calamities " of "frequent wind and rain", to indicate a "hot and humid" climate. Uh-huh. Plus these winds and rains were described to be "unexpected calamities", meaning that "frequent winds and rains" don't happen often, because each time they did DaQin would need to switch rulers.
According to Le Hoang: Rhinos became extinct in South India by 1000 BC = Rhinos still exist in South India during 800 AD?
That type of argument is basically saying what he wants to believe without any logical basis. He believes it because it fits his narrative that Tiaozhi is in South India, but there's no evidence to support the belief beyond wishful thinking.
According to Le Hoang: Zebus became extinct in Iran at 6000-4000 years BCE?
From the "Beef Cattle Production Systems": Following these were the humped cattle [zebus], which appeared in the Iran region around 3000 BC.
Let that sink in for a moment. Le Hoang says Iranian zebus were extinct by 6000-4000 BC, yet Iranian zebus first appeared in 3000 BC. He's just saying whatever fits his narrative, irregardless of whether it's true or not, irregardless of whether there's evidence for it or not.
Le Hoang, again I ask you: do you have a single academic source saying that DaQin/Anxi/Tiaozhi as recorded in the Hou Han Shu, is describing India?
Le Hoang. Post 41 shows that Anxi (Parthia) was described to be west of Yuezhi (Central Asia), and Tiaozhi was described to be West of Anxi. You say TiaoZhi is Rameswaram in India. Le Hoang, why do you say India is West of Central Asia?
Here is rainfall map of Earth.We can see rainfall of ancient Characen region from 101 - 250 mm per year while rainfall near Rameswaram peninsula from 750 - 1000 mm per year.In Middle East and Northen Egypt(Eastern of Roman empire),rainfall are between 0 to 250 mm,except sites that surrounded Mediterranean Sea of Israel,Liban and Syria could reach to 750 - 1000 mm whereas Kochi and Pandyan areas reached to 2000 to 5000 mm annual.So it is very strong argument that Roman can't be Da Qin,Hou Hanshu described climate of ancient Pandya.
History dragon soaring into eastern roman history.
Love and romances that changed history.
Prussia-Germany VS Romans — Were both sides "equally great" in the European military history ?
What is the best A. Roman History source for a begginer ? | 2019-04-22T00:26:26 | https://historum.com/threads/roman-history-from-non-roman-sources.177218/page-5 |
0.998695 | In an effort to improve my personal hygiene, my lovely girlfriend gave me a new electric shaver for Christmas: a Remington Titanium R-9500. Actually, it is more than just a shaver, it is an entire "shaving system". I believe that they classify it as a system because it contains several interdependent parts (the shaver itself, its recharging base, and a cleaning device) that are synergistic.
Even though I am not terribly hirsute, I tend to be lazy and gain a day or two of growth. The new shaver has seemed to perform well so far. It is certainly much sharper than my previous electric razor (which I had owned since I was old enough to shave).
The self-cleaning cycle requires a special solution, sold for about $5 from the Remington store. (The Walgreen�s online store sells it for slightly more. I wonder if Remington is selling the solution for low margins, in order to reduce total lifecycle costs for the system.) The extra cost of the solution (which needs to be replaced every couple of months, according to the documentation) imposes a new burden on the consumer. (Previously, straight razors had to be replaced fairly often, while the electric razors were a one-shot investment.) A different business model for electric shaver producers? Or a new feature that functions as a loss-leader, and merely brings customers to the main (and fairly expensive) product?
Several people have suggested making a home-brew cleaning solution. This site suggested using a homebrew that was based a homebrewed Braun Activator solution: 2/3 cup Everclear (grain alcohol), five capfuls of lemon juice, and maybe a couple of drops of silicone. The Remington solution does not smell like lemons (or grain alcohol), and seems to consist mostly of isopropyl alcohol instead.
I've continued the virtuous tradition of spending a week or two with my parents (and extended family) in Indiana, over the Christmas season. It is always a good time, and an excellent opportunity to rest, relax, and prepare for the coming year.
I've attached some photographs from the trip below.
The lovely winter scene of Los Angeles (Century City), from Mount Saint Mary's pool. Elizabeth and I went there a week or two before departing for our respective families (in Indiana and Colorado).
My little tree, decorated another year. I've had that since grad school. We had discussed getting a full size one, but time ran out.
That's actually NOT a burqa.
Christmas night, at the Borlik house.
Traditionally, we go to my grandfather's house on Christmas day, and have dinner there.
My dad and I, relaxing after another hard bout of vacation.
My family, celebrating another New Year's Eve.
There is no better way of starting off the new year than with a shiny hat and a measuring cup to hold one's drink.
It is my dad's 60th birthday, and so we had a nice dinner for that too. It was another excuse to get the family together. | 2019-04-18T20:58:15 | http://www.borlik.net/blog/2005/01/ |
0.997279 | Dr. John Nikolaros. The paper specifies critical measures required by the Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for students with special needs. The author explains and offers successful strategies in special education. The specific benchmarks that are examined consist of the process leading up the Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting, the impact of the special education chair, and the least restrictive environment (LRE). The purpose of this paper is to inform the audience of practices in special education that lead to consistency and successful implementation.
In the summer of 2014, the National Council of Teachers of English sent NASETa Position Statement on the right to language support for students on the autism spectrum. They requested we disseminate it to our members. This resolution builds on NCTE's longstanding policies on students' rights to their own languages, resolutions opposing practices that denigrate home or heritage languages, policies supporting the unique learning needs of the individual, resolutions supporting inclusion of exceptional students, and similar language and exceptionality awareness initiatives passed and affirmed throughout NCTE's history.
Nearly 2 million children younger than 5 died worldwide in 2013 of complications from _____ and ______, a new study shows. In all, 6.3 million children under 5 died in 2013, said researchers who examined the leading causes of death.
Fill in the blank: According to the latest research in the field, 66 percent of researchers, 67 percent of parents and 90 percent of pediatricians agree or strongly agree that ______ can increase aggressive behavior among children.
All answers must be submitted no later than Monday, October 27, 2014 at 12:00 p.m.
Down Syndrome: What is the Current Focus of Research?
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0.995537 | the reports of the person or people close to the person about any changes in their thinking such as memory loss.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is the technical manual used by mental health care clinicians to diagnose mental disorders. The DSM-5 upgraded the diagnosis for dementia that was used in previous versions. First, a person must meet the diagnostic criteria (diagnostic conditions or symptoms) for Mild Neurocognitive Disorder or Major Neurocognitive Disorder.
The report of someone that knows the person very well that indicates that the person's thinking abilities have slowly declined. This could be a family member, a very close friend, or even a doctor.
Having demonstrated mild impairments on neuropsychological tests or other similar types of assessments.
The person's problems with thinking do not seriously interfere with their activities, but results in them using more energy or intentionally working harder to perform their daily activities.
A person with Major Neurocognitive Disorder would also demonstrate a decline in their thinking abilities based on a report from someone else or on formal neuropsychological testing. However, the problems with their thinking significantly interfere with their daily functioning.
A diagnosis of either Mild or Major Neurocognitive Disorder can only be made if the person's symptoms cannot be better explained by some other mental disorder such as depression or schizophrenia. The symptoms also do not happen only when the person is delirious (a temporary state of confusion that can be caused by many issues such as having an illness, being under the influence of medications or drugs, having a metabolic imbalance, etc.).
Must first meet the diagnosis for either Mild or Major Neurocognitive Disorder.
For mild neurocognitive disorder at least one area of thinking must be impaired.
For major neurocognitive disorder at least two areas of thinking must be impaired.
Probable Alzheimer's disease: If there is evidence that the person has genetic factors that can lead to Alzheimer's disease from genetic testing or has family members who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Possible Alzheimer's disease: If there is no genetic evidence but there is evidence of a decline in the person's learning and memory abilities.The decline in thinking is gradual and steady. There is no evidence that other factors such as a stroke, other types of dementia, or other conditions can explain the decline in the person's memory and learning.
Evidence of a genetic factor that contributes to Alzheimer's disease such as a family history of Alzheimer's disease or the results of genetic testing.
Evidence of a decline in their learning and memory and at least one other area of cognition based on neuropsychological testing or a very detailed history.
A steady, gradual, and progressive decline in memory and other areas of cognition.
No evidence of other factors that can cause dementia such as stroke or other neurological conditions.
If the above conditions are not met, then the person with Major Neurocognitive Disorder would be diagnosed with Possible Alzheimer's disease.
Mild when the person's difficulties result in them having problems with what are referred to as instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). These are basic skills that people need to live independently such as being able to pay their bills, doing housework, shopping, preparing meals, etc.
Moderate when the person's difficulties result in them having problems performing basic activities of daily living (BADLs or sometimes just ADLs). These skills represent more basic skills such as washing, dressing, etc.
Severe when the person's difficulties result in them being fully dependent on others to help them perform their basic and instrumental activities of daily living.
Language Abilities: Clinicians often refer to the deterioration of language abilities as the development of aphasia. Different language abilities can be affected in Alzheimer's disease. One of the most frequent areas affected is the person's ability to name familiar objects (this is known as agnosia). Another language skill that is often affected is the person's ability to understand complex commands or to repeat phrases said to them. People with Alzheimer's disease often demonstrate "word finding difficulties" where they are trying to think of a word in conversation but cannot find it. These difficulties happen on occasion in people without Alzheimer's disease. However, people affected with the disorder display them far more frequently and their ability to function normally is significantly affected by these problems.
Attention: People affected with Alzheimer's disease often display difficulties with attention, particularly with what is referred to as complex attention. This ability involves being able to shift back and forth between objects of focus. It can also involve maintaining one's focus for an extended period of time. Again, people without Alzheimer's disease often display mild issues with these abilities. However, people with the disease display more severe and long-term issues with these abilities.
Visual spatial skills: Visual spatial abilities (also known as visuospatial abilities) refer to how a person can understand the relationships between objects in the environment and how they can view or imagine objects from different perspectives. For example, tests of these abilities often require people to copy designs, put together blocks in a specific order, or match geometric figures. These skills are used in everyday life to help us move through our environment. We use them to estimate distances between ourselves and objects or between different objects (such as when walking or driving a car). We also use them to follow instructions and put things together. They can also help us understand differences and similarities between objects.
Executive functions: This area of abilities is concerned with planning, judgment, and abstract thinking. Abstract thinking involves being able to think about things that are not actually present in the real world or to think in symbolic terms. People with Alzheimer's disease often demonstrate issues with planning or organizing activities or events, even activities that they once routinely performed.
Apraxia: This area of functioning involves the ability to perform well learned physical tasks. People with Alzheimer's disease often have difficulty performing tasks that they once were able to perform without even thinking about doing them. This could include dressing themselves, bathing, washing their clothes, tying their shoes, etc.
Neuropsychological tests can determine if a person has declined in these cognitive or thinking abilities. The results of these tests can help to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. In addition to the results of the tests, the reports of other people who are close to the person can be used. The reports can demonstrate that the person's cognitive abilities have gradually and slowly declined over time, which can also assist with the diagnosis. Clinicians prefer both the results of testing and the reports of the person or other people over either of these alone in making the diagnosis. The more evidence the clinician can gather, the more confident they can be in their ability to make the right decision as to why the person is experiencing problems with their thinking and get them treatment.
In general, the progression of Alzheimer's disease can be very rapid or very slow and research has indicated that it can take from between one to 20 years to fully progress. The average length of time that a person will have Alzheimer's disease from when it is first diagnosed until they die is about eight years. However, there is quite a bit of variation from person to person. | 2019-04-19T16:52:19 | https://www.rvcc-inc.org/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=15329&cn=231 |
0.998378 | Play the secret language game: tell the student that you are going to say a word in a secret language and he or she is going to tell you what the word is. Say, "this is an animal, /ra/---/t/. What is it?" Then the next step would be to blend /r/---/at/, and finally /r/--/a/--/t/. You will need to refer to the video tape to make sure that you are saying the sounds correctly. You can tell the student to press or squeeze the sounds together. Start with words with only two or three phonemes (sounds) and if your student is having trouble, say the sounds closer together until he figures out the word. (Also, check out the section on Special Word Attack Strategies for Blending in the teachers manual.
Eventually the student should be able to blend the sounds together to make three and four phoneme words. Using the students' names, your name or what's for lunch can be fun. As the student gets better at this skill, slowly lengthen the time between sounds until the sounds are about one second apart. It is useful to teach the finger tapping technique (explained under word reading) to aid students in blending sounds together. This is the same technique for blending that they will be using to sound out words in the program except that you are not using letter names at this point. It is best to start with letter sounds that you can stretch out which will be easier for the student (m, n, s ,sh, l, r, f, and z). By the time your student can blend three and four phoneme words with ease, he will be ready to start to work in the reading books.
Work with beginning segmenting skills by asking questions like: "Tell me an animal that starts with /d/", or "What sound does your name begin with?" Focus on one sound like the sound of /s/. Then say a word and if it has this sound in it, the student can jump in the air or clap his hands. With a group of students, you can assign them each a sound and then have them jump or clap if you say a word with that sound in it. Use blocks to segment the sounds in words (these are called Elkonin boxes after the Russian scientist who invented the technique).
Create Elkonin boxes like the one in the illustration out of pictures from old workbooks, magazines or your own drawings. Give the student three blocks or other manipulatives all of the same color or type (because we are not differentiating between vowels and consonants at this point) and have him tell you the three sounds as he moves the counters into the three boxes from left to right. You will have to model this technique at first and will probably have to stretch out the sounds in words as you say them when the student is having trouble. The student moves a block up into the space (see illustration) for the first sound while saying it and then does the same thing for the remaining sounds. Start with words with two or three sounds. Words with consonant sounds that can be stretched out like in "mom" and "man" and "nut", will be easier for the beginner. Many commercial phonemic awareness programs have ready made "Elkonin Boxes", but they are easy to make yourself. By the time the student can segment three and four phoneme words, he will be ready to start reading in the reading books. Phoneme segmentation is the best predictor of early reading success. Using manipulatives to represent each sound (rather than each letter) makes the task concrete and multisensory.
Read books that emphasize rhyming and/or word play. Read a rhyming story (Dr. Suess books work well for children) and stop before the rhyming word so the student can guess the word. Play word games with your student, like finding what rhymes with "elephant" - pelephant, gelephant, telephant, etc. Say a word out loud and throw a ball to a student who says a word or nonword that rhymes with the word and throws the ball back. An easy and fun activity is called "balking tackwards." In this game students transpose the first letters of two words, i.e. "hotdog" would become "dothog", "reading class" would become "cleading rass", and "pea soup" would become "sea poop." Teach "Pig Latin" if you want. Pig Latin turns out to be a good predictor of early reading success.
When your students can segment and blend three and four phoneme words, it's time to get the books back out and start reading.
A great book for ideas on phonological awareness training is Phoneme Awareness in Young Children (Adams 1998 - #880-638-3775).
Another wonderful book that has good teaching strategies and is written for parents is Straight Talk About Reading (Hall and Moats 1999). You can also suggest that the parents of your students get this book. | 2019-04-19T07:02:38 | http://dynamicphonics.com/beginning.htm |
0.995989 | There is a string A. The length of A is less than 1,000,000. I rewrite it again and again. Then I got a new string: AAAAAA...... Now I cut it from two different position and get a new string B. Then, give you the string B, can you tell me the length of the shortest possible string A. For example, A="abcdefg". I got abcdefgabcdefgabcdefgabcdefg.... Then I cut the red part: efgabcdefgabcde as string B. From B, you should find out the shortest A.
Multiply Test Cases. For each line there is a string B which contains only lowercase and uppercase charactors. The length of B is no more than 1,000,000.
For each line, output an integer, as described above. | 2019-04-26T15:04:41 | http://www.dlxedu.com/detail/30/441359.html |
0.999622 | The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between regret over actions taken versus regret over inaction vis-a-vis bereaved family. The focal points of the study were as follows: 1) to explore the nature of unreversed regret in the bereaved; 2) to examine the association between the number and intensity of regrets and mental health and grief; and 3) to examine the effect of action and inaction on mental health and grief. Using a mail-in questionnaire, we surveyed and analyzed the results of 89 bereaved respondents. The results showed that participants had more lifetime regrets over inaction than over action taken. The number and intensity of regrets also correlated with mental health and grief. Bereaved participants who expressed regret over inaction had poorer mental health and stronger feelings of grief than those with no regrets over inaction. We discuss the implications of unreversed regret and examine regret prevention for the bereaved. | 2019-04-19T06:49:31 | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jssp/25/3/25_KJ00006203286/_article/-char/ja/ |
0.998441 | I am a manager in a software company. Recently the employees of my company have become high-headed and are making unnecessary demands like provision of LED television in the workplace. I think their demands are not justified. What should I do in this case?
How many days leave we can take when we are in probation period?
Your employees definitely should not make such unnecessary demands and should try and understand their responsibilities. They should remember that they have come in the company for doing their work and not for entertainment. They should always do their work on time and not think about about such things as LED television.They should act like responsible employees and should understand their duty towards their company.
You should definitely not succumb to their demands and come under pressure. You should teach them a lesson so that they never behave in such a way and thus it will also be good for their future. You should make an announcement by calling all the employees together at one place. Tell them that you have recently seen that many of the employees are making unnecessary demands . You are not going to fulfill any of their unnecessary demands as you think that all their demands are completely unjstified. They come here to work and earn their livelihood and not for entertaining themselves. If they want to watch television , they can do so at their home also. If any of them is found to be making such demands again then he / she will be definitely punished and then you only will be responsible for that.
I am sure after this interaction of yours with your employees they certainly won't behave in such a way again. This will be certainly be a good lesson for them and will also be of great help for their future as well as they will learn to work hard and not think about entertainment while at their workplace. So you should definitely take this step and I am sure you will notice a change soon. | 2019-04-18T22:42:50 | http://professionalqueries.com/unnecessary-demands-employees-65760.html |
0.998761 | 1. Banana Republic sweater - I loved this sweater, it was on sale for $50 in the store and am a little sad I didn't buy it now that I look back on it. The pockets are adorable.
2. Banana Republic boots - These boots!! Are so good. They are perfection. I tried them on and considered buying them, but the calf was too big for me (I wear a size 9.5 and relatively small calves so I run into this issue a lot). I'm still drooling over these boots though.
3. Banana Republic blazer - I tracked down one of these in my size to try on, and after all the trouble, I didn't love it. The lapels cover up the top two buttons (unlike the picture), and I wish the blazer buttoned instead of using a hook closure. Will be looking for something similar.
4. Banana Republic top - This was on sale for $20 in the store. I almost bought it just because it was such a good deal, but I didn't love it and I try to only buy things that I really, really love.
5. Gap velvet pants - I tried on all of these pants at Gap and this pair was by far my favorite! The fit was amazeballs and they are so soft and comfy. The color is slightly darker than pictured though and I couldn't see many outfit options other than black or silver. If I think of another way to wear them I will go back.
6. Gap mint jeans - This mint color is slightly more green than the blueish hue I'm looking for, and the fit on me was an odd inch or two too short.
7. Gap ivory cords - I was so bummed to leave the mall without finding a pair of ivory corduroy pants because they are high on my wish list. The fit on these was perfect, but they were very see-through so I passed.
8. Gap cargo pants - These cargos fit well (size down one size) and were on clearance in the store, I just couldn't imagine a lot of shoes other than heels working with a cropped, loose pant leg.
9. Gap dress - I bought this while I was in North Dakota for a steal ($25 on sale in the store!). I absolutely love it; it's a loose fit that will be great for work and casual days alike.
10. LOFT sweater - I tried this on last weekend in the store and loved it. I don't buy many sweaters since I live in Florida but if I lived in a colder climate I would definitely buy it.
11. Express sweater - I haven't seen this in person yet, but it comes in five colors and I've been eyeballing it online. I wish I lived somewhere colder to justify buying it in every color!
My hunt for my November wish list continues - mint jeans, ivory cords, something camouflage, and a baseball tee, to name a few. What are your best finds this month? What's on your wish list? | 2019-04-22T08:57:45 | https://jseverydayfashion.com/home/2012/11/everyday-fashion-shopping-trends.html |
0.996969 | Christmas Budget Spreadsheet Spreadsheet Make christmas budget spreadsheet google sheets. christmas gift budget spreadsheet. christmas budget spreadsheet.
After the job is in full execution mode you should think about requesting the job streams to report about the status of critical dependencies on a standard basis, assisting you to monitor the vital dependencies and take corrective actions if needed. For instance, at the very first iteration, it may take long to finish the undertaking, within the next iteration it may cost a good thing. Now that you're familiar with all the little measures that can allow you to ensure a more successful endeavor, it's important to likewise stand back and take a look at the huge picture. Distinct jobs have collections of distinct metrics and key performance indicators that has to be monitored as a means to determine its general functionality. Whether you're freelancing or running different projects for your organization in the exact same time a project tracking program is necessary. Every complicated project contains multiple elements.
Without setting goals and objectives, projects aren't likely to be even near the possibility of visiting a flourishing completion. A job should also track its timeline. As an example, if our job is to create a house, we then wish to get an extremely clear project plan regarding how we'll build before we begin construction. It's possible to track several jobs in 1 template by including a new sheet dedicated to that undertaking.
You record the job, who's accountable for this and what the most recent updates are. So it's going to become simple to include jobs and conserve time. You may now go through the tasks anytime you want to. You should think about all tasks and activities necessary to finish a region of the undertaking. | 2019-04-24T09:54:36 | http://sheetyo.com/christmas-budget-spreadsheet/ |
0.987078 | In 1999, an episode of The Simpsons aired entitled "Viva Ned Flanders," in which Homer Simpsons and his neighbor Ned Flanders take a trip to Las Vegas. Right before the two were shown waking up hungover in a hot tub, the Stanley Cup is shown lying on the floor of their hotel room, making people wonder whether the hit animated series, again, predicted the future.
What's fueling this conspiracy-esque theory? The Las Vegas Golden Knights and the Washington Capitals are currently vying for the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy awarded to the best team in the National Hockey League.
Considering Sin City didn't even have a hockey team until last year, Twitter is abuzz with amazement at what appears to be another example of an accurate future prediction by the creators of The Simpsons.
Granted, there are still up to seven games to go until a final Stanley Cup recipient is determined, however, the fact that the trophy is shown in Vegas, nearly 20 years before the city even had a team, is pretty remarkable.
"In 1999, before "The Hangover" and the Golden Knights, Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders had the Stanley Cup in Vegas."
The obscure nature of the prediction makes it even more intriguing.
This isn't the first time people have noticed the show's uncanny ability to predict future events. One of the more notable instances of occurred in "Bart to the Future." The episode, which aired in 2000, future President Lisa Simpson bemoans a budgetary crisis leftover from the presidency of Donald Trump. "We're broke," Secretary Milhouse van Houten said.
In another episode, a three-eyed fish named Blinky was discovered, having been the victim of mutations caused by waste from Springfield's nuclear power plant. A three-eyed fish was found years later in Argentina, whose mutation was attributed to pollution from a nearby nuclear power plant.
The show also predicted in 1995 that one day people would be talking into their watches (Apple Watch) and that in 2008, voters would have to grapple with faulty voting machines that changed votes for Barack Obama to John McCain.
Do they have a crystal ball or something? | 2019-04-20T08:27:12 | https://www.comicsands.com/simpsons-stanley-cup-prediction-bets-2572765750.amp.html |
0.999998 | The company wanted a web-based application to send / receive files to their customers. The application should handle large file transactions in a secure manner.
The company wanted a web-based application to send / receive files to their customers. The application should handle large file transactions in a secure manner.The company wanted a web-based application to send / receive files to their customers. The application should handle large file transactions in a secure manner. | 2019-04-25T06:52:20 | https://www.angleritech.com/case_studies/online-file-transfer-application-fta-for-a-leading-aluminum-gravity-castings-company/ |
0.99878 | When a bone breaks, a doctor usually sets it in place, but what heals the bone? Nature is prepared to do its work and the bone knits so the break serves as though the area was never injured.
During Hippocrates's time physicians depended greatly on the ability of Nature to cure the patient. The physician's role was to supervise the process to see that nothing was done to interfere with Nature's design. Today, unfortunately, no one wants to give the body a chance to do what it can do before alleviating symptoms with drugs that have side effects.
"As it is palpable to all the world how fatal smallpox proves to many of all ages, so it is clear to me from all the observations that I can possibly make, that if no mischief be done, either by physician or nurse, it is the most safe and slight of all diseases."
"It is now more than 15 years since I have prescribed a particle of medicine of any kind, and although I have treated hundreds of cases of all the febrile diseases incident to New York and vicinity, including measles, scarlatina, erysipelas, smallpox, remittent typhus, typhoid, congestive and ship fevers, pneumonia, influenza, diphtheria, child-bed fever, dysentery, etc., etc., I have not lost one. And this statement I have repeatedly published in this city, where facts if otherwise than I represent, can be easily ascertained."
"No Physician has ever yet given the world a reason that would bear the ordeal of a moment's scientific examination, why a sick person should' be poisoned more than a well person and I do not believe that the world will endure until he finds such a reason... If a medical man with good intentions administers one of these drug poisons, or a hundred of them, and the patient dies, he dies because the medicine can't save him. But if a malefactor with murderous disposition gives the same medicine to a fellow-being, and the fellow-being dies, he dies because the poison killed him! Does the motive of the one who administers the drug alter its relation to vitality!"
"All healing power is inherent in the living system. There is no curative 'virtue' in medicines, nor in anything outside the vital organism."
"There is 'no law of cure' in the universe; and the only condition of cure is, obedience to physiological law."
"Drug remedies are themselves causes of disease. If they cure one disease, it is only by producing a drug disease. Every, dose diminishes the vitality of patient."
"To attempt to cure diseases by adding to the causes of disease is irrational and absurd."
"Crises of Toxemia - Every so-called disease is a crisis of Toxemia; which means that toxin has accumulated in the blood above the toleration point, and the crisis, the so-called disease call it cold, 'flu', pneumonia, headache, or typhoid fever is a vicarious elimination. Nature is endeavoring to rid the body of toxin. Any treatment that obstructs this effort at elimination baffles Nature in her effort... Drugs, fear, and keeping at work, prevent elimination. Nature can succeed admirably if not interfered with."
"Twenty-fives years in which I used (prescribed) drugs, and thirty-three in which I have not used (prescribed) drugs, should make my belief, that drugs are unnecessary and in most cases injurious, worth something to those who care to know the truth."
I am certainly in agreement with the above statements but do feel there are instances, possibly more likely in our time than for Drs. Tilden, Trail, Sydenham and others, when one has to be grateful that drugs can relieve unbearable symptoms. The difference is when used casually or precipitately, without giving Nature a chance, treatment can interfere with the healing process and cause side-effects unnecessarily. | 2019-04-22T06:36:44 | http://www.rethinkingcancer.org/resources/magazine-articles/9_9-10/nature-the-only-healer.php |
0.999677 | Most of the new choreography one runs across in the normal course of dance-going has probably been modeled after Merce Cunningham. Chances are, too, that the best of it is Cunningham-inspired and that the best dancers have been Cunningham-trained at his school in New York.
There is, however, only one Merce and only one Merce Cunningham Dance Company , and he and it are appearing at the New York City Center through March 28 (during April and early May they also perform in California, in Austin, Texas, and in Mexico City). That Cunningham is still the one and only was proven by his opening-night bill, which was notable not only for the beauty of its choreographic ideas and physical presentation, but also for its range of expression.
If one will accept the notion that dance moods have climactic counterparts, one can then equate ''Trails'' with a dry summer day (about 80 degrees F., I should think), ''Inlets'' with a shivering drizzle, and ''Roadrunners'' with mid-fall, when all the joggers in training are clogging the streets.
That's a fair amount of weather to take in, and Cunningham makes it all beautiful in one way or another.
The most conventionally beautiful is ''Trails,'' the one world premiere of the season. With a hushed montage of natural sound by John Cage, called ''Instances of Silence''; and blazing red decor by Mark Lancaster, ''Trails'' might seem to be a study in extreme oppositions. The choreography, however, is temperate and finds Cunningham in his most lyrical disposition.
One is immediately struck by the spaciousness of ''Trails.'' Although composed for 10 dancers, Cunningham rarely deploys their energy all at once. Instead, he sprinkles the stage with only a few dancers at a time, and they maintain a comfortable distance from each other. Their movement is very lateral, ample and stretched; their rhythms at a steady, even pulse. ''Trails'' might take place in a meadow, where it is possible to be alone and together at the same time.
But even meadows have shadowy niches. There's a moment in ''Trails'' when what appears to be a chance look between two dancers introduces a new tone of tension, further elaborated in a duet. The latter portion of the dance slowly returns ''Trails'' to an even keel. It ends with the lone remaining couple blithely running off stage, perhaps in search of new trails. But that moment of slight intake of breath, when suddenly a whiff of the unfamiliar fills the air, fills the dance. It gives ''Trails'' a particular slant, and one that is true to life.
The other two dances, while not about life exactly, are more obviously about something specific. ''Inlets'' takes place behind a scrim; Cage's score of the same title evokes sounds of water and foghorns. The dancers appear somnambulant at times; at other times, they scurry like mice, secretly going about their business while the rest of the world sleeps. ''Inlets'' is about waiting, about marking time.
''Inlets'' is not amusing. ''Roadrunners'' is a very amusing satire on the country's passion for keeping in shape. Its point is that athleticism is just a new way of expressing America's old love affair with gadgets and gear. Just how Cunningham captures the essence of gadgetry in dance form is the crux of ''Roadrunners,'' but once seen you'll not be able to pass those joggers without a knowing twinkle in your eye. | 2019-04-18T14:21:41 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0324/032401.html |
0.999593 | Bears win over the Raiders, 22-20.
Mom: I watched most of the Bears game, other than my football nap, I watched most of it. Every so often you have to have a football nap. Maybe two or three. [laughs] It depends on the game and how much it puts you to sleep. This game did not put me to sleep. Did I watch the whole thing Rocky? So I watched most of the game, I don't even know if I fell asleep at all. It was pretty exciting.
Interviewer: I only watched a little.
Mom: You told me you weren't going to watch the game until they won. But so I guess you were watching the game.
Interviewer: I didn't think I'd be able to see it, but it was Oakland, so I did.
Mom: Yeah, they're your city. So now you have the cities of two losing teams. I could see why you wouldn't want to be a football fan. Maybe you should root for San Francisco.
Interviewer: They're not that good either.
Mom: I don't know. Maybe you should move.
Interviewer: Maybe I shouldn't watch football.
Mom: Well, that's stupid. Anyway, the Bears won. What was the score? I know I wrote it down here and now I don't have it. [long pause] I don't know. It was like 24 to 20 I think. Oh, 22 to 20. Yeah. "What did I think of the game," is what you're going to ask me. I thought Cutler looked pretty good only because he had protection. I'm getting thumbs up from the peanut gallery. [laughs] He had good passes. I did like that the team wore their pink socks for Breast Cancer Month. That was very nice. Robbie Gould looked good. He had three field goals, and he was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. Do you know what does it mean to be a special teams player?
Interviewer: I know, but do you want to say?
Mom: I know there are parts of teams called special teams. I guess because they play special positions. Or because they're special! So, what do you think?
Interviewer: I know what a special teams player is. They're people who don't play offense or defense.
Mom: And they're thrown into the special teams.
Interviewer: They're the kicker or the punter.
Mom: I guess they're special. Anyway, it was team player of the week for special teams. And he did have a good game, he looked great. And again all the pressure was on him to win the game. There were three or four seconds left and he kicked the field goal. He's either the hero or the villain, you know? I'd hate to be in his position, but he did a good job. And then there was a new punter-slash-holder for him, for the team and for Robbie, who held the ball for him to kick it. Lanning. L-A-N-N-I-N-G.
Interviewer: I don't know that person.
Mom: He got signed onto the team Saturday and off the team today, I think. I guess because Pat O'Donnell had a knee. You know, how people have knees and hamstrings and ankles. Can't he play with the other knee? He only needs one knee. K-N-E-E-D-S one knee.
Mom: So now poor Lanning is off the team, even though he did a really good job. I liked the way they played though. I liked Cutler's protection. He looked a lot better than I've seen before. Possibly it's the new coach.
Interviewer: Could be. Could be a bad team they played. Could be they have all their guys now.
Mom: Could be. But I did listen to Fox's report to what's coming up and the injuries. He said, so-and-so has a hamstring. So-and-so has an elbow. So-and-so has an ankle. And then so-and-so has a concussion. So I want to know why he doesn't just say, so-and-so has a head. Like, every other injury is a body part, but a concussion is a medical term, right? They have a hamstring, they have an ankle, they have a toe. But concussion, he says concussion.
Interviewer: "He has a head."
Mom: That's right. I got a head. Anyway, on Sunday they're playing Kansas City. Both teams have the same record, 1-3. However, Kansas City's three losses have been to teams that are now 4-0. Yeah.
Mom: Oh! You and dad are both like "Oh really." Oh, I guess Mom is not that dumb. Oh! Yeah, the Broncos, the Packers, and the Bengals. So maybe Kansas City is better than they think and they should be afraid. So, that is all I have about the Bears. I don't know if they will win or loss on Sunday. I'm not making any promises. | 2019-04-26T03:40:22 | http://mymomtalksbears.strikingly.com/blog/my-mother-recaps-week-four |
0.999999 | Two sub-$10 billion tech hardware stocks are trading lower. But which is a better buy?
For tech investors looking for stocks trading lower as 2015 comes to a close, Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) and GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO) may be worth a closer look. Both were disappointing tech stocks during 2015, with GoPro being the worse performer of the two. Fitbit stock is down about 3.5% from the stock's opening price of $30.40 when shares first went public in June. Meanwhile, GoPro stock is down about 71% since the first of the year. Could either of these stocks be good investment opportunities after underperforming 2015?
To get a closer look at these two stocks, let's examine their size, competition, recent growth, and valuation.
Data source: Reuters and company filings.
While GoPro is less than half the size of Fitbit, both of these companies are arguably small players compared to key competitors in the hardware space, such as the iDevice maker, Samsung, and Microsoft. At sub-$10 billion valuations, both of these companies could potentially benefit from secular growth in their respective markets.
But investors shouldn't automatically assume these companies' smaller sizes compared to established tech giants guarantees any growth. Both companies face similar uncertainty regarding their future, particularly ambiguity about whether Fitbit or GoPro will be able to fend off competition from more established peers if their well-capitalized competition puts more effort into competing directly with these newer companies.
Competition for both companies is on the rise. There are already a wide range of alternatives to Fitbit's devices surfacing, and GoPro's market overlaps closely with camera tech on smartphones.
Both companies are growing sales incredibly fast. But the nature of each companies' recent growth is quite different.
The most obvious difference in Fitbit's and GoPro's revenue growth, of course, is the rate of growth. Fitbit's 168% year-over-year revenue growth in Q3 easily trumps GoPro's 43% growth during this same period.
But here's a surprising way in how Fitbit's growth differs even more: The wearable device maker's revenue is growing faster than its device sales as it benefits from a product sales shift toward a richer mix. Indeed, the average selling price for Fitbit's products jumped 33% year over year in Q3. On the other hand, GoPro's average selling prices for its products seem to have plateaued recently. And in light of the GoPro's second price cut on its lowest-cost camera in the Hero4 line, the Hero4 Session, which occurred at the beginning of December, it's likely the company's average selling price could decline in the fourth quarter.
Hero4 Session. Image source: GoPro.
No matter how you slice it, the market has priced in a greater premium for Fitbit's growth. In other words, the market believes there is a greater probability that Fitbit's earnings will grow at a faster rate than GoPro's over the long haul. Fitbit's premium valuation compared to GoPro's is evident both by its 49.6 price-to-earnings ratio compared to GoPro's at 15.1, as well as by their price-to-sales ratios of 3.9 and 1.5, respectively.
Both companies are certainly more interesting than they were earlier in the year when they were trading higher. But investors should keep in mind that GoPro's more favorable valuation doesn't automatically make the stock a better buy than Fitbit.
A brief overview of these two companies reveals neither stock is likely an obvious bargain. Investors interested in either stock should take the time to get a better understanding of their businesses, along with their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
However, GoPro's conservative valuation relative to its recent growth seems to already price in a lot of uncertainty. For what it's worth, I'd place my bets on GoPro if I had to choose between the two. | 2019-04-23T04:56:41 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/12/30/fitbit-stock-vs-gopro-stock.aspx |
0.998702 | Vanessa: Hey, Brad! I’ve been looking all over for you. Where have you been?
Brad: Oh, hi Vanessa. Sorry, I was really stressed out at work today. I needed to just get away from the crowds for a while, so I stopped by a little pub that is off the beaten path. It was nice just sitting down alone and relaxing for a while with no one to bother me.
Vanessa: You found a pub that is off the beaten path in LA?
Brad: Yes, unbelievable! There are a few regulars that go there, but it’s never crowded and people just leave you alone. It’s great when you need to unwind.
Sami: I’m so excited. I can’t wait until my vacation!
Petra: Really? Where are you going?
Sami: Well, I’ve been really stressed out with school lately, so I wanted to go somewhere that is off the beaten track. Someplace where I can be alone.
Sami: Yes. I am driving up to Oregon and I’m going to stay in a little Bed and Breakfast my roommate told me about a few weeks ago.
Petra: Well, if you want to go somewhere quiet, it is always good to find a place that is off the beaten track. Then, you don’t have to deal with all the crowded places that tourists like to visit.
Meaning: “Off the beaten track/path” means a place that is isolated or is not known by a lot of people. In context 1, Brad needs to go somewhere quiet where no one will bother him, so he finds a pub that is “off the beaten path.” In context 2, Sami wants to spend her vacation in a place that is off the beaten track so that she doesn’t encounter crowds of people and can just relax. | 2019-04-20T16:54:54 | http://idioms.languagesystems.edu/2016/09/off-beaten-path.html |
0.999614 | Not to be confused with Danny Boyd.
This article is about the folk song. For other uses, see Danny Boy (disambiguation).
"Danny Boy" is a ballad set to an ancient Irish melody. English songwriter Frederic Weatherly wrote the lyrics, which are usually set to the Irish tune of the "Londonderry Air". The song was written in a small town called Limavady. It is most closely associated with Irish communities.
A piano arrangement of the tune Derry Air.
Initially written to a tune other than "Londonderry Air", English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly wrote the words to "Danny Boy" in Bath, Somerset in 1910. After his Irish-born sister-in-law Margaret (known as Jess) in the United States sent him a copy of "Londonderry Air" in 1913 (an alternative version of the story has her singing the air to him in 1912 with different lyrics), Weatherly modified the lyrics of "Danny Boy" to fit the rhyme and meter of "Londonderry Air".
Weatherly gave the song to the vocalist Elsie Griffin, who made it one of the most popular songs in the new century. In 1915, Ernestine Schumann-Heink produced the first recording of "Danny Boy".
Various suggestions exist as to the true meaning of "Danny Boy". Some have interpreted the song to be a message from a parent to a son going off to a war or uprising (as suggested by the reference to "pipes calling glen to glen") or leaving as part of the Irish diaspora.
The 1918 version of the sheet music included alternative lyrics ("Eily Dear"), with the instructions that "when sung by a man, the words in italic should be used; the song then becomes "Eily Dear", so that "Danny Boy" is only to be sung by a lady". In spite of this, it is unclear whether this was Weatherly's intent. Indeed, the song has been covered by a diverse range of male singers, including Mario Lanza, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley, Shane MacGowan, Jackie Wilson, Daniel O'Donnell, Harry Belafonte, Tom Jones, John Gary, Frank Patterson, Jacob Collier, Harry Connick Jr., and comedian Peter Kay amongst many others. All used the original lyrics.
The song is popular for funerals; but, as it is not liturgical, its suitability as a funeral song is sometimes contested. In 1928, Weatherly himself suggested that the second verse would provide a fitting requiem for the actress Ellen Terry.
On 13 April 2013, the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation released the concert album of the 2011 Girls' Generation Asia Tour. The song is on CD 2, track number 7.
Figure skating world champion Javier Fernández skated an exhibition program to Danny Boy choreographed by David Wilson, which Fernández debuted in Boston following his victory at the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships.
Danny Boy, without lyrics, was the theme song for the television show Make Room for Daddy (1953-1957), later The Danny Thomas Show (1957-1964).
Opera singer Renée Fleming sang "Danny Boy" at the funeral service for Senator John McCain on 1 September 2018.
Danny Boy, with modified lyrics and music was used in Rubén Blades' album Mundo.
Southern gospel singer Dottie Rambo adapted the melody for her song, "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need", which was also notably sung by George Beverly Shea.
"Danny Boy" has been recorded multiple times by a variety of performers. Several versions performed by notable performers are listed below in chronological order.
1941 (1941) Bing Crosby Merry Christmas Paired with "I'll Be Home for Christmas" on its original single. Originally recorded July 5, 1941.
1950 Eugene Conley Eugene Conley, Robert Farnon And His Orchestra– A Concert of Favorites by Eugene Conley (tenor) Released with "I Hear You Calling Me," "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life," "Forgotten," "Because," "Thine Alone," "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen," Beloved.
1956 (1956) Ruby Murray The Voice of Ireland Released as part of her Irish songs album.
1961 (1961) Jim Reeves The Blizzard/Danny Boy 7" 45rpm vinyl LP #27 on RCA Victor 7855 in "Music Vendor"
1962 (1962) Connie Francis Connie Francis Sings Irish Favorites Released as an all-Irish album.
1976 (1976) Elvis Presley From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee Recorded in response to a request from his father, Vernon, this is from Elvis' penultimate studio recording session in February 1976, recorded in the Jungle Room of Elvis' home in Graceland.
2015 (2015) Lisa Hannigan Fargo Season 2, Episode 7 "Did you do this? No, you did it!"
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0.998684 | Nicki Minaj shuts down those pregnancy rumours with laughing emojis!
Los Angeles - Nicki Minaj has sparked speculation she is pregnant.
The Anaconda rapper made waves at the latest stop on her Pinkprint tour by referring to boyfriend, rapper Meek Mill, as her "baby father".
Nicki sent fans into a frenzy at her concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday night with the bold statement as Meek joined her on stage.
She said: "Make some noise for my baby father!"
However, the 32-year-old star later took to Twitter responding to one fan with numerous laughing emojis, indicating it was just a joke.
Just last month Nicki insisted she wouldn't be having a baby until she's married - following Meek's boastful claim that he wishes she was pregnant.
The star said in a radio interview: "Nicki ain't pregnant, but I wish."
Nicki reacted on Twitter, writing: "No matter wut he, or anyone else says, Onika Tanya Maraj won't b pushing anyone1 out her vajayjay, until she's married. Now check that (sic)".
Babaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy *chris brown voice* ??????????????????????
The Bang Bang rapper has previously expressed her desire to have children once she's tied the knot.
She said last year: "I definitely will be married before I have my baby,'' she told the magazine. ''I've always felt like that since I was young; my mother always put that in my head." | 2019-04-22T09:16:46 | https://www.channel24.co.za/Gossip/News/Nicki-Minaj-shuts-down-those-pregnancy-rumours-with-laughing-emojis-20150811 |
0.999548 | I read the above tweet this morning and it resonates with an experience I had whilst I was still living on Lagos Island in Lagos, Nigeria. I remember there was a group of young men that we were probably of the same age bracket and some of them were unemployed or underemployed and I remember a random thought that became an idea to me then. I had a discussion with some of them on how to turn an abandoned space into a small bakery or fish farm, because on Lagos island it’s not difficult to get to water source in the ground and it was quite affordable to dig a borehole even back then and Lagos Island is the home of bakeries and I don’t think one could get it wrong there in terms of setting up a bakery. Although, running it successfully is a different kettle of fish.
The classrooms to learn from are in abundance; a six month apprenticeship in a bakery by an educated individual I believe is enough to understand the basics of the trade and as for the nuances, we all get to learn them on a daily basis.
I think my idea did not sink with these guys and the idea just died there and then, but the challenges of unemployment and underemployment persisted (I don’t know about the situation now). But an interesting development occurred some few months later; a bakery was opened right across the road by a resourceful young man and in a blink of an eye, the bakery had become a hive.
Young women particularly from outside Lagos Island started turning up in the morning, as early as 5am or thereabout to get supplies and hawk in the morning (they had so many obstacles to overcome – from trying to avoid getting arrested by government officials for “illegally” trading by hawking on the street; to catching up with customers who wanted their bread hot and fresh with blue band butter spread on the two surfaces in between the loaf of bread that has been cut into two neat equal parts by these ladies, with the dexterity and concentration of an artist. For the act of cutting a loaf of bread and spreading butter on the two surfaces is an art that demands its own tutelage and perfection.
Back to the bakery issue, so the bakery grew in its successful operation and became a part of the physical and social ecosystem of the street and the young women hawking the bread increased in number, and hopefully were able to fulfil some of their own individuals’ life aspirations. And I remember seeing one of the “locals”, who usually enjoyed sitting by the roadside on a bench, allowing: time, people and traffic to pass her by, whilst she did nothing; asking one of the bread hawkers for a loaf of bread!
Abdulghaniy Kayode Otukogbe on Use mosques to provide education – Emir of Kano.
M. 'fowose Bolaji on Use mosques to provide education – Emir of Kano.
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0.998757 | Large amounts of text are added to the Web daily from social media, web-based commerce, scientific papers, eGovernment consultations, etc. Such texts are used to make decisions in the sense that people read the texts, carry out some informal analysis, and then (in the best case) make a decision; for example, a consumer might read the comments on an Amazon website about a camera before deciding what camera to buy. The problem is that the information is distributed, unstructured, and not cumulative. In addition, the argument structure - justifications for a claim and criticisms - might be implicit or explicit within some document, but harder to discern across documents. The sheer volume of information overwhelms users. Given all these problems, reasoning about arguments on the web is currently infeasible.
A solution to these problems would be to develop tools to aggregate, synthesize, structure, summarize, and reason about arguments in texts. Such tools would enable users to search for particular topics and their justifications, trace through the argument (justifications for justifications and so on), as well as to systematically and formally reason about the graph of arguments. By doing so, a user would have a better, more systematic basis for making a decision. However, deep, manual analysis of texts is time-consuming, knowledge intensive, and thus unscalable. To acquire, generate, and transmit the arguments, we need scalable machine-based or machine-supported approaches to extract arguments. The application of tools to mine arguments would be very broad and deep given the variety of contexts where arguments appear and the purposes they are put to.
On the one hand, text analysis is a promising approach to identify and extract arguments from text, receiving attention from the natural language processing community. For example, there are approaches on argumentation mining of legal documents, on-line debates, product reviews, newspaper articles, court cases, scientific articles, and other areas. On the other hand, computational models of argumentation have made substantial progress in providing abstract, formal models to represent and reason over complex argumentation graphs. The literature covers alternative models, a range of semantics, complexity, and formal dialogues. Yet, there needs to be progress not only within each domain, but in bridging between textual and abstract representations of argument so as to enable reasoning from source text.
To make progress and realize automated argumentation, a range of interdisciplinary approaches, skills, and collaborations are required, covering natural language processing technology, linguistic theories of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse, domain knowledge such as law and science, computer science techniques in artificial intelligence, argumentation theory, and computational models of argumentation. | 2019-04-21T16:59:10 | http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Serena.Villata/BiCi2014/frontiersARG-NLP.html |
0.999892 | A similar outburst from Antonio Conte after a similar two-goal defeat at Arsenal didn't lead to player revolt, but instead to a revolution in results. "We need to become a team that is capable of adapting, so a team that can perhaps suffer for 10 to 15 minutes in the game but then play our own football ", Sarri said .
Several of the decisions that added to his overall tally of 16 league goals have been considered contentious, but former Chelsea striker Tony Cascarino feels he's simply following in the footsteps of one of the league's greatest talents. 'It's the Premier League, it's tough and you need to grind results out - that's what we did.' Liverpool bounced back from Andros Townsend's strike with goals from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino in the opening eight minutes of the second half.
Because while it's one thing to beat unseeded players to tears, it's another altogether to play the current world No. 1. She's been a lot at number one. "I have to be smart, aggressive". "I think she's a good talent". It was very hot conditions so I was struggling a little. With those comments, Halep betrayed perhaps her biggest advantage.
Manchester United legend Gary Neville believes manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is overseeing a false dawn. Apparently, Solskjaer has instilled the attacking philosophy of the Old Man United and most Man United players such as the likes of Pogba and Rashford seem to be different players altogether, from the ones that played under Mourinho .
Boateng will be unveiled as Barca player on Tuesday, 22 January, according to the club. It added: "During his time with Las Palmas with Quique Setien as coach he played as an out and out striker, a typical No. "For every kid who starts to play football I think it is a dream to play for a club like Barcelona , so for every player and especially for me it's a big dream come true".
The victor of the Williams-Halep contest will meet seventh-seeded Karolina Pliskova, who beat Garbine Muguruzu 6-3, 6-1 in an hour and is on a nine-match winning streak. " Uhm, I just thought I didn't want to give up ", Osaka said after the match. "I became, "OK, I'm leading, I'm leading", said Hsieh, wrapping her hands round her throat in a choking gesture.
In that moment, it was tough not to think back to Williams' last match of 2018 in the US Open final, when the pressure of not performing up to expectations and the emotion of what she perceived as an unfair slight by the chair umpire sent her into a tailspin.
Mickelson, who shot a career-low in Round 1, teed off at the Nicklaus Tournament Course on Friday. It gave him a three-stroke lead over fellow American Adam Long, who bounced back from an opening hole bogey to finish with a nine-under round of 63.
Marcus Rashford is making a case to be considered the best striker in the Premier League, according to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer . "Enjoyment", said Rooney, who was a teammate of Solskjaer's during their playing days at United. I said a few years ago on Monday Night Football when Mata was signed that he was a wonderful player, but I thought it was a breach of philosophy. I think [Pochettino] gets the best out of his players whether they are younger or older.
Ranieri responded with his first substitution ten minutes inside the second stanza, bringing on Ryan Sessegnon in place of Babel in a straight swap on the left side of the attack. He headed one chance over and floated a flawless pass for Andre Schurrle whose thunderous volley was pushed by Lloris straight to Aleksandar Mitrovic who headed in the rebound but was flagged offside.
But if her opponents thought the time away from the court may have slowed her down, Tuesday's ruthless showing appeared to prove she's just as driven as before. "For me, I just hope that, whatever happens, he can get back to just regular life, pain-free, and be able to enjoy himself and not be in constant pain".
In the press conference after the match, Sharapova was asked about how her body holds up now that she can not take meldonium and the former Australian Open champion was not amused. Being up 4-1, I had a chance to do that. "Sitting down with my team late a year ago, it was one of the goals we set out that we wanted to go deep into Slams, and I feel like that was the next step for me".
Tsitsipas will now face Spain's 22nd seed Roberto Bautista Agut in the quarterfinals. De Minaur again suffered an early break in the first game of the third set, but went on to hold his own, but could not make up the dropped serve with Nadal taking the last set 6-4.
Williams said she was wary of Bouchard, who is on the comeback trail after a slide down the rankings to number 79 in the world. Williams broke Bouchard's serve an incredible six times to claim a 6-2, 6-2 win. Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska , ranked 59th, awaits her in the third round. That wasn't the only ominous sign for her Canadian opponent, a former Wimbledon finalist who has been trying to retrieve her stellar form of five years ago.
The Chinese club were ready to offer €35 million for the services of the Austrian and most fans believed that there was no chance that the Hammers were going to reject that bid an offer. I am not telling the club about it. Before Arnautovic, Payet was the last man to hold the mantle of talisman in east London and now they could well end up in the same side.
Sharapova produced just two double faults in the opening set, but rattled off three in her opening service game as Wozniacki won two games on the bounce to provide the flawless response to dropping the opener. "I thought the level was quite high". Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova are two of the biggest names in tennis meaning we should get a good tennis match.
Author: - Января 19, 2019 0 Should the Texas Rangers Jump into the Manny Machado Mix?
It's also known that the Sox' pursuit of Machado has been serious and well-mapped-out, but there are limits to how high they'll spend in a market appearing more lukewarm than expected. LeMahieu offers at the plate versus what Machado offers. The Red Sox offered Martinez $100 million and waited for two months, eventually settling on a five-year, $110 million deal in February.
The left-hander switched to a right-handed stance while facing a spell from Chris Gayle , smashing the West Indies superstar back over his head for six. Warner didn't stop there as he paddle-swept the next ball to a boundary. Warner is playing the game despite an elbow injury. Shakib remained unbeaten on 61* off 41 (8 fours and 2 sixes) while, Russell smashed 4 sixes and 2 fours in his 21-ball 40*.
Six-time Melbourne Park victor Novak Djokovic is also looking to make history by winning a seventh title and takes on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who he beat in the 2008 final, in a night match. Djokovic is going for a record seventh Australian Open title and his 15th Grand Slam singles championship. Djokovic will enter the match as a clear favourite.
James suffered a groin strain December 25 and will not join the Lakers on an upcoming two-game road trip. So, James is basically walking through shooting drills. Not that the injury was Walton's fault, but his inability to coach the Lakers through a trying time has been mediocre at best. The Thunder are 26-18 and have lost five of their last six.
Plagued with injuries in the past year and half or so, Raonic is looking very strong here in Melbourne , firing booming serves and standing tall from the baseline as well, finishing today's test with 84 winners (39 aces) and just 44 unforced errors.
Cousins was injured on January 26 of last year, four days after he became the first National Basketball Association player in 46 years with 40 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in a game. Golden State's coaching staff has spent the past couple of weeks more intensely planning for Cousins' return and how he will be incorporated into different rotations throughout games, while also holding regular discussions with Cousins about the plan. | 2019-04-20T18:34:48 | http://popzei.com/sport/page15/ |
0.998533 | Paul Manafort, the campaign manager for Donald Trump when the reality TV star and businessman accepted the Republican nomination for president, has been found guilty of eight out of 18 charges in his financial fraud trial.
The judge declared a mistrial on the 10 other counts after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous consensus.
Manafort stood accused of hiding about $ 16 million US in income from the Internal Revenue Service between 2010 and 2014 by allegedly disguising the money he earned advising pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine as loans and hiding it in foreign banks.
He was charged with a total of 18 counts of bank fraud, bank fraud conspiracy, failing to file foreign bank account reports and subscribing to false income tax returns.
Jurors were in their fourth day of deliberations in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday before advising U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III they had reached a partial verdict.
The trial was the first related to the special counsel investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller, although his probe has also secured guilty pleas from a number of individuals, including former longtime Manafort aide Rick Gates, who co-operated with prosecutors.
The jury of six men and six women heard tales of ostentatious displays of wealth and deceit at the trial in Virginia. That included the testimony of Gates, who admitted to an extramarital affair and stealing money, unbeknownst to Manafort.
The defence tried to attack the credibility of Gates, who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. It also argued that Manafort couldn't have committed bank fraud, as Federal Savings Bank officials who signed off on his loans were well aware of the shaky state of his financing.
Trump defended Manafort as recently as Aug. 17, when the jury was already deliberating. The president's public statements have raised the spectre he might try to issue a pardon for the longtime Republican operative.
The president said the prosecution was a "sad day for our country."
Asked if he would consider a pardon if Manafort is convicted, Trump said: "I don't talk about that."
Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016 and was elevated to chair in May.
He left the campaign in August that year — days after the New York Times reported a Ukraine investigation had uncovered $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments involving Manafort from 2007 to 2012. The money, the newspaper reported, came from the pro-Russian party of Viktor Yanukovych, the one-time Ukraine president.
But the court was given an indication that Manafort was not necessarily shut out from the Trump team when he was let go.
Evidence at the trial included a November 2016 email sent by Manafort to Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, after Trump won the presidential election. In the email, Manafort recommended three candidates for administration posts, including Stephen Calk, chairman of the Federal Savings Bank, where Manafort was able to arrange millions in loans.
Kushner enthusiastically responded to Manafort's recommendations by email: "On it!"
Manafort's prominence in D.C. lobbying circles extends back nearly four decades, when he helped found a firm along with individuals including Roger Stone, another former Trump campaign adviser who has testified to congressional committees examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The Manafort trial came about as Mueller was given the authority as of May 2017 to investigate any links and/or co-ordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Trump, as well as any potentially criminal matters that arose directly from the investigation.
Trump has repeatedly denied colluding with Russia, although there is no such federal crime of collusion. The president could be damaged politically should there be findings of conspiracy or obstruction of justice in a report Mueller is expected to deliver at the conclusion of the investigation.
Manafort succeeded Corey Lewandowski in directing Trump's campaign, and was essentially replaced in that role by Steve Bannon. Manafort was present, along with Kushner and Donald Trump Jr., at a controversial Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 with Russian figures that has been a subject of inquiry in the congressional intelligence, judiciary and oversight committees.
Mueller's indictments have included some two dozen Russians for alleged cyber-intrusions designed to disrupt the 2016 election and roil the U.S. political debate. | 2019-04-19T14:18:38 | http://news.getupradio.com/former-trump-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-guilty-on-8-charges-in-fraud-trial/ |
0.999986 | Please find below a day-by-day summary of the services that West Midlands Railway will be running over the Christmas and New Year Bank Holiday period.
A normal Saturday service is expected to operate.
21:17 Birmingham New Street to Rugeley Trent Valley, 21:47 Birmingham New Street to Walsall.
21:40 Walsall to Birmingham New Street, 21:45 Rugeley Trent Valley to Birmingham New Street.
18:36 Birmingham New Street - Liverpool Lime Street, 21:36 Birmingham New Street - Crewe.
20:34 Liverpool Lime Street - Birmingham New Street.
21:23 Birmingham New Street to Bromsgrove, 21:28 Lichfield Trent Valley to Redditch, 21:58 Lichfield Trent Valley to Birmingham New Street.
20:57 Redditch to Lichfield Trent Valley, 22:17 Bromsgrove to Birmingham New Street, 22:27 Redditch to Birmingham New Street.
An amended service will run between Birmingham New Street and Worcester / Hereford from 16:20.
Services between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town will end earlier than usual.
A normal service is expected to run, subject to engineering work.
Trains between Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International / Coventry / Northampton will operate to a special timetable based on Saturday service frequency.
Train services between Birmingham New Street / Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street will run between Birmingham New Street / Crewe and Runcorn only (to a special timetable at a reduced level of frequency). Trains will depart slightly earlier from Birmingham New Street. Rail replacement buses will operate between Runcorn and Liverpool South Parkway. Passengers are advised to travel on Merseyrail train services between Liverpool South Parkway and Liverpool Central.
Train services between Birmingham New Street / Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street will run between Birmingham New Street / Crewe and Runcorn only. Rail replacement buses will operate between Runcorn and Liverpool South Parkway. Passengers are advised to travel on Merseyrail train services between Liverpool South Parkway and Liverpool Central.
After 12:00 train services between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central / Northampton will operate to an amended timetable. Trains between London Euston and Tring which terminate / start from Tring will not run with other services operating between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central calling additionally at Bushey, Kings Langley and Apsley.
Train services between London Euston and Birmingham New Street will operate to an amended timetable between London Euston and Northampton (some trains will call additionally at Harrow & Wealdstone / Tring). Trains from London Euston to Birmingham New Street will depart slightly earlier from London Euston.
Most train services from London Euston to Crewe will depart slightly earlier from London Euston and Watford Junction. Most trains from Crewe to London Euston are retimed to run slightly later between Watford Junction and London Euston.
Train services between Birmingham New Street / Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street will run between Birmingham New Street / Crewe and Runcorn only (to a special timetable at a reduced level of frequency). Trains will depart slightly earlier from Birmingham New Street. Some trains will depart slightly earlier from Runcorn. Rail replacement buses will operate between Runcorn and Liverpool South Parkway. Passengers are advised to travel on Merseyrail train services between Liverpool South Parkway and Liverpool Central.
Trains between Birmingham New Street and Worcester / Hereford will operate to a special timetable based on Saturday service frequency.
Trains between Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Street will operate to a special timetable based on Saturday service frequency.
Trains between London Euston and Tring / Milton Keynes Central / Northampton / Birmingham New Street / Crewe will operate to a special timetable based on Saturday service frequency.
After 23:59 train services from London Euston to Watford Junction / Milton Keynes Central / Northampton will operate to a enhanced special timetable. Please check the Journey Planner.
Until 11:30 train services between Birmingham New Street & Crewe / Liverpool Lime Street will run between Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton and between Stafford and Runcorn only (to a special timetable at Sunday service frequency).
Rail replacement buses will operate operate between Birmingham New Street / Wolverhampton & Stafford and between Runcorn & Liverpool South Parkway. After 11:30 trains will run between Birmingham New Street / Crewe & Runcorn only (to a Sunday timetable), with rail replacement buses operating between Runcorn and Liverpool South Parkway.
Passengers are advised to travel on Merseyrail train services between Liverpool South Parkway & Liverpool Central.
A normal service is expected to operate. | 2019-04-25T08:08:35 | http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/172138.aspx |
0.999999 | This diabetic wedding cake recipe is perfect for your special day. You can also use it for your rehearsal dinner or an after party. Always make sure to test it out before the big day!!
Recipe Instructions: 1. For cake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two 8 or 9-inch cake layer pans with nonstick spray.
2. Cream together corn oil margarine and fructose until fluffy. Add the 2 whole eggs and mix well. Add vanilla. In another bowl mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Alternately add flour and milk to batter, making sure to mix well between additions.
3. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold egg whites into batter and pour into prepared cake pans. Bake 20 to 25 minutes; don't overbake as cake will become dry.
Cool on racks for 10 minutes, then turn layers out of pans and continue cooling on racks.
For frosting, whip thoroughly cream cheese and milk. Add Equal. Mix again. Add vanilla (or lemon juice) and whip or beat until very smooth. Add one or more food colors as desired. Refrigerate frosting.
When cake is cooled, frost between layers and on top. | 2019-04-25T00:33:07 | https://www.easy-diabetic-recipes.com/diabetic-wedding-cake-recipe.html |
0.999989 | Assume for a second that there were no pending questions facing the Elon Musk proposed MBO of Tesla: that the funding was indeed secured, that the Board has signed off on the deal, that the requisite number of shareholders had agreed to roll their equity into the new structure and so on.
What would such a deal look like?
First, the baseline parameters as defined by Musk: At $420 per share, and using an estimated 186.5MM diluted shares outstanding (including exercisable options, and convertible debt that would theoretically be in-the-money), the implied equity value is approximately $78BN. When combined with an adjusted net-debt of approx. $6BN, this implies an Enterprise Value of $84BN —which indicatively is 23.5x Goldman's 2020E EBITDA estimate and 17.5x consensus EBITDA.
The next logical question is what could potential financing and interest expense look like post an MBO, in other words, what does the math of the proposed deal look like? It is here that things quickly turn ugly as an analysis by Goldman's David Tamberino finds.
According to the Goldman analyst, with $9bn in net-debt, Tesla is currently levered his 2.6x our 2020E EBITDA (and 1.8x on consensus), and the current annual interest expense is tracking toward $650MM — driving an implied average interest rate of approx. 6% (of course a full-blown MBO largely funded by junk debt would have a far higher interest expense). If adjusted for in-the-money convertible notes, leverage would drop to 1.7x GSe 2020 (and 1.2x consensus) —with an implied interest rate of 7.3%.
Assuming the company could fund debt at a similar rate, no other shareholders converted to the private structure, and outside equity capital was not lined up — this would imply debt of $68.5bn with interest expense of approx. $5bn. Not only would that lever the company up to 14x Consensus EBITDA, but the interest expense alone would be higher than forecast EBITDA generation, in other words assuming no capex, the company would be cash flow negative, hardly what any LBO investor wants to hear.
For the pro forma analysis, we take a traditional LBO approach of 6.0x leverage - in-line with historical LBOs - to get $21BN of debt financing on Goldman's conservative 2020E EBITDA, or $29BN consensus — leaving a need for incremental equity financing in the amounts of $40 to $47bn depending on whether one uses the consensus or Goldman EBITDA. While this would lead to lower interest expense, it would not result in positive cash flow generation when consensus capex of $3.6BN is considered.
To allow for the range of outcomes outside of these two structures, Goldman has created the following sensitivity analysis showing potential interest expense at various funding structures.
With that hypothetical analysis in mind, the next and key question is does $420/share represent fair value?
The answer is: it depend on your views of the company's growth.
For this analysis we revert to Goldman's operating assumptions, and specifically the bank's "potential upside" scenarios, in which - even when faced with growing competition from OEMs - the company achieves mass market volumes in the 2 to 3 million vehicle range in 2025; for context, Goldman's base case assumes only ~800k in 2025.
In those upside scenarios, Goldman ascribes valuations (discounted back to early 2019) for the overall company that average to approx. $414 per share. Naturally, Goldman is quick to point out that its base case valuation implies a much lower potential value per share for Tesla - roughly $116 or nearly a quarter of Musk's proposed take out value - given the slower growth rate and forecasted lower margin profile.
Finally, some have wondered whether the Dell MBO is an applicable comparable case study? The answer, according to Goldman, is maybe, but the underlying EBITDA/FCF characteristics were far more favorable.
A quick flashback of what that deal looked like: In 2013, Dell management led a buyout of the company for $25bn — financed through management’s ownership stake (16%, valued at over $3bn), $750mn in cash on the balance sheet, some incremental equity holders, and debt of approx. $19.4bn (debt-to-equity ratio of 3.5x). While the transaction was somewhat similar in nature to what is being proposed at TSLA, the EBITDA generation and cash flow characteristics of the business were very different given a more mature product and growth profile: Dell’s reported 2013 adjusted EBITDA was $5.1bn (implying 3.4x leverage at-close) and FCF generation was approx. $3BN.
By Comparison, excluding working capital gimmicks, Tesla is run rating around $1 billion in cash flow burn per quarter.
In other words, even if one assumes that all the MBO preconditions are in place, and Musk does indeed have the financing locked up, the far bigger question is just who would have agreed to lock themselves up to a capital structure that is more suitable for a mature, cash flow generating business, whereas Tesla still remains largely in the realm of pure equity - after all just the interest expense alone would leave zero residual cash for equity investors. | 2019-04-24T20:31:21 | https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-09/does-tesla-going-private-transaction-actually-make-sense-heres-answer |
0.998599 | CHICAGO (AFP) - Almost 700 clergymen in Illinois have been accused of child sexual assault, a far greater number than the Catholic Church had previously disclosed, the Midwestern US state's top prosecutor revealed on Wednesday (Dec 19).
Illinois Attorney-General Lisa Madigan said the Church's revelations that 185 clergy members were credibly accused of sexual abuse fell short of the number her office has uncovered.
The preliminary results of an investigation that began in August found more than 500 additional priests and clergy members with sexual abuse allegations in the Midwestern state's six dioceses - a total of at least 685 accused.
In a scathing statement, the attorney-general's office criticised the Church's handling of the abuse allegations, saying investigations were lacking, and in many cases, law enforcement and child welfare authorities were not notified.
"The preliminary stages of this investigation have already demonstrated that the Catholic Church cannot police itself," Ms Madigan said.
She added that the Church had failed to provide "a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in Illinois".
The Archdiocese of Chicago, the largest of the Illinois dioceses, countered Madigan's report by insisting that all abuse claims are investigated and reported to the authorities.
"Since 2006, we have published the names of diocesan priests with substantiated allegations of abuse, and in 2014, we released more than 20,000 documents from these priests' files," the archdiocese said in a statement.
But Ms Madigan's office said allegations of abuse have often not been adequately investigated, if they are scrutinised at all. Among the reasons for the lack of action were that the accused was dead or had already resigned.
"This report is both shocking and exactly what we expected," Mr Zach Hiner, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), told AFP.
"We've known for a long time that church officials have been ignoring and minimising allegations of abuse, and this report is just yet another proof point that it is a systemic issue, not a highly localised one."
Since the state investigation opened, the dioceses have added another 45 clergy members to their official lists of those credibly accused of committing child sexual abuse, according to Ms Madigan's office.
The attorney-general anticipated additional names will be disclosed as her investigation continues.
"Allegations of sexual abuse of minors, even if they stem from conduct that occurred many years ago, cannot be treated as internal personnel matters," Ms Madigan said.
The Catholic Church has been hit by a series of child abuse scandals in recent years, with widespread allegations of cover ups. And public pressure has been mounting on its institutions.
This month, authorities of the Jesuit order overseeing at least 40 US states released the names of more than 240 members who have been credibly accused of abuse - including dozens of priests with multiple allegations.
Jesuits are the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church, with some 16,000 members worldwide who do not fall directly under the Church's hierarchy.
They operate 30 colleges and 81 schools in the United States and Canada. | 2019-04-23T07:58:20 | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/sex-abuse-claims-brought-against-700-catholic-clergy-in-illinois |
0.999992 | Landelijke politici kwamen dit weekend naar Amsterdam om mee te helpen met de campagne. Je mag ervan uitgaan dat er goed is nagedacht over de buurten die ze hebben bezocht: campagneleiders zullen zorgvuldig hebben gekeken naar de politieke, demografische en sociaal-economische kaart van Amsterdam. Welke keuzes hebben ze gemaakt en wat zegt dat over hun strategie?
Eerst wat achtergrond: kiezers van de PvdA en de SP wonen vaak in buurten waar de opkomst laag is. Voor deze partijen is het een logische strategie om te zorgen dat veel mensen in die buurten gaan stemmen. Hoog opgeleide, liberaal geöriënteerde kiezers gaan vaak al stemmen. Partijen die deze groep bedienen hebben dus minder te winnen bij opkomstbevordering en zullen op een andere manier moeten proberen stemmen te winnen.
De PvdA stuurde zowel Diederik Samsom als Lodewijk Asscher naar het Osdorpplein in de buurt Osdorp-Oost. Bij de raadsverkiezing in 2010 was dit een buurt waar redelijk veel PvdA werd gestemd, al haalde de partij nog betere scores in buurten als de Bijlmer en de Kolenkit.
Jeanine Hennis bezocht het Museumkwartier: de één na duurste buurt van Amsterdam (naar woningwaarde), met een overwegend blanke bevolking en veel expats. Daarnaast stond de Noordermarkt op het programma. Officieel ligt deze buurt in de Jordaan maar hij grenst aan de Grachtengordel-West, een buurt met een vergelijkbaar profiel als het Museumkwartier.
In het Museumkwartier en de Grachtengordel-West stemden in 2010 veel mensen op VVD en D66. Dat Hennis naar deze buurten werd gestuurd geeft wel een hint wie de VVD-strategen als hun belangrijkste concurrent zien.
Kamerlid Jesse Klaver kwam in februari naar de Oosterparkbuurt. In 2010 was dat één van de buurten waar GroenLinks de beste resultaten haalde.
D66 heeft zich niet zoveel aangetrokken van de gegevens op buurtniveau en stuurde Alexander Pechtold vorige week naar het exclusieve Hyperion Lyceum aan het Tolhuisplein in Amsterdam-Noord. Dit adres ligt in de buurt Buiksloterham. Sociaal-economisch scoort deze niet zo hoog en voor wat betreft de verkiezingsuitslagen heeft O+S deze buurt gemakshalve samengevoegd met Volewijck.
Op basis van de cijfers op buurtniveau is Buiksloterham niet echt een buurt waar je Pechtold zou verwachten. Maar het is een langgerekte buurt en daarbinnen vormt Overhoeks, waar het Hyperion ligt, een nieuwbouwgebied dat sterk in opkomst is. Het is een handige lokatiekeuze om je te profileren als hip en pro-onderwijs, al komt het bezoek aan het lyceum misschien wat elitair over.
Komende woensdag komt een bus met (landelijke?) D66-politici naar stations. De lokatie is nog niet bekend, maar een voor de hand liggende gok is dat ze een station bezoeken waar je hoog opgeleide forenzen tegenkomt. Zeg Amsterdam Zuid.
Mona Chalabi of the Guardian has collected data on car and bicycle sales and concludes that bicycle sales not only outnumber car sales, but that the gap has widened. The title of the article suggests the recession might play a role, but this article by Fabian Küster of the European Cyclists’ Federation - who uses the same sources - suggests it’s «an idle hope to believe that as soon as Europe’s economy recovers, car sales will go up again to pre-crisis levels».
If you look at car sales per 1,000 population, it turns out the Slovenians are Europe’s most enthusiastic bicycle buyers (that’s assuming the bicycle sale data for Slovenia are correct - this article quotes a lower number but gives no source). If you look at the bicycle sales to car sales ratio the picture changes considerably - likely because fewer cars are sold in poorer countries.
During a very rainy ride in Scotland, my Garmin altimeter appeared to be off: on some of the steepest climbs it failed to register any gradient. Afterwards, I tried the «elevation correction» feature on the Garmin website, which generously added over 750m to the total ascent the device had measured. This was certainly more satisfying, but it left me wondering. Can the weather affect the Garmin altimeter? And how accurate is the recalculated ascent?
If you want to boost your ego, let Garmin recalculate your ascent: chances are it will add (quite) a few metres. Strava’s recalculations tend to stay closer to the original measurement. When it does make changes, it frequently lowers the number of metres you’re supposed to have climbed, especially on relatively flat rides.
In theory, you’d expect weather changes to affect the ascent measured by the device, because the altimeter is basically a barometer. In practice, weather changes don’t seem to have much effect on the altimeter.
It appears plausible that heavy rain does in fact mess with the altimeter.
In the graphs below, the colour of the dots represents the region of the ride. Red dots represent the Ronde Hoep, a flat ride to the south of Amsterdam. Blue ones represent the Kopje van Bloemendaal (north, south), the closest thing to a climb near Amsterdam (it’s not high but quite steep). Green dots represent the central area of the country and include the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Veluwezoom, Rijk van Nijmegen and Kreis Kleve (the latter in Germany).
By default, the graph above shows how much the Garmin recalculation differs from the ascent measured by the device (graphs may not show in older versions of Internet Explorer). The closer a dot is to the dashed line, the the closer the recalculated ascent is to the original measurement.
For rides shown on the left part of the graph, where the device measured less than 500m ascent, Garmin’s recalculation often adds about 50 to 100% or more. With higher ascents, the recalculated ascent is closer to the original measurement, although it still tends to add about 30 to 50%. The highest dot to the far right of the graph is the rainy ride in Scotland; here Garmin’s recalculation added over 35%.
With the selector above the graph, you can select the Strava recalculation. You’ll notice the scale on the y axis changes (and the dashed line moves up). Also, a few red dots enter the graph. These are rides along the Ronde Hoep, which is a flat ride. For these rides, Garmin’s recalculation added up to 750% to the ascent measured by the device; therefore these dots were initially outside the graph area.
The Strava recalculations are similar to the Garmin ones in that the correction is larger for relatively flat rides. Unlike Garmin, Strava lowers the ascent in these cases, often by 15 to 50%. For rides where the device measured a total ascent of over 500m, the Strava recalculation tends to be pretty close to the original measurement.
It has been suggested that changes in the weather may affect elevation measurements. This makes sense, since the Garmin altimeter is in fact a barometer. Wikipedia says that pressure decreases by about 1.2 kPa for every 100 metres in ascent. In other words, if net atmospheric pressure would rise by 6 mBar, this would cause the device to underestimate total ascent by about 50 metres, so the theoretical effect wouldn’t seem to be huge.
The graph above shows how much recalculations differed from the original measurement, with change in pressure on the x axis. Note that the effect of recalculations is here in metres, not percent. I tried different combinations of pressure measures and recalculations and in only one case - the Garmin recalculation shown above - the correlation was statistically significant (and the regression line much steeper than the Wikipedia data would suggest), so this is not exactly firm evidence for an effect of weather change on elevation measurement.
It has been suggested that heavy rain may block the sensor hole and thus affect elevation measurement. This may sound a bit weird, but I have seen the device stop registering any ascent during very heavy rain. Among the rides considered here, there are two that saw really heavy rainfall (the Scottish ride and a ride in Utrechtse Heuvelrug on 27 July). These do show some of the largest corrections, especially in the Strava recalculation. So it does seem plausible that rain does in fact affect elevation measurement.
In the spirit of true pseudoscientific enquiry, I tried to replicate the effect of heavy rain by squirting water from my bidon onto the device during a ride in Utrechtse Heuvelrug. This didn’t yield straightforward results. At first, the device registered implausibly steep gradients and it turned out it had interpreted the hump between Maarn and Doorn as 115m high, more than twice its real height. About halfway, unpredicted rain started to fall, mocking my experiment. Strava recalculation didn’t change much to the total ascent but it did correct the height of the bit between Maarn and Doorn, so it must have added some 50+ metres elsewhere. Be it as it may, the «experiment» does seem to confirm that water can do things to the altimeter.
I took total ascent data measured by my Garmin Edge 800 and obtained a recalculation from the Garmin Connect and Strava websites. Subsequently, I looked up weather data from Weather Underground (as an armchair activist I do appreciate their slightly subversive name). Weather Underground offers historical weather data by location, with numerous observations per day. I wrote a Python script that looks up the data for the day and location of the ride and then selects the observations that roughly overlap with the duration of the ride. There turned out to be two limitations to the data. First, it appears that only data at the national level are available (the Scottish ride yielded data for London and all Dutch ones data for Amsterdam). Second, for the day / location combinations I tried there was no time-specific data for precipitation available, only for the entire day.
Because of these limitations, I also took an alternative approach, looking up data from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI. This did yield more fine-grained data, although obviously limited to the Netherlands. In the end it turned out that it didn’t make much difference for the analysis whether KNMI or Weather Underground data is used. Code from the scripts I used for looking up weather data is here.
I tested quite a few correlations so a couple of ‘false positives’ may be expected. I didn’t statistically correct for this. Instead, I took a rather pragmatic approach: I’m cautious when there’s simply a significant correlation between two phenomena but I’m more confident when there’s a pattern to the correlations (e.g., Garmin and Strava recalculations are correlated in a similar way to another variable).
[Updated 6 December 2013] - On 29 November last year, 200 workers in fast food restaurants in New York went on strike to demand decent wages. What seemed exceptional at the time, has only grown since, culminating in a national day of fast food strikes in over 100 cities last week.
Their demands are justified, the NYT noted: “we’re talking about big, profitable companies, which are big and profitable in part because they rely on underpaid labour”. You can support these workers by telling fast food chains like McDonald’s and Burger King that low pay is not ok.
Data on strikes was collected from various sources and may be incomplete. I used d3.js to draw the map and setTimeout to time the transitions. For some reason I couldn’t get this to work with a for-loop without the latest transition terminating the previous ones or all transitions using the last value of i, so I hard coded each step of the iteration. | 2019-04-23T00:32:20 | https://dirkmjk.nl/en/tags/d3js?page=8 |
0.998119 | Why has autonomy been a leading idea in philosophical writing on bioethics, and why has trust been marginal? In this important book, Onora O'Neill suggests that the conceptions of individual autonomy so widely relied on in bioethics are philosophically and ethically inadequate, and that they undermine rather than support relations of trust. She shows how Kant's non-individualistic view of autonomy provides a stronger basis for an approach to medicine, science and biotechnology, and does not marginalize untrustworthiness, while also explaining why trustworthy individuals and institutions are often undeservingly mistrusted. Her arguments are illustrated with issues raised by practices such as the use of genetic information by the police or insurers, research using human tissues, uses of new reproductive technologies, and media practices for reporting on medicine, science and technology. Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics will appeal to a wide range of readers in ethics, bioethics and related disciplines.
Gaining autonomy and losing trust?
42 Human rights as a basic framework?
76 How much information is needed for informed consent?
82 Individual autonomy cut down to size?
Onora O'Neill is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and has written widely on ethics and political philosophy. | 2019-04-21T10:07:42 | https://books.google.co.il/books?id=eTv_kW6GoBcC&hl=iw&source=gbs_citations_module_r&cad=3 |
0.999953 | An excerpt from the following article. The Swiss are doing amazing things!!!!!!
"In late 2011, the Swiss government's report on homeopathic medicine represents the most comprehensive evaluation of homeopathic medicine ever written by a government and was just published in book form in English.....his breakthrough report affirmed that homeopathic treatment is both effective and cost-effective and that homeopathic treatment should be reimbursed by Switzerland's national health insurance program." | 2019-04-24T16:16:01 | https://www.ndraymond.com/you-might-like-to-know/archives/02-2012 |
0.999999 | How to bind volume up/volume down to a macro key?
Hi, On my old keyboard the software allowed you to easily set your macro keys for volume up/volume down. The keyboard I have now is a Corsair K30, instead of the software giving you the volume up... In some cases, volume problems are attributed to your recipient's microphone. If his microphone's volume isn't adjusted well, you won't hear well even if you increase your sound output.
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For example, someone on the phone speaking at a normal level 25' away, or very low game volume are being picked up. Is there a way to turn down the input volume so that the mic doesn't pick up … how to turn on engines in fsx In some cases, volume problems are attributed to your recipient's microphone. If his microphone's volume isn't adjusted well, you won't hear well even if you increase your sound output.
In some cases, volume problems are attributed to your recipient's microphone. If his microphone's volume isn't adjusted well, you won't hear well even if you increase your sound output. | 2019-04-22T06:49:36 | http://pkblog.com/australian-capital-territory/how-to-turn-mic-volume-up.php |
0.999006 | Could your users benefit from SQL Server business intelligence? SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces valuable self-service BI tools that may be worth a look for the midmarket.
Organizations maintain databases mainly because they expect to obtain business intelligence (BI) data from them. But in some cases, obtaining this business intelligence -- the vital information about your organization that can be used to achieve goals -- is like pulling teeth. However, for those organizations using Microsoft SQL Server and willing to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2, this is about to change with self-service BI.
Currently, a big problem with BI is that it doesn't focus on the end user. The purpose of a database is to allow users to extract and analyze data trends and patterns, but it doesn't tend to work out that way. Users must rely on developers and database administrators to extract data or take the time to learn the ins and outs and become database experts on their own. Because of this, BI is often a hit-or-miss affair.
That's why it makes sense to turn data extraction into a self-service. SQL Server 2008 R2 includes powerful self-service business intelligence tools. These tools allow your end users to get what they need from your data while keeping IT administrators in control of it, ensuring security.
How does it all work? Microsoft relies on familiar tools such as Microsoft Excel and Office SharePoint Server to provide this new type of self-service BI. Excel allows users to extract data -- an extraction that can be quite efficient even against very large databases, thanks to SQL Server 2008 R2's new StreamInsight data-streaming service -- and SharePoint lets them expose the results to collaborators, usually in the form of easy-to-understand reports. The entire process can be tracked and reviewed by IT administrators, keeping the data under organizational management.
Master data hub: The new SQL Server master data hub creates a central portal that can provide end users with a single point of entry for access to all master data. Because all master data is located in one hub, IT administrators can also track it at all times. A special stewardship portal displays all master data configurations with members and hierarchies. This allows your data administrators to validate the quality of the data through standardized model development, review and management.
PowerPivot for Excel: End users can now use Microsoft Excel to perform their own data extractions. This self-service BI solution gives users the ability to blend data from various internal and external sources to create more powerful insights into business events and trends. By giving users access to the data they need, when they need it, vital business decisions are better made and supported.
PowerPivot for SharePoint: End users are now able to publish extracted data to SharePoint in one simple step, allowing them to share and collaborate with colleagues. Report Builder 3.0 generates reports that display the information in an easily consumable format. Because the data is published in SharePoint, your IT administrators can both version it for consistency and ensure that only authorized personnel can access it.
These tools allow your end users to get what they need from the data while keeping IT administrators in control of it, ensuring security.
These three new features make it easier for your end users to access and work with stored data. Your IT administrators will also benefit -- as they discover who needs access to which data, they will gain a better understanding of data flows within your organization.
Of course, you must migrate to SQL Server 2008 R2 to gain access to these key features, but it's much simpler than you may think: You only need to update your database engine and related services, and you don't necessarily need to update the databases they contain. In other words, you can either update all your servers to SQL Server 2008 R2 or install new SQL Server 2008 R2 machines and move existing databases to the new engine.
Once you're running the new engine, you can implement a better self-service end-user data extraction and manipulation process. This will also help when it comes time to upgrade your databases, because you will gain more insight into which data elements users need most. You can also discover in which order your databases need to be upgraded, and go for the critical databases first. Now that's business intelligence.
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0.999435 | What is the consensus on rain tires? What's everyone think?
in heavy rain we would run Hoosier mudders, but our budget won't be that large to afford 2 sets of rain tires so we plan on the Toyo's after our current set of AO32 Yoko's wear out.
Has anyone used BFG's as rains. Everyone I know uses Hoosiers or Toyo's. I was wondering how the BFG's hold up compared to the others.
I found out the BFG's are 1-2 years old, but have supposedly been properly stored. The price is right,but I wanted to see if anyone has used these as rains on an IT7. I am also concerned about the age of the tires. I heard that rains are only good for a year.
I've driven the BFG's in the rain. Albeit at a Driver's School. They hooked up fine, They were used when I got them, but had lots of depth, compared to others I've acquired. It was raining hard enough i could barely see 10 car length's in front of me. Followed an ITS RX-7 around until he lost it. Runnin in the rain was great! IT7, BFG R1's 205/60/13.
As far as only being good for a year? I doubt it. Our GT-1 car had rains that were probably 5 years old, didnt look pretty but they worked. As long as you take care of them, you'll be ok. | 2019-04-25T13:55:42 | https://improvedtouring.com/archive/index.php/t-15384.html?s=2c0899d077a38623a4784dd73139244b |
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0.999454 | The Archangels Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, and Mikael were said to be endowed with a portion of Gods power.
Dragão de San Miguel. Portugal.
The pan-European tradition of St. Michael traces back to the time of the pagan conversion to Christianity...The association with pre-Christian relics and monuments suggests that before this time, the character of 'St. Michael' existed in a different form, and was connected to events in the solar calendar.
It is said in the Bible that the name Michael (Mi-ka-el), originated when Lucifer (the fallen angel), compared himself with God, another angel stood before him and shouted "Who is like God?", which in Hebrew translates as 'Mi-ka-el', after which he became known as Michael.
In the 'Apocalypse' by the apostle John, it was written that a dragon with seven crowned heads and horns, and a tail that swept aside the stars, threatened the virgin Mary and her newly born child. St. Michael and his angels fought the serpent from Satan and destroyed it. (2) Apep, the Seven-Headed Dragon of Egypt has been identified with Tiamat, the Great Dragon of Sumeria, slain by Marduk. This primordial goddess is also the prototype of the biblical monster Leviathan.
In France, it is said that St. Michael fought the devil (Satan, Lucifer) on Mont Dol in Brittany - which is part of an alignment with Mont St. Michel and d'Avranches. In England, tradition places the battle on Dragon Hill.
The spring festival of St. Michael is on the 8th May.
Mont. St. Michel (Brittany/Normandy Border) - Mont St. Michel is an island granite outcrop, which was known as Mont Tombe until the first Monastic settlement in 708 AD, built following the appearance of St. Michael to the bishop of Avranches.
The main church at Mont. St. Michel is orientated at 26° north of true east (The same as at Notre Dame). This orientation can be extended in both directions to form an alignment with Mont Dol to the south-west, and Avranches to the north-east. Mont Dol is the place where St. Michel is said to have fought Lucifer.
On the 8th of May (the spring festival of St. Michel), the sun rises over Avranches towards Mont St. Michel, then Dol-de-Breton.
Article: Der Spiegel. Feb. 9th. 2011.
Mont St. Michel World Heritage Status Under Threat.
'The French island abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel is at risk of losing its World Heritage Status because of plans to build wind turbines that could blight the spectacular view. Campaigners are up in arms, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to turn France into a world leader in wind power'.
This is probably the most famous ley-line in the world. It runs across England from the tip of Cornwall to the Eastern tip of Norfolk on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, passing through the prehistoric sites of The Hurlers, Glastonbury Tor (St. Michaels church), Avebury, Waulads Bank and numerous other significant sites either named after St. Michael or St. George, both dragon slaying saints.
The line follows the path of the sun on the 8th of May (The spring festival of St. Michel) on an azimuth of around 242° (28° north of east). This day was celebrated in past times as 'Beltane', the beginning of summer, and a cross-quarter day, marking the midpoint in the Sun's progress between the spring equinox and summer solstice.
Both Glastonbury Tor and "The Mump" at Burrowbridge some ten miles to the south-west appear to have been artificially shaped so that their axis align with each other, with an orientation, 27° north of east. The biggest divergence from this orientation lies in the first/last section from The Hurlers Stone circle to St Michael's Mount, which is much closer to 238° (32° north of east).
It is therefore appropriate that the St. Michael''s ley has been called a 'corridor of incidence' rather than a 'ley-line' as some of the locations along the alignment are not exactly aligned. Hamish Miller suggested that the line was actually two lines, one entwining the other, he called the second line the St. Mary's line due to the number of sites dedicated to her.
In addition to the more famous prehistoric landmarks of Glastonbury and Avebury, the St. Michael's ley passes over several significant hilltop shrines dedicated to St. Michael. These include the larger than life conical 'Barrow mump' (Burrow's mump, Burrowbridge mump), ten miles to the west of Glastonbury, St. Michael's Church at Clifton Hampden, and on Brent Tor, all of which have ruinous St. Michael's churches on their summits.
Orion and the St. Michael's Ley, England.
It is noticeable that the Hurlers triple circle were oriented towards Orion when they were built, they are also roughly orientated along the axis of the St. Michaels Ley. Curiously enough, another prehistoric site that sits on the St Michael's Ley also has a relationship to Orion; The Dorchester 'Big-rings' are the remains of a Henge (and Cursus) with similar dimensions as the Stonehenge bank and ditches (366 MY Circumference). In Yorkshire, the Thornborough Henges were built with double the circumference to the Big Rings and were orientated towards Orion.
Some of the Better Known Locations along the St. Michael's Leyline.
St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England.
The Hurlers triple Stone Circle.
St. Michael's Church, Glastonbury Tor. (Aligned with the St. Michael's Ley).
The pilgrims path leads north-east away from Glastonbury in the direction of Avebury/Silbury.
A significant Neolithic barrow dated to 3,000+ B.C. The barrow is aligned approximately to the orientation of the St. Michael alignment with a north-eastern entrance pointing to Avebury. The remains of a 'sacred' pathway (The Beckhampton Way) leads into Avebury from the south-west.
Silbury Hill. The largest man-made prehistoric structure in Europe.
Avebury (The Largest Stone Circle in the world) is visible from Silbury Hill. The two can be viewed as components of a 'ceremonial' landscape which also include The Sanctuary and West-Kennet.
The Big Ring Henge was part of a cluster of Neolithic sites located in the area. It had twin circle of ditches with the outer having a maximum diameter of just under 200 metres. There were two entrances broadly in the northwest and southeast, Sadly this site has now completely disappeared under a lake after gravel extraction in the area.
This large Henge lies beside several natural springs at the source of the River Lea, and sits alongside the Iknield Way. It is a Neolithic D shaped enclosure consisting of a bank and external ditch of around 7 hectares with a turf reveted chalk & gravel bank (derived from the ditch material). The ditch is 9.2 m wide and 2.1m deep.
In the late 1950's Jean Richer publicized the existence of a main axis of sacred sites in Greece through Delphi, Athens, Delos, Camiros, Prasaias [Apollo's Temple], the Temple of Artemis at Agra, Eleusis and other sites. The line links not only Temples and sanctuaries of the god Apollo but also sites earlier dedicated to the goddess Artemis / Diana. His brother Lucien followed this up in 1977 in an article entitled 'The Saint Michael and Apollo axis' in which he extended his brother's line north-west where it passes through the holy island of Skellig Michael on the south-western coast of Ireland, after crossing several of the most important sites in Europe dedicated to St. Michael, the archangel.
One legend recalls how Abaris, a druidic British priest of Apollo, travelled on the god's golden arrow from the British Isles to Greece to visit Pythagoras. ( Pythagoras is also said to have lived for a time on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land another site on this line).
Another legend describes the return of Apollo from the land of The Hyperboreans to Delphi in a chariot drawn by swans.
It can be seen from the map above that the European St. Michael's ley (Running across Europe from Skellig Michael in Ireland to Mt. Carmel in Israel), crosses paths with two other St. Michael's alignments: The St. Michael's ley in England and the Mont St. Michel alignment in France (see below).
The larger St. Michael's alignment that crosses Europe from Mont Carmel in Israel to Skellig Michael in Ireland, crosses two other St. Michael's alignments, both orientated at roughly the same angle (26° -28°), mirroring the larger alignment (along a north/south axis). It has already been noted that the St. Michael's ley in England does not follow an exact azimuth across the country, but meanders on occasion to include naturally high outcrops, a deviation of one or two degrees is to be expected, and this is exactly what we find here (perhaps better termed an 'Axis of Coincidence').
Both the French and the English leylines have clear signs of prehistoric activity along its path (such as the Hurlers, Glastonbury, Avebury, Waulad's Bank, Dol-de-Breton), and also ancient traditions of celebrating with fires on beacon-hills on may-day (St. Michael's day), all of which reinforce the idea of a 'functional' and operative alignment with prehistoric roots. Both alignments also include numerous churches and pilgrimage points dedicated to St. Michael (Apollo), that were 'reinforced' throughout the middle-ages by the church. One suspects that an ancient tradition has been passed on either knowingly or unsuspectingly during the Pagan/Christian conversion of Europe.
The smaller French alignment is orientated along the same azimuth as the English St. Michael's leyline.
The French alignment passes from Mont Dol (Where St. Michael is said to have fought the Devil), though Mont St. Michel to Avranches (The Diocese of the Bishop who envisioned St. Michael on Mont St. Michel). Both the alignment and the monastery he built are oriented on an azimuth of 26° north-east, the same as the axis of the Champs Elysee (Elysian Fields), in Paris.
Skellig Michael, Ireland. - (from Sceilig Mhichíl in the Irish language, meaning Michael's rock), After being founded in the 7th century, for 600 years the island was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. The monastery comprises six intact clochans, two oratories, 31 early grave slabs, a monolithic cross and the 13th century church of St Michael.
Sadly, and Ironically, the newly gained status from UNESCO is now in danger of being retracted through the over enthusiastic 'restorations' of the abbey.
The Fabrication of History: Skellig Michael, Ireland.
St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, England. - (50° 7' 6" N, 5° 28' 39" W) Centre of the English St. Michael's Axis.
St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall was once named Dinsul, meaning Castle or citadel of the Sun. St. Michael's Mount still retains its Cornish name of 'Karrek Loos y'n Koos', meaning the 'Grey rock in the Woods' (a remarkable memory of more than 3,800 years, since the forest surrounding it has been submerged since at least 1,850 BC).
Legend says that a mythical giant named Cormoran once lived on the Mount, and he used to wade ashore and steal cows and sheep from the villagers to feed his gargantuan appetite. One night, a local boy called Jack rowed out to the island and dug a deep pit while the giant was asleep. As the sun rose, Jack blew a horn to wake the angry giant who staggered down from the summit and – blinded by the sunlight – fell into the pit and died.
St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall, England with its strong similarity to Mont St. Michel, France.
Before the construction of the first monastic establishment in the 8th century, the island was called "Monte Tombe". According to legend, the Archangel Michael appeared to St. Aubert, bishop of Avranches, in AD708 and instructed him to build a church on the rocky islet. Aubert repeatedly ignored the angel's instruction, until Michael burned a hole in the bishop's skull with his finger.
Other Significant St. Michael's Locations.
The St. Michael theme is also found in Portugal. The spectacularly located 'Anta do Tapadão' as well as having a superb 360 view, is located right beside a natural rock formation which has the clear appearance of a Dragon's head (right).
The 'Tumulus of St. michael' is one of the seven great Tumulii of Carnac. (known as Mané Lud, Ker Lud, Er Grah,, Mené Er Hroeuk, Tumiac, Le Moustier, and the Tumulus of St. Michel).
1). Alain Dag' Naud. Les Secrets Du Mont Saint-Michel. 1992. Editions Jean-Paul Gisserot.
3). Julian Cope. The Megalithic European. 2004. Element Books.
4). J. Michell; R. Heath. The lost science of Measuring the Earth. 2006. Adventures Unlimited. (Note: Previously called - The Measure of Albion).
5). The New View over Atlantis. 1983. Thames and Hudson. | 2019-04-20T06:56:30 | http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/stmichael.htm |
0.999821 | Golden West College or GWC, is a community college providing two-year associate of arts degrees, and lower-division classes transferable to other colleges and universities. GWC is located in Huntington Beach, California, about 35 miles (58km) south of Los Angeles, California. It is about five miles from the famous beach where the surfing occurs. It is 30 minutes from Disneyland, and from two hours to a half day from the mountains and ski regions of Southern California.
The mission of Golden West College is to support students' goals and interests in higher education, develop their employment skills, prepare them to be productive citizens, and respond to community needs by providing a range and variety of educational programs; two year degrees; transfer preparation; career and technical training, and remedial activities. We encourage all members of our learning communities to grow to their maximum potential as they contribute to the well-being of our diverse society.
Question and Answer about "Golden West College" | 2019-04-23T02:15:01 | http://www.careers.org/education/colleges/115126?city=huntington-beach&name=golden-west-college&state_or_country_name=california |
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0.998922 | Where did my chocolate layer go wrong?
The chocolate layer part of the recipe was very vague: "Once cool and set ice with combined melted chocolate and cream.".To do that I melted the chocolate in a clean pan over a very low heat and then stirred in the cream (100g cream to 150g chocolate).Admittedly the chocolate tried to solidify again when I put the cold cream in but after some patient stirring it was just about all melted when I poured it over the slice.I hid the last few lumps of chocolate with extra flakes of it on the top.
Usually when you buy from bakery etc the chocolate is almost completely solid.I used dairy milk chocolate as I don't like dark chocolate.
So following on from this, does anyone have a good recipe that doesn't have coconut in the base?
to make chocolate ganache generally i bring the cream to the boil first and then take off heat and put the chocolate (still solid) in and stir until chocolate has melted into the hot cream. If it doesn't melt completely then i put over a bain marie to finish off.
Generally when mixing chocolate and cream as icing (ganache) you would heat the cream and add the unmelted chocolate to the cream - so long as you don't overheat this usually works. However, for chocolate caramel slice I use 150g of chocolate and about 15g of butter, melted together - it doesn't set completely firm but will set and not dribble. Can't help you with the coconut-free base, though, I love the coconut!
I make ganache both ways: melting the chocolate first then adding cream makes it thicker and has more volume, but cream first then melting chocolate in it is thinner but simply divine to eat.
I wonder if the cocoa content on your chocolate was too low. I wouldnt touch cadburys with a barge pole, I use whittakers even for baking, and the 50 or 70% cocoa is fine.
Agree with you on the cocoa norse_westie. I wrote to Cadbury and complained, never even got a reply!! Won't waste my money on their products!!
So following on from this, does anyone have a good recipe that doesn't have coconut in the base!
Agree with you on the cocoa norse_westie. I wrote to Cadbury and complained, never even got a reply! Won't waste my money on their products! | 2019-04-20T22:36:02 | https://stackofrecipes.com/topic/11719/where-did-my-chocolate-layer-go-wrong |
0.999969 | I wrote something yesterday where I was talking about the intimacy of an unheard, only imagined piece of music. What did I mean by intimate? I meant that the imagined music is a present companion to thoughts and experiences, it is an unheard guide to the shaping of experience. Looking at reflections of light on water, I am surrounded by the memory of Ravel, and the memories around those thoughts. Which of these is the experience I'm having now? My senses are gently instructed in the viewing of that light by the emanating record of the sound-memory/ memory-sound.
I also enjoy, but that's different, yes, from looking out the window with my iPod playing. But I've heard the Ravel Jeau d'eaux. I've mangled my fingers through the score at the piano a couple of times. In those ways, I already know the piece - although each listening is in counterpoint with the time and place.
But what I was talking about mostly yesterday was a piece of music I had never heard, may never hear, have only been informed about by second hand. I'd like to hear Symphony of Sirens, composed for the factories, shipyards, artillery and sirens of the port of Baku in 1922. When I go out for walkies with my dogs in the early morning light, I can hear the sound of trains moving along different lines in each direction, crossing through Pittsburgh. I imagine what it would be like to shape those sounds, to create a symphony that generates this same response. Distance, time, persepctive. I've never heard the piece - I think there's a reconstruction recording available and I imagine with some excellent sampling and a big enough performance space you could put together something impressive enough. But Symphony of Sirens exists only in my imagination, only in the quiet time between dog sniffs and pooh where I can feel the sinews of my body reconstruct the quotidien traffic sounds into a musical structure of breath, body, environment, idea, memory, anticipation. | 2019-04-21T19:10:02 | https://www.zenglop.net/zenglop/symphony-of-sirens/ |
0.999999 | Why can't the Hubble Telescope observe from earth as opposed to space as most other telescopes do?
The reason for the Hubble Space telescope being in space is that from the Earth the telescopes have to look through the atmosphere. The atmosphere absorbs several kinds of light outside of the visible spectrum, which is why many space telescope missions must be done from space rather than on the ground. For Hubble, this is because of their desire to have capabilities of observing in the UV. Hubble also observes in visible light which can be done from the ground; however, turbulence in the upper atmosphere leads to images being somewhat distorted (you could compare it to look at stuff through ripply water). In space there is no atmosphere so you can get much more detail in the images without distorting effects. However it is difficult and very expensive to run telescopes in space, and ground telescopes can also be larger so they have some advantages too. There have been many recent advancements in correcting for atmospheric distortion effects in ground based observatories known as adaptive optics. | 2019-04-21T16:43:43 | http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/observational-astronomy/telescopes/121-observational-astronomy/telescopes/general-questions/754-why-is-the-hubble-space-telescope-in-space-beginner |
0.999714 | SAN DIEGO -- Mexican President Vicente Fox recently raised eyebrows north of the border when he said that Mexicans ought to be grateful for their heritage and asked them to imagine what life would be like had they been born in -- gasp -- the United States.
Well, for one thing, they'd have a much shorter commute to work.
No doubt about it. Fox has the gift of gaffe. He compared a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border to ``the Berlin Wall,'' boasted that Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are ``doing jobs that not even blacks want to do,'' called border enforcement measures ``disgraceful and shameful,'' and characterized the Minuteman Project as a bunch of ``migrant-hunting'' vigilantes.
OK, so maybe he got that last one right. But you get the point.
At first, Fox's rugged spirit seemed a refreshing change from the stuffed shirts of the corrupt Institutional Revolutionary Party, which controlled the presidency for 71 years before it was ousted by Fox's National Action Party in 2000. Fox also praised Mexican immigrants in the United States as ``heroes'' for their contributions to the Mexican economy -- more than $20 billion in remittances sent to Mexico this year alone.
Then the cowboy became an aristocrat. Suddenly, he was arrogant, meddlesome and boorish. These are serious times in the relationship between the United States and Mexico, and you'd like to think that the president of Mexico -- a country of 110 million people -- would be a serious fellow with serious thoughts.
If that's the case, and at this point I have my doubts, you wouldn't know it from Fox's comments suggesting Mexicans are lucky to have been born in Mexico rather than the United States.
The first thing that hits you is the absolute ridiculousness of the statement. Imagine a leader saying something like that in a country where, according to one recent survey, as much as 40 percent of the population would migrate to the U.S. if they could. Who's Fox kidding? In that scenario, the lucky ones are those with enough money to pay smugglers to buy passage to the United States, where workers can make more in a day than they make in a month back home.
Not that Mexico is a total bust. It works fine for some of its people. Perhaps Fox should have tacked on a qualifier, something to clarify that only some Mexicans are lucky. The wealthy, well-educated, politically connected, fair-skinned English-speaking Mexicans are the lucky ones. As they sit in their country clubs sipping fine tequila, they speak adoringly of Mexico and all that it has provided them.
It's the others -- the poor, uneducated, dark-skinned members of the working class -- who have to flee to the United States to feed their families. Those are the only Mexicans that most Americans will ever see, waiting tables and trimming hedges and waiting on street corners for day-labor jobs -- hired, perhaps, by some of the same people who decry illegal immigration.
Many Americans look down on that brand of Mexican, and they probably never think about the fact that, across the border, there's another kind of Mexican -- educated, refined and privileged -- who actually looks down on Americans. After all, the only Americans many of them will ever know are the rude tourists who come down to Cancun or Mazatlan and drink themselves sick, walk into restaurants with their shirts off, and demand that waiters speak to them in English.
These Mexican elites are the constituency Fox was addressing with his brutish remarks, and that's why the incident has largely been treated as a non-story south of the border. As far as the Mexican upper crust is concerned, Fox was just stating an indisputable fact.
The way they see it, why would anyone want to be born in the United States when they could be born in Mexico?
I don't get it. But, I guess, as a Mexican-American, I'm not supposed to. My loyalty lies with this country -- the United States -- where you're not locked into whatever station you're born into and where, despite the nonsense that populist doomsayers peddle to the struggling middle class, there's unlimited opportunity to better oneself.
That sure beats the modus operandi in the country that my Mexican grandfather called home as a boy until his family, for economic reasons, had no choice but to emigrate to America -- legally.
I'm grateful for his ordeal. It allowed me to be born in the United States, and, you know, one doesn't get any luckier than that. | 2019-04-23T20:11:03 | https://townhall.com/columnists/rubennavarrettejr/2006/11/08/mexicos-fox-has-it-backwards-n842581 |
0.999999 | The government is investigating whether any laws were broken in the disclosure that Barack Obama's aunt was living in the country illegally.
Obama's half-aunt, who is from Kenya, was ordered to leave the United States years ago after an immigration judge denied her request for asylum, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss the case.
The woman, Zeituni Onyango, is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama's late father.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked its inspector general and the Office of Professional Responsibility on Saturday to investigate whether any policies were violated when information about Onyango's case was publicly disclosed, ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said.
The Homeland Security Department, which oversees ICE, cannot disclose details about an individual's immigration status.
Information about Onyango's case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one a federal law enforcement official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release, just five days before the presidential election.
Obama's campaign strategist David Axelrod said people are suspicious about stories that surface so close to an election.
Obama said Saturday he did not know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.
The campaign said it was returning $260 that Onyango had contributed in small increments to Obama's presidential bid over several months. Federal election law prohibits foreigners from making political donations. Onyango listed her employer as the Boston Housing Authority and last gave $5 on Sept. 19.
Onyango, 56, is part of Obama's large paternal family, with many related to him by blood whom he never knew growing up. Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., left the future presidential nominee when the boy was 2, and they reunited only once - for a monthlong visit when Obama was 10. The elder Obama lived most of his life in Kenya, where he fathered seven other children with three other wives. He died in a car crash in 1982.
Obama was raised for the most part by his mother and her parents in Hawaii. He first met his father's side of the family when he traveled to Africa 20 years ago. He referred to Onyango as "Auntie Zeituni" when describing the trip in his memoir, saying she was "a proud woman."
Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, noncriminal violation of immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the U.S.
The AP has not been able to reach Onyango for comment. | 2019-04-20T04:48:35 | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-probe-leak-about-obamas-aunt/ |
0.999999 | What are the pros and cons of open pot vs. tube type vs. flat bottom fryers?
There are three main types of fry pot styles: Open-pot, tube-type and flat-bottom. The primary difference between the fryer pots is the use of a "sediment zone." The sediment zone (also referred to as the "cold zone") is located at the bottom of a fryer, where bits of food that break off during the cooking cycle collect. Oil temperatures are lower in the sediment zone to prevent food particles from overcooking and tainting the oil's flavor.
Open-Pot Fryers have an open, unobstructed frying area and deep, narrow sediment zones, while utilizing an external heat source. This design allows for easy cleaning, and is best for lightly breaded foods such as french fries, mozzarella sticks, chicken wings, etc.
Tube-Type Fryers have wider sediment zones with a system of tubes, and are most suitable for heavy frying. They're more difficult to clean than Open-Pot Fryers, but do provide easy access to the heat source.
Flat-Bottom Fryers are a subcategory of Open-Pot Fryers, but have no sediment zone. They are best suited for dough, as well as specialty foods like tortilla chips and tempura. Since they lack a sediment zone, they aren't ideal for high volume cooking, and can be more difficult to clean.
It really depends on what you intend to fry. Flat bottom fryers are better for loose breaded products (you make the breading); whereas a tube fryer is better for premade breaded products. | 2019-04-26T08:10:21 | https://www.kinnek.com/research/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-open-pot-vs-tube-type-vs-flat-bottom-fry/ |
0.999986 | Who is going to be saddled with the care of this dysfunctional person when the grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, etc. die? Will the State, in their infinite governmental wisdom, find a 14th cousin to dump the person on?
I do believe that person needs to be placed in a group home staffed by professional, caring people. Yes, we taxpayers will have to support such places.
I was able to read the article.
In summary, this is a mother of a high school student who has severe outbursts at home, but is able to function acceptably well in school and is physically normal looking, even attractive. Socially inept. She appears to have the capacity to go to college and earn a living income, although the mom wonders whether she will choose to do that.
The mom is willing to pay for her college.
The mom's question is, can she dump her now.
The answer is, no, she can't. She can dump her when she's 18 if she chooses to.
This is not likely to be a woman who will need round the clock care, or expensive nursing staff or supervision.
She's a misery to be around at home and has stressed the family to the breaking point with tantrums that can last hours, and is refusing to take prescribed antipsychotics.
I didn't find it vague at all. The mother feels like she is being held hostage by her daughter, who has autism, learning disability and a severe mood disorder. She can mostly function throughout the day but lets it all go and rages while at home in the evenings with hourslong tantrums that have led neighbors to call the police multiple times.
Even when the daughter becomes of age, the state where she lives requires that she will always be a ward of her parents and so her mom feels hopeless about her own future after 20 years of dealing with this.
It's an advice column, not an article. The mom was asking the columnist if it would really be that bad if she just disappeared one day and left her daughter to fend for herself.
So she's ok during the day but goes nuts at night...How about a nice tranquilizer.
I didn't know the state can force you to be a guardian of an adult. If that's the case seems like a disappearing parent would be a fugitive.
My friend has such a child and she seems to get worse behaved as she gets older. It is exhausting as they are older but when they get too old, sick or pass away she will have to be under state care. Until then they will always be doing this job of parenting of a mentally challenged adult child.
Edit - ok if mom wants to dump her, she can wait until she's an adult and do it legally. She doesn't sound that bad actually if she can function so well. Interesting she can hold it together until she gets with mom. It sounds like those guys who are good at work all day then come home and take it out on their wives and beat them.
she said she refuses to take her medication.
And i also find it strange that she is required to look after her after she is an adult. Seems like she is like a lot of other people raging and running around all on their own.
Hopefully genetic testing in utero will mitigate this problem, as it has for many other disorders.
I didn't read the article but got the gist of the situation by the comments.
The parent is not fit to be a caretaker to this child. If an in-home caretaker doesn't do the trick by controlling the outbursts then, yes, I think this young woman should be in a more controlled environment with professionals who can care for her appropriately.
And does this family have other children in the household? If yes, how is any of this fair to them?
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The question isn't "Can she dump her now?" The person refers to the state law about having to take care of said child for the rest of her life. She also mentioned they're underfunded for their retirement and can't continue to support the child for the rest of their lives. She's concerned about being a rotten parent for not wanting to take the lifelong task.
I feel for this parent and understand her pain and frustration. Such a daunting situation.
Yes, there's a mention of a sibling "who has suffered greatly".
By the time one finds out that their child is destined to be a burden on them for the rest of their lives, it's way too late to be thinking about contraception. | 2019-04-26T00:21:43 | http://www.city-data.com/forum/parenting/3027338-dilemma-child-wrecking-family-2.html |
0.999786 | MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Opponents outnumbered white nationalists Saturday in peaceful "White Lives Matter" rallies in Tennessee that were punctuated by taunts and chants from both sides.
In Shelbyville, the site of the first rally, some 200 white nationalists — met by nearly twice as many counter protesters — carried a Confederate flag and chanted for closed borders and deportations at a mid-morning gathering.
As Brian Culpepper of the National Socialist Movement took the microphone to speak, counter protesters played Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech over their own speaker system, largely drowning out Culpepper's words.
At one point, counter protesters' shouts of "Black Lives Matter" were met by white nationalist chants of "blood and soil."
The two sides, however, were kept well apart as law enforcement officers funneled them onto sidewalks on opposite sides of a four-lane road.
The protesters showed up here and in Shelbyville, 25 miles south, despite comments by Gov. Bill Haslam that "these folks" were not welcome in the state. The rallies had raised fears in the community of a repeat of the Charlottesville, Va., rally in August that turned deadly.
In Murfreesboro, a town of 130,000 people, wary business owners had boarded up windows downtown and residents held a prayer vigil Friday night near the rally site.
On Saturday afternoon, about 600 people — but only around 30 white nationalists — lined Church Street, one of the city's busiest corridors, as counter protesters chanted "refugees are welcome here" and "this is what democracy looks like."
When the formal rally kicked off, the demonstration largely fizzled as the outnumbered white nationalists faced counter protesters across a downtown square with only a 15-foot gap between them.
After exchanging taunts, with counter protesters chanting "Nazis go home" and "shame," most of the crowd dispersed within a half hour.
Organizers of the rallies had said they aimed at protesting refugee resettlement and immigration to Middle Tennessee, specifically noting the presence of Somali and Sudanese people in the region.
In Shelbyville, police Lt. Brian Crews said one man was arrested for disorderly conduct and exhibiting "threatening behavior." While Crews would not identify the man, it was clear that the arrest was made on the white nationalist side of the demonstration, although it was not certain if he was participating with that group.
Members of the League of the South, the white nationalist group that helped organize the "White Lives Matter" rally, carried a sign calling "southern cultural genocide." Michael Hill, president of the league, said "Hail Dixie" and "Hail victory!" over the loudspeakers.
The crowd of mostly men in Shelbyville at mid-morning included some carrying shields or covering their faces with masks or bandanas. Before marching toward the security checkpoint, an organizer asked the group to put their weapons back in the car.
Thor Henderson, a grand officer in Georgia for the International Keystone Knights, a Ku Klux Klan group, said he was marching to bring awareness to the September shooting at a Nashville church.
One woman was killed and seven others were injured in the shooting at the Antioch church last month. The suspect, Emanuel Kidega Samson, is a legal U.S. resident from Sudan.
"We've been here marching for the white peoples' rights," said Henderson. "Making a stand and bringing awareness to what's going on ... and maybe we can wake up the general public and just open their eyes."
Some 300 counter protesters were also on hand early, heading to a separate staging location designated by police.
“We can't let hate go unchecked in the nation,” said Longlois. The 23-year-old said refugee populations need to know they are supported.
Gov. Haslam said state and local law enforcement officials would be out "in full force" for both rallies.
"We want to send a really clear message that these folks are not welcome in Tennessee," the governor told reporters Friday in Gatlinburg. "If you’re part of the white supremacist movement you’re not somebody that we want in Tennessee."
In addition to demonstrators from the League of the South and the Traditionalist Worker Party, affiliate groups including the National Socialist Movement and Vanguard America, all collectively known as the Nationalist Front, were expected to attend. All are classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as white nationalist and white supremacist groups.
The counter protesters include the loosely organized anti-Fascist group commonly known as Antifa, local faith leaders, interfaith and community organizers as well as other anti-racist organizations.
Officials have said they expect counter protesters to outnumber rally attendees by as much as four times.
The clashes in Charlottesville, Va., in August left a 32-year-old woman dead after a speeding car driven by a white nationalist rally goer slammed into a throng of counter demonstrators. Nineteen people were injured. | 2019-04-26T15:05:37 | https://www.caller.com/story/news/2017/10/28/2-tennessee-towns-brace-white-nationalist-rallies-counter-protests/809645001/ |
0.999995 | Why can't the current configuration go on forever? Consider China, currently at $250B a year (12% of Chinese GDP) with foreign exchange reserves of $1T (50% of Chinese GDP). In a decade, at the current pace, foreign exchange reserves of $4.5T (110% of future Chinese GDP). Losses on foreign exchange reserve portfolio: to buy dollars at $1=8RMB and then to sell them at $1=4RMB is expensive.
I really don't like one-equation economics.
One-equation economics assumes that certain economic quantities are fixed in stone, examines one equation--usually an accounting identity--and concludes that somebody else's preferred policies will be ineffective and counterproductive. It does so by ignoring the fact that one of the aims or effects of the somebody else's policies will be to change the values of the economic quantities that are--by assumption and only by assumption--claimed to be fixed in stone.
We Are All in It Together - WSJ.com: [I]t would be useful if we stopped pretending or alleging that China's exchange-rate policies are the root cause of our trade deficit.
If our savings rate is stubbornly stuck below our investment rate, and if China does allow its currency to revalue over time, then we will simply run a deficit with another collection of countries, and from a domestic point of view, nothing much will have changed. Except that we won't have this subject to discuss with China anymore.
"If our savings rate is stubbornly stuck below our investment rate." If. If. If. As Michael Mussa likes to say in these circumstances: if my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bus.
If China's central bank ceases buying its $200 billion a year of dollar denominated assets, and if nothing shocks the behavior of other central bank or collection of private foreigners, two things will happen: (1) the value of the value of the dollar will fall, and (2) U.S. interest rates will rise. The fall in the value of the dollar will boost U.S. exports and diminish U.S. imports, and the trade deficit will shrink. And--as long as the Federal Reserve is successful in avoiding recession--the rise in interest rates will reduce investment inside the United States and also lower asset values, which will make homeowners and investors feel poorer and increase their savings. It will thus reduce the gap between savings and investment, and so diminish the capital inflow.
Only if investment is stubbornly unresponsive to changes in the price of hiring capital and if savings is stubbornly unresponsive to housing and financial market wealth will Spence's "if" be true. But does Spence argue that investment is unresponsive? Does he argue that savings are unresponsive? Does he argue that there will be some other shock to the economy--that, for example, the Federal Reserve will fail to maintain full employment and thus that savings will fall because of recessions? No. He says "if." And he only says "if."
Now Mike Spence might argue that the Wall Street Journal does not give him much space, and that even if the Wall Street Journal gave him more space his readers would not give him more time. He might argue that he has to compress and simplify his argument: make it "clearer than truth." He might say that he is not a philosopher discoursing to fellow philosophers walking outside in the sunlight, but rather addressing the ignorant chained in the underground cave, and that it is his job to cast shadows on the wall that will lead those chained underground to support the policies they would support if they could understand the issues, if they were philosophers strolling in the sunlight.
And, Spence might say, it is his job to use whatever means are necessary to keep his readers from supporting destructive policies. He has to cast a shadow on the wall of the cave to get them thinking that tariffs and quotas on imports from China are not a way to reduce America's trade deficit and boost overall fand manufacturing employment.
Point taken: whatever effects (and there would be some) tariffs and quotas on imports from China would have on the level and distribution of employment in the U.S. would be accompanied by much more destructive blowback consequences. Tariffs and and quotas on imports from China are not a good idea. Getting China to boost consumption and domestic absorption would be a good idea. Closing the U.S. budget deficit would be a good idea. Boosting U.S. private savings would be a good idea. But doing none of those and doing tariffs and quotas instead? Not a good idea.
However, lowering the level of the debate by asserting that the Chinese government's purchase of $200 billion a year of dollar-denominated bonds doesn't affect the U.S. trade balance--that is not a good idea either. Those of us who walk outside in the sunlight and see reality as it is have a moral responsibility to bring others out of the cave: to raise the level of the debate, rather than to focus on casting handshadows that ultimately cannot but mislead.
Greg Mankiw's Blog: Spence on the Trade Deficit: Economist Michael Spence (erstwhile Harvard prof) has a nice piece on the U.S. trade deficit and the Chinese exchange rate in today's Wall Street Journal. His bottom line:it would be useful if we stopped pretending or alleging that China's exchange-rate policies are the root cause of our trade deficit. If our savings rate is stubbornly stuck below our investment rate, and if China does allow its currency to revalue over time, then we will simply run a deficit with another collection of countries, and from a domestic point of view, nothing much will have changed. Except that we won't have this subject to discuss with China anymore.
The linkage among saving, investment, and the trade deficit is a topic that will feature prominently in ec 10 this spring.
We understand why we import crude oil--ExxonMobil's rigs can pump more oil at other places on the earth than they could here. We understand why we import autos--as a former owner of a Chevy Citation and a Ford Taurus, I understand that especially well. There are lots of goods that people in other countries can make more productively than we can here in America--can make with fewer workers and less capital. But why do we import goods like apparel, where U.S. producers are the most productive in the world?
Micro examples: I'm a d---ed good xeroxer.
Responsibility to people in other countries?
How important is the division of labor beyond the United States? | 2019-04-19T05:30:46 | https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_spring_2006/2007/01/index.html |
0.999998 | Lord Campbell of Alloway: My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I should like to ask one question. Does the noble Lord accept that the question put by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer--as I understand it, the question was this: does the noble Lord agree that it is for this House to invite the committee to conduct its investigation into our affairs?--could, if the answer is "yes", be a contempt of this House: to investigate without our consent?
Lord Neill of Bladen: My Lords, I do not want to equivocate on the matter of language. The word that I like is the word in the Motion of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer, and in the letter from the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, that this House "welcomes" the inquiry. I do not think that we should be in the position of being invited to do it because I believe we are an independent committee.
Lord Neill of Bladen: My Lords, noble Lords express surprise. They could not have been following the drift of my earlier argument because I stressed that part of the letter of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Nolan, in which he informed the noble Viscount, Lord Cranborne, that an inquiry was going to be conducted. It was not saying, "May we have leave to do so?" I think that it would be a completely false position for the committee, of which I currently have the honour to be chairman, to seek the permission of, or to request an invitation from, the proposing body.
accept that it is not for the noble Baroness the Leader of the House or for the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, as Leader of the Opposition; it is for the House as a whole to resolve the position?
Baroness Goudie: My Lords, I welcome the decision of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Neill, to hold an inquiry into the rules of conduct and disciplinary procedures. I have been most disappointed by the reactions of some of the Members of this House. Regarding the idea that this is a government plot, let me remind the House that the original terms of reference were set down by the right honourable John Major, Prime Minister in 1994, and covered Members of both Houses. The only reason the original Nolan committee did not look at this House was that the Committee of the Upper House, under the noble and learned Lord, Lord Griffiths, was already looking at the issue. The Nolan, now the Neill, committee has shown its value, in particular on the difficult issue of party political funding. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill is to be dealt with by this House in Committee tomorrow and will give transparency to party political funding. The majority of the Bill is based on the report of the Nolan committee of 1995.
Let us remind ourselves of the seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership. The Neill committee is the correct body to look at this House. The role of this House has changed. The majority of us are here by choice and have outside interests. None of us has anything to fear from transparency. I have submitted my views to the Committee. I believe that the register of Members' interests should be compulsory and should include income and all hospitality and gifts over £140, and should specify if one is a chair or president of a voluntary body.
Bench colleagues will be submitting in the near future a detailed response to the noble Lord's consultative paper.
None the less, I very much agree with the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Rees-Mogg, and my noble friend Lord Cranborne that it really would have been much better for this inquiry to have been conducted by a committee of the House rather than a wholly external body appointed for the purpose by the Prime Minister, although of course I recognise the independence of the body, which the noble Lord, Lord Neill, emphasised.
The noble Lord has said on several occasions that his committee is a purely advisory one and that it is open to the House to accept, modify or reject any proposals that he may make. But the plain fact is that, once the committee reports, given the eminence of its members and the high respect which it rightly enjoys, the House will find it difficult to do other than for the most part go along with the recommendations, whatever they may be. The noble Lord, Lord Neill, has been at pains to emphasise that his colleagues have as yet reached no conclusions on the answers to the various questions posed in the consultative paper. But I do have to say to the noble Lord that the fact that he has chosen to pose some questions at least, to which the answer to anyone with the slightest knowledge of your Lordships' House is perfectly obvious, had led some to fear that the noble Lord and his colleagues may have already formed some preliminary views on those matters. I, of course, accept that that is not so, but others who know the noble Lord less well may take a different view.
I want at this point to make it absolutely clear that I have the highest possible regard for the noble Lord, Lord Neill, himself. I would go further. I have reason to be personally most grateful to the noble Lord for assistance that he gave me on a past occasion. It is therefore with great personal regret that I find myself not wholly at one with the noble Lord on this matter. But our differences are ones of mechanics, not principle.
It was, of course, well known that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Nolan, had intended to conduct a further study into the affairs of your Lordships' House. He made this clear at the time when the noble and learned Lord, Lord Griffiths, began his work five years ago. The noble and learned Lord felt that other matters were more pressing in the interim and it has therefore fallen to the noble Lord, Lord Neill, toward the end of his term of office, to conduct this inquiry. When the noble Lord leaves his post later this year, as I gather he intends to do, there will still be some tasks undone. For example, it would seem that the noble Lord will not have time in his term of office to inquire into the affairs of the Members of the European Parliament, nor for that matter the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh Assembly.
decided to complete the work begun by the noble and learned lord, Lord Nolan. I am slightly surprised that he did so, but so be it. That is entirely a matter for him. I am not aware of any noble Lord with anything to hide and I hope that many noble Lords will submit their views to the committee.
It is entirely necessary, as the noble Lord, Lord Neill, well recognises, for him to come to his task from a completely apolitical standpoint and for his committee to be completely above reproach in that regard. There are, however, two points which I feel obliged to make. First, I must refer to the passage in his consultative paper which raises questions about the interests of Opposition spokesmen in your Lordships' House. The noble Lord has explained that these questions were inserted following one letter from a Labour Member of Parliament. I wonder how wise it was to include questions instigated by just one government Back-Bencher. The noble Lord has said that he anticipates that the evidence on this matter will be "all in one direction". I daresay it will.
My second point relates to composition of the committee. The noble Lord, Lord Neill, is a distinguished Cross-Bencher; the noble Lord, Lord Shore, is a distinguished member of the Labour Party; the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, is a distinguished member of the Liberal Democrat Front Bench in your Lordships' House. But the other bodies in your Lordships' House are singularly absent. I refer not only to the Conservative Party, which is the largest single group: the noble and learned Lords are not represented; nor are the right reverend Prelates, the Bishops. Of course, I recognise that my right honourable friend John MacGregor is a member of the committee, and a very distinguished man he is too, but he is not a Member of your Lordships' House. Is it too late to ask the noble Lord, Lord Neill, to look again at the membership of his committee in this regard? He will no doubt say that this is a matter for the Prime Minister, as indeed it is. | 2019-04-22T17:07:42 | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/vo000510/text/00510-12.htm |
0.99862 | The first top 10 list I'm doing is "My Top 10 Free Web Resources for Teachers." These are resources that I use quite often and I truly believe that they help me be a better educator. They are in no specific order of preference. Click on the links for more information about each one and it's use in education.
1.Evernote - Evernote is one of those services and apps that I can't live without any more. I use it for organizing my lesson plans, notes, web clippings, and so much more.
2.Twitter- Twitter is an excellent resource for educators. I useTweetdeckto access Twitter on my computers and Twee on my Palm Pre+. I get to connect with educators from around the world and share, learn, collaborate, and teach with them. If Twitter is blocked at your school (like at mine), you can useTwitter Gadget in iGoogle or Tweetdeckand still access your Twitter account.Twitter in Education.
3.Blogger- Blogger is a great, free, easy tool that you use to create blogs. I use Blogger for this blog, but I also use it to set up class blogs for each of the classes I teach. These blogs allow me to have a resource for my students that is easy to create and update. I have links and resources on them, and then update them with their assignments, due date reminders, helpful links and resources, and much more. My students all subscribe to their class blog and get an email whenever I post something.
4.Google Sites- Besides the class blogs listed above, I also maintain awebsitefor my students and colleagues. I use the site, which is very easy to create and update in Sites, as a place to put up more static items like the class policies and procedures, class description, and I also post files that they can download. I use it for my students and I also post resources for educators on it.
5.Discovery Education- Discovery Education is a great resource for educators. They have a huge amount of resources for educators, many free, in addition to their fee-based offerings. TheDiscovery Educator Networkis community of educators who use Discovery Education resources and is another great resource.
6.Google Chrome browser- Google's Chrome browser is a fast, secure, stable web browser that I love using. It works great with all of Google's services that I use (like Blogger, Calendar etc.) and has some great extensions, like "Clip to Evernote", that make my workday easier.
7.Dropbox- Dropbox is a file sync and storage system that allows you to keep files in sync across multiple computers and backed up on their servers. There is a free account available and ways to increase your free storage. You can even select which directories and files to sync on which computers. I keep a large number of directories on my home computer in sync and backed up. At school, for security and ease of access, I sync a select set of directories to my school network drive. It has a limited amount of space, so I just sync the files I use the most. Dropbox is a great resource and can help keep your files safe in the event of a computer crash. You can also access your files from any web browser and mobile device.
8.Google Calendar- While I use Evernote (see above) to organize my lesson plans, I use Google Calendar to organize the rest of my life. I have appointments, due dates, meetings, school calendar days, and more all in my Google Calendar. It syncs with my Palm Pre+ through Palm's Synergy system so I have access to it anywhere. I can have it send me reminders via email or text message, can attach documents to events, add notes, and even share events or my calendar with others. It is a great way to stay organized and great for teachers.
9.Aviary- Aviary offers a suite of graphics tools, online, for free. These include screen capture and editing, photo editing, and much more. They even have an educational section to provide a safe and secure environment for students. I use it for taking screen shots and modifying them to use in this blog, as well as with my students.
10.My Personal Learning Network- while not a web resource or app per se, my PLN is a huge source of information, resources, advice, and comeraderie. Every teacher needs a PLN.
The second top 10 list I'm doing is "My Top 10 Free Web Resources for Students." These are resources that I believe can they students in their education. They are in no specific order of preference. Click on the links for more information about each one and it's use in education.
1. Evernote - take notes, collect web clippings, share notes with classmates, get organized.
2. Trackclass - is a great, free resource for students. The site allows students to track their classes and assignments, and even will send reminders (email or SMS) for upcoming assignment due dates and test dates. There is also a note taking utility so students can take notes on it if they have a computer in school.
3.Dweeber - is a homework collaboration site that also has tools to help students learn better. It is described as a homework social network. Students sign up, for free, and can add their friends, known as "dweebs" to their network. Students can work on homework together and help each other out. It even as a virtual whiteboard so that they can work together just as if they were in the same room.
4. Drobox - is a service that allows you to sync your files on your computer with their system as a backup. This also allows you to access the files anywhere. You can also sync the files across multiple computers. No need for USB drives anymore.
5. Cybraryman - Cybraryman has a great web site with tons of resources, sorted into different categories. The student section is excellent.
6. Digital Literacy - Our students live in a digital world and need digital literacy and how to be safe online.
Google is an excellent resource for students. They can create and collaborate on projects using Docs, stay organized with Calendar and Tasks and iGoogle, save their Bookmarks, create a blog or website, upload and share photos, create e-portfolios, do research, and so much more.
8. OpenOffice and OpenOffice for Kids - OpenOffice is a free office suite that is a great alternative to Microsoft Office (and free!). LibreOffice is a new version that is being released by the same group that started OpenOffice. OpenOffice for Kids is a scaled down version targeted at kids, ages 7-12.
9. Smartphone Experts - More and more students use smartphone's these days. Smartphone Experts is a group of websites dedicated to smartphones. There are different sites for each smartphones, from Android to iPhone to Blackberry to HP/Palm webOS. They offer tips, reviews, app news, and much more, helping people to make the most of their smartphones. Since our students have these pocket computers, why not give them a resource to help them use them more effectively.
Share your favorite student resources with us. | 2019-04-24T05:55:47 | https://www.techlearning.com/tl-advisor-blog/577 |
0.998682 | This article is about the former independent micronation. For the confederation it has been a part of since August 2014, see Confederation of Leylandiistan & Gurvata.
The Democratic Republic of Leylandiistan was the original state of the area of the Confederation of Leylandiistan and Gurvata known as Leylandiistan. It was originally divided into two Autonomous Republics: Robinscourt and the Cubbyhole, however following Robinscourt's secession the Cubbyhole became the sole constituent of the republic. The Democratic Republic became one of the two constituents of the Confederation of Leylandiistan and Gurvata following its signature of the Treaty of Union between Leylandiistan and Gurvata. The capital was located at Maple Hill until July 2014, and then at Orchardstown, while the legislature was the National Assembly of Leylandiistan.
Leylandiistan was named after the Leyland Cypress (often referred to as simply leylandii), a plant found widely in the Cubbyhole. The -stan suffix is used frequently by various states. It was also the national plant of Leylandiistan.
The area on which Orchardstown, Cubbyhole A.R. is situated was first discovered by Fionnbarra Ó Cathail in April 2009. In March 2012 the area surrounding the Cubbyhole seceded from Ireland. The president was Fionnbarra Ó Cathail, and the vice president and defence minister was Tomás Ó Murchú. The Melandic Republic was the name of the nation, and it had it's own currency, the Melandic Krona. Only four banknotes were printed. Around May, the Melandic Army attempted to invade a neighbouring micronation. While the invasion was successful, it proved to be an unpopular move. Together with economic stagnation, it was only a matter of time before the Republic collapsed. The government lost interest in running the country, and at the end of June, the country was disbanded, and the territory was handed back to Ireland.
Leylandiistan's first flag, used from 25 October to 10 November 2012.
Five months later, the idea for a new independent nation was conceived by Fionnbarra Ó Cathail and Ruairí de Créag. The Democratic Republic of Leylandiistan declared independence on 3 November 2012, thus seceding from the Irish Republic, and the first rulers were Co-Consuls Ruairí de Créag and Fionnbarra Ó Cathail. The Declaration of Independence was read a few days later, in a completely peaceful process.
The First Cabinet meeting took place in Maple Hill on 15 November; those in attendance were the two Consuls, Ruairí de Créag and Fionnbarra Ó Cathail. At the meeting, Leylandiistan's flag was changed to its current format, while the political structure of the country was devised. Cabinet meetings continued to be held by the Co-Consuls throughout their term.
On 22 November 2012, the Leylandiistan Government officially recognised the UN Human Rights Charter, and on 25 November, the first business enterprise in Leylandiistan was established. It was called LeylandiiCell and it ran parts of the state telecommunications network until it went dormant after the selling of its shares. When LeylandiiCell's dormancy persisted following the reassignment of duties within the company, the company was officially disbanded and its assets distributed among its members at the company's AGM in early 2014.
On 21 February 2013, Co-Consul de Créag set out a document entitled "Agreement as to government powers". This document detailed terms of a coalition between Co-Consul de Créag and Co-Consul Ó Cathail. He then established the Central Democratic Party, and as party leader he signed the document on 22 February at 19:00 GMT. Ursula O'Sullivan became the second member and Deputy Leader of the Central Democratic Party soon afterwards, and Ó Cathail set up his own party, SALDAL.
On 26 March 2013, the Leylandiistan Sentinel published a controversial article as its headline piece on its third issue. It detailed claims that the CDP's website was almost identical to its rival SALDAL's website, which was published two weeks earlier. The article said there were "calls for an inquiry into why they happen to be so similar". The article claimed that de Créag said that the particular design "proved to be the most attractive design for the website" in a published statement. It also featured comments from Fionnbarra Ó Cathail, who was also author of the article, where he said it was an embarrassing blunder for the CDP, and one sure to be mentioned coming up to the election.
Party leader Co-Consul de Créag then released an official statement on the matter on the party's website on 29 March. He criticised SALDAL leader Fionnbarra Ó Cathail for using his position as editor of the Sentinel to "weaken the image of the CDP". He also said that the Sentinel's claims of him releasing a statement on the matter were false, and that the similarities between both websites were simply there because most parties follow a typical format for website design.
The Co-Consuls decided to end their power sharing agreement after a democratic election. After an election date was set for mid-August 2013, the campaign began. In the election, nine candidates ran. The winner became the president, the runner up became the vice-president, and the next five took up secretarial positions within the National Assembly. The nation went to the polls between the 7th and the 12th of August 2013. In the election, all parties won seats in the National Assembly. Fionnbarra Ó Cathail, leader of SALDAL, was elected President, and Ruairí de Créag was elected Vice-President. Five candidates were elected to the National Assembly of Leylandiistan. The inauguration took place on Monday, 19 August 2013, in Maple Hill, Robinscourt.
Initially, the National Assembly was stagnant. Only two Acts were passed between August 2013 and February 2014. After realising the problems that existed in Leylandiistan, the Executive Council wrote a draft constitution, and in March 2014, this was adopted after being sanctioned by a referendum. Major changes took place within Leylandiistan, including a restructuring of the legislative and judicial branches, as well as granting semi-autonomy to all Leylandiistani territories. The autonomous republics, as they were known, had "regional councils" as legislatures, which nominated one of its members to represent it in the National Assembly. This meant that after March 2014, there were only two National Assembly members, the President and the Vice-President.
Logo of the Electoral Commission of Leylandiistan.
Things began to spiral downhill after the constitutional referendum. After a cabinet meeting announced the results of the referendum, contact between the two autonomous republics decreased, and the implementation of the constitution took longer in Robinscourt than in Cubbyhole. In April, the Vice President declared a government hiatus. Although President Ó Cathail was concerned at the length of the hiatus, he went along with de Créag's plans, and so the government suspended activity for the duration of the school exam period. President Ó Cathail was eager to return to work in the government after the exams, and began drafting several items of legislation throughout June. De Créag returned from the United States in early July, but the government did not meet for another ten days.
At the first meeting of the new National Assembly on 17 July, President Ó Cathail opened the meeting and presented the legislation he had drafted, and the Assembly approved the Saint Josephsburg Economic Pact. Ó Cathail later told Béal na Tíre that de Créag seemed "uninterested" in the meeting. Ó Cathail raised his concern at the commitment of de Créag, the inactivity in Robinscourt A.R. and the departments run by de Créag. A "heated discussion" followed, but the conclusion that the Assembly came to shocked many. Leylandiistan was to split in two, with Cubbyhole remaining as Leylandiistan, while de Créag would lead an independent Robinscourt known as the Maple Federation.
The micronational community was surprised by the division of the state. President Ó Cathail spoke to Béal na Tíre, the Clyran Micronational and the Mancunian media on the issue, and a sense of calm returned to Leylandiistan soon after it was clarified that Leylandiistan would continue on its current path, with or without Robinscourt as a constituent. Two weeks after the division, the Maple Federation ceased to exist, and Robinscourt became part of Ireland. While the country seemed determined to continue on its current trajectory, Leylandiistan was nonetheless weakened without Robinscourt.
On 30 August 2014, Pádraig Ó Ceocháin of a nearby micronation known as the Republic of Gurvata met with Fionnbarra Ó Cathail at Orchardstown to begin negotiating terms for a merger of the two states. The result, after hours of discussion, was the Treaty of Union between Leylandiistan and Gurvata. The treaty made Leylandiistan one of the two constituents of the Confederation of Leylandiistan and Gurvata, which is still commonly known as Leylandiistan.
Apart from merging with Gurvata and disbanding the National Assembly, little else in Leylandiistan really changed, exactly as both parties had intended. The Confederation is to this day a widely respected nation in the micronational community, as the Democratic Republic also was. The Treaty of Union brought a permanent end to government inactivity and legislative deadlock in Leylandiistan, and gave Leylandiistan extra citizens, while the Treaty gave Gurvata international attention it had never had before. The signature of the treaty by both parties at 18:25 GMT that day marked the end of almost two years of Leylandiistan existing as a Democratic Republic.
Proposed political system of Leylandiistan, 2012.
Between November 2012 and August 2013, the Democratic Republic of Leylandiistan was run by two co-consuls, Ruairí de Créag and Fionnbarra Ó Cathail. This was the first government in office since Leylandiistan's independence. It was a diarchy, and it made all the decisions of government. Both co-consuls were also the pro-consuls, or governors, of each territory, Robinscourt and Cubbyhole. Early on in the country's formation in 2012, a political system loosely based on that of ancient Rome was devised. It was divided into three branches; the legislative, the executive and the judicial. The legislative branch, or Senate (later called the National Assembly) consisted of 10 senators, five from each territory, and would have been chaired by a Praetor. A co-consul would have been elected by each territory, and both co-consuls would have acted as heads of state. The judicial branch consisted of a supreme court, based in the capital, Maple Hill, Robinscourt Territory; a high court based in the Cubbyhole Territory, and a district court in each territory. Each court would have been presided over by a praetor. Due to a lack of citizens, only the executive branch of this system was ever implemented, and by the time the population began to increase in January 2013, a simpler form of government began to be pursued.
After February 2013, political parties were established. Fionnbarra Ó Cathail's SALDAL later became Conradh Daonlathais, while Ruairí de Créag once led the Centralist Democratic Party of Leylandiistan (CDP). They agreed to end the diarchy after the 2013 Leylandiistan General Elections. Though elections were initially scheduled for 1 June 2013, they were continuously postponed. On 31 July, the date was scheduled for 7 August. On 4 August, both CDP and SALDAL released election statements, and circulated email messages to Leylandiistani citizens. Voting lasted three days, and concluded on 10 August. There was one ballot paper nationwide, with nine candidates. The winner was elected president, the runner up vice president, and the next five most popular were elected to the National Assembly of Leylandiistan. Fionnbarra Ó Cathail was elected President, and Ruairí de Créag was elected Vice-President. Their inauguration was held in Maple Hill on 19 August. Between the election in August 2013 and the constitutional referendum of February 2014, the National Assembly passed two acts, approved the GUM Charter and was consulted on the government's stance on some diplomatic conflicts.
The Flag of Leylandiistan flying in the Cubbyhole Autonomous Republic.
The Executive Council was informally established following the election. Consisting of both executive branch members, the President and Vice President, it met about every fortnight in the capital, Maple Hill, or in Orchardstown. It had little power compared to the National Assembly. However, it became a legally recognised body in November 2013 when the National Assembly passed legislation giving the executive and legislative branches more powers. It could "set up small extra-governmental bodies" and "recommend legislation based on the outcomes of its meetings". "Extra-governmental bodies" established by the Executive Council included the Postal Service, National Aerobics Society, and a health centre which provided basic medical care in Maple Hill, though these projects soon fell into dormancy. The President chaired Executive Council meetings, and could suspend the Council if he wished until both members of the Council agreed to re-establish it. The Executive Council also drafted the new Constitution of Leylandiistan, and organised the referendum which approved it.
After the constitutional referendum of February 2014, Leylandiistan started edging towards direct democracy. In Leylandiistan, the vision of direct democracy enshrined in the constitution was applied through citizen-run regional councils in each Autonomous Republic. Every citizen sat on their local Regional Council. The Regional Council then elected one of its members to represent the Autonomous Republic in the National Assembly. All regional and national legislation was reviewed by each Regional Council. The Regional Council could pass its own laws which would only have effect in the area it controlled. The Executive Council's functions did not change, but it was renamed to "the executive branch". While politicians could align with political groupings, in the National Assembly their political grouping was irrelevant. One of the fundamental theories of Leylandiistan's new political system was that politicians should work together for the betterment of the country, rather than squabble among each other over their political affiliations.
After the Division of Leylandiistan, normal government functions were impossible under the Constitution, which did not allow for a Leylandiistan with just one constituent territory. President Ó Cathail remained head of state while he attempted to resolve the deadlock. He continued his duties as Foreign Secretary as normal, and continued representing Leylandiistan at the Grand Unified Micronational. However, there were little other duties he could perform, and it was not long before negotiations for a merger with the neighbouring Republic of Gurvata began. The Democratic Republic of Leylandiistan's political history came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Union on 30 August 2014.
Leylandiistan is located in County Cork, Ireland, which has a cold, wet, sometimes snowy climate in the autumn and winter, and occasional warm periods in the spring and summer. Despite the occasional snowfall, there has not been any heavy snow in Leylandiistan since late 2011. However, there was light snow in the winter of 2013, when the snow reached 2 cm at its deepest. Leylandiistan's first winter saw 6 to 7 cm of snow.
Leylandiistan's geology is similar to that of neighbouring County Cork; the rock is either Limestone or Old Red Sandstone, most likely the latter. Originally, Leylandiistan's territory was 400 metres squared, but this has since dropped to 100 metres squared. Before the division of Leylandiistan, the capital was in Maple Hill, Robinscourt, but this has since moved to the Cubbyhole's Orchardstown.
Throughout its history, Leylandiistan experienced very little industrialisation. For the first year or so of its existence, foreign affairs and internal administration were seen as more important than developing the economy. Three weeks after Leylandiistan declared independence, LeylandiiCell Telecom was established. Throughout its lifetime it achieved very little. On one occasion, 3% of its shares, which at the time totalled €1, were sold to a private bidder, later named as Ruairí de Créag. It was disbanded at its first AGM in early 2014. Similar attempts at establishing companies also did not succeed, as was the case with the Postal Service, which posted four letters in total in its lifetime.
LeylandiiCola was the first enterprise which produced products for the domestic market. In mid-2013 it produced five litres of cola, though its production was limited to the summer season. There were numerous schemes planned for producing an array of goods. At one stage, all the equipment needed to produce hydrogen gas for the domestic economy had been acquired, but concerns over the safety of the project led to its cancellation by Cubbyhole Regional Council. In spring 2014, land was prepared for growing food in Orchardstown. Over the course of the summer more and more plots were set aside, and food production increased. By the end of the year, the plots had produced carrots, lettuce, rocket, herbs (fresh and dried), lemon balm and mint. The orchards produced many kilograms of apples, as well as nine bottles of cider. By that stage, however, Leylandiistan had become part of Leylandiistan & Gurvata, and thus is not remembered for economic success.
In January 2013, efforts were made to introduce a new currency, the Leylandiistan Lira. Banknotes were designed, and an exchange rate was set. This rate was fixed to the euro, at the rate of €1 to LY£4. A sample of banknotes was purchased by a Chinese collector, and interest from other collectors was also expressed. However, beyond this the Lira had little impact, and not many notes were printed, though a high number of lower denomination notes were. No coins were produced. Notes that were printed were £1, £5, £10, £20, £50, and £100. There were plans for a £2, but these were scrapped. Each company and state body in Leylandiistan were given a small amount of Lira notes by the government to encourage the currencies use. However, the euro dominated financial transactions, and the Lira's dominance as a currency quickly became a dream. Like many micronational currencies, it was an expression more of patriotism than of economic sovereignty.
Following the introduction of the new Constitution, the legislative and executive branches had near-total control over the military. Fionnbarra Ó Cathail was once captain of the navy's only boat, the Tropicana. The Tropicana had been for water trials in Roch'Hir, Loguivy de la Mer, France and Kinsale Harbour, Ireland. The vessel could hold 80 kilos, and was 1.5 metres long by 1 metre wide. However, on 12 June 2014, the Tropicana hit a rock off of Cap du Penvins in Morbihan, France, and suffered unrepairable damage. This incident marked the end of Leylandiistan's military ambitions at sea.
The Democratic Republic of Leylandiistan was a very cultured country. Irish was widely spoken as a second language, and all place-names in the country are in Irish as well as English. The culture of the nation was quite unique. It was mainly Celtic, with French culture having a reasonable influence. Neighbouring micronation Gurvata also had some cultural influences on the nation. The merger of Leylandiistan with Gurvata combined these cultural traits with those of Gurvata, and the Confederation is widely considered to be a Celtic nation by external observers. | 2019-04-26T09:51:17 | https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Leylandiistan |
0.999307 | I run over fields and woods all day..., What am I?
View - I run over fields and woods all day..., What am I?
I went into the woods and got it.
I sat down to seek it.
View - I went into the woods and got it. | 2019-04-25T22:04:56 | http://inboxity.com/search.asp?s=woods |
0.999078 | This is a new and easy way to make chicken fried steak.
1. Cut round steak into 2 1/2" triangles.
2. Whisk eggs and soy sauce together in a large bowl. Then add round steak and marinate in the refrigerator for five hours.
3. In a large non-stick skillet, heat up half the oil on medium-high.
4. Dredge the drained round steak through the bread crumbs and saute for three minutes on each side. Change the oil after 2 batches.
5. Drain steaks on a pepper towel and serve topped with sour cream and green onion. | 2019-04-20T14:33:41 | https://www.wifr.com/content/recipes/131926.html |
0.997851 | Does the Village regulate door-to-door solicitors?
Yes. Solicitors within the Village of Lakemoor must first apply for and be approved for a permit to solicit within the Village. Solicitors must also adhere to specific guidelines and rules regulating door-to-door solicitation. For a list of solicitors, please click here.
Yes. All solicitors in the Village of Lakemoor will now receive a Photo ID Badge (as of 9/1/2018), those previous to 9/1/2018 will hold a solicitors permit card which must be carried with them at all times. All solicitors who hold a valid permit in the Village should be able to provide this when asked; if they are unable to provide an ID badge or a permit card, do not hesitate to call 911 to report them.
Why can't the Village ban door-to-door solicitors?
The First Amendment and the U.S. Constitution protect the rights of door-to-door solicitors and preclude the ability of a community to ban door-to-door sales. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld free speech for commercial purposes and the Village's ability to restrict commercial door-to-door solicitation is limited to local regulations restricting the time, place and manner of door-to-door solicitations. Homeowners and occupants, however, do have the ultimate right to determine whether solicitors shall or shall not be invited to their residences or property.
Where can I find a "no solicitors" sign?
The Village of Lakemoor no longer provides pre-printed "no solicitor" stickers. With or without a sign, residents should not ever be afraid to exercise boundaries with solicitors by refusing to answer their door or by politely stating "no thank you" or "not interested" and shutting and locking the door.
The solicitor that came to my home was pushy and rude. Is there something the Village can do?
The Village of Lakemoor does not directly regulate demeanor or style of individual sales, employees or solicitors. Remember however, that as a homeowner or occupant you may at any time ask a solicitor to leave your property and if they refuse, call 911 for assistance. Every resident has the right to feel secure in their own home and should you ever feel threatened or unsafe based upon the behavior of a solicitor or peddler, please contact the Police immediately. Further, citizens who feel they have been the victim of unlawful solicitation or believe a solicitor is violating the law are urged to contact the Police immediately so that officers may locate the individuals involved and investigate.
Residents should specifically be aware of door-to-door energy supplier sales and solicitations. The Village of Lakemoor does not send people door-to-door to register for the supply of alternate energy. The village encourages residents who wish to sign up with their own energy provider to initiate first contact with the provider after comparing all rates and options. | 2019-04-26T04:14:34 | http://www.lakemoor.net/solicitors-.html |
0.999956 | To pickguard or not to pickguard?
The role of the pickguard in a guitar is obvious from its name, but do you really need one?
Some guitar players love pickguards, others can't wait to get rid of them, few are ambivalent. Depending your point of view, it's either an attractive embellishment, or a hideous piece of plastic which is hiding part of a beautiful guitar.
The point, of course, is to protect the wood underneath from being scratched by over-zealous use of the pick while playing. Given how in vogue the 'relic' look is at the moment, however, there are probably quite a few guitar players who would relish those scuffs and see them as scars of battle.
Even if you don't like the idea of scratching the bodywork of your beloved guitar, however, in many cases you can safely remove the pickguard without worrying about it. Unless your playing style involves particularly vigorous picking or strumming, you're unlikely to do any damage.
So, if you've got a guitar with a pickguard and want to remove it, how easy is it to do? The answer is that it depends on the guitar. On a Les Paul, for example, it's just a matter of removing a few screws and lifting it off.
On a Fender, it's a little bit more complicated. Strats and Telecasters, for example, have the routing cavity for the electrics on the front of the body and the pickguard is used to cover the hole. Without it, you'd see where the boy has been routed and the wiring would be visible. No one wants that. So if you have a guitar whose electrics are routed from the front, you're stuck with it. | 2019-04-21T06:44:24 | https://www.guitarhive.com/pickguard.html |
0.995756 | The commodities trading subsidiary of Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Inc. was placed into involuntary bankruptcy yesterday, signaling a growing animosity between Drexel and its creditors.
The move by the creditors is the first time a Drexel operating unit was put into bankruptcy proceedings. Drexel Burnham Lambert Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, and since then the subsidiaries have been unloading their securities and commodities.
The creditors of the commodities subsidiary, the Drexel Burnham Lambert Trading Corporation, filed for the subsidiary to be liquidated under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code.
The creditors who filed the petition were the National Bank of Yugoslavia, Banco de Portugal, Ultramar Energy and Nissho Iwai.
Drexel did not challenge the petition, but said it would excercise its right to convert the case into a Chapter 11 proceeding. Under such a proceeding, Drexel lawyers have said the firm would have greater latitude in selling its holdings than it would under a liquidation.
Although the commodities subsidiary has sold most of its contracts, it has been unable to recover $645 million it is owed by the parent. That debt is the largest single asset ofthe commodities trading group.
Lawyers for the creditors said yesterday that the filing was made because they did not believe that the parent, which was still overseeing the day-to-day operations of the trading corporation, was acting in a way that would allow creditors of the subsidiary to recover the debts.
Richard Krasnow, a lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges, which is representing Drexel, said that creditors to the parent have had a wide say in the liquidation process, and that no significant decisions have been made recently without their knowledge.
Advisers in the case said they did not believe yesterday's filing would have a significant impact on the proceedings. ''I don't think it alters things very much,'' said Wilbur Ross, senior managing director at Rothschild Inc., the financial adviser to the creditors committee of Drexel.
The concerns among the creditors of the subsidiary were said to have been heightened last week, when Drexel tried to establish a $10 million hedge. The hedge was intended to decrease the possibility that debts would increase with changes in currency values, because not all of the debts were in the same currency. While the effort was rejected, yesterday's filing means that all of the debts will become dollar denominated, lawyers said. The central banks of Yugoslavia and Portugal, as well as other customers, are owed hundreds of millions of dollars as the result of trading by the commodities division in precious metals.
For example, Portugal's central bank is owed $120 million as a result of the parent's collapse. | 2019-04-23T20:15:31 | https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/10/business/involuntary-bankruptcy-for-drexel-trading-division.html |
0.999999 | How does the surface 'know' how opaque the atmosphere is before it 'decides' at what rate it should emit IR?
There is one point which I would like to make here which seem to have escaped many GHE-skeptics. In a previous post I constructed a simple radiation model, which does not necessarily come close to the real situation, but which nevertheless highlights something important. In the model in question no part of the system 'knows' what goes on anywhere else, the only things each part knows is its own temperature and absorptivity. The model also contains 'backradiation'. Moreover, the 'backradiation' taken alone does in fact slow down the rate of cooling in the system. The question is now: Does the model reproduce anything like the greenhouse effect? The answer is: It doesn't. In the model the temperature lapse rate flattens as the absorptivity/emmisivity increases with the consequence that the system cools, which is a clear deviation from the so called GHE.
The reason for this is probably the following: The amount of backradition can never exceed the radiation that at the same time is lost to outer space. Thus the backradiation cannot trap energy in the system since it is always associated with an 'out-radiation' that is equally big.
The real difference with the GHE and reality is thus probably much more subtle than both Roy and Claes wants it to appear. To be honest, I have not quite understood the supposed mechanism of GHE although I have tried, but maybe I will succeed in the future to completely disentagle the mathematical structure of it. I very much encourage the mathematically inclined audience to also make such an attempt, since the present 'wordy' discussion on 'backradition' has not managed to clear the confusion.
My suspicion though is that the greenhouse effect is based on a mechanism of reflection rather than absorption-thermalization-thermal reemission. Hence it is formally more akin to radiation pressure, but that remains to be clarified. Good luck.
Please accept a note from the 'mathematically-inclined audience'.
Your 'model' has more than one fatal flaw. It shows a complete lack of comprehension of the difference between radiation and diffusion, and tacks no account of the thickness of the atmosphere (in your model a molecule in an atmosphere one molecule thick or one at the bottom of an infinitely thick atmosphere will still radiate the same amount of heat 'directly into space', a plainly absurd result).
So, as it stands your 'model' is no more meaningful than any other quasi-random string of numbers and letters with arbitrary values assigned to them, and thus the conclusions you draw from it are, to be polite, unsupported by your data.
I see that you have made quite a number of comments, I will see if I can respond to them in some compact form in the future. Having skimmed them through I do get the impression that you think that I present fully developed models when I in fact only construct simple models to pinpoint certain specific issues. In this case the main point was that a layer which thermally back-radiates a certain amount of radiation would at the same time radiate outwards the same amount. Thus there is no energy-trapping in the system and I demonstrate that the temperature gradient would instead flatten with a toy-model.
Moreover, regarding the stratophere which you commented on before you made some interesting remarks, but again I didn't propose any 'model', I merely analyzed some different opinions regarding the temperature gradient commonly expressed. These differences taken alone should indicate that the general understanding of what is really at stake is rather modest.
I fully acknowledge that a varying thickness of the atmosphere must be taken into account. I highlight that issue in "A note on thermal diffusivity", and it is true that it is not taken into account here.
The word "diffusion" I use only because the second derivative looks formally like a diffusive heat transport term.
Please focus on the discrete model. Can you argue that by taking into account varying thickness, then main conclusion, that is a flattening lapse rate, would suddenly change to a steepening lapse rate as A increases.
I appreciate your responses, and your sincere efforts to come to grips with the physics through your own reflections.
However, I still more or less respectfully suggest that you are overreaching when you challenge the laws of physics on the basis of an understanding that is still developing.
So my point regarding what you call your 'toy model' remains. Your argument is not in any shape to say anything meaningful about the lapse rate. I have already mentioned two obvious flaws that would invalidate the reasoning you give. Now let's look at your algebra.
First, it's not immediately clear how your equation is to be used. You wish to model a dynamic process, but give what appears to be a static description. To me it looks more like a spreadsheet calculation than a physical model.
Still, we can try to work with it, and see what, if anything, it is actually telling us about the temperature in any given layer of the atmosphere, a temperature which you designate U(n).
In other words, your 'model' simply asserts that the temperature at any arbitrarily defined 'layer' is the average of the adjoining undefined values scaled by A.
And I'm afraid it's hard to see how this unfounded assertion might have any physical meaning. | 2019-04-22T03:09:27 | http://skepticgreenhouseguide.blogspot.com/2011/07/comment-on-claes-answer-to-roy.html |
0.999971 | Lately I've been trying to split long methods into several short ones.
For example: I have a process_url() function which splits URLs into components and then assigns them to some objects via their methods. Instead of implementing all this in one function, I only prepare the URL for splitting in process_url(), and then pass it over to process_components() function, which then passes the components to assign_components() function.
At first, this seemed to improve readability, because instead of huge 'God' methods and functions I had smaller ones with more descriptive names. However, looking through some code I've written that way, I've found that I now have no idea whether these smaller functions are called by any other functions or methods.
Continuing previous example: someone looking at the code might think that process_components() functionality is abstracted into a function because it's called by various methods and functions, when in fact it's only called by process_url().
This seems somewhat wrong. The alternative is to still write long methods and functions, but indicate their sections with comments.
Is the function-splitting technique I described wrong? What is the preferred way of managing large functions and methods?
UPDATE: My main concern is that abstracting code into a function might imply that it could be called by multiple other functions.
SEE ALSO: discussions on reddit at /r/programming (provides a different perspective rather than most of the answers here) and /r/readablecode.
Testing code that does lots of things is difficult.
Debugging code that does lots of things is difficult.
The solution to both of these problems is to write code that doesn't do lots of things. Write each function so that it does one thing and only one thing. This makes them easy to test with a unit test (one doesn't need umpteen dozen unit tests).
If, when describing the activity of the code to another programmer you use the word 'and', the method needs to be split into at least one more part.
I have a process_url() function which splits URLs into components and then assigns them to some objects via their methods.
This should be at least two methods. It is ok to wrap them in one publicly facing method, but the workings should be two different methods.
Yes, splitting long functions is normal. This is a way of doing things that's encouraged by Robert C. Martin in his book Clean Code. Particularly, you should be choosing very descriptive names for your functions, as a form of self-documenting code.
As people pointed, this improves readability. A person reading process_url() may see more clearly what is the general process to deal with URLs just by reading a few method names.
The problem is that other people may think those functions are used by some other piece of the code, and if some of them need to be changed they may choose to preserve those functions and define new ones. This means some code becomes unreachable.
modules in other languages may specify which functions are visible from the outside, etc.
other languages like Prolog may require (or strongly suggest) the definition of a new predicate for every conditional jump.
So in short, splitting in several functions is usually a good idea in terms of readability. It may not be really good if the functions are very short and this creates the goto effect or if the names are not really descriptive, in that case reading some code would require jumping among functions, which may be messy. About your concern about scope and usage of these functions, there are several ways to deal with it that are in general language dependent.
Personally I prefer a one liner even if it is slightly complex rather than jumping and searching across several files of code, if it takes me more than three seconds to find some other part of code I may not even know what was I checking anyway. People who do not suffer from ADHD may prefer more explanatory names that they can remember, but in the end what you are always doing is balancing the complexity in the different levels of the code, lines, paragraphs, functions, files, modules, etc.
but you force readers to jump back and forth.
So there are no silver bullets here, but experience and balance. IMHO the best way to learn how to do this is reading a lot of code written by other people an analyzing why is it hard for you to read it and how to make it more readable. That would provide valuable experience.
If you're just splitting it for the sake of splitting and calling them names like process_url_partN and so on, then NO, please don't. It just makes it harder to follow later when you or someone else needs to figure out what is going on.
If you're pulling out methods with clear purposes that can be tested by themselves and makes sense on their own (even if nobody else are using them) then YES.
For your particular purpose it seems you have two goals.
Parse a URL and return a list of its components.
Do something with those components.
I'd write the first part separate and have it return a fairly general result that could be easily tested and potentially be reused later. Even better, I'd look for a built-in function that already does this in your language/framework and use that instead unless your parsing is super special. If it's super special I'd still write it as a separate method, but probably "bundle" it as a private/protected method in the class that handles the second (if you're writing object oriented code).
The second part I'd write as its own component which uses the first for the URL parsing.
It's incredibly important to use appropriate access identifiers on the smaller methods. It's frustrating to find a class littered with small public methods because then I totally lose confidence finding where/how the method is used throughout the application.
I live in C#-land so we have public, private, protected, internal, and seeing those words shows me beyond a shadow of a doubt the scope of the method and where I must look for calls. If it's private, I know the method is used in only one class and I have full confidence when refactoring.
In the Visual Studio world, having multiple solutions (.sln) exacerbates this anti-pattern because IDE/Resharper "Find Usages" helpers will not find usages outside of the open solution.
If your programming language supports it, you might be able to define your "helper" functions within the scope of your process_url() function to get the readability benefits of separate functions. e.g.
If your programming language doesn't support this, you might move foo() and bar() out of the scope of process_url() (so that it is visible to other functions/methods)--but consider this a "hack" you've put in place because your programming language doesn't support this feature.
Whether to break a function into sub-functions will probably depend on whether there are meaningful/useful names for the parts and how large each of the functions are, among other considerations.
Transform the logic into a small number of intention-revealing steps at the same level of detail.
I believe the correct nesting of methods according to their "detail level" is important here.
Much of the code we write doesn’t start out being simple. To make it simple, we must reflect on what isn’t simple about it and continually ask, “How could it be simpler?” We can often simplify code by considering a completely different solution. The refactorings in this chapter present different solutions for simplifying methods, state transitions, and tree structures.
There, again, the warning not to mix different abstraction levels (emphasis mine).
If you could design a class that is appropriate for these functions make them private. Put another way, with a suitable class definition you can expose the only what you need to expose.
I'm sure this won't be the popular opinion, but it's perfectly ok. Locality of Reference can be a huge aid in making sure you and others understand the function (in this case I'm referring to the code and not to memory specifically).
As with everything, it's a balance. You should be more concerned with anyone who tells you 'always' or 'never'.
This function has up to 8 possible paths how your code can be executed, depending on how those condition evaluate.
This means that you'll need 8 different tests just to test this part. Moreover, most likely some combinations will not be possible, and then you'll have to carefully analyze what are they (and be sure not to miss some that are possible) - a lot of work.
It is very hard to reason about the code and its correctness. Since each of the if blocks and its condition can depend on some shared local variables, in order to know what's happening after them, everybody working with the code has to analyze all those code blocks and the 8 possible execution paths. It's very easy to make a mistake here and most likely somebody updating the code will miss something and introduce a bug.
Easily test each of the helper functions, each of them has only two possible paths of execution.
When examining myFun it is immediately obvious if result2 depends on result1 (just checking if the call to myHelper2(...) uses it to compute one of the arguments. (Assuming that the helpers don't use some global state.) It is also obvious how they're dependent, something that is much harder to understand in the previous case. Moreover, after the three calls, it's also clear how the state of the computation looks - it's captured just in result1, result2 and result3 - no need to check if/what other local variables have been modified.
The more concrete responsability a method has, more easy to test, read and maintain will be the code. Although no other calls them.
If in the future, you need to use this functionality from other places, you can then easy extract those methods.
I don't see why anyone would think that these would be called by some other process, and it is perfectly clear what they are for.
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For use once only functions extracted from a longer function, should the name be xxx1(),xxx2,… or relate to its task?
Does separating chunks of “similar” code into separate functions really improve maintainability?
How should I call splitted functions? centralize them? or call it one next to one? | 2019-04-26T04:59:22 | https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/195989/is-it-ok-to-split-long-functions-and-methods-into-smaller-ones-even-though-they/196078 |
0.999999 | Here's a question for you: if you were thinking of doing something different, and you had two choices, which of these would you go with? Option A, where there is little or no support available, or Option B, where there's a lot of support available. I think most people would choose Option B, if all other characteristics of the two options were equal.
So I'll explore some options, once I've described what I mean by a 'surgery'. It works along the same lines as a doctor's surgery: if something is wrong, or you're not sure about how to do something, the idea is that you can pop along to the surgery, where someone will be delighted to help out.
The great thing about setting up a surgery is that it provides yet one more safety net for those colleagues who are less than confident when it comes to use technology in their work.
The traditional model of a surgery, which is still used in many schools, is where the Head of ICT or Educational Technology Co-ordinator makes herself or himself available every Wednesday (say) for an hour after school. Where people are willing to 'muck in' and take turns to do it, so much the better.
A far better option, if you can set it up, is the one I saw in a school I supported when I was an ICT advisor. They had set up a computer area for staff use only, as I recommended here, but they had gone a step further. The staff computer area was also the Head of ICT's office, in effect, and it was shared with his technician. Consequently, there was someone available to give assistance at pretty much any time of day. As if that wasn't enough, there was a kettle and a coffee machine, with a tin of biscuits plus milk and sugar for people to help themselves to. Yes, you're not supposed to eat or drink in a computer area. Yes, it cost them money to provide those refreshments. And yes, the room was in use all the time.
Another model, if you can arrange it, is to arrange for each member of staff in your team to use one of their free periods (assuming you have them) in exchange for not being asked to cover a lesson at that time. The benefit for the teacher is that she knows where she is going to be, and can take some work in to do. If your Principal is very wedded to the idea of staff using the technology, you should be able to make a persuasive argument for this sort of thing.
A variation on that theme is to ask members in the technical support team and/or classroom assistants to do some of their work in the computer room at particular times in the week, so that they can be available to assist teachers if required. There is also nothing to stop you creating a kind of 'virtual surgery', comprising walkthroughs in the form of videos or screen captures. A virtual surgery is obviously not personalised in the same way that a physical one is. However, by making a set of guides available in this way it is possible that you may alleviate many of the problems which come up in a typical surgery anyway.
If you have a problem and then discover the solution, please write it all down here so that others can benefit.
It was, in effect, a paper version of a wiki. Why not use a real wiki? Set one up so that staff who feel confident enough can share their expertise and solutions.
Making this facility, and the walkthroughs, available online means that if you don't have a computer room in your school it doesn't matter, because people will be able to use them at home or in their own area in school.This will also be a useful facility if you don't have a computer room.
Bottom line: a surgery can be yet another lifeline for reluctant teachers -- the removal of yet another barrier to entry.
A task a day for 31 daysOn Day 24 we looked at how to make the ed tech facilities, especially computer rooms, more accessible. Today I'm considering the business of loaning out equipment, in the form of a series of questions to consider. These questions arise from my experience of visiting schools and seeing the procedures — or lack of them — for loaning out equipment.
What equipment is available for staff, students or classes to borrow?
For example, do you have class sets of laptops or pocket camcorders? Can staff borrow equipment to take home, so that they can familiarise themselves with it, or do some work on it in their own time? Is equipment available for students to borrow?
How do people know what's available to borrow?
Is there a list published somewhere? How often is it updated? Do people know that the list exists? How do new staff, especially those starting at odd times of the year (eg supply teachers) get to hear about the list?
If a teacher or student borrows equipment, especially to take home, who pays if the item is lost, damaged or stolen?
What is the actual procedure for borrowing equipment?
By the way, just in case you think this is a no-brainer type of question, I worked with one school to help them improve their management of technical support, and it transpired that in order to borrow equipment, teachers had to go and see one of three people. The person they had to see depended on what they wanted to borrow, although this was not made explicit anywhere. Moreover, one of the staff only worked part-time!
How do people know if the equipment they want to borrow is available?
Actually, how do you know that it's available? I visited one school where a crucial lead had gone missing because someone had borrowed it without telling anyone. So how do you get loaned equipment back in time? What do you about it if someone (consistently) fails to return stuff on time?
Where do people collect the item?
Is the loaned equipment ready to use?
In the previous question I used the phrase 'in time'. In my opinion, that is not 5 minutes before the next person wants to borrow it. You need to allow time for charging it up, inserting fresh batteries, inserting an empty SD card, or whatever. Teachers need to be sure that when they open the box, everything is ready to be used.
Is the equipment easy to use?
Remember Freedman's Five Minute Rule: that it should be easy to be up and running and do some basic things with no prior training in five minutes or less. I advocate that for loan equipment there is a set of instructions for the teacher to consult if needs be. I don't mean the kind of instructions which have been written by a technician and then translated from Japanese! I mean clear, step-by-step instructions.
I also think that if a teacher is borrowing an item for the first time, someone should spend a few minutes with them just going through the basics.
How do people return loaned equipment?
Do they have to run around finding the person to return it to? Do they return it to the school office?
I'd recommend using the kind of system that libraries use when lending out CDs. They check for obvious signs of damage and then note it down on a card. For example, you might note that a camcorder has a scratch down one side. I'm not suggesting you charge people for damage, but if a teacher knows that the scratch she has just noticed has already been documented, she won't be worrying about whether she did it or not.
If you loan out laptops, you should also check for newly-installed programs — although I would highly recommend that you make it impossible for anyone apart from yourself, your immediate colleagues or technical support to install anything. And do a virus check.
The whole point of all of these questions is this: is it easy and pleasant to borrow educational technology equipment? If not, why would anyone wish to bother?
As ICT leader, part of your remit is, almost certainly, to encourage other people to use technology in their lessons where appropriate. A good starting point is to ask yourself these kinds of questions.
Nevertheless, it's a short-sighted measure because I think continuing professional development (CPD) in any job is essential. One especially good form of CPD is — or can be — a one day conference.
I've already written about what I look for in a conference. But how can going to a conference help you become a better ed tech leader?
Get the latest news and upcoming developments. Things move so fast in both technology and education that this is a good enough reason in itself to get along to a conference. One thing I have often found is that if a representative of officialdom is giving a talk, they will give you off-the-cuff news and insights which will either never find their way into published reports or will take some time to do so.
For example, they may give you interim results of some research they've been carrying out, or some options they've been considering plus a heads-up about a forthcoming consultation. All of these kind of things help you keep on top of your game and put you in a position to be able to advise the senior leadership of your team from an informed standpoint.
Meet other ICT leaders. I do my best to keep up with the news, but even so I always manage to find something out from a fellow attendee that I didn't know before. In fact, just being able to, if necessary, have a good moan about the state of things can be very good. After all, being an ICT leader or co-ordinator is often a lonely job, and meeting others in a similar position can be therapeutic if nothing else.
Another benefit of meeting colleagues in similar positions is that it enables people to exchange ideas. No matter how innovative you are, you can still learn something from talking to other people.
If the conference has been good, you will not only come away full of new information and ideas, you will also have had a morale and energy boost.
What were the three key things I learnt at the conference?
What is one thing I can and should change immediately as a result of attending it?
What is one thing I should change, or advise the senior leadership to change, over the long term?
If you lead a team of teachers, feedback should be given at the next team meeting. That in itself can provide valuable CPD, not only in terms of disseminating the knowledge to colleagues, but also in terms of the ensuing discussion.
If the team meeting is not scheduled for a long time, the information and advice should be disseminated to the team in some way.
I also think that one of the conditions of being allowed to go to a conference is that the notes made are distributed as necessary. Otherwise the benefits of attending are confined to only the attendee and can soon disappear.
Clearly, most of the points made here can be applied to any form of training, not only conferences.
There are aso online conferences, perhaps the best known being the K12 Online Conference. Attending such a conference is often easier than attending a physical one because you can watch the presentations in your own time, and so do not need permission as such.
However, I think there are two principles and one practical issue involved here. The principles are that, firstly, I believe that teachers should be treated as professionals. That means being given time to go to events like conferences. Secondly, expecting people to attend a conference in their own time effectively discriminates against those teachers who have family commitments and for whom, therefore, attending an online conference is impractical at best and impossible at worst.
The practical issue is that attending an online conference in real time enables you to participate in the discussion and Twitter stream taking place at the time.
It may be possible to negotiate for members of your team and yourself to have guaranteed no cover while the online conference is going on, so that each of you could attend in their 'free' lessons. Obviously, that kind of arrangement won't be possible in the average primary school.
In any case, it's not an ideal situation because in my experience you still get constantly interrupted and even called upon to do an emergency cover anyway. In fact, the ideal arrangement is to attend the conference at home or at a colleague's house. I don't underestimate the difficulties of getting that approved though.
Bottom line: attending a conference at least once a year is essential. It should help you do your job better. Everyone knows that teacher expertise is one of the most important factors in securing student learning and progress; conferences can help you maintain and increase that expertise. | 2019-04-25T01:59:37 | https://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/category/31+Days |
0.999999 | Am I in the right place? Does a discussion of worldview belong in epistomology? If not, I hope a monitor (?) can move this to the appropriate place.
I'm not a philosopher. I dropped out of symbolic logic after getting an F on the midterm, and didn't too well in deductive logic either.
Now I'm a psychotherapist working with the idea that every model of psychotherapy has taken positions on 5 philosophical dimensions. Worldview is a sort of umbrella term or superset that groups a number of concepts, all of which may have an impact on one's perspective, including specific ethnic worldviews, social worldviews, scientific worldviews, philosophic worldviews, religious worldviews, etc.
In struggling to make sense of the human condition over the centuries, Western philosophers have tended to focus on five philosophical themes. I narrowly define worldview as a coherent array of positions on these five philosophical themes. The first four of the five philosophical themes require us to choose between two positions, while the fifth requires us to choose one out of four possible positions.
The first theme or dimension requires us to choose between the group (the Collectivist position) and the individual (the Individualist position) as the fundamental unit of humanity.
The second theme requires us to choose between self-sacrifice (the Deontological position) and self-actualization (the Eudemonic position) as the ultimate ethical value.
The third theme requires us to choose between the will (the Voluntarist position) and the intellect (the Intellectualist position) as the ultimate constituent of ontological reality, and to acknowledge that we view humans as either truly capable of evil or intrinsically motivated towards good.
The fourth theme requires us to choose between a Being or a Becoming ontology, to choose between a view of material reality as either predominantly becoming and passing away, or predominantly being, one and continuous, all-inclusive and eternal.
The fifth theme requires us to choose between four epistemological solutions concerning the relationship between mind and body, between the human and the physical: the Materialist position, the Idealist position, the Aristotelian position, and the Dualist position.
I'm just looking for a response to this idea. Does anything seem arbitrary about it?
I'd also like to design a test for people to find out their own positions on each dimension.
Does anyone know ANY tests in philosophy that help people learn their philosophical positions?
Most either or questions are entirely arbitrary. The second, third and fourth are certainly examples.
As for a test, you could come up with a list of various statements from various systems, but I'm not sure you could ever create a test in the scientific sense.
You can google search philosophy tests online that do just this, some better than others, but all clearly inadequate.
I'm not sure whether that says something real about philosophy and philosophy constructs (that there are no good tests to measure them in people), or whether it just speaks to the current state of affairs (and perhaps in 10 or 50 years they will finally be able to measure these constructs).
I think it speaks to the nature of philosophy. You might measure familiarity with a view point, but measuring what someone thinks about the issues seems out of reach. At least, I cannot imagine how it could ever be possible.
Really?! I don't believe it.
I Individualism vs. collectivism as the fundamental unit of humanity.
II. self-sacrifice (the Deontological position) vs self-actualization (the Eudemonic position) as the ultimate ethical value.
III. the will (the Voluntarist position) vs. the intellect (the Intellectualist position) as the ultimate constituent of ontological reality, and to acknowledge that we view humans as either truly capable of evil or intrinsically motivated towards good.
IV. a Being vs. a Becoming ontology, to choose between a view of material reality as either predominantly becoming and passing away, or predominantly being, one and continuous, all-inclusive and eternal.
V. are you a Materialist position, an Idealist position, an Aristotelian position, or a Dualist position?
First, even asking such questions misses the point. If I could sufficiently answer those questions, at the next moment someone might provide some argument or reflection that leads to a revision of my answers.
The individual is certainly fundamental, as without an individual, there is no collective. Even a collectivist would admit this. But notice something - this eithor or question does not include all options. Some would even argue the notion that they are opposed misses the point.
This assumes the existence of a self. If the notion of a consistent self is rejected, this question has no meaning. Even if we accept the notion of the self, we might argue that viewing ethics from the perspective of what is best (sacrifice or actualization) for the self is a mistake.
Why must it be either or? I see no reason why the will and the intellect cannot either be equally influential, or perhaps of varying influence among different people, thus neither is truly the "ultimate constituent of ontological reality".
and to acknowledge that we view humans as either truly capable of evil or intrinsically motivated towards good.
Again, I see no reason for an either or. If humans are intrisically motivated towards good, it does not follow that they are somehow not truly capable of evil.
Again, these are not mutually exclusive. They can be, depending on how far you might take them, but they are not necessarily so.
But a materialist and a materialist might have a great deal to argue about, a great deal of disagreement with one another. Similarly for two Idealists, ect.
2. or to matter of factly, while thinking casually about baseball, lift up a gun and blow someone away?
Everyone with halfway decent function in their arm is capable of pulling a trigger and killing someone. And everyone with a halfway decent imagination is capable of imagining and even planning an act of cruelty.
I think that it comes down to a sort of activation energy -- if we're all capable of physically killing each other, and we're all capable of imagining or planning it, then you have to accept that we're all to some degree capable of murder or evil. It's something inhibitory that stops us, not any lack of capability.
We've got empathy, or a horrific recoil, or fear of consequences, or something else that stays our hand. But history is filled with butchers and murderers who weren't remarkable in some kind of intrinsically evil way.
Heinrich Himmler was one of the more boring geeks in history, just an awkward angry outcast kid with a bizarre sense of mysticism who liked to follow leaders, who ultimately ended up probably the biggest murderer in the history of the world. It was only opportunity and scale that separate him from more conventional outcast kids like the Columbine shooters (or god knows how many who never ended up hurting a soul). Adolf Eichmann was basically an accountant (think of Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil").
Evil is something that people do -- it's not something that they are until they commit the acts, or at the minimum until they start going down that road.
I'm definitely a newbie here, so I have little right to say this, but I think you are refusing to take a philosophical position anywhere.
If philosophers throughout the ages had done that, we may not even have philosophy.
When we say truly capable, you're oversimplifying. Every knife in the drawer is capable of evil, the way you look at it.
But most of us think of humans as MORE than the neuromuscular capacity to pull a trigger and kill.
The ancient Greeks who were Voluntarists felt people were bundles of animal impulses that could burst out at any time. Those who held the Intellectualist position felt that if only people knew better, they would do no evil.
I don't make this stuff up, the philosophers do.
You're right, I haven't taken a position. I have particular positions that roughly relate to your questions, in some cases answer directly. The point is that none of these questions, and no question can, capture the whole of the subject.
I've shown why your questions only scratch the surface of what philosophers have talked about. You have done that - scratch the surface. So what?
I'm not trying to be original here.
You want to regurgitate the Ancient Greeks who took positions on each side of these issues? Did they only scratch the surface? Have philosophers managed to dig much deeper since then? Are they passe?
I'm not quite sure what you mean here.
Well, first of all, the 5 dimensions/themes you bring up are not narrow as you suggest.
Your presentation of these themes was narrow. So what? Should I be concerned about psychology as a science because you, for whatever reason, think psychology is dependent upon such narrow understandings of what are actually broad and complex issues?
You want to regurgitate the Ancient Greeks who took positions on each side of these issues?
No, I'm suggesting there is no point in doing so.
Did they only scratch the surface?
I'd prefer to say they only dug in a few places.
Have philosophers managed to dig much deeper since then?
And find more holes. But these topics are not only the domain of western philosophers. Only using western perspectives would be silly.
In some ways, yes. Consider Aristotle - given the extent of study of his works, quality criticism of Aristotle is easy to come by. But for the very same reason, his influence, we have also learned a great deal from his works and they are certainly valuable to us.
Your presentation of these themes was narrow. So what? Should I be concerned about psychology as a science because you, for whatever reason, think psychology is dependent upon such narrow understandings of what are actually broad and complex issues?.
If I said psychology, I made a mistake. I meant psychotherapy.
And the philosophers who originated this viewed the choice of positions as clearly discrete and either-or, and view the first four dimensions as dichotomous. But to conform to current principles of psychological measurement, these dimensions are best viewed as continuous variables, so a person can theoretically stake out positions at any point along the continua.
as for narrow understanding of what are actually broad and complex issues, I feel like you're throwing mud on me without backing it up. Do you believe in two-poled constructs at all? Good and Evil?
I'd love for you to point me to some other philosophers. I feel like you're just attacking my idea, but holding out with your knowledge.
Thanks. Are you also suggesting that no modern person holds worldview positions similar to Aristotle's?
Are you saying that by suggesting people might hold a position on a continuum, I'm oversimplifying?
I'm NOT a philosopher. I could use your help, but I'm struggling to understand. I got an idea. I think it could grow legs and walk. I think it's too young to be shattered.
I'm not sure why limiting the concern to one field of psychology, psychotherapy, makes the concern worth worrying over.
I believe that some people carry such constructs. Myself, no I try not to. What is evil without something good?
Laozi, Zhuangzi, Confucius, the Buddha, Mo Tzu, Shang Yang, the list goes on. No one is trying to hide these thinkers from you, you can find their books in most stores.
No, I'm sure there are some out there who agree with Aristotle entirely.
No, but suggesting "that every model of psychotherapy has taken positions on 5 philosophical dimensions" and that those positions are limited to your continuum is oversimplyfying the issue.
Nor am I a philosopher, but I'll do what I can, which amounts to being critical. The idea is a pretty good one, I'm just not sure it's possible, though it could be. AS for the age of the idea, the younger the idea, the more likely it is to be full of holes. Nothing wrong with this.
name a model of psychotherapy and i can describe its positions on those 5 dimensions (to the extent I'm familiar with the model).
And they are salient to the model.
All mainstream individual therapies are individualist and eudaimonic, because (among many other reasons tiresome to mention here) they place symptoms INSIDE the individual, and believe they only need the one patient in the room to produce change [individualist]; and because their goal is self-actualization (eudaimonic) rather than self-sacrifice (deontological). Several Family Therapy models require the members to sacrifice their perceived self-interest for the good of the collective or family, and see the problem between the members rather than inside any one.
Can you provide me with OTHER dimensions (than the 5 mentioned) salient to models of psychotherapy? I'd sincerely love to hear it.
You are asking me, someone who is not a psychotherapist, to discuss models of psychotherapy? There's only so much I can do, including criticize oversimplifications. Perhaps these oversimplifications are useful to psychotherapists.
If your models are based on assumptions regarding these 5 dimensions because it is convenient to do so in this particular line of work, I see no trouble. When you try to use those same 5 dimensions, those either or situations, to generalize the whole of the population you are bound to run into problems.
Ahh. I think I see the problem.
All models are simplifications, all analysis reductive. If not they wouldn't serve us, wouldn't give us a handle, wouldn't probvide baskets to separate them into.
Most importantly, remember, I'm generalizing to the whole population of psychotherapy models (psychoanalysis, gestalt, behavioral, etc.), NOT the population of people.
There are only so many theories of psychopathology, and a finite number of treatments or models. Like the choice between chemo and radiation for cancer, the choice of psychotherapies is finite and limited, but each treats MANY people.
With this in mind, I hope I can get you to reconsider this idea. I do appreciate the attention you've given it so far.
Philosophers often present their views as compared to other views; using examples of other's ideas to clearly show differences is not unusual in any field. But the notion that philosophers, at least modern philosophers, have placed these issues as either or is misleading. Anyone who reads two books on the same issue should realize the problem is not either/or even if the either or is either hard/soft determinism or indeterminism.
And my point is that psychological science cannot adopt a worldview narrowly defined on 5 dimensions/themes because placing people into such baskets would be horribly misleading. These issues are too nuanced to handle in such a matter if the individual has even the slightest degree of education in philosophy.
Given the problem explained above, I dont see how the information could be useful.
That's a shame. Problems of the mind a very different than problems of the physical body.
My attention is the consideration. The topic has been interesting, and I think we've made some progress - at least in understanding one another.
Remember, this has nothing to do with psychology, only psychotherapy. a much narrower field.
and it has nothing to do with people, only models of psychotherapy.
While we may nuance one particular model of psychotherapy for each individual, it's still the same model.
Philosophers often present their views as compared to other views; using examples of other's ideas to clearly show differences is not unusual in any field. But the notion that philosophers, at least modern philosophers, have placed these issues as either or is misleading. Anyone who reads two books on the same issue should realize the problem is not either/or even if the either or is either hard/soft determinism or indeterminism. .
It seems you object to both either-or AND a continuum, but you offer no alternative.
And my point is that psychological science cannot adopt a worldview narrowly defined on 5 dimensions/themes because placing people into such baskets would be horribly misleading. These issues are too nuanced to handle in such a matter if the individual has even the slightest degree of education in philosophy. .
You've complained that my demonstration oversimplifies, but again you offer no alternatives.
Given the problem explained above, I dont see how the information could be useful. .
Considering you haven't yet heard me say we're not placing people into baskets (which of course would be horribly misleading and cruel--they'd hardly fit, and feel quite cramped). We're placing models of psychotherpay into baskets.
Then again, you may object to separating models of psychotherapy into baskets like "individual therapy" vs "family therapy" vs "group therapy" Or gestalt therapy vs psychoanalysis vs cognitive therapy vs behavior therapy.
And though you resist classification, it's ethically required for therapists to advertise themselves honestly for consumers, and to accept one or another label so when customers ask: Wht form of threapy do you do? There can be some truth in advertising.
That's a shame. Problems of the mind a very different than problems of the physical body..
maybe one day someone will fulfill your dream of creating a model of psychotherapy for each individual who is born. And keep at it, cuz those new people just keep coming. Of course, since most people don't go to psychotherapy, most of those models would go to waste. Energy that could be better spent trying to cure cancer.
You obviously need to reread your thread topic and opening post.
I've answered those questions, and you've responeded with 'but in this much narrower field it works!'. Well, cool, I really dont care.
Maybe you should re-read it (here--I'll make it easy for you). If you did, you'd see the world psychology is NEVER used. That's your word.
I forgive you for the threadjack, can't say I didn't enjoy it a bit. | 2019-04-20T17:27:46 | https://groups.able2know.org/philforum/topic/3306-1 |
0.994042 | Karl Stefanovic has been branded 'disrespectful' after he made a bizarre joke about Prince William and Kate Middleton's children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
'I said earlier as well and a lot of people got angry as me, but I do think they are fake kids, because I don't think I've ever seen a kid this well behaved walk into any kind of establishment,' the 43-year-old co-host added.
It footage in question showed Prince George walking along quietly next to his father, while animated Princess Charlotte smiled and waved at media and other onlookers.
'They are very, very reserved, not like your average Aussie child,' Deborah added.
'I don't want to be disrespectful, but they could be aliens!' he kept going.
Karl continued, impersonating Prince William in an exaggeratin English accent, exclaiming: 'Do you know what you get when you go inside here? Range Rovers!', implying the royal bribes his children to behave well.
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Camilla admitted that the press and well-wishers who had gathered to watch the kids walk in to meet their brother were 'delighted' and 'amazed' by their behaviour.
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0.999517 | A direct object pronoun replaces things and people that directly follow a verb, without a preposition.
-> Je la regarde. - I'm watching it.
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It's important to remember that these pronouns also replace things. Use the singular le for masculine nouns, la for feminine nouns, l' when the verb following starts with a vowel or mute h; use les for any plural nouns or groups.
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For example, the verb écouter in French is followed by a direct object (écouter quelque chose), whereas its English equivalent to listen to needs a preposition (listening to something).
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It is the French verb that matters to determine the use of direct object pronouns. When in doubt, look it up in a dictionary, to see if the verb needs a preposition. | 2019-04-22T12:07:28 | https://french.kwiziq.com/revision/glossary/pronoun-type/pronoms-d-objet-direct-direct-object-pronouns |
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0.998937 | Jordan Stempleman is the author of Their Fields (Moria, 2005), What's the Matter (Otoliths, 2007), Facings (Otoliths, 2007), and The Travels (Otoliths, 2008). String Parade is available here from BlazeVOX. Visit Jordan's blog, Growing Nation.
Christopher Nelson: Each poem in String Parade is dedicated to someone; at times I felt that the dedications were like invocations. Tell us about the dedications.
Jordan Stempleman: I knew I wanted to have a book of poems that already had a number of readers, that they were written to be read, handed off you could say. I modified O'Hara's notion of "Personism" a bit, since some of the poems were to people I will never meet, while others were to friends, acquaintances, those I deeply admire, that all share the same name. Others were of course for those people I know oh so well and that often saw their poems well before the book came out.
I like how you call them invocations, since I was often sending waves to a reader who might not otherwise be found. Dorothea Lasky gets it, really gets it, when she writes in her reaction to the book: "Here in these poems, Stempleman creates a spectacle of dedication for the everyday people he loves, which by the end of the book, we realize is all of us." I was hoping that someone who read this book would see that if the book were to go on indefinitely, their name would most assuredly appear with a poem dedicated to them.
Nelson: There are a variety of forms here: prose poems, poems in fragments, poems in parts, single- and double-spaced poems. How do you determine the shape a poem will take?
Stempleman: I just realized the other day that String Parade was the final book in a trilogy, which includes two earlier collections (What's the Matter and Facings), where I allowed for any and all influences of form to be allowable, usable, and ready. As a younger poet I was often so uneasy about the "what had happened," so much so that I often ended up not writing much of anything. I thought it had to look new. Sounding new is sounding like oneself. But looking new—I just didn't know how formally that would ever come about. So with What’s the Matter and ending with String Parade, I finally erased the notion of formal inventiveness and concentrated more on content—search for what I couldn't say, what was often ungraspable otherwise, etc. It made for poems! It allowed for the unreachable, just out of sight speech that makes up my poems to find a place to live. Often the first line would dictate the form of the entire poem. So that I like to think that the language of the thought built the space only it could comfortably occupy to come out and take the poem as its form of preference. Does that make sense? The song found in that first line then said "I need more space to breathe, give me a double spaced line" or "Keep me at a clipped, W.C.W/Creeley line" or whatever. I never would come to the time to write a poem and, before the first line was what it became, determine the form of the poem.
In the last two collections I've written, the complete opposite is true, which in a strange way is actually less hectic than the old way I composed a poem. I now either write in a boxed, even line-length form, or in a half-kidding Projective Verse. I guess I might say I can hear myself better now than I ever thought possible. Somehow all the voices that were once so numerous have meshed into something much more singular and consistent.
Nelson: The cover is so evocative: an elegant, headless mannequin on a heap of rubbish. Why was it chosen, or how do you consider its relation to the poems?
Stempleman: I love that photo. Geoffrey Gatza, the wondrous editor of BlazeVOX sent me a number of photos he had taken to choose from. I was immediately drawn to its headlessness, its posture, and the glow it commanded from all the glass junk. Because as we all know, glass junk is nothing like other kinds of junk. It tends to respond to a cleansing so much better than other garbage.
As it relates to the poems, well, I like thinking that where the head belongs, we all belong—each of our faces belong for however long, giving room to the next person in that line. It reminded me a lot of the earlier sonnets from Shakespeare, where the beauty seemed intact above the decay through remembrance, through the presence of another or the active mind of one thinking of that someone else.
Nelson: How do you see String Parade when compared to your previous books—formal developments, thematic interests, motifs, etc.?
Stempleman: I think I pretty much did what I could do with this question in my earlier response, but in regards to motifs, well, all the poems were written with that which was near. Which of course means in the room, or on my mind, or in the foreseeable future. I am at my worst and sometimes at my best, devoted and attentive to my surroundings.
Nelson: There’s a comical tone in some of these poems. What about humor in your poetry?
Stempleman: When it happens, I'm relieved. I think it's easy to become overly serious in what Williams went into poetry for—the warmth and the loneliness. But with Williams, especially the earlier work from Al Que Quirre, Sour Grapes, Spring and All, etc., there's so often this wry sense of availability he displays. It's as if faced with the vastness of possible outcomes and reactions to single events, he is able to often find the best reaction and temperament to ease us all. What a good doctor! I in no way look for humor in the same way that I believe Williams does, since I know that mine is cut from a more grotesque cloth. It is more of an end of the night humor. Everyone's tired, open, and forgetful enough that whatever's said be understood as not that uncouth upon reflection on the following day.
Nelson: Are there any traditions or aesthetics that you’re deliberately playing forward? When reading these poems I thought of the Objectivists from time to time.
Stempleman: I wouldn't say I'm playing any particular aesthetic forward in these poems, but rather navigating existing aesthetics, mining preexisting aesthetics that I thought could aide in my acceptance of the vast number that are currently available for our consumption, er, communication. In my bookThe Travels I was very much attempting to have a go at an imagined history with an Objectivist weight of words, rather than of experienced experience. I was definitely after the experienced word. The poems in String Parade felt much more like the cacophonous 20th century of postmodern occupancy. We're all(right) and we're all speaking up and over ourselves at once. Since to go silent is a complete waste of precious resources. String Parade, along with the other two books, were a room full of different perspectives asked to see through to some other side. | 2019-04-18T18:58:25 | https://www.greenlindenpress.com/jordan-stempleman/ |
0.999999 | Define the parts of speech and give examples.
List commonly used punctuation marks and write example sentences using them.
Answer the following objective questions.
Q 1: I ______ him some of my snack.
Q 2: Please come and sit over ______. | 2019-04-25T04:12:24 | http://www.kwiznet.com/p/takeQuiz.php?ChapterID=396&CurriculumID=15&NQ=4&Num=2.1 |
0.999999 | - Erin Tomkins was 23 months old when she was rushed to Sheffield Children’s Hospital by ambulance on May 22, 2018.
- The youngster died of head injuries and South Yorkshire Police was informed of the case after medics raised concerns about the cause of the toddler’s injuries.
- Her stepdad, Martin Johnson, 20, was arrested and later charged over the death but denied any responsibility.
- He was found guilty today of murder and two counts of grievous bodily harm after a trial. The GBH charges related to fractures Erin suffered to her right arm and spine in the weeks before her death.
- Jurors spent around two hours deliberating before delivering their verdict.
- The killer is to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court this afternoon.
- During Johnson’s trial, jurors were told that the youngster would cry and ‘make herself sick’ if she was left alone with him. Erin’s mother, Kira Tompkins, 19, told jurors how at the beginning of her relationship with Johnson, Erin would ‘run towards him with her hands in the air’ but before her death the youngster ‘couldn’t be left alone’ with him and would cry and ‘make herself sick’.
- Kira became pregnant soon after the pair began a sexual relationship in April 2017, and their child was born in the December of that year.
- Johnson, a chef, moved in with her the following month and Kira said Johnson had ‘accused’ her of ‘loving Erin more’ than their own child. He said he thought Erin was the ‘favourite’.
- Erin suffered a fractured her arm around 10 weeks before her death when she was left alone with Johnson and Kira said he told her the toddler had fallen off the sofa as he was changing her nappy.
- Kira told jurors there were a number of instances when Erin suffered injuries when Johnson was alone with her, one of which resulted in a large bruise to her cheek. She also noticed bruising to Erin’s forehead in the days before her death, and Johnson told her Erin had tripped and fallen.
- A post mortem examination revealed that in addition to severe head injures, there was evidence of a fractured right arm and spinal fractures which were weeks old. | 2019-04-25T15:01:45 | https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/erin-tomkins-murder-everything-we-know-1-9583666 |
0.998447 | What does it mean to update the DNS servers of my domain name?
What does it mean to update the A record of my domain name?
After I update my domain name's DNS or A record, how long will it take for it to point to my new site?
If I want a separate service to handle email to the domain, what should I do?
A domain name, for all practical purposes, is simply a website address. A domain name usually consists of a top-level domain (e.g., .com, .net, .org) and a second-level domain (the name you choose when you register the domain). In the case of vFlyer, for example, "vflyer.com" is the domain name, with ".com" as the top-level domain and "vflyer" the second-level domain. Domain names allow people like you and me to more easily navigate the Web.
DNS stands for "Domain Name System," and it's basically a gigantic database of the Internet. We use DNS to refer to "name servers" or "DNS servers," which are the bridge between a domain name and the IP address of the server hosting the destination website.
When you register a domain name, unless you specify otherwise, it is automatically assigned the DNS servers of the domain host (e.g., GoDaddy or Network Solutions). When you build a website and want to point your domain name to that site, changing the DNS servers to those of the service hosting the website is what links the domain name to the site.
If you publish a website with vFlyer Sites and want to point an existing domain name to it, updating the domain's DNS servers to DNS0.VFLYER.COM and DNS1.VFLYER.COM will accomplish this. You're essentially transferring control of the domain name from the previous domain host to vFlyer; if you don't want vFlyer controlling the domain name, then we recommend changing the A record of the domain name instead.
The "A" is short for Address, and the A record links a domain name to a static IP address. A records are also called host records.
When you update the A record of your domain name to @ A 208.82.207.53, what you're doing is pointing the domain name to your vFlyer Sites website (hosted at vFlyer's static IP address). Unlike changing the domain's DNS servers, changing the A record will just tell the domain host to point Web traffic to the specified website. It won't transfer control of the domain name to vFlyer, as changing the DNS servers would.
Times can range, but often it takes about 24 hours from when you make the DNS or A record change to when your domain name takes people to your new website.
If you already use an email hosting service for the domain name, the easiest thing to do is update the A record of the domain name to @ A 208.82.207.53 and leave the other domain settings intact. If you want to update the DNS servers to vFlyer's but still handle email separately, please email [email protected] with the MX records of your email service and we will make the necessary updates. | 2019-04-25T13:00:31 | https://vflyer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205573507-Domain-Name-FAQ |
0.998176 | Several years ago, I bought a bag of quinoa pasta out of curiosity. I boiled and sauced it as I normally would, took a big bite, and then immediately spit it out. Not only did the pasta taste unappealingly bitter, but it had also turned to mush in the time between draining and eating. I never bought gluten-free pasta again.
So it was with trepidation that I approached the pasta chapter of Shauna James Ahern's new cookbook Gluten-Free Girl Every Day. Most of the pasta recipes in the book call for store-bought pasta. (She does include one recipe for gluten-free fresh pasta, but doesn't provide an assembled recipe using it.) While I'm sure that gluten-free pasta options have improved significantly since that fateful quinoa noodle disaster, I wasn't sure I wanted to mess up dinner with a poor grocery store choice. Instead, I turned to this recipe for zucchini "noodles."
While many may scoff at the idea of replacing carbo-goodness with healthy raw veggies, I find thinly sliced vegetables to be a fine vehicle for pasta sauce, especially one as vibrant and flavorful as Ahern's spinach pesto. It is brilliantly green from the spinach and has a robust blend of Gruyère, feta, and lemon juice: perfect for tossing with zucchini (or even some good gluten-free pasta, if you know where to find it).
Why I picked this recipe: Cheesy spinach pesto plus zucchini noodles seemed like the perfect solution to the gluten-free "pasta" dinner question.
What worked: The zucchini-pesto combination is killer; and, even better, the meal came together in no time.
What didn't: I found that I didn't need the full cup of olive oil called for. I used around 1/2 cup, and my pesto was plenty rich and creamy. Also, be aware that the zucchini will begin to wilt and let off water soon after it is dressed. Serve the noodles right away, or let the vegetables marinate and then drain off the liquid before serving.
Suggested tweaks: You could use any pesto (or any summer squash, for that matter) in this recipe. Keep in mind that you'll want the sauce to be loose and fairly creamy because you won't have any pasta cooking water to cut the sauce.
Add the spinach, pine nuts, garlic, and lemon zest and juice to the bowl of a food processor. Whirl them up until everything is broken down into small pieces. Add the Gruyère and run the processor. You should have a great-smelling paste by now. With the food processor running, slowly drizzle in the oil until you have rich green pesto.
Grab a zucchini with your left hand. Using a vegetable peeler, grate long, even strips of the zucchini until you have reached the fleshy center and can peel no longer. (You can eat the outer skin, of course.) Repeat with the remaining zucchini.
Toss the zucchini noodles so they are all separated. Plop a couple of tablespoons of pesto into the noodles and toss them together. If you want more pesto, add a tablespoon at a time. You don’t want to overpower the zucchini. When you have dressed the noodles to your liking, add the feta and sunflower seeds. Toss and serve. | 2019-04-24T22:03:20 | https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/05/shauna-james-aherns-zucchini-noodles-with-spi.html |
0.999252 | Sous la direction de Alain Sicard.
A partir d'une perspective synchronique, ce travail vise a dresser une topographie thematique susceptible de reveler la singularite d'une aventure poetique inscrite entre deux horizons a priori irreconciliables. Issue d'une matrice unique (la fin de la symbiose entre l'enfant et le monde), l'ecriture se revele en effet chez diego l'expression conjointe d'une angoisse du temps et de la mort et d'une nostalgie de l'ordre primordial perdu ; aussi se deploie-t-elle en une serie de binomes thematiques conflictuels qu'elle tend neanmoins a depasser, s'erigeant en espace de synthese, de conciliation des contraires ouvrant sur l'etre originel identifie a la purete de l'enfance. Des lors cette these se structure selon trois axes fondamentaux : -une etude de la problematique de l'origine et des themes qui s'y rattachent ; -une analyse des differents visages que prend ici la mort, a la fois source d'angoisse qu'il faut conjurer et fascinante presence pour une ecriture qui, voulant la nier, l'affirme comme cle de l'origine ; -une approche de la poetique de l'auteur qui, a l'epreuve de la mort, est fondamentalement une ethique porteuse d'une verite ontologique situant le poete non seulement par rapport a sa propre histoire mais aussi par rapport a celle de son pays et au-dela, a l'aventure de l'humanite tout entiere.
Working within a synchronic perspective, this thesis aims at establishing a thematic structure which may reveal the singularity of a poetic undertaking, standing as it is between two seemingly irreconcilable poles. Springing from one single source (the end of the symbiosis between the child and the world) diego's writing expresses both an anguish of time and death and a nostalgia for a lost primeval order. Hence does it develop into a series of conflicting pairs which it tends to overcome, building up into a place of conciliation of contraries opening on the original being identified with the purity of childhood. This thesis will thus follow three main directions : -a study of the problems of origins and the themes related to it ; -an analysis of the different aspects of death in diego's poetry, both as a source of anguish to be staved off and of fascination for a writing which, though striving to deny it, asserts it to be the key to the origins ; -an approach of the author's poetics which, when put to the test of death, is in fact an ethics containing an ontological truth through which the poet relates not only to his own history but also to his country's history and beyond that to the epic of mankind. | 2019-04-26T16:04:48 | http://www.theses.fr/1994POIT5016 |
0.995057 | Cleaning is a costlier process in the industries and it consumes whole lot of time as well. Especially certain applications like cleaning of the bath cruises in the smelter plants and the cleaning of the metal cruises are quite critical time consuming processes. Another example would be the cast iron removal in the iron smelters as well.
All these situations could be carried out far more effectively and easily with the aid of the common salt. There might be a lot of other chemicals and washing agents that you normally use for this purpose to remove the solidified bathe metal as well the metal itself. In both the cases when you sprinkle the common salt when you just bring out the bath cruise out of the pot room it is a wise idea.
This is because, when the bathe cruises comes out of the pot room, hardly it would take half an hour or so to come to the cleaning arena. By which time, the temperature in the bathe cruise is still at very high temperatures due to the presence of molten bathe metal sticking to the surfaces.
When sodium chloride is sprinkled on top of the fluid, it enables you to easily remove it after hours when they completely get solidified in the room temperature. In fact the crust inside will become cooler, that is comparatively of lower temperatures than the standard room temperature. So the otherwise tiresome process is made quite simple and it will not affect the metal surface of the cruise.
Apart from the industrial cleaning processes if you consider the domestic applications, the common salt is quite effective in eliminating the dust and dirt and other forms of stains in the vessels, ovens and so on. Common salt is naturally a cleaning agent and you should know the knacks of using it effectively to cut down your costs associated with the purchase of high quality detergents and stain removers. If you want to remove the rusty stains from the pans of your kitchen, then just try sodium chloride while washing them along with the soap or detergent that you normally use. You will infer great results.
Next step is to clean the body as well. Common salt is a great body scrub to your surprise. You could mix it with water and almonds and use it as an effective scrub. You need to apply the scrub gently onto your skin. Allow it to dry for a little while and then clean it in mild hot water slowly and gently. If you find it bit tough to remove the scrub in certain areas do not rush to peel it rough ways.
This would certainly cause damage to the skin even if it is not visible from outside. So take time and do remove it with patience. It is absolutely worth your wait and efforts as you will see your face glowing after a clean and complete wash. Toned complexions are achieved out of this kind of cleansing techniques. | 2019-04-21T10:04:05 | http://www.salt.in/salt-in-cleaning-process.html |
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0.999878 | How can you tell a good café from a bad café? Astute coffee drinkers will tell you to pay attention to the coffee machine – if it's Synesso or La Marzocco, for instance, the coffee is probably good – or the quality of the beans.
People argue a lot over stuff like this.
Filthy hipsters will tell you to look at the café's décor: the ambiance, if you will. You certainly can't trust the café's reputation, since every coffee shop in Melbourne has a crowd of acolytes. So don't listen to your friend who insists that the coffee stall at South Yarra Station makes the best blend in the city – check out this list of overrated cafés instead, and never drink bad coffee again.
Mentioning Starbucks in a list like this is almost cheating; among coffee snobs, it's a punchline. Still, the Starbucks on Swanston St near Melbourne Central Station is always full for some reason – some people, somewhere, must be advising their unwary friends to give it a try.
Gaze into the face of evil.
If it's over forty degrees outside, you can justifiably visit Starbucks and take advantage of the air-conditioning, but even then there's no excuse for drinking the overpriced, sickeningly sweet coffee. If you're that desperate to sit on a comfy couch, head to a furniture store and rest on the couches there. It's no less shameful, and you'll come out five dollars richer.
Here's another obvious one. Brunetti – originally off Lygon St up the Melbourne University end, and recently on Swanston St near Flinders St Station – is often spoken of as if it's the coffee-and-pastry heart of Melbourne. But there's no getting around it: the coffee is awful, even for Lygon St.
Two coffees just means twice the awfulness.
If you're in the mood for a nice cake, Brunetti isn't too bad, but prepare to face huge crowds. Obviously, it's overpriced, but you shouldn't blame Brunetti, since they're just reacting to the (inexplicable) demand. The best thing for this café would be a sudden drop in business: the crowds would lessen and service would speed up, and they'd suddenly have to start focusing on quality. Let's try and make this happen.
Many coffee snobs hold that Degraves St is holy ground. Degraves Espresso, one of the best coffee shops in Melbourne, is here, along with the affordable Café Andiamo and many other hidden gems. Unfortunately, so is The Quarter, a thoroughly mediocre café.
The food here is okay, albeit expensive, and the coffee isn't too bad either (although you have to order food if you want to drink it inside). The problem is that 'not too bad' doesn't cut it when you're literally next door to Degraves Espresso – there's no reason for anyone to come here and pay more for worse coffee. If for some reason you want to discourage a friend from ever setting foot in Degraves St, take them here: you won't be disappointed.
Think that one of these places deserves all the hype it gets? Know a popular place that isn't on this list (but should be?) Share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments below – and scroll down and read the comments anyway, since they're likely to be full of useful information. Whatever your perspective, we'd love to hear from you. Unless you like Starbucks, of course. That's just indefensible.
Why? Because some cafes should be avoided.
When: Anytime, but don't bother.
Sean, thankyou. I find this one funny. I have been to starbucks and was told they had free wifi. They didnt. I did see good graffiti from their window though. I cant comprehend the face of evil. :) Thankyou. You made me giggle.
Brunetti is fantastic for coeliacs though as quite a few of their biscotti are gluten free - there are not many places that someone with a gluten intolerance can go to get that many delicious sweet treats on one plate!
Totally agree with you on brunnetis,in addition to the bad quality patisseries,the coffe is always cold.
Two reasons 1. The machine can be fine tuned to make the most incredible coffee and 2. The barista will have passion and will most unlikely trained by either william angliss or lavazza. | 2019-04-18T16:20:37 | https://www.weekendnotes.com/3-most-overrated-cafes-in-melbourne/ |
0.997918 | Do you know the names of the various fairytale characters in English?
Which words do not fit into the following word groups?
Can you complete the following proverbs and sayings?
2. No news is ________ news.
3. Too many _______ spoil the broth.
4. When the cats away, the _______ will play.
Do you know the words from the Latin which describe the following periods of time?
Why do (did) you study English?
It's my hobby. I want to be well educated. For my (future) profession. For travelling abroad. It's a subbject at school. | 2019-04-20T21:07:08 | http://hope205.ucoz.ru/index/poznavatelnoe_i_zanimatelnoe/0-15 |
0.998416 | World ReligionWhat is Religion?According to the American College Dictionary, religion is a noun defined as the quest for the values of the ideal life. This definition is vast and general, allowing for a variety of interpretations by people from all cultures. There is no single path to follow in order to lead an ideal life, only personal beliefs and experiences. Religion is non-finite so there is no way of determining a boundary (Smart, 5). In my quest for a true understanding of what religion is I explored my own traditions and religious beliefs as well as life experiences. Slowly, with the added insight from the text and videos, my own definition of religion has begun to take shape.
Perhaps the most powerful statement made about religion was made by Dr. John Simmons of Western Illinois University. He makes the valid point that religion is not a noun, but a verb. Religion is based on beliefs and how people act based on those beliefs. Tradition, prayer, and meditation are all acts of religion and are considered intangible behaviors. Although many rituals of religion are things, the ethical and social portions are lifestyles. In addition to this point, Dr. Simmons mentions the possibility of religion being founded as a way to understand and answer important questions about life and death. People must find out who they are, why they are here on Earth, and what purpose their life holds. Questions known as boundary questions are posed when humans are faced with new situations in their lives (Beliefs and Believers, Class 1). They must believe that there is reasoning to support their actions. Rites of passage are the most frequent experiences involving boundary questions. For example, as a child of Christian parents, I was told that people die because it is their turn to be with Jesus. Heaven made sense to me and comforted me, knowing that my loved ones would be in such a wonderful place. Also in the Christian religion, questions may arise about the beginning of life and how we got to Earth. The myth of Adam and Eve and the story of the Creation answers that for Christian believers. As for my purpose on Earth, my question was answered by the Christian doctrine. I am here to spread the word of God in actions and words so that all humans may know His love. However, these answers do not make sense to all humans because each religion has a different story. It is imperative to keep an open mind when defining and understanding religion. Every religion holds truth to the believers, and gives them a sense of identity. There is no right or wrong answer to the question of which religion to follow, only interpretations and behaviors according to what makes sense to the individual. People will behave as they believe (Beliefs and Believers, Class 1). Another equally important remark I came across in my studies was one by the Methodist pastor Rev. Cecil Williams. Williams’ main topic of discussion was that of toxic religion and inspiring social action. Williams begin the interview by saying, “Be careful of religion because religion is toxic” (Williams Interview, Class 2). He means that believers are not focusing on the actions, but the outcomes instead. You cannot genuinely identify with a religion or call yourself a religious person unless you relate to other human beings or form relationships that work to ease human suffering (Simmons Study Guide, 15). Again, I was reminded of my own beliefs and the history of my religion when I explored the meaning of this statement. Contrary to popular belief, this nation was not founded on the basis of religion. America was founded by men in search of power and money who used their religious beliefs, predominantly Protestant Christian, as an excuse for their brutality. Not all believers act on their beliefs, creating a fine line between which are factious and which are not. The first attempts at colonization proved to be unsuccessful in the late 1500’s and early 1600’s. They came professing religious freedom and tolerance, yet brutally murdered Indians who would not comply with the European interpretation of Christianity. Even the Puritans, who were extremely devoted to their religion, failed to honor some of the most important ethical views of Christianity when they arrived in New England in 1630. The Puritans were very vocal about their quest for an ideal life. They believed in pre-destination yet still worked very hard to save the heathens from eternal darkness. They believed in the Ten Commandments, yet still judged those who were not Christian. Perhaps the most widely known example is that of the Salem Witch Trials. An epidemic of accusation was started because of contradicting beliefs ( Tindall, 36).Instead of focusing on how to nurture their current world, the Puritans caused mass mayhem and interrupted a peaceful environment. You cant have a new heaven until you have a new earth (Williams Interview, Class 2).
Furthermore, the topic of religion cannot be discussed without mentioning its pervasiveness. Religion is an aspect of human existence compromising elements such as experience, ethics, beliefs, ritual, and institutions. Like political behavior, religion is not everything in life, but is an aspect of life. Religion is structured into our government. Not only does our Pledge of Allegiance and motto use God as a foundation, but also the separation of church and state show how each American is aware and ultimately affected by religion. It encompasses various disciplines, and although we are all not equally so, everyone is religious to an extent (Smart, 4). It is important to cherish the integrity of our own religion, likewise is it to appreciate the beliefs of other religions as well as non-believers. Appreciating and adopting are words with very different meanings (Marty Interview, Class 1).Lastly, I was very intrigued by the idea set forth by Dr. Simmons and the Sermon on the Mount that many religious movements begin with redefining human identity and relationships. As he points out, I grew up relating the Beatitudes to an already established Christian faith. This roll-in was especially powerful to me because it introduced me to an entirely new idea about the foundation of Christianity, shaking a firm belief I have always had. The fact is that Jesus of Nazareth was a Jewish Rabbi who disagreed with the teachings of the Torah and, in turn, invented the religion of Christianity. In His first sermon, Jesus spoke against the traditional Jewish teachings and replaced them, with gentler teachings of love and kindness. Although He never intended to create Christianity, He began a religious movement that turned into Christianity (Simmons Study Guide, 16). Again, I reflect to the Puritans who spoke out against the Catholic Church of England and founded the Protestant form of Christianity. Perhaps many more religions will continue to be created as other charismatic leaders, such as Christ, deepen the exploration of their own identity and relationships.
University Park, Illinois: Governors State University, 1999Marty, Martin. Interview with Dr. John K. Simmons. Beliefs and Believers:University Park, Illinois: Governors State University, 1999Simmons, Dr. John K. Beliefs and Believers Teleclass Study Guide.
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1999Smart, Ninian. Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (Third Ed).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000Tindall, George. America: Brief 5th Edition. | 2019-04-20T14:14:05 | https://graduateway.com/what-is-religion/ |
0.999998 | Are measurements of systolic myocardial velocities and displacement with colour and spectral Tissue Doppler compatible?
Tissue Doppler (TD) in pulsed mode (spectral TD) and colour TD are the two modalities today available in tissue velocity echocardiography (TVE). Previous studies have shown poor agreement between these two methods when measuring myocardial velocities and displacement. In this study, the concordance between the myocardial velocity and displacement measurements using colour TD and different spectral TD procedures was evaluated.
Left ventricular (LV) longitudinal systolic myocardial velocities and displacement during ejection period were quantified at the basal septal and lateral wall in 24 healthy individuals (4 women and 20 men, 34 ± 12 years) using spectral TD, colour TD and M-mode recordings. Mean, maximal and minimal spectral TD systolic velocities and the corresponding displacement values were obtained by measurements at the outer and inner borders of the spectral velocity signal. The results were then compared with those obtained with the two other modalities used.
Systolic myocardial velocities derived from mean spectral TD frequencies were highly concordant with corresponding colour TD measurements (mean difference 0.10 ± 0.54 cm/sec in septal and 0.09 ± 0.97 cm/sec in lateral wall). Similarly, the agreement between spectral and colour TD (mean difference 0.22 ± 0.74 mm in septal and 0.02 ± 0.86 mm in lateral wall) as well as M-mode was good when mean spectral velocities were temporally integrated and the results did not differ statistically. Conversely, displacement values from the inner or outer border of the spectral signal differed significantly from values obtained with colour TD and M-mode (p < 0.001, in both cases).
LV systolic myocardial measurements based on mean spectral TD frequencies are highly concordant with those provided by colour TD and M-mode. Hence, in order to maintain compatibility of the results, the use of this particular spectral TD procedure should be advocated in clinical praxis.
Introduction of tissue velocity echocardiography (TVE) two decades ago has opened new possibilities for non-invasive quantification of myocardial function. TVE methodology relies on the detection of the low velocity/high amplitude motion of myocardial tissue by application of appropriate low pass filtering to the received Doppler signal in order to distinguish it from the high velocity/low amplitude motion of the blood [2, 3]. The diagnostic performance of TVE has been extensively studied and its incremental value for the evaluation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , coronary artery disease [5, 6], and the determination of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function [7, 8] is well documented.
Tissue Doppler in pulsed mode (pulsed/spectral TD) [9, 10] and colour TD [11, 12] are the two modalities available today in tissue velocity echocardiography (TVE). Spectral TD registers the instantaneous frequency spectrum at the chosen myocardial region and the signal is computed using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) technique in order to obtain the myocardial velocity distribution. On the other hand, colour TD relies on autocorrelation analysis to provide average Doppler frequencies for a chosen set of pixels and thus yields mean myocardial velocities in the interrogated myocardial region. Both TVE modalities have been validated in experimental [13, 14] and clinical studies [9, 11, 15] and the requirements for optimal signal sampling as well as the effect of instrumentation settings on the accuracy of TD measurements [17, 18] have been evaluated.
However, despite the fact that the two tissue Doppler modalities target the same physical quantity i.e. velocity, they operate in different ways and, indeed, a number of comparative studies performed hitherto have shown poor agreement between the results obtained with the two modalities [17, 19, 20]. This is not surprising, since the general applied method of myocardial velocity estimation with spectral TD involves measurements performed at the outer border of the spectral velocity wave. Consequently, this procedure identifies maximal components of the velocity spectrum in the region of interest, whereas with colour TD modality, a mean velocity at the interrogated myocardial location is obtained. Hence, it appears reasonable to assume that spectral TD velocity measurements based on averaged, rather than maximal signal, would better agree with the results of corresponding measurements obtained with colour TD technique. Since, to our knowledge, this issue has not yet been specifically addressed as yet, the aim of this study was to compare the results of myocardial velocity and displacement measurements using colour TD with those obtained with spectral TD based on averaging of the spectral signal.
The study involved 24 healthy volunteers without any known cardiovascular disease (4 women and 20 men; 34 ± 12 years). The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm Sweden.
Tissue velocity echocardiography was performed using commercially available equipment (Vivid 7, GE Vingmed, Horten, Norway) with a standard phased array 2.5 MHz multi-frequency transducer. The images were acquired from apical four chamber and two chamber views with the patient in left lateral position, at the end of expiration. All patients were in sinus rhythm. Cineloops of at least 3 heartbeats were acquired with high temporal resolution (frame rate range: 270 ± 28 Hz) and stored digitally for subsequent off-line analysis. The stored raw data containing grey-scale and colour tissue TD as well as spectral TD velocity information was analysed using Echopac software (version 6.0.0, GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Norway).
The employed Echopac software allows real-time digital acquisition of tissue velocity curves at any chosen point within the myocardium. The obtained velocity curves (Figure 1, top) can then be integrated over time yielding the corresponding myocardial displacement curves (Figure 1, bottom). The analysis of LV myocardial velocities and displacement was performed from the measuring point set at the septal and lateral LV segment just below the level of mitral annulus using a 6 × 6 pixels sampling volume. Maximal systolic velocity (colour PSV) was initially measured. Subsequently, without changing the positioning of the region of interest, LV displacement during the systolic ejection (SEmd) was obtained by measuring the amplitude of the LV myocardial displacement curve (Figure 1, bottom) during systolic ejection. Isovolumic contraction and relaxation phases were excluded. All measurements were performed on 3 cardiac cycles and averaged. No temporal filtering was applied.
Typical LV longitudinal myocardial velocity curves (top) obtained with colour TD from the basal segment of septum ( insertion ). Integration of the velocity curves over time yielded the corresponding longitudinal myocardial displacement curves (bottom). Isovolumic contraction time (IVCT) and isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT) are indicated.
The timing of the cardiac electromechanical events was determined using the method proposed by Lind et al. . The opening of the aortic valve was thus defined as occurring at the zero crossing point of the ascending limb of the myocardial velocity wave at the beginning of systolic ejection, whereas the zero crossing point for the descending limb of systolic ejection wave at the end of systolic ejection marked the aortic valve closure. A clear zero-crossing point was identified in all recordings.
While keeping the image sector width unaltered and thus the frame rate the same as for colour TD recordings, spectral TD data were acquired from the measuring point set immediately below the mitral ring at the respective basal septal and lateral LV segment using a 5.9 mm sample volume. Special care was taken to keep the sampling volume positioned continuously on the ventricular myocardium, with insonation angle as parallel as possible with the long axis of systolic myocardial movement. Depth and Nyquist limit were adjusted and kept unaltered during each examination. The pulse repetition frequency was higher than 960 Hz (1072 ± 211) in all spectral registrations. The manufacturer's default transmit gain of 0 dB and receive gain of 3 dB were used.
The spectral TD velocity signals were traced offline at the outer and inner border of the pulsed TD velocity wave as proposed by Chen et al. and the highest (spectral SVmax) and lowest (spectral SVmin) systolic myocardial velocities were thus determined. The respective velocity time integrals representing maximal (VTImax) and minimal (VTImin) systolic myocardial displacements were subsequently calculated (Figure 2, top). Next, the mean velocity (spectral SVmean) was calculated by averaging spectral SVmax and SVmin and mean time integral (VTImean) was determined by averaging VTImax and VTImin. The isovolumic events were excluded from the measurements. Their respective starting and ending points were defined using the same procedure as described above for colour TD . The tracings with uneven spectral envelope contour were excluded from the measurements. Measurements obtained from 3 cardiac cycles were averaged.
(Top) Typical LV longitudinal myocardial velocity curves obtained with spectral TD from the most basal segment of septum ( insertion ). The respective curves were traced at the outer and the inner border of the velocity waveform and mean velocity was calculated by averaging spectral maximal and minimal velocity. The respective curves were integrated over time to yield VTImax and VTImin. Mean velocity time integral (VTImean) was determined by averaging VTImax and VTImin. (Bottom) Typical colour-coded M-mode image of LV longitudinal myocardial motion acquired at basal septum used for the measurements of systolic displacement. Boundaries of isovolumic contraction (IVCT) and relaxation (IVRT) periods were established by observing the specific colour bands expressing the reversal of velocity direction at the beginning and the end of systole .
M-mode recordings were performed at septal and lateral margins of mitral annulus on colour TD superimposed 2 D images keeping the same image sector width as for colour and spectral TD recordings (Figure 2, bottom). Temporal resolution employed was higher than 1000 Hz (1211 ± 226) for all performed measurements. Care was taken in order to position the cursor parallel to the longitudinal axis of wall motion. Colour TD superimposition on M-mode recordings provides the possibility for accurate off-line measurements with delineation of the electromechanical cardiac events. The onset of the systolic ejection phase coincides with the beginning of the steep upward myocardial motion in M-mode tracing and the start of a broad red band at colour TD -coded M-mode. The closure of aortic valve is identified at the red-blue band interface as suggested by Lind et al. (Figure 2, bottom). Mitral annulus motion during systolic ejection phase (MAM) was measured excluding atrioventricular motion during isovolumic phases. Measurements were performed at 3 cardiac cycles and averaged.
All data are presented as mean ± SD unless otherwise stated. The statistical significance level was set at p < 0.05. Group comparisons of continuous variables were made using analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by post hoc Scheffé's test. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used for analysis of linear correlation between the results of the evaluated methods. Student's t-test was used when suitable for comparisons of paired data. The analyses were carried out using standard statistical software (Statistica, version 8.0). Methodological error (Err) in a single measurement estimated from double measurements was calculated according to formula: Err = (SDdiff × 100%)/(total mean x√2), where SDdiff is the SD of the difference between the measurements. Assessment of the agreement in velocity and displacement measurements was performed using the method of Bland and Altman .
The LV myocardial longitudinal systolic velocity values obtained with colour- and spectral TD are presented in Additional file 1. As can be seen from the table, at both interrogated wall segments, the systolic myocardial tissue velocities traced at the outer and inner border of the velocity spectrum differed significantly not only from the colour TD generated peak systolic velocities but also from the mean spectral velocity obtained by averaging spectral SVmax and SVmin. On the other hand, no significant difference occurred between PSV measured with colour TD and mean spectral velocity obtained with spectral TD.
The results of LV myocardial systolic velocity measurements by spectral TD correlated well (p < 0.001, in all cases) with those produced by colour TD technique (Additional file 2). However, despite the observed significant relationships, the poor agreement between the measurements performed at the outer and inner border of the tissue velocity spectrum and those obtained by colour TD is evident from the results of Bland Altman analysis presented in Additional file 2. As can be seen, the spectral TD SVmax overestimated, whereas spectral TD SVmin underestimated colour TD PSV by a mean value of 1.52 cm/sec and 1.32 cm/sec, respectively, and the limits of agreement for the measured variables were particularly wide in lateral wall. On the other hand, when spectral TD SVmean was calculated by averaging SVmax and SVmean, the obtained results were almost identical to those provided by colour TD and the limits of agreement were clearly narrower (figure 3).
Bland-Altman plot of differences between LV myocardial longitudinal systolic velocities measured by colour TD and mean spectral TD procedure at the basal septal (top) and basal lateral (bottom) wall.
The errors of the double measurements of LV systolic velocities performed at septal wall by two independent observers employing colour TD as well as the three different spectral TD procedures are presented in Additional file 3. As can be seen, the error of spectral measurements was twice as big as that of colour TD determinations.
The mean values of LV myocardial displacement obtained by using M-mode, colour TD, and the three different spectral TD procedures are presented in Additional file 4. Similar to what was observed for myocardial velocities, the velocity time integrals obtained with the maximal and minimal spectral velocities differed significantly (p < 0.001, in all cases) from the displacement values produced by M-mode, colour TD, and from systolic time integral of mean spectral velocity. No statistically significant differences occurred between M-mode, colour TD and spectral VTImean in septal wall whereas in lateral wall, M-mode generated displacement values were somewhat higher than those obtained with colour TD and the spectral VTImean method (p < 0.05, in both cases).
There was a significant relationship (p < 0.001, in all cases) between the results of LV myocardial systolic displacement measurement with M-mode, colour TD, and the three spectral TD procedures (Additional file 5). However, as can be seen from the results of Bland Altman analysis presented in Additional file 5, the agreement between VTImax and VTImin on one side and the colour TD and M-mode produced displacement values on the other was rather poor, with the least mean difference between the methods of over 3.6 mm (M-mode vs. spectral VTImin) and wide limits of agreement in all cases. On the other hand, the results of spectral VTImean measurements agreed well with the displacement values obtained with colour TD and M-mode within narrow limits of agreement (figure 4 and 5). The best combination of mean differences and limits of agreement in septal and lateral LV wall was found for spectral VTImean and colour TD displacement measurements (see Additional file 5 and figure 4). There was a good agreement between the results of M-mode and colour TD displacement measurements as well (figure 6).
Bland-Altman plot of differences between LV myocardial longitudinal systolic displacement measured by colour TD and mean spectral TD procedure at basal septal (top) and basal lateral (bottom) wall.
Bland-Altman plot of differences between LV myocardial longitudinal systolic displacement measured by M-mode and mean spectral TD procedure at basal septal (top) and basal (lateral) wall.
Bland-Altman plot of differences between LV myocardial longitudinal systolic displacement measured by M-mode and colour TD at basal septal (top) and basal lateral (bottom) wall.
The errors of the double measurements of LV systolic myocardial displacement performed at septal wall by two independent observers employing M-mode, colour TD, and the three different spectral TD procedures are presented in Additional file 3.
The present results demonstrate that longitudinal systolic myocardial velocities derived from colour TD are not only closely correlated but also in good agreement with mean spectral TD velocities. A similar degree of concordance and correlation was observed for LV systolic myocardial displacement measured by colour TD and mean spectral TD procedure. This is not entirely unexpected when considering the physical principles of the two TVE techniques. Indeed, regarding spectral TD, the acquired composite frequency signal is subjected to Fast Fourier analysis and the sum of velocity distributions from the individual scatterers passing through the range gate is obtained at time intervals defined by the pulse repetition frequency. The spectral signal reflects thus the sum of velocity distributions at any instant during the recording period. Assuming Gaussian distribution of instantaneous myocardial velocities at the interrogated region , mean velocities are to be found in the mid portion of the spectral signal while the outer and inner contours of the envelope reflect maximal and minimal myocardial velocities, respectively. Colour TD, on the other hand, relies on autocorrelation algorithm in order to estimate the average frequency shift for a given set of pixels along the Doppler sector and provides consequently mean myocardial velocities at the region of interest. Hence, it can be expected that colour TD and mean spectral TD velocities would closely relate to each other.
To our knowledge, there are no studies published hitherto that compare directly colour and mean spectral TD velocities. Recently, Chen et al. have reported that systolic as well as early diastolic longitudinal velocities measured at the mid portion of the spectral signal were nearly equivalent to those obtained by digitized M-mode recordings at septal and lateral site of mitral annulus . Our findings add to these observations and demonstrate that colour TD and mean spectral TD procedure provide almost identical values when measuring systolic velocities. However, the results of myocardial velocity measurements with colour TD and mean spectral TD procedure may vary between -2.03 and 1.85 cm/sec (lateral wall), a fact that should be kept in mind in the clinical setting, especially when low longitudinal velocities are recorded as in the case of ischemic myocardium. The slight non-significant numerical underestimation of mean spectral velocities by colour TD can, at least partly, be explained by the higher inherent temporal resolution of pulsed TD. Despite the unusually high frame rate employed in this study for colour TD recordings (>250 Hz) and the fact that measurements were performed on unfiltered data, the temporal resolution obtained was still well below that of spectral TD recordings and this might result in a possible underestimation of minor myocardial motions. Furthermore, Walker et al. demonstrated that spectral TD tended to overestimate tissue velocities , an observation well in accord with the present findings.
The current results reveal that colour TD and mean spectral TD myocardial velocities are concordant even when temporally integrated. While the employed software provides a computerized temporal integration of colour TD velocities in order to assess myocardial displacement, in the case of spectral TD, manual tracing of velocity spectra is required for estimation of myocardial motion. Nevertheless, no statistical differences between the displacement measurements performed with colour TD and mean spectral TD procedure appeared between the two interrogated myocardial walls. Still, our results imply that displacement values measured by the two TVE modalities may differ as much as 4 mm (lateral wall), which should be considered in the clinical situation.
Furthermore, similar to what was observed in the study of Lind et al. , the present M-mode measurements of mitral annulus motion at the lateral wall produced displacement values that were significantly higher than those obtained with colour TD and mean spectral TD method. The overestimation of colour TD displacement by M-mode on the lateral wall was recently confirmed by Ballo et al. and the authors reported that the agreement between M-mode and spectral TD measurements was improved when adjusted (mean) spectral TD signal was used. The present results are in keeping with these observations even if the discrepancy between M-mode and colour TD measurements in the present study was less pronounced, possibly as a result of the higher colour TD sampling frequency currently used.
The overestimation of both colour and mean spectral TD displacement at the lateral wall site observed by M-mode may be partly the result of an unfavourable angle of incidence. Indeed, an optimal insonation angle is difficult to be achieved at the lateral wall site. For TVE measurements, deviation of the incidence angle would lead to underestimation of longitudinal myocardial velocities and displacement and the underestimation would be directly dependent on the cosine of divergence angle of the Doppler beam from the longitudinal plane. On the other hand, an unfavourable insonation angle of the M-mode beam would result in overestimation of the true longitudinal motion due to the influence of concomitant radial myocardial movement as the mean vector of radial and longitudinal motion is measured.
The lower interobserver variability for current spectral measurements compared with what was previously reported [15, 28] reflects most probably standardization of the present TD recordings and exclusion of signals with uneven spectral envelope contour. However, it still reflects the subjectivity in identifying the borders of spectral envelope. The reproducibility of the present colour TD velocity measurements was better than that of spectral TD and similar to that previously documented in a larger study . Furthermore, in order to approximate the high inherent repetition frequency of the spectral TD and accurately register minor myocardial motions, colour TD recordings were performed employing high frame rates without applying temporal filtering on off-line measurements [16, 18]. However, increased temporal resolution may as well yield an increased noise to signal ratio which in turn may influence the results obtained with colour TD analysis. The interobserver variability values obtained in the present study was similar to those reported previously and any significant confounding influence of high sampling frequency appears thus to be unlikely. Finally, the number of individuals included in this study was rather small and limited on healthy volunteers. Larger studies on consecutive groups of patients are needed in order to conclusively confirm the present results and the interchangeability of colour TD and spectral TD procedure.
Up to date, specific technical and measuring recommendations for spectral measurements are lacking. It is generally recommended that gain settings should be adjusted at a minimal level in order to avoid spectral broadening but yet the technical requirements are not specified which may, at least partly, explain the discrepancy observed between different TD studies. Indeed, while significant correlation between systolic myocardial velocities measured with pulsed TD and left ventricular ejection fraction has been found in a number of studies [30, 31], other reports based on colour TD show only weak association between these two indices . In the present study, spectral recordings were performed applying transducer settings conventionally used as default by the manufacturer with transmit gain of 0.0 dB, receive gain of 3.0 dB and off-line gain saturation 50% saturation.
Regardless the aforementioned limitations, the results of the present study have some important clinical implications. Chen et al. in their study have shown that mid envelope (mean) spectral velocities were almost identical with velocities measured with digitized M-mode. The authors concluded that their findings together with the lack of standardized measuring conventions for spectral TD recordings could imply that mean spectral TD procedure may be recommended in clinical routine . However, the application of mean spectral TD method, especially for displacement measurements, is rather laborious and time consuming which may jeopardize the use of this method in clinical praxis. On the other hand, based on the present results showing that colour TD provides velocity and displacement measurements that are in good agreement with mean spectral TD and M-mode calculations, the use of colour TD with sufficiently high temporal resolution may be recommended as an efficient and reliable tool for quantification of myocardial function in clinical situation.
Quantification of systolic and diastolic myocardial function using tissue Doppler velocity profiles is today an established and broadly used echocardiographic technique. However, the rapidly growing use of both pulsed and colour TD modalities revitalises the issue of occasional ambiguity of the results obtained and of parallel use of these methods in clinical practise. Against this background, the current results are of significance since they demonstrate that LV systolic myocardial measurements based on mean spectral TD frequencies are highly concordant with those provided by colour TD and M-mode. Hence, if spectral TD is to be employed, the use of the mean spectral TD procedure should be advocated. The present results underscore at the same time the importance of standardization of spectral TD procedure, if the results obtained by M-mode, colour TD and spectral TD methods are to be considered compatible. However, the recently reported high sensitivity of spectral TD to gain settings [17, 32] may favour the preferential use of colour TD in clinical praxis.
AR contributed to the design of the study, performed measurements and calculations from ultrasound data as well as statistical analysis, and participated in the interpretation of the results and preparation of the manuscript. AS performed measurements and calculations from ultrasound data as well as statistical analysis. EN participated in the interpretation of the results and preparation of the manuscript. PV contributed to the interpretation of the obtained results. KS participated in data collection and interpretation of the results. RW and LÅB supervised the study and contributed to the interpretation of the obtained results. JN supervised the study, contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data, and was responsible for the preparation of the final version of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. | 2019-04-21T14:23:39 | https://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-7-29 |
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Change the following sentence from passive voice to active voice. Jack was chased by his neighbor's unfriendly dog.
The neighbor's unfriendly dog chased Jack.
In Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street," our main character Esperanza narrates the story for the reader. What is this literary point of view called?
Let's break down some basic sentence structure and vocabulary. I went to the park with my dog.
In Spanish: "Yo fui a el parque con mi perro." The subject would be "I", or in Spanish, "Yo." "Went" is the verb, or "Fui." That's past tense, since you already did it! "A El Parque" is "To The Park." That's the prepositional phrase. It helps explain what you're doing. "Con mi perro." That's also a prepositional phrase! These sentences translate over almost exactly word for word. | 2019-04-20T17:04:39 | https://tutorme.com/tutors/85940/interview/ |
0.998653 | Imsolk is a worm that replicates over multiple vectors, incliding email. It was a curiosity for its time, as email worms were so close to completely dying out, like the boot sector virus. It was very virulent, infecting several major companies as well as NASA.
Imsolk may arrive in an email with a sendere line that is always forged to appear as moc.oohay|ecnatsiser_qari#moc.oohay|ecnatsiser_qari The subject is "Here you have". The message body is "Hello! This is The Document I told you about,you can find it Here. Please check it and reply as soon as possible." The attachment is a screensaver file with an Adobe PDF icon.
Imsolk adds "Explorer.exe C:\WINDOWS\svchost.exe" as a value to the Local Machine logon shell registry key so it starts when the user logs on. It creates 386 new registry subkeys under the image file execution key and adds the value of "Debugger = svchost.exe" to them, which ensures the worm will run whenever an image file is opened.
The worm disables several security programs and settings. It changes the value of three registry keys to "0", these are the Local Machine User Account Control, Prompt On Secure Desktop and Enable Virtualization registry keys. The worm deletes two Local Machine windows security service registry keys and two automatic update service registry keys. It deletes any files in the drives C: and D: under the directory \Program Files\USB Disk Security. The worm also deletes 46 services, all related to security products. It also ends the processes CPE17AntiAutoruna.exe, outlook.exe and Usbguard.exe.
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Rather than the whole worm coming in an attachment, this one sends a link to the victim and the victim downloads the rest. The executable is 290,816 bytes long. When executed, this variant drops only two files, csrss.exe in the Windows directory and updates.exe in the system directory. It ends the processes CPE17AntiAutoruna.exe, outlook.exe and Usbguard.exe. It also turns the system folder into a shared network folder.
Imsolk was created by an anti-US cracker going by the handle Iraq Resistance who was upset about the US invasion of Iraq and the planned burning of Qurans on September 11. He was linked to the group Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad, and was originally believed to have been based in Libya. The stated goal of this group was to "penetrate U.S. agencies belonging to the U.S. Army". Some kind of attack had likely been in the works since fall of 2008.
A journalist researching Iraq Resistance and his group however found his email timestamp to be from the time zone of the Middle East and East Africa (this includes Iraq). A video was posted to Youtube under the user name "iqziad", whose profile listed Spain as his home country, however, the one person who spoke to journalists in the group was not forthcoming about his or any group members' national origins. The IP address his emails came from was British, but he suggested he may have been using a proxy or a bot-infected computer.
Hundreds of thousands of systems worldwide were supposedly affected. Email servers at Disney, Proctor and Gamble, Wells Fargo, Comcast, AIG and NASA were brought down completely or atr least disrupted. A Kaspersky Lab expert later determined that it was not significant enough to warrant an increased threat level. The worm was described as being so primitive that the heuristics of some antivirus programs could detect it even before it was released.
While the worm may have infected a high number of systems, it did little damage by itself, as all it does is disable security. It probably would not even have been notable if it were not an email worm, a class of worm thought to have been near extinction. In fact, an observer noted that a zero-day attack against Adobe Reader was probably more newsworthy.
Nino Fred Gutierrez. -, W32.Imsolk.B@mm. 2010.09.10. | 2019-04-23T11:06:52 | http://virus.wikidot.com/imsolk |
0.999075 | The Production Lead is responsible for providing detailed technical training to work team colleagues. Liaison between work team and maintenance for repairs and preventative maintenance. Generates work orders and insures work is completed correctly in a timely manner. Also responsible for supporting the work team operation to ensure that applicable safety guidelines/policies are followed, and that all tasks are conducted in accordance with appropriate processing standards, such as FDA's current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs).
Assists in the development of operator care task sheets. Develop training components, provide training, and help track training and status through PLS for colleagues. Establish efficient processes, monitoring specific results, and improve identified process opportunities. Assist in identifying problems and solutions using M1. Serve as technical subject matter expert for the work team and provide support for equipment related deviations. Work with engineering by participating in developing equipment specifications, user requirements, capital scope development, FAT/SAT support and qualification activities. Work with procurement and packaging engineering to monitor component issues and conduct feasibility assessments/line trials as needed. Assist in the development of IQ/OQ/PQ documents. Review and approve GCR documents.
Production Lead will work with the aseptic area training and quality to develop, implement, and execute aseptic technique and behavior training, assessments, and auditing.
As directed by supervision, the Production Lead may be responsible for day to day floor operations, daily line assignments, serving as person in charge in the absence of a supervisor, attending scheduling meetings, filling out the daily shift report, writing QAR's, writing PTVA's, OEE, and reviewing and requesting SOP and document revisions.
Education: High school diploma / general education degree (GED) plus either an Associates degree or related experience (e.g. current or previous Pfizer colleague; Manufacturing, Packaging or Veterans/Military relevant experience) proficiency at level that meets "Role" and/or "test" requirements; some related training/experience; basic administrative and/or standardized, semi-skilled work routines; operation of non-complex technical and/or mechanical tools and equipment.
• Experience: Five years related experience and/or training. Experience in specific work area is desired.
• Mathematical Skills: Basic math skills including percentages, multiplication and division.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to analyze and troubleshoot systems and equipment.
• Physical Demands: Bending, lifting, and twisting as required.
• Work Environment: Colleague must work near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment may on occasion be loud. Use of hearing protection may be required and eye protection is required. Work in an Aseptic environment.
Leader behaviors are an important part of this position especially teamwork, integrity, open discussion and debate, and performance. Leader behaviors are an integral part of the job and should be demonstrated at all times.
Position involves extensive lifting, sitting, standing, walking, repetitive motion, flexibility, aseptic gowning, and routine weekend work. | 2019-04-18T16:51:48 | https://jobslog.com/job/1689626/production-lead-i/ |
0.999936 | Crash plane 'has good reputation' Jump to media player The model of plane which crashed landed in San Francisco has a good safety record, an aviation expert has said.
Mayor: 'We are deeply saddened' Jump to media player San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-Whites and City Mayor Ed Lee hold a news conference after a Boeing 777 aircraft crash-landed at San Francisco international airport.
Plane crash lands in San Francisco Jump to media player A Boeing 777 aircraft has crash landed at San Francisco international airport.
An Asiana Airlines plane which crash landed in San Francisco was "out of control," an eyewitness has said.
Asiana flight 214 had 292 passengers and 16 crew on board. There is no word so far on casualties. | 2019-04-22T09:29:15 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-23214500/san-francisco-asiana-airlines-crash-plane-was-out-of-control |
0.999777 | It has been a generation since the foundations of medical research in the United States have been shaken to the point of necessitating reform in the system of oversight. The sentinel event at that time was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study; the ethical lapses threatened the system of trust between patients, their physicians, and the medical research system. In response to the egregious actions of the Tuskegee scientists, Congress passed the National Research Act, which requires the establishment of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to review federally-funded research. The Act also created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. This commission subsequently issued the Belmont Report, which detailed the ethical principles upon which the systematic protection of research participants is based.
Although the same ethical principles pertaining to the protection of research subjects apply, new challenges have also arisen. While fortunately there has been no recent event that is comparable to Tuskegee, there are increasing concerns that the current system of human subject protection is inadequate. What happened? Research has become a for-profit industry, and the resulting financial conflicts of interest jeopardize human subjects, patients, and the future role of academic medical institutions. It is time to reconsider the clinical research system.
Medicine, and the medical research endeavor, has changed considerably over the past 25 years. Although the NIH budget has increased substantially, there has been an even greater increase in industry sponsorship of clinical research. This increase in research funding, in combination with pressures to ensure that clinical trials are efficient and organized, has produced a new, for profit research industry. This industry consists of contract research organizations, which perform nearly every aspect of the research process, and do so at rates that are competitive with academic institutions. Unfortunately for academic institutions, this new competition for research funding comes at a horrible time – when clinical revenues have fallen substantially in the setting of managed care. Clinician-scientists need industry sponsorship more than ever. Institutions themselves, in a similar position – since the passage of the Bayh-Dole act in 1980, have stood to yield substantial financial gains from the discoveries of their faculty members.
Unfortunately, prior work has demonstrated that investigators can be unduly influenced by a financial connection to an industry sponsor, resulting in biased science. In a prior review of 107 controlled clinical trials, Davidson reported that 89% of the industry supported trials had a positive outcome, in comparison to only 61% of the non-industry supported trials. More recently, another review of 136 randomized trials found that industry sponsored trials were not only more likely to yield positive results (74% vs. 47% for non-industry studies), but also more likely to use placebo rather than active agent as the treatment for the comparison group. A similar analysis found that industry-sponsored cost effective studies were significantly more likely than non-industry funded studies to yield positive results. Academic scientists who were supported by industry reported that they were more likely to have their areas of inquiry influenced by the interests of their funding source.
Clearly financial conflicts need to be addressed. In the most recent update to the federal human protections system, the DHHS regulations for IRB participation and function were modified and eventually adopted by 17 other federal agencies. Financial conflicts of interest received scant attention. The section on IRB membership states that “No IRB may have a member participate in the IRB's initial or continuing review of any project in which the member has a conflicting interest, except to provide information requested by the IRB.” The threshold for disclosure of financial conflicts set by regulations is quite specific - investigators are required to disclose “significant” (>$10,000 in equity, $10,000/year in fees, or >5% ownership in the company) financial interests in companies that might be affected by their research. These interests are disclosed to the scientists’ own institutions, which are then required to “manage, reduce, or eliminate them”.The approach to this problem is highly variable across institutions, however.
This action by the journal editors is a welcome and essential first step in addressing investigator conflicts. But what about institutional conflicts? If a university holds equity stake in a “start-up company”, the existence of which depends on a successful clinical trial, can institutional officials evaluate the financial conflicts presented by that trial objectively? They should not be in that position in the first place. Institutional officials cannot evaluate themselves; they need external guidance just like individual investigators do. It is time to create an external oversight system for institutional conflicts. The American Association of Medical Colleges is currently drafting a proposal to address financial conflicts of interest; whether institutional conflicts receive their due notice remains to be seen. Not only can financial conflicts jeopardize those who participate in the studies, but they can affect the validity of the scientific research enterprise as well. It is time to take action to ensure that the public’s trust in medicine and medicine research is not further eroded.
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0.999084 | Replacing the air filter in your GL1500 is not too difficult a task, and is a good way to start getting acquainted with the insides of your motorcycle. You have two options when replacing your filter, both are around $30: you can use an aftermarket Emgo air filter, or the slightly pricier OEM Honda filter. You will need only a standard Philips screwdriver and a 10mm wrench or socket wrench to perform this maintenance.
As with so many procedures on the GL1500, you first need to remove your seat, and replace it at the end. For directions on this procedure, see How to remove and replace your seat.
1. Start by removing the soft cover from the left fairing pocket, then remove the four screws holding the pocket in place.
2. Lift the pocket out of the fairing. If your pocket has a 12 volt outlet in it, you may need to disconnect it - or just let the pocket hang out the side by the wires.
3. Unlock and remove the hard cover from the right fairing pocket.
4. Remove the four screws holding the right fairing pocket in place.
5. If your GL1500 is an SE, you will have a knob for the foot warmers. You'll need to remove the set screw for this knob, then pull the knob off in order to get the pocket out.
6. Remove the pocket from the fairing.
7. Remove the ignition switch cover by gently pulling up at the bottom as shown until the posts disengage from the rubber grommets. Then release the tabs at the top and remove the cover.
8. Remove the left top inner cover by pulling the tab free at the rightmost edge as shown.
9. Follow by pulling each tab free in sequence until you get to the front tab.
10. This tab locks in place - be careful not to break it. Next, remove the right top inner cover the same way as you removed the left side.
11. Open the fuel filler door and identify the two plastic locking tabs near the front of the opening.
12. Rotate the tabs as shown to unlock the radio shelter.
13. Using a 10mm wrench or socket, remove the two acorn nuts holding the back end of the radio shelter in place.
14. Lift the back end of the radio shelter free of the studs.
15. Release the tabs at the front left and right sides of the radio shelter from the fairing.
16. Lift the radio shelter - you will see the wires that connect the radio to the motorcycle. Carefully turn the radio shelter upside down.
17. Lift the rubber boot to expose the connectors for the radio.
18. Depress the locking tabs on each connector and pull it free from the radio. Pull on the connector, never on the wires! The antenna (round wire) does not have a locking tab, it just pulls free.
20. Lift the clip holding the air intake to the air filter box. Disconnect the green intake air sensor connector (if present).
21. Pull the air intake away from the air filter box.
22. Remove the three screws at the back of the air filter box.
23. Remove the two screws on either side of the air filter box.
24. Remove the two screws at the front of the air filter box.
25. Lift the cover free and slide it to the front of the bike to remove it.
26. Lift the old air filter free of the air filter box, sliding it out towards the front of the bike. If any dirt or contaminants fall into the air filter box, remove them (a vacuum cleaner works well for this) before installing the new filter.
27. Position the new filter ahead of the air box, and slide it down into the air filter box.
28. Position the cover and slide it into place over the new filter from the front of the bike.
29. Replace all of the screws holding the cover in place. Reconnect the green intake air sensor connector (if present).
30. You may want to use a magnetic screwdriver to replace the two screws on the sides - you don't want to drop these screws down into the side of the bike, or you'll need to remove bodywork to retrieve it.
31. What's this? The air filter box is a favorite place for squirrels to store nuts and mice to make nests. More than an inconvenience, they can chew through the filter media, allowing contaminants to be pulled into the carburetors and even the engine, causing costly damage. Many people have discovered sights like this when they have opened their air filter boxes.
32. To avoid this problem, we will be using a piece of galvanized 1/4" "landscape fabric" - basically galvanized steel mesh. It's important that it is galvanized, to prevent corrosion.
33. Cut a piece to cover the air intake with a small amount extending on each side.
34. Bend the ends around the air intake to hold it securely in place.
35. When in place, it prevents entry by vermin into the air box, but does not impede air flow.
36. Replace the air intake at the front of the air box.
37. Snap the retaining latch on to hold the air intake in place.
38. Retrieve the radio shelter and turn it over. Carefully snap each connector back into place. Make sure the antenna connector is securely fastened.
39. Pull the rubber boot down over the connectors, and make sure it is held in place over the tab in the metal bottom of the radio.
40. Flip the radio shelter right side up and position it in place. Make sure the front tabs go into their slots at the front of the fairing.
41. Lower the radio shelter over the studs.
42. Make sure the locking tabs are still in the inward (unlocked position).
43. Replace and tighten the acorn nuts to hold the shelter in place.
44. Now rotate the locking tabs outward to lock the shelter in place.
45. Insert the front tab of each inner cover into the dashboard.
46. Gradually work around each inner cover starting at the front and working your way around to the inner back, putting each tab into its slot.
47. Replace the ignition cover by inserting the front tabs into their slots, then rotating the back down into place, pushing the posts into their grommets.
48. Replace the right fairing pocket and screw it into place.
49. If equipped, reinstall the foot warmer knob and its set screw.
50. Reinstall the left fairing pocket and screw it into place. Make sure the intercom lead wire is positioned correctly in the pass-through before screwing it into place.
I've just replaced my air filter with a K&N HA-8088 (and fuel filter at same time) on my wing today! It was my first major change on my own and would not have attepted if not for your step by step pictures and directions. Thank you so much for a wonderful description. I will attempt more as I scroll thru your articles!
Did the air filter change, noticed my Wing now makes a "growl", like there's a resonance chamber on it. I opened up the air box to see a K&N, but replaced it with the Emgo I had as I couldn't feel motivated to clean and oil the K&N (it needs heavy cleaning and I do live in an apartment complex sans garage). I thought that I hadn't sealed the box properly, so I just opened it up again, sealed it (and added the aluminium mesh), and it STILL makes that noise. Could this just be the new filter, and the sound it makes? It doesn't bother me, but I know what my bike is supposed to sound like.
I noticed gaps, like the ones pictured. I presume there are from the 27 years the bike has been heated, cooled and ridden, but can anyone just set my mind at ease about these?
Also used this tutorial to swap the fuel filter. Hoping these two, the air filter in particular, will get the fuel return my mates see (40 MPG+ consistently).
The second picture is something I found on the bottom, left (shifter side) of the radio shelter. Does anybody know what it is or why it is there?
It's possible that the new filter just flows air a little easier, and allows intake noise through.
The gap on the air box should not be there if it is seated correctly - is it possible the K&N was a bit too tall and the cover was bent up as a result? Or even the Emgo? I know the Emgo filter made for my GL1100 was a bit too tall, and caused the air box cover to have a gap at the sides like this. It's not a huge deal, because the exposed area is on the unfiltered side of the filter, so it's not like it's sucking unfiltered air directly into the engine. That said, it's also possible that is where you're hearing the noise emanate from.
As for the mystery item - my radio had it as well. My guess is that it's a cable stay, to keep wires up and prevent them from being pinched? Perhaps the ground wire? But I can't really say for sure, because mine (like yours) was not being used for anything.
Just bought my first Goldwing (1999) three weeks ago and decided to do some preventive maintenance since I don't know how well the previous owner took care of the bike. Your DIY articles are better illustrated and described than the Job Guides I use to maintain $85 million dollar aircraft in the military. I just had to share the photos I took while changing my air filter. Glad I trailered the bike to get it home to Atlanta rather than ride for 12 hours from the guy I bought it from, considering the condition of the air filter.
Somebody was living in the bike.
You show this plug in your photos, but never said to disconnect it.
I didn't have the mesh to make the critter blocker, so I drilled 1mm holes and threaded stainless steel .020 wire through the holes. May not be as pretty, but does the job.
Sawdust62 wrote: Just bought my first Goldwing (1999) three weeks ago and decided to do some preventive maintenance since I don't know how well the previous owner took care of the bike. Your DIY articles are better illustrated and described than the Job Guides I use to maintain $85 million dollar aircraft in the military. I just had to share the photos I took while changing my air filter. Glad I trailered the bike to get it home to Atlanta rather than ride for 12 hours from the guy I bought it from, considering the condition of the air filter.
Definitely looks like you had a small, winged tenant living in your bike!
Good point about the air temperature sensor connector, I added that to the instructions.
I like your safety wire mesh! It works.
I've seen devices like this on other machinery. It's a cable stay to tie off, or zip tie, the wire bundle so that it takes the strain off the connectors. Wiring is most susceptible to failure at the point where the wire is crimped into the connector contacts. At one time, probably at the factory, there would have been zip ties or some other fastener to hold the wire bundle in place on that "T" shaped stay.
Preparing to replace my fuel/air filters in a few days and found this site very helpful, thanks. On step 10 you show a pic of the plastic locking tab. Is there a method or technique when removing the locking tab from the slot to help avoid bending or breaking it off?
mstcitabria73 wrote: Preparing to replace my fuel/air filters in a few days and found this site very helpful, thanks. On step 10 you show a pic of the plastic locking tab. Is there a method or technique when removing the locking tab from the slot to help avoid bending or breaking it off?
I put my finger underneath it, pull the tab down from behind, then pull it straight backward. It usually pops out fairly easily.
WingAdmin thanks for the information and quick reply! My 1997 GW ran great till one morning i tried starting it up only to find it would not not idle below 2000 rpm but was running excellent the day before. Opened the rear trunk to discover a pile of chokecherry's the size of a basketball had been placed there overnight and my guess is the mice also got up into airbox and packed it with chokecherry's too. Purchased some 1/4 x 1/4 galvanized mesh wire and will install per your instructions to prevent any further winter storage by them critters! Will post pics later of what i find stored in the airbox/filter.Thanks for your help and a great website for GW owners!
nasty air filter was packed solid on 1/2 side other side was crapped out too, damn varmint's, lol! Installed 1/4 x 1/4 galvanized wire mesh, thanks for the easy solution to fix this problem!
While this article was tremendously helpful. It would have been even more helpful had you mentioned the "cruise and sub air filters" also. I just happen to stumble across these other filters while scanning other things I might do. It would have been a lot easier to do the other filters at the same time.
they are a lot easier to get too with all the plastics off. | 2019-04-20T14:38:46 | https://goldwingdocs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10895 |
0.999982 | What is a Braille Slate and Stylus?
A slate and stylus is a small, mechanical device used for writing braille by hand. Typically, a braille slate is a pocket-sized or desktop two-part hinged device. The top part contains rows of rectangular openings corresponding to individual braille cells which guide the stylus while the bottom part has rows of indentations arranged in cells allowing the stylus to emboss dots on paper. A stylus consists of a small handle made of wood or plastic with a sharp metal point. Writing on a braille slate is done by inserting paper between the top and bottom parts of the slate and inserting the point of the stylus through the openings in the top part, pressing the paper into the depressions below.
There is a wide variety of configurations for braille slates. They can be made of metal or plastic, with or without a board made of wood or plastic. Common styles include four- and six-line pocketsize slates, larger slates that are moved down a wooden or plastic clipboard, and specialty slates for embossing cassette labels, playing cards, and labeling tape. Styluses come in many shapes and sizes to accommodate the many sizes of hands.
Slates and styluses are widely used for writing braille by persons in developing countries. In North America, their popularity has waned somewhat in recent years due to the advent of more sophisticated braille-writing devices. However, there are many braille-writing tasks for which a braille slate is particularly wellsuited. The ease of use of the slate and its portability make it ideal for making labels, jotting quick notes, making shopping lists, brailling playing cards, taking down phone numbers, and other personal uses.
There is little data on the number of students who are taught to use a slate and stylus in North American schools today. Anecdotal evidence suggests that not all blind students are being taught to use a slate and stylus and, many of those who do learn to use it to write braille in this manner are learning it at the fifth grade level and even later. Most professionals recommend teaching the slate in grades 3 or 4 but some recommend that it can be beneficial for students to be exposed to the slate even as early as pre-school. Adults who are learning braille are often taught to use the slate because of its convenience and low cost.
To write braille with a slate, each dot of each braille character is written individually to form letters and words. Skilled slate users can do this very quickly. Since the braille dots are pressed into the paper, the slate user writes the letters from right to left; when the slate is opened and the paper is turned over, the braille characters can be read from left to right.
Some people believe that learning to write with a slate and stylus is difficult. Since the braille characters must be formed from right to left, people mistakenly believe that writing on a slate is done "backward." Slate instructors, however, have developed teaching strategies that focus on the forward progression of the writing task and such strategies have demonstrated that the cognitive processes necessary for slate writing do not involve reversals of characters. The instruction to students "write first what you read first" has been found to be useful.
Others believe that modern technology has eliminated the need for the device. However, most models of the slate and stylus are quite affordable (some cost less than $10) and don't require electricity, batteries or other special equipment. They are often used in addition to newer technology and do not represent a choice of one device over another. The slate and stylus is the blind person's equivalent of a pencil and this form of convenient access to writing braille is as essential to blind people as writing with a pencil is to sighted people.
The National Literary Braille Competency Test includes a section requiring teachers to demonstrate their competency in writing braille with the slate and stylus. This is further evidence that knowledgeable professionals in the field have determined that using a slate and stylus is an essential skill that should be mastered by teachers of blind children and adults to enable them to competently teach this skill to their students.
BANA takes the position of encouraging braille literacy in its many forms. Toward that end, BANA encourages the use of the slate and stylus in all educational environments in which braille is taught.
Dunnam, Jennifer. The Slate Book: A Guide to the Slate and Stylus. Baltimore, MD: National Federation of the Blind, 2000.
Mangold, Phil. Teaching the Braille Slate and Stylus: A Manual for Mastery. Castro Valley, CA: Exceptional Teaching Aids, 1985. | 2019-04-26T14:11:30 | http://brailleauthority.org/slatestylus/slate.html |
0.998501 | This paragraph will be about preventative health and touch on different options for treatment; then I will include some links.
Humans in the developed world no longer have the need to kill animals for their food. We have access to sufficient nutrition (and sufficient yumminess!) without having to impose suffering on other living creatures. If you're not convinced that there is suffering involved, I highly encourage you to explore the following links for information about the atrocious conditions in which factory farmed animals live and die. No, cows aren't cats or dogs, and it might seem like a stretch to care about them, but they do experience pain and misery and cry out in anguish, as do pigs (which are as intelligent as dogs). I'm not just talking about the fact that they are put to death... there is so much horrendous suffering involved in their whole lives from their living conditions to the method in which their lives come to an end. DON'T continue to say "I'd rather not know".... you SHOULD know about this if you're going to eat meat, as you're the direct cause of their suffering with every purchase of their flesh which you make. | 2019-04-18T16:23:57 | http://juliemama.com/health.htm |
0.995968 | Does this look like compost? A bright, colorful garden can be the outcome of a good mix of soil and compost.
Compost is often used as a top dressing on lawns, shrub areas and gardens. While it has some nutrient value, it's greatest benefit in a home setting is holding nutrients in the soil in the root zone, making them more available to plants. New research also shows compost can help suppress some plant diseases and reduce the need to pesticides.
Compost can be used in a mix with potting soild to hold water in potted plants on decks and patios. In a vegetable garden, compost in the soil helps the soil's water-holding capacity, providing more moisture to grow crops.
Potted plants: 5 to 20 percent compost. A higher percentage mixture helps hold moisture in items that drain quickly, like clay pots.
Vegetable gardens: One inch of compost down to a depth of five inches by rototiller or shovel.
Flower gardens: Compost blend of 20 percent. Dress perennial flower gardens with 1/4 to 1/2 inch of compost.
New trees and shrubs: Compost blend of 10 percent.
Established trees and shrubs: dress with 1/4 to 1/2 inch of compost.
Established lawns: Top dress with 1/8 to 1/4 inch of compost and rake into grass. Best results include aerating lawns before applying compost.
Seeding new lawns: Apply 1 to 21/2 inches of compost to the surface and till well into the top 6 inches of soil. Then apply seed and rake into surface.
Here is more information on using compost in soils. | 2019-04-23T18:06:12 | http://sciencebuzz.org/topics/what-can-you-do-your-compost |
0.999596 | Filmstalker: Bond 23 changing Bond?
I wonder if the people behind James Bond have been reading some of the criticism of Quantum of Solace (Filmstalker review) and realise that amongst the problems of the unfinished script and the terrible editing that they've picked up on the fact that a banker with a high aversion to risk who fleeces a dictator isn't really that much of a villain for Bond to go up against.
For the man who is in talks to play the next villain for James Bond has revealed that they are planning something different for this Bond villain, something that would change everything.
That's according to Javier Bardem anyway, who we heard was in negotiations for the role. Well he's certainly talked to Sam Mendes about the possibility and he said that the conversation was "very intriguing".
What that exactly means I'm not sure, and while his quote praises Bond over at the The Hollywood Reporter story, there's something else that he says that raises questions about what this new Bond is doing and how they are going to change things from Quantum of Solace (Filmstalker review).
"They're changing the whole thing, the whole dynamic... I'd be playing Bond's nemesis, yes, but it's not that obvious. Everything is more nuanced."
What does that mean exactly? I have no idea and I find it really difficult to even guess what he's talking about. Obviously there's something more to it than the standard baddie-goodie deal going on.
I mean I could sit here and guess that perhaps he's playing an agent who is under the pay of the Quantum organisation and is very much like Bond, just on the other side, but this is complete guesswork. All we can really do is wait and see.
Certainly the casting of Bardem would be excellent, but it's clear the film-makers have something more in store for Bond's new bad guy. | 2019-04-22T20:08:49 | http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2011/02/bond_23_changing_bond.html |
0.999983 | EOS.IO is one of the latest and unique blockchain-powered platforms. Mainly focused on decentralization, Blockchain Developers use it to develop and deploy Decentralized Applications. Created by Block.one, a Cayman Islands Company holds the ownership of this platform. Based on smart contracts, developers can opt EOS blockchain to define the characteristics of their dApp. Using EOS blockchain, they can code their DApp as per the requirements.
However, the blockchain technology has the issue of scalability.
EOS blockchain platform claims to fix this issue for good.
In comparison to the scalability of the existing employed worldwide financial framework like VISA, the scalability of the prominent blockchain platforms like ethereum is quite low.
VISA can process thousands of transactions on its network per second (TPS). However, for bitcoin and ethereum, this number is still below 100.
So, if millions of people are using a decentralized application developed on a decentralized platform, its scalability must be in the upper end.
EOS blockchain aims at this issue. It wants to make its platforms suitable for development of commercial-scale decentralized applications.
How does EOS blockchain platform do that?
EOS applies a unique consensus algorithm at its core.
Instead of deploying standard consensus algorithms like Proof-of-Work (PoW), EOS makes use of the delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS).
EOS deploys the Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) at its core, allowing it to forms blocks within 0.5 seconds.
For obtaining irresistibility, the platform also uses asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) along with DPoS.
Altogether, these frameworks ensure that the transaction irreversibility is within less than one second.
In contrast to the traditional PoS, where the token holders cast their vote for the confirmation of the blocks, the token holders decide to vote for block producers in the ecosystem of DPos.
Now, the block producer group, capable of achieving the largest number of votes, votes and organizes the creation of the blocks.
The initial step of the BFT-DPoS combination is the assortment of the group of block producers. The selection gets conducted on the basis of some pre-defined commands. Then, the top 21 block producers get selected through constant voting conducted by the EOS token holders.
After the selection of the group, the next aspect is achieving consensus between the block producers.
Disagreements get settled within this group of block producers through voting.
It requires two-thirds (2/3) votes to get an agreement; 15 block producers need to agree on something to call it final. Then, it can be considered irreversible.
The method of producing block also gets taken into consideration. All the block producers agree on the method in which the blocks will get produced.
For producing a block, a block producer in the EOS ecosystem get 0.5 seconds. If a producer fails to create the block in the given time, it gets skipped.
The longest chain in the group gets regarded correct. If a block producer finds a longer chain than the rest, he shifts to that chain.
Transactions also get confirmed in the EOS ecosystem.
All the transactions carry the header hash of the terminal block in the chain. If the terminal block is not available in the chain, the transactions get considered as incorrect.
Competition in the blockchain world is cut-throat. Numerous decentralized application development platforms are getting launched with each passing day.
So, now we’ll have to wait and watch who wins this race of becoming the most prominent blockchain development platform for Scalable and Fast DApps in the next few years. | 2019-04-23T15:52:21 | https://blockchain.oodles.io/blog/eos-blockchain-platform/ |
0.999884 | What would it cost Jets to move up for top pick in NFL Draft?
Hindsight is 20/20. Nearly eight months after Mike Maccagnan purged the Jets' roster of its aging, but well-known veterans, everything is crystal-clear.
He made the right call.
While the Jets are far from a Super Bowl contender, they're clearly headed in the right direction. Wideout Robby Anderson looks like a budding star. Linebackers Darron Lee and Jordan Jenkins have made noticeable strides. Tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins is a difference-maker, defensive end Leonard Williams a stud, and safeties Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye future Pro Bowlers.
There's just one thing the Jets don't have: A franchise quarterback.
Will they get one in April?
As of today, the Jets hold the 10th pick in the 2018 draft. If they want one of the top quarterbacks, they'll likely have to move up. The Browns (No. 1) and Giants (No. 2) aren't likely to trade their picks. But the 49ers (No. 3) could.
NFL general managers regularly refer to a pick chart when determining the fairness of draft trades. The charts assign a point value to each pick, with higher picks being worth more points.
If Team X wants Team Y's pick, they'll combine a grouping of their own picks to reach a point value that gets close to the value of the desired pick. Each team's chart varies slightly, which is why charts are exchanged when negotiating a trade.
Here's a look at the NFL Draft's trade chart, as compiled by ProFootballTalk.
Using the above chart as an example: The No. 3 pick holds a point value of 2,200. The Jets' No. 10 pick has a value of 1,300. So the Jets would need to make up the difference.
If the Jets combined their first-round pick (1,300), one of their second-round picks (480), and a fourth-round pick (82), they'd get to 1,862 points. That's still a 338-point difference. The Jets would have to include a future draft pick to close the gap -- potentially a second- or third rounder.
Teams will use the same chart to determine the value of future picks. They'll estimate where said team will be selecting, then go from there. Example: A future Patriots' first-round pick is valued differently than that of the Browns.
Here where things get tricky, though: The Jets may not be the only team competing for that draft pick.
Jets defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson wasn't in the mood to talk about his leadership ability.
The Broncos (4th overall), Cardinals (11th overall), Chargers (14th overall), Bills (17th overall) and Jaguars (25th overall) could all be in the market for a quarterback. They too could want to move up. The Jets may offer a fair trade ... but it won't matter if another team offers more.
Teams, occasionally, will bid against each other, and have to give up more for the pick than it's worth. The Jets may have to overpay if they want to ensure they get their guy.
And it's gotten to the point where they may have to.
The Jets need a franchise quarterback. No matter the cost. | 2019-04-26T13:40:36 | https://www.nj.com/jets/2017/12/what_would_it_cost_jets_to_move_up_for_top_pick_in.html |
0.997147 | Had three flat irons and should maybe have gone with ribeyes?
Exceptional food and service, great ambience, would highly recommend.
Great atmosphere and really tasty and good value food!
Great local steak restaurant ...excellent food and great value.
Food was delicious however service a little slow especially as my table was at 8:30 towards the end of service. Other than that fantastic food, wonderful atmosphere and very reasonably priced!!! I will definitely be returning!
First visit-great service and really good food. Will definitely return.
I booked a table at Roxie's Earlsfield for 6 people on Mothering Sunday (31st March). Roxie's is usually a firm favourite for my family although this latest visit left us somewhat disappointed, particularly re the service.
On arrival, the mothers of the group were given a complimentary drink however, it took 20 minutes after arriving to offer the rest of the table any drinks / food even though the restaurant wasn't very busy.
Once we had finally ordered and our steaks arrived, the waitress who brought our food over couldn't remember what the steaks were (three of us ordered rump steak and three ordered fillet) and had got our order wrong - (someone ended up with a fillet rather than a rump steak which we were charged for). One of the Yorkshire puddings was burnt but rather than send it back and wait longer for food, it was just accepted.
The service was generally very slow and we felt we weren't given much attention during the entire meal which is a real shame.
I'll think twice about booking through the Earlsfield branch again as this was a disappointing experience and left a dampener on what was supposed to be a special day.
Had a lovely evening. Not the usual 100% - even though we cleared our plates, my friend's meat was tougher than usual - unless the cutlery needs sharpening. And the temperature wasn't hot enough (we didn't mention that as we are not fans of reheating steak - it puts me off).
Had to chase up a couple things but the staff are so lovely, it wasn't a hassle.
I'm sure it was all down to a busy Tuesday night and I will return..
As a regular user I find the restaurant consistently good if a bit noisy.
Best fillet steak and wine in Earlsfield by a country mile. Never disappointed. Excellent as always.
Fabulous food, the best steak I have ever had, the sauces like bernaise were not to my liking or the prawn starter, but overall value for money.
I would just say, there really needs to be a children’s menu otherwise we would be visiting more often.
Best steaks around. I had the ribeye and it was superb. My wife had the fillet and she thought it was possibly the best bit of steak she had ever tasted. Thank you Roxie's for another excellent meal!
Me and my wife were wondering why we didn't come earlier, having lived in Earlsfield for 3 years. One of the best steaks we ever had, and the cocktails were really tasty as well!
Great food and a lovely evening!
Another good dining experience - highly recommended. | 2019-04-23T00:13:27 | https://www.resdiary.com/restaurant/roxiesteakearlsfield |
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